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The lenders fold their cards: Richard Thomson looks into the story behind Abbey National's sale of its disastrous estate agency venture00:02
Q & A: Cricket crumpet: a personal choice00:02
City: Dynamic duo00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: When size does matter00:02
Football: Saints are so brittle00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Terrapins terrorise pond life00:02
Letter: Founder President of the Institute of Economic Affairs00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / An arranged marriage00:02
Briefly: Bosnian girl is 400:02
Football: Cottee hits heights00:02
Letter: Disappearing wives: the sequel00:02
Name game00:02
Ferrari feels the chill of new Italy: Visible wealth is out as corruption is purged. David Bowen reports00:02
Football: Spurs take their time00:02
Then & Now: Shock of arrival00:02
Notebook: Charles minds his manners00:02
Bunhill: Martin Taylor00:02
Sir John turns tec for troubleshooting tape00:02
World Athletics Championships: Chinese teamwork pays off: World Athletics Championships demonstrate the value of organisation and long-term planning for two successful countries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No more an enigma: Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park - ed F H Hinsley & Alan Stripp: OUP, pounds 17.9500:02
Question Time: Gas: Who wants to break the monopoly and why? - Will competition work? - What do consumers gain?00:02
Author takes a hatchet to the Greens' dead heroes00:02
FOOD & DRINK / British Classics: Scotland takes the biscuit: Scottish Shortbread: It's produced by the silvery Spey and sold by the world's top food halls. Michael Bateman reports on a very Caledonian success story00:02
An old woman and her weapons of war00:02
BOOKS / Miss Forbes's summer of happiness: The second of our three stories from the new book by Gabriel Garca Marquez: a chilling drama of two boys' Mediterranean idyll shattered by darkness and death00:02
King arrested00:02
Expensive to escape from fixed-rate trap: Redemption costs can outweigh savings on interest. Maria Scott reports00:02
Letter: Magical tomb destroyed by militarism00:02
Mix-up over payments into Peps: Maria Scott explains how a novel home loan scheme went off course00:02
Tailor-made deal that failed to fit: Mary Wilson talks to buyers who are fighting an uphill battle for Plot 2400:02
FILM / For a few dollars less: El Mariachi (15); Laws of Gravity (18); QBY: Hot Shots] Part Deux (12); Lake Consequence (18)00:02
City File: Invesco00:02
Cricket: Jack Russell stakes England claim00:02
Football: Celtic show the positive touch00:02
The local estate agent who made a killing: Tony Snarey sold out for a sky-high price and bought back in for a song00:02
Football: United exposed by Cole00:02
Hayden lets rip at 'dolts' of war00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mary, Mary, quite contrary: Writing dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman: Lime Tree, pounds 2000:02
BR wants 16% rise in fares: Commuters pay for privatisation00:02
Political Commentary: Don't let the Sun catch you crying00:02
Why the BBC ignored the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism in the top ranks of broadcasting and Foreign Office staff led to the news being suppressed, says Stephen Ward00:02
Letter: Invalidity benefit is not an option for the jobless00:02
Bunhill: Disney Corporation00:02
Channel tunnel link in chaos as chairman quits00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Athletics: Knives out for me claims Norman00:02
Cosmetics firms see foundation flaking: Some British women have given up make-up, while others make a huge effort to look as though they have. Mary Braid reports00:02
Briefly: Dead family: man charged00:02
Exclusive: 'What justice? There is none' - Lisa Taylor, one of the two sisters wrongly imprisoned for the murder of Alison Shaughnessy, talks to Melanie McFadyean00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
UN aid convoy reaches Mostar's starving Muslims00:02
Lonrho chiefs at odds over property sell-off00:02
Bretton Woods revisited00:02
Cricket: 50 minutes enough for Leicestershire00:02
Hostage hope in Nicaragua00:02
TRAVEL / Paris by foot: A walker's guide: Canal St-Martin00:02
News in Brief: Sony in China00:02
Letter: Lying through his teeth00:02
Leading Article: The longest war00:02
Athletics: A week of inspiration: The Special Olympics in Sheffield come from the very heart of sport. Guy Hodgson reports.00:02
Public Services Management: Clarity of vision - Sally Watts looks at the work of the Civic Trust's Regeneration Unit, which revitalises depressed urban areas00:02
News in Brief: Moody blue00:02
Cricket / Sixth Test: Loyalty despite all the losses: James Allen finds an upbeat mood among England fans at The Oval00:02
Letter: Magical tomb destroyed by militarism00:02
Change of style at Barclays: Martin Taylor will bring an outsider's approach to the clearing bank. Patrick Hosking reports00:02
