RM, RochdaleKevin Minter of the IFA David Aaron Partnership says: I recommend a structured approach, with money invested over five years, three years and instant access. This produces a balance between the highest returns and reasonable access to funds.* £40,000: five-year guaranteed income bond with AIG Life paying 4.60 per cent net, equivalent to 5.75 per cent gross;* £40,000: three-year fixed rate bond with Northern Rock paying 4.32 per cent net, equivalent to 5.40 per cent gross* £20,000: An Abbey National instant access account paying 4.28 per cent net, equivalent to 5.35 per cent gross.This will achieve an overall interest rate of 4.38 per cent net, equivalent to 5.47 per cent gross. On a portfolio of £100,000, this will add an extra £68 per month to the reader’s net income.I have an endowment policy maturing next month worth approximately £50,000 and I won’t need it for 10 years to repay my mortgage. If I repay early there is a 5 per cent redemption charge, because we had a recent remortgage to remove some cash from the property. How should I use my £50,000? I have considered part-repayment, a savings account, ISA, pension and property investment. JS, St Leonards.Donna Bradshaw of the IFA Fiona Price & Partners says: This depends on age, other investments, income, attitude to risk and dependants.
I would be inclined to pay off the mortgage at the end of the redemption period and keep the proceeds of the endowment on deposit in a high-interest bank or building society account. Ten years is a short time for a repayment mortgage and will make it expensive. It is also too short to take a risk on an equity ISA achieving a return high enough to pay off the loan if he opted for an interest-only mortgage. Using a pension plan as a repayment vehicle would be a problem unless JS has built a significant pension pot, because not only would he have the risk of not achieving returns but he needs a fund of at least four times the outstanding mortgage, contributions for which he may not be able to afford. And, by repaying his mortgage with the tax-free cash from his pension he will be reducing his overall retirement income.
The property development option is high-risk, particularly if he has no other assets. If you have any questions about personal finance topics or problems, please write to Questions of Cash, ?The Independent?, 191 Marsh Wall, London E14 9RS, or e-mail cash independent.co.uk We regret that we can reply only to letters published here. Please send copies of documents, not originals, as we cannot undertake to return material.. You have trawled the estate agents’ offices, made the appointments to view, put up with the sales patter and settled on your dream house All you have to do now is sort out your mortgage. Moneynetmortgagessearch You have trawled the estate agents’ offices, made the appointments to view, put up with the sales patter and settled on your dream house. All you have to do now is sort out your mortgage.
Not many years ago that would have been the simplest part of the whole transaction. There would have been few different types of mortgage, and little difference between the rates of interest you would have been charged.
Some lenders might have taken into account a higher multiple of your income than others, and might have been more flexible about how long they were willing to lend for But that was about it. A few phone calls, a chat with your local branch manager, and the front-door keys were almost yours.Not any more. There is a bewildering array of lenders, mortgages and rates as the market has become more competitive and the backroom rocket-scientists have become more imaginative at dreaming up new types of deal that shift the risk this way and that.But home truth number one in mortgages is that nothing is for nothing. For every plus there will almost certainly be a minus hidden in the small or not-so-small print. So you should work out what you will feel comfortable with.If it is something you do not feel strongly about, or the argument is evenly balanced, then the odds are it does not matter too much which way you go. Spend emotional energy on what really concerns you, rather on than trying to squeeze the last penny out of the deal.
Remember, you will almost certainly be the amateur dealing with the professionals.Your first decision is whether to go for a repayment or an interest-only mortgage. Interest-only is cheaper because you are not repaying any of the capital you borrowed, and the monthly instalments on a repayment mortgage contain an element of capital and interest.Interest-only has become very popular, but a frighteningly high number of these borrowers have no plans for how to repay the capital at the end of the term. At least with a repayment mortgage this is taken care of for you.And don’t get carried away. This is easy for someone else to tell you when you and your partner have your ideal home swimming before your eyes, and you can see yourself curled up by the fireplace watching telly or sitting on the terrace sipping a long cocktail on a summer’s day.Inevitably, human nature being what it is, we tend to go for properties that are at the limit of what we can afford, or just beyond, and then tell ourselves that it will sort itself out. Why live in a home that is not as good as you could pay for, or not in the area you aspire to?But take it easy.
