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James Bulger: The death of innocence00:02
GEC's offer endorsed: Takeover Panel thwarts Ferranti shareholders00:02
Cricket: Boon stays in tune as Slater canes Kiwis00:02
UN can monitor Iraq's arms00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Sierra Leone to hold elections00:02
Obituary: Professor Geoffrey Holmes00:02
Property: Notting Hill hit by upwardly mobile prices00:02
Cricket: Pringle retires to the press box00:02
Travel: Ferry speeds00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Money Grouse: Lesson for a mature student00:02
Travel: Training for the slopes: Chris Gill points out that many skiing destinations are nearerrailwaystations than airports00:02
Rugby Union: England display a rare uncertainty: Unfamiliarity has bred apprehension and given tourists a head start in today's Test. Steve Bale reports00:02
Obituary: Professor Nathan Rotenstreich00:02
Football: Labour-Tory coalition toppled by the power of the press: MPs were attacked from right and left wing last week. Colin Brown, Chief Political Correspondent, reports00:02
British troops strive to keep Bosnia aid lifeline open: Ceasefire accord and radio control of convoys are crucial to flow of traffic00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Motoring: Small things come in good packages: John Simister finds the new Seat Ibiza good fun and ideal for people with hats, but not as roomy as it pretends00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Police unit investigates terrorists' blackmail00:02
Council tax deadline nears00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Guests of The Guinness Book of Records walk tall and look the world right in the eye yesterday00:02
Girls bailed00:02
Travel Departures: Late packages00:02
Investors in QMH seek details of valuations00:02
City favourite00:02
BOOKS / Bless thee Burgess, thou art translated: Anthony Burgess died this week. In a recent lecture he reflected on the uneasy world of the translator00:02
And what's more ..00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
US diplomat abducted00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Today's Number: 5700:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Books for Christmas00:02
Letter: Third party right of appeal in public interest00:02
Lonhro finances Lockerbie film00:02
Rugby Union: McIntosh puts Neath to test: Robert Cole on this afternoon's Heineken League matches00:02
Israelis may delay Gaza withdrawal00:02
Greek outburst enrages Germans00:02
Appointments00:02
Travel Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Appeals: The Scoliosis Research Trust00:02
Snooker: Hendry finds top gear00:02
Heart Searching: Picking up the pieces: Bringing up a child alone? Gingerbread aims to offer one-parent families friendship, help and advice, says Cathy Aitchison00:02
Fog pile-ups00:02
Football: Butcher sacked by Sunderland00:02
Travel: Hamster revival00:02
Football: Neal faces fiery baptism at home: Phil Shaw reports on the weekend's programme as the following pack try to rein in Manchester United00:02
Flu outbreak peaks00:02
Travel Departures: Rocky fare00:02
Today's Number: Rugby League: France looking up00:02
Landseer for sale00:02
Market Report: Bulls boosted by futures buying00:02
Learmonth crashes on results00:02
Racing: Black to brighten Brooks's day: Hennessy hope can underline his place in trainer's good books. Richard Edmondson reports00:02
Inquiry extension00:02
Royal train sale00:02
Travel Departures: Phone war00:02
Moos tested00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
View from City Road: New era for oil prices00:02
Christmas quackers: Sarah Hemming on the politically correct Ugly Duckling00:02
A camp on the safe side of death and despair: In the tales of loss and exile in Sierra Leone's civil war, Richard Dowden discovers refugees have not lost hope00:02
Muslim militants held00:02
Stagecoach acquires Western00:02
Adults must report truants, Patten says00:02
Travel: Horsepower in the high Sierras: Rose Rouse, self-confessed amateur rider, got more than she bargained for on holiday in the Andalucian mountains00:02
Iron Age settlement found on mud flats00:02
Auctions00:02
Travel Departures: Kenya warning00:02
Teenagers get pounds 5 a week pocket money and earn pounds 20, survey shows00:02
Card conservation00:02
