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View from City Road: Making two business cultures compatible00:02
Letter: School tests: pluses and minuses00:02
Fleming Claverhouse seeks to raise 50m pounds00:02
Davy gave Warburg Greencore indemnity: Broker felt overseas firm 'would look better'00:02
THEATRE / Worth getting out of bed for: Sarah Hemming on the West End transfer of Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee and breakdowns on the Fringe00:02
Letter: Angry and restrained voices in the campaign against racism00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Sailing: Dalton's broadside fails to sink Smith: New Zealand skipper launches a personal attack on his Whitbread rival as strife hits life on the ocean wave00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Cricketer's Diary: Match of maximum megadrive00:02
Ombudsman attacks DSS for disability payments 'chaos': Delays in benefit processing were 'tantamount to maladministration'00:02
Pembroke: Boredom fuels recovery00:02
Rugby Union: Evans named best player00:02
Today's Number: 2800:02
Letter: Lib Dems' proposals for medical overhaul00:02
Exporters warned on cash flow00:02
Policeman fined00:02
Reed Elsevier offers pounds 280m for airlines guide: Inquiry likely into how announcement of deal was made to media before it appeared on Stock Exchange news service00:02
2.7m pounds in damages00:02
Broad sweep to save victims of deluge: Millions of companies worldwide are still generating a vast amount of paper. Tim Bowler reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Window of opportunity to boost your power: Adrian J Morant on the software that helps you get more from a PC00:02
Cocaine killing00:02
Letter: Failure to accept the facts about Labour00:02
Inchcape set to buy 81m pounds stake in Gestetner00:02
Long gallery of Elizabethan house provides the stage for time-honoured tuning ritual00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Bottom Line: Not much tread on Avon's shares00:02
THEATRE / Previews & First Nights00:02
Yeltsin sacks leading opponents of reform: Further dismissals are expected in Russian President's continuing struggle against diehard conservatives00:02
Obituary: Amos Niven Wilder00:02
Packer sells stake in bank: Speculation over possible acquisitions after Westpac deal nets pounds 45m profit00:02
Russia uses UN veto00:02
Mountain people back a maverick: The leader of Spain's Cantabria region is on trial for corruption and his government has run up massive debts. But he is still popular, writes Phil Davison in Santander00:02
Africa Aids cost00:02
Tennis: Britain buoyed up by Javer00:02
Trial halted by sleeping juror00:02
Military advisers' warnings on exports to Iraq ignored00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Market Report: Interest rate hopes lift shares out of doldrums00:02
Obituary: Rowland Hilder00:02
Germany seeks to put curbs on press00:02
Competition: A slice of the action00:02
GE talks lift hopes on GPA debt00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Easing the burden on body and mind: Employers are taking steps to guarantee a happy workforce by providing a healthy environment. Emma Daly reports00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Change of emphasis challenges managers: Purchasing decisions should focus on buying the right technology and involving staff where the decision affects them, writes Paul Gosling00:02
Court Circular00:02
Damages for former Yard chief00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: The hard choice over a pair of soft tops00:02
Rushdie wins firm backing from Major: Secret talks could worsen relations between Britain and Iran00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Once bitten . . .00:02
Birthdays00:02
Cricket: Surrey collapse in classic style00:02
Swan song00:02
Opera house wins top award00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Letter: School tests: pluses and minuses00:02
Cricket: Hampshire survive attack of hiccups00:02
Iran clamps down on clergy00:02
Football: Lazio veto Gascoigne's US tour00:02
Dockland nature reserves under threat of closure: Urban conservation pioneer fears grant loss will deal blow to wildlife sanctuaries00:02
Media: Zap] That's another pounds 1m down the tube: Advertisers are taking dramatic steps to stop us switching channels during their commercials. Meg Carter reports00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Trend away from paper accelerates: Adrian J Morant examines the latest steps leading towards the00:02
A teenage girl's passport to womanhood00:02
MUSIC / Reckoning with the popular P factor: Tess Knighton reviews Krzysztof Penderecki conducting the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall00:02
Racing: Tenby set for Derby short cut: The Dante Stakes can confirm Henry Cecil's colt as the hottest Epsom favourite of recent years00:02
Diary00:02
Table Tennis: English hopes lifted by Chen00:02
