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ABROAD / Nova Scotia is the new Seattle, definitely: Looking to catch tomorrow's sounds today? Tune in to the Nova Scotia scene. There's nothing fishy about it, says Joseph Gallivan00:02
False moves00:02
Beatrix Potter sheep given new lease of life: National Trust exhibition based on Lakeland author will help 14 farms. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Age concern00:02
Letter: Steps towards an Australian monarchy00:02
GLOSSARY / A is for the abuse we decided to define00:02
Leading Article: Clear road ahead, at a price00:02
Sports Letters: Selection quandary00:02
Obituary: Joseph Oduho00:02
Councils facing care obligation: Charities told health reforms put legal duty on local authorities00:02
Ocean is swamped by large loss00:02
Pounds 500,000 gift00:02
BM to cut staff in bid for survival00:02
Diary: April00:02
Share dealings in Queens Moat suspended: City surprised by move as hotel operator's refinancing collapses00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Football / World Cup: Self-control earns Taylor's praise00:02
Court Circular00:02
Pembroke: Spring's sponge00:02
Sports Letters: Forgotten virtues00:02
Reprieve for sacred river: The World Bank cut funds to a dam project in India, writes Tim McGirk00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Law Report: Excessive libel damages cut: Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers and others. Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Neill, Lord Justice Staughton and Lord Justice Roch).00:02
Sunday call00:02
Blazing-car murder plot trio jailed00:02
Obituary: Kate Reid00:02
Dutch and Germans join forces00:02
Fourth suspect indicted00:02
Europhobes pushed to the wings: Opponents of the Maastricht treaty find themselves excluded from government00:02
Market Report: Gilts help equities to 17-point gain00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Nine killed in crush to escape Srebrenica siege00:02
Fashion: Calvin looks to Camden Town: Poverty dressing takes off, as New York turns to London for its inspiration00:02
Do have a cigar, sir, while I place your bet: High street bookies are stocking up on armchairs and moving into niche marketing, says Chris Arnot00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: The mood of the nation00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Smart route to easier motoring00:02
Letter: Loaded arguments to support opting out00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Kids' stuff, or the art of losing your marbles: 'The People in the Playground' - Iona Opie: Oxford, 15.95 pounds00:02
Lamont and the Bank give interest-rate cut low priority: Strength of sterling and a grip on inflation emphasised00:02
Fashion: What we hide reveals a lot about us: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exposing the significance of what we wear under our clothes. Marion Hume reports00:02
They say that making up is hard to do . . .: Velvet Underground are. Led Zep may be. But, no, not Cream] Giles Smith on bands reforming, and those who shouldn't00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Volkswagen runs up pounds 515m loss in three months00:02
Send in the clones00:02
Anglia looks to bank for rescue after annual loss00:02
Football: Bart-Williams awaits the call to head Wednesday attack00:02
Clinton set to roll back Reagan years: The White House signals its determination to reverse Republican policies on abortion and workers' rights00:02
Sports Letters: The spirit of competition00:02
Education: Opting out: what every parent should ask: Whether your child's school should leave local council control is an important decision. Colin Hughes offers a guide to the main issues00:02
Bottom Line: Senior shows the sceptics00:02
Research: Sometimes a little thinking helps teachers to stay ahead: A debate among academics over the value of research to teaching has flared again as universities seek to reassess their lecturing standards. Karen Gold reports00:02
Bottom Line: Harrisons profit slippery as soap00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
School closed after rape orgy00:02
Nuclear sub shows the flag in Gulf: Royal Navy counters a threat from Iran00:02
Two 'old' generating plants face closure00:02
Thatcher faces Iraq questions: Major and former PM asked for evidence in judge's inquiry into export of arms to Baghdad before Gulf war00:02
Letter: The caring power of red ribbons00:02
RIFFS / Love that neighbour: Joi Marshall of LA soul girls Jade on 'Don't Ask My Neighbour', by The Emotions00:02
Football / World Cup: England overcome Turkish aggression: Platt and Gascoigne keep their heads in hostile atmosphere00:02
Last laugh00:02
Leading Article: A question of Australia's self-respect00:02
Letter: No coercion on birth control00:02
