UP TO 15,000 mining jobs could be saved through dramatic increases in British Coal's productivity, according to a study by independent consultants. Dr Philippe Barbazan, one of the team, says the aim is to develop a 'battle strategy' - for a cheap, effective control method that can be used by local health officials with limited resources.Maroua, an urban island separated from the nearest town by 200km of savannah, was the ideal testing ground. Woe betide Morrell and McCarthy if they ever stray from the path of true love, for our chroniclers will be there to note the fact; or at least to make sure that they don't get away with it. ENGLAND suffered their second loss to the Netherlands in four years on Saturday in Haarlem.

Bouygues moved into the provinces and abroad, particularly to the Middle East. In fact, because of the number of people going so fast that they don't see the patrol car, it's non-stop action But not, alas, while the cameras were running. Johnson is a skilled manipulator of the baser instincts of the Daily Mail's Middle England. He played a notable part in setting up the new Lothians and Borders police headquarters in Edinburgh.

FRIEDRICH Karl Flick, reputedly the third richest man in Germany, was among a group of six leading citizens subpoenaed to appear before a parliamentary committee of inquiry in Munich two weeks ago. His parents have had to help him out, by paying his rent and a pounds 400 debt, so that he could stay on the course.Pierre intends to pay them back in the summer when he goes home to Leeds.He has also taken the maximum amount of student loan for every year of his course.He and three friends have started a video production company, and he intends to make this his career.Pierre said: 'I came unstuck because I came down to London and got carried away by the bright lights My advice to others is go mad and enjoy yourself It is the only time in your life you can do it. Northern Rock has computed the savings using discounts, cashbacks and free valuations on offer. It is unlikely that either would have complained to L&G.UBS Phillips & Drew last week wrote to institutional clients to explain its position on Terry Smith. Mr Clarke told the Police Superintendents' Association that while every effort should be made to bring poor officers up to standard, those who failed to make the grade would have to go.Mr Clarke made it clear to the delegates - representing 2,000 superintendents and chief superintendents - that he was warning them the weeding out of such officers had to be more effective. Sackler Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1 (071-439 7438) To 20 Dec Daily 10am-6pm; pounds 2.50, conc pounds 1.70.SERPENTINE GALLERY Patrick Caulfield Recent images by the Pop Art master Kensington Gdns, W2 (071-402 6075) To 17 Jan 1993 Daily 10am-6pm.TATE GALLERY The Swagger Portrait. Clive Harston, soldier and educationist, born Brough Cumberland 27 November 1912, King's African Rifles 1945-48, Instructor Imperial Ethiopian Army 1945-48, UK postings 1948-53, BAOR 1st Corps 1953- 56, Nato (Copenhagen) 1956-58, Director of Education Ship-School Dunera 1961-63, Director Church Schools Company 1963-77, married 1938 Kathleen Grace (one son, one daughter), died London 27 January 1993.

Del Mar had a huge success in Peking and Shanghai, conducting programmes which included music by Maw, Britten and Elgar. Harold Acton was best man; Robert Byron gave Evelyn away; Alec Waugh, the popular novelist and Waugh's elder brother, and Pansy Pakenham were witnesses.Before long, strains began to show. John Ashcroft's sale of his luxury flat to the Coloroll directors' pension scheme, subsequently resold at a pounds 117,000 loss, looked all wrong. The redress that the Pension Ombudsman has ordered could mean reducing the entitlements of Mr Ashcroft together with Philip Green and Eric Kilby, Coloroll's former managing director and finance director, by pounds 300,000- pounds 400,000.Mr Ashcroft says the trustees took advice on the flat purchase (the ombudsman saw no evidence of it) and he was not involved in the peculiar salary cap affair, a change made after he left Coloroll. The Edith Morgan Centre, part of the South Devon Healthcare Trust, was said by the Mental Health Act Commission to be 'seriously prejudicial' to the care of patients. Separate care facilities for the care of the region's most seriously disturbed patients should be established as soon as possible away from the present site at Torbay's district general hospital and an independent trust set up to administer it.The trust said it favoured the measures, contained in 41 recommendations outlined by the commission, but said that the the approval of the South Western region would required, together with financial backing from the Government.However, Tony Boyce, chairman of the trust, said that a working party would be set up soon to modify the centre in the short-term to overcome some of the weaknesses.The inquiry, conducted by the three-strong review team led by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC, came at the request of the trust, which was already concerned about the provision of mental health care prior to the killing of the occupational therapist, Georgina Robinson, 26. Some of them have only just started their pudding.' This was because the grub was laid on by Albert Roux and the menu was as crucial as the Order of Play. If parents don't want to hear a child's pain because they can't bear it, it may seem to the child that they don't want to listen because they don't care enough.'Children can come and express 'bad' feelings, get sad and angry, and hear others do the same.

The narrator, the Ice-T persona, is describing his affair with the daughter of a Ku-Klux-Klan wizard She's this blue-eyed blonde, he's a black man. STEPHEN CASTLE ('Another fiasco is about to depart', 3 January) is quite right to conclude that for millions of rail travellers 'the crisis has arrived'. It will be left to his successor to devise foreign, and domestic, policies better fitting a non-heroic age. If you want to travel separately with children, the cost could increase to pounds 222 However, you can cut the cost of annual travel insurance. The walls are heavy with the graffiti of hatred, of threats of fire and blood from Hamas and the PLO.