Among other things the still Chancellor cleared up the confusion emanating from No10 and Peter Mandelson (the latter not deliberately) over the CSR: there may well be one before polling day, and it is likely that at bare minimum there will be a pared down form of future spending review that will give an idea of what some departments may expect after polling day. I also asked him about the 50p tax rate, and was cheered to hear him say that if he could he would reverse it, as he had always thought two rates, with a top 40p rate, was sufficient. "Extraordinary circumstances" made it necessary to increase the burden on the top one per cent of earners, he said. "If I can reduce tax in the future I would like to be able to do that." How often have you heard Gordon Brown say that?Staff at Grangemouth already had begun shutting down the plant as a precautionary safety measure ahead of the strike.

The battle was still being fought and Richardson wanted to stay in no mans land in order to cause the enemy problems.

On Wednesday, Chavez's body will be transferred to a military academy where it will lie in state until his official funeral on Friday. Seven days of mourning will also be observed.

Speaking of the "re-imagined" modern novels, she added: "I think she would have applauded all of these."The study found that 42% of workers were motivated by how well they got on with their colleagues, 22% by how were they were treated by their managers and 22% by how much control they had over their work.

Azarenka was playing for the first time since losing the Carlsbad final to Samantha Stosur, then withdrawing injured from Toronto.