I'm not convinced that consumers will be ready to fork out £200 for a mobile phone handset as there are phones out there offering similar capabilities at a much lower cost through competitive tariffs.

It will take a while to increase tourism 20 percent, but I think it can be done.

If a government chooses to implement public sector accounting standards, in almost all cases it will imply a significant increase in accounting effort, and the reason for that is quite simple: because most governments account extremely badly for all of their financial transactions. Implementing the set of standards generally, and this one in particular, would mean that governments would have to improve their accounting systems.

We have no thought of it. When kids say they have an interest in it, we will begin to look into it... . But that hasn't happened.

The books are funny, scary, sexy, romantic, bizarre and really fun, ... I couldn't put them down. I will try to remain as true to the spirit of her book as possible.

Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad.