VNU had thought of buying Extel, the financial information company, from Britain’s United Newspapers but withdrew its bid after deciding the asking price was too high.Ton Gietman, an analyst at the brokers Van Meer James Capel in Amsterdam, said: ‘BPI is a very good fit with VNU’s operations. Gathering up the twigs of past and present into a strong contemporary bundle, Alexie ushers a cast of strong characters through the book. The latter has since gone private again, after its parent folded.Norwich is one of the most successful clubs outside the big cities. ‘We are going to find a model which will make possible the continuation of our membership of the EC,’ Poul Schluter, the Danish Prime Minister, said on Wednesday. The prospect of being stuck behind an international lead curtain is boosting the arguments of those calling for a rethink of nuclear energy policy.This week Argentina became the latest nation to complain about the passage of the plutonium close to its shores. ‘Jason has always shown himself to be a pretty nippy player whenever we’ve played around,’ Colin Jackson, his Cardiff-based British Olympic team-mate said.

Similarly, the subtitle to the same author’s article ‘Zealot for the bomb defends Ukraine’ (19 June) proclaims: ‘A post-Soviet era ‘Dr Strangelove’ is passionate about maintaining his country’s status as a nuclear power’. It may even be that the low inflation/cheap money psychology is one thing helping to hold back the recovery. ‘They are angry and at their wits’ end because they do not find their voice in any of the major media organs, so that when they come across a programme such as mine, they say Hallelujah.’Mr Liddy concedes that he is partly ‘preaching to the choir’. If (and this is a big ‘if’) OffLot decides that it is OK for Ladbroke to own betting shops, a pools company and a stake in the lottery, it looks like the strongest contender.Odds: 9/2 favouriteRainbow (Leo Burnett plus a collection of well-known business names.)The other not-for-profit bid. Smoke from charcoal fires drifted across the huge expanse of majestic tombs.

But in pre-industrial societies, political parties express vertical divisions that are static and unchangeable. In an almost poignant moment yesterday, he advised Tony Blair not to believe what people said about him now – nor what they would say about him in 18 months’ time. Max Robertson, writing 20 years later, recalled the 1959 Wimbledon when Jaroslav Drobny, the champion in 1954, ‘was beaten in a marathon by that stylist from Great Britain, Alan Mills. The German federation (DFB) found Effenberg’s action unacceptable and have sent him packing.

MY pounds 175 trip to catch smallmouth bass tomorrow will cost me nothing. Those who are in her favour praise her generosity and warmth. Virginia Woolf’s ‘fantastical pseudo-biography’ traces the 400- year life of the magnetic lover Orlando, and his affairs both as man and woman. Nikon forecast a Y2bn ( pounds 8m) pre-tax profit on revenue of Y270bn ( pounds 1.1bn) in the year to March 1993 However, industry analysts were not so optimistic. The dinner meeting was disclosed as Spain emerged increasingly as a state that would exact a high price for signing on to Britain’s much-vaunted notion of subsidiarity at the summit. But like the rest of us, as we sat round the restaurant table in the Bascarsija, the city’s old Muslim quarter, she could not bring herself to believe it. But the survey has shown that staff do not feel that it is safe to say what they think, so they are unlikely to open their hearts to their managers.