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TELEVISION / States of mind: John Lyttle compares factual and fictional views of security, the state and cynicism00:02
Rugby Union: Japanese still stuck at the bottom of the hill00:02
Bhutto takes lead in Pakistan election: Fraud claim as both sides declare premature poll victory00:02
Parkdean venture pays off00:02
Education: It's as easy as un, deux, trois: Nursery children are learning French by hearing it. Simon Denison reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Do women have brains? Do men have ankles?: 'Victorian Women' - Joan Perkin: John Murray, 19.99 pounds00:02
Rugby League: Pongia down the tunnel: New Zealand have Pongia sent off after a brawl and fail to entice a former captain back to the international fold00:02
Letter: How the encyclical is like a BR timetable00:02
Obituary: Georges Faber00:02
Bermuda poll00:02
Rugby League: Bell stays unswayed00:02
Grant isolated over repatriation: Parties distance themselves from black MP's comments. Will Bennett and Colin Brown report00:02
Football: Doubts raised over Ferdinand: Concern over forward grows but Pearce news is more encouraging00:02
Racing: Profits and pitfalls in playing the foal: A dealer strikes it rich as the trade in yearlings reaches a climax. Sue Montgomery reports00:02
Dealers accuse Ford: Manufacturer faces claims of distorting car market00:02
Old bodies00:02
Letter: Western support for Yeltsin dictatorship00:02
Football: Saunders' strike settles local dispute00:02
Yeltsin aims to purge Soviet past: Guard of honour removed from Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square00:02
Howard seeks to placate 'angry majority': Home Secretary tells party that balance in criminal justice system will be tilted towards public. Colin Brown reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Per ardua ad astra00:02
Russia: Kremlin niggles on treaty disturb Nato: Dramatic details emerge of the final hours of the crisis as Kremlin takes tough stance on disarmament00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Lone mothers face council housing bar: Ministers believe accommodation restrictions could curb decline of the traditional family00:02
Letter: Lone parents singled out for blame00:02
Diary: Executives just want to have fun00:02
Letter: No cut-rate Glyndebourne00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Football: Goodman gains his revenge on Leeds00:02
Basketball: Cadle refuses to be defensive00:02
The Conservatives in Brighton: Howard fires 27 shots at crime: Ministers fight for survival behind right-wing agenda as Thatcher seeks eternal war against socialism00:02
TV brings US grim news of Mogadishu: As furious Americans demand a withdrawal, the White House looks for a way out of the conflict in Africa00:02
Obituary: James Boyden00:02
Motor Racing: Williams pick Senna and Hill00:02
Accountant 'killed by professional hitmen': Jury told how businessman became embroiled in international shipping fraud. Malcolm Pithers reports00:02
Boxing: Eubank labours to make points: Head-to-head that never happened fails to rouse the multitude. Jonathan Rendall reports00:02
ALBUMS / The answer is a Lemonhead: Break out the pop candy - Andy Gill reviews the Lemonheads and Crowded House00:02
Law Report: Lawyers avoid wasted costs orders: Regina v Horsham District Council and another, Ex parte Wenman and others. Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Brooke) - 1 October 199300:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
London record as shares soar worldwide: American investors pour money into overseas bond and equity markets in quest for growth00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Firm hits at 'Which?' report00:02
Streamline options raised at EBRD00:02
Prostitute sends a cry for help00:02
TELEVISION / Briefing: Crude oil and troubled waters00:02
Football: McClair's finishing touch00:02
Summer romances, lifetime promises: What happens when a holiday fling never ends? British women who have settled in Turkey tell Naomi Caine00:02
Whitbread puts end to two-tier voting structure: Brewing giant decides to purchase remainder of investment company00:02
Single mothers faced with dollars 64 question in welfare test: Rosie Waterhouse examines a US welfare scheme cited as a possible model for Britain00:02
Our Boris, right or wrong: Alexei Pankin and Andrew Palmer warn that the West is too tied to Yeltsin00:02
Russia: Deputies dread president's housecall: Boris Yeltsin has taken their parliamentary seats. Now they fear he wants their homes. Andrew Higgins meets some unhappy MPs00:02
Clinton plans to send more troops to Somalia00:02
Headbutt killer jailed for 2 years00:02
Island haven00:02
Letter: Law Society opt-out00:02
Prepare to see more of the supermodels00:02
