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Shake-up of council review00:02
Banks face new foreign exchange rules00:02
Maze escaper becomes 'a cause celebre': Phil Reeves meets a former Sinn Fein man who is fighting extradition from the US00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: Quotes of the day00:02
FILM / Horses for courses: Adam Mars-Jones on Like Water for Chocolate00:02
Goode Report: Goode proposals call for new pension law: Powerful regulator and compensation scheme are recommended by committee in wake of Maxwell affair00:02
Law Update: Loan arrangers00:02
November Diary00:02
Caught napping00:02
Home Computer: As productive as a fish out of water: 'Utility' programs will provide hours of fun and can even be useful. Andrew Brown puts his desktop in order00:02
Goode Report: An opportunity missed, say report's critics: Reaction00:02
Law: A national local law firm: The regional alliance Eversheds has appointed a new managing partner. Sharon Wallach spoke to him00:02
Letter: Who will inspect the inspectors?00:02
Jewel of a mistake00:02
Letter: How to attract the best and the brightest00:02
Brighton: next door, the plot thickened: While Labour argued about the body politic, the Crime Writers' Association considered the body in the library00:02
TELEVISION / Snacks for thought: Thomas Sutcliffe gets under the skin of Small Objects of Desire and on the case of Taggart00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: On the Front00:02
Home Computer: Plain talk brings sound response: Cliff Joseph finds a few firm words is the way to get the best out of the new Macintoshes00:02
Church mediates in Moscow conflict00:02
Obituary: Alex Lyon00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: PR debate is badly timed for consensus00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Chess draw00:02
Army 'in control' of breakaway Bosnian region00:02
Waco raid inquiry finds grave errors00:02
View from City Road: Pragmatic thinking on pension fund rights00:02
Letter: Men can learn to 'mother' themselves00:02
Basketball: Kings rule their own court: Guildford establish narrow advantage00:02
Rugby League: Hounded tourists ride their luck00:02
Obituary: John Pennel00:02
Letter: Better arithmetic for technology colleges00:02
Short stops rot but fails to profit00:02
Today's Number: 9200:02
Law: Getting down to business on legal aid: The new franchise system for solicitors raises some fundamental questions, says Roger Smith00:02
PR queen goes00:02
Home Computer: Brave new world of shifting shapes and flashing colours: Richard Davy explores 'Windows' computing for the first time, but wonders about the real benefits when the intoxication has worn off00:02
Fire rules for nightwear may go: Safety code for children's clothing under review in government drive to cut red-tape 'burden' on business00:02
Obituary: Brian Garraway00:02
Solicitor gets three years for attempted rape after dance00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's lack of vision00:02
UDM support00:02
Goode Report: Employees should get more rights on trustees: Members' Interests00:02
HK reformer lashes 'spineless' Britain: Talks with China falter despite concessions00:02
Football: Rangers fall heavily from commanding heights: Scottish champions' sudden exit from Europe the result of injuries brought on by last year's success. David McKinney reports00:02
Surveys on sex show men like to boast00:02
Judo: Howey's mental sharpness: Briton on the verge of World Championship success00:02
Disease in Kenya kills flamingoes00:02
Letter: Serbia suffers under medicines shortage00:02
Shares leap as McCarthy disposal slashes debts: Buyout of Peverel service subsidiary opens way for expansion00:02
Golf: Roller-coasters revitalise Richardson: Briton thrills with his putting after trip to pleasure park brings immediate benefits00:02
Judge's anger at sentence00:02
Polly Peck charges dropped: SFO clings to hopes of Asil Nadir's voluntary return to face trial00:02
Girl killed 'secret' baby00:02
Racing: Hannon's hopes rise for Souffle00:02
Where dignity would be a pair of knickers: Rhys Williams talks to two counsellors trying to help the women of Bosnia salvage their sanity and self-respect00:02
Rebels take control of Abkhazia: Shevardnadze's humiliation deepens as Georgian collapse into civil war edges closer00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's lack of vision00:02
Privacy question00:02
Confusion fear on BR franchise line: Government hails range of fares on Gatwick route as passengers' gain. Martin Whitfield reports00:02
