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Easier does it for Siemens: Simplified processes are paying off. John Eisenhammer reports from Munich00:02
Bass plans to sell 400 pubs00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Light on Prince of Darkness: The Chatto Book of the Devil - ed Francis Spufford, pounds 15.99; A History of God - Karen Armstrong: Heinemann, pounds 16.9900:02
Rate denial00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Bunhill: Blacklisted00:02
BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning - Paul Davies: Penguin, pounds 6.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / To kowtow or not - it's the Chinese puzzle: The collision of two civilisations - Alain Peyrefitte, trs Jon Rothschild: Harvill, pounds 20; The Lion and the Dragon - Aubrey Singer: Barrie & Jenkins, pounds 18.9900:02
Price rise00:02
Wheway in pledge to new chief00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Brook cuts Debussy down to sighs: Pelleas et Melisande - Tramway Theatre - Glasgow; Don Pasquale - ENO; Festival of Britten - Barbican; The Turn of the Tide - City of London Sinfonia00:02
Borrowing burden less than expected00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: A Double Life - Frederic Raphael: Orion, pounds 14.9900:02
This TV duck's no canard: Darkwing's mission is to win back the missing viewers, writes Martin Wroe00:02
Football: McCoist explodes myth of creation: As Rangers return to European Cup action this week, David McKinney talks to their prolific striker00:02
DAF managers' bid00:02
Football: Yorke's strike is Villa's delight00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Tories try to make coal deal with Ulster MPs00:02
City File: No worries00:02
Seeking peace00:02
What's Gone Wrong? Watching with mother00:02
How We Met: Naim Attallah and Richard Ingrams00:02
Football: United grateful for inspiration of Giggs00:02
Letter: Hysteria does not remove the need to prove guilt00:02
World health chief faces fraud inquiry: Michael Sheridan in Geneva reports on a growing row over the WHO director's re-election tactics (CORRECTED)00:02
The Prince takes on inner-city decay: Last week, the Prince of Wales made a powerful attack on unemployment and housing. Stephen Castle reports00:02
Property law is theft, say lords of land: Marianne Macdonald on the proposed help for leaseholders that has upset landowners00:02
Letter: UN aid ban was worth backing00:02
What's Gone Wrong? For 'primary school in citizenship' just read borstal: The latest thinking on what to do with young offenders is hardly new. The ideas were first mooted 150 years ago, as Nick Cohen reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: The Penguin Book of Latin American Short Stories - ed Thomas Colchie, pounds 6.9900:02
Investigation at Trafalgar00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Art, slavery and empires of the mind: Culture and Imperialism - Edward W Said: Chatto, pounds 2000:02
City File: BICC00:02
All you need is faith, Major tells the party00:02
Football: Robert Frederick Moore, 1941-1993: When pessimism didn't exist: The age00:02
What's Gone Wrong? How families can prevent delinquency: Studies show that abusive and inadequate parents distracted by poverty are to blame for juvenile crime, writes David Utting00:02
Bunhill00:02
Athletics: McKoy denies Jackson winning double: Mike Rowbottom reports from Birmingham00:02
Clinton pledges hunt for Trade Centre bombers00:02
Thousands wait to file appeals on council tax: Paul Gosling on the grounds for moving into a lower band00:02
HEALTH / Common Remedies: Drugs to prevent vomiting00:02
Opinions: Were you brought up well?00:02
Fashion stars who won't wear Britain: Roger Tredre explains why our top designers are quitting London and having their shows abroad00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Misogynist messiah's number one fan: The Devil at large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller: Chatto, pounds 1600:02
Banks put heat on charities: As some voluntary groups are asked to start paying account charges, Andrew Bibby investigates the alternatives00:02
No song like an old song - thank goodness00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
FILM / Search for oil strikes gold: Lorenzo's Oil (12); Honeymoon in Vegas (12); Under Siege (15); Romper Stomper (18); Leon the Pig Farmer (15)00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Your Money: BES turned to repossessions00:02
ROCK / Is she lonesome tonight: Friday is the 30th anniversary of Patsy Cline's death. Why are we still playing 'Crazy' after all these years? Mary Harron explains00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Haute cuisine for kids: Want to try my saumon cru, daddy? Michael Bateman and daughter at a top French chef's class for children00:02
