FUND managers say private investors should not be alarmed by this week’s fall in world stock markets. In Ninagawa’s they reinforced one another.His is also a theatre of tremendous gestures. Inter had disappointed him, he said, throwing in the towel on falling behind.’Three weeks ago, I saw a much better game, when Torino lost to Parma, who are a great team.’ That match, more than Sunday’s, had taught him that Turin’s ‘other’ club possessed two of the best defensive markers in Italy in Angelo Gregucci and Enrico Annoni, and two dangerous runners – Benito Carbone and Enzo Francescoli.In style, he said, Torino were very similar to Arsenal ‘They are very strong defensively They do tend to give away a lot of free-kicks. It was certainly Eighties-style eclectic, embracing Thai spicing here, southern Italian there: steamed mussels were cooked with lime leaves and chilli, red mullet with tapenade and tomato. On Wednesday the piper – one George MacIlwham, who seems to make a career out of the piece – strode through the hall with an endearing panache that wiped the frowns off the faces of the most hardened avant-gardists.Mr MacIlwham would have been an asset on Monday at the QEH when Edward Downes conducted the Docklands Sinfonietta in the world premiere of Prokofiev’s Eugene Onegin It should have been memorable but wasn’t. Since then it has fluctuated between 30p and 45p, now resting at the bottom of the range.That represents a modest premium to net assets at the last year-end of 30p and reflects an understandable desire by the stock market to wait and see how events unfold.

HOWARD CLARK, who has not managed a win on the European Tour since 1988, was thwarted once again in the Dutch Open at Hilversum yesterday. Helen Baxendale, whose work at the Citz won her the Ian Charleson award last year, shines out in Cardiac Arrest; Juliet Aubrey, impressive (despite rotten carriage) as Dorothea in the telly Middlemarch, needs a stage outing; Marianne Jean-Baptiste, superb as Marianna in Cheek By Jowl’s Measure for Measure, is worth watching out for. I was concerned at the patchy, and consequently misleading, reporting of this case in your newspaper. GOVERNMENT plans are well advanced (I learn) to privatise the issuing of British passports.

He contacted the British and Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which he had always found meticulous, polite and extremely helpful, but they could find no soldier’s name in Ors cemetery beginning with the letter ‘O’, let alone a Wilfred Owen. The hard-boiled, self-mocking female narrator saves her admiration for a church tower and her body for lachrymose violinist Stephane. It’s great to have beaten Swansea, Cardiff and now Llanelli in the first round of matches, but I’ve already told the players they will have to keep on improving to finish top because we still have to meet those teams away from home,’ Pickering said.Neath: Tries Shaw, McCarthy, Bridges; Conversions Thorburn 3; Penalties Thorburn 2. Sir: Your report (28 December) of an electronic car-tracking device being used to trace and recover a stolen BMW was not before time. The teams will suggest ways schools can improve ‘in the context of schools doing extraordinarily well already’, says Vivian Anthony, HMC secretary.The HMC will publish its reports, or a summary of them.

Last June, for example, he told the House of Commons that ‘the biggest single element behind what has happened in Bosnia is the collapse of the Soviet Union and of the discipline that that exerted over the ancient hatreds in the old Yugoslavia’.As interpretations of the Bosnian conflict go, one would probably get a more profound analysis from a Papua New Guinean tribesman. Reilly has spent much of his seven years as national coach looking for forwards with the size and strength to take on the Australian giants, so the selection of the compact Cassidy represents something of a departure ‘I wish he was 6ft 2in,’ admitted Reilly. It is our first chance.’The rally was mainly peaceful, though the prospect of tens of thousands of ANC supporters marching through Durban apparently dissuaded mainly white cricket-lovers from attending the first of the five- day third and final test match against Australia.The ANC marchers were in a militant mood, with groups of young men brandishing spears and axes performing the toyi-toyi dance through the main avenues. Labour productivity in manufacturing is at an all-time high, while labour costs per unit of output have not risen at all over the past year. The watchmaker, trying not to show how frightened he was, prised off the back of the watch The inside was perfectly empty. This can kill fish, invertebrates and plants.Conifers, such as those planted across large patches of Scotland, are also known to be efficient at scavenging out pollution in the air.