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Spending pays off for Ashtead: Plant-hire firm beats analysts' expectations with 22% boost00:02
Romanian coal miners stage mass strike for more pay00:02
Perloff puts in offer for rest of Etonbrook00:02
Swimming / European Swimming Championships: Foster putting his troubles behind him: Britain's men find a colourful spearhead - Adrian Holloway on an Essex-born swimmer with a chequered past but a bright future00:02
Cricket: Morris has measure of Gloucestershire00:02
Cricket: Gough double-take sees off Somerset00:02
Western German output slips00:02
Travellers told to wait to change money00:02
Letter: The Conserves are in a pickle00:02
Swimming / European Swimming Championships: Hair's breadth separates pain and perfection: Bravery is an integral part of a springboard diver's make-up. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
US Democrats in budget deal00:02
Letter: Slavery's cruelty goes beyond colour00:02
Mother jailed for leaving girl on her own child alone: You would not do this to dog, judge says00:02
Health Update: Pregnancy support00:02
Obituary: Hugh Macandrew00:02
Chrysalis calls 'game over' at MAM Leisure00:02
Letter: Volunteers to free Sarajevo00:02
European Swimming Championships: Gillingham faces up to the problem of setting the pace: Guy Hodgson examines the responsibility that burdens a British medal hope00:02
Health Update: Hope on migraines00:02
Mixed reaction to Dearing: Curriculum review fails to resolve split on league tables of school00:02
Health: A real life-saver in Stoke: An experimental trauma centre has cut deaths among patients by up to half. Stanley Slaughter reports00:02
Football: Brazil shocked by drugs test00:02
Racing: Sabre cuts at Bobzao00:02
View from City Road: Abbey suffers from its success00:02
Cricket: Wiles of Warne change shape of game00:02
'Economist' cut00:02
Inquiry on Ulster collusion reopens00:02
Kwelm payout news soon: Liquidators hoping to publish scheme of arrangement00:02
Letter: Slavery's cruelty goes beyond colour00:02
Bottom Line: Builders have the edge00:02
When deportation means death: Joy Gardner died after police raided her home. John Torode sifts fact from prejudice00:02
Police accused of brutality: Simon Midgley reports on the growing clamour for an inquiry into the death of Jamaican woman in deportation case00:02
Nationwide reports fifth monthly house price rise00:02
Hope on captives00:02
Britain sets out controversial ideas for pepping up the EC00:02
IBM learns to think small: A system that prints sheet music from a CD is one sign of a fresh approach. Mary Fagan reports00:02
Granny falls for the plumber: Ian MacKinnon meets pensioners hooked on computer games00:02
Pembroke: Red under the BES00:02
Jessica leaves to start life with parents: Trauma as childless couple fight to last minute to keep the toddler they have raised from birth00:02
Pioneer in the laboratory of life: Fertility specialist Ian Craft prefers making miracles to moralising over who should be able to have babies. Angela Neustatter met him00:02
Today's Number: 12m00:02
Bull victim00:02
Zoo workshops offer animal imitations as an escapist cure for stress00:02
Ceiling lifted on sex bias awards00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
TELEVISION / The critics00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In the set with Sooty and his panda pal: 'Into the Box of Delights' - Anna Home: BBC Books, 15.99 pounds00:02
Letter: Rome should listen to fellow Christians00:02
Cricket / Fifth Test: England co-opt Welsh for Test campaign: Maynard, Watkin and Malcolm are recalled to the colours as Dexter pledges to equip Atherton to wage 'war' in fifth Test00:02
ERM Crisis: Big exporters welcome revamp: Britain00:02
Floods recede00:02
Abbey takes 94m pounds French debt knock: Charge on property lending subsidiary mars bank's encouraging interim results00:02
Speculators humiliate ERM: European politicians blame Germany for collapse of system as central banks let weak currencies slide00:02
Bottom Line: BBA at the mercy of currencies00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-5500:02
Football: Rejected Everton look to McInally00:02
ART / Lost in the Outback: Tom Lubbock on 'Aratjara: Art of the First Australians' at the Hayward Gallery00:02
Baseball: Aussie dandy for Yankees: Import makes a dream start in the major league00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Illness forces White to step down at BBA00:02
Health: They took my foreskin, and I want it back: Some men feel their circumcision at birth was an assault. Now they can be 'uncircumcised' without surgery, writes Cherrill Hicks00:02
'L' registration sales boost industry hopes: Motor industry in buoyant mood as dealers exceed their August targets00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
ERM Crisis: Business as usual, claims Bonn: Germany00:02
Letter: 'Dirty floating' inevitable in a world of deregulated financial markets00:02
Serb success adds to Sarajevo peril: Bosnian Muslim army chiefs say their men are outgunned and demoralised - Paddy Ashdown urges Western armed might to save the city00:02
Major seeks injunction00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Health Update: Bar staff at risk00:02
Obituary: Muriel Pemberton00:02
The rivals who can no longer be ignored: Labour must recognise the threat posed by growing support for the Liberal Democrats, argues Peter Mandelson00:02
Rail union vote00:02
US seeks to reassure its squabbling Asian allies: Regional tension will make it hard for Washington to disengage, writes Raymond Whitaker, Asia Editor00:02
Press chief stays00:02
Climbers killed00:02
The Daily Poem: Vivat00:02
Obituary: Professor Sir Theo Crawford00:02
End of the long road that leads to Rome00:02
Who can answer those burning dinosaur questions?00:02
Cadbury Schweppes signs 20m pounds deal with China00:02
Birthdays00:02
ERM Crisis: Balladur struggles for calm: France00:02
Obituary: Patrick McMahon00:02
UK companies lose interest00:02
