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British Midland to shed staff00:02
Pedalling to Berlin and back: Yvar Mikhashoff is the marathon man of the piano. He takes a break to talk to to Mark Pappenheim00:02
Fire crews attacked in Salford violence00:02
Gardening Update: Palace of flowers00:02
Holocaust survivors protest at 'lies'00:02
Athletics: Krabbe pulls out of Barcelona Olympics00:02
Who's been living in my house?: Colin Wheeler took all the right precautions, but his student tenants took all the liberties00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Sarajevo erupts after Carrington failure00:02
Country Matters: Captured in full flight by T K00:02
Judo: Stevens finds light in Sweeney's cellar00:02
Racing: Just favoured00:02
Letter: Official statistics: Counting in the future00:02
Rally follows BM statement00:02
Departures: Shocking complaint00:02
Cancer boy goes home after operation that blinded him00:02
Departures: One at a time00:02
A decade that's too old to live, too young to die: The Fifties now exist only in the movies. So why, asks Roger Tredre, are we still dressed for the part?00:02
Upbeat: Pupil power00:02
Cricket: Yorkshire see a revival of attitude gathering pace: Derek Hodgson looks at the rebuilding of Abbeydale and the part it is set to play in a county's future plans00:02
Hello New York, I'm home . . ]: Reggie Nadelson opens her diary to reveal how real New Yorkers have a good time in their city00:02
Recommended books00:02
MUSIC / Antigone - Ensemble Leporello / Riverside, London W600:02
FNFC slides to 35m pounds loss in property crisis00:02
Obituary: Qian Sanqiang00:02
Racing: Fingers burnt as Fire Top triumphs00:02
Moveable feast00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Wills00:02
Football: BSkyB thwarted by Jackson00:02
A decade of building communal bridges: Business in the Community has changed corporate attitudes to philanthropy, Roger Trapp writes00:02
Golf: Woosnam sets up hat-trick00:02
Rugby Union: SA reject demands00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Honecker admits to a slip-up00:02
Appointments00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Toward the state of dreams: 'The Course of the Heart' - M John Harrison; Gollancz, 14.9900:02
Letter: Grunting's noble musical tradition00:02
Somali aid00:02
Departures: Flak over France00:02
Sailing: Smith weathers the final storm00:02
Tennis: Simply singing in the rain: Paul Hayward sees the conga and the teapot song performed during an official rave on Court One00:02
De Klerk's hidden concessions 'too little, too late'00:02
BP to sell stake in Banesto00:02
Obituary: James Bruce00:02
Cutlers' Company00:02
Baby dumped00:02
Walesa gets tough00:02
Letter: Alas, poor children] We suffered too00:02
DTI shake-up revives sector divisions00:02
Times present and times past: The metronome: blessing or curse? Bayan Northcott on the latest attempt to solve the tempo problems of Beethoven's Ninth00:02
Vernon gives best value in Tessas00:02
CPS studies secret tape of 'police race attack'00:02
Obituary: The Earl of Iveagh00:02
Amber Day price movements probed00:02
5m pounds award00:02
Labour left in Israel raises its head again00:02
Another nail in the coffin: Michael Cunningham on the loneliness of finishing A Home at the End of the World (Penguin pounds 5.99)00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Obituary: Richard Eurich00:02
Methodists ease lottery ban00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
RECORDS / Fatal attractions, flawed alliances: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review Puccini's Tosca and Gorecki's Symphony No 300:02
Book Review / 'Wyndham Lewis: Art and War' - Paul Edwards: Lewis Memorial Trust / Lund Humphries, 18.5000:02
Midland lifts student incentives00:02
Gardening Update: Volumes of shrubs00:02
Malaria victim00:02
Steam Engine Number 1638 still pulls trains00:02
Tennis: Seles has the strength to be the big noise00:02
Defence experts 'mystified' by attack on EFA: The European Fighter Aircraft is too sophisticated, Germany claims. But the Treasury is allegedly saying the opposite. Christopher Bellamy reports00:02
