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Letter: Soap opera intellectuals00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Some mucking about and the dewy stuff, too: Ten is not too young to be a hero, as Giles Smith finds in Roddy Doyle's new novel: Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - Roddy Doyle: Secker & Warburg, pounds 12.9900:02
Heron sells shopping centre to Land Securities for pounds 39m00:02
Rugby League: Hancock has the last laugh in farce00:02
Travel: Drunk on the dawn of time: Angela Lambert cruises round southern Turkey exploring the sites of ancient Lycia, still undefiled by modern tourist hordes00:02
Champagne wins battle against hedgerow bubbly: Surrey producers will go to the Lords in campaign to save their wine's name00:02
MPs back Thames railway tunnel: Pounds 300m link would lift road threat to historic wood00:02
Travel Departures: Price Czech00:02
Khmer ban00:02
Golf: Caddie shows Davies the way00:02
Racing: Level playing field for Derby decider: Tomorrow's Irish Derby will help settle cross-Channel Classic rivalries. Clive Hughes reports00:02
Golf: Van de Velde slowly but surely takes command00:02
Food & Drink: Will Augustus wed Victoria?: Two of our leading high-street drinks chains are set to merge. Anthony Rose reports00:02
Obituary: Patrick Crosse00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Appeals: The Kathmandu Environmental Educational Project00:02
Ferry changes may raise prices00:02
Obituary: Piergiuseppe Beretta00:02
Kurdish Embassy Attacks: Leader of Iran's Kurds chooses non-violent path: Annika Savill on Mustapha Hijri: against terrorism but at risk of assassination00:02
Food & Drink: From block to wok, chop chop00:02
Travel: Black Hole of Zante00:02
Comatose labour00:02
Women smokers run greatest risk: Statistics show females slicing nearly seven years off their lives, reports Vivien Goldsmith00:02
Yorkshire lifts payout 15%00:02
Kurdish Embassy Attacks: 'Iron lady' pushes forward with reform: Bonn passes buck to regions as new Turkish PM hints at fresh initiatives on the ethnic problem00:02
Row over UN rights chief00:02
Silent safari offers no comment on marble steps00:02
Gardening: Pushing up daisies, lilies, poppies . . .: Anna Pavord visits a North Yorkshire churchyard where the dead can rest in peace beneath a herbaceous heaven on earth00:02
Auctions00:02
Travel Departures: Highs and lows00:02
Extremists storm SA talks: Delegates hide as gunmen smash their way into centre and run riot00:02
Food & Drink: Berry yourself in ice-cream: Recipe00:02
Antlers add finishing touch to Henry VIII's refurbished Hampton Court apartments00:02
German opposition anoints its hoped-for saviour: Social Democrats seek to end disarray and escape the political doldrums00:02
Athletics: British men on the right track for top honours00:02
White extremists gatecrash South African political negotiations00:02
M25 case judgment00:02
Award for Independent writer: Ken Jones00:02
Holyfield's compulsion to compete: Former heavyweight champion eschews retirement for the thrill of the ring while victory at Olympia promises riches00:02
Saving by post00:02
Letter: Poor should not finance public debt00:02
First-timers hold the homebuying advantage: Neasa MacErlean finds newcomers displaying caution00:02
BES funds for Oxbridge00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Practical publications00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Organic openings00:02
Lord Young receives 77% pay rise00:02
Heart Searching: Blonde ambition leads to blind ally: Rolex Man left early, and several dates bottled out, but Lyndsay Russell joined the party00:02
Cars wrecked00:02
Baseball: The New York Mets' no-win situation exerts a morbid fascination: The story of the fall of a once-mighty baseball team is hogging the US headlines. Rupert Cornwell reports00:02
Saturday Night: The techno ice-cream van is on its way00:02
Heseltine returns from Italy00:02
Travel: On the A23 to the past00:02
Travel Departures: Channel challenge00:02
Cricket: Time for England selectors to start star gazing: With the home side already two down with four to play in the series, changes look imminent for third Test against Australia at Trent Bridge00:02
Crash charges00:02
Trojan horse gets Travellers past gates: Glastonbury festival used to be free; now tickets cost pounds 58. But there are ways of getting past the guards00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Travel Departures: Battle buy00:02
Cricket: Robinson frustrates leaders: Our correspondent reports from Swansea00:02
US bank sues the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi for dollars 1.5bn: First American Bankshares launches Washington action to claim damages over illegal acquisition by BCCI00:02
Travel Departures: Late packages00:02
Killer sent to secure hospital00:02
Cricket: Zoehrer turns his hand to spin out the students: Glenn Moore reports from The Parks00:02
Obituary: Derek Hersey00:02
