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Donkey 'sacrified'00:02
Private firms may buy closed pits00:02
Money taboo fades as lawyers' fees go on trial00:02
BOOKS / 'The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David' - Colin Bailey: Rizzoli, 50 pounds00:02
Bunhill: Soccer's strip for all seasons00:02
Driving down car insurance00:02
Letter: All Greek00:02
ICI comes to a fork on the road to its future00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Slaves to their Pennsylvania stations: 'Free' - Marsha Hunt: Hamish Hamilton, 14.9900:02
Barclays goes to the phones in profit drive00:02
Cross lines over poet's honeymoon00:02
THEATRE / A summer evening in the park with George00:02
Personnel: Mother's little earner: Maternity benefits can help staff and help keep them00:02
Letter: Catalyst for the whole of London00:02
BA sued over jet that flew into Gulf war00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Deep waters of disease and danger: 'Sweet Thames' - Matthew Kneale: Sinclair-Stevenson, 14.9500:02
The Independent Oxford Economic Forecast: Saving race stalls recovery: Economic gloom to continue as individuals steer clear of the shops and build up their balance sheets00:02
Leading Article: Save their skins - let the Bosnians in00:02
Political Commentary: What might have been in Chelsea00:02
Profile: The mirage of English cricket - Graham Hick00:02
Shares: Ten tips to tempt the fighting bulls00:02
PROPERTY / Home Truths00:02
TRAVEL / St Columba's summer vocation00:02
Letter: Fellow prisoners trained to prevent jail suicides in Swansea00:02
The toughest job in town00:02
Sport in Short: Motor racing00:02
Societies on shaky ground00:02
Q&A: Cricket's literary claims . . . and some yellowing pages00:02
Take-off delayed00:02
Company seeks credit where it's due00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Looking for nowhere to be a nobody: 'Woman of the Inner Sea' and 'The Place Where Souls are Born' - Thomas Keneally: Hodder, 14.99 & 17.9900:02
City: Soft landing00:02
Bank moves in after husband moves out: A guarantee of your spouse's loan can go on hurting long after the divorce00:02
Olympic Games: Hockey: Britain made to work for win00:02
115th birthday00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Napoleon of Notting Hill: 'Jerusalem Commands' - Michael Moorcock: Cape, 15.9900:02
Slice] Lob] Smash] Kill] (It's only a friendly . . .)00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the week00:02
Letter: Novel version of Nabokov's story00:02
Favourite son bears hopes of townships: John Carlin talks to Cyril Ramaphosa, man of the people00:02
ARTS / Show People: A roving national monument: 38. Charles Wheeler00:02
War hero who found God: Andrew Brown on the RAF bomber leader who became a candidate for sainthood and died on Friday at 7400:02
The strange flight of BA 149: Why did no one prevent a British Airways flight into Kuwait after the invasion began? Andrew Marshall on a riddle that won't go away00:02
Ice-cold Margot leaves Erich in the lurch: Adrian Bridge in Berlin on the skeletons in the closet of East Germany's former First Lady00:02
Inquiry takes Smurfit to task00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Paramount move00:02
Summer of discontent: Peter Torday, Economics Correspondent, answers the questions that are troubling the country - and which are tormenting the Government00:02
BOOKS / Contemporary Poets: 8 Simon Armitage00:02
Olympic Games: Christie wins gold - and lifts the gloom00:02
Bunhill: Triumph out of a disaster00:02
City tiger in a paper jungle: Chris Blackhurst and Nick Gilbert on the struggles of Lord Stevens00:02
ICI plans buying spree next year00:02
Fishing Lines: All's not well that ends well00:02
Letter00:02
Golden days at last for the bike that Burrows built00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
76 Ivory Coast dissidents freed00:02
Notebook: Michael Jackson: beyond the pale: In seeking whiteness, the superstar is not the only one to reject the Sixties statement that Black is Beautiful00:02
Confessions of an atom spy: Forty years after Bruno Pontecorvo, a British scientist, went to work for Moscow, he tells Charles Richards in Rome why he changed sides00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
Letter00:02
Profile: Don't mention the war: Saddam lives, Quayle can't spell. Patrick Cockburn on George Bush, a President with problems00:02
FASHION / Clump, clump, clump00:02
Troops to Kuwait00:02
Economics: Fast lane to a single currency00:02
Letter: Why there's nowt so queer as folk like Peter Tatchell00:02
NHS 'openness' faces first test00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Wish you were here. . . because we could go broke without you00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Blood on carpets of Paris: The Aids trial has exposed the shadowy role of civil servants who take decisions without informing their superiors, writes Julian Nundy00:02
