ONCE HERALDED as the most forward-thinking legislation to emerge from the Home Office for years, the Criminal Justice Act comes into force today amid widespread criticism from those who must make it work and doubts over the Government's commitment to some of its key provisions. And they hope it will be a first step towards a wider civic consciousness.(Photograph omitted). When did peace break out in Northern Ireland? I must have missed this welcome news through following the World Cup too closely. Alan CowburnRusholme, Manchester. Progress has been held up by a notable piece of dithering on the part of HM Inspectorate of Pollution over the granting of a permit to discharge small quantities of radioactivity from the power station, but Nuclear Electric still expects it to start before the end of the year.Nuclear Electric has put forward proposals for Sizewell C - a twin reactor station adjacent to Sizewell B. My name on his guest list gave me protection from the club's notorious bouncers, trained to deny entry to anyone showing vestiges of normality. The UN commander in Bosnia, Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose, said he told the two sides to think over their options for 48 hours - suggesting that he had no immediate plans to call air strikes.The government commander, General Rasim Delic, said on Bosnian radio that he 'accepted completely' a UN proposal for a 14-day truce 'which includes that the Serbs have to withdraw from the safe area of Gorazde'.

Sacrilegious, perhaps, but no one in this congregation was inclined to argue, with Blackburn rising, triumphant.'Quite a good result,' was a typical understatement from Kenny Dalglish - one Ferguson came close to matching when he said a 'vital win' had made it 'a bit interesting now'. TIM YEO last night bowed to irresistible pressure for his resignation, driven to the backbenches by the damaging 'family values' furore sparked by his fathering a child during an extramarital affair. His music is full of secrets and surprises and conundrums, a sound world of illusion, of indeterminate spaces and shifting perspectives. But are these rational politicians? Much more so in private than in public. Stoltenberg had only just returned to the tour after a shoulder injury, one of several physical problems which have hampered his transition from being the world's top ranked junior in 1987.Though both Stoltenberg and Masur were instrumental in the 5-0 whitewashing of India away on grass in the semi- finals, one of them had to step down to make way for the clay- court expertise of Richard Fromberg. As Sartre wrote: 'The possible is the something which the For-itself lacks in order to be itself.' So there you are.Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica and W V Quine, Quiddities.Further requests for enlightenment will be welcome at: Good Question, The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB.Compiled by William Hartston. In December they brought them into the open.Most of the dozen or so objections seemed arcane.

Government figures suggest that may be more than 5,000 people.The operation was carried out by surgeon Graham Fraser at the UCH Middlesex Hospital, one of 10 centres in the country which perform the procedure.Interview, page 2. It has also been decided to stand down the Royal Observer Corps - volunteers who had responsibility for monitoring details of nuclear burst and radioactive fallout.The move towards emphasising peacetime disasters will not greatly affect the operations of the Emergency Planning College (formerly the Civil Defence College) at Easingwold in North Yorkshire, where council officials and members undergo training. They are skilled, courageous and totally committed to their task.The Government may doubt whether the aim of preserving human life and civilised standards of behaviour is worth taking risks for, but not one soldier I have spoken to does.The British are setting the standards here. We cannot afford to operate on technologies less advanced than the American and Japanese.