The one-year warranty has expired but the authority said the main contractor has agreed to carry out most of the repairs over the next three months.

BBC: Twin Sails Bridge 'has 100 defects'

Although nobody yet talks of it publicly, one popular revised deadline is 2007, the year that Mr Bush's fast-track negotiating authority expires.

ECONOMIST: World trade

Most economists are forecasting similar modest growth for this year, though no less an authority than Alan Greenspan placed the odds of a recession in the next year at one-in-three.

FORBES: Big Airlines Are Back

But an investigation by BBC Wales has discovered that representatives from Dyfed-Powys Police and the then police authority met on more than one occasion with representatives of TRJ last year to try and renegotiate the terms of the deal.

BBC: South West Wales

Ignoring the judge's written order and verbal reminder, the four reporters revealed his name anyway, arguing that since he had given one "on-the-record" interview last year (coincidentally with Ms. Shephard), the judge had no authority to protect his identity.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy