After all the catastrophes of Sixties buildings how marvellous that one should justly be listed Grade

After all the catastrophes of Sixties buildings, how marvellous that one should justly be listed Grade I.Next time your readers are in Oxford, I recommend a trip to the end of Manor Road so that they can judge for themselves.Yours faithfully,TIM GARDENLondon, NW310 April. When something is popped in that is not standard (‘You ain’t seen nothin’ yet’), the author rightly expects it to be recognised as just that.Classless and really quite familiar. A PROFIT surge has returned Cheltenham & Gloucester to its previous strong form following last year’s lurch brought about by spiralling mortgage debt. If you want to be in the team, you’ve got to prove to me that you’re good enough.”The way it worked out, we started with four teenagers and a couple of others making their debuts. Last week they crashed through a police road block, and when their stolen BMW kept going, the police opened fire Gangs of boys have taken to the streets to avenge them. Sir: You report (‘US firm takes over tax records’, 23 May) that, after the forthcoming privatisation of part of the Inland Revenue, day-to-day control of the personal tax records of British citizens will be given to a United States company.

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AN ENGAGINGLY old-fashioned day’s cricket, with batsmen initially obliged to work hard for their runs against tight bowling and with a praiseworthy piece of old-fashioned honesty as its focal point, enabled Leicestershire to regain much of the ground lost by their bowlers here yesterday.James Whitaker’s is not the first name that springs to mind when grafting displays of batting are called for and this has been a lean, frustrating season for him. Take it off again and I’ve developed a very attractive centre parting.Vespa gears are on the left handlebar with the clutch (why didn’t I get an automatic?), front brake and throttle on the right handlebar, back brake on the floor It’s simply a question of coordination ‘And don’t forget your life-savers,’ Frank keeps shouting. People are waving flags, candles, picnic baskets, rugs; anything to show their solidarity.Sandys Dawes, an elegant man whose family have lived at Mount Ephraim for 300 years, looks coolly at his now largely hysterical paying-guests. The new hybrid had the virtuosity of one and the groove of the other; and when it added the sweet textures of late-model synthesisers to the squeal of real-life saxophones and the kick of a fatback bass-and-drums team raised on rhythm and blues, it began to answer all kinds of audience requirements.It also turned itself into a cult, principally in north London, where it provided signature tunes and soundtracks for XR3-driving latter-day soul boys. We’d had this wonderful courtship and suddenly I felt like a possession – not allowed to think for myself or make decisions about myself.I was dependent on my husband to give me money – I had no independence at all. The appellants’ practices were unpredictably dangerous and degrading to body and mind and were developed with increasing barbarity and taught to persons whose consents were dubious or worthless.

Over the next two and a half years, cut off from the world, about 100,000 perished of brutality or starvation. And, furthermore, when the Government was really screwing up the economy and showing signs of potential disintegration, did we not give them hell? How can anyone say that we didn’t hammer them when they deserved it? All that nonsense about unreasonable bias is simply Labour paranoia.Well it isn’t, and the history of press behaviour towards the Labour Party throughout this century shows it Of course I may be wrong The Sun may have decided to steer a moderate middle path. LLOYDS Bank is on the verge of joining the golf and leisure industry after taking possession of a 550-acre development at Milton of Leys, near Inverness, writes Paul Durman. The first-lap accident also enabled Britain’s Niall Mackenzie to equal his best grand prix result by coming home third on a Yamaha, three- tenths of a second ahead of his compatriot, Carl Fogarty, a wild-card entry for Cagiva. None of them suggests that this element of displaced allegory is sufficent to put Venus and Adonis on a par with the great tragedies or the late plays.

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