First Edition The highest-level Russian official to visit Washington since the arrest of the alleged spy

(First Edition) The highest-level Russian official to visit Washington since the arrest of the alleged spy Aldrich Ames said Moscow believed it had developed enough trust with the US to overcome any problem, Reuter reports from Washington. A mountain has been made out of a molehill.'The SIB acknowledges that the amount of bad advice suffered by investors is unknown, since KPMG's work was restricted to an analysis of often incomplete customer records. But when he asked for some posters he was told to stop wasting money and write his notices on wallpaper instead. RESENTMENT against the enforced use of safety helmets is not uncommon, but it is much rarer against obligatory seat-belt use. He says he plays the part of this law-breaking, gun-slinging character for the fans, whose mentality he understands so well, but Wimbledon attract precious few of them to Selhurst Park.

'It's only when you get a figure like Tolstoy who says: 'here are these teachings of Christ like love your enemy and so on, and what have the Christian churches ever made of them?' that you suddenly get these violent confrontations between Church teachings and the figure of Jesus.' And a confrontation like this would be just fine for A N Wilson.(Photograph omitted). (First Edition) DONALD STEWART, the Scottish National Party's longest-serving MP, died yesterday, aged 71, at Lewis hospital, Stornoway, following a heart attack a week ago.Mr Stewart was elected MP for the Western Isles at the 1970 general election, a position he held until he retired in 1987. Mr Heseltine (15 per cent) is the highest-rated Tory, outstripping Mr Major (11), whose performance as Prime Minister is clearly seen to have fallen well short of his promise to create a nation 'at ease with itself'.Fifty-three per cent think Mr Blair will be Prime Minister in 2000. It is high time they did to themselves what they have done with such gusto to everyone else. 'You are a super player and I think you might have a grandparent from Limerick or Galway,' Popplewell, standing in as speech-maker for the absent Hastings, told him.

And you'll get kneecapped.' Well, they never kneecapped us, but the police never tipped them out of the park either.I read a survey of the eating-out habits of the British. The Spanish bluebell, Scilla campanulata, is excellent under trees and among the greenery of shade-loving ferns. But to claim that the appalling standard of national political debate is healthy is to show an ostrich attitude to the real issues glossed over by MPs and the media. The words of a serious national debate are being recorded, and future historians will find them in Hansard But the spirit is missing It is an empty event Most speeches are made to a near-vacant chamber. The Social Security Select Committee now has an excellent opportunity to unravel the web of mystery spun by lawyers and accountants over the fees they charge.

Even then she did not leave Homerton since, as Director of a Primary Mathematics Project known as Prime, she was able to secure an office in college which she kept until her death.She brought zest, enthusiasm and dedication to everything she did. In 1976, hobbled by his reputation as a Washington insider, he got nowhere as Democratic presidential candidate, but in 1988 his effectiveness as the vice-presidential candidate made him nationally known.In a television debate with Dan Quayle, the Republican vice- presidential nominee in that year, Senator Bentsen was the author of a famed putdown. At a court hearing in Palma de Mallorca last week, Skase, breathing through a respirator, said he was suffering from a severe lung disease and that he would die if forced to fly to Australia.He said he did not trust Australian law to give him a fair trial, and offered to stand trial in Spain The court reserved judgment.(Photograph omitted). Open Mon-Fri 12 noon-1pm; last orders for lunch 2.30pm, dinner 10pm Visa, Access.. GILBERT ROLAND had a career of enviable longevity, spanning six decades, writes David Shipman.

The Daily Mirror, for one, was concerned about the atom: 'Let it be split,' the paper said, 'so long as it does not explode.'The era of 'big physics' had begun. 'We had an agreement long before the children were born that she would deal with the nappies and I would deal with the sink.'Referring to his wife's evidence that she had to find the right moment to ask him to do a household task so as not to put him in a bad temper, he said: 'I should think every woman in the country has the same problems as my wife.'I don't think I am difficult or more difficult than any other husband. In Destiny and Dark Angel Beauman was serving up more or less unadulterated nonsense, but the contemporary journalistic setting in Lovers and Liars has helped her to grow up a bit. Now she is blind, deaf and speechless, the end of her ordinary life marked by the abrupt disappearence of doodles from a bedroom calender. 'In the meantime,' the Rector said, 'the Dong has had to go from 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' and everything is being sung just that little bit higher.'.