The trustees said the insurance companies’ argument was that since the frauds committed were not referred to in the insurance documents when the policies were renewed, the policies were void.David Shaw, a Conservative MP, said: ‘The insurance companies have behaved rather like other financial institutions (in the Maxwell affair), in that they made very little inquiries about the policies. The honest and honourable course for ministers would be to hold another public inquiry so that the arguments can be aired and weighed openly.(Photograph omitted). After the third round, Montgomerie commented that the heat would be on the leader Mize admitted that the pressure played on his mind ‘The butterflies were in my stomach. In a pub in Islington, ‘Mad’ Frankie, 70 and very much alive, says he hopes his book, Mad Frank, will correct ‘all the rubbish written about me over the years’.

Testers gave it good marks for reception, although Sarah Bayliss found that even the highest volume could not wake parents deep in sleep.Prices may vary slightly.. As if I’m going to get some illicit kick out of it.12.14 The guy with the ginger beard stands slightly bowed at the bottom of Shaftesbury Avenue, eating cake out of a box with a plastic fork, the box being balanced on the rim of a litter bin. Cinemas have gone on line in batches of two or three a month, allowing the system to bed down and demonstrating that the increase in business is due to better service rather than a series of blockbuster films.The central office is open from 9am to 9.45pm Sunday to Thursday and 8am to midnight Friday and Saturday, but bookings can be made at other times using a touch- tone phone or by leaving a message. Thus the televising of criminal and civil cases will still not be permitted, for fear that juries or witnesses might be influenced by the cameras’ presence.However, ’subject to satisfactory arrangements’, mainly concerning camera placings and lighting, the televising of appeals in both criminal and civil cases may now go ahead ‘with the approval of the presiding judge’.Although Lord Hope’s announcement will be regarded as another major victory for broadcasting after the success of televising Parliament, lawyers in Scotland are likely to regard cameras as adding further pressure to an already pressured job.The Scottish Council for Civil Liberties said last night that it viewed Lord Hope’s decision with concern. Unless he listens and learns; learns to tame a backswing that nearly reaches ground level, and has but one plan for every golf course – let it rip. With the rule of law goes the unviolability of contracts.’ Last week’s share price plunge was prompted by Peking’s threat not to accept any Hong Kong government contracts that run beyond 1997, unless first approved by China.The political row has also eclipsed the early widespread business support for the rest of Mr Patten’s policy speech.

- P C Lauderdale, Sutton Coldfield.ANSWERS PLEASEThe Wimbledon men’s singles championship has not been won by a Briton since Fred Perry in 1936. You could end up with something five feet tall or 20ft wide.’ Cold hard figures are the things to search for – rather than dredging up our rusty O level Latin and struggling to make sense of names. Catalogue pounds 1, refundable.For further reference, ‘Ivies’ (Collins Aura Garden Series, pounds 2.99), and ‘The New Topiary’ by Patricia Riley (Hammer, Garden Art Press, 1991, pounds 25), are both useful.. ‘I’m happy to win for my country,’ Gigi said afterwards, although which was a matter of debate.’When I chose to play for the US it was controversial,’ she said, ‘but perhaps people now will understand why I did it.