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Letter: And the oysters were Abbotsburies00:02
The ability to write is privatised00:02
Should women wear trousers?: The question is antique but some people, astonishingly, are still asking it. Brenda Polan reports00:02
BT talks to Kingfisher about dial-up videos00:02
Rugby Union: Secret diary of a defector: Richard Webster's journey from Swansea to Salford was two years in the planning. Guy Hodgson plots a union man's route north00:02
Arts: Libretti, equality, fraternity: Composers and librettists seldom get on. Michael White reports from Kent on a bid to change that / Opera00:02
Motor Racing: Fresh blood on the tracks: Richard Williams considers the passing of some old giants of grand prix racing00:02
Your Money: Clear run for housebuyers00:02
City File: Lasmo backer00:02
ART / Dreams of everyday life: Prunella Clough may be in her seventies, but her work looks fresher than ever00:02
City File: Proving time00:02
Football: Wise rues unwise tackle00:02
Hockey: Double raises spirits: No substitute for Crutchley's striking power as double helping gives England the edge00:02
Economics: Not everyone stands to get fat on Gatt00:02
Health cover row00:02
BOOKS / In brief00:02
Protection for wildlife sites00:02
Full cry, few full stops: John Prescott00:02
Sport in short: Rugby League00:02
Football: Shearer shapes up00:02
No book of the play00:02
City: Sitting duck00:02
Clarification: Ernst & Young00:02
Rugby Union: Wappett nurtures basic instinct00:02
Bunhill: Roaring oil over troubled railways00:02
Rugby Union: Gloucester cut down by Callard00:02
Lockerbie invite00:02
Bunhill: Gas cash00:02
Top three00:02
BBC reforms 'a failure'00:02
Caught in his own spotlight00:02
Boxing: I done bloody well, old chap': Richard Williams encounters bravado, baloney and uncertainty in both camps00:02
Anniversaries00:02
A famous victory . . . but for whom?: Political Commentary00:02
THEATRE / When all the world's a stage00:02
And I say unto thee, 'Don't sweat me, man'00:02
Error on the side of caution: The main recommendations of the long-awaited report on occupational pension schemes has disappointed all involved. Paul Durman reports00:02
Free trade may ease migration fears00:02
Public Services Management: Councils unite against police Bill: Criticism of proposed changes in the role of local authorities crosses party lines. Andrew Evans reports00:02
CHILDREN / Should their lives be in their own hands?: For a child ravaged by illness, the trauma of yet another operation may be too much to inflict. Angela Neustatter asks whether the young should be allowed to decide to die00:02
Then & Now: Angry earth00:02
Flower power00:02
Rugby Union: Fly-half field-day00:02
Top Midland staff balk at loss of health perk00:02
Call to the front for an officer and gentleman: George Bull had the right pedigree to succeed. Nicholas Faith reports00:02
City: Mighty fall00:02
Letter: Thatcher took the shine off the National Front00:02
Hatreds put aside as India unites in grief00:02
Ex-CIA chiefs tell Major to halt Thorp00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Impersonating a poet's wife: 'Caitlin: The Life of Caitlin Thomas' - Paul Ferris: Hutchinson, 20 pounds00:02
Notebook: BBC's flawed diamond00:02
City File: City awaits Amstrad communication00:02
Enterprising sellers repair broken chain: When a house sale collapsed, an unusual remedy ensured a happy ending. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
Football: Ouchi outstays his welcome00:02
Unhappy returns from the taxman: Revenue gets tough as new forms cause confusion. Neasa MacErlean reports00:02
Tune in, sit down for the soft sell: Esther Oxford on the dawn of 24-hour TV shopping00:02
Leading Article: Free market tears00:02
PROPERTY / Seven ages of home ownership: The first-time buyer who went for it00:02
New rock magazine will pack heavyweight punch00:02
Barter oil deal00:02
Star inquisitor who giggles before the kill: Marianne Macdonald and David Connett on the hit-woman of the Scott inquiry - Presiley Lamorna Baxendale00:02
Letter: Something fishy about all this00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Letter: Something fishy about all this00:02
Georgians flee from wars that no one understands00:02
NBC acquires Super Channel00:02
Leading Article: Spread out a bit]00:02
City File: Hamlet Group00:02
Writing on the wall for Athena00:02
Mother knows best00:02
SA generals will defend black rule00:02
Rugby Union: Back at the height of his powers00:02
Tyre-burner plans third plant for UK00:02
Army fights floods to reach quake victims00:02
Hackney has no palazzi00:02
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage: Samuel Johnson's mysterious friendship with an obscure poet may hold the key not just to 18th-century London but to the rise of biography, Richard Holmes argues in a new book00:02
