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What the papers said about . . . Don Howe00:02
RADIO / And there's another country00:02
Annie get your Walther PPK. 380 ACP: Progress on US gun control was made last week, but the firearms lobby is busy raising an army of Dirty Harriets00:02
New Age fills a business gap: Centre for self-employed offers personal growth along with success00:02
Captain Moonlight: Sticks and stones . . .00:02
Tennis: Dutchmen send the top seeds flying00:02
Captain Moonlight: In a word00:02
Long run accounting drama: School director gives a poor review to the complaints procedures00:02
Predators and prey in the hunt00:02
THE BROADER PICTURE / Around the world with a spanner00:02
Marseilles round-up00:02
Economics: Be tough on taxes and cut rates again00:02
TRAVEL Baroque of Ages: Churches, shops and cafes in Lecce, Italy, groan beneath the weight of exuberantly carved stone. Jonathan Glancey begins a series on cities that reflect the great architectural styles00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Russell Malone: Black Butterfly (Columbia 47485, CD/tape)00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Daily Bread: Victoria Owen: What the waitress ate one day last week00:02
York on Ads: No 6: Sekonda and John Smith's00:02
Anthony Burgess: a passion for words00:02
ARTS / Show People: Young man with a horn: Joshua Redman00:02
The List00:02
Banks on edge over loan ruling00:02
Champagne merger00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Makin's day tarnished00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Swales protected from fans' wrath00:02
How much does he earn?: No 7: Sir Wilfrid Newton, CBE, chairman of London Transport (which incorporates London Underground and London Buses).00:02
Rugby Union: Manley mocks Neath's might00:02
Rugby Union: Roblin cashes in on easy win00:02
More to Martyn Lewis than his soft furnishings00:02
Uncelebrated causes for concern: If you are thinking of giving this Christmas, remember the unglamorous charities, says Nick Cohen00:02
Iraqi farmers breach the lost 'motherland': Saddam tests US nerve with massive cross-border protests00:02
Profile: The professor breaks cover: Charles Hughes00:02
Clothes ban00:02
Opinions: Can 'separate lives' work in a marriage?00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Wright provides striking answer00:02
Leave cancelled00:02
City: No choice at Ferranti00:02
Last gasp BES schemes flood on to the market: Budget worries have hastened a final rush of offers. Caroline Merrell reports00:02
CHILDREN / Please sir, what does a killer look like?: A policeman who spoke to a girl about strangers shortly before her murder has made child safety his mission. Angela Neustatter reports00:02
British firms seen as lacking a winning strategy00:02
Cricket: Waugh makes Australia safe00:02
Letter: Mourners shouldn't be rushed00:02
Markets want Budget that cuts borrowing00:02
Captain Moonlight: Allies add interest to Hitler's secret savings00:02
Database00:02
Homeowners to feel draught of energy police00:02
Legend at the lens00:02
TRAVEL / Churches and Cherubs: OTHER BAROQUE CITIES00:02
US opposes plan00:02
Letter: Unfair play00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Howard Riley: Beyond Category (Wondrous WM0104, CD)00:02
Public Services Management: How to join taxes and those who pay them: Earmarking revenue can offset cynicism over accountability but may bring new problems00:02
Pension age for women will rise to 6500:02
City: Brooke too timid as magnates reach for sky00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Reference & Encyclopedias: Pure genius rules the database00:02
James Bulger / Words: Evil00:02
Letter: Ferrum and the DTI report00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Environment: The roots of greenery and brownery00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Rugby Union: Wilson in the wizard's mould: Chris Rea reflects on the lustrous line of All Black wings00:02
Sailing: Dalton leads through halfway mark00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Going up in smoke: What makes a good smoked salmon? Michael Bateman arrranges an expert tasting00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Dictionaries: Woman is woman, tree tree00:02
Britons freed00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Foreign legion save United00:02
Today's Papers00:02
How bad is the Nine O'Clock News?: Reporting the M40 minibus crash as only third item on the corporation's flagship news has sparked an angry row among staff00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Led Zeppelin: The Complete Studio Recordings (Atlantic, 10 CDs, out tomorrow)00:02
'It was the stillness of his despair': MP who rescued Iraqi napalm victim sets up appeal00:02
Cricket: A humbling by Kumble00:02
How We Met: Keith Mant and Patricia D Cornwell00:02
