The gay scene created its own clubs long ago giving gay men and lesbians the chance to go to clubs without feeling threatened

The gay scene created its own clubs long ago, giving gay men and lesbians the chance to go to clubs without feeling threatened. AT A TIME when the public transport vs roads debate is gaining momentum, spare a thought for those who find themselves on the wrong side of major new schemes. Agassi declared himself to have played 'like a dumb ass' after losing to Kafelnikov in the first round. Shares in Unigate and Northern Foods - the closest quoted rivals - trade at between 10 and 11 times 1994 earnings. Wiseman was widely complimented in the City yesterday for being efficiently run. He'd played at under-21 and full international level for Scotland and for Aberdeen and also in Germany for a couple of seasons before he went to Newcastle.

Robust Portuguese red with ripe, chewy fruitiness in a festive litre bottle.Ramada, Vinho de Mesa, pounds 2.39, Waitrose. Brian Ivory, managing director, said the group felt the move was prudent in the light of uncertainty over exchange rates and French interest rates.Year-end gearing, however, was 1 per cent, compared with 6 per cent at the same time in 1992.Earnings per share increased from 15.1p to 16.2p and the full-year dividend was lifted 10 per cent to 6.6p from 6p.Bottom Line, page 36. But other regions will continue to go their own way.Thus, although Mr Yeltsin has won an important battle, the struggle over Russia's future goes on. The paradigm is the same as in The Single Hound: only the place of insertion of Sarton herself - now as the older mentor rather than the confused younger writer - is different.Other novels - As We Are Now, a bleak, starkly written novel about an elderly woman's incarceration in a cruel nursing home; and The Education of Harriet Hatfield, the tale of 60- year-old lesbian who opens a women's bookshop in Boston - deal with the same, very human themes of how to live honestly and lovingly in a cold world.

Ironically the two lenders involved in the case - Abbey National and National Westminster Bank - have both changed to using the fixed rate followed by the current variable rate anyway. However, cutting of sedge ceased around the turn of century and the area was invaded by scrub. His work is so gutsy that when looking at the paintings one feels groggy and emotionally drained after a few minutes. Sir: It would appear that, under the terms of the Education Bill now before Parliament, schools which opt for grant-maintained status will only be allowed to purchase music tuition from the local authority for a maximum period of two years. THE true level of unemployment may be far higher than official figures suggest because the Government has made more than 30 changes to the way unemployment is calculated since 1979 - most of which reduced the jobless count. Certainly the first shot of her is the kind of thing you want to put on hold and watch for a couple of million years.

Europe has been the fastest growing areas for the group since 1989, achieving a 48 per cent increase in sales to dollars 185.2m (pounds 109m) in the two years since then compared with 13 per cent for the group as a whole. CITY valuations of BSkyB, the satellite television company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News International, have fallen sharply in recent weeks to less than the amount invested in the business. Those who need little sleep seem to do better than those who need their eight or nine hours every night. The new Toll Ride system has meant many more riders can use safer routes than the increasingly dangerous roadsides.I would rather see a stable and a jump in the countryside than burnt-out cars, broken and rusty farm machinery, and face the threat of being run down by an off-road four-wheel-drive machine, which must damage more trees and tree roots than horses could.Jennifer BrownRodmell, East Sussex. The objective is not to unravel the life and work - certainly not to explain one in terms of the other - but to ravel them more tightly together.