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Saying of the week00:02
Bunhill: Feet on the ground00:02
ART / Sold down the river: When Whistler took on a Thames boatman as a pupil, it looked like inspired charity. A new show isn't so sure00:02
Letter: I am proof that alternatives to jail work00:02
Rugby Union: Ainscough on song00:02
The British Franchise Exhibition: Where to find the exhibitors00:02
A poison tearing a family in pieces: South Tyneside has the highest unemployment figure in Britain, while Settle has one of the lowest. We asked people from both places how they felt00:02
BOOK REVIEW / From the land of plots: 'The Palace of Dreams' - Ismail Kadare trs Barbara Bray: Harvill, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Racing: Coulton fails to clear the picture00:02
Unemployment: Jobs crisis 'could tear nation apart'00:02
Collectors see a bonus in new notes: Fresh colours will reduce confusion and excite traders, says Vincent Duggleby00:02
Athletics: Morceli just misses record00:02
Letter: Whose absence?00:02
Saudi lines00:02
Revenue moves to forgive00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The writer's block: 'Peerless Flats' - Esther Freud: Hamish Hamilton, 14.99 pounds00:02
Super Troupers: What's going on? In 1993, a defunct Swedish pop group is back at the heart of British pop culture: best-selling albums, number-one singles, bands paying homage in blue eyeshadow and big boots. Why Abba? And why now?00:02
Is America ready for the 'us' generation?00:02
CHILDREN / The development of mind-reading: Fibbing means a child knows others have minds - and a crucial part of the brain has switched on, says Karen Gold00:02
Squash: Jahangir out00:02
Fugitive sees rich pickings in electricity: Lisa Vaughan on trader Marc Rich and his entry into the UK electricity market00:02
Letter: I am proof that alternatives to jail work00:02
Sport in Short: Badminton00:02
ART MARKET / Up for sale00:02
Can accessories improve your sex life?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / New collections in brief00:02
Football: Norwich stay with title pace00:02
MOTORING / Nissan: Little and Large: John Fordham finds the Japanese company now has winners in both supermini and people-mover categories00:02
Fishing Lines: Carping and the comfort factor00:02
No southern comfort for Sinn Fein00:02
The special relationship that will survive all tiffs00:02
Football: Barrett supplies the spectacle for Villa00:02
Football: Stone sinks Boro hopes00:02
HIV fear dispelled00:02
How We Met: Louis Malle and Leslie Caron00:02
HEALTH / Common Complaints: Measles00:02
Mandela defies doctors' orders to prove he is fit for the fight00:02
Bunhill: Self styled00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Real Life: Where there's smoke there's business: Geraldine Bedell meets a loss assessor with burning ambition and a winning lifestyle00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The flexible friendship of Mr Sugar and Dr Pill: 'Life and How to Survive It' - John Cleese and Robin Skynner: Methuen, 16.99 pounds00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations' Championship: Scots power home00:02
Elton on the hop00:02
Climber's body found00:02
'Cruel Sea' producer dies00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations' Championship: French hand the Irish a lesson in history00:02
243,500 pounds for car00:02
My Biggest Mistake00:02
Racing: Don't forget Flown00:02
Strange tales on the trail of Carlos: Between the Jackal and the BBC, author David Yallop is no stranger to controversy. Cal McCrystal reports00:02
City: Baring all00:02
Football: United draw a blank00:02
Olympic Games: Scott poised for the game of Games: Hugh Jones examines the questions of politics, geography, finance and character which Manchester must be able to answer before it can hope to win the Olympics00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
The way Guinness rigged the takeover00:02
Boxing: Eubank labours to victory00:02
Letter: King's package is obscene00:02
BOOK REVIEW / James II goes to Siena: 'In a Hotel Garden' - Gabriel Josipovici: Carcanet, 12.95 pounds00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Fur protesters claw way back00:02
Letter: Lynn lands another man00:02
Government bites intervention bullet with funds for industry00:02
Ecology: Where cars will go when they die: BMW is stressing the recyclability of its models, looking to the day owners will have to pay for their disposal00:02
Contemporary poets: 26. Carol Rumens00:02
SHOW PEOPLE / Able to turn minus into plus: 65. Michel Petrucciani00:02
Opinions: Could you live without a TV set?00:02
Off-peak services may be slashed after BR sale, minister admits00:02
If you want work here, you can find it: South Tyneside has the highest unemployment figure in Britain, while Settle has one of the lowest. We asked people from both places how they felt00:02
Football: Talents going to waste00:02
Enter to popular acclaim, a doubting northern dramatist: David Lister talks to John Godber, little known but often performed00:02
Letter: Shakespearian fiction with roots in truth00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief00:02
