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Letter: On trial in Malawi00:02
Chess00:02
Obituary: Gladys Spencer00:02
TV executive given script to shake up prison service00:02
Leading Article: Neither elegant nor coherent00:02
Ice Hockey: Dampier departs Panthers00:02
GPA close to deal on further cancellations00:02
Obituary: Allanah Harper00:02
Court Circular00:02
To Sarajevo, by way of Riyadh: What do Saudi princes, Afghan guerrillas, Iranian ammunition and the United States marines have to do with Bosnia? Just wait and see, says Robert Fisk00:02
Court sets legal right to dig for worms on shore00:02
Recession forces more people to forsake pawned heirlooms00:02
Poor control costs Scottish Widows fine of pounds 120,00000:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Health Update: Ear bashing00:02
Obituary: The Rev Kenneth Mathews00:02
Government shares bomb insurance00:02
Equestrianism: Jumping given a timely lift: It has not been a good year for equestrianism, but Olympia helped redress the balance, Genevieve Murphy reports00:02
Letter: The beeps sound for mystery callers00:02
A Christmas quiz to keep you guessing00:02
Leading Article: An incomplete revolution00:02
Tory MP cleared of bribery charges00:02
Adia to return OIS to UK stock market00:02
IBM shares fall on Akers fears00:02
Poor fear high price of cuts in legal aid: Adam Sage looks at the impact of proposals that the Law Society believes could deprive 7 million people of free legal advice and raise costs for many more00:02
Athletics: Livingston waits00:02
14-year-olds better at maths than science00:02
Voters back Milosevic, Greater Serbia and war00:02
Transvestite slept in children's home00:02
Lasmo shares advance as more assets are sold off00:02
Football: Kiwomya curtails flight of Canaries: The leaders' progress is checked by their spirited East Anglian neighbours00:02
Obituary: Steve Whitson00:02
Health: That's my son she's talking about: When Ann Lee read an article on the Health page, alarm bells rang in her mind. One year on, she tells how her family has adjusted to a painful diagnosis00:02
Comment: Learning from the USM's demise00:02
Column Eight: Pick one up at the sales00:02
Health: Can't get to sleep? All you need is love: More than 5 million people in Britain have insomnia, says Deborah Jackson. They try hot drinks, tablets or even ironing, but there is another possible remedy - sex00:02
Prisoners with private means: As a TV executive becomes head of Britain's jails, Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary, defends his free-market policy00:02
Package holiday company folds00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Market Report: Institutional tinkering keeps market festive00:02
Out of New York: Slipping and sliding on the welcome mat00:02
'Freak winds caused Faro plane tragedy'00:02
Letter: Too much want, not enough like00:02
Letter: Counting the cost of the lottery00:02
ART / It's the thought that counts: Sol LeWitt's involvement with his art is so 'Minimalist' he leaves making it to others. Dalya Alberge reports00:02
The flying Scots postman who waits for time and tide: A remote island relies on flights to a beach for its mail service. Charles Oulton reports00:02
Health Update: Safety sauce00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Court digs a pit for ministers: British Coal faces heavy costs after closures ruled illegal - Privatisation Bill in doubt00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Obituary: Gyorgy Marosan00:02
Diary00:02
Accountancy & Management: When the boss doesn't care00:02
286 survive plane crash00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
View from City Road: Railway hard line leads nowhere00:02
ART / Openings00:02
Pit Closures: Pit village celebrates with laughter and confusion: Miners at Markham Main who took redundancy are now wondering what to do. Jonathan Foster reports00:02
TELEVISION / Thought for food00:02
TELEVISION / Feedback00:02
Football: Bleak Christmas for Barnet00:02
Turkish police accused00:02
Russia 'plans new rouble'00:02
TELEVISION BRIEFING / Windsor sauce00:02
Boxing: McMillan opts for dual role00:02
THEATRE / Shoot the Women First, BAC, London SW1100:02
Rugby League: Wigan tie creates chaos00:02
Letter: Counting the cost of the lottery00:02
Britain wants three-week deadline for no-fly zone00:02
Obituary: Professor Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart00:02
Squash: Jansher nears the big prize00:02
Football / Books for Christmas: Title tales as Ferguson is denied his Holy Grail: Trevor Haylett picks out a seasonal selection of forthright football volumes00:02
Ivory & Sime loses two of its directors00:02
One night in police cell cost pounds 2,00800:02
Serbia's ruthless right shows its face: Vojislav Seselj is a hero to the ultra-nationalists but the US brands him as a war criminal, writes Tony Barber, East Europe Editor00:02
'Cardiff Three' police will not be disciplined00:02
Belfast council guilty of religious bias over job00:02
Health: What to do when Christmas is no cracker: Dreading the holiday? Face up to your fears - and make someone else peel the potatoes. Barbara Rowlands joins a seasonal workshop00:02
Major to revive Eighties culture00:02
Time Warner secure despite Ross's death00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Football: Madrid still looking for the Real thing: Phil Davison in Madrid reports on the 'trauma' of lying in third place for the famous all whites00:02
Immigrant riot follows shooting by police00:02
Leader of campaign at Lloyd's steps down00:02
Accountancy & Management: Reading between the lines: Roger Trapp on the dangers of over-egging the pudding when compiling a CV00:02
