28 SEPTEMBER 1996, page 18

The Lure Of The East

Andrew Gimson goes to a region which Germans have renounced, but which entices their tourists and their imaginations East Prussia IN THE first three and half weeks of September,......

Mind Your Language

I AM never happier than with some- thing easy like a steak and kidney pud- ding (can't go wrong) singing away on the stove and a volume of Skeat's Prin- ciples of English......