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CCalvin Murphy is on top of the list.Murphy, the former Houston Rocket, has a place cemented in two halls-of-fame. So what can the Eagles do to make amends and back up their “gold standard” level of achievement?Win the Super Bowl, of course. But how exactly can they lay the framework to bring home the team’s first Lombardi Trophy? Perhaps they should take a page from theboys across the street, the Philadelphia Phillies. Peter Dailey, director of atmospheric science at AIRWorldwide. Frederick Fram, the chief operating officer of StanfordGroup Holdings, serves on the FINRA continuing education contentcommittee, “where he participates in creating material for theRegulatory Element continuing education program,” according to abiography on Stanford’s website.
(NASDAQ:ABII), an integrated, global biopharmaceuticalcompany, today announced it will release its 2008 fourth quarter and year-endfinancial results before the market opens on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. By launching a progressive program that recognizes and addresses thisuneasiness, Resource Residential continues to show that they are thecustomer-service leader in the apartment-management industry. Well those people would be wrong.So far John Morrison has made a big impact on Smackdown. 2, everyone is sick of the same main events and the people who are in them. Isaiah accepts an invitation to join him and asks Sebastian tocome along.
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Plus, what is he going to do? Step up to Peyton? Please..next! One slip and your gone.Broncos, you’re on the clock. You just pissed off Jay Cutler by acting like a system quarterback would be better then a gun slinging bad boy. Rookie coach Michael Curry is obviously overwhelmed with the situation and can’t decide what to do with the backcourt trio he knows Stuckey is the most important player on the team, but can’t figure out how to break the news to Iverson and Hamilton.He also seems stuck trying to play the same style of basketball that Detroit won with while he was an assistant in 2008, but which no longer fits the teams ever-aging personnel – basketball players decline much more drastically on defense than offense as they reach their thirties.It seems to me that their best bet at reviving any playoffs hopes is ditching the halfcourt game and trying a guard heavy run-and-gun offense that better fits their personnel. Marketing expenditures will be trimmedprimarily through reduced television production costs and upcoming changes toits consumer catalog format. (Repeats to add analyst’s title in 5th paragraph) Stocks | Bonds * Brokerage FBR says AmEx may post loss, shares fall * GE slides on analysts’ bearish views * Dow off 1.5 pct, S&P off 2 pct, Nasdaq off 2.1 pct For up-to-the-minute market news, click [STXNEWS/US] (Updates to early afternoon, changes byline) By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) – U.S. He finished with nine catches for 131 yards and the season’s winning touchdown reception.Holmes may never be as dominant, at least on a consistent basis, as he was in the pressure-cooked moments of Sunday night’s affair, but for at least one evening he was legendary. I was sincerely hoping that 2009 would bring new luck to the Seminoles.
What you do when somebody writes a comment trashing you? I’ve been doing this for several years and my stomach still gets in knots every time someone does that. With his contract up, his days in Miami may be numbered as the trade deadline looms. Season OutlookWith a rookie head coach, rookie point guard, and no true center, the Heat have certainly exceeded expectations Dwyane Wade is officially back and dominating the league. And you musthave an economic program that focuses on them.” (ABC’s “This Week,” 11/9/08)President Obama Reiterated His Plan To Increase Taxes On Charitable Donations,Calling It “A Good Idea”:Last Night, President Obama Said Cutting The Tax Deduction For Mortgages AndCharities Was “The Right Thing To Do.” The Politico’s Mike Allen: “Mr.President, are you — thank you Thank you, Mr President. Nor can you discount the contributions of Jason Kidd, acquired in last season’s disastrous trade that divested the Mavericks of young stud Devin Harris in favor of a declining troublemaker with a history of problems with coaches, teammates, and off-court behavior.Ironically, Kidd was a favorite target for trade-mongers at the popular Blazer fan site Blazers Edge. These measures include battery back-up powerat all facilities as well as generators installed at all network switchingfacilities and many cell site locations. Ever since he started hot this season, people in the game have been all over him Why? Because they know he’s back They see what they used to see in him. Cable, please go after the Chargers tonight, by any means do not hold anything back.
It also wanted to appease the armed forces – hostile to Mr Clinton since he was elected – by appointing somebody who was a popular member of the military establishment.It did not work. Indeed, Laura Jones’s seven-year-old son, Mark, was obliged by his mother to do just that.’I refused to give money to a young man begging, and explained that was because I felt the money would go on drink or drugs and not on decent food or accommodation,’ Mrs Jones wrote ‘Mark kept on about the incident. This is only a tinpot little bid in the package holiday sector.It’s hardly surprising that in these circumstances, accusations of improper political influence are beginning to fly. ‘We are not afraid of this argument and we have no difficulty, not in hoisting a white flag of surrender, but in accepting the challenge which the proposers of new clause 74 put upon us.’The committee ended as much of it had gone on, with of points of order as Tristan Garel-Jones, the Foreign Office minister who piloted the Bill, and Mr Robertson paid tribute to the ‘distinguished’ chairmanship of deputy speaker Michael Morris.Mr Robertson quoted Oscar Wilde: ‘I have never much admired the courage of the lion tamer.
