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Halifax Building Society is improving interest rates on some of its investment accounts. Known as the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's Resistant War against the Japanese Imperialist Invasion when it opened, the 'Imperialist' has been dropped.(Photograph omitted). Gilbert & George focus on their own bodies (they are ever-present protagonists in their own pictures) and on those of adolescent East Enders.Any manipulation or deformation is allowed, just so long as the resultant bodies can be locked into the geometrical scheme of things. Two years ago, it was the civilian dead of the Amariah bunker.On Sunday, it was the receptionist of the Rashid Hotel.

All recent notorious cases (of miscarriages of justice) involved allegations against the police or challenges to the competence or integrity of forensic services employed by the Government.' An independent review body that included lay members would suffer from no such conflict of interests.The present system is an indefensible anachronism, harking back to the days when the Home Secretary, on behalf of the Crown, had the power to exercise clemency towards murderers sentenced to hang. Last month, a family - including two children, one of them a baby girl - was rescued by police in Mid Glamorgan after hundreds of people besieged their home. I moved over to the first-class desk, where I pretended to have an upgrade. That had not been his experience in dealing with employees since arriving at the BBC in 1987. I resisted Ian Talbot's production until half-time, and then succumbed to Basil Hoskins's lisping monarch, Anna Nicholas's dominatrix Morgan le Fay, and Janie Dee's stunning maid-in-waiting turned feminist Even the book has its points. TIME and again, prophets of doom have issued severe condemnations of the Russian transformation to a market economy and democracy.

The artillery assault seems to have taken two forms: the relentless, deliberate destruction of specific sites, or the random, careless shelling of ordinary areas. Mansell and his Newman-Haas team- mate, Mario Andretti, will lead off the third row.Grid positions, Sporting Digest, page 29. Of course, there are always risks, but on any reasonably long-term view these are in the price. From her, Campbell acquired a profound interest in the history of cartography.

We spend pretty much all of the time together and we always have done. The government has accused Greece of compounding the crisis by sealing the southern border in an attempt to force the republic to change its name.Lord Owen, one of the co-authors of the Bosnia peace plan, arrived in Belgrade to try to persuade Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic to press Bosnian Serbs to back it, but apparently he made little headway in a day of talks.The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, said earlier that he was still unable to accept the peace plan, under which Bosnia would be divided into 10 provinces along ethnic lines.At the United Nations, Yuli Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador, warned the Security Council against the dangers of taking an unbalanced and politicised approach to the Balkan conflict.Following an open meeting of the council on the civil war in Bosnia- Herzegovina, Mr Vorontsov told the press that the international community was focusing too much on the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.'I'm very much concerned about the fighting between Croats and Muslims Hundreds of people have been killed already. At the same time, the Dutch made a significant substitution of their own, bringing on John de Woolf to stabilise their defence and pushing Bergkamp forward into an orthodox striker's role, in place of Johnny Bosman.England's tempo and spirit remained high. Thus, they selected a small group of Tory backbenchers to look after him when he was attending Parliament. Kent slumped to 86 for 5 against Leicestershire but were saved by a 71 from their captain, Mark Benson, which steered them to victory by three wickets..

He argued strongly that Christianity is not for perfectionists, but for those who can admit that they sometimes fail to live up to their ideals, are always ready to start again and who are not too proud to ride piggy-back on the great minds of the past. They can, in due course, turn the prejudices of the day into laws But once they start to preach, they are in dead trouble. .The Indian Diary is illustrated with repros of the country's distinctive art style of advertisements, religious memorabilia and packaging Anyone who is fascinated by India will love this. It joins a number of companies - including Great Universal Stores and Whitbread - that have made similar moves over the past year.