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BAT fears leap in US tax: Price war 'a temporary feature in our long-term success story'00:02
Hallelujah to the good book - the encyclopaedia, that is: To its ardent black sales reps, the 'World Book' is both a route to prosperity and something to believe in. Mark Edmonds reports00:02
Budget pared for aerospace research: Government rejects advice of industry experts00:02
Football: Newell on song for Europe00:02
Answers hard to find under the bo-tree: Tension builds up in Buddhist Sri Lanka in the wake of assassination of the president00:02
Letter: The folly of losing the May Day bank holiday in favour of Trafalgar Day00:02
Letter: Insulation against the justice system00:02
Leading Article: Parliament's own goal over Maastricht00:02
The Newbury By-election: Final push is poised to topple Tory stronghold: Voters go into the polling booths today, to find a ballot paper 2ft long holding a record 19 candidates' names00:02
Schools: Badminton School00:02
View from City Road: Asil does a runner, and the taxpayer a favour00:02
Coats stays quiet on directors' salaries00:02
Cricket: Boon delivers sales pitch00:02
Something in the air that says it must be spring00:02
Cricket: MCC recruits Oliver to help examine state of the game00:02
Prosecutors defend the trial of East German spymaster: Legalistic arguments against espionage boss have makings of a farce00:02
THEATRE / First Night: A fan of the cowboy films carves a career out of leather00:02
Inside File: Owen's lack of style pays off00:02
The Bluffer's Briefing on: Doing a runner00:02
Disabled offered compensation for delayed benefits: Damning report by all-party committee prompts swift action swift action. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
UN seeks to wrest operational control from Nato: Scramble to prepare peace operation00:02
Tennis: Seles says she will play on00:02
Care 'cuts'00:02
BBC signs French and Saunders for five years00:02
Aborted takeover brought 500,000 pounds profit for N Brown00:02
Letter: The folly of losing the May Day bank holiday in favour of Trafalgar Day00:02
Tiddler promises to be prize catch00:02
Letter: Computers in the NHS: compatibility, communications and confidentiality00:02
Prisoners sing00:02
Equestrianism: Get Smart gets wiser before the event: Kiwis mounting a serious challenge at Badminton which starts today00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Fire pay-out00:02
Obituary: Sir Philip Shelbourne00:02
View from City Road: The long term can be a long time a-coming00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Warnings on exports to Iraq 'were ignored': Officials said British equipment could be used for arms, inquiry told. David Connett reports00:02
MUSIC / Albums: The legend that was Syd: Whimsy from Syd Barrett, hard work from Richard Thompson and Jimi Hendrix revisited. Andy Gill reports00:02
Widespread illness00:02
House prices rise by 1.6%: Halifax predicts sustained recovery in second half of 199300:02
Higher Education: How to get a bigger slice of the EC pie: Well-organised administrative support for academics can help British universities to gain European Community research funding, says Elizabeth Heron00:02
Racing: Dunwoody likely to lose Remittance00:02
Royal makes pounds 404m cash call00:02
Bridge00:02
Boxing: Amateurs caught in a chaotic regime: Painters and postmen struggle to pursue careers in a ring of uncertainty. Paul Hayward reports00:02
Public Services Management Update: On Sunday00:02
British troops saved 150 from massacre00:02
Readers unmoved by refund pledge00:02
Putting the trainer on trial00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Painting in the shadow of a powerful father: Teresa Poole in Hong Kong reports on the art of Deng Xiaoping's daughter00:02
Obituary: Sir Philip Shelbourne00:02
MUSIC / Review: Unnatural woman: Edward Helmore on Aretha Franklin at Radio City, New York00:02
China targeted00:02
Philips' income slips in first quarter: No sign of improvement in Europe, says electronics giant in throes of rationalisation00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Direct Line chief may net 10m pounds: Insurance arm trebles profits as Royal Bank reports half-year figure of pounds 92m00:02
Cricket: Haynes silences swinging Waqar: Pakistan fight back in Test match00:02
Gene that causes bowel cancer tracked down: Early surgery could save many thousands of lives00:02
Pounds 1.8m pools joy00:02
NHS 'is failing infertile couples': Report says treatment given low priority00:02
Obituary: Sir Roy Watts00:02
C&G to merge with Heart of England00:02
Law Report: Personal complaint made against solicitor barred: Re Solicitors, ex parte Peasegood - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Stuart-Smith and Mr Justice Judge), 30 April 199300:02
Tate resumes upward trend: Profits offset by 4m pounds cost of strike at cane sugar refinery00:02