JAMES McADAM, the chairman of Ratners, yesterday ruled out a disposal of the jewellery retailer’s US operation, as it emerged that the group is heading for a bottom- line loss of pounds 50m this year. SOLICITORS in England and Wales are preparing to challenge the Government next month in a renewed battle over plans to restructure legal aid payments. Later some Palestinians actually challenged Mr Arafat to explain why he not bought the hero of the revolution home with him. The 38-year-old reached a landmark of his own earlier this year when he rode his 3,000th winner worldwide, most of which came in the course of 11 championship seasons in his homeland. There had been speculation that that the currency would be devalued. But internationally he is famous for being, in his own words, ‘the bloke who does Wotan at Bayreuth’ – which is an operatic approximation to being the bloke who blesses people at the Vatican The top job in the temple of the gods.
Overall standings: 1 Harvey 3,231pts; 2 D Arkwright (Marlborough) 2,770; 3 G Phipps (Cornwall) 2,665.. John Wayne and Montgomery Clift were the Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian figures, and the mutiny occurred on a cattle drive instead of a sea voyage. It dawned on me during the previews that it wasn’t an altogether tactful play to be premiering there, and indeed it received absolutely appalling reviews. What the plaintiff had lost was not the whole pounds 33,950, but merely the right to rent-free occupation of the room for the rest of his life. England now play Ghana in Sydney on Wednesday.Goalless after 90 minutes and 30 minutes of sudden-death extra- time – with England having lost the Spurs striker Nick Barmby and the Chelsea defender Andy Myers to injuries in the first half – the match went to penalties.The Mexican substitute Jesus Olalde took the first spot-kick – one of two his team missed – which rattled the crossbar and bounced clear. IRAQ reiterated its commitment to its self-declared ceasefire in the northern and southern no-fly zones yesterday, despite reports in the United States of three clashes in as many days. (First Edition) LUANDA (AP) – The Angolan government agreed yesterday to meet Unita rebels for peace talks in Addis Ababa, but fighting continued in many areas.
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“I didn’t think about giving up because I was so committed, but I thought I would not be able to cope,” she says. “Giving up was not an option, although I thought I might fail.”According to the NUS, student parents face more hardship than any other group at university. But despite the difficulties, Sarah Goode and others like her find it worthwhile.”I saw myself as a student first and a mother second,” she explains. “If I was going to carry on with my life, Michael would have to fit in, as, in the long run, that would mean a better standard of living for both of us.”.
It’s Wednesday afternoon and Year Four is peacefully labelling a diagram of the human body, when young Johnny puts his hand in the air, “Please miss, what’s a vibrator?” For the unprepared teacher it’s time to tell Johnny to get on with his drawing, and pray silently for the bell. Of all the subjects that schools have to tackle, sex education is probably the most delicate and controversial; it certainly makes the most sensational headlines, especially when the under-12s are involved. Last year, we heard that children as young as 12 at a school in Scotland were getting free condoms from the school medical centre; the Family Planning Association had published a workbook for primary schools that included information about masturbation and oral sex; the Health Education Authority had to pulp 12,000 copies of its Pocket Guide to Sex for teenagers because it was deemed “distasteful and smutty”, and a nurse at a Leeds primary school had answered questions about oral sex and “Mars Bar parties”.
The nurse was later vindicated by a local authority report but not before John Patten, then Secretary of State for Education, had expressed his outrage and disgust: “I am incensed to think that very young children could be exposed … to things which at a particular age they should not even be beginning to understand, let alone understand.”Mr Patten probably felt he was speaking on behalf of most British parents – but was he? Do parents really believe their young ones can or should be kept in blissful ignorance until their teens or are they more realistic? And if primary schools are to play a part, what should they be teaching – when and how?While secondary schools are legally bound to provide sex education, in the primary sector it remains in the hands of school governors.
