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Letter: Muddled heads in BBC radio00:02
Baseball: Bold Phillies flying higher00:02
Market Report: Cable and Wireless gets a boost from East and West00:02
Hockey: Moores are the merrier00:02
Sema buys Swedish company00:02
Obituary: Sir Owen Saunders00:02
Iris Murdoch fights 'flying bishops' plan00:02
Tiphook launches hunt for chief executive00:02
Way cleared for buyout bids by BR employees: Government acts to head off rebellion on legislation to privatise railways00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Golf: Alfred Dunhill Cup, St Andrews00:02
Military men face to face00:02
Release of American helicopter pilot raises hopes of peace00:02
Football: John Taylor must make a choice00:02
Don't mock: the French have a point00:02
Computers: 'Magic slate' gives artist a free hand: Emma Bagnall test draws a new paint program and finds work with pen and tablet child's play: Review - Fractal design painter painting software00:02
Today's Number: 15m00:02
Letter: Muddled heads in BBC radio00:02
Cartoon cult with an increasing appetite for sex and violence: Teenagers in Britain are tuning in to a new wave of Japanese videos.00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Economy brings cheer for Bolger as poll approaches: New Zealanders are looking for stability after years of financial turmoil, writes David Barber from Wellington00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Motor Racing: British Truck Championships, Pembrey00:02
Non-League Football: Worthy Workington00:02
Obituary: Frances Perry00:02
Cocaine is a natural pesticide00:02
Computers: Sketches lack taste of life: Touch and sound add to the pleasure of drawing. Iona Brown is disappointed by computer sketching: Review: Fractal Design Sketcher Drawing Software00:02
Foreign bankers reject Ferruzzi rescue package00:02
Future of Thorp 'not in danger'00:02
Football / World Cup: Unsung Horne breathes fire into the dragon: Henry Winter on an industrious Welsh side who are poised to emulate the illustrious class of 195800:02
FILM / Video rental00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Aerospace cuts mar unemployment fall00:02
Call to ban video from trial00:02
Serbian crackdown in Kosovo raises 'ethnic cleansing' fears00:02
Dear Tommie Smith: Twenty-five years ago he celebrated Olympic gold with a black power salute. The MP for Brent South thanks him00:02
Letter: It's Sherlockological00:02
Out of the outrage comes gold: Vivienne Westwood has wowed Paris again, but this time has won more than just applause00:02
Experts link deaths to high drug doses for mentally ill: Guidelines governing medicines that are given to psychiatric patients are to be issued, writes Rosie Waterhouse00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead: Tennis - Volkswagen Nationals00:02
West End haven for wildlife and workers gains recognition00:02
Football / World Cup: Charlton interested in move to the England job: FA to do nothing about manager's position until after San Marino game while Ian Wright ponders international retirement00:02
Child murderer confesses at last00:02
Crest float will make buyout team a fortune: Directors to sell pounds 12.5m worth of shares00:02
Birthdays00:02
Euro Disney brings down prices: Analysts doubt changes will solve company's problems00:02
View from City Road: Body Shop smooths away a few wrinkles00:02
Timex pay-off00:02
Body Shop surprises with 10m pounds profit00:02
Bottom Line: Jefferson must sit tight00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Arab-Israeli 'romance' plays before a beautiful backdrop: Negotiators thrash out details of Gaza-Jericho peace plan in a Red Sea resort that has become a symbol of co-existence00:02
Outside Edge: John L Walters00:02
Hope for pits00:02
Safe haven for workers who blow whistle: Helpline to offer employees free legal advice00:02
Pay up or be cursed on the road to Elephant Trunk farm: Out of Russia00:02
Newsroom creates a stir with bulletins in verse: Poets' News on BBC 2 has brought an unusual angle to the coverage of current affairs.00:02
Law Update: Joint conference00:02
MUSIC / The master singers00:02
Welcome to the lair of the warlord: Richard Dowden in Mogadishu meets the man hunted by 30,000 US troops, who accuses the UN of killing or injuring 9,000 Somalis00:02
Job fears for 10,000 civil servants00:02
German move on Gatt00:02
Law: A leap into the unknown: Sharon Wallach talks to one firm about its fears and hopes for the future of legal aid00:02
Football: English history of befuddlement: Ken Jones on a national game at crisis level00:02
Multinationals told to wake up to tax threat00:02
Letter: Muddled heads in BBC radio00:02
Gonzalez under a cloud as Spain's 'barometer' swings further right: Regional polls in the conservative heartland of Galicia may hurt the PM, says Phil Davison in Santiago de Compostela00:02
