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Travel: Meatloaf with midges in the monsoon: The torrential rains and sandflies were bad enough, but New Zealand's non-stop pop music was too much for Paul Buttle00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Review: A sitcom with a certain air: it stinks00:02
SA amnesty terms00:02
3i pushes ahead for flotation next month: Venture capital group to brave deteriorating stock market00:02
Food & Drink: Learning the score about wine: Sir Harrison Birtwistle finds richer pickings for his cellar in rural France than he did on his remote Scottish isle, says Anthony Rose00:02
Motor Racing: Racing destiny of the Unser dynasty: Toni Toomey on the latest in a long line of Indy 500 champions who have emerged from the same family00:02
Travel / Departures: Hotline for buses00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Coda00:02
French intellectuals stand for Sarajevo00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
'Eyesore' listed00:02
Sainsbury backs down again over packaging00:02
Motor Racing: Briton sticks to short-term planning: Mike Rowbottom on Nigel Mansell's plan to concentrate on America00:02
Money In Brief: Up to scratch00:02
NatWest prepares to bid for Irish bank00:02
Service appointments00:02
Hasbro snaps up JW Spear: My Little Pony in surprise takeover that values Scrabble maker at pounds 47.9m00:02
Food & Drink: How food can tell you where it's been00:02
Money In Brief: Calling free00:02
Ex-wife wins shared pension rights: Vivien Goldsmith looks at a judgment that may set a precedent in divorce00:02
ART / The Living Dead: The devil's work: In the first of a new monthly series about the afterlife of late great artists, Kevin Jackson considers the presence, in person and in spirit, of Franz Kafka in literature, art and drama00:02
Letter: Backward seats are the way forward00:02
Travel / Departures: Rough, and ready00:02
Kohl currency hopes alarm Tories00:02
Travel: Organised rail chaos00:02
Property: Time to sell it with flowers: The wisteria's wonderful, rhododendrons are a riot, so spring into action says Anne Spackman00:02
The Week in Review00:02
Boycott on tests for 14-year-olds00:02
Unita batters siege town00:02
Three jailed over Channel racket in cheap beer00:02
Barking By-Election: Socialist abandons red flag for the modern approach: Former Islington leader with radical past is model Labour candidate00:02
Move to extradite women attacked by peers00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tell us another, Uncle Henryk: Moving House and other stories - Pawel Huelle Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones: Bloomsbury, pounds 13.9900:02
Rebels buy time00:02
Cricket: Crawley is out on his own00:02
Leading Article: A killer bug and a learning curve00:02
Gardening: Colourful truths about the garden states: Peter Parker, on a trip to America, discovered how gardeners cope with the long hot summer in Texas00:02
De La Rue pulls out of Portals bid talks00:02
Muslims push back Serbs00:02
Letter: Japan's history of international contacts00:02
Cricket: Leicestershire's progress cramped by damp00:02
Obituary: Forsyth Hardy00:02
Selling shares in May isn't always the way: Research into stock market history unearths some surprising facts, says Quentin Lumsden00:02
Cricket Round-up: Ball-tampering mystery00:02
Travel / Departures: Channel fare deal00:02
One day in the stormy life of Solzhenitsyn: Andrew Higgins, in Vladivostok, saw a Russian prophet return to his own country00:02
Howl of the grey wolf returns to haunt the Rockies: Rupert Cornwell in Idaho's Bear Valley reports on a plan to bring Canis lupus back to its old home00:02
BOOKS / Classic Thoughts: A joy stripped naked: Natasha Walter on Vladimir Nabokov's late great novel, Ada, which was published 25 years ago this month00:02
Scottish Episcopal Church00:02
Letter: Why different taxmen for the Queen and I?00:02
Murder hunt arrest00:02
View from City Road: Strange secrets at Portals00:02
Royal College of Physicians00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
3i special deals offered00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
TeleWest postpones planned flotation00:02
Cricket: Illingworth preparing to impose his authority: Atherton's dinner date to signal end of the captain-manager closed shop as England selectors face challenge from New Zealand00:02
Bank of Scotland chief receives 47 per cent rise00:02
Property: Estate agents with their little bit on the side00:02
Cricket: Malcolm bowling at near his best00:02
Mitterrand angers the new order in Italy00:02
Football: Garner going for a play-off treble: Trevor Haylett on the weekend's play-off games00:02
McAliskey defeat00:02
Appointments00:02
MOTORING / The enthusiast driving Mazda to the market: Jan Smith, the top woman in a man's world, relishes the challenge of the car business, reports Phil Llewellin00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Chechen kidnap gang dished by double act00:02
Cricket: Hancock holds up Surrey00:02