If they choose to provide sex education over and above what appears in the compulsory science curriculum, then the school must have a policy stating when, where and how it will be taught. At present, exactly who is doing what is unclear.Gill Lenderyou, who wrote the primary school workbook for the Family Planning Association, is currently running workshops on sex education around the country. “In the past couple of months, my workshops have been deluged by primary school teachers,” she said. “Many schools still don’t have policies, are just doing it in science or answering questions as and when they arise – which is simply not good enough.”You have to be proactive, create a climate where children can ask questions, because they quickly learn not to. Primary school is the best time to start, when they are curious and parents are much more likely to be involved.
If you stick to science, there’s no hope of getting in anything about relationships, values, feelings, which I would have thought is what parents want, rather than just the plumbing.”Ironically, while many schools are ignoring sex education altogether or producing vague policies to avoid provoking parental objections, most parents would actually like them to do something. A report published last year by the HEA showed that 94 per cent of parents were in favour of schools educating their children about human sexuality and most felt it should begin around the age of eight. Given that one in 10 girls starts her periods at primary school (some as young as eight), leaving all mention of puberty and menstruation until secondary school is plainly absurd.If schools need any more encouragement to grasp the nettle, they need only listen to their pupils’ playground-talk, Dilys Went, vice-chair of the Brook Advisory Centre, believes young children know an awful lot more than adults realise. “Children start seeing things on television from a very early age.
If adults won’t discuss it, they will invent their own stories and may behave in inappropriate ways. I’ve seen nursery children touch each other up and act out what they’ve seen.”Eight-year-olds can pick up condoms and bring them to school and words like Aids are used in games. Unless children are taught about it compassionately within a framework, they remain confused and embarrassed, and assume what they see on television is the norm.”For teachers who wish to discover how much their pupils know, Ms Went recommends an anonymous drawing and writing exercise. Allison Ward, who teaches at Alderman’s Green school in Coventry, recently asked her six and seven-year-olds to draw or write what they knew about where babies came from, and was amazed by the results.”I got far more information than I expected,” she says. “There was a range of knowledge (always a problem for teachers) and some confusion. One child wrote: `The female produces an egg and if a seed meets an egg in a special tube that’s what makes a baby’.
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IT IS ALMOST 7pm; the sky is dark but for the gash of a flame- red sunset, and the stragglers are hurrying from their cars into the county agricultural hall on the edge of Lonoke, Arkansas, 20 miles from Little Rock. He seemed more relaxed, spontaneous and confident than for many months.In the past week he has scored points over the Republicans for reaching an agreement on next year’s budget and ended 18 months of Israeli-Palestinian deadlock (if only temporarily). At the carefully scripted White House signing ceremony, he went out of his way to share the credit with the Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who has been criticised as ineffective in the past and more recently caught flak, as a woman, for not condemning Mr Clinton’s conduct with Monica Lewinsky. He shared the limelight also with vice-president, Al Gore, whom Mr Clinton is increasingly bringing to prominence as his designated successor, and – in a verbal tribute – with his wife.Mr Clinton then took an almost religious approach, talking of the long drawn-out negotiations – in a meeting shortly afterwards with black church leaders – as a kind of penance for past misdeeds. With his image as international statesman enhanced – tributes flowed in yesterday from foreign leaders – and with those who had challenged his domestic credibility post-Monica put to flight, Mr Clinton set off to resume his fund-raising for the Democratic Party before next week’s elections. “As on so many prior occasions, Clinton” – he said – “relied on a personal style of charm, persistence and language that could be artfully imprecise, but managed in the end to bring antagonistic sides together”.Careful not to appear over-pleased with himself, Mr Clinton was low- key in assessing his contribution. But as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, embarked on their next, and perhaps most difficult task – “selling” the accord to their domestic constituencies – the third leader involved, President Clinton, was basking in the sort of compliments he has rarely heard in recent months.
Any criticism was attached firmly to the modesty or fragility of the agreement, not to Mr Clinton.Without actually spelling out the parallels he had in mind (although they clearly referred to the President’s legalistic approach to his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky case) The Washington Post correspondent, said that Mr Clinton’s “ambiguity” has proved “a strength” during the summit.