EC trade deals 'cost consumers millions': Level of prices blamed on protectionism00:02
MPs 'horrified' at pounds 63m loss by health authority: Committee chairman overrules request to keep mismanagement evidence secret00:02
After Beregovoy, the clamour for silence00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Cardinal virtues that triumph against hostility: 'Cardinal Hume' - Peter Stanford: Geoffrey Chapman, 14.95 pounds00:02
Rugby League: Broncos man to coach Eagles00:02
Confession in Guildford Four case 'accurate': Former police chief says he made shorthand record of interview on planting of pub bomb00:02
The colonel hands over his command: British army chief in Bosnia steps down00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Obituary: Josef Greindl00:02
THEATRE / Time to pay the rent: Paul Taylor on Playing by the Rules, a drama about rent boys, at the Drill Hall00:02
Letter: Computers in the NHS: compatibility, communications and confidentiality00:02
Benji murder case arrests00:02
Group 4 prisoner in critical condition: Inquiry on inmate 'who drank moonshine'00:02
Public Services Management Update: Transfer trouble00:02
Mortgage advice 'Misleading'00:02
MUSIC / Better late tahn never: No star gazing, no pop puffs, just Jools Holland and the bands. Martin Wroe watches Later00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Jardine man to head Trafalgar: Finance director and head of shipping and hotels division leaving company as Hong Kong trading group strengthens its hold00:02
Sports Letters: Ruling the waves00:02
TELEVISION / Feedback00:02
Unlimited shopping could cost 20,000 jobs: Sunday opening survey finds full deregulation worth pounds 18 a year in lower prices to the average household00:02
Football: Palace kept sweating00:02
Sports Letters: Born to run00:02
Arabs remain00:02
Public Services Management Update: Pay cut row00:02
Inside Parliament: Jeers as Hurd retreats on Maastricht: Twists and turns of treaty debate are 'like situation comedy' - Scots MPs scorn 'Mickey Mouse' White Paper on the Union00:02
Pembroke: Posing out of line00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Silly Question: Telling some ox tales00:02
Diary00:02
Chemists look set for reprieve over fees: Change in payments 'could close shops'00:02
Football: Barnes calls time out from American tour: The Liverpool winger misses US mission to improve his physical condition as Flowers is given chance to blossom00:02
Major favours ban on bugging by press00:02
Golf / Benson and Hedges International: Faldo busy putting his shoulder to the wheel00:02
Football: Olney gives Oldham chance of survival00:02
Political official meets Nadir and 'mystery woman': Fugitive tells of 'happiness at return to his people' as intrigue surrounds 12-hour flight that bypassed immigration authorities00:02
Bottom Line: Royal is back in the race for premiums00:02
Clinton nominee in insider trading probe00:02
Today's Number: 3,000,000,00000:02
Football: Souness denies holding Liverpool to ransom: Souness likely to stay in charge for only one more game at Anfield while his team suffer reverse at Boundary Park as Hutchison is sent off00:02
Flight leaves fraud inquiry in doubt00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Charting the course of history00:02
MoD fights ruling00:02
MUSIC / You can feel it in the mix: Afro-salsa? Strange, but true, as Philip Sweeney reports00:02
Package holiday firms face a lean summer: Increase in local prices hits bookings to popular destinations00:02
Letter: The folly of losing the May Day bank holiday in favour of Trafalgar Day00:02
Maastricht: this one will run and run00:02
Set-back for Greenham protesters00:02
Education: So near, yet so far apart: Donald MacLeod joins British children in a hi-tech transatlantic classroom00:02
Fashion: The apron without the strings: They used to symbolise graft and hardship, but the workaday clothes of yesteryear have become today's statement of style, says Marion Hume00:02
A hall of majesty, not fakery: St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, was in its third incarnation when the fire struck last November; there is no reason why it could not change again, argues Mark Girouard00:02
Tory rebels set for early legal challenge over Maastricht: Hoots of derision greet Hurd's climb-down on Social Chapter amendment00:02
Warning on 'rogue' therapists00:02
MUSIC / The Roddy and Ryuichi roadshow: When Roddy Frame wanted to make his new album with Ryuichi Sakamoto, he had to wait in line. Giles Smith reports00:02
China flies Jolly Roger on the high seas: Teresa Poole in Hong Kong describes a new and violent threat to Asian merchant shipping00:02
Russia hedges its Balkan military options: Moscow sends out mixed signals00:02
Border closed00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
The Daily Poem: The Meeting00:02
Dutt bailed00:02
Nakajima stays00:02
Letter: Computers in the NHS: compatibility, communications and confidentiality00:02
BR cuts number of train-door deaths by half00:02
