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Health authority to sell tobacco shares00:02
Law: Once-closed doors are opened: The public are now allowed into solicitors' disciplinary tribunals, says Robert Verkaik00:02
Logica revamp costs 2m pounds00:02
Bottomley to target child care00:02
Spanish town 'at war' with Suzuki: Phil Davison writes from Linares on an upsurge of bitter anti-Japanese feeling00:02
Nature the winner as pit closures help to reduce acid rain: Power generators' switch to gas cuts sulphur dioxide emissions. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale00:02
Non-League Football: Harriers banking on home comforts00:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale: Zerbanoo Gifford and 'Wags'00:02
Today the Church, tomorrow the world: Some parishioners won't spot the difference when women become priests. So what's new? Susan Cole-King explains00:02
Transport chief's promotion blocked00:02
Critical Tory faces expulsion00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hapless underdogs in a bitchy world: 'The Myth of Male Power' - Warren Farrell: 4th Estate, 6.9900:02
140 staff in insolvency firing line00:02
Kazakh leader consolidates win00:02
Moi reinstates wildlife chief00:02
Kohl faces regional defeat: It is the year of the voter in Germany and the first poll is in Lower Saxony on Sunday, writes Steve Crawshaw from Hanover00:02
FILM / Director's cut: Maggie Greenwald on a moment of tension in Once Upon a Time in the West00:02
Restructuring brings rewards for Hillsdown: European businesses help operating profit to pounds 199m00:02
Smears rechecked00:02
Computers: Feedback: Apple Printer has PC problem00:02
Hepatitis check00:02
Today's number: dollars 1.4m00:02
Body boarded up by council00:02
Smoke ring00:02
Lawyers express surprise at 'extremely rare step'00:02
Exhibitions: Seeing is believing: Hanna Barbera's animation has helped shape popular culture since mid-century. Iain Gale makes a link to Hogarth00:02
Russia arrests alleged spy00:02
Letter: Prince leads the way00:02
Victaulic hit by British Gas cutbacks00:02
Inside Parliament: Scots refrain greets Major's poll position: Smith returns to Tories' pre-election 'deception' on tax increases - Rifkind unites MPs by announcing reinforcements for Bosnia00:02
Law Update: Outlook fair00:02
The street of hot tempers and cold comfort (CORRECTED)00:02
Russia tackles its Bolshevik land legacy00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Eastleigh By-Election: Labour vote crucial in land of rail and sail: Liberal Democrats have a firm grip on local authority power but do not expect a walk-over00:02
Bird egg haul00:02
Computers: Concorde costs a little bit extra: David Hewson travels through seven circles of hell to check the virtues of Morgan's, the discount reseller00:02
Leading Article: Why arms are not the answer00:02
Letter: Penny-pinching on Brum's musical treasure00:02
Kyrgyz landslide kills 5000:02
Chancellor hawkish on prospect of tax cuts00:02
FILM / The tears of living dangerously: Wayne Wang called Oliver Stone's films evil; Stone called Wang's boring. The novelist Amy Tan brought them together. By Sheila Johnston00:02
Hockey: Army in sight of the title00:02
Courtier-Dutton, Giddings and Irwin00:02
FILM / Scenes from the grief brief: Adam Mars-Jones on The Joy Luck Club and My Life where crisis is shoehorned into the fake conflicts and resolutions of soap opera00:02
Cricket: Hughes may be disciplined00:02
View from City Road: Taylor convinces that Barclays is on the mend00:02
Midlands to trim power prices by 2%00:02
MUSIC / Search for the new: Stephen Johnson reviews the London Sinfonietta00:02
THEATRE / Indecent arousal: Paul Taylor on a resourceful Ulysses in Bloom00:02
Golf: Ballesteros slumps00:02
Major faces growing unrest over joint declaration00:02
Bang, a bogus peace plan dies00:02
Classic literature 'unimportant' in learning to read00:02
Cricket: Illingworth possesses the credentials: Martin Johnson, Cricket Correspondent, applauds the TCCB's appointment of a bluff and astute Yorkshireman capable of restoring spirits at England level00:02
Royal cufflinks00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Law Update: Croydon goes private00:02
John Lewis staff profit as store sales climb: Double-figure bonuses accompany one-third rise in results00:02
Letter: Hansard holds evidence on ministers and the truth00:02
Refuge policyholders face pay-back bill00:02
Football: 4-3-2-1 and lift-off for Venables and England: New coach plans further experimentation against Germany, Greece and Norway to form strategy for 1996 European Championship00:02
Chess defeat00:02
Gang raiders jailed00:02
