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The recession is over . . . but you might not notice: Richard Thomson examines the history of our biggest post-war slump - and the snags that could slow the recovery00:02
Deaths00:02
Designer mouse may help diabetics00:02
Then & now00:02
Letter: Therapy helps adults rebuild the past00:02
Bitter pill for Hamlet or Don Quixote: Pope Paul VI by Peter Hebblethwaite: HarperCollins pounds 3500:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Card fee waived for a chosen few00:02
Fishing Lines: Reeling off a tuna with the bass00:02
CINEMA / All in the best possible taste: The film treats the flesh-eating as a necessary evil, something to be got over with00:02
Top award to column00:02
King trial jurors confront guilty policeman on TV00:02
Patten aims to break boycott00:02
Contemporary poets: 30 Michael Hofmann00:02
The Sunday Preview: Dance00:02
THEATRE / A post-Communist Kafka00:02
Bottom-line guarantee: The move from a successful start-up to an established company is one of the hardest tasks in business - and largely accounts for the high failure rate in small businesses00:02
Brussels boost for treaty 'no' vote (CORRECTED)00:02
Bunhill: U-turn00:02
BOOK REVIEW / National health disservice: When illness strikes the leader - Jerrold M Post & Robert S Robins: Yale pounds 19.9500:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Racing: Mighty Zafonic zooms from zero to hero00:02
Exhibitions: Carving up a fortune: Henry Moore's foundation has been spending again on a new pounds 5m sculpture gallery in Leeds. But is the money being used wisely?00:02
Overheard00:02
Football: Millwall's dream ends00:02
Bridge00:02
Letter: Campaign for cheaper select committees starts here00:02
Pollution capital to process Iraqi N-waste: The UN aims to get rid of Saddam's war materials at a Russian city dubbed the earth's most contaminated place, reports Steve Boggan00:02
The Troubleshooter maps a new path for managers: John Harvey-Jones has put his sensible thoughts in print, writes Roger Trapp00:02
Cricket: Hooper holds the fort00:02
Letter: DNA discovered by deduction00:02
How we met: Jonathan Meades and Harry Dodson00:02
DANCE / Triple treat00:02
Health: Common complaints: Colic00:02
School gang stabbing00:02
Letter: What children need from men00:02
Burton still paying former executives (CORRECTED)00:02
Travel: On the vac track: Student travellers always breach the world's new frontiers. In his holiday guide for the long vacation, Simon Calder discovers the five most fashionable destinations and cut-price deals to take you there00:02
City File: Read between the lines at Pentos00:02
The rise and fall of AZT: It was the drug that had to work. It brought hope to people with HIV and Aids, and millions for the company that developed it. It had to work. There was nothing else. But for many who used AZT - it didn't00:02
Travel: On the vac track: Student travellers always breach the world's new frontiers. In his holiday guide for the long vacation, Simon Calder discovers the five most fashionable destinations and cut-price deals to take you there00:02
Anti-terror laws to be tightened00:02
The story we couldn't cover: Ian Jack, the editor of the 'Independent on Sunday', on the battle for the 'Observer'00:02
Boxing: The Brit they just can't make out: Lennox Lewis is confounding the American boxing scene as he prepares for the first defence of his world heavyweight title against Tony Tucker on Saturday. Jonathan Rendall reports from Las Vegas00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Our man in where-was-it?: The high flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare: Harvill pounds 14.99/ pounds 9.9900:02
Scrap the industrial spy00:02
Hume steers for peace in risky waters00:02
40 years of Hussein00:02
Rugby Union: Widnes show spirit, Wigan the mastery00:02
Letter: Why there is no such thing as a safe religion00:02
Rugby Union: Back flair lifts Cup for Tigers00:02
The Sunday Preview: A game of two halves00:02
Serbs face US military strikes00:02
Letter: Testing English at seven is too early00:02
Spain discovers El Factor Hillary: All eyes are on the candidates' wives in the run-up to the election. Phil Davison in Madrid on the pretenders to the throne of Second Lady00:02
Fraser talks00:02
Leading Article: Too many bullets in the bulletins00:02
Outrage and disbelief greet an Italian night of shame: Patricia Clough in Rome on the reaction to Bettino Craxi's escape from prosecution00:02