Letter: Unhenged . . .00:02
BOOKS / New novels in brief00:02
Olympic Games: Water Polo:00:02
Olympic Games: Athletics: Christie cuts the fastest dash of all00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter's pick of the month's best buys00:02
Walker payout queried: Maxwell investigators convinced bulk of compensation did not come from MCC00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Olympic Games: Judo: Rendle grasps bronze00:02
Olympic Games: Equestrianism: Broome proves fitness00:02
FILM / Here's the beef, where's the meat?00:02
Travellers face dole crackdown00:02
Olympic Games: Canoeing: British silver in the water00:02
Rowing: Redgrave and Pinsent supreme00:02
Five die as two cars collide00:02
Rich man's rebellion borne by the poor00:02
GARDENING / Bat-boxes? Not in my backyard: The greens want domestic plots turned into nature reserves. Helen Chappell is being driven absolutely wild00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Lloyd's association seeks say in elections00:02
Homes slump crisis alarms Tories00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Truth and dare in a town named Verity: 'Turtle Moon' - Alice Hoffman: Macmillan, 14.9900:02
ROCK / Alleluia] Jesus of Disneyland00:02
Cricket: Munton hastens collapse00:02
Business Information Service: Last week00:02
Letter00:02
Arson investigator burnt down buildings00:02
Cycle firm may sue Boardman00:02
BNL scrutiny00:02
Racing: Ruby is Nassau jewel for Cole00:02
Nothing much, just a simple plumbing job: Robert Gretton had a vasectomy 15 years ago. Here he relates the ins and out, and ups and downs, of an operation to 'reverse' it00:02
Government delay stops charity appeal00:02
Scorn from a fallen star00:02
Tears and boos as Jacko calls off the show: Michael Jackson pleaded illness. David Lister saw the dismay of 72,000 fans00:02
A leaf out of Europe's book00:02
Olympic Games: Hockey: Britain are made to work00:02
Channel 4 duped by hoaxer, claims RUC00:02
Wannabee Catwoman? Didn't we all . . .: Kimberley Leston on the cartoon character with everything: looks, power, brains, and (originally) pointy ankle boots00:02
Andersen sued over US audit00:02
Tudjman whips up election mayhem: The campaign leading up to today's vote in Croatia has focused solely on nationalist issues, writes Tony Barber in Zagreb00:02
Bunhill: McCarthy pub trials00:02
Correction: Cramped students to advertise plight00:02
Tolstoy's legacy00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Left a bit, right a bit . . . the American way: 'The Rise and Fall of the American Left' - John Patrick Diggins: Norton, 15.9500:02
Letter00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks00:02
Bunhill: Peril on track in Provence00:02
IOC 'ill-informed'00:02
The country of lost dreams: Young people in the countryside may not be rioting, but they are angry and frustrated, says Linda Grant00:02
City File: To cut or not to cut?00:02
Hurd review will curb EC power00:02
Olympic Games: Weightlifting: British lifters win no reprieve00:02
TELEVISION / Euphemism goes for gold00:02
The right tightens grip on education: John Patten is taking the 'anti-trendy' revolution in our schools even farther than his predecessor. Judith Judd and Ngaio Crequer report00:02
Fairbrother breathes life into final: Philip Nicksan reports on the dedication and sense of purpose underlining a silver-medal winning performance00:02
Letter: Wrong school for scandal00:02
The athlete's underground drugs guide00:02
Drink deep of this advice00:02
Bunhill: Elf Enterprise Oil00:02
One-stop answer to subsidence wrangles00:02
HEALTH / Common Complaints: Amenorrhoea00:02
SCIENCE / Natural home - or ring of blighted water?: Otters are being returned to our rivers. But is this merely condemning them to death in a polluted environment? Gail Vines reports00:02
Football: Ibrox late show00:02
Olympic Games: Swimming: Denison's disappointment00:02
City File: No hard times00:02
More BBC repeats00:02
Controversy as WPP pulls off rescue00:02
FOOD & DRINK / When al fresco means al Tesco: A summer picnic need not be a major production. Browse through your local supermarket, says Michael Bateman00:02
Letter00:02
Good law preserve us from a Honecker show trial00:02
The Broader Picture / Starting again, after Saddam00:02
Olympic Games: Athletics: Flying Redmond takes big step forward00:02
THEATRE / Just don't bump into the actors: Theatre de Complicite make it up as they go along, all the way to an Olivier Award. Robert Butler follows them00:02
Bars prove stars in tax-relief plan: The Business Expansion Scheme has had mixed results, writes Conal Gregory00:02
BR complaints up by a fifth00:02
Racing: Cap can boost Prescott00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A life at full belt: 'Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and his Stomach' - Giles MacDonogh: John Murray, 25 pounds00:02
