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Blackpool braced for Thatcher: Tory conference floor remains free of dissent while leaks from memoirs create a storm of speculation00:02
Media / Talk of the Trade: Absolutely two-dimensional00:02
Tales of our lives told through our loves00:02
Obituary: Jim Holton00:02
State funding to help blacks 'return' urged: Labour MP criticised after addressing 'taboo' subject00:02
Hospital fined for waiting list delay: Trust fined pounds 11,500 as patients kept waiting00:02
House prices up on last year00:02
Obituary: Bishop Pateliso Finau00:02
The Daily Poem: Poem (after Ladislav Skala)00:02
Wehmiller ahead but still cautious00:02
Letter: Nothing like the Sun: Correction00:02
Bhutto faces battle to woo weary voters: Victory is far from certain in today's Pakistan election00:02
Today's Number: 900:02
Market Report: BAT's cross-Atlantic trip leaves a bad impression00:02
Bottom Line: No new inspiration from Sugar00:02
Russian Crisis: Western economists optimistic00:02
Football: Back home for Macari00:02
THE FRINGE / Not as funny as all that: Nick Curtis on the caperings of Penny Dreadful and the calm Song for a Bluefoot Man00:02
Media / Talk of the Trade: Duds and delights00:02
Afghan border fight00:02
Badminton: Wembley woes: All England venue row00:02
Watchdogs fear NHS closures00:02
Tennis: McEnroe withdraws his Cup captaincy bid: The popular choice decides against leading American Davis Cup team00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Russian Crisis: Yeltsin decides to get tough with the regions: President grabs opportunity for sweeping purge of conservative councils00:02
Sugar to split top roles at Amstrad: New chief executive will concentrate on growth by acquisition00:02
Obituary: Bert Greeves00:02
Law Report: Powers of appeal should be clarified: Regina v Berry - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)(Lord Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Otton and Mr Justice Kay), 28 September 199300:02
Nuticulus and Big Ears tackle the ablative absolute00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Two jailed for firebomb campaign: Court told security cameras recorded INLA men planting incendiary devices in Leeds store00:02
Boxing: Wharton's wait over00:02
WMI wins pounds 142m waste deal in Spain00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Lib Dem 'danger in the South'00:02
Birthdays00:02
Bosnian army troops defect to rebels in Bihac00:02
Korean arms talks stall00:02
Baseball: Wild Thing makes those Phillie hearts sing: Philadelphia seek express relief from Mitch Williams to settle the National League Championship00:02
Court Circular00:02
Racing: Piggott has stalls fright00:02
Sting of encyclical drawn by Hume: Cardinal shows Pope's letter to bishops is not a restatement of hard line on artificial birth control00:02
How was it for you? Hiding in the wings: When it comes to prima donnas, two into one won't go00:02
Media: . . . And get this? You don't have to be a member of Mensa00:02
OPERA / Zero pulse rate: Finnissy gets a lifeless premiere in Bury: Therese Raquin - The Garden Venture00:02
Sporting Digest: Billiards00:02
Clarke gives Bank a free hand in reporting inflation: Chancellor to end interference in analysis of price outlook but says a decision on independence remains far off00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Defiance of Lords over BR urged00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Rugby League: Bradford's untimely test: New Zealand bolstered by late arrivals00:02
THEATRE / Doubly masterful: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews The Servant of Two Masters00:02
Rugby Union: Williams' kick-start00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
BR stations to be offered for sale: From next April, 2,500 freeholds will transfer to Railtrack. Colin Brown reports00:02
Gambler 'murdered woman for pounds 400'00:02
Obituary: Geoffrey Imeson00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Single parents targeted for welfare cuts: Reduced benefits floated as a way of discouraging dependency on state00:02
Out of America: Test of wills in the land of the free trade agreement00:02
Equestrianism: Riders rise to the relay challenge00:02
Obituary: Max Knight00:02
Football: European semi-finals are restored by Uefa00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Diary00:02
Abandoning an ancient right to please the police00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Facade of unity masks politics of weakness00:02
A tax tangle to test Mr Clarke's nerve00:02
Motor Racing: Footwork to reduce F1 funding00:02
Letter: Imprisonment is a failed policy00:02