Brussels wary of Danish vote00:02
Gencor eyes Shell mining interests: Conglomerate plans share structure changes00:02
Swan shipyard future in doubt: MoD awards pounds 170m Navy contract to VSEL and Kvaerner Govan00:02
Bosnia dispute between Europe and US boils over00:02
Football: Fledgling Hill serves Tottenham food for thought: Cup finalists go through the motions in defeat as Premier League brings down the shutters on its inaugural season00:02
Board to consider funding options: Newspaper Publishing plans new investment00:02
Cricket: Essex experience second successive humiliation00:02
Everest climber takes oxygen: Altitude sickness threatens as storm rages00:02
Man who plotted career as serial killer is jailed: Victims fought off knife attacks by 'weedy' admirer of film villain Hannibal Lecter00:02
Architecture: 'Boys' Own' adventures in contemporary design00:02
Let's hear the people's voice: Local authorities should seize the opportunities presented by government reforms, says John Redwood00:02
Our plunge into the gene pool: Biological knowledge is about to change the world as we know it. So let the moral argument begin00:02
Law Report: Private prosecution not an abuse: Regina v Durham Magistrates' Court, Ex parte Davies - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Stuart- Smith and Mr Justice Judge), 7 May 199300:02
Motor Racing: Mansell fit for Indy 50000:02
UN 'needs more troops'00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: The most useful tool you can buy: The new generation of fax machines are a must for businesses, writes Steve Homer00:02
Disabled 'trapped by fear of crime'00:02
Some bills could rise by up to 75%00:02
Advisers urge nuclear waste plant delay delay on nuclear reprocessing: Sellafield's 2.8bn pounds reprocessing plant 'needs further safety tests'00:02
Strike threatens00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Networking means LANding: A quarter of the world's 100 million PCs are now linked and the number is rising. Tim Bowler looks at causes and effects00:02
Bottom Line: Building on recovery00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Architecture: The price of turning mud into gold: Cardiff's new seaside plans are spectacular, but do they really improve on nature? asks Nicholas Schoon00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: Home is host to new era of work: Self-discipline and control are proving to be essential attributes for the modern 'telecommuter', writes Emma Daly00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Laboratory closes00:02
Athletics: Gunnell goes gunning for her new goals: Britain's golden hurdler ups her work-rate as she prepares to take on the world again. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Lonely tie fight for Courage: Brewer pitted against own trade body in dispute over 'archaic' system00:02
The Bluffer's Briefing: Everest00:02
Where Brezhnev is still in vogue: Hugh Pope in Tashkent finds Central Asia's new republics slow to change00:02
EC thinks of changing merger policy00:02
Letter: Angry and restrained voices in the campaign against racism00:02
Letter: School tests: pluses and minuses00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Smith warned on voting reform: AEEU fears conspiracy by big unions00:02
GA underlines strong recovery: Insurer sparks hope of record profits00:02
Israel coalition gets reprieve00:02
Nadir guarantor ill00:02
How to fit 8.5 billion people on the globe00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympic Games00:02
Faces of 1993 go on show at Royal Society of Portrait Painters' annual exhibition00:02
Management: Control key to effective freedom00:02
Health authority executive suspended: Judy Jones reports on a health chief who appointed his wife to senior job and employed chauffeur00:02
Fire in Thailand toy factory leaves 210 dead: No alarms or fire escapes in buildings that collapsed within 15 minutes as 4,000 workers changed shifts00:02
Media Viewpoint: Gay rights: as not seen on TV00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
ART / Going the extra Maal: Baaba Maal has cracked the big entrance on the live stage; now he's set on making a big impression on world record sales. Chris Salewicz talked to the Senegalise singer and musician between shows00:02
Pit chiefs condemn pension funds proposal as 'immoral': Government accused over plan to withdraw pounds 481m of miners' cash00:02
The Daily Poem: Pigmy Thunder00:02
Chess: Polgar second best00:02
Letter: Angry and restrained voices in the campaign against racism00:02
BAT boost for financial services firms00:02
Erskine agrees to Alco bid: Shake-up in office equipment sector as Americans buy photocopier distributor00:02
View from City Road: British Gas appears to have lost its nerve00:02
Architecture Update: In Albert's defence00:02
Teachers still aim to boycott tests this year: Major backs Patten climbdown on pupil assessments but gives no reassurance over Lamont's future00:02
