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The best and the worst: Offshore gilt funds tempt non-taxpayers00:02
DRINK / Adventures in the wine trade: Simon Loftus on the search for the perfect Dolcetto and other passions in a wandering wine merchant's life00:02
Regulator faces criticism over late filings by Bovis00:02
Rank to pay Earl 20m pounds00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Profit-linked pay breaks the chains: Relating reward to performance has tax advantages that are proving popular in a recession, writes Brian Friedman00:02
Letter: No short cuts in psychotherapy00:02
TRAVEL / Life in the ice-kingdom: During its brief summer, Antarctica's margins melt into a celebration of living and breeding. In his new book, David G Campbell recalls three seasons there00:02
Raring to go00:02
Aid suspended00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Bunhill: Fun house00:02
The terrorist's hoax that went down a bomb00:02
BALLET / A Drastic Step: Times are tough in Russia. So Yuri Grigorovich, the Brezhnev of the Bolshoi, is putting on the biggest ballet season ever seen in London. And giving a rare interview00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes leads way to crown00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Buying cars abroad 'not a real saving'00:02
Rugby Union: North hit the right note a couple of games too late00:02
Racing at Ascot: Captain Dibble at the double00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Football: On the move00:02
For once, a genuine hit tops the charts00:02
De Klerk sacks generals suspected of 'dirty tricks'00:02
GARDENING / Power Flowers: A hand-picked guide to hardy perennials - 4: Geranium00:02
Letters: Briefly00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the week00:02
Clinton smear leads to White House00:02
Letter: British republic would be split00:02
Martha dies as hospitals close beds00:02
Premium Bonds00:02
Golf: Faldo shoots course record00:02
ART MARKET / Sold at face value: The little girl in the master's picture is ugly. So 'probably the second-best de Hooch in the world' fetched just pounds 4.4m00:02
RADIO / And not a drop to drink00:02
New Yorkers are just more stylish00:02
CITY: Sun Alliance00:02
Who's who in the royal pecking order00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ouch] So many reasons not to exist: 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' - Sogyal Rinpoche, eds Patrick Gaffney & Andrew Harvey: Rider, 16.99 pounds00:02
Pooper scooped00:02
Letter: Armed intervention won't solve Bosnia's problems00:02
Europe's ventures of no return00:02
Bunhill: Air war00:02
Bunhill: Planets aligned for Earl00:02
Sport in Short: Ski Jumping00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Letter: British republic would be split00:02
Soccer agent accused in writ: Correction00:02
Rugby Union: Cooke cushions disappointment for Back00:02
Sport in Short: American Football00:02
Rabin hostage to the martyrs of his revenge: In one fell swoop Israel has uprooted the seeds of trust. Sarah Helm looks at damage to peace hopes00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Stripping away the anxieties: 'Mapplethorpe' - Arthur C Danto: Cape, 60 pounds00:02
West's aid could turn tide of war in Bosnia00:02
Letter: Happy ending00:02
VIDEO / Last-Minute Christmas Choice00:02
THEATRE / Tragically trashy Shaffer00:02
Major flying flag for BA00:02
Home help adds to borrowers' burden: Andrew Bibby on a troublesome scheme to reduce repossessions00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Smith plans New Year offensive00:02
Bank's Maxwell lapse: Late tycoon was banking group's chief backer for years, writes Nick Gilbert00:02
Conrad Black - an apology00:02
Ripping, gripping and slicing yarns00:02
Taxman to be lottery spoilsport00:02
Breakfast TV's winner may be a pounds 20m loser00:02
How to turn a brainwave into a marketing success00:02
Bank's Maxwell lapse: Late tycoon was banking group's chief backer for years, writes Nick Gilbert00:02
Ex-soldier held00:02
Interview: Mary Archer - A Jeffreyish streak: With her seasonal album, the demure ex-don reveals a taste for publicity, says Geraldine Bedell (CORRECTED)00:02
Wife loses fight for coma man's sperm00:02
Turkeys do vote for Christmas - official-ish00:02
Lamont's legal fees lead to rule-change00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Angelic upstarts: Like ploughman's lunch and Christmas trees, carol services are a young tradition, but a new book shows the age and variety of the music00:02
CITY: Concrete jungle00:02
The best and the worst: Offshore gilt funds tempt non-taxpayers00:02
Men seek a lifeline on sex: Geraldine Bedell on the male anxieties revealed by a BBC advice service00:02
Robertson poised to sweeten TVS offer00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The raising of chattering class consciousness: 'Partners in Protest: Life with Canon Collins' - Diana Collins: Gollancz, 25 pounds00:02
Car makers on a crash course: Europe's ailing giants will need to take drastic measures if they are to stand up to the Japanese. David Bowen on the big shakeout00:02
ROCK / Poor Jason, frozen in fame's headlights00:02
My Biggest Mistake00:02
