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Losses lead to closure of reprieved pit00:02
Syria 'holds Israeli pilot'00:02
Education: Silenced by classroom abuse: Voice loss is driving teachers to early retirement. Julia Hagedorn reports00:02
Today's Number: 1700:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sports Letters: Misplaced pride00:02
Hockey: Depleted University beaten00:02
Everybody is in front: Ornette Coleman, the Ezra Pound of jazz, is in London this week. Phil Johnson asks him to define 'harmolodics'00:02
Cricket: Simmons smites Sri Lanka00:02
Dear Ros Hepplewhite: Some public relations advice to the chief executive of the Child Support Agency00:02
Letter: Landor Road: a street ruled by drugs and crime00:02
Fire passes on after ravaging Malibu00:02
Market Report: Kleinwort concern hits London International00:02
Law and Order: Record level of crime, but rise is slower: 5.7 million offences in 12 months to June - Forces not effective enough - Home Secretary gets tougher00:02
Luncheon00:02
Leading Article: England's regional identity problem00:02
Lenders stay wary of role in social housing: Any move to reduce the public subsidy to housing associations may cut the flow of private funding. Ros Bayley reports00:02
Poll setbacks for Clinton in battle on free-trade deal00:02
Peers ambush BR sell-off: Legislation bogged down by Labour delaying tactics and constitutional confusion between two chambers00:02
Cycling: Obree wins rematch in battle of Britons: Scot seeks to regain world hour record00:02
Banking jobs under threat00:02
Rugby Union: Sheer class from young Baa-Baas: Cornwall beaten but unbowed00:02
Education: Is Hannibal Lecter in?: Sarah Strickland reports on a favourite serial killer at Wandsworth prison00:02
Research Posts: Buying time for young scientists: A Royal Society scheme is helping researchers to gain permanent posts in universities, says Liz Heron00:02
Jury sees James 'abducted' on video00:02
Steps omitted in Navy order won by VSEL00:02
Bottom Line: Coloured television00:02
Cigarette war knocks BAT: Third-quarter US tobacco profits down 70% but overall result well ahead00:02
Thatcher arms link 'a mistake': Civil servant forgot who connected former prime minister to Iraq affair, Scott inquiry told00:02
Obituary: Federico Fellini00:02
Museum strikes00:02
Obituaries00:02
Germany moves on insider dealing00:02
Kidnap gang escapes with pounds 320,000 ransom00:02
Obituary: Professor Desmond Nuttall00:02
Diary00:02
French 'misled into buying UK lamb'00:02
Racing: American favourites are pushed out by the draw00:02
The daily poem00:02
Chess: Russians abroad00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Pierre Molinier, the forgotten Surrealist00:02
Obituary: Margaret Vyner00:02
M&S to lift capital outlay to pounds 350m00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
'Morally I was right to smuggle Lucy'00:02
Broadgate hails 'turning point': Developer announces the City's biggest letting this year00:02
Must we forever do it his way?: Ol' Blue Eyes is back - again. David Lister ponders our inexhaustible desire for nostalgia00:02
Health chief sacked00:02
Degas dancers fetch pounds 4.75m in lively sale: Bidders pack auction room as market in expensive pictures undergoes a revival00:02
Workers 'at risk'00:02
Silly Questions: Various vacuous vexations verified00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Pembroke: Hint of an heir at Hanson00:02
Sports Letters: Countering racism00:02
European Football: United in disarray as Turks end the dream: Cantona sent off as England's finest fail00:02
Voting for a new Jerusalem: Teddy Kollek's defeat as mayor has wider significance for Israel and the peace process, argues Sarah Helm00:02
COMEDY / Killing jokes: Mark Wareham found Steve Coogan recycling old material00:02
Jewel of a stamp00:02
CAA condemns 'culture of collusion' in airline industry00:02
Marley family defends name00:02
Bhutto's brother held on return from exile00:02
Defence civil servant took pounds 1.5m in bribes: Corrupt proceeds from arms deals deposited in Swiss banks00:02
View from City Road: Few clues to the German question00:02
Bridge: Battle of wits00:02
Bottom Line: Siebe goes back to the rights-issue well00:02
View from City Road: Banking statistics that don't add up00:02
Scottish Met seeks 27m pounds: Shares fall as property group announces reduced losses00:02
Egypt hangs three militants00:02
Racing: Gosden loses in Catrail dispute: Sheikh Mohammed's adviser overrules his trainer as a top sprinter dishes the dirt option00:02
Sainsbury warns of risk in price-cut campaign: One retail giant says promotion could hit margins as another speeds up worldwide store development00:02
Tennis: Durie prepares for repairs to secure future: Britain's former No 1 faces surgery while Wood's new fitness programme pushes her to new heights00:02
