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Sales skyrocketed over the Christmas holidays enabling motorists to drive through red lights with impunity and avoid traffic tickets costing to hundreds

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Sales skyrocketed over the Christmas holidays, enabling motorists to drive through red lights with impunity and avoid traffic tickets costing to hundreds of dollars.* Ever wary of consumer lawsuits, more and more US manufacturers are resorting to warning labels on their products to absolve themselves from any blame resulting from misuse. He calls the resulting blaze "the bonfire of the vanities."* CALIFORNIAN MOTORISTS anxious to avoid speeding fines have been investing in a new product which hides number plates from the spying lenses of closed-circuit cameras. But before Jobs can bring in the demolition crew, he must wait a year to see if he can find a historically minded soul willing to dismantle the house and cart it away.Easier said than done. Removal experts estimate that dismantling, labelling each architectural element, moving the house and putting it back together again will cost at least a million pounds."It's a toughie," says Howard Kelly of Kelly Brothers House Movers. It sounds too good to be true. A 17,000-sq ft, 35-roomed Spanish colonial-style mansion belonging to computer wizard Steve Jobs is available free to anyone who wants it It sounds too good to be true.

He says he had never heard of the architect, George Washington Smith, revered in California for creating the architectural look of Santa Barbara, and always intended to demolish it.Now his local council in Woodside, a horsey, rural enclave just outside San Francisco, has given him permission to tear it down. US - weekly jobless claims; leading indicator (Dec); Philadelphia Fed Survey (Jan).FRIDAY: UK - retail sales (Dec); public finances (Dec); building society commitments (Dec) France - consumer spending (Dec) US - Michigan consumer sentiment survey (Jan).. US - inflation (Dec); housing starts (Dec); Federal Reserve Beige Book.THURSDAY: UK - BCC Quarterly Economic Survey (Q4); Eurozone - ECB Monthly Bulletin; inflation (Dec). US - public holiday: Martin Luther King Day.TOMORROW: UK - inflation (Dec) Eurozone - industrial production (Nov).

US - Empire State Manufacturing Survey (Jan); portfolio investment flows (Nov).WEDNESDAY: UK - unemployment (Dec); average earnings (Nov) Japan - monetary policy decision. Trading statements - Wolverhampton & Dudley.Economics Diary TODAY: Eurozone - finance ministers meet. Sales at its tenanted pubs were 4.2 per cent ahead of those seen in the previous year and shareholders in W&D will be hoping this trend has improved over Christmas.Results: Full year - None expected Interims - QXL Ricardo. Then the pubs group unveiled a 0.3 per cent drop in like-for-like sales. Arbuthnot is also unconvinced by the takeover speculation which has boosted the share price since. It argues that investors should use the current strength of JD Wetherspoon's stock price as a selling opportunity.Results: Full year - None Interims - Inter Link Foods.

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