It promised to introduce compulsory regulation unless the sector cleaned up its act within two years

It promised to introduce compulsory regulation unless the sector cleaned up its act within two years. Two years on to the day, we have yet more proof there has been no clean-up. Yet suddenly the OFT thinks a voluntary code of conduct will do the job.It’s understandable that the Government is reluctant to give the Financial Services Authority yet another industry to regulate. But while the chief City watchdog already has its hands full, if ever there was a business that needed closer supervision, estate agency is it.For most people, buying a house is the biggest single financial transaction of their life. Everyone else involved in the deal – solicitors, mortgage lenders, surveyors and financial advisers – is strictly regulated, so why should your estate agent possibly be any different?Becoming an estate agent is hardly the toughest challenge There are no exams to pass or standards bodies to satisfy. Judging from Tuesday’s programme, all you need is the ability to forget about your conscience while saying anything to clinch a deal.In a business where agents get very low basic salaries and large commissions if they hit sales targets – plus constant pressure from managers – abuses are inevitable.

And until estate agents are properly policed, expect to see plenty more programmes like Whistleblower.n n n Give your support to a new initiative from MSN, Microsoft’s internet search engine. Every time you use MSN to search the web, the computer giant will make a small donation to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.To ensure the NSPCC gets its money, you need to use a special site, at www.clickscount.co.uk, to conduct your search. Add this web address to your bookmarks today.This is just one way you can use the internet to donate to charity at no cost to you. Sites such as www.thehungersite give to charity every time you click on them, which takes just a few seconds.All these services are backed by huge corporate sponsors, but that’s no reason not to use them.. Americans have been hearing about the next big thing in British rock, and wanting to believe it, ever since the Beatles made their clamorous stateside debut at New York’s Shea Stadium in 1964. That may help to explain the scepticism, and the disappointment, that has greeted the Arctic Monkeys as they tried to replicate their impact on British pop culture on the other side of the Atlantic

“Overhyped Monkeys,” was the verdict of one critic He was not alone. The Sheffield band made a mediocre impression when they appeared on the cult television comedy show Saturday Night Live, and failed to come over as much more than a pleasingly energetic garage band when they played the showcase performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
Nobody thought they were terrible.

Plenty of critics, in Canada and the US, liked their playing, liked their lyrics, liked their energy and honesty Some even said they held the promise of future greatness. But almost none was prepared to say the greatness has already arrived.”The complete package is damn fine. For about two or three tunes,” the Canadian critic Stuart Derdeyn wrote after their Austin show. “Then you start grinding your teeth, and believe you’ve been had by the Brit music machine once again.”Variety had a similar reaction to a show in Los Angeles.

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Conferences such as thisone, which bring together policymakers and scholars from both sides of the Pacific, willfurther the cause of this cooperation.”——————FOOTNOTES:1 The term “Asian tigers” refers to the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea,and Taiwan.2 This estimate is based on purchasing power parity measures of GDP.3 The Asian region here refers to Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan,Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan,Thailand, and Vietnam. Regionaloil production was just under 8.41mn b/d in 2001, and averaged 8.45mn b/d in2008 It is set to increase to 8.75mn b/d by 2013 In 2001 the region wasimporting an average 12.99mn b/d. A webcast of the conference call may beaccessed by going to the company`s website at , by clicking onthe Investors link and then the Events and Presentations page. Riley, Vice President, Investor Relations of Citizens, Inc.,+1-512-837-7100, . Fitch expects ElSalvador’s economy to contract by -2.5% in 2009 and a considerable revenue shockowing to economic recession will combine with continued spending pressures toresult in a fiscal deficit of over 5% of GDP in 2009. The group, which is beginning to seepositive effects of its turnaround programme, managed to cutannual costs by three billion dollars, meeting a target set byprevious chief executive Tony Hayward.

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The “nanny state” clearly does not trust teachers to use them sensibly, any more than it trusts the public to select a sensible diet. Ministers have also declared their intention to ban calculators from schools. The 1989 version of the national curriculum did include probability, starting from age seven with the meanings of more and less likely, certain and impossible. It was Sir Ron Dearing, then the chairman of the School Curriculum and Assessment Agency, who championed, and achieved, the postponement of probability ideas to the later years of primary school.
Far from following your suggestion, the present government are now urging that the teaching of probability be removed from primary schools altogether.

Sir: You call for education in risk assessment to enable the nation to make up its own mind whether it is worth indulging in T-bone steak, rather than being dictated to by the “nanny state” (Letter from the Editor, 6 December). And he fears that never again would the extremes of right and left exercise the disproportionate power which a first-past-the-post electoral system has granted them.PHILIP GOLDENBERGWoking Surrey. Sir: John Redwood (“Politics in proportion kills passion”, 8 December) is wrong to say that, prior to the general election, there was “no shared agenda” between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats on constitutional reform. The Cook/Maclennan agreement was in the public arena for all to inspect. Nor is it true that electoral reform would “abolish opposition” It would, however, facilitate honest politics. In particular, it would then be possible for the Conservative Party to split into its two ideological components of English Nationalism on the one hand and Progressive/Christian Democracy on the other.
And Mr Redwood knows that the majority of Conservative-inclined voters, offered a choice between these two types of Conservatism, would no more vote isolationist Tory than the majority of Labour-inclined voters would vote Old Labour.

An administrator in the arts needs all three qualities and the notion that a hard-nosed money man or a board composed mainly of fund-raisers could turn things round is simply ignorant.Genista McIntosh, whose financial acumen is proven, was exactly the right kind of appointment as administrator. The real reasons why she apparently found the Opera House so stressful and the National Theatre not would tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the former. The committee does not seem to have got at them, but I hope Richard Eyre will.Professor JOHN STEERLondon SW17The writer is a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission. Is that not what has been happening here, and what does the select committee think should be done about it?The report is inadequate too in its rather philistine attitude to the “opera and ballet buffs”on the board.

