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Travel: Seaside fun00:02
Fixed rates look more attractive00:02
Russia ends Indian oil deal00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Any volunteers?00:02
Basketball: Lift from Thomas for Jets00:02
Food & Drink: The knives are out for Michelin: Leading British chefs are highly critical of the way restaurants are awarded stars. We'll do without them, they tell Emily Green (CORRECTED)00:02
Azharuddin brings his Cricket / First Test: gifts to bear: England bowlers toil for few rewards as the Indian captain provides a glimpse of his batting genius with a brilliant century00:02
Letter: Cyclists in the Government smoke00:02
Major attacks 'genius for running Britain down'00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Hyper active00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Letter: Patten's refusal00:02
Travel: Conditions poor and deadly: Skiers and ski resorts must take safety seriously, says Chris Gill00:02
Press watchdog rejects inquiry on Major 'smear'00:02
Up to 21 pits still face the axe: MPs seek five-year subsidy for electricity generators to buy 19 million extra tonnes of coal00:02
Rugby Union: Limerick holds answer to Irish riddle: Steve Bale goes to the heart of Ireland's rugby country in search of a solution to the crisis of confidence afflicting its national team00:02
Rugby League: Rovers looking to test the best00:02
Press watchdog rejects inquiry on Major 'smear'00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Letter: A treatment order that could mean a family's safety00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Insurers warned on complaints00:02
Gardening: Scene by the limner of Bath: In the first of an occasional series on gardens in paintings, Anna Pavord looks at Thomas Robins's 18th-century study of Painswick in Gloucestershire00:02
Press curbs gain Commons backing00:02
Football Team News00:02
Pollution hearings will not consider blame for 'Braer'00:02
TELEVISION / Taking bitter pills00:02
Burton makes pounds 163m cash call00:02
Food & Drink: Scone legends: Recipe00:02
Local authorities to pool views on coastal pollution00:02
Racing: Whip dispute hangs over trials00:02
Sailing: Law's late advance00:02
Two die in fire00:02
Travel: Departures: Day trips00:02
Letter: Opposition to NHS reforms00:02
Gardening / Tool Box: A folding wheelbarrow? Get a load of that]00:02
The Week in Review00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Property: A pot of gold under the kitchen sink: It pays to get a second opinion when selling off the contents of the family home, writes David Lawson00:02
Retail Therapy00:02
Seoul ponders cost of unity00:02
Spending: The British keep their heads down: Auction houses are giving up sales of erotica in this country, where we prefer our garish nudes hidden inside pocket watches. John Windsor laments the passing of an era00:02
Letter: Worldly influence00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: In the beginning . . .00:02
Travel: Departures: Late packages00:02
Triad 'supergrass' is jailed for five years00:02
Rennis / Australian Open: Courier has one more river to cross: Edberg prepares to bridge the gap as the two leading men meet for the first time since last year's final00:02
Race to cut for mortgage borrowers with Halifax: Vivien Goldsmith and Maria Scott discover what this week's base rate cut will mean for borrowers and for those with money to invest00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window:: New Writing 2 - Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Andrew Motion: Mandarin, pounds 6.9900:02
Police officer stabbed00:02
Prizes for Perpetual00:02
Dollar soars on new recovery evidence00:02
Spending: The British keep their heads down: Auction houses are giving up sales of erotica in this country, where we prefer our garish nudes hidden inside pocket watches. John Windsor laments the passing of an era00:02
Row over city school where baby comes too: Baltimore's attempt to keep teenage mothers in the classroom is under fierce attack, writes David Usborne00:02
Press Bill wins large majority in Commons: MPs launch attack on 'horrendous' behaviour by newspapers, but minister remains opposed to 'premature' and 'misconceived' measure00:02
Golf: Ballesteros sets the ball rolling again00:02
