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Higher tonnages lift Mersey: Results strengthen Liverpool port group's hand in takeover campaign for Medway00:02
Azeri town falls00:02
Wates sale points to property revival: Central London building fetches 30% more than December 1992 valuation00:02
ABB to close 15 plants in dollars 500m shake-up00:02
Letter: BBC's unsporting cricket coverage00:02
Football: City fans vent anger on Swales00:02
Sheeps' heads dumped in feud: Welsh hill farmers appear to be locked in an increasingly macabre dispute, writes Peter Dunn00:02
Football: Foreman Gorman retains trust in his workforce: As the Premiership tyros struggle for air, Swindon's new manager insists on finding room to breathe. Clive White reports00:02
Hopes lifted for strong recovery in second half00:02
Golf: Rocca on a roll all the way to the bank: Tim Glover reports on the first Italian golfer to earn a European Ryder Cup team place00:02
View from City Road: Trial that need not have happened00:02
Letter: Making the police less accountable00:02
Troop pull-back00:02
Letter: Nipper - an ending on a happier note00:02
Penguins add weight to global warming research00:02
Swiss protest00:02
Letter: BBC's unsporting cricket coverage00:02
Police focus on 'top echelon' criminals: The new head of the NCIS says that despite its success fighting Britain's underworld, it is short of money. Terry Kirby reports00:02
High yen hits Honda and Matsushita: Honda suffered most in Europe, where sales fell by 15 per cent00:02
Market Report: Lasmo awash with talk of takeover or shake-up00:02
Museums lose education services00:02
Uncommon profit in Parliament00:02
Course Vacancies: All the Ucca places available through clearing: Pcas places still to be filled00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Epileptic missing00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Rotten olives and roads going nowhere, fast: The Greeks - James Pettifer: Viking pounds 16.9900:02
The pounds 1m contract that led to sex claims: Nick Walker reports on the acquittal of a top architect of blackmail allegations made by a reclusive millionaire client00:02
Gospel 'truth'00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Pembroke: Costly illness00:02
Letter: Do we need a 'social compass' to plot sexual signals?00:02
Football: Arsenal are inspired by bold touch of Merson: Leeds stumble again at Highbury - Mobile Blackburn look impressive - Blades apply a cutting edge - Oldham are pulled back00:02
Season of BBC 2 drama signals move upmarket: Autumn programme offers return to traditional strengths00:02
Media: Who do you want to wake up with?: Channel 4 feeds us snap, crackle and pop, while BBC1 sticks to news. How should GMTV compete? Martin Wroe on the battle for breakfast ratings00:02
Listen, mes enfants, to the deceitful lessons of history00:02
Cruelty to fish00:02
Sewer search00:02
U-boat holds on to secrets as opening is delayed: Discovery of vintage wine on wartime German submarine adds to promise of hidden bounty from Third Reich era00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
West haggles over troop numbers00:02
Morose existence in alien landscape: Yorkshire offers shelter and culture shock to displaced families, Marianne Macdonald finds00:02
'Hitman' allegation00:02
Football: Wegerle finds the spot for Coventry00:02
Close trunk call00:02
Diary00:02
Letter: Nipper - an ending on a happier note00:02
JFK papers 'a footnote to history': A foray into assassination documents reveals no new smoking guns - but conspiracy theories stand00:02
Cricketer's Diary: Hardly in A1 condition00:02
Letter: No room for a drink00:02
Obituary: Michel Hollard00:02
Zulu leader's white adviser hangs on: Chief Buthelezi's speech writer seems likely to keep his job in spite of opposition from within Inkatha, says John Carlin in Johannesburg00:02
Motorway drivers face 'pay as you speed' plan00:02
Woman found00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Mum's the word00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Well-rehearsed arguments: The Georgian Film Actors are unpredictable - in every sense. Sarah Hemming tries to keep up00:02
Living proof that Nanny knows best: In a lifetime of caring for children, Jean Smith never met a 'difficult' one. She explains her theories to Elizabeth Udall00:02