Sporting Digest: Netball00:02
View from City Road: M&S a safe haven in a stormy retail sector00:02
Travellers lose00:02
Three funds raise 403m pounds in corporate capital for Lloyd's00:02
Leading Article: Forcing change to reduce crime00:02
Breakthrough for mixed adoptions gets go-ahead: Authorities using racial grounds for refusal are criticised as Government's White Paper proposes sweeping changes00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
ALBUMS / Do the don't be a lemming polka00:02
Obituary: Denny Dennis00:02
Brokers alarmed at settlement changes00:02
Fashion: Glad to be grey: The fashion world may be waking up to the force and spending power of the over-50s. Kate Constable reports. Interviews by Belinda Morris00:02
Middle-class whites reject New York's black mayor: Newly-elected Giuliani inherits Democratic city with dollars 750m deficit, rising crime, shrinking job market and divisions between rich and poor00:02
Soccer fans charged00:02
Letter: Landor Road: a street ruled by drugs and crime00:02
Orange juice tax angers MPs00:02
Last Korea ferry body found00:02
Kuwaiti kills Iraqi policeman00:02
Letter: Supporting mediation00:02
Police criticised over Triad 'perks': Correction00:02
Dilemmas: Now who's behaving childishly?00:02
REVIEW / Sad mouth: Jasper Rees on Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Hammersmith Apollo00:02
Letter: Tell the horrid facts without titillation00:02
Congo clashes00:02
Husband 'tried to kill wife in bath': Jury told of man's double life with mistress00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Change in child support rules signalled00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top Ten Board Games00:02
Pious farewell for Fellini, master of mockery: State service for undisputed maestro of world cinema who often shocked the Church00:02
Muslims tell French to get out of Algeria: Fundamentalist group issues 'one month' ultimatum00:02
Court Circular00:02
Angola truce breakthrough00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
MUSIC / Sounds without effect00:02
Tennis: Paris sees off more seeds00:02
Labour row over committee seat candidate for Treasury seat00:02
Golf: Faldo resists lure of World Cup: World No 1 plays today but injury forces withdrawal from next week's tournament00:02
GLOSSARY / Happiness is :) in baudy language00:02
Graduate Recruitment: All that effort for nothing?: Postgraduate degrees do not guarantee better jobs or higher pay. Philip Schofield reports00:02
'Nearly poor' to get help with fuel tax: Chancellor set to widen VAT compensation package under threat of backbench revolt00:02
Royal engagements00:02
Russia shifts on sanctions00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Virgin plans alliances with foreign carriers00:02
Birthdays00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The little man who lived on the brink: The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini - Ruth Brandon: Secker & Warburg, pounds 17.9900:02
Unit trusts that put the market in its place00:02
Trial move angers Nazi victims00:02
Public Services: Reading the signs and changing: Cathy Aitchison reports on National Library Week and the future of the service00:02
Leading Article: A need for civility at the back of the aircraft00:02
NZ's ills blamed on end of welfare state00:02
Third man dies after journey between hospitals00:02
Italy's President goes on TV to deny scandal00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Flower lovers 'wrong to buy plants in bud': Research shows how to pick the best chrysanthemums00:02
Football: Tottenham guilty of poaching00:02
Turks and Kurds may pull back from the brink: The issues behind the ethnic rebellion are out in the open, Hugh Pope writes from Istanbul00:02
James Bulger trial told of mother's frantic search: Jurors are shown blurred security video camera images of two boys allegedly luring child from shopping centre00:02
Orange juice tax angers MPs00:02
High flyers long to drift away in peace00:02
Letter: No credit to the UN for peace in Somaliland00:02
REVIEW / Me and you, and baby too: At Sheffield Arena, Whitney Houston danced, sang and introduced her new baby. Joseph Gallivan sat in the stalls and went 'aaah'00:02
Ex-ICD pair sign over voting rights00:02
Obituary: Peter Kemp00:02
Streamlined pain and hardly any blood00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
My journey through the darkness: Richard Lane is 25. Two years ago he lost his sight. At first he coped; then despair overcame him. Now, at last, his spirits are lifting00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes fit for A team00:02
European Football: Goss gloss on Norwich glory00:02
Musical censored00:02
Motor Racing: Mercedes enter F1 and Indy00:02
Death 'linked to hormone treatment': Inquest considers whether engineer contracted rare brain disease from human gland extracts, given to help him grow. Malcolm Pithers reports00:02
