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Day Out00:02
Hockey: Mayer sprints into picture: England international sets up Cannock victory00:02
Agency lifts burden for lone mother: Thousands protested against the Child Support Agency yesterday, but others have benefited from its work. Mary Braid reports00:02
Confusion over aid convoys00:02
Italian voters revolt and turn to Mafia crusader00:02
Letter: Parents who say down with skool00:02
Fresh Siberian snow in the air00:02
Large rise in unemployed graduates00:02
View from New York: Bank on smurfs to make drug world go round00:02
Obituary: Raymond Brammah00:02
Chess: Adams the sole survivor after Interpolis disaster00:02
Lloyd's plan to aid Merrett00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Obituary: Severo Ochoa de Albornoz00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Motor Rallying / RAC Rally: Lancers make early advances: Kankkunen makes aggressive start but McRae adjusts to new car and prepares to launch counter-attack: Derick Allsop reports from Birmingham00:02
Wood's pay may be raised to pounds 15m00:02
Rugby League: Davies kicks to the top00:02
Home's what you fight for: Old soldiers may not die, but they do get disillusioned. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reports00:02
Second families make emotional appeal for fair play00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Warning for Chancellor on tax00:02
Rugby Union: De Glanville given chance to heal scars: Injured Guscott misses All Blacks Test00:02
Letter: What is to be done with employees made redundant in manufacturing?00:02
Law Report: Case Summaries: The following notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Happiness? Give me equilibrium any day00:02
Union ally turns on Japanese00:02
Get back to basics with me, John the Simple. Oh yes00:02
Leading Article: More help for working women00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Medieval timber bridge unearthed in gravel pit: Discovery of 11th-century remains shed light on development of English carpentry. David Keys reports00:02
Science: European Week for Scientific Culture: Fly to the stars - or go subatomic]: Win a trip to a top laboratory in the Independent's science competition00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Dollars 28bn for US spy budget00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Football: Champions still wobbling but still winning: Kanchelskis proves big hit00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
Letter: Lessons to be learnt from minibus crash00:02
Solidarity is a shoulder to cry on: Bereaved parents are finding comfort in a project that opens its arms to all who need it. Barbara Rowlands reports00:02
Letter: UN supervision for South Africa00:02
Ministers decide to wipe out county councils: Thousands of managers will lose jobs as former Tory bastions are consigned to history in policy shift00:02
Smaller Companies: Colder feet about electronics firm00:02
Poll boost for Gaidar00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Contemporary Art Market: Modern feast of words, walls and light bulbs: Galleries' open weekend aims to give a clear view of the state of their art00:02
Football: Ardiles' plan of attack to lift England: Argentinian's spur for his adopted home00:02
Chancellor plans VAT boost to home conversions: Zero-rating offers support for construction industry00:02
Nervous Greenspan may be forced to reveal Fed secrets: As European states weigh the advantages of independent central banks the US Congress is calling for more accountability00:02
Major treads cautiously over Sunday shopping: Cabinet ministers anxious to avoid repeat of 1986 defeat00:02
Good Questions: Why canoes are male and ferries female00:02
Boy, 7, killed by dog while playing00:02
Tennis: Graf is queen of New York: Men's world No 1 falls in the final of the ATP Tour Championship but his female counterpart secures Slims title00:02
Letter: Parents who say down with skool00:02
ETA leader rejects violence00:02
Commodities: French consumers turn to British lamb00:02
Rugby Union: Murrayfield statistics00:02
Rugby Union: Wilson is just pure Black gold: Steve Bale enjoys a moment of history from the man of the moment00:02
Binge drinking 'kills 12 people a month'00:02
Obituary: Gregory Stewart00:02
Letter: Lessons to be learnt from minibus crash00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Nafta bill ready for signature00:02
