29 JULY 1989, page 25

Vive La Reine

I HOPE, even more than usual, that the Royal Family is keeping well — because the family undertakers, J. H. Kenyon, have been taken over, and, more shocking still, have fallen......

Bad Medicine

THE patent medicine men are out with a cure for expensive mortgages. Why, they say, suffer the pain of borrowing pounds? We can arrange you a mortgage in a nice sensible......

City And Suburban

National Westminster Bank is purged in a refiner's fire CHRISTOPHER FILDES I knew it was a mistake for the National Westminster Bank to set its new television commercial to......

A Fine Cat

THE Treasury looks at the reshuffle and can congratulate itself on a good war. It is not just that the Chancellor himself has put on another fine show of indispensability. His......