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Bunhill: Brits in a pickle00:02
Economics: Time to be direct about higher tax00:02
Letter: Nothing wrong with a smack00:02
Letter: Gay pride, Jewish shame00:02
Hobby Holidays: Cycling00:02
Ministers set to slash sick pay: Switch could cost industry millions00:02
Letter: Child workers are already doing too much too young00:02
You're not always better off in a Volvo00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Journey to the end of an alphabet00:02
Profile: Queen of Sofadom: Isabel Wolff on the doyenne of daytime televison who makes a mint from being herself00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Spiritual healing00:02
Football: Ferdinand fashions fine finale00:02
Anne Todd's will00:02
Football: Blake's three lifts Cardiff00:02
Other People's Jobs: No5 the photographer00:02
Lock-maker goes for inside job00:02
Letter: Child workers are already doing too much too young00:02
High-tech banknotes fail to beat the forgers00:02
Arafat's respects00:02
Letter: A generation to account for00:02
Children: And the nurse makes three: Margaret St John is about to have another baby. She investigates the option of hiring a maternity nurse00:02
The obliging feminist: Breaking all the rules of political correctness by reaching out to the rich and the Right, exploring the awkward ambiguities of feminism, being nice: Naomi Wolf, the author of The Beauty Myth, is back00:02
Tennis: Medvedev fends off French challenge00:02
Rugby Union: Britain break loose: As New Zealand's league men bow out with a whitewash, the All Blacks are determined to put their troubles behind them00:02
Bridge00:02
Newall murder charge00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The folly of appeasement: Franco: A Biography by Paul Preston, HarperCollins pounds 2500:02
BR axes pounds 600m safety measure00:02
Letter: No crime exposing neo-Nazis00:02
Tax help pulls up short: Councils have their own 'scheme' figures for calculating relief00:02
Leading Article: The palace of ineptitude00:02
Opportunity knocks with clean hands00:02
Football: Macari's luck holds00:02
Howard backs hunters with new law00:02
Atget's Paris00:02
Lives of The Great Songs: It has never topped the charts, and to three of the Beatles it was a bit of a joke. But it has been recorded more times than any other song. Giles Smith continues our series00:02
Rugby Union: Rodber ready to take the A train: Chris Rea reflects on a torrid week for the All Blacks and assesses England's options00:02
City: BT calls the shots00:02
Golf: Montgomerie constructs a new order00:02
Letter: My country's writer wronged00:02
Spare us the bloody detail: Lurid accounts of James Bulger's death only brutalise, says Anne Spackman00:02
Boardroom watchdogs who failed to prevent disaster: Tiphook and Queens Moat have put non-executive directors in the firing line00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The vita, not so dolce: Fellini by John Baxter 4th Estate pounds 2000:02
Rugby Union: Grayson makes a serious impression00:02
Sport on TV: Very much a game of two channels00:02
Woman strangled00:02
Rear Window: The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month: Armistice Day 191800:02
The Nafta nuance00:02
Hockey: Slough squander their chances00:02
Football: Goss adds gloss for Norwich00:02
Golf: Gallacher wanted as Ryder Cup captain00:02
Football: City stay on the ball: Norman Fox finds the Canaries in tune with a song for Europe00:02
Phoenix's clean-living image dies with him00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
City File: Warburg back to winning form00:02
Letter: Who first coined 'date rape'?00:02
Letter: Living with mother00:02
Motoring: Auto Biography: The Fiat Cinquecento in 0-60 seconds00:02
Health: In the corridors of my mind: Anorexia and depression led Petra Taffoy to the bewildering confines of a private psychiatric hospital. Now outside, she recalls her bizarre struggle with mental illness00:02
Shopping00:02
Today's papers00:02
Profile: Minister finds his voice: Iain Sproat00:02
Where were you when River Phoenix died?: The vegan James Dean is being mourned by teenagers from Ilkley to Bristol, says Rose Rouse00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Quite a lot to answer for: The Penguin book of interviews - ed Christopher Silvester, pounds 18.9900:02
Deaths00:02
Multimedia is the message: The interactive links between cable, phones, television and software will change our lives, writes David Bowen, and the scent of profits is driving a wave of big mergers00:02
