15 OCTOBER 1983, page 18

In The City

What can we afford? Jock Bruce-Gardyne I t looks as if the annual battle about public spending may be as tense as it was in 1980 (when the Treasury bit the dust, in-......

One Hundred Years Ago

The Standard publishes a letter from a correspondent at Colombo, stating that on September 5th, 'We witnessed a very extraordinary phenomenon on Sunday, about five p.m., when we......