p.m.—Prayer and Ministry. Speaker—Mr H. McCORMICK. Dunfermline. Thursday, 2.ls—Friendship Hour.

will be CLOSED on: MONDAY, October 2, 1989, and TUESDAY, October 3, 1989.

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STRUCTURAL CHANGES in the operations of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board will mean the end of Dundee's separate area status and could result in the withdrawl of a head office from the city. The Hydro Board are merging two of their four areas—Dundee and South Caledonia—into

Britain, China remain divided BRITAIN AND China are divided over arrangements for the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, officials said after talks in London yesterday. Britain is thought to have received a dusty response to its attempts to encourage China to take action to restore

THE SEASIDE town of Dl turned out in force yesterday to applaud a march of defiance by Royal Marine bandsmen who survived last week's IRA bomb blast. Thousands lined the route, many clinging to balconies draped with Union Flags, as the sound of bugles and cheering filled the str