He can't help it.' I wasn't joking.'At a recording of Knowing Me, Knowing You, Coogan never once steps out of character. And there is the simple fact of plenty - 'the Walkman, VCR, camcorder and concert tickets are now all crammed into the space once occupied by the record player.'Whatever the cause of the pressure, we now seem to be witnessing the start of a revolt. But its value may be as a provider of global exposure to star products on small exchanges, and 24-hour access to markets during turbulent times. Belatedly, the British Wind Energy Association is asking its critics to help draw up guidelines for new projects that will emphasise community involvement and consultation.

Closer examination of the research revealed that most people felt that standards in BR, the NHS, council housing, the police and roads had shown no improvement or had got worse.Similarly, last Wednesday a Cabinet Office press release claimed that among the initiative's achievements were that three out of four patients in England were now treated in hospital within three months of being put on a waiting list and almost everyone was being treated within a year. They also conveniently forget reality and display a hard- heartedness that does not become them. Even the year he won the Gold Cup he had been out with a shoulder injury, and we didn't get a clear run to the National.'Garrison Savannah was without his familiar blue blinkers yesterday, for the first time since his novice season. This is a socket at the back of the Mac, similar to the sockets used for connecting printers and modems to any computer, which allows the Mac to be directly connected to a telephone line and to handle telephone communications.With GeoPort you no longer need a modem to connect to bulletin boards such as Cix or CompuServe. In a week, Sierra Leone worked some benign but powerful kind of juju on a sceptic. But if those green shoots can be made to grow, the harvest is there for the gathering.

Suddenly, to achieve something just for the sake of proving her worth seemed a childish exercise. The officers said they had warned General Francis Briquemont, the UN commander for Bosnia, that they would order an assault on the Serbian position if the withdrawal was delayed much longer.The mainly Muslim defenders of Sarajevo argue that UN officers who negotiate with the Serbs are not tough enough and that the UN Protection Force in Bosnia, known as Unprofor, might just as well be called Serbprofor, or Serbian Protection Force. The Prime Minister is Fuad Masoum, a PUK leader.'We are neither independent nor autonomous,' Mr Masoum was quoted as saying yesterday by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. They refused, and the second child still languishes near the bottom of the waiting list.Primary school heads, with rare exceptions, fail to act in the best interests of their pupils when it comes to finding a secondary school. Atherton says he is not going to resign, insists that he did not alter the ball's condition and apologises for lying to Burge.The selection committee - including Atherton and Illingworth - meet to pick the team for the second Test at Headingley, starting on Thursday. Schumacher, who finished second to Alain Prost in 1993, has already set the fastest lap at the revamped circuit when testing at Silverstone recently.