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Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Clintons sink deeper into mire of Whitewater00:02
Letter: Return to Ealing00:02
Insurance loophole plugged by Customs: Nic Cicutti on the measures that will prevent consumers saving VAT by paying in advance00:02
Courting advice00:02
Scottish high income00:02
Motoring: The day I fell off my Ferrari - It was bright and brash, it brayed like a donkey - but it went like a bat out of hell. Stephen Wood on (and off) the new Colnago-Ferrari00:02
'Devious' woman died after abortion00:02
Obituaries00:02
Driver jailed00:02
'Funny Girl' has last laugh in sale00:02
At last, the good salary guide00:02
BOOK REVIEW / When the long sleep ends . . .: Hugo Barnacle on the novel that took Henry Roth more than half a century to write: Mercy of a Rude Stream: A Star Shines Over Mt Morris Park Henry Roth Weidenfeld & Nicholson pounds 14.9900:02
Ex-Beirut agent to be head of MI6: Officer named by Kim Philby is to take over the Secret Intelligence Service00:02
Fast-moving pop charts confound even the experts: The vast turnover in the Top 40 has major labels fearing for their profits. David Lister reports00:02
Food and Drink: A guide for the culinarily challenged00:02
Birthdays00:02
Victim's mother questioned00:02
Churchill discount00:02
Racing: Clock points to Majed's potential: Flakey Dove's Champion Hurdle trial may be overshadowed by a growing talent from the North00:02
Cookson cuts debt and leaps 60% to pounds 95m: Industrial materials supplier delivers after three-year plan00:02
Singer in coma00:02
Look Who's Talking: A smile isn't my natural expression: He was born with a permanent frown on his face, now Jack Dee is laughing all the way to the bank00:02
Israel issues clampdown on Temple Mount00:02
Golf: Nelson keeps an eye on the younger generation: Veteran produces one of his best rounds as Faldo misses the Doral Open cut and Ballesteros falls by the wayside in Torrevieja00:02
A date for dinner: Heart Searching: Amid changing attitudes in the Asian community, Dolly Dhingra tries to find a first-class male00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A lush maze of love: Eros and Psyche - William Riviere: Hodder & Stoughton pounds 15.9900:02
Travel: Collect eight tokens for added value - Frank Barrett describes the little extras that independent tour operators offer00:02
Travel: Peking, duckie?00:02
Country Matters: Inch by inch the ancient turf erodes00:02
Recommended00:02
Fixed-rate loans still look good: Shop around for competitive mortgages00:02
Travel cheap00:02
REVIEW / Barring interruption The noise in the back room: Stephen Johnson at the Women in Music festival00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
Gastropod00:02
Japan shows yen for koalas00:02
10-year schemes come through00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Letter: History in need of modernity00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A pansy Marine devours Spinoza: Claire Messud on the powerful mixture of thought and action in Thom Jones's short stories: The pugiList at rest: Thom Jones - Faber pounds 14.9900:02
Rugby League: Wales are rescued by Webster's late dash: Superior French side are denied victory by Davies' late kick as Warrington coach waits on injury report from Ninian Park before picking side to keep up title challenge00:02
Golf: Ambitious Olazabal: Ballesteros fails to make cut in Torrevieja while the only black player on the US Tour reaps benefit of concentration on practice00:02
Leading Article: Still a chance for Arab-Israeli peace00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Tax incentives brought a worthwhile return: Ten years after savings schemes were launched ahead of a Budget that ended assurance premium relief, Nic Cicutti looks at their impact on investors00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Helicopters, bin-lids, myths and memories: Briege Duffaud on a new study of Northern Irish Catholics, who are struggling to get off their knees: In search of a state - Fionnuala O Connor - Blackstaff Press pounds 8.9500:02
Henly's profits drive home freedom point00:02
Activity centre alert00:02
THEATRE / Virtual reality: Paul Taylor on electronic circuits and electric performances in Ninagawa's production of Peer Gynt at the Barbican; plus Thomas Otway revived in Manchester00:02
British Data falls on disappointing results00:02
Letter: Legalisation of cannabis: freedom of personal choice or exposure to risk?00:02
Chris Patten 'misled' Parliament over Pergau00:02
Bosnia truce lays heavy burden on UK forces: A fragile ceasefire is holding in Vitez but UN peace-keepers face a struggle to fight bitterness and hatred00:02
Women's voice00:02
Obituary: Professor Jean Gottmann00:02
Letter: Legalisation of cannabis: freedom of personal choice or exposure to risk?00:02
REVIEW / Twenty-two hours and six minutes, precisely00:02
5p row man jailed00:02
US jobs surge sparks fears of inflation00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Chinese dissidents detained on eve of Christopher visit00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Climbers found00:02
Coroner demands Stalker report00:02
Football: Hoddle hopes to divide United: Trevor Haylett looks forward to today's programme00:02
Holiday Nationwide00:02
Top judge expresses regret over rape case00:02
