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Leaked papers show Treasury expects rise in inflation: Underlying rate may well increase next month but will stay under00:02
Letter: False alarm over Portillo's Euro-warning00:02
Public Services Management: Staff freeze00:02
Public Services Management: Car compromise00:02
Rape case student 'was drunk at party'00:02
Policeman driven mad by traffic00:02
Motor Racing: Donington struck off grand prix calendar: Japan to host two races00:02
Midlands police pay record damages00:02
Pivotal role for a 'bete noire'00:02
Education: Governors are in business: Schools are finding that newcomers from industry can bring expertise - and cash. Diana Hinds reports00:02
Value of practice nurses questioned00:02
US pull-out could unravel UN plan00:02
Fashion: Punk can go to the ball: Marion Hume, at the Paris fashion shows, witnesses an exciting fusion of English eccentricity and French passion00:02
Letter: Charities: dangers of separating campaigning from providing services00:02
Racial tension grows in LA as hitches bedevil riot case00:02
Serbs and Croats 'may be moving towards new war'00:02
Letter: Lamenting the retiring types00:02
Pembroke: Is that Eddie on the dog?00:02
Dilemmas: Share the booty? Demons say no00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Obituary: Raymond Fosberg00:02
Bigger catalogue and new products boost N Brown00:02
Obituary: Yvar Mikhashoff00:02
View from City Road: Bulls and boars in Germany00:02
Allders looks for pounds 200m market capitalisation00:02
Court Circular00:02
Boy cleared00:02
Racing: Highbrook to rise from mud: Huge fields and bottomless ground offer a dangerous challenge to punters. Greg Wood reports00:02
Murder 'was rooted in political intrigue': Adviser accused of killing politician from breakaway Russian oil state of Chechenia and his brother00:02
Leading Article: Only sanctions will sway Gaddafi00:02
WSP and AB in pounds 9.8m merger00:02
Letter: Lamenting the retiring types00:02
Anniversaries00:02
A nation stuck in selfish mode: Too much liberalism is quite the wrong diagnosis for British decline, says Larry Siedentop00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The stuff of tragedy in history's dark corners: Chamberlain and appeasement - R A C Parker: Macmillan, pounds 11.9900:02
Business & City Summary00:02
Thief sidetracked00:02
Estate agent fined for misleading price00:02
Letter: Singing the praises of Klais organs00:02
BAe shake-up threatens 700 jobs: Rationalisation at home as joint venture with Taiwan remains in balance00:02
Scarpia: What's new?: Stephen Johnson wonders whether the good old days were really as good as all that00:02
View from City Road: Merger mania makes a worrying comeback00:02
Football: Koeman leaves England in tatters: Referee condemned as Ronald Koeman escapes red card to break brave resistance with deft free-kick00:02
View from City Road: Figures for a cut in interest rates00:02
Football: Iraq seek 'revenge' for defeat in Gulf00:02
Bottom Line: Attwoods again00:02
Letter: Charities: dangers of separating campaigning from providing services00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
DESIGN / Seats at all prices: Chair stylists are out in force for a new exhibition on the South Bank. Nick Curtis sits in judgement00:02
Inside File: Pretoria envoys get the jitters00:02
Baseball: Stewart attains perfection: Toronto to defend World Series title00:02
Letter: Unionists favour mixed schools00:02
Curfew keeps Muscovites on a tight leash00:02
Ford to thwart the 'grabbers': Car key beams signal to ignition from short range. Susan Watts reports00:02
Questions raised over terrorist's home visits: A loyalist gang leader finds God and hopes for early release. David McKittrick reports00:02
London stations 'dirty and smelly'00:02
Blood inquiry00:02
Scientists throw light on dark mater in space00:02
Letter: Echoes of the Tsar00:02
Letter: Let's talk turkey00:02
Israel denial00:02
Tennis: A better beginning for Lendl00:02
Dear Liz Forgan: After the decision to drop children's programmes from Radio 5, a reprimand for the BBC's head of radio from the Independent's media editor00:02
Law Report: Bankrupt has no right of appeal: Heath v Tang, Stevens v Peacock - Court of Appeal (Sir Donald Nicholls, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Steyn and Lord Justice Hoffmann) 26 July 199300:02
US does not budge on Gatt talks00:02
Work stress test cases may lead to wave of litigation: Women blame long hours for health problems00:02
