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Court circular00:02
Budget winner00:02
Money Grouse: Late card bills hard to digest00:02
Happy kitschmas: Iain Gale boards a floating Christmas grotto in Salford. In place of Santa he finds a turkey reading the Queen's speech00:02
Rio kidnap00:02
Obituary: Alan Clare: Correction00:02
Birthdays00:02
Scottish Football: Motherwell savour change of fortune00:02
Courtiers and media blamed as Princess retreats from public life00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: The path to reconciliation and meaningful peace in Northern Ireland00:02
View from City Road: The wider view of Europe's needs00:02
ICI faces pounds 100m disposal write-off: Shares slip on leak of plans to sell US firm00:02
Running repairs limit damage: Grant Dalton, the leading maxi skipper in the Round the World Race, who is writing for the Independent, weathers misfortune00:02
A global experience00:02
Fleming waives overseas charge00:02
Auctions00:02
Dublin talks rumble into diplomatic fudge: Alan Murdoch reports on a portent-laden meeting00:02
Christopher's search for peace00:02
Today's Number: 1500:02
Mercury mining deadline nears00:02
Italian voters caught between two extremes00:02
Concert star quits over plan to axe orchestras: Soloist leaves Arts Council panel00:02
Forced out00:02
Letter: An exercise in warming up00:02
Football: Manifesto of a footballing progressive: Norwich City are enjoying unprecedented prosperity thanks to their manager's approach. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Rugby Union: Salmon looks to his cast for a Bath upset: Barrie Fairall previews today's league action in England and Wales00:02
Rugby League: Grant reaps rewards for Hull: Frustrated Saints stumble under pressure and fail to regain composure as non-league hopefuls prepare to strike out on Challenge Cup trail00:02
Rugby Union: Baa-Baas wary of All Blacks' backlash: Tourists are in a dangerous mood as the curtain comes down at the Arms Park this afternoon00:02
Get into the grousing spirit00:02
Market Report: Shares hit another peak00:02
Basketball: Kings hit a low point: Guildford's European humiliation00:02
Angola 'truce'00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Japan dogged by military taboo: Government minister and political reform laws fall foul of post-war constitution00:02
Racing: Backers can take comfort from Afar: Jodami runs at Chepstow but Sandown's big handicap will be a potent distraction for punters00:02
Investment manager jailed for theft00:02
MPs were misled over seizure of Nadir papers00:02
I confess: Brian Masters, the author, reveals fantasies of wielding the baton00:02
Damning reports expose two schools to take-over: Patten ready to send in government-appointed rescue teams if proposals to improve standards fail to win approval00:02
Shotgun slaughter00:02
Gastropod00:02
Skiing in a northern light: Norway is staging a comeback, both as a destination and as the setting for the Winter Olympics, says Chris Gill00:02
Ossory seeks pounds 5.5m in restructuring00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Quiet Balladur may tone down trade objections00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Writers look back on the highlights of 199300:02
Teenager admits 959 offences00:02
Obituary: Gustav Sacher00:02
Weekend Gardening Update: Know your veg00:02
Letter: Down-to-earth look at the world's problems00:02
Influenza toll00:02
Lawson death00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Weekend Travel Update: Living memories00:02
Siberia camp toll00:02
Obituary: Sir Jack Longland00:02
Sporting Digest: Darts00:02
Kleinwort closes policy trust00:02
Hearts and wallets open to the latex lures of Mr Blobby: Will Bennett reports on a marketing exercise of giant proportions00:02
University appointments00:02
Tax breaks for those who dare: The successor to BES will provide less easy pickings and cost far more to set up. Caroline Merrell reports00:02
Bubbly ballots00:02
Howard sets targets to improve policing: Progress measured against number of burglaries and violent crimes00:02
Weekend Travel Update: Bad trip00:02
Tennis: Fromberg fightback staggers Goellner: Australia level the tie with Germany after Stich stops Stoltenberg in the opening singles of Davis Cup final00:02
A will for your step-family00:02
View from City Road: Sting in the tail that wags the dog00:02
Sorry Cole, you aren't the top00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Service appointments00:02
Second Thoughts: Golden snarls: Doris Lessing on The Golden Notebook (Flamingo pounds 6.99)00:02
Child-care allowance was Hunt's initiative00:02
East calls on Nato to open ranks00:02
Candid caller00:02
The prizewinners of the year00:02
Chance to talk00:02
Weekend Gardening Update: Just picture it00:02
THEATRE / I, an actress: Paul Taylor learns to laugh and cry at Annie Griffin's masterclass00:02
Hockey: Jenning holds key: Clubs forced to wait for key league players to return from Scotland00:02
Swimming: Pickering's gold00:02
Wrangle adds to fears that Nadir case is lost: Disclosure that privileged documents seized in raid were sent to prosecution threatens the long-term future of investigating body. Tim Kelsey reports00:02
Nigerian economy plumbs new depths: Living standards plummet as military government faces growing debt and falling oil prices, reports Karl Maier in Lagos00:02