Racing: Hole swallows Haydock meeting00:02
Research Posts: Doctors to cure industry's ills: Pioneering courses for graduate engineers are designed to produce an elite cadre of manager-engineers, reports Liz Heron00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Fashion Update: Naomi experiences a mood swing00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: On the front00:02
Captured 'rat boy' is sent to secure unit00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Out of Germany: Stasi's lexicography defies logic00:02
Drew Scientific warns of expected first-half loss00:02
Floods forecast00:02
Garages fail to deliver a good service: Surveys expose 'sloppy' repairs00:02
Sports Letters: Belgian blunder00:02
RNLI gets pounds 6.5m00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Music: Those days are over: After the Police, Stewart Copeland set himself up as a composer. Robert Hanks hears the one about the drummer who writes operas00:02
Nurse invented attacks00:02
The Conservatives in Brighton: The Tory Dictionary of Political Abuse00:02
Letter: Action against smoking risks00:02
Guns in suburbia, glib words in Blackpool00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Bottom Line: Bank shares may have gone too far00:02
Damages for son who killed father00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Quotes of the day00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Education: Pounds 500 for the staff with good marks: There are doubts about performance-related pay in schools. Diana Hinds visits one that backs the idea00:02
The Conservatives in Brighton: Private sector 'should set regulations for industry'00:02
Blacks relaxed about option to 'return': Bernie Grant's remarks fail to outrage his constituents. James Cusick reports00:02
Letter: Muntjac a la carte00:02
Electricity firm spends pounds 500,000 to save power: Energy efficiency schemes are being lavished on a small island. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Boys held for tourist murder00:02
Mixed message in the ads: Two agencies give different slant on trading outlook00:02
Football: New injury doubt for Gascoigne00:02
France holds off00:02
Divorced fathers fight back over maintenance: MP calls for review as new child support rules take their toll on hard-pressed parents00:02
Poverty warning00:02
Faootball: Brown puts Southampton in the dark00:02
Golf: Faldo back on course: World No 1 seeks revenge in Belgian Open00:02
Leaders get 'peace wagon' rolling: Rabin and Arafat hold historic meeting in Cairo to push ahead plans for Palestinian self-rule00:02
Birthdays00:02
Ending the right to silence 'is breach of human rights': 'Hanging and flogging charter' condemned. Heather Mills and Terry Kirby report00:02
Racing: Trophy attracts Fairy for her end-of-season finale00:02
Island haven00:02
Springing a leak before Mrs Thatcher had decided00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Fashion Update: Limited appeal00:02
Football: Far from slick City win battle of the Quinns00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Patten attacks parents who 'walk away': Minister focuses on duty to children00:02
Inside File: Libya's Colonel is not for turning00:02
Obituary: Zita Johann00:02
Scarpia: Shining lost generation: Robert Maycock on lost links and fresh influences in new music00:02
Europe's dull dogs barking up right tree: Nervy voters, disturbed by politicians' broken promises and corruption, are putting their trust in technocrats, reports Patricia Clough in Rome00:02
US pays up00:02
Pensions ruling saves firms 50bn pounds00:02
Jolt for Aida's operatic lifestyle00:02
EC opens inquiry into Bull state aid00:02
Tenant 'insulted'00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
BAe acts to save Taiwan jet venture00:02
Multinationals likely to take Israeli bait: In the second of two articles on the economic implications of a peace accord in the Middle East, Christopher Huhne argues that the future bodes well for Israel00:02
Letter: Black people who want to go home00:02
Agreement on women priests set to collapse: Bishops' compromise under threat00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
BBC plans to move Radio 5 down-market: Children lose out to news and sport00:02
Opec meeting?00:02
Tough justice on the cheap: Michael Howard's proposed changes to the legal system are mainly about saving money, says Anthony Scrivener00:02
Leading Article: A sacrificial crime policy00:02
Matthew Clark buys Grants: Group funds move into drinks wholesaling through pounds 30m rights issue00:02
Leading Article: Sometimes it's not easy being British00:02
Sports Letters: Making plans for Souness00:02
Surgeon accused00:02
Manchester United lifts game: Boosted off-field sales exceed club's income from tickets and programmes00:02
