24 JUNE 1989, page 48

Cinema

Dead end in Russia Hilary Mantel I n the town where Little Vera lives, the people are stacked up in apartment blocks, unrelenting cubes that brutalise the eye; behind them,......

Gardens

Allotment rules OK Ursula Buchan I am in danger of becoming an allotment bore. How can I avoid it? For one thing, I live in a part of the country where allot- ments are falling......