Chrysalis calls 'game over' at MAM Leisure00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Paying for monetary freedom: The exchange rate mechanism may be in crisis, but managing Europe's currencies remains preferable to floating them, says Christopher Huhne00:02
Excavation reveals ancient site of slaughter: David Keys reports on gruesome discoveries under a Roman arena used for blood sports00:02
Diary: Wanted: boards fit for the Bard00:02
Keep the news flowing00:02
Chess: Nail-biting finale00:02
Agency inquiry00:02
Leading Article: A lost chance for Britain00:02
ART / Art with a message00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Catholics braced for moral crackdown: The Pope is expected to take hard line over church doctrine00:02
View from City Road: Chancellor should stand by to cut rates00:02
Letter: Slavery's cruelty goes beyond colour00:02
Sailing: Cayard's recovery is frustrated: Luck can scupper the plans of even the best. Hugh Bateson reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
'Ivan' despair00:02
Road toll00:02
ERM Crisis: Major welcomes 'stimulus': Downing Street00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Back home to a hero's welcome00:02
Death and destruction as torrential rains hit southern Japan00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Tory right aims for abolition of most benefits: Paper calls for single payment00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Market Report: Second-liners ride wave of European rate hopes00:02
Italy honours victims of the 'years of lead': Relatives of those massacred in a station bombing 13 years ago are still fighting for justice, writes Fiona Leney in Bologna00:02
Creativity: How all the best ideas go to pot00:02
To have and to hold . . . till the fire brigade us do part00:02
Letter: 'Dirty floating' inevitable in a world of deregulated financial markets00:02
Boxing: Boxing promoter 'sabotaged': Jonathan Rendall on the re-emergence of Alan Lacey, the troubled promoter of 'Boxmania'00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Accountancy & Management: Turning auditors into policemen: Roger Trapp reports on making a duty of a right00:02
View from City Road: UK shares to gain from turmoil00:02
Sailing: Britain still lagging in wake of the leaders: Italian team hold overall lead on a day of damage limitation for crew members of the Admiral's Cup fleet00:02
BT's discount schemes ruled unfair by Oftel: Watchdog speaks of discrimination against rival telecoms operators00:02
Israeli attack 'a warning of regional risks'00:02
ERM Crisis: City firms collect a 1bn pounds trading windfall: Foreign exchange00:02
Road protests00:02
Letter: Patient's death was not about cash00:02
Belgium hastens royal succession to maintain unity role00:02
Where are they now?: Duncan Goodhew00:02
Swimming: Britain's bronze00:02
MUSIC / THE PROMS: On borrowed time: Nicholas Williams finds new life in Handel's oratorio Deborah, revived at the Proms00:02
Kashmir protest00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell trusts in teamwork: Britain's IndyCar rookie is top of the class00:02
Tree lovers go down to the woods for a birthday stroll00:02
Poker: Sunar's showdown00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
New school tests mark death of Baker system00:02
Sub goes down in Russian history: Hard-hit navies compare notes00:02
Robber gets lift out of HK high life00:02
Health Update: Loose advice00:02
Spring Ram bounces on bid talks00:02
Letter: How Hizbollah wins support00:02
Allies reject US plan for Sarajevo strikes: Diplomats say fighting jeopardises Geneva peace talks00:02
Highway robbery00:02
More firms up to full capacity00:02
Leading Article: The way forward for education policy00:02
Crowned to a chorus of approval: Tom Stacey joins the revellers at the coronation of the king of the Baganda, Uganda's most powerful tribe00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Cricket / Round-Up: Gooch century provides timely fillip: Essex captain's unbeaten hundred undermines Worcestershire00:02
Sentence on sex offender must stand: Attorney General powerless to intervene after persistent molester given probation00:02
Commercial radio wins record audience: BBC denies independents have 'stranglehold' in London00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
ERM Crisis: European interest rates expected to fall sharply: Gains in terms of economic growth unlikely to be quick or spectacular00:02
ERM Crisis: EMS is dead without a successor: Collapse of monetary system triggers far-reaching rethink of what the EC is trying to achieve00:02
RADIO / Endowment policies: Nick Curtis on frantic sex and calm revelations00:02
Gulf 'stability'00:02
Racing: Romeo's faith in flashy Canadian contender00:02
Russian ambush00:02
SA leaders stand by as death marches on: John Carlin in Johannesburg detects a mood of deep despair over the worsening violence00:02
People: Crash-landing for officious airline00:02
Oil explorer's losses rise: Midland & Scottish writes off entire value of its Emerald field00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
ERM Crisis: What the European newspapers are saying today00:02
Leading Article: The Pope must make his church more catholic00:02
Athletics: Jackson back in business after treatment: British federation has rich agenda for management meeting00:02
US court action hits Glaxo share price: British company 'confident of winning' battle over patents00:02
Letter: Reeders' response00:02
Health Update: Cervical scanner may replace smears00:02
A pussycat to make politicians purr00:02
Obituary: Donald Alexander00:02
Swedes help private farms prosper: Russia's former commune workers are going it alone with the aid of foreign cash and equipment, Helen Womack writes from Glazovo00:02
A bleak outlook in the east: Paul Durman reports on the problems of changing banking systems00:02
Letter: 'Dirty floating' inevitable in a world of deregulated financial markets00:02
Backbench rebels may force rail defeat