Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer, the striker of whom there are such high hopes, has yet to play even half a match for Blackburn Rovers this season, and gets no further than the stand-by replacements.It must have been tempting to have him on the bench, at least, but Taylor said: 'He needs games under his belt. OF THE 120 million holiday brochures produced every year by tour operators for distribution through travel agencies, more than a third are thrown away unread, a report claims. Some stronger regional companies may take their business to the Continent rather than to the capital.Professor Wood argues that there should be better promotion of regional centres as a solution There is everything right with that. Shacochis is at liberty to invent a West Indian dialect for the island, but he has a rotten ear for the decadent English rock stars who get a cameo in one drug-sodden scene. He first wore it when he stood against Harold Wilson in 1963.. Will German consumers continue to pare back saving (as they have through the trough of this recession) to sustain consumption?A second test will be that posed by the bond markets this week: if long-term rates in Germany have turned so early in the cycle, will monetary policy be tightened by the markets, rather than by the Bundesbank?A third test concerns the mark.

They issued a deportation order against him in 1988, even though his divorce had not yet become absolute.In deciding that EC law should take precedence - and thus that the decision to deport Mr Singh was wrong - the court said that one of the aims of the Treaty of Rome which set up the EC was to abolish obstacles to freedom of movement inside the Community.If the Government's policy were allowed to stand, Britons might be deterred from working in other EC countries by the fear that they might be separated from their spouse - or their children - on their return.Because it applies only to Britons who have worked elsewhere in the EC, the ruling is believed unlikely to produce a wave of new immigrants.But in those cases where British citizens come home married after working elsewhere in the EC, immigration officers are likely to lose the right to ask what was the primary purpose of the marriage.The judgment is unlikely to affect Mr Singh, however. Ganesh Sittampalam studied for his BSc maths degree at Surrey University just one day a week.'I jumped up and down and yelled 'Yippee]' when I found I had a first,' Ganesh, from Surbiton, south-west London, said 'I'm quite proud I'm happy because I've done it, not because of my age. By the end, everyone feels they have more in common.I know I am not the only gay person who feels this way. style, with all its laboured reasonableness, provoked two sections of the country to rage, at the same time as it sent a large third section to sleep.An Arkansas journalist, interviewed on C-Span, the public- affairs cable TV network, said that the Governor was in the habit of introducing elaborate bills to the state House of Representatives, then standing by while the legislators lopped clauses off them with buzz-saws. It traces the displacement of Native Americans as Europeans pushed further into their territory, and how Indian fashions were influenced by contact with the newcomers, with beads and ribbons traded for furs.

Argyll, owner of Safeway, hits a year's high, Pentos, the bookshop chain, hits a low.Tuesday 22 Tube station bomb in Hampstead sends the roads of north-west London into gridlock just as the chattering classes were about to do their last-minute shopping.Wednesday 23 Electronic games have been one of the few clear-cut successes this year. A cinema projectionist was sacked after he showed the film JFK instead of The Addams Family at a complex in West Thurrock, Essex, an industrial tribunal was told. While the hardliners were not dominant, Mr Gaidar said, it was important not to underestimate them.Mr Gaidar said he sympathised with calls for early elections to choose a new parliament - currently a forum for vociferous hardliners. 'There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. Of all the places I went into, not one of them taught me about life.Now, getting back to 'What went wrong?' I put this down to a number of things, personally Three things for me:1 My parents were innocent about life.2 The places we had been in had no rehabilitation.3. He was able to square the circle by rigid economy, which he took to comical lengths.