Could they explain Antwerp’s sudden outburst of fashion talent?’Everybody asks that question,’ said Van Bierendonck, a large teddy-bear of a man, his hands encrusted with silver rings. Peter Boizot, chairman, has sold 2 million shares at 120p through Greig Middleton and Credit Lyonnais Laing. The determination not to hand the IRA a propaganda victory came as No 10 re-emphasised Friday night’s joint statement from John Major and Albert Reynolds, the Taoiseach, that there was nothing the men of violence could do to deflect them from the Downing Street Declaration.
The IRA last night claimed the Government had a negative stance towards peace, compared with the ‘positive and flexible’ IRA attitude. Suddenly, contaminated land was an issue of concern, particularly for people living in houses built on such sites. Jean Tyrell at Sirdar Group stepped down from the chair to become a non-executive director last July, and Margarita Hamilton came off the list when Swanyard’s listing was cancelled last year.Managing directors who have departed from the list include Ann Cluer, who had held the job jointly with her husband at Levercrest.

Symptomatically, there has been a particularly sharp increase in the number of unconvicted people held on remand, more than half of whom are likely to be acquitted or given a non-custodial sentence.One category of offender that should be much more selectively jailed is debt defaulters. They are competing and also entering into joint ventures with European companies such as Springer, Carlton, Pearson, Reed Elsevier and Burda. ‘ARE YOU a Serb?’ General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader, asked the reporter who telephoned him for reaction to the newest threats of Western air strikes against the Serbs. (First Edition)

A CAR salesman murdered a ‘warm and trusting travel agent’ just 10 days after he delivered her new car, it was alleged at the Old Bailey yesterday.
Gillian Bennett, 33, was tied up, stabbed and set on fire while she was still alive, Nigel Sweeney, for the prosecution, said. ‘It annoys the hell out of me that some of them talk about it as though it’s nothing. You pay pounds 52 to stand on a bank, and anything up to pounds 115 for a seat in the grandstand.At 2pm, when the race finally starts, the cars pass you once every minute and a half, and at speeds of up to 190mph. Examination of recordings of the race shows that he had no reason to do so as the starter’s flag, which should have signalled a false start, was raised but never unfurled after the second false start.Spectators who paid admission prices of up to pounds 60 will be granted free entry to Aintree’s November meeting, but for one horse there may be no return.

I consider myself a feminist but I wouldn’t buy a record to prove it.’GRRRLS TALKHow to spot a Riot Grrrl:They are angry (but unobtrusively). He cut short his trip and flew back to white America.(Photograph omitted). Serbs announced last week that they were lifting their five- month siege but Muslims claimed to have ‘liberated’ 80 per cent of the city after fierce fighting.Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia, said he would boycott this week’s peace talks in Geneva if the ‘murderous assault on the Bosnian people in Sarajevo does not cease’. In a postcard or carefully set-up photograph, Bloxham might appear to be stuck in the 18th century, but it is really a brilliantly disguised hub of what remains of the best of British production engineering. Tim Robinson was put down there with the total on 36 and when he eventually departed it was 79 and too late.Adams was stoic. One reporter swore he saw a flicker of a smile.Goal: Brewster (47) 1-0.Dundee United (1-4-2-3): Van de Kamp; Petric; Cleland, Welsh, Malpas, McInally; Bowman, Hannah; Dailly, Brewster, McLaren (Nixon, 83). one of those who attracts trouble and abuse’ in the aftermath of the pitch invasions that marred Wednesday’s First Division play-off semi-final at the New Den.Arsenal have confirmed their interest in Stefan Schwarz, the Sweden and Benfica midfielder.