Car hire ruling can make life easier for innocent drivers: Insurers may be pressurised into settling claims more quickly00:02
Captain Moonlight: But all that was before Palestine became fashionable00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The E is for enigma: E Annie Proulx is 58 and lives alone on a remote hill in Vermont. Three years ago she was virtually unknown. Suddenly she has taken the literary world by storm. How?00:02
Birthdays00:02
Political Commentary: An outrageous performance from the principal player00:02
Inside Story: The price of a dollar: Europe's fight for a single currency mirrors the long US struggle for monetary union. Lisa Vaughan and Gail Counsell look at the hard road of the greenback00:02
Personal Finance: Discovering derivatives00:02
Diana's dismal fate: to dress up and go out00:02
Leading Article: Live fast, die unpleasantly00:02
TV bosses are forced to resign: Axe wielded at Yorkshire Tyne-Tees (CORRECTED)00:02
Bunhill: 30 media interviews00:02
Opinions: Should MPs' pay be related to their performance?00:02
China on 'fridge war' frontline: Millions of peasant kitchens threaten ozone layer00:02
Rugby Union: Bath get the boot00:02
City: When the sun shines, shares catch a cold00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Northern lad grows up: Book of matches by Simon Armitage, Faber pounds 5.9900:02
Kurdish bombings: Three in court00:02
Mercury presents its calling card00:02
Inside Story: Grisly trail of the backpack killer: He buries his victims at Executioner's Drop . . . Robert Milliken on the Australian who preys on hitch-hikers00:02
Bunhill: Grand wave to the Baltic00:02
How We Met: Bernard Kouchner and Barbara Hendricks00:02
Bunhill: Frequency of television appearances00:02
Ratners rings the changes00:02
Football: Hoddle unable to stop the rot00:02
Clinton puts job on the line again00:02
Shares: Profits grow in safe havens00:02
Eating Out: A mournful hymn to middle America00:02
DANCE / Rough-and-tumble at Heartbreak Hotel00:02
Letter: End of Viewpoint00:02
Racism growing, says poll00:02
TELEVISION / A paler shade of white00:02
Air pollution tests increase00:02
Health: How the NHS helps anorexics00:02
Cone fells girl00:02
Sainsbury puts heat on suppliers: Supermarket giant may cut number of manufacturers for own-label products00:02
Award to turn us green00:02
The crude definition of a slut and a slag: Rosalind Coward on the harsh words used about women who want to have sex00:02
The Broader Picture: Escape from Port-Au-Prince00:02
British Gas spends 6.5m fighting MMC: Correction00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The sublime thinginess of things: William Scammell on a newcomer in his seventies and two other fine debuts00:02
Football: Speedie has momentum00:02
As others see it00:02
Boy thrown on fire00:02
Profile: Hard news man switches channels: Sir David English: The former Daily Mail editor reveals to Jason Nisse that he has lost none of his competitiveness00:02
Fashion: The urchin look00:02
Oxford plea for fee school ban00:02
Montague herd goes to market: Tiphook chief in hasty pedigree sale00:02
Letter: Women in labour come first00:02
Bunhill: Thorn insider00:02
'Doctor Death' hunger strike00:02
Bunhill: Followed to letter00:02
RADIO / Grave facts of a dangerous undertaking00:02
Management: Tough customers a force for excellence: Adapting to product demand has marked the 1993 Best Factory Awards, just as it has shaped the history of industry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In the land of Troubles: A wreath upon the dead - by Briege Duffaud, Poolbeg pounds 14.9900:02
ROCK & JAZZ / Acquired taste or vintage performance?00:02
Rugby Union: France fail in finishing stretch00:02
Israeli settlers fight a losing battle: The murder of a West Bank student highlights the plight of the Jewish religious communities confronting Palestinian rule00:02
Fishing Lines: On the march with the Esperanto veggies00:02
Identity: Fitting an image that buries the past: Signet, the jewellery group formerly known as Ratners, has eight redesigned stores trading under experimental names00:02
FILM / Mr Kline goes to Washington00:02
Bolger clings to the wreckage: New Zealand faces hung parliament and political turmoil00:02
Accountants to look into Tiphook deal00:02
York on Ads: No 3: Benetton's scent00:02
City expects market to rally after sharp drop00:02
