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Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Grampian profit dips00:02
Football: Forest settle for points without plaudits00:02
Tory Leadership Crisis: Timing is the key to Major's survival: Donald Macintyre looks at the political and electoral hurdles that lie ahead for the Prime Minister00:02
Murder trial aborted after man's overdose: Witness died 'under police protection'00:02
Ferranti names GEC as preferred bidder00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Great Southern looks lively00:02
Inkatha executes five ANC Zulus00:02
Education Viewpoint: Fact of life - teaching about sex requires training00:02
Education: Is the school ready to take your child?00:02
Asian sales boost Meggitt00:02
Fasten your seatbelts for an airfare crash00:02
Patently Absurd: Staying ahead of the car thieves00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: Timely warning on voting deadline00:02
Letter: No CNN - no comment00:02
Pembroke: Look at the scoreboard, Phillips tells his critics00:02
IRA Ceasefire: Secret talks and a truce in 197500:02
IRA ceasefire branded cynical00:02
Racing: Culhane concussed as filly falls00:02
Schindler ban lifted00:02
Bottom Line: Senior success00:02
Sports Letter: A part of apartheid00:02
Silly Questions: Advice for the deodorantly challenged00:02
Bottom Line: Harrisons pigs out00:02
M25 police see no end to life in the slow lane00:02
View from City Road: MPs should stick to the bigger Maxwell issues00:02
Out of Pakistan: Nursing a toothache while the bar boor looks for a brawl00:02
Co-op unveils charity cards: Visa clients to nominate recipients for pounds 100,000 quarterly payout00:02
Education: A good reception for the young ones00:02
Orders rise at Virtuality00:02
Tory Leadership Crisis: Steady support for the great survivor: Michael Heseltine's record makes him a likely contender. Patricia Wynn Davies looks back00:02
Football: Everton profit from Villa's high spirits: Anticlimax for Coca-Cola Cup winners00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Fashion: Phew, thanks a bunch - Just when you thought there was nothing simple about fashion, here's something fresh for spring: roses, roses, roses. Alison Veness is on the scent00:02
Bank of England urges banks to clamp down on frauds00:02
Glossary: Suddenly fascism is back on everyone's lips00:02
Paris blast hurts 6300:02
RECORDS / Beware the ideas of March00:02
The Daily Poem: Sweet Balm of Hellebore00:02
Maintenance on Britain's tallest office block begins with thousands of windows of opportunity00:02
Chess: Playing blindfold with real vision00:02
Letter: Growing opposition to the BNP among 'islanders'00:02
Balladur drops low-pay scheme00:02
Caradon ahead 70% after year of change00:02
Security patrols 'lack training and risk death'00:02
Whitehall's response to complaints attacked00:02
Insurance industry attacked on pensions: Companies allowed poorly trained staff to sell unsuitable policies00:02
Speed Skating: Gooch on track for greater reward: Winter Olympics bronze medallist chases world title today. Jon Culley reports00:02
Market Report: Little cheer at roller-coaster gilts party00:02
Road protesters threaten direct action: Environmentalists disappointed as most motorway proposals survive transport department review. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Guatemala accord00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Croatian ceasefire heralds dawn of peace00:02
Scientists believe peak of epidemic has been reached: Officials say health measures are working. Steve Connor reports00:02
Fears grow of rise in rates00:02
Letter: Aircraft-spotting on a wing and a prayer00:02
And What's More ..00:02
C&W and Bell Canada in cable merger with Jones00:02
Belarus poll date00:02
Football: United up against the odds00:02
Crash pilots00:02
Fears of a pound crisis leave market in turmoil: Share prices yo-yo and gilts surge on worries over political fall-out00:02
DANCE / Hot metal: Judith Mackrell on the Cholmondeleys, leather-clad at the Place, London00:02
Sailing: Global feat of the space-age flying boat: The record for circumnavigating the world should fall at Ushant tomorrow. Stuart Alexander reports00:02
Safeguards that must follow Scott: Abuse of power calls for more than sacrificial lambs, says Michael Meacher00:02
MUSIC / Well knit: Meredith Oakes on recent offerings including Falla, Gerhard and Faure00:02
Unworldly director's ideal home for sale: Lean's architectural 'delight' offered for pounds 3m00:02
Write-offs plunge Ashley into red: Spanish sale hammers window blinds maker00:02
I came, I saw, I did my sums: You can lead them to a giant warehouse, but you cannot make them spend. Sandra Barwick joins shoppers on Croydon's Purley Way00:02
Deal reached on EU enlargement00:02
View from City Road: GKN bargains with Westland00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Athletics: Norman's future in the balance: BAF promoter awaits verdict00:02
Bridge: A fight to the finesse00:02
Tennis: Wilkinson spearheads win00:02
Simon reaches agreement on banking facilities00:02
Schoolgirls killed00:02
Letter: Ionesco: zen and the art of absurdity00:02
Football: Inter go down as Pancaro pounces00:02