Boards of public institutions need to be balanced between those who know from the inside what the institution is about, those who know how to run things, and those who can raise money. But inevitably, where public subsidy is not sufficient to support a public institution, the rich, and those who can attract the rich, will come to play a disproportionately large role in its decision making. It could have been built in the time and where there is real will planning difficulties can, we know, be overcome.
What role did the snobbish belief that no one who was anyone would visit an opera house south of the river play in the board’s attitude? And what role was played in it too by the necessity of attracting donations from the rich or corporate who might not have appreciated such a modern and workmanlike building on a hitherto insalubrious site?The Opera House’s most effective fund-raiser, Mrs Vivien Duffield, is exonerated in the committee’s report, and, as it says, her indefatigable efforts have undoubtedly kept its two companies going. I want to discuss whether white jazz musicians should pay back the debt they owe to the blacks for inventing their music.

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Ole’ Miss finished 9-4 in Nutt’s first season with key wins over #4 Florida, Auburn, Arkansas, #18 LSU, and #8 Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl.While losing Defensive Tackle Peria Jerry and some guaranteed protection from Offensive Tackle Michael Oher to the NFL, Ole Miss will still set up well with the play of quarterback Jevan Snead. Although he has been roughed up over the past few seasons, his desire and will to win a championship has never changed. 2 guy who can drive the ball the opposite way.What Joe Girardi should be worried about is Matsui, Posada, Robinson Cano, and Gardner. (3) MissouriLast year’s NCAA Finalist in Memphis almost became a first round knockout by way of Cal State-Northridge, but a strong victory coupled with a blowout against Maryland has the undefeated team of 2009 right where they want to be.They will be tested by the full-court press that Missouri is infamous for, but if Tyreke Evans (17 point average in two games) can keep the Tigers focused, then their No.

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He became a firm disciple of the Object, and disdained the Surrealists’ new-fangled obsession with the Image. (He always refused to shake Andre Breton’s hand, but became a lifelong admirer of Paul Eluard’s verse and Aragon’s lyrical gifts.) He dedicated his 1947 volume Executoire (“Writ of Execution”) to Eluard. He dismissed as idiotic the prevalent theory of the avant-garde that “any readable (i.e. understandable) poem must be a reactionary poem”.Instead of joining the Surrealists, he formed a sort of family group with Jean Follain, Andre Frenaud, Raymond Queneau, Jean Tardieu and Jean Tortel (who wrote a good introduction to Guillevic’s work, with a selection of his poems, in Pierre Seghers’ “Poetes d’Aujourd’hui” series, new edition 1990). “We formed a true poetic fraternity,” he said in a radio interview on the death of Jean Tardieu, lamenting the fact that today no such brotherhood exists among poets, “who would scratch each other’s eyes out for an inch of space in some obscure magazine”.The poets of this group all loved painting as much as poetry, and many were the rare, exquisite works they produced in collaboration with fine printers and artists. Guillevic’s art/ poetry editions are numerous, expensive (justly so) and much sought after by bibliophiles. The poems’ “accompaniments” or “companionages” as he called them were by a wide variety of painters – Soulages, Manessier, Picasso, Yukata Sugita, the photographer Brassai and many others.

It was all part of an ideal, yet real, fraternal association of like-minded societies of poets, though he had militated during the Spanish Civil War on behalf of the Communist Party and bravely tried to reconcile the irreconcilable – poetry and political engagement, even to the extent of composing a poem to the glory of Stalin. When the monster’s barbaric crimes were made public, he rejected post-Stalinist communism and left the party in 1980, on the invasion of Afghanistan.All this time, Eugene Guillevic was producing book after book. His second volume, Terraque (“Terraqueous”) was issued by Gallimard in 1942, in which the later form of his poetry becomes evident, in brief lines with hints of refrain about everyday objects, as in Choses (“Things”): “The wardrobe was oak / And was not open. / Perhaps the dead might have tumbled out, / Perhaps bread might have tumbled out. / A lot of dead, / A lot of bread.” In his notebooks, a great store of thoughts, drafts, letters from Max Jacob and others, we find the above poem, with an added line: “And it wasn’t big.” He had cut the line, deciding it was indeed too simple, to the point of total emptiness.The works that followed often contained ever-shorter lines of ever-shorter poems, sometimes combined into narrative and visual sequences, as in Magnificat (1977), which has 52 brief sections, minimal in form, some of them fragments of only two or three lines – “Your lip – / the one / the other” – all significant individually, but attaining their highest intensity of musicality when read as a whole.

His work will live on, crowned with a host of civic and literary honours, and with its own strange, taut, always surprising resonances.Eugene Guillevic, poet: born Carnac, France 5 August 1907; twice married (one daughter and one daughter deceased); died Paris 19 March 1997.. When in 1983 Gordon Underwood was asked by the British Council to set up a sport teaching programme in the Sudan, he was astounded by the students there who, despite having no equipment or facilities, were motivated and resourceful, kicking a football made of wound-up cloth with their bare feet. One man walked for 12 days across the desert to meet him, having missed the bus. Underwood was always impressed by physical achievement through determination. He was an early practitioner in Britain of “sport science” – the study of the mental skills of athletes. This year he had been working with a member of the British Mogul ski-team, Tim Dudgeon, preparing for the 1998 winter Olympics in Japan and had just written two new self-help sport psychology books, one for rugby players (Mental Skills Training for Rugby, 1996), the other for orienteers (Mental Skills Training for Orienteering, 1997, co-written with Steve Bird), which were the beginning of a planned series.
His first book, The Physical Education Curriculum in the Secondary School: planning and implementation, was published in 1983, followed by Teaching and Learning in Physical Education: a social psychological perspective, in 1988.Underwood was born in 1933 in Lincolnshire, and as a boy was athletic and ambitious.

