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Letter: Medical comfort beyond measure00:02
Cannabis 'dump' found off Irish coast: Satellite navigation locates drugs00:02
Parents warned of gulf in toy prices00:02
The long road to restoration: A tough hike will benefit one of the nation's finest churches. Michael Leapman reports00:02
Right and wrong paths to justice: A week after the Bulger verdict, Jonathan Foster reflects on the fairness of the trial00:02
Budget Aftermath: Women face phased move to pension age parity00:02
Judge defends his sentence on Levitt00:02
Fashion Update: Woolly minded00:02
Lloyd's to confound forecast with new pounds 2bn loss: Results for 1991 account hit prospects for out-of-court deal. John Moore reports00:02
British Bio-tech sets up US subsidiary00:02
Yorkshire profits on target: Water company complains it is caught between 'dinosaur' regulators00:02
Kidnapped US diplomat freed00:02
Poll ban overturned00:02
Bottom Line: Argyll signals end of the retail banquet00:02
Georgians sign peace deal00:02
POP MUSIC / Very singular - Very Pet Shop Boys00:02
Unsure Finns00:02
Law Report: US cannot be sued by airman: Littrell v United States of America - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Nourse, Lord Justice Rose and Lord Justice Hoffmann), 12 November 199300:02
Bridge: Difficult case for the defence00:02
Letter: Montpellier's gingko: a tree to remember00:02
Chaplain to keep BR staff on the right tracks: Passengers bemused as joyous singing greets one arrival at Birmingham station. Will Bennett reports00:02
Rugby Union: Bridgend loosen the champions' grasp00:02
OPERA / History lessons: David Patrick Stearns reports on a pair of recent East Coast premieres00:02
Shark meat kills 2700:02
Dear David Maclean: A moral philosopher seeks ministerial guidance on the difference between right and wrong00:02
But the country may never be convinced00:02
Allergies triggered by 'insults' to body00:02
Boeing to cut jumbo production: 3,000 more jobs to be axed as group faces up to industry's problems00:02
NZ party leader replaced00:02
China dissident 'missing'00:02
Budget Aftermath: Mid-earners hit hardest but the poor also suffer: Institute of Fiscal Studies says tax rises in 1993 Budgets will recapture handouts of 1980s00:02
Girls 'snubbed'00:02
Anglo United plans acquisitions to aid distribution00:02
Johnson Matthey ahead but adds a warning: Computer chip success cancels out falling car sales00:02
Sailing: Smith breaks 24-hour record: Briton in charge00:02
GP accused by 'woman scorned' made allegations00:02
Plague hits Zaireans00:02
Shares soar as City warms to Budget: Clarke tries to dampen growing speculation about interest rate cut as London market gains pounds 16bn00:02
Inside Parliament: Budget Aftermath: Portillo under fire over rising taxation: Brown's 'policy-free zone' derided - Government 'discipline' on public spending defended - Harman singled out for Joan Collins jibe00:02
Rugby Union: Jenkins outkicks Cardiff00:02
Partners must shed their past: Germany is just as guilty of tunnel vision as France and Britain, says Jonathan Eyal00:02
GEC drops offer after closer look at Ferranti: Hopes of saving electronics group crushed as receivers move in00:02
Budget Aftermath: Tighter benefit rules intended to cut down fraud: Rosie Waterhouse looks at the effect of measures limiting claimants' rights to social security payments00:02
Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories00:02
Triumph poised to expand fivefold: Britain's oldest maker of motorcycles is back with a bang, reports Michael Harrison00:02
Multinational groups 'set for huge tax rise'00:02
Dressing down for tweed-clad solicitor00:02
Second half puts the froth on Bass: Stock market toasts brewer's pounds 508m result after improvements across the board00:02
Neo-Fascist may yet beguile Rome00:02
The mother of invention: Nick Curtis meets Hazel Jones, eccentric inventor of the utterly useless00:02
Sports Letters: Learning across sporting divide?00:02
Here Today00:02
Baby snatcher fought off00:02
Obituary: Margaret Lyttelton00:02
Pembroke: Some budgetary blasts from the past00:02
Budget Measure: Tour operators to fight air levy: 'Discriminatory' measure seen as barrier to free trade within EU00:02
Golf: US name Wadkins captain00:02
Budget Aftermath: Strict new test for sickness claimants00:02
Budget Aftermath: Insurers to pass cost of new tax to clients00:02
Survey says oil in Falklands00:02
Star role at sale for big screen's classic car00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
GLOSSARY / Devotions in the cathedral of language00:02
Review: When it comes to crime, honesty pays00:02
Sports Letters: Wet, wet, wet00:02
Inside File: Foreign Office axes staff00:02
