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Sport in Short: Golf00:02
League voters strike fear into establishment: Umberto Bossi's party looks set to deal a fearsome blow to the old order during local elections in Italy this weekend, writes Patricia Clough from Monza00:02
Weightlifting: Threat to Britons00:02
Obituaries00:02
BR must discount season tickets for failing targets00:02
Candid caller00:02
REVIEW / Dusting off the furniture: Adrian Jack watches Robert Levin attacking a period piano at the Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
Letter: Unprepared for royal relationships00:02
Football: Fry returns to Barnet again00:02
Football: Team news00:02
Troops leave00:02
Food: This sweet, scented season: Joanna Blythman went along to Strasbourg's famous Christmas fair expecting to hate its kitsch cuteness. She was surprised00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Gang leader gets life for stabbing man to death00:02
Look out for the fine print: Peter Guttridge meets the founders and editors of the Greville Press00:02
Letter: Treasury needs a fresh role00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Leading Article: Milton should be optional00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Group warns of market break-up00:02
Recommended books00:02
TELEVISION / Rough justice00:02
Charities: A chance to speak for themselves: Correction00:02
Commodities00:02
Lonrho plans up to pounds 400m of new sell-offs00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
BOOK REVIEW / By any other name: Tom Shone wonders why there are three new editions of The Name of the Rose00:02
Obituary: William Shawn00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Privy Councillors to scrutinise work of MI5 and MI600:02
Novelist wins 50,000 prize00:02
Parents of truant fined00:02
Congress bars Yeltsin plan for referendum00:02
DNA tests in doubt as court cases collapse00:02
But where are the declarations of love between peoples?: Andrew Marr reflects on the big issues the summit agenda ignores00:02
The arms for Iraq scandal: Firm claims pounds 4m from taxpayer to cover Saddam bill00:02
The arms for Iraq scandal: Oil price collapse and Iran war prompted credit crisis: Patrick Cockburn in Washington looks at why Iraq defaulted on payments to the West00:02
Storms sweep eastern US00:02
Direct Line plans telephone loans00:02
IRA admits bombings00:02
Abortion case man for trial00:02
Squash: Attempt to avert English boycott00:02
Upbeat00:02
Food and Drink: Enough bull to convince a matador: Sand in the ashtrays, blood-red walls. Emily Green visits a Spanish restaurant with a strong sense of the dramatic00:02
Edinburgh Summit: Fringe works to influence 'warriors'00:02
The Week in Review: Home news00:02
Art Market: Pounds 4.4m record for Dutch masterpiece00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: It's much too good to be interesting: Smooth, fast, spacious and soon to be made over here, Toyota's Carina E lacks only character. It'll probably sell very well, says Phil Llewellin00:02
Hockey: Harrow rely on youth to sap Sutton strength00:02
Rowing: A black day for Blofeld00:02
Fitness fan killed by gym weights00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Canon to the right of them, canon to the left: Daughters of Africa Ed. Margaret Busby: Jonathan Cape pounds 3000:02
Racing: Browne's appeal dismissed00:02
Quote unquote00:02
Labour to enter coalition talks with Fianna Fail00:02
Klockner seeks protection from creditors00:02
Malawi opposition comes into the open00:02
Market Report: Low inflation halts dangerous Footsie slide00:02
Wills00:02
Brooke retreats over devolution of arts funding00:02
Briefly: Investment trust guides00:02
Clampdown in Uzbekistan00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tyrant with a limited thirst for power: Richard Ollard on a work that sees Charles I as his own man and challenges existing myths - The personal rule of Charles I: Kevin Sharpe Yale pounds 2500:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Police 'have secretly recorded their arrests'00:02
Motor Sport: Australia faces loss of GP00:02
Money Grouse: Changing the nature of your investment00:02
Crofting trust warms Scots hearts around the world: The first successful challenge to near-feudal use of land in Scotland may face difficult times ahead. James Cusick reports00:02
The way I was: I didn't know my flats from my sharps: Norman Wisdom tells Nicholas Roe how the Army saved him from sleeping rough, taught him the trumpet and inspired his career as a comedian00:02
The Rev Harold in the lions' den00:02
Letter: Unprepared for royal relationships00:02
Howden settles Great Belt dispute00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Saturday night: Zapped out in the twilight zone00:02
Palestinian dies after shoot-out00:02
Cuttings00:02
Letter: Vegetarian food for thought00:02
Appeals00:02
Snooker: Wattana shows colours00:02
View from New York: States at war over a tax dodge00:02