The most unusual, however, were the sand baths of Kyushu in southern Japan. Here, dressed in a cotton robe, I lay face up on a gently steaming beach while an attendant covered me in a hot, heavy cocoon of sand, leaving just my turbaned head beneath a jaunty sun-shade. Being steamed for 10 minutes at 50C left me feeling deliciously light headed.Getting thereANA, British Airways, JAL and Virgin have daily flights from London direct to Tokyo. Regular fares start at just under pounds 500.Getting aroundRail offers a series of passes which are good value if you’re travelling around. For example, a seven-day pass (Y28,300 or pounds 140) costs less than the round-trip ticket from Tokyo’s Narita airport to Kyoto.

For most passes you must purchase an exchange certificate before arriving in Japan.Where to stayIt’s better to book your first few nights’ accommodation before leaving home, especially in Tokyo. The Japan Inn Group and Welcome Inn Group offer cheaper options from Western-style hotels to family-run inns.Further informationJapanese National Tourist Organisation (tel: 0171-734 9638).japan. NEXT WEEKEND, up to half a million partygoers in fancy dress will be rampaging through the streets of a certain Catholic city. On the preceding Thursday, women with scissors will already have cut off the ties of thousands of men in the street Brazil? Spain? Wrong Germany.

They say the people in Cologne are the friendliest in Germany When I was there last week, everyone said it. The ruddy, jolly, ash-mustachioed taxi driver said it as he chatted in a delightful mix of tongues – German, Dutch, English, French.
The woman at reception who showed me to my room, with its view of the spires of the massive cathedral, said it. I replied that she was paid to do so and she looked at me through a fringe of straight blonde hair, wearing an expression of genuine hurt, and said she would never say something she didn’t believe. I apologised.The man walking his dog on the footbridge across the Rhine, his oilskin shiny from the rain, his pipe damp and unlit, his Jack Russell looking at me contentedly, also said it. I had asked him for directions to the beerhall I was visiting, and he told me that once I’d been there five minutes, I’d have made five new friends.The Paffgen beerhall was vast inside and dimly lit, the air crowded with the sound of 300 people talking and laughing.

You’ve had your day, this is our patch.’ Nobody ever actually said this, at least not to our faces, but the feeling was very clear to us.”Unknown to all of us, our redoubtable duo therefore knew how the story was going to end, even while the public and the media looked forward to golden success. In hindsight, we should have just gone with our own thing and not taken any notice of the advice.”As if given a cue, Dean takes over. “The sport was, on the one hand, encouraging the professionals to return to the Olympics and the other major competitions, because they needed the publicity and exposure,” he said. “But on the other hand it was clear they didn’t really like us being back, and they certainly didn’t want to see us win anything.”T & D were drawing their own conclusions even during their bold bid to sweep up the medals again, a decade after their interpretation of Ravel’s “Bolero” had left even the most cynical viewer spellbound.”The months leading up to the British Championships were very enjoyable,” Dean said. “The anticipation and the attention reminded us of all the exciting elements of our amateur career. “We had enjoyed complete freedom, both choreographically and artistically, in the professional world, and then, suddenly, we found ourselved confined. People from the International Skating Union [the world body of ice skating] were telling us one thing and then others, from the same body, would totally contradict this.

“We were made to feel like outsiders in an environment that had suddenly become alien to us,” Dean said. Torvill, still right beside him after all these years, agreed.”It was very restrictive for us,” she said. “We wouldn’t be doing this if we didn’t believe that we can win the Olympic gold medal.”Dean had been equally enthusiastic and optimistic. “We want to test ourselves one more time, a final swan-song if you like. You know what they say – no guts, no glory.”They duly captured the British ice-dance title and scraped to victory in the Europeans, but could “only” win an Olympic bronze (having been in pole position with just their famous free-dance routine left), and then withdrew from the world championships.The expressions and the mood today are in stark contrast to 20 months ago.

They have not talked about it much, preferring to look ahead to their next show, but I reminded them of a day we spent together a week or so after they had announced that they would be attempting to win the 1994 British, European, Olympic and World gold medals.Back then, they were like wild-eyed youngsters, with the uncertain but excited expression of two hikers about to embark on a wonderful adventure into the unknown “It’s on again,” Torvill, now 38, had said breathlessly. Ah yes, this is how we remember Torvill and Dean.But this was not the Olympics. This was the London Arena in Docklands, on a grey and murky East London day. The professional circus had come to town to present its talents to a disappointingly small audience, to people who remembered what the performers, and none more than Torvill and Dean, had produced at the Olympic Games.As far as Dean is concerned, still boyish-looking despite his 37 years, this is familiar ground, after the partnership’s torrid flirtation with the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.

