Overall, employers forecast that they will take 16 per cent more university leavers this year and that median starting salaries will be pounds 14,000, compared with pounds 13,500 in 1993. Salaries for recently recruited graduates are increasing by more than 10 per cent, compared with rises for the rest of the workforce of about 2 per cent.A report by Incomes Data Services shows that degree holders who had been in employment for three years received salaries a third higher than the starting pay of the 1993 intake.The latest management pay review published by IDS shows that most starting salaries were in the pounds 12,500-pounds 14,496, with pay generally lower in the finance sector than in manufacturing.The highest payer in the survey of 100 employers was Baring Brothers, the merchant banker, which offers pounds 18,250 to university leavers. In Brussels, strikers - swaddled against the bitter cold and carrying red flags - marched up one of the city's main streets, blocking traffic. The top six MPs whose names were picked out of the ballot are guaranteed a day's debate on their choice of Bills. The taste of Chinese millionaires is almost exclusively focused on Chinese art.The sales that Sotheby's and Christie's had mounted were purposely geared to please local taste: both firms held sales of antique Chinese ceramics and works of art, of jade carvings, of jade jewellery, and of 20th-century Chinese brush paintings.

And until now, as long as it was under 50cc, you did not have to insure it or display a number plate. She is also a member of a Home Office-supported Road Deaths Working Party, which includes representatives from the police and road safety organisations, and is drawing up a code of practice to improve the way police deal with the families of road accident victims.Mrs Mangat was to suffer further indignities. But he made only passing reference to 'the horrible complicity of the (French) regime installed under the occupation'. His mother and father had flown into Gatwick airport from Italy, and his brother Christopher from New York, to complete the family celebration. The biggest single item is a recession-induced pounds 10bn increase in the social security bill, which is hardly something to boast about.The other problem is that the Government wants to convey an impression of fiscal rectitude to two audiences: to foreigners, so that they go on lending us the money; and to the dissidents on the right of the party, so they go on voting for it.This means that the Government can say nothing about how much it is spending and how that is helping Britain's recovery along Instead it has to voice its concern about public finances.

Very soon he was invited to establish a large school and company at Essen- Werden, in which he now incorporated classical ballet in the curriculum. The talks were fixed yesterday as City industrialists and business leaders condemned the Government's refusal to lift the threat of closure hanging over Bart's in its plans to rationalise the capital's hospital services. The ruling body of the Corporation of London, the authority that runs the City, warned yesterday that irreparable damage could be inflicted on its business and financial institutions if its hospital was closed. However, it appears far more likely to him that the money is a backhander.He explains: 'The specialist could have signed the form for free. The sight of confused Maxwell pensioners fearing a life of penury has moved even the greatest supporters of the system to question whether it can continue.It is not just the victims of the Maxwell fraud who feel let down. Last year it was postulated that all would be well if you could get him away from Widnes; now he is going to be fine because he is back home. It was delivered in characteristically blunt terms, well known to the French, Germans and the Foreign Office.Denouncing John Major's Maastricht deal as a 'politician's treaty in defiance of public opinion', she is reported to have said it was not the right time to pursue it.