THAMES TELEVISION, which lost its ITV franchise and failed in its bid for the new Channel 5 services, is waiting in the wings to rescue Independent Television News if the pounds 41m bid led by Michael Green’s Carlton Communications falls through. National Academic Awards Ceremony, South Queensferry, Edinburgh. THE PERMANENT captaincy of the England football team is about to change. Some relief from the gloomy backdrop may come to the fore in Barcelona.

Symptoms may not appear for six weeks by which time contaminated food will usually have been thrown away.Listeria produces flu-like symptoms in most healthy adults but can be dangerous for pregnant women and the frail. By winning overwhelmingly in the constituencies and the Parliamentary Labour Party, Mr Smith is legitimised, even though the electoral system itself is discredited.And, as it turns out, the same goes for Margaret Beckett as deputy. This ‘high-level visit’ was, however, hardly the grand occasion Mr Arafat would have hoped for, as self-appointed President of Palestine. Leeds were even closer when Gary Kelly sent Deane striding away to shoot against Hooper’s left-hand post from 15 yards.With little else to sing about, the crowd entertained themselves with choruses of ‘Santa is a Geordie’. But finally the group agreed to discuss their financial circumstances and how they are coping with market reform.Everyone in this group, like most doctors, teachers, artists and academics in Russia who were once highly respected and comfortably off, now see themselves as impoverished and disregarded in the new enterprise culture, having to watch the less educated and ’scoundrels’ flourish.Kiril and Dasha between them have a monthly income of 90,000 roubles (dollars 90), which means they can afford food for themselves and their child, but that luxuries, such as a boat trip down the Moscow River, are beyond their means.Tatyana remembers that when she was a music student she earned five roubles for a performance, and could buy a kilo of Swiss cheese, a litre of milk, 10 eggs and a loaf of bread with the cash.Now, as a grade-one singer with more than 20 years’ experience, she is paid 2,800 roubles for a concert, but this buys only one kilo of inedible sausagemeat. Brazil, Colombia and Central American producers announced on Sunday that they would be holding back 20 per cent of their exports from 1 October, in an effort to revive prices that have more than halved since 1989.

Attacking those who would defy its gravitational pull, he adds: ‘Self-centred politicians must not be allowed to damage people’s lives and their future on purely outdated nationalistic grounds.’Sir Edward also criticises the Government for allowing ‘a small group of hostile would-be hijackers’ to hold it to ransom, and urges ministers to stop talking as if the EC was a colony that could be moulded to ‘What the British want’. Burns risked his father’s wrath to go to dancing school.Henry Miller played the piano but was a stumbling dancer Nabokov famously hated music. Machiavelli would have enjoyed working out the sub-text for Granada Group’s purchase of a 14.99 per cent stake in LWT. Marlboro’s market share in a single year fell to 22 per cent from 24.3 per cent.Philip Morris is also worried that a huge cigarette-tax increase proposed by President Bill Clinton as a way to fund a national healthcare scheme would accelerate the switch to cheaper brands.’It would be irresponsible to our shareholders not to defend Marlboro, the world’s most valuable trademark,’ said William Campbell, head of Philip Morris’s US division. Dorset Police and Devon County Council have also begun inquiries.Trip turned into nightmare, page 3Leading article, page 21.

THAT word again The death of Bobby Moore, England’s hero Golden-haired, a gentle giant, a great Englishman. Using before-and-after illustration of 15 projects, the exhibition sets out to show how buildings are enhanced (or not, as the case may be) by the planning process.’From Shrine to Showcase’, 22 January-13 February; ‘Before and After Planning’ 19 January-6 February at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1.Admission free For further details contact 071-580 5533.. This makes for an ugly gallery, everything misjudged both in size and sentiment.I know why This is when watercolour joined Victorian art. Mike Newell, who gave family tension such bitterness and edge in The Good Father a few years ago, has been brought in to stiffen this piece of Hibernian confectionery, but there’s no giving a hard edge to a custard.Gabriel Byrne as the boys’ father does what he can.