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2.6bn pounds DSS computer 'failure'00:02
School gets Berstein musical legacy00:02
Where shall we meet?: Ashbees SW500:02
Obituary: The Most Rev Bill Burnett00:02
Leading Article: Whitehall's fiefdoms fail the mentally ill00:02
On theatre00:02
Sorry, we're fresh out of frogs' legs, thighs, shins . . .00:02
Football: Quinn ready for return00:02
Obituary: Nicky Hopkins00:02
Write-offs tear hole in Cookson profits00:02
Specialist shortage00:02
Law Update: Visiting court00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Cover takes bite out of dental care costs: Alison Eadie reports on the range of oral health plans00:02
People: Prague rockers stuck in a revolutionary groove00:02
Computers: Grandmaster plots the next move: Tim Jackson looks at the human skill and expertise behind Kasparov's defeat by the computer chess program Genius 200:02
Tennis: Agassi one match away from making history: Las Vegas showman has the public's backing but Martin's power game is prepared for role of party-pooper in US Open semi-finals00:02
Law Report: Parole board should give reasons for its decision: Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Pegg. Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Steyn and Mr Justice Kay), 29 July 199400:02
Rugby Union: Cardiff overcome wounded Neath00:02
Cuba confirms contacts with exiles00:02
The Brighton amputation: Consultants oust unpopular boss00:02
Anniversaries00:02
FILM / Wyatt Earp: how the West was worn00:02
Sun Alliance plans to close 64 Swinton branches00:02
Balkan tensions find new echo in a divided Cyprus00:02
Best-Sellers: Top 10 Munros00:02
EU market threat to wildlife species00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Concern over 'dodgy' forensic science firms00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Computer link to watches: Products small enough to wear are offering owners vast amounts of information (CORRECTED)00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Computers: Feedback00:02
Taiwan in from cold after long US freeze00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Hospitals adapt to growing challenge of briefer stays: Many operations can now be done in half the time, Lynne Curry reports00:02
Major's EU line wins support00:02
Foreign affairs advisers remain decisive players: Donald Macintyre examines the role of a key group of civil servants00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Insurers use muscle to keep prices down: Hospitals must be prepared to negotiate over their charges, says Mike Truman00:02
Rugby League: White welcomed00:02
BTR warns of pressure on profit margins: Shares tumble as City fears for companies reporting00:02
London walks: Temples, towpaths and evergreens: Osterley Park00:02
Appraisals not altering teachers00:02
Letter: UN won't keep its message under wraps00:02
Allies bid Berlin last farewell00:02
Ceasefire halts Bougainville revolt00:02
MUSIC / Worlds of the flesh: Adrian Jack on a Charpentier double-bill from Les Arts Florissants at the Wigmore Hall, London00:02
Letter: Cost of old age should be met by government00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
FA fine eats into Tottenham profits00:02
Labour calls for 'rolling' votes register00:02
British Gas seeks option to dispose of supply arm00:02
Law Report: Long trials avoided by severance: Regina v Kellard and others. Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (Lord Justice Farquharson, Mr Justice Gatehouse and Mr Justice Scott Baker), 29 July 199400:02
Enterprise Oil insists there is life after Lasmo: The bid cost pounds 23.8m, but the dividend was held, the shares are up and acquisitions are being sought. Alison Eadie reports00:02
Rising standards00:02
Leading Article: Allied farewell to Berlin00:02
Royal anger at grant-aid reports: Danny Penman and Rhys Williams look at media coverage of the palace's spending (CORRECTED)00:02
Markets need not fear house moves00:02
Market Report: BTR paves way for plunge on company profit fears00:02
After Hours00:02
The Rail Dispute: One 'well-qualified' manager runs 32 miles of main route00:02
City and Business in Brief00:02
Law: The appliance of science: Can organisational psychology help firms through recession? Paula Nicholson reports00:02
The baby I pictured in life and death: Bruce Goodison filmed his daughter's birth, and photography brought solace after she died in her cot00:02
Law Update: Relaxing at home00:02
Asia File: East Timor's fate stirs Mandela00:02
Plea to peg rates after high street spending stalls00:02
Glaxo rethinks after collapse of bond market cost 131m pounds: Zantac drives 15% growth in sales at drug giant00:02
On pop00:02
Stalker affair inquests abandoned: Coroner decides denial of access to police reports means he is unable to discover truth about 'shoot-to-kill' claims. David McKittrick reports Stalker affair inquests abandoned00:02
