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Leading Article: A dose of reality for the judiciary00:02
CD sales to break a record00:02
I still dream my mother is alive: Susan de Muth in bed with Imran Khan00:02
A tax that could leave us lost for words: Kenneth Clarke would be wise to take a leaf from William Gladstone's book, argues Lord Bullock00:02
Where Michael Jackson leads: If popular culture is used as a weapon against high cultural standards, the result is a freak show00:02
Fan's Eye View: Potteries skip to the Lou legacy00:02
Curator's Choice: Pitt-Rivers Museum00:02
Syria bares teeth over peace deal: Hizbollah attacks Israeli positions in Lebanon00:02
Ivory Towers: Taking a nose at face value00:02
'We should not stereotype': New guidelines for producers provide the following advice on how to portray women, the disabled, homosexuals and other groups00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Lacking direction00:02
Brother's admission00:02
Trident warhead increase attacked: Cut in firepower cut fails to deflect Labour attack on Rifkind00:02
Insolvency Service hit by staffing crisis: Agency misses disqualification targets00:02
Letter: Nuclear weapons in North Korea00:02
'In good faith'00:02
Football: Gascoigne move denied00:02
Diary00:02
Charities join forces against patenting of human genes: Drug firms' actions 'could delay treatment for people suffering from genetic disorders'00:02
Turkey makes new Mid-East friends: Ankara is wooing Israel to counterbalance 'untrustworthy' Arab states on its south-eastern borders, writes Hugh Pope00:02
White House close to Nafta win: Clinton has spared no effort to save the North American Free Trade Agreement00:02
Power deal safeguards Scottish pits: ScottishPower and Hydro-Electric agree pounds 400m five-year supply contract with British Coal00:02
Management: Left-brain logic makes you late00:02
End of the road for UN's Bosnia lifeline00:02
Iraq 'used gas in Gulf war'00:02
Media: Cut-price offers or cut throats?: As newspapers fight a relentless circulation war, Michael Leapman warns that buying reader loyalty brings short-term benefits and long-term losses00:02
Football: Two new caps for Scotland00:02
Army puts its latest artillery weapon to the test with a demonstration on Salisbury Plain00:02
Birthdays00:02
Owners finance chief 'to quit'00:02
View from City Road: BAA shows how to make sidelines take off00:02
Charity? Not for us, surely (1): Young professionals aren't supposed to need hand-outs. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown meets families who had to swallow their pride and ask00:02
Patient died after 'catalogue of disasters': Woman, 89, suffered heart attack then spent four hours critically ill in hospital without being seen by a doctor. Marianne Macdonald reports00:02
Obituary: Luciano Liggio00:02
Museum closed00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Architecture: New golden age at the Savoy Theatre00:02
US heads for nuclear deal with N Korea00:02
Nadir attempt to bribe ruled out by CPS00:02
A gamble on peace and political survival00:02
THEATRE / Leading the life of a dog: Paul Taylor on Steven Berkoff's One Man at the Garrick Theatre00:02
Today's number: 1700:02
BAA gets foreign management offers: Higher revenues from retailing cancel out restrictions on air traffic charges00:02
Motor Sport: Southern hell on wheels for the hill-billy heroes: The mean men and machines of the stock-car scene are a race apart from IndyCars. Jeremy Hart reports from Atlanta00:02
Gym owner defends Princess pictures: Bryce Taylor says 98 per cent of people would also have tried his 'legal scam' to make money00:02
Death for Algerian militants00:02
Out of America: Political legends begin to lose their glamour00:02
Caged artist in an Amsterdam nightclub paints a spectacle in silence through a glass darkly00:02
GA undermined by sewage: City disappointed with insurer's 206m pounds in third quarter00:02
Schools could mortgage sites to get cash00:02
Literati present Prime Minister with petition against value-added tax00:02
Spoof has Moscow's mayor in a spot00:02
Underrated: Camping on the dark side: Bette Midler00:02
Cricket: Crowe ruled out of Tests00:02
Racing: Cab to slam brakes on Jodami: The leading Gold Cup contenders renew rivalry at Haydock, but punters should steer clear. Greg Wood reports00:02
Minister tones up for annual inter-house parliamentary swim00:02
