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Flexibility the key in trusts00:02
Woman jailed00:02
Service appointments00:02
Cricket: Gifford stung by collapse00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Bogus aircraft parts put passengers at risk00:02
Bookshop Window: The Dream Songs - John Berryman: Faber, pounds 9.9900:02
Boxing: Bowe swings in with a carrot for Hide: Contenders vie for the vacated British title as the world champion's goodwill tour contains only ill-will for Lewis00:02
Letter: A police force suffering from frustration cannot solve society's problems00:02
Escobar man surrenders00:02
Bookshop Window: The Father - Sharon Olds: Secker & Warburg, pounds 600:02
TV news chief quits Granada00:02
NTT to cut workforce by 30,00000:02
Obituary: Dame Ethel Wormald00:02
Letter: The game is up for children's play unit00:02
Loretto/Heriot-Watt University Essay Prize 199300:02
Motoring / Road Test: VW wins with a sweet six: Roger Bell purrs with pleasure at the Corrado VR6, a smooth, class-beating coupe00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Letter: Citizen involvement across the Irish Sea00:02
Gardening: Portrait of the artist's wife as a young lady: Anna Pavord continues her monthly series on gardens in paintings with In the Pleasaunce, Atkinson Grimshaw's elegant Victorian period piece00:02
Sphere proposes packaged units00:02
Travel / Departures: Montana angle00:02
Oxfam to take a share for charity00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Corrupt Russians00:02
OFT to investigate photocopier leasing00:02
Food and Drink: I'll take my Chateau Lafite with a screwcap, thanks: Corked wine has become such a problem that alternative stoppers are now serious contenders, says Anthony Rose00:02
The Week in Review: Home News00:02
Heseltine pelted by protesters00:02
Appeal Court to review sentence on rapist, 1500:02
Flying first-class to the bank: Wealthy customers are offered many extras, reports Vivien Goldsmith00:02
Letter: Today's investment is tomorrow's treasure00:02
Four found guilty of jail riot charges00:02
Belgians have their chip wrapper and eat it00:02
Hunt for IRA gasworks bomber after PC is shot: PC wounded - Shots fired in motorway chase - Two arrested - Near-disaster in Warrington00:02
Bookshop Window: Collected Poems - P J Kavanagh: Carcanet, pounds 18.9500:02
BOOKS / Ahi] There's a bug in my sonnet: Andrew Brown explores the database that holds 1300 English poets00:02
Travel / Departures: Camp offer00:02
Athletics: John has chance to shine00:02
Travel: Last orders for Rover's Return: The Costa del Sol's 'sangria and breezeblock' nightmare is receding; its new look will attract a different class of visitor, says David Hewson00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Advice for the older woman00:02
Leon hopes to bring home the bacon: The film and timber industries provide the setting for a couple of unusual Business Expansion Scheme ventures00:02
Obituary: Adina Blady Szwajger00:02
Racing: Blazing on trail of Gold status: Paul Hayward on a former champion elect who could make his mark on the emerging generation this afternoon00:02
Scottish Football: McAvennie to stay00:02
Angola peace talks delayed00:02
Endowments auction date00:02
Football: A game on the drawing board: Today's meeting of football's rule-makers could have momentous implications for the sport's future: Derek Hodgson looks at the subjects on the agenda for a high-powered session00:02
Estate agents set up council tax appeals service00:02
Bottomley accused of NHS climb-down00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Under the Jaguar Sun - Italo Calvino, tr. William Weaver: Vintage, pounds 3.9900:02
Travel / Departures: Learning guide00:02
Banks to take BES route00:02
Leading Article: Too petty for the police?00:02
Millstone becomes Border's milestone00:02
Letter: A police force suffering from frustration cannot solve society's problems00:02
Baggage to be bar-coded for aircraft safety00:02
BOOKS / Songs of God and clifftops: Martin Wroe meets R S Thomas, Wales's finest poet and a man in love with his own language00:02
Shanklin's Victorian pier slips quietly into oblivion: Esther Oxford finds reaction muted on the Isle of Wight to the demolition of an historic seaside landmark00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
Racing: Jockey Club confirms drug verdict00:02
Bombs put town close to disaster: 'It would have been like Amsterdam when the 747 crashed. We are talking about a potentially very big catastrophe with the possible loss of many lives'00:02
