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Early secret agents: fact and fiction00:02
Schools initiative carries high hopes: Top companies have joined a scheme to help tomorrow's workforce. Diana Hinds reports00:02
Charges open rift with Lamont00:02
Police wait to question man injured in shooting00:02
Obituary: The Right Rev David Porter00:02
Patten survey urges go-ahead for pupil tests: A government poll of 1,000 parents found most backed testing this year00:02
Sports Letters: Hooliganism's curse00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Scientists left in the lurch over 'atom probe' finance00:02
Andreotti in death probe00:02
Motoring groups hostile to tolls00:02
Verses ban00:02
Decline of the Classic education00:02
Letter: Help is at hand when catering for disability00:02
Bottomley orders more NHS use of private care00:02
Today's Number: 140,000,00000:02
Book prize00:02
Tory MPs in record revolt: Correction00:02
Government asks EC for Swan Hunter lifeline: Industry minister promises to press Brussels for wider intervention fund00:02
Rugby Union: Tempers boil over as Lions earn respect: Tourists overcome inconsistent refereeing despite poor discipline while punch-up puts Richards in hospital00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Inside File: A gentlemen's agreement ends00:02
Racing: Tenby back in stride for the Derby: The favourite for the premier Classic rediscovers his zest for work at a crucial point in his career00:02
Courtaulds agrees joint venture with Hoechst00:02
Cricket: Reiffel has Test in sights00:02
Sports Letters: Captain in waiting00:02
Beleaguered Lamont reveals strain of job00:02
'Smart card' plan for benefits: Automated payments could save post offices00:02
Letter: Silent epic reveals cinema's potential00:02
Steinkuhler forced off Daimler board00:02
Countryside launches pounds 16.8m rights00:02
Air France and Renault on new privatisation list: Mitterrand angered by decision to sell off 21 state-owned companies00:02
Bottom Line: Casket pedals into profit00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Education: How can a school pull itself out of catastrophe?: Under siege since the middle classes went elsewhere00:02
Higher Education: Casual approach to a teaching shortage: There is concern that a growing reliance on short-term staff and students will create long-term problems for academic careers. Liz Heron reports00:02
If you go down to the wood today: In the moonlight, witches and druids throw a magic ring around a piece of south-east London. Peter Mason joins the pagan rituals00:02
Obituary: Lord Kenyon00:02
Finance chief quits Abbey National: James Tyrrell moving to LIG after chance of top job at bank recedes00:02
Bottom Line: Cloudy future for North West Water00:02
Carey says more positive view of divorce needed00:02
Charities: Giving 100 per cent for education in Africa: A great holiday turned into good work for a couple who send all donations to support a Gambian school. Joanna Gibbon reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Gonzalez left to rue a bagpipe blunder00:02
Putting high yielders through the sieve00:02
Sports Letters: Travails of a tour of duty00:02
Court Circular00:02
Football: Boli's bravura earns Marseille place in history: French find the killer touch at last as Milan show fallibility in the European Cup final00:02
TELEVISION / The teak tycoon: John Moore on the hard man of Lonrho00:02
The Daily Poem: Dream-Figures in Sunlight00:02
Cricket team comes unstuck at the wicket00:02
Sports Letters: Artificial sweeteners00:02
Public Services Management Update: Designed to save00:02
Letter: Controversy in Vogue00:02
Obituary: Jane Woodhead00:02
SCARPIA / The re-invention of tradition: The past catches up with contemporary composers at the Bath, Malvern and Newbury festivals00:02
Bridge: Mass-tricked treaty00:02
OPERA / Cosy balancing act: Edward Seckerson on La Boheme revived at Covent Garden00:02
Cricket: Gooch finds no answer for depressed demeanour: Paul Hayward reports on the England captain's abortive attempt to find his batting form in Essex's second team00:02
Bank help for directors' tax bills: Governor was paid pounds 16,000 last year to compensate for Revenue ruling that wife's foreign travel was a perk00:02
Leading Article: A slur on the quality of British criminals00:02
Anniversaries00:02
The thief, the solicitor and other awfully nice country folk00:02
Leading Article: Right road, wrong reason00:02
INTERVIEW / A smouldering talent: The director Vincent Ward brings a fiery past to his new film Map of the Human Heart. Kevin Jackson met him00:02
Diary00:02
Market Report: Transatlantic interest gives boost to Zeneca00:02
Equestrianism: Windsor debut for Davidson00:02