Letter: Quarry worth hunting00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Burglar jailed00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Quotes of the day00:02
Writer killed00:02
Major to change speaking style: Prime Minister plans return to off-the-cuff 'soapbox' speeches to smaller audiences00:02
Food & Drink: Tale of the little speckled hen: Pheasant is pleasant, chicken is tasty, but in between there is guinea fowl, which has its own special flavour00:02
Business and City In Brief00:02
Birthdays00:02
Property: Down-valuations are killing recovery00:02
Fire kills 1800:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Cricket: Barnett takes charge00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Agassi sharpening cutting edge with a tomahawk chop: Confidence of men's champion more than compensates for wrist and elbow problems while Steffi Graf gives demonstration of power00:02
Country Matters: They see white gold and run amok00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-5500:02
Letter: Untruths behind clamour for a graduate tax00:02
Botnar spent pounds 90,000 on Tory Savoy lunches: Trade ministers attempted to mediate with Nissan to save dealership business. Tim Kelsey and Michael Harrison report00:02
Matured meat00:02
Travel: Park and fly00:02
Rugby Union: McGeechan is set to help London Scottish: Lions coach confirms move00:02
Athletics: Regis bound for Rome to become king: A runner for all occasions stands to make a weighty contribution as Britain attempt to regain the European Cup. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Jude the Dude sparks a Royal rumble00:02
Pensioner molested usher in courtroom00:02
Putting the art back into artisan: Class divisions and historical stigma lie behind the Crafts Council's latest exhibition, says John Windsor00:02
Policies come round again00:02
Demonstration to call for scrapping of roads programme00:02
Gardening / Tool Box: Not just a little squirt00:02
Drugs vendetta blamed for gangland killing00:02
Clinton lives to fight again on budget bill: Vice-President's casting vote breaks Senate deadlock00:02
Boxing: Benn's belligerence holds key to defence of world title: Tonight's WBC super-middleweight bout promises to be a brief and brutal British affair. Nick Halling reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
Bupa cuts some policies by 10%: Older subscribers face swingeing increases00:02
Cricket: Lathwell out twice in one day00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Baa Baa Black Sheep - David Malouf: Chatto & Windus, pounds 8.9900:02
Hockey: Germans take advantage of defensive lapse00:02
View from Brussels: Uneasy options as the European debate unfolds00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A casual king of elves: Jan Morris goes on a foray into modern fairyland, and sorts the princes from the frogs: The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales - Ed. Alison Lurie: Oxford, pounds 17.9500:02
Travel: As recommended by Cicero: Frank Barrett finds Sicily is a land of good and bad myths00:02
Profile: Nobody to fear but her fans: Steffi Graf - tennis is easy, life is more difficult00:02
Clarke risks cabinet rift with plan to raise taxes: Quick reduction of election year's projected pounds 30bn deficit will permit Conservatives to offer poll 'sweeteners'00:02
Obituary: Prebendary Norry McCurry00:02
Food & Drink: Bing's big hit days are over: Joanna Blythman predicts that the cherry will follow the apple into a brave new world of diversity and flavour00:02
Motoring / Road Test: First-rate engine and styling are marred by a hard, cramped ride00:02
Drawing of IRA suspect released00:02
Letter: We need creative thinking, not wage cuts00:02
BT to publish charges for use of its lines00:02
Sheep and children first as floods drive Bangladeshis from their land00:02
Service Appointments00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Insolent, brutish defiance00:02
Motorcycling: Rainey ready to roll on a circuit to his liking00:02
Obituary: Professor Zdenek Kopal00:02
New tribe00:02
Cricket: Smith shows the self-belief to rattle Gooch: Rob Steen reports from Ilford00:02
Travel Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Nine O'Clock watershed for BBC and newsreader00:02
William Donaldson's Week: There's a flaw in my character00:02
Lautro fear over lapsed pensions: Early surrender values are poor00:02
More security from Amex00:02
Private space merges with public space in a high-tech urban nocturnal vision00:02
LIG suffers from holiday snaps slump00:02
Blonde Muslims find shelter in Pakistan: Refugees from Bosnia were given a warm welcome in a distant land, Ahmed Rashid writes from Islamabad00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Stich's rebuff for extremism00:02
Food & Drink: Summer Choice00:02
Nadir claims to have proof of criminal behaviour by authorities00:02
Leading Article: How to reduce the fallibility of MPs00:02
