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NHS contract attacked00:02
Maggie's Last Stand, the movie00:02
Farewell to lazy Sundays and many small shops00:02
Letter: Pope condemned Bosnian war00:02
Sport on TV: Groovy sounds and fruits of the Vine00:02
Civilisation for sale: Free trade sounds good, but who benefits? Not the poor, nor the environment, nor us, says David Nicholson-Lord00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Young Socrates goes West: 'The Gingerbread Race: A Life in the Closing World Once Called Free' - Andrei Navrozov: Picador, 17.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / The tightrope walker: 'The Laurel and the Ivy: The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism' - Robert Kee: Hamish Hamilton, 20 pounds00:02
The Art of Theatre: 8 Props: Nicholas Wright's Masterclass00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Reel life ain't no joke: 'Woody and his Women' - Tim Carroll: Little Brown, 15.9900:02
ETCETERA / Angst: Expert advice on your problems00:02
Captain Moonlight: Christmas gift ideas00:02
Football: Cole-fired Newcastle: Leading scorer thwarts runaway leaders after Ince puts United on high road00:02
Quagmire awaits pensions inquiry: It may prove hard to determine whether advice was correct00:02
Hatchets buried to back deal on jobs and trade: The Brussels Summit00:02
Watchdogs show their pedigrees: Each privatised utility has a regulatory body but what do they do and how much do they cost?00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: This smutty gossip about the Waleses must stop00:02
How We Met: Penny Vincenzi and Marjorie Proops00:02
Saunders fights in vain00:02
11 hurt in gas blast00:02
ART MARKET / Up for sale00:02
Bunhill: Ca' Dario00:02
Bunhill: Chicken shack00:02
As other see it00:02
South of the Border: What price would the people of the Irish Republic pay for peace? Brian Cathcart reports00:02
A-Z of Treats: Sussex Pond Pudding00:02
Skiing: Compagnoni uses conditions as ally00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Almanack: Atlanta pin their hopes on Izzy00:02
Landslide traps more than 50 as 12-storey block of flats collapses in Kuala Lumpur00:02
Training yourself works better00:02
Air bubble saves woman in storm00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Outings and epiphanies: 'Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe' - Eva Hoffman: Heinemann, 16.9900:02
FILM / Grunge gets grimier in the gutters of Seattle00:02
Private railway that caters for car lovers00:02
Rugby Union: A prop for the new age: Victor Ubogu00:02
Letter: The forgotten professionals00:02
Profile: Never on a Sunday: The Lord Chancellor is a tireless legal reformer, but only six days a week, writes Cal McCrystal00:02
Captain Moonlight: Offstage drama at the Mermaid00:02
Rugby Union: Clarke crucial in show of class00:02
Racing: Mystery on the Turf: Curious case of the fallen hero from Foulrice Farm: The dramatic defeat of Jodami has baffled the horseracing world. Jamie Reid sifts the evidence and separates rumour from reality00:02
Owners streets behind in the compensation stakes: Thirty householders are trapped in crumbling properties00:02
TRAVEL / A pilgrim's package: Tourism is the new religion; holidays are the modern-day pilgrimages. On the road to Santiago de Compostela, devotees combine the two. Here follows the Tourist's Tale00:02
Hawaiians say Goodbye to Aloha: A campaign to reclaim Polynesian land and culture threatens ties with the United States00:02
DANCE / Totally smitten by Sweetieland00:02
Hawaiians say Goodbye to Aloha: A campaign to reclaim Polynesian land and culture threatens ties with the United States00:02
Letter: Howard did not walk out00:02
Rugby Union: Moon in ascendant00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Confessions of a wilful Pusscat: 'A Right Royal Bastard' - Sarah Miles: Macmillan, 16.9900:02
The Colonial Style Shopping Guide00:02
Sport: Sadness in a voice stilled00:02
Football: Celtic stretch a point00:02
Who are you calling sexist, love?: Linda Grant examines whether there is really a North-South divide when it comes to harassing women00:02
Sailing: Dickson in the dock00:02
In the vicious circle of exile: A tale of Palestinian and Israeli dispossession that reveals the complexity of the task facing Arafat and Rabin in their peace talks today00:02
