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Weightlifting: British weightlifting on the spot: Robert Cole on the decision to be made today on the British lifters sent home from the Olympics for drug-taking00:02
Rebels given a way back: Major plays safe on Maastricht motion but gives Labour political headache00:02
Valuation policy faces challenge00:02
Letter: Disabled promises00:02
Societies put squeeze on rates00:02
Mountleigh's Spanish chain sold for 125m pounds00:02
Auctions: Sit down. This will come as a shock00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Whistles while you work and other wizard prangs: 'A Mouthful of Air' - Anthony Burgess: Hutchinson, 16.9900:02
New ways of turning over an old leaf00:02
Robin titbit could mean doing bird00:02
Letter: 'Open your markets to give us hope'00:02
Last-ditch bid to avert trade war00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Style: Saturday Night: Losing track of money00:02
Expensive souvenirs from the big house: Country house sales can be great fun. But private buyers rarely pick up bargains, says John Windsor00:02
Tories' story fails to convince: Stephen Goodwin on disquiet in the Commons over the state of disarray which typifies British sport00:02
Letter: English Heritage and questions of monumental responsibility00:02
Croak of gold00:02
HK democracy a 'British plot'00:02
Leading Article: Hope over experience00:02
Football: Spurs given all-seat warning00:02
Computer call after ambulance failure00:02
US Presidential Elections: Campaign Diary00:02
Oil soothes tax pains00:02
Doctors wait for sign that they have a future: Consultants' influence has diminished to the point where they now expect redundancies. Judy Jones reports00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Departures: Le Touquet by air00:02
Lloyd's faces fresh fight00:02
Property: 'We're going to keep chickens next': Why we live where we live: in the second of her series, Arabella Warner meets a family who decided to swap their small flat for a smallholding00:02
Rugby Union: Cap fits at last for the scallywag Slattery: Steve Bale on the scrum-half emerging from the shadow cast by Farr-Jones as he steps out for Australia against Ireland in the rugby union Test at Lansdowne Road today00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Troubled Water: Council tries to block 'pay for wash' meters00:02
View from Manhattan: Wall Street's pre-poll tax dodge00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
Leaning medieval spire to be rebuilt00:02
Will Aid benefits you and a charity00:02
US Presidential Elections: Pollsters keep the pot bubbling00:02
Unit trusts drop 261m pounds in September00:02
Letter: English Heritage and questions of monumental responsibility00:02
Japanese banks' bad debts 50% up00:02
Carey says adulterers cannot be trusted00:02
Overdraft rates on way down00:02
Letter: Accusation tested00:02
Russian economy in nose-dive00:02
Motoring: The best luxury car I have driven this year: Roger Bell is smitten with the BMW 050i, part of the new 7-series00:02
Correction: Church schools look poised to lead swing to opting-out00:02
De Klerk gets go-ahead on SA amnesty bill00:02
Who's the dummy?00:02
Muslims praying yesterday at Hadji Yakub Mosque in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. The former Soviet republic has been plagued by fighting between ex-Communists and a coalition of democratic and Islamic parties00:02
And there the Muse spoke, in three tongues: Like James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Rainer Maria Rilke before him, Godfrey Hodgson was inspired by the ancient city of Trieste00:02
Letter: Dissidents are not so little00:02
Country Matters: No cash, just an awful lot of metal00:02
Column Eight: Thatcher lays down new roots00:02
Market Report: Bid talk centres on insurer and biscuit maker00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Style: The Way I Was: The lavatory had to be black: Ralph Steadman tells Nicholas Roe how he coped with a visit from his first girlfriend00:02
Seized homes keep the bargain hunters busy00:02
Letter: Ontario ambulances00:02
Dawson to close Dumfries plant00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Follow the yelling sick road: 'Judy Garland' - David Shipman: Fourth Estate, 17.9900:02