Motoring: A toast to a Derby winner: Phil Llewellin joins the proud owner of a pre-war Bentley on a 24-hour, 1,000-mile journey to mark the 60th anniversary of 'the world's fastest lorries'00:02
'Gravy train' bank chief forced out: Attali presided over lavish spending by EBRD set up to help struggling Eastern Europeans00:02
Wills00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Love on the Dole - Walter Greenwood: Vintage, pounds 5.9900:02
Lord Hanson is forced to apologise00:02
Gardening: Knickers to Bloomsday, I say00:02
Church Appointments00:02
Today's Number: 800:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Don't go off the sale rails: Angela Lambert, credit card at the ready, found little to tempt her00:02
Retrial man freed00:02
Dog owner's attacker jailed00:02
Racing: House proud in the Plate00:02
MUSIC / Playing to the gallery: David Bedford was banned because he would keep bringing the audience into it. Mark Pappenheim reports00:02
Hepatitis alert over blood products00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Over there00:02
Do you qualify for extra help?00:02
Travel: Down the slippery slope in a British-built cigar box: Paul Barker turns in his car keys, invests in a tram pass and discovers the delights of Lisbon's hilltops and alleyways00:02
Cricket: Whole new ball game00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: The Trouble with Being Born - E H Cioran: Quartet, pounds 8.9500:02
Brotherly chat00:02
Used cars top list of consumer complaints00:02
Travel: Flags and standards00:02
Cheaper holidays with Barclays00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Coda00:02
Police force relaxes rules on officers drawing guns: Inspectors will be allowed to sanction use of firearms00:02
Faith and Reason: Doubtful claim to unique authority: The Bishop of Durham, the Right Rev David Jenkins, looks at Catholicism without Rome and regrets the emphasis put on ecclesiastical labels at the expense of sharing the Gospel.00:02
Obituary: George Norman00:02
Fans distinguish themselves from fanatics at Wimbledon: Andre Agassi's followers insist that real supporters do not cling to their idols00:02
Police arrest 59 over drugs00:02
Letter: Untruths behind clamour for a graduate tax00:02
BDO helpline for names00:02
Market Report: BAe hit by doubts over Taiwanese joint venture00:02
Baseball: The New York Mets' no-win situation exerts a morbid fascination: The story of the fall of a once-mighty baseball team is hogging the US headlines. Rupert Cornwell reports00:02
Letter: Poor should not finance public debt00:02
Russia cuts off gas to Estonia00:02
Pohl could become president of EBRD: International figures rounded up to replace Attali00:02
Kurdish Embassy Attacks: German call for ban on guerrillas: Bonn passes buck to regions as new Turkish PM hints at fresh initiatives on the ethnic problem00:02
Robber jailed00:02
Letter: Sinister move for Nigeria00:02
Anger over Romanian ships sell-off: Foreign company 'getting control of strategic fleet for a pittance'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Gritty fruit and dreams of rubies: The weather in Iceland - David Profumo: Picador, pounds 13.9900:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Blue Circle gets new structure00:02
BOOK REVIEW / War games with Sitting Bull: Misreadings - Umberto Eco Tr. William Weaver: Cape, pounds 9.9900:02
Football 'bribes' inquiry00:02
Cricket / Twelfth Man: Fostering the spirit of Kent00:02
Babangida gives a date for handover00:02
Football: Illegal payments inquiry: Corruption probe planned00:02
Muslim rivals find no time for big issue00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: All together00:02
Football: Polish stadium ban00:02
Pattern of summer: knit two, pearl one: This year's softer shapes have brought back the twinset, as Granny never wore it. Roger Tredre looks at the 1993 reincarnation00:02
Food & Drink: So what's your poison?: Emily Green samples Toxique chic at a converted Wiltshire farmhouse, then has a sweet and sour time in Devon00:02
Pounds 525m windfall for holders of Rothmans and Dunhill: Reconstruction will separate tobacco products and luxury goods00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Putting earrings on crocodiles: Barbara Everett on Roberto Calasso's vertiginous retelling of the tales of the gods and heroes: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso Tr. Tim Parks: Jonathan Cape, pounds 19.9900:02
Travel: We did like to be by the seaside: Brighton's royal heritage and sleazy past have given way to an altogether more 'peculiar' present. Frank Barrett reports from the promenade00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Obituary: Admiral Sir Mark Pizey00:02
Steam train enthusiasts roll out pounds 1m project: Christian Wolmar reports on plans to recreate an A1 Pacific, the height of locomotive design00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review recordings of exiled Europeans, before and after00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Aquamarine - Carol Anshaw: Virago, pounds 5.9900:02
