Six months to 30 SeptemberProtean the water purification equipment maker has bought Epsom Glass Industries for pounds 2

Six months to 30 SeptemberProtean, the water purification equipment maker, has bought Epsom Glass Industries for pounds 2.1m and is funding it with a pounds 2.5m share placing. BTR, THE industrial conglomerate, has beaten off Continental, the German tyre company, and Total of France to acquire the non-tyre automotive business of Pirelli, the Italian tyre group. He’s planning to merge his old-established television group with the brash home shopping group QVC. ‘Certainly not,’ responded Fran Considine, a spokeswoman, when I asked whether the authority had expressed regret for commissioning Your Pocket Guide to Sex. So too, from the Republican side, is Marshall Coleman, once Virginia’s attorney general and already endorsed by Senator Warner.In such a four-man contest, where a simple plurality would be enough to win, the outcome would be a complete toss-up.

For most of the Palestinian uprising, which erupted in December 1987, Israeli troops had mainly confronted crowds throwing stones and petrol bombs. ‘God, this is pretty low profile, isn’t it?’ She looked around her. In the south, a magnificent place to see them is the 160-acre Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum near Romsey in Hampshire, where next Sunday the curator, Barry Phillips, will lead a walk themed on the Himalayas as part of Plant Heritage Week (details below).When I visited him there 10 days ago, the weather was doing its best to mimic a Himalayan winter, with a biting northerly wind defying the evidence of our eyes that we were well into spring. To a prime minister, is Mr Major a prime minister?Clearly to Lady Thatcher he is not. Companies will need a pounds 700 laser player and a colour television to use the disk.The granting of a patent is a three-stage process. There is Marie-Therese’s plump face, with prominent cheeks and nose.

‘The road was supposed to have been opened in 1993.’Twelve months ago, when we were putting the final touches to the atlas, the Department of Transport gave us a date for opening this A14 extension Since then it has slipped and slipped. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean go to the Winter Olympics comforted by the knowledge that Mary Parry will be in Hamar as well. .1
(after extra time)A GOAL from Lee Howey in the 101st minute of a replay Carlisle had dominated during normal time sent a highly relieved Sunderland into a fourth-round FA Cup tie at Wimbledon.The First Division side’s pressure finally told on Carlisle when Howey, a stand-in for the injured Don Goodman, without whom Sunderland had lacked punch for most of the game, hooked in from close range when Carlisle had failed to clear Martin Smith’s right-wing cross.It was cruel justice for a Carlisle side who had looked capable of making history repeat itself. If this last effort, the conclusion of seven years’ work, fails, the consequences would be dire, Mr Christopher said.