German tourist shot on Egyptian cruise00:02
Double take on insurance00:02
Rugby Union: England call on Pears to run the risk: The reluctant full-back has overcome a catalogue of calamity to reach Paris today. Steve Bale reports00:02
Food and Drink: How I got the brewers over a barrel - Michael Jackson joined an international jury of beer-makers as they tasted 862 different brews at the 1994 Burton awards00:02
Gardening: Sow many different choices - What to plant for summer? Anna Pavord goes for the fashionable, the estimable, and her own top seeds00:02
Spielberg brings Holocaust home to Berliners: Adrian Bridge, at a screening in Berlin, finds Schindler's List stirring German consciences00:02
Union to raise pounds 11m in rights issue00:02
Money Grouse: Cheque clearance is still hitting delays00:02
RAF College Cranwell00:02
Relative values: Venice Preserved - Royal Exchange00:02
Service appointments00:02
Attorney General's Lloyd's syndicate could lose pounds 300m: Mounting claims will hit group including MPs and peers. John Moore reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Journalists fired00:02
UK tourist was 'unlawfully killed'00:02
Fimbra acts against advisers00:02
DISCS / Double Play:: Sounding old before their years: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson compare notes on new releases of Mendelssohn, Bruch and Goldschmidt00:02
Tory chief to fight Eastleigh00:02
Flotation will value Inspec at pounds 100m00:02
Football: McCann steps up at Celtic: Canadian agrees deal with board and becomes chief executive00:02
Actor John Candy dies in Mexico00:02
Heseltine enhances his appeal to the Conservative right: Donald Macintyre decodes the rhetoric of the man who has refuelled Tory leadership rumours00:02
Cabinet backs sending more troops to Bosnia: Major ready to send reinforcements in response to General Rose's call as British forces in Zepce come under mortar attack00:02
FUNDING / Raags to riches?: Misdirected subsidy is endangering South Asian music in Britain, argues Naseem Khan00:02
Letter: Legalisation of cannabis: freedom of personal choice or exposure to risk?00:02
Scottish Football: Motherwell face test of title credentials00:02
Hot tips could land porter in the cooler00:02
Pressure for fire sales grows on receivers: Ferranti and Swan Hunter in spotlight00:02
Baseball: Jordan makes uncertain start: Glove story brings top-flight basketballer down to earth in Florida00:02
Teenage arsonists' pounds 1m 'orgy of fire'00:02
Racing: Eddery loses his appeal00:02
Pinochet's toll00:02
Share Centre's Fraser deal00:02
Court Circular00:02
Cricket: Adams accentuates the positive: Tony Cozier on the Jamaican all-rounder who is poised to fulfill his potential00:02
Britain considers UN troop options00:02
I should cocoa: Some go for the history of the Quakers, others to experience death by chocolate. Tony Kelly takes in Cadbury's World00:02
Out of Skopje: Life is agreeable, even in the midst of an identity crisis00:02
Police 'suggested' parts of murder case statement00:02
Scottish Power to buy Clydesdale stores00:02
'Bligh' spirit00:02
Rugby League: Johnson remains philosophical: Warrington press on with crucial championship match despite heavy international calls00:02
Recipe: Smooth and spicy00:02
Obituary: Micho Russell00:02
Rugby Union: Ireland are in need of pattern to knit00:02
How time flies with a hostess on the runway: The air hostess of the Fifties, with her glamorous life and pristine uniform, has inspired a young designer, reports Tamsin Blanchard00:02
Two men held over French MP's murder00:02
Property: What price integrity? - Low valuations scupper house sales - and at heavy cost to buyers, says Anne Spackman00:02
Ferry rescue00:02
Practising what you preach00:02
Football: Team news00:02
Business & City Summary00:02
Quote unquote00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Guardian to go direct00:02
Appointments00:02
Rape gang sought00:02
Government under attack for lack of trade unionist on Bank's board00:02
Indian investment00:02
Market place: Brick Lane00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
'DNA' rape appeal00:02
Four found guilty of Trade Center bombing: Peter Pringle in New York says the hunt goes on for the man described as the 'evil genius' behind the plot00:02
Musical money00:02
Off the menu00:02
Indebted to a big girl's blouse00:02
Church appointments00:02
Advice on investing that tax-free windfall00:02
Daughters abused00:02
Football: Gunn to explain decision00:02
Letter: The opening line of Dante's 'Hell'00:02
Travel: High summer in the Alps - Skiing in August? There are ways and ways. Chris Gill begins a four-part series in France00:02
Letter: The 'saving' of Irma00:02
First grammar in 30 years threatens schools turmoil: Group of Conservatives forces change in policy. Wendy Berliner reports00:02
Travel: Treasures of the rose-red city - Petra is almost as old as the hills, and it guards its mystery well. Lawrence Leonard explores the past00:02
Travel: Ghostbusting in Port au Prince - Neil Francis joins an insurance investigator who leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of Haiti's living dead00:02
Basketball: Tigers on the treble trail00:02
Food and Drink: A bullish mood in Fulham Road - How long does it take a restaurant to become one of London's best? About five days - if it's run by Stephen Bull, writes Emily Green00:02
