‘Perhaps we overplayed some things in the first Test,’ Dwyer said yesterday. Thursday’s attack on the isolated Pooneryn base on the shores of Jaffna lagoon was the worst defeat for government forces. His findings have influenced Richard Hannah, the firm’s respected transport analyst, who has consistently taken a negative stance over Eurotunnel’s shares.The tunnel has cost around pounds 10bn to build, twice as much as originally predicted, and its opening has been delayed many times. ‘I always avoid confrontation by choosing somewhere discreet to do it I don’t want people’s reactions and criticisms I am self-conscious. From Mr Lionel Bloch

Sir: Elizabeth Young’s strictures (letter, 10 June) about the iniquities of the proposed United Nations sanctions against North Korea are misconceived.

Although the board was entitled to have a secret yardstick for sifting tenders, the condition about discussions was in a different category. But the point was made that the standing and role of BBC governors was being devalued by the row.However, the Heritage Department, which is drawing up replacement candidates for the five BBC governors due to retire this summer, including Lord Barnett, has put the process on hold in case it needs also to find a new chairman.Mr Hussey boasts of the fact that his job is more secure than that of the governor of the Bank of England. The Youth Lifestyles 1993 report, published last month, found almost a third of the sample of 15- to 24-year-olds had taken drugs and a quarter of these had used hard drugs. Participants in the ‘Tibet day of action’ at the peace pagoda in Battersea Park, south London, held to protest against the wave of recent arrests made under the Chinese occupation. The same goes for Headway, at 22p, which has been rescued from near-disaster by a new management team that has changed the name and bitten the bullet on closures and disposals. A ‘broad and practical’ approach had to be adopted taking into account the dog’s physical appearance and its behaviour.

BARRY LANE, at the ripe old age of 33, is beginning to broaden his horizons. MICHAEL HOWARD yesterday stood accused of breaching human rights and bringing the United Kingdom into line with Iraq, Kuwait and China when he announced the abolition of a defendant’s right to silence. It announced yesterday that it had recruited Gerald Corrigan, who recently retired as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Mr Corrigan, who will join the bank in January, will have a full-time role, mainly involved in ’strategic and risk analysis’ and ‘relationship building’.Small listed companies with big ambitions will be jostling for the ears of fund managers tomorrow at the company investor show at the Barbican in London. Unfortunately, the Securities and Investment Board believes many people would have been better off leaving their money where it was. He filled a vacuum left by an administration that seemed ideologically bankrupt.Labour faces a similar task and opportunity, which will be the harder without Mr Gould’s fertile mind. For example, Mozart was commissioned to write pieces for some tuneable glasses, and Schubert wrote his sonata for the ‘arpeggione’, which was apparently a mixture of cello and guitar. ‘I can’t abide hearing translations that don’t match – it’s lazy.’Almost everything rhymes in Italian: the stresses of words fall on more or less the same syllable each time and all end in an accommodating open vowel-sound Not so in English.

While this may seem unusual for foes (it is difficult to imagine Eubank and Benn bobbling along country roads to their venue playing I-Spy), both recognise they are not fighting each other as much as horses and courses. Five MPs supported Mr Prescott, three Mr Cook and one Mrs Beckett Six others refused to disclose their intentions.. In fact, anything that results in a diminishing of arterial blood supply to the penis will make erections either difficult or impossible. Mr Harman explained: ‘All our senior management posts were abolished. I’ve been abusing the golf course (in Portland, site of the qualifying tournament).

Happily Mr Hanson often manages to rise above the ropy material with his ardent, mischievous, attractively sung Valentine.There is a pointed Shavian joke in the first half where McComus (Edward de Souza) informs the ‘emancipated’ Mrs Clandon, who has returned after 18 years in Madeira, that there is now only one place in all England where her ideas would pass as advanced.The Church? she suggests No, the theatre, he replies. In dramatic terms, though, the heroine’s major crime is that she’s a brave, right-thinking blank and, to help the plot, a pretty inept one at moments. For example: one person wanting itemised bills and another not wanting them, or a request for disconnection, or the barring of 0898 calls.So we want one person to take the decisions.’You could argue that it would be better for us to have joint bills. The train crosses France at night while you sleep: in the morning, you arrive refreshed at your destination and drive the car off to begin your holiday. (Her voice falls to a diminuendo.) I’m not quite sure how or where.’My parents were a bit eccentric.