31.   A BR spokeswoman said experts were still working on plans to improve links between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn, Hartlepool to Newcastle and the East Coast mainline.

32.   PLANS to ranch shellfish on the Scottish seabed have been condemned as a greedy scramble for natural resources by Calum Macdonald, the Labour MP for the Western Isles.

33.   Mr Amato hurried from his office to the nearby Quirinale palace to present his plans to President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who later signed decrees approving the nominations.

34.   THE US plan to airlift supplies to Muslim communities in Bosnia should, in theory, be a straightforward operation.

35.   IRVINE Development Corporation has drawn up plans to transfer of some houses to a housing association.

36.   CIVIL service unions in Wales fear thousands of jobs are in jeopardy from Government plans to contract out services.

37.   Those proposals have generally been well received but councillors are concerned over plans to part of the grounds for housing.

38.   The threat comes from plans to contract out services to the private sector.

39.   Helping bring their compulsory competitive tendering and privatization plans to a halt up and down the country.

40.   Although it was a closed-door meeting with Bay Area executives, Ellison confirmed his plan to The Chronicle that afternoon.