STEVE MARTIN’s a dab hand at playing wild and crazy guys, but when he takes on complex characters he becomes a prickly, unappealing screen presence. ADMIT TO ANYONE that you have a portable electronic diary-address book gizmo like a Psion or Casio and the odds are good that you will be be labelled a prat. This looks promising; perhaps we are in for some sort of Famous Five adventure But they are unable to open the door. He saved par at the formidable 18th hole, the hardest on the course, when he got up and down from a bunker, securing his four with a five-foot putt.Olazabal, playing behind Faldo, also holed some very testing putts to set up a fascinating duel.

HERON, Gerald Ronson’s troubled property and garages group, yesterday accused a creditor of trying to delay its pounds 1.4bn restructuring scheme as a tactic to fend off a lawsuit launched against him in New York. AN ACCOUNTANT being investigated by trading standards officers is the target of a series of protests by a group of clients that claims his fees are too high. This development will strengthen, at least for the time being, the hands of the many officials and others, not only in Britain and France but also in the United States, who fear, and with good reason, that air strikes might make conditions in former Yugoslavia worse than they are now.I share those misgivings, but I am not in the least reassured by the Mount Igman detente. Mrs Gizzi, who is 82 and disabled, lives in a retirement flat. Charter 88, which campaigns for a better kind of British democracy and is the favourite cause of Nice People, is five years old. When the war ended nothing was said about us and we began to fear we were stuck in the coal-mines for good. Act.’ He used to be thought of as a left-wing radical, but has gained the respect of regional businessmen, who describe him as a powerful advocate of Lower Saxony’s interests.These regional interests, in turn, are important in Germany, where power is much less centralised than in pre- Thatcher Britain, let alone post-Thatcher Britain.

The other ingredients, including soggy bread and limp lettuce, were frequently little better. Too often the men’s promising positions faded into draws, while the women potted their points.
Boris Spassky infuriated his team captain on at least one occasion by agreeing a draw in a clearly better position, although in the following game the point was shared only after all ideas had been exhausted.Playing an opening – the Tarrasch Defence to the Queen’s Gambit – that had brought him success in the 1969 world championship match, Spassky introduced a beautiful idea with 18. A man there told me that if you can raise people’s souls and spirits the rest of life begins to improve. The cost of the change will be borne by British Airports Authority, which runs the airports and is keen to promote them as a fair place to shop.It has been running advertising campaigns along the lines of: ‘Fair prices at Heathrow and that’s guaranteed’, pointing out that a Tie Rack tie or Our Price record bought at Heathrow will cost the same as one of those items bought in any of the other branches of the chain.But the one transaction – one that is almost obligatory for foreign travellers – that has not offered the same value as the High Street is money changing.The concessions at the terminals – Thomas Cook, Travelex, Travelcare and International Currency Exchange – are allowed to charge up to 1 per cent more than the rate offered by one of the Big Four clearing banks.For instance, earlier this week Thomas Cook’s rate for selling dollars was dollars 1.864 to the pound at the airports and dollars 1.882 in High Street branches, and the higher rate for buying back dollars was dollars 2.025 to the pound in the High Street or dollars 2.045 at the airports – the full 1 per cent difference.The airport bureaux are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and so are more expensive to operate than High Street outlets.Lloyd Dorfman, chief executive of Travelex, which operates at Heathrow, Gatwick, London City Airport, Birmingham and Aberdeen airports, said: ‘In the spirit of maximising customer value for money, I think it is a great step forward.’(Photograph omitted). They’re working on the last section of the play: it has to be tighter, faster, build more surely to its climax.

Advised by Hambro Magan, it is looking for more high-quality acquisitions.The changes leave the Asprey board with three executive directors and three non-executives, including Geoffrey Maitland Smith, chairman of Sears, which controls 25 per cent of Asprey.From 1 September Asprey will be a holding company only. On Wednesday evening United and Arsenal were bottom of the Premier League, marginally below Wimbledon on goal difference. ‘By totally rejecting the package and not having in hand any alternative, the Republicans have made themselves irrelevant,’ said the Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.Mrs Clinton has so far made no decision on the option of ’sin taxes’, officials said. One or two bags should be enough for a small garden.The worms are packed in a damp clay which needs to be refrigerated, and even then has a shelf life of only about three months. But Rodney Fitch, chairman, said the company was on the road to recovery after the financial restructuring and capital injection that followed the share suspension.
‘We had a terrible time in 1992, but we were in good company in that regard,’ he said. From then until last summer, he hardly put a foot wrong within the constraints that he had been given. As usual, Reeve batted as if on a hot tin roof before eventually giving May half a charge down the pitch and offering a bat and pad catch.Tim Zoehrer, the wicketkeeper and batsman, swapped his gloves with Ian Healy to indulge in his lesser-known activity of leg spin and after bamboozling Trevor Penney with a googly he ousted the batsman leg before next ball with an equally mysterious top- spinner.Andy Moles made 49 from 115 balls before dangling his bat and being caught at first slip.