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Military gays00:02
Cricket: Hampshire find it all uphill and into the wind00:02
Mortar attack00:02
Football: Barnet beat League deadline but remain under scrutiny00:02
Save this glasshouse00:02
Food and Drink: Now give it a good pummelling: Bread-making does not have to be exhausting, though a bit of kneading can be relaxing and productive00:02
ECC paying pounds 202m for US chemical concern00:02
Departures: Blank cheques00:02
Money Grouse: Frank exchange over some Swiss francs00:02
Heart Searching: Plumping for partners on a large scale: Size isn't everything but big can be beautiful, says Barbara Lamb00:02
In Brief: B&W bond00:02
In Brief: Index trackers00:02
MoD police take firm's documents00:02
System blamed for increase in invalidity pay: Claimants 'caught between departments'00:02
Auctions: Correction00:02
They took a shine to a thousand shoes: Some call themselves 'collectors', others 'accumulators', while a few don't mind 'fetishist'. Tamsin Blanchard tracks an obsession00:02
Pupils sit maths tests but results will be withheld: Teachers adapt Government papers for end of term exams for 14-year-olds00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Making babies in the polka dot: 'Sugar Cane' - Paul Bailey: Bloomsbury, 14.99 pounds00:02
Leigh-Pemberton becomes a life peer: Bankers and accountants feature strongly in Birthday Honours awards to business community00:02
View from Tokyo: Gut reaction behind a trade surplus on autopilot00:02
Sweet change in chocolate city: Accident rates cut by York initiatives00:02
Savers will be given a choice00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Freedom heading for a judgement daze: Conor Gearty on Ronald Dworkin, an evangelical liberal trying to extend the empire of the law. 'Life's Dominion' - Ronald Dworkin: HarperCollins, 17.50 pounds00:02
Recommended Books00:02
Food and Drink: Nobility with a rotten image: The riesling grape is much-maligned as a producer of sweetish, mass-market white wines; but, this, says Anthony Rose, obscures its fine history and potentially bright future00:02
Letter: Dilemma of taking children on term-time holiday00:02
Abbey to end free banking: Charges on the way by end of year00:02
The fact is my fiction has fled00:02
Abbey sorry for premium error00:02
Actor Bernard Bresslaw dies00:02
Cambodians reject poll00:02
Law on naming suspects to be changed00:02
Ambulance death00:02
France: all you'll ever need to go: Correction00:02
Departures: Middle East offers00:02
Infighting on French right dogs PM: Balladur finds his huge parliamentary majority hard to handle00:02
Cycling boom defies official apathy as the car still rules: Bicycle ownership has surged in the past 20 years but few towns have followed the continental lead in improving facilities. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Deep division00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Noblesse with a latitude problem: 'Diaries' - Alan Clark: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20 pounds00:02
Retail therapy00:02
Motoring: Hours of fun; practicality be damned: A Westfield roadster is the first product of relaxed regulations. Brett Fraser assesses its performance00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Property: Subsidence scares reveal cracks in insurance system00:02
Social security facing pounds 5bn a year cut00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A boss too decent for class struggle: 'The Little Town Where Time Stood Still' - Bohumil Hrabal; Tr. James Naughton: Abacus, 8.99 pounds00:02
Racing: Nicer is the Ascot favourite00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Bonn refuses to apply sanctions: EC threatens Germans with court action if they break ranks in US trade row00:02
Gardening: A walk on the wild purple side: It's time to get summer seeds into the ground, says Anna Pavord00:02
Style: The Way I Was: Please don't make me dance: Jill Tweedie tells Nicholas Roe of the miserable day on which she discovered how little her parents really cared00:02
BTG results scarred by restructuring00:02
Letter: Dilemma of taking children on term-time holiday00:02
Lunds shunned on funds in second-home conundrum: Reluctant lenders surprise couple who want house for nanny; Societies say arrears are much more common on such loans00:02
