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RADIO / Vowel, vowel, vowel, vowel]: John Gielgud, 90 this week, sounded as good as ever in the role of King Lear. But the Renaissance production was not the tribute it might have been, says Robert Hanks00:02
Drop in value of assets lowers Bilton's shares00:02
Weisfelds bail out Brown & Jackson: Husband and wife inject pounds 6m into Poundstretcher00:02
ART / The secret meaning of snooker: Water Table is one of the simplest and oddest of all the creations from the installation artist Richard Wilson. By Andrew Graham-Dixon00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Hunt for walker00:02
More houses stand empty as homeless total doubles: Number of vacant private properties has risen by 225,000 in a decade00:02
Health Update: Bags of trouble00:02
Prison 'needs X-ray security to beat drugs': Children used for smuggling into private jail00:02
Local Elections: Major puts campaign strategy to the test: Birmingham sets scene for elections00:02
Restrictions lobby raises stakes: More than 200 MPs are in favour of further curbs on the availability of videos. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
South African Elections: History repeats itself for family of white Zulu chief: Karl Maier reports from Mangete after tracing the fortunes of the descendants of a colourful 19th-century patriarch00:02
Censorship chief plays new part in familiar plot00:02
'Fridge' car sold00:02
'Super' rat found00:02
ART / Always check the small prints: Revised, copied and faked, original prints by Old Masters are difficult to spot. Which, says Dalya Alberge, is part of their appeal00:02
Diary: Time's up for our man in New York00:02
Rwandan soldiers bring death to hospital00:02
Lubricants add shine to Burmah Castrol results00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Letter: Non-competitive sports encourage pupil participation00:02
View from City Road: Past the need for lab privatisation00:02
'No help' for pit00:02
Letter: Going for a Burton in a billiard hall00:02
Pembroke: Franklin is putting on its own Ritz00:02
Protest vote casts doubt on Menem poll victory00:02
Bottom Line: On the way up00:02
ARTS / In the blood Heart and soil: Tess Knighton on new voices at the Spanish Arts Festival00:02
Moscow-Kiev relations hit rock bottom00:02
Brown sets out 'fairness agenda'00:02
Alarm warning00:02
Wakebourne hit by pounds 18.6m loss: Write-off of US investment drives computer specialist into the red00:02
Letter: Video censorship lacks sensitivity00:02
REVIEW / Bringing in Bond to fight the blooming soap00:02
Schools 'unable to correct failings'00:02
Bottom Line: Castrol smoothes Burmah's path00:02
Leading Article: A test for the UN and Mr Yeltsin00:02
Spanish scandals00:02
Germans accused of toppling Lancer: Banks criticised for strong-arm tactics over subsidiary's ownership Lack of cross-border agreement exposed00:02
Monks clash with police in temple protest00:02
Leading Article: Golfers show Britain a way out of the bunker00:02
Buyers oppose milk shake-up: Privatised marketing board must be better regulated, DTF insists00:02
View from City Road: Getting what they want for a bargain00:02
Minister outlines first steps in coal sale00:02
View from City Road: Lancer Boss uncovers German unease00:02
Vandals slash exhibition paintings00:02
Greeks back defiance on Macedonia00:02
Golf / US Masters: No more fine messes for Master Olly: Seve told him he was the best and Jose-Maria Olazabal finally proved it. Tim Glover salutes an overdue triumph00:02
Health trusts 'miss cash targets'00:02
Health Update: Better for bones00:02
Letter: Video censorship lacks sensitivity00:02
Censorship of 'video nasties' to be tightened by Howard: Ministers in U-turn to head off Commons defeat by Tory rebels00:02
Cut-price Australia00:02
Rocket threat to 'Ark Royal'00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Obituary: Ruth Jordan00:02
Letter: Poor compensation00:02
Jets boost for Israel00:02
Squash: Jansher makes it three in a row: Defeat for one Martin but success for another at British Open00:02
Disorder treated by nicotine patches00:02
Kissinger and Carrington to be peace brokers in Zulu war00:02
Taiwan ban00:02
Stasi man jailed for 'Carlos' link00:02
Mezzanine supplier to float: Placing will value Intermediate Capital Group at pounds 100m00:02
Health Update: Glue ear myth00:02
Health: The nightmare under the knife: Anaesthetists in Cambridge may have found a way of ensuring patients do not wake up during operations. Nigel Howard reports00:02
Health Update: Painful treatment00:02
Serb guns silenced by second air strike: Yeltsin condemns lack of US consultation over Nato action00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Television Soaps (1-27 March)00:02
