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Pay rises for managers get bigger: Average increase of 3.5% shows upturn from 25-year low00:02
Aideed militia complain about US show of force: Despite the roar of planes the signal goes out from Washington of a switch in policy from war to talks00:02
Heseltine ill00:02
Joy and concern greet EC new era00:02
Campbell ties executive pay to defeating rivals00:02
Crime preventor00:02
THEATRE / Vita, Virginia, Dylan and me: Eileen Atkins, Penelope Wilton and Bob Kingdom are professional charlatans. They confess to Georgina Brown00:02
Racing: Coulton follows Desert trail: Richard Edmondson on the potential star who tackles fences for the first time today00:02
Yeltsin may delay elections00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Israeli officer freed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Blueprint for catastrophe: 'Total Contingency Planning for Disasters' - Kenneth N. Myers: John Wiley & Sons, 45.50 pounds; 'Preventing Chaos in a Crisis' - Patrick Lagadec: McGraw-Hill, 25 pounds00:02
Dreaming of tea with Larry: Susan de Muth in bed with Ned Sherrin00:02
Henry Moore's daughter sues over artworks: High Court case will clarify rights to 'artist's copy'. Marianne Macdonald reports00:02
Royal Mail Competition: Collect a prize holiday00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
'Mercy' for nurse00:02
History adds up to first for Nobel pair00:02
How was it for you? Denis Lawson discusses his laugh-lines with Rosie Millard00:02
Right-wing alliance feels free to differ: A new South African grouping struggles to define its goals00:02
Letter: Targets for bullies00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The little prince who flew with a death wish: 'Antoine de Saint-Exupery' - Paul Webster: Macmillan, 17.99 pounds00:02
Unions at Ford seek jobs-for-life guarantee00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
THEATRE / Previews and First Nights00:02
Pembroke: Seven storeys of contact00:02
Rugby League: Kiwis caught by Ellis' opportunism00:02
Court Circular00:02
CBI attacks lack of industry policy00:02
DANCE / She wants to tell you a story: Narrative force or empty gesture? Judith Mackrell talks to Siobhan Davies about the 'literature of legs'00:02
She's probably right about charming John00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Sihanouk has tumour removed00:02
Curator's Choice: Scott Polar Research00:02
Letter: Big changes at the Independent00:02
New stores boost Tie Rack: Retailer says final results hinge on pre-Christmas spree00:02
Lloyd's members win court victory: Judge says agencies have a 'duty of care'00:02
THEATRE / Paul Taylor's theatre choice00:02
Diggle appeal00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: Relishing national service: No. 47 - England00:02
IG Metall tries to bargain jobs for pay00:02
Flood alerts as rainfall threatens to set record00:02
Letter: Elementary mistake00:02
Arcadian closes in on eight new hotels00:02
Mandela fears delaying tactic of referendum: ANC leader urges right-wing parties to come back to negotiating table00:02
Diary00:02
BBC cuts children's programmes: Radio 5 cleared to make way for 24-hour news and sport network starting next April00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Law Report: Marriage not dissolved in Ghana: D v D. Family Division (Mr Justice Wall), 12 October 199300:02
Winner of 'spot the ball' vanishes00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Cricket: Watkinson braves the front line: All-rounder in command - Jon Culley reports on the Lancashire captain out to turn turmoil into trophies00:02
Gag charities and they will die: Nicholas Hinton and Don Redding attack proposals to reform voluntary organisations00:02
Woman rejects 'hit-list'00:02
Football / World Cup: Mobility is key to saving Wales00:02
Letter: Labour's way to reform the BBC00:02
Architecture: An eye on the future: The RIBA's new head has designs on change, says Peter Dormer00:02
Letter: Statistical reliability00:02
Letter: Stranger than fiction how times change00:02
Football / World Cup: England seduced by the Merson enigma: Arsenal's exponent of the unexpected strike ready to ambush Dutch. Clive White reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
Baseball: Dykstra finds his way home: Atlanta stunned by Phillies' lead-off hitter as Philadelphia prepare for their first World Series in 10 years00:02
Building a world-class workforce: Bill Jordan of the AEEU talks to David Bowen about the importance of manufacturing00:02
US hails restart of rights dialogue: Peking and Washington resume talks but Americans say renewal of 'most favoured' trading status depends on progress00:02
Charity changes would put pounds 3.4bn in grants at risk: Anger over proposals to create service providers00:02