Still, his best attribute on the offensive end remains his rim-shaking ability to finish. Dollar’s inexperience showed as he didn’t listen to his corner at all and just went pedal to the metal without any real strategy. Yes, the team rattled off 10 straight wins and 11 of their next 12 games but since then, the team has gone back into hiding, dropping seven of the their last ten games including being swept by the Philadelphia Phillies and losing two of three to the Colorado Rockies.What needs to be done, at this moment, is for the front office to turn their attention to the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft coming up this Tuesday, June 9.They need to address the needs of this team going forward and draft the appropriate players that will help make this franchise successful again. In this sense, Barbiebecomes only a marketing ploy, an attraction, a kind of searchlightdrawing one to a fashion show. Canada’s banking industry, described as one of thestrongest in the world, has endured the financial crisis betterthan banking sectors in many other countries, which have neededmassive amounts of government aid. He will not be coming to City.”When the transfer window opens I believe a lot of people will be surprised, shocked and some even angry and upset but none of them will be a Manchester City fan.Until then, along with every other City fan, I could not care less what anyone thinks because the only thing that matters in football is Manchester City..

But true to form, Dan didn’t sweat it, assuring Silva that he would fight anybody who the UFC could get to step in on short notice.Enter Chael Sonnen.I was fortunate enough to grab a few moments with Miller between training sessions for his upcoming fight at UFC 98. Net income for the yearended December 31, 2008 decreased 3% to $41.2 million, compared to net income of$42.4 million in the prior year EPS increased 3% to $1.72 in 2008 from $1.67 in2007. It’s usually a good thing when you can minimize the number of pitches that guy sees.The oft-meligned Brandon Phillips hit his third homer of the season and also put up a sac fly to score a run. “And for many developing countries,particularly small, island developing states, climate change poses a threat totheir cultural survival.

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He thinks if the money comes from government, our budgets will go into the red, and make investors frightened. If the money comes out of company profits, it will make companies run.Yelland: So Brown wants a free market and a liberal financial centre that allows Britain to compete its way out of the recession?Lafontaine: Good for you, Englander! You’re catching on. And we can’t allow Mr Brown his free market and liberal financial centre Hence our idea for the harmonisation of corporate taxes. Let them spend us out of recession.Yelland: Where’s the extra dosh coming from?Lafontaine: Precisely Your Chancellor asks this. You noted the co-ordinated interest rate cuts in the 11 EMU countries on Thursday? That was in response to recession fears.Yelland: Yeh, we covered it.Lafontaine: To offset this recession I have a plan: Raise the workers’ wages Let them spend more. We have to trim our welfare state just as you are trimming yours.

Before we begin cutting, we need to cover ourselves – with a scapegoat. So we invoke the idea that Germans bear a heavier burden inside the EU than anyone else.Yelland: Rommel in the desert?Lafontaine: When your Mr Brown threatens to veto tax harmonisation, we parry by declaring we want the EU to move from single-nation veto power to majority rule.Yelland: You read it in The Sun first, guv.Lafontaine: Ja, but what no one read in your paper is what we’re doing now There is a recession coming, mein Freund A bad one. I do plan to use Mario Monti’s initiative as the thin end of the wedge Not, however, so crudely as your paper has suggested Tax harmonisation is a diversionary issue for us Germany can’t afford its social security system anymore. And it’s founded on the eurobond market, a market where tax on income is not withheld at source, but paid afterwards, only when investors declare it.Yelland: Way over my head, guv.Lafontaine: And, to be frank, your Chancellor is right. Mario wanted to iron out a few tax discrepancies in the EU, no more Harmonised VAT, maybe Harmonised tax on interest from bank savings, maybe. Harmonised tax on income earned on stocks and bonds, maybe.Yelland: So what’s the Chancellor got against this Eye-Tie lark, then?Lafontaine: He sees it as the thin end of the wedge To be frank, the City of London is a great financial centre A tribute to Adam Smith and laissez-faire capitalism It generates nearly a fifth of your national income.

It began as an initiative by the European Commission’s internal affairs director, Mario Monti, an Italian conservative. This time you’ve gone too far.” (Slams paper down on bar.) That’s our side of the deal We lived up to it You never said nuffink about history You want history, let’s talk Adolf Jawohl, Herr Hitler!Lafontaine: Mein Freund Calm yourself Have another beer Tax harmonisation: a short history No pain, I promise. (Pulls out Wednesday’s front page of ‘The Sun’.) “The Sun today sends Euro-crazy Oskar Lafontaine a blunt two-word message And we send it on behalf of YOU – our 10 million readers. The German finance minister yesterday stomped all over Britain’s democratic rights by threatening to take away our power to say No! to higher taxes That’s the last straw, Oskar. What would winning the war mean?Lafontaine: Mein Freund: a little history.Yelland: History? You never said anything about history Listen, mate, we’re not having any history in my paper. It could have gone better.Yelland: Whaddaya mean, could have gone better? Our circulation is up 9 per cent. You’re a household name from that funny place where they have reindeer to the Costa.Lafontaine: We’ve seized the initiative, ja But we haven’t won the war.Yelland: Bloody pessimist All right, speak, Oskar.

By this time, Raul Salinas was in jail in Mexico on charges of murdering his brother- in-law and of illicit enrichment. In all, Citibank earned $1.1m in fees in managing Salinas’s accounts. The lack of adequate due diligence, suggested by the US Congress report, could subject the bank to further scrutiny – in London as well as the US.For other City-based bankers, meanwhile, the Citibank-Salinas affair is a harsh lesson in what can go wrong – especially now that the global anti-money laundering movement is gathering force.. AN MI6 report has come into our possession:

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Date: 5 December.Place: “Auf Wiedersehen Pet” Lounge, Frankfurt Airport.Speaker one: “Sun” newspaper editor David Yelland, in wig and sunglasses.Speaker two: German finance minister Oskar Lafontaine, in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hat.Edited transcript of taped conversation:Yelland: I just can’t bloody believe it! I cannot bloody believe it! Everybody, and I mean everybody, took the bait.Lafontaine: It went all right. Nor did the bank seem to do any other research into Salinas’s reputation, which, by 1992 and 1993, was being talked about in police and intelligence circles.

