Among the main targets of the anti-vivisection groups will be celebrities who are known to support animal rights

Among the main targets of the anti-vivisection groups will be celebrities who are known to support animal rights issues, such as Hollywood stars Madonna and Jack Nicholson who are rarely seen in public without their dark sunglasses. If mixed with other substances it could fetch up to pounds 70m. Eleven people, including two women, were arrested in raids on addresses in Kent, Surrey, London and the Isle of Man. His political insights into the cynical way in which all parties, but especially the United States and the Soviet Union, sought to draw the Algerian conflict into the Cold War are of no less interest now that Cold War is over. Michael Buchanan, 29, a powerfully built kung fu enthusiast, was sent to prison - rather than to a psychiatric hospital - after it was decided he was not mentally ill under the terms of the Mental Health Act. Buchanan was discharged from Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire, in August last year after doctors were satisfied he would be supervised in the community, and take his medication.But he was ordered to leave the hostel for homeless men in north London where he was living, after failing to comply with the conditions.He slept rough, returned to his cocaine habit and a day later attacked a 70-year-old man, kicking him in the jaw and robbing him of pounds 65. WATCHED anxiously from abroad, more than 8 million Italians go to the polls in the second round of the epoch- making municipal elections tomorrow, many to make an unwanted choice between left and far-right. Detailed revelations about testing by the US Energy Secretary, Hazel O'Leary, coming after years of official details that anybody's health has been damaged, have alarmed many people who believe they might have been unwitting victims of the experiments.The White House is still wary of saying they will be compensated, but President Bill Clinton says something should be done 'if Americans are deemed to have been wronged'.Little of the information is entirely new but, for the first time, the identity of many of the victims has been revealed, dramatising what happened and fuelling media interest.

11-29 Jan Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (0483 60191).Pentabus Theatre: Black and Midnight The story of two ancient armies awakening in the modern world. The biggest is P&O European Ferries, which changed its name from Townsend Thoresen after the Zeebrugge disaster, when its Herald of Free Enterprise sank with the loss of 192 lives.According to its chairman, Mr Dunlop, it has spent pounds 400m over the past five years modernising its fleet. Source: John Charcol 071-611 7000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST Mortgage Securities is offering its 5.75 per cent three- year mortgage as either a fix or a capped rate. It has further argued that to fix the minority at a higher number of votes - maintaining the proportion that at present applies in the 12-member Union - would help to force through measures, opposed by a loose alliance of Mediterranean countries, to reduce subsidies on rice, sugar, tobacco and olive oil.Mrs Shephard, who is not normally close to the strong pro-Europeans in the Cabinet,is said to have won support from John Gummer, a pro-European, and, more privately, several other senior ministers.But in a speech in Birmingham yesterday John Smith, the Labour leader, said: 'The Government's posturing over this issue has nothing to do with Britain's real interests. The prison authorities said an internal inquiry was under way.Police said they were not treating the matter as suspicious.. Paris has similar weather, but cafe life flourishes, protected when necessary by awnings and glass. Gone for ever is the old crackly phone line to Norway and the sound of the Cypriot juror ramming small change into a callbox before giving all her points to Greece.

Imagine John Major and Ted Hughes out for a night on the razz at the Fridge in Brixton, and you get some idea of the importance that the Friday night jump-up holds for the cultural life of St Lucia. We keep samples that people can look at, loads of brochures, and then we order individually for each bride. The celebrations that night defied all preconceived ideas about sober, undemonstrative Finns.The first world championships had been approached with scepticism but in the end everyone went to Helsinki, not least Carl Lewis, who won three gold medals, Mary Decker, who dispatched the formidable Eastern European challenge in both the 1500m and 3,000m, and Daley Thompson, winner of the decathlon. It is a phenomenon doctors have included in what they term the 'Diogenes syndrome'.