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Why Wade Smith is Liverpool's rising star: Status-conscious Liverpudlians are swapping football for fashion. Tamsin Blanchard reports00:02
Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
US cardinal accused of sex assault on boy00:02
Ypres, at the going down of the sun: Frank Barrett visits the Flanders fields, where a quarter of a million Allied soldiers lost their lives (CORRECTED)00:02
View from City Road: The brand is dead yet00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Pipin' a stairway to heaven: 'Iced' - Ray Shell: Flamingo, 5.99 pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Rugby League: Undaunted Dewsbury fail to reap their due00:02
Explosives factory turned into 'Doomsday Bomb'00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Classic Thoughts: Bozo peers in love: Jonathan Keates on Trollope mania and Framley Parsonage (1860)00:02
Departures: Danger in Yemen00:02
Mentally ill man killed his father00:02
Gypsy threat00:02
Rugby Union: Scots players pipe up by threatening to pack their bags00:02
The Independent Road Test: Posh, yes, but not a patch on big brother: Roger Bell finds the new Toyota Lexus luxurious and accomplished, but lacking the 'magic carpet serenity' of its elder sibling00:02
Night ferry worry00:02
Mafia link to stolen charity cash: Big slice of Salvation Army's missing millions traced to US businessman 'associated with high-level organised crime figures' and spent on luxury properties in California00:02
The art of security00:02
Letter from Goya brings blush to cheek of experts: Restoration work on masterpieces left unfinished when church is reopened after five years00:02
Boxing: Hide fights his corner00:02
Letter: Trials of a Forties single parent00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hygienic Dr Kellogg gets to their bowls: 'The Road to Wellville' - T Coraghessan Boyle: Granta, 14.99 pounds00:02
Rugby Union: Irish not quite in a rhapsody over Romanians00:02
View from City Road: Pollution could carry a heavy price00:02
I Confess: Fiona Pitt-Kethley, high priestess of erotic poetry, on her passion for Blind Date00:02
Maze prison 'controlled by paramilitaries'00:02
Jail terms for Letelier murder00:02
Football Diary: No hairs apparent for Martin00:02
Parents take legal advice after son falls victim to meningitis-related condition00:02
Lloyd's names seek pounds 900m from insurers00:02
Slush fund cases go to court00:02
Today's Number: 53900:02
Letter: Trials of a Forties single parent00:02
Rugby League: Offiah and Edwards left out after Regal rebuke: Wigan back Dorahy's decision to drop stars00:02
DOUBLE PLAY / Staring into the dark: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson seek out the strengths of Samson in a new recording00:02
Consumer guide to investment trusts00:02
Inmate found dead00:02
Bulger trial boy blames his friend: Jury hears police interview tapes00:02
Voice from grave airs a Kurdish solution: Ozal letter published advocating forced migration to defeat PKK00:02
Fatah blow to accord00:02
Two children die in outbreak of blood poisoning: Parents warned to be on alert for symptoms00:02
British manufacturers pick up production00:02
Trade figures 'too good to be true'00:02
Hospital accused of losing pounds 300,000 (CORRECTED)00:02
Tory 'double tax whammy': Labour warns of two increases, Vivien Goldsmith reports00:02
Letter: Trials of a Forties single parent00:02
The Way I Was: I wanted a twin brother so I dreamt one up: Sara Crowe tells Nicholas Roe how a childhood 'pretend' game took on a life of its own00:02
Obituary: Gerald Thomas00:02
Warm rain with rum and coke: The new Caribbean package destinations of San Andres and Providencia are affordable, eccentric and Colombian, says Simon Calder00:02
Quotes of the Week: Sport00:02
A Budget beater00:02
Football: Wily campaigner prepares for his last battle: On Wednesday, two tribes clash in Belfast, the USA at stake for one. Clive White lobbies the outgoing Billy Bingham, Northern Ireland's long-serving manager00:02
Going Out: Party pieces: Children needn't yawn their way through Bach and Strauss. Alexandra Buxton reports on fancy-dress classical music00:02
Hopes rise for Guatemala peace00:02