Death brings toll to 11 in India election: 47,000 arrested as 325,000 police deployed in Uttar Pradesh00:02
Getting a grip on the flying shop: Robert Ayling has risen swiftly to the top at British Airways. Michael Harrison reports00:02
Pit to close00:02
Winnie Mandela attack 'not political'00:02
Halving of jobless benefits returns to agenda00:02
Peter Pringle's America: The real point of the pencil00:02
Cyclists injured00:02
Tennis: Stich outmanoeuvres soporific Sampras: Men's world No 1 falls in the final of the ATP Tour Championship but his female counterpart secures Slims title00:02
Hattersley joins Labour backlash on 'unworkable' all-women shortlists00:02
Israeli settlers threaten police00:02
Rugby Union: Not all black as Neath excel00:02
A spot of agro: Know your ba and da from your pa and da? Dolly Dhingra takes classes in drumming and dancing as practised in the corn fields of Ghana00:02
Sword charges00:02
THEATRE / A place where love and justice meet: Paul Taylor on the play of life and death in Tony Kushner's Aids epic, Angels in America, Part 200:02
The Daily Poem: Beothug00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew's invention scales peaks of perfection: Bath's first defeat hangs on final kick while Wasps welcome chance to move up00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Oh Bibbles, oh Pips, this will set you purring: The Literary Companion to Dogs - Christopher Hawtree: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 25; The Chatto Book of Cats - Francis Wheen: Chatto, pounds 15.9900:02
Racing: Tape masks Aintree's high casualty rate: No snags at the start, but a harsh toll is inflicted by unforgiving fences out on the Grand National course00:02
TELEVISION / Petty distractions of the royal variety00:02
The Best of Times: It was Alec Guinness. I had to hide: Tony Warren talks to Danny Danziger00:02
Pounds 55,000 gold-plated stocking filler00:02
Court Circular00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Scottish Football: Durie moves to Rangers for pounds 1.2m00:02
Football: Injuries at the root of Taylor's decline: Steve Coppell argues that misfortune tipped the balance against the England manager but the scales were already loaded against him00:02
Conglomerate sues SIB for pounds 7m: Entrepreneur claims disclosure of letter was illegal00:02
Science: Mission to correct the vision thing: Out-of-favour Nasa needs a success with its Hubble Space Telescope rescue operation, says Peter Bond00:02
Apec begins to flex its economic muscles: Asian-Pacific leaders agree on need to reach Gatt accord but US and China remain far apart on trade and human rights00:02
Two little letters that make a word too far: The EU has as many different interpretations as member states. Calling it a 'union' only serves to highlight its divisions, says Timothy Garton Ash00:02
Rome dreads a future role as cultural colony00:02
Changes in the Family: Men lose jobs first as recession hits industry: Despite a major growth in female employment, almost a quarter of their income is from benefits00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Making a big issue of a small contribution00:02
Football: Boro are finished by McGinlay00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Channel tunnel blast 'minor'00:02
Obituary: Federico Fellini00:02
Leading Article: Clinton's Chinese conundrum00:02
News ban on ailing President00:02
Fencing: Elitist stereotypes put to the sword: The Eden Cup was no paradise for Britain but the future looks brighter. Alix Ramsay reports00:02
Menendez brothers' trial hinges on tape: Two rich young men who shot their parents have gained supporters as their bizarre story unfolded. Now the two juries must decide, reports Phil Reeves00:02
Out of Japan: Company move makes a family fall to pieces00:02
Letter: The Tory dream00:02
Pembroke: Expansion no joke for Comedy Store Don00:02
The arguments for an independent Old Lady00:02
Hollywood hits Europe with Gatt deal00:02
Vatican to bestow honour on former Anglican bishop: Opponent of women's ordination to be Catholic priest00:02
Cold 'can cause asthma'00:02
Germans wary of beating the national drum00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Netball00:02
CIA drug sting that never was00:02
Bank's redundancy plan attacked00:02
Dear Daryl Hannah00:02
Hit-and-run death00:02