Even when the size of Salinas’s deposits jumped to $50m in three weeks, the bank made no inquiries as to the source of the funds. It also never filed the forerunner of a “suspicious activity report” until after the Swiss moved in November 1995 to freeze Salinas’s funds as probably stemming from drugs.At this point, the Swiss arrested Raul Salinas’s wife, Paulina, when she tried to retrieve documents and money from a Swiss bank. It accepted his explanation that his initial proceeds had come from selling a construction company, but never asked for its name, its price or to whom it was sold. The first principle of a good anti-money laundering bank programme is to “know your customer” (KYC). Citibank had one of the most vaunted KYC programmes in banking, but it is precisely here it seems to have slipped up in the Salinas case. The new US Congress report, says Citi waived its usual reference demands in opening Salinas’ account. BCCI hid much of its $5bn losses in the Caymans and Dutch Antilles; Credit Lyonnais parked losses of some $35bn in Luxembourg.

THE HEADLINE on the Downing Street press notice declared: “Tony Blair leads war on cancer” – apparently oblivious to a disastrous war on the disease waged by another head of state in another country nearly 30 years ago. In 1971 President Richard Nixon launched the United States on a “war against cancer” with the aim of defeating the disease within a generation. That war involved spending hundreds of millions of dollars: cancer institutes were established, scientists hired and laboratories built.
Two decades after it was launched, cancer rates were still rising in the US and, with the exception of children’s cancers and one or two rarer types such as testicular cancer, little improvement had been achieved in survival rates.The failure of Nixon’s war to deliver the Holy Grail of a cure for cancer obscured the fact that most people were dying not because of a lack of scientific progress but because of a failure to apply what was already known – basic facts related to the value of chemo- therapy and radiotherapy. Critics compared the backers of Nixon’s vision to the First World War general who declared: “Casualties: huge Ground gained: negligible.

Conclusion: press on.”Tony Blair’s war is different – it is backed by nothing but warm words. The Prime Minister declared a new target of a one-fifth cut in the death rate among those under 75, which would save 60,000 lives over the next 10 years. But behind the scenes officials admitted there would be no extra money.The new targets are matched by no new funds, only a reiteration of old funds already committed, such as the pounds 60m pledged for breast, lung and bowel cancer services and pounds 150m from the National Lottery for new equipment.Britain’s record on cancer survival is worse than any other country in Europe. Six years ago, Professor Karol Sikora, chairman of the World Health Organisation programme of cancer control and the leader of yesterday’s Downing Street delegation of specialists, said in an interview: “Britain is consistently at the bottom of the table, which suggests that care here is not as good as in other countries.”Last month, British specialists said 25,000 lives a year could be saved if Britain’s record was raised to the average of its European neighbours, through specialist cancer care centres staffed by teams of experts supplied with better access to drugs and modern equipment. Professor Sikora estimated that an extra pounds 100m a year was necessary, plus a one-off investment of pounds 100m for improved facilitiesWriting in the Daily Mail yesterday, Mr Blair disclosed that his mother had died of throat cancer at the age of 52, just after he had left university, an event that had a “profound impact” on him.His wife, Cherie, a campaigner on breast cancer, had lost a beloved aunt to the disease.

“Britain’s treatment of cancer just isn’t good enough,” the Prime Minister said.However, it was not bad enough to warrant levering open the Treasury’s purse. Mr Blair apparently believes that improvements can be wrought by serving cancer doctors with tea and biscuits in Downing Street and releasing a couple of heart-tugging stories about the Blair family history.. THE WAY ministers appoint special advisers came under attack from an employment tribunal yesterday when it accused the Lord Chancellor of indirect sex discrimination against a woman lawyer. The written judgment given by Croydon employment tribunal confirmed that Lord Irvine of Lairg’s appointment of Garry Hart as his special adviser was in breach of sex and race discrimination laws.
Finding in favour of Jane Coker, a solicitor who had hoped to be appointed, the tribunal said Lord Irvine had also breached European law. Ms Coker said: “The Lord Chancellor must resign in light of today’s decision … the pounds 2.6m a year the Government spends on employing its mates must be repaid to the taxpayer.”Giving the full reasons behind its decision, announced earlier this year, the tribunal criticised the failure of Lord Irvine to look beyond his immediate circle of friends for someone to act as his special adviser. Just because it was accepted convention, dating back to before equal opportunity legislation, that such appointments were not subject to normal civil service recruitment rules, that did not justify unfair procedures.The 18-page written determination made clear that a “Minister should take account of the imbalance of gender or race in the circles in which he is minded to find someone for an appointment.

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Anyhow, I was in a state of almost hysterical excitement by the time I arrived for that first lunch with Iris at the Connaught. Labour’s suspicion of the international banking community, which played a part in the government’s fall, dates from this experience, too.Despite these parallels, the differences between the situation then and now are at least as great as the similarities. .16THE hurdler Nigel Walker must have wondered why he ever bothered to make the switch from the relatively gentle exertions of top- flight Olympic running to the rougher trials of Stradey Park.He touched the ball for less than 10 seconds in the whole game. But earlier this month it made its commitment to the country clear by opening in north London a customer demonstration and training centre for its complete range of factory automation products.Unlike other Japanese companies, Omron is not likely to be a source of many jobs It employs only 20,000 people around the world. A distant gun breaks the noonday peace every day in commemoration of the start of practical Leninism.But start the revolution without me – it’s time for lunch.The gastronomic day begins at the hotel restaurant.