The Location Hunters: Tracking stars to the east: In the first of a series, Jim White, location scout, goes behind the plywood and breeze-block set of television's EastEnders to reveal the fabric of the real East End of London00:02
Letter: Baptising the stillborn00:02
TELEVISION / Another season, the latest supermodels00:02
Freight barge being restored00:02
Saturday Night: Laughter fell around me like icy rain00:02
Mitsubishi buys into North Sea oil sector00:02
Dressed down00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Anniversaries00:02
AND WHAT'S MORE ..00:02
NF triumphant over 'remarkable' result00:02
Mayor quits00:02
Puerto Rico votes on status00:02
Preparing for Diwali00:02
Lorry driver freed00:02
Football: United fans take their case to Major: Uefa inquiry into Turkish security continues as six English fans still languish in jail while Manchester's magician gets off lightly00:02
Regrets for many women over first sexual experience: Ian MacKinnon reports on the findings of a new survey into people's love lives00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Racing: Dettori dismisses drugs ban in Japan00:02
Pope at home00:02
Lone mothers and family breakdown to blame for errant children00:02
William Donaldson's Week: A novel of the right class00:02
Property: The manor is reborn: Wealthy buyers are rediscovering the advantages, financial and social, of owning an estate, says Anne Spackman00:02
Thrum to the melodies of art: Anthony Quinn talks to the Pulitzer Prize-winner, Robert Olen Butler00:02
Libya 'regrets' UN embargo00:02
Cricket: Wayward Australia cave in to Cairns: Taylor tinkers but Kiwi seam quartet is too harmonious for fellow specialists00:02
Top 20 Resorts: Champery00:02
Workforce in two minds over innovative deal00:02
Service appointments00:02
THEATRE / The story of a crazy mixed up kid: Paul Taylor reviews English Touring Theatre's Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse00:02
Getting to grips with the mysteries of Pibs: Buyers should be sure what they are getting, says Christine Stopp00:02
Capitalising on recovery00:02
Letter: Coach speed limiters00:02
Obituary: A. N. Sherwin-White00:02
Journalists to be bound by industry code of practice: 'Intrusions into private life not acceptable'00:02
Cruelty case care staff sentenced00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Football: Buzaglo buzzing again as Marlow shake spears00:02
Bonn boosts HIV checks00:02
After the hot hatch, the pukka sports car00:02
Recommended Books00:02
Cuttings: A book to grow with00:02
Serbs put new pressure on Muslim 'safe areas': Robert Block reports on attempts to drive minorities from eastern Bosnia00:02
Appointments00:02
Lilliput's market plans start to spin00:02
Money Grouse: A direct line to knowledge00:02
Landmarks: Manchester00:02
New Jersey election inquiry00:02
Dangerous freight switches to roads: Correction00:02
Laura's parents say she did not suffer: Transplant girl 'just closed her eyes' as machine was turned off00:02
Letter: Dishonest punishment00:02
Rugby Union: Hookers opening for real business00:02
Birthdays00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Letter: The Turner needs more than slick quotations in rice00:02
Squash: Jahangir emerges as a diplomat: Welsh referee accused of racism after English player's victory00:02
Sea dumping of radioactive waste banned: Britain abstains in vote by 42 nations00:02
'Merv Hughes' goes to Italy: Geoff Merrill, Australian winemaker, tosses down a few bouncers at Italian producers. Anthony Rose keeps score00:02
'God' charged00:02
Wills00:02
Clinton offers aid to Israel00:02
Last chance at Lloyd's00:02
Reading Matters: Life on the naked page00:02
'President's man' dies at 6700:02
Gastropod00:02
18 arrested in Falcone murder investigation: Italian judges reconstruct last moments of anti-Mafia crusader00:02
Pakistani race for presidency00:02
British Coal set to close 'reprieved' Frickley00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Upbeat: CODA00:02
Obituary: Leon Theremin00:02
Heart Searching: Your husband assured in the great outdoors: Cathy Aitchison brings up the rear when she spends a bonfire weekend at a youth hostel in Devon00:02