Rugby Union: Captain departs grand stage: John Hopkins sees Peter Winterbottom bow out in another Twickenham defeat00:02
Gatwick flights hit00:02
Tax check poses pension threat: Insurers fear baffled clients may fail the Inland Revenue's new test on relief. Maria Scott reports00:02
Manufacturing: A capital system to get ahead of Japan: With state help, UK research could revolutionise complex production processes00:02
Rock: Manchester's old flames blaze again: Ben Thompson experiences the reviving properties of new albums from The Fall and New Order00:02
Plane strikes aerial00:02
Travel: Student card? That'll do nicely00:02
Rugby Union: Bell's effort sets an example in the heat and smoke of battle: Charles Nevin watches another gallant challenge end in familiar frustration00:02
RADIO / Virgin on the inaudible00:02
Captain moonlight's notebook00:02
The Sunday Preview: Art00:02
Sport in Short: Judo00:02
TELEVISION / The ways of the jackal00:02
Football: Leicester in the light00:02
Cricket: No spring in these early-season steps00:02
Why this man murdered the president: Raymond Whitaker on the latest atrocity to stain the turbulent history of Sri Lanka00:02
US reports decline in terrorism00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
The Sunday Preview: Cinema00:02
Chess00:02
Motoring: Auto Biography: The Peugeot 306 IN 0-60 Seconds00:02
Football: Forever a hero in the hearts of Forest's faithful: The city of Nottingham paid its respects yesterday to a manager who became a monument. Richard Williams reports00:02
Science and Technology: Is there a gene for genius?: One is about to be tracked down, though thousands are probably involved. But early mental stimulation is equally essential to human intelligence. John McCrone reports00:02
Cricket: Graduates from Australia's hard school: Simon Hughes expects some of the less familiar faces in the tour party to play important roles in the Ashes series00:02
Opinions: Would you send your child to boarding school?00:02
Five hundred years of eating disorders 'reflect women's lack of power': Liz Hunt reports that anorexia and bulimia are not just creations of the 20th century but have roots in history00:02
Political Commentary: Smith should learn from Canute00:02
Books In Brief00:02
Bunhill: Counting the costs of counsel00:02
Football: Confident Sunderland00:02
Profile: Sweetie among cynics: Martyn Lewis: Top in a tough profession, he campaigns for good news and writes about cats. So why are the claws out for him? By Geraldine Bedell00:02
Rome 'open' for dissident Anglicans - Widdecombe00:02
Profile: Renaissance Manager: John Sculley of Apple is a harbinger of the new digital age. Larry Black reports from New York00:02
Football: Palace snatch precious gems00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Post-imperial distress signals: William Scammell reviews three know-it-all collections00:02
Inside story: Running the Mile: Last week's bomb focused attention on how an ancient institution copes with modern conditions. Brian Cathcart reports00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Travel: Thumbs up for hitch-hiking00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Video00:02
They'll sweat it out at the Palace00:02
The agreeable world of Wallace Arnold: Egg on my Bacon00:02
City: Gold rush will end in metal fatigue00:02
World shaker emerges at IMF: Michel Camdessus aims to achieve a stronger role for the bank in helping to rebuild economies in the East, writes Bailey Morris00:02
Pensions rule helps no one00:02
My Biggest Mistake00:02
Show People: . . . and a little understanding: 75. Mark Little00:02
PEPs to be friendlier to the smaller saver: Maria Scott on Family Assurance's plan to launch a pounds 7-a-month scheme00:02
When obsessive adoration turns into hate: Nick Cohen on the sinister haunting of the famous00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best films00:02
The Sunday Preview: Theatre00:02
The other side of the record companies' disc story00:02
Letter: The dangerous illusion that we must export more00:02
Collectables: Sleuthing for beginners: Research can do something more magical than date and value a favourite heirloom. It can bring an antique to life, and transport you back into the past. Art detective Madeleine Marsh explains how00:02
Underwriter attacks Lloyd's reforms00:02
Politician killed00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Books: Paperbacks00:02
