21.   Besieged and beleagued town in desperate need of food and medical supplies.

22.   But while the famine there has held centre stage, Oxfam say many other African nations are in desperate need of help.

23.   So there is a desperate need for some silverware.

24.   AN anonymous businessman has donated a van to Kirkby Community Action team after the Echo reported its desperate need for transport.

25.   No child in this country is in such desperate need of help as those in Somalia.

26.   And for a team in desperate need of immediate help, Nelson has done nothing this off-season.

27.   And, they say, Pope John Paul II comes to the United States at a time when the country is in desperate need of moral guidance.

28.   Archie is in desperate need of medical help.

29.   As it happened, Dale Lang, the owner of Lang Communications, was in desperate need of a buyer.

30.   As education minister the past three years, Pilip also offers no new blood to a government in desperate need of change, investors and analysts said.