FASHION / Real people00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Profile: Taipan coils for City strike: Richard Thomson assesses the rise of Henry Keswick and the impact of his homecoming00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Football / Round-Up: Machin leads raid at The Den00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks00:02
Punters call for safer betting: Andrew Bibby on a group of gamblers who are seeking greater protection at the bookie's00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The witch, the judge and the Pepsi: 'Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence00:02
Public Services Management: A woman's environment: Rachel Lipman on the search by a government department for more female candidates for public office00:02
Football: Ipswich flatter to deceive00:02
Premium Bonds00:02
Carlton to sell Zenith subsidiary00:02
TRAVEL / Memorable Journeys: Around the world in 216 trips: Michael Palin - From London to Southwold, Suffolk00:02
TELEVISION / Mr Pryce's deadly secret: Watch out - Jonathan Pryce is about. James Rampton meets him00:02
The British Franchise Exhibition: Partnership the key to a successful business00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Letter: Pensioners have right to 'benefit'00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Football: Sheringham stifles Leeds00:02
Innovation: Picking up on bits that let us down: The man who redesigned the wheelbarrow has moved indoors. Roger Trapp reports00:02
ICI set to approve splitting of group00:02
Last refrain of a tuneless age: Benny Green, musician and broadcaster, on why they don't write songs like they used to00:02
Letter: Why the slobbering has to stop00:02
Manufacturers told to place creativity at core of strategy00:02
Banks force cut in fees for Heron refinancing00:02
Murder in Liverpool / Evil: is it born or is it bred?: Writers have always asked whether children are naturally bad or good00:02
Political Commentary: Time to ask what's this clause IV00:02
The British Franchise Exhibition: All the information you need00:02
INTERIORS / The nature of white: Colours come and go, but some of the smartest decorators are still perfectly happy with just one, says Dinah Hall. All they need is a bundle of twigs and a tin bucket00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Gone to inner-inner land: 'The Penguin Book of the Beats' - ed Ann Charters: 8.99 pounds00:02
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: Results of Professional Examination 2 held in December 199200:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Prince Charles's juiciest secret is out: Organic lamb from Highgrove has been on sale for years, but butchers never publicised the royal connection. Michael Bateman reveals all00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A talent for destroying his own: 'Aimed at Nobody' - W S Graham: Faber, 5.99 pounds00:02
Making the best of a holiday disaster: A prompt and full complaint will give you the best chance of compensation. Ian Hunter reports00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Happy radio days00:02
Sport in Short: Volleyball00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Sisters of vengeance line up their targets00:02
Hope for Roundhouse00:02
Letter: Inflation claims that don't add up00:02
Maastricht now vital, warns Hurd00:02
ROCK / Camp without the kicks00:02
Analysts show faith in US recovery00:02
Letter: Imro is not silent but discreet00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Shares: Recovery will recall radio days00:02
Book firm writing a success story00:02
Rugby Union: Cornwall shot down00:02
Day of decision looms for Jewish 'soft Sabbath zone': Plans for Britain's first eruv have split a community. Lewis Chester reports00:02
Leading Article: The hammer blow to our conscience00:02
Football: That's just about the size of it00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Then & Now: Outnumbered00:02
City File: Invesco MIM00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
Health policy aims cover towards NHS pay beds: Budget medical plan may give a boost to threatened public sector00:02
Olympic Games: Warning: playing host can still be expensive: Robert Block reports on the mixed fortunes enjoyed by Olympic Games hosts of the recent past00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
The best and worst: Diverse investment is a perpetual winner - Large unit trusts00:02
Tennis: Sickness costs Becker his place00:02
Golf: Ames' record catches leaders00:02
Rule of terror in home for elderly00:02
Football: Economic plight throws spanner in the works: As Gary Lineker joins a football team owned by Toyota, Jasper Rees looks at factory clubs at home and abroad00:02
Home alone with 9 million readers00:02
Future of MPs' bar in doubt00:02
How Bart's was unsaved: Judy Jones reports on the false hopes leading to its loss of independence00:02
Major on crime: 'Condemn more, understand less'00:02
Football: Warhurst's tally rises00:02
Sales optimism rising, says survey00:02
Economics: How to put the nation back to work00:02
GARDENING / Reds in the lettuce bed: Salads are turning a redder shade of green. Michael Leapman on the latest leaves00:02
RECORDS / Rock00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hite and lows of penetration: 'Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change: The Hite Reports 1972-1993' - Shere Hite: Bloomsbury, 13.99 pounds00:02