'Germinal' film joins France's Gatt battle: Worried about an invasion of US soap operas, French filmmakers want cinema and television protected 'otherwise Europe's identity will die'00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Paris set to resume nuclear tests00:02
Cyprus frees British killer00:02
Train fares may be Clarke VAT target00:02
Diary: Tunnelling for the right figure00:02
Rugby League: Mann in the shop window: Hooker showcase00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: Gay sex at 16 is endorsed as 'fundamental human right'00:02
Bigamist lawyer is jailed00:02
Judges rule in favour of wigs00:02
Ragga music blamed for attacks on homosexuals: Young blacks accused of jibes and violence against gay men00:02
Darkness at dawn in India: More than 10,000 die after double earthquake flattens sleeping towns and villages in drought-hit heartland00:02
Keith Elliott at Large: A pot-pourri of fudgers and dishers: A growing interest in the game of pool will be boosted by significant increase in exposure on television00:02
Sales in US lift French Connection00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Judo00:02
Letter: Not BA's problem00:02
FILM / A little nous on the Prairie: Against all the odds (he is a former bank clerk from Winnipeg, Canada), Guy Maddin has become interesting. Sheila Johnston talks to the cult director in the making00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Spain in shock as recession hits Seat00:02
Law Report: Housing interview must be sympathetic: Regina v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, Ex parte Khatun - Queen's Bench Division (Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC, deputy High Court judge), 30 September 199300:02
Muslim rebuff of plan threatens aid: Bosnia looks ahead to a winter of war and hunger00:02
Japan decides to import rice00:02
Goode's fatal flaw00:02
Letter: We need the Gatt deal, but not at the poor's expense00:02
Mahler's piano acquired for collection of historic keyboard instruments00:02
Hockey: Trolove reinforces Ealing: Kiwi international bolsters three-pronged strike force00:02
Goode Report: Tight limits on proposed fund: Compensation00:02
Loss adjusting lifts Rutland over car market weakness00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Indian collision with Asian underbelly led to quake: Dam and massive reservoir near epicentre may have contributed to geological changes that weakened fault zones00:02
Student jailed for quiz fraud00:02
Suffer little children: the cardinal is given an East End welcome00:02
Clinton to meet China's President00:02
Pembroke: Within our Ken00:02
View from City Road: Women's pay gap narrows00:02
Table Tennis: Prean tackles tough return00:02
Gordon turns the spotlight on the fat cats00:02
Sports Listings: Sunday / Motorcycling: World Championship - Donington Park00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's lack of vision00:02
Sailing: Smith is ordered out of Whitbread00:02
Tennis: Graf looks to future00:02
Waste imports have doubled: Hazardous material 'arriving illegally'00:02
Widow and killer may take action00:02
Law Update: Credit where it's due00:02
Heads 'opt for cheap teachers': Recruitment hit by cash shortages00:02
Sri Lankan troops begin fierce attack on rebels: Government tries to cut vital guerrilla supply route in Jaffna peninsula00:02
US officer admits 300 attacks00:02
Letter: We need the Gatt deal, but not at the poor's expense00:02
MUSIC / Resting on his laurels: Stephen Johnson listens to Strauss and Stravinsky come together on the South Bank00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
No white lies from Mandela00:02
Goode Report: Review committee's report ends 14 months' work for Oxford law professor00:02
Leading Article: Trident remains a necessity00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
State schools elite shows Oxbridge entrance expertise: Fran Abrams looks at the background of the new Cambridge intake (CORRECTED)00:02
Bishops urge tax rises to fund city spending00:02
Hoaxer jailed00:02
Former MP dies00:02
Pounds 45,000 payout00:02
Birthdays00:02
REWIND / Pitched cattle: Fred Zinnemann, director of High Noon, recalls his only acting role, as an extra in All Quiet on the Western Front00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Law Update: Law Society results00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Things that go bump in the day: 'The Evolution of Useful Things' - Henry Petroski: Pavilion, 16.99 pounds00:02
Fat teenagers 'more likely to be poor': Earnings and rates of marriage affected by weight, report finds00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: Blair seeks long jail terms for violence00:02
Escaper jailed00:02
Clerical Medical sued by 37 investors: Money deposited with agent 'was not received'00:02
