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Today's Number; 4,48300:02
Lep court case 'could ruin company': Bankers warn freight group over former chairman's dismissal claim00:02
Ivory Towers: Not a matter of taste00:02
Best-sellers: Top 10 youngest dead rock stars00:02
German chairman in vanishing act00:02
Breath of life00:02
Diary00:02
Media / Talk of the Trade: End of the World (CORRECTED)00:02
Football: Arsenal driven on by Campbell's heady moment: Graham's Gunners show their resolve in the face of relentless PSG pressure but lose Wright for the Cup-Winners' Cup final00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Pounds 60,000 to watch Brits behave badly00:02
Loyalists kill man 'involved in party death'00:02
Letter: Catch that train, then pay your way00:02
Media: When the truth is unprintable: Objectivity is a dangerous luxury for many Arab journalists. Robert Fisk hears untold stories00:02
Bottom Line: Room for optimism despite Yule Catto setback00:02
THEATRE / Murder most horrid: Paul Taylor finds chilling parallels in Keith Baxter's production of Patrick Hamilton's Rope at Wyndham's00:02
Racing: Mehthaaf asserts Classic claims: Dunlop's filly progresses along the right lines as a commanding victory in the Nell Gwyn makes her central to the Guineas equation00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Chess: Results are miles better00:02
Woman savaged by zoo chimp 'not angry'00:02
Spring Property Survey: This deceptively spacious Act00:02
Relics stolen00:02
Tory rebels force video crackdown: Alton steps aside as Howard moves to jail dealers in 'nasties'00:02
Recycling setback00:02
Strong overseas sales buoy Walker results00:02
Dreams of a couch soprano: In bed with Ira Siff00:02
SCULPTURE / Between a rock and a hard place: Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor of twigs and leaves, icicles and snowballs, has developed a thing about solid stone. As he tells Gillian Widdicombe00:02
Market Report: Thorn EMI in spotlight after talk of break-up00:02
Video Nasties: Blair suggested guidelines that won compromise: Home Secretary bought off Tory rebels at last-ditch Commons meetings after Labour ultimatum00:02
MUSIC / Partial view of the East: Nicholas Williams on Inter Artes and the Britten Sinfonia00:02
'Decent place' overshadowed by increasing racial tensions00:02
Treasure chest00:02
Wrigley pledge on gum display00:02
Rail union loses 33% of members00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: Of Dons, don'ts and cranks: No. 69 Aberdeen00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Athens expels Albanian envoy over border clash00:02
Leading Article: Sir John displays wisdom beyond his years00:02
Obituary: Lionel Cosin00:02
Out Of America: Taking a beastly route to the 'beautiful country'00:02
Five AWB members convicted of Transvaal killings00:02
Extra UN troops line up for Gorazde: Fears of widening conflict with Serbs pose General Rose the dilemma of how to protect other 'safe areas'00:02
Secretary with RSI awarded pounds 40,00000:02
PLO and Israel haggle away as deadline arrives00:02
Letter: Abuse of free speech00:02
Allied Radio signals new strategy with rights issue00:02
Games: Making the connection00:02
Media / Talk of the trade: Not all that jazz00:02
Letter: BBC gives viewers the silent treatment00:02
Obituary: Marlon Riggs00:02
Bottom Line: Ross consolidates00:02
MUSIC / Underrated: Hard as nails: the case for Tchaikovsky00:02
News radio00:02
Letter: How British attitudes have disappointed the Dutch00:02
Pembroke: Book a bedroom before the dog does00:02
Headhunting at a minute before midnight: Business in South Africa may have done too little, too late to escape a black backlash, says Daniel Reed00:02
Archaeology: Strength in what remains behind: An Aborigine head has been discovered in a mass grave in Liverpool, writes David Keys00:02
Fungus offers a new mould of antibiotics: Annual Chemical Congress of the Royal Society of Chemistry00:02
Shares tumble 22p at Scottish TV: City analysts forecast more gloom as soaring programme costs and regional commitments cut profits00:02
View from City Road: Laura Ashley needs a heavyweight00:02
TELEVISION / The good and faithful domestic servant00:02
Media / Talk of the trade: Nice little earner00:02
Spring Property Survey: Hunt is up for weekend retreats: UK buyers came by the boatload to invest in French property, but then came disaster. David Lawson reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Children of 11 work in fake jeans factory00:02
Obituary: David Brown00:02
The Local Elections: Fowler claims victory in council tax bills battle: Labour says grant system is rigged in value-for-money row as Tories attack 'political correctness'00:02
Pounds 3m arson fraud00:02
Water watchdog faces jobs inquiry00:02
Israel shoots pregnant Palestinian00:02
SFO abandons Gooda Walker crime inquiry00:02
Killers 'acted on Iraqi orders'00:02
Brewin Dolphin to seek listing on stock market: Pounds 35m flotation will leave stockbroker with no borrowings00:02
Wrong-way ramble of driver, 8200:02
Anniversaries00:02
Cricket: Scant joy for the querulous Bajan boys00:02
A Slice of the Action00:02
LA freeway00:02
Japan drop-out00:02