Personal Finance: A privatised welfare state00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Fashanu at arm's length00:02
THEATRE / Neil Bartlett 1, Pete Townshend 0: Night After Night - Royal Court; Iron Man - Young Vic; The Clearing - Bush00:02
Name value still appears to be relative00:02
Shopping00:02
ETCETERA / ANgST: Expert advice on your problems00:02
FILM / To die for? Not exactly: IP5 (15), Hard Target (18), Amongst Friends (18), Paradise (15), Benefit of the Doubt (18), CB400:02
The sexual plague that time forgot00:02
The families silver: Nepotism is out of date but Jason Nisse finds that the City's banking dynasties keep their hands on the financial levers00:02
Ice Hockey: High flyer00:02
'It was the stillness of his despair': MP who rescued Iraqi napalm victim sets up appeal00:02
Blue-collar workers suffer most stress00:02
James Bulger: Bad enough, but not old enough for a criminal court: James Bulger's death would have been better investigated by public inquiry than by a murder trial, says barrister Louis Blom-Cooper00:02
Letter: Why Scots hate the English00:02
TELEVISION / Crime and punishment00:02
Decriminalise drug use, says Interpol chief00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Travel: When you can bear it no longer00:02
Rugby Union round-up: Lewis injury sours Scarlets' day of success00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Columns: Eccentric airborne fantasies to treasure00:02
Innovation: Plastic plane that fits in your own garage: Aircraft made from a kit offers freedom of the skies on a tank of petrol00:02
Computer group heading for market with pounds 200m price-tag00:02
Stop the world, I want to detox: Rose Rouse on an absolutely fabulous alternative health farm00:02
US fears over Thorp 'insanity'00:02
ARTS / The eye of the beholder: Nicholas Serota's directorship has brought the Tate Gallery more visitors, more visibility, and more vitriol. So who is he exactly, and just what does he stand for?00:02
Minority rule: A tragedy waiting to happen: The plight of three million ethnic Hungarians could suck Budapest into war. Can disaster be averted this time?00:02
Past and present: A tragedy waiting to happen: The plight of three million ethnic Hungarians could suck Budapest into war. Can disaster be averted this time?00:02
Foreign firms plan ITV bids: French group stalks LWT as ownership rules are eased00:02
Rugby League Preview: Livewire Davies turns the tide00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light til' Dawn (Blue Note, CD/LP/tape)00:02
Letter: 'Asset-rich' old are a minority00:02
Bunhill00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Brian Duffy00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: When a friend arrives at an awkward age00:02
'Clarification' simply adds more questions for Major00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Art & Photography: Poetry and sex in every stocking00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A Trial of strength: Are extra-strong lagers just a way of getting drunk quickly and cheaply? As British and Continental heavyweights slog it out, Graham Coster puts flavour and image to the test00:02
ARTS / Overheard (CORRECTED)00:02
Rugby Union: The direct route towards history: Richard Williams on a momentous victory that suited its impressive setting00:02
Bunhill00:02
FASHION / How we fell into the Gap: Does the Gap look ordinary now? Was it just the stars who made it look great? In America the boom is over, but is it here?00:02
Football: Collymore so footsure00:02
Q & A: Aikido's pleasures . . . and who are the Mysterious Dwarves?00:02
Leading Article: Why Thorp issues must go public00:02
Police hunt banker00:02
Hockey: Fry's Balsam choker00:02
Early risers set to bathe in Earthshine00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Humour & Cartoons: Variations on a flat and floppy TV set00:02
REAR WINDOW / Restless Royals: Prince, 40s, seeks international role00:02
Skiing: Maier denies Wachter a hat-trick00:02
Turning doers back into thinkers: Consultant calls for an intellectual transformation to sustain companies in the competitive 1990s00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter dips into this year's wine books00:02
First Hand: 'A man in prison can seem so romantic': A woman was killed last week by her pen-pal, a prisoner. Lisa Nowlan explains how she too fell in love with a man on death row00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Cats & Dogs: Smellies versus the lazy mob00:02
A break-up too far for Hanson: US shareholders want the disposal king to split into two but Helen Kay says a radical retrenchment is not on the agenda00:02
Rugby Union: Conversion of a wild man: Guy Hodgson meets a reformed rugby coach on a divine mission00:02
England's most wanted man: 'What we are looking for is a leader capable of slamming the dressing room door in the faces of his critics': Eamon Dunphy calls for a manager who truly understands the character of his country00:02