THERE WAS relief, and some scepticism, from US politicians and commentators over the weekend for the Wye River Memorandum, the interim agreement on land and security reached after marathon nine-day talks between US, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at the end of last week. David Makovsky, an Israeli commentator, writes: “Israel believed that Clinton would support any deal in order to ring up a victory during his tough times in Congress, even if only a partial victory.” But by the time Wye began Mr Clinton’s political fortunes had begun to mend. He could be tougher with Israel than Mr Netanyahu expected.The more sympathetic stance of the US strengthens Mr Arafat, but the future of relations between Israelis and Palestinians is being determined by bulldozers and cranes at work across the West Bank and not by any diplomatic accord.. Personally loathed by the White House and many senior US officials, the Israeli leader thought he was invulnerable to US pressure because of the support he could get from the American Jewish community.At Wye he nevertheless came under sustained US pressure The origin of this may have been fortuitous. Containment of Iraq and Iran began to break down.Above all, the US had failed to deliver on a deal between Israel and the Palestinians after Mr Netanyahu was elected two years ago. This will continue to be true.A real breakthrough for the Palestinians would be freedom to travel between Gaza and the West Bank, which is still under discussion.
This would relieve the sense of siege of the 1 million Gazans.Some issues are less important than they look. Mr Arafat is to reduce the size of his peace force from 40,000 to 24,000, but the expansion had come largely for economic reasons during the Israeli closure of 1996. Confiscation of illegal weapons will cause more friction, because so many Palestinians have a personal weapon.Hamas, the Islamic militant organisation, will probably not resist the increased repression by Mr Arafat. It still believes that in the long term the Palestinian Authority is growing politically weaker because it cannot deliver benefits to ordinary Palestinians.The most interesting change at Wye is in American policy. Victory over Iraq gave the US hegemony over the Middle East in 1991 For five years it was virtually uncontested But since 1996 it has looked increasingly shaky.
The decline in the economy of the West Bank has come because each island of Palestinian territory is isolated from the next by Israeli checkpoints. Ever since he was elected Prime Minister in 1996, the thrust of the Labour party’s attack on him has been that he could not agree a peace with the Palestinians. Now that he has done so he has stolen the main plank in their political platform, leaving Labour vulnerable to an early election.Yasser Arafat’s supporters claim that his achievement is even more striking. The US and Israel are not far from conceding the Palestinian right to self-determination His relations with Washington are warm. It is a long way from 1982, when the US gave a green light for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon to wipe out the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Beirut.This diplomatic victory by Mr Arafat may not convert into much on the ground for the 2.7 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Palestinian Authority will increase the area under its total control by 15.2 per cent, but this only translates into an extra 250 square miles ruled by Mr Arafat.What matters for the Palestinians is “continuity” of territory. President Bill Clinton treated the Israeli and Palestinian delegations more or less equally. The CIA, not Israel, will monitor the Palestinian Authority’s compliance with the plan to arrest Islamic militants, reduce the size of the Palestinian police force and confiscate arms.Most important, President Clinton is to visit the Palestine National Council, probably meeting in Gaza or Ramallah, later in the year. This is taken as a sign that American involvement with the implementation of the Wye agreement will be continuing and Mr Netanyahu will not be able to renege on his commitments.He may not wish to do so.
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If we are to build the best stadium you simply can’t keep those towers.DAVID MELLORTask Force headWembley is an international brand and it seems silly to throw away a trademark like the Twin Towers unless it’s absolutely necessary. Also they aren’t that good in an architectural sense, and I believe once a spanking new stadium is there the memory of those towers will be less insistent. Getting to Wembley is what everyone dreams about.JONATHAN DAVIESFormer rugby internationalThe twin towers have a great effect on you as you are travelling towards the ground and when you finally get near them you just think: “Oh God, I’m actually going to be playing at Wembley.” It’s an amazing feeling to play there, but the nearer you get, the less that becomes important and the playing surface is the main thing I remember. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of scoring a nice try there.
It might not have the towers in the future, but Wembley is Wembley and the history of what’s gone on there can never be taken away.DAVID ROCKRoyal Institute of ArchitectsI was part of the jury that chose the architects and, as far as I’m concerned, it’s a non-issue. Firstly, if the stadium is going to be up-to-date, the pitch is wrongly orientated by quite a few degrees, which means you can’t have the Twin Towers – if you did one would be away from the stadium and one would be in the stands. They are symbolic of Wembley, they must have them as some part of the new stadium. Even contemplating rebuilding without them would be disastrous because when you come down in the coach that is what you are looking for. You’re not worried about the pitch, as soon as you see the towers you all think, ‘We’re nearly there now lads let’s get out there today and get it right’. Having said that, progress has got to be made and if the new development is a better stadium with superior sports facilities, I’m afraid you have to move with the times.EMLYN HUGHESFormer England captainI think it’s ridiculous what they are thinking This is what Wembley is about, the Twin Towers.