Trust changes direction: Murray Enterprise to concentrate on smaller companies00:02
Council officers deny computer firm conspiracy: Business 'could have been worth pounds 20m'00:02
Costly dry run00:02
Pembroke: Boris couldn't make it, but . . .00:02
Mubarak wins00:02
High price of fashion without tricks00:02
O'Malley resignation shocks his colleagues00:02
Plea for journalist00:02
'IRA terrorist shot unarmed officer in back at spot check': Constable escaped death by ducking as gun was fired, jury told00:02
Lockerbie two to choose trial venue: Lawyers meet to advise defendants00:02
Football: Fowler's five-star showing: Liverpool rampant as teenager emulates Rush00:02
China's atomic test threatens ban: US and other nuclear powers reconsider their moratorium on carrying out explosions00:02
Letter: The grass-roots way of helping India00:02
Clinton faces Somalia storm: Congress remembers Vietnam and threatens today's mission with an inglorious end00:02
Raine payout slashed00:02
Over here and under cover: It's Menwith Hill to us, but F-83 to the Americans. Duncan Campbell reports00:02
Abkhazian refugees fight for life: With the enemy army close behind, thousands of Georgians are stuck on the wrong side of the border00:02
Football: Merson and Adams ready for England: Arsenal trio injured00:02
Artwork of Victorian grandeur revealed as 120-year-old pub is renovated00:02
Fortnightly account system ends next July00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: On the Front00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Russian Crisis: Emergency law silences opposition: Media curbs prompt accusations of dictatorship00:02
Hole in ozone layer above the Antarctic is growing: Scientists warn of rising CFC levels00:02
OPERA / Handel with care: Handel a seriously good revival in Leeds: Tamburlaine - Opera North00:02
Chess: Short and Kasparov draw game00:02
Letter: Moscow nightmare00:02
MUSIC / One step forwards, two steps back: David Patrick Stearns on premieres by Nicholas Maw in New York and Hans Werner Henze in Boston00:02
TELEVISION / Vampire movie maker00:02
Letter: Perils of nuclear proliferation00:02
View from City Road: Auditors can afford to stand their ground00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Robber has life sentence reduced00:02
Leader of Sinn Fein to visit Commons00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Obituary: W. A. Hayes00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: The day the sheep perished: N0. 46 Morton00:02
Russians give up travels by 'egg': Row ends round-the-world attempt00:02
IG Metall will not attend wages forum00:02
Nickell remand00:02
Football: Wycombe's wonders waver at the last00:02
Bridge tolls00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Architecture: French lesson in how a school should look: Designed by Sir Norman Foster's team, the Albert Camus Lycee is a study in style, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
View from City Road: Clarke stays on the high wire00:02
Bottom Line: Mini-comeback00:02
Failures fall to three-year low00:02
Girl, nine, 'died after parents rejected insulin treatment': Couple refused diabetes drug because of religious or cultural beliefs, court told00:02
Boost for Keating republic campaign00:02
Ashes returned00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Quarrels and closed doors mar critics' hunt for best meal: Relationships under strain revealed in new guides. Emily Green reports00:02
Artist written back into 'Sergeant Pepper' script: David Lister reports on a woman who helped to design a famous LP cover00:02
Government retakes media00:02
Yeltsin strengthens his grip on levers of power00:02
Cable firms ask ministers to block BT's video plans00:02
Oil moves in Mexico00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Factional tendency attacked by Hurd00:02
He'll need God on his side: John Patten dreams of an enriching harmony between religion and science. He has a tough battle ahead00:02
50p fine enables ban00:02
Letter: The NHS is no place to be a man00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Grand old stories from the Little Quarter: Prague Tales - Jan Neruda, Tr Michael Heim: Chatto & Windus, pounds 10.9900:02
UVF letter-bomb00:02
Robbed of 18 years of my life: Susan de Muth in bed with Judith Ward00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Thatcher memoirs elude Stalker's security net: Chris Blackhurst on the failed attempt to protect a publisher's political investment00:02
Silentnight dents hopes of upturn: Recovery in furniture 'not yet evident'00:02
Media: Mayhem and the messengers: A new book on press coverage of disasters reminds David Connett of his days 'doorstepping' as a 17-year-old reporter00:02