Was that Moses? Or ZZ Top?: Peter Rosengard had the perfect surprise for his parents - he disguised himself as a Hassidic Jew. But then his glue-on beard began to melt . . .00:02
Algeria's Prime Minister resigns00:02
Clintons admit wrongdoing over failure to pay tax00:02
Ban on Kurds00:02
Local Elections: Mr Nice Guy avoids risks on campaign trail: Stephen Ward found the Prime Minister in polite form on a visit to the Second City00:02
Health: Vaccination: do you know the risks?: Jan Roberts meets parents who believe immunisation against measles, mumps and rubella injured their children00:02
Two killed in 50-vehicle pile-up on fogbound M600:02
Strong market lifts Rathbones result00:02
Young criminals 'prefer soaps to horror'00:02
Health Update: Child killer00:02
Market Report: Forte steps up chase for French hotels group00:02
Rugby Union: Bath need European challenge00:02
ART / What's more . . .00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Italy charges00:02
Fire deaths00:02
Nationwide lifts cost of fixed-rate mortgages00:02
Today's Number: 1,000,00000:02
The Daily Poem: Lauren00:02
RCN warning on paediatric care00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
China execution00:02
Football: Graham asks for a game of patience: Arsenal cautious00:02
Last laughs from Benny Hill's school of humour: Ostracised at home, the comedian received a warm reception in the US. David Lister reports00:02
Probation for woman who let baby die in squalor: Jury pleaded with judge to be lenient00:02
Labour attacks murder limit law00:02
Bottom Line: Missing information00:02
Indulge the bosses and spoil the child: In the Seventies she was Britain's answer to Dr Spock: put children first, she said, and did we listen? Now she feels she must tell us again. Penelope Leach talks to Angela Lambert00:02
Funeral findings00:02
Letter: Non-competitive sports encourage pupil participation00:02
Howard retreats on 'video nasties': Film censorship will be toughened to stave off defeat in Commons00:02
Woman killed YMCA helper00:02
Strikes raise US stakes in war00:02
Law Report: Wholesome water action lawful: Regina v Secretary of State for the Environment, Ex parte Friends of the Earth and another - Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Schiemann), 29 March 199400:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Tasmania gay row00:02
Footballer jailed00:02
Wary sales force collects fewer premiums for L&M00:02
Dear Rosemary Henderson: The Independent on Sunday's racing writer offers a message of congratulation to the 51-year-old woman who beat the odds -and most of the men - to finish fifth in the Grand National00:02
Badminton: Nielsen hits medal trail00:02
South African Elections: White right-winger awaits call to go to war for 'volkstaat': Niek Deetleefs tells John Carlin in Orkney, Western Transvaal, why his Christian beliefs do not allow him to vote on 26 April00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Profits up 25% at Greenacre: Nursing home operator to boost acquisitions and building plan00:02
THEATRE / Those undercover blues: Paul Taylor reviews Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg at the Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court00:02
British UN troops put on high alert: Bosnian Serbs defy Gorazde ultimatum - Nordic soldiers taken hostage - Rift opens between Washington and Moscow00:02
Where are they now?: Dick Beardsley00:02
A seat on Centre Court for 19,625 pounds00:02
Minister delays art exports00:02
Convictions for cruelty to horses rise 60 per cent: RSPCA says recession a factor in mistreatment cases00:02
Crisis highlights snags00:02
Letter: The past in ruins00:02
Rugby Union: End of an era as Dooley announces retirement: Steve Bale applauds the Blackpool tower's record-breaking career as a rugby union lock00:02
Letter: Falling into a 'cultural trough'00:02
Kitty Little's sights on top French group: Shares suspended in bid for France's biggest maker of spectacle frames00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV tips00:02
Palestinians have little faith in Hebron monitors00:02
Armed raiders hijack lorry00:02
Health Update: Timely relief for pregnant women00:02
Schindler off00:02
Bombers injure 11 in attack on homes: Loyalist terrorists target 'wrong' houses00:02
Poker: Simplicity on the surface00:02
Two die after sabotage in intensive care unit00:02
Literati gather at pounds 30,000 prize launch to begin search for best of British writers00:02
Chess: Anand speedily plays a blinder00:02
DANCE / Naked thorns: Judith Mackrell on Scottish Ballet's Sleeping Beauty00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Prisoner on run00:02
Profits kept low in electricals00:02
