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Market Report: Supermarkets backtrack on recent recovery00:02
Teenager jailed for 26p shop murder00:02
Minnows beat market's big fish: Recovery at home has helped small company shares to regain their ascendancy, says Tom Stevenson00:02
Britain denies Bosnia troop 'withdrawal'00:02
Budget 'will cost 240,000 jobs': University study shows the effect of government spending cuts on public sector00:02
Letter: Stagnant secrecy over clean water00:02
Diary00:02
RSPCA rescue00:02
Pembroke: A few knotty problems at the charity auction00:02
November leap in unit trust investments: Private individuals put in pounds 450m, five times as much as the total a year ago00:02
Brigitte Bardot, ma cherie: Ditch the animals, not your far-right husband. A loyal fan pleads with the embattled star00:02
Cricket: Surrey in a stew over Stewart00:02
Willis Corroon quits Gryphon: Sale of stake for pounds 33m marks broker's final break with underwriting business00:02
REVIEW / Extended plugging expressly forbidden00:02
Bottom Line: Eurotherm in hot form00:02
Letter: Sarajevo: the media have left, the suffering continues00:02
Afrikaner accord with ANC runs into snags: Cape Town talks break down as right-wingers put regional autonomy before commitment to multiracial elections Afrikaner accord with ANC runs into snags00:02
Father killed himself after child payout was tripled: Divorced man struggled to pay maintenance00:02
Curator's Choice: The Kodak Museum00:02
Radio 2 broadcasts from a family's kitchen: Couple donates pounds 7,500 to Children in Need to host popular morning show00:02
Letter: Sinn Fein's voice must be heard00:02
Letter: Stagnant secrecy over clean water00:02
Leading Article: Don't hold your breath for Adams00:02
Drugs in Sport: Davies ponders action00:02
More donors sought as blood supply runs low00:02
Bosnia Appeal: Bringing hope and dignity00:02
Leading Article: Why amateur 'angels' deserve our respect00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Church Appointments00:02
High-speed French train goes off rails00:02
Sailing: Fischer cleared of infringement00:02
Rugby League: Dorahy attacks poaching00:02
Letter: Out of season Christmas cards00:02
A dangerous place to be young: Why have 18 vulnerable children died in Nottinghamshire in 18 months? Beatrix Campbell reports00:02
Letter: Happier at the zoo00:02
Banks hit back over Indian scandal: Unfair to single out foreigners, say Citibank and Standard Chartered after threat to take away their licences00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Radio rudery00:02
Lockerbie service00:02
OPERA / See them dance the polka: Edward Seckerson on David Pountney's new production of Smetana's The Two Widows at English National Opera00:02
Hillsborough victim died 'accidentally': Coroner says withdrawal of treatment not to blame00:02
NHS trusts buy in more care from private sector00:02
Japanese drop designer labels for bargain buys00:02
Today's Number: 313,00000:02
Peking controls food prices00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Starvation fears00:02
IRA seeks better ceasefire deal: Downing Street rejects Adams' call for talks on peace declaration00:02
Badminton: Clark set for mix and match00:02
Israel ready to soften line on checkpoints: Rabin stresses security imperative but speaks of co-ordination with Palestinians00:02
Letter: Hell: on the Jewish model00:02
Obituary: William Luff00:02
Croats and Serbs agree on Muslim land demand: Offer at talks hailed as breakthrough is rejected by Bosnian President00:02
If you are an Archers fan, don't read this00:02
Racing: Riverside Boy leads Pipe's Welsh attack: Next week's Chepstow marathon has been won four times in recent years by a trainer again holding a strong hand00:02
Poverty sours Romanian anniversary00:02
Letter: Out of season Christmas cards00:02
Letter: Out of season Christmas cards00:02
Letter: Survival that can be bought for pounds 1.9500:02
Horse-mad girl knocked down in front of friends: Transport disaster that claims huge numbers of victims is accepted as the price society pays for the car00:02
Bottom Line: Waste means want not for Wessex Water00:02
Art shows fine form as auction sales rise: Christie's and Sotheby's get boost00:02
Architecture: London: all wrapped up for Christmas: Jonathan Glancey welcomes the transformation of buildings into giant presents that outshine the Oxford Street lights. Georgia Glynn-Smith took the pictures00:02
UK trade deficit outside EU doubles00:02
Nervous IRA loiters at the crossroads00:02
Suicide verdict00:02
Letter: Out of season Christmas cards00:02
Bespak boosts payout despite slide in profits00:02
Letter: Sinn Fein's voice must be heard00:02
Museums: Home for unpublished books: William Hartston visits the Brautigan - an unusual library in Burlington, Vermont00:02
Leading Article: Competition in the pipeline00:02
And What's More ..00:02
Egyptian group accuses government of torture: Robert Fisk reports from Cairo on the efforts of a human rights organisation to catalogue the gradual erosion of justice00:02
Children in primary classes of more than 30 on increase00:02
Inquest on 'racial killing' adjourned00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Media: Talk of the Trade: Back to basics00:02
Clinton's pledge on Lockerbie00:02
Man with no name00:02
BT opens lines to link families00:02
Opera House scheme attacked00:02
Bomb hurts four00:02
Knox-Johnston prepares to sail against the French for the Jules Verne Trophy00:02
Commission awards UK pounds 1.4bn development cash00:02
Court Circular00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Hell: on the Jewish model00:02
Moore's daughter loses pounds 200m sculptures claim00:02
A third of driving licences incorrect: Wrong DVLA data 'wasting police time'00:02
Trial stopped00:02
