26 JANUARY 1985, page 5

The Spectator

On Tuesday, the ownership of the Specta- tor was acquired by John Fairfax Limited of Australia, publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age. Mr Algy Cluff, the......

News And Comment

so much time convincing us that we are lucky to be offered the chance, by 1986-7, to pay over £1,000 million pounds for it, not only encourages a scintilla of doubt to arise in......

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M oustapha Saad, whose father was the first casualty of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, was seriously wounded on Monday in an explosion which wounded as many as 50 other people......

Epsom Genius

A hundred years ago this summer the rigreatest jockey of the age rode the winner of the Derby. Fred Archer's victory on Melton was a joy to punters, who had followed Archer as......