1.   Policies emerge that are not merely compromises but also remain obscure on key points of implementation.

2.   But it has emerged to be the biggest surprise in a surprising season.

3.   Schools prepared to let students stay overnight if they could not get home, or if it emerged that there was no one to go home to.

4.   Sinn Fein and the Protestant Ulster Democratic Party were both briefly suspended from the talks when it emerged that their guerrilla allies were involved in some of the killings.

5.   Mr Wong, who won in the New Territories East geographical constituency, has emerged to be the biggest rival of Mrs Fan.

6.   Worse was to come for Galeone, when it emerged it had all been a dreadful mistake.

7.   Kunimatsu has already indicated he is ready to stand down if it emerges that one of his own men was his assailant.