Guidelines aim to cut number of suicides00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / A proper little modern: Anne-Sophie Mutter, the prodigy who played with Karajan at 14, will be 30 in June. Time, the violinist tells Mark Pappenheim, to put away childish things. Like Bruch and Brahms and Mozart . . .00:02
Letter: Friendly pigs00:02
Discounts from Northern Rock00:02
Early poll challenge to Yeltsin00:02
Motor Racing: Prost hurt in crash00:02
Lasmo close to sale of North Sea package00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Churches rally round the punt00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Coda00:02
Appeals: Kent Battle of Britain Museum00:02
Sponsors see surge in BES schemes00:02
The Way I Was: The BBC's (terrified) man in Vienna: Tim Sebastian tells Nicholas Roe about his first experiences as an extremely nervous foreign correspondent for the World Service00:02
Football threat00:02
Letter: Patten's refusal00:02
Pits rescue plan would cost pounds 500m: MPs propose cut in nuclear subsidy, curbs on gas-fired power stations and a levy on imported energy00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Brooklands racing car for auction00:02
BOOKS / Freewheeling down the decades: Natasha Walter looks at Joan Didion's personal pictures taken on journeys through Sixties, Seventies and Eighties America00:02
People's Army sets up shop to pay its way: From face creams to civil nuclear technology, China's military has embraced business in a big way, writes Teresa Poole from Hong Kong00:02
Switch offer in the air00:02
Travel: Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Leaders stake positions ahead of Bosnia peace talks00:02
Vodka rivals do battle about the real thing00:02
Travel: Ferry tales00:02
Naked escape00:02
Low bid deflates Brown Shipley00:02
Clinton offers truce on gays00:02
Deportees snub Israel's appeal offer00:02
Pan-Africanist Congress warns against bilateral solution00:02
Bank's authority will increase, Governor says00:02
Food & Drink: A few ounces won't end the world00:02
Letter: Ring in the new, mow out the old00:02
Letter: Human cost of flags of convenience00:02
Travel: We were in Italy, they were enjoying themselves: Sea, sand, rocks, animals . . . it doesn't seem to matter where. Maggie Brown tried out her formula for a successful family holiday in Puglia00:02
Glue attack00:02
Wills00:02
Increase in exclusions from school criticised00:02
Croatian engineers struggle to save dam00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Glock and spiel: William Glock brought Bach to the Proms and Boulez to the BBC. Now, he tells Stephen Johnson, he is bringing Schubert to the South Bank00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
RECORDS / Double Play: Building cathedrals in the air: Robert Cowan and Stephen Johnson compare notes on new releases of Bruckner, Barber and Ives00:02
Travel: Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Au pairs killed00:02
Prizes for Perpetual00:02
Appeals: The Shakespeare Globe Trust00:02
Rapist detained00:02
Writedown brings Markheath loss00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Property: End-of-terrace for just pounds 5,00000:02
Row over city school where baby comes too: Baltimore's attempt to keep teenage mothers in the classroom is under fierce attack, writes David Usborne00:02
Letter: Biggest isn't best00:02
Pounds 7m award00:02
Joint action on Danube to enforde embargo00:02
Right to Know Bill likely to clear first hurdle00:02
Profile: Yankee, don't go home: Raymond Seitz, America's man in London00:02
The thing is, Laura was full of love00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Scottish Office to have more influence00:02
Standard Life cuts 'with profits' bonuses00:02
Help at hand for the slave weavers robbed of childhood: Harrods: Correction00:02
Athletics: Christie's race for riches00:02
Hockey: Felix in a timely return00:02
Market Report: Coal report sparks tumble in electrics00:02
Food & Drink: Where the DOC doesn't always know best: In the second part of his Italian wine series, Anthony Rose offers pointers on quality and selects a dozen good-value bottles00:02
Mulroney considers future as his popularity plunges00:02
French troops sent to Zaire00:02
Travel: Departures: Singles break00:02
Policy auction00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Victims of jewel thefts can be losers a second time: Andrew Bibby finds that some insurers knock off 10 per cent when a claimant opts for cash00:02
