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A rude, sometimes nasty, but essential watchdog: Government must be scrutinised and the press left free to perform its proper role in a democracy, says Andreas Whittam Smith00:02
Eros brought low00:02
Unita fights back after losing city00:02
Trafalgar investors attack Touche Ross00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
Oil spurts into air as tanker breaks up00:02
Letter: Distasteful use of a bird dying in oil00:02
View from City Road: Rights worries may be exaggerated00:02
ART / A small step for man: James Hall on the pecs being flexed in 'Visualising Masculinities' at the Tate, London and 'Declarations of War' at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge00:02
Football: Shearer waiting for knee verdict00:02
Montenegrin president re-relected00:02
Column Eight: Divine Light in the dark00:02
Turks call for weapons from Islamic nations: Turkey and Iran in moves to help fellow Muslims00:02
Sex ring arrests00:02
Letter: Engineers strive to solve subtitle hitches00:02
Cruise soured by Swiss folk music00:02
Teachers consider boycott00:02
Tribute to Nureyev00:02
Death plunge from garage00:02
Guidelines on nurseries condemned00:02
ART / The artist in his element: Len Tabner believes the only way you can paint the sea is to get wet. Dalya Alberge talks to the artist about painting the great outdoors, with random thoughts from masters en plein air00:02
Racing: Dope saga to end00:02
Street trader charged pounds 10 for trinkets00:02
Health Update: Cot deaths decline00:02
Birthdays00:02
Leading Article: Good behaviour pays00:02
Player cleared00:02
Hungarians 'nostalgic for the years of Kadar rule'00:02
Letter: A tragic lack of basic seamanship00:02
View from City Road: More guidance would be good00:02
Ice Hockey: Bombers on target at last00:02
TELEVISION / Production Notes00:02
Athletics: IOC expert's drug abuse claim00:02
Jewish protest00:02
THEATRE / Under western eyes: Paul Taylor on Don Taylor's Retreat from Moscow at the New End, Hampstead00:02
Potholer killed in flood as winter storms take grip00:02
New MPs declare multitude of directorships: The House of Commons' latest register of members' business interests is perused by Anthony Bevins, Political Editor00:02
TELEVISION / The F-factor: a rule of thumb: Giles Smith takes notes on the first edition of Carlton's Good Sex Guide00:02
A man with a talent for creating genius: William Hartston meets Laszlo Polgar, the father of three world-class chess players00:02
Free advice you can bank on (for a fee)00:02
Obituary: Raymond Marriott00:02
Bike bomb kills 13 Biharis00:02
Health: The right vitamin - if you can get it: A government report says folic acid can prevent spina bifida. So why, asks Sharon Kingman, isn't it available to all pregnant women?00:02
Letter: Coasts in peril00:02
Editors fear they would be shackled: Esther Oxford found there was little support for the proposals in the provinces, where investigations are seen as being threatened by censoring 'judges'00:02
Skiing: Mahrer tames the Kandahar00:02
Confusion over French plan for camps: Dumas instructs Kouchner to prepare unilateral liberation mission00:02
Suicide claims more payouts00:02
Health Update: Blue cycle00:02
Government restricts military evidence in inquest on IRA gunman00:02
Commission considers call for quality control: Reform of the police service00:02
Opposition holds rally in Malawi00:02
Carclo ends three years of decline00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Racing: Dwyer to atone on Sybillin00:02
Corporate culture faces re-education00:02
Kohl scolds coalition partners00:02
Saddam's double snub for UN00:02
Mares mutilated00:02
Health Update: Healing honey00:02
Profits kept down at Ellis & Everard00:02
Victim 'saved'00:02
Obituary: Dame Janet Vaughan00:02
Iran considers unilateral actionin Bosnia00:02
Arctic ties00:02
Ulster man shot00:02
Comment: British shoppers rewrite the rules00:02
Swedish cuts00:02
Letter: A tragic lack of basic seamanship00:02
Letter: Press abuses can harm democracy as much as curbs00:02
Tennis: Bruguera embarrassed00:02
Women start Greenham-style protest at threatened pits00:02
Man receives baboon liver00:02
Ukrainian President begins visit to Israel00:02
Children leap to their deaths00:02
Cricket: Azharuddin still captain00:02
Protein in the brain linked to Alzheimer's00:02
Letter: Shakespeare sonnet beats teen novels00:02
Hospitals alert00:02
Cricket: England tour match called off amid unrest00:02
Accountancy & Management: Campaigning for internal control: The Cadbury report has been accused of paying inadequate attention to an important way of improving corporate governance. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Letter: Distasteful use of a bird dying in oil00:02
Birt pledges sweeping modernisation of BBC00:02
Border raids by Iraq fuel anger in US00:02
Battle of the Airlines: Computer hacking of flight details 'was illegal': British Airways ran a complex, covert operation to steal customers from Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic00:02
Battle of the Airlines: 'Lord King was calling me a liar, so I sued him': Martyn Gregory reports on BA's 'dirty tricks' campaign, which he uncovered as producer/director of Thames Television's This Week programme00:02
Court Circular00:02
Arafat suspends peace talks00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
DSS reforms' impact cannot be measured00:02
Chess00:02
Letter: A framework for global co-operation00:02
Asylum Bill condemned as 'racist' legislation00:02
TELEVISION BRIEFING / 30 years in action00:02
Italy's unions leave the sinking ship of state00:02
Health: Fighting and surviving all over again: Patricia Rock's childhood polio returned in an unexpected way, writes Thomas Moore00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Battle of the Airlines: 'We must get more passengers'00:02
Letter: Distasteful use of a bird dying in oil00:02
Staff member raped at top-security jail00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Bonington clear00:02
RADIO / The world according to Danny Baker: Robert Hanks wonders what a philosopher of the first century AD would have made of a Radio 5 morning show presenter00:02
