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Storm kills 3200:02
Football: Deane deal no nearer00:02
Lilley targets rising cost of welfare state00:02
FILM / Good Boy, Bad Boy: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
Golf: Buoyant Hall lifts England00:02
Learn them to speak proper, like: John Patten wants our children to grasp the basics of English. Below, one teacher argues that the new syllabus will be based on ignorance; while another says Latin holds the key to higher standards00:02
Greene King awaits merger with Morland: Brewer will keep 30% shareholding in Oxfordshire rival00:02
The Daily Poem: Elegiac00:02
The worst is over, says Peel Holdings chief00:02
FILM / Good Girl, Bad Girl: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
'Hard-up' town offered aid Peasants come to town's aid00:02
Hawker quits Freemans after Dutch fiasco00:02
Bull strikes back on the streets of Pamplona00:02
3,000 coal jobs to go00:02
FILM / Games people play: Super Mario on the big screen, Alan Rudolph's double vision and an English director's view of Sweden00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Letter: Motherhood can signal success against the odds00:02
Gold Greenlees Trott profits boosted by US00:02
Two killed in frigate fire00:02
Olympic Games: Sydney IOC favourite00:02
Racing: Four wins mark Reveley's return00:02
Equestrianism: Broome is forced to make way: Armstrong leaps into limelight as Britain omit show jumping veteran for European Championships00:02
Fewer road deaths00:02
'A nurse walked by with a plastic bag containing an amputated leg': Amid horrifying scenes in a Sarajevo hospital, Robert Fisk hears the tragic stories of some of the victims of the bloody conflict in Bosnia00:02
Leading Article: Internal exile does the UK a disservice00:02
Athletics: Gunnell sets gold standard: Britons eye further gains00:02
Letter: Royal Commission's plan to abolish the right to trial by jury will multiply miscarriages of justice00:02
Protein tests give new hope for Aids vaccine00:02
View from City Road: Time for action on investor protection00:02
This Weekend / Motor Racing - British Grand Prix, Silverstone00:02
Kosovo exiles carry on the fight in Tirana: Albanian-language paper that was closed by Serbs finds an unlikely new home00:02
Motor Racing: Hill emerging from the shadows: Britain's Formula One rookie is coming to terms with life in the public eye00:02
G7 Summit: Clarke ssys G7 must cut pension and health costs00:02
FILM / Twin flics: the naked truth: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
Owners Abroad's profit warning savages the share price: Year's figures will be half the level of current market expectations, says company00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
FILM / Two Much: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
Tennis: Bates pulls rank on Foster: The British No 1 puts the young pretender firmly in his place00:02
Football: Tapie talks of vendetta00:02
THEATRE / A history of men of straw: Paul Taylor on Druid Theatre Company's At the Black Pig's Dyke at the Tricycle Theatre00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55: Every day during this exhibition at the Tate Gallery, the Independent is running a short extract from letters, reportage and diaries of the period00:02
FILM / Twice the Fun: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
FILM / Critical Round-up00:02
Heron hits back at creditor: Group links objections to pounds 1.4bn restructuring with lawsuit00:02
Cricket: Australians avoid a minor mishap: Cockbain top scorer against tourists00:02
Status of vocational qualifications raised00:02
Amstrad loses 25m pounds on Spanish closure00:02
Blair sets out vision based on 'community': Labour moderniser challenges credentials of party traditionalists00:02
Judge to decide fate of orchestras: The arts face their most severe cuts for years. David Lister reports00:02
Claims over welfare spending questioned: Social security figures spark heated debate00:02
Law: Alternative to the courtroom: Sharon Wallach talks to Bruce Harris, of the Chartered Institute of00:02
Athletics: London Marathon finish faces move to the Mall00:02
Leading Article: A dangerous licence for child-minders00:02
Today's Number: 60000:02
German tourist shot dead near Scottish ferry port: Road checks set up as armed police and RAF helicopters join search for gunman00:02
Remy Cointreau profits down 25%: Drinks group hit by higher costs and lower sales00:02
Entertainment in the firing line: The departure of Jim Moir from BBC Light Entertainment marks the end of an era, but does it mark the end of Bruce Forsyth, Jimmy Savile and cheap 'n' cheerful television? James Rampton canvassed opinion00:02
Suicide verdict00:02
Scottish council plans 'corrupt': Tories accused of gerrymandering as Opposition MPs walk out in protest00:02