Cricket: Glamorgan fall under Salisbury's spell00:02
Gulf war hero opposes gays: General Schwarzkopf tells senators military is 'not the place for social experimentation'00:02
Obituary: Penelope Gilliatt00:02
Ruling party win reassures Paraguay army: Despite a split before the elections, the Colorados were able to muster enough support to see off their challengers, writes Colin Harding00:02
Hospitals a soft target for thieves and thugs: Managers told to curb crime which costs health service pounds 600m a year00:02
Slurry kills fish00:02
Bardot embraces the symbol of the French Republic00:02
Cricket: Yorkshire's balloon deflated by Capel00:02
Pepper spray tests00:02
Letter: School tests: pluses and minuses00:02
Football: Bates decides Webb is surplus to requirements: West London clubs climb aboard the managerial merry-go-round00:02
A gentle spot of insane optimism to brighten up your day00:02
The vicar, the laity and the job of holy management00:02
Group 4 offered extra prison escort duties despite escapes: Security company's much-publicised difficulties 'will not affect service's privatisation programme'00:02
Ivory Towers: Cockroaches by night00:02
Inside Parliament: Lamont misses out on prime ration of unequivocal support: Smith's challenges sidestepped at Question Time - Henhouse metaphor stumps Patten - Labour MPs look on the bright side - Rebellion in Lords00:02
Leading Article: Golden rewards for boardroom failures00:02
Architecture Update: Down the hatch00:02
Rock star pledges to donate proceeds of London concerts to Aids charity00:02
Calls to the Bar00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Working-class hero who followed the wrong leader: 'Harry Pollitt' - Kevin Morgan: Manchester University Press, 40 pounds00:02
Boers reach for the gun in defiance: A knife attack on a farmer has fuelled Afrikaner anger, writes Karl Maier from Carletonville00:02
Military advisers' warnings on exports to Iraq ignored00:02
View from City Road: French culture may fetter independent bank00:02
Leading Article: Voluntary tests, Mr Patten00:02
Muslims find peace in Serbia: The border allows an uneasy refuge, says Robert Block in Mali Zvornik00:02
SIB agrees sum for salesman00:02
Protestant fear 'used as excuse for killing': Church leader warns of new tensions in Ulster00:02
Setback for 'clean' image of Italy's ex-Communists: About 70 party members are under investigation, writes Patricia Clough in Rome00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Classic challenge00:02
Crime among the cookery and romantic fiction: Patrick Weir witnesses a thief indulge his wide-ranging tastes in the library00:02
TELEVISION / A fat lot of good00:02
Obituary: Valentina Grizodubova00:02
Television news item inspired death edict: Ayatollah's action followed report on protesters' deaths00:02
Leading Article: At long last, a show of support00:02
Water disconnection increases 'alarming': Ofwat says companies are resisting privatisation guidelines00:02
Driver fined00:02
Bitter fruits of Sudan's war within a war: Richard Dowden meets victims of a split in the Sudan People's Liberation Army00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Out of America: Exit 'Madame Mao', enter St Hillary00:02
Iraq opens border00:02
Police 'threatened Army place': Entry to Sandhurst 'delayed after attack by three drunken officers'00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: When money's not the only goal00:02
Letter: Literature under the hammer00:02
Football: Rangers are reliant on Allen: Cup finalists go through the motions in defeat as Premier League brings down the shutters on its inaugural season00:02
Japan rebuff00:02
Upturn in private housing reverses 18-month trend00:02
Tennis: Lendl loses his balance and falls to heavy defeat: The former world No 1 blames court after losing in first round of Italian Open while defending champion advances with minimum of fuss00:02
Letter: For afflicted parents00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics00:02
Allitt jury in hotel00:02
Bookstore finds refund scheme good for sales00:02
Player dealt perfect hand in spades00:02
RUC man tells of call from colleague: Inquest told of threats made on phone00:02
Media Types: Worth her weight in greasy pizza: The advertising PA00:02
Football bet nets punter 654,375 pounds00:02
Arthur Lee agrees 55m pounds Carclo bid: Merger will create Yorkshire steel products group with turnover of pounds 160m00:02
Police foil plot to murder Slovo: Communist Party leader says assassination plan points to right-wing 'desperation' over progress towards multi-racial state00:02
Obituary: Paul Bird00:02
Special Report on Office Automation: A movable feast of new technology: Steve Homer explains how to make the most of the mobile revolution on a limited budget00:02
Obituary: Professor Robert Serjeant00:02
Unigate postpones US flotation: Restaurant chain proceeds would have been used to reduce debt from00:02
Obituary: Lord Ross of Newport