25 JANUARY 1997, page 21

City And Suburban

Self's tax assessment makes him dig his heels in he doesn't get value for money CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he Inland Revenue have no one but themselves to blame. They let loose that......

Stock Exchange

FROM Wall Street there reaches me a striking account of the scene at Andrews Base, as the President returned to Wash- ington for his inauguration. Air Force One comes in to......

Gordon Brown Cosies Up

UNTIL now the quickest way to get a rise out of an opinion pollster has been to tell him that you are happy to pay more tax in the hope of better services, naturally. As the......

Poor Little Rich Girl

IT seems jolly unfair, but Nicola Horlick may have to think twice about buying a house in the Boltons. The prices there run into seven figures, and if she does not have an......

National Champion

MY racing correspondent, Captain Thread- needle, writes: Neville Crump, who has taken his last fence, was the first and only Balliol man to have trained a Grand National winner......

Pop Goes The Bubble

CHAMPAGNE, so I was saying earlier this month, has taken over where ostriches left off. Persuasive voices urge you to invest in it, on the story that come the millennium there......