Rain, rain, rain: Just why is it so wet this year? When on earth is it going to stop?00:02
Growth in incomes fails to offset the feelworse factor00:02
FILM / Tell it like it is: Krzysztof Kieslowski00:02
Docklands investment00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Ladbroke moves to quash market rumours00:02
A Tory gets tough, again00:02
Football: Cole has final word00:02
BOOK REIVEW / Bad habits in good company: 'Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions' - Martin Amis, Cape 15.9900:02
Direct Selling: Gateway opens in new pasture: Dell's supremacy in the UK computer market is being challenged by a US rival00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Women MPs, bless 'em00:02
City: Invergordon haunted by spirit of '9100:02
City File: Ibstock Johnsen00:02
Lamont derails Tory unity00:02
Rugby Union: Wales eager to take on the world: Dave Hadfield assesses today's tour opener for the Kiwis00:02
Enterprise: Off on the right footing even at the wrong time: A training company founded out of the public sector is thriving00:02
Cheap mortgage00:02
Football: Majestic McAllister00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Letter00:02
Football: Souness short of solutions00:02
Fishing Lines: Why they are no longer slaying our tuna00:02
Letter00:02
Sport in short: Football00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the week00:02
Sport in short: Golf00:02
Action plan for firms to cope with recovery00:02
Notebook:00:02
A diverse England we can shape to our taste00:02
ART / Drawn, hung and newly quartered: The Chatsworth collection reveals a lot about drawing, and a good deal about the Second Duke of Devonshire too00:02
Letter00:02
Hope lies bleeding in the old bloc: From the industrial ruins of Slovakia to the Balkan battlefields anarchy rules. But Tony Barber claims all is not lost00:02
Opinions: Did your granny give you any good advice?00:02
Boots and Smith ready to use the knife on Do It All00:02
Football: Return of the outside right00:02
The best and worst: Morass of charges for pension plans00:02
Notebook: Healthy lifestyle? He'll drink to that00:02
GARDENING / Strangely familiar: 5 Aconitum00:02
Notebook: New platforms for a showbiz legind00:02
Profile: The mark's new minder: Hans Tietmeyer tells John Eisenhammer that the Bundesbank needs a political perspective00:02
Let's engineer a different drama: Here's the plot: Nick Goodall wants to rescue his profession from invisibility00:02
Welcome cause for alarm: Movement by motor insurers should result in lower premiums for cover on protected cars. Paul Gosling reports00:02
GARDENING / The iris troubles: a modest proposal: Iris breeders grow their giant blooms purely to amaze one another. Mary Keen suggests they try a less esoteric approach00:02
Football: Cantona orchestrates advance on home front00:02
Palace raises 2m pounds for castle00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No pop, still fizzy: 'Corona, Corona' - Michael Hofmann: Faber, 5.9900:02
Show People: Why must an Indian dance be exotic?: Shobana Jeyasingh00:02
TRAVEL / On the Great Wall of waterways: Stanley Stewart sees a world in transition on a trip along China's 1,300-year-old Grand Canal from the lovers' paradise of Hangzhou to Suzhou00:02
Award-winning writing struggles into print00:02
Management: How to stay ahead of the discounters00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The siren of misspent youths: 'Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson' - Julie Speedie: Virago, 17.9900:02
Raising the flag: preparations go ahead in Blackpool for Tuesday's opening of the Conservative party conference00:02
ETCETERA / CHESS00:02
Shares: Coming good out of recession00:02
ART MARKET / Twentieth-century masterglass: Thanks to an American millionaire, London is offering a rare opportunity to see - and to buy - some of the finest work of Rene Lalique. Geraldine Norman reports00:02
Pub sale specialist calls time on downturn: Mary Wilson visits the counter culture of the drinks trade00:02
Short draws again00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Something nasty in the sheep dip: 'Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden' - Ann Oakley: HarperCollins, 14.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / All you ever wanted to know about Nintendo: 'Game Over' - David Sheff: Hodder, 19.9900:02
Sport in short: Athletics00:02
Letter: Testing times00:02
BOOKS / New collections in brief00:02
Bunhill: Bristol & West00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Letter: Publicity stunt that punishes our children00:02
Bunhill: Hambros chaps00:02
Fashion: An angel in my autumn wardrobe00:02
Golf on the box: the inner game00:02
Deaths00:02
RADIO / Six of the best from Marlowe00:02
