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Mersey power cut00:02
Fishing offence00:02
Zaire war fear00:02
Cricket: Zimbabwe lose control00:02
The Daily Poem: What For]00:02
ART / Current Shows: Iain Gale's choice00:02
Jabaliya awaits sign of change00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Letter: Headscarves worn in secular schools00:02
A nation suffering from stage fright: Starved of funds and street cred, theatre must make itself trendy, argues David Lister00:02
Kidnap fear for Libyan00:02
MPs told council fraud could be 'inside job'00:02
Unita rejects peace talks00:02
Greene King provides sobering thoughts for analysts00:02
MUSIC / Flawed by their enthusiasm: Nick Kimberley listens to the Smith Quartet at the ICA00:02
Loral pays dollars 1.5bn for IBM unit00:02
Woman jailed for killing partner00:02
Obituary: Joan Cross00:02
Bosnia Appeal: Learning to live with the injuries of war: Celia Hall, who has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, reports00:02
Parents beware: the awful Blyton is back: Nicola Jones refuses to read her children the stories she once devoured00:02
Oliver Reed 'fractured stand-in's spine': Court told that actor tipped his double off a restaurant balcony and on to a coral beach00:02
Mother and baby shot dead in dispute over paternity00:02
Politics with invisible inverted commas00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: Increased EU accountability00:02
Where are they now?: Colin Jones00:02
Leading Article: Historic change, but not quite yet00:02
On Tour00:02
'Deep flaws in vocational courses failing students'00:02
Liberal with his threats, democratic when it suits00:02
Tobacco ads ban goes up in smoke00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
People: Bhutto and Ciller are Bosnia bound00:02
Downing Street backtracks over water claims00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Two men shot00:02
Floats buoy fund raisers: Alison Eadie finds the venture capital market is perking up00:02
The battle of all mothers: Benazir Bhutto is at war, so is her mother; at each other's throats. 'You're fired' was the prime minister's cry. 'Matricide]' was the reply. Michael Fathers reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Channel tunnel trains will not sell refreshments: Operator provides lavatories but not other facilities.00:02
Review: Beauty is skin deep, gullibility goes deeper00:02
ARTS / Speech Marks: What they said about . . . Newman and Baddiel00:02
Shuttle lands00:02
MP calls for sacking of review chairman: Local government commission chief 'making wrong decisions'00:02
Football: Spurs face payment allegations00:02
Letter: Headscarves worn in secular schools00:02
Small price rises odd to pressure for cut in rates: Latest official figures show reduced output from British manufacturers00:02
Dividend rises 32% at London Electricity: Increase to 7.4p at interim stage well ahead of others in the sector00:02
Market Report: BP investment prospect pushes shares to 324p00:02
A flash rehash: Flashback pits a Seventies cop look-alike against 22nd-century forces of evil. Rupert Goodwins toys with interplanetary destruction00:02
Letter: Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rise and the compromise of democratic ideals00:02
Bottom Line: Morland leaves Greene King flat00:02
View from City Road: Independence put into perspective00:02
Cricket: Ilott measured for success in the top flight: England A's new bowling hero is determined to fulfil his destiny and play for the Ashes00:02
Concern at rise in exclusions from school: Inspectors have highlighted inconsistency in the criteria for barring pupils. Judith Judd reports00:02
Branson launches bid for lottery00:02
Poker: Bluff way to play game of politics00:02
Scot 'plotted to overthrow government'00:02
Rugby League / Regal Trophy: Away test for Wigan: Regal Trophy pits big two00:02
Racing: Distinct hope for Ordinary: A horse with a humble name carries John Upson's confidence at Ascot00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Diary: The gym last used by Sir Winston00:02
Show offers new experience for Hendrix fans00:02
American Football: Reeves sets scene for happy ending: Giants guarantee return to post-season activity while Cowboys lack conviction00:02
Survivor found in collapsed Malaysian tower-block00:02
Democrats accept blame for extremist successes: Divided reformists exchange recriminations as ultra-nationalists and hardline Communists toast their advances at the polls00:02
Accountancy: Watchdogs join the team: Finance directors can also be entrepreneurs, writes Roger Trapp00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
What will Gatt mean for investors?00:02
Major and Reynolds try to paper over cracks: Progress needed on draft declarations if prime ministers are to meet this week00:02
COMEDY / Laughing them out of court: The Comedy Store has got bigger and better. But it's not the same, cry the comedians who knew it as it was. Report by Owen Slot00:02
Hungary PM00:02
ART / And here's one that was done earlier: Art after art after art: Tom Lubbock looks at the cross-referential paintings of Ken Kiff and the self-referential creations of Gavin Turk00:02
Everest Marathon: Gobet in peak form on top of the world: Swiss 39-year-old retains his crown in one of sport's most breathtaking events. Rob Howard witnessed his triumph00:02
Table Tennis: England assault on twin peaks: European League00:02
ART / Openings00:02
Health: Speak, eat, laugh and be healed: A new mask helps burn victims to face the world. Nigel Howard reports00:02
Waldegrave in 'Wonderland', Clark says: Arms-to-Iraq inquiry told minister failed to disclose rule change to Commons. David Connett reports00:02
Post Office in 'crisis' over Tory delay00:02
Artefacts00:02
Letter: Remains of the NHS00:02
Inmate's own goal00:02
Sporting Digest: Sports Awards00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Rugby Union: Rugby's box of tricks00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Video game link to epilepsy dismissed00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Letter: Scholars shop around00:02
