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Letter: Deterrents to a career in politics in Northern Ireland00:02
Travel Update: Wine weekend00:02
Appointments00:02
Glaxo drug takes step forward00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Insolvency report sparks legal challenge00:02
Rugby League: McCracken's presence will test Trinity00:02
Libel case may mean Princess appears in court00:02
Open skies deal signed00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Business and City in Brief: BT pays up: Correction00:02
Travel: Around the world in 80 ways: In a recession it takes ingenuity to set up a working holiday. Simon Calder gets you started and hears from others who made it to the finish00:02
Police set to deal with Nazi violence00:02
Motorcycling: Rainey has advantage on Doohan00:02
Vision of Europe00:02
Cricket: De Silva shows his style00:02
Gardening Update: All about ivy00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The gaol keeper's fear of the penalty: Michel Foucault - Didier Eribon, Tr. Betsy Wing: Faber, pounds 2500:02
Letter: Unheeded demands at London Zoo00:02
Appeals: The Lily Davis Special Playgroup00:02
Travel Update: Kuoni cuts prices00:02
British splits over Maastricht widen00:02
Letter: Hidden stories behind Somalia's suffering00:02
Wills00:02
Lost between the sea and the sky: The north Norfolk coast is one of Britain's best-kept secrets, says Angela Lambert00:02
Birthdays00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Israel and Syria inch towards deal on Golan00:02
Golf: Montgomerie rides storm00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Why wasn't I told of change?00:02
Obituary: Johnnie Mortimer00:02
Travel Update: Malawi fare deal00:02
Bad news on jobs adds to Bush's woes00:02
Boxing: Images of the 100 years' war: Boxing's Queensberry Rules were introduced 100 years ago on Monday. Ken Jones reflects on a century of heroes and villainy00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Cricket: Northants to bank on their assets in attack00:02
Money Grouse: Florist made blooming angry00:02
Travel: The valleys of the golden bubble: Anthony Rose takes in the views and the vines on a tour of Sonoma and Napa in California00:02
Food and Drink: Wines of the Week00:02
Prince deal sets musical record00:02
Fixed rate on 95% loans00:02
Hoarder's pounds 125,000 collection unearthed00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Letter: 'Wise use' alternatives to culling for Africa's rhinos00:02
Priest accused00:02
Income bond rates rise00:02
EC nod for Swedish steel link00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Cricket: Millns set to put his pace to the test: Rob Steen meets the former miner who will be hoping to strike gold for Leicestershire in the NatWest Trophy final at Lord's today00:02
Country Matters: The benefits of eating Bambi00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Tax relief means more for charity00:02
Letter: Hidden stories behind Somalia's suffering00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Obituaries00:02
Blacked-up Minstrels show wins support00:02
THEATRE / Unearthing the town secrets: Paul Taylor on the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Billy Roche's new 'Wexford' play, Amphibians at the Barbican Pit00:02
Travel: Ten to a cabin and four times as high as a house: Susannah Rodgers gets to grips with the rigging and the close-quarters living on a tall ship trip across the Atlantic00:02
Football: Jensen quick to find his fluency: Joe Lovejoy on the Dane who consolidated his reputation in Sweden and is now adding bite and brio to the Arsenal midfield00:02
CONCERT / Back on the old attack: Tess Knighton reviews Tafelmusik's Prom00:02
Greenpeace awaits the PCB ship00:02
Service appointments00:02
Militant wins safe seat from Labour00:02
Rugby Union: Old guard in line to seek the unattainable: Steve Bale on today's England curtain-raiser to a new season00:02
Peking replaces finance minister00:02
Gardening Update: Gardens open00:02
The Independent Road Test: The most exciting road car Ford has ever built: The Escort Cosworth has speed and finesse. Richard Bremner cannot resist it00:02
Travel Update: Florida on a Harley00:02
Food and Drink: A new broom that respects old Soho dust: One of London's best-known pubs now has a promising new restaurant, says Emily Green00:02
Court Circular00:02
Sale Tilney cuts losses but sees no sign of upturn00:02
Coachmakers' and Coach Harness Makers' Company00:02
View from City Road: Isosceles' hard work begins00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: A romantic pseudonym on the loose in Lisbon00:02
Barbers' Company00:02
Appeals: London Conservation Area Conference00:02
Village hall's 24,000 percent rent rise stirs revolt: A modern approach to finance threatens a small rural community. Peter Dunn reports00:02
Exams chief says GCSE criticism unfounded00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Medical training review granted00:02
Off course00:02
Market Report: Footsie runs into cloudy weather after bright start00:02
Gulf boycott00:02
Property Update: Code with teeth00:02
Dubcek improves00:02
Obituary: Davinder Singh Parmar00:02
Maxwell bankruptcy trustee appointed00:02
Nitro-glycerine for my achy breaky heart00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 20: Festival Eye00:02