Bottom's up for Grand Met with shift in focus to potent brands00:02
Moscow street battles eclipse talks: As anti-Yeltsin demonstrators clash with police, Andrew Higgins sees the power struggle in the capital spreading throughout Russia00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Stuart Findlay00:02
Football: Fox makes light of Canaries' nightmare flight00:02
IRA may talk about peace00:02
Correction: Sega00:02
Research: On the slow food trail: Success with snails required painstaking research00:02
From exam student to an 'inevitable' prison career00:02
Letter: Thatcher took the shine off the National Front00:02
'Racist' Bridlington shunned by union00:02
Bunhill: No relief from advertising00:02
Letter: Thanks for the tips on drugs00:02
SCIENCE / The wild beast is a real pussycat: The wildcat's ugly temperament has been exaggerated. Now geneticists aren't even sure it is distinct from the domestic cat, says Angela Wilkes00:02
Football: Flo turns the tide00:02
Clarke urged to cut rates00:02
Racing: Ultimate test for the Silver Fox: Today's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is not the only challenge facing trainer Francois Boutin. Jamie Reid reports00:02
How We Met: Michael Nicholson and Natasha Mihaljcic00:02
Hope joins fear after 25 years of 'Troubles'00:02
Sound-biters hound Clinton: Radio and TV talk-show hosts have become the new opinion formers in the US. David Usborne listens in00:02
Schools for disturbed children are closing fast: Hundreds of children are losing the chance of a crime-free life offered by special boarding schools. Mary Braid reports00:02
Is Labour electable?: Stephen Castle and Paul Routledge look beyond a triumph of joined-up shouting00:02
Lewis v Bruno: Blow by blow00:02
TELEVISION / Armani Martians, go home00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The siren of misspent youths: 'Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson' - Julie Speedie: Virago, 17.9900:02
MUSIC / Mixed but not well matched00:02
Football: Sad Cox calls it a day00:02
MOTORING / Are you sitting comfortably?: You won't be for long in the cars of the future if you're over the limit. Jeremy Hart on interiors that can soak up smells, cut out noise, cool seats - and eject drunks00:02
Miss UK 1993: a woman of many (hidden) parts00:02
BOOK REIVEW / Toys for naughty boys: 'The Unlikely Spy' - Paul Henderson: Bloomsbury, 16.9900:02
Clear verdict00:02
City: Bang to rights00:02
Greycoat facing vital investor vote00:02
Interview: Clever being stupid: William Leith meets Danny Baker, a chat show host whose secret is that he risks looking like an idiot but doesn't - most of the time00:02
Letter: Wilton plant00:02
Cabbie charm00:02
Rugby Union: Quins are barely tested00:02
Missile 'kills seven Somalis'00:02
ARTS / Cries & whispers00:02
TRAVEL / Finding the right trek: Tourism is one of Nepal's biggest hard currency earners - and, unchecked, will devastate the environment. Can trekking be made eco-friendly? David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Football: Another day, another disaster: Tough luck and hard times have visited the beleaguered men of Barnet. Simon O'Hagan samples life at the bottom00:02
Gathering force00:02
50 hurt as freak wave hits QE200:02
Q & A: History in Huddersfield . . . and China's debt to Tibet00:02
Letter: Who watches the HSE?00:02
Bunhill: Crest00:02
S East's railcard set to be dropped00:02
ROCK / A live cabaret for old chums00:02
ROCK / The Loaf goes into Bat again: Fifteen years after Meat Loaf released 'Bat Out of Hell', the tills are still ringing. It looked like a one-off, but now 'Bat II' is top of the charts. Ben Thompson has a rare audience00:02
Letter: Look beyond Hollywood00:02
Boxing: Benn banks on big bang00:02
Man's first footprints vanish in the dust of time00:02
Survival classes in new world of change00:02
Boxing: Lewis ends the arguments: Bruno finds redemption out of reach as an off-key champion pours on power to keep the crown00:02
Letter: Thanks for the tips on drugs00:02
Letter00:02
Thatcher guru aims a parting shot at Fowler00:02
BOOK REVIEW / My family and otter animals: 'Gavin Maxwell: A Life' - Douglas Botting: HarperCollins, 22.5000:02
Funds worried about further cuts in advance corporation tax relief00:02
'I hope my son nerver finds me. If he turned up I would be horrified': A mother explains to Angela Neustatter why she dreads being traced by the child she gave up to be adopted00:02
Racing: Penny Drops storms home00:02
Baghdad talks00:02
Rugby Union: Young displays old virtues00:02
HEALTH / Second opinion00:02
Records00:02
CINEMA / Made to make your mouth water00:02
Letter: Concentrate on Auden's poetic contribution not his nasty habits00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Simply Alastair: Week Three: Vegetables and desserts