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Letter: Hemispherism00:02
City: Prophet-taking00:02
Success for 'Independent on Sunday' writers00:02
Letter: The hidden costs of making CDs00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dotty scenes from a Bohemian rhapsody: 'The Little Town where Time Stood Still' - Bohumil Hrabal; trs James Naughton: Abacus, 8.99 pounds00:02
Bunhill: Stormy annual meetings00:02
French in a frenzy over philosopher of love and seduction: Steamy dialogues with a former minister have become the non-fiction bestseller. Julian Nundy reports from Paris00:02
Tax: Revenue's paper chase: Shared liability and a cascade of assessments put a strain on partnerships00:02
Cricket: Richardson is the spur00:02
Sport in Short: Table Tennis00:02
Allitt could have been stopped at the beginning00:02
Q & A: Wide trousers in China .. and hatred in the Potteries00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: JILL TWEEDIE, writer00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Sorted your pension, John?00:02
Khmer Rouge kill UN peace-keepers00:02
City File: Thorn EMI00:02
BOOK REVIEW / For love or money This welfare business: 'The Charity Business: The New Philanthropists' - Tom Lloyd: John Murray, 19.99 pounds00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
GARDENING / Planting Techniques00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Peter Webber00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A-Z of Treats: Florentines00:02
GARDENING / The Essential Garden Library00:02
'Super-councillors' to earn pounds 20,000 a year00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bombay walkie-talkie: 'Breach Candy' - Luke Jennings: Hutchinson, 14.99 pounds00:02
Ukraine muffles nuclear blast00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the Week00:02
Sport in Short: Rowing00:02
City File: Sold too hard00:02
Economics: Spenders lay down their debt burden00:02
Golf: The golden age of Huggett, Coles and Co: Seniors golf, a moneyspinner in the US, is taking off over here. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Rugby Union: Hunter blow in Lions' success00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Paperbacks00:02
Public Services Management: Financing path to the future: Berkshire means business, says Antonia Simkins00:02
Pension money missing at Budge00:02
Letter: Ethnic separation is not possible without violence00:02
The Royals: join the debate, watch the bulletins, buy the books00:02
Anniversaries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Stony sentences from life's dark book: 'Collected Poems 1945-1990' - R S Thomas: Dent, 25 pounds00:02
Mad, bad and fully qualified00:02
Some strange bedfellows00:02
National Savings to sound the alert00:02
Postcard from a Berlin building site: To escape the UK recession workers are pricing themselves into a job and out of the protection of the law, reports Steve Boggan00:02
Mortgage isn't over until it's all paid off: Sue Fieldman on a shock for borrowers who thought last payment was made00:02
Scandals plague battered President: Patrick Cockburn on the latest White House farce, starring Bill Clinton00:02
Tennis: Sampras beaten00:02
Letter: Velvets did not wrangle over cash00:02
Motor Racing: Remembrance of things Prost: The professor of the grand prix is back at the front of the pack. David Tremayne in Monte Carlo reports on skill at high speed00:02
Wrong type of dogma on the line: Rail privatisation is steaming ahead, but will be dangerous, damaging and ultimately unworkable, argues Brian Wilson00:02
Bunhill: Determined Ivy00:02
Late charge00:02
Harris' twin role at Carpetright worries City00:02
Letter: Somersaults and sex expectations00:02
Rugby Union: Jenkins sets up Wales00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Public spending axe is poised to hit householders00:02
Shares: How to bag money in the street00:02
Bunhill: Top cops join the trend to privatise00:02
Bubbly war leads to bargains galore00:02
Equestrianism: Britain a jump ahead00:02
Letter: Weddings that ruin lives00:02
Rape case remand00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Fire case boy held00:02
Cricket: Lathwell poised00:02
Innovation: Windows of opportunity: Developers are losing the upper hand in an office design revolution. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Swan Hunter vote00:02
Show People: Still being kept on his toes: 78. Christopher Bruce00:02
UN Cambodia troops killed00:02
Charity Competition00:02
M3 work halted00:02
CINEMA / Too many kicks, and not enough punch00:02
Great build-up, pity about the punch-line00:02
Last ditch try for Gatt accord: Industrial nations fear collapse of negotiations would spark trade wars and forestall world recovery00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fruits of ancient history: 'Caesar' - Allan Massie: Hodder, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sheppard deal00:02
City File: Union Discount00:02
Cricket: Somerset the entertainers00:02
How to ruin your holidays00:02
Council corruption sets off alarm bells in Britain: Russell Hotten finds that underhand practices are also a worry at home00:02
BP sale00:02
Marketing: The customer is the product: Malcolm McDonald says many British companies suffer from an accounting mentality00:02
Society calls in law firm for pounds 8m case00:02
From riches to rags in designer fashion: A glamour industry is losing the backing of textile firms, says Roger Tredre00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Strawberry Fare00:02
Wilful ignorance on Aids is a relic of Thatcherism00:02
Deserters take dangerous ride on Serb underground railway: Robert Block in Belgrade on the man who has a way out for those who will not fight00:02
TELEVISION / I've started, and you're finished00:02
