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TELEVISION / BRIEFING: A smooth ride to nowhere special00:02
Rape conviction00:02
Russian hope00:02
British holidaymakers to benefit from devaluation of peseta and escudo00:02
Law Update: Board blunder00:02
Lloyd's members win High Court victory over agents00:02
Business & City in Brief00:02
Bottom Line: Plenty in store at Grand Met00:02
France stays firm on Gatt00:02
Letter: An exceptional leader for exceptional times00:02
People: Going Dutch on LSD00:02
Did someone die just then, or what?: 'Griefwork' - James Hamilton-Paterson: Jonathan Cape, 14.99 pounds00:02
Leading Article: A small shift in Paris on world trade talks00:02
New name00:02
Out of Russia: Vladimir plays the bagpipes00:02
Home Computer: Backing a hunch on the Performa: Nicholas Timmins opens the book on apple's new range for the home user; Apple Performa00:02
Nadir flight 'financed by mother'00:02
Devaluations expected to end months of ERM turmoil: Danish Maastricht polls ease pressure on currency system00:02
First Night: Train spotters take an alternative journey: The Joy of Return00:02
Today's Number: 33200:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sailing: Warden Owen on course00:02
Football: Clark prepares to exercise his powers of persuasion: Phil Shaw reports on the task facing the man who has taken over the reins at Nottingham Forest from his former mentor00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Spreading strikes00:02
Next week in Parliament00:02
Prisoner's challenge00:02
O&Y bankruptcy threat00:02
Workers foresee bleak future outside shipyard: Malcolm Pithers finds little optimism among Swan Hunter employees facing redundancy in what is already an area of high unemployment00:02
FILM / Those tomato salad days: Sheila Johnston on Leolo and the rest of this week's releases00:02
Patten abused00:02
TELEVISION / All they want is a second chance: A good script, great actors and a director to die for are no guarantees of a follow-up series. After all, they gave Trainer a second run. Sabine Durrant reports00:02
Catherine Deneuve arriving at the festival palace in Cannes00:02
Bottom Line: Land Securities finds solid ground00:02
Cricket: Robinson's prolific patch00:02
South-west 'has lowest rate of UK murders': Survey looks at cause of deaths in Europe00:02
Army to reduce Belize garrison00:02
Recession has German car makers reeling00:02
Public inquiry into school trip deaths rejected: Instructors warned company of canoeing dangers 10 months before tragedy in bay00:02
Dirty dancing drives Tokyo crowds crazy: British company teams up with Japanese to turn porno peep shows into pop entertainment00:02
Increase in tea price boosts James Finlay00:02
Nicotine patches 'can work'00:02
53 miners missing00:02
Swan Hunter calls in the receivers: Last shipyard on the Tyne at risk along with 7,000 jobs after loss of crucial warship order00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Football / Non-League Notebook: Wright words rile Rhyl00:02
Britain is still a little fish in the big backwater of Brussels00:02
Nurse found guilty of murdering two babies: Jury out for third night in Beverly Allitt case00:02
VIDEOS / Coming soon to a store near you00:02
Burton has to recruit as redundancy scheme goes wrong: Stronger sales help to push clothing retailer to 13% rise in interim profits00:02
Football: Venables fears for his future at Tottenham: Spurs' chief executive suspects Alan Sugar of wanting to assume control at White Hart Lane while Everton appear ripe for takeover bid00:02
Court Circular00:02
Letter: Happy to draft the Royal Family's complaint00:02
Tennis: Chesnokov holds nerve to oust Becker: Muscovite ends German's revival in a 'shoot-out' at the Italian Open00:02
BT freezes directors' pay after profits fall: Expected pension fund surplus fails to materialise as voluntary redundancy costs top pounds 1bn00:02
Equestrianism: Edgar overcomes injury00:02
Cricket: Gower offsets the dour00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
View from City Road: A different kind of ERM turmoil00:02
Law Update: Ship mates00:02
Keep it in court00:02
Home Computer: The Macintosh, dummy]00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Law Update: Food for thought00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead - The Derby00:02