Football: Celtic chaos deepens00:02
Community care 'to put homes out of business'00:02
THEATRE / The hostess with the mostest: Paul Taylor welcomes the return to the stage of Helen Mirren in Bill Bryden's finely acted West End production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Corsica bombs00:02
Burmese opposition minister disappears00:02
Clampdown on alterations to period homes: Days of pebble dash and concrete could be over. Will Bennett reports00:02
Independent Story of the Year 2: Wanted: the best children's writers - Jenny Gilbert talks to actor David Schneider and his young friend Skye about the books they enjoy00:02
Sports Letter: Sad loss to athletics00:02
Obituary: Margaret Millar00:02
Tennis: Petchey defeats Stich: Briton's remarkable three-set win over world No 2 in South Africa overshadowed by acrimonious parting of the ways at the LTA00:02
Tokyo court backs rights for gays00:02
Dear Alan Yentob: The controller of BBC1 must realise that picking anyone but Bamber Gascoine to host the revived University Challenge would be a non starter00:02
Cape district that still bears scars of apartheid: Pretoria's racial zoning destroyed a community. Benjamin Pogrund reports on plans for regeneration00:02
IRA Ceasefire: Ceasefire aims to cut pressure on Sinn Fein: Next week's truce may be seen as a cynical ploy but it is a ground-breaking move for republicans. David McKittrick reports00:02
600 Scots health jobs to go00:02
Obsessions: Beadle's about: The UK's mightiest mouths will gather in Lincolnshire on Easter Monday. Siobhan Dolan previews the crying game00:02
Battle for Hebron peace deal00:02
Pergau doubts 'were ignored by ministers': Officials deemed use of aid 'ineffective'00:02
Racing: Fellow to attempt historic double: The path to Aintree is cleared for France's flag-bearer but a rider who has known National success is kicked out of this year's race00:02
Hundreds arrested as police clamp down on India protest against Gatt world trade deal00:02
Palace art man in court00:02
POP MUSIC / On the road: Recognising the problem: Thrill as our fearless correspondent at the front finally finds a launderette00:02
Letter: Tory quandary over leadership00:02
Builders forecast year of low profit: Contractors show improvement but blame flood of competition for squeeze on margins00:02
The Queen steps in to save New Zealand's mechanical cow00:02
BP sells last slice of its nutrition arm: CINVen and Baring in dollars 450m deal00:02
Branagh to close film company00:02
Prescott in row on job figures00:02
Japanese condemn bears to death: A defenceless wild animal is being hunted to the brink of extinction for its valuable gall, Terry McCarthy writes in Tokyo00:02
Education: Four-year-olds learn the hard way - An early start to school is no alternative to nursery, writes Judith Judd00:02
Trust restores 'personal aesthetic' to Petworth: A Turner sketch is being used to rehang pictures at a historic country house, writes Oliver Gillie00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Nationwide list of the dropped schemes00:02
Football: Palmer prompts Chelsea's collapse: Wednesday savour the taste of revenge00:02
Slovenia signs up00:02
Fears grow over who controls airwaves00:02
View from City Road: Smell lingers over Shanks' books00:02
New-style Communists on course for poll victory: Sick of hard times under capitalism, voters are set to punish the rulingcentre-right coalition in May's election, writes Adrian Bridge in Budapest00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
10 die in mishap on French nuclear sub00:02
Birthdays00:02
Shanks debt write-off shocks City: Uncertainty over environmental laws clouds outlook 'although the house is now clean'00:02
Advance payments on fuel may reach pounds 1bn00:02
Those hotel souvenirs are the key to your moral decline00:02
Casualty: a suitable case for treatment?00:02
Rugby League: Dorahy under fire as Bell is promoted: Coach blames 'political warfare' for Wigan's inconsistent league form00:02
Sales pitch led nurse to transfer pension: NHS staff may have lost thousands of pounds. Helen Nowicka reports00:02
Letter: Tory quandary over leadership00:02
Leading Article: That sinking feeling00:02
Johnston to pay pounds 30m for Courier00:02
Football: Sharp's answer lets Oldham come alive: Southampton flounder in relegation zone00:02
Fiji's choice00:02
Letter: Ionesco: zen and the art of absurdity00:02
DIARY: Museum seeks to raise the roof00:02
Ex-minister 'deceived over exports to Iraq': Matrix Churchill chief denies peer's claim that he lied over military purpose of machine tools for Baghdad. David Connett reports00:02
Letter: Growing opposition to the BNP among 'islanders'00:02
Italian Election 94: EU countries fret over the tycoon's neo-Fascist allies00:02
Inside Parliament: World tour leads back to EU climbdown: Hurd defends voting compromise again - Plight of jailed nuns in Tibet raised00:02
MPs defuse Hercules dispute00:02
End-of-term prayers and tears for stab victim: Malcolm Pithers describes the sombre mood as pupils return to Hall Garth school00:02
Football: Ince sinks Liverpool to keep United on course: Champions stretch their lead in the Premiership to six points as they prepare for the showdown with Blackburn on Saturday00:02