Property Update: Time to fly the coop00:02
Obituary: The Earl of Iveagh00:02
Cambodia hitch00:02
THEATRE / Fierce Love / Pomo Afro Homo - Drill Hall, London WC100:02
Men told to leave Ireland by IRA come out of hiding00:02
I'm only here for the herbaceous borders: Chris Arnot eats out at a restaurant where the setting is good enough to be part of the National Gardens Scheme00:02
Airmen ambushed00:02
Rugby Union: Nation's soul held hostage by cameras: A surfeit of television coverage is proving too much of a good thing for rugby union in New Zealand. Steve Bale reports00:02
Letter: Alas, poor children] We suffered too00:02
Replica gun call00:02
Got the barbecue on yet?00:02
Letter: Correct response to Aids information00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Belgrade turns up heat on Milosevic00:02
When hell burst through the pavement and grew: Anton Furst conjured up Batman's Gotham City. In England he was a creator of dreams. But in Hollywood his dreams ended. Simon Garfield reports00:02
Letter: Guide to why girls should join the Scouts00:02
Take a long, serious draught of sweet Liberty: Michael Jackson's beer of the month is one of America's greatest brews, now available in Britain00:02
Foreign Office's advice causes dilemma for holidaymakers00:02
Council challenge on Scilly airport00:02
But is she a 'New Yorker'?: Tina Brown prepares a culture shock. Richard B Woodward reports00:02
Unzip, pour, squeeze the quick-fix cornucopia00:02
Athletics: Backley is ready to raise the ante: Mike Rowbottom looks forward to the prospects for British athletes at tonight's Grand Prix meeting in Oslo00:02
France gets alternative view of the world: An Englishman is hosting one of French television's most respected current affairs ventures, writes Julian Nundy in Paris00:02
Beware of snags in the rent-a-room boom: A new tax incentive to let out the spare bedroom may look promising to a hard-up mortgage payer, but taking in a lodger can bring problems, warns David Lawson00:02
Girl 'appeared to be on blind date'00:02
Recipes: Stars and shrimps on the Fourth of July: Burgers are the party staples, but there is an alternative. Emily Green asks the new wave of American chefs for some lighter, fresher suggestions00:02
Property Update: Stamp duty deadline00:02
Blackpool draws diplomatic veil over cravings of the superstars: David Lister reports on the extravagant expectations of US performers billed to appear at Britain's biggest jazz festival00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Off the rails at the front line00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A little touch of Harold on the left: 'Harold Wilson' - Austen Morgan: Pluto Press, 25 pounds00:02
From My Window: It's a bit crumbly, but I like it: Adrian Dunbar tells Nicholas Roe about his Crouch End view00:02
The circus is back, and this time it means business: There's no clowning around when you have a Big Top on the road, reports Simon Pincombe00:02
King's College, London00:02
Gardening Update: Weekend work00:02
RECIPE / Peas to please00:02
Cricket: First-class Stemp improves his delivery: Michael Austin talks to Worcestershire's promising, though enigmatic, left-arm spinner00:02
Court Circular00:02
Wilson sails from Hong Kong00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Offer open on cheque books00:02
Off the Shelf: Why did he go back?: Isabelle Anscombe on Richard Hillary's acclaimed war book, The Last Enemy00:02
Shooting sparks new LA tension00:02
Women 'key to working future'00:02
Tennis: Wimbledon Diary: Forgot to remember Forget00:02
Fatih and Reason: The cold within the heart of man: The fourth article in our series on what it would mean to try to be a just rich man in the modern world, inspired by the parable of Lazarus and Dives, is by Kenneth Leech00:02
Property Update: All that empty space00:02
A working-class hero or Labour myth?: One hundred years ago today, a 'man in a cloth cap' was elected to Parliament - Labour's first MP. Nicholas Timmins reflects on his legacy00:02
The Going Rate / Sinking by the canal00:02
Letter: Alas, poor children] We suffered too00:02
