The mother was charged with the murder in December 1986.Maurice Simon, the second magistrate, took the case over in January 1987 and interviewed a total of 170 people His inquiries swung suspicion back on the murdered cousin. ‘A scorpion also appeared half- way through the deal-making,’ Neil Young, Burnham’s commercial manager, revealed yesterday.WE’VE had Brian Moore’s Head, Shagging Magpies, Killer Penguins, a Deranged Ferret, and a Grorty Dick but what is the tale behind the name of the brand new Sheffield Wednesday fanzine, ‘War of the Monster Trucks’? Wednesday worshippers often grumble that Yorkshire TV is interested only in life at Elland Road and have nicknamed the channel Leeds TV. Speaking yesterday on BBC2’s The Money Programme, Vinodchandra Manubhai Patel said Mr Hopkins would help if he wanted a mortgage – ‘I would say: ‘Sid, I want half a million in a month or two, would you be able to arrange it?’ If he had got the funding he would arrange it for us.’
As the Independent revealed in March, Mr Patel had a close relationship with GRE’s senior managers, who used to attend the parties he threw for clients of his north London firm, Unique Insurance Services.GRE lent pounds 80m to Mr Patel’s companies and associates, who used the money to buy hotels and other property in the late 1980s boom.GRE yesterday reiterated its position that Mr Hopkins’ responsibilities in the 1980s never gave him the power to authorise loans and he had no say in the advances made to Mr Patel. Even more painful was the knowledge of what wasn’t being shown – thanks to the censors. And to think we started smoking by scrounging Lucky Strike from GIs during the war.

It shows our ability to take advantage of kindlier markets when kindlier markets we have.’He added that he expected the bank to increase its proprietary trading in London. It will also increase the cost of mortgage indemnity insurance. There’s also Alan Cumming’s rouge-nippled emcee, superbly drilled in the set- pieces but also confident enough to mess around – after the interval, for instance, cutting a rug with a bit of rough trade he’s yanked out of the audience.And there’s Jane Horrocks, playing Sally Bowles as a cross between Jessie Matthews and Daffy Duck – cut- glass Chelsea accent, but with an edge of manic misanthropy that reaches a climax in the title-song. Hoare Govett downgraded from pounds 100m to pounds 92m and from pounds 125m to pounds 120m.MFI Furniture put on 9p to 174p, with James Capel saying buy; Hillsdown Holdings rose 10p to 184p as SNC provided the support.LIT Holdings, soon to be Johnson Fry, appeared in its new consolidated form, gaining 38p to 338p, but Atreus, the shower screen group, fell 4.5p to 15.5p following its profit warning. The shares are probably up with events.Westminster Scaffolding, which completed a restructuring early this month, is regarded as ripe for shell interest. SCENES of unparalleled violence and aggression in Preston this week – as only to be expected during the World Indoor Championship Bowls (BBC 2, daily).

SAO PAOLO’s traffic came to a halt yesterday as thousands of Brazilians came on to the streets to grieve as the coffin carrying Ayrton Senna came home. Worse for a proud man, Ferguson was prepared to play Ryan Giggs, the flower of the nation’s young footballers, out of position on the right flank to accommodate Lee Sharpe on the left.To Kanchelskis, whose reputation in his own country had been similar to that of Giggs in this, it was a perplexing insult compounded when he was asked, and refused, to play in the reserves. He does not see how the corporation can be both things at the same time. Are they worth the money?Kate Close, employee relations manager at Pizza Hut, is unequivocal about their value. The expedition oven which, on good days, yielded fish au gratin, treacle tart and deliciously yeasty bread, was fired by Pitcairners’ miro offcuts .Interestingly, these introduced plants are today found near the coast in a few flat acres between beach and cliff base. Peter wrote a great deal of poetry, inspired by the pregnancy.

Although the UK would like the level raised, other countries are opposed. Individual tales shuttle between voices and between ancient and modern epochs. ‘If there was a referendum, a direct election, I might think about it,’ she said at her ranch near Santa Barbara, California.The idea was broached one evening recently at a dinner with friends, including Nancy Reagan. An obituary in the Statist, a magazine of the respectable Right, claimed that Laski’s was ‘an alien mind imbued and impregnated with an alien philosophy a sinister personage to the normal Englishman’. Remember the great Australian long-distance runner? Oh, come on, surely you do] You really don’t, eh? Well, then, this step-by-step, stride-by-stride record, written in many cases as he was actually running, may not be for you.Brassica Park. According to Plutarch, Osiris was locked up to die in a coffin by hisevil brother, Seth, and the coffin was tossed into the Nile.