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Picture the scene. The bizarre styling of the Mantara – a golden oldie with trustworthy underpinnings – turns as many heads today as it did three decades ago. Leaflets explain clearly how to ‘do-it-yourself’ and judges intervene to ensure fairness and equality, according to Ashley Holmes, acting head of the association’s legal department. Hawkins could even emulate Armstrong’s version of ‘Shine’ with its 100 top Cs culminating in a super-F.
It was his ability to reproduce Armstrong’s more showy high-note solos which had, in 1936, persuaded the members of the college band ‘Bama State Collegians’ to elect Hawkins as their leader. Johnson is expected to make as much as pounds 10m available for new players.Andy Linighan, Arsenal’s Hartlepool-born centre-half, is the latest target for the Republic of Ireland.

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In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. PII’s were also used to powerful effect in the Ordtech trial when businessmen pleaded guilty to violating export controls on arms equipment to Iraq on legal advice, after ministerial certificates denied them access to Whitehall documents they claimed would prove their innocence.The Attorney General will be asked about his knowledge of the Customs prosecution and whether he should have stopped the case coming to trial. Dominican army officers, who have increasingly been able to control Mr Balaguer, have ensured that Haiti is receiving up to 50 per cent of its fuel needs.Mr Balaguer played the racial card, pointing to Mr Pena Gomez’s part-Haitian extraction. As for the backs, they were hammered not only by England’s tackling but also by their own butterfingers.Still, at least it was a win, which was about the only thing Jack Rowell, the manager, could bring himself to applaud.

This is gaining ground across Europe, with Scandinavia taking the lead, closely followed by Ireland. This led to the concept of the “driving test” for PCs.The concept was adopted by The Council for European Professional Informatics Societies which developed it into the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL). Some may have taken a course, but there are many Information Technology (IT) qualifications, each covering a different syllabus.
The idea of testing computercompetence the way car driving skills are tested was developed by the Finnish Computer Society in the late 1980s. Some can do no more than switch on and load games, others are highly competent in particular applications, but not those needed by employers.

They are also used at home, to write letters, e-mail family and friends, research and write homework, and order goods and services. Until now there has been no standard of computer literacy. People without basic computer skills will soon be as handicapped as those who can’t read or write. Most people already use computers at work, and the number of applications is growing. Nicholas Lansman, secretary-general of the Internet Service Providers Association, said: “The DTI has had three years to get this right; we’ve got three weeks.”n Daniel Sabbagh is senior reporter for `Computing’.. We’re looking to industry for better solutions,” he said.Mr Wills announced he would set up a joint government-industry taskforce to address the problem but has yet to reveal its composition.Tim Sweeney, director-general of the British Bankers’ Association, said making key escrow a requirement “would have hindered the development of e-commerce in the UK”.But industry is complaining about the short timetable. The solution currently proposed, dubbed key escrow, is to build a back-door weakness into encryption by giving a copy of a person’s private encryption key to a “trusted third party” (such as a bank), which will give it to the police on demand of a warrant.On Friday, DTI minister Michael Wills announced that key escrow, previously a plank of government policy, could be dropped “Key escrow may not be the best option.

Following a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Tony Blair on Thursday, industry leaders welcomed the chance to rewrite crucial sections of the forthcoming Electronic Commerce Bill but worried they would not have enough time.
The opponents of current proposals to give law enforcement authorities access to e-commerce, led by the IT and banking sectors, were thrown into further disarray as differences emerged between themselves over the best solution.The Government confirmed its change of heart on the bill on Friday, after news leaked of the Thursday morning meeting at Downing Street between Mr Blair, Home Secretary Jack Straw, Trade Secretary Stephen Byers, and executives from Microsoft, ICL, Cable & Wireless and the CBI.The conflict centres on the issue of encryption, once a Cold-War secret but now considered necessary to provide security for transactions and scrambling messages on the internet.On one side are the law enforcement agencies, represented most visibly by the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and on the other are high- street banks, the Post Office, internet service providers and big IT companies, including Microsoft.The problem is that powerful encryption is too strong for modern computers to break and denies law enforcement agencies access to electronic information in their fight against serious internet-enabled crime. THE information technology industry was thrown into confusion last week when the Government gave it just three weeks to come up with a compromise for regulating electronic commerce that will maintain customer security but allow cyber-cops to track fraud and other crime. But EMI has denied newspaper reports that it was in talks with the media mogul and Mr Murdoch has said that the price of the company is too high.. The rise has been fuelled by speculation about a takeover.Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has expressed interest in the company. Sir Colin was voted the most disappointing company chief in a recent poll of Britain’s top 100 fund managers.EMI shares have been climbing steadily over the past few months, closing at pounds 4.48 on Friday from a low of pounds 3.12 in October. The plan is to enable Sir Colin to go non-executive.The City would approve.

But industry sources believe that EMI is more concerned with finding a replacement who has keen financial acumen to complement Berry’s creative talents.The post of chief executive at EMI was left open by Jim Fifield, who quit last April with a controversial payoff of pounds 12.5m. However, sources close to the music group say it is more likely that the job will go to a hard-hitting financial whiz, possibly from outside the industry.
Alain Levy, formerly the head of PolyGram’s music division, who quit after the firm was bought by the Canadian drink distillers Seagram, has also been cited as a frontrunner.Ken Berry, the head of EMI’s recorded music division, who is credited with discovering the Spice Girls, has also been a leading candidate. Michael Fuchs, chairman for 20 years of the US pay television channel HBO, has been cited as the leading candidate. EMI, the record label of Robbie Williams and the Spice Girls, is expected to announce this week the appointment of a new chief executive to run the company after Sir Colin Southgate steps down as chairman this year. “We still need to see a clear [industrial] plan from Telecom Italia.”On Friday night, Telecom Italia’s board of directors – which controls about 7 per cent of the stock – gave Mr Bernabe a mandate to defend the company from Olivetti, whose chief executive said he has no plans to raise the bid.Telecom Italia’s biggest shareholders include the California Public Employment Retirement System, Fidelity Investments, The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities, TRowe Price Associates, Merrill Lynch Asset Management and Capital Research Management..