Obituary: Bill Hicks00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
PROFILE / Mockery, where is thy Sting?: Gordon Sumner, causing a buzz at the Grammys00:02
Football: Norway for England00:02
Letter: Warning for the ages00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Tool Box: Not so hard to handle00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Goodman says BA chiefs ordered 'dirty tricks'00:02
Defence chiefs' advice on troops for Bosnia ignored: Cabinet rejected service heads' plea to send more soldiers. Christopher Bellamy reports00:02
The week in review00:02
Last legal attempt to block Thorp fails: Reprocessing to start within weeks Nuclear fuel reprocessing to start00:02
Wake up, it's the Heseltine show00:02
And what's more ..00:02
Today's number: 12000:02
Racing: Fitzgerald rewarded with ride on Remittance Man00:02
South Africa a step nearer stability: White far right leader just beats deadline to follow Buthelezi in registering for a role in first democratic general election00:02
View From New York: Wall Street haunted by fear of creeping crash00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Get fixed at 6.99%00:02
Parenting classes linked to benefit00:02
Egg charges00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations' Championship: Cornered Carling calls for clear heads: England try to ignore post-Cooke era00:02
Ukraine is top of Brussels rescue list00:02
Park attack on Harding00:02
Gardening: Apples of my eye00:02
INTERVIEW / Slogs and transports: Amy Bloom illustrates human frailty. Anthony Quinn met a 'laureate of dysfunction'00:02
Berlusconi budget platform cheers the left00:02
Wines of the week00:02
Yeltsin takes up plight of the workers00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Litho Supplies comes in 7% ahead of forecasts00:02
The Independent Road Test: Brief fling with a small executive: Roger Bell finds the Mercedes C280 a solid performer, but one that takes time to appreciate00:02
Tennis: Experts examine problem of too much too soon: It is four years tomorrow since Jennifer Capriati became a pro. Now a commission is investigating 'burn-out'. John Roberts reports00:02
What Baruch did to God: Howard Jacobson thought his idea of Jewishness stretched even to the fundamentalists but Dr Goldstein and his automatic rifle have proved that it does not00:02
'Spies' arrested00:02
Market Report: German rival's troubles inject new life into Glaxo00:02
Football Diary: The why and the wherefore00:02
Remembrance of backstage past: Who'd pay hundreds of pounds for some cardboard? A Led Zeppelin fan, such as Christopher Stoakes00:02
Motoring: Life and the Lotus position - Tony Rudd talks to Phil Llewellin about his half century of fun in motor racing00:02
Appeal tribunal for whistle-blowers urged00:02
Weapon charge00:02
Bank raids down00:02
Man on steroids beat girl to death00:02
Hockey: Havant have the edge on Hounslow00:02
More maintenance shocks lie in store: Reduction in tax relief will leave some pounds 28 a month worse off, writes Andrew Bibby00:02
Graffiti boy hanged himself00:02
The anxiety of influence: As the Towards the Millennium retrospective reaches the 1930s, Bayan Northcott wonders whether it is tackling the central issue00:02
Swiss bank cashes in on derivatives00:02
Wills00:02
Police force sued00:02
Money Nous: Girobank provides the human touch00:02
Cricket: May gives Australia control in first Test00:02
Auctions: Papal blood on the red slippers00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Racist attack00:02
Cricket: One-day results vital to England cause: West Indies threaten to take psychological strangehold as limited-overs series concludes00:02
European Engineers' Awards00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Saturday Night: A little advice from a lap-top oracle00:02
Football: Anderton the colt shows good breeding: Tottenham's winger features strongly in Venables' plans for Denmark on Wednesday. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Transitional relief creates council tax anomalies: In some boroughs higher band houses will pay less than lower band households, Paul Gosling reports00:02
Hambro returns to the black00:02
Hospital benefits00:02
Kurdish MPs held00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tangled up in Charlotte's web: Helen Birch on Jenny Diski's latest and best exploration of a singular female spirit: Monkey's uncle - Jenny Diski - Weidenfeld & Nicholson pounds 14.9900:02
Rates rise on GIBs00:02
Food and Drink: Just add water for flavour - A few dried Italian porcini, cheaper than fresh wild ceps and much easier to find, will animate the most humble pasta or meat dish00:02
Murder plot witness 'was in Ulster unit': Former soldier was offered pounds 10,000 'hit contract', jury told00:02
Appeals00:02
Nuclear leak fine00:02
Obituary: Sergia da Silva Chagas00:02
Smith dubs Tories the party of high crime00:02
University appointments00:02
Letter: British Airways and Malaysia flights00:02
Property: Gross disservice00:02
Equestrianism: Olympic three-day dilemma00:02
Goodman claims dirty tricks: Former Air Europe head says BA 'went to unbelievable lengths' to destroy his business00:02
Letter: Legalisation of cannabis: freedom of personal choice or exposure to risk?00:02
Travel: Departures00:02
Obituary: Kim Sang-Man