SEAN ELLMAN, 20, is in the second year of a BA in combined studies at Manchester University. PARANOIA can make an octopus unsuitable for aquarium display, according to R C Anderson's report, 'Cephalopods at the Seattle Aquarium' in the 1987 International Zoo Yearbook. Half the directors of the two are also the same, Mr Byers says.Sir Robert it had never been a secret that he was chairman of both organisations. Cunningham ended up with 121 yards, two touchdowns and a smile on his face. Reds: Penalties Willie 2.BLUES: G Hastings (Watsonians, capt); D Stark (Boroughmuir), G Townsend (Gala), S Hastings (Watsonians), M Appleson (London Scottish); C Chalmers (Melrose), G Armstrong (Jed-Forest); A Sharp (Bristol), K Milne (Heriot's FP), P Wright (Boroughmuir), A Reed (Bath), D Cronin (London Scottish), D Turnbull (Hawick), D McIntosh (Pontypridd), I Morrison (London Scottish).Replacements: G Shiel for Townsend, 24; G Weir for McIntosh, 40.REDS: K Logan (Stirling County); A Stanger (Hawick), I Jardine (Stirling County), D Willie (Stewart's/Melville FP), J Kerr (Haddington); G Shiel (Melrose), A Nicol (Dundee HSFP, capt); A Watt (Glasgow High/Kelvinside), I Corcoran (Gala), P Burnell (London Scottish), C Gray (Nottingham), G Weir (Melrose), D McIvor (Edinburgh Academicals), S Reid (Boroughmuir), I Smith (Gloucester).

Thus he and Meckler set out to place Svengali's character in a historical context, as well as to bring Trilby to the foreground. Order intake in our wire rope business in the UK fell by 14 per cent in the first half, compared with the same period last year.'Sales from some of its industrial textiles operations in Australia had also fallen by 20 per cent over the same period.Although the results were helped by cost-cutting and a maiden pounds 200,000 contribution from four US acquisitions, profit margins remain wafer thin.The company has halved its interim dividend to 1.25p following similar action at the end of last year. The New Innovations Office closed down a few months ago.All that remains is a small office in Washington DC, grandly entitled Mission From Planet Earth, which sponsors symposia and lunar studies. Hill described his seat and said: 'I was employed even then by the BBC - though in a very minor capacity, of course.' At which point, Lynam slid in: 'You're still in a minor capacity, Jimmy.''Jimmy does to some extent play the role of villain of the piece. 'Mr Patten has always been strong on insult and weak on intellectual argument,' she said. The majority of teachers recognise that we have won an enormous victory (over the tests).

NELSON MANDELA called on his supporters yesterday for 'absolute patience' in the face of the most exasperating confusion within the ranks of those who, in their zeal to turn back the clock, continue to threaten war if the April elections go ahead as planned. No one would accuse the Queen of being a closet socialist, but her common sense on crime echoes the views of Tony Blair (Labour's home affairs spokesman).' John Major is expected to face questions about the Queen's remarks today in the Commons. But to do that is to scurry off for your mental teddy bear, when what is needed is realism. It was painted in Brussels in 1816 and had remained in the Belgian sitter's family until last year.It was the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which paid the top Old Master drawing price of the month - a reputed pounds 900,000 for Rubens' Portrait of the Earl of Arundel, using brown ink over red and brown chalk.