Kolya Jan Sverak (12)

The Snowdrop Campaign, which started life on an antiquated decorator's trestle table in the numb days that followed the Dunblane massacre, and acted as a potent voice for the anti-gun lobby led by the victims' parents, was finally wound up as the nation went to the polls yesterday.

LAPTOP COMPUTERS are all very well, but what I really want is a laptop life, compact and portable. It came to me suddenly, in the courthouse. I was sitting there waiting to be asked difficult questions on behalf of a dreadful, horrible man, when there was little "Bing!" from inside my rip-stop nylon laptop-computer bag.

What do Sue Pollard, Lord Attenborough, Peter Bottomley, Compo, Betty Boothroyd, Sean Connery, Alan Bennett, Seamus Heaney, Michael Palin, and, it is rumoured, Maureen Lipman and Alan Rickman have in common? They could, in a small way, help decide the fate of the Co-op, writes Chris Hughes.

The Snowdrop campaign to ban handguns, set up after the Dunblane massacre, may be disbanded amid internal acrimony.

`Language Roulette', Bush Theatre, London, W12 (0181-743 3388) from Wed to 26 Apr

Anti-gun lobbyists, who are calling on all voters to consider the banning of handguns as an election issue, yesterday launched a cinema advertisement to highlight their campaign.

A Scottish accent is the nation's favourite, according to a poll conducted by Cellnet, the mobile telephone network. Eighteen per cent of people found a Scots accent the most appealing. But when asked whose telephone voice was the most trustworthy, nearly half voted for the traditional English counties accent.

Actor DAVID JASON talks with James Rampton

Dressed to Kill by Jay McInerney and others, Flammarion, pounds 29.95 Fourth Estate,; Hugo Barnacle on a style warrior

In celebrating his 27th birthday on Thursday, it can only be assumed that Ernie Els decided on an early night. It is the only explanation for what happened yesterday morning when Els found himself six down against Steve Stricker after their first circuit of the West Course.

Whereas the Solheim Cup finished early to accommodate a football match on the schedule of Sky TV, the Loch Lomond World Invitational was roaming in the gloamin' here last night because somebody at the BBC thought the Grand Prix in Portugal was finishing an hour earlier than it actually did. As a result, the Beeb, which is covering this epoch-making tournament, sent the leaders out at a time when most people were having an after-lunch snooze.

Sir: You state ("Jewels in our heritage or a bridge too far", 29 August) that Pulteney Bridge in Bath remains the only inhabited bridge in England. This is incorrect.

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