British face LUI bill: Premiums may rise to meet US compensation00:02
Bunhill: Bearish over gas00:02
Almanack: Little support for Europe United00:02
Tom Peters On Excellence: Perils of standing pat00:02
Clinton goes cool on Gatt00:02
ARCHITECTURE / The revolution continues: The celebrated pyramid was just the tip of the iceberg. Naomi Stungo reviews new developments at the Louvre00:02
Carling's men celebrate their finest hour: Not a turnip in sight: England under Will Carling triumph over 'unbeatable' All Blacks00:02
Bunhill: The last supper?00:02
PRIVATE LIVES / The anatomy of modern marriage: An absence of communication: Uneven Balance00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Anderton makes amends00:02
Minnow in World Cup win00:02
Rates range as gilts lag: Best and worst: Annuities00:02
Bunhill: Fast track at the Treasury00:02
GARDENING / It crept out of the border: Beware the space invaders. Plants that start life as lovely little climbers can fast turn into garden thugs. Helen Chappell reports00:02
Levitt sentence a 'sick joke'00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Cinema: Stars and illuminations00:02
Squash: Khans lord it over England00:02
City File: Reuters riding high on multimedia bandwagon00:02
Football Round-up: Ipswich bring their losing streak to an end00:02
INTERIORS / Style Revivals: Investing in Gilts: 1 Paris Salon: Little Versailles are appearing all over Britain as the refined look of the French salon stages a comeback. Caroline McGhie discovers the ornate delights of life chez Louis00:02
German call to cut wages00:02
The day the Tube died00:02
Political Commentary: Our Ken, brutal proof that honesty sometimes pays00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Falconer flies in00:02
MOTORING / Auto Biography: The Rover 623 GSi in 0-60 seconds00:02
Letter: Weighty issue00:02
Motor insurer relents: Evidence is critical in road accident claims00:02
Regulator zeroes in on booksellers00:02
FOOD & DRINK/ Eating Out: Where to find a famous Belgian00:02
High price for coming clean about the rent: Mortgage rate raised on let property00:02
Treasury tinkers with price index to fiddle inflation00:02
Leading Article: London is a disgrace00:02
ART MARKET / Up for sale00:02
Captain Moonlight: The man who liked Melvyn00:02
Almanack00:02
Flat Earth: No parley view for Balladur00:02
Dead hands on the tiller00:02
Racing: Brave Cogent wins the argument00:02
Football: Celtic victory offers hope: James Traynor on a boardroom struggle over funds for new players00:02
Almanack: Racing rescued by veld touch00:02
Football / European preview: Parma prepare for a takeover at the top00:02
Back on winning pension terms: Enthusiastic selling creates a problem00:02
Illegal MoT trade 'worth pounds 7m a year'00:02
Heseltine sharpens axe for safety laws00:02
Profile: An impeccable player: Francis Urquhart: Is this Prime Minister a Machiavelli or a Macbeth? Andrew Davies ponders his record00:02
Rugby Union: England's sweetest triumph: Clem Thomas hails a mighty effort as a reshaped team swung low to victory00:02
Elderly widow raped at home00:02
The Mouth from the South: Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of il Duce, is wooing Naples for the neo-Fascists. The rest of Italy is less enchanted. Her policies are unclear, but her oratory is absolutely fascinating00:02
Eton chef dead00:02
TRIED & TESTED / Wild weather warmers: Which is the driest of them all? Our panel rain-tested different waterproof jackets00:02
Letter: Crime: working-class pride and middle-class prejudice00:02
Shares: Playing well in second half: The past few months have seen more selections that have made waves in a pedestrian market00:02
Factor that reduces the export risk00:02
James Bulger / As others see it00:02
Tennis: So what would you do? Interested parties serve up some suggestions: Is world tennis in crisis? Fans and sponsors find the obsession with power a turn-off while Germany's leading light switches on to a cultured approach00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Rock Music: The crazy shrine of King Tut00:02
The cutting edge of buying power: Purchasing is thrusting its way to the top of the corporate agenda. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Disney forfeits rights to save French park00:02
Real people and real things - like hatred and fear, failure and pity00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS: Architecture & Design: Hand in hand with hubris Genius, fakes and barbie dolls00:02
Palestinian fury at Israeli 'relic looting'00:02
Long Runners: No 8: Emmerdale00:02
Japan bids sayonara to geisha politics00:02
ITV boxed in by faulty vision: Skin-deep rule changes have left the network as vulnerable as ever to hungry rivals00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
PRIVATE LIVES / The anatomy of modern marriage: An absence of communication: Holy Deadlock00:02
