Troubled British office provider Regus today said annual losses had widened in 2002 but added it was taking steps to secure a successful future for the business.

WHEN Grace Mugabe needed a new pair of shoes she did what any wife of a dictator would do — she borrowed an airliner from the country’s national fleet, flew to Europe, and picked up a pair of Ferragamo’s.

The British Government is setting aside the views of the victims of terrorist violence in Northern Ireland by considering ways of enabling ‘‘on-the-run’’ paramilitaries to return without facing the law, it was claimed today.