Be wary of bank bearing gifts: Students should not jump too quickly at inducements to open an account, says Neasa MacErlean00:02
Labour campaign on wages councils00:02
Management: A diet that could change your life00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Notebook: As they say in Norway00:02
MMC investigated perfume house meetings00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
All hospitals in trusts 'by 1995'00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Racial monitoring urged as policy00:02
Cricket: Derbyshire steered to easy victory: Stephen Fay at Ilkeston00:02
Bunhill: Report from the Monopolies Commission00:02
COLLECTABLES / Modern heirlooms for family seats: Contemporary furniture can be unique, made-to-measure - and a very good investment. John Windsor reports on the Chippendales of the 1990s00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Hunt for bugs at PM's rumbled retreat00:02
For share bargains, follow the directors00:02
A-level race to get harder00:02
News in Brief: US inquiry00:02
City: Cold comfort for the gas consumers00:02
TB case at home for the elderly00:02
Diggle: he who took the low road00:02
Cricket: Yorkshire leave the door ajar: Derek Hodgson at Old Trafford00:02
Money talk splits Fringe00:02
Briefly: Bonds00:02
The goldmine in the sky: As the satellite belt gets crowded, broadcasters rally for star wars00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
Equestrianism: Leng thinks long-term: Jennifer Harry at Thirlestane Castle00:02
Sport in Short: Pool00:02
Gould urged to challenge Beckett00:02
Tape levy threatens newspapers for the blind00:02
City File: Drugs worry00:02
THEATRE / Centre stage for activist's elegy: A Scots Quair - Assembly Hall: Night After Night - Traverse; The Legend of St Julian - Traverse00:02
Golf: Rocca poised to make the grade: Tim Glover reports from the Forest of Arden00:02
Brighton beach yesterday: a tiny hand stretches out over a sunny sea00:02
RECORDS / New release: Miles Davis and Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (Warner, CD / tape)00:02
Athletics: The race that never was: How the world's fastest 100-metre runs of all time compare00:02
Lost passport00:02
GARDENING / Strangely familiar: 1 Catmint00:02
Football: Ndlovu's key role00:02
College places00:02
A spiritual write-off00:02
ROCK / All white on the night00:02
Football: Wimbledon struggle to be loved00:02
'Yard cover-up'00:02
Enterprise: Board game bonanza after boxing clever: Tricky charade put four on trail of a pounds 1.5m winner00:02
Bankers aim to plug a breach of confidence: Derek Wheatley on calls for change to the status inquiry system00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
My Biggest Mistake00:02
Death for rape00:02
The cutting edge of capitalism: The Nightclub Waitress00:02
Economics: Tax increase can ensure growth later00:02
MOTORIG / Auto Biography: The Subaru SVX in 0-60 seconds00:02
Saudi forum00:02
Briefly: Cell hearing00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Georgia mayhem shocks hard men from Belfast: Tbilisi gives soccer and violence a new perspective. Andrew Higgins reports00:02
Prisoners work as Samaritans00:02
World turns its back as Kurds die quietly: Starved of medicines and with donors losing interest, tragedy is again threatening Iraqi Kurdistan. Julie Flint reports from Erbil00:02
Nostalgia for a mythical past: Ealing films portrayed a 'nice' England that never existed, writes Robin Buss00:02
TELEVISION / Good morning, babble on00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Power from the people: The Russian Revolution provides the visual highlight at Edinburgh00:02
Germans ready to make 'symbolic' cut in key rate00:02
The cutting edge of capitalism: The Entrepreneur00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In the school of hard knocks: Stand Before Your God: Growing Up to Be a Writer by Paul Watkins: Faber, pounds 14.9900:02
Athletics: Jackson ready to strengthen Britain's chances00:02
Cricket / Aixth Test: Gooch's record of excellence: Glenn Moore at The Oval00:02
Notebook: The joker turns thief00:02
FASHION / Night moves00:02
City File: Structural rise00:02
Football: Fashanu punishes profligates00:02
The Class Industry: Private schools flourished in the 1980s, but the recession and cutbacks in the armed forces have made headmasters develop more of a competitive edge to survive. Nicholas Faith reports00:02
Profile: The secret of survival: Robert Montague has stood his ground amid criticism of his flashy management style. David Hellier reports00:02
Opinions: Have you ever dodged a fare?00:02
Medway dockers claim they were cheated out of pounds 10m00:02
Gould urged to challenge Beckett00:02
Magazines: US publishers target Britain: Smaller companies, with long-term plans, are taking a share of the specialist markets00:02
Football: Fox fuels Leeds' fall00:02
Violence could close rock venue00:02
Football: On the move00:02
The cutting edge of capitalism: The Itinerant Worker00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Ofgas to challenge on pricing00:02