THEATRE / The finger of suspicion: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews an adaptation of The Moonstone at the Royal Exchange, Manchester00:02
Letter: Help for Bosnia's new-born babies00:02
Rugby Union: Tukalo out but left in00:02
ITN news to change in new year00:02
Tory MPs voice fears over plan to privatise BR00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Pit Closures: Restart costs 'could be enormous'00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Seven-year-olds' test results show wide variations00:02
Cricket: Australia close to the Border-line: Tony Cozier reports from Brisbane on the trials and tribulations of a master batsman who is his country's longest-serving captain00:02
OPERA / Yolande and The Nutcracker - Grand Theatre, Leeds00:02
Zairean troops 'revolt over pay'00:02
Motor Racing: Senna's IndyCar trial run00:02
Letter: The means test and the modernisation of benefits00:02
RADIO / Sweet and sour: Robert Hanks tastes revenge, as told by Eleanor Bron00:02
Letter: High-speed freight through the tunnel00:02
Obituary: Valery Hovenden00:02
Gulf states differ on defence plans00:02
Britain wants three-week deadline for no-fly zone00:02
Italy's parties starve in era of honest cash00:02
Health Update: Factsheet for GPs00:02
Armed bank robber was mugged00:02
My neighbour told me I sounded like a Nazi: It's all very well being told you have a great television voice. But, as Michael Leapman found, it can lead to some strange requests00:02
Letter: When a child is born in the Koran00:02
Stock market bounds to record high00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sailing: Santana surges to success00:02
View from City Road: Courtaulds' balancing act00:02
Letter: Help for Bosnia's new-born babies00:02
Cricket: Pakistan object to Graveney00:02
Sega takes software battle to court00:02
Mosaic's move for relisting delayed00:02
Bear Stearns loses lease fight00:02
Clinton picks third black00:02
Honours system to face the test of meritocracy00:02
US backs Patten on HK contracts00:02
Private detective 'stole editor's rubbish bags'00:02
Pit Closures: Scargill hails 'splendid' court victory: Miners jubilant as judges declare programme unlawful and order independent review00:02
Racing: Scudamore starts Fountain spree00:02
Palestinian deportees confronted by tanks00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Market-maker cuts back as USM closure is confirmed00:02
Rugby League: Sophie's choice is denied: A 10-year-old sporting talent can only dream of playing at Wembley because she happens to be a girl. Liz Kahn reports00:02
Malawi police arrest dissidents00:02
Winter playground dreads tide of princely sewage00:02
Capitalism helps stir India's old prejudices: Michael Fathers in Surat assesses why a boom town was unable to look to the future and steer clear of bloodshed00:02
Football: Why Roeder preferred the doldrums to the dolce vita: Guy Hodgson talks to the new Gillingham manager who put principles before profit00:02
Prisoners with private means: As a TV executive becomes head of Britain's jails, Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary, defends his free-market policy00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Gulf states differ on defence plans00:02
Somalis test marines' patience00:02
Aerobics teacher 'invented abduction'00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Letter: The means test and the modernisation of benefits00:02
Rabin tramples on Israeli law: Palestinians' access in Israeli courts to redress for human rights violations has always been extremely limited. Sarah Helm reports from Jerusalem00:02
Obituary: Professor Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart00:02
Health Update: Perils of too many turkeys00:02
American Football: Ditka ready to back off from Bears00:02
BOOK REVIEW / How Irving Scholar won and lost his Spurs: 'Behind Closed Doors' - Irving Scholar & Mihir Bose: Andre Deutsch, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: The means test and the modernisation of benefits00:02
Ancient enmities thaw during the night-train ride out of Armenia: The company of Armenian Christians and Muslim Turks enlivened a trip to eastern Turkey for Hugh Pope00:02
Banks queue to follow Firstdirect's lead00:02
Collor wins last-ditch reprieve00:02
Obituary: Helen C. St Aubin00:02
Judge orders Ian Maxwell to pay 500,000 pounds damages00:02
Lucas sells off fluid power business00:02
Obituary: Ali Amini00:02
Seven die in icy chaos on main roads00:02
Russia stops scientists' exit00:02
Pit Closures: Axe may fall on 'hatchet man' Clarke after ruling00:02
14-year-olds better at maths than science00:02
Rugby Union: England's prop of ages cuts loose: Tim Glover talks to the tight head hookers love to hate but who finds himself having to prove points to the selectors00:02
The Hunter Davies Interview: Sharper eyes as silence closes in: The family deafness afflicts him; experts feared an artistic block. But from faxes and opera sets, Hockney has returned to pure painting00:02
MUSIC / Speeding up and slowing down: Tess Knighton on some minimal Monteverdi with the New London Consort at the Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
ART / Modern Icons: Tim Head's Christmas tree for the Tate00:02
Lockerbie families petition for inquiry00:02
Letter: The means test and the modernisation of benefits00:02
German minister's letter promoted cousin's firm00:02
Courtaulds resurrects 74m pounds from pension fund00:02
Letter: Turncoat monarchs00:02
Racing: Trainers retreat on fees00:02
Obituary: Allanah Harper00:02
Handling the calls for all-night service: Lisa Vaughan joins the late birds who field the queries at Firstdirect, the bank that never closes