GARDENING / Gardeners' question time: Horticulture is rich in history, lore and symbolism, from the Garden of Eden onwards. Michael Leapman digs up some brain-teasers in a seasonal quiz for the green-fingered00:02
Letter: Armed intervention won't solve Bosnia's problems00:02
Bright lifts Wednesday00:02
Nurses charged00:02
They wish you a tacky Christmas: A hand-picked selection of the finest festive rubbish, lovingly00:02
Political Commentary: Sir Patrick walks the tightrope00:02
Football: Panto time at Everton00:02
New Russia fears a dose of old medicine: Yeltsin is fighting for his political life. Helen Womack in Moscow reports00:02
Girl beaten00:02
The quiet detective on the trail of the terrorists00:02
John Collet was buried last week. He had been shot by the IRA. Few mourned his passing: Eamonn McCann reports on the cruel - but apparently popular - justice dispensed in the Bogside00:02
Gilded cages of The City: These days the ancient livery companies seem to exist for wining and dining and dressing up. So why the secrecy? Matthew Gwyther finds a lot more going on than meets the eye00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Football: Keane the last jewel in Clough's treasure chest: Norman Fox reports on the rapid rise of the Rambler from the Emerald Isle whose midfield power and running make him Nottingham Forest's most prized possession00:02
They also serve, who only ush: Why is the Queen followed by people in antique clothes? Richard Tomlinson on the Lords, Ladies, Women, Masters, Silver Sticks and White Staves at court00:02
PROPERTY / The saviour of the country seat: In the 1970s historic homes galore were succumbing to dereliction - or developers. Caroline McGhie meets a conservationist who has given the species a new lease of life00:02
Baby Jesus freaks: Amazing what you can do with four stuffed lambs and a jar of bath salts. But the modern nativity welcomes Christ with Jean-Michel Jarre and a smoke machine00:02
ARTS / Show People: Mr Orange's true colours: 57. Tim Roth00:02
What can they privatise next?: This controversial letter from the Adam Smug Institute to the Secretary of State for Transport was leaked to Jonathan Glancey00:02
Letter: A plus when degrees don't help00:02
Aids success meets cautious response00:02
HEALTH / A Christmas complaint: Overeating00:02
CITY: BICC nears peak after climbing back00:02
Racing: Fellow can follow up00:02
Shaving the great forests until the world is bald00:02
FILM / A very Dickie Chaplin00:02
City: Digging up dirt00:02
Rugby Union / Round-Up: Aberavon bow to flower power00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Leading Article: Rites and wrongs00:02
FASHION / The Eminence Chic: There is a power behind most thrones, and Loulou de la Falaise has been Saint Laurent's creative soulmate since the early Seventies. Now she's getting some of the credit00:02
Boxing: Time to start taking him seriously: Charles Nevin meets Lennox Lewis's manager Frank Maloney, who has cocked a snook at his critics in boxing by guiding his man to the world heavyweight championship00:02
Threat to UN men00:02
Leading Article: Bosnia's best hope00:02
Rugby League: Saints sunk by Ward's exit00:02
Letter: Give Friedman's prize to Keynes00:02
Football: Coventry shatter Liverpool illusions00:02
Football: Wright responds as Graham wields axe00:02
Clinton chided for not wooing women00:02
Football: Injury time hurts Spurs00:02
Boxing: Bowe opts to face Dokes00:02
Bunhill: Black launch00:02
TELEVISION / When cars are the stars: Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without period drama. And period drama wouldn't be period drama without the right cars. James Rampton reports00:02
BOOK REVIEWS / Paperbacks, Fiction00:02
Deaths00:02
How victims' cash is cut: Adam Sage on the fight for fairer compensation after sexual attack00:02
Notebook: All trussed up with only one place to go: Turkeys smother each other at the sight of a balloon and the hens get clawed to bits during mating. Still, they have the sense to avoid Christmas00:02
MOTORING / Zooming in on the speed merchants: Matthew Gwyther on the new radar-triggered camera system that is putting the brakes on over-enthusiastic drivers00:02
Football: Moran gives Blackburn a head start00:02
CITY: United scores00:02
Barclays admits Imry error00:02
Wheelchair sports face dilemma as the able-bodied join in00:02
Public Services Management: A mix-up of rubbish and energy to burn: Environmentalists favour recycling policies over incineration proposals. Rebecca Renner reports00:02
Life or death polling day for Serbia: Marcus Tanner in Belgrade on how toothless sanctions may spoil Panic's pitch00:02
Giving can bring dividends00:02
Letter: Armed intervention won't solve Bosnia's problems00:02
Soldiers kill six as Gaza explodes00:02
Art for Christmas00:02
Troops die in truck accident00:02
Bush's team of 3,000 get on their bikes: Patrick Cockburn in Washington on bleak job prospects for Republicans00:02
Your Money: Time to put pep into gilts00:02
City: Bull run in '93, or a case of mad cow?00:02
