We are not just buyers or sellers in some market place or individuals set in isolation but we are members of a community

We are not just buyers or sellers in some market place or individuals set in isolation but we are members of a community that owe obligation to others as well as ourselves and that depend on others to succeed.'BLAIR argues that what he is saying is not entirely new. They are among only five foreign law firms to be granted licences by the Chinese to open representative offices in the capital.. In 1972, he opened the Thorburn Museum in a former cow shed.Trains and Thorburn had been the passions of his childhood. Eventually PPE established distributors in 17 countries, including the US, Scandinavia and most of western Europe. A US rival to its security business has announced reorganisation plans that could, it was felt, hamper MB's operations.MFI, the flat-pack furniture group, shaded 2p to 134p.

A new Swiss magazine, Die Positive, plans to look at the bright side of life and report only positive news, Reuter reports from Weggis. When the same workers became parasitised, however, this rose to more than 70 per cent. Sir: I am writing to dispute the assertion in Paul Taylor's review of the English Shakespeare Company's Julius Caesar that the company is closing because of funding cuts ('Caesar salad', 3 December). As a matter of protocol, though, it was deemed necessary that he be seen to compete with a worthy rival, so they invited David Dimbleby to take part in mock programmes, held three weeks ago. At the time, it seemed that Paxman was the clear favourite; an article in the Mail on Sunday focused heavily on his performance, merely describing Dimbleby as 'relaxed, if a touch bland'.Yet, according to an insider, the reality was very different. Steven, then living with foster parents, received pounds 2.1m. I can't believe even now that this was inevitable, but the older clubs seemed to be mesmerised.Relegation in 1964 was followed by one promotion near-miss in 1965 before the rot set in and players such as Francis Lee were sold. Paul Cavadino, spokesman for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Nacro), said the idea was wrong in principle and would create 'great difficulties' in the prison service.'It would mean that prison officers would be catering for a number of prisoners who had absolutely no hope whatever of being released.

As an artist-alchemist, Bannon takes the most unlikely materials and arrests our attention.'It's a question of transformation,' he says. If it is about fraud then, although one can focus on internal controls and improving them, it goes deeper than that.'Given that half the associations failed to meet statutory deadlines for submitting accounts, opportunities for fraud and waste are huge. IAN WOOSNAM struggled to a one over par 73 in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday, prompting fears that injury could force him to miss the US Open at Oakmont next week. 'The consumer interest is hugely important to us.' Mr Odgers, who in April last year became the first non-lawyer to chair the MMC, has come under fire from MPs and the consumer lobby after a series of reports on areas such as compact discs, perfumes, ice creams and mortgage valuations. Why does Walter Girven, who is also chief constable of Wiltshire, persist in his request? Perhaps what he should be seeking is greater imagination from the police in the use of their existing powers.K LeganAbington Vale, Northampton.

Research, based at Alderley Park, Cheshire, will be divided into four therapeutic areas - cancer; cardiovascular; vascular inflammatory and musculoskeletal; and infection - each with its own dedicated biotechnology, molecular modelling and other core science staff. Zeneca spent pounds 257m on drug research in 1992, which is expected to rise to about pounds 300m this year.Zeneca was split from the bulk chemical side of ICI at the beginning of the year and the group will decide next week whether it will be floated off as a separate business.. She did not know that they were all waiting to be sent to Auschwitz. As the Irish contingent arrives for the Festival talking a convincing fight, Coral offer 8-1 about their chance of returning home with three winners; their price about Martin Pipe single-handedly doing the same is 11-4. People are appalled that such vast sums can be wasted when there is so much pressure on services to the patient. And the nearest I'd come to a religious experience.Laughing uncontrollably, with tears in my eyes, I was lowered on to the mat. Sir: Your article ('Ministers decide to wipe out county councils', 22 November) and subsequent correspondence on the future of county councils has shown that my own county of Hampshire is not alone in its desperate struggle on the way to the gallows. No.'Asurprise pairing walked off with the Securities Institute Golf Challenge in deepest Surrey this week.

I HOPE that you will publish this letter to recognise the contribution of E Guy Dawber to the garden at Burnt Norton ('On a walk in Old Possum's wood', Review, 29 May). Further away there's Atlanta, and the Olympics.So, I said, suppose you could have a choice in 1996: an Olympic gold medal, or an Oscar for best screenplay Which would it be?He laughed 'I'll take the gold medal. 'We used to get together and moan about what we could do.' Out of that club grew an organisation which in turn merged with another, more formal group run by a marketeer from an architects' practice. But he more often sounds like a politically correct academic than a Japanese version of Margaret Thatcher. Mr Coleridge's letter said: 'I therefore urge you on behalf of the council to vote for Resolution A'Resolution B also backs the council and is expected to be withdrawn in favour of the first motion, to avoid confusion.Of the four other resolutions, Mr Coleridge and the council have urged the members to vote against three.Among these are calls for the council to set up an 'affordable' scheme so that members can close their books on some of the most loss-making acccounts. According to figures supplied by national governments, 200,000 are in Germany, 100,000 in Hungary, 30,000 in Sweden, 20,000 in Austria, 13,000 in Switzerland, 4,000 in the Netherlands, 2,000 each in Italy and Norway, 1,300 in Britain, 1,000 in Denmark, and 40,000 elsewhere.Inside the former Yugoslavia, the UNHCR believes there are 593,000 refugees in Bosnia, 577,500 in Croatia, 373,500 in Serbia, 69,000 in UN Protected Areas in Croatia, 63,000 in Slovenia, 48,500 in Montenegro and 28,000 in Macedonia.