Specialise to maximise00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Austin Reed in profit as confidence returns00:02
Student stabbed00:02
Letter: How the encyclical is like a BR timetable00:02
Vicar, pray for my mean machine - it's possessed]: David Hayles tells the spooky tale of a car no earthly mechanic could fix00:02
GLOSSARY / When a geezer turns to crim-speak00:02
Bridge: Spot the snag00:02
Chess: Small problem00:02
Hewden Stuart 35% ahead: Recovery in construction industry will be slow, company warns00:02
OPERA / Shadows of a dream: Nick Kimberley on Matthus's Song of Love and Death00:02
French propose tough law on disorder00:02
Hospital TB alert00:02
Equestrianism: Whitakers in family dispute00:02
The Conservatives in Brighton: Patten calls schools chief a nutter00:02
King helps Laura00:02
Bottom Line: Whyte in a hurry00:02
Today's Number: 84m00:02
Obituary: Atahualpa del Cioppo00:02
Net widens00:02
Fashion: St Trinian's gets oversexed in Milan: Short is back, and this time it's outrageous. Men in macs may like it, but what about women? Marion Hume reports on the scanties that would most definitely not please Miss00:02
Riot confession proved to be false: Heather Mills on on a case which highlights the right to silence00:02
View from City Road: US 'wall of money' boosts UK equities00:02
VW in Seat talks: Piech seeks cash aid from Spanish government00:02
Dilemmas: Hanky panky? Just forget you saw it00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Radical jailed00:02
Silly Questions: Queue here00:02
Greycoat rescue hangs in balance: Tom Stevenson explains why preference shareholders oppose Postel's rescue plan00:02
Whitegate Leisure heads for main market00:02
Obituary: Douglas Warren00:02
Defence staff 'were not gung-ho'00:02
Leading Article: Lifting the bonnet on mechanical failure00:02
Amber Day shocks City with 8.5m pounds charge00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Molyneaux warning on leadership challenge00:02
Sports Letters: Egghead formation00:02
The Conservatives in Brighton: Party faithful unite behind family values00:02
Tube strike today00:02
Education: How can you reward a better class of teacher?00:02
Strength in luxury lifts Time Products00:02
Obituary: Morag Noble00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Fashion Update: Cut to suit all00:02
Fashion Update: Brits see it through00:02
Stake out00:02
Public Services Management: Counting the cost of autonomy: Paul Gosling reports on the reorganisation of the London borough of Tower Hamlets00:02
Golf: Price is right for Zimbabwe00:02
LIVE REVIEW / Stress and relaxation: Joseph Gallivan on unconventional behaviour from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Forum00:02
Former enemies in need of a chemistry lesson00:02
View from City Road: Adventures for Whitbread?00:02
Football: Norwich famous for frantic five minutes00:02
Treasury rail cash limits 'must be relaxed': Investment plea by track body chairman00:02
Muslim turns against Muslim in Bihac battle00:02
Cricket: Watkinson to succeed Fairbrother00:02
BNP sell-off attracts pounds 13bn00:02
Long-term contraceptive launched amid controversy00:02
Russia: Yeltsin 'paralysed' during crisis00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics00:02
Banda better00:02
Finishing touch00:02
Obituary: Rory Peck00:02
RIFFS / Toby Jepson of the Little Angels on the majesty of Queen00:02
Hani trial hears of 'conspiracy to kill'00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Pensioners picket Tories over VAT on fuel00:02
Basketball: When fame transcends sport and will matches skill: Ken Jones salutes the man who was probably the best player in the history of his sport00:02
Russia: Parliament gives up some of its secrets00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
French minister hints at softer line on world trade talks00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Court Circular00:02
Market Report: Cash-call rumours open cracks at Eurotunnel00:02
Tennis: Young women lying in wait00:02
Terrorist gets life00:02
Rugby Union: Selectors give Weir surprise wake-up call: Scottish surprises00:02
FILM / The drop-dead director: John Woo makes movies with guts, and buckets of blood. Kevin Jackson talks to him. Plus Jeremy Clarke on Chow Yun-Fat, Woo's favourite leading hard-man00:02
View from City Road: Regulators need sharper teeth00:02
Patten warns time running out on HK: Britain to proceed with reforms unilaterally if talks fail00:02
Pembroke: More than the sum of its moving parts00:02
The Conservatives in Blackpool: Clarke faces intense scrutiny: The Chancellor is coming under pressure from several sources. Donald Macintyre reports00:02
Firebombs found00:02
Sacking was fair00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News