UN gives Nato right to down Serbian planes: Security Council endorses military action against aircraft violating no-fly zone over Bosnia00:02
Sports Letters: Padded extras00:02
Football / World Cup: North surrender to Townsend's touch00:02
Warning on 'unnecessary' breast X-rays00:02
EC press plan angers media: Attempt to spread the Community message leads to breakdown in communications00:02
REVIEW / Higher circles: Jasper Rees tries to forgive the Kinks at the Clapham Grand00:02
Education: Trained to teach children, but not to keep them alive00:02
Asterix's home village is uncovered in France: Archaeological dig reveals fortified Iron Age settlement on 10-acre site00:02
Belfast shooting00:02
Football / World Cup: Wales are roused by Rush: Giggs takes full advantage of his first start00:02
Treaty 'timebomb' pressure grows: Tory loyalists put on war footing as whips prepare for tight vote on Maastricht after Easter recess00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Grampian Holdings pegs payout total at 5.5p: Retail failures across Europe hit Scottish conglomerate in sporting goods operations00:02
All clear for new beer00:02
INTERVIEW / Noises off: Ben Elton is back on the road that led him to fame, touring the country with a new stand-up show. Success as a playwright, novelist and comic has not cooled him down, as Barrie Hall discovered00:02
Sports Letters: Missed opportunity00:02
Public Services Management Update: Contract confusion00:02
Sewage bills to rise 9%00:02
Letter: Cyclists' black holes00:02
MUSIC / Rattle on a daring triple roll: Jan Smaczny reviews the London Sinfonietta and CBSO at Symphony Hall, performing as part of the Towards the Millennium season00:02
Parties fight on common ground: 'Value for money' is the key issue in the council elections campaign, Ngaio Crequer reports00:02
Phone-tapping warrants rise 62% since 199000:02
'Ordinary' van driver planned to kill for profit as business idea00:02
Football / FA Cup Countdown: Gunners set their sights at young age: Arsenal look for the triumph of youth against Tottenham at Wembley. Trevor Haylett reports00:02
French partner ready to raise CMB stake: Compagnie Generale seeks deal to give voting strength without making00:02
R&D spending drops 10%00:02
Budget plans could cost oil jobs00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Sweet deals may turn sour: A new document may sting company predators, as Heather Connon reports00:02
Campaign aims to stop the urban rot: Nicholas Schoon on the Civic Trust's plans to improve the quality of life in cities, starting with Greenwich in south-east London00:02
Football: Flashman calls it a day at Barnet00:02
Letter: Steps towards an Australian monarchy00:02
Needs that fall on deaf ears: 'It means I have a normal relationship with my wife': Marianne Macdonald looks at a pioneering scheme in south London00:02
Road pricing system for London 'will soon be feasible': The Government believes new ways must be found to defeat traffic congestion. Christian Wolmar reports00:02
Guernsey crews head for Normandy again: Fish war poised for new flare-up00:02
Government ready to accept jail bids: The Prison Service today moves to agency status, and private companies will soon be invited to submit tenders to run institutions00:02
Sporting Digest: Curling00:02
Jamaican PM calls for unity after election violence00:02
Detained TA officer moved to hospital00:02
Equestrianism: Britain promote youth00:02
Damages cut00:02
Out of Belgium: Small-screen airing of national drama00:02
Letter: It helps to say 'sorry'00:02
Holiday hopes still unfulfilled00:02
American Airlines to quit Stansted: Long haul carrier scraps Chicago service00:02
Inspectors will examine files on free flights deal: Trading standards officers to investigate controversial Hoover promotion00:02
Boxing: Cynicism grips land of the free00:02
Letter: It helps to say 'sorry'00:02
SCARPIA / Pioneers] O pioneers]: Meredith Oakes is swept aloft on some dynamic fades and even more masterly swells at the Barbican and the South Bank00:02
Obituary: Professor Alex Kellie00:02
Loss-maker Wace hangs on to its US 'jewel': Property write-downs drive company into red00:02
Clad in sackcloth and ashes and sutmongers' aprons00:02
Obituary: Reuben Fine00:02
Ambulance 'business' abandoned: Service hit by computer failure is returned to health authority control00:02
Woman as head of the house? Shock] Horror]: Angela Lambert is far from surprised by a recent 'astounding discovery'00:02
Racing / Grand National Countsown: Character looks built for Aintree test00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Sports Letters: The spirit of competition00:02
Sound City '9300:02
Silly Question: What to do with an odd leather glove00:02
Football: Record run ends in Vale of tears00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Egypt plunges into a state of uncertainty: Muslim fundamentalism and corruption are undermining President Mubarak, writes Robert Fisk in Cairo00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools dividends00:02