On line for tomorrow00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Wild creature comforts: Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist - by Elspeth Huxley, Faber pounds 17.5000:02
Art Market: The new mandarins: To do good business in Hong Kong, writes Geraldine Norman, Western dealers must learn to satisfy scholars from mainland China00:02
Football: Liverpool on the up00:02
Is this worth all the sneers?: Art vs Popular Ridicule00:02
Television: Never mind reality, just revel in the kitsch: 'Wild Palms' began as a cartoon strip, now it's a mini-series with a major twist. Mary Harron reports from Los Angeles00:02
Best and worst: Rupert lags behind: Equity growth trusts00:02
Letter: A united Ireland is a valid aim00:02
No-claim healthy means wealthy00:02
Rugby Union Round-Up: Neath go marching on00:02
Almanack00:02
Angst: Expert advice on your problems00:02
Reynolds revives Ulster peace hopes00:02
Index00:02
Small-firm finance set for a boost00:02
Bhutto in court00:02
Property: The road to nowhere: Patrick Matthews reports on the development dream that led to a dead end00:02
Paper Wars: There's a battle going on in the bathrooms of Britain. Hester Lacey reports from the campaign trail00:02
Bunhill: Gone bananas?00:02
Racing: Osborne snared by starting tape00:02
Books: In Brief00:02
Road to the great beyond: Tom Peters On Excellence00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Steve Shirley00:02
Home Office forces out foreign dons00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The trouble with the Dizzy heights of power: Disraeli: A Biography by Stanley Weintraub, Hamish Hamilton pounds 2500:02
City: Non-exec is only human00:02
Stalingrad blade blunted by time: The sword Churchill gave Stalin is gathering museum dust00:02
Transformation of the nerds: The modern chessplayer is a sleeker creature than the regressive slob of old. But can a game of such arcane difficulty really be glamorised into a global telly sport?00:02
Small firms discover cheap credit00:02
Air landing systems may be flawed: Crash investigation points to a design fault00:02
Long Runners: No 5: Casualty00:02
Chemical weapons reports anger Iraq00:02
Prince tries TV in his third career move00:02
Captain Moonlight: Garrick shuts out Paxman00:02
Flat Earth00:02
Words00:02
News from Elsewhere: Not as North as we used to think00:02
Getting manufacturers in step with the times00:02
Travel: The best way to Goa: Karaoke in Ye Olde Taj Mahal pub was what Naomi Marks dreaded on her package tour to India's smallest state. She found luxuriant beauty and Portuguese baroque00:02
Minister is 'fuelling Aids panic' in Germany: Health Minister Horst Seehofer has been accused of creating mass panic in order then to present himself as the saviour00:02
Football: Le Tissier crosses the class gap00:02
Italy still on red alert after week of alarms00:02
Football Round-up: Shearer tops Taylor's sick list00:02
Northern Ireland: Why the South changed tune: A dramatic week in Dublin gives new life to Hume-Adams00:02
Team spirit lacks customer focus00:02
Actuaries to test skills as fee-paid advisers00:02
Smith hit over four- day week00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Life's lemon skins: The road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino, trs Tim Parks: Cape pounds 12.9900:02
Georgia troops take last rebel-held town00:02
Major fears VAT defeat00:02
Hounded by the past: De Benedetti warrant was based on old Ambrosiano case00:02
Tennis: Wood claims not-so-grand national title: Julie Welch at Telford sees an encouraging display of British tennis00:02
Gardening: A degree of creative skill: Michael Leapman joins budding students on Britain's first full-time university course in garden design00:02
A success to dwarf his failures: One year on, has Clinton changed anything? Not yet, says Ben Pimlott, but his health plan is genuinely radical00:02
Records00:02
Fashion: Style Notes00:02
Royal Bank reviews brokers as sell-off rumours grow00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A quiff of sex: Tintin in the new world - by Frederic Tuten, Marion Boyars pounds 14.9900:02
Letter: Shelf life00:02
THEATRE / Life lessons from a Mamet's boy00:02
Q & A: C B Fry - renaissance man . . . and scrambling's heady days00:02
Chess00:02
Free phone calls00:02
Serbia tries to rid itself of a turbulent priest: Milosevic fears rebellion led by a 74-year-old Montenegrin00:02
