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Reform plan00:02
Portillo's case for benefit cuts 'misleading the public': Welfare state 'should act as savings bank for all as well as safety net', report says00:02
Buildings policy covers pest damage00:02
Bomb kills 200:02
Clinton fights Senate revolt: President faces charges of weakness if he fails to push deficit-cutting package through Congress00:02
Lambeth offers up to 8.30%00:02
Appeals00:02
National finds a fix00:02
Public hanging00:02
Recommended Books00:02
Travel: Departures: Lake escape00:02
Planned watchdog 'too bureaucratic'00:02
Obituary: Professor E. J. Wood00:02
Student offer from Barclays00:02
Italy approves package of tax increases and spending cuts00:02
Cricket: Hampshire's cause is undermined by Gower00:02
Now don't all rush at once: Student's court victory won't help those whose parents are still together00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A seraph in chocolate: Godfrey Hodgson on the Oedipal struggle that marked Robert Louis Stevenson's life. 'Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography' - Frank Mclynn: Hutchinson, 20 pounds00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Travel: Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Koresh mystery00:02
Obituary: Antje Garden00:02
Buying second-hand may not be the best policy: Beware: 'used' endowments can bring disappointing returns00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Protect the legions in the regions: Repertory theatres nationwide are under threat of closure due to a change in Arts Council policy. Peter Cheeseman is alarmed00:02
The Way I Was: My hero was Desperate Dan: Geoff Capes tells Nicholas Roe how he first competed barefoot, because he had no plimsolls00:02
Cricket: Hussain hits third century00:02
Auditor attacks council's spending00:02
The Week in Review: Home News00:02
Leading Article: Europe's challenges beyond Maastricht00:02
Today's Number: 200:02
Brixton asks for pounds 100m: Rights 'too cheap' as property comes back into favour00:02
Tennis: Edberg still trying to scale French mountain: Ever-ready Swede approaches Roland Garros seeking the one Grand Slam title to elude him. John Roberts reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Firstdirect home funds00:02
Perez on trial for corruption00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Murdered Basques return to haunt Gonzalez: Did Spain's PM know police assassinated Eta guerrillas in the 1980s? Phil Davison reports from Madrid00:02
Rise in savings underlines shoppers' caution: Increase coincides with slight lift in mortgage lending by banks and building societies and surprise fall in retail sales00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Time for a good whine: 'The Binding Vine' - Shashi Deshpande: Virago Press, 5.99 pounds00:02
Investigators fear Mafia linked to secret services: Inquiries into last year's murder of two judges have opened a sinister new trail00:02
Second Gold Card customer wins refund00:02
Cricket: Hughes is beaten on points00:02
Look back from the future and win a watch00:02
Judge backs privacy ruling00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The art of coarse litrutshire: Natasha Walter on the addictive and unhealthy habits indulged in Jilly Cooper's new story of lust and misery. 'The Man who made Husbands Jealous' - Jilly Cooper: Bantam, 15.99 pounds00:02
Fell walkers outraged by plan for Lakeland leisure village: Views across a Cumbrian valley with 'great landscape value' could soon include the glass-roofed dome of a hotel and recreation development. Malcolm Pithers reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
Travel: Departures: Bargains continue00:02
Veterans killed00:02
Saturday Night: Between the Berni and the Bavarian in Bali00:02
Cricket: The top scorers in one-day internationals00:02
Travel: How to get the best out of Malaga: Adios to the stuffed donkeys: With the 'highway of death' bypassed, Malaga's older charm is being exposed. David Hewson goes exploring00:02
Golf: Wrong result, but just look at our gallery: Champion Huggett finds the bulldog spirit is not enough in the pro-am00:02
ICI clear-up service00:02
Sextuplets 'stable'00:02
Food and Drink: Call a spud a spud? Purple Congo, more like: 'Modern British cooking' proved the salvation of two amateurs on a smallholding in Devon, says Emily Green00:02
Football: Francis ready for Vale's tall order: Phil Shaw looks forward to today's Autoglass final between familiar foes at Wembley00:02
