Gordon McNally and his wife Henrietta have visited the Majors at their home in Huntingdon and at Chequers and have

Gordon McNally and his wife, Henrietta, have visited the Majors at their home in Huntingdon and at Chequers and have socialised with them on at least six occasions. The McNallys hosted a private party for senior members of the Prime Minister's Huntingdon constituency association and business guests at their luxurious flat in Mount Street, Mayfair, central London. Bousquet was shot dead by a lone assassin at his home in Paris's 16th arrondissement last year. Last Thursday's industrial production figures even showed some evidence that this rebalancing may have begun, revealing that production of investment goods rose three times more rapidly in the three months to February than output of consumer goods - reversing the pattern earlier in the recovery.Retail sales growth and consumer credit have also weakened slightly in recent months, while consumers' confidence in their own financial circumstances has dropped well below any level seen since the end of the recession, according to Gallup's monthly polls. Abbey has done little as a bank that Halifax could not as a mutual.When it comes down to it, the only clear-cut justification for conversion is one of money - a powerful enough influence but not one that should be allowed to swamp all other concerns.Building societies should be encouraged to remain as mutuals, in the interests of corporate diversity if nothing else. No one has told private sector contractors that they should spread their costs over 10 years as Mr Meacher claims - they know they have to judge their own commercial risk in pricing a contract, which will typically run for a three- to-five-year period.As for the DTI's use of PA Consulting Group for work on Warren Spring Laboratory (WSL), contrary to Mr Meacher's assertion, the contract given to PA was indeed won after competitive tender.

Sir: Well done to John Torode ('Women can run the world, too', 3 June) for pointing out that the Shirley Williamses and Lynda Chalkers of this world are ready, willing and able to take up hitherto male-held jobs such as the presidency of the European Commission. 'Then a long time, 15 minutes, elapsed which was not reassuring. Players and officials keep on covering up what's going on.' Gibbs, who switched codes to the rugby league club, St Helens, earlier this year, said: 'Every player in Wales knows that when you play on a Saturday if you win you can get a few quid.'Players get the cash after the game Envelopes are handed around At some clubs you get a cheque at the end of the month It's a win bonus You don't get it so much when you lose. The Herald and Evening Times, like the English regionals, have introduced modern colour presses and electronic typesetting, but trade unions are still strong here, which makes it harder to enforce cuts.'Glasgow is traditionally a high cost centre,' Mr Kemp admits.

'The usage of refusing quarter to an armed peasantry, and burning their villages,' he writes, 'however unjust and barbarous it may appear at first view, is founded upon a principle of necessity'. Favouring expansion rather than recidivism, Graham Taylor has indeed come up with a glimpse of the old Watford, but only in as much as the new England will attack on a broad front, with two wingers. a wolf in sheep's clothing.'The market forces that produced these hot hatches and Sierra Cosworths may yet take them off the roads They are becoming extremely expensive to insure. This excludes the republic of Chechnya, which has declared itself independent.According to a Constitutional Court ruling, questions one and two are decided by a majority of votes cast, providing the turn-out is at least 50 per cent of the electorate. I would like my life to be a lesson in how to stand alone and to thrive on it.

They also undertook the task of filling in the gaps of my education.'Why do you all want to go to the Hard Rock Cafe?' I asked navely.'It's really cool,' supplied Dwayne, 'and you can get the T-shirt.''But why do you need T-shirts from the one in London and the one in Paris?''Because you gotta get T-shirts from all the Hard Rock Cafes all over the world.''And then what happens?''Then you've got all the T-shirts from all of the Hard Rock Cafes all over the world, stupid.'Janice, incidentally, bought not just the T-shirt but also the leather bomber jacket costing pounds 250. His decision to put law and order at the top of our agenda shows that he understands their concerns now, just as he did then. 'There's a healthy rivalry between us,' jokes Mr Fitzsimons, 'but actually there's loads of room in Russia for everyone.'The supermarkets and other Irish-run shops and bars have changed the face of Moscow. It could have been the closing credits to Beauty and the Beast, and the Frenchman ought to learn and fast because a rare talent is being sullied.He can see avenues opening up where others find only blind alleys. The session two days before, however, is adventurous in musical terms too - a rare convergence of four leading string quartets.