How high charges eat into pensions: Some of the best known firms take the biggest bites. Nic Cicutti reports00:02
Hong Kong talks on brink of collapse: Only UK climbdown or Chinese concession can avert deadlock00:02
Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva00:02
Politicians warned by Yeltsin00:02
Squash: England face semi-final showdown00:02
Police launch tear-gas attack on youths rioting over education in south-west France00:02
Food & Drink: A castle built in the air: Emily Green discovers that the Castle Hotel offers an excellent wine list, but does not have a menu to match it00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Kohl's man goes, but his troubles stay: German coalition partners may reject new presidential candidate00:02
Birthdays00:02
Debtline gains extra funding00:02
Church appointments00:02
Desperate gun00:02
BM Group dives pounds 120m into red: Chief executive resigns as acquisitions are blamed for engineering company's plight00:02
'Officer's killers used Irish battle cry': Army wife tells court of husband's shooting00:02
Beware: disruptive forces at work: Glenys Kinnock sounds a warning on South Africa00:02
Jail for hotel owner00:02
The games people played: What am I bid for this Zork? John Windsor reports on the arrival of the Eighties in the London salerooms00:02
Travel: Parking problems00:02
Latvia law will restrict Russians00:02
Nationwide cuts fast00:02
Pioneering dental insurer falls to PPP00:02
Vacancy in shark tank00:02
Obituary: Albert Collins00:02
Letter: Jewel of the ginkgo00:02
DISCS / Double Play: Just like the real thing: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson on young soloists00:02
Sailing / Whitbread Round The World Race: Rising to the challenge of rolling swells: Grant Dalton, leading skipper in the Round the World Race, who is writing for the Independent, on the perils of the Southern Ocean00:02
Rising rates on offer00:02
Paramount set to appeal court's takeover decision00:02
Letter: From Ms Valerie Wilson Trower00:02
Tunnel builders fined pounds 200,00000:02
THEATRE / Tales from the junkyard: Paul Taylor and Edward Seckerson double-take on Pete Townshend's The Iron Man00:02
Pardon for Greek minister00:02
Poll boost00:02
Muted choir sings Ding Dong Warily on High00:02
Wills00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Former mayor of Nice arrested in Uruguay00:02
Children charged in murder00:02
Letter: Research doesn't just scratch the surface00:02
EU restores aid to Malawi00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Rugby Ubion / Twickenham Focus: Boy wonder shrugs off the great expectations: After a dazzling international debut last week, Jeff Wilson faces England today. Steve Bale found him ominously calm00:02
Gay victims of crime too worried to tell police: 'Tremendous anxiety' remains over officers' attitude to sexuality00:02
Cricketer cleared of regatta rape: Freed man attacks false allegations00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Travel Departures: Tropical deals00:02
Angola peace hopes lifted00:02
Sport: The Week in Review00:02
View from City Road: German flexibility00:02
Gardening: A rose by any other name just won't do: Anna Pavord finds some exquisite French bloomers, but has trouble tracing the same varieties to plant in Britain00:02
Fidelity gives choice of funds00:02
Food & Drink: Eat up your coffee00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tatty genes, and the grace of God: Scientists only interpret the world . . . the point is to change it. Tom Wilkie on a modern religion: The Doctrine of DNA - R C Lewontin: Penguin, pounds 5.9900:02
Smart but not so sweet: Bayan Northcott wonders why newly invented instruments have hardly ever succeeded in establishing themselves in Western music00:02
Keating row escalates00:02
Mafia 'maxi-trial' opens00:02
Oh, for Graham Taylor00:02
: Letter: More time for 'House'00:02
Mastercard for regular borrowers00:02
Food & Drink: I'm game, every once in a while: A young, female pheasant is the occasional luxury whose time has come again00:02
THEATRE / Safe as houses: The Master Builder; Bondagers - Edinburgh00:02
Three jailed for forcing girls into prostitution00:02
COMEDY / Past master: Mark Wareham listens to Nick Revell at Hampstead Theatre00:02
Sailing / Whitbread Round The World Race: Smith on the charge00:02
Travel: Lime chaser00:02