Hostage film00:02
Smith warning on 'privatisation madness'00:02
Tories 'ignoring call to lift BR bids ban': Government gives detailed response to transport committee's criticisms of rail privatisation plans00:02
Nuclear plant in Ukraine hit by explosion00:02
Ukraine faces political crisis00:02
Letter: Stonehenge past and present00:02
Football: Wright's England concern00:02
Exclusive ritual seeks to preserve a very expensive good name: The season's first caviare tasting - at pounds 5 for a spoonful. Alex Renton reports00:02
Travel: Top spots of Heathrow00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's commitment to a wider democratic agenda00:02
Property: So who wants a price rise anyway?00:02
Third issue from Widows00:02
Somerset's otters and rare flowers granted reprieve: Feasibility study finds pounds 20m boating circuit plan 'not viable'00:02
Lamont heads for meeting over ERM00:02
Poll in Ulster deals blow to peace hopes: Northern Ireland election results confirm picture of a society deeply polarised00:02
Local authority's catalogue of 'fraud and malpractice'00:02
Motoring: Up a gum tree when lightning strikes twice: Despite breaking down on the way to Broken Hill, Gavin Green nurses his Escort across Australia to take 13th place in the London-Sydney Marathon00:02
Second Thoughts: Choosing to play at Wembley: Robert Harris recalls the uneven road that led to Fatherland (Arrow, pounds 4.99)00:02
Food and Drink: Gastropod00:02
Rowland's story angers staff at 'Observer': Journalists clash with editor over decision to publish owner's autobiographical article00:02
Morgan charges under review00:02
Aircraft crash-lands on M2: Motorway blocked and pilot is injured in emergency landing during practice flight00:02
Bus-stop rapist sent to jail for 12 years00:02
Travel: A town more Levant than Languedoc: Suzanne Bardgett finds a charming old hotel in Sommieres, French domicile of Lawrence Durrell00:02
Food and Drink: It pays to treat your elders with respect: The tree's blossoms add a heady scent to cordials, ice-cream, fruit salads and fools00:02
Golf: Ballesteros makes a move on Gilford00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Colourful meadows00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Chelsea Flower Show00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Hackers given six months for 'intellectual joyriding': Judge says jail sentences inevitable to deter others 'similarly tempted'00:02
Travel: Departures: Booth tips00:02
Letter: Stonehenge past and present (CORRECTED)00:02
View from New York: Forecasting by aberration and particularism00:02
We'll pull your socks up for pounds 5000:02
Disenchanted with personal equity plan returns: Christine Stopp recounts the case of an investor who found that the annual charges outweighed the tax saving00:02
Pied a terre information00:02
Travel: Seeing red over Green Cards: Frank Barrett clears up the muddle over motor insurance for visits to the Continent00:02
Referendum offer00:02
Obituary: Zeno Colo00:02
Inflation comes tumbling down: Drop in housing bills cuts rise in cost of living to 1.3% but City is sceptical about further falls00:02
Travel: Snapshot of a civilisation in high summer: Vienna is one of Europe's grandest cities. Godfrey Hodgson explores the landmarks and culture of its rich heritage00:02
Barclaycard offers rebate to encourage low spenders00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Call of the wild00:02
Motor Racing: Hill drives street blues clean away: Senna still feared00:02
Robinson meeting00:02
Food and Drink: Not the greatest thing since sliced bread00:02
Racing: Felawnah first choice in family affair: A filly who has never won before can take today's Irish 1,000 Guineas00:02
Letter: Bombs against the ballot box00:02
Leader faces trial00:02
It's all right - he's on the label: Question: is Rod Stewart a) a comedian, b) a Hello] photo-spread, c) a singer? Answer: a, b and c, but not necessarily in that order00:02
Sport: Quotes of the Week00:02
The Way I Was: The past is such a strange place: Correction00:02
Food and Drink: Beer by the Bottle00:02
Sudanese split on peace talks failure: Southern rebels scorn Khartoum's optimism00:02
Nintendo outruns its rivals: Mario's creator bucks Japanese trend by lifting profits more than 2%00:02
Damages appeal00:02
Couriers carry away savings on long-haul flights: Although there may be restrictions on baggage and length of stay, chaperoning company documents can cut the cost of travel00:02