Murder in Liverpool / The fear, the shame, the guilt00:02
Old-style tactics for new Yarrow strikers: James Cusick visits Clydeside, where they're remembering history00:02
Strange alliance opens a crack in clay firm's future: Pact among three stakeholders may leave WBB vulnerable. David Bowen reports00:02
Murder in Liverpool: Wherever you go and whatever you do, they may have you taped00:02
Letter: Voluntary work cannot be forced00:02
Letter: Pensioners have right to 'benefit'00:02
Letter: CBI committed to equal opportunities at work00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Angry faces glower from Monty's Mirror: This front page is not typical of the Labour party's only tabloid ally, but Jason Nisse and Michael Leapman report big changes afoot00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Battle for rare Irish beauty: Leonard Doyle reports from the Burren, where the EC is accused of 'trying to put a moustache on the Mona Lisa'00:02
Baby eels wriggle through tax net: The elver season has begun and so has the battle with the bailiffs, Jason Bennetto reports00:02
Radio stations to close00:02
ART MARKET / Selling the Pasha's paraphernalia: The late Ilhamy Hussein Pasha furnished his villa to keep up with neighbours like Princess Grace of Monaco. Jacques Tajan is conducting a house sale par excellence00:02
Hijacking ends00:02
From natural to neutral: a directory00:02
Letter: CBI committed to equal opportunities at work00:02
Pension plans lose gloss: The incentives to enter private schemes are slipping away. Sue Ward reports00:02
MUSIC / Record breaker: Three months ago he was a household name in only a handful of households. Now Henryk Gorecki is the first living composer to top the classical album chart, and fast climbing the pop one. How has he done it?00:02
Amato clings to power in scandal-torn Italy00:02
Liverpool: Boys of 10 charged with murder of toddler James00:02
Deaths00:02
Real Life: On being young in a dead land00:02
MUSIC / Eros enjoys a roller-coaster00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Letters: Briefly00:02
Q & A: England's triple-G force . . . and Genchev v Guentchev00:02
TRAVEL / Fowl play in Payakumbuh: Duck racing is the unique sport of West Sumatra. Sue Nelson joined the spectators00:02
Your Money: Beware the bedazzlers00:02
Letter: Lynn lands another man00:02
Pupils hurt in coach crash00:02
20,000 face axe at Lloyd's: Insurance market reckons it needs to cut a third of workforce after pounds 4.5bn losses, writes John Moore00:02
Prisoner hanged00:02
Bunhill: Troubled solicitors00:02
Kinnock sparks power struggle00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Bunhill: Red alert as share bores go mobile00:02
Signs point to an early float of computer firm00:02
Clinton reverses into path of big business: The President has gambled all on radical plans to slash the budget deficit, but US industry is threatening to fight him all the way. Bailey Morris reports from Washington00:02
The British Franchise Exhibition: Buy yourself a brand-name: New players are moving into the world of franchising. Roger Trapp looks at the opportunities and challenges that come with the trend00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Old guard hero stalks champion of the people: Tony Barber on an epic power struggle between Yeltsin and Khasbulatov00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Let's have a bit of order: 'Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos'- Roger Lewin: Dent, 15.99 pounds; 'Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos' - M Mitchell Waldrop: Viking, 9.99 pounds00:02
Sunday success00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations' Championship: Scotland and France to fore00:02
Football: Wimbledon revitalised00:02
Cricket: A bat, a ball, and a million dreams: The England cricket team's winter tour has brought home the depth of talent in the Indian game. Richard Williams reports from Bombay on the system and way of life that help nurture greatness00:02
Cricket / Third Test: Hick passes milestone with aplomb00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Lashings of source: 'The Mermaids in the Basement' - Marina Warner: Chatto, 9.99 pounds00:02
Olympic Games: How the other bids are shaping up00:02
Face of despair in Haiti00:02
Wheway dividend error00:02
TELEVISION / One goes mad at Balmoral00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Vanishing Point: The standard biography of Stephen Crane was 'a tissue of lies'. Discovering the truth about the author of The Red Badge of Courage is a matter of subtraction not addition00:02
Free trade in the balance00:02
Letter: Busy Bart's00:02
Football: Giggs' fast finishing turns tables on Saints00:02
The Broader Picture: Here we are again00:02
Football: Pearce has egg on face00:02
FILM / A turn to churn the stomach00:02
Football: Linighan adds to gloom00:02
THEATRE / A brass-bowelled barnstormer00:02
Public Services Management: Homes security warning00:02
Profile: An icon, anxious and shy: Rodney King - As he awaits a new trial of the police who beat him, Rodney King has become a hero, a demon, and a gold mine. Phil Reeves reports00:02
RADIO / Ambitious aggro fails to floor Mellor00:00
Liverpool: Boys of 10 charged with murder of toddler James