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Column Eight: A night to remember the days00:02
Horse racing owners expect harder going: The 'sport of kings' is in a deeply pessimistic frame of mind. Andy Gliniecki reports00:02
Football Diary: Another brawl game00:02
Couple 'used charity cash to pay their mortgage'00:02
SA's former spies return as friends00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Bertrand Russell cost me a bundle00:02
Letter: Criminal Justice Act: probation, magistrates' fines, children's testimony00:02
Letter: Keeping the benefits of hard money00:02
Food and Drink: The rewards of getting pickled: Recipe00:02
Travel: The perfect picture finally comes to life: Frank Barrett paid a second visit to Honfleur. This time he was bowled over by its expected charm00:02
Wills00:02
Jobs picture worsens00:02
Business and City in brief00:02
'Times' jobs go00:02
Canary Wharf chiefs axed00:02
Obituary: Edward P. Henderson00:02
TV pardon plea00:02
British Trident programme unaffected by test ban00:02
Obituary: Norbert Burger00:02
Body discovered00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Garden: Landscaping is in, vegetables are out: At horticulture college as the new term starts, Anna Pavord learns what the students want00:02
Obituary: Adel Rootstein00:02
Travel: Swiss cuckoos00:02
Companies in Brief00:02
THEATRE / Notices : Separation - Theatre Museum00:02
Letter: Keeping the benefits of hard money00:02
Food and Drink: I've never met a leek that disagreed with me00:02
Rugby Union: Springboks find taste for touring00:02
Golf: O'Connor floats to the top00:02
Football: Arsenal out to deny Mellor fun and games: Trevor Haylett looks forward to the weekend's matches00:02
Hockey: Spain's changes to Typhoo Tea Cup team00:02
BOOKS / Dons and other dead men: James Woodall meets a controversial Spanish novelist, whose tale of Oxford life is published next week00:02
Winter Olympics: Norwegian camp to improve skiers00:02
Briefly: Sporting offer for ski families00:02
Travel Departures: Day-trip to Prague00:02
Letter: Happy coincidence00:02
Nuclear base consigned to history00:02
Appointments00:02
Kurdish rebels kill own kind for revenge00:02
Football Team News00:02
Racing: Rambo's for sequel00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Icing on the cake or pie in the sky?: Harvey 'Shop-till-you-drop' Nichols has a surprise in store, finding room at the top for an elegant restaurant and food hall. Jonathan Glancey reports00:02
Terror unabated in Serb camps00:02
Unwanted gunfight in 'the last best place': David Usborne in Butte, Montana, on two congressmen fighting for selection as the state's representative00:02
Women are 'main reason men turn to Christianity'00:02
Football: Rangers await the winners of Uefa tribunal00:02
Briefly: The card for plain sailing00:02
Travel Departures: Roundabout route00:02
Passports official in Triad threats case is jailed00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: Decisions of the day00:02
Golden oldies cause a karaoke kerfuffle00:02
Smith asks Major for details of row with Germany00:02
Garden Update: The late, great show00:02
Food and Drink: Wines of the Week00:02
Garden Update: Starring seeds00:02
Rugby League: Schofield moves Leeds up a gear00:02
Tennis: Fightback thwarts Americans00:02
OPERA / Notices : Don Giovanni - ENO, London Coliseum00:02
The Week in Review00:02
The US Presidential Elections: Perot gambles on 'town hall' revival00:02
Garden Update: Blooming elsewhere00:02
Country Matters: How the elephant makers packed its trunk00:02
Scottish Football: Celtic's mood is buoyant00:02
Water worms00:02
Ombudsman told to be nicer to firms00:02
Pounds 325,000 damages00:02
Travel Departures: Oz special00:02
Hotel-builder demolishes government00:02
County drops 213 shares00:02
Letter: Sad farewell00:02
Defending sterling may have cost dollars 30bn00:02
OPERA / Arranged marriage: A new opera house opens soon - just for a fortnight. Nick Kimberley reports on a shotgun Blood Wedding00:02
Music / Double Play: Go Western, young man: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson on Puccini and Julie00:02
Letter: False alarms over grants and census figures00:02
Service appointments00:02
Leading Article: The smack of firm government00:02
Golf / Solheim Cup: Europe shed fears to take the initiative: Davies and Nicholas lead from the front and leave Americans trailing: Tim Glover reports from Edinburgh00:02
MPLA leads in Angolan poll00:02
Garage body00:02
Police who freed rapist criticised by judge00:02
Motor Racing: Capelli hastens departure00:02
Death sentence man 'denied legal expertise'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / How did Emma first kiss Nelson? Discuss: Natasha Walter finds Susan Sontag shrugging off the messiness of fiction in favour of the essay: The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag: Jonathan Cape, pounds 14.9900:02
Maastricht: German banker's plea for peace: Bundesbank meets00:02
Market Report: Pound's woes catch up with share prices00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A sign of shame and crossbones: The God-Fearer - Dan Jacobson: Bloomsbury, pounds 14.9900:02
Obituary: Feodor Chaliapin Jr00:02
