00:02
Obituary: Sir Kelvin Spencer00:02
Leading Article: The Great Leader's nuclear secret00:02
HSBC set to be most profitable bank: Earnings of dollars 1.8bn beat newly revived American institutions00:02
For Mitterrand the imperial age is over: After Sunday the President will be a lonely man, says Julian Nundy00:02
Home Computer: Coming to terms with computerland: High-tech novice Mary Braid goes shopping and learns to hold her own in a world full of toys for the boys00:02
Letter: Keynesian Budget that relies on free markets00:02
Home Computer: Right technology, wrong price: Old hand Andrew Brown looks at the small print of what was offered Computer revolution hits home00:02
Pensioners outraged by the price of staying warm00:02
Law Update: Budding advocates00:02
'Indies' take centre stage00:02
Letter: Keynesian Budget that relies on free markets00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Seoul allows struggling Pyongyang small victory in treaty row: North Korea's nuclear stance is seen as smoke screen for its growing problems at home, writes Terry McCarthy in Tokyo00:02
Royal Engagements00:02
US forces go to south Somalia00:02
Privatisation blow00:02
'Pledges broken' over community care funding: All-party committee criticises failure by ministers00:02
Law Update: Focus on art00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Facing up to the facts of fiction00:02
Racing / The Cheltenham Festival: Jodami power fuels northern Gold rush00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
BMW's chief executive to step down after 23 years: German motor industry's best performer reveals damage from collapsed domestic market and strong currency00:02
Out of Russia: United in apathy as titanic struggle rages00:02
Museum to put three generations of an Italian-designed car on display00:02
The parade went straight up Fifth Avenue00:02
Failures 'should fall': Trade Indemnity chairman optimistic00:02
View from City Road: Reasons for jobless fall00:02
Football / Non-League Notebook: St Albans cannot see wood for the trees00:02
Letter: A strategy for survival of military bands00:02
Fall in unemployment surprises the City: Labour dismisses 22,000 drop as a freak while the pound soars to a seven-week high00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fibbies, goons and chargeable time opportunities: 'The Client' - John Grisham: Century, 14.99 pounds00:02
Junejo dies00:02
L&G beefs reserves as profits treble: Insurer acts to protect itself against losses on repossessed homes00:02
Sports Listings: Saturday / Canoeing - Premier slalom event, Holme Pierrepont00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell eager to step into the firing line: Britain's Indycar new boy geared up for a rough reception on the gold coast00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Law: Being special has effects: Sharon Wallach finds out how firms are chosen00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Widdecombe reveals her Thatcherite credentials00:02
Slow trading hits Kwik-Fit: 'Toughest conditions in 22 years' send earnings down00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Rugby League: Tuuta out for six matches00:02
Olympic Games 2000: Manchester's millennium stadium: British bid beefs up challenge with 100m pounds centrepiece00:02
Hitting the fast lane in China with all the advantages of a car and none of the hassle of fuel bills00:02
Zaire gets to grips with two PMs00:02
Indian commandos hunt the rogue elephant man: A poacher-turned-killer is the country's most wanted outlaw, writes Tim McGirk in the Melagiri Hills00:02
Five miss out when an adult's always there: Children had real adventures when parents were rarely seen or heard, remembers Julia Knight00:02
Cricket: England test averages in India and Sri Lanka00:02
FILM / Lost in the crush, scared senseless00:02
Appointments00:02
Princess presses case for caring approach to young homeless: Running away from family can be a 'courageous last resort'00:02
Higher benefits pledged to calm anger over VAT: Downing Street orders 'clarification' after ministers' confusion on fuel bills00:02
FILM / Guardians of the faith: 'Distributors are chickenshit. They think audiences have become less adventurous.' Sheila Johnston on the avant-garde00:02
Fears over Spring Ram spark sell-off: Calls for resignations after warning halves share value00:02
MUSIC / Fresh light on death00:02
Fund for needy 'lost' pounds 21.3m: Failure in keeping records of loans00:02
Oil workers linked to leukaemia in children: Scots population mix could be to blame00:02
Leading Article: An imaginative idea, pity about the funding00:02