Saturday Night: Thrilled to meet you, Manos. Let's make babies00:02
Alexanders loses pounds 1m and drops previous profits00:02
Walesa fears new Moscow revolution00:02
Homeless attack 'win-a-house' TV gameshow: Correction00:02
Car fault00:02
Boxing: Murray on hiding to nothing: Contenders vie for the vacated British title as the world champion's goodwill tour contains only ill-will for Lewis: Jonathan Rendall weighs up the prospects for tonight's British heavyweight fight00:02
G7 hopeful for German rate cut00:02
The freehold's in the Harrods bag00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Kew offers crocuses by the million00:02
Scotland to pioneer traffic data scheme00:02
Battle of the Bundesbank boils over: John Eisenhammer reports on the fierce clash of wills between Bonn and Frankfurt00:02
Driver 'wrote shopping list for a murder'00:02
Regent's Canal drained00:02
Fraud charges00:02
Chemical clean-up00:02
Travel / Departures: Mini-cruises00:02
Town faces cultural death and social deprivation: Harlow council will have to cut 176 jobs and slash services to meet its budget. Kathy Marks reports00:02
Travel / Departures: Late packages00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Travel / Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Horse hurt00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Football: Foreign imports under threat00:02
Appointments00:02
Mansfield Brewery links up with S&N00:02
Schools: King's School, Canterbury00:02
Football Team news00:02
Food and Drink: My biological clock wants its dinner00:02
Bookshop Window: Out of Land: New and Selected Poems - Lawrence Sail: Bloodaxe, pounds 7.9500:02
Hockey: Batchelor banned00:02
Syria pushes for more peace talks00:02
Highland scheme hopes for prices growth in the woods00:02
OPERA / Laying the ghost of Peter: Peter Grimes made a star of Benjamin Britten in 1945 and lent a powerful new voice to the tenor. Mark Pappenheim talks to four singers who have taken the terrible and beautiful title role00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Rate discount at Stroud00:02
Hurd stands by EC record on Bosnia: As the US prepares to go it alone on aid, Nato foreign ministers find there are gaps emerging in the transatlantic alliance00:02
RECORDS / Double Play: An eternity of listening: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson on John Tavener's modern miracle00:02
Travel / Departures: Venice offer00:02
Teenagers convicted of rape00:02
Schoolboy torturer detained for five years00:02
Bookshop Window: Bloomsbury Poetry Classics, pounds 9.95 each.00:02
Appeals: The Glasite Meeting House00:02
PEP discount plan launched00:02
Leaders to US00:02
Letter: TV's undue influence00:02
Man beaten to death with bedpan00:02
Travel: And the baby fell overboard: Hurricanes, fire alarms, hippies . . . anything but plain sailing. Readers regale Frank Barrett with tales of Seventies ferry crossings aboard The Eagle00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Letter: TV's undue influence00:02
Lloyd's syndicate may lose pounds 220m00:02
Evidence eaten00:02
Cricket: Inspired Jarvis brings England a rare victory00:02
Car attack00:02
Government targets high suicide rate on farms00:02
Wills00:02
The Way I Was: What I do wah diddy did next: Paul Jones talks to Nicholas Roe about his last few months as a pop star with the group Manfred Mann and his decision to go solo00:02
The Big Sell: Behind closed dors, deep in a Swindon warehouse, an Independent journalist hears salesmen offering sex, crime, culture and food to Mr Big. a 27,000-word non-fiction blockbuster00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Old names come to a surprise party: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories - Ed. Joyce Carol Oates: OUP, pounds l7.5000:02
Coping with redundancy00:02
FILM / Location: Taking Stalingrad: The battle of Stalingrad has been refought in Prague by a German film crew and 12,000 extras. Joanna Berry reports00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
'Switch' offer from ShareLink00:02
Serbian military to allow air-drops: As the US prepares to go it alone on aid, Nato foreign ministers find there are gaps emerging in the transatlantic alliance00:02
Appeals: The Mary Hare Foundation00:02
Germans and French in squabble on trade00:02
