  For the first time the experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL have presented
preliminary results for fermion-pair production in e+e- collisions on the full
data set above the Z pole. A combined analysis of the Bhabha scattering
measurements is performed to search for effects of contact interactions. In the
case of two axial-vector (AA) currents the best fit to the data is 2.6 standard
deviations away from the Standard Model expectation, corresponding to an energy
scale $\Lambda = 10.3^{+2.8}_{-1.6}$ TeV for contact interactions. For other
models no statistically significant deviations are observed, and the data are
used to set lower limits at 95 % confidence level on the contact interaction
scales ranging from 8.2 to 21.3 TeV, depending on the helicity structure.