Racing: Manntari waits for spring: The 2,000 Guineas favourite has completed his juvenile campaign: Irish colt's supporters hope that winter will bring a change of heart by his owner. Greg Wood reports00:02
Sir Martin Jacomb joins Delta00:02
Kurds keep up attacks00:02
Assad proposes meeting with Clinton00:02
'Rat boy' on the run is captured00:02
View from City Road: BT needs video signal00:02
Russian Crisis: Citizens' mixed feelings about 'temporary men'00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: VAT fuels concern: Chris Blackhurst follows the progress of a man hoping to voice his objections00:02
'Chaotic' portrait expected to sell for pounds 2m: Christie's unveils most important Rousseau work to be auctioned for 20 years00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Strong exports lift Halstead: Cost-cutting and rationalisation help to overcome poor trading in the UK00:02
Ernst to pay Allied Irish Banks pounds 74m: Out-of-court settlement ends Ireland's biggest legal action00:02
Former MP supports Maze escaper00:02
Battle on screen00:02
Table Tennis: Chen cheers as Dutch are dispatched00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Few murmurs of dissent reach ministers at the front as the stage-managed speeches flow00:02
Man ate gerbil00:02
Media: Mojo working to capture a lucrative market: Correction00:02
Leading Article: China's gesture of defiance00:02
Obituary: Paul Nowee00:02
Letter: Decriminalisation of marijuana00:02
Tales of the real Beatrix Potter: How could Mrs Heelis, the curmudgeonly sheep-farmer, also be the fey storyteller who created Peter Rabbit 100 years ago? Paula Weideger went to Cumbria to investigate the mystery00:02
First meeting for BNP councillor00:02
Football: Shearer shines: Bournemouth sunk00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Ivory Towers: Four legs good, bad and resistant00:02
Israel holds key to Palestinian state's prosperity: In the first of two articles, Christopher Huhne considers the economic and trade implications of a peace accord in the Middle East00:02
Hani court told of accused's fanaticism00:02
Defiant Hizbollah vows it will fight to the end: Israel's arch-enemy is resolved to fight in southern Lebanon 'until unconditional withdrawal', writes Robert Fisk in Beirut00:02
Letter: Castration and the Mental Health Act00:02
Letter: Composite? Och aye00:02
Leading Article: Virtues obscured by authoritarian zeal00:02
Athletics: Chinese eyes on marathon00:02
Architecture: A logical solution to the labyrinth: Peter Dormer looks at an inspired renovation of the Barbican Centre, complete with gilded muses00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Obituary: Gordon Douglas00:02
Tourist boom00:02
Jury sworn in00:02
Bundesbank looking at branch closures00:02
Letter: Perils of nuclear proliferation00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Rugby Union: Doubts over World Cup in South Africa: Concern about the Republic's suitability as venue for 1995 are expressed openly by tournament organisers for the first time00:02
Leading Article: Hamburgers are more to the world's taste00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
DANCE / Dishing the dirt: Marianne Brace spoke to the choreographer Lea Anderson about her new work00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Quotes of the day00:02
Tension in the air as Rabin meets Arafat00:02
BA fights against travel tax00:02
Kubrick film clips blocked00:02
Bird breeder jailed for handling stolen parrots00:02
Russian Crisis: Ingratitude adds insult to injury: Andrew Higgins in Moscow finds a jailed deputy hurt by the public's lack of support00:02
Letter: Decriminalisation of marijuana00:02
Business & City in Brief00:02
Football: Bassett hounded as brave Blackpool rock on: Blades' pressure fails to leave mark00:02
Visit by King draws protests from Basques: Spanish monarch makes gesture of solidarity to boost opposition to region's separatist rebels00:02
Chess: For sale: one world title match00:02
Songs of the fast lane from the motorway minstrels00:02
Letter: Sanctions on Serbs should remain00:02
Rugby Union: Evans dismissed by WRU: Welsh secretary's pounds 48,000-a-year contract is terminated on the grounds of grave misconduct00:02
When two worlds meet: Howard Davies looks at why manufacturing matters to the economy00:02
Football: Cambridge cowed: Marshall law gives Ipswich authority00:02
Russian Crisis: EC pact to calm security fears00:02
Restaurants 'load costs on customers': 'Shameful tricks' attacked by guide00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Media: Marlboro's red makes it black and white. Geddit?: Martin Rosenbaum analyses the subversive motives behind those ads that make you scratch your head