Driving force behind pool winners making waves: A teacher with an aquatic passion has made a Devon school without facilities of its own a national power for two decades00:02
When Paul brought Linda to our house: Paul and Linda - Special Silver Wedding Souvenir Issue00:02
TELEVISION / Arthur goes stale, and 'er indoors goes out00:02
Football: Wilkinson's brief move00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Squash: Mighty Nicol keeps moving00:02
Cricket: Fletcher confident about the future00:02
Buyer stranded by 'obstacle in path': Solicitor sued over property transaction00:02
Aspirin fails pregnancy test00:02
Cigarettes to blame for rising cancer deaths: Effects of smoking filter through as oral surgeon condemns 'ignorance' and Liverpool acts on stake in BAT. Celia Hall reports00:02
Diary00:02
Smith & Nephew beats US gloom: Increased market share wins top-four place00:02
All eyes on the prize fight: Heseltine is not fanning the flames himself, but is not actively dousing them either00:02
'I strangled her. Do you still want me?': On the recording, Keith Hall tells undercover PC 'Liz' he killed his wife00:02
Extra funds for hospital that 'lost' heart patient: Publicity 'led to award of pounds 140,000'00:02
Royal Society00:02
Judge allows taped murder 'confession' to be made public: Former suspect cleared by court is heard telling an undercover policewoman that he strangled wife and burnt her body00:02
Heathrow Bombing: Operation needed months of planning00:02
Leading Article: For once, the right men are in the right jobs00:02
Letter: Drugs are no escape00:02
Forget the fines - they should pay us to travel00:02
Athletics: Richardson searching for the right answers: 400 metre man ready to start tapping bio-mechanical potential. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
France and Italy in anti-Mafia talks00:02
Cricket: Ramprakash hits century to press claim: Middlesex tyro makes fine contribution in last game before next week's second Test as England's batsmen feast on modest bowling00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Correction: Drug case00:02
Didn't anyone wonder about the digging?00:02
People: Japan tackles a sticky problem00:02
Obituary: Caroline Senator00:02
Outside Edge: Dominic Cavendish on the paper people in the Park00:02
400 Afghan rebels killed00:02
Bottom Line: BTR figures can appease sceptics00:02
Conflict rages over school books 'canon': Education advisers engage in curriculum battle as women writers emphasise the importance of parents reading to their children00:02
Bottom Line: Cautious approach00:02
Telemetrix up 64% and bullish for rest of decade00:02
Lagerfeld flags return to the real world00:02
Free dental checks 'could help detect mouth tumours'00:02
After hours00:02
Letter: Hansard holds evidence on ministers and the truth00:02
Beazer float to net 413m pounds for Hanson00:02
F&C splits shares to lower price: One-for-one offer to bring more investors00:02
Letter: Hansard holds evidence on ministers and the truth00:02
Confident BTR increases payout00:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale: Janet Boateng and Mirabelle00:02
Race claim fails00:02
Christies soars on art recovery: Auctioneer's most successful year since 1990 as market confidence increases00:02
Iraq 'using napalm in marsh offensive'00:02
Obituary: Sir Berkeley Gage00:02
Serbs halt aid to besieged enclave00:02
View from City Road: Partners are more patient00:02
Heathrow Bombing: IRA exposes airport's vulnerability: Perimeter protection 'almost impossible' - Delay in closing runway defended00:02
New Adams threat dims peace hopes: Public warned not to approach these four people wanted for questioning after IRA fire-bombings00:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale: The Judges00:02
TI moves ahead 43%: Core businesses improve market share and profits despite tough conditions00:02
Law: Looking through the eyes of a client: Sharon Wallach talks to Anne Marie Stebbings, who is bringing change to the way that her employer does business00:02
Law Update: Charging ahead00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Enter: Merce Cunningham: Approaching 75, the American choreographer Merce Cunningham is like a child with a new toy: in this case a computer which allows him to put his company through its paces without breaking sweat. By Judith Mackrell00:02
Letter: The use of VAT to penalise late payers00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Support for sacked journalists00:02
Letter: Turkish threat in the Balkans00:02
All aboard for Go-Ahead's float00:02
Unassuming commander with taste for peace00:02
Psychiatric care report shunned by ministers00:02