TUC Conference: Conservatives 'use quangos to side-step democracy'00:02
Bottom Line: Healthy signs for unloved Glaxo00:02
FILM / Take one actor: Here's looking at you00:02
The Daily Poem: Laugh00:02
Chapter two: troops out: Sinn Fein has bought approval from the South. Now, argues Conor Cruise O'Brien, the pressure is all on Downing Street00:02
Coroner calls for change to Army 'live-fire' training00:02
Special Report on Private Health: 'Mixed economy' way forward for NHS: Christine Stopp examines the changing shape of healthcare00:02
FILM / 1895: a year of miracles: The Chronicle of Cinema 1895-199500:02
Correction: Obituary: Eric Crozier00:02
Bottom Line: Pick of the sector00:02
BOOK REVIEW / It was a bit of a jape, but don't tell the wife: 'My Autobiography' - Ian Botham; Collins Willow, 15.99 pounds00:02
Loyalist shift raises hopes of ceasefire00:02
Rogers proposes glass umbrella for concrete South Bank: Jonathan Glancey looks at plans to revamp London's cultural centre and surroundings with a cover of glass00:02
Letter: Unheard voice of the Northern Ireland peace process00:02
Letter: Moral questions raised by Philby sale00:02
View from City Road: The markets misread BTR00:02
Exhibitions: All washed up: Len Shelley's surreal creatures, made from flotsam and jetsam, are uncannily human. Robin Dutt sifts the evidence00:02
Football: Ipswich sign pounds 1m Uruguayan00:02
Howard claims European chemicals add to drug threat00:02
US rattles sabre again ovaer Haiti00:02
Killer from the lonely hearts page gets life sentence00:02
Heseltine urges top businessmen to curb own pay00:02
View from abroad: John Berendt00:02
FBI admits men in dark glasses did harass Lennon00:02
Broadcaster dies00:02
BT faces rival cheap mobile calls service00:02
Law: Looking out for individuals: Sharon Wallach on how people can reverse out of the career cul-de-sac00:02
UN Population Conference: Nile wives brave foes of birth control: Robert Fisk in Burtous finds an older fundamentalism very much at odds with the idea of family planning00:02
The world's fastest work of art hops into Hong Kong00:02
My Week: Weddings, pasties and an affinity with Poe: John Love struggles with the canteen and a script on the side while working behind a busy hotel bar00:02
Parks cash pledge00:02
Letter: Reducing the chance of child abuse00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Cone complaints00:02
How to get something for nothing: Hare Krishna: Correction00:02
TUC Conference: Unions urged to join Channel link firms: GMB excited at prospect of joining project, as Congress votes to keep railways in public sector00:02
Rugby Union: Cardiff finish in style00:02
Law Update: Welsh merger00:02
Laing says rate rise would hit confidence00:02
Bottom Line: Sweet success00:02
Cricket: Graduates keep Surrey sliding: Parker scores maiden century - Blow to Leicestershire's runners-up hopes00:02
Non-League Football: Sterland's quest00:02
Law Update: Solicitor as sleuth00:02
View from City Road: Capital mix-up for insurers00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rugby Union: RFU gives ground over allowances: Hardship money for England players00:02
Athletics: Jackson forced to withdraw from World Cup: Further blow for Britain on eve of Crystal Palace final as IAAF and BAF reach accord over Modahl affair00:02
Church & Co strides to 53% interim gain00:02
Pembroke: Hit for six by a slow delivery00:02
Windsors display new litigious streak00:02
Councils accused of scare stories over reform plans00:02
Cricket: Smith plays games00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Costs rise as six-week rule is threatened: Insurers have responded to rising charges and more claims by tailoring their policies to specific groups, writes Alison Eadie00:02
Gulf widens at the Savoy00:02
Football: National threat to fixtures: Club and country conflict to cause Premiership chaos00:02
The Rail Dispute: Railtrack chief gives 'no surrender' message: Horton in uncompromising mood as union clashes with BR over the number of trains running00:02
Just one more step, Mr Major: Jacques Attali wonders whether Britain will be joining the management board of Europe00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Medical care 'can be withdrawn'00:02
Letter: Drugs policy pushes Bolivia closer to war00:02
The Rail Dispute: Llandudno express defeats strikers . . . and passengers00:02
Swimming: Holiday for German who gave up final00:02
Football: England in search for challenges: Glenn Moore on the pitfalls of the hosts' automatic place in Euro '9600:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Global plan for a better family00:02
Loyalists set out terms for peace00:02
Environmentalists claim first pollution inventory is 'flawed': Government inspectorate says list of industrial chemical emissions is 'an important start'00:02
