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Public Services Management: An age-old question of discrimination: Are people over the hill at 50? or 40? or even 30? some councils think so, says Liza Donaldson00:02
Obituary: Michael Kanin00:02
Walsh to quit GKN for TI: Finance director's move eats into share price gains00:02
Beauty spots 'few can reach' receive pounds 7.5m: Ramblers criticise scheme to enhance the environmental value of countryside areas. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
NSPCC calls for video evidence in abuse cases00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Public Services Management Update: Redundancy and race00:02
MUSIC / Busker's charter00:02
Hope for gene therapy on cystic fibrosis00:02
Chinese flock to buy the first soft porn magazines - called 'yellow books' because they show bare flesh - legally produced in the country00:02
Obituary: Natalia Correia00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Education Viewpoint: Treasures buried by secularism00:02
Gold problems hold back Minorco ambitions: Operating loss dollars 2.9m at interim stage, but chairman anticipates an upturn00:02
A guilt trip with photo opportunities: Jonathan Eyal says America shares our failure in the Balkans00:02
Racing / Cheltenham Festival: Coulton dope fears dismissed00:02
Rugby League: Inspired Bradford surprise inept Wigan: Careless hands open up championship race00:02
Football: Grobbelaar answers Stoke summons00:02
Co-op Bank sees surge in business: Ethical stand brings growth in deposits and demand for gold cards00:02
The dreary laureate of our provincialism: Here is Larkin, a minor poet raised to undeserved monumentality00:02
Obituary: Lt-Gen Sir William Pike00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Tennis / Lipton Championships: Becker has to pull out00:02
Trial haunted by images of life in the twilight zone: In the hacking underworld, Paul Bedworth was an unlikely villain. Susan Watts reports00:02
Obituary: Harold Soref00:02
Sniper kills Ulster soldier00:02
Fashion: A spring of shreds and patches: New names have emerged out of the sidelines and Paris suddenly looks very different, says Marion Hume00:02
Leading Article: Odd addiction, perverse verdict00:02
Public Services Management Update: Regulations row00:02
Pyongyang ready to talk00:02
How to be dead unpopular: Danielle Baillieu and Jason Nisse look at the problems of franchisees who put their faith in Howard Hodgson (CORRECTED)00:02
Khamenei blast claimed00:02
Motor Racing: Rain greets Mansell00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
DTI urged to intervene on aerospace: British equivalent of NASA called for in confidential report to Heseltine00:02
Court Circular00:02
Care home residents risk being trapped by cash rule: Government puts limit on accommodation benefit00:02
The day my true love found somebody else: What becomes of the broken-hearted? David Cohen meets forsaken husbands and wives00:02
Education: It's great. Much harder than at school: Karen Gold watches a group of gifted children who enjoy being pushed to their limits00:02
The wealth of ageing nations: People are living longer and we all face the bill, writes Hamish McRae00:02
Aspin to get pacemaker00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Polly Peck case fails: Administrators facing costs of pounds 1m over action against Cypriot bank00:02
THEATRE / A quiet word with the director: Richard Eyre, director of the National Theatre, is a quiet man with high volume abilities. Mark lawson met him00:02
Football: Ratcliffe ready for a comeback: Veteran defender back in Welsh squad00:02
Inside File: Litmus test of freedom00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Beauty spots 'few can reach' receive pounds 7.5m: Ramblers criticise scheme to enhance the environmental value of countryside areas. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
BBC advisers call on Hussey to resign: Pressure increases on chairman of governors over Birt's tax deal00:02
Chess: Kasparov the killer00:02
In brief: Oldest Briton dies00:02
Video prompts guilty plea00:02
Westwood campaigns for elegance: Roger Tredre reports on star designer's Paris spectacular00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Tory rift over VAT help for the poor: Lamont refuses to rule out extension of tax as retail sales surge00:02
REVIEW / Sting: something simple: Sting in 'sense of humour' shock. Giles Smith reports from the Albert Hall00:02
Rocard blames Mitterrand for troubles of left00:02
Kurdish rebels announce ceasefire: The Turkish Kurd leader is ready to talk, writes Robert Fisk in Lebanon00:02
Sports group's shares dive: Campari warns on profits00:02
High street chemists threatened: Prescription payment system to change00:02