Timeshare victim wins back Access card cash00:02
Swan Hunter receivers to axe 400 shipworkers00:02
Travel: Manchester's answer to 'Jaws': Frank Barrett experiences the city that tourists will see if its bid to host the Olympics succeeds, starting with Granada's popular Coronation Street tour00:02
Wills00:02
Court Circular00:02
'It's our destiny to save our families or to get killed': Christopher Bellamy in Vitez goes on patrol with British UN troops in the Bosnian war within a war that pits Muslims against Croats00:02
Prince urges hotels to be good neighbours: Hilton praised for putting bricks in cisterns00:02
Boxing: Icy Ferguson is ready for fire: Champion Bowe faces 40-1 outsider00:02
Sailing: Bullish Bullimore: Dynamic Dalton applies finishing touches00:02
Obituary: Elizabeth Montgomery00:02
Pitched battles follow funeral: Mourners sought after murder, writes Malcolm Pithers00:02
Obituary: Genichiro Inokuma00:02
IRA woman smiles at jail sentence00:02
Money Grouse: Free cover offered to husbands only00:02
East Midlands to axe 300 in efficiency drive: Tiers of management to go in reorganisation00:02
Extension of Jubilee Line faces axe: Banks lose government guarantees over funding of Docklands Tube00:02
SA military 'plot to kill ANC leaders'00:02
Letter: Slogans for godliness00:02
Jehovah's transfusion00:02
Dons vote to tone down sexual code: Disclosing relationships to be voluntary despite claims of blighted student lives00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A sudden coup in Callimbia: 'Cleopatra's Sister' - Penelope Lively: Viking, 14.99 pounds00:02
Obituary: Lord Ross of Newport00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Cheers] Sam calls time at TV's top bar00:02
Smaller rival attacks Bass policy of discounting00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Fun with ferns00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Letter: Alcohol and tax levels00:02
Spring Ram chairman shoulders the blame: We got timing wrong and let shareholders down, annual meeting told00:02
Cricket: Depleted Somerset put to the test00:02
Midland takes on the Footsie00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Plum jam and summit confidences: 'Home Truths' - Sara Maitland: Chatto & Windus, 15.99 pounds00:02
US cool on Muslim safe havens: Russia, Britain and France close to consensus on Bosnia peace-keeping plan00:02
Heart Searching: Go West, young woman: Joanna Gibbon on British men and their Czech mates00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Wouldn't it be good if we had won?: Hugo Barnacle on Werner Heisenberg, who is still keeping his dreadful secrets. 'Heisenberg's War' - Thomas Powers: Jonathan Cape, 20 pounds00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Out of the toolbox00:02
Equestrianism: Charles the great rides high to punish the old country00:02
Pensions plan too late for many: Proposed changes to the law will not help women who are already divorced00:02
President's jet-set coiffure gets in people's hair00:02
Hospitality measure00:02
Letter: Heart of the matter00:02
Football: The ugly reality of Arsenal's muscularity: Pole position comes largely from attrition as the Gunners find their range in both domestic cup competitions with long-ball barrage00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Out of Germany: Painful scars mark a country's deep divisions00:02
Letter: Not from choice00:02
Royal silence00:02
Travel: Departures: Dream trip00:02
Royalty in Crisis: We abolished it once. Should we do it again?: 'We need a monarchy that is less secretive and more accountable'00:02
Country Matters: Out of our depth in a nasty concoction00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's commitment to a wider democratic agenda00:02
Gardening: We don't want to go to Chelsea: The good gardeners of Northumberland are preparing for their own annual extravaganza, says Stephen Anderton (CORRECTED)00:02
Recipe: Short cut to a malt loaf00:02
Church appointments00:02
Cricket / Texaco Trophy: Australia ruin Smith's parade of power: Tourists seal the one-day series with one to play as England's hopes of glory are destroyed by Mark Waugh's run-making expertise00:02
HTV pays pounds 200,000 in perks: Relocation expenses contrast with plunge into losses and pay freeze00:02
The Royal Bugging Row: Papers grab headlines in battle royal: Correction00:02
