It says: 'Employers could be required to pay say the equivalent of

It says: 'Employers could be required to pay, say, the equivalent of the first three or six months' unemployment benefit entitlement or, where sick leave is work-related, the first few months' invalidity benefit. Far closer is Fellini's own comment to his long-time screenplay collaborator Tullio Pinelli: 'We must make a film like a Picasso sculpture; break the story into pieces, then put it back together according to our whim.' This could stand as the schema for all his subsequent films: dissatisfied with constrictions of traditional narrative forms, Fellini moved increasingly towards a life-in-film that was itself a film-in-life. Frederico Fellini, who was born in Rimini in 1920 and died last Sunday, won every major prize for film excellence. Some dismissed him because he was a loner, but he did not deserve to die that way. This was a system of reforming the way prisons were run at local level by ending an overtime system and a number of traditional, but not very economical, staff practices. And the problem with Jonathan Miller's new Maria Stuarda, originally staged at Monte Carlo and now at the Buxton Festival, is that it hesitates. Cheeky title for such a thin offering (always be suspicious when publishers omit page numbers) but the choices are discriminating: John Agard, Brian Patten, Michael Rosen, Jack Prelutsky, Colin West and other vernacular, unsentimental souls muse on the trouble with mum and dad, fights with siblings, waily baby brothers, kind grannies, eccentric aunts, etc.We're Off: Verses on the Move, ed Brian Thompson, illus Susie Jenkin-Pearce, Viking pounds 8.99.

And yet the evolution of life is determined by these revolutionaries.Commercial message: I'd rather be secretary to the treasury than a big-company chief executive officer. But the acting is undistinguished and, instead of reinforcing a sense of ritual, the singing and flamenco dancing may put you more in mind of Matador, the ill-fated musical, than Blood Wedding, the fatalistic tragedy.The Europeans, Greenwich Theatre, SE10, 081-585 7755Blood Wedding, Lyric, Hammersmith, W6, 081-741 2311. Freed from Fifties hardship, Alfie is less political than Porter and more savvy than Billy; he's got money, spiffy suits, a car and more birds than he can shake a stick at Birds, he reckons, just want a good time So does Alfie. If they allow BA anywhere near USAir after this, I'd be amazed.In Europe too, BA is becoming a bit of a pariah. I believe that the people do not want the treaty and that they prefer to keep our present commitments with Europe and go no further. WASHINGTON - With his ramrod Guards Officer stance and that maddeningly inscrutable gaze, it's always hard to tell with the junior Senator from Tennessee.

In an article on research into Alzheimer's disease, published on 5 November, Professor Bob Williams of Oxford University was quoted as saying that 'his own data suggests that the nuclear microscope is sensitive down to a level of about 60 parts per million, and not the 15 ppm claimed'. TWIN SISTERS died in a fire that started when one of the three men who took them to a barn for sex lit straw to see what he was doing, a court was told yesterday. The firm's main King Street office deals with the expensive stuff and consigns the rest to South Ken where Chinese, Islamic, Indian and Japanese lots jostle together. It is straight out of the toughie sexuality of pre-Aids New York clubs 'I like gay male strip places,' Madonna writes in Sex 'Straight male strip places are disgusting Those guys can never dance. WOODY ALLEN, the comedian and film-maker, is suing his lover and leading lady, Mia Farrow, for custody of their four-year-old son and two adopted children.