THEATRE / The Fringe: Lifeless resurrections00:02
Fire union insists on less cash in pay deal00:02
View from City Road: Crack the tax whip but don't scare the horses00:02
Deadline set for Greycoat00:02
Dutch police arrest 125 fans00:02
View from City Road: Investors dragged into Lloyd's bail-out00:02
Tories challenged over block on MEPs00:02
Changes to councils rejected in poll00:02
THEATRE / The love that speaks its name: Paul Taylor reviews Vita and Virginia and Keyboard Skills00:02
Architecture: A prom and then a promenade: Peter Dormer looks at plans to make the Royal Albert Hall more comfortable and applauds a proposal for a pedestrian plaza linking it to the Albert Memorial00:02
Britain given four-year exemption on labour legislation00:02
Cricket: Bainbridge is captain00:02
Rebellion over rail pensions defused00:02
New lead in Milan bomb case00:02
Rallying: Cunico's charge00:02
UN peace missions are a 'shambles'00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: Lone-parent success story is there for anyone to read00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Obituary: Andy Stewart00:02
Rugby Union: Japanese enterprise rewarded by largest victory of tour: Determined tourists demonstrate their attacking flair to record decisive third victory before Saturday's international showdown against Wales00:02
MUSIC / Note spinning: Edward Seckerson on the Philharmonia in concert in London00:02
Print chief hits at VAT threat: St Ives advances pounds 1m in full year and sees little sign of UK recovery00:02
FR disappoints at half way: Depressed aviation market hits flight refuelling division00:02
Oftel looks into BT's use of data: Watchdog examines possible anti-competitive practices00:02
Roxboro chief to get pounds 2m in flotation00:02
Horror comes home: Somalis exulting over a US corpse, a captured pilot bruised and terrified: these pictures have changed America's mind sbout Somalia and the world. Peter Pringle Reports00:02
Thieves bag car00:02
Fiat to lay off 105,000 as Italian sales dive00:02
Timex formula00:02
Tory lawyer accuses party leadership of racial insensitivity: John Taylor admits race was a factor that cost him the Cheltenham seat. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Out of America: Gun law's reward for pistol-packers who play ball00:02
Athletics: Jackson beats off Christie00:02
Merrill leads Wall Street towards a bumper year00:02
Media: Drugs, babes and information: Simon Garfield celebrates 25 years of unbroken success at Time Out and remembers his own days as editor of the London listings magazine00:02
Letter: Lone-parent success story is there for anyone to read00:02
Sporting Digest: Student Games00:02
Shevardnadze gets a double boost00:02
Why must we always look on the trite side of life?00:02
Sporting Digest: Orienteering00:02
Haiti's military regime faces oil embargo00:02
March re-routed00:02
Bottom Line: Bitter chocolate00:02
Flipper trainer turns turtle00:02
Obituary: Sid Kuller00:02
Virtuality heads for market: Placing will value virtual reality leader at pounds 44m00:02
Judge advocates legalising drugs00:02
Kisses meant nothing, rape trial woman says00:02
Best-Sellers: Children's Top Ten Football Strips00:02
View from City Road: Strange taste at Guinness00:02
Today's Number: 2800:02
Boy thief in 'holiday' row flees00:02
RAF told to pay woman pounds 33,000: Record compensation to woman dismissed for becoming pregnant00:02
Consultant care 'is no better than midwifery': Opposition to home births unsuitable for the Nineties, obstetrician says00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Letter: World of difference in the world of work00:02
Obituary: Peter Davies00:02
Obituary: Ivor Bulmer-Thomas00:02
COMEDY / It's way beyond a joke: Huge, a play about comic duos, has blurred the line between life and art. Mark Wareham reports00:02
Football: Gascoigne lines up early return00:02
Victory on Four, a rolling news nightmare on Five00:02
Rules on genetics 'are too cautious': Scientists question Lords conclusions on safety00:02
Dear Yves Saint Laurent: A few words from the Independent's fashion editor to the maestro on the morning of his show, more in sorrow than in anger00:02
Letter: Big changes at the Independent00:02
Tokyo prices shock US farm official00:02
Police force set to agree record damages: West Midlands to pay pounds 70,000 to man who claims Crime Squad detectives fabricated confession00:02
Media: News at any price00:02
Fraud case nurse has jail term cut00:02
Football / World Cup: Tinker Taylor shuns concept of continuity: The England manager makes five changes as he reshapes his team to face the Dutch in crucial qualifying tie00:02
Aristocrat's auction opens with pounds 2.6m sales00:02
Racing: Alflora odds offer Champion value: The Classic generation may flounder again at Newmarket on Saturday and an older horse can float to the fore00:02