After the Barcode Tit, spot the Self-Steaming Finch00:02
View from City Road: The death knell for Ferranti shareholders00:02
Darts: Breakaway builds into bitter battle: Best of order in jeopardy as players compete for control of their sport. Clive White reports00:02
Silly Questions: Cats take the plunge00:02
Cancer linked to radiation, MoD admits: Heather Mills reports on a former submarine worker's claim for pounds 250,00000:02
Dilemmas: Surely a father can't stand by and do nothing?00:02
Budget Aftermath: Backing sought for West Coast rail line00:02
Budget Aftermath: Labour warns of pounds 61 cut for each local authority school place: Bigger classes and more crumbling buildings are forecast. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Fraud discovered in councils hits pounds 25m: Authorities warned on rising cost of benefit cons and corruption00:02
View from City Road: Leaner pickings in the money market00:02
Open a book, and close a tiny mind: Joanna Reid examines political correctness in children's writing00:02
Libya defies blockade00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
US warns on Gatt failure: Negotiators locked into tough talks to reconcile differences on a world trade agreement00:02
Major and Reynolds agree to Ulster talks00:02
Royal engagements00:02
Murder inquiry00:02
Boxing: Akinwande's mood of destruction: Briton retains European title00:02
Letter: Temperature or temperament?00:02
'Error' over IRA documents: Mayhew alters official record of peace negotiations. David McKittrick reports00:02
Fashion: No fuss, no frills, no problem: Unfussy coats; zipless jackets: the look is simple and monochrome. Marion Hume reports on New Puritanism00:02
Graduate Recruitment: Unrealistic expectations of work: Do more research. There are some very good jobs and careers - but you need to go out there and be a wise shopper. Philip Schofield tests the market00:02
CIA warns of N Korea war: Pyongyang resists US on nuclear inspection00:02
Athletics: Radford ready for the start of an uphill struggle: The first executive chairman of the BAF begins work early in the new year. Mike Rowbottom met him00:02
Liquid inspiration fuels prize-winning poetry00:02
Racing: Confidence slips in Pipe's Boss00:02
Rugby Union: Back returns eagerly to the front line: English Barbarian aims to make point against the All Blacks in Cardiff00:02
MMC puts spoke in Stagecoach wheel00:02
Budget Aftermath: Extra front-line soldiers and tanks promised00:02
Dairy Crest up 28% as disposals reduce costs00:02
Railman accused00:02
RIFFS / Lloyd Cole recounts the joy of T Rex, as heard on 'Telegram Sam'00:02
Court Circular00:02
View from City Road: Pru will not pay too high a price00:02
Bottom Line: Conversion for JM00:02
Today's Number: 1,42900:02
Hockey: Students stir from slumber00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ravishing, or just rude, illusions of intimacy: The Penguin book of interviews: Ed Christopher Silvester - Penguin, pounds 18.9900:02
Raider 'savagely' beat elderly sisters: Terry Kirby reports on the possible link between a vicious assault and an earlier rape00:02
Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories00:02
Trying to draw the right parallels with the past00:02
Anniversaries00:02
View from City Road: Chancellor should bank another rate cut soon00:02
Budget Aftermath: Tube projects face further delay00:02
Fashion Update: In the drink00:02
Obituary: Muriel Dowding00:02
Prize of peace awaits Ireland: Extracts from yesterday's speech by Dr Cahal Daly, Archbishop of Armagh00:02
LIVE / Stepping up a weight: Jasper Rees reviews soul singer Luther Vandross in the round at the Wembley Arena00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
Obituary: Kenneth Hurren00:02
Leading Article: Welfare state in the balance sheet00:02
Football: Hall's Keegan block: Newcastle aim to keep manager00:02
Serbs smile bravely as prices go through roof: Stoicism about hyperinflation hides an economy in ruins, writes Marcus Tanner in Belgrade00:02
French face death in Algeria: Ultimatum by Islamic militants runs out00:02
EU goes into orbit in search of UFOs00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Cleaner beaches00:02
Chilling news that challenged rational belief: A woman explores her reaction to the death of her dentist from Aids00:02
Obituary: Fritz Feld00:02
Football: Hateley gives Aberdeen double trouble00:02
Diary00:02
Adviser ignored warnings about exports to Iraq: Official failed to read reports, inquiry told00:02
Labour peers defeated in historic attack: Opposition leader in Lords spearheads assault on Major's 'broken promises'00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories00:02
Sculpture reprieve00:02
Bottom Line: New mix for brewers00:02
