He would become the fourth big name to leave Widnes in the last 18 months following the departures

He would become the fourth big name to leave Widnes in the last 18 months following the departures of Martin Offiah, Alan Tait and Jonathan Davies, the Welshman who went to Warrington last week. The Widnes chairman, Jim Mills, said: 'We don't want to lose Richie but we feel a bit upset he has turned down a contract which would have made him the highest-paid player at Widnes now Jonathan has gone.'Davies left on a free transfer because Widnes had difficulty affording his contract, but Mills said: 'We don't want people thinking our players will be going for nothing from now on.'Our financial problems have eased with the likes of Jonathan leaving, so no players will be going cheaply.'Richie Eyres was one of the most consistent players in the game last season and is at the peak of his career.'News that Eyres is for sale is sure to alert a number of other leading clubs despite the fact that he will miss the start of next season after his dismissal in the Challenge Cup final against Wigan at Wembley in May.Michael Jackson, Wakefield Trinity's Great Britain second-row forward, joined Halifax on a two-year contract yesterday.. Earth encounters dust clouds quite often during its annual tramp around the Sun, made up of debris deposited by comets. A naked neck, save for a chunky gold necklace, letting the world see her almost wrinkle-free, 62-year-old skin Cripes. .43 Major James Hewitt, riding instructor, friend of the Princess of the Wales, one of a number of cads (see 72, 76) prevalent in '93 None of them, though, wears. She urged suspension of a Labour leadership election until a new system was in place in October 1980.

The United winger's first touch took him round Pressman and he was still at full pelt when he was faced with an angle so narrow a cross seemed his only option.Instead Giggs rolled the ball in. Other highlights of this Gemini concert were David Lumsdaine's epic scena A tree telling of Orpheus, passionately sung by the soprano Mary Wiegold, and Keely Hodgson's abrasive string trio Surfacing. Her mother took physics at university and her father is a biochemist. To addict oneself was to devote oneself as a servant or disciple.So, although it was certainly possible to be addicted against your will (as in the case of most slaves) the word didn't rule out free decision, a conscious election of a certain path, which might be perfectly honourable. But I struggled on, reminding myself that after Switzerland, Spain is the most mountainous country in Europe. But London stayed ahead to win by a third of a length.On this evidence the regatta at the Olympic Games in Barcelona will be a source of experience rather than medals for the South Africans.In the other heat in the Grand Penn AC from the United States, with a former world champion in the No 7 seat, defeated Dartmouth, the fastest American college this year. This Ipswich schoolteacher owes his presence here to the horrific eye injury sustained by Mark Garnham at Grace Road, a somewhat ironic turn of events since it was Garnham who supplanted Brown on the Chelmsford staff in 1988.With four wickets now having gone inside nine overs, Cairns entered a crisis situation, but any momentary sense of drama was soon dissipated as the sixth-wicket pair patched up the leaky vessel with 73 in 21 overs, Pollard emerging briefly from his cabin to reach 50 in the 60th over.

He's a terrific header, a frightening tackler and a good reader of the game.'Northern Ireland are improving, as their 3-0 win over Albania last month illustrated, but againstSpain McDonald will almost certainly need all his qualities.Gary SpeedCyprus v WalesIT IS the dragon's soft underbelly. It looks exceedingly unlikely that any British sides will be invited in future.Swinton, meanwhile, are to launch a major effort to attract support in their new home town of Bury, after having the threat to their existence lifted by their director Malcolm White's success in buying the club from the administrator appointed to run it.The Lions moved to Gigg Lane after selling their ground at Station Road at the start of the season. 'But it still means everything to my generation.'And there was nothing haphazard about his quest for an invitation. Orwell pondered the unique attributes of 'English civilisation' and concluded that it was 'somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes'.

As at present constituted, participating currencies (the peseta and escudo apart) are supposed not to rise or fall against the mark by more than 2.25 per cent. But whatever happened to the drama within? The emotional home-truths begin and end, of course, in Janacek's orchestra and I'm sure that under Richard Armstrong's seasoned direction these febrile notes will soon carry more purpose and intensity than they did on the first night. Neither need be in any hurry to brush up his interview technique.Imagination is in notoriously short supply at Lancaster Gate, where the myopic old buffers on the FA struggle to see any further than the latest league table and, on that basis, Wilkinson's candidacy waxes stronger as Leeds's resurgence gathers pace.Hoddle, bright and innovative, should not be discounted, but his claims are eroded with each new defeat. And it is this quality in his pictures that has his critics squirming about 'kitsch'.

But industrialised countries, with superior technology and salesmanship, replaced Britain as India's largest trading partner. 'I've got one or two things tucked up my sleeve which may or may not happen before the transfer deadline Really, though, I don't think I actually need anybody. Few, if any, of these drivers are breaking the speed limit. Before play began, he was in the outfield bowling slow left-arm off- breaks to Keith Piper, and when that was over he stood in the middle of a crowd of small boys and grown men patiently signing autographs.When Surrey batted again, Lara took the field, stayed on it and at the end of the day actually came on to bowl.(Photograph omitted).