It wants the Hong Kong government to increase its direct funding by using some of the revenues generated from property development

It wants the Hong Kong government to increase its direct funding by using some of the revenues generated from property development along the airport railway to pay for the airport rail link.. Mrs Shaughnessy, 21, of Vardens Road, Battersea, south-west London had been stabbed 54 times.Miss Tapp told the court that on the day of the murder she went shopping and visited her mother. The real king in these troubled times for Turkey is hard cash. Everybody in the audience had suffered, had lost relatives or friends or homes, and there, they watched what was at first an alien scene. Should Gower decide to take an aerial view of proceedings, he might invite Gooch along as his co-pilot this time.The TCCB's post-mortem on England's last winter tour appears to have ruled out an allergy to razor blades as a factor in the India debacle, judging by Robin Smith's beard at yesterday's press conference, which, judging by Smith's previous experiences in the West Indies, might have been grown for its cushioning effect.'I know that about half the balls I face will probably be aimed at my head,' he said, 'but as there is less chance of getting out to that type of bowling, I prefer it that way.'(Photograph omitted). It's great fun.' People collapsed in front of the television don't need this evangelism: either at Christmas or at any other time of the year.Altogether less sanctimonious was Christmas Presence (BBC 1, Sunday), a Songs of Praise special from Wembley Conference Centre, featuring those renowned gospel singers Cliff Richard, Gloria Gaynor and Gavin Peacock of Chelsea FC. The most successful bowler of the qualifying stages with 14 victims at 7.5 runs apiece, the England captain crowned a stint of 12 overs for 14 runs by clasping her opposite number's fierce return drive shortly after tea.The rest was largely a procession, the end coming as Brittin chased fully 30 yards to catch Catherine Campbell, the impetus taking her straight into the arms of a gaggle of jubilant supporters.John Major was among the 4,000-strong crowd, the best Sunday gate at HQ this season barring the fourth day of the second Test.

ka-POW]]] And that turned our coffee cups over, we thought the mess hall was comin' down, and we run outside, and look right down the hill, and a big red flame and black and smoke was going up just like during the war at Iwo Jima Everybody went crazy] I could just see it on my hands Pink, kind of pink-lookin' stuff. The Governor's wife, something of a puritan, attacked the play: 'None of our soldiers ever drank in the 1914 war, she insisted. The forces of Croatia and the rump of the former Yugoslavia - Serbia and Montenegro - have not officially been involved in the war in Bosnia, although many troops and a substantial amount of equipment have crossed the border into Bosnia.Serbian casualties have been heavy, and that makes an up-to-date order of battle difficult to compile.The order of battle involves two main elements on each side: the regular Croatian (HV) and Yugoslav (JNA) forces, and the militias fighting for their ethnic kin in Bosnia: the Bosnian Croats (HVO and HOS) and Bosnian Serbs (Chetniks, Serbian Guard).As in the war in Bosnia, the regular Croatian and 'Yugoslav' (Serbian/Montenegrin) forces are about equal in manpower - roughly 100,000 troops each, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.On paper, Serbia has 21 'brigades' to Croatia's nine, but the 'brigades' are small units of between 100 and 1,000 troops, and although Serbia officially has a mechanised division headquarters, command and control above these 'brigades' - company- and battalion-sized groups - is probably tenuous.The Serbian advantage is in equipment and ammunition. The Tories themselves shy away in case it tempts fate; Labour and the Liberal Democrats recoil from it because their lives are predicated on the opposite belief; and commentators treat it cautiously in case it returns to embarrass them when John Smith wins his great victory of 1996.There comes a point, however, when caution becomes blindness. Others brought in jewellery, miniatures, paperweights, a Toulouse-Lautrec etching and some paintings. Work wise, though, I always maintained a front.'Mr Curran believes it unlikely that he will ever return to his home in Kennington, south London, which has been staked-out by dozens of journalists for the past week.Trial by tabloid, page 19. The last section is near Dalmaj, 135 miles south-east of Baghdad.Three thousand heavy machines were working along the entire length of the canal.Water supplies are of great strategic significance in the Middle East: one reason why Israel is so sensitive about the Golan Heights is that they shield the river Jordan.

Sir: Hamish McRae fired blanks in his broadside on a strategic authority for London. It apparently does not matter to the British government that Pinochet's unassailable position was forced upon Chile by the military constitution of 1980 and that the government still does not control the military. Selling arms to a country where the armed forces are not controlled by the civilian government is a policy of dubious merit. So does Muller's unauthorised assemblage have sufficient resonance in its own right then, to justify his presumption? As presented at the Gate, its irritatingly muffled narrative power is redeemed by flashes of extraordinary intensity. ETHAN CANIN writes the sort of poised, well- crafted stories that belong to the strain of North American realism practised by post-war writers from Raymond Carver to Alison Lurie and Anne Tyler. Certainly, it is difficult to imagine that the film as a whole could be used as recruiting material for the far right, though individual scenes no doubt could be.But some in Germany have reacted like the prosecution lawyer who famously asked the Old Bailey jury in the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial: 'Is this a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?' The Frankfurt court ruled that the 'uncritical viewer' might fail to understand that the film was meant as a warning.

Parliamentary questions, diplomatic scurryings and protests followed.Her own account of nearly two months in prison (Go Well, Stay Well, 1961) is free of heroics or self-pity Amazement - 'I lay on my bed and thought. This will not simply damage the arts over the next 12 months but will create long-term damage. Perhaps if they can be made to click sexually, the ancient twosome will be able to get into one another's togas again. This helps explain why bank margins remain under pressure, and have plummeted to as low as a third of a per cent for big borrowers. Tiny needed to boost his own shareholding so that he could control the German before it was too late. You're not living for them,' said one contributor, putting his finger on the reason for the state's traditional hostility to sexual expression. He is happiest surrounded by young people, and puts as much care into tending the emotional needs of the pupils as he does the physical needs of his animals.'This school has a high percentage of kids from one-parent families and the farm gives them something to hold and love.