They are working with Cairntech, a small Fife-based company, to develop products for the security industry. IT STARTED when the police realised they would not be able to understand their French counterparts if there was an emergency in the Channel tunnel. Western names] Migrants to the West found themselves living in a dramatic and exaggerated landscape that must have seemed more like the country described in Pilgrim's Progress (or the Book of Revelations) than anywhere in the conventional realistic world. Professor Michael Sterling, vice-chancellor of Brunel University in London and chairman of the Higher Education Statistics Agency, has blamed shortages of pupils taking science A-levels. Jane Harries wasn't so keen: though they were warm, the vest was an odd shape and the leggings 'a bit droopy'.* BRITISH HOME STORES - 100 per cent cotton thermal vest with straps pounds 7.99, long johns pounds 9.99None of the testers was enthu siastic about these thermals. PETER SCOTT was the most unlikely member of the racing community let alone of the racing press.

At the back of their house, the Yi family has an orchard of young apple trees which should bear fruit for the first time next year, potentially doubling the family's income.But Ninglang will still suffer from being a poor county, in a poor prefecture, in one of China's poorer provinces.(Photograph omitted). The leading Gloucestershire bowler was not, for once, the estimable Courtney Walsh, who fell two short of his fifth five-wicket haul in seven innings. In fact, his best by three shots.His fifth place in Catalonia last month was Hunter's best ever, although the consequent euphoria seemed to get to him. Not a word is wasted, and the only disappointment is that it is all over too quickly. Students are looking for more security now.' We talk women and sexuality. Either that or you bring them up to be little existentialists, though that's probably pretty damaging.

'It puts sanctions on those who do not behave honourably, to use an old-fashioned word.'He would not like to move to the Scottish system where home buyers become absolutely committed at a much earlier stage in the process than in England and Wales.The lock-out agreement is almost a half-way house that imposes sanctions on buyers and sellers who do not proceed in a fair and speedy manner.The form leaves it up to buyers and sellers to agree a suitable exclusive period. THE CURRENT European Car of the Year is the British-built Nissan Micra, and the runner-up for the prestigious 1993 Award was the Fiat Cinquecento; this month the 40 jurors are submitting their votes for the 1994 Car of the Year - and the Fiat Punto and the Vauxhall Corsa are two of the leading contenders. This comes into immediate conflict with the established custom over the centuries whereby a lord-lieutenant is concerned only with events within his or her county. What is more, choosing 12 out of some 48 will inevitably involve some sort of selection process. There has been a breakthrough on regional funding, with agreement on the creation of a new category of subsidy recipients (those farming in the frozen north), but there has been little progress on the divisive issues of fish, agricultural subsidies and budgetary responsibility.