Time spent on tests to be reduced after teachers' protests: Papers cut to seven hours and marking system simplified00:02
BNP protest fears00:02
Working parents urged to rethink attitude to children: Warning sounded over legacy of neglect in two-career families00:02
Racing: Stonehatch solid for Sangster00:02
English football fan jailed for assault on policeman: Five convicted in Rotterdam court as judge says Dutch fed up with violent guests in their country. David Connett reports00:02
Letter: Prisons show results of society's credit-card values00:02
Football / World Cup: Brown's note of sympathy: Phil Shaw on the problems facing the Scotland manager00:02
UK anger at Germany-Iran links00:02
Law: Change is a matter of trial and error: Sean Webster reports on the reorganisation of the Crown Prosecution Service, and asks if low morale among its staff will hinder the creation of a more efficient and streamlined organisation00:02
Letter: Prisons show results of society's credit-card values00:02
Royal Mail competition: Now it's your Final Problem00:02
Letter: Prisons show results of society's credit-card values00:02
Tramp crushed00:02
View from City Road: Mickey Mouse becomes vulnerable00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hits, myths and stings in the tale: 'The Baby Train & Other Urban Legends' - Jan Harold Brunvald: Norton, 14.95 pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Clarke should raise 'extra 4bn' pounds00:02
Bottomley abandons speech amid protests00:02
US chemists sue drug giants over pricing00:02
One in twelve Ecstasy users 'risks death': Scientists believe they have discovered why some people suffer severe side-effects. Steve Boggan reports00:02
Condoms 'too small for 20% of UK men': Study reveals problem that results in increased rate of contraceptive failure00:02
Law Report: Patient can refuse treatment: Re C: Family Division (Mr Justice Thorpe), 14 October 199300:02
Exchange to get tough on share price massaging00:02
Law Update: Right to challenge00:02
130 Mafia suspects held00:02
Loud call for miming to return to 'Top of the Pops'00:02
German dies in Cambodia00:02
ARTS / And what's more. . .00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Pembroke: BA gong scoop00:02
Football / World Cup: Beaten Taylor to be granted a dignified exit00:02
May Day holiday set to be reprieved: CBI opposition leads Government to rethink over switch to October00:02
How far do you go when a girl says no?: 'A chap knows whether a woman wants sex or not.' Or does he? James Rampton talks to men about date rape00:02
Improvement in jobless total: Past two months' trend reversed in September, but engineering employers warn of more losses to come00:02
Heat turns on francs00:02
Patten offers HK deal00:02
Correction00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
FILM / Surviving the guillotine: Adam Mars-Jones reviews Three Colours Blue by Krzysztof Kieslowski00:02
Letter: Pre-trial publicity00:02
BSM priced at 47m pounds: Driving school float to wipe out gearing00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Education chief00:02
Leading Article: Parenthood and the British male00:02
Letter: Muddled heads in BBC radio00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
When it pays to be single: While the Tories castigate lone mothers, the benefits system seems to encourage them, says Mary Campbell00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Priest bites the bullet of murderous opposition: Having survived assassination attempts, Haiti's exiled president is still preaching the theology of liberation, writes Patrick Cockburn00:02
Italian criminals look to the East: Mountain police prepare for winter at international conference00:02
Court Circular00:02
FILM / The grass is always greener: Sheila Johnston on racial stigma in Rising Sun, wild pranks in True Romance and safety in The Secret Garden00:02
Rugby League: Academics graduating in catch-up game: Junior Kiwis a testing ground for British counterparts. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
North Korea death camps condemned00:02
THEATRE / Ghosts of the present: Paul Taylor on Mike Leigh's It's a Great Big Shame at Stratford East00:02
Leading Article: The case for intervention00:02
Letter: Squeezing the helping hand00:02
Correction: University funding00:02
Russians fear return of 'Big Brother'00:02
Keith Elliott at Large: The long-haired lover of Liverpool: The strong addiction of a lifetime dominates the days of a famous writer at home with horror and glory00:02
Floods recede00:02
Comac to buy rival agency for 18.5m pounds00:02
Justice minister killed00:02
Judge rules out amputation00:02
Multiple sclerosis patients in 'lottery' for new treatment: Demand in the US for a recently approved drug is outstripping supply. Liz Hunt reports00:02
Confusing signals00:02
Civil Service put on chopping block for public spending cuts: Reducing jobs is a vote-winner, report Chris Blackhurst and Barrie Clement00:02