Welfare 'favours the middle class'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Lost world of Southern comforts: The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court - Peter Taylor: Chatto, pounds 14.9900:02
Higher aid to invalids still frozen: Women have yet to get same benefits as men, writes Andrew Bibby00:02
Twinkle, twinkle, little stars: Some take early fame in their stride. Growing out of it has turned others into drug addicts. Beverley D'Silva looks at the pros and cons of letting children perform (CORRECTED)00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Letter: Writers fight for Chinese prisoner00:02
Robert Frederick Moore, 1941-1993: A master of the defensive arts: The player00:02
Cricket: 'Gower should have gone': Comprehensive defeat by India leaves a question mark hanging over the English method: Club cricketers at the Oval's indoor nets give their views on the tour debacle to Niall Edworthy00:02
ART MARKET / Suffering for his art00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Sir Michael Bishop00:02
Boxing: Hide too good for Murray00:02
BBC helps its chief to avoid tax: Exclusive: Birt's salary paid to his private company00:02
Bunhill00:02
Housing hope offered to redundant soldiers: Those leaving the forces may find it hard to obtain a mortgage but now there is help at hand. Mary Wilson reports00:02
Leading Article: What's Gone Wrong? It must be someone's fault - it might be our own00:02
Somali deal00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
IRA bomb blast hurts 18 in high street crowded with shoppers00:02
What's Gone Wrong? Just another family under fire: Kath Kelly says she knows what's right and wrong, but could not teach the difference to her out-of-control son. Linda Grant hears why00:02
Rugby League: Fallon begins to exercise his power00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Not the very model of a major life in general: Gilbert and Sullivan - Michael Ffinch: Weidenfeld, pounds 2000:02
What's Gone Wrong? Some try to understand, others just condemn00:02
Letter: De Gaulle was no special friend00:02
Beauty of bleeding Heart of Wales00:02
Kim goes public00:02
Short's breakaway may be a blunder00:02
City File: Well backed00:02
What's Gone Wrong? It was the worst of times: Was it better in the Fifties when we had families and values? Perhaps it was, but two writers now have very different memories of childhood00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Football: Saints on the march00:02
Athletics: Up to town for a spot of cross-country00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Silver voice, steely core: Elisabeth Schumann: A Biography - Gerd Perutz: Deutsch, pounds 2500:02
Football: Case proved for testing the next best00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Universities free to 'dump' art burden00:02
Virtual Euro-factory isn't humming yet00:02
G7 launches team effort for jobs00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Football: Adams has last laugh00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
DANE / Sex, violence and the turn of the screws: V-Tol - Eden Court Theatre, Inverness; Motionhouse - The Dome, Leeds00:02
Bunhill: Obsession00:02
What's Gone Wrong? It was the best of times: Was it better in the Fifties when we had families and values? Perhaps it was, but two writers now have very different memories of childhood00:02
What's Gone Wrong? Signs of the times00:02
What's Gone Wrong? The Left, right and wrong: Tony Blair tells Donald Macintyre why Labour is now the party of law and order00:02
Whites taste apartheid's shame: John Carlin in Pretoria talks to impoverished Afrikaners who must swallow their pride and seek charity hand-outs00:02
Innovation: Rich prospects by satellite snap: Mining groups are using images from space to seek out resources throughout the world00:02
ARTS / Show People: Dance rebel without a corps: 66. Emilyn Claid00:02
SCIENCE / Back to a plague-ridden future: As viruses mutate to beat modern drugs, new epidemics of old illnesses threaten. Sharon Kingman investigates00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Rugby Union: Waterloo accuse Quins of 'sharp practice'00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Cricket: The culture of the poolside: Comprehensive defeat by India leaves a question mark hanging over the English method: It's not just that they lost. It's the way they responded. Richard Williams on the roots of the tourists' malaise00:02
Letter: Hysteria does not remove the need to prove guilt00:02
A city acts up: Fate always picks on Liverpool. It's as if they expect it there now, mugged by one disaster after another until a peculiar kind of martyrdom has become part of the municipal character00:02
ARTS / All the angles: Farce or tragedy, stage or screen - no role seems beyond Maggie Smith. Just nominated for her umpteenth Bafta award, she is about to take her handbag to Lady Bracknell00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