The Art of Theatre: 4 Plants and payoffs: Nicholas Wright's Masterclass00:02
Farewell to the man of steel: Caribbean community mourns Trinidadian whose music charmed the world00:02
Football: Lessons of a hellish night in Istanbul: Richard Williams on how Alex Ferguson's dream went up in smoke00:02
City: Thorn should listen00:02
Real Life: Speaking up for John: Citizen Advocates get things done for those who cannot help themselves. Angela Neustatter reports00:02
Opinions: Is this art: Correction00:02
Captain Moonlight: A touch of old moonshine taints the return of a master00:02
Boxing: The living legends of boxing: Fifteen men still alive - two of whom fought last night - can justly claim to been heavyweight champions of the world. Jonathan Rendall asks how life has treated them00:02
Food & Drink: The cook of Westminster: Rarely seen and seldom heard, cooks can be a dull lot. But Miss Paterson is very, very different. Emily Green meets London's doughty, dizzy grande dame of dinner00:02
Northern Ireland: The Belfast that's not on TV: Steve Boggan finds Ulster's capital a smart, modern city. Yet 25 years of death and terror cannot be hidden easily00:02
Letter: White bean used throughout Spain00:02
Row heard at flat where two were killed00:02
Good-time PEP pill turns into a downer: Some personal equity plans may now be worthless00:02
Get wise, m'lud00:02
Public Services Management: Community response: Local council hopes patrol force will calm fears of residents00:02
Tried and Tested: Have screen, will travel - Which portable computers offer ease of use with performance? our panel decides00:02
Bunhill: Carr's track record00:02
New retail centre00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter savours this week's best buys00:02
Lloyd's trust offers to close00:02
How much does she earn?: No 4: Ros Hepplewhite, chief executive of the Child Support Agency.00:02
Tories to expel NF candidate00:02
Chewed off in Europe00:02
Letter: Tax bequest00:02
Price cuts pay off00:02
British triple murderer plans rights appeal to EC00:02
Database00:02
Staten Island seeks home rule: If the fifth borough secedes from New York City, the republican victory of last week may well be the last00:02
Write-off wreck puts her on the bus00:02
Books: Paperbacks00:02
Books: The Independent on Sunday Bestseller List00:02
Quotes of The Week00:02
Rugby Union: Swansea make their points00:02
First-Hand: 'I know prison doesn't work' - Kathryn George-Harries says, from her experience, Michael Howard is wrong00:02
EXHIBITIONS / A masterly way with millions: The Getty Museum has built an impressive collection of drawings. But it's time it stepped into the modern age00:02
What the papers said about . . . Eric Cantona00:02
ART / Overheard00:02
Arts: Animation: Creatures great and small: Nick Park won an Oscar for 'Creature Comforts'. His new film looks as if it may well repeat that success. Robin Buss visits the animator at his Bristol studio00:02
Show People: Boy wonder of the box: Ben the boffin00:02
Football: Arsenal fall to earth: Wright is on target at last but Townsend's last-minute winner sends Gunners into a tail-spin00:02
Bunhill: Zeneca00:02
Clause and effect of poor building work: Lords rule that former owners can sue contractors00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / The strange case of the Wigmore Hall00:02
Travel: The beat goes on at Big Sur: Lovers of literary gossip are lured to it, thousands make the trip for its physical beauty. Tony Perrottet rides Highway 1 to the West Coast refuge of Miller and Kerouac00:02
'No one listened' over child support: The anger provoked by the system goes back to its roots00:02
Cricket: Boon in poor form for first Test00:02
Bunhill: 'Honest, no-holds-barred' history00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Getting to the hurt of the matter: About time too - by Penelope Mortimer: Weidenfeld pounds 16.9900:02
Food & Drink / A herd of Gastropods: The latest creature to be farmed is the snail. Sue Webster follows the trail to the table00:02
The list00:02
Sailing: America's Cup challenge in jeopardy00:02
Gardening: A Moment's ornament: The urns and statues of classical gardens no longer move us. Mary Keen suggests idiosyncratic alternatives that can be picked up for little or nothing00:02
Personnel: Hidden costs of relocating: moving may cut costs long term, but companies must consider the human angle00:02
Letter: Giving the plot away00:02
Comment: A nation of whingers?00:02
Health: Second Opinion