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How are they stopped? They hit people like me: Patrick Weir recalls his feelings the night he encountered joyriders00:02
Cricket: England struggle to shake off the rust00:02
TELEVISION / Beginning with the worst of intentions: In the first of a new weekly column Mark Lawson watches the early offerings from the new franchise holders and finds the omens for television's future depressing00:02
Leading Article: Bosnia may still be saved00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Shetlands facing oil disaster: Storms prevent island clean-up getting under way after powerless Liberian tanker is driven on to rocks00:02
Special powers00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: 'Everyone was praying it would miss'00:02
Barclays faces Speyhawk debt refinancing00:02
Obituary: The Rev Alan Ecclestone00:02
Football: McCoist seizes his Main chance00:02
Mafia plot foiled00:02
Pound strengthens on upturn in spending00:02
Bush does not rule out force against Serbs00:02
TELEVISION / Transatlantic transformations00:02
Letter: Israel's responsibility for anti-Semitism00:02
Law Report: Director's credit set off against bank debt: MS Fashions Ltd and others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA and another - Chancery Division (Lord Justice Hoffmann), 27 November 199200:02
Market Report: Rights rumours dampen spirits for blue chips00:02
Go-ahead for ML kidney treatment00:02
Ford sees indications of stronger British economy00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Sickly stench of the hurricane winds00:02
THEATRE / Between the Lines: Jatinder Verma on a post-colonial Caliban00:02
Winners with a country to lose: Britain should tell President Moi that his re-election must not bring political repression back to Kenya, says Richard Dowden00:02
Football: Villa sign up Larsen on trial00:02
Schools require incentives to alter their status: John Patten has not been able to give the cash promises that would make opting out irresistible. Donald MacLeod and Judith Judd report00:02
Obituary: David Pye00:02
Airport action00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Ukraine rejects Russian plan for sharing Soviet debt00:02
Birmingham football sale nears00:02
Phnom Penh's prince rattles the peace process: Raymond Whitaker, Asia Editor, assesses the effect Norodom Sihanouk's decision not to co-operate with the UN will have on an already troubled peace mission00:02
Norwich Union to cut with-profits bonuses00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Insurers begin to calculate costs00:02
Chess leader00:02
Princess ill00:02
Darts: Taylor dethroned by spoiler Spiolek00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster00:02
Application for race job 'lacked flesh'00:02
BBC wins Christmas TV ratings battle00:02
THEATRE / First Nights00:02
Doctor casts doubt on 'painless' executions00:02
Football / FA Cup: United inspired by touch of Gillespie: Phelan's early header sets up victory as Ferguson's men are unable to turn superiority into a convincing scoreline00:02
Birthdays00:02
Commentary: A super-jumbo test of nerve00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Salmon farmers fearful of chemical dispersants: An industry vital to the wealth of the Shetlands may be threatened by dispersants used in the operation against the slick. Steve Connor reports00:02
Palestinians place faith in new UN envoy00:02
New home for butterflies00:02
Sailing: Goss thankful for great escape: Stuart Alexander reports from Hobart on one yacht's four-day dice with dismasting in the British Steel Challenge00:02
Cricket: Lara's electric strokeplay lightens gloom00:02
Owen and Vance put the heat on Serbs00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Iraq's missiles worry US00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Birds, otters and fish in danger00:02
BP America assures US over licence for Iran00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Letter: Israel's responsibility for anti-Semitism00:02
New Faces for the New Year / Rugby Union: Dawson's dual-purpose development: Northampton's budding scrum-half takes centre stage. Steve Bale reports00:02
Letter: The fruits of others' suffering00:02
View from City Road: The saving of Speyhawk00:02
Racing: Crop sows handicap confusion00:02
THEATRE / Crash-landings in the drink: James Robson's new play for the RSC is the result of one hangover too many. Sarah Hemming reports00:02
Cricket: Pakistani pace proves decisive00:02
Outside chance00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Torrey Canyon highlighted the hazards of oil at sea00:02
Sport in Short: Drugs in Sport00:02
Laporte rides in to rescue Evode00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Trinity tells creditors of loan links to Murdoch00:02
Victims of cold, calculated cruelty: Leonard Doyle reports on the EC inquiry into the rape of Muslim women being used as a tactic in Bosnia's war00:02
Cold comfort00:02
TELEVISION / Briefing: Famous for 50 minutes00:02
Virgin puts emphasis on albums00:02
Policeman on murder charge00:02
Crafty ways to catch out spies00:02
Georgia seeks UN peace force00:02
Table Tennis: Hodgson caught by glue ban00:02
Letter: A recipe for eternal civil war in Bosnia00:02
Japanese seek to improve quality of life: The head of Sony has sparked off a furious debate by urging a change of economic philosophy. Terry McCarthy reports00:02
Hockey: Stourport out for revenge00:02
Obituary: David Pye00:02
Heseltine may face pounds 100m bill over pits00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: No. 23 - Crystal Palace00:02
Cricket: SA on the brink of series win00:02
Africa 'needs massive food aid'00:02
Arabs urge unity against Muslim zealots00:02
Enough laws; too little care: Psychiatric patients like the man mauled by a lion will not be helped by compulsory treatment, says Tony Maden00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Clean-up teams prepare for worst00:02
Skiing: Victory for Merle in giant slalom00:02
Island leaders helped Nazis to trace Jews00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Tennis: Ukraine give top seeds fright00:02
Trial delayed00:02
Editor sacked00:02