BOOK REVIEW / News company, three's a crowd: 'Paper Dreams' - Stephen Glover: Cape, 17.99 pounds00:02
BP is back with a rush: Since David Simon took over, the oil giant has recovered with dramatic speed. Has he worked a miracle? David Bowen looks at the record00:02
Letter: Conductive education may not be a cure, but it helps00:02
Three top police informers killed00:02
City: Sir Owen leads, but will others follow?00:02
Destiny imposes its own apartheid on twin brothers of the white tribe: They are alike in every way except how they see the Afrikaners' future: one is a messiah of the right, the other backs the ANC. Karl Maier finds out why00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Knocking on a moonlit door: 'Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare' - Theresa Whistler: Duckworth, 25 pounds00:02
Football: Hail the men of Vale as Slaven steps up to claim glory for the Potteries00:02
Paul Johnson's MAY 1968: When student riots rocked France, the British journalist Paul Johnson was there. This is the report he wrote for the New Statesman 25 years ago00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: BARBARA KEALY, Joan Collins look-alike00:02
Football: When the batteries start to go flat: Are footballers justified in complaining of feeling stale after a long season? Chris Maume reports00:02
Letter: Conductive education may not be a cure, but it helps00:02
Bunhill: Europe in action00:02
EC rules on worker rights may slow contracting out00:02
Now & Then: Justice on Trial00:02
Bunhill: Hard fax00:02
THEATRE / A giant among kings00:02
Cricket: Family values of a demolition man: Glenn Moore traces the influences that combined to make Robin Smith the scourge of Australia at Edgbaston00:02
15 killed in SA township00:02
Athletics: Remorseless Murray in mint condition00:02
Sport in Short: Sumo00:02
Letter: British Rail safety regulations00:02
MOTORING / Auto Biography: The Audi 80 in 0-60 Seconds00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Your Money: Wives look to fair pensions00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: CLAIRE RAYNER, agony aunt00:02
Leading Article: Who feeds the wolf?00:02
FILM / Raider of the lost heart: At his best, Spielberg can sweeten a disturbed child's view into an uplifting epic. Quentin Curtis assesses the output of the director who never grew up00:02
Deaths00:02
Opinions: How do you feel when you hear the word Maastricht?00:02
Fuji venture00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Training: Corporate needs go to university: Motorola's long-term view has lifted skills development into the realm of higher education00:02
The Broader Picture: The Same Time, the Same Place00:02
US deal 'to end Bosnia war'00:02
Fairbairn taken ill00:02
Cricket: Metson's true grit00:02
Six hurt in massive IRA blast00:02
ROCK & JAZZ / That's why the lady sings the dues00:02
Lamont rules out early ERM re-entry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The importance of writing to Ernest: 'The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939' - ed R Andrew Paskauskas: Belknap/Harvard, 29.95 pounds00:02
BOOKS / Cheques in the Post: Is the signature on that letter worth only the paper it is written on? To some collectors its true value could be much greater - but who really owns it?00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
City File: Chain reaction00:02
Unit trust tries cash card to lure savers00:02
Queens of soap attract a staunch camp following: Coronation Street's strong women - all buxon, brazen, brash and blonde - have ousted the vamps of Hollywood as the hot gay icons, reports Marianne Macdonald00:02
MAY 1968: Four Students Who Remember it Well00:02
Cricket: Cairns is in control00:02
TV executive tackled over double role00:02
'I will rebuild Polly Peck': Asil Nadir talks exclusively to Hugh Pope about his plans to foil the liquidators, clear his name and fight his way back to mercantile glory00:02
BBC endures unhappy trip to the market00:02
Tennis: French window of opportunity for lesser types: Guy Hodgson on the open look of the contest to be fought at Roland Garros over the next fortnight00:02
Man in the Middle: Square dasher of The Oval: Alistair Brown00:02
Search fees soar despite downturn: Neasa MacErlean on the difficulties of finding out if a new house is a good buy00:02
Tax deadline on pension plans00:02
Attali asked French for plush Paris flat00:02
SCIENCE / The Dr Doolittle of Kewala Basin: A researcher in Hawaii has been talking to the dolphins with some success. The problem, says John McCrone, is getting them to talk back00:02
Cricket: Essex take upper hand00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell looks back in anger00:02
Horse acid attack00:02
Cricket: Alleyne's lone fight00:02
Signs that the banks are beginning to go straight00:02
Golf: Lane on right course00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Motor Racing: Precise Prost tames streets00:02
Leading Article: Just for the record00:02
Alzheimer's hope00:02
Irving enlists video Nazis to attack ban on Australia visit00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Racing: Tenby eases to 4-700:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Thackeray desk is a walking treasure00:02
Burton still paying former executives: Correction00:02
Church to be sued00:02
Ear today . . .00:02
Letter: System lets MI5 tap whichever phones they like00:02
VIDEO00:02
The Best and Worst: Europe slow in boosting PEP: PEP-qualifying unit trusts00:02
Letter: Huge personality00:02
DANCE / From the Netherlands, with class00:02
Bunhill: Sleeper00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Strange case of the attic prints: Several big names have been found tucked away in darkest Peckham. Who collected them is a mystery, but they knew what they were doing00:02