Tennis: Old and new combine to lay on a feast: Wimbledon is having a vintage year. Ian Tasker looks at the unique atmosphere of the world's greatest tennis tournament00:02
Basketball: Barcelona awaits the Magic show00:02
Police refuse to discuss street clashes with gangs00:02
Signed up00:02
Abbey locks in car loans00:02
Letter: It wasn't me, my Lord, it was poor judgement00:02
Gardening Update: Your last chance00:02
California dreaming: In four pages for the Fourth of July, we travel the USA from coast to coast. Here Phil Reeves explains why the Californians' nightmares hardly intrude on their dreams00:02
New rate fixed at Nationwide00:02
Death crash00:02
Equestrianism: Germans stay one jump ahead00:02
NatWest tunes in to the young00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Continental and Pirelli clash00:02
Norway rejects ban on whaling00:02
Sunseekers need decent cover: Conal Gregory looks at some holiday insurance offers00:02
Concern over pizza delivery crashes00:02
Forte's Gardner sale falls through00:02
Rugby League: 'They came up trumps'00:02
Profile: Hello, good morning and welcome back: David Frost, returning to the BBC00:02
THEATRE / A few words to the wise: An Ideal Husband - Royal Exchange00:02
Patience of stranded drivers wears thin: Tempers flare and riot police called in as only tourists escape blockades that have brought French motorways to a standstill00:02
Beyond the road that Jack built: Deborah Levy goes to San Francisco to look between the lines of Jack Kerouac's poetry00:02
Cycling: Tour de France: LeMond's overriding ambition: Robin Nicholl in San Sebastian talks with the single-minded American who is hoping the voyage of discovery he starts today will realise his final aim of a fourth Tour victory00:02
Territorial Army00:02
Obituary: Mickey Hays00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Spanish bomb00:02
Rowing: Trident's hopes put into fresh perspective00:02
Task force to oversee care in community00:02
Fuller result down despite higher sales00:02
Subsidence victims present united front: Maria Scott detects a new spirit among afflicted by sinking feeling00:02
Irving faces Russian ban: Moscow archive alleges 'dirty play' to gain access to Goebbels war diaries: Second historian to take charge of editing00:02
Investment trust uses endowment policies00:02
Wrong sport00:02
Two-year offer from C&G00:02
Play up and play the word game: Jamie McKendrick on two rich and racy new collections of verse from Simon Armitage00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Hopes fade for interest rate cut00:02
British Gas faces row with regulator on pipelines00:02
Banda faces new trial of strength00:02
Obituary: Juris Podnieks00:02
Nothing left to catch and no other fish to fry: The river Esk, once famous for its salmon, is the centre of an expensive rescue plan, says Andrew Morgan00:02
Willis faces pressure to resign TUC leadership00:02
Cycling: Tour de France: Four riders to follow00:02
Birthdays00:02
Upbeat: Northern airs00:02
Czechoslovak MPs vote to unseat Havel00:02
Labour disarray over Maastricht00:02
Big three come over to our side: The crisis in the US car industry has forced makers to look to overseas markets, including Britain. And that means right-hand drive, says Richard Feast00:02
L&G move puts 18bn pounds funds under management00:02
Blaze deaths inquiry points to gap in fire escape rules00:02
Travel Update: Expo for everyone00:02
BOOK REVIEW / What the grocer saw: 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' - John Carey: Faber, 14.9900:02
Men facing IRA threat quit hiding00:02
Economies of Africa will be ravaged by Aids: In places population is declining, and the victims belong to economically vital groups, writes Richard Dowden, Africa Editor00:02
Auctions: Masters of artful games00:02
Upbeat: Portsmouth Polytechnic anthem00:02
Tennis: Nastase returns and revives old memories: Ian Tasker talks to a legendary rebel who has shed an old image and now espouses traditional values00:02
Travel Update: Turkey in your sites00:02
Letter: Subsidiarity in the EC will not preserve national sovereignty00:02
For pounds read dollars, and have a nice stay: Strong sterling and airline wars make America the ultimate travel bargain, says Frank Barrett00:02