Leading Article: State is a failure in loco parentis00:02
Tailor-made insurance00:02
Departures: Brochure waste00:02
Short shrift for short contracts: Fixed-term jobs can cause mortgage problems, writes Sue Fieldman00:02
Snooker: Snooker buffs tested on eight times table as UK Championships open in Preston00:02
Ealing rape judge admits 'blemish'00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Under the eyes of the Gorgon: 'Riders Before the Dawn' - Albert H Friedlander: Constable, 18.95 pounds00:02
Cocom goes00:02
Recipe: Hot pie to keep you dry00:02
Letter: The Turner needs more than slick quotations in rice00:02
Pets Corner00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Words fly as old rivals do battle in the market: Robert Fisk reports from Dubai where the US and Russia are trying to sell their jet fighters00:02
Auctions00:02
Obituary: Basoeki Abdullah00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Only El-Jet 2 car in Britain00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Obituary: Sir Derek Jakeway00:02
Profile: Is that the world at her feet?: Emma Thompson, British actress par excellence00:02
Tamils resist relief attempt00:02
Berlin memorial 'blurs horror of Holocaust'00:02
Blacks more likely to be detained in hospitals00:02
Show goes on00:02
BOOK REVIEW / When Irene met Tommaso: 'The Young Italians' - Amanda Prantera: Bloomsbury, 15.99 pounds00:02
Nissan forced to cut jobs at Sunderland: Car maker delivers fresh blow to North-east while Swan Hunter's receivers make fresh redundancies00:02
Guards take the strain in Vitez: Christopher Bellamy meets the Coldstream Guards in Vitez00:02
Racing: Pershing to cruise home in Mackeson: Improving chaser has the weight advantage in the first big race of the National Hunt season00:02
World of listeners00:02
Golf: Couples drops in unexpectedly on his pursuers: Montgomerie queers Scotland's pitch as United States gain halfway lead by putting Zimbabweans to flight00:02
'Lost' patient died waiting at hospital00:02
Bupa takes cover off invalid claims: Sue Fieldman on why insurers reject thousands of calls for payment of medical bills00:02
Country Matters: Forgive us our trespasses00:02
Departures: Scandinavia deals00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Departures: Trust cottages00:02
Politicians slug it out over the causes of juvenile crime00:02
Tobacco men jailed00:02
EU backs seat-belt law00:02
Patten announces A-level changes: Reforms aim to 'preserve and strengthen' exams00:02
Sailing: Dickson aims to make 60s swing: The crews depart from Uruguay today on the daunting second leg to Fremantle through the Southern Ocean. Stuart Alexander reports00:02
ROCK / Pete and Ted's excellent adventure: Pete Townshend, a milder, older Pete Townshend, has been working on a children's rock musical with the poet laureate Ted Hughes. Kevin Jackson reports00:02
Taxing question00:02
Dealing at a distance00:02
Great beer for festive cheer: Michael Jackson has put together a peerless selection of Christmas tipples. Treat yourself to this fabulous gift box, or send one to a friend00:02
Football: Quinn all set to rally the old Republic: On Wednesday, two tribes clash in Belfast, the USA at stake for one. Joe Lovejoy meets a relaxed Republican elder00:02
Letter: The Turner needs more than slick quotations in rice00:02
Letter: Wings over Orly00:02
Don't just take a flier: Getting to your favourite European ski resort is too often an ordeal. Chris Gill suggests alternatives to lessen the pain00:02
Hockey: Havant more than happy to be home for the weekend: Domestic bliss for league's big boys as juniors prepare to challenge them in the third round of the HA Cup tomorrow00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
QC says Levitt faked invoices00:02
Henry Moore's bronze sculpture Two Place Reclining Figure No 500:02
Obituary: Stanley Myers00:02
Guide offers glimpse of transvestites' world: Marianne Macdonald reports on a new book advising cross-dressers on 'TV-friendly' shops, pubs and restaurants00:02
Nato seeks to bring France into the fold: Plan to combine alliance and non-alliance forces00:02
Property: Rises point to a festive season00:02