THE BROADER PICTURE / Being different and the same00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Profile: The alchemist from ICI: Ronnie Hampel's job is to refine the demerged giant and turn it back into gold. David Bowen reports00:02
Then & Now: Corrective debt00:02
Bunhill00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Beds, nobs and broomsticks: Queen of the Witches - Jessica Berens: Hutchinson, pounds 13.9900:02
Semtex seized00:02
Victims of a sunshine fraudster: Britons are being bullied and deceived by a timeshare firm in Tenerife. Phil Davison and Michael Prestage report (CORRECTED)00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: A mugger's game00:02
Cricket: Fletcher quick to jump to the defence of his players00:02
TRAVEL / Love, peace and credit cards only: Hippiedom lives on at Sami Sun-child's hotel in Frisco, as Tony Perrottet finds00:02
Hands-on spells danger00:02
Rugby Union: Exeter outclassed in Underwood's finishing school00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Prisoners a step nearer to having condoms00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Cricket: Who do we turn to now?: Comprehensive defeat by India leaves a question mark hanging over the English method: As Graham Gooch's tenure as captain nears its end Simon Hughes looks at the likely candidates to succeed him00:02
Industrial tin soldiers get their marching orders: A new book says that a service mentality will soon be indispensable in business. Roger Trapp reports00:02
ROCK / Will the real Eric stand up?00:02
Warranty may not give a run for your money: Used-car buyers often find that extended cover is of limited value00:02
What's Gone Wrong? How other countries deal with young criminals00:02
What's Gone Wrong? The age of the little emperors: Baby-Knows-Best parenting is creating a self-centred generation, with little sense of responsibility, says Geraldine Bedell00:02
Tribute to James00:02
What's Gone Wrong? I was on the knife-edge of the Underclass00:02
The little bits of history the Abbey misses00:02
Football: Dorigo hits the spot00:02
RADIO / Ain't no waves without wind00:02
Strangeways riot fugitive 'guilty'00:02
Police catch hideaway boy00:02
Drop in profits expected for Abbey National00:02
Channel station plans on wrong track, BR told00:02
Motor insurance market still reflects 1971 crash00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Over-exposed flash that comes to naught: f/32 the second coming - Eurudice: Virago, pounds 5.9900:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
TELEVISION / But the malady lingers on00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: Season of the Rainbirds - Nadeem Aslam: Deutsch, pounds 12.9900:02
Guinness defendants seek reversals of verdicts following Ward acquittal00:02
Italians face the end of the good life as corruption lays low the body politic00:02
Letter: Flying in the face of common sense00:02
Management Training: Risk in the great outdoors: Tragedy has put a question mark over the value of development courses00:02
Economics: Self-interest rules as G7 drifts apart00:02
Three die in pile-up00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
Football: Big freeze at Palace00:02
The triumph of the tortoise00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Nuclear family fall-out: Before and after - Rosellen Brown: Hodder, pounds 14.9900:02
Serbs fire on 1,500 refugees00:02
Ministers suppress N-waste warning00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Rupert grovels at the Palace00:02
Rugby Union: Two in a row for Melrose00:02
Bunhill: Legal purge00:02
Public Services Management: Disunited nations: Paul Gosling tells the one about differences between councils in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Sic transit gloria Garrick00:02
City File: Fisons00:02
Row brews over steel industry cuts00:02
City: ICI steers away from road to oblivion00:02
Bonds00:02
BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: Trading with the Enemy - John Sweeney: Pan, pounds 5.9900:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
So what happens next? Search me00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Time Warner shakes up board00:02
UK video firms face Blockbuster threat00:02
THEATRE / Edge of darkness, or Bleasdale's apocalypse now: On the Ledge - Playhouse, Nottingham; On the Piste - Garrick; Karenina - Tricycle; Coaldust Affair - Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
MOTORING / It's official: size doesn't matter: The concept is what counts in the new generation of vehicles, writes Roger Bell00:02
ART / Exhibitions: Whaam] Pop] The bubble bursts: Comic books could give Roy Lichtenstein style, but not substance. A retrospective at Liverpool's Tate charts his progress to immaturity00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
