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Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Notes towards the brief from hell: A new year brings a new chairman of the Arts Council. How does Lord Gowrie, who takes over in April, measure up to the job? Profile by David Lister00:02
Letter: Community care needs action, not promises00:02
MUSIC / A passport to the past: Adrian Jack on the King's Consort at the Wigmore Hall00:02
Our brilliant year: A survey of 1993 by Alex Renton and Helen Birch00:02
NEW YEAR'S EVE / All about Eve: Where's the crack? Mark Timmis takes you on a happening tour of the UK's most vibrant club nights and parties00:02
Baby Bells on alert for dollars 1bn invasion by MCI00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead / Snooker: Benson and Hedges Masters00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Banesto inquiry began in early '9200:02
Hint of recovery is enough to let the good times roll: Richard Lander looks back over a year of many embarrassments and more than a few large bonuses00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Basketball: WICB Championships, Crystal Palace NSC00:02
Train derailed00:02
PLO denies any deal on border crossings: Palestinians accuse Peres of bouncing them into agreement by leaks to Israeli press - Arafat under fire from his supporters00:02
After Hours00:02
Dysfunctional inflatables are off limits, kid00:02
Iranians returned00:02
THEATRE / Personal voyage: Paul Taylor reviews Patrick Stewart's one-man A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic00:02
RETROSPECTIVE / The year when the tiddlers triumphed: Derek Pain recalls how the big fish missed out on the 1993 stock market surge and were more likely to finish up among the losers00:02
The Grammar Schools Debate: Old 'grammarians' find cause for contentment00:02
View from City Road: A gilt-edged view of inflation00:02
Cricket: Wessels decides to delay knee surgery00:02
Ministers'new schools fail critics' equality test00:02
Embittered rival pulls strings in saga of Clinton sex allegations: Claims by Arkansas lawyer's clients add spice to his personal feud with President00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Obituary: Bishop Patelesio Finau00:02
Letter: Community care needs action, not promises00:02
Darts: Bristow leads the dance to a new beat: Greg Wood sees the breakaway World Darts Council embark on its first world championship in riverside Essex in an atmosphere more familiar at ringside00:02
S Africans struggle in real world: Glenn Moore reports from Durban on the sporting problems faced by the Republic at international level00:02
REVIEW / Falling in love the second time round00:02
Sporting Digest: Darts00:02
Letter: Red-letter day00:02
Feud over wife and child blamed for bomb murders00:02
Letter: Why angling is off the hook as a cruel sport00:02
Doubts cast on 'lost' sonatas: Haydn manuscripts may be forgeries00:02
Racing: Folkestone off00:02
Homeless see bleak future on the streets: One man's success in finding a place to live this Christmas serves only to highlight the plight of thousands of others without a home00:02
The Grammar Schools Debate: Minister defends education plan: Critics claim proposals for selective schooling would undermine parental choice00:02
Sports Listings: Saturday / Athletics: International cross-country, Chester-le-Street00:02
BAe clinches Ballast Nedam sale for pounds 175m00:02
Letter: Long-term future of nuclear power00:02
View from City Road: Too early for Chinese cheer00:02
Rugby Union: Case for reviving old club rivalries: Bath and Cardiff stir memories at the Recreation Ground of the great Anglo-Welsh confrontations of the pre-league era00:02
Electrolux set for AEG offer: Swedish group squares up to acquire household appliance arm00:02
Neurosurgeon dies00:02
Reluctant boys from the black stuff: Fifty years ago, Bevin Boys were born. David Day looks back on dark days as a wartime pit conscript00:02
Sudan expels British envoy in Carey row: Islamic regime enraged over Archbishop's visit00:02
Leading Article: Honours with a modest popular touch00:02
Klimova dies00:02
White knights at large as British business leaders gather in gongs: Brian Pearse rewarded for work at Midland, and now it's Sir Iain Vallance that BT answers to00:02
Torrential rain brings flooding to the South00:02
'Naff' pop show celebrates three decades at No 1: Mary Braid discovers that despite its longevity 'Top of the Pops' still cannot shake off its detractors00:02
Political commissars get their marching orders00:02
Non-League Football: Wivenhoe face up to financial deadline: Dragons need money. reports00:02
Market Report: Profit-takers call tune as shares' advance is halted00:02
Greece accused of persecuting minorities00:02
View from City Road: Banking supervision needs to be tightened00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Court Circular00:02
Car makers stay cautious despite 11% rise in sales00:02
Obituary: Joe French00:02
Mother accused of murder00:02
Letter: Spector at the feast00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Fowler supports minister over affair00:02
Ashdown pledges retention of education priority00:02
That's not the person I married: Sometimes a partner makes a radical change of lifestyle. David J Cohen talks to three couples who have lived through the resulting turmoil00:02
Killer freed00:02
Letter: Hell in the ancient world00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Strongest man00:02
Fraud charges00:02
Whitehall keeps grip on 'classless' honours00:02
Leading Article: The smoking gun at Royal Ordnance00:02
1994 Sports Calendar00:02
Police stations face closure in cash crisis: A pounds 35m budget shortfall over four years in South Wales could mean severe cuts in local policing00:02
Birthdays00:02
ARTS / And what's more00:02
Soldier charged over Londonderry shooting00:02
Counting system reveals hidden homeless figure00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Basketball: Thames Valley get off to a flyer: Towers toppled by fast-moving Latvians00:02