The sex life of an anoraq: The scene is set in a dark Inuit igloo. The dramatist-translator is Andrew Brown00:02
Letter: Puzzling policy on Hong Kong00:02
India's street children get caught in communal crossfire00:02
Food: Recipe: Sichuan spice in a wok00:02
Taxi] Take me to the global village: They come from all over the world. They may not have the Knowledge, but if the subject is life, says Reggie Nadelson, New York's cabbies know where it's at00:02
Food: Vegetarians? Let them eat rabbit: But this one is entirely meat-free. Emily Green suggests some ways to feed the odd herbivore, while the rest of you tuck in to the turkey00:02
Faith and Reason: Time for peace to end war of words: The last article in a series on the Christian liturgy, ancient and modern, is by Canon Michael Perham, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.00:02
Evode split over breach claims00:02
Fixed rates for two years00:02
National doctors shortage could reach crisis level00:02
Warlords sign ceasefire in Mogadishu00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Obituary: Sir John Summerson00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Portrait of the statesman as a young dog: Godfrey Hodgson on the weight of research behind the new biography of John F Kennedy: JFK: Life and death of an American president - Nigel Hamilton Century pounds 2000:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
BBC children's chief defends use of cartoons00:02
Pre-Christmas Premier00:02
Yes, I do believe in good eggs. Pass the bacon00:02
To my beloved lemon tree: Sumptuous books, modest bulbs, planters and terracotta pots . . . Anna Pavord presents a selection of festive gifts for garden-lovers00:02
Timor leader 'accepts Jakarta'00:02
Church appointments00:02
North Korea replaces PM00:02
Football: Gunners losing the art of graft: George Graham says his team must rediscover their mean streak to re-establish their championship status. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Food: The feast of the two dozen00:02
Briefly: Shacs cautions on charges00:02
Stand-off between UN and US worsens00:02
Major likely to give way on Maastricht: Britain under intense pressure at Edinburgh summit to speed Commons ratification of treaty00:02
Letter: Victimised by false allegations of abuse00:02
UN sends troops to prevent war in Macedonia00:02
Curtain set to fall on rock music's 'best club'00:02
Tajikistan refugees flee to Afghanistan00:02
Panic woos workers with call for change00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Edinburgh Summit: Leaders edge towards a Denmark deal00:02
Skiing: Brilliant Besse puts record straight00:02
Rugby League: Wales will struggle to rewrite history00:02
Briefly: Charitable Act of advice00:02
India's street children get caught in communal crossfire00:02
French failure for Osborne & Little00:02
Tennis: Sampras' refresher course00:02
A soul beached on shifting sands: Coasts in Winter: under leaden skies, Anna Pavord walked for miles by salty reed beds and crumbling shores, longing to be enchanted by the flatlands of Norfolk00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Skating00:02
Bomb hoax man jailed for raid00:02
Cast pleads for its pound of tobacco00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Awards nominations00:02
Service appointments00:02
Swimming: Hail Hardcastle00:02
Motoring: The new home of Britain's car industry: Toyota joins Nissan and Honda next week when production begins at its Derbyshire factory. Richard Feast reports00:02
Nationwide squeezes borrowers: Nationwide's new lending restrictions will hamper first-time buyers, warns Neasa MacErlean00:02
The best and worst of France00:02
Football Diary: Sealed with a kiss00:02
MUSIC / Soile Isokoski - Wigmore Hall, London00:02
Edinburgh Summit: Spain raises stakes over budget plan00:02
Obituary: Yehia Haqqi00:02
Hanson provisions rise as profits slip00:02
Thames sells films rights to Carlton for pounds 8.5m00:02
Briefly: NatWest air miles extended00:02
Property: The tide turns on the Thames00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Gang leader gets life for stabbing man to death00:02
Profile: The beast that roars from the pits: Dennis Skinner MP, incorruptible class act00:02
Fall in mortgage rate cuts inflation to 3%00:02
Birthdays00:02
Murren: best resort for village charm00:02
Cabinet shuffle alters Japan's power balance00:02
Departures00:02
Obituary: Margaret Brown00:02
Letter: Misunderstanding the Irish identity00:02
Talks on Kurds00:02
Sport in Short: Freestyle Skiing00:02
Hindu temple petrol-bombed00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Boy awarded pounds 1.5m damages00:02
Paperbacks00:02
Murder case men remanded00:02
Scottish Football: Setback for Stevens00:02
RECORDS OF THE YEAR / Hearing is believing: From Purcell to Simpson: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson pick out the best from 199200:02
Prudential switches staff to Provincial00:02
France in new pact to defend franc00:02
