She's always been interested in opera and I never have, but I'm prepared to change my mind about that Since meeting her I have become much more sociable. So Clara, our faithful domestic help, who was like a member of the family, decided that we would indulge in one of her favourite pastimes. Written on 12 July, eight days before Mr Portillo was promoted from Chief Secretary to the Treasury to Employment Secretary, the letter exposes an ideological divide between two Cabinet big-hitters. The inquiry into the leak of the letter to the Guardian will focus on both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Treasury.The disclosure of the scale of disagreement between the Cabinet's leading free marketeer and the more interventionist Mr Heseltine sparked a furious debate about regional assistance - one of seven DTI activities targeted by Mr Portillo. It was only after a year and a half of working for Visages that Serge and I had the 'courage' to approach Cahiers's editors.In the summer of 1964, Serge Daney went along with me on my second trip to Hollywood and we came back with a huge crop of interviews: Leo MacCarey, Buster Keaton, Howard Hawks, Stuart Heisler, Jacques Tourneur, George Cukor, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Edward Ludwig, Don Siegel, Josef Von Sternberg, to name just a few. 'Well,' came the reply, 'we've called a lot of existing clients.But what we're really hoping for is a change of administration.'As indeed are many others in Washington. The speed of expansion of property lending took supervisors by surprise, and they were not quick enough in their reactions.For banks, commercial property is a threefold hazard: as borrower, as collateral for other borrowers, and as part of banks' own capital.VACANT SPACEIn every G7 country except Germany, banks failed to make sufficient provision for the fall in property values. There are also some telling revelations about his manipulation of the journalism contained in the Observer, which cannot make comfortable reading for some of Britain's leading journalists.Rowland has not fired off any writs, though his wife confessed to taking legal advice.

Be they from California or Florida, Guatemala or Chile, the most exotic summer berries or the first asparagus of spring are on the shelves in the depths of a Minnesota winter But at a price Peaches are another special disappointment. As the train rattles through the Moselle vineyards, he has a sort of epiphany, a vision of what life might be, but also of what Europe ought to be.The complexity of the book's construction, however, is greater than that, for the thoughts of Gerard-in-the-cattle truck are crosscut with his consciousness in at least two other time zones: his experiences immediately after he was liberated from the camp, and his feelings about the camp as he looked back on it from a holiday in Italy, at some time between his liberation and the time when he finally writes the book.This complex structure is not sheer look-at-me virtuosity, however. In the next six months the manager must look very closely at football in the rest of the world and decide what is best and what we can pinch and use for ourselves. And, despite the American fascination with the royal family, the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales notched up a mere 11 per cent.Nor has Hollywood been slow to get to the trough. Last week a company called Go Ahead announced plans to add its name to the small but growing number of quoted bus companies. His tie was in place, his hair was brushed with no hint of that flapping forelock.

It was published in 1937.Most of the contents of the Martins' home dated from this period, from the early Thirties, with chairs by Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer, tables by Alvar Aalto, lights by Jorn Utzon and even a coffee service by Ben Nicholson, and together they put together an extremely interesting collection of contemporary paintings, by, among others, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, Henry Moore and Piet Mondrian. If you can't make it, check the new Greatest Hits: 'Tears of a Clown', 'Tracks of My Tears', 'I Second That Emotion'.Tonight Bradford St George's Hall; Sat London Hammersmith Odeon; Sun Brentwood Centre; Mon Southampton Mayflower; Wed Croydon Fairfield HallsSTEREO MC'SWhite hip-hop's equivalent of the Shamen Fat beats, crazy doggerel, party atmosphere. 'Women aren't interested on the whole.' He has, in the past, described cars somewhat unoriginally as 'penile extensions'. When we get finished, we will know every bit of fuzz in our navels,' he said.'Is it perfect? No.'Is it the best we've seen? Probably.'.

Courageously, Blenheim writes off all good will on its acquisitions of exhibition companies. Since 1989 some 11,000 army personnel have been removed, including 1,600 officers Basic freedoms have been curtailed. Remember that only six weeks ago England, after a world-class performance, would have beaten the Dutch at Wembley but for Des Walker's uncharacteristic late blunder.That match demonstrated that England have players of true international ability. But the mourners heard the Rev Jim Gray condemn the killers and point up the irony that despite all the dangers Mr Burns had faced when he was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, it was loyalist gunmen who had killed him.'The Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed responsibility for the atrocity,' he said. The library serves 500 prisoners on remand or in transit.