These two clubs might be separated by 45 minutes down the A50, but they are a good deal further apart in wage scales, and the fact that Leicestershire have competed with enough spirit this year to be in with a shout of place money from the Championship, is a tribute to the leadership qualities of their 37-year-old captain, Nigel Briers.Three years ago, Briers was in danger of having his contract terminated, and it was only when the club made out a shortlist of possible captains, and realised there was only one name on it, that Briers was deemed essential rather than surplus to requirements. Improved sentiment may even lead to greater takeover activity.Warburg’s recent problems have been on the investment banking side with some ill-advised risks going sour; fixed-interest positions exposed by the exit from the ERM; and significant losses in the Japanese equity business. .0LAST season’s winners against the present League leaders promised substantial fare at Elland Road, but Leeds and Norwich were merely the ghosts of championships past and future.Although both managers professed themselves happy with their sides’ performances, a goalless draw was, like so much else received at this time of year, of little practical value to either.It failed to dispel the rumour of an unthinkable slide from riches to relegation rags for Leeds; it did little to contradict the feeling that Norwich are Premier League leaders on borrowed time.Both sides created enough chances for a far more satisfying result. This process made use of the waste pomace left over from the pressing of apples, waste that was up until then sold to the pectin producers of the day.

According to Income Data Services, 19 per cent of UK manufacturers imposed freezes for the year starting August 1992, compared with 9.9 per cent for the year starting August 1991. Home Office sources suggested last night that the deportation might be delayed to give time for the appeal to be heard.Refugee groups said the decision to remove Mrs Litobac stood in stark contrast to promises made by ministers last year. If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly.

In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. The legislation was left up in the air when Mr Gonzalez called snap elections in the spring. But it is disproving the maxim that all publicity is good publicity.Rarely, in fact, can a single literary work have attracted so overwhelming a barrage of critical opprobrium. She will have to surrender a big chunk of her ill-gotten alimony to the Treasury, which has discovered that she is liable for capital transfer tax.. The second game was a model strategic win, carrying out a subtle plan with remorseless logic.
With 8 a4 and 9 a5, White inhibits Black’s usual Q-side advance.

Pretty sad for the plants, too.
Gardens are shaped by soil and climate The gardener adds a signature scratched on the surface. RICHIE RICHARDSON, the West Indies captain, has been ordered by his doctors to rest for a month, barely a fortnight before England arrive in the Caribbean. But it concluded that professionals thought ‘the current uncertainty in the system was not sufficiently damaging to warrant the sea change of entering into these largely untested contractual arrangements’. The Essex second innings centred around their newcomer from Lancashire, Ronnie Irani, who drove powerfully off both feet.

They still enjoy the capital’s restaurants (Le Caprice rather than Kensington Place) and theatre, but their attitude is very much ‘been there, done it, liked it, and hey, just occasionally, I’ll go back for more’.LATE-IN-LIFERSHabitat: Bromley, Watford, Sutton, Kingston upon Thames. In Pyongyang, we read, ‘citizens by the tens of thousands were seen beating their breasts and crying uncontrollably’. THE Test and County Cricket Board has shown its true colours by deducting 25 points from Lancashire CC for their win over Middlesex, because of the pitch. Charles Lamb wrote that ‘no one was ever the wiser or better for reading Shelley’. But in Russian, the same word has meant the citizen’s subjection to bureaucracy and harsh social control.Only an idiot would imagine that an internal Soviet passport entitled him to go anywhere.The Soviet poet Mayakovsky wrote in the 1920s a eulogy to the little red book issued to the citizens of the new socialist state. At the moment we don’t see it as a problem.’He said applications were still coming in. It is a strategy of all or nothing and one that Mr Yeltsin has pursued many times before, most spectacularly of all, when he mounted a tank in front of the White House in 1991 to defy the hapless coup plotters.For Mr Yeltsin the choice today is the same – for or against the old system.