Diplomats walk across the border to freedom: Afghan tribal leader releases three hostages unconditionally after 23 days00:02
Gunman takes infants hostage: Man with pistol holds up nursery school children in smart Paris suburb 'purely for ransom'00:02
UN troops to quit Iraq00:02
Cricket: McCague paces himself00:02
Mid-East talks end on note of hope00:02
Law Update: Fewer appointments00:02
Early end for effort to keep non-violent offenders out of jail: The short-lived Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a radical reform - and some think it was not given time to work. Heather Mills reports00:02
Obituary: Dame Freya Stark00:02
Saudi crackdown00:02
Leading Article: Luddite fears old and new00:02
Earnings-related fines scrapped: Second government U-turn as Clarke abolishes key parts of 1991 Act and Cabinet sets law and order programme00:02
Cotswold town calls foul on fair: Gypsies gathered at Stow-on-the-Wold are alarming the Volvo-driving classes. Will Bennett reports00:02
Obituary: Robert Adley00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Baker rejects contempt ruling: Former minister says he had judicial immunity in asylum case00:02
Leading Article: The long retreat from personal responsibility00:02
Sports Listings: Saturday / Rallying: Manx National Rally, Isle of Man00:02
Shell's first quarter up 25% to 971m pounds00:02
Parliamentary Questions: Written Replies00:02
How success turned into disaster00:02
Cricket: Border still in the grip of the grumps: All's well for Sussex's Wells00:02
View from City Road: Pointless pursuit of Polly assets00:02
US rethink on arming Muslims00:02
GPA board's future in doubt: Ryan to quit as chief executive after dollars 1.35bn rescue of aircraft leasing group00:02
Conservatives Meet In Scotland: Forsyth condemned for his criticisms over health and safety laws00:02
Anniversaries00:02
THEATRE / After the flood: Paul Taylor reviews He Who Saw Everything00:02
Pembroke: A ringing reply00:02
Diary00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Home Computer: The Apple of the fashionable user's eye: Is the darling of 'chip-lit' classes as good as its image? David Hewson spells out why the Macintosh still has the edge for its adoring club of users00:02
Letter: Happy to draft the Royal Family's complaint00:02
Play the game, point the finger00:02
You can do anything but don't step on my Elvis 78s00:02
MUSIC / Moved by waves: RPO / Handley - Royal Festival Hall00:02
Letter: Determining a just reward for executives00:02
Germans see echo of past in Yugoslavia00:02
Schools: Sussex House School00:02
Letter: Development problems from Cardiff Bay to Dockland00:02
The Daily Poem: Fingers00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Babies 'at risk as HIV cases undetected'00:02
Why Seven-Up bottled out of the Gaza franchise: A Palestinian family's soft-drinks enterprise was built up and cast down by the fortunes of war. Dependence on Israel exacted a cruel price00:02
Majestic Monet sells for pounds 6.5m: Impressionist work was sold in New York despite the pundits' doubts. Geraldine Norman reports00:02
Consumer price rise depresses US shares00:02
Obituary: Penelope Gilliatt00:02
Letter: Agriculture and Anti-Asian violence00:02
Japan's threat00:02
Law: Managing to set standards: Sharon Wallach looks at the research behind the Law Society's new practice methods00:02
British map out the future of Bosnia00:02
Murder charge00:02
Norwich faces quiz over detectives00:02
Life-support machines stopped by power cut00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Lex plans ignite motor sector: Dealer raises funds for 100m pounds expansion00:02
Football: Smithard seals cup for Leeds00:02
Market Report: Unsettled traders show surge of interest in metals00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell enters new territory00:02
Power sought to privatise jobs in Scottish Office00:02
NUT vote for test boycott is overwhelming: Union leaders dismiss 'futile' attempts to continue testing00:02
UN helicopter shot down after mercy mission: British forces rescue French aircrew from crowd of 'drunken' Croat militiamen in central Bosnia00:02
A backbencher who always made the most of it00:02
Black moves to lift stake in Fairfax00:02
New by-election challenge adds to Tory worries: Death of Robert Adley makes Conservative majority of 23,000 a target for Lib Dems00:02
