Presently representing Kingston-upon- Thames Norman Lamont will be fighting Harrogate which is to be vacated by hunt supporter

Presently representing Kingston-upon- Thames, Norman Lamont will be fighting Harrogate, which is to be vacated by hunt supporter Robert Banks (who owns a flat in the London Docklands). The former Chancellor sent his CV to a dozen constituencies, including North Shropshire, Stratford-on-Avon, Kensington and Chelsea, Epping Forest and South Cambridgeshire. A five-bedroom stone-built house with entertaining rooms befitting a man of his stature, five miles from Harrogate, will cost pounds 345,000, says the agents Cluttons. Had he been accepted in Dudley Fishburn's seat in Kensington, on the other hand, he wouldn't have had to move at all. Sir Jerry Wiggin, the pro-hanging Conservative MP for Weston-Super-Mare who was memorably mentioned in Alan Clark's Diaries for admitting to "blubbing and pleading" when sacked from Government by Margaret Thatcher, loudly refused to comment on whether he'll be moving house.Successor to the Rt Hon Paul Channon - standing down in Southend West after 37 years - will be David Amess, whose majority in Basildon is a slim 1,480. But will Basildon forgive him for defecting, especially since as recently as 1992 Amess invited John Major to visit "Basildon - the finest and most exciting town in the country" He even instigated the I Love Basildon campaign. But with Southend practically next door, at least he shouldn't have to move house.Some never move into their constituencies. Greville Janner, Labour MP for Leicester West for 26 years (his father held the seat for 25 before that) has never lived there.

"It's only an hour and a half's drive from my home in North London," he says.Sir John Hannam stands down as Member for Exeter at the next General Election, after 26 years, to the regret of MPs on both sides. He moved into Orchard House, a Grade II listed four-bedroom house at Plymtree, Devon, at the beginning of the 1983 General Election. Unusually, he does not mind talking about his impending house move."It was wet and cold and conditions in the house were very primitive. I'd literally moved in with a couple of election helpers," says Sir John, a doughty, if gentlemanly, campaigner for the disabled.Now restored and extended, it has a drawing room, sitting room, dining room and large study with French doors leading to the half-acre garden.

Dr Silver had thought his "unglue" was interesting enough to demonstrate it to his colleagues, but none of them could think of a use for it.Taking advantage of a policy called "bootlegging", which allowed researchers to spend 15 per cent of their time on their own projects (the theory being that this fostered inventiveness), Fry began to experiment. Its outstanding feature was that it could be peeled off without leaving any trace. This glue had "low tack", which means that it stuck but didn't bond tightly. On the Monday following his brainstorm, he dug out the formula for an unusual adhesive developed by another 3M scientist, Dr Spencer Silver. Why, he wonders, has no one ever invented a sticky bookmark? Eureka! All glued up and nowhere to go During the week, Fry worked in the product development division of the American company 3M. There are two Sunday services and Fry marks the pages in his hymnal in the time-honoured way, with scraps of paper But they fall out.