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Chess00:02
CINEMA / Still life with love and quince tree00:02
Books for Children: In praise of serious reading: Aisling Foster argues the need for a return to the pleasure principle00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Authority of sadness: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion, Faber pounds 2000:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Letter00:02
Where Koran and calculators sit side by side: If Islamia School is not given state aid, it may have to close. John Patten must decide, reports Diana Hinds00:02
Banks agree Gateway plan00:02
Jesuits sack bible sceptic00:02
My Biggest Mistake00:02
Bunhill: Such spirit00:02
Long arm of learning: Interactive computer technology is adding impetus to the shift toward education at a distance. Anne Nicholls reports00:02
Sport in short: Badminton00:02
How to map out your job route to Europe00:02
Books for Children: Picture books in paperback00:02
How I fell out of a love after the honeymoon00:02
Profile: The President's pit bull: Mickey Kantor is no trade expert, but he knows how to fight. David Usborne reports00:02
Football: FA Cup semi-final: Guy Hodgson meets the men at the sharp end in today's Spurs-Arsenal FA Cup semi-final at Wembley: Teddy Sheringham - Spurs00:02
An office with more pygmies than giants: Downing Street is usually occupied by the incompetent, the sick, the invisible and the forgotten, says Ben Pimlott00:02
Football: England failings shrouded by fog of war00:02
Sport in short: Ice Hockey00:02
Travel: Warm rain on the Agra road: Janet Suzman: from Delhi to the Taj Mahal, Agra00:02
Letter: My faith went out with the Ark00:02
Letter: Britain's secret government exposed00:02
The V without victory00:02
Sport in short: Tennis00:02
Football: FA Cup semi-final: Guy Hodgson meets the men at the sharp end in today's Spurs-Arsenal FA Cup semi-final at Wembley: Alan Smith - Arsenal00:02
Travel: Voyages to the bottom of the sea: In chilly British waters or the Indian Ocean, diving opens a new world. How to learn, and a guide to aquatic holidays, by David Higgs00:02
Guernsey bails fish feud skipper00:02
Sport in short: Snooker00:02
Antique theft crisis puts a chip in the old blocks00:02
Cohabitation begins with a honeymoon: Simone Veil proves a happy choice to take over a Paris hot seat. Julian Nundy reports00:02
Man dies at hunt meeting00:02
Second team00:02
Sport in short: Swimming00:02
'Late Hate Show' over the bishop's baby00:02
Sport in short: Athletics00:02
Hotel share sales stir up a storm: Suspension of trading in Queens Moat dampens hope in a sector that had been expecting better times00:02
Football: Hateley inspires spirited revival00:02
Bunhill: Bland loopholes00:02
RADIO / Acts of decline and fall00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter profiles Unwins00:02
Racing: Grand National: Rulers launch inquiry00:02
Science: When small steps become a giant leap: Space walking has come a long way since Apollo. Astronauts are now preparing to assemble Space Station Freedom, writes Steve Connor00:02
City: Drugs worry00:02
Sport in short: Judo00:02
Art Market: Mystery of the Modiglianis: A cache of secret drawings has been discovered in Paris, shedding new light on the artist seen by many as the definitive doomed Bohemian00:02
Letter: How to lift Third World's massive burden of debt00:02
Sport in short: Rugby League00:02
Sport in short: Motor Cycling00:02
Teenage Fiction00:02
Letter: Hard acts for the US to follow00:02
Football: The XI00:02
City File: NationsBank00:02
Rugby Union: Quins win to stay up00:02
Contract fraud probes pile up: North Sea contracts have figured in the SFO's investigations00:02
Football Round-Up: Sweet revenge for Royle00:02
Maastricht vote set to split cabinet00:02
West tries to relaunch Russian aid package00:02
Bunhill: Can the Lloyd's bad boy return?00:02
Arts: Sound as a bell: Twenty years ago, 'Tubular Bells' rang out for the first time. Now, after years of punk and plastic pop, the world wants musicianship again. And Mike Oldfield knew it all along00:02