The Bosnia Poem00:02
Burglar blamed for elderly pair's death00:02
Racing: Flanders beckons the bold: Small stables are making tracks for Belgium in search of fame and fortune. Richard Edmondson reports00:02
Letter: Bosnia: in a grand European tradition00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Leading Article: Memories tinged with respect for the enemy00:02
West air-drops food for Muslims: US aircraft shower besieged Mostar with 13,000 ration packs after lorry convoy is blocked by Croats00:02
Football: Rangers made to fight00:02
Double blaze00:02
Business & City summary00:02
Wace pays dividend after doubled profits00:02
Lectures00:02
Corsican guerrillas take on Mafia: The nationalists demanding independence from Paris have a new aim, writes Julian Nundy in Ajaccio: tackling organised crime00:02
THEATRE / Dressed up for a classic rollicking tale: Beggar's New Clothes - Broomhill00:02
Design moves through the centuries catalogued in sale of chess sets00:02
Paris Post-War: Art and existentialism 1954-5500:02
View from City Road: Hopeful signs amid Japanese gloom00:02
View from City Road: Baring takes a giant leap - thanks to Abbey00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Farm wages watchdog faces the axe: Union warns of action to protect 250,000 of lowest-paid workers00:02
Courts condemned for lack of help00:02
Team spirit on display in its purest form: Taking part is what counts at the National Special Olympics. Adrian Holloway reports00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Word of Mouth00:02
Lightning killed Marine00:02
Media: Switching on, off and over00:02
Polls in Togo 'rigged': Ghost-voters and boycotts will keep the military in power, writes Karl Maier00:02
Caviar cartel00:02
TELEVISION / Beneath the maple leaf: Tom Sutcliffe on a film about lesbians00:02
SFO prosecution of brokers collapses: Cleared defendant will sue private Swiss bank for defamation over allegations of deception00:02
Vietnam trial00:02
Silence worries spacecraft scientists00:02
Architecture: Some concrete proof of changing tastes: The listing of a once-reviled Seventies estate marks a profound shift in attitudes to post-war buildings, writes Dan Cruickshank00:02
Militants killed00:02
Australian PM faces backlash on budget: Opposition parties and the public line up against tax increases that betray Keating's campaign pledges00:02
BAe's Taiwan talks drag into third day00:02
Birthdays00:02
Spendthrift UN appoints corruption watchdog00:02
Media: Women jockeying for a job: Female pop DJs are still few and far between. Martin Wroe wonders why00:02
Football: Relentless Flo quiets the Dons00:02
Uphill struggle for a 150 mpg supercar00:02
Sag Harbor Summer: Among the dirty linen, a tale unfolds00:02
Architecture Update: Return of the pink Pancras00:02
Door opens to mill with explosive secrets: A source of gunpowder, Dambuster bombs and rockets is about to welcome the public. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Letter: Castle creeping00:02
It had the right stuff - where did it go wrong?: Tom Wilkie says America's ambitious space programme has become stuck in a time warp00:02
Medeva faces court action over patent: Interim results affected by problems at US subsidiaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Bugs Bunny comes to town: What's up, doc? It's Britain's first Warner Bros store, reports Lisa Vaughan00:02
Tarmac protest00:02
Waldegrave warns against 'reforming zeal'00:02
Football: Arsenal are inspired by bold touch of Merson: Leeds stumble again at Highbury - Mobile Blackburn look impressive - Blades apply a cutting edge - Oldham are pulled back00:02
Obituary: Eugen Suchon00:02
Course Guidance / Vacancies: I wrote what they wanted to hear00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Architecture Update: Courthouse row00:02
Football: Bishop chased by eager Saints00:02
Nigeria braced for more protest strikes: Workers prepare new action to force out Babangida00:02
Architecture Update: Lutyens gem for sale00:02
Joyriders' victim00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Football: Gordon completes felling of Forest00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Legacy of the demon master00:02