Letter: Why Scots hate the English00:02
Appeal to beat pounds 17m00:02
Profile: Reformer badly in need of a good result: Sir Colin Southgate: The man who pruned Thorn EMI down to two core businesses has yet to see the fruits of the changes, writes Patrick Hosking00:02
The Klondykers are coming: The gold rush is on again as East European factory ships arrive in Lerwick. Alex Renton reports00:02
ARTS / Lives of the Great Songs: But it's lasted so very long: You Send Me: Some songs are born great. And some have greatness thrust upon them. Nick Hornby continues our series00:02
Letter: Crime: working-class pride and middle-class prejudice00:02
Prince's secret bid to heal Bonn rift00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Football: On the move00:02
HEALTH / Second Opinion00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Too tasteful to be great00:02
M-way crash kills three00:02
The IoS Playlist: The five best discs of the moment00:02
Almanack: Giving football a very bad name00:02
UK isolated over four-day week option: Britain recoils from EU move to protect jobs00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Fishing Lines: The perks and perils of an encounter with cod00:02
Flat Earth: Capitalist clink00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Paul Bley / Franz Koglmann / Gary Peacock: Annette (HAT ART 6118, CD)00:02
Elevating the common man: His portraits glorify the worker. But his critics think too much glory has accrued to Salgado himself00:02
Bond winners00:02
QMH accused of dirty tricks00:02
Flat Earth: Money or your life00:02
Football / FA Premiership: Strachan unpicks lock00:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan has Hendry in his sights: Morgan outclassed by a youngster taking the quick route to snooker's peak00:02
Innovation: Energy saving office has air of a cathedral: Window opens on controlled environment00:02
Letter: How we did the locomotion00:02
Japanese push00:02
Racing: Giant task for Carvill's Hill00:02
What does Charles really do?00:02
On the move: It isn't ethnic cleansing but they're leaving all the same00:02
Amber alert for firms at risk00:02
Rugby Union: England's sweetest triumph: All Blacks defeated by an all-consuming effort as debutant Callard hits the jackpot on a day of days00:02
Hope for the sexually harassed00:02
A show of caution as Blenheim falls short: Exhibition group pays price for failing to meet expectations00:02
No end to debt in final cheque00:02
Child porn head quits00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
ROCK & JAZZ / At last, a style to call his own00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Rolling Stones: Jump Back - The Best of the Rolling Stones 71-93 (Virgin, LP/CD/tape)00:02
The dog end of the duty free for all: The economy is paying a hefty price as shoppers stock up on cheap cigarettes and alcohol across the Channel00:02
RECORDS / New Releases: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin. Hvorostovsky, Focile, Schicoff, Orchestra de Paris/Bychkov (Philips, CD)00:02
Jamaican queen00:02
James Bulger / As we see it00:02
James Bulger: The death of innocence: There are no meanings to be found in James Bulger's murder, says Geraldine Bedell, except that it shows us hell00:02
CHOICE FOR CHRISTMAS / Books of the year: What to read and what to buy this season: here, some of our reviewers pick their favourite titles of the year - poetry and politics; art and aggression00:02
Fears over 'Truant Watch'00:02
Innovation: US heads down the data superhighway00:02
Southern elite threatens to split from Nigeria: Post-election coup angers the Yorubas00:02
Letter: Crime: working-class pride and middle-class prejudice00:02
Government admits IRA talks: Provisionals 'sent message that the conflict was over' - Revelation gives lie to Major and Mayhew denials00:02
Cross-Country: Kenyans in complete control00:02
Flat Earth: Spaced out?00:02
Bacardi boycott00:02
Flat Earth: One man's argot . . .00:02
City: Perverse justice00:02
ART MARKET / Attraction of opposites: The old-guard Wildensteins have joined forces with self-made dealer Arnie Glimcher in New York. What are these unlikely partners up to?00:02
ETCETERA/ Other People's Jobs: No 8 The Waitress00:02
Golf: Faxon gets his message across00:02
Bigger in the City00:02
James Bulger: The difficult pupils schools cannot afford00:02
Sport on TV: Armchair drivers are left in the dark00:02
Captain Moonlight00:02
Comment: One mission too many00:02
Letter: Mourners shouldn't be rushed00:02
Hong Kong clash likely00:02
Clarke's Christmas cheer00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS / Classical Music: The secret death of Tchaikovsky00:02
ETCETERA/Bridge00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
A Thatcherite who shoots from the hip00:02
Back to basics: But how basic? In search of a golden age, Cal McCrystal climbs the Prime Minister's family tree00:00
James Bulger: The death of innocence