There are buildings in London that are important to keep because they quite simply define the place, in the same way that red buses and black cabs do, and the towers undoubtedly fall into that category.BILLY PERRYBlackpool 1953 Cup winnerThe towers are certainly a symbol of Wembley, part of football’s rich heritage, and nobody really wants to see them go. In fact, a lot of people would imagine they could knock everything else down, leave the towers and build around them. They are a part of the whole Wembley experience and if they do go the new stadium really could be built anywhere. And still nobody has achieved what he and Ramsey did together.. KEN LIVINGSTONE
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I can’t understand why they can’t move the towers to a similar position in the new stadium I would certainly like to see them preserved. I’m not aware of just how much it would cost, but they must be able to find somewhere, possibly around the main entrance to the new stadium It’s just a question of thinking of the best solution. Three weeks later, Ramsey was sacked, a decision whose logic has failed to become sounder in the years since An era was ended.
There followed the interregnum in which Joe Mercer was at the helm and the eventually calamitous stewardship of Don Revie. But for Moore it was all over as England’s standard-bearer a quarter of a century ago this weekend. England sparked occasionally and came away with a 0-0 draw.It was not enough The manadarins at the FA were restless and ruthless. After the encounter with Italy at Wembley, England did not have another match for five months.This was against Portugal in Lisbon when FA Cup ties and late withdrawals weakened the team. Ramsey awarded first caps to five players, including Moore’s West Ham colleague, Trevor Brooking. They won the first of those matches and lost the second.Moore then missed the next two matches The first was a routine 7-0 win against Austria. The second was the final World Cup qualifying match against Poland The 1-1 draw famously denied England a place in the finals.
But Ramsey was still not done with his captain, the one player who had been with him throughout his tenure as England manager.Another World Cup was surely beyond Moore’s 32-year-old legs but maybe Ramsey wanted him for the impending European Championship campaign In the event, neither made it that far. Moore duly won his 106th cap, equalling Bobby Charlton’s record, in a friendly against the USSR in Moscow four days later, and his 107th in another friendly four days after that against Italy in Turin. But the proceedings went awry early and Moore was at the fulcrum. In the ninth minute his outstretched foot diverted a shot from Wlodek Lubanski towards the goal Worse followed. Early in the second half Moore utterly misjudged a tackle on Lubanski, who left him floundering, sped clear and increased the lead.Still, Moore and the England manager, Alf Ramsey, had been together too long for these rare mistakes to fracture their liaison The mutual respect between them was binding.
Prices start from around £330 per person.Never mind sleeping – how about walking in a winter wonderland? Winter walking and snow-shoeing are becoming increasingly popular and villages in the Alps are starting to prepare designated paths for walkers, flattening the snow with special machines. Walking boots are generally all you’ll need in the way of kit, but if you want to stride out from the beaten track then snow shoes will allow you to head deep into the wintry landscape.Inntravel (01653 628811) organises trips to Lauenen in Switzerland, one of the best winter-walking destinations in the whole of the Alps. There are over 50km of paths, one heading up to a frozen lake. A seven-night trip, departing over the Christmas period, costs from £716 including flights.And Silent Night, Holy Night and all that? It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a good old singsong.
For details of carol services and where to go to Midnight Mass around the country, contact the English Tourism Council (020-8563 3000, www.visitbritain ). There are also special seasonal concerts at various English Heritage properties. Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire, for example, hosts Barnburgh Male Voice Choir, singing seasonal hymns and carols, today at 2.30pm. For ticket reservations call 01302 722598 (tickets cost just £2 or £1 for English Heritage members).Or, you could experience a Medieval Christmas at Framlingham Castle (01728 724189) near Ipswich, this weekend, and learn how pagan festivities turned into “Christ’s Mass”. Medieval characters will reveal how the heathen Germanic festival of Yule, Roman Saturnalia and the Christian nativity all came together in one celebration Admission costs £3.70 for adults and £1.80 for children.
For other English Heritage events call 0870 3331181 or check the website ( www.english-heritage .uk).. Christmas Island The big problem about getting to Christmas Island for 25 December is availability. Everyone wants to reach this tropical paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 2,600km north-west of Perth. Half of Australia’s offshore gem is a national park, with the requisite white sand beaches and diving among tropical fish and local spinner dolphins. To get to Christmas Island you can fly direct from Jakarta (one hour), Singapore (two hours) or Perth (four hours). Contact Island Bound Holidays in Perth (00 618 9381 3644) or CI Travel (00 618 94811200) Accommodation ranges from backpacker-budget to resort.
