Protesters claimed that PPP officials had taken control of polling stations in traditional PNC strongholds and were preventing them from casting their votes

Protesters claimed that PPP officials had taken control of polling stations in traditional PNC strongholds and were preventing them from casting their votes. It is more than likely that the value of your house may have slipped into a lower band by the time you are informed how much your house is worth for local tax purposes.But according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, this should not cause undue worry: all houses will have been affected in the same way so the differentials should remain the same. November's figure included 3.6 per cent for 30,000 Rover employees, less than half their 1991 settlement.Firemen also settled for less than a year ago, 4.9 against 5.6 per cent.December's earnings figures are also likely to see the benefit of lower settlements.The CBI pay databank shows that settlements subsided to 3.1 per cent between September and November. However, British Coal management is understood to be increasingly frustrated at the Government's apparent unwillingness to intervene in this way to expand the coal market.Mr Clarke said: 'The market situation facing us is difficult; certainly worse than I, or anyone, anticipated it would be when I became chairman.'He added that unless an extra market could be found, the 'painful reality' would be the closure of profitable coal mines.The Government appears to have reached stalemate in its negotiations with National Power and PowerGen over sales of extra coal. I want them in cars.'Is that really the kind of policing any of us wants, even Mr Clarke?The author is Director of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Reading.. John Prescott, the spokesman on transport, said: 'There is no question of pacts and no question of Proportional Representation, certainly not before the next general election.'Dennis Skinner, the Labour MP for Bolsover, also said that there could be no pact with the Liberal Democrats whose support in the Maastricht vote helped - by just three votes - to preserve Mr Major in office. 'In its way,' Brian Moore, the hooker, said, 'it was a more important moment than Rory's try.'At the same time you could go through a lifetime of Lions tours and not see a try more glorious than Rory Underwood's.

On 14 April Mr Hickman presented the bill to Europ Assistance for a refund. AFTER IT announced its ceasefire in southern Lebanon last night, Israel appeared confident that Syria and Lebanon would ultimately agree to its terms: to persuade Hizbollah to stop its rocket attacks and in future to restrain the pro-Iranian militia. There isn't an MP who doesn't rely on that paper as a conduit to get his message across. Napoles was no Chavez, but Stracey set a precedent: it is possible to go to Mexico and return triumphant.Perhaps this explains the 26-year- old Liverpudlian's extraordinary self-confidence. His pro-European friends Jenkins and Owen resigned as ministers over Labour's growing hostility to the Common Market in 1972 Hattersley nearly followed, but not quite In their view, he ratted.

Such a thing can easily put you off your food.Finally: 'Prepared sleep thoughts as a cure for insomnia'. These days, a game of rounders is almost possible on the infield.The Classic jockeys, who began charting a helicopter to get themselves to the racecourse, are largely back to more traditional transport. He suggested that those who feel vulnerable should sit in the front carriage, 'six inches from the driver, where they can knock if feeling threatened.Andy Burns of the Capital Transport Campaign, said that the list of deaths and injuries since 1990 is worrying enough to warrant a review on the policy of phasing out guards.On top of the 14 'reckless' deaths there were two 'accidental' fatalities and two crime-related deaths. Secondly, the belated UK premiere of the youthful Leggenda and Humoreske for violin and orchestra, played with generous tone by Francesco Manara, showed that at 23, Respighi was no less talented, yet no less afraid to let slip the mask of technique by taking a real risk. According to Takayuki Fujinami of the Japan Arts Council, there are only 1,400 no enthusiasts in Japan, and a mere 20 per cent of those are professional performers. 'Think of the publicity you will get from being the owner of the world's first dry cleaners and art gallery combined.