Football: Lazio pay pounds 8.4m for Boksic00:02
Family reading00:02
Peace-keepers who became hate-figures: Richard Dowden in Mogadishu explains why Somalis who welcomed US forces 10 months ago now want to kill them00:02
Football hooligans face tear-gas in the US00:02
TCI merger signals telecoms revolution: US telephone giant's dollars 60bn link-up with cable group to provide multiple services faces regulatory hurdles00:02
GP sent daughter cannabis, court told00:02
View from City Road: List of options for Greycoat00:02
Grid company offers to cut bills: Proposed trade-off if industry accepts supply flexibility00:02
Walking: Defeating the elements is the height of satisfaction: Michael Leapman begins this regular series by braving the bad weather to join a classic hike into the Black Mountains00:02
One arm beats one eye00:02
Sleeve notes00:02
The secret sorrows of China's sexual revolution: Women under pressure at home and work now have a telephone helpline, writes Teresa Poole in Peking00:02
Child agency to canvass clients' views: Survey of carers and absent parents follows growing number of complaints00:02
Charles Sidney pulls ahead to reach pounds 2.4m: Flotation should value Mercedes dealer at pounds 25m00:02
Yemen holds journalists00:02
Parks 'create happiness'00:02
Attwoods pushed into loss: Mindis division to be sold after incurring pounds 91m provision00:02
One in five accident departments closed'00:02
Making megabucks from a mid-life crisis: Ruth Picardie on why The Bridges of Madison County sold 40,000 copies the day it hit the bookshelves00:02
Refugees size up their old Jericho homes: Mohammed Atiyeh's family fled in 1967. He is returning for the first time, writes Sarah Helm in Jericho00:02
Education: Books instead of bullets: On a site better known for murder, a new campus may bring jobs and reconciliation to Belfast's sectarian divide. Fran Abrams reports00:02
Education: Simon Says: play nicely, children: A revival of traditional playground games may lead to better behaviour at school, says Julia Hagedorn00:02
Clinton's been shot . . . but first, the final score at Stoke00:02
Letter: Charities: dangers of separating campaigning from providing services00:02
Thatcher seeks ban00:02
Security Council poised to renew sanctions on Haiti00:02
Obituary00:02
Pressure on Clarke to cut rates: Surprise fall in manufacturing and rise in inflation hit Budget plans00:02
Leading Article: A dose of Mozart a day keeps the doctor away00:02
Leading Article: Budgeting for a recovery00:02
Rugby Union: North count their bruises00:02
Sturm und Drang over Thatcher memoirs00:02
Diary00:02
Football: Norway on their way to finals00:02
35 women killed00:02
Rallying: Sainz overwhelmed by Cunico00:02
Rent-to-buy scheme condemned as a trap00:02
Market Report: Rainstorms put a damper on the insurance sector00:02
Football: 'That blond man should not be on the pitch'00:02
Council to stand in for sick Banda00:02
Germany's bank sell-off under fire00:02
TELEVISION / Down, out and deprived of redemption00:02
Tomb on the move00:02
Lyric sheets00:02
Europe curbing welfare costs, Lilley says: Report says Britain spending more on benefits. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Moscow 'racist'00:02
Ministers accused of making profits from Iraqi arms sales00:02
Football: Carbone quells the Scots00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Right of Reply: Ken Campbell responds to the reviews of his latest one-man show, Jamais Vu, at the National Theatre00:02
Rugby Union: Evans makes light of leadership load: A captain at the peak of his powers leads resurgent Wales against Japan on Saturday. Steve Bale reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
Football: Jones the hat-trick takes his chances00:02
Second wave of deluge threatens chaos: Flooding closes 141 roads and hits crops as a further downpour is forecast. Mary Braid reports00:02
Football: Rush rewards patient approach00:02
Letter: In and out of tune on London orchestras00:02
Here today00:02
Major talks tough on law and order: Jailing people does work, Prime Minister insists as he rejects judge's criticism00:02
Rebel leader charged over White House disturbances: Disgraced former Soviet general could face 15-year jail sentence00:02
Bottom Line: Forte's first step on a long road00:02
Polish parties do a deal00:02
Invest in gold, funds are urged: Pension managers told that 80% of assets in shares is too high00:02
Golf: Daly to fire dream team's assault: American bazooka aims to recapture lost accuracy in Dunhill Cup's opening shots00:02