ROCK / Great Belly with a dreadful Sting in the tale00:02
The Independent on Sunday / Guinness writing competition results00:02
Rugby Union: Scots blessed with quick wit00:02
Shares: Born again stalwarts look lively00:02
Letter: Hysteria does not remove the need to prove guilt00:02
Hindu zealots find an avenging angel: An Amazon who loves Barbie dolls is spurring women to communal violence. Tim McGirk reports from New Delhi00:02
PROPERTY / The roof put the lid on it: Bungled work by a roofer claiming that he belonged to an association drove one couple to move house00:02
Rugby Union: Wasps take a strong hold00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: French beat British in telephone sex00:02
Football: The XI00:02
TRAVEL / Memorable Journeys: The first Chinese restaurant: Michael Wood: From Xi'an along the Yellow River00:02
The best and worst: Big savings with small lenders - Mortgage lenders00:02
Big Apple's terrorist history00:02
Hurd in Rock talks00:02
Fishing lines: Damart Man prepares for an icy ordeal00:02
Football: Stuttering Wednesday rescued by Anderson00:02
City File: Ladbroke loses pounds 150m on property00:02
BOOKS / Great Brain Spotter: The list of past members of Philip Hobsbaum's writing classes reads like a Who's Who of modern literature. How has he managed it?00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook00:02
Baby, Baby, Baby: Paula Yates, the rock chick who married Bob Geldof and interviews people in bed, has set herself up as an expert on motherhood. Is she serious, or is she just flirting with it, the way she does with everything else?00:02
Q & A: Hares, hounds, Harriers . . . and the own-goal maestro00:02
Football: Sheringham in dominant style00:02
City: Slapped down00:02
Letter: On a false trail00:02
GARDENING / Foiling the spies next door: Do nosy neighbours spoil your fun? Put up a pergola, suggests Helen Chappell00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook00:02
BOOKS / Wings on her fingers00:02
Letter: Labour: the rebels without a clause00:02
TRAVEL / The invisible Manhattan: New York's top hotels are so discreet you can't find them, writes Michael Leapman00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
FASHION / Craftwork: Sometimes a flat surface just isn't enough . . the new hippie dressing has brought with it a new bunch of young designers who use traditional craft skills to make individual clothing00:02
KGB lifts lid on the world's dirty weapons: Patrick Cockburn in Washington on the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological arms00:02
Smith to press for a new Justice Ministry00:02
Airbus talks00:02
Racing: Lad leaves Upson in a National dilemma: Greg Wood reports from Kempton00:02
Rugby Union: Wily Shelford plots Moseley's demise00:02
Mrs Craddock dons Britannia's robes00:02
Barclays expected to report a loss: Bad debt provisions of pounds 2.3bn to wipe out rise in operating profits00:02
Rugby Union: Hastings honed for battle: Guy Hodgson meets the Scotland captain who goes in pursuit of a Triple Crown at Twickenham on Saturday00:02
PROPERTY / An owner's guide to logo-land: A federation badge may not guarantee that a builder does good work - or is even a member. Caroline McGhie on trade associations00:02
2001: Australia's republican odyssey looms: Robert Milliken reports from Sydney on Keating's target date for severing links with the Queen00:02
Lamont rules out interest rate cuts00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Passages from India00:02
Bunhill: Making amends for sorry apology00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Girls who rock that role: She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll - Gillian G Gaar: Blandford, pounds 14.9900:02
Letter: Labour: the rebels without a clause00:02
Football Round-up: Bodin gives Hoddle a lift00:02
BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: A Journey into the Red Eye - Janice Markey: Women's Press, pounds 7.9900:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
Teletext changes00:02
Hazards in the currency game: Disclosure by Shell of a dollars 200m loss highlights the perils of dealing. Russell Hotten reports00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Football: Improved City turn the dimmer switch on Forest's glimmer of hope00:02
Football: Board to give kick-ins a try00:02
Letter: Racism is the real issue in LA law00:02
BP gas find00:02
High stakes play on the waterfront: Nick Gilbert on the Taiwan boys with a dream for Battersea00:02
Football: Millar sets up thriller00:02
Cairo bomb00:02
BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: Vox - Nicholson Baker: Granta, pounds 4.9900:02
What's Gone Wrong? Interview: Victor, a hero for our time: Richard Wilson: Old misery-guts in the record-breaking sitcom 'One Foot in the Grave' has become the voice of a bewildered society, says Geraldine Bedell