Leading Article: It must be the way they tell 'em00:02
Swimming: Water Line00:02
Lloyd's demand00:02
War on high-street crime: Retailing: Rising theft is requiring more sophisticated counter measures00:02
Bonus cuts hit home owners00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Untroubled by conviction: 'Honest Opportunism: The Rise of the Career Politician' - Peter Riddell: Hamish Hamilton, 16.99; 'Out of Order' - Tony Banks and Jo-Ann Goodwin: Century, 6.9900:02
Europe pays later and later: Recession on the Continent is leading to extended periods for settlement00:02
Letter: Gift of time00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew stifles Orrell00:02
Brother promoted00:02
Rabin and Arafat meet on withdrawal00:02
Allied Dunbar in tax probe: Enquiry Branch examines insurance company's practices00:02
Safeguards for animals face the axe00:02
Almanack: Rob Roy of The Rovers00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
They might want a different king but the fight could destroy the Crown00:02
TRIED & TESTED / Power playing: Brain-draining or fine family fun? We turn to board games00:02
Letter: Oxfam to solve both problems?00:02
When women go into battle, strong men grow wobbly00:02
BOOK REVIEW / It's the way that you play it: 'Nothing But the Blues' - ed Lawrence Cohn: Abbeville Press, 29.9900:02
Letter: Job sharing00:02
Rear Window: Flash, brash, and fawned over by Fleet Street - When scandal wasn't royal00:02
It's first class in here, comrade: Once he had a fleet of Zils, but these days Mikhail Gorbachev is happy to travel by BR. Michael Fathers sat next to him00:02
EXHIBITIONS / More than words can say: The art of illustration00:02
Football: Hoddle frustrated by Kiwomya00:02
Football: Fry's delight cut short by Salako00:02
Bunhill: Irish whiskey00:02
China raises pressure on 'creators of chaos'00:02
Football: Headless Everton00:02
OFT to look at drug pricing: Pressure grows for better competition at the chemist's00:02
Fishing Lines: A Mickey Mouse idea floated by the Yanks00:02
Letter: Child benefit and Labour00:02
Almanack: Ground for divorce at Elland Road?00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Almanack: Thistle face a prickly problem00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Franc Roddam00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Sage directions from theatre's revolutionary: 'There are no Secrets: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre' - Peter Brook: Methuen, 12.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fear and loathing behind the lines: 'Conduct Unbecoming' - Randy Shilts: Penguin, 12 pounds and 'Gays and the Military' - ed Marc Wolinsky & Kenneth Sherrill: Princeton, 10.95 pounds00:02
Letter: No choice00:02
Letter: When Irish eyes are revising00:02
Words00:02
Saddam trusts me and knows I tell the truth, says Heath00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Demons under the volcano: A new life of Malcolm Lowry shows the 'internal romance' of the boozy, bragging drifter00:02
Political Commentary: Just an irritating royal rash, but it could turn nasty00:02
City File: Tiphook delays sell-off further00:02
Cows come home to a strange hand00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Escape to El Dorado: Why are investors venturing again to the Third World where they got burnt in the 1980s? Peter Krijgsman examines the allure and the risk00:02
Boxing: Warring lord of the ring: Profile: Julio Cesar Chavez00:02
Ronson and UK's top fund manager sued in US00:02
Where bigotry is part of the job: A policewoman tells of victory over racial and sexual abuse00:02
Letter: Inflation lives00:02
Rampaging bullock00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Grapevine: Special wines for Christmas quaffing00:02
Bunhill: Smarter plastic00:02
THEATRE / Barrie Rutter, Shakespeare-wallah: When Northern Broadsides performed its version of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in the Punjab, 50 armed policemen turned up. Robert Butler was there too00:02
Accept African identity, Grant tells blacks: MP ignores criticism to preach to new constituency00:02
TELEVISION / A case for cameras in camera00:02
