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SIB has investment scheme stopped00:02
Football: Manchester feast in need of French dressing: Cantona's return after suspension may bring express relief to United in Old Trafford derby and give Blackburn a sleepless night00:02
Woolwich changes fix offer00:02
Rugby League: Only Oldham are standing in the way of Wigan: Bradford's hopes of First Division title rest with rivals00:02
Tax move means cheaper PEPs00:02
Travel: The Things I've Seen: The chapel of St Govan00:02
Fresh bid to amend gay age of consent: Peer seeks to outlaw 'male rape'00:02
Letter: The thought behind a pig-headed centrefold00:02
Scottish Football: Celtic miss McStay for Dundee trip00:02
Court Circular00:02
Voters see Labour as the party of law and order: 'Independent' poll shows 64 per cent of public no longer trust Tories to make right decisions on crime00:02
Appeals: Parrs Wood Rural Trust00:02
Landmarks: Tatlin's Monumnet00:02
Pembroke: Unkindest cut of all for Elliott pension00:02
Dealer's pounds 2.2m Canaletto sparks debate over 'bargain': Christie's latest auction of Old Masters has divided professionals' opinion over the state of the market, writes Dalya Alberge00:02
Wills00:02
FOOD / After the opera: a meal for a tenner: It is possible to have a night on the town and not need an overdraft, says Emily Green00:02
Money in Brief: Cash dispensing00:02
School buses fail checks00:02
Unsafe sex kills off romance of French cult hero00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Travel: Stormy scenes of illicit love: Jonathan Sale takes the windy riverside path from Southwold, Suffolk, and enters a world of curiosities, fantasy and real romance00:02
C&G may be forced to convert to limited company for takeover00:02
Cricket: Aamir guides Pakistan home00:02
Uncle Scrooge's luck finally runs out00:02
Travel: Mobile moans00:02
Fixed fine for drugs suggested00:02
Hata named as Japan PM00:02
Jackboot-in-mouth ails Italy's right00:02
Letter: Only reform can lure high street traders00:02
South African Election Guide: Nationalists play job card to net the Cape: In the village of Arniston, in Western Cape, Raymond Whitaker finds mixed-race voters fear the ANC more than their white bosses00:02
Athens-Tirana tension eases00:02
Tax rule vague on cash-back deals00:02
Travel: High times on a hard road: Crossing the mountains of Corsica on foot, Tim Salmon experienced the heights of pain and pleasure, and made friends along the way00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Sharp to the touch: David V Barrett on the Arthur C Clarke award and this year's winner, Jeff Noon's hard-edged Vurt (Ringpull)00:02
South African Election Guide: Commentary - Civil war that never was leaves media speechless00:02
Auctions00:02
Cricket: How England's Test averages have changed: End-of-tour reports00:02
Ruagby League: Warrington keep up title hopes: Final victory for Wire sets target for championship rivals00:02
Ukraine bill00:02
Cycling: Drug users face life ban00:02
Upbeat: Forster's laager00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Abbey sees red over blue videos00:02
Money in Brief: Holiday bonus for cardholders00:02
Lending rise boosts hopes on economy: Surge in bank loans and mortgages but consumers repay net debt00:02
Upbeat: By the book00:02
Money in Brief: Travelling cheques00:02
Hockey: Ipswich up against it00:02
Sport: The week in review00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Bacteria in dripfeed killed children: Treatment for leukaemia had lowered victims' immunity. Jonathan Foster reports00:02
Defence official jailed for corruption00:02
Gardening: Sowing seeds for the future: Carole Pendrey of Walsall presented Anna Pavord with an interesting challenge: how does a parent successfully implant a love of gardening in small children?00:02
Aid at hand for hot tortoises00:02
Money in Brief: Eagle's new star00:02
Money in Brief: S&P tops up00:02
Travel: Easter in Provence. So far, so good: Chris Gill and family drove south for a self-catering break in Orange blossom time00:02
Nato gives Serbs Gorazde ultimatum: Shells falling on town as attackers agree to ceasefire and withdrawal00:02
Sumitomo signals pounds 161m write-down: Warning arouses fears for Japanese banks after collapse of bond market00:02
Money Nous: No need to panic, says Revenue00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Appeals: Manchester Law Library00:02
Iran shooting00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
EXCURSION / Blade runners: In Southport, old lawnmowers are never put out to grass. Siobhan Dolan meets one man sent to mow00:02
ABF buys Bibby agriculture unit: Flotation dropped in favour of pounds 35m sale00:02
Football: How they stand in the countdown to promotion and relegation00:02
Jungheinrich to bid for Lancer Boss00:02
Father walks free after killing00:02
Deal sinks for Black Sea fleet00:02
Property: Escapists join the idyll home expedition: From chic cottages to derelict barns, country living is tempting more nad more townies, says Anne Spackman00:02
Snooker: Hendry wins with arm break00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Gymnastics00:02
Today's Number: 2000:02
Golf: Wonder from Woolies lands a hole in one: Morley's ace at the 142-yard 13th helps to move her within a stroke of the leader in the Ford Women's Classic00:02
Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Sport: Quotes of the week00:02
Service appointments00:02
Money in Brief: Cheaper calls00:02
Fish formula00:02
Money Grouse: Deadline dash was thwarted00:02
UN slashes Rwanda force00:02