Iraq 'to break arms silence'00:02
Motoring: Exit the Nova, enter the Corsa00:02
Suspicion is enough to condemn Arab homes: Sarah Helm in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, witnesses Israel's brutal new methods for hunting wanted Palestinian gunmen00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Bristol raises postal account minimum: Vivien Goldsmith and Maria Scott discover what this week's base rate cut will mean for borrowers and for those with money to invest00:02
Scottish Football: Stevens waits for recall00:02
Travel: Saas Fee: Best resort for snowsure skiing00:02
Travel: Playing truant00:02
Travel: The harder they fall: Sliding feet-first down a steep, rock-hard piste and through a safety net left Colin Brown stunned - but wiser00:02
Tennis: Tracy Austin to return00:02
Greeting Goliath with a grin00:02
Homebuying deals abound: Vivien Goldsmith and Maria Scott discover what this week's base rate cut will mean for borrowers and for those with money to invest00:02
Crumbling defences against the great flood: In 1953 a wall of water swept over Britain's east coast killing more than 300 people and thousands of sheep and cattle. Could it happen again? Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Golf: Olympic plans withdrawn00:02
One in four 'quango' posts go to women00:02
Football Diary: Eagles dressed to kill00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Skating00:02
ILLUSION / Right before your very eyes: Penn and Teller do magic, but the real trick is that they like to give the game away. Kevin Jackson met them00:02
THEATRE / Packing a spectacular punch: Paul Taylor on Kerry Shale's boxing drama The Set-Up at the Gate00:02
ILLUSION / Right before your very eyes: Penn and Teller do magic, but the real trick is that they like to give the game away. Kevin Jackson met them00:02
Letter: Ring in the new, mow out the old00:02
Service appointments00:02
Money Grouse: Pension blow for retired couple00:02
Changing attitudes undermine 'macho' police culture: President Clinton's move towards ending the US armed forces' ban on homosexuals has renewed debate about the services and police in Britain. Heather Mills reports00:02
Grant trusts in print00:02
The doubts remain for miners of Maltby00:02
Travel: Departures: SeaCat special00:02
BOOKS / Off the Shelf: Harry turns a fast buck in Soho: The cult of the London novel has brought Gerald Kersh out of obscurity, writes Robert Webb (CORRECTED)00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window:: No Exit - Julie Burchill: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 12.9900:02
The Week in Review00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Record find00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Patch this up if you can, then00:02
Food & Drink: A guide to the red guide00:02
Rugby Union: Neath are steeled for Swansea: Robert Cole previews today's top games in the Heineken Welsh League00:02
Japan slaps anti-dumping duties on China00:02
Style: You got it where? How much?: BhS was once a place youngsters had to be dragged to. But its new teenage range is well designed and well priced, says Roger Tredre00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
UK envoy makes landfall00:02
Cricket / First Test: Salisbury fare is anything but plain00:02
One million Angolans face starvation00:02
Speedy transfer00:02
TSB tempts teenagers00:02
Royal bonus00:02
View from Frankfurt: Nervous sentiment makes its mark00:02
Gays fear dismissal from armed forces: President Clinton's move towards ending the US armed forces' ban on homosexuals has renewed debate about the services and police in Britain. Heather Mills reports00:02
Appeals: The Association for Stammerers00:02
Travel: Big boats battle for the Bay of Biscay: Thrown off course by the Channel tunnel, ferry companies are in danger of colliding in the competition for business on new routes00:02
Debt counselling scheme is tested00:02
Letter: The strange case of 'Bengal famine gruel'00:02
Royal pulls out of reinsurance market00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
BOOK REVIEW / On the road with a doll: Swallowing Geography - Deborah Levy: Jonathan Cape, pounds 12.9900:02
UK sends engineers to save Croatia dam00:02
American Football / Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas to stick to script and play monopoly: The Cowboys concentrate on California goals. Matt Tench reports from Pasadena00:02