The Week in Review00:02
Blair targets 'family values' as a platform for Labour00:02
Football: Ardiles returns to Tyneside: Tottenham manager begins his season at former club00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: New tunes00:02
Learning the hard way: Maria Scott talks to a mature student struggling to make ends meet00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Travel Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Present fears lead Japanese to seek solace in the past: A people troubled by modern uncertainties is taking a profound interest in the 'Golden Age' of the Edo era, writes Terry McCarthy in Tokyo00:02
David Smith buys Spicers for pounds 95m: Purchase of envelope maker marks move away from cyclical paper making00:02
Property: The costs of name dropping: Nigel Steele, a former Lloyd's investor, is having to sell his home. He spoke to David Lawson about the crisis00:02
Philosopher of la dolce vita: Were he alive today Epicurus would be a happy man. Last year an Italian publisher sold 1.3 million copies of the philosopher's brief treatise on contentment. Kevin Jackson reports00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Now you hear it, now you don't: The echo has sounded through music since the Renaissance and before. Bayan Northcott considers the pleasures of reverberation00:02
Somali clash00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: What's in a name00:02
Clarke's tax warning boosts pound00:02
Brighton bond in a fix00:02
Cricket: Another century for inimitable Haynes: Henry Blofeld reports from Lord's00:02
Appeals: Action on Pre-eclampsia00:02
Sudanese 'plot'00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Money Grouse: A case of small print and a pair of glasses00:02
Which? way to a pension00:02
THEATRE / It's right grand: Jeffrey Wainwright relishes Barrie Rutter's Northern Falstaff00:02
Mates to fire parting shot at fraud office: As new Minister of State for Northern Ireland is named, Asil Nadir says he feels no guilt over the downfall of previous incumbent00:02
Rift with the French adds to Bonn's troubles00:02
Prisoners on run00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Tories urged secrecy over gift: Exclusive: Former Nissan UK chief accused of tax fraud put money into offshore accounts to gain influence00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Foster unfazed by Sampras' mystique: World No 1 next for Briton ranked 332nd while his compatriot talks himself up for a Centre Court meeting with former champion00:02
Hungry journeys for BR passengers as firm folds00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
The Way I Was: Glory days of chariots for hire: Colin Welland tells Nicholas Roe of the day he turned down a drink with a girl in her Butlin's chalet because he wasn't thirsty00:02
Moroccans go reluctantly to the polls: Hassan hopes 'honest and open' election will ease external and internal pressures00:02
Jury still out00:02
Law-and-order hawk seizes his chance: As new Minister of State for Northern Ireland is named, Asil Nadir says he feels no guilt over the downfall of previous incumbent00:02
Letter: Finders keepers is no protection for our heritage00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: In support of prunings00:02
Midland's 10-year fix00:02
BOOKS / Classic Thoughts: Bored man of action: Julian Barnes on Mikhail Lermontov's audacious A Hero of our Time (1840)00:02
Truants 'select lessons to miss from school': Pupils complain about 'lack of enjoyment'00:02
Scottish votes in the post00:02
War of words over land: An Australian High Court judgment has touched off a furious controversy00:02
Letter: Stonehenge past and present: Correction00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
The ultimate 'bored game'00:02
Ministers 'will listen' to council concerns: Curry responds to fears of 'monster' local authorites00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Wilkinson's game finding a new edge: World No 1 next for Briton ranked 332nd while his compatriot talks himself up for a Centre Court meeting with former champion00:02
Callers swamp insurance lines: Telephone broker claims it can find cheaper car cover00:02
How much worse can it get?: What a week, what a reek. Andrew Marr watches the latest episodes of the Government's horror story. There will be no happy ending00:02
Cricket: Jarvis in quick strike: Derek Hodgson reports from Headingley00:02
Trident decision 'could cost Rosyth 1,000 jobs': Management disputes government estimate of 450 redundancies. James Cusick reports00:02
Investors bypass share shops as BT3 deadline nears: Banks and brokers are disappointed with the level of registrations. Vivien Goldsmith reports00:02
Secrets trial delayed00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Scientists link defective gene to aggression: Inherited disorder could explain behaviour