Faith and Reason: Democracy depends on a moral system: Digby Anderson opens a new series on the Loss of Virtue by arguing that the importance given to social order, on which law and policing depend has been subverted and neglected00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Judge rejects challenge to multi-faith teaching00:02
Ozone hole over half of Antarctica00:02
Letter: A police force suffering from frustration cannot solve society's problems00:02
Royal College of Physicians00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Letter: Costs of smoking in a free society00:02
Going, going . . . gone] It's magic: If you want to know how to saw someone in half, then hurry off to Sotheby's, says John Windsor00:02
Dadabhai Naoroji00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Travel / Departures: Down Under deals00:02
Food and Drink: Wine Box00:02
Church appointments00:02
Travel / Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Anger as rights Bill for disabled people is blocked00:02
Candid Caller00:02
US economy notches up 4.8% growth00:02
MPs hint at Maxwell pensions conspiracy00:02
Money grouse: Talking to thin air with the Woolwich00:02
Clinton pledge to promote free trade and growth00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Starved for attention: Peerless Flats - Esther Freud: Hamish Hamilton, pounds 14.9900:02
Bookshop Window: Provinces: Poems 1987-1991 - Czeslaw Milosz: Carcanet, pounds 6.9500:02
Travel: The Alps it isn't, but . . .: Andorra has its special attractions. Chris Gill talks to two families about the cheap and cheerful pleasures of skiing in the Pyrenees00:02
BHS swings axe over 3,000 store jobs00:02
Chess coup by players00:02
Killer son jailed for 60 years00:02
Football: New points for the pools00:02
Cossacks flock to help Orthodox kin00:02
Zaire troops end parliament siege00:02
Heseltine pressed to give details over Airtours bid00:02
Fashion: New chain for a missing link: Roger Tredre meets Susan Woolf, bridging the gap between designer labels and high street00:02
Drayton made to correct figures00:02
Food and drink: Gastropod00:02
Clinton package buoyed by polls00:02
Severn buys East Worcester Water00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Stung by shifting sand at Little Rock: Net of Jewels - Ellen Gilchrist: Faber, pounds 14.9900:02
Football: Moore's name to go on Fair Play Trophy00:02
Cricket: Kiwis face uphill task00:02
Food and drink: Made in England, steeped in Ireland: Emily Green is well fed at the restaurants of an Irishman, an Englishwoman and a Scot in Piccadilly, Oxford Street and Shepherd's Bush00:02
Cash in on the Money Show00:02
MUSIC / His papers are in order: Andrew Green talks to Robert Threlfall about his work on the recently completed Delius Collected Edition00:02
Iraqi drainage scheme cripples Marsh Arabs: Saddam Hussein's attempts to strangle the Shias' insurrection have led him to an engineering assault on their habitat, writes Robert Fisk00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Glances into the art of darkness: Natasha Walter on a brave attempt to put morality back on the cinema screen: Hollywood vs America - Michael Medved: HarperCollins, pounds 17.9900:02
Letter: Fresh start for Italy00:02
THEATRE / Fiddling on the roof: Paul Taylor reviews Alan Bleasdale's latest comedy On the Ledge at the Nottingham Playhouse00:02
Court Circular00:02
Property: Morse ends up victim of a ball and chain00:02
Column Eight: Major takes the crease00:02
Letter: A police force suffering from frustration cannot solve society's problems00:02
Tennis: Austin's run ends00:02
BBC 1's new chief threatens Eldorado00:02
Addict bailed00:02
Letter: TV's undue influence00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Peking 'ready to restart talks on Hong Kong'00:02
General Portfolio offers best bonds00:02
Direct debits: a useful system that can go wrong00:02
Travel: Les Deux Alpes - Best resort for vertical drop00:02
Travel / Departures: Bolshoi debut00:02
Auctions00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: The Face of War - Martha Gellhorn: Granta, pounds 6.99.00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Basketball: Kings in chase for a crown00:02
Italian magnates may face charges00:02
Football Diary: Bonny accord on hair00:02
US to pull out despite riots00:02
Obituary: Orrea Pernel00:02
Bowls: Corsie set for McCann00:02
Property: The market is for turning: Estate agents are seeing distinct signs of an upturn in house sales, though prices remain depressed. David Lawson reports from north and south00:02