Tennis: Chang's new serve packs hefty punch: Courier's flame reduced to a flicker by compatriot's sling-shot accuracy and panache00:02
Tea towels, testimonials and a line of cocaine products00:02
Tree shortfall00:02
Letter: Cyclists' nightmare00:02
Golf: Pop goes the cork as Lee finds the key to Top 40 chart success: Nelson sails through, Nicklaus sinks. Tim Glover reports from Montpellier on the high-flyers and crash-landers at the European Tour Qualifying School00:02
Railtrack announces first board members00:02
Commonwealth Institute seeks new theme00:02
Fall-out is killing 100 plant species00:02
Football: Taylor's wild bunch seek magnificent seven: World Cup Football: Sinton given England wide role - Yorath sidesteps Welsh oratory - 'Mercenaries' jibe raises Belfast temperature00:02
Peaceful end to Kashmir siege boosts PM00:02
'Losers' claim justifiable pride at progress: School League tables: Backlash follows release of results, published in a special 'Independent' supplement today00:02
60 killed in Afghan fighting00:02
Obituary: Lt-Col Nigel Gell00:02
Charity? Not for us, surely (4): Safety net strained by new demands00:02
Letter: Lessons of Michael Jackson's addiction00:02
The CBI at Harrogate: Smith wins new friends00:02
Fire on jet00:02
Rugby Union: Gregory comes full circle00:02
Jackson hideout hoax00:02
Football: Saint Jack seeks his final crowning glory: Master of expediency or the Republic's revivalist? Ken Jones on Jack Charlton, the man and his method00:02
Double boost for De La Rue: Banknote orders and disposals push interim results ahead 44%00:02
Courses to test judges' potential racial prejudices: Ian MacKinnon looks at the background and aims of a course of ethnic-minority awareness training for members of the judiciary00:02
Chess: Herds of passed pawns do battle00:02
Teenage girl 'subjected to brutal regime of torture': Court told how 16-year-old burnt to death00:02
Bossi faces inquiry00:02
Schools failing the Patten truancy test00:02
European Motor Holdings trebles profits00:02
Oldest profession is drawn into the world of art00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Charity? Not for us, surely (2): A Tory success story that went awry00:02
Top civil servant in Patten row quits00:02
Search for Lopez settlement runs into trouble00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Bottom line00:02
Unfinished ship00:02
Sinn Fein claims proof of talks: 'IRA leader' Martin McGuinness named as key figure in contacts with officials00:02
Media: Guns in the Moscow sun: Bridget Kendall's BBC reports from the former Soviet Union won wide acclaim. Now she is briefly back in London. Rosalie Horner met her00:02
Conservation: Going to the country: Nicholas Schoon asks whether people are willing to fund the preservation of areas such as the Somerset Levels00:02
Heads say figures for truancy do not add up: School League tables: Backlash follows release of results, published in a special 'Independent' supplement today00:02
Dear Alan Yentob: Sue Lawley could save Question Time, says our media editor00:02
Life without father: it's easy00:02
Rover 'pays' 1m pounds compensation00:02
Market Report: Buyers develop renewed taste for Guinness00:02
And what's more ..00:02
Letter: Prole music invades the BR platform00:02
Obituary: Godfrey Lienhardt00:02
Letter: 'House' should be demolished00:02
View from City Road: Tiphook teeters toward extinction00:02
Treasury borrowing exceeds expectations00:02
Marshalls benefits from building upturn00:02
The Fringe: The sentimental education00:02
The one who got away: Peter Brook - innovator, visionary, outsider - has been based in Paris since 1968. Will we ever win him back? Georgina Brown reports00:02
The CBI at Harrogate: Get into business of education, says Patten00:02
Vote hope00:02
Court Circular00:02
Singer dies00:02
Leading Article: Beyond Major's historic gesture00:02
Law Report: Closure of day nursery was lawful 17 November 1993 Regina v Barnet London Borough Council, Ex parte B and others. Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Auld) 15 November 1993.00:02
Generator takes stake in gas production00:02
Economic reforms kill ICI offshoot00:02
Sedgwick ahead after nine months: Difficult market conditions overcome00:02
Bottom Line: Boost from America00:02
Joyrider laughed as he hit boy, 700:02
Charity? Not for us, surely (3): No meat, no vegetables00:02
Companies in Brief00:02