Pembroke: Token gestures are heap good sense00:02
Journalists besiege Mickey Kantor, the US trade representative (centre), during a break in Gatt talks in Geneva00:02
Clinton hits back at gun culture: The murder rate is steady, but spectacular killings have taken crime to the top of the political agenda00:02
Government escapes Bishopsgate payout00:02
Live from the BBC - a vital question of democracy00:02
Obituary: Jozsef Antall00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Sailing: Dispute over distress call: Whitbread Race00:02
Chess: Ex-Soviet stars dominate ratings00:02
Boy, 9, questioned over baby's death00:02
Obituary: Jean Lloyd Webber00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Creativity: Sex and a single telephone book00:02
RADIO / A little Ray of sunshine: Robert Hanks on explorations in the Arctic and down the high street00:02
Labour to consider options for reform of child benefit00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Letter: The political correctness of Christmas00:02
Rugby Union: RFU on the defensive: Concern shown over fair-play record00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Archaeology: Village turns to tourism to save cave paintings: David Keys on a Brazilian 'rock band'00:02
Fascism stalks Russia: Poll surge for party of cheap vodka and resurgent nationalism alarms republics00:02
Clark the charmer beguiles inquisitor: The former minister Alan Clark demonstrated the elasticity of the English language with impeccable manners at the Scott inquiry into arms for Iraq, writes Andrew Brown00:02
Birthdays00:02
South Africans at Lloyd's00:02
Opera singer dies00:02
Ministers consider Delors' 100bn pounds hi-tech proposals00:02
Rugby League: Leigh humbled by Castleford: 10-try rout for First Division strugglers00:02
Obituary: Elvire Popesco00:02
Letter: Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rise and the compromise of democratic ideals00:02
Racing: Barnes back on track00:02
Rabin retreats from withdrawal deadline: Disappointment overshadows the PLO leader's symbolic visit to London, where the seeds of his people's plight were sown00:02
Interview: The top ten pleasures of Peter Cook: What does the arch wit get up to these days? Chitchat (especially over lunch) is a favourite occupation, and pedantry. Sex is not included, and certainly nothing too stretching . . .00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Modern Icons: Drums and wires00:02
London Zoo board seeks resignation of director00:02
200,000 pounds logo00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 complaints about noise00:02
Is Russia ready for a tsar?: Boris Yeltsin's volatile mix of democracy and autocracy has failed disastrously in the past, warns Andrew Higgins00:02
Schools00:02
Arafat is the only one with a smile in Jericho00:02
PC loses case00:02
Leading Article: Time for reform is running out00:02
Russia: What the new constitution says00:02
Ciskei leader acquitted of ordering murder of rival00:02
LINFORD CHRISTIE said yesterday that he may defend his Olympic 100 metres title in Atlanta in 1996.00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The swivel chair on history's front line: 'Fortunate Circumstances' - Trevor McDonald: Weidenfeld, 16.99 pounds00:02
Win for Portugal's Socialists00:02
View from City Road: No red letter day at the Post Office00:02
View from City Road: Fisons pays a heavy price for its inside job00:02
Scroggs sacked as Fisons sees red: Pharmaceutical group shake-up to cost pounds 100m after failure to resolve problems 'by evolution, not revolution'00:02
ARTS / And what's more ..00:02
Driver who killed two sisters gets four years00:02
Letter: Appalling conditions00:02
Thieves flee the coop with top budgies00:02
Right seduces poor and downtrodden00:02
Pressure grows for independent central bank: MPs' report will put case for autonomy. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
Today's Number: 200:02
Ice Hockey: Devilish trip for Cardiff: Fife maintain unbeaten home run00:02
Sentences quashed00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Japan saves face on rice climb-down00:02
Inside Parliament: Republicans stir palace pot: Homing-in on cost of royal homes - Arts Council action call - Irish peace challenge00:02
Arms company seeks contract safeguards: Unions threaten action over losses from bribes scandal00:02
View from City Road: Branson needs more than good intent00:02
Court Circular00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Teachers struggle to cope with a hyperactive 13-year-old00:02
Film squabble takes Gatt to brink00:02
Ill health linked to traffic fumes00:02
Dear Bernie Grant: He's been on about African identity again. An Austrian immigrant responds00:02
Rugby Union Books for christmas: An appealing winter's tale that shirks nothing: Steve Bale on a tour de force in rugby union literature which leaves the game a winner00:02
Boxing: Holligan to confront colossus of Culiacan: On Saturday an unbeaten Liverpudlian has his first fight abroad - against Julio Cesar Chavez. Nick Halling reports00:02
Bottom Line: Berkeley justifies faith00:02
Thanks for the hint, Vladimir Zhirinovsky00:02
Archaeology: Village turns to tourism to save cave paintings: David Keys on a Brazilian 'rock band'00:02
Berkeley bets on housing: Southern builder's joint venture focuses on recovery00:02
Woman dies after 14 hours on freezing mountain: Climber was found in a deeply hypothermic condition as rescuers flew her to hospital00:02
Football: Ekoku plays role of chief executioner: Norwich close on Leeds as Sutton's intelligence and Gunn's intransigence make stylish combination00:02
Health: The life-saving Walkman: Deborah Jackson on a new breast cancer treatment that does not involve surgery00:02
Cricket: Willis in frame for Surrey job00:02
Trafalgar writes down pounds 400m00:02
Central chiefs took options before bid00:02
Letter: Too good to be king00:02
Letter: Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rise and the compromise of democratic ideals00:02
BBC axes 100 more jobs to save 5m pounds