Deadly legacy of a colonial conflict: Julian Nundy in Montpellier unravels a murder that dates back to the Algerian war00:02
Mandela appeals to MPs for action: The ANC leader rebukes Britain for its colonial role in South Africa, but in nicest possible way00:02
Policeman dies00:02
Birthdays00:02
Developing countries' demand causing surge in gold price00:02
Racing: Carson unabashed as Bashayer fails: A stiff fine plus punters' wrath for a senior jockey after a top filly is foiled in the final strides00:02
Krupp inflames strike with steel plant closure00:02
Sailing: Whitbread yachts in bow row00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Fashion: Clad in clodhoppers and very little else: What to wear with that tissue-thin tea dress? Doc Martens, perhaps, or even a pair of Wellington boots00:02
Cocaine trial00:02
New face at White House00:02
Albert Fisher sells spices arm of Hunter Saphir for 25m pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
DANCE / A foreign dream of liberation: Judith Mackrell on a 'Turning World' double bill at the Place Theatre00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Illegal republic offers ideal sanctuary: The UN maintains that Nadir's bolt-hole does not exist. Tim Kelsey reports00:02
Chess: Move in disguise00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Scarpia: Not so tender is the North: The orchestral see-saw and chamber music in Liverpool and Manchester00:02
Geest slumps as Latin bananas swamp Europe: Market hit by glut ahead of new Community import quotas00:02
Swings, slides and excuses: Ivor Crewe anticipates party reaction to today's polls in Newbury and the shire councils00:02
Public Service Management: Counties face death by voters' apathy: A low turnout in today's elections will further weaken the case for keeping England's 39 shire councils, says Andrew Evans00:02
Bosnian Serbs rewrite peace plan: Parliament seems ready to stop fighting, but on conditions that depart far from Vance-Owen formula00:02
Italian Socialists involved in scandals forced out: The party's new leader prescribes 'shock therapy' to save it from disintegration and create a fresh image00:02
Prosecutors defend the trial of East German spymaster: Legalistic arguments against espionage boss have makings of a farce00:02
Letter: Logical economics00:02
Sports Letters: No head for heights00:02
Letter: Democratic role for Bentham's prisons00:02
The Queen on a state visit to Hungary welcomes the end of a divided Europe00:02
Italian's pledge to promote photographer pays off: Geraldine Norman talks to a family in Moscow about how photographs that were formerly owned by them came to be sold in the West for pounds 900,00000:02
Sporting Digest: Water Polo00:02
Diary: Correction00:02
Schools adviser quits over 'unfair' tests at 1400:02
Football: Little's future rests on presence: Phil Shaw meets a manager who actually likes play-offs, even though Leicester lost to Blackburn last year. But Brian Little savours every game00:02
Education: Where the wild things were: Diana Hinds visits a school that tackles its problem children by applying moral values00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
View from City Road: When directors' pay is kept under wraps00:02
I had my chance, but threw it away: Magnus Mills recalls the night he came off the substitute's bench to play the fool for his darts team00:02
Visit off00:02
Leading Article: What role for the UN in Bosnia?00:02
Glossary / A closet of ease by any other name00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Letter: Iraqgate - the need for accountability00:02
THEATRE / First Night: Middle-class spirit proof against recession: 'Getting Married', Chichester Festival Theatre00:02
Competition: The Independent Story of the Year / Scholastic: An early liking for Nietzsche00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Leading Article: When the unreadable is returnable00:02
Sports Letters: Clough a master of propaganda00:02
Pollock painting bucks sale trend: Geraldine Norman in New York reports on an auction to please collectors00:02
MBAs: Mastering the art of business in public: More NHS professionals, civil servants and council officers are joining MBA courses, says Elizabeth Heron00:02
Bottom Line: Jardine takes the helm cheaply at Trafalgar00:02
Major lays claim to radical mantle: Speech will be seen as pre-emptive strike against Thatcherite wing's criticisms00:02
Drug tourism is side-effect of Maastricht: Dutch town becomes European crossroads for traffickers00:02
Education: Perfecting the prefect's skills: Susan Elkin watches a group of uncertain schoolgirls learn how to assert themselves00:02
Britain has little hope of getting Nadir back: Prosecutors left fuming as fugitive tycoon throws a party in Cyprus00:02
Public Services Management Update: Buy-out fund00:02
Bail sureties face bill for pounds 1.5m00:02
Market Report: Fears over Maastricht and America drag shares down