British Academy00:02
MPs call for publishing of BCCI report00:02
Letter: Subsidiarity in the EC will not preserve national sovereignty00:02
Travel Update: Summer for singles00:02
Cupboard death00:02
Giving a cheque wider currency00:02
French drivers promise to step up blockade00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Letter: Subsidiarity in the EC will not preserve national sovereignty00:02
Gastropod00:02
THEATRE / The man who missed his connection: Paul Taylor reviews Greg Doran's production of Derek Walcott's splendid retelling of The Odyssey00:02
Cricket: Kent's Carl Hooper is one of only 10 wickets to fall00:02
Tea for two as Miyazawa sets out to woo EC00:02
Cricket: Reward for Ward00:02
Yeltsin 'insult' angers Japanese: Moscow accuses Tokyo of meanness and threatens to stall negotiations on Pacific islands seized in the Second World War00:02
Democracy step00:02
OPERA / Tricks of the trade: Nick Kimberley reviews Stephen Oliver's Mario and the Magician, the opening production in the Almeida Opera festival season00:02
Border town devastated by 'ethnic purge': Marcus Tanner, in Sarajevo, witnessed the stark transformation of a bustling community wrought by the action of Serbian military forces in Bosnia00:02
An alphabet for beginners: W00:02
Yard sent file on porn complaint00:02
A crew-cut for the wistaria: Pruning is for your benefit, not the plant's. Be firm, advises Anna Pavord00:02
Pensioner hurt00:02
View from Tokyo: Brokers take to conspiracy theory00:02
Banishing ghosts of the Kuriles quarrel: Terry McCarthy, on the island of Kunashiri, found that the folklore which has fuelled suspicion between Japanese and Russian is finally being overcome00:02
Ministerial team to press case for Games00:02
Travel Update: Africa snapped up00:02
Letter: European poser00:02
Market Report: M&S shares shrug off a downgrading00:02
TELEVISION / Nothing to declare00:02
Leading Article: That dreaded S-word00:02
Brits are hits with hicks in the sticks: Americans on holiday are a hoot; and so are the British, according to Aaron Sugarman and Virginia O'Brien00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Things that go crash: 'Black Diamond' - Rachel Ingalls: Faber, 14.9900:02
School for debtors planned00:02
Yours with acrimony and a lot of lacrimony: An emotional set of correspondence is going on sale which reveals a glimpse of life with Marlene Dietrich. John Windsor reports00:02
Image problem00:02
Racing: Spirit takes flight00:02
Holidaymakers head for the side roads00:02
A champagne tent being built outside the gates of Hampton Court Palace, south-west London, yesterday, in preparation for the International Flower Show which opens on Wednesday00:02
Rugby League: Meninga breaks Britain's resistance: Australians recover their full power to shackle the resilient Lions and ensure another series victory in the third and deciding Test00:02
Money Grouse: When a rate cut means a larger mortgage00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell on track to keep on trucking00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes backs reversal of backlash trend00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Set adrift by his dream girl: 'Siren Song' - Gordon Honeycombe; Hutchinson, 16.9900:02
Upbeat: Floating songs00:02
NZ eases restrictions on US navy00:02
Travel Update: City breaks00:02
Appeals00:02
Cricket: England draw comfort from grim outlook00:02
Travel Update: Dublin deal00:02
Cabinet at odds on European fighter00:02
King Stan, exiled from his estates00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Travel Update: Games by the book00:02
Racing: Kooyonga to follow the path of Peebles00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
From ban to boom in 60 years: Anthony Rose ignores the temperence-mongers for his best of the US00:02
Property Update: After the fall00:02
Weak store sales bring new fears00:02
Obituary: Juris Podnieks00:02
Football: Leeds buy old boy Sellars00:02
'Hot' car burns innocent driver: Ian Hunter recounts a cautionary tale for those venturing into the second-hand car market00:02
Column Eight: No taste for deals post lunch00:02
Lions alert