They seem unaware of their august surroundings

They seem unaware of their august surroundings.Without the leaflet, drab might seem the only word to describe the trail's fourth stop: 34 High Street was built as a bank in 1890 and appears a model of dull propriety. Whatever happens, the midweek Coca-Cola Cup ties will go ahead as planned.On the Barclays League front, today's Second Division game between Stoke City and Exeter City is off.Frozen pitches put paid to five of rugby league's seven New Year's Day fixtures and today's rugby union match between Rugby and Harleqins.Leicester took steps to safeguard this afternoon's game against Leeds by switching to the Yorkshire club's Chandos Park ground.Racing lost yesterday's meetings at Cheltenham and Leicester. She was relaxed, but I felt that was because I had done a good job in relaxing her]'It would have taken a hefty fix to nail yesterday's two miles five furlongs Berkshire Hurdle winner, Lift And Load, at Newbury. The networks achieve this 'training' by looking at the forms of known bad credit customers, and then at good. Police say Williams poisoned her with heroin to inherit her fortune of about pounds 1.5m.Williams, 31, appeared in court in British Columbia on Tuesday charged with first-degree murder. Last month, a group of these children, aged between 13 and 19, came to Britain as part of a European tour, performing a series of musical plays about 'disappearance'. Satisfied with the 66 per cent of Bosnia- Herzegovina now under their control, most Serbs are willing to try to avoid more fighting.

Belly-dancing has never quite transcended its sleazy reputation. He was from the Caucasus, dark, swarthy, handsome, chivalrous. Villages have been destroyed and thousands of Indians massacred or tortured in armed conflicts between guerrillas and government forces in El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.Fifteen Tzutujil Indians died in December 1990 in Guatemala, when soldiers opened fire on 2,000 unarmed indigenous peasants; three were children.Twenty Paez Indians died on 16 December last year in Colombia, when 60 hooded gunmen attacked the hall where they were meeting. Most importantly, during his five-year tenure the president will probably be faced with the prospect of total economic collapse in Communist North Korea, with all the perils and opportunities that will entail.Mr Kim's advisers had until recently dismissed Mr Chung, the 77-year-old founder of the nation's second largest conglomerate, Hyundai, as a passing fad. Only he is having a worse time than us.'So, in a very real sense, Michael Palin is taking on the suffering of Christmas for us?'Yes.'But isn't this all very far from the original spirit of Christmas?'I don't know when you last read the Bible, but the Christmas story is all about stress and hassle. He said: 'The public must make their own decision on this case.

British space officials are privately crowing that for the past five years they have rejected the value of sending people into space.They have stuck to this line - arguing that the real future is in earth observation satellites, fulfilling environmental and commercial roles - to the disgust of most of the rest of Europe. Here it is Jilly Farina, fourteenish when the novel starts, sixteenish when it ends, even her surname a tribute to grains. The Manchester scientists have developed a technique which allowed them to extract a greater number of stem cells in one go, so that a transfusion became a viable alternative.. THE LATEST constant companion of the Mayor of Madrid is the talk of the town. They in turn passed on the vow to the men under their command. Unless we tell the story as it is, there is no hope of understanding, let alone of helping the people of Rwanda to put their dreadful history behind them and find a framework for peace and mutual respect. Yours etc,ALISTAIR DAWSONWolverhampton. Faldo's fifth major victory in six years, one that established him as the greatest British golfer of the age, was not the triumphant procession the crowds imagined when setting off with him from the first tee.