Greenpeace says US sold nuclear secrets to Japan00:02
Letter: Unheard voice of the Northern Ireland peace process00:02
Dear John Drummond: Last Night of the Proms00:02
Banks propose to derive and tell00:02
Golf: Montgomerie leads battle of big men: Golf: Claydon weighs in with a 67 to trail fellow heavyweight by one shot after the first round of European Open00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Critical illness premiums fall: Competition leads to lower charges, writes Alison Eadie00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Fit workers for healthy profits: Wellness schemes make financial sense, says Andrew Bibby00:02
Sales rise aids Royal Doulton00:02
Six charged in 'friendly fire' case00:02
TELEVISION / Fact is stranger than fiction - but not as funny00:02
FILM / That shrinking feeling: Mr Jones and Color of Night00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Children aged 3 'care for disabled' disabled parents'00:02
Security patrols 'cut crime'00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Pupils captivated by 'hands-on' science menu00:02
Price war fears knock Blue Circle shares00:02
Basketball: Giants walk tall: Defeat not a disaster00:02
Traffic cone complaints result in 3 removals00:02
Letter: Moral questions raised by Philby sale00:02
UN Population Conference: Brundtland 'attack on faith' riles Iran00:02
Our brains are scrambled in sickly celebrity sauce: Nicholas Roe marvels that Sainsbury's has managed to make fame a staple ingredient of the British diet00:02
Letter: Moral questions raised by Philby sale00:02
Letter: Equality at the Proms00:02
THEATRE / A hostage to good taste: Paul Taylor on My Goat at the Cockpit Theatre00:02
Syria rejects plan for a limited Golan pull-out00:02
Juror collapses00:02
Cadbury withstands cola battle: Soft drinks sales through Sainsbury rise00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Profits to be made in business of care: Lynne Curry talks to the company chairman who brought financial discipline to nursing the elderly00:02
Diary00:02
Arjo Wiggins displays benefit of higher European demand00:02
Hutu troops preparing for war00:02
French draw veil over photos of nude Prince00:02
EC challenge to false police data00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Serbs fire on British Harriers00:02
Today's number: 75,00000:02
TUC Conference: Grants to competitors 'threaten oil rig makers'00:02
Goodbye to the Hong Kong high life: Young Britons heading for a last outpost of empire are in for a shock, says Jojo Moyes00:02
Peter King plays Charlie Parker's Grafton plastic saxophone00:02
Birthdays00:02
Building societies spar over house prices00:02
Outside Edge00:02
Special Report on Private Health: Walking back to happiness: Paul Gosling meets an osteo-arthritis victim on the road to recovery00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
On cinema00:02
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Soap may have caused fall in sperm counts: British Association for the Advancement of Science: Reports by Susan Watts and Tom Wilkie in Loughborough00:02
Imagine all the agents ..00:02
Leading Article: Better way to find missing voters00:02
Football: Irish find a silver lining: Guy Hodgson sights two beacons amid Hamilton's gloom00:02
Walker denies 5m pounds consultancy fee was bogus payment00:02
MPs cast doubt on viability of wind power: Renewable energy research attacked00:02
Keeping the peace puts Nato and UN at odds00:02
View from City Road: One too many from One-2-One00:02
Letter: Equality at the Proms00:02
Racing: Swinburn survives Soviet show trial: Doncaster St Leger meeting: Stoute stable steals rivals' thunder, as subdued Sacrament drifts00:02
Fears over eye tests00:02
Computers: The worm that turned: Mary Dejevsky's feminist attack on Windows last week struck a nerve00:02
Link with Lloyds to cost C&G 8m pounds00:02
Mitterrand: 'I don't have much time': President's interview with 'Le Figaro' fuels speculation that illness will force him to step down, provoking an early election00:02
A trip to Mayfair with a legacy in my pocket: Hugo Blick discovers that you don't need to be an art connoisseur to play to the galleries of SW1. Having a good eye and a generous relative works well too00:02
Disease alert on fish farm00:02
Algeria to release jailed FIS leaders00:02
Queen considers suing the media over spending row00:02
Body Shop's cool image makes point for rhinos00:02
Anger over mental health cash move00:02
Obituary: James Clavell00:02
Football: Shortage of strikers may undermine Scots: Phil Shaw on the attacking shortcomings an opening win in Finland cannot conceal00:02
Environmentalists claim first pollution inventory is 'flawed': Government inspectorate says list of industrial chemical emissions is 'an important start'