-Gareth Evans Sudbury Suffolk

-Gareth Evans, Sudbury, Suffolk.Have any cricketers played for England despite never playing county cricket? And have any footballers played for England despite not playing in the League?I was surprised to see F W Milligan in Kevin Preston’s list of England Test players who had never played county cricket (30 May). The advisers were asked to recommend suitable investments for a man who had been made redundant with a pounds 25,000 pay-off. But something disturbing has been happening recently: the Sun has ceased to be the voice of middle Essex, and become obsessed with obscure sexual practices.
Last Monday it exposed ‘the sex shame sweeping Britain. Shares traded yesterday at an 8p premium to the 100p offer price.Masthead Insurance Underwriting, sponsored by Hambros Bank, is seeking up to pounds 41.4m after expenses. Net provisions against bad debts have been reduced from pounds 46.9m to pounds 19.2m.

French students held up trains and blocked motorways in spite of a government climbdown on a plan to cut the pay of young workers, AFP reports from Paris. Under pressure from Congress, the six largest companies decided this week to release a list of some 700 additives they place in cigarettes. But if I have something more to say I may choose another format It may be a book, it may be a film. Before Yasser Arafat arrived in Gaza, rumours circulated that he would ‘bring someone with him’ who would stun the world. It can now appeal to the European Court of Justice.The association said the original commission order applied only to intra-community trade and not to the domestic operation of the NBA in the United Kingdom.Peter Phelan, a consultant for the association, said it would take legal action if Pentos used parallel trading.Tim Godfrey, director of the Booksellers’ Association, said Pentos was the only major bookseller that did not welcome the NBA. UDA described him as a ’staunch republican’.5 FEBRUARY: Five Catholics killed in attack on Belfast betting shop.12 MARCH: Catholic man shot dead at his home in north Belfast.2 APRIL: Sinn Fein election worker shot dead in Kilrea, Co Londonderry.15 APRIL: Senior UDA man shot dead in east Belfast.

One difference is that for six months after the end of the Gulf war, the US administration and its various parts did not devise a carefully thought out policy towards Iraq.Since March 1991 helicopter gunships have been used to suppress rebellions in both the north and the south. If one guesses instinctively that this is a housing-association development rather than one for a private-sector developer, this is largely because the housing is superior to the average speculative development.Pollard Thomas & Edwards is part of what is now a tradition of rehousing people left homeless by the decline and fall – literally in some cases – of the tower block Yet this young tradition is already under threat. In addition, the CICB minimum award will increase from pounds 1,000 to pounds 1,500, excluding at least 14,000 from the scheme.The paper comes against the background of rocketing costs – pounds 42m in 1986-87 and an estimated pounds 150m in 1994-85 – but Lord Carlisle of Bucklow, the board chairman, has warned Mr Jack that a tariff system that failed to take proper account of lost wages, expectation of life, and differing levels of pain, suffering, or mental stress would be ‘unfair in principle and in important categories of cases unworkable in practice’.Ministers are keen to introduce a speedier system – but at a cost to many individual claimants. The estimated number of people who would benefit from brain surgery is about 20,000, but only 150 operations are carried out each year.Dr Shorvon said that patients could be referred by their GPs direct to the unit, which has received a pounds 1.2m donation from the pharmaceutical company, Glaxo.. ‘For once he might have the grace to acknowledge what we have done, rather than carp, criticise, and do so inaccurately.’No to more troops would certainly have the support of Nicholas Budgen, Tory MP for Wolverhampton SW, who warned against sliding into ‘a British Vietnam’.Arms for Iraq and the Scott inquiry were raised by Tony Wright, Labour MP for Cannock and Burntwood, who noted Mr Major’s emphasis on the importance of personal responsibility and asked if he welcomed the statement by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke that he would resign if criticised by Lord Justice Scott’s report.