Law Update: Books by bus00:02
Letter: The Labour Party's lack of vision00:02
Lodgings crisis hits new university00:02
FILM / Competition00:02
Father challenges child support order: County court action by man told to pay four times previous amount is first legal test for new agency00:02
Racing: Two-card trick trumps Turtle: Wragg produces a pair in the Middle Park to show his long suit in Classic aces, as the bluff is called on the Manton juvenile pack00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: Leadership stares down barrel over Trident: Benn tells soldiers everywhere to 'go home' - Divisions remain on electoral reform00:02
China executions increase in pace00:02
Goode Report: Report urges ban on surplus-dipping: Employers' Rights00:02
NZ plan to end legal link with Britain00:02
Mercury available from any telephone00:02
Accountant walks free as Nadir trial is shelved00:02
Grand Met makes joint bid for distiller: 84m pounds offer intended to protect source of grain whisky00:02
Firefighters move towards agreement00:02
LA police face death threats00:02
FILM / Eye for an eye, truth for a truth00:02
Boxing: Showdown risks farcical ending: Bruno v Lewis world heavyweight title fight to be decided on points if rain interrupts contest00:02
Football: Ekoku chased00:02
Football: Ipswich sign Slater for pounds 750,000: Chelsea lose out in transfer chase as Celtic striker rejoins former manager00:02
Why Tories ought to care: David Willetts argues for a non-socialist vision of the welfare state that complements free market economics00:02
Court Circular00:02
JAZZ DIARY / Nights at the circus: Django Bates tells Phil Johnson about his escape from cabaret hell; plus the return of the big bands00:02
Thatcherite fires warning shot over currency plans: Tory right-wingers prepare for battle over ERM replacement. Colin Brown reports00:02
Baby-sitter cleared of killing infant: Jury told to return not guilty verdict00:02
IRA bombs hotel00:02
The most important lessons for a girl00:02
New guidelines to safeguard computer data: Firms join forces to combat 'pirates'00:02
Man gets 14 years for trying to kill PC00:02
View from City Road: Redland climbs on German roofs00:02
Obituary: The Rev Valentine Fletcher00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
The Daily Poem: Speak To Me00:02
Non-League Football: Venables suits Stevenage: Hertfordshire club making waves00:02
Noble two-pronged attack on tax00:02
Castle bric-a-brac sale to make pounds 7m00:02
Leading Article: A long report that is short on answers00:02
Rugby Union: Hunter is back in the chase for England place: Lion returns to action for Northampton four months after injuring shoulder on New Zealand tour00:02
See no cars00:02
Mother who shot man accused of molesting her son faces up to 16 years in jail00:02
Obituary: Agnes Lauchlan00:02
Lucozade recall00:02
FILM / Critical Round-up00:02
More cuts in Civil Service jobs urged00:02
Guidelines 'may be scaring off foster parents': Obese couple removed from council register. Graham Moorby reports00:02
Outside Edge: Mysterons beware00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead - Cycling00:02
Wentworth wins action against Khan00:02
Leading Article: A couple deemed too fat to foster00:02
Knighthood for Colin Powell00:02
Canary Wharf creditors wave through rescue deal: Digging for Jubilee Line extension should start before year end00:02
It's autumn, and the last one at the hedgerow's a fool]00:02
Ex-soldier jailed for killing baby son00:02
Bottom Line: Fenner's godfather00:02
Goode Report: Act to build structured framework: Main Recommendations (CORRECTED)00:02
Gatt chief appeals to world powers00:02
Basketball: Bullets make an impact00:02
Sherwood slips on loose lace: Slack Continental demand depresses lingerie group's profits00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Surfing: European Championships - Thurso00:02
Letter: A unique loss to British culture00:02
TELEVISION / Briefing: magical Mysteron tour00:02
Market Report: Oil shares spurt on Opec production agreement00:02
Racing: Courses tune in to Santa Anita: Richard Edmondson on plans to beam in the Breeders' Cup00:02
Football: Respite for English: Phil Shaw warns of premature rejoicing over four Premiership teams' European success00:02
Palace windfall00:02
People: Paul has whale of a time in Norway00:02
Bottom Line: Checking out as Forte loses its appeal00:02
The Labour Party in Brighton: Main decisions00:02
Faithful scapegoat to the world00:02
Appeal rejected00:02
Waiting lists plea rejected00:02
Out of Russia: Bolsheviks, too, had genius for slapstick00:02
Asthma drugs 'may aggravate condition'