TOSHIBA REGRETS LINK WITH U.K. ACCESS ISSUE Toshiba Corp <TSBA.T> said it regrets its plan to enter the U.K. Business facsimile and telephone market may be caught up in a diplomatic row over the position of Cable and Wireless Plc's <CAWL.L> in the Japanese market. Britain is considering how to retaliate against Japan's attempt to prevent Cable and Wireless from taking a major position in a Japanese international telecommunications venture. "As a matter of timing it is regrettable that this has been linked with the question of market access in Japan," a Toshiba spokesman told Reuters. <Toshiba Information Systems (U.K.) Ltd>, a Toshiba subsidiary, said yesterday it planned to enter the U.K. Market under the Toshiba own brand name and had applied for government approval to do so. Toshiba has supplied equipment to U.K. Manufacturers for sale under their brand names since last year. The Toshiba spokesman said the sale of such equipment was not comparable to Cable and Wireless' efforts to take a stake in the new Japanese telecommunications firm. "They are matters of a different category," he said.