The point of this is to gain understanding of the soldiers' work. Having won last year's Third Division final after a shoot-out, York have been playing without the attritional effects of chasing automatic promotion, which Stockport narrowly missed.It is a measure of the expectations raised by Martin O'Neill at Wycombe that last season's Vauxhall Conference champions will be disappointed at having to repeat the 600-mile round trip to Carlisle with which they started League life.Michael Knighton, the Carlisle chairman, who might have been taking the acclaim at Wembley today had things worked out with Manchester United, is confident he will be watching his new club play beneath the twin towers a fortnight today. Although sounding more like Germany's World Cup striker, ethnic kinsmen actually refers to first-generation immigrants from India, Africa. On a day of beautiful sunshine, the determined bunch who left Knole Park in Sevenoaks shortly after 8:30am were grateful for the chance to cover a large part of the 65-mile ride to Dover Castle before temperatures reached their peak. The foundation wants to move from its current premises in the basement of the Economist building in St James's to the Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly. Specialist software converts electrical impulses from a sensor inside the endoscope into a 3-D image and displays this on a television screen or on a miniature eyepiece directly in front of the surgeon's eye.The idea for the future is that the operating surgeon will wear tiny cameras on either side of the head.
JEAN LECANUET became a national figure in France when he was a candidate in the Presidential elections of 1965. The Royal Gold Medal, still the world's most prestigious architectural award, is reserved for architects with more obvious gravitas and technological sophistication. The prize is an Oris watch worth pounds 200 (pictured on page 8 of today's magazine).Send your entries, to arrive by Wednesday, to: Oris Competition, Weekend, The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB.. .1 AMID much mirth from the massed Blaydon faces, Coventry's Mick Quinn squandered a spot- kick against his former employers shortly before half-time at Highfield Road last night.
Yesterday the CSO released 1993 figures showing rough diamond sales up 28 per cent at a record dollars 4.37bn ( pounds 2.94bn).De Beers said that restocking by the US jewellery trade had bolstered the market and retail sales of diamonds were still fairly soft thanks world economic conditions. .2CELTIC collected their first point of the new year without producing the kind of form to brighten up a wet and dismal Glasgow night, the chief beneficiaries of this draw being the league leaders, Rangers, who visit Aberdeen on Saturday.In keeping with the ambiance of the night a disappointingly low crowd of 19,083 braved the elements to witness an even contest between the teams many consider to be the main rivals to Rangers.Celtic's Pat McGinlay placed a header against the bar in the early stages but it was to the dash and verve of John Collins that Celtic looked for their inspiration against the midfield industry of Lee Richardson and Brian Grant. Do the current crop compare with memories of days gone by? Well, after a fashion, I suppose. He used the ever-increasing share price to snap up company after company.He bought makers of mugs, duvets, curtains and carpets - suppressing the original brand names and applying the Coloroll look and management style to each. Peter Ostwald, in his preface to the diaries, attempts an up-to-date gloss on this quaint 19th-century practice: 'The tension and excitement of this marriage almost typifies the two-income family of today.' The Schumanns were 'two gifted, productive and successful people struggling to maintain a household, achieve sexual happiness, raise children, and preserve their sanity. Conglomerate Williams Holdings fell 9p to 379p and contract caterer Compass 6p to 310p. A bid is unlikely, but he is keeping his options open.(Photograph omitted).