Customers accuse 'complacent' banks: 'Which?' survey highlights continuing poor level of service00:02
Sports Letters: Enlightenment00:02
Cricketer charged00:02
Letter: Temperature or temperament?00:02
French train crash kills 400:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Budget Aftermath: Dorset's deserters stay away from the Tory fold00:02
Probation for Denny case man00:02
Football / Coca-Cola Cup: Wednesday endgame pays off once more00:02
Gunmen murder Israeli teacher: West Bank killing fuels tensions in occupied territories as Palestinian radicals vow to destroy peace accord00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympic Games00:02
CFC replacement wins pounds 50,000 prize00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Books for Christmas: A world champion reveals his faults: Genevieve Murphy on the champions and fallers among the current stable of equestrian publications00:02
Giordano will take British Gas job00:02
Budget Aftermath: Strikes warning over pay freeze: Union anger over drive for wages standstill00:02
Pearson may face monopolies inquiry00:02
Speaking out00:02
POP MUSIC / The unsung song blues: Laura Nyro has grown up, 'kinda mellowed' and is gearing up for a come-back, she tells Rob Steen00:02
Pounds 2m pools winner00:02
MUSIC / Molecular man memories: Jan Smaczny on Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's new series00:02
Rugby League: Devereux adds dash of class00:02
Boy aged 12 on rape charge00:02
Football / Coca-Cola Cup: Campbell's strike overwhelms Rovers' ambition00:02
Clarke stands by state pension00:02
Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories00:02
Sports Letters: Learning across sporting divide?00:02
Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories00:02
Budget Aftermath: Son of BES will not be aimed at public00:02
Racing: River ready to roll in wake of Sea: A quirk of the calendar adds curiosity value, but Hong Kong's Cup is no trivial pursuit00:02
US and Russia link up in space: Boost for Nasa on eve of Hubble repair mission00:02
Police launch stolen goods roadshow00:02
Birthdays00:02
Budget Aftermath: Pounds 3.5bn spending undershoot 'kept secret': Donald Macintyre reports on a skilful poker game played by Clarke and Portillo00:02
Teacher shortages predicted: Training plans seen as 'catastrophic'00:02
Bodies found00:02
Welsh Office 'loses track' of pounds 209m: Missing records lead to accounts being qualified for fifth year. Chris Blackhurst reports00:02
Shares in Dares hit by deal on bank debt00:02
Leading Article: Aids stories that could cost lives00:02
Defence industry gets a pounds 1.5bn lift00:02
Switch on to win electronic prizes: The Independent/Sharp School Team Quiz00:02
Tough truths about our TV minnows00:02
Market Report: Clarke's maiden Budget bowls institutions over00:02
Indian voters check advance of Hindu right00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Laughter after girl set alight, jury told00:02
Chess: Shoot-out follows thriller in Tilburg00:02
Heron in early debt repayment to banks00:02
5,000 new cases of HIV occur every day00:02
Budget Aftermath: Car lobby counts cost of squeeze on motorists00:02
A robust addition to the China pot00:02
Mixed reaction to Rothmans' interim results: Tobacco disappoints, Vendome pleases00:02
Drugs officer denies drink to blame for fatal crash00:02
Death crash trial00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sheep dip use to be limited to qualified farmers00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools news00:02
Property company in 30m pounds pounds placing00:02
Where women are rising in the east: Traditionally male Islamic Turkey is switching to the feminist agenda, even in electing a prime minister, says Hugh Pope00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 best supported football clubs00:02
Accounting switch hits Argyll shares00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Leading Article: Middle Eastern pointers for Ulster00:02
Occupational hazards: The popularity of the new vocational qualifications obscures flaws that threaten their fundamental purpose, writes Elaine Williams00:02
Bodies found00:02
Football / Coca-Cola Cup: Earle earns a second chance00:02
Football / Coca-Cola Cup: City survive no-Quinn situation00:02
Budget threat to overhaul of university year: Squeeze on expansion and grants00:02
Bavarians lead fight for EU regions: Anti-Maastricht populism is on the march in Landshut and finds echoes among other Germans, writes Steve Crawshaw00:02
M&S appoints Smith as director for Far East00:02
Culture clash over Canada killings00:02
BBC unveils pounds 40m Christmas package: Sitcom specials and Hollywood movies 'to sweep TV ratings'00:00
Right and wrong paths to justice