Windsor Castle fire in watercolour00:02
Bishops' Conference00:02
Media / Talk of the trade: Shah hoo-ha00:02
Video Nasties: Crackdown may lead to legal appeals00:02
South African Elections: Unloved SA whites relish return to the world stage: World Cup tours and a chance to take part in the Olympics have a role to play in dimming the election hopes of extremists00:02
Baffled by science? Let Professor Wenstone enlighten you00:02
Fatal adventure00:02
Nightclubs: What a Wag: Unfriendly, elitist and super cool, it nevertheless broke the disco mould. James Style celebrates 10 years of the Wag00:02
Law Report: Procedure for making care order: Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council v E - Court of Appeal (Sir Donald Nicholls, Vice-Chancellor, Lord Justice Hirst and Lord Justice Waite), 9 March 199400:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Study of NHS trusts shows finance and care failings00:02
Cocaine seizures00:02
Football: McInally strike breaks deadlock: Dundee United into Scottish Cup final00:02
Patient 'filmed secretly'00:02
Letter: Air strikes not the answer in Bosnia00:02
Double century first00:02
Moscow deal takes hard-up Belarus back into the fold00:02
Protests at naked child00:02
Leytonstonia00:02
Strangers, citizens and the siege mentality: A fortress Europe, closed to refugees, is an odious policy, argues Yasmin Alibhai-Brown00:02
Nun's whispered story of Rwanda massacre: Outside the hospital, Hutu mobs butchered the Tutsis. Trapped inside, Sister Pilar Espelosin spoke by telephone to Angel Hernandez, of 'El Pais' in Madrid00:02
THEATRE / Notices00:02
Serbs retaliate with undeclared war against UN observers00:02
Cricket: Stewart doubles up as England seek knockout: Caddick adds insult to injury by taking two priceless wickets after Atherton declares his intent to storm the West Indian citadel00:02
Birthdays00:02
Equestrianism: Milton takes a bow: Volvo World Cup final00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
House prices surprise00:02
View from City Road: Plenty of room for Channel 500:02
Badminton: Another English bronze: Louis-Lane imperfect00:02
Athletics: Martin on move for first double: Mike Rowbottom on the runner who found he had what it takes to become a London Marathon man00:02
Obituary: Bob Cryer00:02
Satellite dishes amid the Iron Age spears: Richard Dowden marvels at high technology, or the lack of it, in Africa00:02
Tsar's bones00:02
The Daily Poem: A Couple00:02
Letter: How British attitudes have disappointed the Dutch00:02
Scandals cast long shadow over Gonzalez00:02
Doctor found dead00:02
THEATRE / The Fringe: The passion killers00:02
Promise to Potter00:02
Inside Parliament: Taxing tale of two cities: Labour questions government support for Westminster council - Clash over level of local taxes - Major makes pledge on Bosnia00:02
Maxmin quits Laura Ashley: Chief executive resigns after ongoing dispute over need to increase spending00:02
Revamp and rights for Ferrum00:02
Hotels chief to become purchasing consultant00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Trade meet00:02
Daimler-Benz turns corner as sales rise: Rationalisation bears fruit in fourth quarter00:02
South African Elections: 'Miracle men' bring their medicine00:02
Spring Property Survey: Closer to the action and to the waterfront: Out of London, reclaimed inner city dock areas are at last regaining their popularity. Andrew Bibby reports on an acquatic trend00:02
DTI meets with EC over Lancer tactics00:02
Baby kidnap case00:02
View from City Road: Price problems not over for battered Tesco00:02
Leading Article: Equal opportunities in barrister training00:02
Pulitzer for Albee00:02
Football: Irons' deficiency proves costly00:02
Widow wins fight to jail killer driver: Private prosecution led CPS to bring more serious charge. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Marcos arrest00:02
Channel bootleggers tax the system: Duty-dodging alcohol traffickers are cleaning up in a one-way trade worth pounds 1bn00:02
Spring Property Survey: Look with care for the best deals on loans: Mortgages / Variable or fixed rate packages? Either way, it's a buyer's market, reports Andrew Bibby00:02
Body ignored by commuters00:02
Spring Property Survey: April offers its usual crop of illusions for would-be vendors00:02
Racing: Search for new Chief00:02
Curator's Choice: Pollock's Toy Museum00:02
Now even teachers crusade against children00:02
Ross Group predicts recovery after revamp00:02
Spring Property Survey: Nosy neighbours better than bolts: Buyers of new homes are becoming more conscious of security. David Lawson looks at how builders are tackling this challenge00:02
A smell-free never-never land: Japan, to the West, is a blank screen on to which we project our terrors and fantasies00:02
Letter: Memories of Sophiatown00:02
Last call with Roald Dahl: Do children enjoy the books their parents give them? Jenny Gilbert asks two nieces of Roald Dahl00:02
Athletics: McColgan's triumph of mind over medicine: Britain's former world 10,000 metres champion is on the mend against all odds. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Leading Article: Loosening the lead on councils00:02
