And there must be a limit to how many of them are around willingto support a business that is not properly run

And there must be a limit to how many of them are around, willingto support a business that is not properly run.'Clearing banks, he said, were unwilling to lend money to clubs because they had trouble covering their risk 'You cannot blame them. Many felt protective of Minton, even if they were younger than he. Sentiment was boosted by the dramatic fall in yields on gilt-edged securities, so for the first time in a generation, yields on property were higher than on government stocks. All the major givers - more than 100 of them - are members of the orchestra's board; they take some looking after, not least because they are spread along the 70- mile stretch of coastline that is the orchestra's patch.

The tantrum-throwing brat of the courts is leaner and seems sadly reflective.Sitting behind the desk, wearing an olive-coloured suit and tie, he was clearly a man experiencing growing pains. Although local papers are more used to printing details of logging disputes, and the well-being of the spotted owl, the tally is hardly surprising, given the cult's exotic activities.Among other things, the sect was responsible for the biggest illegal telephone tapping operation in US history (allegedly masterminded by a Briton), an arson attack on a county office, and the purchase of 91 Rolls-Royces for the guru's use. Saracens 6 London Scottish 11 THIS was carrying brinkmanship too far. The impact of this on the voters in a general election can only be guessed at, but the signs so far are that it will provoke a backlash from the moderates and the pro-Europeans in the party, and that the public wrangling at the weekend between Sir Edward Heath and Norman Lamont is only a foretaste of what is to come.Nor is there much sense in Cabinet ministers jabbering platitudes about the 'soft focus' approach to Mr Blair. 'It's so satisfying to see something perform so well when you've created it.' In America, model-rocketry has been popular since 1956. THE GOVERNMENT was yesterday urged by the Labour Party to widen the ban on the Ulster Defence Association to cover the entire United Kingdom. It's our wedding anniversary.''Will Gerard, Harry and Claudia be there?'Gerard, Harry and Claudia are nephews and nieces and so forth, and you'd not meet jollier young people in a long day's march.

The 38-year-old Italian won a Japanese Grand Prix which again demonstrated the superiority of the Williams-Renault alliance. Los Angeles (AP) - A gunman dressed in combat fatigues burst into a hospital emergency room and opened fire yesterday, critically wounding three doctors. The battle flag, meanwhile, flies above South Carolina's Capitol and is incorporated in the state flag of Mississippi.Leading the flag revolt in Alabama is Alvin Holmes, a state legislator and leading black spokesman. One cast member died just before his company set out, programmes had to be reprinted and costumes altered.

GERMANY'S big banks demonstrated their industrial power yesterday by sacking virtually all the management board of Metallgesellschaft, the metals and environmental technology group. Johnstone Kalweo, the minister in charge of internal security, gave no reason for the ban, which followed a raid on a printing press on Thursday night by 200 armed policemen who seized 15,000 copies of Mr Matiba's book, entitled Kenya: Return to Reason.. They are trying to change the culture of almost the entire public sector so that it is guided by 'market' principles. Souness was not deeply into dossiers.Ian St John points out that the Boot Room was not always an inner sanctum, especially on match days when opponents would sometimes be invited in for a drink and a chat But there was method in this small show of hospitality. There is also a general credibility problem associated with routine job cuts - how do you motivate a workforce living in fear of losing their jobs?Besides these indirect costs, there are also high direct costs and opportunity costs associated with regular lay-offs. It is the invasion of the sanctity of people's homes.'He accused the Government of an 'obdurate refusal to recognise the clear link between the environment in which people live and the way that they behave'.Ministers could not back the efforts of people and the police 'unless they accept their full responsibility, not just for policing, but for the state of the economy and for the state of the nation as whole.'It is their failure to do so, their belief that government inaction is always preferable to government action, that leaves us with no confidence here or in the rest of Britain that they are people that can turn back the rising tide of crime.'Mr Blair did, however, join with Mr Clarke in welcoming the appointment of Paul Condon, 45, the Chief Constable of Kent, to the post of commissioner, describing him as 'highly regarded'.