Tube engineers seek aid worldwide to solve fault00:02
View from City Road: Revolting shareholders00:02
Obituary: Anthony Burgess00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Calls to the Bar: Lincoln's Inn00:02
Pounds 173,000 for pregnant officer fired by RAF: Tribunal awards record damages to former servicewoman. Steve Boggan reports00:02
Daring the Alp: Northern Sinfonia - City Hall, Newcastle00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Faith and Reason: Maybe a trick, but it is still a treat: John Cornwell, the author of Strange Gods, observes the annual liquefaction of the blood of St Januarius, a miracle which, the faithful believe, preserves Naples from catastrophe.00:02
: Letter: Of God and duty00:02
Pulling strings: Nick Kimberley on Welsh National Opera's Cendrillon00:02
'Grande dame' of fashion leaves West End kingdom: Restructuring at London's 'in' store sees departure of influential buyer. Kate Constable reports00:02
View from City Road: Levitt sentence weakens regulators00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Travel / The Things I've Seen: The Solway Junction Railway00:02
I Confess: The playwright Martin Sherman on Edna Ferber00:02
Local heroes: A quiet Devonshire village has been gripped by panto fever. Roberta Mock relives her am-dram directorial debut00:02
Rating agency confident on societies' credit outlook00:02
Basketball: Nottage keeps up appearances: Kings release Henlan00:02
N&P explains the Budget00:02
Court Circular00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Cauliflower success00:02
Football Team News00:02
Customs warned by DTI of 'flaw'in Matrix case00:02
Appeals: Church Appeals00:02
Out of South Africa: High anxiety as blacks go to market00:02
Burnfield shaken by profits warning00:02
Bell takes on British Gas in interruptible market00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Lightweight cutting power00:02
Rushdie meeting hits Clinton00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Great is Diana on 'er grammar00:02
Leading Article: An indictment of fractured Britain00:02
TELEVISION / Holiday adventures with Gameshow Man00:02
'Wait and see' lenders slow to follow up on base rate cut: New borrowers first to benefit. Vivien Goldsmith investigates00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Property: Why it pays to pay the rent: Buying is cheaper, but an increasing number of people feel happier being tenants, says Anne Spackman00:02
Housebuyers drawn into schools' magnetic fields: Homes in a favoured school's catchment area attract premiums, David Lawson reports00:02
Officer run over00:02
Cheap 'gorefest' videos have mellowed with age: Low-budget horror films that never enter a cinema appear less explicit than in the past, writes John Lyttle00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Gunmen 'beat Turkish trader': Businessmen face extortion threats from a terror group. Asli Aydintasbas reports00:02
General strike shuts Belgium00:02
French politician denies trying to murder rival00:02
Profile: A time to dance back to Cumbria?: Melvyn Bragg, cultural supremo in a crisis00:02
Service appointments00:02
Cheap car insurance00:02
City at risk from clean-up: European moves to combat drug money laundering could force business out of London. John Willcock reports00:02
Travel Departures: Santa special00:02
Special Gatt meeting in sight00:02
Basque officer dies in shooting00:02
Britannia Royal Naval College00:02
Bourne End buys two firms00:02
Brooke rebukes Arts Council00:02
Hockey: In-form Gymkhana may stretch leaders: Southgate's stiff work-out00:02
Married priests 'no problem to Vatican': Doctrine could be side-stepped if Anglicans join Catholic Church00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Air Europe creditors to get 5.35p in pound00:02
Cricket: Consolidation follows last year's revolution: The 1994 county fixtures were announced this week. Rob Steen looks forward to a season which will see South Africa return to England00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Engineering Council00:02
Murder charges00:02
Lamont ready for Budget00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Tree week events00:02
Mother who broke baby's legs is freed00:02
Appeals: Old Chiswick Protection Society00:02
Supporters of hunt escape jail for attacks00:02
More time for Clunis inquiry00:02