15% bond guarantee00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Solicitor in sex case has jail sentence cut00:02
D-Day is recalled by 4,000 veterans in royal tribute: Duke of Edinburgh inspects ex-soldiers as Hampshire remembers its sacrifices. Will Bennett reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Travel: Distress flair00:02
PLO cancels deal00:02
Letter: Effectiveness of a police helicopter00:02
Sailing: Smith takes a gamble and heads north00:02
View from City Road: Mixed fortunes down the cable00:02
Travel / Departures: Nashville debut00:02
Faith and Reason: God hides that we may seek Him: In our debate on whether God is guilty, David J. Goldberg, Rabbi of the Liberal Jewish synagogue in St John's Wood, London, enters a plea of 'not proven' for the defendant.00:02
Letter: Little justice in a ban on the right of silence00:02
View from City Road: 3i offers a glimmer of hope00:02
Money In Brief: Card hotline00:02
Money In Brief: Funeral ombudsman00:02
Travel / Departures: Disney fast track00:02
Firebomb murder convictions quashed00:02
BOOKS / Thunder, fire and burbling birds: Jan Morris on a brilliant account of a woman on the loose in the Australian outback: Daisy Bates in the Desert - Julia Blackburn: Secker, pounds 16.9900:02
CSA suicide00:02
Food & Drink: Prickly but soft at heart: Globe artichokes are fiddly to prepare, but their delectable flavour is ample reward00:02
Cricket: Lara slips on sixth successive century: Hundreds record escapes Warwickshire's philosophical West Indian, bowled by 19-year-old Johnson00:02
Secret documents that Solzhenitsyn left: Julian Nundy remembers his time in Moscow during the dramatic events surrounding the exile of the dissident writer00:02
Deputy Lieutenants00:02
Money In Brief: Policy auction00:02
Whale haven angers Japan00:02
Rate fears send shares diving: Footsie plunges to lowest in eight months - Worries fuelled by worsening outlook for US inflation00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: On the nail00:02
Letter: MPs make hard work of tired excuses00:02
Church appointments00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion: David Lister charts a sea change away from rap towards memorable melodies00:02
Appeals: The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery00:02
'Safari boy' held00:02
Cornhill fined pounds 150,000 over insurance salesmen00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Out of Russia: Muscovites crave 'cottagi'00:02
Footballer 'may have tried to fool referee'00:02
How to cut down the costa: Andrew Bibby starts with Spain in the first of a series on dealing with holiday spending money in different countries00:02
Appeals: Plan International00:02
BBC faces pounds 1.5m bill after libel case: Drug company wins damages over claims in TV programme. Celia Hall reports00:02
Profile: A bright spark under pressure: Clare Spottiswoode, head of Ofgas, gets a grilling00:02
Tennis: Tillstrom earns tilt at Sampras: French Open Championships00:02
Sharon throws down gauntlet for top job00:02
Death faked at sea00:02
Travel: Plane crazy00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A raft of love goes sailing off: A second life - Dermot Bolger: Viking, pounds 1500:02
Dairy farm faces charges00:02
Letter: ITV successes in quality drama00:02
Royal Aeronautical Society00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Hockey: Nevill facing Parker00:02
Excursions: The big thrill: The world's fastest, tallest roller-coaster is unleashed in Blackpool today. Berit Virtanen hurtles through hell and back00:02
Dixon to clear the debts for expansion00:02
Travel / Departures: No holds barred?00:02
Christians have faith in thriving business00:02
Hungarian goulash00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Motor Racing: Family at war finds a formula for peace: Schumacher takes familiar position at the front after the grand prix drivers and teams agree to return to the racetrack00:02
Rocketing cost of race bias in the US00:02
Obituary: Anni Albers00:02
Crunch match of Wigs v Tracksuits00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Money In Brief: Tax guides00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell has a bee in bonnet over Penske00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Rights groups condemn Clinton over China00:02
View from City Road: Market overlooks the fundamentals00:02
Travel: Behind the times00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Yemen peace drive00:02
Travel / Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Golf: Lyle rolls back years: Jovial Scot completes his PGA first round without a bogey00:02
Market Report: US influences provoke another share tumble00:02
Football / The Diary: Burnley's burning passion00:02
Options: Make the most of a spare pounds 250: An investment mix is preferable to putting all your eggs in one basket00:02
Church of Scotland00:02
Doctor may have passed killer bug to patients00:02
Travel / Departures: Chart of charts00:02