Obituary: John Sturges00:02
Warburg drops 362 small companies from stock list00:02
Travel Update: Peking express00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A poor thinner: Life-size - Jenefer Shute: Secker & Warburg, pounds 7.9900:02
New car sales improve but target is missed00:02
Science puts high price on the flea00:02
Maxwell's estate back on market00:02
Insurance shake-up hits policyholders: Sue Fieldman and Maria Scott on the confusion some people are suffering in the face of reorganisation00:02
Bus workers fear threat to pension rights00:02
RECORDS / Passionate pilgrim travels to glory: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson compare notes on the lates issues of of Elgar and Verdi00:02
Serbs forced back from Gorazde siege00:02
Tough trading hits Pearson00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Baseball bat killer is found guilty of murder00:02
Obituary: Vernon Lambert00:02
View from City Road: A smaller failure00:02
Sour grapes and wind00:02
Stirling inquest00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Pariah who nearly became a gentleman: Trollope - Victoria Glendinning: Hutchinson, pounds 2000:02
Enough is enough - Owen: Calls for action after shooting down of Sarajevo flight. Robert Fisk and Tony Barber report00:02
Property Update: Courting reproof00:02
Prices of homes still falling00:02
Rugby Union: Just the ticket for Burton00:02
Tennis: Capriati bows low before feat of Hy00:02
Unemployment sends shiver through Bush campaign00:02
Rugby Union: Swansea fear a bloody battle: Robert Cole on worrying signs in Wales as the league programme begins today00:02
Cricket: Emburey in line for Indian summer: Martin Johnson, Cricket Correspondent, on the selectors' options as they prepare to announce England's winter squads00:02
Travel / Departures: Sod's Law of Travel00:02
Letter: Results that don't bear examination00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A 16th-century sexual soap opera called dynasty: The six wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 2000:02
Bank examines leak allegation over government borrowing00:02
'Independent' sales00:02
Food and Drink: Crumbs from my table00:02
Property Update: London rent falls00:02
Carpenters' Company00:02
Sport in Short: Paralympic Games00:02
Bridge building00:02
Auctions: A silk sash from Syria00:02
One in three people 'at risk from air pollution'00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 20: That was the Festival that was: A Funny Old Week / Mark Little, Neighbours soap star turned comedian and performance artist, reflects on the final days00:02
Property Update: Mobility fallacy00:02
Travel Update: Cycling in Cuba00:02
Summit makes slow progress00:02
Hockey: Dutch finishing startles England: Peter Colwill reports from Edinburgh00:02
Labour attacks growth of NHS bureaucracy00:02
Pounds 100,000 raid00:02
Faith and Reason: The moral case for a holy war in Bosnia: The Muslim theologian and writer Shabbir Akhtar argues that the ill-treatment of Muslims is justification for armed intervention to secure peace in the Bosnian crisis.00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 20: Reviews: Elephant of Africa00:02
Germany becomes battleground in a gang war: A senior policeman explains to John Eisenhammer in Wiesbaden why his country has acquired the status of being a hub for organised crime in Europe00:02
Travel Update: Pakistan tour00:02
FILM / Fangs for the memories: It's gory. It's bloody. It's tacky. And it's back. Or that's the rumour . . . Kevin Jackson reports on the revenge of the Hammer Horror movie00:02
IWEM00:02
Gardening: Your Christmas show starts here: If you want to bring colour into the grey of winter, do something about it now, suggests Anna Pavord00:02
Sailing: Honey withdraws00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Crown's radio sale hits snag00:02
Arafat prays00:02
Berkertex is fashion victim of recession00:02
Blacks 'not joining identity parades'00:02
Column Eight: Building on proud tradition00:02
Ministry of Defence00:02
THEATRE / Unearthing the town secrets: Paul Taylor on the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Billy Roche's new 'Wexford' play, Amphibians at the Barbican Pit00:02
Golf: Dundas secures his final chance: Tim Glover reports from Carnoustie00:02
London square asked to pay for keeping out homeless00:02
Travel Update: Baggage change00:02
EC sunk in economic gloom00:02
Death by insurance: Premiums have risen for all cars, but especially for those wearing a GTi badge. James Ruppert reports00:02
Good start00:02
Carcasses littering a bucolic idyll00:02
Students advised to keep shopping around for places00:02
Turks kill 25 Kurdish rebels00:02
Food and Drink: Gastropod00:02
Russia battles with Balts00:02
Property / The Going Rate: That sinking feeling00:02
Passenger takes flight in mid-air00:02
Andrew may cost US insurer dollars 1bn00:02
Racing: Dancer leaves the stage to Exit: Richard Edmondson on a weekend of action abroad00:02
Blaze victims00:02
Football: Milan the superpower in league of nations: Jasper Rees looks forward to the kick-off of the Italian championship tomorrow00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 20: Reviews: Shameless Extras00:02
Football: Atkinson's Saunders hope00:02
Elf wins through on German deal00:02