Tennis: Becker's cause is aided by Pioline00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Rowing monk now leads abbey crew: Richard North witnesses a rare investiture as a former pupil and headmaster of a monastery school becomes an abbot00:02
Weightlifting: Ivanov carries off title: Bulgarian lifts crown again00:02
Stanhope calls meeting after net assets plunge: Troubled property developer examines options for boosting balance sheet00:02
Appetite has become a fashion victim00:02
Joyriders used radio scanner to ram police00:02
Midland Visa goes for gold00:02
Fields by Mondrian, cut and dried: Parts of the Kent countryside are newly cultivated in a colourful array of hops, grasses and exotic flowers. Anna Pavord meets a couple reaping the benefits00:02
A date for dinner: Pandora Melly enjoys a tete-a-tete00:02
Race case students to resit exams00:02
Investors swarm to Finsbury Lloyd's trust00:02
Upbeat: Russian friends00:02
Cleared of rape00:02
New entry in ethical market00:02
Somalis accuse UN of causing casualties and then refusing to help them00:02
Rebel Tory MP postpones decision on resignation00:02
Tool Box: Big help for little gardeners00:02
Banks reduce their stake as German stores merge00:02
OPERA / The pictures are better: Is the best Wagner staging the one in your mind's eye? Bayan Northcott reflects on changing perceptions of opera00:02
Football: Cantona escapes but club are fined00:02
Seeking the top school quiz team00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Candid Caller00:02
View from City Road: Rosy trade figures hide a thornier reality00:02
Market Report: Rolls aero shares fly high as horizon brightens00:02
Enjoy the freedom of Liberty: Join us for an exclusive evening of entertaining, crowd-free Christmas shopping at Liberty stores00:02
Supasnaps boosts Sketchley: Recession in South-east bites into dry cleaning profits00:02
Kidnap hearing draws blank00:02
Reports of Queen Mother's death exaggerated00:02
Drink-driver jailed00:02
Tweedie dies00:02
Cuttings: Mail-order reforms00:02
Liberty's 6.4% fix00:02
BES firms push up exit prices before they are shown the door: Investors can choose from a bewildering array of schemes with tempting terms. Alison Eadie reports00:02
Investigation into Nadir 'bribes' memo launched: Accountants' institute examines evidence00:02
Scottish Football: McCoist back in the pack00:02
1.2m pounds for teenager damaged at birth00:02
Motor Racing: Argentina venue may switch00:02
DTI investigates Queens Moat00:02
Laugh more and serve less: A valued chef who knows about good local ingredients has turned up in Norfolk, but Emily Green could not do justice to his five-course menu00:02
Clapham mourns a good copper00:02
Travel companions00:02
Sport on TV: BBC switched on: Budget rising to pounds 90m next year00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The verbal tulip fields round Bonn: Godfrey Hodgson explores a big, timely and authoritative portrait of modern Germany. 'In Europe's Name' - Timothy Garton Ash: Jonathan Cape, 25 pounds00:02
FA off to fantasy land for a game of two halves: Rhys Williams reports on the office craze for imaginary football teams00:02
Swimming: New wave get their heads down for the kill as Gateshead pools the sprint talent00:02
China opens up00:02
Upbeat: Max factor00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Tree campaigners lose at High Court00:02
Letter: US best-sellers00:02
Tennis: Bond produces the goods00:02
Aids research charges dropped00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Blackballed and proud of it00:02
Hit-and-run driver jailed for 10 years: Banned motorist 'dragged body 100 yards'00:02
Obituary: Freda Corbet00:02
Sporting Digest: Weightlifting00:02
Chinese scramble for private school places: Capitalist roaders are buying a fast-lane education for their children, writes Teresa Poole in Peking00:02
Azlan surges to the market00:02
Irish wolf in sheep's clothing?00:02
Lagos braced for strikes00:02
MUSIC / Colours to catch the ear: David Fanning on Stravinsky at the Halle and the BBC Philharmonic's Judith Bingham premiere00:02
Rugby Union: Bunce blessed with a good sense of balance: Martin Johnson meets one All Black centre not about to complain at the rough and tumble that is all part of the game00:02
Obituary: Jill Tweedie