Legal moves on pit pensions00:02
Sport in short: Basketball00:02
War is brewing as beer party ends: Pubs will be at the centre of the fight for market share in a declining sector. John Shepherd reports00:02
Big rise in children 'dumped' in mental hospitals00:02
John Major: Disappointment in the 'nowhere man': Cal McCrystal turned to a telephone directory to gauge the popular view of the premier and found the British uninspired by their leader00:02
Common Complaints: Endometriosis00:02
More wheeling than dealing: The world chess title negotiations are a disgrace, says William Hartston00:02
Labour looks to industry00:02
Sport in short: Cricket00:02
Sport in short: Rowing00:02
The Broader Picture: About as old as it gets00:02
Armenia takes Azeri territory00:02
Green gas makes its bid as clean fire fighter: An ozone-friendly agent could fill Halon's role in computer room fires. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Technology: PC power threatens the last of the mainframes: Networks acquire a language to talk big. Malcolm Wheatley reports00:02
Bunhill: Sales gag00:02
US militants fight British abortions00:02
Winners's police memorial has officers cringing: Correction00:02
City File: Manchester Utd00:02
Bunhill: Bland loopholes00:02
ROCK / Carry on hating, Dave and Ray00:02
Letter: Offensive charm00:02
City: Queens Moat shocks sleeping City00:02
House market builds up: Upbeat bulletins from lenders and estate agents hint at resurgence00:02
The Sunday Preview: Liverpool shows off Bradford's finest00:02
Shattered city that believes in yesterday: One year ago Sarajevo was peaceful, and proud of its ethnic diversity. That pride is now in ruins. Tony Barber on the 12-month siege of a stubborn capital00:02
Result of Lions competition00:02
Real Life: Party on, mature clubbers - with one foot in the rave: Hester Matthewman finds a club where the over-25s can dance till dawn without feeling their age00:02
How We Met: Vikram Seth and Giles Gordon00:02
Sport in short: Golf00:02
In a falling house market there are many mansions00:02
Letter: My faith went out with the Ark00:02
TELEVISION / Shock, horror, spoof, shame00:02
'And everyone seemed weird and terrifying': Frances Rickford hears how Sophie (right, as a child), a victim of abuse, was admitted to a psychiatric ward00:02
City File: Tesco may be bottom of the class00:02
Rugby Union: Bath on verge of the title00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Just effing and blinding: Fucking Martin by Dale Peck, Chatto pounds 9.9900:02
Letter00:02
Sport in short: Bowls00:02
Bridge00:02
City File: William Baird00:02
Real Life: Many are called, few are chosen: The Samaritans urgently need 11,000 more helpers. Yet many volunteers are told they don't make the grade. Angela Neustatter asks what's wrong00:02
Protection after the smoke clears: Corinne Simcock finds a car rescue policy that also has off-road benefits00:02
Football: Liverpool's false start00:02
The best and worst: Close race among big insurers00:02
Arts: Show people: Sing a song of silence: 71: Wolfgang Holzmair00:02
Football: Lax Palace lack lustre00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Looking forward to a past that never was: The history of the Ideal Home reveals an image at odds with reality. Tanya Harrod reports00:02
Then & Now: Gifted losers00:02
Letter00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Shares: Telecoms on hot line to profits00:02
Money talks at alms race summit00:02
Nomads trapped00:02
Way out, west: The novelist Cormac McCarthy is the best-kept secret of American letters, but his new book could change all that00:02
Letter: Police back Winner monument00:02
Letter: Britain's secret government exposed00:02
DANCE / Calm in an arctic limbo00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
John Major: Hardened, but not focused: He has climbed the slippery pole, but where is he going? Donald Macintyre reports00:02
Free travel promotions blown away after Hoover00:02