Best and Worst00:02
Profile: A celebrity square: Angus Deayton: Late fame has had mixed results for this experienced scourge of the famous, says Linda Grant00:02
City File: Chain reaction00:02
Crichel Down at centre of new planning fight: Peter Dunn on the latest row over land that once toppled a Cabinet minister00:02
ARTS / Show People: Beauty and the beach: Keanu Reeves: Meanwhile, at the other end of the Hollywood firmament . . . He's a star, but is he an actor?00:02
See Albania . . . and thank God you're British00:02
The day the PC police set on me00:02
How We Met: Laurie Taylor and John McVicar00:02
Bunhill: It seems anyone would do nicely00:02
Motorcycling: Rainey on the trail of Schwantz00:02
Bunhill: Appeal for tax ideas00:02
News in Brief: Tunnel claim00:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
If it's concerts it must be Germany: Hester Lacey watches more than 200 channels with the Chilver family00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Junk mail man: The collected letters of William S Burroughs, 1945-1959 - ed Oliver Harris: Picador, pounds 15.9900:02
The cutting edge of capitalism: The Loyal Party Member00:02
COMEDY / Oldie but golden00:02
Notebook: Unions that won't look in the Mirror00:02
Consumer poll cheers ministers00:02
FILM / Forgiven: For years, thinking people shunned his films. Now Clint Eastwood is one of the most revered public figures in America. As an actor, he has no direct rival. Unless you count Gary Cooper00:02
Notebook: Recently-published memoirs00:02
Football: Arsenal snub the snubbers00:02
Television that turns the clock back: Geraldine Bedell on the new channel for women00:02
News in Brief: VW cutback00:02
Cricket: Croft makes a big impression: Graeme Wright at Swansea00:02
Sport in Short: Table Tennis00:02
Letter: What about the children of Angola and Albania?00:02
The cutting edge of capitalism: China's reforms have brought prosperity - for some. Teresa Poole in Guangdong reports on a conflict between southern comfort and central control and talks to locals about coping under the new regime00:02
Multimedia brings book pages alive00:02
FRINGE / To France in search of warmth00:02
Football Round-up: Forest spark into life00:02
The right place in a tight time00:02
Motor Racing: Canadian keeps Mansell off pole00:02
Heads rebel over truancy league00:02
Football: Majestic Moran00:02
Letter: What about the children of Angola and Albania?00:02
Letter: What about the children of Angola and Albania?00:02
Briefly: Gay death charges00:02
Letter: They've got our number00:02
TRAVEL / Paris by foot: A walker's guide: Ile St-Louis00:02
Vocations: The secret of escaping the rut: Tips about switching jobs are now available on software from a spy-turned-careers guru00:02
Fishing Lines: Ponds of delight become pools of despair00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Football: Marshall is artful00:02
City File: WPP sees light at end of the tunnel00:02
Rugby Union: Dwyer shows SA the way00:02
Sisters for whom justice ceased to have meaning00:02
PROPERTY / Premises, premises: Caroline McGhie asks whether honour in house dealing is dead00:02
Letter: The evidence is that home can be a safe place to give birth00:02
Photos may end wreck mystery00:02
Wiggers just wannabe black: White middle-class kids are adopting black street style and chilling out to rap music. David Usborne reports from Washington00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Letter: Letter: Poetry from wind, Woody and yesterday's news00:02
Rebel flies in00:02
Briefly: Body recovered00:02
BOOKS / Easy money, tough life: Walter Mosley, whose thrillers cross racial boundaries, talks to Andrew Holgate00:02
Briefly: Warden collapses00:02
Shares: Leisure looks a good bet00:02
RADIO / You might as well re-live00:02
Letter: Disappearing wives: the sequel00:02
Sport in Short: Motocross00:02
TRAVEL / Paris by foot: A walker's guide: Montmartre00:02
News in Brief: Back into property00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Pensions cases clog up tribunals00:02
Leading Article: Abolish A-levels00:02
HEALTH / Is 'knowing your number' worth it?: High-street cholesterol testing is meant to reduce the risk of heart disease. But Patrick Matthews says it may only add to the burdens of the 'worried well'00:02
The Broader Picture: Hassan and the Mega-Mosque00:02
TRAVEL / Paris by foot: A walker's guide: Auteuil00:02
Your Money: High returns carry risks00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dark continent of the mind: Masai Dreaming by Justin Cartwright: Macmillan, pounds 14.9900:02
Notebook: Your health, Mr Winner00:02
Letter: Writing in English00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
DANCE / Morris, dancer00:02
Japanese shot00:02
TRAVEL / Paris by foot: A walker's guide: Parc Monceau00:02
'HIV risk' of contraceptive00:02
RECORDS / The IoS Playlist00:02
Hunt for bugs at PM's rumbled retreat00:02
Cricket: Emburey retains the muse: Rob Steen at Lord's