20 MAY 1989, page 13

Rebuilding Babel

Michael Trend rues Britain's refusal to join a European language scheme THE European Communities Lingua Programme has everything that should recommend it to the most ardent......

One Hundred Years Ago

LONDON was half-shocked and half- amused on Monday by a police raid on two gambling-clubs, the Field and the Ade1phi. Moved, it is said, by the prayers of the ladies of two......