Earth mover for Greeks00:02
Dublin and London thaw towards Hume-Adams plan00:02
Why less can mean more in Whitehall world00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
They're going to set the lines buzzing00:02
Hospital jobs cuts00:02
ICI drops plan to buy German business00:02
Right of Reply: Is it old or bold?: Mark Ellen, the managing editor of the new 'older' rock magazine Mojo, answers his critics00:02
RIFFS / Singer and writer Jackson Browne on Mark Curry's 'Musta Been Joe'00:02
REVIEW / Spiders from mars and suburban gurus00:02
Siebe asks for 184m pounds: Controls group moves for loss-making Eckardt through rights issue00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Public Services Management Update: Job fears00:02
Yorkshire warning puts spotlight on chairman00:02
MUSIC / Early hopes: Tess Knighton on competition winners and international visitors00:02
Men blamed over rise in divorce: Former Thatcher adviser wants divorce made tougher for couples with children00:02
Many consumers given 'inaccurate' financial advice00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Bottom Line: Market topping00:02
Blagden warns again on profits00:02
Letter: Successes and failures of the United Nations00:02
Here today00:02
Letter: Personnel a priority00:02
Sports Letters: What about the player's rights?00:02
Thatcher arms link 'a mistake': Civil servant forgot who connected former prime minister to Iraq affair, Scott inquiry told00:02
Likud victory stirs fears in Jerusalem: Prime Minister warns right-wingers against reviving efforts to settle Jews in Arab areas00:02
Packwood set for court00:02
Table Tennis: Lomas leads England to surprise win00:02
Burundi offer00:02
Anniversaries00:02
WALKING / The trail of the Great Bear: Paul Gosling enjoyed the colours of autumn in and around the Quantock Hills00:02
European Football: Manjarin sounds last post for frustrated Villa: Ron Atkinson loses his unbeaten home record in Europe as deserving Deportivo put up a labyrinthine defence00:02
Rugby League: Devereux's dashes dispel the doubters: A summer in Australia has proved the making of the Great Britain winger. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
Tiphook unable to sign 'comfort' letter: Correction00:02
European Football: Inspired Arsenal catch fire to raze Standard00:02
Four bids for Forth Bridge00:02
Letter: Successes and failures of the United Nations00:02
Racing: Heart threat to Waterloo00:02
When fear swept a Bosnian town00:02
Letter: London's nightmare00:02
Benazir Bhutto's brother barred from landing00:02
Postcards from Beirut: There are places where the killing seems to go on for ever, like Belfast only more so. And yet here is Robert Fisk, chronicler of the horrors of Lebanon, basking in the pleasures of peace00:02
American makes her mark in the temple of pain: Susan Noble overcame many severe barriers to join an ascetic Japanese order, writes Terry McCarthy00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Education: Reading matters for a captive audience: Prison libraries play a vital role in enriching the lives of inmates, says Stephen Tumim00:02
Maverick sets a cat among EU pigeons00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Top PLO security official accused of being Mossad spy: Arafat orders inquiry as Tunisian agents reveal bomb plot00:02
Boxing: The fierce jab of reality00:02
Life imitates art as Malibu goes to blazes: Californians flee inferno with surfboards and pets00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Market testing to continue despite Civil Service protests00:02
DIVERSION / All in the mind's eye: Emma Forrest enters the realms of the Paradox Box, a collection of optical illusions. Is it more than just a bag of tricks?00:02
Fleeing Croats accuse UN of indifference: Bosnian Muslims capture Vares in surprise attack, forcing exodus of 8,000 in terror00:02
Photos cut fraud00:02
European Football: Scots' challenge ends00:02
Letter: Landor Road: a street ruled by drugs and crime00:02
Law and Order: Howard tightens prison discipline00:02
Carey presses for family values00:02
The mystery of William Brown and the multiple sequel00:02
Public Services Management Update: Study results00:02
Law and Order: Police failings 'create risk of being overwhelmed': A damning report from the Audit Commission calls for greater efficiency. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Rugby League: Farrell to make Test debut at 1800:02
Sports Letters: Countering racism00:02
Inside File: Why Hurd at last took road to Damascus00:02
Inside Parliament: Tory talks tough over football thuggery: MPs take football disorder debate to heart - House exercised by state of national game - Lilley cautious on Goode pensions report - Backbenchers urge Commons pay freeze