Army sources last night said that the scheme was flexible and that if the reconnaissance party decided that helicopters were

Army sources last night said that the scheme was flexible, and that if the reconnaissance party decided that helicopters were needed, for example, they could be added.The battalion group’s ‘eyes’ are an additional squadron of the 9th/12th Lancers based at Herford – about 100 soldiers with 12 Scimitar light tanks and four Striker long-range anti-tank missile launch vehicles.Britain already has a strong medical contingent in Croatia – 24 Field Ambulance – and this will provide medical back-up for the further forces now being deployed in Bosnia.Letters, page 24. IT WAS a neat trick. The South Africans will tour Australia for three months, the first time they have done so since 1964. A growing number of depositors with National Guardian Mortgage, a bank in Hindhead, Surrey, which collapsed and was put into administration in March 1992, are experiencing grave financial hardship. Wimbledon record: 2nd round (1992), QF.BECAME the fifth player to defeat Sampras this year in winning at Queen’s Club eight days ago, demonstrating he has the serve and return to succeed on grass. Nato was, after all, set up as an alliance against Moscow, and it was a central objective of decades of policy to prevent Russia from gaining a military foothold in Yugoslavia.The Bosnian war is raising a new a set of urgent questions about how the West deals with post-Cold War Russia. She is claiming unfair dismissal after a claim for sexual discrimination was ruled out of time.The hearing was adjourned until August..

The affluent are more likely to eat fresh fruit and vegetables regularly, to have a varied diet, and to say they try to eat healthily, than those on a lower income, according to Peter Ayton, Mintel’s head or research.
‘People who are dependent on state benefits have the least varied diet and are least concerned about healthy eating, maybe because they can’t afford to be. (Photograph omitted)

A lone hijacker tumbles down the steps of a French Airbus after police overpowered him yesterday in Nice. ‘When you write, how can you keep from lying?’ he asks.
According to Bitov, encounters with foreign cultures are inseparable from thoughts of home and his impressions of Georgia are interspersed with details of a visit to a Russian zoo with his daughter and of numerous recollections from his childhood in Leningrad. The show was judged by Andrew Brighton, Paul Huxley, Catherine Lampert and Julian Treuhertz. There will be some serious explaining to do if the Government doesn’t come up with something on the subject next year, for that will call into question whether it is serious about encouraging competition.

He could do nothing as the Briton – intent personified – strove for the line, crossing it with arms waving and in full cry.The yelp contained more than triumph ‘I don’t know what I shouted out,’ he said. Eyes glazed, mouth agape, nostrils flared, all brain activity put on hold – yes, Eddie Charlton’s just played another safety shot. It was at first entitled E=MC2 and changed to Sea Birds Don’t Sing. IT IS an area of programming the BBC does not boast about: light entertainment, filled with cut-price ‘celebrities’ or so-called real people, that fills the television schedules between the prestigious peaks of news, drama and classic comedy.

Now manufacturers, exporters, small business and regional trade associations are demanding industrial policy measures.Incentives for investment are essential. ‘The government brought out a white paper in 1975 called Food from our own Resources. When things are going badly he must try and put on a more determined face for a bowler who is obviously depressed with himself is handing the batsman a huge psychological advantage.The contrast between the demeanour of Tufnell and that of Ian Salisbury could hardly be more marked. They should not be employed except in the most extreme cases because such decisions are far better left to the market.When the Government began tackling the issue, Kenneth Carlisle asked the Transport Research Laboratory to try to find a way of making bull bars safe. The news that the Duchess of York might appear as Boadicea in a Ken Russell film has an awful plausibility, and reflects the down-grading of expectation about the royals. Even then, nothing was produced in the Principality of Monaco except stamps and bankruptcy, but the area all around, having been Italian, now being French, produced goat’s cheeses, in all sizes, all shapes, all consistencies. The budget would have to double, from pounds 5m to pounds 10m a year.The report will be discussed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which commissioned it, on 30 March.It will disappoint academics because it fails to address the main problem, which is how to streamline the inspection of universities.The funding councils inspect individual subjects such as law or history.