Queen Mother error man is under a cloud00:02
SA set for dawn of democracy: New constitution ratified today00:02
The CBI at Harrogate: Hunt outlines Europe vision00:02
China sends loss-making firms to the wall00:02
Letter: Forgotten carers00:02
Leading Article: Trade deal the US should not shirk00:02
Europe told to put its house in order00:02
Police force fails efficiency test: Under-resourced Derbyshire is refused certificate for the second year00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Auntie's prognosis00:02
Sinn Fein moves create political tumult in Ulster: David McKittrick assesses the impact of the latest manoeuvring00:02
Tennis: Navratilova's half-century00:02
Water stays on00:02
Letter: The language of ordinary folk00:02
Pembroke: Physician, heal thyself - the rest, beware00:02
Clown's suicide00:02
Letter: 'House' should be demolished00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Freud offers yet another angle on studio life00:02
What a long weird trip it's been: Many drop out oly to drop in again. But not Fraser Clark. He has kept the faith and his time has come. Alix Sharkey reports00:02
Escaper convicted00:02
Football: Pot overheats as Bingham gets stirring00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A historian coming in from the cold: 'The Cold War' - Martin Walker: Fourth Estate, 18.99 pounds00:02
Rugby Union: Back out as England's open secret turns into tall story: Rodber and Clarke to take the flanks as stature not speed is considered essential against the All Blacks. Steve Bale reports00:02
Emergency cases cause NHS alarm in three cities: GPs asked to pay up to keep services going, while some patients are being sent out to surrounding towns. Nicholas Timmins reports00:02
Man admits helping to hide bodies00:02
The CBI at Harrogate: Action urged on late payments00:02
Stock Exchange sees profit soar to 8.86m pounds00:02
US court ends ban on gays in forces00:02
TELEVISION / The hidden face of the mountain man00:02
Letter: Increasing success of alternative cancer treatments00:02
Letter: Less than total recall00:02
Killer jailed00:02
Letter: Increasing success of alternative cancer treatments00:02
Impressionist makes secretive showbiz return: Yarwood is Royal Variety's surprise star00:02
Ashdown pledges cash for education00:02
BBC code curbs 'doorstepping': Document says technique should be used only as last resort00:02
Karadzic seeks currency union with Belgrade00:02
Hosokawa wins fight for reform00:02
UN predicts many deaths as 'wicked winter' hits Bosnia00:02
View from City Road: Business world sharply divided00:02
Defendant goes into labour in court00:02
Iran attacked00:02
Iraqi flags planted in Kuwait00:02
Pressure for cuts in coal emissions: Britain faces demands from other European nations for reductions in acid-rain gases that could force the closure of more pits00:02
Haiti queues00:02
Hunting bans00:02
Football: End of a two-year odyssey00:02
Football: Giggs digs in for the gig of a lifetime00:02
Nadir bribery claims cast doubt on inquiry: Tim Kelsey traces events that led to yesterday's CPS announcement that there was no evidence of a plot00:02
Obituary: Freda Corbet00:02
Angola talks 'going well'00:02
Pakistan bowler's claims 'nonsense': Test star's counsel mocks 'technique'00:02
The Daily Poem: Snow Monkeys00:02
Rugby Union: Scots take heart from bold display00:02
BAe contracts out its computer networks00:02
Boy, 10, says he never hit' James00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: A job for Dr Who00:02
Yeah, Minister: The battle for supremacy rages in clubland. James Style reports00:02
Bridgewater case has new evidence00:02
German opposition seeks credibility: New leader has to convince voters that the SPD is fit to govern German opposition seeks credibility00:02
Architecture: The nicest flats you will never see: Hidden away in London, Castle Lane gives Jonathan Glancey a glimpse of what public-sector housing could be like if the Government gave architects the chance00:02
Walking on air00:02
Letter: Lessons of Michael Jackson's addiction00:02
Letter: Lessons of Michael Jackson's addiction00:02
Scheme pushes share clubs: ProShare encourages individuals to invest by pooling funds in a social setting00:02
Syria bares teeth over peace deal: Hizbollah attacks Israeli positions in Lebanon00:02
White House close to Nafta win: Clinton has spared no effort to save the North American Free Trade Agreement