Mozer plea bargain rejected by US court00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Stock Exchange probes Abbey gaffe00:02
Rugby League: Hornets sell off Hall to Wigan00:02
Letter: Press abuses can harm democracy as much as curbs00:02
British Rail 'considering cuts in rush-hour services'00:02
Law 'erodes rights of employees'00:02
Ship explodes off Norway00:02
Law Report: Counsels' duty on sentencing powers: Regina v Hartrey - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (Lord Justice Steyn, Mr Justice Pill and Mr Justice Wright), 3 December 199200:02
Rugby League: Sophie to have her Wembley wish: Dave Hadfield reports on the 11-year-old girl who has won her fight to make an appearance on her sport's big day00:02
Yeltsin's man00:02
Diary00:02
Odeons not for sale, says Rank00:02
Market Report: Last of the festive gains are given up00:02
Charity for schools 'is Tory front'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Husbands and wives all at sea in Sardinia: 'Elias Portolu' - Grazia Deledda, tr. Martha King: Quartet, 6.95 pounds00:02
American Football: Chargers caught in Miami vice00:02
Battle of the Airlines: PR adviser at forefront of smear tactics: Martyn Gregory reports on BA's 'dirty tricks' campaign, which he uncovered as producer/director of Thames Television's This Week programme00:02
Marines close arms bazaar00:02
Level of unlawful council activity 'unprecedented': Ngaio Crequer reports on the claims that there has been a decade of malpractice in Lambeth00:02
Letter: A tragic lack of basic seamanship00:02
Bombay troops on alert after 215 die00:02
Next offers olive branch to bondholders00:02
Table Tennis: Survival is name of the game00:02
Boutros-Ghali seeks troops from Bonn00:02
Health Update: Tips for stammerers00:02
Battle of the Airlines: Court apology to Branson00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Leading Article: Low marks for Mrs Shephard00:02
Calcutt's controls on press raise doubts among MPs00:02
Coal chief attacks regulator's claims00:02
Obituary: Dame Janet Vaughan00:02
Short's blunder costs the game00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: Distasteful use of a bird dying in oil00:02
Bundesbank chides Bonn over spending00:02
Obituary: Dewey Weber00:02
Letter: Press abuses can harm democracy as much as curbs00:02
Letter: Discrimination in life as well as death00:02
Clinton back-tracks on tax pledge00:02
Police called in over council 'fraud' report00:02
INTERVIEW / In bed with A N Wilson: He may be sick, but he hasn't lost his sense of humour. A S Byatt, the Queen, Jesus - nobody is immune. Should anyone take it to heart?00:02
Last Guinness scandal trial begins00:02
Ofwat acts to end water companies' cross-subsidy00:02
ART / Openings00:02
The next Russian revolution: Dismemberment may be Russia's fate, and only a strong extremist leader will put it back together again, warns Peter Reddaway00:02
Rugby Union: Cote of many colours00:02
Law Report: Attempted rape came within definition of 'sexual offence': Regina v Robinson - Court of Appeal (Criminal Divisional) (Lord Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Potts and Mr Justice Judge), 27 November 199200:02
Football: Timely boost for Ipswich and Genchev00:02
Government compromise expected on NHS changes00:02
'IRA bomber' was tailed00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Racing: Racing reinforces relief mission: Chris Corrigan on how a sport is setting the pace with aid convoys to starving refugees00:02
Clarke plan 'threatens traditional policing': Reform of the police service00:02
Battle of the Airlines: Mysterious calls warned of delays and overbooking: Martyn Gregory reports on BA's 'dirty tricks' campaign, which he uncovered as producer/director of Thames Television's This Week programme00:02
Battle of the Airlines: How the dirty tricks campaign was run: Martyn Gregory reports on BA's 'dirty tricks' campaign, which he uncovered as producer/director of Thames Television's This Week programme00:02
Battle of the Airlines: King 'backed dirty tricks': BA staff hacked into Virgin computers and poached passengers00:02
Debt plan costs Heron 36m pounds00:02
Lloyds emerges worst in survey00:02
Deportees appeal to Arabs00:02
Health Update: Ageless at your eyelids' expense00:02
Chairman bought Aberdeen shares00:02
Cricket: Wright concerned by game's changing face: Derek Hodgson on why a former editor of Wisden is dissatisfied with the direction cricket has taken00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Smog alert00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Anniversaries00:02
UN may send aid by parachute00:02
New Faces for the New Year / Football: Pollock confirming Premier credentials: Guy Hodgson on the Middlesbrough midfielder who is aiming to continue his climb through the England ranks00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
View from City Road: Bitter pill for drugs firms00:02
Burma adjourns talks on new civilian constitution00:02
Trencherwood rescue00:02
Royal couple 'gave marriage details to rival papers'00:02
New Faces for the New Year / Football: Lambert wings his way up: Trevor Haylett on the Reading teenager with the brains to match his fine ball skills00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations Focus: Rock-steady England ready to roll: The championship starts on Saturday and the game at large will benefit. Steve Bale reports00:02
Skiing: Mahrer, the old man of the mountain, displays downhill mobility to distance his rivals00:02
Report urges DTI action against Murdoch nephew00:02
Health Update: Risks of the job00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
250,000 whites look to emigrate00:02
Bosnian Serbs given deadline by mediators00:02
Hollywood clears a tough year: Film takings are up despite bloodletting and cost-cutting, reports Phil Reeves00:02
'Human cargo' ship held by Singapore00:02
Battle of the Airlines: Rivalry that led to the humbling of 'world's favourite airline': Michael Harrison on the challenge that became an increasing annoyance to Lord King, a man used to getting his own way00:02
Infant deaths rise00:02
Obituary: Andrew Heard