The Revenue gets larger than life and user-friendly00:02
Clinton appoints women to top posts00:02
FILM / What a scream: John Hughes wrote some hits. Then he wrote some flops. Now his future rides on Home Alone 2. Sheila Johnston met him00:02
Climbing: When the rock is a hard place: Upwardly mobile climbers are being kept in the dark. But all in all it's just another trick in the wall. Patrick Miles reports00:02
The Green Shoots by Hockney, Miro and Matisse: The art market is showing signs of a revival, says John Windsor. Now may be a good time for bargain-hunters00:02
Mobutu suspends Zaire council00:02
Japan's confidence at new low00:02
Spurning a spouse, saving a marriage: Separation is a valid option for couples wishing to untie the knot, explains Vivien Goldsmith00:02
Obituary: Judge Niall McCarthy00:02
Property: Warning: you are now entering the dead zone: London's neighbourhoods are dividing into the recession-proof, the middling and the unsellable. David Lawson explains00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A Scot adrift in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams of exile - Ian Bell; Mainstream pounds 14.9900:02
THEATRE / Weldon Rising - Royal Court Upstairs, London SW100:02
Letter: Unprepared for royal relationships00:02
Letter: Unprepared for royal relationships00:02
Court circular00:02
A second miracle in Germany: Gitta Sereny sees hope in the angry response to neo-Nazism00:02
St Tropez, in all its naked glory: Out of season, the town is abandoned to the wind, gulls and dog-walkers. Even half closed, Philip Sweeney finds it perfect for a quiet weekend00:02
THEATRE / Every man kills the thing he loves: Paul Taylor finds Nicholas Hytner's production of Carousel at the National Theatre smothered by love00:02
Letter: A life cut short00:02
Liquidators of BCCI seek dollars 10.5bn from Saudi bank00:02
Football: Robins back with three points to prove00:02
Milton campaign sparks A-level curriculum row00:02
Letter: Monetary policy and an independent central bank00:02
Appointments00:02
Rugby League: Saints are frustrated00:02
Briefly: Aid now for life00:02
Tower blocks fall victim to return of pre-war values: Jonathan Glancey reports on a plan to replace a notorious London estate with traditional housing00:02
Tool Box will feature a new gardening gadget each week.00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fat cop seeks mute kid: Diamond solitaire - Peter Lovesey: Little, Brown pounds 14.9900:02
Briefly: Barclaycard frock cover00:02
Letter: Monetary policy and an independent central bank00:02
Letter: Unprepared for royal relationships00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Basketball: Kings' European hope00:02
Da, I'm buying a hotel on the Arbat: Russian Monopoly is just one of the unusual gifts you can find in specialist outlets. Julie Aschkenasy does a global survey00:02
Letter: Courts add insult to victims' injury00:02
Rugby Union: How best in West have been won over00:02
INTERVIEW / Under the influence: Madmen have stalked Graham Clark wherever he has sung. The tenor talks to Mark Pappenheim00:02
Racing: Irish on Schedual for success00:02
William Donaldson's Week: To Mustique for a knee up00:02
Briefly: A will to discuss inheritance00:02
When beauty is only skin deep: The arrival of fade-away tattoos has transformed the once-seedy image of body art into a fashion statement for the ultra-cool, says Tamsin Blanchard00:02
Revealing the lost kingdom of apartheid: A non-country, rife with poverty and despair, is hosting this year's Miss World extravaganza, writes John Carlin from Sun City00:02
Country Matters: Desperately seeking Sally in the dark00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
SEC settles Hollywood insider dealing case00:02
Column Eight: Troubled waters in oil00:02
'Red Sun' still shines over rural Peru: It will take more than the arrest of their leader to crush the Maoist guerrillas in the countryside, writes Colin Harding00:02
What to pay the ferryman?: Motorists must do some sums to find the best cross-Channel route to the Alps, says Chris Gill00:02
Men of influence behind shift in educational values00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Auctions: Wine and women00:02
Fisherman claims ancient right to dig for worms00:02
Food and Drink: Bottled up in the high street: Nosing through the wines on offer at the main retail chains, Anthony Rose nominates his best-value selection for Christmas and New Year00:02
Education minister quits00:02
Football: Charging Chelsea move up to second: John Dougray reports from Ayresome Park00:02
Church makes play for golfers with ads down the hole00:02
Food: Gastropod00:02
Obituary: Tom Jobe00:02
US retail sales gain as prices remain steady00:02
SA 'may have used relief planes to ferry weapons'00:02
Boxing: Benn's desire fuelled by sense of injustice: Ken Jones reports on the motivations driving the protagonists in tonight's WBO super-middleweight title bout00:02
Benn revives Bill to replace monarch with a president