The nine-times Wimbledon champion is seeded to play Jana Novotna, her conqueror in last year's semi-finals at the All England Club, in the final. If I hadn't, it would have destroyed him.I don't think the violence ruined David's childhood but he always had to be afraid of Rupert and I think he resents that. Oldham probably recalled this fact in the dressing-room; Arsenal almost certainly did.After the restart the Gunners nervously surrendered the initiative to Oldham. As somebody said at the interval, when he gets into the mood for writing march tunes in C major, there is not much you can do.

Tampons are little used in Greece, whereas they are the preferred form in Britain.That means local managements have to take radically different approaches to promotion.The benefits are already showing. Several other Sikhs who had yesterday made a similar plea to the court on behalf of Sukha and Jinda were present in the judges' chamber when they announced their order.The condemned prisoners have not challenged their death sentence and put up no defence during their trial. The new qualifications range from a warder having to prove he can use a fire extinguisher to a senior curator or administrator showing he can draw up a strategic plan.The agreement for Mr Roodhouse's departure, stipulated by Professor Last, precludes him from discussing publicly the reason for his resignation. CARDIFF DEVILS' advance on the Heineken Premier Division title was delayed by Bracknell Bees despite the Welsh side having a full team for the first time since the end of October, writes Steve Pinder. For why? Was it because the 'design team' (it is always a team) decided that the Lon would help viewers remember that they lived in London and that a car would stimulate advertising? Or was there a bloke called Carl somewhere in the background who wanted to be on television? Or a Chinese bloke called Ron who hoped to get a car? I asked Tim Simmons, Carlton's head of Presentation and Promotion, to explain, and he said that he briefed the designers Lambie Nairn & Co to come up with something 'warm, friendly, accessible, all the usual things' and that Carl(t)on was the result. What is surely taking time is not the decision to open the plant, but the decision to abandon it. Anand ZenzLondon SW9. Lawrie Madden, Chesterfield's veteran defender, was sent off for arguing over the penalty that set Ellis rolling.As Cambridge found, while the team wins, tolerance is easy.

The Waterloo Barracks was under tight security as, inside, the world's most valuable collection of jewellery was removed from its fortified bunker 60ft below ground and transferred upstairs. A holiday in Greece did the trick for Shirley Valentine, who, with a little help from a local waiter, rediscovered her identity and fell in love again with the whole idea of living. By denouncing the IRA, and drawing the verbal fire of the IRA's political servant, Gerry Adams, Mr Mallon has put himself at the head of those in the SDLP who have had enough of Hume-Adams, and who therefore must soon have enough of Mr Hume as their leader, if he seeks to continue that partnership with Mr Adams.For my part, I hope that Mr Hume will soon step down, and that he will be replaced by Mr Mallon A Mallon-Adams partnership is simply not on the cards. 'England', ie some officials from the English Football Association, cancel a match against 'Germany', ie 11 German football players; 'Germany', ie some officials from the German football association , cancel a match against 'Wales', ie 11 Welsh players, because these matches were stupidly arranged for the Fuhrer's birthday (a well- known date) and Rudolf Hess's birthday (it must have taken some digging to unearth this fact) Of course, one could now go on digging. A 21-year-old racegoer suffered multiple injuries at Royal Ascot yesterday after being trampled by a horse in the fifth race.