Food and drink: A second bite at the cherry (and the prune): Pruneaux d'Agen: Joanna Blythman is just wild about the new dried cherry, and has always adored the best dried plums. So why are they so hard to find in Britain?00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Ukraine leader named00:02
Bush signs nuclear test moratorium00:02
Sport in Short: Billiards00:02
Rugby League: Castleford call on Coyne00:02
MUSIC / The bare necessities: The harpsichord suffers from old age. But, as Jane Chapman tells Mark Pappenheim, there's still life in it00:02
Singer's playful sensuality hides the pain of rejection: David Lister found Eartha Kitt performing in the East End and nursing some bitter memories00:02
Auctions: Lightly draped ladies for the garden00:02
Appeals: Headway Halfway House00:02
House prices fall 6.2% in year00:02
Amstrad plunges to its first-ever loss00:02
Travel: I saw the light one Blackpool night: Some may sneer at the resort, but Reggie Nadelson was converted by its magic and myths, its freak shows and fairgrounds00:02
Home loans warning00:02
New bond has lock-in option00:02
View from Manhattan: Name dropping00:02
Mandela in Pakistan00:02
Japanese workers on rampage00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Travel: Beyond the package horizon: Chris Gill singles out the best in off-brochure slopes and offers a few pre-season tips00:02
Garden Update: Weekend work00:02
Link-up to spur home sales00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Church appointments00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: MPs support calls to end Ulster ban00:02
Football: A fast refusal for new recruit: Robert Cole reports on the disgraced sprinter Jason Livingston's bizarre training session with Cardiff City00:02
Food and drink: A second bite at the cherry (and the prune): Dried cherries: Joanna Blythman is just wild about the new dried cherry, and has always adored the best dried plums. So why are they so hard to find in Britain?00:02
Rhine army gives way to new multinational force00:02
Father wins pounds 6,000 over dismissal00:02
Councils are urged not to press MMI over claims00:02
Racing: Riders fined00:02
Hockey: Havant stick to their principles00:02
Music Upbeat: Leading lights00:02
Football: Taylor targets fitness not finesse: The England manager has identified lack of stamina as a cause of international failures. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
The US Presidential Elections: Arms and the men00:02
The Week in Review00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Is there life on Rupert?: Mostly harmless - Douglas Adams: Heinemann, pounds 12.9900:02
Letter: Outspoken cardinals00:02
Shevardnadze threatens force00:02
Music Upbeat: Coda00:02
Morphine lost00:02
Flourishes from the saucerer's apprentice00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Zil sticks to old model on its new road: Russia's giant car company has its own view of privatisation, Andrew Higgins writes in Moscow00:02
Travel: Route A2600:02
Property: What are you waiting for? Free gifts?00:02
Maxwell persists in challenge to SFO00:02
Interest rate doubts hit Wall Street00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: Labour faces period of tough questioning: At the end of John Smith's first conference as leader of the party, Nicholas Timmins assesses the size of the task awaiting him00:02
Hijack escape00:02
Garden Update: Hot history00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Death-crash driver gets six months00:02
Style: Another Nutter on the Row: Richard James, like Tommy Nutter before him, is shaking up Savile Row with his range of designer clothes, says Roger Tredre00:02
Farriers' Company00:02
Home-grown theft that backfired00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: Quotes of the Day00:02
Saturday Night: Sunday, 3am: it's time to go partying00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: Party 'needs a clear policy on education'00:02
MMI customers wait for news: Vivien Goldsmith on the latest arrangements for policy-holders00:02
Retail Therapy: Shopper's boon00:02
Vauxhall recall00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
ITV upheaval threatens Toytown home of Noddy: Staff at an award-winning animation studio are facing redundancy. Maggie Brown reports00:02
Government backs PIA00:02
Travel: Off the rails00:02
Crofters in legal move to acquire their farms00:02
Art is traced00:02
Letter: False alarms over grants and census figures00:02
French senators vote for president00:02
Boxing: Showdown time for Benn: Nick Halling on a British fighter's world-title prospects00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
FILM / James Bond, for screen and country: Sheila Johnston talks to current action king Joel Silver about Bond's prospects00:02
Don't try begging from a beggar00:02
Motoring / The Independent Road Test: A steep price to pay for some country cachet: The luxurious new Range Rover is even further removed from its origins, says Brett Fraser00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Food and Drink: Gastropod00:02
US 'friendly fire' kills five00:02
THEATRE / The appliance of science: Paul Taylor on Tony Harrison's Square Rounds at the National's Olivier Theatre00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
It has not been a quiet week . . .00:02
Obituary: Gerald Hanley00:02
Music Upbeat: Passing by00:02