BTR attempts to counter adverse City sentiment00:02
Chunnel delay00:02
One cheer for the personals00:02
Football: Why clubs need a level playing field - Football's Big Five has become the Big One. Norman Fox discusses the power game and a radical call to follow America's example00:02
Leading Article: Just the job, Mr Delors00:02
Dublin raises stakes on Ulster: Reynolds says joint declaration must end the violence - Pressure on Major to make more concessions00:02
ART MARKET / Julie Recamier reclined here: Neo-classical furniture that belonged to the French hostess who set the style of her era is up for auction. Geraldine Norman reports00:02
Doubts delay inquiry into Joy Gardner's death00:02
Software one can build on00:02
The flaws in Delors that fail to inspire00:02
Sport Comment: The value of free speech00:02
BOOKS / 'Building Classical' - ed Richard Economakis: Academy Editions, 69.9500:02
Sport: Tales from the brotherhood of sport - Last week Abi Ekoku shared in his brother Efan's big day. Today the boot is on the other foot as Abi faces his toughest challenge00:02
York on Ads: No 8: Hi-Tech00:02
Rugby Union: Gosforth gloom00:02
Frei victory00:02
Football: Swindon's belief shakes Souness00:02
BOOK REIVEW / A gumshoe's detours de force: 'The Search' - Geoff Dyer: Hamish Hamilton, 14.9900:02
Cricket: Jack rises as England fall away00:02
Guessing game continues on gas shake-up00:02
Skating: Bonaly nears perfection00:02
How to ride the wind of change: Transformation must be managed for companies to benefit, says a new study00:02
ARTS / The first cut is still the deepest: Lives of the great songs: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face00:02
BOOKS / Paperbacks00:02
Forklifts point to recovery: Unusual economic indicators are proving popular as official figures falter00:02
Brent Walker jackpot00:02
VAT party pooper00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A triumphant journey for madmen: 'Resurrection at Sorrow Hill' - Wilson Harris: Faber, 14.9900:02
The price of volatility: Best and worst: Venture capital investment trusts00:02
Bunhill: Get the picture00:02
Leisure group's revamp opposed00:02
Murder charges00:02
Thorp report suppressed by ministers00:02
In the vicious circle of exile: A tale of Palestinian and Israeli dispossession that reveals the complexity of the task facing Arafat and Rabin in their peace talks today00:02
Football Round-Up: Early finish by Ferdinand00:02
Sport: On the Move - Transfers00:02
Captain Moonlight: Love's losers go out with a twang00:02
THEATRE / Mendes dirties up the club00:02
Rugby Union: Harris follows Hare to the letter00:02
Letter: I was neither a young bully nor a south London schoolboy00:02
Intel to combat chip robberies00:02
Database00:02
EATING OUT / In a working class of its own: The Quality Chop House00:02
Letter: Chain letter00:02
Don't ask why, just put a lid on it: Every 2.7 seconds a Tupperware party takes place somewhere in the world. Isabel Wolff went to just one00:02
Bunhill: St Michael spreads his wedding wings00:02
Topping up the well of knowledge00:02
Today's papers00:02
Golf: Johnstone bandwagon still rolling00:02
Captain Moonlight: New voice for an old Miss00:02
ROCK / Led and Stones brought forth bubbles00:02
Service that fills a vacuum: Would you feel guilty if someone else did your cleaning? Hester Lacey investigates the resurgence of the 'domestic'00:02
First-Hand: 'We saw three therapists . . . and then my wife decided she'd file for divorce': Ian, a 41-year-old trade union official, tells of his dismal experiences at the hands of the professional marriage counsellors00:02
Football: Dean the Don floors Villa00:02
Letter: Only work on Wednesdays00:02
Long runners: No 10: Sport on 400:02
Splitting up is harder to do: Sorting out the financial side of divorce is more difficult after recent rulings00:02
Quotes of The Week00:02
Letter: Telly pap00:02
Football: Dozzell doubles trouble00:02
Dimbleby provides answer for 'Question Time'00:02
Racing: Fragrant Dawn a boost for Pipe00:02
Letter: I was neither a young bully nor a south London schoolboy00:02
COMEDY / Arena is no joke00:02
ARTS / Show People: Ian MacNeil: The joy of sets00:02
How a life of crime became a really boring business00:02
French surplus00:02
