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Leading Article: Be honest and brave, Mr Major00:02
Rugby Union: Fitzpatrick refutes accusation of racism00:02
Fires investigated00:02
Grenade blast00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: VAT on fuel: This tax is just not fair00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Reputation for honour is under scrutiny: Colin Brown profiles Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland00:02
Rugby Union: Auckland pass test set by Wasps00:02
Rugby Union: Wyllie teases rivals00:02
Football: Spurs loans not repaid00:02
Obituary: Richard Wordsworth00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Letter: County councils too remote from the people00:02
'Granny bond' plan to help pensioners with fuel bills: Clarke expected to announce surprise reduction in public expenditure to limit Budget tax increases to pounds 2- pounds 3bn00:02
Cricket: Kumble rumbles West Indies00:02
Football: Southgate drives Palace up00:02
Racing: Desormeaux so desolate00:02
Sunday Round-Up: The main stories from yesterday's City pages00:02
Shooting arrests00:02
Obituary: Peter Thompson00:02
Coales' Notes: Stand up and be counted00:02
Football / European Round-Up: Koeman at the double00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Cannabis found (CORRECTED)00:02
Football: Deprived Celtic in the grip of winter00:02
Pembroke: House music fails to impress the bank00:02
Football: Ambition of Villa ruined by Fowler: Resurgent Liverpool00:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan clinches: Youngest ever UK champion00:02
Murder linked to bribe scandal00:02
Surveyors uneasy in the spotlight: Tom Stevenson considers the plight of property valuers deeply embarrassed by the Queens Moat Houses debacle00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: The questions Sir Patrick now faces00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: Disability: Let people rule their own lives00:02
Kick Boxing: Saturday night was made for fighting: Kick boxing combines grace and brutality as Britons seek global limelight. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Football Commentary: Newcastle's purists fall to Graham's power play: Arsenal's graft beats craftsmen00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Cubans run away00:02
Shuttle crew to repair damaged telescope00:02
Letter: Monumental art00:02
Sporting Digest: Karate00:02
Letter: Blot on the landscape00:02
Rugby League Round-Up: Davies' dashing score00:02
Windfall likely at LCE00:02
Commodities: Big milkshake brings a sour reaction00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Football: Giggs and Cantona are united in celebration00:02
The eco chamber without the hype: A new 'biosphere' experiment shows that diversity of species is vital, says Sanjida O'Connell00:02
Escobars flee00:02
Shoplifters face detection by built-in metallic tags: Manufacturers to join stores in anti-theft trial00:02
BT faces pounds 30m bill under new Oftel deal00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
Rugby Union: Skinner emphasises exiles' predicament: On the day after England's finest hour an old warhorse sets out on another rampage00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: A severe jolt to the Ulster peace process: The weekend's revelations leave the Unionists - on whose support the Government relies - feeling betrayed, writes David McKittrick00:02
Climbing deaths00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: 'Independent' contributors make their pleas and suggestions to Kenneth Clarke for tomorrow's Budget - Child Care: A benefit that would give parents the choice00:02
Letter: Between services and manufacturing00:02
Birthdays00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: 'Independent' contributors make their pleas and suggestions to Kenneth Clarke for tomorrow's Budget: Transport: Speeding down a road to nowhere00:02
Leading Article: How rugby's structure helps England to win00:02
Boy, 10, tells of part in tramp's murder00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Snow way to treat a kite: All you need is a piece of material, a length of string and a Land Lizard. Emma Cook takes a wind-assisted hellride on Hackney Marshes00:02
Turkey protest00:02
Mountain rescue00:02
Smaller Companies: Man at the top shows his faith in Comac00:02
Football: Francis needs to be wooed00:02
Football: Chairmen's debt to the national side00:02
Obituary: Emma McCune00:02
Church reinforces children's notions of morality: In the wake of criticism that the Church is failing to teach children right from wrong, Jojo Moyes joined pupils at a Sunday school class00:02
A question of science00:02
Obituary: Sir John Inch00:02
Chess: Hartston's number explained00:02
Rugby League: Offiah is off and running: Connolly and Cowie help Wigan pass Oldham00:02
Colliery vote00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: 'Independent' contributors make their pleas and suggestions to Kenneth Clarke for tomorrow's Budget - Nurseries: We can free the funds00:02
DANCE / Rain man: Judith Mackrell reviews an LCDT programme at Sadler's Wells, London00:02
Honduras poll00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: School Meals: A free lunch now will save cash later00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Communications 'go back some years': Mayhew insists he has told truth but Government's credibility hangs on Commons statement today00:02
Football: Howe offers to become England adviser00:02
TELEVISION / Beggars for human kindness can't be choosy00:02
French stamp on grape impostor00:02
Chancellor's task: a Budget to control consumption00:02
Today's Number: 1200:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Revelation 'body blow to Major': Premier's authority damaged by his risky enthusiasm for the 'great prize' of peace in Ulster00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Calculating side of the Prime Minister exposed: Ministers kept in dark about secret contacts were worried by optimism at Number 10, reports Colin Brown00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Obituary: Fr Conrad Pepler00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