Sailing: America's Cup plays fair at last: Stuart Alexander on a rule change that will bring hope to challengers00:02
Nationwide investors make stand for power: Directors of the society face a challenge from members in the coming election for board seats00:02
BOOK REVIEW / 'IXI',00:02
Rambutan for the rich, beans for the broke: When big food stores move out of town, the customers left behind pay the price with their health. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Overheard00:02
Letter: The sky is beyond the limit00:02
Tomb find00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A culinary shrine: Nicholas Faith honours a family-run restaurant that has attracted French gastronomic pilgrims for three generations00:02
The undesirable side of academic affairs: Should tutors who have sex with students declare an interest, ask Harriet Martin and Jane Flanagan00:02
Rebecca did it. Sherpas are always doing it - so why all the fuss?: Brian Cathcart profiles Everest, once the ultimate endurance test but now in danger of becoming little more than a conversation piece and a Majorca for mountaineers00:02
When the PC goes awry - try DIY00:02
Letter: MPs should resist being railroaded00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Police move in on M3 protesters00:02
The Disagreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Britain down the toilet00:02
Automation can save shops, say sub-postmasters00:02
Ferry threat has Scots steaming00:02
Profile: Cutback kid grits his teeth: Michael Portillo: The Treasury Chief Secretary is tipped for the top but a political storm over benefits may spoil the ride00:02
Unhappy borrowers find a new champion00:02
City File: Water results00:02
Football: Marseille accused00:02
Letter: Made in China00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: VIVIEN MITCHELL, secretary00:02
Maddox on the spot as it fails to match forecasts00:02
Cricket: Wily Hemmings enjoys a whale of a time00:02
Satellite deal that is proving pure stardust00:02
City: Pushy Swiss00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Opening the Royal Yacht Britannia to the public00:02
Italy's industrial barons count the wages of sin: Scandal is now breaching the wall of influence that has kept out competition, writes Michael Sheridan00:02
GARDENING / Shaping a Flower Bed00:02
Football: A Croatian ready to meet the might of Milan: Look out for Alen Boksic in this week's European Cup final. Jasper Rees reports00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: MARCELLE d'ARGY SMITH, editor00:02
How We Met: Carmen Callil and Harriet Spicer00:02
A Surfer on the Zeitgeist: This isn't exactly life on the edge: Greil Marcus is married, nearly 50, and lives in a nice big house in northern California. But he is still making something new out of writing about rock00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Just barking at the fat cats00:02
GARDENING / Soil Testing00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: The man who put the botany in Botany Bay00:02
Football: Taylor's tired troops await Wright verdict00:02
ART MARKET / Up for Sale00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Tipple that's the toast of Somerset: Kathryn McWhirter finds a cider brandy from the West Country to be the equal, perhaps the superior, of its finest Calvados cousins00:02
Unita blamed00:02
A Death in the Family: What happens when your father dies - to him, to you. An extract from 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'00:02
True horror of tall stories: Cal McCrystal has come across the warped world of Munchausen's syndrome before00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: LIZ BROWN, office administrator00:02
City File: Disney rights will animate Carlton00:02
FASHION / Antique and old lace00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Something for them to do: 'The Royal Family at War' - Theo Aronson: John Murray, 17.95 pounds00:02
Wartime anniversary fuels feud00:02
Football: Planet Venables makes a move00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Out of mind, out of sight: 'The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900' - Andrew Scull: Yale, 29.95 pounds00:02
BMA under fire over Aids film00:02
Maastricht from A to Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz: The Danes have said yes. So what does the new Europe mean to you? Andrew Marshall in Brussels explains00:02
Treasury 'betrayal' threatens liquidation for Canary Wharf: Banks furious as Government refuses to guarantee pounds 400m Jubilee Line deal00:02
RECORDS00:02
Everest heroine has mountain of cliches to climb00:02
Prisoners may be held on ships00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Imelda Macbeth turns catcalls to cheers00:02
A place in the sun loses its shine: Ian MacKinnon reports on the plight of elderly Britons who retired to Spain00:02
Owner is home free from runaway loan: A mortgage that just kept on growing has been ruled invalid. Sue Fieldman reports00:02
In Brief00:02
Football: No time to show you are fallible: Des Walker was the man England could rely upon above all others. But as two vital World Cup games approach, is that still the case? Richard Williams reports00:02
Letter: Somersaults and sex expectations00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Profile: Carpet king laughs again: Sir Philip Harris shows his powers of survival as his new company, Carpetright, heads for a pounds 70m market flotation. Nick Gilbert reports00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: Celebrity 'Older Women' ooze glamour, confidence - and 'youth'. But do other women want them as role models? asks Geraldine Bedell00:02
Drawn curtains in a silent village: The Beverly Allitt case: on Friday this baby killer will be sentenced for 26 attacks including four murders. What do they make of it all back home?