Leading Article: Two cultures converge00:02
Marley cuts final to 2.1p: Operating profits slide to pounds 28.6m despite strong overseas activity00:02
TELEVISION / Estate of the realm: Thomas Sutcliffe follows the documentary tourists in Moss Side00:02
Public Services Management Update: On Sunday00:02
Chewing gum ban curbs litter00:02
Silly Question: If you don't mind my saying so00:02
BICC changes tack: Accounts switch to hit profits by 8m pounds00:02
THEATRE / Too clever for his own good: Paul Taylor on the Russian classic Chatsky at the Almeida00:02
Letter: Dash for democracy00:02
From high seas to high street: Marseilles wants to banish Polanski's pirate ship from its shore00:02
Settlements mushroom despite Rabin's pledge: Israeli building projects in the occupied territories boom in defiance of the US00:02
Firefighters poised for strike to defend their pay formula: Union says action over wages restraint 'inevitable'00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Letter: Australia's time for a republic00:02
Discovery of the mightiest baffles biology bacterium: Fish bug can be seen with naked eye00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
RAP / What it adds up to: squaring things with Cube: How bad is Ice Cube? Marek Kohn watches his show in Brixton00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Football / World Youth Cup: Ghana overcome stern resistance: England's youth have a sad day down under00:02
Golf: Lane's Cup incentive00:02
Law Report: The ineptitude of counsel renders conviction unsafe: Regina v Clinton - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (Lord Justice Steyn, Mr Justice Garland and Mr Justice Rougier), 9 March 199300:02
John Major extends a hand of friendship to an old Gulf war ally00:02
Badminton / All-England Championships: Hall labours for a Danish double00:02
Speak softly and don't wear an Armani suit: Roger Tredre asks: why was the D-G stitched up?00:02
Obituary: Professor Gordon Donaldson00:02
Stage set for clash over fish: Minister 'to read riot act' at talks00:02
Air raids on villages in east Bosnia: UN says aircraft flew towards Serbia after dropping bombs00:02
Interview: Going about as low as it is possible to go: What did Philip Glass take from David Bowie? Andy Gill met the composer to find out00:02
In brief: Cup that kills00:02
Letter: Australia's time for a republic00:02
Bottom Line: Bowthorpe's strategy vindicated by events00:02
In brief: Action call on asthma guide00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Sports Letters: Unkindest cuts00:02
Letter: League tables will not measure good policing00:02
RAP / A little of what you fancy does you good: Michael Odell walks into Ice Cube at his hotel00:02
View from City Road: Unintended burdens for pensions00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
What price idealism, as middle age spreads?00:02
Market Report: Equities hold their ground as gilts onslaught fades00:02
Education: Information unlimited: When one disk can teach anything, schools may not even need classrooms, says David Hewson00:02
View from City Road: Governments do not know best00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
BT could withdraw pay phones: Coin gangs raid 1,400 kiosks every week00:02
Hacker penetrated MoD: Conspiracy trial ends in 'surprise' acquittal00:02
Public Services Management Update: Recycling ideas00:02
Racing / Cheltenham Festival: Docklands chases his crock of Gold: A veteran rejuvenated by new shoes stands in the way of victory for The Fellow00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Political guru urges Balkan air attacks: Sir Karl Popper says only intervention will stop war00:02
Peking promises to rip up Patten reforms: Rival chinese power centre to undermine Hong Kong00:02
Higher Education: It's time students learnt to pay: Pauline Perry says a graduate tax would allow for further growth00:02
Fresh style for 'Independent'00:02
Warning of 500,000 job losses00:02
Pollution curbs worry ICI: EC proposals set liability for environmental damage00:02
In brief: Coal contracts 'to be signed soon'00:02
Test Cricket: Emburey to the rescue for England: Tourists fight back after an early slump but Sri Lanka maintain advantage00:02
TELEVISION / Feedback00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
View from City Road: Bad news for gilts00:02
The Daily Poem: The Only Man Never to Meet Samuel Beckett00:02
Racing: Thrill of painful pleasures00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Needham signals U-turn on export guarantees: British companies will not be held back by lack of cover, pledges trade minister00:02
Trade Center suspects indicted00:02
Warning of 500,000 job losses00:02