Britain's cause best served by services00:02
Rowing: Redgrave and Pinsent the main men: Britain's best head for Lucerne to challenge World Championship rivals00:02
Drifting towards an IRA victory00:02
Outside Edge: Sabine Durrant meets the man who pulls strings for the string-pullers00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Serbs and Croats unite to drive Muslims back: Christopher Bellamy reports from Vitez on the new allies' latest attacks and successes in Bosnia00:02
From Wales to Westminster, a televised version of the Neil Kinnock story00:02
Press challenge to spy trial secrecy fails00:02
Broadcast a little sunshine for us Goldies00:02
Next week in Parliament00:02
Racing: Hamas recalls Walwyn's ascendancy: Outsider's July Cup victory returns a former champion to the limelight. Richard Edmondson reports00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
DIRECTOR'S CUT / Great Expectations: Joel Schumacher on Great Expectations00:02
Despairing West gets ready to leave Bosnia: As UN aid effort runs into the ground, European leaders start to talk of pulling out troops, lifting arms embargo and letting the war rage on00:02
Letter: Brighten our summer00:02
Ancient Rome can work wonders for modern Britons: The language of ancient Rome can work wonders for the literacy skills of modern Britons, says Susan Elkin00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
MUSIC / No break with routine: Nick Kimberley reviews Pimlico Opera's La Traviata00:02
Home Computer: How computers should be: Sue Schofield shoulders her Amstrad notebook and takes a Swiss Army knife to the opposition00:02
Shephard plea on fish stocks00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Of romance and skulduggery00:02
MPs demand action following criticism of Welsh agency: 'Appalling catalogue of failures' leads to call for clamp-down00:02
View from City Road: Facing up to reality in French fantasy land00:02
Sporting Digest: Hang Gliding00:02
Union rejects Smith reforms: T & G decision fuels internal feud00:02
Marlet Report: US forecaster brings BA shares down to earth00:02
Pembroke: Looking like furniture00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Law Report: Bar on private road death prosecution upheld: Regina v Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Chaudhry - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Kennedy and Mr Justice Bell), 7 July 1993.00:02
Hunt under fire over 'housework' qualification00:02
Exclusive: there is death on Mars - and a serial killer00:02
Obituary: Trevor Thomas00:02
Letter: Boys don't have to grow up to be misogynists00:02
View from City Road: Sensible relief for firms from creditors00:02
Law: Prevention is always better than cure: In the wake of recent consolidating legislation, Sharon Wallach examines the impact on the growing area of trusts, trustees and charities law00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A pale Bond leaves Smiley in the cold: 'The Night Manager' - John le Carre: Hodder, 15.99 pounds00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Law Update: Look east00:02
Keith Elliott at Large: Walton wakes up after a round with Ireland's zombie expert: 'I was at a very low ebb for a variety of reasons. Paul brought me back to reality. He has been magical. Now I am very close to winning again'00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
FILM / Whispering Swede nothings00:02
Bottom Line: U-turn by Owners00:02
Militants hanged00:02
Franc at three-month low against mark00:02
Sovereignty plan sparks Ulster row: Mayhew rejects joint administration00:02
Clowes to stay in prison: Fraudster fails in appeal against theft convictions and plea for shorter sentence00:02
TELEVISION / Notes00:02
Law Update: Overseas expansion00:02
Leading Article: Swallowing the Tokyo medicine00:02
G7 Summit: Britain starts to bow towards the inevitable: Hurd and Major give first signs of accepting German and Japanese claims to seats on UN Security Council00:02
Letter: Royal Commission's plan to abolish the right to trial by jury will multiply miscarriages of justice00:02
Euro Disney loses 60m pounds in quarter: Second theme park to encourage hotel occupation put on hold as strategy and structure are reviewed00:02
Sink and swim00:02
Chicken eggs could be source of drugs: First genetically engineered cockerel raises hopes for cheap medicine00:02
Sporting Digest: Canoeing00:02
Worst war in the world claims 1,000 lives a day: UN is pressing Jonas Savimbi to negotiate as Angolan conflict plumbs new depths, writes Richard Dowden00:02
G7 Summit: Russia offered pounds 2bn to help its industry go private00:02
Old man river just keeps on rising and rising: Patrick Cockburn in West Alton, near St Louis, sees the Mississippi take its toll00:02
