22 JULY 2000, page 29

Turned Off, Tuned Out

TO the big boys in the television league, the three-cornered scrap now awaited in Britain — Granada, Carlton and United must look like a scramble for promotion from the Third......

Luck Of The Draw

I'M in the final. Just look at this exciting envelope, with its shiny sticker. '000,000', it says. 'Double money draw. Remove silver security label immediately. Final round......

Tesco Weighs In

THE manager of Tesco's store in Sunder- land is living dangerously. The police around there are red-hot. Only the other day they swooped on a market trader who was weighing out......

Stock Pile

THE euro is supposed to be converging with the drachma and I have been to Greece to check on it. Something, I noted, will have to be done about Deka. This is the State Portfolio......

City And Suburban

An ecological disaster at the water-hole the elephants have taken over CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he elephants have taken over the hole. This is an ecological disaster, and Sir Leo......

Bottle That Curse

THE curse of the Confederation of British Industry has fallen upon Rentokil and Sir Clive Thompson must wish he could bottle it. For poisoning rats, which is Rentokil's core......