Letter: Wrong time for Britain00:02
Horse inquiry00:02
Student target00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
A degree of unfairness is good for democracy: When the parties work themselves into a moralistic lather, we should keep a supercilious smile on our faces00:02
Drugs in Sport: Four-year ban for hurdles champion00:02
Letter: Wrong time for Britain00:02
Public Services Management Update: Volunteer fears00:02
THEATRE / Like they used to write00:02
Cuba facing 'stone-age economy'00:02
Ice Hockey: Hosts sunk by Britain00:02
Hanging Rock gunmen in court00:02
Diary00:02
Minister pressed Wessex to pursue computer contract: Mellor was warned of potential disaster in deal that has since cost public pounds 63m00:02
Public Services Management: This time it won't be quite so taxing: Andrew Evans assesses the arrival of the Government's replacement for its discredited 'community charge'00:02
Letter: The caring power of red ribbons00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
No winners in Russia's quiet despair: Yeltsin and his rivals ponder the next move00:02
Scandinavian studies fuel cancer link fears: Call to speed up electromagnetic research00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Tennis: Wimbledon's blueprint for the 21st century: A new No 1 Court is centrepiece of the All England Club's pounds 100m redevelopment. John Roberts reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Sports Letters: Limited coverage00:02
View from City Road: Raw deal in the case of the diligent 'insider'00:02
Letter: No coercion on birth control00:02
Chess: Fine attacking play00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Anti-abortion campaigner loses bail plea00:02
School tests boycott 'breaches contracts'00:02
Peking seeks to weaken Patten: New body opposes Hong Kong reforms00:02
Sports Letters: Outdated title00:02
Volkswagen steps on the emergency brake following disastrous results: German car manufacturer pledges drastic cost-cutting programme and an end to the 'madness of variety' after pounds 515m first-quarter loss00:02
Letter: Perceptions of Boris Yeltsin00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Racing / Grand National Countsown: Scudamore goes for Dibble: The champion jockey rejects Pipe's stable strength while the race's only female rider insists that she will be riding to win00:02
Opera house in quandary over development funding00:02
M&S's Alan Smith moves to Kingfisher00:02
Plant commission moves towards PR: Labour working party wants 'first past post' system for electing MPs scrapped00:02
Schools: Dauntsey's School00:02
Leading Article: Uncovering the arms deception00:02
Balladur rewards his allies: New French PM opts for centrist cabinet and imposes a big cut in official spending00:02
Lonrho cuts borrowings with 13m pounds flats sale00:02
REVIEW / A star in the margin: Joseph Gallivan sees the complete Shinehead ay Camden Jongleurs00:02
Central chief attacks 'crazy' rules: Consortium bid for ITN's news service finally goes unconditional00:02
View from City Road: Lost lustre returns to the gilts market00:02
Rail strike set to go ahead as talks fail: Commuters plan to spend day at home00:02
Today's Number: 700:02
Needs that fall on deaf ears: As the way we care for the elderly and disabled changes today, Rosie Waterhouse explains why they may be cheated00:02
Golf: Faldo in right frame of mind00:02
Rugby Union: Jenkins departs but Stradey show goes on: Life is never boring at Llanelli, where adventure is club policy. Steve Bale reports00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
View from City Road: Queens Moat gets its come-uppance00:02
THEATRE / Bright lights, big city: As City of Angels opens at the Prince of Wales, Rhoda Koenig casts an eye00:02
Italian voters await chance for reform: Proportional representation may end after forthcoming referendum to change national politics00:02
Manwaring killer jailed for at least 25 years: Referendum on capital punishment urged as murderer is given life. Rachel Borrill reports00:02
Boy recaught00:02
Rugby League: Offiah has say in the long run00:02
ALBUMS / And the bride came too: Andy Gill on the latest from Bowie, Sugar, Nicky Holland and a tribute to Curtis Mayfield00:02
'Chaos' over holiday guarantees00:02
Country Casuals in cash-and-shares deal00:02
Squash: Nancarrow suspended00:02
Inside File: Why top Paris team likes to play away00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
He's the criminal, I'm the one in prison: Janie Lawrence has been living behind bars since she woke to find a burglar in her bedroom00:02
So what if the free flight never arrives?: The Hoover hoohah shows what a sorry state consumerism is in, argues Frank Barrett