A dinosaur that does not deserve to die00:02
Faith and Reason: Voting for God at the US ballot-box: In the lead-up to Tuesday's US presidential elections, Clive Calver, of the Evangelical Alliance UK, looks at the role of evangelicals in politics on both sides of the Atlantic.00:02
Slide in oil prices baffles industry00:02
Allied Trust is tops with Tessa00:02
Commons to debate revived Asylum Bill00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Fury in Baltics over Yeltsin troops decree00:02
HORROR / Utter abandonment: Hallowe'en is traditionally a day for screaming. Kevin Jackson lets out an involuntary howl on the moments when words aren't enough00:02
Letter: English Heritage and questions of monumental responsibility00:02
Basketball: Bannister back for the big time: Duncan Hooper on the battle for fitness of a Giant who still wants to scale the heights of American basketball00:02
DANCE / The prince of new territory: Sir Kenneth MacMillan died at Covent Garden on Thursday. Judith Mackrell pays tribute00:02
William Donaldson's Week: 'Sub judice' in a Dior suit00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Football: Team news00:02
1m pounds costs hit French Connection00:02
Property: Help for a lending hand00:02
Education Bill: Cash 'will go to new bodies instead of classes'00:02
PM apologises00:02
Sound guide to quiet pleasures00:02
Football: Right back to where we started from: Where have all the full-backs gone? Joe Lovejoy ponders what has become a problem position, and assesses England's options00:02
Music lovers do it every night: Somewhere in the audience - and maybe next to you - sits a fanatic. Susan Loppert meets the concert-goers who will listen to everything00:02
The annual conference of the Institute of Personnel Management: Brussels may abandon works council directive00:02
The Week in Review00:02
THEATRE / Why Things Happen - ICA, London SW100:02
Departures: Villas in the sun00:02
Ideal places to cast your line: Andrew Brown offers tips on the best spots for trout00:02
Complaints on pension schemes treble00:02
Profile: The inner man takes on the great outdoors: Daniel Day-Lewis, a complex of parts00:02
Control writes down 193m pounds00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
PEP with a guarantee00:02
Style: Who wants to be a milliner? I do: Nobody buys four hats a season, but headware is far from deadware, says Roger Tredre00:02
Golf: Lyle has stretcher bearers at the ready00:02
Departures: Binns is back00:02
RECORDS / Following the godfathers: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review Simpson and Matthews00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A funny, forgotten prime minister: 'Harold Wilson' - Ben Pimlott: HarperCollins, 20 pounds00:02
BOOK REVIEW / French cuffs, Latin tags: 'The Secret History' - Donna Tartt: Viking, 9.9900:02
Sitting uncomfortably on explosive secrets00:02
MUSIC / Leaving - CBSO, Birmingham00:02
Cash help for 'opt out nurseries'00:02
Motorist who killed cyclist is jailed00:02
Racing: Darkness ready to emerge from gloom: Richard Edmondson on the final fixture of the year at Flat racing's Headquarters00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Hopes strengthen for further cut in rates00:02
Meals too good for the Michelin man: Emily Green goes to the West Country, where the Chef of the Year is just one of the crowd providing the finest restaurant meals in Britain00:02
Racing: Mutuel benefit in betting00:02
Rugby League: Watson back on the case for Bradford Northern00:02
Departures: Cheaper Italy00:02
Retail Therapy00:02
Scottish Football: Stainrod looks to the States00:02
Birthdays00:02
Outrage over acquittal00:02
A colourful double act: Die Frau ohne Schatten reunites David Hockney with director John Cox, the man who brought the artist into opera nearly 20 years ago. Here the director talks to Anthony Peattie about their collaborations00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Bosnian President's gas threat00:02
Savers must act to protect returns00:02
OPERA / Reality report: Meredith Oakes on Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Coliseum00:02
Downing Street bomb car was hijacked00:02
Management explained00:02
Boxing: Lewis looking to produce the fight of his life: Ken Jones on Britain's most intriguing bout for many years00:02