GP 'fought daughter's addiction'00:02
FILM / The critics00:02
The victim should not be an accomplice00:02
New doubt cast on leukaemia link: Cluster of cases near reprocessing plant remains 'an enigma'. Liz Hunt reports00:02
Volkswagen denies plan for short-time working00:02
Letter: It's Sherlockological00:02
View from City Road: Scaling down at Lloyd's00:02
Letter: Ostriches follow pigs and poulty00:02
FILM / Rising Snipes00:02
Law Update: Public awareness00:02
Best-sellers: Top 10 sausages00:02
Rugby Union: Japan wing in Williams: Wallaby faces Wales00:02
Law Report: Proposed night flying restrictions unlawful: Regina v Secretary of State for Transport, Ex parte Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council and others - Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Laws), 29 September 199300:02
Aviation slowdown pushes Hunting results lower: Oil interests are bright spot for defence contractor00:02
Commuter fares to go up by nearly 6 per cent00:02
Kasparov fights to claim a draw00:02
Scandals that need not have happened00:02
Squatter camps seek taste of freedom00:02
People: Philby comes in from cold00:02
Japanese trust takes pounds 100m: Henderson Touche Remnant offer is second in a week to be oversubscribed00:02
Computers: Jargon buster00:02
Student in rape case 'wanted intercourse': Defendant tells court of sexually explicit gestures after party00:02
Rumpole, Perry Mason, you ain't seen nothing yet . . .00:02
Turkish army blocks moves to Kurdish reform00:02
Tourists are shaken but not stirred as floods spill from the Adriatic into Venice00:02
'Gangmasters' accused of farm rule by fear: John McGhie reports on allegations of underpayment and intimidation among the army of casual labourers, recruited each year by rural middlemen, who work long hours to harvest Britain's crops00:02
Salvation Army is tipped to win Nobel peace prize00:02
Diary00:02
Bottom Line: BSM passes first test00:02
Blick negotiating on large acquisition: Forced silence blamed for rumours and slide in share price00:02
Letter: Squeezing the helping hand00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
TELEVISION / A dog is for life, or 10 years' hard labour00:02
Newsroom creates a stir with bulletins in verse: Poets' News on BBC 2 has brought an unusual angle to the coverage of current affairs.00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Manufacturing competitiveness falls to five-month low00:02
This flirtation will end in tears00:02
Rugby League: Ward avoids more surgery00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Doubled profits for pub operator00:02
Journalist killed00:02
Unions predict more job losses after BAe axes 1,00000:02
Rowland to meet Bock candidates: Stage set for battle on non-executives00:02
Lloyd's name took her life00:02
You'll never take me alive, DoT]: Mick vows he'll die in his barricaded home rather than let the M11 invade his East End community00:02
Football / World Cup: Irish fearing Father Time: Trevor Haylett reports on the Republic's need to scrape off their rust00:02
Problems for Lloyd's advisers: Warning of shortage of capacity in underwriting syndicates00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympic Games00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Nuclear generator plans Sizewell C00:02
Victorian girl's grand resting place in historic cemetery restored00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Racing: Cape cheer as Smith takes Trophy's six-figure bonus: Small is valuable as Beverley trainer's sole juvenile fights off the favourite to give him the biggest success of a 40-year career00:02
Golf: Montgomerie felled by pride of Paraguay: Life turns into an embarrassment for Scotland on opening day of the Dunhill Cup as a country with three courses goes giant-killing00:02
Law Update: Room at the Inns00:02
Playgroups 'could expand day care'00:02
Football: Macari move put on hold00:02
Few GPs use chaperones at intimate examinations00:02
Hard-pressed train makers encounter leases on the line: Michael Harrison describes what rail privatisation will mean for suppliers of rolling stock00:02
DANCE / Rat leaves the sinking ship: Judith Mackrell reviews the Batsheva Dance Company's Mabul at the Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
OFT clears price cut by 'Times'00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Two found guilty of murdering ANC chief: Brother pleads for life of Polish immigrant facing death penalty00:02
View from City Road: The buck must stop with the SIB00:02
Buyout activity falls off sharply: Number of flotations likely to increase00:02
Patient recorded side-effects00:02
Scotia flotation set to raise 40.6m pounds: Founder and family trusts will net pounds 38m00:02
Novelist's son in commemorative tribute at family home00:02
Murder charge00:02
Hurd to visit Syria00:02
Leading Article: Conduct in a grand English tradition00:02
Letter: Children before birds00:02
Menem has heart surgery