Main parties asked to let locals fight BNP in polls: Labour and Tories reject Lib Dem move00:02
EU backs Britain in row with Germany over BSE: Ban on beef exports from the UK is rejected by meeting of ministers00:02
Repetitive strain injuries rise to 'epidemic' levels: TUC aims to raises awareness of illness which affects keyboard users. Barrie Clement reports00:02
Credit Lyonnais boss punished for losses00:02
Cricket: Third Test / The terrifying renaissance of Ambrose: After a slow start the West Indies' spearhead has confirmed his status as the world's leading pace bowler. Tony Cozier reports00:02
Bottom Line: Stakis strong00:02
Sports Letter: Leagues ahead00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Leading Article: Snap judgements, but not indecent exposure00:02
Seoul goes soft on Pyongyang sanctions00:02
Law Report: Settled home in temporary flat: Regina v Brent London Borough Council, Ex parte Awua - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Dillon, Lord Justice Leggatt and Lord Justice Henry), 25 March 199400:02
Mad cows and Englishmen: German concern over British beef is a public health issue, not a political ploy, argues Steve Crawshaw00:02
Stakis in pounds 67m call to fund acquisitions00:02
IRA Ceasefire: IRA vows to suspend military actions for 72 hours00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Sticks and sickbags: obscure objects of desire: The Cultures of Collecting - Edited by John Elsner & Roger Cardinal: Reaktion Books, 25 pounds00:02
Cricket: Experienced player 'would not have made up the gulf'00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Whitehall's response to complaints attacked00:02
Cricket: 80 Minutes that shook England00:02
The First Lady's trading brings home the bacon00:02
Road schemes scrapped by MacGregor in pounds 3bn U-turn00:02
Leading Article: A bypass around the road zealots00:02
Italian Election 94: Buoyant Berlusconi woos League00:02
Policy? Sorry, I've got a rumour to spread00:02
Soldier loses appeal over killing of joyrider00:02
POP MUSIC / The Saints go plodding in: Joseph Gallivan on St Etienne at the new Shepherd's Bush Empire00:02
Kinkel's party threatened with electoral extinction00:02
Merseyside police criticised in report00:02
Ocean remains cautious despite earnings recovery00:02
POP MUSIC / Notes from the global village: Ry Cooder making an album with Ali Farka Toure? The scholar from LA and the bluesman from Timbuktu? Philip Sweeney made some calls00:02
LIG's condom price control lifted: Government forces Durex maker to abandon exclusive supply agreements00:02
Collector's shell-out performance: Ann Hills visits Kevin Murphy's cup-winning eggshibition00:02
Dilemmas: When a gift is too dangerous00:02
Higher Education: A-levels? How much do they prove? - Maureen O'Connor talks to a vice-chancellor with radical ideas about the admission qualifications students really need00:02
GKN delivers knock-out blow against Westland: Victory comes from offer increase valuing target at pounds 577m00:02
Sports Letter: Fair play, please00:02
Airlines seek EC inquiry into Galileo00:02
Something Else00:02
Dissed] The misadventures of Saul Bellow: 'Racist' is the cry. 'Hooey' says Keith Botsford00:02
Israel's allies fight their own war: Robert Fisk, in Tyre, asks if the 'South Lebanon Army' is intent on sabotaging the peace process00:02
Major takes the fight to his Tory critics: PM attacks 'parody of debate' as right lines up behind Heseltine00:02
Letter: Wool for the Italian sheep00:02
Golf: Faldo favours competition to get into the swing: Americans rest before Masters as Europeans line up for Freeport00:02
Table Tennis: World champions stunned as France take European title00:02
Today's Number: 9300:02
Rugby Union: South Africa still have grip on World Cup: Tournament remains as planned while International Board says alternative arrangements can be delayed until next year00:02
Cricket: England top bill of 20th century flops: Atherton calls collapse his 'worst hour' as overmatched tourists surrender series after completing lowest score since 188700:02
Anniversaries00:02
Hosokawa tries to appease critics00:02
Prisoner robbed vicar's wife while on jail leave00:02
Monroe haul00:02
Tennis: Pickard's angry exit as Davis Cup captain00:02
Prototype camera to break new ground00:02
Referee flees as footballer drives van on to pitch00:02
Soros buys into ONA00:02
Letter: Tory quandary over leadership00:02
Victim of ME loses damages00:02
Education: Highland skirmish - Liz Heron reports on the controversy surrounding Scotland's first opted-out school00:02
No veil and drive in Kuwait00:02
Tory Leadership Crisis: Bruiser who would prefer that big fight was delayed: Nicholas Timmins says Kenneth Clarke needs a reprieve from Budget fall-out00:02
LBC to stay on air as receivers called in: Rhys Williams reports on the latest troubles to hit Britain's oldest commercial radio station00:02
Letter: Growing opposition to the BNP among 'islanders'00:02
IRA Ceasefire: Unionist's unofficial ambassador stays on course: David McKittrick profiles a leading Ulster protestant who is ready to talk to the south00:02
Obituary: Sir Robert Cockburn