French urge Treasury to issue bond in francs00:02
Bookshop Window00:02
Cherbourg-bound00:02
Tougher taxes likely as two-edged reality catches up with Kohl: John Eisenhammer looks at the stark choices for the German Chancellor trying to meet the heavy costs of unification in a rapidly weakening economy00:02
Maastricht: Four ways of saying 'never': the free-market irreconcilable, the old-style nationalist, the veteran anti-marketeer and a young man who will not be moved00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A funny, forgotten prime minister: 'Harold Wilson' - Ben Pimlott: HarperCollins, 20 pounds00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Obituary: Sir Kenneth MacMillan00:02
The annual conference of the Institute of Personnel Management: The annual conference of the Institute of Personnel Management00:02
BOOK REVIEW: All the marks of an identity crisis: 'Possessing the Secret of Joy' - Alice Walker: Cape, 13.9900:02
Appeals00:02
Opting out rejected by parents anxious about leaking flat roof: Colne Park High's experience of trying to opt out of local authority control shows that many parents remain unconvinced of the benefits. Donald MacLeod reports00:02
US Presidential Elections: President delivers on home territory00:02
US Presidential Elections: Bill Clinton reaches out to supporters following a rally in Detroit, while George Bush thanks thousands of supporters at his rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.00:02
The boys who would be president: We know where they want to go, but where do Clinton, Perot and Bush come from? Simon Calder went in search of the candidates' hometowns00:02
Education Bill: Schools agency to take on council role: Funding to be reformed and new associations given task of tackling local deficiencies00:02
Classic Italian chemistry: Marcella Hazan's books are a delightful mix of skill, common sense and ingenuity. On the publication of her latest 'bible', she talked to Emily Green00:02
Recommended books00:02
Poetry International00:02
Reed's share in venture trimmed00:02
Equestrianism: Bank Bunn fight00:02
Gardening Update: Weekend work00:02
Downing Street bomb car was hijacked00:02
BOOK REVIEW: All the marks of an identity crisis: 'Possessing the Secret of Joy' - Alice Walker: Cape, 13.9900:02
An undercover operation led to the conviction of a highly prized police target. David Connett reports: Three convicted of 300,000 pounds drug deals00:02
BOOK REVIEW / All glory, Laud and honour: 'From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution' - Hugh Trevor-Roper: Secker and Warburg, 25 pounds00:02
Letter: Small reactions00:02
I was deep in thought and running water: Andrew Brown found peace and quiet in the River Tees, and in the model country pub on its bank00:02
US Presidential Elections: Clinton's recipe of treacle and venom00:02
Egypt frees two Britons00:02
Smoking ban00:02
Education Bill: Local authorities given a year to improve quality00:02
Court Circular00:02
Out of the eye of the sun: Edward Fox speaks to Arab writers who have escaped from political upheavals to work in Britain00:02
Bosnia battle traps terrified refugees00:02
'Mini-Maxwells' rife in pensions00:02
Obituary: Koca Popovic00:02
Football: Clemence plotting Liverpool's downfall: Trevor Haylett on the Premier League programme00:02
Maastricht motion00:02
Croats cool as British convoy rolls into Split00:02
Police cleared of assault00:02
A colourful double act: Die Frau ohne Schatten reunites David Hockney with director John Cox, the man who brought the artist into opera nearly 20 years ago. Here the director talks to Anthony Peattie about their collaborations00:02
Departures: Russia packages00:02
Racing: Piggott arrives to upstage on new platform: Paul Hayward witnesses the Greatest Performing Grandfather warm up for a record00:02
Basketball: Kings enter Bears' lair00:02
UN names new Somalia envoy00:02
Letter: Small reactions00:02
Letter: Power of money00:02
Wines of the week00:02
Borrowers may face raids on endowment cash: Lenders can call in mortgage policies without even telling homeowners, Maria Scott reports00:02
Four-way fund choice00:02
Britons seized as Angola war erupts again00:02
US Presidential Elections: New York finds its voice in 'Senator Pothole'00:02
Man who killed wife sent to secure hospital00:02