Ivory Towers: Is Mr Blobby just a symptom?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Once more unto the breach: 'Riding the Waves of Culture' - Fons Trompenaars: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 12.99 pounds00:02
Out of America: Blacks give low marks to busing00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Can we believe in Santa Claus?: We have found his tomb. Now let us seek the real person, says Peter Hebblethwaite00:02
Nail kills child00:02
China's youth scrambles for 'hot' diplomas: Private education is booming, writes Teresa Poole in Peking00:02
Rivals hail the end of gas monopoly: Regulation of pipelines called for to prevent their use for market advantage00:02
Letter: Out of season Christmas cards00:02
Law Report: British citizenship remains valid: Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Ejaz. Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Balcombe, Lord Justice Stuart-Smith and Lord Justice Peter Gibson), 3 December 199300:02
UNDERRATED / The chancel is a fine thing: The case for Benozzo Gozzoli00:02
Merger plan for children's hospital00:02
Letter: Hell: on the Jewish model00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Sex killer ambushed schoolgirl in alley: Court told 12-year-old died after she struggled during indecent assault00:02
In bed with Susan De Muth: Nights on the wild side: Jill Cowell00:02
Holy visit00:02
Figures point to global warming: Temperature measurements show this year is set to be the sixth-hottest on record. Steve Connor reports00:02
Letter: Hell: on the Jewish model00:02
The Daily Poem: Ecce Homo00:02
Williams sells engineering arm: MBO for pounds 40.3m as conglomerate cuts back to its core00:02
BOOK REVIEW / At home and homesick in the Caucasus: 'A Captive of the Caucasus' - Andrei Bitov; tr Susan Brownsberger: Harvill, 9.99 pounds00:02
Hillary leaps to Clinton's defence00:02
CLOWNING / Fool's paradise: Sergei Shashelev worked by day as a metal shearer and by night as a clown. Now he's a star. Tom Morris reports from St Petersburg00:02
PIA split over end to self-regulation00:02
Sex change order00:02
Boy and father die in river plunge00:02
Football: Johnson favourite to take over at Everton: Tranmere transfer00:02
Cricket: Morris may need operation on knee00:02
THEATRE REVIEW '93 / Facing the final curtain: Sarah Hemming asks directors, actors, writers and critics to elect the theatrical hits of the year. And the winners are ..00:02
Indicators fuel fear of further slump in Japan00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Media: The right image for Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky proved a master media manipulator. Michael Sutherland reports00:02
Board of 'Independent' studies business plan: Company to continue talks with potential new investors00:02
Christmas gift for snuff-loving Swedes00:02
Rugby Union: Beer in lather over violence in domestic game: RFU president sends strongly worded message to clubs suggesting foul play be severely punished00:02
Berisford aims for change with purchase00:02
Henry Moore's daughter loses six-figure sum trying to claim pounds 200m sculptures and drawings held by trust00:02
Baby deaths fall00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Obituary: Alan Hill00:02
Media: Men flock to a nice girl like her: Sandra Barwick meets Rosie Boycott, whose success at Esquire surprised cynics00:02
Cricket: How hard work made Bland the showman: A South African transformed fielding from a tiresome obligation into an art that thrilled the world00:02
Hark] The girls of Chelmsford sing: They're brilliant at passing exams, but how do Mrs McCabe's league-table toppers chill out at the end of a long, hard term?00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Europe approves pounds 7m aid for Swan Hunter00:02
Bossi to stay00:02
THEATRE / Whitby wives: Paul Taylor reviews Northern Broadsides' Merry Wives of Windsor00:02
Mao's many happy returns: The Chairman would have been 100 on Sunday. No capitalists ever made more capital out of a centenary; no one ever rewrote history more vigorously than the ideologues in Peking. Teresa Poole reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Seoul reshuffle00:02
Obituary: Professor Peter Alexander00:02
Cricket: New era for umpires: ICC signs pounds 1m deal as captain snubs his county00:02
View from City Road: Sir Terence must tread softly at the Treasury00:02
View from City Road: French celebrate with stability00:02
How Mrs Bloggs heard the good news00:02
Don't let festive spirits make mincemeat of your diet00:02
Family paid damages over police raid: Community worker describes being subjected to a humiliating ordeal by officers after the Broadwater Farm riots. Heather Mills reports00:02
Joyrider jailed00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Price fear as gas monopoly is ended00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Charges rejected00:02
Boxing: Piper to meet demon Barber00:02
Patten is criticised over school dismissal00:02
Kinnock gives pounds 7,000 'handshake' to charity00:02
Bomb warnings cause travel chaos00:02
IRA bomb alert brings travel chaos in London: Thousands of commuters suffer disruption as series of coded warnings lead to the closure of rail and Tube stations00:02
View from City Road: India remains the poor relation00:02
Chess: A trap of his own making00:02
Yeltsin scraps secret police force: President acts amid fears of return of security network if reform programme fails00:02
THEATRE REVIEW '93 / Facing the final curtain: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the experts' choice. Robert Hanks followed its transfer from stage to radio00:02
Sailing: Robin and his boatmen set for Cape crusade: Robin Knox-Johnston aims to knock on history's door in the Jules Verne Trophy. Owen Slot reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Indian finance chief pressed to resign00:02
OFF WEST END / The pleasures of island life00:02
Tennis: Grand Slam rewards