There were other scores in the festival - by Jeffrey Lewis and Gavin Bryars - that failed because they

There were other scores in the festival - by Jeffrey Lewis and Gavin Bryars - that failed because they had neither.But Bryars at least is a colourful figure who has emerged into a contemplative present from a crazily experimental past. The saga began when the children, aged from eight to 15, were taken from their homes on 27 February last year. When they are, as on 'Will But You Won't', the development is textural rather than structural: the song still doesn't extend beyond the riff, it just gains weight and momentum as it progresses.Coming so hard on the heels of Ronnie Wood's latest solo album, Main Offender offers the odd sensation of the Stones disintegrating into constituent parts, like some barmy deconstructionist exercise illustrating the mysterious transparency of the sum of their separate parts: there's the slide guitar, here's the peerless rhythm guitars. Politicians - especially on the right - are more leery of these topics though, and throughout the campaign they have done as much as possible to paper over their own deep differences of opinion.French voters could not care less about infighting between political parties - provided the Socialists are driven from office - and the election campaign has been a somnolent affair. The British capital was cool compared with Paris, where the men's final of the French Open was played in temperatures topping 100F (38C) in a match lasting nearly four hours (Report, page 32). At Old Trafford, many empty seats signalled disappointment at England's Test match performance against Australia (Report, page 32).Lack of wind near Eastbourne meant cancellation of the final day's North Sea Cup windsurfing.But Nigel Mansell kept his cool to win the Milwaukee round of the IndyCar World Series (Page 31).Forecast, page 2Photograph: Andrew Campbell(Photograph omitted). It made a splendid impression, and the orchestra encompassed its autumn gales, summer hazes and wintery funeral procession to powerful effect.The orchestra brought an invigorating flair and virtuosity to A Colour Symphony by Arthur Bliss. THE LONDON-based Iraqi opposition, and the Western governments that support it, received a great boost to morale yesterday with the defection of two senior diplomats who spoke out against what they called President Saddam Hussein's regime of 'terror and misery'.

The ESA payments are foremost among a plethora of government schemes which pay farmers to keep open footpaths, plant trees and conserve habitats. Thus Margaret Thatcher was allowed to get away with calling Neil Kinnock 'a crypto-Communist'. In almost every economy, short-term interest rates either fell sharply or (as in the US) failed to rise in the way anticipated by the money markets. Most obvious here are attacks on people by dangerous dogs: more than 250,000 dog bites are registered each year. Radio 5 was checked out when it started and found to be a bit of a mess.

Richard Jobson equalised when he met Rick Holden's corner with a powerful header, Darren Beckford nosed them in front when the rookie defender, Alan McCarthy, allowed him a second stab at Neil Pointon's through-pass, then Sean McCarthy nodded the third after Beckford's header had come off a post.Oldham's fourth involved both McCarthys, the forward's shot rebounding out of Jan Stejskal's grasp into the stride of the defender, who propelled it into his own net.Goals: Ferdinand (34) 0-1; Jobson (44) 1-1; Beckford (46) 2-1; S McCarthy (52) 3-1; A McCarthy (og 89) 4-1.Oldham Athletic (4-3-3): Hallworth; Makin, Jobson, Redmond, Pointon; Brennan, Milligan, Holden; S McCarthy, Beckford, Sharp (Palmer, 80). Until this century, most highly educated and influential Britons spoke French. John Daly put a pre-tournament court hearing out of his mind briefly to take a two-shot lead after the second round at the Atlanta Classic. Don O'Riordan, Dublin-born, has played over 500 Football League games but has never been capped. Quite apart from the strongest moral and child welfare objections, fathers (unlike mothers) cannot hope to 'succeed' unless they have a viable life in some overseas country.

Kafka's own phrase suits them: 'a lake doesn't flow into anything, you know.'Reading these final essays is like being driven into countless culs-de-sac in the hope of reaching a motorway; and yet one learns from this frustration, from the unconnectedness of Josipovici's enterprise. The FT-SE 100 index gave up most of Monday's gains, closing 12.7 points off at 2,407.5.Trading volume was more respectable at 467 million, although still adrift of the 500 million line at which the market makes money.TI Group shed 31p to 283p on disappointing news on the likely profit performance of the recently acquired Dowty Group. They highlight the growth in sales of classical recordings (up 43 per cent between 1989 and 1990), the opera boom and the popularity of Nigel Kennedy, the violinist. They boil down to disputes over a few million tons of cereals and beef.But for real tedium, concentrated and intense, you cannot beat hanging around at the meetings themselves. Concern about some aspects of the trials has been expressed by a number of human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and the Belfast-based Committee on the Administration of Justice.Mr McNamara's action will lend further momentum to a campaign which has received increasing attention over the past year. There have already been ominous animal-type noises aplenty on the soundtrack - rattlesnakes, feral chuckling - before the whip-poor- will starts its song, cue for someone to mention the superstition that these liquid syllables herald a death.

A fortnight is obviously a long time in accountancy.The share register of Caverdale, the motor dealer, is a name droppers' paradise. He sought advice from his nearest neighbour, Sir Herbert Maxwell of Monreith, 16 miles away, and from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. Those can be made traumatic by a bad experience - or by just not having had any experience and therefore giving them the scope to catastrophise.'Whatever the cause, the standard treatment is gradually exposing the person to the feared object - first a drawing of a pool of blood, or a syringe without a needle, then a realistic photograph, then encouraging the patient to inject an orange, then watching someone give blood The final hurdle is to have a blood sample taken. It is the record investment trust launch.More than 300,000 people had registered for the 3i share offer with retail brokers by the end of last week.