Forever with stars in our eyes: We love the suns that light our nights because we do not fear them, says Tom Wilkie00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Tennis: The end of the line judge00:02
Rugby Union: Bayfield returns to bolster the line-out: Forward's return bodes well for England00:02
Out of Russia: Fourth Estate balks at making way for tribunes of the people00:02
New trade giant comes to market00:02
Deal nearer00:02
Militant jailed00:02
Meanings of Christmas: You are to be Christmas people: Today's article in our series for Christmas is a sermon preached at Christ Church, Cheltenham, by Tom Wright, Dean-designate of Lichfield.00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Extradition sought00:02
Father's pledge00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Wynette 'critical'00:02
Hockey: Scully in a hurry to score: Schools and youth tournament00:02
The New Year Honours: Mabbutt receives MBE: Awards for footballers from different eras00:02
New year warning00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Racing: Orkney's eyes off prize00:02
Racing: Whip fine for trainer00:02
Jews and Catholics signal an end to 2,000 years of hate00:02
Faulty gene offers clues to cancer: Discovery by scientists working on inherited disease opens way to predictive tests and offers hope of possible treatment. Tom Wilkie reports00:02
Computers: Recalling screen icons as time goes by00:02
Savimbi's former allies now march to Luanda's drum: Pretoria-based company recruits veterans of Namibia war to bolster Angolan army in its struggle with Unita00:02
Rugby Union: Wales' task is to stand and deliver: Selectors experiment00:02
Letter: Confidence in the confessional00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Champagnes00:02
FILM / The films of 1994: Twenty films to watch out for in the new year, selected by Catriona O'Shaughnessy00:02
FILM / On release00:02
Sailing: Strachan's success: Sydney to Hobart Race00:02
CE Heath confirms talks with Inchcape00:02
Adams's latest victory confirms his strength00:02
Carey flies off in defiance of Khartoum: Archbishop hopes to remain impartial between warring factions in civil war, writes Richard Dowden, Africa Editor00:02
Synagogue fire00:02
Editor to retire00:02
Murder charges00:02
Disabled man killed in robbery at his home00:02
Athens takes the helm in a hostile Europe: Greece's presidency of the European Union will test the co-operation of member states, writes Tony Barber, East Europe Editor00:02
Shares pause for breath short of 3,500: CBI calls for further interest rate cut as business failures come down for the first year since 198700:02
When children want to be home alone00:02
A 'lucky' family looks to the future00:02
Obituary: Jini Fiennes00:02
The Des Res sales in 1993 reach a peak of pounds 12m: Estate agents will remember this year for the return of the big spenders. Anne Spackman reports00:02
Zhirinovsky's plan00:02
Croatia hints at intervention00:02
Table Tennis: England jump over Japan00:02
OUTSIDE EDGE / Robert Hanks on the French lasermen00:02
Union to 'spy' on foreign workers' tax: Inland Revenue to get names of non-payers00:02
Letter: Hell in the ancient world00:02
Obituary: Youcef Sebti00:02
Obituary: Eric Estorick00:02
Letter: Confidence in the confessional00:02
Computers: 20th-century mouse seeks biblical good shepherd: Tim Nott separates the Nebuchadnezzars from the Nebuchadrezzars with the help of an electronic Bible00:02
Rugby League: Platt agrees deal for Monie not money: Challenge of Winfield Cup draws Wigan prop Down Under00:02
Shoppers gassed00:02
Ritual Britain: Village in war of poetic words with primeval spirit: In the first of an occasional series on strange British customs, Marianne Macdonald joins the Mari Lwyd and her drunken entourage of Welsh bards00:02
Today's Number: 900,00000:02
People: Short shark shock at Fiji funeral00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Computers: Confessions of a cultist: Isabel Hilton follows irrational impulses and is initiated into the wonderful world of multimedia, CD-roms and Maddog McGree00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
1994: a year for making peace or war?: As three of the world's trouble spots attempt to put decades of bloodshed behind them, equally fierce conflicts could soon cease elsewhere, says Michael Sheridan00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Papergirl attacked00:02
Football: Vote decides Paraguay title00:02
Leading Article: A better class of selection00:02
The Daily Poem: Year 9 Concentrating on 'Red Sky in the Morning' by Elizabeth Laird00:02
Spaniards shy away from the call-up00:02
Infighting mars zoo search for leadership solution00:02
Football: Taylor seeks action on dangerous elbows: The Professional Footballers' Association to start dressing-room poster campaign and urges stronger action by referees00:02
Letter: Long-term future of nuclear power00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A wheel of fortune splashed with blood: 'The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance' - John Hale: HarperCollins, 25 pounds00:02
Racing: Ascot's axe cuts long history short: Officials are under pressure to go the extra mile to preserve one of the major staying prizes00:02
1994: a year for making peace or war?: As Yeltsin faces the challenge of Zhirinovsky, Cold War attitudes may return, argues Conor Cruise O'Brien00:02
Ramos allows Filipinos to see light at the end of the tunnel: The President is fighting to end a power crisis, and save his country, writes Raymond Whitaker, Asia Editor00:02
Letter: Basic omission00:02
Letter: A mother of courage00:02
FILM / Reviews: History in the making: Adam Mars-Jones on Century, Stephen Poliakoff's study in time and motion, and Another Stakeout, another romp00:02
Slovakia rues high cost of its 'velvet divorce': A year after Czechoslovakia split, Bratislava envies its old partner, writes Adrian Bridge00:02
A fistful of FECs proves no substitute for dollars: Teresa Poole on the confusion caused by China's radical currency reforms among Peking's sinister men in raincoats - and many others00:02
MPs back Rao00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Obituary: Sir James Harford00:02
Murder of soldier dims Ulster hopes