The agreeable world of Wallace Arnold: How I got to grips with his grey image00:02
Transplant liver saved00:02
Sucker punch to free rides: Hoover's ill-fated flight of fancy has dealt a fresh blow to the image of sales promotions. Chris Blackhurst and Russell Hotten report00:02
INTERVIEW / Young Verwoerd is wrestling with sins of the grandfather: The grandson of apartheid's architect has joined the ANC. John Carlin talks to him00:02
Clarke accused of 'packing' the Parole Board00:02
Rugby Union: Wasps grit pays off00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Walk on the wild side: Cowboys are my weakness - by Pam Houston, Virago pounds 14.9900:02
Opinions: Can you ever get something for nothing?00:02
Travel: Microwaves for mermaids: The world's first underwater hotel is in a lagoon at Key Largo. Sue Nelson dived in00:02
Nationwide chiefs in bonus dispute00:02
Books for Children: A piece of string is a wonderful thing00:02
Letter00:02
Racing: Grand National 1993: Day of disaster for National: History made as world's greatest steeplechase is declared void00:02
Football: Booth's smooth strike00:02
THEATRE / The sweet, sweet sound of success00:02
Economics: France pins its colours to the ERM00:02
Last two Tyne Tees directors ready to quit00:02
The Sunday Preview: Jazz00:02
'Busy fools' manage to fail at work and home: Roger Trapp on a new study that sees widespread failure in matching staff resources to jobs00:02
Overheard00:02
Commission windfall for brokers: It's not easy to cut out the middle man, writes Anthea Masey00:02
Fishing Lines: Bloated floaters tip the balance00:02
Food & Drink: A ruse by any other name: Will calling monosodium glutamate by its Japanese name improve its image? asks Michael Bateman00:02
Golf: Olazabal no longer a minor in the pursuit of majors: John Hopkins on the Spanish golfer aiming to put history behind him in this week's US Masters00:02
John Major: It's fine being friendly, but . . .: Matthew Parris, a former Tory MP, argues that flaws in the Prime Minister's character explain his difficulties in dealing with colleagues and world leaders00:02
Deaths00:02
Football: FA Cup Semi-final: Wembley succumbs as Waddle waves his wand: Richard Williams on a performance that proved that if you are good enough you are young enough00:02
Sheer skill marks the rise of Britain's women climbers00:02
Books for Children: And coming soon to a screen near you . . .: Deep in the heart of the Forest of Sin . . . A fearsome beast is stirring . . . Is it the Hairy Hornswoggler, the Shiny Snozzwangler, or the vile Vermicious Knid?00:02
Major faces Cabinet split if he loses Maastricht vote00:02
Soccer fans riot00:02
Records00:02
Malaysian offer00:02
Soldier shot00:02
Saying of the week00:02
Bunhill: Hawking the message for BT00:02
Legal aid changes hit sick steel workers: Lynne Wallis reports on the latest twist in a 30-year fight for a fair deal00:02
Patten rips up schools curriculum00:02
Motoring: A world gripped by Mondeo mania: A lot of it is hype, but the new Ford's warm welcome has more to do with it being a genuinely fine car, says John Fordham00:02
Strange case of kidnapping00:02
Urgent plea to save Srebrenica refugees00:02
Jack's big trip: Two summers ago the Helga Maria and her motley crew set sail for the Arctic Circle. What started as a romantic mission ended in mutiny, prison, and million-pound movie deals struck in Whitby hotel rooms00:02
No passing glory for a flying star00:02
Football: FA Cup Semi-Final: Wednesday's class secures the prize: Owls fly clear as Blades are blunted on a day when the national stadium belonged to Sheffield00:02
The Sunday Preview: Dance00:02
Wave power washes gently around Auntie00:02
A porn cocktail without the fizz00:02
Chaos at Grand National reduces spectacle to farce00:02
The Sunday Preview: Art:00:02
Your Money: Dispute puts APR on trial00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell hurt in practice crash00:02
Naples squeezed by political vice: Workers are unpaid, traffic-lights are broken, and births and deaths go unrecorded. Patricia Clough on a Neapolitan fiasco00:02
