... of London his great friend was the first King Charles who was beheaded on a scaffold in Whitehall on January 30 1649 after speaking his last word “Remember” A much later resident at the Manor House was Gertrude Lev-erton Harris about 60 years ago she c ...

... ended as we might have feared before it began It was undoubtedly the Year of Recovery The cloud of fiscal gloom (in econo-speak) which had been Katherine for months was blown away by a breeze of optimism Our undignified exit from the ERM was suddenly ...

... the second division Mr Keith Clarke general manager of Forward Travel the Midlands' largest independent retail group was speaking after the close of a travel fair at Birmingham International Airport He urged small British tour companies to sell their ...

... manager Graham Taylor Armfleld and Francis talked for more than an hour in the Wednesday chiefs office at Hillsborough “I am speaking to a lot of different managers and players and having general discussions about tiie whole structure of the international ...

... time of the Industrial Revolution Manufacturing not an optional add-on extra It is vital part of our economy” -- John Major speaking in Scotland on January 29 The Government listens too much to the pollsters the party managers There is too much short-termism ...

... wounded five men in a crowded Cape Town pub In telephone calls to the South African Press Association two men purporting to speak for separate black underground groups claimed responsibility for the attack on the Heidelberg pub The agency said it was unable ...

... sums to do or give up a job was made made by the Bishop of Birmingham the Rt Rev Mark Santer “When elections come politicians speak of building a better Britain but there seems very little ethical content in the “better” said the bishop “The paradise offered ...

... deputy chairman Mr Fisher was appointed only in April 1993 at the request of Mr TY Wong the Hong Kong property man whose family speaks for a controlling shareholding in Embassy Four weeks ago Mr Roger Holbeche Embassy’s founder and former chairman resigned ...

... outspoken public attacks on the French to the alarm of some mandarins in Whitehall One senior official urged the prime minister to speak to Mr Heath about his attacks He wrote in a memorandum: “What do such speeches achieve? The French say they make Anglo-French ...

... into the World Cup in the right frame of mind after all it’s every player’s dream to compete on the biggest stage of all “I speak to the US manager once every couple of weeks and some of the American players ring me up to tell me what’s going on in the ...

... Foreign Minister Mr Amr Moussa said talks might resume in the Red Sea resort of Taba today or tomorrow But an Israeli official speaking anonymously said Mr Rabin told the cabinet Israel would wait for the PLO to modify its positions on issues that nave delayed ...

... the return Aer Lin-gus flight to Birmingham after England’s demise in Dublin the intercom came on: “This is your captain speaking: Seventeen-three!” From Spain we have a contender in the ‘Bizarre quote of the year’ section: A Spanish linesman was outraged ...