Rutskoi attacks 'high-level graft'00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Profile: Do we love him when he's angry?: Michael Douglas, up there doing it for urban man00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Pensioner expects to lose tax-free entitlement00:02
Murder inquiry00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
In Brief: Leaflet emerges00:02
In Brief: Timeshare owners in dispute talks00:02
Guru 'sleeping'00:02
Birthdays00:02
Court Circular00:02
Church appointments00:02
Police and press blamed as jailed sisters are freed: Judge condemns concealment of evidence and 'misleading' press coverage in Shaughnessy murder case00:02
Food and Drink: Gastropod00:02
Aids conference fails value-for-money test: Liz Hunt reports on growing criticism of the Berlin meeting's problematic mix of politics, science and commercial lobbying00:02
Cricket: Cottey defies double threat: Graham Thorpe and Martin Bicknell further their Test claims before the England manager as captain Mark Nicholas steadies his ship00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Appeals00:02
Golf: Woosnam is willing to gamble again: Sweden's Gillner matches course record with 64 to lead field as Welshman battles in vain00:02
Style: Candid Caller00:02
Food and Drink: Where the cookbook may be 4,000 years old00:02
Style: How to be pukka at the chukka: Debra Winger and Harry Connick Junior were at the polo, rubbing shoulders with blazered aristocrats. Roger Tredre joined them to 'tread in the divots'00:02
Tennis: Navratilova forced to take test of the fine art of surfaces00:02
Firm 'allowed to build Iraq missile base': Ministers approved Exocet project despite objections from Foreign Office, inquiry told00:02
Obituary: Louis van Praag00:02
Jet crashes00:02
Upbeat: CODA00:02
Wills00:02
Country Matters: Alive and cheeping on a summer night00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / An authentic souvenir of Britten: 40 years ago critics rubbished Britten's Gloriana. The first ever recording suggests they were wrong, argues Bayan Northcott00:02
Motor Racing: Senna's parking sparks heated discussion: Prost set for seventh consecutive pole on the Ile Notre Dame as his old team-mate attempts to stir things up on Belle Isle in Detroit00:02
Travel: Muggings, buggings and other holidays in hell: If you want to impress your friends, don't tell them about sea and sun; stick to cockroaches and projectile vomit, says Reggie Nadelson00:02
Miners in eastern Ukraine attending a strike meeting00:02
Departures: For travelling women00:02
Upbeat: Player power00:02
Robbed and injured00:02
Twelfth Man: No such thing as free jazz00:02
Obituary: Sir Richard Norman00:02
Going off the rails, and other stories: Desmond Hogan's tale00:02
Cricket: Big Bird finds a welcome new nest: Joel Garner may possess 259 Test wickets but he now faces a different challenge. Ian Ridley reports on Garner's nostalgic return to his adopted county00:02
Letter: The right way to train new teachers to educate the young00:02
In Brief: Heart of the deal00:02
Sporting Digest: Volleyball00:02
Marquess freed from jail: Judge says original 112-day sentence was beyond his powers00:02
Nationwide makes goodwill refund: Buildings insurance fee victory00:02
Golf: Kite's preparations remain on course despite bad finish00:02
Obituary: Alexis Smith00:02
DOUBLE PLAY / A well measured grief: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson on a romantic view of Mendelssohn and the dark side of Sibelius00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Cricket Round-up: Lamb gives taste of his best00:02
Football: Wolves head the pack in chase for Thomas00:02
MP impeached00:02
Letter: Dilemma of taking children on term-time holiday00:02
Leading Article: Plenty of pedestals but few sporting heroes00:02
Obituary: Arleen Auger00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
MUSIC / New out of old: Tess Knighton on Schumann premieres revisited00:02
Royal Institute of Navigation00:02
Departures: Going by freighter00:02
Ruling adds to home loan worries: Arbitrator accepts insurance company's challenge and decides that ombudsman is unable to act in certain types of dispute00:02
Zeneca investors' three-way option: Decision time in drug firm's rights issue00:02
Householders living on a knife edge: Sue Fieldman describes the problems of families threatened by coastal erosion00:02
Going off the rails, and other stories: Some are wiped, some are stolen, and an alarming number are left on trains. Manuscripts and their authors, Marianne Brace discovers, are easily parted00:02