Crime down, but not premiums: Lee Rodwell explains why fewer burglaries may not mean cheaper insurance for the home00:02
Patten 'hit and pushed at protest'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Clawing, brutish gargoyles: 'What a Carve Up]' - Jonathan Coe: Viking' 9.99 pounds - Anthony Quinn on a furiously political state-of-the-nation novel with a twist in its tail00:02
Equestrianism: Trio put on trial: Five-day show00:02
Obituary: Abbot Dominic Gaisford00:02
Cricket: Ilott and McCague demolish Middlesex: England A back in tour groove as chairman of selectors is rebuffed by senior paceman00:02
View from City Road: Scope for a cool appraisal of rates00:02
Deutsche opens inquiry into Schneider debacle00:02
Property: Neo Abyssinia in mock Tudor land00:02
Schools danger00:02
South African Election Guide: Election Notebook00:02
Heart Searching: Trading in emotions00:02
Politics, pah] We're all in clover: When the hottest issue is where to site the noticeboard, who wants to stand for election? Ruth Picardie goes to Oxfordshire00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / Gastropod00:02
Patients fear 'right to choose care options'00:02
Clinton injects a dose of liberalism into Fed board00:02
Tennis: Medvedev triumphs in a memorable marathon: Courier bows out as Ukrainian sets up intriguing semi-final against giant-killing Russian00:02
Snooker: Motorcycling: Cadalora cuts a fine dash00:02
Cricket: Atherton's leadership brings hope for future: England's comeback against the West Indies goes some way towards helping to find a cure for defeatism. Martin Johnson reports00:02
Gorazde hospital 'living hell' as Nato ponders air strikes00:02
Bank decision delay00:02
Profile: Stroke after stroke of pure genius: Brian Lara, newly crowned king of the cricket world00:02
MUSIC / Double Play: Facing the inquisitor00:02
Nigeria opening00:02
Smaller Companies: All aboard for the big bus ride00:02
MUSIC / New life for the Tsar as Boris wins the day: Claudio Abbado has held his Berlin critics at bay, with a little help from Mussorgsky. Stephen Johnson reports00:02
Sexual exchange costs foreign money dealers their Goldman Sachs jobs00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
'Ripper look-alike seen at snatch site': Murder told of suspicious man00:02
Heart Searching: Together? I'd rather be on my own: Joining an introduction agency does not always lead to happiness. Linda Joffee reports in the first of a series00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Something has gone, never to return: 'Den of Lions' - Terry Anderson: Hodder & Stoughton, 9.99 pounds: Michael Sheridan finds diamonds in the memoirs of Terry Anderson and other hostages00:02
Money in Brief: On the marque00:02
Bosnia: you tell us the way forward00:02
Country Matters: Sparrer's slippery business00:02
NY police in the dock00:02
Market Report: Regulation fears pull the plug on electricity shares00:02
Money in Brief: Forward planning00:02
Test crash00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Murder or suicide: 'Barn Blind' - Jane Smiley: Flamingo, 5.99 pounds - Jane Smiley finds big dramas in small lives. Marianne Brace met the Iowan tragedian00:02
Inchcape wins battle for Hogg Group with pounds 176m bid: Insurers will be merged to create world's seventh-largest insurance broker, which will be floated on London exchange00:02
Taxman to pay for stamp duty bungle00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Racing: Conditions come right for Topsham: The leading chasers are poised to bow out in style as the winter game gives way to summer - Greg Wood on a spring tide that can finally lift one trainer's season out of the doldrums00:02
Ciga bid set to collapse: Sheraton may abandon takeover after share price soars00:02
Major joins battle for threatened Tory stronghold: Martin Whitfield looks at Croydon, where Labour is six seats from power after 116 years00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / Figures to scoff at00:02
Travel: Departures: World tour00:02
Doctors 'stressed'00:02
Letter: Job losses no longer the electoral 'dog that didn't bark'00:02
Berliners jib at Holocaust memorial00:02
Golf: Guepy's crazy round00:02
Travel: Green fingers00:02
Money in Brief: Name change00:02
Travel: Departures: Kicking the bucket00:02
Singapore silent on UK caning plea00:02
Travel: Slow train to Abeokuta: Nigerian railways offer a journey to the past in colonial-style comfort. But be prepared for delays, says Peter Tyzack00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Fair dos00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Keeping mum over the Oedipus complex: 'Baudelaire' - Joanna Richardson: John Murray, 30 pounds - Behind every genius is a woman to blame: Sue Gaisford on a biography of Baudelaire that takes his mother to task00:02
Letter: Plea from a city in the throes of death00:02
Leyland DAF in pounds 8.6m rebound: Management buyout brings a change in fortunes - and name00:02
Hillsdown casualty in baked bean war00:02
Obituary: Elissa Aalto00:02
Rowing: Pinsent and Redgrave lead British armada: Hugh Matheson on the rowing programme devised to maximise gold-medal chances00:02
Dutch mistreat00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Travel: Play it by ear00:02
Money in Brief: Distance banking00:02
Letter: Let's black out D-Day00:02
Rugby Union: Bath and Swansea a point away: Titles at stake00:02
Post union leader's pounds 72,570 tops pay scale: Salaries of the most senior union officials are about to be made public. Barrie Clement investigates00:02
