JOHN PART moved smoothly into the semi-finals of the Embassy World Championship at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, after a straight-sets win over England’s Steve McCollum yesterday. SOME books, Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, for example, one feels obliged to read once, at any rate, because it is there Others one returns to at intervals as if by habit Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is habit-forming. You end up with the tail wagging the dog.’It can also be difficult to monitor the contracts. A hippo sculpted by Clare Biggar from a Mini arriving at the Mall Galleries, central London, for the Society of Wildlife Artists’ exhibition opening on Thursday

(Photograph omitted). It is seen to have put the boot in when the victim was on the ground.On the other hand, the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, whose members are involved, has successfully come across as moderate, concerned and reasonable. The couple in the adjacent bedroom sheepishly admitted they had slept through the entire proceedings, unaware that he was rummaging through their belongings three feet away from them.Clearly it was not a professional job. However, the cost of operating as a company – accountancy fees and the payment of 10.4 per cent employer’s rate National Insurance contributions – brought the saving down to about pounds 900 – broadly in line with the Ernst & Young figure.

Vampires are back in vogue, filling bookshelves and packing cinemas. Added extras include calves being born noisily in the middle of the night and Mr Moore’s meandering explorations into self-analysis.In the visitor’s book – strangely limited to addresses only – there is an entry marked ‘Sue from Putney’ which reads ‘Lies, lies, lies, but wonderful.’ It does not take us long to find out what she means. VINCENT MOSCATO, the former French international who was suspended after being sent off against England last February for rough play, waited six months to resume his career but he has been banned again after only two games of his comeback with Begles-Bordeaux. I cannot say that these ten days bought peace, but they bought a chance.’During the talks Israel offered to discuss withdrawal from part of the Golan Heights, seized during the 1967 war, but Syria continued to insist on total withdrawal.Mr Peres’ enthusiasm appears to be somewhat at odds with the actual outcome of the Israeli-Syrian negotiations so far, and was not matched by the Syrian delegation who conceded only that there had been a change in tone.However, the Foreign Minister’s comments may prove significant as they appear to indicate Israel’s real desire to make progress on the Golan question. Fiji .8

Wales. As it is, we can slide in among all that stuff the odd paragraph about news or important issues.

To help to exorcise her ghosts, she has had drastic plastic surgery, including a nose job, face-lift, liposuction, breast reduction and a tummy tuck. Whether this is parody or pastiche is anyone’s guess – Murakami, who in another life translates Chandler, Vonnegut and John Irving into Japanese, plays his slippery philosophical cards close to his chest. But as well as wanting to make money, 3i believes managers are motivated by the chance to become their own boss.Mr Richards estimated that the main backers, including 3i, had ’sufficient capital to last for two to three years’. In a blaze of embarrassing publicity, all passengers had to be taken off, and the ship spent two months in dry dock. People are often put off them because they think they may end up studying a hotchpotch Not so. Sir: A postcard from our daughter, who is in Tonga, shows some delightful photographs of the King of Tonga on a bicycle and in a skiff.