PROPERTY / The saviour of the country seat: In the 1970s historic homes galore were succumbing to dereliction - or developers. Caroline McGhie meets a conservationist who has given the species a new lease of life00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A very sober account of pure good taste: 'A History of Vodka' - William Pokhlebkin trs Renfrey Clarke: Verso, 17.95 pounds00:02
Clinton a man for his time00:02
Letter: Consternation over Beckett's wild thoughts00:02
MBA Fair00:02
More high street blues00:02
CITY: Concrete jungle00:02
The stakes rise in Strip poker: A grim message from Gaza00:02
Bunhill: A backward step00:02
Letter: Happy ending00:02
Europe's ventures of no return00:02
Equestrianism: Max for Beerbaum00:02
Hoaxes deepen traders gloom00:02
Letter: No short cuts in psychotherapy (CORRECTED)00:02
Skiing: Tomba runs out of luck00:02
Fishing Lines: All I want for Christmas is a nice new worm machine00:02
BOOK REVIEWS / Paperbacks, Non-fiction00:02
Football: Villa let City off the hook00:02
Innovation: Put a holiday burden on wheels: A windsurfer's transport of delight puts him on the crest of a wave. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Bunhill: Corporate largess00:02
Brother's habits rile neighbours00:02
Skiing: Been skiing, eh? Fascinating . . .00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Season's bleatings00:02
Big Blue pays price for slow reactions: IBM is struggling to keep up with events, writes Richard Thomson00:02
Profile: A worthy test of his mettle: Raj Bagri, appointed to head the LME, judges his worth by his achievements. David Bowen reports00:02
Football: Dream teams give Americans nightmares00:02
De Klerk stirs up a nest of plotters: The South African President has finally exposed the 'third force'. But how much did he know? John Carlin reports from Johannesburg00:02
Debt advice unit to open00:02
The long walk is over, so the miners take to a bus00:02
EXHIBITIONS / The art of nothing much: Sixties conceptualism lives on in the new show from Tim Head. Or does it?00:02
Q & A The legend of local rivalry . . . . . and other myths exploded00:02
Bumper Index: Crunchers go crackers (CORRECTED)00:02
Real Life: Well-seasoned: the long day's office lunch into night00:02
On a hippy mission to murder?: Two former devotees of the 'sex cult' guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, face extradition to the United States for their alleged part in a conspiracy to kill a US federal attorney in 1985. Nick Cohen reports00:02
S Koreans get civilian leader00:02
Car giants link00:02
Letter: Ozone-friendly but nostril-hostile00:02
Letter: Witchhunt of social workers is unfair00:02
Nationalists win00:02
Taxes or cuts of pounds 15bn00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Rank to pay Earl 20m pounds00:02
Letter: British republic would be split00:02
CITY: Queens Moat Houses00:02
Law and order00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Shares: Toying around in a jungle of big games00:02
Communication: Clear lines beat an enemy within: BP is trying to cut out flaws that mar the impact of seven in 10 internal reports00:02
Economics: Not much in the stocking for economy00:02
Good, awful, and expurgated: When not eating, drinking, or even worshipping, what will you be doing over Christmas? Our writers look at ways of passing the time00:02
City: Out of credit00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The game of the nose: 'Scent' - Annick Le Guerer trs Richard Miller: Chatto, 14.99 pounds00:02
Rugby Union: Stark's bright sparks00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
MUSIC / ENO's bad trip to the moon00:02
Sport in Short: Badminton00:02
Letter: The gospel truth00:02
Where value is the bottom line: Traidcraft puts social priorities before profits - so how does it gauge success? Paul Gosling reports00:02
TELEVISION / All spelt out in black and white00:02
DRINK / Finding your pudding the perfect partner: Few people serve sweet wines with Christmas desserts, but the combination is a great seasonal treat, says Kathryn McWhirter00:02
Registry chooses to sit on the fence: A homeowner tried to find out who owned the land next to his, but met only unhelpfulness. Sue Fieldman reports00:02
Sails trimmed for growth: Unit trusts that have faced the recession could prosper, writes Christine Stopp00:02
Dinner rites that take the cake00:02
Pay back Maxwell money, Labour peer is told: Correction00:02
How we met: 65. Jeffrey Bernard and Taki Theodoracopulos00:02
Heseltine lifeline for bombed firms00:02
Motor Racing: The son also races: Acts don't come much harder to follow. But Damon Hill, whose father Graham was twice world motor-racing champion in the Sixties, is ready to try. Richard Williams talked to him00:02
Football: Hearts end Celtic's run00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Football: Cantona on the mark00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Cricket: Middle order boosts Indians00:02
Football / Round-Up: Keane in trouble00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
DANE / Short on cash, but long on invention00:02
BCCI payout00:02
Singer link in Joanna case00:02
Plan is hatched to halt Serbs00:02
Then & Now00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Dark, rich and absolutely irresistible: If you are going to overindulge, do it on the very best. Michael Bateman probes the secrets of a chocoholic