It said: "The quotations programs I wrote are completely wrong and need to be changed. They could cost the company a lot of money, maybe millions of pounds, possibly even making it insolvent." There was also a letter of resignation to his boss, Michael Edwards.Mr Edwards told the inquest: "It was a minor mistake, insignificant, and I don't feel it was anything Christopher should feel responsible for anyway, it was not a program he wrote." He added that Christopher had approached him a few days earlier, "obviously upset", and tried to resign. "I was quite concerned because Christopher was very conscientious."Mr Long telephoned the police, who checked his son's house but could not get in. Mr Long drove to Basingstoke from his home in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

He was found hanged from the banisters of his home in Basingstoke, Hampshire, by his father, Alan Long. He left a note saying he feared he would bankrupt the company. The inquest in Basingstoke was told Christopher imagined he had been at fault because he was suffering from stress brought on by examination pressure. His father told the hearing that his son had worked at Sunlife of Canada for 10 years after taking a degree in pure mathematics at Lancaster University.Mr Long said: "He was earning pounds 30,000, but he had very heavy deadlines imposed on him by work." He had received a call on 15 November from his son's office in Basingstoke saying that Christopher had not turned up. AN ACTUARY killed himself in the mistaken belief that he had lost his insurance company millions of pounds, an inquest was told yesterday. Christopher Long, 30, believed he had made serious errors in a computer program he was working on for his employer, Sunlife of Canada. Rumours abound that new material is in the offing, but this homecoming defied cynicism..

Even now, pretenders like Noel Gallagher and Steve Craddock of Ocean Colour Scene aren't fit to tie his shoelaces. His guitar crackles with electricity, notably on the funky "Magic Bus" and a superb "Who Are You?", scratching a 20-year-old itch. "Five Fifteen" is so powerful that the band doesn't seem to know where to take it, the random, ragged element welcome in an age when musicians no longer know how to surprise each other in front of an audience.A conclusive "My Generation", where Townshend demolishes a guitar, proves that these prosperous stars haven't forgotten how they used to feel. But, by the first instrumental break of the opener, "I Can't Explain", he's wind-milling frantically and Daltrey is swinging the mike through the air.Sterling support comes from John Bundrick, an organist and long-time collaborator, while the rejuvenating effect of a young drummer - Zak Starkey, Ringo's son - can't be underestimated But the real star is Townshend. The trio may be in their fifties, but they don't sound like it.

Daltrey, dapper as ever, is in fine voice and Entwistle looks old and grumpy, as opposed to young and grumpy Townshend hides his baldness under a skull cap. Their brilliant, art-school yobbishness, caught forever in the definitive "rockumentary" The Kids Are Alright, all smouldering glances, self-analysis and smashing equipment, still serves as a template for parent-unfriendly musicians.The chance to see survivors Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend is irresistible to many - tickets are being touted at pounds 200. always managed self-mythology better than their rivals.As well as a hard-earned reputation as the world's best live act (and loudest - Pete Townshend and John Entwistle are said to be as deaf as retired miners), they always had more ideas than their peers Though they weren't always good ones. Pinball never did displace football as the national sport, no one knows what possessed Entwistle to sport a luminous skeleton suit at the Isle of Wight Festival, and you don't hear too many "rock operas" these days But plenty has stood the test of time. The Who Shepherd's Bush Empire, london"IT WAS a rough area that - Shepherd's Bush. Kids of 16 walking round with machine guns in violin cases." So Roger Daltrey described his manor in 1967, when the nation associated the west-London suburb with Steptoe and Son. Now they contain only 75 per cent reused materials.The charity says that the new paper content is made from trees grown in "sustainably managed" forests.