Top 20 Resorts: Vaujany00:02
PM stays put00:02
MI5 agent helped00:02
Deaths from influenza rise to 134 in a month00:02
IRA bomb defused00:02
Medellin says a tearful farewell to Don Pablo: Simon Strong attended the wake held for the world's most notorious drug trafficker00:02
Profile: Builder of dreams or monuments?: Peter Palumbo, a visionary at the Arts Council00:02
Malaysia adamant00:02
Charles Saatchi resigns from board following pressure from investors00:02
Letter: The path to reconciliation and meaningful peace in Northern Ireland00:02
Saturday Night: Elvis and the bloke with the didgeridoo00:02
Books for Christmas: the Independent's writer's look back on the highlights of 199300:02
Escobar dies, and the cocaine trade gets stronger: Simon Strong, in Medellin, describes the unity among drug lords. Patrick Cockburn, in Washington, says the trade cannot be halted00:02
A square-cut diamond: Sales of the Tatra in the old USSR have collapsed. Could it sell here? Phil Llewellin meets its importer00:02
Leukaemia case00:02
Pit negotiations00:02
Clarke deals new blow to maintenance tax relief: The Chancellor has attacked an anomaly, reports Sue Fieldman00:02
Letter: The path to reconciliation and meaningful peace in Northern Ireland00:02
A cosmetic solution to world pollution: Roger Tredre finds that worry over the effect of pollutants has led men to the skin-care counter00:02
I spy with my funny, random eye: The expatriate American writer Robert Littell talks to Peter Guttridge about God, the Cold War and chaos theory00:02
And suddenly the winds blew: The biblical epic is back, with Richard Harris stepping into Abraham's sandals. But, he tells Linda Joffe, they won't be stamped 'Made in USA'00:02
Church appointments00:02
Faith and Reason: Something grand and mysterious: A further article in our series on the implications of belief in miracles and whether they prove anything is by Andrew Walker, author of Charismatic Renewal: the search for a theology.00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Singers' wavelength: The New York Met's legendary Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts are coming to Europe. Nick Kimberley reports00:02
Golden arches lead to hamburger heaven: A ravenous Simon Calder scours California and Illinois in search of the original Big Mac and its younger cousin, the Fastbreak Finger00:02
HIV writ issued00:02
The facts about the Serious Fraud Office00:02
Back to basics - and forwards: David Starkey reflects on this week's NOP/Independent opinion poll00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Football: European lapse a boon for United: Clive White on the pick of today's Premiership games00:02
Barclay brothers buy into Southend00:02
Teachers accept criticism is 'fair'00:02
Lloyds joins the telephone banks: Move follows TSB's new nationwide service00:02
Out of Kazakhstan: West tempted to take a bite in apple city00:02
Caretaker accused00:02
Volatile markets give Leopold Joseph a lift00:02
Food and Drink: Odin's glass of nectar: Michael Jackson learns the secret of Norway's home brews, passed down via Viking 'magic sticks'00:02
Asda passes Allied to Carpetland: Supermarket group pays more than pounds 18m to be rid of carpet stores Maples sale close00:02
Cricket: Cricket on front foot in township of Alex: England A's first stop on their tour of South Africa highlights the progress of black players. John Perlman reports from Johannesburg00:02
Back on course for peace in Ulster: At 'workmanlike' Dublin meeting Major and Reynolds work slowly towards a ceasefire declaration00:02
Parents bemused by verdict on primary school: Governors are disappointed with inspectors' findings, writes Malcolm Pithers00:02
God's coal can now rest in peace00:02
Weekend Gardening Update: For bookworms00:02
Wills00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Appalling, twisted and dark: Ray Monk on Isaiah Berlin's attempt to revive the reputation of a philosopher neglected even by his admirers: The Magus of the North - Isaiah Berlin: Ed. Henry Hardy John Murray pounds 14.9900:02
The Week in Review00:02
The Location Hunters: Stalking horses in Tuscany: The landscape of Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia, is not what it was. And, Jonathan Glancey finds, it never has been00:02
Baby died in safety harness00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
European industrialists attack Social Charter00:02
Lenders fix home loan rates lower00:02
I am fighting for King and county00:02
Faith in designer fakes: Imitation fabrics have become a real hit, and not just among cranks and vegetarians, says Tamsin Blanchard00:02
Insurers face payout on 'bad advice': Pension providers may have to compensate more than 150,000 clients who switched from company schemes00:02
Music fan gets life00:02
France tries kiss of life on Volvo00:02
China repeats HK threat00:02
Teenager 'held like animal in a trap'00:02
Jobs boost adds to US cheer over economy: October factory orders and leading indicators point to revival00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Obituary: Emile Ardolino00:02
Everyone will be bitten by the Budget next April: Vivien Goldsmith looks in detail at how people's finances are going to suffer00:02
Wine box00:02
View from City Road: A lesson for the SFO00:02
Tool box00:02
