The countenance of the Hilliard Ensemble is ripe and fruity, a healthy antidote to English Cathedral pallor, and whether or not it’s a sound that Frye would recognise, it feels right. The couple, aged 25 and 28, have lived together for three years They decided they wanted a child soon after meeting. Mark Williams, 29, was on home leave from jail where he was serving a sentence for robbery when he kept six women and four men trapped for 15 hours in a 12ft by 8ft attic room at the surgery.
Armed police surrounded the building in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, and the siege came to an end when Williams fell asleep and the hostages pounced on him, Cardiff Crown Court was told.He had placed his captives around the attic window so they would get in the way of any police sniper bullets.In the hours before the siege, Williams carried out a ‘cowardly’ attack on his foster mother Sylvia Taylor, 60, in Llangammarch Wells, Powys. In one of those swings of fortune which give cricket its unique flavour, Illingworth and the debutant Parvez Mirza put on 102, only the second last- wicket century stand in Worcestershire’s long history. But what could I do? I couldn’t lean over and ask him if he was inflicting his life story on me, could I? Or even vice versa?As soon as I thought about it, the idea seemed ridiculous At that moment, anyway, things were taken out of my hands.

Rich and tangy, limey and pineappley Australian.REDS****1989 Rothbury Reserve Syrah (pounds 8.99). Researchers have manipulated the genes of the harmless lactic acid bacteria used to ferment dairy products so they produce a toxin that destroys listeria – a food poison that has caused many deaths. This is bolstered by clips from the old shows in which Morecambe, who died in 1984, teases Wise: ‘without me, on your own, you’d be lost’. GLINTING under a canopy of vines, washing down souvlakia beside the Aegean, retsina tastes of bliss.

‘And you’re fat]’An old lady with a stick tottered into the office to collect her quota of leaflets. They arrived in England in 1915, made their debut at the Victoria Palace on 20 December, and never went home again. UNLIKE Graham Taylor, Andy Roxburgh has neither key players returning to peak condition nor any more than a remote chance of taking Scotland to next year’s World Cup finals – realities reflected in the experimental squad he named last night for the final Group One home fixture against Switzerland at Aberdeen a week tomorrow, writes Phil Shaw. Volunteers and sightseers swarmed to the destroyed villages, slowing relief efforts.The first shipment of Western aid – dollars 3m ( pounds 2m) in tents and medical supplies from the United States – reached Bombay yesterday afternoon.

There was a wonderful moment in Alan Bennett’s The Old Country (1977). ‘The first couple of days in Vladivostok have been a mob scene. But there is seething anger at the high-handed attitudes prevalent in other departments – particularly those dealing with the West Indies and St Helena.To the territories, the advantages of being a British possession are considerable: the kudos benefits their tourist trade; it denotes valuable stability for their banking and insurance customers; they are given technical support for the development of their shipping registers; their defence is guaranteed; and this year they will be receiving some pounds 31m in aid from the Overseas Development Administration – despite the fact that they have only a small number of inhabitants.Too small for independence – and under no pressure from Britain to opt for decolonisation since the Falklands War – they are seeking a maturer form of modus operandi with London, based on partnership rather than control.Gathering favour is a proposal advocated by the government of the British Virgin Islands for a Lancaster House-type conference to define the relationship between London and the colonies – its outcome perhaps enshrined in a Dependent Territories Charter.The territories’ striving for more autonomy, and Britain’s continuing wish to avoid power without responsibility, will continue to strain the FCO’s managerial resources and tolerance. If you didn’t, you’d probably be lynched.And that, I suspect, is the sort of rule Mr Park really broke this week when he started hitting ‘provisional’ golf balls all over the place. Adding some comfortable, weatherproof seating to the pergola would be good, then perhaps a small fountain or fish pool inside or just outside. His angry animal rights sister is also an artfully described character: part urban terrorist, part unhappy adolescent The story’s conclusion is hopeful but not starry-eyed. It was, to be blunt, a horrible performance that lost its way in the workings of the long first movement and never made it back on course.

A tip-off from the restaurateur or hotel owner is another short cut to the best local wines. Now it is the traditional games they like best.In the past, Mr Barber says, children naturally brought into school the games that they played on the streets Now the school is reversing that process. The case was adjourned until 23 December for sentencing.Niell Stewart, for the prosecution, said he carried out the crimes to feed his crack- cocaine habit.The court was told he targeted residential homes and offices as easy pickings for cash but buildings he burgled included Greenwich Magistrates’ Court and a north London juvenile court. Starring opposite Bette Midler tends to coarsen actors – they have to turn up the decibels to survive – and perhaps Down and Out in Beverley Hills was a turning point for Dreyfuss.