MUSIC / Making a song and dance about it: It was all go for Charles and Eddie at this year's Ivors. Mick and Peter didn't do badly, either00:02
Final curtain falls on costumiers to the colourful and famous: Alan Murdoch looks at 70 years of Dublin theatrical history00:02
Tax rejected00:02
US budget compromise in sight00:02
Massoud out00:02
Drivers facing pounds 75 bill for motorway use: Green Paper suggests permits as forerunner to electronic charging00:02
Prisoner gets life for jail killing00:02
Lindi St Clair strikes back against taxman: Miss Whiplash defiant over bankruptcy00:02
Drug gangs linked to killing of cardinal00:02
Garden by the sea in London SW300:02
Karabakh plan00:02
Record price00:02
Football: Sheringham set to be England spearhead00:02
Charities Update: Banner week for00:02
Modesty forbids paintstripping Michelangelo's Sistine 'breeches'00:02
Peking frees leading dissident00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Looking for the wild man in all of us: 'In Search of the Neanderthals' - Christopher Stringer and Clive Gamble: Thames & Hudson, 18.95 pounds00:02
Letter: No real concessions00:02
Support for banks at risk has cost pounds 115m: Bank of England operation 'succeeded in averting a serious crisis', says Leigh-Pemberton00:02
Public Services Management Update: Local motives00:02
Saucy Massachusetts moose runs gauntlet of Worcester's green police00:02
Capital Radio benefits from royalties cut00:02
Premier quits00:02
Tennis: Becker put out to grass after another clay-court catastrophe: Three-times Wimbledon champion loses to world No 92 in the French Open as Steffi Graf advances relentlessly in women's singles00:02
INTERVIEW / A Party that goes with a bang: Karl Wallinger loves to wall up in his studio and tinker. Giles Smith walled up with him00:02
Football: Welsh clubs' row over Europe00:02
MUSIC / 'Robert Plant? I'm not a huge fan': Led Zeppelin's original tight-trousered frontman is back with a new album. Andy Gill reports00:02
Sports Letters: On the ball00:02
Letter: A constitution for all Euro citizens00:02
Yeltsin hope00:02
Three on run00:02
Badminton: Organisers allay health fears00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Coroner urges fresh drug death inquiry00:02
McMahon backs more autonomy for Bank00:02
COMPETITION / Winners of tickets for Fleadh '9300:02
Media fever gives no clue to reshuffle: Speculation on Cabinet changes has an undistinguished history00:02
Letter: Clinton did not fail Bosnia, Europe did00:02
Waldegrave offers vision of science creating wealth: White Paper shows Government seeks to reduce numbers training for PhDs and create framework for involving industry and marketing in research00:02
Death-knell for Bart's as job cuts are sought00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
View from City Road: French sell-offs come with snags00:02
Competition winner00:02
RIFFS / Everything but The Girl: Tracy Thorn of Everything But The Girl on Patti Smith's version of 'Gloria'00:02
Silly Questions: Trousers made for two00:02
Obituary: Fr Anthony Ross00:02
RUC killer kept bomb-making kit: Police officer shot three men dead then committed suicide, inquest jury finds00:02
M3 protest ban00:02
Maud is dead. I didn't stop her: She was a sweet little old lady. But also angry, as Kate James, a neighbour, discovered00:02
Flextech links with US cable group: TV firm makes pounds 3m deal with company headed by evangelist00:02
Inside Parliament: Opposition waves the rule book at the umpire00:02
Obituary: Melville Cook00:02
Letter: Ethical dilemmas that daily confront NHS doctors00:02
Law Report: No sex bias in Sunday trading ban: Chisholm and others v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council. Kirklees MBC v B & Q plc. Chancery Division (Mr Justice Ferris), 26 May 199300:02
Dear Mrs Robinson, I thought I'd drop you a line before we meet: Cal McCrystal invents a historic letter from the Queen to her guest00:02
Irish tax amnesty under fire00:02
Court rejects Allitt families' demand for public inquiry: Parents of nurse's victims promise to continue campaign despite setback00:02
Briton takes up the baton of Elgar and Beecham: David Lister reviews the career of Sir Colin Davis, who is poised to become the first British-born principal conductor of the LSO for 74 years00:02
Smith firm on Labour voting rules00:02
Scientists believe infant leukaemia begins before birth: Study of identical twins gives clue to gene changes00:02
Chess: Go West for thrills00:02
'Carousing' officers convicted of affray00:02
Protests erupt over vote to limit refugees: German MPs forced to run gauntlet of demonstrators to enter parliament for debate on constitutional amendment00:02
