Warwickshire have several supporters’ coaches booked for the Sunday League match against Kent, a competition they have no realistic chance of winning, but none for the Championship fixture.The Championship, though, remains the most prestigious, and indeed the most lucrative with a cheque for pounds 55,000 on offer to the winners. Warwickshire, in fact, have a win average to compare with Surrey’s in 1955, when they won 23 of their 28 games.That was in the days when one-day cricket did not clutter up the domestic calendar, although it is the coloured pyjama stuff which now draws the crowds. Whichever one of these two sides prevails, it will have been won by only five counties – Essex, Middlesex, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire – in the past 17 seasons.This competition, largely in the wake of four consecutive Ashes drubbings by Australia, has earned the slightly undeserved reputation as a grand prix for old bangers, but while there might well be a few Ladas and Trabants down towards the lower end of the table, there is no doubt that one of the successes of four-day cricket has been to sort out the best teams.Three-day cricket still has its supporters, some of whom might have forgotten that the height of tactical input largely involved haggling over declarations in the second-evening sponsored tent, but Warwickshire and Middlesex have largely won their matches without the need to barter.Whichever of these two sides comes through to win, it will be with the heaviest ratio of victories since four day cricket reduced the programme to 17 matches. The comparison with Orange County and Hammersmith and Fulham, which did just that, is unfounded.Circle 33 has reached a pre-eminent position with a successful track record going back 28 years It currently provides nearly 10,000 homes. It is yet to make any decision.
It will consider a proposal to make a rule change that itself will comply with Housing Corporation guidance.
If this is agreed, it would then be put to the whole membership of Circle 33 Housing Trust, and finally would require the approval of the Housing Corporation. This process would take time and a decision would be made only after careful deliberation.If we concluded this process, we would be able to use derivatives to minimise the risk on our borrowings This would not enable us to trade in derivatives. From Mr Donald Hoodless
Sir: Your article “Homes charity plans derivatives venture” (11 September) is misleading. Circle 33’s committee of management discussed for the first time last week the possibility of using derivatives to reinforce its risk management strategy.
They are delighted that Labour took the battle to the Liberals and secured a spectacular second place. They also believe that it is about time that the Liberal tactics of telling voters what they think they want to hear were exposed to the heat of fierce campaigning.
The Littleborough and Saddleworth campaign demonstrated once again that there are no “no-go” areas for Labour and that we are undoubtedly a national party.Yours sincerely,John F SpellarMP for Warley West (Lab)House of CommonsLondon, SW1. Spellar, MP
Sir: Chris Davies, the Liberal Democrat MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth, claims that “Labour activists feel very unhappy indeed about the nature of the campaign they fought” (report, 8 September) Not the ones I meet. From Mr John F.
For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie – incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set.
