A magnum of Chateau Lafite 1870 is estimated pounds 3,000- pounds 4,000.On Tuesday, Christie's South Kensington has objects of virtu and miniatures (10.30am) with plenty in the pounds 100- pounds 200 price range; at 2pm there is small silver and plate, mostly estimated in the low hundreds.Clocks and watches appear at Phillips Tuesday (1.30pm), Bonhams Tuesday (11am) and Sotheby's Thursday (10.30am).MEN OF LETTERSAn English literature and history sale at Sotheby's Monday (2.30pm) and Tuesday (2pm) has 40 letters from the Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I ( pounds 400,000- pounds 450,000), Ian Fleming's working notebook ( pounds 25,000- pounds 30,000) and John Osborne's manuscript of Look Back in Anger ( pounds 30,000- pounds 40,000).COUNTRYWIDEGirvan, Ayrshire: Furniture, paintings, tapestries, artworks of Penkill Castle, on the premises, Tuesday (10.30am). In Hong Kong, one of the Peking- controlled newspapers is running a feature series on the sunset years of the British empire.. But, Ms Twist suggests, they, too, will come to recognise that 'running training internally unlocks a lot of know-how and experience'. A handle-less sauce boat sat on a plate covered by a paper doily The boat was filled with lettuce On top of the lettuce sat half an avocado pear. Costs must be pared back, hence the siting of all bar a handful of matches in one half of the country.In defiance of the Keith Fletcher slant on regional talent, nine of the England squad were culled from Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Midlands, so it seems a trifle odd, from a commercial perspective alone, that that half should be the home counties. The system survived.Although leader of the council for only five years, T Dan Smith was emblematic of an era that celebrated and yet discredited modernism and municipalism.

It should look good in the Ashes-winning photos.The music box, used mainly for playing CDs by Australian band, Cold Chisel, has been carried by Allan Border (for smashing the stumps against Middlesex at Lord's), Mark Taylor and David Boon (both for temperamentals on the golf course).. The meeting decided to relax the controls.At the same time a letter to Customs from the former Secretary of State for Trade, Nicholas Ridley, attempting to limit an investigation into Matrix Churchill, was copied to him. If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. 'We discussed the players who went to the West Indies and the A team, who were in South Africa, and basically we seem to agree.' Illingworth said he wanted to give Atherton the chance to use his cricketing brain with 'a properly balanced side' 'I am not going to say to Mike, 'This is what we are doing'. FIVE by-elections will take place on 9 June, the date of the Euro polls, the biggest clutch of such contests on one day for eight years, writes Patricia Wynn Davies. Sent to the court shortly before 6.30pm on Saturday, four and a half hours behind schedule, and with sombre clouds merely pausing before resuming the drenching of Stade Roland Garros, they were back in the locker-room 17 minutes later, play suspended overnight.Pierce, leading 2-1, had a break point to sleep on. But your favourable comment on the paper does not raise the crucial issue of whether what Britain wishes her role to be is in the real interests of the country.

A SOLDIER who went on the run five years ago after making allegations of bullying against the Royal Green Jackets was yesterday under close arrest at an Army base. The precise amount awarded depends on the employee's age and length of service.The second tier of the award, the compensatory element, is limited to pounds 10,000, the actual amount depending on what the tribunal thinks is 'just and equitable'. Even so, it unexpectedly took on just that dimension when it was shown as part of a 'First Films' package in America: 'Suddenly you found yourself in New York and Los Angeles talking to Jim Jarmusch's producer, Hal Hartley's producer, Paul Schrader's producer and they're all saying 'Let's make movies. Dick Spring, the Irish foreign minister, has ridiculed this charge, itself mindless. With the Commons returning from its Easter break on Wednesday, ministers face a number of make-or-break votes on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill in the next month. But the President of the Board of Trade raised the stakes yesterday when he said that John Major would be finished if he dropped the treaty, and it would be 'crazy' to throw away the advantage of the Social Chapter opt-out.Mr Major's critics have already begun a whispering campaign against him, threatening a destabilising leadership contest when the new session of Parliament opens in November.But Mr Heseltine told BBC radio's World this Weekend that if the Prime Minister deferred to the demands of the rebels and dumped the treaty, 'the effect upon the credibility of the man would be profound. For every company or portfolio manager that wants to get rid of a risk, there's someone else who wants to take it on, or that's the theory anyway.

I am aware that this may be personal, but I tend to think that, together with much of society, many within the prison service do not have a high opinion of counselling. Two of the fundamental conditions of a counselling relationship are a warm, non-judgemental acceptance of the client by the counsellor, and an empathic understanding of him and his feelings. Priests formed a sort of trades union and angrily demanded the right to work and to marry. The boys seem happy enough, despite the fact that their mother has threatened to have them put into a foster home. The Leasehold Valuation Tribunal has received valid applications for a hearing from one group of tenants for collective enfranchisement, and three individuals seeking lease extensions. Last Friday at Crystal Palace she lowered Tatyana Kazankina's 10-year-old European 3,000m record to 8:21.64. Whereas acid rain harms lakes and streams, this alkaline rain damages the soil, Kapitza says.Yet even though there will be a great need for skilled scientists to help tackle the mess caused by decades of decay, Kasimov's department is experiencing a decline in the numbers applying for undergraduate courses for the first time since the war.There are fewer applicants from non-Russian republics, but he says there is also a feeling that science can no longer provide a good living.