Bottomley promises better supervision of mentally ill: Linking care worker to patient 'central to any solution'. Celia Hall reports00:02
Two diamond geezers locked up within a myth: To the world, the Kray twins remain violent gangsters, even 25 years after they went down for murder. To their elder brother, Charlie, they are the focus of a legend - and he is its guardian00:02
Son of a toy gun00:02
Two jails criticised for bullying00:02
Dentists shun NHS work: Pay dispute has led to half a million patients being taken off practice lists00:02
Archer jailed00:02
Leading orchestras threatened00:02
MUSIC / Posing a question of balance: Stephen Walsh on new works at the Cheltenham Festival00:02
Japan clings to the wreckage: Next week's polls portend great change but a widespread paralysis grips the country00:02
Letter: Royal Commission's plan to abolish the right to trial by jury will multiply miscarriages of justice00:02
Treasury and Bank set for clash over printing of notes00:02
Far East republic00:02
China's army storms Hong Kong with goods for sale: The military is keen to sell its new civilian products, Teresa Poole writes from Hong Kong00:02
Countess weds00:02
Inside Parliament: High dudgeon turns to low farce00:02
FILM / Siamese: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
Salmonella award00:02
Crossbow man jailed00:02
Home Computer: Open Forum00:02
Prince Charming? Haven't seen him for ages: Bullying single mothers will not wash. It is men who must acknowledge a world that has left fairy-tale marriages behind, says Angela Phillips00:02
Cycle / Tour de France: Stage win a giant leap for Skibby: Cipollini wins battle of the sprinters but Nelissen regains yellow jersey for Belgium00:02
The Michael Sams Trial: Detectives blame escape on fog and loss of radio contact00:02
Court Circular00:02
Letter: Motherhood can signal success against the odds00:02
Israeli shot dead00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
UN plans to seal Iraqi sites00:02
Ukraine clash00:02
Law Update: Access to justice00:02
Labour victory00:02
Sporting Digest: Student Sport00:02
Child-minder wins right to smack: Court victory for 'traditional wisdom and values' alarms child-protection groups00:02
Diary: The king is dead: long live the censor00:02
Bottom Line: Revived BAe takes initiative00:02
The Michael Sams Trial: Train spotter's obsession left chain of clues00:02
The Michael Sams Trial: Kidnapper who killed teenager is jailed for life: Jury told of an obsessive character's cruel campaign to extract ransoms and outwit his pursuers00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Marines' mission00:02
British Coal aims to shed 3,000 white-collar jobs00:02
Cricket / World Cup: England draw Pakistan: 1996 World Cup pairs last year's finalists00:02
Libya may invest in Lloyd's of London: Insurance market's standing with important US interests could be jeopardised00:02
Tories slump to 24.5% and third place00:02
Golf: Parnevik has a sunny spell as rain hits rivals: Bell's Scottish Open00:02
Keenan honoured00:02
Motor Racing / Grand Prix Focus: Britons abroad relinquish right of home advantage00:02
Shephard plea on fish stocks00:02
Hussein check-up00:02
Generals still call the shots in Nigeria00:02
Underwriters protest at 140,000 pounds pay-off00:02
Socialist quits00:02
Letter: Analysing the options00:02
Law Update: Atlantic crossing00:02
The prize our leaders cannot afford to drop00:02
Teenage arsonists00:02
Five killed in labour camp riot in Russia: Officials admit criminals are kept in atrocious conditions00:02
Obituary: Michael Rothenstein00:02
Birthdays00:02
Out of Russia: New-style raider goes to work on old-style factory00:02
This Weekend / Powerboats - Circuit World Championship, Cardiff00:02
Gonzalez slips into Churchillian mode: On eve of new term PM urges all-out effort to revive economy00:02
G7 Summit: Japanese win right to nuclear weapons00:02
Letter: Hollywood 'chutzpah' over the name game00:02
Obituary: Professor Anthony Rose00:02
Plan Ahead: World Athletic Championships, Stuttgart00:02
G7 Summit: Hazards remain in quest for growth00:02
Wrangling over Sellafield fuels process of decay: Lack of a decision over the Cumbria nuclear reprocessing plant is blamed for the loss of 1,000 jobs. Alex Renton visits a threatened community00:02
Law Update: Proposed fee rise00:02
Prudential will publish policy detail proposals00:02
FILM / 10 Twin Facts: Hollywood has a quiet obsession with twins. John Lyttle considers the similarities00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
People: Miyazawa puts the squeeze on Kohl00:02
Letter: Royal Commission's plan to abolish the right to trial by jury will multiply miscarriages of justice00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Art Market: Waterloo general's desk fetches pounds 1.7m: Regency masterpiece sets new auction record for English furniture