Leon de Jerez, head of continental European equity investments at Standard Life, said many of the investors are considering supporting Telecom Italia’s management in exchange for some promises to “unlock value” by absorbing its mobile phone unit Telecom Italia Mobile.These investors also suggest changing Telecom Italia’s capital structure to eliminate its savings shares, by converting them to stock or buying them back.Standard Life, whose head of corporate governance, Guy Jubb, was in New York meeting investors last week, is hoping to line up investors to sign a letter to be sent to Telecom Italia management outlining their requests in return for supporting chief executive Franco Bernabe in repelling Olivetti’s bid.”We don’t necessarily see blocking Olivetti as a victory,” said Mr de Jerez. Edinburgh-based Standard Life, one of Telecom Italia’s biggest investors, says the buyout will saddle Telecom Italia with debts, hampering growth.
Standard Life, which has about pounds 65bn in investments worldwide, last week started canvassing 28 Telecom Italia investors holding 12 per cent of the company in New York and the UK. STANDARD Life Investments is mounting a campaign of major shareholders in Telecom Italia to block Olivetti’s $58bn (pounds 37bn) bid for the company. “Up here in the north of England there are signs the economy is stalled.”Mr Dyson also worried that Mr Brown’s Budget speech would sidestep the crucial issue of the relationship between the domestic economy and the EU economy as a whole.”We operate as if it’s a one-world market,” he said “We’d support greater harmonisation of taxes.”.

* During the second quarter of 2009, the Company recorded a provision for loan losses of $590,000 compared with $665,000 during the first quarter of 2009, and $340,000 during the second quarter of 2008. * Non-performing assets were reduced to 0.58% of total assets compared with 0.78% and 0.72% at March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively. * Total deposits were $531.1 million at quarter end, a record for the Company. * The Company’s net interest margin was 3.32% during the second quarter of 2009, up 4 basis points from the first quarter of 2009, and up 23 basis points from the second quarter of 2008. * Deposit insurance expense for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2009 included an additional $330,000 of FDIC deposit insurance, the Company’s share of a 5 basis point special assessment imposed by the FDIC on each insured depository institution’s assets minus Tier 1 capital as of June 30, 2009.

The Company alsoannounced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.20 pershare, payable August 14, 2009 to shareholders of record on August 7, 2009.Highlights for the current quarter included: * Net income increased by 19.8% and 3.2%, respectively, compared to the first quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2008. Net income for the six month period endedJune 30, 2009 was $2,242,000 ($0.89 per diluted share) compared with $2,465,000($0.92 per diluted share) for the first six months of 2008. (Reporting by Andreas Ismar; Writing by Tyagita Silka; Editingby Sara Webb) China Indonesia. NEWTOWN, Pa., July 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TF Financial Corporation(Nasdaq:THRD) today reported net income of $1,222,000 ($0.48 per diluted share)for the second quarter of 2009, compared with $1,184,000 ($0.44 per dilutedshare) for the second quarter of 2008. The economy expanded4.4 percent in the first quarter and is estimated to have grownby 3.7 percent in the second quarter. Domestic car sales in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy areexpected to reach 450,000 units in 2009.

Indonesia, along with China and India, posted positivegrowth in the first quarter of this year. Separately, Dilip Chenoy, director general of the Societyof Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), said there areseveral Indian car manufacturers who are interested inIndonesia because of the country’s stable economy “Indonesia’s economy is still positive And it’s a growingmarket,” said Chenoy. It could take between three to six months.” Tata Motors has a plant in Thailand and has sold nearly 600one-tonne pick-up trucks since entering the Thai market about ayear ago. “We need to identify which segment we should bring in andwhat products we should bring in We’ve just started thefeasibility study. We plan to look at this market veryseriously,” said Amarjit Singh Puri, senior general manager forgovernment affairs and collaborations, at Tata Motors. China  |  Indonesia Indian vehicle manufacturers, including motorcycle-makersBajaj Auto Ltd (BAJA.BO) and TVS Motor Co Ltd (TVSM.BO),already have production plants in Indonesia “We have a whole spectrum of products We’ll see what themarket requires. JAKARTA, July 23 (Reuters) – Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO),India’s largest vehicle maker, is conducting a feasibilitystudy to market its cars in Indonesia, a senior companyofficial said on Thursday.

“If rural communities can demonstrate that village shops play a vital part in an area of social and economic deprivation, we would be willing to consider registration of the organisation promoting the package as a charity.”But the commission might insist that any money made by the enterprise is ploughed back into the village: “Any profits from the shop would have to go to other regeneration activities in the area, not to its owners.”The commission – a non-ministerial Whitehall department under the umbrella of the Home Office – seems to have taken its cue from Tony Blair’s intention to reduce “social exclusion”. That would be typical of a Prime Minister who, when it comes to standards in public life, seems to think that rules are for other people.”Lord Neill’s probing into the blind-trust affair is infuriating Downing Street and some Cabinet ministers. Lord Neill is regarded as being too much of a loose cannon and demands are being made for him to be replaced, or at least reined in.However, the Tories believe they have now exposed Labour’s vulnerable flank. He is said to have vetoed personally an internal report by Dr Drucker calling for the trusts to be abolished.Labour officials dismissed Dr Drucker, head of the highly successful fund-raisers Oxford Philanthropic, as “a seriously bitter man” but Mr Duncan said yesterday: “The viciousness with which Labour have denounced Dr Drucker suggests that they have something to hide.”For if Dr Drucker is right that Labour’s blind trusts were not really blind, it seems inconceivable that the Prime Minister did not know the names of those involved.

