But on 16 August, the Starr report tells us, she tried to resume the relationship with the President, bringing him birthday gifts and making advances. He said "I'm trying not to do this, and I'm trying to be good."On 3 September, the White House told her that the promised job was not there. "I think I'm just going to have to walk away from it all," she confides.The Starr report itself underlines that while the President was trying to help her get a job, White House staff - including Marsha Scott, and Betty Currie, the President's secretary and a former friend - were becoming increasingly estranged, considering her a "pain in the neck".Ms Davis replies sympathetically to a message in July about her treatment at the hands of Ms Scott - who seems intent on stopping her return to the White House - telling her to try to cut her losses.The same day, Ms Lewinsky sent the President a letter accusing him of blocking her return to the White House. "Yeah!Now I can start the count again," she says.She admits, however, that her life is "not so great". She is still desperately trying to get back into the White House, but every communication is meeting with no luck.The "big creep" is wearing one of the many ties which she gave him, but it is scant consolation.

That episode prompted her New York literary agent, Lucianne Goldberg, to suggest that she should get irrefutable proof, through tape recordings. A MOTION was passed to regulate funeral services and end cosy deals between nursing homes, hospitals, crematoriums and funeral parlours. Delegates spoke of the danger of charities pressing volunteers to promote pre-paid funeral plans, in which they had direct commercial interests. David Chidgey, the party's trade and industry spokesman, said: "Proper regulation is the only way.". TV CLASSICS like The Morecambe And Wise Show, All Creatures Great And Small and Only Fools And Horses top a list of all-time television favourites, according to a viewers' survey released today. Bruce Forsyth, who was awarded an OBE earlier this year, was named the nation's top entertainer by the Best In Broadcasting poll. The survey was organised by the BBC's Radio Times magazine to celebrate its 75th anniversary with readers voting on a short-list compiled by industry experts.BBC shows dominate the poll, but ITV scores a significant victory in the Best Soap Opera category with viewers opting for Coronation Street rather than EastEnders.The Best Comedy Show title was taken by Morecambe And Wise whose shows were first aired in 1961 by ATV, but eventually transferred to the BBC in 1968. They headed back to ITV 10 years later, but the partnership was brought to an end by Eric Morecambe's death in 1984.Only Fools And Horses, which began in 1981 and has regularly dominated Christmas viewing figures, was named Best Television Sitcom.The Best TV Drama Series title went to All Creatures Great And Small, based on James Herriot's best-selling tales of a country vet practice which ran from 1978 to 1990.The children's TV success of the 1990s, Teletubbies, was beaten to the Best Pre-School Introduction To TV title by Play School, which was first broadcast in the mid-1960s and ran for 24 years.And despite the acclaim greeting recent efforts like Middlemarch and Pride And Prejudice, another vintage show took the period drama title - the 1976 dramatisation I, Claudius.Smoothie sports broadcaster Des Lynam was named Best Host With The Most while Kate Adie was named Best Radio/TV Journalist.Stars of the top shows feature in a gatefold cover for next week's edition of Radio Times which was taken by Lord Snowdon.The Queen and Prime Minister Tony Blair have sent letters of congratulation to the magazine which are reproduced among a range of tributes from stars and readers..

The end of Monica Lewinsky's affair with the President - a lingering period that extends nearly a year - is a particularly well-documented saga that is by turns tragic, bathetic and funny. The electronic mail messages that she exchanged with her friend Catherine Davis spell out every detail of her mood swings as she discusses the end of the relationship, her job prospects, shopping trips in London, Tokyo and Washington, clothes sizes,Diana, the Princess of Wales, high politics and low gossip in one apparently unstoppable narrative of her life.Ms Lewinsky is, as the Starr report and President Clinton alike remarked, a compulsive teller: and the Internet and e-mail proved the perfect medium, just as they were the chosen carriers for the Starr report to be delivered instantaneously to the world.All of these messages took place after the relationship ended, though sometimes she seems to believe that it will carry on.The last "intimate contact" that she had with the President was in March 1997, and in May, he told her that the affair had to end.But she continued to miss him; and she continued to be deeply enmeshed with the White House, searching for a job there and then elsewhere with the help of the President's friend and close adviser, the fixer-lawyer Vernon Jordan.She tried to get her life under way again after "D-Day" - Dump Day - and in June she wrote to Ms Davis about another liaison, with a "nutrition guy", with whom she "did it" at a spa resort. that there had been some communication between you and Ms Tripp and them and they were trying to set me up and trick me," he said.She has thus been further depicted as a tainted witness, one who was actively trying to shift the burden of evidence against the President. Now, she appears isolated even from Mr Starr and his investigators, the people who put her where she is today.. IT IS THE most densely documented relationship in history, every gift, thought, word, and deed spelled out in excruciating detail. She had gone straight from talking to the Starr prosecutors to advising the lawyers for Ms Jones, he noted "It now appears ...

On 12 January 1997, she contacted the Starr inquiry with her tapes and, wired up by the FBI, then met Ms Lewinsky in a Virginia hotel.She has been given a tough time. She is not regarded as a sympathetic character because her primary role was as a woman who had secretly recorded conversations with a friend.Ms Tripp was also a target for the President in his video testimony. In a 1994 book proposal, she raised suspicions about the suicide of White House aide Vince Foster. In August 1997, by then working at the Pentagon, she told Newsweek magazine she had seen a White House employee, Kathleen Willey, emerging from the Oval Office looking dishevelled and claiming the President had groped her.Mr Clinton's lawyer, Robert Bennet, said she was not a credible witness. "I'm really sorry for everything that happened," she told a grand jury in August. "And I hate Linda Tripp."Since she first emerged on the scene Ms Tripp has been a controversial figure.

Recording another person on a telephone line without their knowledge is illegal in Maryland, and Ms Tripp could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.Ms Lewinsky herself has made it clear what she thinks about her former confidant. That may be partly because of the concerns about the provenance of the tapes, or it may be because the Starr inquiry itself had extensively debriefed Ms Lewinsky about the affair.But it may reflect a broader uneasiness about Ms Tripp, who is in a very difficult position. She is already the subject of an investigation by a Maryland grand jury on wiretapping charges. The tapes were examined the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Audio Signal Analysis Unit, which found that the tapes were not consistent with the machine which she claimed had been used to record them. Because of suspicions about these tapes, they were not used in the case: only tapes which Ms Lewinsky herself authenticated were used.It was notable when the Starr report first came out that - despite all the initial fuss about Ms Tripp's evidence - it made little use of her tapes. Those tapes helped to kick off the probe of Mr Clinton's handling of his relationship with Ms Lewinsky.