Not all fairy tales end happily: Sue Fieldman warns of the pitfalls in claiming title to an apparently ownerless derelict property00:02
Basketball: Pair of Bucks on display00:02
Academic finds lost 'twilight book' by Joyce00:02
MUSIC / A rapier wit: Robert Maycock reviews the LSO at the Barbican Hall00:02
Maastricht: Brittan proposal for ERM is denounced: Rejoining at a price00:02
Retail Therapy: Gifts for all00:02
Treasury backs down on insider laws00:02
Tiny fall in US unemployment offers Bush little comfort00:02
Heat rises over plutonium ship00:02
Rugby League: Swinton to make decision on Administrator00:02
Appeals: CARE00:02
Bottomley pledges pounds 1.5bn in care deal00:02
Pound on brink of free-fall: Heseltine would support raising of interest rates to stabilise sterling as fears of higher inflation are raised00:02
Motoring: It goes racing, it goes shopping, it goes rusty: When conditions in Knightsbridge get treacherous, you may feel safer in a used Range Rover, but rust and poor build quality may betray period examples, says James Ruppert00:02
Maastricht: Proposals to curb 'meddling EC bureaucrats': Competition policy and regional aid00:02
Collecting: Lightly battered but in the best possible taste: John Windsor meets Christopher Gibbs, originator of the slightly distressed English country house look, who has been buying at auction for 30 years00:02
Retail Therapy: Wedding aids00:02
Faith and Reason: Who's afraid of a Catholic feminist?: Our series on the impact of feminism on Christianity continues with an enquiry into the Roman Catholic position by Cristina Odone, editor of the Catholic Herald00:02
Appeals: Anglo-Latin American Foundation00:02
Ministers threaten Malawi bishops00:02
Travel Departures: A fair old pounding00:02
Money Grouse: A spot of bother over a Bupa patient's bill00:02
Trafalgar gets in battle trim00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Bank rejects US claims of collusion with BCCI00:02
Clarke shares frozen in struggle to avert company meltdown00:02
Maxwell Pensioners Trust makes first payments00:02
UN orders seizure of Iraq's frozen assets00:02
Birthdays00:02
The Way I Was: With Steve in the Cultivations: Penelope Lively tells Nicholas Roe how she saw the world when this picture was taken, in the first of our new series, 'The Way I Was'00:02
Travel: Beyond the package horizon: Alpe d'Huez - best resort for nursery slopes00:02
Thatcher odds00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Ice Hockey: Flyers take a flyer on Lindros00:02
View from Manhattan: Sears unravels socks and stocks00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The sugar bowls of modern Babylon: London - World City 1800-1848 - Ed. Celina Fox: Yale, pounds 4500:02
Grouse moor sale could restrict ramblers' access00:02
Travel: Glasgow? But my ticket says I'm in Reykjavik]: Simon Calder's return flight from America included a stopover in Iceland. Or so he thought . . .00:02
Briefly: Pay up or lose your shares00:02
Travel Departures: Disney trip00:02
Italian workers demonstrate00:02
BOOKS / In living memory of a loved poet: Christopher Ricks reflects on Tennyson, who died 100 years ago next week00:02
Czechs halt vote00:02
Maastricht: Tory whips target 70 treaty rebels: Westminster disaffection00:02
Letter: Criminal Justice Act: probation, magistrates' fines, children's testimony00:02
Gorbachev is ordered not to leave Russia00:02
FILM / James Bond, for screen and country : a new generation of British writers and film-makers suggest how Bond could freshen up his act00:02
Iraqi exile in pounds 1m fraud to help Kurds00:02
Letter: Amateur art must be encouraged00:02
Collor signs away power00:02
Rugby Union: Injured Quins return to crisis00:02
Alluring qualities that make a gay icon00:02
No 10 admits ERM call to Lawson00:02
Clifford hit by milk price war00:02
Court Circular00:02
C&G offer undercuts the basic rates00:02
Kuwaiti voters sniff at democracy00:02
Garden Update: RHS flower show00:02
Profile: That's enough fawning on the Tories - Ed: Paul Dacre, a fresh stamp on the 'Daily Mail'00:02
The Labour Party in Blackpool: Whitty applauds conference success00:02
Travel Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Fischer portrayed as a man of the past00:02
Chartered Institute of Transport00:02
Deafening row over free speech in Tokyo00:02
Major looks at scheme to return to ERM00:02
Obituary: Antony Terry00:02
Obituary: Justice Mittra Sikri00:02
BZWIM steps out of Temple Bar bid00:02
'Despicable' theft00:02
Defence of pound may have cost dollars 30bn00:02
Halifax reduces cardholders' costs00:02
Squash: Jackman in the crucible00:02
Letter: Library security00:02
Savers begin to feel the draught00:02
Letter: Criminal Justice Act: probation, magistrates' fines, children's testimony00:02
Travel Departures: Seychelles special00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A wounded Apollo lashes back: No more Sex War - Neil Lyndon: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 14.9900:02
Bosnian children adjust to UK life00:02
Adwest up despite gloom00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Letter: Derek Bentley's guilt remains00:02
Singer's playful sensuality hides the pain of rejection: David Lister found Eartha Kitt performing in the East End and nursing some bitter memories