Leading Article: Second thoughts on a flawed curriculum00:02
Letter: Skills gap in both medicine and management00:02
Column One: Unfair contest00:02
In brief: Wife kept body00:02
Aids death doctor 'posed no risk': Fourth case adds to public fears00:02
Sports Letters: Fashionable prejudice00:02
Football: Norwich return to the summit00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
The man who left GM standing at the altar: Larry Black profiles the Volkswagen chief whose defection has embarrassed a US giant00:02
Escobar sets softer terms for surrender: Colombia's most wanted man may return to jail00:02
Income tax and the anti-political agenda00:02
Profits up at funeral group: Plantsbrook advances 38%00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Observers00:02
Taste of tax to come on employees' benefits: Harsher measures may be waiting in the vans00:02
Racing / Cheltenham Festival: Champion chase for deep thinker00:02
Out of China: Big spenders learn to shop till they drop00:02
Tory peer condemns school tests 'monster': Protest by teachers fuels education policy split00:02
Birthdays00:02
Football: Buckley improves00:02
Football: Nisbet strikes lucky for Rangers00:02
Sailing: Gold for Ainslie00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
ACT Budget decision is too slow for some: Hanson and Border among firms that fall into dividend timing trap00:02
Football: Eranio extends Milan's run00:02
Rugby Union / UAU Final: Bracken's vain brilliance00:02
Schools: Royal Grammar School, Guildford00:02
Be grateful we're still a newspaper00:02
Bottom Line: Spring Ram may not get a third chance00:02
Obituary: Giovanni Testori00:02
Today's Number - 800:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Rugby Union: Guscott achieves lift-off in space age: England have a centre who is the very model of a modern international but his attitude on and off the ptich has often been misunderstood. Steve Bale talked to him00:02
The spill's known damage to people and ecology: Ten weeks after the Braer disaster, the oil has dispersed but the repercussions are only just beginning00:02
In brief: Reviglio denies money transfers00:02
Arrests follow Calcutta bomb00:02
A bluffer's briefing on: hacking00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Summer Schools: All you ever wanted to learn but never dared to study: Sarah Strickland looks at the increasing variety and growing popularity of summer school courses00:02
Letter: A Budget that ends consumerism00:02
Baby to get first gene transplant: Operation aims to cure rare immune system deficiency00:02
12 killed in police raid in Egypt00:02
Algeria gunmen kill official00:02
Waltzing out of apartheid's long shadow: John Carlin meets a ballroom king who seeks fame and freedom on the city00:02
Gays kept out of NY Irish parade00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
F&C rapped over 1991 accounts: Trust fails to reveal directors' pay00:02
Japan denies asylum charges00:02
MUSIC / Making modern music feel at home: Scarpia: Stephen Johnson on noisy children and neat programming00:02
Shetland's clear waters conceal a sea of worries: Ten weeks after the Braer disaster, the oil has dispersed but the repercussions are only just beginning00:02
Writer donates pounds 1m to strike blow for theology: Best-selling novelist says she was 'guided by God' to help Cambridge University set up a lectureship. Martin Wroe reports00:02
Battle is on for heart of Nice: Le Pen's challenge is the prelude to a tussle for control of a troubled city00:02
Channel rail link route statement blocked: Labour whips threatened to disrupt parliamentary business00:02
The Budget: Portillo warns of tough limits on spending: Election campaign pledge on VAT was 'the plain truth', minister tells commons00:02
Football / FA Cup: Warhurst feeds Wednesday's double ambition00:02
The Budget: Tories divided on Lamont's future: Decision to phase tax increases may save Chancellor00:02
Clinton delays Northern Ireland envoy00:02
In brief: New arrest over Newall murder00:02
Tribune MPs seek pledge to borrow more: Labour backbenchers urge party's Treasury team to take bolder line on jobs00:02
Bayer seeking remedy abroad: Chemicals group gives profits warning as reforms hit turnover00:02
In brief: Extremists jailed00:02
Promised tax rises cloud revival in consumer confidence: Spending surge continues but inflation and unemployment forecasts dampen prospects for recovery00:02
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BOOK REVIEW / Golly gosh] In the limelight with shadows: 'Cliff Richard' - Steve Turner: Lion, 16.99 pounds00:02
Investment: New economy is key00:02
In brief: Russian army 'to lie low'00:02
Change of gear for car perk: New system could put thousands on revenue bills