AROUND 200 people were injured, including two with serious head wounds, in the melee that broke out in Vancouver on Tuesday night after the Vancouver Canucks lost the final game of the Stanley Cup play-offs 3-2 on their visit to the New York Rangers. ‘WHERE’S that family?’ called the beefy man in a National Party tracksuit and T-shirt. Andras Schiff and his sometime mentor George Malcolm lend terrific fizz and immediacy to Mozart’s bravura writing. I can’t recall what the words said – something obvious, like ‘Careless Driving Kills’, although there was a tendency to scribble ‘I voted Labour’ underneath her She made no attempt to make anyone feel good. By yesterday afternoon, the blazes encircled Pittwater on Sydney’s northern beaches, where many of Australia’s rich and famous have houses overlooking the Pacific. Instead we use fly-papers, but we have to change them every day because they fill up.’One company investigating alternatives to chemical fly-sprays is hoping to market a fly-trap, using pheromones and patterns to attract the insects on to sticky paper. Grant quotes the judgement of Lord Cockfield, a former British Commissioner: ‘Several Commissioners share Cockfield’s judgement that ‘Delors was better than average’ at disregrading his own country’s interest’.’ But he adds: ‘However, while Delors may be less nationalistic than many of his colleagues, he has more clout, which has benefited France.’The lesson of 10 years of Mr Delors would seem to be that personality matters, and that is why the race has become so heated.

Another exercise, Phantom Bugle, is to be staged next month with a bigger operation in August.. This illegal activity was condoned by senior councillors, it added.It strongly criticised John Snooks, chairman of the all-councillor markets panel, and accused him and the mayor, Jeremy Shaw, of helping Mrs Wright keep her pitch. OVER the past 30 years, Mario Vargas Llosa has written some of the best novels to come out of Latin America. Roger Gooch, 22, a builder, had pounds 40 in his pocket and was waiting to pay a fine for speeding when he was jostled by four men, who ordered him to hand over everything. ‘Troops are searching the jungles in case there are any missing persons,’ he told reporters, adding that many children were among the dead.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam guerrillas, fighting for a separate homeland in north and east Sri Lanka, were responsible for the slaughter, Col Munasinghe said, adding that troops had since taken control of the four villages.The massacre victims were found in the villages of Palliyagodella, Agbopura and Ahmedpura, a senior officer from the district said. In his message to the EC before he assumed the presidency, Mr Major said: ‘I am looking forward to. The off-duty sergeant, who is based at Sevenoaks, Kent, was given police bail and suspended.

Judging by the way Muster faded in the second set in temperatures of more than 100F, he would have done better to warm-down the Sampras way – at the backgammon board.Sampras was happy to swap a defeat at the mind game against his coach, Tim Gullikson, for a victory on court. Unichem bought three drug wholesalers in Portugal early last year. Club captains spend Friday nights on the phone desperately seeking a wicket-keeper for Sunday. We’re talking with his doctor and social worker to try to smooth the way with regards to this legal nonsense.’Even George Cornish, his local councillor, is sorry about the eviction but thinks New Age travellers might be encouraged to park where they please if Mr Parsons is not made an example of. Other humanitarian aid sources said Muslim detainees shot by the captors ‘have been dressed up in HVO army (Croatian) uniforms’, to make it look as if they had been combatants. Third, we always thought it would be worth waiting for legislation on the current boundary review. But what is this? For the Saints, two points at Bristol are a secondary consideration.His team having stabilised against London Irish after a thrashing at Bath, the Northampton coach, Glenn Ross, insists he would be satisfied merely with further progress today.

One Foot in the Algarve won out by a neck, if only because it kept faith with its dark glee at other people’s catastrophes to the very last frame.Talking about catastrophes reminds me of Camp Christmas (C 4), one of the more embarrassing programmes broadcast this year. Most farcical of all, the winning post is set a yard past the photo-finish equipment and when Petraco and Strip Cartoon fought out the first race run under floodlights their respective jockeys, Steve Williams and Nigel Smith, both thought the verdict had gone against them. He has the brittle self-deprecation of David Niven – but not the smarminess. The phrase is used by almost all Labour politicians as an aspiration, something to be striven for through better education and supply-side measures, but in the context of a macro-economics that is cautious about higher taxes and inflation. Imagine something like the Texan towns celebrated by Larry McMurtry, complete with a shut- down cinema, but instead of being beached on an endless Texan plain, Torsby is drowning in forested hills. If the West cannot take on all the troubles of the East, it must at least be able to handle those that impinge on its own direct interests or pose a challenge to basic international law or fundamental values.

Vittorio Mele, a magistrate, said: ‘I would not hesitate to define this operation as the most important ever carried out in Italy and Europe against narco-trafficking and money- laundering.’ Vincenzo Parisi, chief of the Italian police, said: ‘Never has the Mafia suffered a blow on such a scale.’ More than 160 people were arrested in the United States, including Rodrigo Polonia Gonzales Camorga, head of the foreign office of the Colombian National Bank. Canberra (Reuter) – An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – strong enough to destroy cities – rocked Indonesia and northern Australia yesterday, seismologists said. Its executives do not have a particularly inflated view of the value of the archives. At the other end of the scale, Caminus says that the market could be 40 million tons. ‘The Sixties’, at the Barbican Art Gallery, is not such an exhibition. He argued then that the shop was supposed to be there to provide the necessities for a crofting and fishing community. Chic Bates, the former Shrewsbury manager who has led Stoke to three successive First Division victories as caretaker manager, will now link up with Macari again at Parkhead.Eric Cantona was yesterday banned by Uefa from attending his own ‘trial’ on charges of alleging corruption among European referees.