View from City Road: Spanish reaction dents Guinness00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations' Championship: Cooke reminds England to forget battle for Lions places: Carling's men guard against complacency as the Five Nations' Championship nears its climax00:02
Doctors 'clear Allen of sex abuse'00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
After the Gold rush, the Cheltenham punters hail an 8-1 winner00:02
Obituary: Lord Underhill00:02
UN commander calls for airlift to Srebrenica: Serbs halt aid convoys again while Muslims leave peace talks in New York as fighting in Bosnia continues00:02
Worker shot in face00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympic Games00:02
Terms accepted00:02
Court Circular00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Bottom Line: UB soothes transatlantic troubles00:02
Hierarchy buries the hatchet for a fond farewell00:02
Counterfeit charges00:02
Sailing: Golding first ashore00:02
Diary00:02
February fall reported in year-on-year car production00:02
Column One: Dutch comfort00:02
Bundesbank discount rate cut disappoints: Devaluation speculation mounts as french franc nears floor in exchange rate mechanism00:02
Racing / The Cheltenham Festival: A bashful yell from Beaumont00:02
Racing / The Cheltenham Festival: Swan on song as Ireland triumphs: Celebrations are redoubled as the Irish tally reaches six00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
Obituary: Nigel Robson00:02
Tory's ex-wife wins divorce claim: Woman awarded pounds 20,000 in damages after court rules that solicitors acted negligently00:02
MPs set to propose press ombudsman: Watchdog would have hotline00:02
View from City Road: Coming clean on the real costs of life assurance00:02
First profits fall for 13 years at Guinness00:02
Letter: Council help and police support for a murder victim00:02
Turkish delights for the silver jubilee Herbert Street party: For 25 years a group of neighbours have been staging friendly invasions across Britain and Europe00:02
Russia threatens force to protect troops in Georgia: Abkhazia conflict deepens mutual mistrust00:02
Rushdie goes to France00:02
Motor Racing: Prost gets green light from Fisa00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Italian MPs rule against buying of votes: As corruption arrests continue, chamber of deputies moves to clean up its act00:02
Westminster predicts 66% increase00:02
Bliss is spring and a small town in England00:02
Cricket: Dexter bewilders as beatings mount for bewitched tourists00:02
Bottom Line: Schroders results confound the critics00:02
VAT on fuel 'will mean more winter deaths': Campaigners want elderly to be compensated for higher cost of power to prevent rise in hypothermia cases00:02
Life after ice in your underpants: Many explorers find only despair on return from their expeditions, but not Robert Swan00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Market Report: Second-liners continue march as blue chips wilt00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
Lords say children have no right to council homes housing: Judgment supports authorities that rejected child applications after parents were refused housing00:02
Law Update: Marketing journal00:02
Bowel cancer screening 'could save 3,500 lives': Fund seeks support for pounds 3m programme00:02
Delors attacks G7 nations00:02
Leading Article: Seen as well as heard00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
When strength is weakness00:02
Next week in Parliament00:02
Mrs Hughes was as old as could be : The days of our lives are five score and fifteen maximum: Steve Connor explains00:02
First shot fired in Labour battle: Transport workers' chief defends union role in leadership election00:02
MUSIC / Can the country really Handel it?: If Karen Gadd has her way, the entire country will be singing 'Hallelujah' on Tuesday. Kevin Jackson reports on the nationwide scheme to mark 250 years of Handel's 'Messiah'00:02
German rate cut hits the franc00:02
Rentokil soothes the tax blow: Final dividend raised to cancel out effect of budget proposals00:02
Golf / Portuguese Open: Gilford glows as Berendt dazzles00:02
New deadline set for check on suspected atomic waste plants00:02
BP recalls chief of American arm: Analysts baffled by 'bizarre' transatlantic reshuffle00:02
Brazil limits Coats' rise : Setback clouds strong performance00:02
Sporting Digest: Drugs in sport00:02
Britain gains tactical point in Fish War: French give assurance that exports will be protected00:02
Home Computer: Computer revolution hits home00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