Torturers jailed00:02
Rugby League: Wigan and Bradford prepare for their summit meetings: Northern's composure disturbed by a controversy over the price of admission to tonight's rearranged fixture at Odsal00:02
Obituary: James Begg00:02
ART / Artefacts00:02
Kohl's allies deny split00:02
Partition may be Bosnia's only hope for peace00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Vicar jailed for attacks on boys00:02
ART / Openings00:02
Australian holidays for pounds 49900:02
On Tour00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Football: Cantona contented at Old Trafford00:02
It isn't winning or losing, but how you pray the game00:02
Rugby Union / Women's World Championship: Understanding the appeal of the oval-ball game: Why is it that women play rugby? Bess Evans, a Welsh international, explains the allure, and assesses the challenge her team face in Scotland00:02
Lib Dems raise pressure over by-election writ: Delay could lead to censure by Speaker00:02
Blot on a Serbian landscape: For General Mladic, Gorazde is unfinished business. Robert Block and Emma Daly explain its significance00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Non-competitive sports encourage pupil participation00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Local Elections: Council focus on homes policy00:02
Mid Anglia Radio board backs pounds 3.5m GWR offer00:02
River rescue00:02
Father 'hired men to kidnap daughter': Man denies snatching four-year-old00:02
Go on, let's have a proper argument00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The gentle art of making a pile of money: 'BRITISH IMPERIALISM: Volumes I and II' - P J Cain, A G Hopkins: Longman, 16.99 pounds / 12.99 pounds00:02
Banks act to avert derivatives crackdown00:02
Fire destroys indoor market00:02
Letter: Pension schemes limit job mobility00:02
UN says Tasmania gay law violates human rights00:02
A colourful character bows out00:02
Political risk may come to the fore00:02
Volatility boosts US securities00:02
Football / Race for the Premiership: Shearer brings Rovers level: One goal enough for Dalglish's team to push title struggle with Manchester United to a new intensity00:02
Pope delays trip00:02
Zhirinovsky spits back00:02
MUSIC / Beware of cheap imitations: EDWARD SECKERSON00:02
Why bullets are flying in Anderson country00:02
Tax concerns deter borrowers00:02
Japan ruling coalition threatens to fall apart: Left-right divisions after PM quits are both personal and ideological00:02
Tory leadership still at issue as MPs return: Some critics doubt the Prime Minister's wisdom in staking his authority on the mid-term results. Colin Brown reports00:02
Obituary: Professor Jerome Lejeune00:02
Leading Article: The right to rent nasty videos00:02
Unsuitable for childish eyes?: By legislation or stealth, we are heading for video censorship, argues Tom Dewe Mathews00:02
Rugby Union / Women's World Championship: England have to beg to ask the question: Few favours for the favourites as sponsors turn their backs on one of the fastest growing sports00:02
Dogs 'kept in airless rooms'00:02
Football: Ruddock and Jobson join Venables' list00:02
Orb Estates00:02
Football: Backlog for United00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Motorway inquiry00:02
Rugby Union / Women's World Championship: Russian team are running on empty00:02
Fast and fancy food on the wing: Alpha Airlines has found the right ingredients for in-flight catering00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Ice Hockey: Wembley tonic for the Devils00:02
Paraglider crashes00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Russia's delicate relations with West00:02
French mavericks attack free trade00:02
View from City Road: Top supervision not tougher standards00:02
Racing: Classic hopes come to trial: The spotlight turns its glare towards the Flat and the time has come for talking horses to be asked big questions00:02
Cricket: Fraser the key to hope of victory: England seek 350 total00:02
Police officer guards site of human remains00:02
Letter: Jews who have found their Messiah00:02
Creativity: You know what I mean?00:02
People: Suicide grunge star's note tells of 'lost passion'00:02
Chimp bites off student's finger at Aspinall zoo: Environmental health officials launch inquiry into second attack by 11-stone animal in five years00:02
Auction with a twist illustrates history of the corkscrew from three centuries00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell glad to survive00:02
Video nasties: How rebels won film violence pledge: Public pressure to tighten censorship grows despite lack of evidence of link between viewing and crime00:02
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