VW heads for pounds 800m loss: Disastrous performance at Seat and restructuring costs to dominate results00:02
Letter: Rivera was right00:02
Football: Spurs statementon Ardiles00:02
Molyneaux says Ulster developments imminent00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
The Way I Was: My cul-de-sac of happiness: Status Quo's Rick Parfitt tells Nicholas Roe how he still returns to his childhood haunts00:02
Poll boost for Japan's PM00:02
USM quote for On Demand00:02
Rugby League: Halifax drawn back by Prescott: Saints held00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Bonn bans Kurdish party00:02
Travel Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
RugbyLeague: Fox back on run: Hanley returns00:02
Saudis move to take over critical Arab press: Now you see it . . . prince's newspaper makes sure that leaders' wives lose their taste for wine00:02
Country Matters: Talking turkey, free-range style00:02
Euro Disney shares face Bourse inquiry00:02
City fraudster escapes prison00:02
Taylor backs judge in Nikki Allen case00:02
The fatal longing of Phuoc Ky Ennals: Rescued from Vietnam and given a loving home, he so wanted to become a real British soldier. But at 21 the young rifleman turned his gun on himself. Sandra Barwick reports00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Medical insurer increases rates00:02
Hospitals 'must close to cut hours'00:02
Scottish Football: Durie set to make Rangers debut00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Travel: Ypres, at the going down ofthe sun: Correction00:02
Obituary: Sidney Griller00:02
Racing: Montelado deleted00:02
Maclean tries to heal rift with Church on right and wrong00:02
Russians grapple with changing broadcast news: Old habits die hard as journalists, government officials and party candidates battle to manipulate the media as independent channels emerge00:02
Football Diary: Fans' United stand00:02
Food & Drink: The great festive wine guide: Party wines, table wines, pudding wines and bubbly . . . Anthony Rose selects the best-value Christmas buys00:02
Racing: Reid drawn wide: White Muzzle's rider plans a late swoop, reports Joel Else00:02
DANCE / Throwing everything up in the air: So what's all this then? Richard Alston is back at the company he walked out on 21 years ago? Yes, says Judith Mackrell, and no00:02
Saturday Night: From Mike's flat to a parallel universe00:02
Mercury trust invests in miners00:02
BOOK REVIEW / We're all Bose-Einstein condensates now: Peter Forbes explores an abstract, mechanical attempt to prove that we are living in a dream world: The Quantum Society -Danah Zohar & Ian Marshall: Bloomsbury, pounds 14.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / The genesis of fear: The engineer in the garden - Colin Tudge: Jonathan Cape, pounds 17.9900:02
Official bribed00:02
Rugby Union / Twickenham Focus: New boy proves a cut above: De Glanville scarred but not scared. Tim Glover on the England player who goes places others would not go00:02
Collector claims pounds 22,000 Turkish helmet was fake: Dalya Alberge reports on the case of a 16th-century artefact alleged to be 'new'00:02
Mediator says EU decisions on Serbia 'could help'00:02
Travel / The Location Hunters: Morsels of fact and crime fiction: An Inspector calls . . . at a lot of Oxford pubs. Michael Leapman treads the operatic beat of a television detective00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Travel: Seen Rex? He's a Kiwi. He's drunk: Simon Cunliffe weaves down lager-soaked nostalgia lane at Munich's Oktoberfest, 15 years late for an appointment00:02
Glad tidings in a global market00:02
Nato keen on new members00:02
BT to cut charges on some local calls in rural areas00:02
Letter: The Bulger killing: Church teachingson evil; fears of the British public; family failings00:02
Drug smuggler beheaded00:02
Looking at presents in the longer term: Nic Cicutti examines how parents can set aside a nest-egg00:02
Hospitals to levy 'hotel charges': Prime Minister adds his authority to restructuring of 'unsustainable' welfare state00:02
Football: Lyall rules himself out of England reckoning: Ipswich general manager rejects overtures from FA - Surgeon confirms Mabbutt has fractured skull00:02
Joe Komodo's natural urges: Tamsin Blanchard follows the trail of a globe-trotting clothes designer and, below, we visit a market for fair-priced ethnic goods