Slope off from the crowd: Chris Gill passes on your recommendations of the perfect places for off-package skiing00:02
Gastropod00:02
Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Rugby League: Wigan succumb to their peers00:02
Pibs lock into higher returns00:02
Army concedes defeat in battle of the sexes00:02
Letter: English Heritage and questions of monumental responsibility00:02
'Vilhelm Hammershoi and Danish Art at the Turn of the Century' - Poul Vad, tr. Kenneth Tindall: Yale, 45 pounds00:02
Hockey: Hounslow set to break bottleneck00:02
A better variable rate from C&G00:02
200,000 face water scare00:02
Informer 'wined and dined'00:02
Borrowers may face raids on endowment cash: Lenders can call in mortgage policies without even telling homeowners, Maria Scott reports00:02
Basketball: Bannister back for the big time: Duncan Hooper on the battle for fitness of a Giant who still wants to scale the heights of American basketball00:02
An undercover operation led to the conviction of a highly prized police target. David Connett reports: Three convicted of 300,000 pounds drug deals00:02
Obituary: Sir Kenneth MacMillan00:02
Blast proves wisdom of reinforcing No 10: Charles Oulton reports on recent security improvements in Downing Street00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Gardening Update: Green paths to autumn00:02
Cricket: Chance for West Indies youngsters00:02
Rugby Union: Tigers' tale is one of twists: Barrie Fairall on today's domestic league programme00:02
Departures: Rent a hostel00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
1m pounds costs hit French Connection00:02
Out of Kurdistan: The Camcorder is mightier than the Kalashnikov00:02
Ice Skating: Russians in row00:02
Letter: Youth programmes00:02
Counting the high costs of freeholding: Turning a leasehold into a freehold can be an unexpectedly costly and painful experience, as a west London couple found. Mary Wilson reports00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Babies grow 'in furious spurts'00:02
Rank statement calms City fears00:02
Money Grouse: Health plan was no tonic for an applicant's bank account00:02
Appointments: Service appointments00:02
Islanders innocent, Orkney council says00:02
Wine: Tread carefully through the 1992 minefield: Freakish weather has brought joy to Burgundy but misery to Bordeaux. Anthony Rose guides you around the vintage00:02
In the cold light of November: At this time of year, Peter Parker likes to go out and have a serious look at his garden, to see whether any of the failures are worth repeating00:02
Girl's separation case highlights new child rights00:02
THEATRE / On target: Paul Taylor on Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse00:02
Racing: Selkirk to turn Gulfstream tide for Europe: Paul Hayward assesses the challengers for racing's international championships00:02
Memo on Iran hostages 'shows Bush lied'00:02
Football Diary: Bizarre shot in the arm00:02
Education Bill: Help for children with learning difficulties00:02
Dream ticket to a new career round the globe: Independent/Trailfinders Student Travel Writing Competition00:02
Rugby Union: Campese's aerial view makes waves00:02
Courmayeur - best resort for relaxed nightlife00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Strung out over the abyss: 'A Dream of Mind' - C K Williams: Bloodaxe, 6.9500:02
Danish MPs back deal to pass Maastricht00:02
Ion Iliescu, Romania's re-elected President, after his inaugural speech to the new parliament yesterday00:02
US election discount00:02
Warren loses libel action over interview00:02
Letter: Why Unesco is our natural partner00:02
A safe haven in Saffron Walden00:02
Egypt frees two Britons00:02
Slovaks to discuss river dam00:02
Wife charged with murder conspiracy00:02
Kate Adie awarded libel damages00:02
Recipe: A squash on Hallowe'en00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Follow the yelling sick road: 'Judy Garland' - David Shipman: Fourth Estate, 17.9900:02
Anniversaries00:02
Ashdown faces Scottish rebellion00:02
Job descriptions that hid brutal life of a criminal00:02
Tennis: Cinderella is back at the ball to enjoy herself: John Roberts toasts a Croft original, Annabel by name, as a former queen of British women's tennis makes an unexpected return to court at Telford