It seemed to me a form of Aids-conciousness: an attempt to make monogamy seem exotic.The last set of repetitive texts was clearly due to literary, rather than than political or social, history. The CAC-40 index climbed by 34.53, or 1.6 per cent, to 2,149.83. Granada felt it deserved better than being sandwiched between Nite Bites and Riviera, and sold it to Channel 4. Builders have experienced a sudden rush of work, spurred in part by the country's lowest interest rates in two decades.However, there were other developments yesterday tempering any optimism about short-term economic prospects. When appointed in 1990 she became the sixth person to hold the post in five years. Ms Hynes will leave when her three-year contract expires at the end of this year. 'It is the result we wanted at the end of the day,' an adviser to one of the banks said.

The British Museum will tonight be given pounds 500,000 by Professor Ikuo Hirayama, Japan's first Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO and an artist, to go towards a studio for restoring Eastern paintings.. Dr F certainly would not have filled his bag from a short, myopic plasterer called Eddie.Remember Eddie the Eagle? He grabbed the sort of media attention usually reserved for the royal family when he finished 56 out of 56 in the Olympic ski jump. It is no doubt wise, for the present, to accept a speed that allows the average to keep up. Her celebration of the 40th anniversary of Zelli's includes an exhibition of 18th-century Meissen figures on a musical theme which have been allowed out of the factory for the first time. So it is vital that the department makes clear to the public not only why experiments are chosen as safe enough to be put on a fast track, but the exact limit on the timetable for objectors to make their case.Leigh Day & Co, a London firm of solicitors famous for taking on controversial medical and environmental causes, is preparing legal action aimed at stopping the Oxford trial.

Senna's fatal accident, the first during a grand prix for 12 years, left the sport in despair and bewilderment. The sky was azure and endless, it was an obvious day for the ascent.'We must do it,' she said, and didn't see at first my misery at hearing what I most dreaded proposed by a friend with brutal high spirits. I took pains to remind my committee - David Mellor, John Browne, Lord Parkinson, Tim Yeo, Michael Mates, Nicholas Fairbairn - of this when first we convened over a congenial slap- up five-course meal with all the trimmings in the larder of the Beefsteak Club. His face is precisely observed, down to immature sideburns and a few strands of hair that have truantly separated themselves from the lank combed mass of the rest.