Bombing amnesty00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Maverick is Golden Guru00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter on Asda wines00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best plays00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Oliver's new twist is no laughing matter: Sugar cane by Paul Bailey Bloomsbury pounds 14.9900:02
Football: The Anglo-Italian league falls short00:02
Letter: Dialect speakers00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A king among captains: Bobby Moore: The Life and Times of a Sporting Hero by Jeff Powell, Robson pounds 16.9500:02
Lloyds to penalise Access late-payers00:02
Bunhill: Prince of PR fails to attract Palace00:02
ROCK & JAZZ: When dinosaurs ruled the earth00:02
Japan warns00:02
Gunshot killed Briton at Waco00:02
Football: Boro's efforts in vain00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Mirror to quit Holborn HQ00:02
Letter: Therapy helps adults rebuild the past00:02
Besotted fan's attack on Seles stuns Graf00:02
Newbury's divas lead charge to Lib-Dems00:02
Travel: Summer jobs abroad: Time, but no money? Susan Griffith on working your way round the world00:02
Pearson chases TV stake in Hong Kong00:02
Agnew falls victim to revamp at Kleinwort: Banking group's chief executive to go as chairman responds to pressure for change00:02
Cinema: Go ahead - make your day: Hollywood plays with time again in Bill Murray's new film. Anthony Lane clocks on00:02
Even if they have to beat schoolboys senseless the rulers of Sudan will have their new society: Julie Flint in Khartoum on the reign of terror that is isolating a dictatorship bent on the total control of the people00:02
Texas bully-girl tactics hand the first round to Clinton's wimp: Patrick Cockburn in Houston on a woman whose clout could swing a Senate race00:02
Economics: A prophet of gloom takes Golden Guru00:02
Real Life: A beady eye on the Sixties: Diana Athill tells Tony Gould how sex and 'misplaced maternity' led to the unlikely liaisons of her middle-age00:02
Football: Eeles and Baker leave Halifax with unequal battle for League survival: The tale of two teams fearing for their League future ended happily for Gillingham yesterday. Owen Slot reports00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Please, Mr Alden, just listen to the score00:02
Serbs' brave face fails to disguise the pain of war00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A gift horse with a nasty bite: Gifts by Nuruddin Farah, Serif pounds 9.9900:02
The Broader Picture: Freedom fighting00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best exhibitions00:02
The workers of the world unite in May Day protests00:02
Brussels boost for treaty 'no' vote (CORRECTED)00:02
Letter: Why there is no such thing as a safe religion00:02
Design: Material Worlds: Plastic: Shaping reality: We live in a plastic world: this old sneer expresses a basic truth. From Bic razors to artificial hearts, Swatch watches to jetliners, modern life is moulded by the stuff00:02
Longleat fortune00:02
Letter: Museum pieces00:02
Faith, hope and justice please00:02
De Savary after St James clubs: Property tycoon talks to Queens Moat about buying back hotels00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Treasury fears Major will reject cutbacks00:02
Weed that grows like, er, weeds00:02
Letter: Stop the claws00:02
Letter: Good tenants00:02
Travel: Pile 'em high and sleep 'em cheap00:02
Records00:02
Football: Calamity James sees red00:02
Letter: Islam does not oppress women00:02
Football: Clough bids the saddest farewell00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Stoic of fag-end years: Last Poems by Roy Fuller: Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 14.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Awe mined from Calcutta00:02
Subsidence without high subsidy: New guide aims to stem costly and unnecessary work, writes Roger Trapp00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Food & Drink: Eight chefs in search of a title: They were asked to make six identical crepes, bone a saddle of lamb - and that was just in the early rounds. Michael Bateman helps judge the Young Chef of the Year00:02
The Sunday Preview: Jazz00:02
City to roll out carpet for Sir Phil: Jason Nisse previews the stock market flotation of Carpetright, which has been turned round by Sir Philip Harris and Derek Hunt00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A war by any other name . . .: War machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age by Daniel Pick, Yale pounds 19.9500:02
