That the V&A only recently discovered the deal suggests a lack of monitoring.The loss of extra money is alarming for the V&A, a national museum, because it is in financial difficulties and needs more than pounds 200m for restoration and repair.The deal was made before a Royal Academy exhibition in March 1986 of the work of Alfred Gilbert, who sculpted the 9ft-tall, aluminium Eros, erected in 1893.John Lewis, a private collector, and the Fine Art Society commercial gallery paid about pounds 20,000 to have the original plaster moulds of Eros restored. Tartt sensibly does not atempt to describe either of the two deaths directly - the first an accidental murder of a farmer by the group in a Bacchic frenzy, the second a premeditated topping of unreliable Bunny to keep him silent. .The girls from the Pirelli calendarWill now swarm around Neil MallenderHis great five for fiftyWas lively and niftyA feat from our blond salamander.What rhymes with golden cyclist Chris Boardman. Undoubtedly, the steep climb achieved by Mr Clinton in opinion polls over the past three weeks, even before the convention itself, has happened partly because of the warfare between the Republicans and Mr Perot.It has also been noticeable that much of the recent slide in the popularity of Mr Perot, from the mid-30s to just 20 per cent in the latest poll, has been reflected in the rise of Mr Clinton's ratings, suggesting a shift already of Perot people to the Clinton-Gore ticket.The latest ABC-Washington Post poll, in the old three-way scenario, showed Mr Clinton at 45 per cent, compared with 28 per cent for Mr Bush and 20 per cent for Mr Perot.

This was to be the secret of its commercial success, and worldwide production is now about 50,000 tonnes per year, with a value of pounds 400m.Du Pont named the new plastic Teflon, but it is known by other trade names such as Fluon, the ICI variety. This year's trophy went to Jan Fletcher, who runs the Fletcher Group, a motor trader with seven dealerships in the North of England But Ms Fletcher has more than one string to her bow. Everything was right, from being introduced to people to getting flowers. Mr Newton still has 16.37 per cent.Shares of Gestetner, the office equipment group, are still hovering around their 1993-94 high despite the market's recent weakness. Within the next few days he could be involved in a World Cup game and then be on the dole That could be me as well.'Unlikely. 'A high draw gives you the chance to come across to the rail and sit behind until the straight, and there are very few hard luck stories in this race,' Reid said. The channel capacity of telephone networks is being expanded to enable any of us to send our 'programmes' to anyone else.Mary Fagan, in the same edition ('Cable TV companies take the fight to BT'), reports the aim of cable industry to combine the 'delivery of entertainment, telephony and information services'.

Theodore Parker, ornithologist: born 1 April 1953; twice married (both marriages dissolved); died near Guayaquil, Ecuador 3 August 1993. And anyway, enfranchising the 'A' shares would do nothing directly to help the value of the ordinary shares. The moment summed up the whole programme; a decade of fascinating upheaval had been put through the blender and spewed out as Saturday-night fodder, bland as Blind Date. They've become connoisseurs.'For example, he says, some of the magnificent collection of Corot paintings stolen from a provincial French museum in 1984 were found in Japan, decorating the home of a gangster boss.. The committee has sought an early meeting with the commission to give its views on these far- reaching proposals, upon which it has not yet been consulted.'Professor Michael Fulford of Reading University, a member of the advisory committee, said the statement had been issued 'to express the committee's extreme displeasure with the plans and the way they have been compiled without consultation'.'We are concerned that the current high standards of care for our ancient monuments will not continue in the long term if these plans go ahead. SHARE dealing moves a step closer to paperless trading next week when the separate trading periods are scrapped in favour of rolling settlement. The Minister of Defence, Kobie Coetsee, then announced that 2,000 soldiers of the South African Defence Force had been dispatched to Bophuthatswana, an 'independent' state according to the last remaining apartheid laws.When the extremists drove en masse into Mmabatho early yesterday - many wearing the neo-Nazi insignia of the AWB - they had little idea what the day had in store.The Volksfront leader, Constand Viljoen, convinced that Mr Mangope had fallen victim to a 'Communist ANC plot', had ordered his men in to restore stability, little knowing how reviled the Mangope government is among the vast majority of people in Bophuthatswana.Looters were forced to flee after the heavily armed Boer 'commandos' arrived, guns blazing By morning they had control of the town.