He said: ‘The basic position was that if I did not leave Lloyd’s would close the group down.’ Syndicate 290 ceased trading when he left.Stan Andrews, the underwriter for Gooda Walker syndicate 298, also gave evidence yesterday. But the returns depend on the bonus policies of the life insurance companies, which are dictated by investment returns.Nigel Sidebottom, investment manager of Gerrard Vivian Gray’s investment trust portfolio service, said: ‘The management costs are a bit high, but they are doing something I could not do myself.’ He thinks the trust could go to a premium when dealing begins on 27 July. On the other side is a council now Tory-controlled, which wants St Mary’s to become a 1066 Heritage Centre, similar to the Jorvik Viking Centre in York.Tonight the council’s policy committee meeting will decide St Mary’s fate.In support of the Friends, Sir Hugh Casson, the architect, visited the town last week to dash off a watercolour of the church, described as one of the ‘finest buildings of the 1820s’. Early in his book Barry Phelps quotes, with apparent approval, an American academic who discerns in one Wodehouse sentence ‘a pun, a mangled cliche, a simile, a double irony and two synthesized images’. New clothes are worn, no meat is eaten, and friends and relatives are visited, with more lai see distributed.One Hong Kong Legislative Council member this year said he expected to give out HKdollars 50,000 ( pounds 4,300) in lai see money. Out of all the hordes of Hindu zealots who set out for Delhi only one un- named youth managed to hurdle the barbed-wire barricades and sprint to the rally site before he was grabbed by police.Although a police spokesman said that by nightfall control was restored in Delhi with ‘minimal use of force’, it was the BJP that enforced order and discipline among the protesters.

Dewi Morris is still absent at scrum-half, though, with a damaged shoulder but expects to be fit for the North’s second match against the South-West tomorrow week.Squads, Sporting Digest, page 39. The latter option is now considered more likely.Architects believe that sites such as King’s Cross could become homes for a new generation of ‘urban villages’. We were turfed out on to the quay at Roscoff, where it was dark and drizzling, at 5.30 the next morning.’What Mr Bradfield would like is a service to Bordeaux that leaves at about 6 to 7.30pm (giving him ample time to drive down from Derby), and arrives in France around 9 to 10.30 the next morning (providing a comfortable night’s sleep on the boat, and time for breakfast). He gracefully saw the point and never brought up the idea again.I once, and once only, experienced the full force of this sort of thing in the flesh. The BCA editors are bulls of the dollar, at least in the short term. But if Forest continue to concede defensively unforgivable goals they will certainly be condemned to the margins of the game.With a player who dominates midfield as splendidly as Roy Keane, it seems impossible that Forest can seriously remain in danger.

Presumably the Imperial Household Agency did not think that foreign reporters would manage to ferret out the secret.But far from being embarrassed about being scooped by a foreign paper on the Crown Prince’s engagement, the Japanese press proceeded to congratulate itself on keeping the story quiet for so long. Detractors say it is wasted because the Games will never live up to the claim that they will make a profit of dollars 15m ( pounds 10.5m).Sydney hopes to clinch the Games with its offer to overcome travelling costs to Australia by paying return air fares for athletes. And what if the Tracey mystery is cleared up before one’s return?”Then there is a story saying: ‘Home Secretary Pledges Swift Action’, on the grounds that the Home Secretary never pledges swift action before things go wrong. The judge’s award was therefore excessive and should be set aside. The tench, perhaps being of criminal intent, lurk, but everything else is obedient.

It is as if two exhausted boxers were locked in an immobile clinch – still standing, supporting one another, but unable to move independently The radical right is weak and cannot lead. MITCH WILLIAMS sees tonight’s first game of the National League Championship Series, in which the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Atlanta Braves at Veterans Stadium for a place in the World Series, as no different from any other. Stewart’s 50: 209 min, 172 balls, 3 fours.Atherton’s 50: 144 min, 97 balls, 7 fours.WEST INDIES – First InningsD L Haynes c Thorpe b Malcolm. Hollywood studios produced fake newsreels, depicting hordes of unsavoury-looking drifters disembarking from trains in the hope of joining Sinclair’s socialist utopia on the palm-dotted Pacific coast. Had not both infants coughed when we walked in, we would have left them for dead too, along with the dozens of bodies that littered the compound.It was late afternoon when we arrived at the former seminary which until last week served as an internment camp for displaced civilians. BLACK opinion is divided about the future of South African rugby after the provocative singing of the South African national anthem ‘Die Stem’ by white supporters before last Saturday’s Test against New Zealand in Johannesburg. Wales: Try Reynolds; Penalties Williams 2.IRELAND UNDER-21: I Gray (Queen’s University); D Sheehan (Garryowen), R Hunter (Northampton), S Tynan (Terenure College), G McCluskey (Portadown); A McGowan, N Assaf (Blackrock College); M Carroll (Old Belvedere), S Byrne (Blackrock College), P Wallace (University College Cork, capt), G Longwell (Queen’s University), B Cusack (Bective Rangers), L Toland (Old Crescent), R Wilson (Instonians), D Corkery (Constitution).WALES UNDER-21: D Weatherley (Swansea); C Young, M Wintle (Llanelli), J Redrup (Newport), J Reynolds (Neath); J Williams (Abertillery), H Harries (Cardiff); R Jones (Llanelli), J Evans (Bryncoch, capt), S Price (Llanharan), L Harvey (Maesteg), G Taylor (newbridge), G Jones (Llanelli), P Jones (Neath), I Callaghan (Dunvant).