Squash: Horner's Open ambition00:02
Hani case defence throws in towel: South African murder verdict expected today amid suspense over fates of remaining two accused00:02
Minister leads mission to boost trade with China00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Football: Charlton has to suffer humiliation: Spaniards ruin Republic's proud home record while Austrians are eliminated in Sofia00:02
INTERVIEW / The secret garden bears fruit: Once she had to cope with Communism and anti-Semitism, now it's Hollywood ogres. Sue Summers meets the director Agnieszka Holland00:02
Suspended jail term for Seles attacker00:02
Chess: Kasparov miskicks00:02
Greece scraps industry sell-off00:02
Major's press secretary to move back to Treasury: 'Bittersweet' departure for O'Donnell00:02
Italy vote00:02
MUSIC / The phoenix rises: Anthony Payne on the British premiere of Berlioz's 'lost' Mass at Westminster Cathedral00:02
BR orders its last 41 trains00:02
Bell takes lead in British cable television league00:02
Bridge: Slam by swindle00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Letter: Souness' post00:02
Death becomes a top seller00:02
Silly Questions: Puzzled? Join the queue00:02
ALBUMS / Pearl one, jam one and cast off: Andy Gill hears an abused Pearl Jam, the sexy Cocteau Twins and a lavatorial William Burroughs00:02
Trial for murder00:02
Today's Number: 288.900:02
Eta suspects00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Letter: In and out of tune on London orchestras00:02
Delors raises spectre of 30m jobless00:02
Rugby Union: Little out of All Blacks tour00:02
Cancer treatment inquiry launched: Move follows concern that quality of care is linked to deaths00:02
Seton sees growth in self-medication00:02
Young are eating more junk00:02
DNA researchers win Nobel chemistry prize: Inspiration for Jurassic Park earns science's highest prize00:02
Moral rhetoric improves with humility00:02
RIFFS / Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff clears a hangover with the Clash's 'Complete Control'00:02
Olympic Games: Sydney to cost twice bid budget00:02
Kitchen firm pays pounds 750 for sexist sales pitch00:02
Israel and PLO get down to nuts and bolts: Jailed Palestinians high on the agenda as Arafat-Rabin peace accord comes into effect00:02
Mine flood reveals prehistoric workings: Bronze Age excavation changes perception of early British civilisations. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Large earthquake in Tokyo: who's hurt?00:02
British Coal's losing hand: Policies of the industry's big customers may have doomed many pits, writes David Bowen00:02
Recall scheme means 250 'lifers' freed00:02
ICI widens interests in S Africa00:02
England supporters fall foul of Dutch police00:02
Too hot for democracy?: Robert Fisk asks how long hangmen and dictators will hold sway in the Arab world00:02
Letter: The hype market00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
TECHNIQUE / Laugh? They had to carry me out in a box: In comedy, you haven't lived until you've died. Six stand-ups who have stared death in the face relive their experiences with Mark Wareham00:02
Female GP is found battered to death00:02
Public Services Management: Stay committed00:02
Police shoot man00:02
Obituary: The Ven David Walser00:02
Lockerbie suspects refuse US or British trial: Lawyers say Libyans will only face a court in neutral 'third' country00:02
Breastfeeding 'a turn-off'00:02
Merrett agency forced to seek rescue by US insurer: Former deputy chairman of Lloyd's to lose control of family company00:02
News on television00:02
THEATRE / Absent friends: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews Possession at the Octagon, Bolton (CORRECTED)00:02
NatWest Markets to launch Lloyd's trust00:02
Farmers count the cost as rivers wash away season's harvest: Jonathan Foster reports from the ruined potato fields and soaked villages of Lincolnshire00:02
Forte to float airport service arm for pounds 165m: Hotels group takes next step in cutting debt and focusing on core00:02
Racing: Burden of expectation is no barrier to Coulton00:02
GLOSSARY / Maybe not spoilt, but certainly naughty00:02
Mozart has the key to raising intelligence00:02
Letter: False alarm over Portillo's Euro-warning00:02
Soho heading back to the sleazy Sixties: James Cusick visits the peep shows of London's growing sex industry00:02
From Ribena kid to coming man: Enter stage right, Michael Portillo, young and clever, eyes on the prize. Alex Renton reports