Sailing: Crouch conquers time and tide: Burnham Week is celebrating its centenary and a special place in British sailing. Stuart Alexander imbibes its atmosphere00:02
Liver swap for 9lb baby00:02
View from City Road: Roles are reversed at Pearson00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A dog's view of fat cats: Walking my mistress in Deauville - Ronald Frame: Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 14.9900:02
President passes screen test00:02
The Week in Review00:02
Food and Drink: The magic that gives Marston's its Pedigree: Heath Robinson would have been proud of the 'Burton Union', a yeast cultivating system that gives a complex, fruity, dryness to Michael Jackson's beer of the month00:02
Letter: Results that don't bear examination00:02
Willis in move to avoid TUC clash00:02
Obituary: John Marsh00:02
Rugby Union: Trials ahead for players' advocate Moore: England's legally minded Grand Slam hooker is still seeking justice for his fellow rugby union luminaries. Steve Bale reports00:02
Hunt for patient00:02
Ewart fends off attempted coup00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Return of the Barm man: John Worthen admires the restoration of D H Lawrence's Sons and Lovers00:02
Obituary: D. Tecwyn Lloyd00:02
Zhivkov's high living ends in a seven-year sentence: Bulgaria's ex-dictator is the first Eastern bloc leader to be jailed, writes Tony Barber00:02
Property: New lease of life for an endangered species: Tax incentives to provide homes for rent would increase numbers of private landlords, says David Lawson00:02
Italian MP's suicide note flays political 'hypocrisy'00:02
Father wins court battle with sect00:02
Football: Pressure on Munificent Seven: Phil Shaw anticipates an absorbing weekend of Premier and Football League action00:02
Perjury charge00:02
Bank puts Harland Simon into cash crisis00:02
Letter: Royal prayers of the Indian Army00:02
Athletics: Christie's Lewis match off00:02
Compensation claims over poor roads rise00:02
Very little value in surrendering00:02
Territorial Army promotions00:02
The junk they serve up with the food: The curious clutter in theme pubs tells us what the recent past found fascinating about our earlier history, says John Windsor00:02
Travel: Taking off00:02
BOOKS / Moments when the pain begins to tell: Tom Shone meets Paul Watkins, a youthful novelist with an unflinching view of hardship00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Church appointments00:02
Baker says French 'non' would relieve tension00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 20: Reviews: Everything you wanted to know about Northern Ireland but were too terrorised to ask00:02
Teenager shot dead by troops in Belfast00:02
Obituary: The Very Rev John Wild00:02
Norwegian shuffle00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Profits halved at Perry Group00:02
Cockpit can respond to pilot's voice00:02
New European units boost Laird00:02
Letter: Deterrents to a career in politics in Northern Ireland00:02
Gardening Update: Gardening gourmets00:02
Football Diary: Woking rule the world00:02
Profile: If you vote for him, you get her: Hilary Clinton, would-be first lady00:02
Equestrianism: Thomson rules on King Samuel: Genevieve Murphy reports from Blenheim Palace00:02
Briefly00:02
Councillors shrug off criticism of 'junkets'00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Chess rest day leaves time for arguments00:02
Hurd says world aid too late for Somalia00:02
Training councils attacked as waste of money00:02
Leading Article: Mitterrand gambles with Europe00:02
Tajik MPs fail to oust president00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Gardening Update: Sponsorship loss00:02
Love's link00:02
Scottish Football: Steven on way back00:02
Staff suspended00:02
Letter: 'Wise use' alternatives to culling for Africa's rhinos00:02
Tories disown invitations to Le Pen and Mussolini00:02
MUSIC / But is it music?: John Cage, who died in August, would have been 80 years old today. Keith Potter defends the composer's eccentric philosophy00:02
Isosceles write-down wipes out profits00:02
Food and Drink: Who's been eating the baby's dinner?: Joanna Blythman hails Baby Organix, a new and modestly priced range whose fresh and vivid flavours are going down a treat with parents and children alike00:02
World's oldest religious structure unearthed in Poland00:02
New man at EC00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Travels round human oddity: The collected shorter fiction - Anthony Trollope, Ed. Julian Thompson: Robinson Publishing, pounds 2500:02
Company News in Brief00:02
From Queen's Park to a family seat at the Chateau Beaulieu: He lives in a French chateau and sells lamps for pounds 100,000. But Andre Dubreuil is no better off than in his wild London days. Jonathan Glancey visited him00:02
US gloom imperils pound rescue00:02
NSPCC rejects 'Dianagate' money00:02
Euro Disney visitor levels falling short00:02
Gardening Update: Weekend work00:02
Rugby League: Widnes try in first minute00:02
Gardening Update: Blooms in the City00:02
Owen says air crash may prove flashpoint00:02
Appeals: Babies in Prison00:02
Food and Drink / Recipes: Better ripe and red than dead: Determined to salvage this year's tomatoes from the compost heap, Emily Green harvests a selection of new and old recipes from a bumper crop00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Killer floods