Ombudsman tells of mice and mendacity: Vivien Goldsmith discovers what policyholders are complaining about00:02
Chalker insists on role for Inkatha00:02
T. S. Eliot Prize00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Golf: Seve hoist by own petard00:02
Private health insurance needs careful treatment: Sue Fieldman looks at some of the new products flooding on to the market (CORRECTED)00:02
Country Matters: Nibbles from a glutton's table00:02
BCCI auditors face new claims00:02
Food and drink: Delicious rice dreams from Italy: Just one risotto recipe and the right kind of rice are all you need to create one of the world's great dishes. After that the permutations are endless00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Seeds of hope with parsnips00:02
Obituary: Leslie Norman00:02
Skiing: Course made safer after three skiers injured00:02
Appeals: War Child00:02
Football: Governors who are a law unto themselves: Today's meeting of football's rule-makers could have momentous implications for the sport's future: Ken Jones on the areas that the International Board should really be addressing00:02
Out of China: Women clamour for a more acceptable face00:02
Marital advice00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Clarke rejects Labour offer on terrorism Act00:02
Football: Pleat torpedoes Gray deal00:02
Holidaymakers in dark over insurance option: Sue Fieldman highlights a way in which tour companies make life difficult for their clients00:02
DANCE / High body count: Judith Mackrell on V-Tol at The Place00:02
Travel: Why the British flock to Florida00:02
Virginia restricts handguns00:02
Obituary: B. A. Steward00:02
Motoring: How first class becomes second best: Luxury costs a fortune when it's new; the secret is to wait until someone else has used it, says Steve Cropley00:02
Tool Box: A new set of teeth00:02
Fixed rates to lure first-time buyers00:02
Treasure lay buried for three centuries00:02
'Suicide doctor' in legal noose00:02
IRA shoots woman, 66, by mistake00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Market Report: Sniff of lower rates triggers renewed surge00:02
Guarantees are not quite the best of both worlds: Vincent Duggleby builds some DIY equity schemes to challenge the building societies00:02
Karabakh talks00:02
Rugby Union: Spectre of Bath hangs over cup campaigners00:02
BNFL fined over safety breach at Sellafield00:02
Art and romance in England's suburbs00:02
Skiing: World Cup win for Seizinger00:02
Food and drink: A pizza of bread00:02
A better class of purgatory: Airport lounges, don't you just hate them? Richard Branson thinks he has the answer. Jonathan Glancey visits Virgin Atlantic's new Clubhouse at Heathrow00:02
Hospital will not discipline staff over baby mix-up00:02
Bookshop Window: A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles - Ed. Frank Ormsby: Blackstaff, pounds 12.9500:02
View from Tokyo: Yen for recovery splits Japan00:02
Father jailed00:02
Food and Drink: If at first you don't succeed: Egg on our faces: Correction00:02
Athletics: John has chance to shine00:02
BOOKS / As the axeman says: let's do it: Glyn Maxwell urges his fellow poets to take up their guitars and appeal to their audiences with the directness of rock music00:02
Food and Drink: Store wars: will we all be losers?: Shopping trends offer some alarming scenarios as supermarket giants vie with the discounters. Patrick Hosking investigates00:02
Central Asia steps nearer to unity00:02
Fatal blaze00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Big business on the No 2200:02
Rugby League: Castleford fear central threat of Innes and Iro00:02
Hockey: Beeston reprieved00:02
Travel / Departures: French selection00:02
MGN sued for rent arrears00:02
Rugby Union: South Africa coach resigns00:02
In disharmony00:02
Gardening / Cuttings: Hamilton's herbs as seen on TV00:02
Benefit00:02
Obituary: Jozef Czapski00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Thereafter Johnnie - Carolivia Herron: Virago, pounds 5.99.00:02
Profile: When gold fades into grey: Michael Heseltine, soldiering on at 6000:02
Birthdays00:02
Five die in skyscraper explosion: Hundreds trapped in billowing smoke after 'Croat car bomb' rocks World Trade Centre00:02
Football: Villa air gate expectations: Phil Shaw looks at the weekend's football programme00:02
Obituary: Orrea Pernel00:02
Iraqi drainage scheme cripples Marsh Arabs: Saddam Hussein's attempts to strangle the Shias' insurrection have led him to an engineering assault on their habitat, writes Robert Fisk