Warren Christopher shows firm grasp of trade problems besetting the United States and Japan00:02
West charged with five more murders: Hunt for bodies could switch to field near childhood home00:02
Birthdays00:02
Customs 'urged to avoid Matrix Churchill trial'00:02
Barclays defends dealers' bonuses: BZW profits soar as bank returns to the black with pounds 664m - Bad debt provisions plunge US into loss00:02
Computers: Feedback: California dreaming00:02
Racing: Williamson fails to win Festival ban appeal: A day of mixed fortunes for two leading jockeys, who will view Cheltenham from very different vantage points00:02
The Daily Poem: The emigrant00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Rugby Union: Evans' landmark as Welsh leader: Wing to equal national captaincy record against England00:02
Winkling out the shy money00:02
FILM / On release: Action man, take '9400:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale: The rules00:02
BM still suffering from buying spree00:02
Computers: Spelling out the advantages of a background in classics: Kevin Carey finds voice-activated systems have more scope than just helping dyslexics00:02
Sailing: Pack close on slowing Smith00:02
Trick or treat boy scalded00:02
Golf: Daly back with smoke and fire: Alcohol-free American blazes trail as Faldo gets back in the swing in the run-up to the Masters00:02
Willis Corroon up 30%00:02
Letter: Penny-pinching on Brum's musical treasure00:02
Obituary: Fernando Rey00:02
Dear Steven Spielberg: To the film director planning Dr Who, The Movie: please don't mess with the Daleks' plungers, and if you give the Doctor a West Coast accent, you may be E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-E-D.00:02
'Barfly' writer dies00:02
Why the case against Dr Foster will never hold water00:02
View from City Road: Rolls running up a down escalator00:02
Whitbread sells regional stakes: Brewer may use 230m pounds for big acquisition00:02
Rugby League: No bansfor the Wigan pair00:02
Greeks say farewell to Mercouri00:02
Ex-soldier 'hired to frighten relative'00:02
Racing: Ness limps out of National lists00:02
Double shooting brings Met closer to carrying guns: Commissioner will put more armed officers on the streets of London00:02
MUSIC / And what's more ..00:02
Letter: The use of VAT to penalise late payers00:02
Li sees threat to China's stability00:02
Navy lovers are jailed for theft: Woman becomes first Wren sent to prison over pounds 11,000 taken from ship's safe00:02
C&W plans clever phone numbers00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Israeli troops 'under orders' not to shoot Jewish settlers: Hebron massacre inquiry shocked by disclosure of army instructions00:02
Football: Toshack stands by his passing principles00:02
'Ugly' Mary to go00:02
Market Report: Bright start darkened by clouds from New York00:02
Bottom Line: A case apart00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
British airlines challenge aid for Air France00:02
Judge releases confession tape00:02
The Independent / Scholastic Story of the Year: One year on: a winner's tale: Nicholas Le Prevost and Freddy00:02
Milligan inquiry clears police of leaking facts: MPs were main source of information, Yard suggests00:02
Athletics: New targets for Jackson: Mike Rowbottom looks at British prospects in the European Indoor Championships in Paris00:02
Letter: Experiments prove slugs do feel pain00:02
Scargill points to social cost of decline in coal00:02
US losses slow Pentland00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Irish entrepreneurs paint the town green: Out of Russia00:02
Letter: Turkish threat in the Balkans00:02
Capital Shopping Centres will be valued at 830m pounds: Company openly disputes the basis of property valuation used00:02
Job cuts accelerate to 7,000 at Rolls: Pre-tax profits reach pounds 76m but lay-offs exceed original target and there may be more to come00:02
Pembroke: Boredom struggles to keep heart beating00:02
SA 'homeland' on brink of coup00:02
Leading Article: Talking peace, making war00:02
Bottom Line: Hanson realism00:02
Heathrow Bombing: Flights in the danger zone00:02
BCCI creditors guaranteed pounds 1.8bn in new offer00:02
Dear Steven Spielberg: To the film director planning Dr Who, The Movie: please don't mess with the Daleks' plungers, and if you give the Doctor a West Coast accent, you may be E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-E-D.00:02
Enterprise Oil lifts profit to pounds 95m: Chairman says industry faces more uncertainty over prices00:02
Clarke gag order kept man in jail00:02
First Lady faces new attack00:02
Attack on player costs village footballer 1,500 pounds