Doctors display ignorance over care in community00:02
Kosovo 'will remain separate from Albania'00:02
Racing: Hurdlers forced to take sand seriously00:02
Architecture: Welcome to the West, Budapest: Hungary's magnificent capital escaped the concrete excesses of Communism but now faces the prospect of development by foreign speculators. Adam LeBor looks at a city in peril00:02
Airbus split on jumbo project00:02
Serbs raped 20,000 as a 'weapon of war': EC report describes attacks on women and children to force Muslims from homes, says Leonard Doyle00:02
Schools: St John's School00:02
Media: Hello, good knight, and welcome: In the Sixties, David Frost was a satirist who made politicians squirm; Sir David is a gentler man. Michael Leapman took him to lunch00:02
Sport in Short: Darts00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Highland seer warned of spill00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Market sceptical over support for franc00:02
Letter: God and King's00:02
Leaked Labour memo warns of voters' distrust00:02
Obituary: Lucien Goldschmidt00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Environmental experts query tanker's course00:02
BR sell-off 'clash' played down by opposing sides: Top-level disagreements are surfacing over plans for rail privatisation, but the issue will soon enter the political limelight. Christian Wolmar reports00:02
There's no rush: we're all shopping around now00:02
Football / Coca-Cola Cup: McHale's late men stirring up the seaside spirit: Guy Hodgson talks to the manager with a mission to arrest Arsenal's ambitions in the Coca-Cola Cup at Scarborough tonight00:02
Hurd heads for Argentina talks00:02
Corrigan to leave Fed job00:02
Virgin puts emphasis on albums00:02
Burton Group considers cutting further 1,500 jobs00:02
Squash: Marshall faces official exclusion00:02
Millionaire hunt00:02
Hanged killer gets his wish00:02
Obituary: Anthony Huxley00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell's testing 'record'00:02
Column Eight: A light in the West00:02
Bid for TVS runs into a problem00:02
Secondary lenders threaten to head repossession table00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Luckless six-hour battle to avoid disaster: Force 10 gales hamper rescue operation as captain's last-ditch attempt to stop tanker hitting rocks fails00:02
Letter: Drug treatments denied to psychiatric patients in the community00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Out of the West: Much food for thought in the Clinton kitchen00:02
Darts: Feeling good in game of change: Richard Edmondson reports from the World Championship on the upheaval facing darts00:02
DANCE / Riches from rags: Stephanie Jordan on Darcey Bussell as Cinderella at Covent Garden00:02
Rugby League: Wigan beaten again00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Court Circular00:02
Praise for banks as fewer firms go bust00:02
Obituary: Donald Stephenson00:02
Cat survives washing machine spin00:02
View from City Road: Evode's days are numbered00:02
Diary00:02
Judge holds six-day drugs trial in secret00:02
Extra loans open the door to risk00:02
MUSIC / Double exposure for focused playing: Nicholas Williams on two concerts by the violinist Thomas Zehetmair at the Wigmore Hall, London00:02
Nuclear doubts sweep Japan00:02
Letter: Drug treatments denied to psychiatric patients in the community00:02
Inner cities 'face choice of gun law or regeneration': The Institute of Geographers' Conference00:02
Rugby League: Hunslet fined for walk-out00:02
Israeli justice minister attacks deportations00:02
Letter: Drug treatments denied to psychiatric patients in the community00:02
Donor campaign00:02
Letter: The fruits of others' suffering00:02
Attack on holiday buses in Egypt00:02
Media / Talk of the Trade: Untimely death on the Thames00:02
Pools firms promise more jackpot winners00:02
View from City Road: ACT burden hurting industry00:02
Leading Article: Nature despoiled by man00:02
Patten says opt-outs will become irreversible00:02
Architecture: Welcome to the West, Budapest: Behind the grime, a romantic spirit that our own fin de siecle will never match. Angela Lambert celebrates its eccentric elegance00:02
Would-be migrants eye France00:02
Los Angeles murder record00:02
Somalis mourn relief worker00:02
Letter: Drug treatments denied to psychiatric patients in the community00:02
Media / Talk of the Trade: Ahead of its time?00:02
Britain ready to help Nigeria after IMF agreement00:02
Obituary: Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Barnett00:02
Media: Saucy scoops fail to cure weak circulation: Led by mass-market tabloids, most of the national papers continued to lose readers in 199200:02
American Football: Ditka sacked as Bears head coach00:02
Commentary: Backed up by the Bundesbank00:02
United Biscuits pays 50m pounds for US company00:02
Letter: Keats amid violets and Protestants00:02
Worker suspended over scalded patient00:02
Investors fear racism in Germany00:02
Moi set to meet main opponents00:02
'Santa' brings police festive cheer00:02
Navy attack 'kills 50 Tamils'00:02
Bouncing back00:02
Letter: Rising death toll in British mines00:02
JAZZ DIARY / Coming through from the back: Philip Johnson talks to the veteran pianist Stan Tracey about the drawbacks of a native talent00:02
Homes 'undervalued in council tax survey': The Institute of Geographers' Conference00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Just the trick for staying afloat: Lotty, Betty and Sharky do their bit - for Britain's last dolphin show and for dolphins everywhere. Andrea Waind met their trainer00:02
Letter: Mural restoration00:02
Honecker judge dismissed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fearful similarity in the old and new worlds: 'European Encounters with the New World' - Anthony Pagden: Yale, 18.95 pounds00:02
Letter: No substitute for cathedral 'Friends'00:02
Russia returns to price controls00:02
Briton dies00:02
The Shetland Oil Disaster: Experts puzzled by flooding of fuel tanks ship's fuel tanks00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Commentary: Phoney war on the shelves00:02
Wills00:02
Forte denies renewing Savoy fight00:02
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