Motor Racing: Prost's parting shots00:02
Football: Maradona's lay-off ends in play-off00:02
Tennis: Davis Cup job for Gullikson00:02
Rugby Union: London give Probyn hope00:02
Letter: Passport to Europe00:02
Body found00:02
Israel accused of selling US secrets to China00:02
Basques reveal burning desire for compromise: Separatists embrace Sinn Fein and move towards peace00:02
Ivory Towers: Lullaby sung by Scud missiles00:02
Museums: Visitors at the shrine of the Mighty Wurlitzer: Joanna Gibbon spends an engrossing afternoon among a collection of rare automatic musical instruments00:02
Football: Flitcroft hits back with a volley00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
GPs in talks on selling health insurance00:02
Maastricht approved by German court: Chancellor Kohl hails judges' ruling as milestone on road to European unity - Treaty in force next month00:02
Grand Met loses key US vodka deal: Swedish hopes for expansion of 'fad' vodka to wipe pounds 30m off operating profits next year00:02
Ostrich farmers line up behind RSPCA welfare standards for humane care00:02
Letter: The press can help prevent teen suicide00:02
Poll tax prison sentence quashed00:02
Professor remains philosophical as burglars return: David Nicholson-Lord meets a leading social philosopher who has become the target of criminals up to a dozen times00:02
Apologetic dealer pays 100,000 pounds to LME00:02
Mubarak gives reform pledge00:02
Bank tells Clarke to raise taxes: Confidential briefing paper says borrowing must be cut by pounds 7bn; VAT could rise by 5%00:02
Competition00:02
Letter: Lone-parent success story is there for anyone to read00:02
Bottom Line: Tie Rack reward for the faithful00:02
Dismantling a legal leviathan: Negotiations start today on scrapping Israel's controls on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza00:02
Knifeman resented Seles00:02
Market Report: Supermarkets' rally proves short-lived00:02
Leading Article: Soft drugs and hard jails00:02
Graduates sued over pounds 500,000 loans debt: Company 'heavy-handed' as action taken against 600 defaulters00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Fury at German-Iranian talks: Security meeting took place days before attack on Rushdie publisher00:02
Media: Northern Ireland: a story stifled: David Miller argues that the five-year-old broadcasting ban has failed to halt terrorist bombings and killings. Instead it has succeeded in hampering Sinn Fein, a legal politcal party00:02
Plysu says year will show a heavy fall .BLTHER write errorETHER write error.- RUSSELL HOTTEN00:02
Waldegrave owns up to Iraq sales error00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: Statistical reliability00:02
Competition: A Slice of the Action00:02
Football / World Cup: Charlton in mood to realise American dream00:02
China trust woos small investors00:02
Davis quits United Distillers00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
THEATRE / Notices00:02
Short keeps his cold in check to score first win00:02
Rugby League: Clarke refuses to conform to the game's stereotype: Great Britain will look to the man with an ideal image for inspiration at Wembley on Saturday. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
IRA hoard of Semtex seized00:02
Breeding for Britain: They see their role as furthering the white race. Suzanne Glass spoke to some of the women the BNP likes to keep out of the spotlight00:02
Peking bans bangs00:02
Letter: Big changes at the Independent00:02
Sales failure means 10 more pits to close: Tory MPs talk of disgust and betrayal over gloomy outlook for coal00:02
Wave of strikes slows French commuters to a standstill00:02
Sorry I'm late, sir, the wind was against me: Britain's youngest windsurfing hope is in a class of his own when it comes to getting to school00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Exotic, soft mixture adds a medieval touch to Martine Sitbon's Paris00:02
Limassol split over the Queen00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
The Daily Poem: Animal Nativity00:02
Catholic shot dead in ambush: Attack on workmen in mini-bus seen as loyalist warning to workers at Shorts aerospace factory00:02
Tory party membership figures at record low00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Leading Article: Haiti at risk from the Somalia effect00:02
Who is seeing mirages at Seascale?00:02
Football / World Cup: The lost art of escaping a media inquisition00:02
Greek cabinet named00:02
Poland ready for coalition00:02
Football / World Cup: Brown decides to leave out McStay00:02
Leading Article: Uncharitable proposals from the state00:02
TELEVISION / Sixties sister calls the grey army to battle00:02
Master of a narrow Universe: Stephen Hawking is on a voyage to stardom, but unable to navigate in the human realm