I made the point: ‘Are you then telling me that we in Northern Ireland have to go on for another 20 or 30

I made the point: ‘Are you then telling me that we in Northern Ireland have to go on for another 20 or 30 or 40 years suffering as we have suffered, and that is your response? ‘ In effect, they said, that is it.There are those who have said that my talk to the IRA cannot do any good, and can only do harm. However Geoff Douglas at BZW has noted that the businesses benefit from strong cash flow, good dividend growth and an awareness that business has to be won, notably through schemes, such as Great Southern’s Chosen Heritage, which pay for the cost of your funeral before you die.
He notes that both Great Southern, the quality company in the sector, and Plantsbrook, the revitalised group formerly run by Mr Hodgson, stand at a significant discount to other small companies and are worth a second look.. BRITISH AIRWAYS yesterday sought to put the Virgin Atlantic dirty tricks affair behind it as Lord King of Wartnaby resigned early from the chairmanship amid a wide management shake-up, writes Michael Harrison. Unionists should consider a more relaxed and sophisticated response than they demonstrated at the weekend. His External Affairs Minister, Dinesh Singh, and the Commerce Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, had served under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and have dangled in a netherworld of Congress politics ever since. By the year-end this is expected to drop to about 18 per cent.The company is planning to sell a further 30 shops from a total of 471. In a not-so-subtle gesture, he instructed his representative in Somalia to notify Mr Oakley that the warlords had been invited to UN peace talks in Addis Ababa..

He will make the changes he thinks are necessary to win, but only the ones he thinks are necessary’.Labour is thus in a state of pregnant pause, waiting to see what Mr Smith does think is required. ONE OF three men accused of beheading a shopkeeper was acquitted on the direction of a judge at the Old Bailey yesterday. ‘It would be nice if we could turn ourselves into a police force and run up into the hills and grab those people and bring them to justice,’ he said in a BBC radio interview. The most popular ones are early in the morning and on Friday and Sunday evenings. Throughout 1953, in his thoughtful, late evening radio commentaries, he regularly took McCarthy to task for his unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty and treachery. It is the ultimate test of the quality of profits.The publicised cash-flow statement needs greater respect from companies and analysts.

But three more unhelpful ingredients have been tossed into the media opinion-makers’ pot, at just the wrong moment.Even before his second European trip in a month, approval for Mr Clinton was bumping along below 50 per cent, despite the steadily improving economy. IS Compass about to do a deal too far with the purchase of Canteen Corporation of America? The stock market, which did not like last summer’s SAS catering purchase, certainly thinks so, to judge by a 13p share price fall. ‘Numerous safety deficiencies’ also exist in the operation of the two remaining nuclear reactors at Chernobyl still producing electricity, and international levels of safety are not being met at the plant, the inspectors will report. Chinese patience with North Korea appears to be wearing thin. He’s the only one who can settle them because he’s fought his way up through their hierachy and is treated as their leader – they’d trample anyone else to death.We get quite a few escapes at night, too. Superintendent John Bennett said he did not think they would complete the search before 28 March.After the cellar dig and a search of the ground floor was completed, they planned to remove the extension gradually.

With more people than ever in higher education, universities are faced with students from increasingly varied educational backgrounds, and less favourable staff-to-student ratios. Sir: I should like to offer the following suggestion as to how to induce telephonophobia (Letters, 28 August). If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly.

In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. How did I feel? I thought it was such a wonderful thing to be sent a contract saying, ‘hereinafter called the Author’. He is now the 8-1 favourite ahead of Party Politics on 10-1.Christine Hollinshead, wife of the Staffordshire trainer Reg Hollinshead, has died after a long illness. A PRIVATE detective stole rubbish belonging to a newspaper executive who was investigating an alleged dirty tricks campaign against Richard Branson’s Virgin airline by British Airways, a court was told yesterday. His name was Stephen Waldorf.Within an hour a senior officer at New Scotland Yard was making a public apology for ‘a tragic case of mistaken identity’ and announcing the launch of an immediate inquiry by the Complaints Investigation branch of the Metropolitan Police Service.Stephen Waldorf, a film editor, had been ambushed by plainclothes detectives in the belief that he was David Martin, an escaped prisoner who was accused of the attempted murder of a police officer and was also facing bank robbery and firearms charges.The ambush, staged in a busy thoroughfare in heavy traffic, was also seen as posing a serious threat to public safety as well as flouting rules governing the use of firearms by police officers.