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Paul Purdom, Lloyds TSB Area Director for Business Banking in the North-East and Cumbria said: "We are really trying to understand the pressures and chall- enges business people face.

The chall enges he outlined, mainly how does one have a truly liberal society and also a pervasive social democracy, remain with us and this introduction should become the second best thing to reading Tocqueville himself.

Mr Padgham chall- enges his former sidekick to give all his ill-gotten gains to charity if his real motivation to write the book was "to tell the truth about Diana".

"I've used the net for around five years," says Ellen, whose adventures are followed by thousands of fans at www.ellen macarthur.com and at www.king fisherchall enges.com

Edited by Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, and Bj[degrees]rn Enge Bertelsen

Claudia Zie (Jill) and Yemi Cole (Barb) initiated the idea and hired experienced film and commercial director Kate Enge to present her first stage play.