Scapegoating of an athlete: Richard Williams accuses the press of humbug over the ban on Livingston00:02
Industry link is in safe hands00:02
MUSIC / Henze storms out, but his show goes on00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
ART MARKET / Year of the bargain hunter: Less for sale, lower prices, fewer big spenders - world recession took its toll this season, even if some objects fetched record-breaking sums00:02
MOTORING / Goodbye, City cowboy: The Porsche 968 is aimed at a different market. John Fordham puts it through its paces00:02
Shy Friel shows up00:02
Profile: A passion to succeed: What drove David Rowland to tackle the Lloyd's quagmire? David Bowen reports00:02
. . . and here again are the main points of the news00:02
Football: Lineker swelters in vain: England's former captain finds a warm welcome but goals hard to come by on his first taste of Japanese football in steamy Nagoya00:02
Letter00:02
Sport on television00:02
Letter00:02
Letter: Gawd speaks in strange ways - and so do we00:02
Small hotels with grand prospects: Marketing: a new breed of gentlemen innkeepers spreads the discreet charm of a town house stay00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
City File: Showing metal00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Harry Drnee00:02
The Agreeable World of Walllace Arnold: The talk of the town00:02
Letter00:02
How we met: 45. Eric and Wanda Newby00:02
BOOK REIVEW / If it's November it must be Naples: 'The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century' - Jeremy Black: Alan Sutton, 17.9900:02
ARTS / Cries & whispers00:02
Don't call me queer, thanks00:02
Italy finally loses its cool over chaos00:02
Trade deadlock00:02
Take me back to the good old daze00:02
Strategist Barnes gets the plum in his cut of the pie00:02
DANCE / History looks a little old00:02
Opinions: Do you still drink tap water?00:02
Olympic Games: Weightlifting: Suspensions of Saxton and Davies confirmed00:02
City File: MTM may see an end to its troubles00:02
Cricket: Moxon foils DeFreitas00:02
Best and worst: UK gilt & fixed interest unit trusts00:02
Prisoners of corporate culture00:02
Cricket: Tufnell's flight to help England take wing: Scyld Berry on the selectors' options for the fifth and deciding Test match starting on Thursday00:02
Bolshoi learns steps to capitalism00:02
Cricket: Gooch whets Test appetite00:02
ERM faces more strain in run-up to French poll00:02
Ill Jackson cries off00:02
'Gazundering' deepens homes slump: Buyers demanding last-minute cuts in agreed prices are the latest threat to recovery, writes Jason Bennetto00:02
Cricket: Speight adds some spice to old script00:02
Management Education: Schools go international: Institutions are reflecting business trends, writes Roger Trapp00:02
10 October, 1991: the Chancellor of the Exchequer tells the Conservative Party conference that Britain is on its way out of the recession:00:02
Letter: Why there's nowt so queer as folk like Peter Tatchell00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Right on the tip of their tongues: 'Desdemona - If You Had Only Spoken]' - Christine Bruckner, trs Eleanor Bron: Virago, 5.9900:02
Costs paint DIY buffs into a corner: Rising prices of materials mean that doing it yourself could be an expensive lesson in home economics00:02
Correction: Bunhill: Kitchen-sink drama00:02
New Age travellers face dole crackdown00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
Scrutator: Wellcome sells 'em cheap00:02
Olympic Games: Courier latest to bite the dust00:02
ARTS / Exhibitions: Metaphorically speaking: Tony Cragg picks up prosaic things and hammers out a kind of poetry. Which is more than can be said for John Bellany00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Golf: Sunesson has fillip for Faldo00:02
Football: Good omens for Leeds00:02
ARTS / Records00:02
Letter: Why there's nowt so queer as folk like Peter Tatchell00:02
Royal yachtsmen: Prince Philip, with Prince Edward at the helm, on the opening day of Cowes Week00:02
Me and My Kit: Niall Mackenzie, motorcyclist00:02
Olympic Games: A view that stretches all the way to China00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Getting their hooks into a rare species: 'My Life as a Whale' - Dyan Sheldon: Hutchinson, 13.9900:02
Fiscal stimulus a better bet than devaluation00:02
Car makers pin 'K' hope on advert orgy00:02
RADIO / Bob's your Oedipus complex00:02
City File: O&Y00:02
Letter: Wrong school for scandal00:02
City: Breaking up is no longer hard to do00:02
Motorcycling: Lawson still cooking up a storm00:02
BOOKS / Some like it not: Marilyn Monroe died 30 years ago - yet she is still an adored icon for pop stars and petrol-pump attendants. But do we really need more books about her life and death?00:02
Was Alexander a great alcoholic?00:02
Un homme d'affaires: Bernard Tapie