She's evil and all those rich old aristocratic men who support her they're just cranks

She's evil, and all those rich old aristocratic men who support her, they're just cranks.'But all the arguments about whether she should be freed - how culpable she was, and whether she has reformed - are probably academic. We also learn that Darwin's academic grounding was a monumental eight-year study of barnacles. .1AFTER two successful cup ties, it was back to business as usual for Arsenal: a league victory frustratingly thrown away. She sits on the cross- benches: in deference, it is said, to her role as a governor of the BBC. Plan A was to drop John Jensen and Mark Flatts and revert to the sweeper system which had done sterling service in the championship years of 1989 and 1991.When the wheels came off, with Saunders' penalty, Plans B, C and D became increasingly desperate, culminating in the deployment of O'Leary, Flatts, Limpar and Campbell in a midfield which had all the balance of Cyril Smith on ice.In the absence of the suspended Tony Adams, O'Leary was given his first start of the season as sweeper - a formation in which he was immaculate until his sliding challenge on Dwight Yorke conceded the decisive penalty, in stoppage time at the end of the first half.Villa recalled Stephen Froggatt, out since mid-October with knee- trouble, and the young winger was central to the positive start which brought his team an initiative they were never to lose.They should have led after three minutes, when Steve Staunton's through-pass enabled Yorke to set up Ray Houghton, whose shot from 10 yards brought an impressive save from David Seaman.Arsenal sent on first Flatts, in place of Ray Parlour, and then Limpar for David Hillier but it was Villa who continued to dominate and only another stunning save prevented them from going further ahead, 10 minutes into the second half. The oils supply the aroma and ultimately the taste, while the colloids help to produce the distinctive light brown 'crema' on the top of an espresso which, according to the Italians, seals in the flavour.The insoluble parts of the coffee are flushed through first, leaving some of the solubles - including the caffeine - behind.

Spain has tabled the most radical plans, calling for extradition between EC countries to be made an almost automatic process.However, many lawyers say the problem lies with the legal authorities who attempt to implement the procedures. It looked a mere consolation until a dramatic last 60 seconds, when first Darren Foreman and then Lee Hirst brought the house down.A second representative of the elite went out, Newcastle United overcoming their great North-eastern rivals Middlesbrough 3-1 It was Newcastle's first win at Ayresome Park since 1964. Over a period of eight years it had been treated with liquid nitrogen, a therapy commonly used to freeze and kill the cells of pre- cancerous lesions. It belongs to a collector in the property business.Jacob Cuyp's charming portrait of Maria Strik van Scharlaken, the three-year-old daughter of a rich Dutch merchant, feeding her lambs was painted in 1650; it cost pounds 242,000 at Christie's in 1989 and is estimated to fetch pounds 200,000- pounds 250,000 this week.

Its most imposing feature is the departure indicator, which spans the concourse Direction signs and ticket machines are centrally placed. For that matter, the theoretical models that inform the work of Livingstone and Lunt generally suggest that television is at its most dangerous when it attempts to be remotely serious.Habermas and his Frankfurt school colleagues, for instance, regard most televised public debate as modern vaudeville, designed precisely to distract the laity from concrete forms of political action. In addition there is footage of trainee London cabbies threading their way across town.'The main reason for the exhibition,' says Javier Pes, who researched Taxi], 'is that taxis are a fundamental part of London They're how people get around. Germany had lost ground in opening new markets and in transforming research results into new products.By helping to achieve a world trade agreement in 1993, the German government had made a significant contribution to securing the country's future prosperity.'The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade accord will give Germany up to 50 billion marks ( pounds 19bn) a year in increased standard of living,' he said.Housing construction had also improved.'In west Germany the construction of 400,000 new flats in 1993 exceeded the former peak set in 1977. And it remains far from clear what, if anything, will replace it. Today's marketplace calls for zesty responses from bankers, metal-binders and software creators alike.

Profits in the current year are expected to fall to about pounds 3m.Although Steetley paid about pounds 80m for the Spanish businesses, Redland had written them down to pounds 55m.Minorco already has minerals businesses in East Germany and Britain, where it acquired Imperial Chemical Industries' lime business at the end of 1991. 'Don't be tempted to denounce everything they do as the work of bird-brained incompetents (even when it glaringly is).' Voters do not take kindly to being told they voted for imbeciles. Nina Forth, the Playhouse's marketing assistant, said: 'The people of Harlow elected this council because they want this level of services.'The 21-year-old Playhouse attracts visitors from a 50-mile radius. THE DEARNE Valley, a 20 square mile area of mining villages in south Yorkshire, has been devastated by the decline of the coal industry - eight pits have been closed since the mid-Eighties, with the loss of 10,000 jobs, and unemployment has soared to one in four in many parts. The consultation period ends next month.(Photographs omitted).