THE MANAGEMENT buyout of Leyland DAF's assembly plant is to go ahead despite a last-minute counter-bid from a former director

THE MANAGEMENT buyout of Leyland DAF's assembly plant is to go ahead despite a last-minute counter-bid from a former director, writes John Murray. There is a backlash against cynicism in the media.'According to its editor, Leonard Stall, the current thirst for even the most superficial information about the rich, famous and glamorous means people are increasingly expert on their private and public lives. Among this number, 30 froze their budgets and 51 made cuts of up to 23 per cent.The survey found that councils were budgeting to exceed the Government's spending targets by pounds 804m (2.2 per cent) in England, pounds 55m (2.3 per cent) in Wales, and pounds 66m (1.3 per cent) in Scotland. Eric, Alan and Peter discovered during the day from Finn, who runs the shop and post office at Adrigole, that mussels will give you severe gut-rot if combined with whisky, and I had indeed had a small nightcap of Jameson's the night before. You can be very direct, emotional and simple.'Be My GuestAll the Beast's servants have been transformed into household objects: the suave French maitre d' is now a candlestick (above) who, with thousands of all-singing, all-dancing plates and cutlery, welcomes Belle to the castle. They managed to stay put at 474p even in yesterday's stock market collapse.

The band played Dixieland; the rally organisers unloaded from a truck 120 giant American flags. Keith Clifford remembers seeing him in 1956 at the Halifax Palace. Last year a concept plane, which the French called Alliance, was displayed at the Paris Air Show, and the 'final concept' will be similar. 1994 has already seen a Tippett event of some note, the premiere of his opera Le Jardin Labyrinthe - alias The Knot Garden in French. ISRAEL has refused the gift of a Christmas tree from Norway, saying it may be infected with disease and might 'contaminate' Israeli trees. Managers have abused referees and been fined only pounds 500. And yet, while the conditions and purposes of a provincial school of art had made her idealise the art of painting, a breakdown of the divisions between the four schools of the Royal College encouraged her to develop the more interdisciplinary approach which prepared her for her working life.During the first summer vacation, a chance encounter helped Muriel Pemberton to realise that her aptitude for fashion would help her to maintain herself as an artist.

The second seminar, Screenwriting for the 90s: Selling Your Script to Hollywood, to be held at London's Metro Cinema on 25-26 July, will be hosted by Michael Haugh, author of Writing Screenplays that Sell, a guide now in its fifth American edition.Tickets cost pounds 95.Further details on 071-730 7013.. Others say it is old cockpits that are most likely to be the cause, while the rest say it is lack of discipline.'Notable disasters last year caused by what is officially called Controlled Flight Into Terrain, include the two Airbuses which crashed last summer while trying to land at Kathmandu in Nepal, and the Airbus which crashed in mountains near Strasbourg in France.The aircraft in the Strasbourg crash was not fitted with the warning system and last week the operations manager of Air Inter, which operated the aircraft, was charged with negligence by a French magistrate.Over the past decade, the number of accidents has increased slightly, but only at the same rate as the number of flights, which last year totalled around 14.8 million with a record 1.3 billion passengers carried.Mr Learmount's figures show a slight increase in accidents in the last three-year period but he added: 'It is not sharp enough to say whether it is statistically significant.'Three-year periods are too short from which to draw conclusions.'The 1992 figure of 1,422 deaths (excluding three caused by war or terrorism) was the highest since 1985 when there were 1,800, and compares with 1,090 in 1991 and 611 in 1990.. That was a way of hiding for me.'His childhood was not entirely happy He was born in Yemen in 1962. The 20-year-old Watts, from the University of Southern California, headed the early world rankings this season with a time of 44.00sec, and dipped under that at the US Olympic trials to claim the third pace for Barcelona behind Danny Everett and Steve Lewis.'Now it's about to start to get hot, and I'm looking forward to it,' said Black, whose season's best is 44.84sec. She re-took her seat for the UDF last March.She was shot by two men on a motorcycle as she was being driven to her home in the port of Hyeres. Dick Best, England's coach, sees it as yet another threat to the northern hemisphere's challenge for world supremacy. At 5.7 per cent, GRE's growth rate would have moved from barely respectable to positively pathetic.Beale Dobie - 0621 85113; Planned Savings subscriptions department - 081- 868 4499.(Photograph omitted).

These include the Wong brothers, who invested pounds 4.5m in Embassy when it was restructured in 1992.Embassy made losses of pounds 454,000 before tax in the six months to September. Jack designs an electric generator with hypnotic powers and mesmerises his step-parents into topping themselves. On a good day, the Nozomi does this - for a return fare of pounds 165 But on a bad day it doesn't make it. Writing with bluff, elegant precision, Moorhouse makes no bones about his position in India.