The Christmas Island Tourist Association (00 61 89164 8382, www.christmas .au) can provide more information and arrange bookings. Christmas Island The big problem about getting to Christmas Island for 25 December is availability. Everyone wants to reach this tropical paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 2,600km north-west of Perth. Half of Australia’s offshore gem is a national park, with the requisite white sand beaches and diving among tropical fish and local spinner dolphins. To get to Christmas Island you can fly direct from Jakarta (one hour), Singapore (two hours) or Perth (four hours).
In the kitchen, for instance, we have a chef who is half black and half Japanese. Every 7 December he attacks Pearl Bailey…”More explanatory notes: 7 December was the day in 1942 on which Pearl Harbor was attacked. Pearl Bailey was a wonderful black American singer, half jazz, half cabaret, whom I only discovered late in life after she had died, so I never got a chance to see her. Anyway, the other day when we were staying with my brother-in-law in Buxton in Derbyshire, the film of Pearl Harbor came up in the conversation and I told them Ronnie Scott’s joke.”Nice to hear that one again,” said my sister-in-law, Jackie. “It was one of my father’s favourites.”"Did he go to Ronnie Scott’s often, then?” I asked.”Never in his life,” she said. “But then, he was telling that joke long before Ronnie Scott had a club.”I was stunned. I had always believed in a childlike, innocent sort of way that Ronnie Scott wrote his own material.
And now here was clear circumstantial evidence that he had borrowed it from the comedy pool. Did this mean that his other jokes were borrowed as well?For instance, I remember Ronnie Scott was introducing the members of his band one night, and when bass player Ron Mathewson came on stage in mismatched lumberjack check coat and trousers, Ronnie paused for a moment in horror and then said: “Somewhere in London tonight there is a Ford Consul with no seat covers…”Brilliant joke, I thought. But now I think: Was it his joke? Ronnie once announced that the next tune was one he had written, and he had given it a rather special title: “Through the Sleeping Country the Midnight Express Train Roared, A Madman at the Controls And a Broken Bridge Ahead…” pause.. “Blues”.Lovely timing, nice title I hope it was his. After all, only last month I wrote a piece in which I tried to trace the origin of the remark: “Give me the luxuries of life and I can do without the necessities”, and I concluded that it went back beyond Frank Lloyd Wright and Oscar Wilde and the usual suspects to the French writer Theophile Gautier, who had written in the 1830s: “Personally, I count myself among those for whom the superfluous is absolutely necessary…”But recently I was given a Dictionary of French Quotations by my son-in-law Paul ( funny how in-laws have been upsetting my fixed ideas recently), and I was riffling through the most quotable bits of Voltaire when I came across this “Le superflu, chose tr?n?ssaire.”. In other words, “That highly essential quality, the superfluous…”So it wasn’t Gautier who got there first after all! It was Voltaire, a hundred years earlier! And if it wasn’t Voltaire, it was someone before him!I think I’m beginning to see that it actually doesn’t matter in the slightest who got there first It really is just the way you tell them..
More from Miles Kington. The Los Angeles Lakers had to rely on their unsung reserves to halt a late rally from the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night in the fourth game of the NBA play-off final.
The Los Angeles Lakers had to rely on their unsung reserves to halt a late rally from the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night in the fourth game of the NBA play-off final.
Shaquille O’Neal was his usual marvellous self, but it was the veterans Ron Harper, Brian Shaw and Robert Horry and the youngster Tyronn Lue who got the job done.The 76ers scored 13 straight points, including the first 11 of the fourth quarter, to cut the Lakers’ lead to 77-70 before the four substitutes and O’Neal teamed up to secure a 100-86 victory. The win puts the Lakers 3-1 up in the series and one win away from retaining their championship They fifth game is tonight in Philadelphia. The final two games, if needed, are in Los Angeles next week.”We’re feeling good,” said Harper, who has become a seldom-used reserve after missing the final two months of the season with a knee injury. “The main thing is, we’ve got one win to go.”The Lakers’ first choice guard Kobe Bryant added: “Our bench gets motivated by people saying that we don’t have a bench They came in and did an excellent job for us.”. The British coxless pair Cath Bishop and Katharine Grainger lifted themselves out of the frying pan and into the flair zone yesterday, as one of two British crews to book the express ticket straight to a final tomorrow. The British coxless pair Cath Bishop and Katharine Grainger lifted themselves out of the frying pan and into the flair zone yesterday, as one of two British crews to book the express ticket straight to a final tomorrow.