“First, as a Trustee of the Labour Leader’s Office Fund, she is in a position to shed further light on the suggestion by Dr Drucker that the blind trusts used by Cabinet ministers during their time in Opposition were not, in fact, blind.” Dr Drucker had implied that thetrusts’ beneficiaries had had “a degree of awareness as to the identity of the donors”, he says.”Secondly, Baroness Dean is able – without disclosing the identity of donors – to give evidence concerning the allegation that the trust was used to channel foreign donations to the Labour Party.”Thirdly, since Baroness Dean also holds office as one of the three members of the Honours Scrutiny Committee, she is well-placed to comment on the relationship – real or imagined – between donations to political parties and the conferring of honours.”Amid growing irritation in Labour’s ranks, the Neill Committee has called Lord Levy, Mr Blair’s senior fund-raiser, to give evidence on the operation of blind trusts. Constant criticism from that quarter would be more significant in the eyes of journalists and broadcasters than anything that could be said by William Hague or Paddy Ashdown.”. A TOUGH new inquiry is likely into New Labour’s lucrative “blind trusts” and their possible links with the honours system. Conservative leaders have asked Lord Neill’s Committee on Standards in Public Life to investigate the potentially embarrassing field of anonymous party funding, following allegations last week by Henry Drucker, the academic fund-raiser and former consultant to Labour.
Dr Drucker claimed that the trusts – which raised many thousands of pounds for top Labour ministers while they were in opposition, including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Prescott and Margaret Beckett – were not genuinely “blind” and that politicians knew where the money was coming from.The Prime Minister has flatly denied all knowledge of the donors.Now the Tories have asked the Neill Committee to investigate the allegations and also to demand evidence from Baroness Dean of Poulton-le-Fylde, who is both a trustee of a political blind trust and a member of the Honours Scrutiny Committee.Alan Duncan MP, a top aide to William Hague and a vice-chairman of the Tory party, has written to Lord Neill arguing that the committee would “benefit considerably” from the evidence of Lady Dean, the former Brenda Dean, general secretary of the print union Sogat.”I believe she would be able to provide valuable information on three aspects of this issue,” Mr Duncan writes. One party official argues: “He will have to confront the fact that, if Ken Livingstone were to become mayor, it would be the biggest daily problem faced by Tony Blair and his government.

Her showing in last week’s poll – 47 per cent to Mr Livingstone’s 55 per cent – is very respectable.Other individuals may come forward with two Cabinet ministers, Chris Smith and Frank Dobson, mentioned (despite their denials). Here, there is an element of chicken and egg because no Cabinet minister will want to take on the former GLC leader in a ballot of all members knowing defeat is a likely outcome. Thus the elimination of Mr Livingstone may be the key to others coming forward.That puts the ball squarely back in Mr Blair’s court. This decision is one of Mr Blair’s most acute political dilemmas because Mr Livingstone could become a running sore as the next general election approaches. Downing Street is delaying the selection until next year, although it looks likely that the National Executive Committee will have the power to block “unsuitable” candidates.Whether or not this is necessary will depend on a viable alternative to Mr Livingstone emerging Hence the leadership’s contentment with Ms Jackson’s moves.

Labour, which has specialised in urging supporters to use local elections to punish previous Tory governments, is struggling to motivate its backers Local council by-elections have not been good. After all, why get into a difficult scrap to win the nomination if the Tory is destined to lose?The Tories ought to make gains because they are defending about 500 seats they won in 1994 – a bad year for them. Nevertheless, there is anxiety in Conservative Central Office based on the party’s low opinion poll rating. In London the task is harder still because activists have left in droves, discouraged by last year’s general election clear out.On the Labour side, the calculation is more complicated. The party hierarchy is divided between those who think that Mr Livingstone should be denied the official candidature through (yet to be constructed) party machinery, and those who believe this would provoke a backlash. Last week the peer withdrew from a televised debate at the last moment, prompting some excited but unfounded speculation that he might be poised to withdraw from the contest.Potential alternatives like Chris Patten, ex-governor of Hong Kong (who has said he has no intention of standing); Sebastian Coe, the runner and ex-Tory MP; and Steve Norris, the former minister, will be concerned to watch how the party bears up in the local elections.

That is why both party leaderships want alternatives to their front-runners, Mr Livingstone and Lord Archer. On the Conservative side Lord Archer remains the activists’ but not the public’s choice.In an NOP/Evening Standard poll, 55 per cent said they would “definitely” not vote for him, although Lord Archer is still more popular than his party. On Thursday, local election day, Londoners are expected to back the establishment of a mayor and a London authority in a referendum, freeing the parties to choose their candidates.He or she will be a powerful figure with a big personal mandate, access to the London-based media and powers over transport, the environment, tourism and inward investment. The meetings have certainly changed my life and probably saved it. Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, the Conservative novelist and millionaire, has been sending his unofficial manifesto to chairs of governors of London schools, and Labour has two declared candidates: Ken Livingstone, the front-runner, and the sports minister Tony Banks.
All this is for a post that does not yet exist. OFFICIALLY she has not even declared her interest, but when the transport minister Glenda Jackson campaigns in a London market today with soap stars from EastEnders, her bid to become the capital’s mayor will be all but under way

Others have been rather less coy.