31.   Other important trading statements from Shell, Royal Insurance and British Gas caused few surprises and left little or no change in the share prices.

32.   A statement from the club confirmed they would be staying in Edinburgh.

33.   A statement from Buckingham Palace said the Queen was content to drop legal proceedings following a front-page offer in the newspaper.

34.   Statements from ten soldiers, who cannot be compelled to appear, were read to the jury.

35.   It prompted an immediate statement from the Foreign Office trying again to calm the increasingly hostile relations between the two countries.

36.   The statement from Fife Health Board said that it will decide its policy on providing IVF treatment in the next few months.

37.   Liverpool coroner Roy Barter heard a police statement from van driver Brian Antrobus that he pulled out to overtake and was unable to avoid the crash.

38.   Also missing was a sworn statement from the woman denying that Clinton made unwanted sexual advances.

39.   Along with the statement from the Holy War coalition, Al-Hayat said it received statements from the Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Shrines.

40.   Also helping pharmaceutical stocks were optimistic statements from experts at a U.K. conference on AIDS that new combinations of drugs could make HIV a chronic rather than deadly disease.