Football: Latics turn the tables00:02
Letter: Britain's secret government exposed00:02
Letter: Police back Winner monument00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The Huntingdon blues and the grey: Norma: A Biography by Tim Walker, 4th Estate pounds 14.9900:02
Sport in short: Boxing00:02
The Sunday Preview: Theatre00:02
Canadians carried away by minister's bare shoulders: A provocative picture may help Kim Campbell become leader of her country. Hugh Winsor reports from Ottawa00:02
Books for Children: Fiction: Under 12s: Open wide and say 'Ahhh'00:02
Bunhill: Can the Lloyd's bad boy return?00:02
Books for Children: Encyclopedias00:02
Cricket: Pakistan rally00:02
Q & A: The F1-IndyCar contest . . . . . . and a few penalty points00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best plays00:02
Bank still open00:02
Russian deal00:02
Only 80 strokes off perfection00:02
Islamic justice00:02
Premium Xtra rate is trimmed again00:02
Paris gears up for the sale of the century: France's new leaders will put state assets on the privatisation catwalk, writes Gail Counsell00:02
Bunhill: Fools rush00:02
Competition results00:02
Fashion: Kaftanesque00:02
Labour leader wants Mirror boss sacked00:02
The Sunday Preview: Rock00:02
Ancient forest saved strictly for the birds00:02
City File: Wilkes wanted00:02
Public Services Management: Accounting for council assets: Local authorities are putting a price on their property, says Roger Trapp00:02
UN troops killed00:02
Loan claim snarled by a pounds 14 pub job: Part-time work put insurance cover at risk. Paul Gosling investigates00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / You didn't like lively, so now you've got dull00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Well, is he or isn't he?: Cliff Richard: The Biography by Steve Turner, Lion pounds 16.9900:02
Letter: Calculating risks00:02
Boat owners launch tide of theft claims00:02
Motor Racing: Privateer picks the grid lock: Tom Wheatcroft fought to make next Sunday's European Grand Prix possible. David Tremayne reports00:02
Peacemakers rally00:02
Oil jobs created00:02
Racing: Grand National: 'I would have been sick if I had won': National protagonists have their say on the false-start fiasco00:02
The Sunday Preview: Opera & Concerts00:02
It was one damn good car: In hospital after a kneecapping, and just before he died, Johnny McGivern wrote about his life, in stories introduced here by Malachi O'Doherty00:02
Doctors are 'exploiting' impotent with pounds 1,000 cure00:02
Books for Children: Picture Books: Chromatic challenges00:02
Rugby Union: Llanelli find top gear00:02
Letter: Making a meal of Tawney's legacy00:02
Oil tax changes 'will damage economy'00:02
Small Firms: How to capitalise on a good start: A new NatWest booklet aims to help established enterprises stay on top of their form00:02
TELEVISION / A rose by another name: Kristin Scott Thomas has cornered the market in English roses. But her latest role sees the actress trading her twinsets for a different kind of habit. Allison Pearson met her00:02
Editor of the Year00:02
US looks at Asian partners00:02
Darling, where did you get that outfit?00:02
Index00:02
City File: Spirits up00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Flourish of Hardy perennials: In the place of fallen leaves by Tim Pears, Hamish Hamilton pounds 14.99 Martin Rowson and the contemporary poets series return next week00:02
Waiting for Saddam to turn again: Since the West rescued the Kurds in 1991 they have been trying to repair their broken lives. But as the world looks away, the threat of genocide returns00:02
Rugby Union: Fleetwood walk the tallest of all00:02
Sport in short: Rugby Union00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook00:02
The Sunday Review: The five best exhibitions00:02
Claims that don't fit the bill00:02
Football: Heartless Barnard00:02
Sport in short: Hockey00:02
Jesuits sack bible sceptic00:02
Leading Article: John Major: Is he up to the job?00:02
Mass grave may hold Beria's sex victims