Public Services Management: High profile for local executives - National politicians may soon face strong rivals from town halls, professor says00:02
No more winters out on the tiles00:02
Rugby League: Saints tripped up00:02
Tennis: Korda has a leg to stand on00:02
The art of cashing in00:02
GARDENING / And on the outside00:02
When to stick or twist in the pension game00:02
The Broader Picture: Orphans in the firing-line00:02
MUSIC / Victory with a warhorse00:02
Ice Skating: Cousins adds fire to the ice: Simon O'Hagan reports on the dashing blade with a score to settle00:02
Corporation is attacked over charity secrecy00:02
Captain Moonlight: Cutting cartoons00:02
Sport: What the papers said about . . . Danny Blanchflower00:02
Norway's tree gives Israel the needle00:02
Bottomley plans cut to NHS chiefs' pay and perks00:02
The List00:02
Eternal City puts faith in Green man: Rome's new mayor is the people's choice to restore its glory. But he faces a quagmire of pollution, corruption and decay00:02
BOOK REVIEW / You can hardly call it romance: 'Swimming in the Volcano' - Bob Shacochis: Picador, 15.9900:02
Profile: Greg Dyke, programmer with a conscience: LWT's effervescent chief executive tells William Kay why he fears Granada's hostile bid00:02
BOOK REVIEW / At home with the brooder of suburbia: 'Collected Poems: 1953-1993' - John Updike: Hamish Hamilton, 20 pounds00:02
Letter: Life in a poor nation - ours00:02
When the toys came to Oradea: A Welsh Christmas for the orphans of Romania00:02
GARDENING / The insider's guide ..00:02
Nostalgia is the best-selling game of all: Marketing Captain Scarlet and Action Man are among the successful 'new' toys this Christmas that will be familiar to many parents00:02
Top cat: Roger Dobson picks the best at the 97th National Cat Club Championships at Olympia, the world's largest cat show00:02
INTERIORS / The Empire sits back: Style Revivals: 2 Colonial: A rattan day bed and a rosewood planter's chair can evoke the languid elegance of our imperial past, writes Caroline McGhie, minus the insects that plagued the real thing00:02
Football: Shearer cuts through Oldham00:02
Christmas Shopping00:02
Police question siege suspect00:02
Actress dies00:02
Football: Match facts00:02
Links boost urban regeneration: Community development projects are benefiting from increased corporate thinking in business partnerships00:02
Opinions: Would you favour a total ban on drinking and driving?00:02
BOOKS / In brief00:02
A candidate who came in from the cold00:02
Set to be nice little earners: Recession has primed many smaller companies for a profits take-off00:02
BOOKS / In brief00:02
Hendrix girl backs inquiry00:02
Cricket: West Indians at a loss against spin00:02
Letter: Leonard Doyle's letter00:02
The millionaire civil servant: Chris Blackhurst on how Gordon Foxley grew rich through backhanders from foreign munitions firms at Britain's expense00:02
TV takeover plot builds into tale of suspense00:02
SA's new order faces first test00:02
Football: Butler's silver service00:02
Despotism with a dash of democracy: Russians, cowed by crime and turmoil, vote today. The result is likely to give Boris Yeltsin the powers of a modern tsar00:02
ARTS / Sound investments of '93: From Elmore James to Edvard Grieg, our critics choose the five CDs that impressed them most00:02
Flat Earth00:02
Skiing: Bell rises to uphill struggle: Richard Williams in Val d'Isere meets the racer who is running out of time00:02
Letter: AI fights for the 'disappeared'00:02
Hockey: Thompson puts Hounslow on even keel00:02
Major wins EU battle to relax pollution laws00:02
Racing: Stable condition provides cause: Mystery on the Turf: Why has Martin Pipe, last year's all-conquering trainer, suddenly become a chaser?00:02
Letter: MPs in uniform00:02
How much does he earn?: No 9: The Ven George Austin, Archdeacon of York since 1988.00:02
Broadway battle for the soul of The Red Shoes00:02
Sport: Q & A - The many returns of Lazarus . . . and keeping it in the family00:02
Empress speaks00:02
BOOKS / 'Image and Experience: Photographs of Irishwomen 1880-1920' - Myrtle Hill & Vivienne Pollock: Blackstaff Press, 14.9500:02
Brief encounters with chain-mail: Rosanna de Lisle finds out why women are posting knickers to strangers00:02
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