Emburey doles out fresh champagne moments: An old campaigner is inspiring Middlesex's charge for the County Championship. Rob Steen reports00:02
Letter: Do we need a 'social compass' to plot sexual signals?00:02
Letter: Do we need a 'social compass' to plot sexual signals?00:02
Rugby Union: Chilcott ready to bow out00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Apparently . . .00:02
Today's number: 2900:02
Course Guidance / Vacancies: Clearing up a few things: It pays to develop a strategy from the outset of the race, says Karen Gold00:02
Leading Article: A crash course in short-term solutions00:02
Christie's winning run boosts audience ratings00:02
Bruntcliffe buys Tarmac quarries: Shares suspended pending deal that will double company's size00:02
Leading Article: Sanctions that achieve little00:02
Killer gassed00:02
Rank shares fall as Xerox chief joins Gestetner00:02
Crime gangs 'targeting rural areas': Audacious raid on village and double killing reinforce claims that more funds are needed for intelligence network00:02
Wind beats Channel swim attempts00:02
EDINBURGH FRINGE / Limp, just when it matters: Neil Bartlett has a sharp and menacing side to his character - an edge Paul Taylor finds missing in his play Night After Night00:02
Family charged with death of 15-year-old Muslim girl00:02
Monument produces 150% interim surge: Oil and gas group's exploration and development at unprecedented levels00:02
Management: Swimming upriver00:02
MPs 'pressed CPS to pursue blackmail case': Architect awarded costs as Old Bailey trial collapses00:02
Deadly disease00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
LONDON FRINGE / Playing unhappy families: Robert Hanks reviews a dark Cenci, a harsh Dead Set and an ironic Open Couple00:02
Prison camp victims win backing to sue Germany00:02
UN throws weight behind plan00:02
More jobs to go in C&G merger00:02
Tiphook lifts Tory donation00:02
US plans to punish China00:02
Defectors denounce Saddam: Dissident former ambassadors surface in London to denounce Saddam's reign of terror00:02
FILM / How to arrest your attention: A police film from Canada plays on themes of reality and illusion, but still delivers an uncompromising message. Sheila Johnston reports00:02
Disciplinary action00:02
Parents accused of assault on boy00:02
The voluminous story so far: Ruth Winstone reflects on the arduous but enjoyable task of editing Tony Benn's diaries00:02
Court Circular00:02
Strategy shift brings results at Bridon00:02
SA scraps military service00:02
Bosnia victims cannot stay in Britain: War refugees are being kept in limbo over their future. Marianne Macdonald reports00:02
Racing: Zoman off to stud00:02
Majorism breeds myriad of bluffers' definitions: David Lister finds many meanings for a word of our times00:02
EC bickers over ratifying Rio treaty: Internal disputes have made the Community a laggard on the issue of global warming00:02
University places still open for thousands00:02
Kidnap tourists recover00:02
Bottom Line: The two identities of Invesco MIM00:02
Michael Jackson child abuse claims denied: Inquiry follows extortion attempt, employee of star says00:02
Muslims set to reject land deal00:02
Tory chairman pleads for peace: Colin Brown reports on a call for an end to party infighting00:02
Law Report: Advertised interest rates correct: National Westminster Bank plc v Devon County Council. Devon CC v Abbey National plc - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Kennedy and Mr Justice Macpherson) 25 June 1993.00:02
Cycling: Fignon near retirement00:02
US to send crack force to Somalia00:02
Letter: Justice, not political correctness, is the issue00:02
Reviews00:02
Egypt death00:02
Somali force00:02
Courses for arts 'failures' attacked: Conversion schemes 'will not give UK scientists it needs'00:02
Standard Chartered faces pounds 98m lawsuit: Shares hit before news of Singapore legal action00:02
OPERA / Laid back: Nicholas Williams reviews Ariadne auf Naxos and The Beggar's New Clothes00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Poles apart00:02
Letter: Minority rights in sovereign Albania00:02
Thousands more German jobs go: Mercedes axe poised over 22,400 as Telekom prepares to slash 30,00000:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Hot Ticket00:02
Defector's tale00:02
Obituary: Irene Sharaff