Food and Drink: Deep hankering for something French: Emily Green surveys some of the bistros and restaurants that take their cues - not always successfully - from counterparts in France00:02
N Korea toes nuclear line again00:02
Ealing Samaritans00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Exitentialism 1945-55: Every day during this exhibition at the Tate Gallery, the Independent is running a short extract from letters, reportage and diaries of the period00:02
Outback arrest00:02
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Let us eat, drink and be merry: Nick Kimberley on three festivals attempting to make new music listener-friendly00:02
Property: Classic cottages, magic castles: David Lawson goes in search of surprises and finds lurking in the property backlog the sort of hideaways that attract story-tellers and film directors00:02
Equestrianism: King Samuel may be preparing to abdicate: Thomson and Nolan keep cool to take lead after dressage phase at Bramham00:02
Letter: Angola needs UN to take firm hand00:02
Cycling: Lillywhite poised for victory: Rival manager comes to defence of Banana team's tactics00:02
Food and Drink: NZ rieslings: a home away from home00:02
Faith and Reason: Catholicism in the national church: Our series on Catholicism without Rome is continued this week by the one of the leaders of the Anglo-Catholic party, Fr John Broadhurst, the chairman of Forward in Faith00:02
Iran's leader set for poll victory with clerical help: President Rafsanjani expects voters to renew his mandate for economic reform00:02
Rugby Union: WRU dispute may backfire: Top officials face inquiry00:02
Dutch see advantages in car-free centres: Traffic congestion has led to radical planning00:02
Contra-grind00:02
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Pick 'n' mix TV in Salt Lake City: 'Lucker and Tiffany Peel Out' - Eroica Mildmay: Serpent's Tail, 7.99 pounds00:02
Letter: Forget R & D, and innovate instead00:02
In Brief: Academic BES00:02
Appointments00:02
Pit offer00:02
Travel: Paris en famille: Artful dodger and la fille diabolique: Post-Impressionism pre-puberty? Perhaps not, but David Lister took his two children to the French capital and still had a good time00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Better than the plough00:02
Europe's recession pushes UK deeper into deficit: First estimate of trade performance since change in statistics is better than financial markets feared00:02
Video game arcades plan raises concern: Japanese to launch 'interactive' Sega centres00:02
Out of Latvia: Baltic boom town plays at wild West00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
UN 'bans critics from human rights forum': Dalai Lama excluded after pressure from Peking00:02
Football: Gerrard stands firm on path to semis00:02
Obituary: Sir Richard Norman00:02
Forger freed00:02
In Brief: Tax spotlight00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
New judge?00:02
Nigerian voters look for a leader: Lagos demands withdrawal of US embassy spokesman after Washington insists elections, the first for 10 years, should go ahead. Karl Maier reports00:02
Stalin 'planned to kill Tito by infecting him with the plague'00:02
Fishermen prepare for Aldeburgh feast: David Lister reports on the community spirit that pervades a Suffolk arts and music festival00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
In Brief: Policy auction00:02
Football: Spurs saga set to run and run: Sugar and Venables may have to wait until 1994 to settle their power struggle00:02
Tennis: A little love lost as Stich wins again: Becker loses out in the clash of the Teutons as Navratilova's grass-court preparations suffer00:02
Competing for cars00:02
Hospital stabbing00:02
Drummond falls into the red after period of rapid expansion00:02
Major puts emphasis on caring approach: Grassroots Tories rally round as Prime Minister responds to party critics with low-key appeal for unity and an end to 'diversions and squabbles'00:02
Letter: The right way to train new teachers to educate the young00:02
Hammer assault00:02
Pru stands firm on redundancy proposals00:02
Athletics: Christie hampered by a shortage of sharpness: Sprinters at the British championships are unlikely to take advantage of the Olympic titlist's poor condition00:02
Going off the rails, and other stories: Penelope Mortimer's tale00:02
Alvis clears the decks: Electro-optics operation sold ahead of expansion moves00:02
Long-term twin fixes launched00:02
Market Report: Cadbury-UB rumour does rounds again00:02