Football Diary: Euro joke ahead of its time00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The yeast of Irish memory: 'The House of Splendid Isolation' - Edna O'Brien: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
US warns N Korea of sanctions00:02
South African Election Guide: KwaZulu gets crash course on how to vote00:02
Florida execution00:02
Nixon daughters in vigil as funeral preparations begin00:02
Seoul PM quits00:02
Money in Brief: Tax maps00:02
Football: Marseille are to be relegated00:02
Leading Article: Fighting friends on Tory beaches00:02
Start-up costs of Channel 5 'halved': Video recorders can be retuned for less than pounds 20m, consortium claims00:02
Aristide cool on US policy00:02
Collecting: Truce declared in the war of words: Hay-on-Wye is as full of comical conflict as it is of secondhand books. John Windsor listened, laughed, and then gave peace a chance00:02
Children listed as at risk of abuse fall by 16 per cent00:02
Squash: Eyles breaks new ground00:02
Nipple care 'cuts risk of breast cancer': Research shows stimulation releases protective hormone while report on victims says 70% prefer minor surgery to removal00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Basketball: Refereeing changes likely for start of next season00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Fleeced yet good value00:02
Money in Brief: Looking East00:02
Income on escalators00:02
South African Election Guide: De Klerk set to protect 'third force' men00:02
CSA misses target00:02
Letter: Neighbourhood life00:02
Cricket: Fraser rejects Illingworth's fitness criticism00:02
THEATRE / Twisted designs: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Leeds00:02
'Geriatric' bird used in illegal sales00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Travel: Departures: Wheelchair traveller00:02
Killed at home00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Football: Horton relieved as war turns to peace: City manager looks forward to his fans' 'cup final' against Manchester rivals today. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Church appointments00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
You did the bizz. Now we give the fizz00:02
Letter: Age is no fault for a scientist00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
Roseanne twist00:02
Pole position00:02
Travel: Departures: Island jazz00:02
View from City Road: The mutuals deserve a place, minus warts00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Colleges to face wait for upgrading: Correction00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Travel: Model trains00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / Tap into a better class of water: Joanna Blythman tries a new source of purity - the mains00:02
Travel: Departures: Sally forth00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Trusty seeds00:02
Pool Re shows pounds 140m City bomb shortfall: Terrorism reinsurer not yet prepared to call on Government for funds00:02
Travel: Departures: Cut-price Portugal00:02
Portillo speech suggests play for leadership: Patricia Wynn Davies on the motive behind a forceful defence of 'Britain's quiet majority'00:02
Hoaxers sacked00:02
C&G's pounds 500 bait gives it edge on mortgages: Vivien Goldsmith explains how the Lloyds windfall applies to new borrowers for a year00:02
Mobile telephones on the move: The fresh service from Orange is set to take a big market segment. Mary Fagan reports00:02
Sports clubs set for action refund: Caroline Merrell says the Government owes up to pounds 40m repayments in VAT wrongly levied00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: Job losses no longer the electoral 'dog that didn't bark'00:02
Obituary: Nakdimon Doniach00:02
Travel: Departures: Child free00:02
FOOD / Recipe: Turning yoghurt into soup00:02
The cherub snaps back00:02
Travel: Radio days00:02
Anniversaries00:02
No D-Day aid00:02
Hawke denies he offered to 'spy' for media baron00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
NOP/Independent Poll: Tories lose trust over economy and crime: Growing signs of economic recovery stubbornly fail to translate into 'feel good' factor the Government needs00:02
Money in Brief: Benefits guide00:02
Postcard from Paris: A skeleton rattles its bones: Farah Nayeri sees the French delight in a new book by Albert Camus00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
View from City Road: Inchcape puts its money on synergy00:02
Vasectomy man holds nerve under hypnosis: Ian MacKinnon joins the media circus as operation goes ahead without anaesthetic00:02
Hamas seeks alliance with PLO00:02
Serbs exploit Kremlin threat to pull troops out of Bosnia00:02
DRINK / Cloudy Bay, sunnier outlook: New Zealand wines are on the up and up, despite a couple of poor harvests, says Anthony Rose, Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
No compensation for victim's widow00:02
Football: Spanish duopoly under threat: Phil Davison reports on little Deportivo's efforts to win a championship race dubbed 'the lollipop war'00:02
Ice Hockey: Title talk of the Devils00:02
Hillary tries to whitewash Whitewater00:02
Wine buffs triumph in vintage court battle00:02
REVIEW / The spy now departing from Platform 2 . . .00:02
Letter: Job losses no longer the electoral 'dog that didn't bark'00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / Treat yourself to the taste of Bavaria00:02
JAZZ / Blues with sass and soul: Phil Johnson reviews Otis Rush at the Jazz Cafe, London00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Innocence chained in a barn: 'The Rye Man' - David Park: Jonathan Cape, 14.99 pounds