Bal

In the couple therapy, there were Tom and Mary, Sami and Layla, Yanni and Skura, Nathan and Esther, Onni and Lemmikki, Balázs and Réka, Romeo and Juliet, and last but not least Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast.

Both BAL teams looked very strong on Tuesday when they routed their opponents in Cairo.

The first 15 games of the BAL season will be played at the Dakar Arena, one of Africa's newest basketball arenas.

The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.

Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did.

"Oo will do un, maister?" asked Jim. "The bal authorities," said Hunt.