Each half-century was greeted with two choruses of ‘Whaaaat a 50, what a 50, what a 50; he’s got 50 on the boarrrrd What a 50]’ to the melody of the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus. The straight single cream and the whipped cream on top more than make up for the change in texture.Serves 6-8Ingredients: 8 sponge-finger biscuits6tbs best sweet sherry or sweet muscat wine3tbs brandyFor the custard: 1/2 pint (290ml) single cream2 egg yolks2 eggs2tsp cornflour1 1/2 oz (45g) castor sugarTo finish: raspberry jam1/2 pint (290ml) double cream, whippedone small punnet of raspberriestoasted flaked almondsPreparation: Pack the sponge-finger biscuits in a tight layer in the base of a deep glass dish of about 7in (17.5cm) diameter, breaking them up to fit. Steven Norris, the junior transport minister, signalled that the Government would plough on with deregulation of London buses. He cast me a piteous look as if to say, ‘Help] How do I get out of here?’ I don’t remember who spoke first.We used to go on long walks together and occasionally we’d cross paths while we were being hosed down or beaten with pipes or whatever they did to us, or swimming in an odd outdoor swimming-pool that looked as if it had an elephant’s contraceptive stretched over the top of it, a most unappetising sight.We’ve been friends ever since. For six hours in Oregon today, the President is chairing a conference that will call upon his every gift of compromise if the first glimmer of a solution is to be found to the ‘Forest War’ raging in the Pacific North-West of the US.

According to Nicholas Groth, an American clinical psychologist who has worked for 26 years with abusers, there is no common profile of the child abuser, any more than there is of the alcoholic. The value of the pound against other leading currencies has fallen by between 5 and 10 per cent since we left the ERM on Wednesday night.Technically, the pound is floating. Then Rideout, in the clear, headed straight at Woods.Dave Watson’s effort minutes later was better directed but Woods scrambled along the line to save as Everton hunted for the winner. Here, several skyscrapers – none of them beautiful – are rising every month as China invests massively in a Far Eastern trading empire that will make the European Union look small beer 20 years from now.The scale of these latest skyscrapers is astonishing. As developing countries industrialise they will increase their burning of fossil fuels, which produce most of the man-made CO2 .The only hope is for developed countries to promise to curb emissions into the next century.

Remember Uncle Mac, on our radio during the war? My Dad became Uncle Paddy in South Africa. As your children include William, your own heir, their upbringing is certainly a question on which we are entitled to be informed and to express a view.’There are other matters on which HRH goes well beyond the bounds prudent for a prospective King. Dr Rowse was not impressed: Caraman’s touch, he wrote, ‘is uncertain with places and people Menheniot is in Cornwall, not in Devon St Veep not St Yepe St Meen in Brittany, not St Mien. If both had played as painstakingly last week, then England might not have got the win they deserved. Which two of these four businessmen missed out last week: Iain Vallance of BT, Ed Wallis of PowerGen, Brian Pearse of Midland Bank, Neil Shaw of Tate & Lyle?L is for losses, and 1993 was a bumper year for them.1 Which company suffered the biggest-ever loss in Britain – of pounds 1.2bn?2 Which suffered the biggest in the world – dollars 5bn?3 Where was a ‘dollars 12.4bn black hole’ discovered?M is for moves, not always that smart. He too added a fourth goal in the second half.At the top of the Premier Division both Aberdeen, 3-1 winners at home to Kilmarnock, and Motherwell, 3-1 winners at Dundee kept up the pressure on Rangers All three teams have 28 points..