The voice has power and accuracy undercut by a rush to grab the note as the tempo increases

The voice has power and accuracy, undercut by a rush to grab the note as the tempo increases. It was better than the radio, and the few thousand gathered in the West Stand made more racket than just about any home crowd at Highbury this season.The problems with the PA system provoked an irrefutable burst of 'Can you hear the Ipswich sing? (No, no)' and for the first few minutes there was a new kind of football crowd noise: the response to the close-up.Many of us were ignorant of George Graham's team selection, and were unable to recognise the tiny, scratchy figures a pitch- length away. He read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and joined the RAF in 1935 after a spell in the Auxiliary Air Force His wartime career was spent entirely in Bomber Command. They have had innumerable lectures and demonstrations about the scientific experiments they will be carrying out, and even a two-day survival course involving camping out in a makeshift shelter in snowy woods outside Moscow.All that will seem far away, now that the hatch has closed behind them.

The technique has been developed to a fine art by the Bank of England, and is a secret blackballing. KETAN SOMAIA, head of Dolphin International, has emerged as one of the prominent Asian businessmen interested in rescuing Equatorial Bank, which was put into administration last year, writes Peter Rodgers. The Revenue has no way of spotting people in this position who pay tax through PAYE.Taxpayers can reclaim tax for 1992/3 as well as the current tax year.Inquiries on freephone 0800 210 220.. And beyond this immolation may conceivably lie, if not a new self- esteem, then at least peace. Brokers who use screen-based quotation systems will also be able to use Auto Shield, although their customers will have to complete a proposal form on paper.Royal is restricting the cover available under Auto Shield - for example, insurance will be restricted to named drivers.Roy Randall, a Royal spokesman, said: 'The acquisition costs of different (distribution) channels can be reflected. While that would be in line with current practice, the ban on accounting for brands means the proposal is likely to provoke a storm of protest.A large number of companies, particularly in consumer businesses, put a value on the brands they acquire as part of a takeover.Grand Met, for example, has pounds 2.5bn on its balance sheet - almost two-thirds of its net assets - for names such as Smirnoff vodka, Pillsbury and Burger King, while more than 80 per cent of Reckitt & Colman's net assets relate to the value of brands acquired when it took over the US household products group Boyle-Midway.Under the second option, goodwill would be treated as an asset of the business and written off over a maximum of 20 years. The error in the course which she pursued need not have been fatal if corrected earlier.

'Economic, political and technical problems make safe and secure dismantlement of many thousands of Russian nuclear weapons difficult. Churchill made much of it, as did, in an inferior vein, the late Sir Arthur Bryant. While this may work in the long term, it increases borrowings and reduces liquidity in the short term.The most successful teams so far have learned from the experience of the previous management - which presided over a fall in net assets and a reduction in shareholders' funds - and decided on a more cautious policy.The 62 teams, ranging from bankers and building society staff to employees of the electronics group Motorola and British Telecom, will soon be breaking for a summer recess before renewing their drive to reach the final in November.The Independent on Sunday will be tracking their progress in more detail and following the performance of the winner in next year's European contest. Indeed, watching Sky Sports for any length of time will virtually inure you to the big dry-up, the major blank-out, these being events which happen there pretty well every hour, on the hour.

Ian Ormondroyd spurned a free header and Steve Thompson hit an upright, before Shane Westley fouled Bobby Davison to concede a penalty in the 62nd minute.Mike Stowell had saved a brentford spot-kick on saturday. This is the sharpest growth in productivity seen since April 1989.. 'It is not Britain but him and his incompetent government we are attacking,' Mr Smith said. Sheikh Mohammed yesterday decided not to pay pounds 75,000 to supplement his unbeaten Oaks winner to Sunday's Irish Derby, and she is unlikely to take on the colts before the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October.