We did a lot of rehearsing with just a few floor lamps, candles and fire-brands to try and get a chiaroscuro feeling to it.'Mulgrew reckons one secret of success is to choose a good yarn. In language strikingly similar to the old British argument against expansion of the permanent membership of the UN Security Council, one said: 'We don't want to rush it Nato has been an astonishing success. In the last two years we've had two or three major rows - about deeply personal things.She makes me laugh, her hats make me laugh, the whole of her wardrobe makes me laugh, she has some outrageous creations. 'He may believe it, but he would never have said it when he was in the Cabinet It was mischievous. But the film could go on for ever, because its like life - lifting the roof off the Weathers' home and seeing Stormy decimate his furniture with a skillsaw then lifting off another roof, the Kaisers', or the Shepherds', and seeing some different behaviour.We've taken liberties with Carver's work: characters have crossed over from one story to another; they connect by various linking devices; names have been changed.

There are two chapters (out of nine) which are as brilliant as anything Naipaul has written, and another two which are no disgrace to the excellence of the standards he has usually set for himself, but the rest is frustratingly poor - frustratingly because A Way in the World is a grand and good project which possibly no writer other than Naipaul has the mind, the eye and the skill to tackle. The Bosnian government says Mr Abdic's rebellion could not have sustained itself without Serbian assistance.Mr Abdic broke with the Sarajevo-based government of President Alija Izetbegovic last September, accusing it of arrogance and intransigence. However, the headline misrepresents the conclusions at which we arrived. In turn, players place a ball of their own colour into any of the indentations. At the Barbican Centre last Saturday, Michael Roll joined forces with Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players to give a Beethoven programme that consistently modified our perceptions of some of the repertory's most familiar music. Television footage of him beside his father's coffin has shown a timid, pale-faced man, who seems to have little of the charisma that made Kim Il Sung his people's Great Leader..

The show can be saved, but this is in spite of some serious tactical errors in the soap's launch, for which he shares blame.Eldorado was rushed into BBC 1's 7pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday slots to replace the flagging Wogan, which had twice fallen to below three million viewers in May. Philippe Seguin, a leading opponent of Maastricht, said the 'no' campaigners 'are not hostile to the construction of Europe, but are hostile towards a technocratic Europe which casts doubt on some areas of French sovereignty'.History has been drafted into the campaign. After US officials in Luanda were unable to meet with Mr Savimbi, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Herman Cohen, sent him a fax on Saturday night urging him to respect the election results and to take any complaints about the vote to Angola's National Electoral Council.Latest results yesterday showed that with nearly two-thirds of the vote counted, Mr dos Santos's lead was 53 to 37 per cent, as late returns from rural areas continued to bolster Mr Savimbi's count. The right-wing Hindu party, the largest opposition group in parliament, moved a no-confidence motion against Mr Rao. The existence of a second secret report, one of the most damning indictments of public sector management, has not been admitted.The suppressed report highlights Sir Robin's role, and the extent of Department of Health misgivings.

Ali won the heavyweight championship three times, a record, and those triumphs are celebrated in gold; the other gloves are coloured red. Things became very difficult; he would say: 'Oh, no, not tonight, not again. Its last accounts, which showed a pounds 27.3m loss and a pounds 12.2m net deficit, were qualified because of the 'uncertainty' over its finances. A Lloyds spokeswoman said: 'We have busted a gut to help this company.' The crunch came when Bimec asked for another pounds 2m, on top of the nearly pounds 10m already outstanding.But Arthur Andersen, the accountants, advised Lloyds that 'there was absolutely no certainty that the money would ever be repaid'.Roy Barber, the company doctor who took over from Sam Smith as chairman in September 1992, had attempted to save the company by savage cutbacks including the sale of its aero-engineering and air-conditioning businesses.But problems with large contracts and a pounds 1.7m shortfall in disposal proceeds forced the company to call in the receivers.David Duggins and John Talbot, of Arthur Andersen, are seeking buyers for the remaining businesses, which employ about 300 people.Mr Barber, who has offered to assist the receivers, said he expected about 80 employees, including head office staff, to be made redundant.Although Lloyds has some security it will only recover about two- thirds of the pounds 10m it is owed. The solicitors hope to retrieve more than pounds 500,000 on behalf of the investors.