Motoring / The Independent Road Test: You will fall in love with an ugly American: 'The American Legend' is coming back to Britain. Gavin Green samples the Cherokee, on- and off-road00:02
Grand Met takes over Buton00:02
Kleinwort risks rated00:02
Letter: Opposition to NHS reforms00:02
Western German inflation jumps to 4.4%00:02
Drugs seized00:02
Raid on Socialists00:02
Column Eight: The place to get the push00:02
Travel: Ferry tales00:02
One million Angolans face starvation00:02
Football: Mick the missile has found his range: The scouse scallywag with an eye for pints, punts and points has settled in style at his new home. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
Wage complaint00:02
Six of the Best00:02
Price rises help Shell Oil return to the black00:02
Gilt issue comes in early00:02
Virgin launches pounds 1bn plan to double aircraft fleet00:02
SAS man denies violent 'lesson'00:02
Tobacco advert bans 'have led to rise in smoking'00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Successful saxifrages00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window:00:02
Marks show girl, 7, was murdered00:02
Societies hold back on the bad news for savers: Vivien Goldsmith and Maria Scott discover what this week's base rate cut will mean for borrowers and for those with money to invest00:02
Au pairs killed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The riddle of a mischievous traveller: Jan Morris on a sceptical new biography of the 100-year-old blithe spirit, Dame Freya Stark: Freya Stark - Molly Izzard: Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 2500:02
Clinton set to retaliate over EC directive00:02
Motoring: New Jeep returns to old battlefields: 'The American Legend' is coming back to Britain. Phil Llewellin speaks to the man responsible00:02
Pollution hearings will not consider blame for 'Braer'00:02
Travel: We went with Chaucer's Tours: Like the pilgrims in 'The Canterbury Tales', the fellow travellers on Sue Gaisford's Mediterranean cruise were as interesting as the shrines they visited00:02
Plea for bonds in Peps00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Jack Straw writ00:02
THEATRE / Packing a spectacular punch: Paul Taylor on Kerry Shale's boxing drama The Set-Up at the Gate00:02
Auctions00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Modern cures in an antique mould: The journey of Ibn Fattouma - Naguib Mahfouz, Tr. D Johnson-Davies: Doubleday, pounds 13.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Electroshock treatment for Art's sake: Antonin Artaud: Blows and bombs - Stephen Barber: Faber and Faber, pounds 14.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window:00:02
Dublin sound is a big hit with British listeners00:02
Church appointments00:02
Major hails Hoover's move as part of trend: The Social Chapter aimed to eliminate competitive advantages of cheaper labour. Britain's opt-out has caused anger in France. Sarah Lambert reports from Brussels and Julian Nundy from Paris00:02
Travel: Departures: Cruise surcharge?00:02
Tennis / Australian Open: Delgado and Baily give Britain cause for encouragement00:02
Rastafarians are not an ethnic group, judges rule00:02
Letter: A treatment order that could mean a family's safety00:02
Football: United make up for lost time: Phil Shaw looks at the best of the weekend's football programme00:02
Leading Article: A world role for Nato00:02
Food & Drink: Serving the last coarses: Recepi00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window:: A world of my own: a dream diary - Graham Greene: Reinhardt Books, pounds 12.9900:02
De Klerk warns of civil war if talks fail00:02
Italians divided over mother's sacrifice00:02
Travel: Departures: Fare deals00:02
Rugby Union: England's rosy draw00:02
Football: Rangers to play in private00:02
Luxembourg fund00:02
Price rises help Shell Oil return to the black00:02
Travel: Departures: On your bike00:02
Country Matters: On guard, and staying that way00:02
BOOKS / Slow and steady wins the race at last: Marianne Brace talks to Jeff Torrington, whose first novel won the Whitbread Prize this week00:02
With the best will . . .00:02
Scottish Football: Meeting on breakaway Super league00:02
Red light for sex on council funds00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Guidelines aim to cut number of suicides00:02
Saturday Night: Wagner would wet himself