Bridon unwinds rope factories00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Double Play: Sounding out the heavens: Reinvigorated Mendelssohn and high-calorie Saint-Saens under review from Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson00:02
Timor rebel leader gets life sentence: Indonesian court imposes heavy penalty on guerrilla chief00:02
Motoring: Coming to a screen near you: nightmare on the M5: Trafficmaster is streets ahead of radio in providing information that helps you to steer clear of tailbacks, says Phil Llewellin00:02
Threat to village post offices inflames communal passions: Ian MacKinnon finds an East Sussex community united in its determination to preserve a unique service00:02
Magazine in row over 'child porn' fashion photos: 'Vogue' is accused of projecting women as sexually vulnerable. Roger Tredre reports00:02
Rugby Union: Pacific controversy shows that no man is an island: Steve Bale, in Paihia, Bay of Islands, listens in on a debate about nationality that is raising temperatures in New Zealand00:02
C&G posts new account00:02
Judo: Award of pounds 4,000 for Mapp: Team manager's unfair dismissal claim upheld (CORRECTED)00:02
Basildon rape charge00:02
Ukraine MPs refuse to grant President wish: Political crisis deepens as Kravchuk is denied powers to push through reform00:02
Why polo can cost a mint00:02
US to fight Third World on human rights: Clinton to press for UN powers to investigate growing abuses worldwide00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Travel: The good hotel guide to France: Frank Barrett surveys the modern chains (CORRECTED)00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Travel: Departures: Florence flight00:02
Travel: Hotel racket00:02
Waigel stays00:02
Off the wall and on to the bookshelf: Long collectable on the Continent, 'livres d'artistes' are at last emerging in Britain. Now is the time to acquire one, says John Windsor00:02
Letter: Royal Olympian00:02
Tourist board is given first woman chief: Authority's new chairman promises to 'listen to the needs of the industry'00:02
Whistler quietened00:02
Style: Hanging out on the boardwalk: Roger Tredre rubs along with the new bohemians and the old muscle men on Venice Beach, California00:02
Royalty in Crisis: We abolished it once. Should we do it again?: 'The spirit of 1968 has reached the palace'00:02
MUSIC / Where there's a will: Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach on everything from harpsichord to Moog synthesiser. Robert Cowan met her00:02
Letter: Slogans for godliness00:02
Twelfth Man: Boot boys hit Old Trafford00:02
Travel: Sachertorte, sonatas and psychoanalysis: Vienna is one of Europe's grandest cities. Godfrey Hodgson explores the landmarks and culture of its rich heritage00:02
PowerGen calls for tight lips: Regulators' private policy briefings should be banned, director says00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / In search of the vocal past: First they were raw, then they grew too perfect to be true. Tess Knighton listens to the changing style of English choirs00:02
Royalty in Crisis: We abolished it once. Should we do it again?: 'King Charles would have my loyalty'00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Royalty in Crisis: We abolished it once. Should we do it again?: 'We have no clear sense of national identity without the monarchy'00:02
Racing: Wolf for Derby00:02
Property: Let's exchange addresses: David Lawson talks to home owners who have successfully swapped houses when conventional selling failed00:02
Retail Therapy00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Market Report: Property shares show 1980s-style vigour00:02
Travel: Departures: Miami advice00:02
Revealed] The Charles of my dreams00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Profile: Wild hurrahs for a moral showman: Alan Bates, a crescendo of bravura on the boards00:02
NatWest's 10-year fix set at 8.99%00:02
Obituary: Ian Mikardo00:02
Cricket: Fleming flamboyance for Kent eyes only00:02
Fixed bond at 7.5%00:02
New tourism chief00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Auctions00:02
Letter: Hollow British cheers00:02
Service appointments00:02
Obituary: Leigh Wiener00:02
Travel: Departures: Malaria warning00:02
Athletics: Cram faces speed test over 5,000m: Briton has to prove he can last the pace at his newly adopted distance00:02
Food and Drink: Here is the future of French wine: British and Australian winemakers are tapping the vast potential of the Languedoc region, says Anthony Rose00:02
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