MP arson inquiry00:02
Style: Saturday Night: Woman on the verge of a respectable career00:02
Racing: River can roll on to Listed success: Improving colt can show another good return on Savill's shrewd investment at York this afternoon00:02
Boxing: Sports Council shows faith in future of ABA: Brighter picture for amateur body as Bruno waits for title date in Wales00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Murder trial sisters convicted by the media: Court of Appeal is told that police concealed evidence which might have pointed to Michelle and Lisa Taylor's innocence, in a case that was always thin00:02
The duke they respect, but Jamie they love00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Pottery and shrink abuse: 'Schoom' - Jonathan Wilson: Lime Tree, 9.99 pounds00:02
Coats buys Berghaus: Pounds 35m for Dutch distributor with strong Russian links00:02
British UN troops kill two Croats in firefight: Revenge feared after Warrior crews shoot back in aid convoy ambush00:02
Worst airport in the Mediterranean00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Sailing: Smith's Whitbread entry takes a maiden voyage: British skipper sees his modified Round-the-World maxi take to the water for its first trial run in the Solent00:02
Pete Dexter's tale00:02
Letter: The right way to train new teachers to educate the young00:02
The Daily Poem: Tourists]: Matthew Sweeney writes about Suky Best's photo, Holiday On Earth00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Today's Number: 1300:02
Major's Honours not so classless: Despite 'reform' admirals and mandarins still get their gongs00:02
Award for 'Independent' writer00:02
Things you should be told00:02
In Brief: Lloyd's guarantee00:02
Letter: Defending jobs00:02
Abductor's first target had lucky escape, jury told: Prosecution says Michael Sams committed murder rather than scrap plans for kidnapping00:02
Food and Drink: Recipe: Simply a terrific terrine00:02
Heron deal under fire on two fronts: Opponents of reconstruction plan 'could force company into liquidation'00:02
BAe wants pounds 200m subsidy: Help sought with development of new family of turboprops00:02
Somalia force00:02
Sheriff found guilty of fraud00:02
Sports Honours: Larwood, scourge of Bradman, in from the cold: Major delights cricket by recommending MBE to spearhead of Bodyline series and fastest England bowler of his era who now lives in obscurity00:02
Up in the City00:02
Flat economies dent hopes of worldwide recovery this year00:02
Rising toll of income plan victims00:02
Letter: The right way to train new teachers to educate the young00:02
A flurry of investment trusts launched to tempt investors00:02
Cricket: England find a strong case for a left-hander: The selectors need to discard their all too familiar policies when they pick the side for the second Ashes Test tonight00:02
Scarborough: postcards from the edge: Once golden sands and donkey rides were the big attraction. Now visitors come to watch the town's only four-star hotel fall into the sea. Sandra Barwick reports00:02
Swimming: Record for Ruckwood00:02
In Brief: Discount on units00:02
Second day of storms brings flood chaos: Hospitals and homes evacuated and roads closed after torrential rainfall00:02
Inquiry halted00:02
Bousquet charge00:02
Motoring: Faults that make me fume00:02
Mace 'a fake'00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell pipped by Tracy00:02
Travel: From causeway to the cause: Fred Mawer finds two sides in Northern Irleand: beauty and the bomb00:02
Letter: The crimes of Vichy00:02
Five-year escalator bond offer00:02
Use your wit to win a watch00:02
Auctions00:02
Payments withdrawn over course at college00:02
Charitable enterprise offers the hard-up taxpayer peace of mind: TaxAid has on several occasions saved clients from bankruptcy. Neasa MacErlean reports00:02
Two tourists die in crash00:02
Priest jailed00:02
Gardening: I deny that I am the poteen person00:02
Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Football: England's tattered troops face a Brazilian lesson: Ferdinand heads for home as tormented Taylor insists that his players can salvage some pride despite threat from South American elite00:02
Hurd says he will not stand for leadership00:02
Travel: How to get the best out of Tenerife: Sun, junk novels and bungy-jumping: Tenerife lacks culture but is ideal for undemanding indulgence, says Simon Calder00:02
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