Cricket: Curtis steady but dull00:02
Business Information service: This week00:02
Letter: First-class travel00:02
When a man's got to go . . .00:02
Zambia mourns its friends and football heroes: Mike Hall reports from a grief-stricken Lusaka after one of Africa's worst sporting disasters00:02
Suicide bomber murders president of Sri Lanka00:02
Banks to chase Walker's family to recover debts00:02
Apartheid's fanatic in a polka-dot frock: John Carlin investigates what lies behind the English-style respectability exuded by some of South Africa's far-right00:02
Property: House-hunters from Hell: Does a buyer's market give viewers an excuse to leave manners outside the door? Rosalind Russell, a seller who survived, reviews the evidence00:02
Letter: Campaign for cheaper select committees starts here00:02
Cricket Round-Up: Gooch's 100th century00:02
Man held over fatal shootings00:02
Mayday] Things are radically different: These days, says Alex Renton, only their optimism unites groups of the Marxist Left00:02
Black and white unite in grief: As a racially mixed group protests at the killing of a black teenager in south-east London, Cal McCrystal finds an area keen to rebut its reputation00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mouth and trousers: Mick Jagger: Primitive Cool by Christopher Sandford; Gollancz pounds 16.9900:02
Put a stamp on the company message: Public relations by post offers an alternative to spending on advertising. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Snooker: White lines up repeat of 1992 final00:02
Owen confident peace is close00:02
Real Life: Fear of flaring: Who dares, wears. Geraldine Bedell on the shock return of the trousers from hell00:02
Loyalists kill man in error00:02
Public Services Management: Sponsor a student: Sarah Hegarty reports on the revival of a scheme to encourage graduates to take up careers in local government00:02
Kidnap remand00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Tennis: Bates and Petchey find rhythm00:02
Letter: England a republic?00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Shares: A blue-chip bundle for all seasons00:02
Letter: Reduction of team size00:02
Drive to reduce burden of audit00:02
Andrew Neil sued00:02
Thinner pickings on hand in the endowment stakes: Bonus payments are being scaled down, writes Vivien Goldsmith00:02
BA questioned00:02
Letter: The dangerous illusion that we must export more00:02
Rugby Union: No retreat from the march of professionalism00:02
Smoked out00:02
Cricket: Hampshire succumb to Caddick00:02
Yeltsin's foes riot on the streets of Moscow00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Top City firms spurn third BT share sell-off00:02
The Sunday Preview: Opera00:02
Tax Relief: Moving outcry on relocations: Companies say limits in Finance Bill would fall far below costs. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Football Round-Up: Rangers collect another trophy00:02
Defeated PM shoots himself00:02
Poll predicts Lib-Dem victory in Newbury00:02
Q & A: referee's deflating times . . . . . and the art of the gaffer00:02
Keen on Fruit: Gooseberries & Currants00:02
The Sunday Preview: Rock00:02
Fashion: Down beat00:02
Iraq denies plot00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Sport in Short: Equestrianism00:02
Saying of the week00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Bunhill: Equity gap00:02
Largesse from boardrooms: Public anger has done nothing to halt huge salary hike for top executives. Russell Hotten reports00:02
Letter: Vision of Britain00:02
Cast hit back as the sun sets on Eldorado: The screen stars and crew of television's most battered soap pour out their hearts to Ian MacKinnon00:02
When intervention only creates the next disaster00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mummy's boy to the end: The novels of E M Forster, with their glinting observations on love, money, property and death, continue to surprise. But can a new biography tell us anything we don't know?00:02
Cricket: Tufnell triggers collapse00:02
Letter: How long is a piece of string?00:02
Tripping in the rain00:02
Cricket: Graduates from Australia's hard school: Simon Hughes expects some of the less familiar faces in the tour party to play important roles in the Ashes series00:02
Seles stabbing heightens fears over fans who stalk players: Brian Cathcart reports on the anxiety gripping tournament organisers following the attack