Round two of this year’s FISA World Cup regatta series takes place in the heat and humidity of Seville, known with good reason as the frying pan of Spain. As spectators melted in the stands, Bishop and Grainger gave themselves a day off today by winning their heat. The Olympic champions Romania, the biggest threat on paper, had to settle for second and qualification via the rep?age as the British pair, rowing with length and power, dominated the field. All this despite an unsettling false start to the race as the “clogs” which hold the boats in place malfunctioned and affected steering.
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Who can blame him, for he could have been otherwise occupied with his Shakespearean library and a bottle of sherry.This is hardly the stuff of many a contemporary French novel. But Lang’s grasp of the English scene is so acute that Blain has no truck with the Guardian’s promise to take a few pictures and then settle up. “Balderdash! It’s cash up front.” TV crews arrive, their work is duly screened, and the newsreader seeks Peter Jenkins’s opinion. “Jenkins always wears a fluorescent green bow tie, which might well be the first thing he puts on in the morning when he gets out of bed.”The success of Lang’s book is that one believes it Hazy notions of what really happened at the riot are ousted. One is caught up in the events which follow Henri welcoming a 50-year-old virgin, Louise Baker, from an Anglican journal, and duly finding that “her thighs grip me like a pair of tongs”.No such events find a place in Judge Tumin’s report on the prison, which finds its due place here. As does a long account of the way in which a disgruntled prison cook can vex the guards by serving up food that is sure to agitate the entrails to make the atmosphere “unbearably loud and unbearably smelly”.Rarely can there have been a novel which blends so piquantly Shakespeare, food, sex, a little gardening, and something more. With his firmly-rooted frivolity, Luc Lang creates one of the most beguilingly repulsive characters since Anthony Burgess’s Enderby came to life in a Hove bedroom with “a posterior riposte”..
Jane Gardam has long been a specialist in the frets and intoxications of adolescence, and her latest novel returns to this beguiling topic. She also returns to the summer of 1946, a seaside town in Yorkshire, and the fortunes of three young girls in the overbrimming months between school and university. The schoolfriends are Hester (Hetty) Fallowes, Una Vane and Lieselotte Klein, the last a German-Jewish refugee. Jane Gardam has long been a specialist in the frets and intoxications of adolescence, and her latest novel returns to this beguiling topic. She also returns to the summer of 1946, a seaside town in Yorkshire, and the fortunes of three young girls in the overbrimming months between school and university. The schoolfriends are Hester (Hetty) Fallowes, Una Vane and Lieselotte Klein, the last a German-Jewish refugee.
All three are, in a sense, casualties of war, the two English girls because their fathers have come home shell-shocked from the trenches.
Unfitted for ordinary life, one has opted for employment as an intellectual grave-digger; the other bowed out of life altogether when his daughter was nine. “There were odd folk everywhere after 1918,” observes Gardam’s earlier novel Crusoe’s Daughter.Lieselotte, a more direct casualty, had arrived on the last trainload of refugee children in summer 1939. When the novel opens, letters have just announced that all three girls have gained state scholarships to university: two to Cambridge and one to London.Family relations, whether overwhelming or all but obliterated, are important to the plot, leading each of the trio to veer off in a particular direction. Hetty goes to the Lake District to bone up on the English classics; Una to various remote Youth Hostels with her cycling companion, Ray; and Lieselotte first to London, then the West Coast of America, as the time of transformation gets going.The Flight of the Maidens is (among other things) about ways of achieving emancipation, and the price exacted.
“Youth is a blunder” reads the epigraph (by Disraeli) to Jane Gardam’s novel Bilgewater. A certain amount of juvenile blundering and miscalculation goes on here. At times, the narrative rushes into a kind of hectic bottleneck mode, though counteracted by the sheer buoyancy of the undertaking. The separate journeys take in a few of the agitated confrontations the author does so well: between her central characters and imposing, mad old people, or outspoken young ones.Hetty, among the mountains and lakes, first stumbles on a table on which reposes a copy of The Perfumed Garden, and then comes face-to-face with a scatty family named Fitzurse. Una, meanwhile, is failing to relinquish her virginity owing to constant interruptions in the hostels. Lieselotte is acquiring a refurbished persona, and coming to her senses in a wood near the Pacific, where – in the manner of a fairy tale – a German banker befriends her and arranges her return to Cambridge to take up her place.All this, and more, is recounted in the author’s usual luminous and anarchic style.
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