Letter: An exercise in warming up00:02
Postal bombs00:02
Sailing: Italians' distress signal picked up00:02
Country Matter: Tracks in a Cotswolds jungle00:02
Stamp duty loophole closed00:02
Cash unit trusts to pay more tax00:02
Recommended00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Armoured alert00:02
Dispute over00:02
Nasa struck by fraud sting00:02
Shells kill 4 in Sarajevo00:02
Somalia hopes00:02
Football: Walker goes gunning for Worcestershire's finest: Eleven non-League teams are 90 minutes from a chance of the big time. Phil Shaw looks at the weekend's FA Cup second-round ties00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Departures: Bucket shop step00:02
Cricket: New Zealand suffer again: McDermott prevents tourists exploiting good batting wicket00:02
Obituary: Christian Nyby00:02
One of NatWest's disgruntled customers votes with his feet00:02
Business & City Summary00:02
Ice Hockey: Cardiff are confident: Benson and Hedges Cup final00:02
Gatt deal 'vital to US link with Europe': Secretary of State warns of dire economic consequences if talks fail00:02
Bradford extends protection00:02
Prison staff strikes to be banned: TUC attacks 'precipitate' move00:02
Property: Daydream homes00:02
Assets frozen00:02
Why traffickers will always be one jump ahead00:02
Football Diary: Fans left in lurch by Turks00:02
Obituary: Pablo Escobar00:02
Leading Article: A less bitter and cheaper divorce00:02
Put some bounce in your bird: Liven up turkey and other dishes with the help of the versatile, hardy cranberry00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Appeals00:02
Northern Rock reopens post00:02
Cardholders to get rate cuts - next year00:02
The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: The echo of an echo00:02
Tankard raises cheers for Vale00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Letter: Police commitment to improving gay relations00:02
Weekend Gardening Update: A taste of olives00:02
Hopes grow for Somali peace talks00:02
View from City Road: Big hopes for a Gatt accord00:02
Cricket: England A Tour: McCague kept off artificial wicket: Off-spinner Such joins strike bowler on the sidelines for the opening match against an adventurous Transvaal Invitation selection00:02
Coup paranoia in Venezuela on eve of polls: Phil Davison reports from Caracas on ominous questions about the 90,000 soldiers policing tomorrow's elections00:02
A bit of bite to whet your appetite00:02
How Herefordshire fell off the map: Antique maps of Kent and Surrey fetch high prices, but one county can be bought for a song. In the arcane world of cartography, writes John Windsor, it pays to shop around00:02
Are you a soft touch for 'tender' meat?: Butchers are falling for the tenderiser, but consumers shouldn't,00:02
Letter: Game for adventure00:02
Celltech happy on share offer00:02
Golf: Price pushes ahead as Faldo falters: The best of the world's players cannot keep pace as Zimbabwean's hot streak continues00:02
Arab states still clinging to Israel boycott: The 45-year-old trade embargo of the 'Zionist state' persists despite the recent peace accord, writes Charles Richards00:02
Motor Racing: Hakkinen's contract00:02
Brief outing for a Bronze Age boat00:02
Property: Old college ties still bind: The men at the top of the property world have a special and strong bond, says Anne Spackman00:02
Oil prices hit five-year low00:02
20 killed in Malawi gun battle00:02
TELEVISION / Blowing cash and credibility on the nags00:02
Letter: The path to reconciliation and meaningful peace in Northern Ireland00:02
My night out with a buffalo: Hugh Dunkerley goes kayaking off the Maine coast, and finds more than marine wildlife00:02
The things I've seen: Piel Island00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Heart Searching: First the marriage, then the relationship: 'They're all looking for each other, a whole generation. How do they find each other?' Cathy Aitchison talks to Muslim women00:02
Teenager held in burglary inquiry00:02
Foster holds policy auction00:02
The Independent Road Test: New breed joins the herd in a bull market: The Toyota 4Runner competes in the crowded but popular off-road market. Roger Bell is impressed by its performance00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Budgie boost for Kids00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
Rugby League: Wigan welcome back Dermott00:02
The Way I Was: Drunk with my dramatic prospects: John Sessions tells Nicholas Roe how he left Canada and an academic career at 26 to train for the stage00:02
AAH buys chemist chain00:02
Landmarks: Bristol00:02
Football: Mabbutt may sue Fashanu over injury: Recuperating Tottenham captain accuses Wimbledon striker of 'playing without due care and attention'00:02
Ruling on Twyford pair lifted on appeal00:02
Customers give their banks the thumbs up - and down: 'Which?' survey shows consumers like the Abbey habit of efficiency, but NatWest is no action bank, says Nic Cicutti00:02
Dropped court cases increase00:02
Cricket: Zimbabwe face uphill struggle00:02
Double Play: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review inspirational Beethoven and a rapid but reverberant War Requiem00:02
Fired by a passion for pottery: Working in the hard, old-fashioned way, Jonathan Garratt turns muck from a pig farm into something beautiful for the garden. Anna Pavord reports