Travel: Hoofing it up the slow lane: Built for horses before the age of steam, canal towpaths are perfect, peaceful routes for walkers who want to go gently, says Tony Kelly00:02
Football: German test for Irish00:02
Obituary: Leo Kuper00:02
Food & Drink: Still crazy after all these years: Scotch was born, it seems, on 28 May 1494. Michael Jackson raises his tumbler to it00:02
Football: No goal from Gullit but Dutch can feel satisfied: Shearer salvages pride for Scotland with a late strike00:02
BOOKS / Second Thoughts: God's asleep nowadays: Tim Pears on his first novel In The Place of Fallen Leaves (Black Swan, pounds 5.99)00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Where words fail: Bayan Northcott reflects on the ambiguities behind a new anthology of (nearly) all the non-operatic texts set by Benjamin Britten: Benjamin Britten's Poets - edited by Boris Ford: Carcanet, pounds 2500:02
Gulf war payments00:02
ARTS / And What's More ..00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Old ghosts ride the buses: Anthony Quinn on a new novel by E L Doctorow that brings New York to bristling life: The Waterworks - E L Doctorow: Macmillan, pounds 14.9900:02
Football: May agrees his move to United00:02
Rugby Union: England need faith in Golden Lions' den: Ellis Park appears an inhospitable venue for Carling's tourists as they attempt to get show back on road00:02
Obituary: Elias Motsoaledi00:02
BOOKS / Postcard from Spain: Sage enemas and insults: Justin Webster on a swinish literary row with a long tradition00:02
Boots sells Farley's baby foods: Deal with Heinz helps company's core products strategy00:02
Border boulder back00:02
Country Matters: The foresters' tree of knowledge00:02
Letter: Backward seats are the way forward00:02
THEATRE / Distant echoes: Paul Taylor reviews Anne Devlin's After Easter00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Alway's getting into trouble00:02
Racing: Why racing must act to stem the Derby's decline: A once great race is in trouble and next Wednesday's Classic is unlikely to reverse the trend. Richard Edmondson calls for change00:02
Travel: Plane crazy00:02
Bank clerk jailed00:02
Obituary: Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Police end Romeo's monkey business00:02
Record art sale00:02
Court Circular00:02
JAZZ / House calls: Phil Johnson on MAC Rebennack at the Jazz Cafe00:02
Racing: Italians present clues for Epsom00:02
Travel / Departures: Late packages00:02
Rugby Union: Wales are quick to replace their accident-prone tourists00:02
Money In Brief: Pension relief00:02
Gardening / Tool Box: Sheer practicality in black hose00:02
Rosemary West charged with daughter's killing00:02
Duma defiant00:02
BOOKS / Down a little deeper: At the Hay Festival, Michael Glover listens to David Grossman and Doris Lessing00:02
Wills00:02
Man held in murder hunt00:02
Colombian fat ladies hold Madrid in thrall00:02
Talks on stability fan old enmities00:02
Travel: A little Spanish practice, a lot of happy hours: Life is sweet for the lingo gringos in Antigua, Guatemala's bustling language-tuition capital, says James Wilson00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Mass action00:02
Letter: Means to an end00:02
A lesson in survival for Angola's shell-shocked orphans: Civil war has wrecked the town of Cuito but Karl Maier finds it's business as normal in schools and shops00:02
Birthdays00:02
Pilot checked00:02
MOTORING / Road Test: A very moveable Fiesta: The XR2i was too hot for insurers. The Si is cool, says John Simister00:02
Travel: Transylvania for suckers: Carole Cadwalladr fancied a ghouls' night out in Brasov, but she missed the incubus and could find nothing to get her teeth into00:02
Irish 'could be taught in Ulster'00:02
Sweep beggars off streets, Prime Minister demands00:02
Thorn EMI sells security side to managers for pounds 38m00:02
New TSB fixed-rate mortgages00:02
Colombia election set for run-off00:02
Anniversaries00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: Ecstasy without the agony00:02
HSBC defuses Third World debt problem00:02
Racing: Erhaab hardens along with the Epsom going00:02
Coffee producers warn of further price rises: Commodity speculation may hit consumers. Alison Eadie reports00:02
Beggars dismiss PM's attack as rubbish: John Major says there is no need for 'eyesores' on the streets. Simon Midgley reports00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
A good life that shines through death00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Food & Drink: More kitchen and less kitsch: Emily Green extends a welcome to a sensible revival in west London and a new departure from Waterloo00:02
British goodbye00:02
Rivals criticise SBC over role in Eurotunnel rights: Swiss Bank demands 'nearly scuppered deal'00:02
Fine Foods keeps payout off menu for now00:02
Couple's death pact00:02
Money Grouse: Dealing with an identity crisis00:02
Small ad, big adventure: Three girls, two bottles of wine and a thesaurus came up with the perfect advertisement. Now all they are looking for is a reply, writes Lynette Ross00:02
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