1.   With lanes closed and hungry sheep on the Ridgeway, prosperous west Berkshire looked disease-free but quietly miserable last weekend.

2.   The division between the prosperous west and the impoverished east remains.

3.   Today, like most of the former East Germany, it continues to lag behind the more prosperous west of Germany on most economic indicators.

4.   In Germany, unemployment in the former East German regions is up to five times higher than in the prosperous west.

5.   It is a divide marked by economic and social disparity, with the east feeling snubbed by the more prosperous west.

6.   The region also is suffering from the migration of the young and better educated to the more prosperous west.

7.   The Croats now control the prosperous west of the city while the Moslems control the poorer and heavily shelled east.