The Local Elections: Westminster tenants vote for home-buying: The Tories' controversial housing policy is hugely popular. Martin Whitfield reports00:02
Miracle slimming adverts 'flout code': Claims ignore need to reduce calorie intake, watchdog finds00:02
Architecture: Building on history in the Holy Land: Can Israel forge a national idiom out of a turbulent past? Lawrence Joffe watches east and west, stone and chrome, Arab and Crusader collide00:02
Supreme Court candidate bows out for Congress role00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Zhironovsky again00:02
Trial tests Munich's policy on Kurds00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Rugby League: Northern see some daylight: Bradford top00:02
The Independent/Scholastic Story of the Year00:02
Gartmore's hard options00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Second sitting at Bloomsbury's endless soiree: Edwardian Bloomsbury - S P Rosenbaum: Macmillan, pounds 47.5000:02
Spring Property Survey: The future looks not so much bright as familiar: The house of the future can take a family right through its life. David Lawson examines the details of a show village00:02
Poll warning to Tories on change of leaders00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Fiji confession00:02
Court Circular00:02
Tutsi insurgents poised to seize Rwandan capital00:02
Teacher's award00:02
Media dig deep and pile the woe on hapless Clinton00:02
David Lloyd buys new site00:02
Amid stench of death, government flees as rebels close in00:02
Students vote for 'realistic' leader00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Competition00:02
Spring Property Survey: Taxes take their toll on the feel-good factor: All the figures for incomes and prices show that buyers should have been flocking back long ago, writes David Lawson00:02
Bob Cryer, champion of Labour left, dies in crash00:02
Death Valley by satellite00:02
Letter: Mixed messages on Africa's future00:02
Spring Property Survey: Bargains abound for overseas investment: Foreign climes are beginning to look financially attractive again. David Lawson reports00:02
Changes urged to law covering manslaughter00:02
Optimistic Tesco lifts payout and pleases City: Decision to depreciate stores trims profits to pounds 435m - Return of customers may signal truce in high street price war00:02
Dewhirst leaps 47% as market share rises00:02
Redrow shaves pounds 25m off float forecast00:02
Cambodia kidnap00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Cricket: Emirates to have taste of the high life00:02
Media / Talk of the trade: EastEnders foil James Bond00:02
Out Of America: Taking a beastly route to the 'beautiful country'00:02
Licence to thrill awaits a new 007: Timothy Dalton is giving up the role of James Bond. Glenda Cooper reports00:02
Drivers fooled00:02
Football: Yamaha feels the squeeze00:02
Football: Luton's dismay00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
And What's More ..00:02
'Arms for Iran' fraud case challenge fails: Judge finds no grounds to allow appeal over pounds 20m swindle00:02
FR raises payout despite profits fall00:02
Spring Property Survey: Complaints of noisy neighbours are on the rise00:02
Reshuffle frees Algiers to open talks with Islamists00:02
Virgin deal gives Heathrow berths to Delta Air Lines: Transatlantic tie-up will offer frequent flyers more destinations00:02
South African Elections: Voting is still a matter of life and death in rural Natal: Karl Maier witnessed the tenacity of Inkatha's stranglehold on the fearful people of Mandini00:02
Balladur welcomes airline 'victory'00:02
Spring Property Survey: Landlords get wise to a gap in the market: Putting your savings to work by buying property can be more attractive than deposit accounts, writes David Lawson00:02
Obituary: Viktor Afanasyev00:02
Letter: House the homeless over the shop00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Anti-Mafia arrests00:02
Management: Too busy juggling to watch the clock00:02
Manulife fined over salesman00:02
Media: Showman to the chattering classes: Next Thursday, BBC2 celebrates its 30th anniversary. Maggie Brown meets its ambitious Controller00:02
Architecture: The battle of Britain's old airfields: Is Biggin Hill, wartime base for RAF heroes, destined to become just so many offices? Callum Murray reports on its sale and uncertain future00:02
Mozambique polls00:02
'Sex pest' case told of lingerie00:02
Football: Kanchelskis is back in frame: Keane set for Maine Road: Henry Winter on tonight's semi-final replay00:02
Stay tuned for radio takeovers: Suddenly local stations are big business and everyone wants a share, says Gail Counsell00:02
Video Nasties: Howard adds to long list of law-and-order concessions00:02
Bizarre double murder baffles police: Two girls abducted then sexually assaulted in council flat where elderly couple were killed. James Cusick reports00:02
Black Bar students penalised by race bias: Inquiry finds discrimination by barristers is key factor affecting differential failure rate in examinations. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
Banknotes 'stuffed in woman's underwear': Bank sues families over 'stolen' pounds 600,000