'Catastrophe' in refugee town00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Delors says EC is falling behind00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Public Services Management Update: Wardens withdrawn from shelters00:02
Football: Cascarino keeps Irish on course00:02
Rover sweeteners saga draws to a confusing close00:02
Letter: Ethical dilemmas that daily confront NHS doctors00:02
Pembroke: Stuck on the phone00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
View from City Road: Courtaulds' hand is strengthened00:02
Motor Racing: IndyCars facing a Formula One challenge00:02
Teenager convicted of killing boy, 300:02
Football: Millwall pay a tender farewell to the Den: Owen Slot reports on the profitable break-up of a south London stadium, parts of which were up for sale yesterday00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Plysu overcomes slump to post rise00:02
Guinness profits warning: Two company annual meetings focus on payments to executives00:02
Shop shooting00:02
Court returns Sharif to power in Pakistan: Chief justice says President Ishaq Khan acted illegally00:02
Public Services Management Update: Recycling warning00:02
MUSIC / Gloom and gynaecology: P J Harvey - The Forum, London00:02
Letter: Heterosexuals and hepatitis B00:02
Private firms could be offered franchises to run motorways: Green Paper on motorway funding takes radical line on expansion00:02
IRA 'raises funds in computer game piracy': Crime conference warned of new target for Ulster racketeers00:02
A new world of spy games: Whatever MI6 is up to now the Cold War is over, the public should be told, argues Stephen Dorril00:02
Education: How can a school pull itself out of catastrophe?: An uphill battle against an overwhelming sense of failure00:02
Charities Update: Carlton TV trust00:02
Hospital doctor dying of Aids: Helpline set up for worried patients00:02
Golf: Feherty's take-away honed on hamburgers: Tim Glover at Wentworth on the game of golf's vast appetite for sponsorship00:02
Birthdays00:02
Motorists and crew escape as jet hits two cars on M27: Driver tells how aircraft burst into flames on carriageway after overshooting runway. Steve Boggan reports00:02
White House in foreign policy row: The US is rethinking its global role, writes David Usborne in Washington, and the world will have to get used to a new order00:02
Letter: Clinton did not fail Bosnia, Europe did00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Leading Article: Putting a pretty face on poor government00:02
Return to base: Eros is brought gently down to earth in Piccadilly Circus00:02
De Klerk and ANC agree to keep talking: Pan-Africanist Congress demands release of its detained officials before it will return to the constitutional negotiations00:02
Out of Sudan: Long walk back to age of barbarity00:02
Lopez hits back at GM accusations: I did not join Volkswagen for the money, declares man at centre of car makers' dispute00:02
View from City Road: Threat to the system pushed Bank's panic button00:02
Fashion Update: RCA student show00:02
Emergency crews demonstrate over understaffing of services they say could put lives at risk00:02
Tax bill of pounds 13m for Royal fire alarms00:02
Fashion: To jump .. give or take a bump: If they look this good they ought to be the fashion of the future. But, sighs Marion Hume, there are just a few problems00:02
Ombudsman pays out pounds 40,00000:02
Judge tells British Coal it can close 10 pits: Legal tussle between company and miners has cost pounds 150m. Mary Fagan reports00:02
Gang fears00:02
Eastern Europe nations knock insistently on EC's door: A Community summit will decide on opening the way to closer ties, writes Tony Barber00:02
Public Services Management: Whatever Next?: Privatisation of the Civil Service is causing concern as Government and agencies struggle to set priorities, reports Paul Gosling00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Cricket: Somerset to seek change to bowl-out rules: Derbyshire and Northants reach B & H semi-finals by vastly contrasting methods, leading to calls for new regulations00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Mecca alert00:02
Fashion Update: Catwalk moments00:02
Executives resign at Queens Moat Houses00:02
Plea for UK troops in Belize00:02
Hands in the Treasury, eyes on the ballot box00:02
'Travelgate' damages a troubled Clinton: No recent president has become so unpopular so soon, thanks to blunders by a young and inexperienced team00:02
Fashion: They name it, you wear it00:02
ALBUMS / New Age in middle age: Andy Gill contemplates the astral ponderings of Donald Fagen00:02
Brando ruling00:02
Bombing charge00:02
Nato row over Bosnia 'safe areas': UN aid workers warn of camps where men will do needlework and wait for a slow and awful death