EU in a last big push to clinch deal over Gatt00:02
Beware the deep midwinter: The current cold snap gives a chilling taste of what may lie ahead, Steve Ward writes00:02
Chinese arrest sex-slave gang00:02
Medieval timber bridge unearthed in gravel pit: Discovery of 11th-century remains shed light on development of English carpentry. David Keys reports00:02
An acre in Surrey is forever America in memory of president shot 30 ears ago today00:02
Girls 'face bias from early age'00:02
Diary00:02
European Football: Parisian takeover embarrasses Marseille00:02
US bites bullet on gun control: Revival of the 'Brady Bill' reflects changing mood00:02
Spaniards adept at fending off competitors00:02
Two arrested over hit-and-rubn00:02
The Week Ahead: Unions plan wave of protest strikes00:02
Football: Chelsea run into problem of belief: Blue funk is music to Wright00:02
Basketball: Scantlebury lifts London00:02
Airline merger talks crash: Plans for European fortress founder over US partner00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
How aid can abet a war: The role of UN peace-keepers is dangerously undefined, writes Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier00:02
Overseas Football00:02
Football: Baggies debagged by Forest: Strikers display their talents as Newcastle's passing game destroys weakened visitors and West Bromwich are punished for errors00:02
Today's Number: 4100:02
Football: Cole collects hat-trick to humble Liverpool: Strikers display their talents as Newcastle's passing game destroys weakened visitors and West Bromwich are punished for errors00:02
Squash: England's day to remember00:02
Changes in the Family: Women earn bigger share of incomes: Despite a major growth in female employment, men still receive the lion's share of pay00:02
Uproar after acquittal in Nikki Allen murder case: Not guilty verdict ends six-week trial in which judge refused to admit alleged confession on interview tape as evidence00:02
Letter: Licensed to soothe00:02
Letter: Dutch courage00:02
Letter: What is to be done with employees made redundant in manufacturing?00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Reynolds wary of talks without Sinn Fein: Gulf still exists between London and Dublin on strategy for Ulster. David McKittrick and Donald Macintyre report00:02
Sporting Digest: Volleyball00:02
Rugby Union: All Blacks seek more than the sublime: In crushing the Scots New Zealand produced one of the great Test performances of the modern era, argues Steve Bale, Rugby Union Correspondent00:02
Conservation groups attack subsidies to farmers: Growing nothing 'pays 20 times more than countryside protection schemes'00:02
Nicotine patches on the NHS urged00:02
Football: Hemmings makes inroads via pragmatic route: Phil Shaw reports from an outpost of sanity in the long-ball nightmare00:02
Sunday Round-up: The main stories from yesterday's City pages00:02
Macedonia plane disaster kills 11500:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
France defends its heritage from 'Rocky III'00:02
OPEAR / Bad start to the honeymoon: Lohengrin - English National Opera00:02
Hurt PC 'jeered'00:02
Rugby Union: Orrell are united in hope00:02
Football: Rehearsal laid on by Quinn: Norwich draw hope00:02
Obituary: Fr Conrad Pepler00:02
Nigerian strike called off00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Leading Article: A burning question of motes and logs00:02
Votes polarised in Italy poll00:02
Solo mission00:02
Families gather to pray near scene of M40 crash00:02
Computerlink: Wanted: best of both worlds: The hunt is on for financial whizzes who are also experts in information technology. The word is they make companies winners. Lynne Curry reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Obituary: Johnny Ball00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Italian Football: Inter's ambitions buried by the Bagnoli boys00:02
Death plunge00:02
Rugby Union: Roar of all-round approval for Tigers: Bath's first defeat hangs on final kick while Wasps welcome chance to move up00:02
Happy Anniversary: Another defeat for England00:02
Letter: More than just music00:02
Letter: Lessons to be learnt from minibus crash00:02
Home's what you fight for: Old soldiers may not die, but they do get disillusioned. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reports00:02
Number of Whitehall staff 'up by 25,000': New policies have led to growth, report says