THEATRE / No sight for sore eyes: The Great Doctor Yabuhara - Lyric Hammersmith00:02
Court asked to lock up boy, 1200:02
Today's Number: 2400:02
Fowl noise leads to court: Neighbour seeks to end Corky's dawn chorus00:02
Letter: Council help and police support for a murder victim00:02
Clinton moves to ease tension over EC trade: President tells Delors that US does not want dispute00:02
Carsberg starts a storm: Life insurers hit back at disclosure demands00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics : The Word00:02
'Cheapest option' chosen for Channel tunnel rail route: Leaked documents show kent beauty spots will be affected00:02
Obituary: Oliver Thompson00:02
Law Update: Student openings00:02
Mulims 'plotted' Bombay bombs00:02
Banks cut gilts holdings: Blow to Treasury over PSBR hopes00:02
'Split market' advocated: Institutions move in with taurus substitute proposal00:02
FILM / Nicholson makes a Hoffa you can refuse: Adam Mars-Jones reviews Jack Nicholson's performance in Danny DeVito's Hoffa, plus Crush and Candyman00:02
Badminton: Smith's enduring spirit00:02
FILM / Still crazy after all these years: Hoffman on four (plastic) legs, Newman on two wheels, Jane Richards on film stills00:02
Tennis / Lipton Championships: Edberg swamps Forget00:02
The Daily Poem: Immortality00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Letter: A strategy for survival of military bands00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Assault award00:02
China threatens trade links in Hong Kong reform row: Major supports 'resolute' Patten00:02
A not-so-clear view of the future: Public gives mixed response to British Telecom's new videophone00:02
Budget Debate, Third Day: Fall in unemployment given cautious welcome: Shephard sees cause for hope as Dobson talks of 'either a freak or a fiddle'00:02
Farmland, woods and beauty spots will fall foul of rail link: Stephen Ward examines the Kent Channel Tunnel Route00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Law Report: Police grievance procedure documents disclosable : Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Locker - Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Knox, Miss C Holroyd and Mr P Smith), 10 March 199300:02
Football / FA Cup: Sheffield fans step up protest: Threat of legal moves to change FA Cup semi-final venue00:02
'Lost' painting expected to fetch more than pounds 2m00:02
FILM / Critical Round-up00:02
US seeks to buy Pretoria's uranium stock: Concern over attitude of ANC00:02
Law Update: Grass-roots finance00:02
Murder case man 'was given a false alibi': 'Friend asked to help a person in trouble'00:02
Muslims leave UN peace talks as fighting continues: Bosnian government presents its own version of 'Peace Map' amid stalemate over Vance-Owen plan00:02
Peers join together to present disabled students with bursaries worth more than pounds 55,00000:02
Fuel tax will add to pits jobs toll: VAT move to cut market for coal by more than 3 million tonnes00:02
People00:02
Arjo Wiggins Teape slashes dividend: Deepening recession in european markets raises prospect of further cut this year00:02
Mayor's disappearance spices up Nice election: A local politician goes missing before France's National Assembly vote on Sunday00:02
Cricket: England are humiliated by historic defeat: Fletcher bemoans itinerary as Sri Lanka conquer their nerves with verve to secure a vivid victory00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Reed merger fees cost pounds 41m: Success payments made despite an agreed Elsevier deal00:02
Law: Paying for the letter of the law: Sharon Wallach hears complaints about the court system00:02
MUSIC / Transformations of a chameleon conductor: The Mozart players' new director can be dashing and dignified. Nicholas Williams observed the mix at the QEH00:02
Obituary: Helen Hayes00:02
Family buys last Vulcan bomber00:02
Sentence upheld00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Rowing00:02
Sports Listings: Saturday / Badminton - Yonex All-England Championships, Wembley00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Letter: Australian symbols00:02
Stonehenge plans aim for traffic-free zone: Road around monument may be moved00:02
A Bluffer's Briefing On: Marmaduke Hussey00:02
Sir Throat clears up the questions00:02
Marmaduke, the White Knight, takes to the hills00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Letter: About face on clarity00:02
BBC board rules out resignations over Birt tax affair: Governors make few concessions to critics as staff union leader condemns their stance as 'outrageous'00:02
Obituary: Muhammad Khan Junejo