Letter: Development problems from Cardiff Bay to Dockland00:02
Peseta devaluation puts Spanish PM in danger00:02
New hospital opens00:02
A sort of legal aid for young people in need: Barristers are joining together to help the homeless. Bridget Furst hopes they set a precedent00:02
Law Update: On the increase00:02
Danka chief executive gains 1.5m pounds bonus00:02
Conservatives Meet In Scotland: Hurd gives hint of greater EC flexibility00:02
130m pounds hangover for pub venture: Grand Met and Courage may inject cash to avoid breaching banking covenants00:02
NatWest says 'adieu' to French retail banking after 80 years00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Couturier's closure marks end of era: Fashion designer says that made-to-measure clothing has become an anachronism00:02
DIRECTOR'S CUT / The flesh is weak: Jon Amiel on how the opening scene of Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels has influenced his work00:02
Grade attacks BSkyB over sex and violence: Channel 4's chief says double standards in regulation will 'coarsen public taste'00:02
Golf: Relaxed Davies shares lead00:02
Obituary: Penelope Gilliatt00:02
Life for sex killer00:02
Cricket: Gooch leaves the mooching behind him00:02
Racing: Commander beats a retreat from Epsom: A Derby hope is likely to be rerouted to Royal Ascot. Richard Edmondson reports from York00:02
Letter: Determining a just reward for executives00:02
Law Report: Husband's pension fund could be varied on divorce: B v B. - Family Division (Mr Justice Ewbank), 2 April 199300:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Law: Training the advice squad: Fiona Bawdon reports on new plans to give police station suspects better help improve the advice given to suspects00:02
Letter: Development problems from Cardiff Bay to Dockland00:02
Operatic tenor Carreras plans to fill Hampton Court palace with song00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Jordanian arms sales00:02
Warner Howard makes a clean 6.2m pounds pre-tax00:02
Afghan battles00:02
FILM / Critical Round-up00:02
US tobacco growers fume over price threat: Rumours that a tax hike on cigarettes will fund health reforms have brought fear and fury to North Carolina, writes David Usborne in Bunn00:02
Outside Edge00:02
Devaluation hits Gonzalez poll prospects: The Spanish Prime Minister insisted it would not happen up to the last moment00:02
MPs' report is music to ears of Euro-sceptics: All-party group fears lack of accountability and makes plain its unease on 'subsidiarity'00:02
Doctor gets damages00:02
Rushes00:02
Leave us holding the baby a bit longer: New legislation will severely limit the time a new mother can spend at home before returning to work, protests Angela Phillips00:02
Inside Parliament: Opponents mown down by Clarke during U-turn00:02
Guard accused of pounds 1m theft00:02
TELEVISION / Curtains00:02
Golf: Woosnam digs in and rides out the storm: Rain in Spain a cause for pain on the course as Olazabal thunders out of control00:02
Bank of Ireland rises 44%: Cuts in British and American losses provide boost for shares00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
View from City Road: Keep an eye on the pension fund accounts00:02
Andreotti loses his immunity00:02
Drug dealing licences urged: Police chief wants to 'think the unthinkable' and undercut gangsters00:02
Firefighters to ballot on summer of strikes: Union leaders warn Clarke against confrontation over pay. Barrie Clement reports00:02
Yacht crew safe00:02
Scandal in a society of secrets: An oppressive climate stifles liberating debate on Ireland's Bishop Casey affair, says Jane Marshall00:02
MUSIC / Not showing their age: Tess Knighton on the English Concert's 20th birthday at St John's00:02
Law Report: Costs from non-party unjustified: Symphony Group plc v Hodgson - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Balcombe, Lord Justice Staughton and Lord Justice Waite), 28 April 1993.00:02
Sports Listings: Monday / Equestrianism: Golden Horseshoe Ride, Exmoor00:02
Obituary: Robert Adley00:02
Irish paradise, pity about the songs: The eyes of the world will be trained on tiny Millstreet tomorrow night when it hosts the Eurovision Song Contest. And all because Noel C had a dream00:02
FILM / An offer she couldn't refuse: Adam Mars-Jones on Indecent Proposal