Letter: County councils too remote from the people00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: Nuclear Power: Find the energy to go private00:02
Rugby Union: Scent of red herrings helps inspired Cooke to come up smelling of roses: Tim Glover on a glorious afternoon when a clever game-plan worked to perfection00:02
Kazakhstan abandons rouble in favour of national currency: Transition to tenge and tiyn opens way for first IMF deal, writes Hugh Pope in Almaty00:02
Key players in trade talks prepare to cut a deal: Hopes are high that the Gatt Uruguay round will be concluded this week, writes Sarah Lambert in Brussels00:02
Abacha consolidates power in Nigeria: Army purged and cabinet changed in effort to defend economy and avert ethnic conflict00:02
Delors maps out new strategy for EU economy00:02
Schoolgirl missing00:02
Helpline opens after 'infected' dentist dies00:02
Bids invited for national radio slot00:02
Airborne escape00:02
Rugby Union: Wyllie teases rivals00:02
Hamas mourns its greatest martyr: Robert Fisk in Marj al-Zohour, southern Lebanon, hears how a Palestinian came to die for the Islamic 'revolution' in Israel00:02
Inkatha debates00:02
Diary: 29 November - 5 December00:02
Law Report: Case Summaries00:02
Good Questions: Why it's funnier to be tickled by the one you love00:02
Rowing: Carry on No 8, your time as a champion is not yet up: The 45-year-old Andy Ripley was a winner again at the championships that take place away from the water. Hugh Matheson reports00:02
Russians grow uneasy in Kazakhstan: Their republic is not the picture of perfect inter-ethnic harmony Kazakhs like to believe, Hugh Pope reports from Alma-Ata00:02
Hockey: Hacker shows cutting edge00:02
Hope of bigger BCCI payout: Abu Dhabi looks at new options after Luxembourg court ruling deals blow to creditors00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Government and Sinn Fein met daily, says McGuinness00:02
Basketball: Towers feeling the heat00:02
Resolute survivor defies Aids 'terror': Celia Hall meets a courageous patient who has lived with the disease for over six years00:02
Chelsfield to float shares00:02
The even more permissive society: 'Independent' poll shows difficulty of selling welfare state shake-up to the public00:02
Unto Orion a star is born: The constellation is a factory, capable of producing millions of sparklers, say Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
Widow, 84, raped and left trapped in in wardrobe: Detective says intruder's vicious attack was worst she had seen in 18 years' service. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Racing: Home Life00:02
Letter: EU should help its eastern neighbours00:02
The wrong sort to serve in the Navy: In other European countries Brett Burnell would have had no problems, but you can't be a gay British sailor. Simon Garfield reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
The final journey of a working writer: Kevin Jackson embarked on a promotional tour with Anthony Burgess the day after the writer discovered he had terminal cancer. He wishes he hadn't left so much unsaid . . .00:02
Leading Article: Cussed retort to the preachers00:02
The Week Ahead: Losing hope in a last hope00:02
Please, Mr Chancellor, why don't you . . .: Foreign Interests: We must monitor the media in Moscow00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Unionist explains decision to leak paper00:02
Eta killing brings Basque backlash00:02
Carey emphasises shared values Church urges return to values00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Nato seeks understanding with Moscow00:02
Couirt Circular00:02
Dear Mary Whitehouse: A few back-handed compliments from a concerned mother00:02
Rugby Union: 'We got it right. It is incredibly satisfying'00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Categorical denials were carefully worded00:02
Hindus lose00:02
Arafat and Rabin aim for deadline00:02
Celltech chief stands to net pounds 930,000: Share option benifits for head of company not expected to make a profit for four years00:02
View from Tokyo: Bad debts leave little for economy to bank on00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Blow for Kohl as 10 ministers resign00:02
Obituary: Fr Conrad Pepler00:02
Letter: County councils too remote from the people00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Day Out00:02
Obituary: Professor Geoffrey Rose00:02
Rugby Union: Ponty's case for a Big Five00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Contacts welcomed by bomb victim's father00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
Happy Anniversary: Desperate Dan and Charlie Chaplin make their debuts00:02
Football: Dons' uncouth underdogs adopting look of purer breed00:02
Serbs 'will not give up land': On the eve of talks, Karadzic dismisses EU plan and civilians' conditions worsen00:02
Italian Football: Anglo-Dutch axis inspires high-flying Sampdoria again00:02
Hong Kong 'losing patience' as talks fail: Peking and London blame each other after 17 meetings fail to produce agreement00:02
Man is charged with murdering PC Dunne00:02
Out of Japan: Poetic justice for a life blighted by sickness and war00:02
Racing: For the Notebook: A weekly list of horses to follow00:02
Letter: Raising the standard00:02
Sporting Digest: Netball00:02
'Carry On' star dies00:02
Cricket: Kiwis in a spin: Warne enters Test record books00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: IRA leak puts Major on rack: MI6 blamed for 'unauthorised' contacts - Mayhew to publish more documents00:02
Best-Sellers: Top 10 Classic CDs00:02
How England had their finest hour, without even trying00:02
Kurds take over00:02
A teenage prodigy no more: Football's boy wonder turns 20 today. Shielded from the press, Ryan Giggs has developed his prodigious talent. But will he be a man wonder? Jim White reports00:02
QMH rebels seek delay pending new valuation00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
MUSIC / Of old and new: Robert Maycock on the Docklands Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Letter: Where the Church offers the young a moral lead00:02
Three killed in pile-up on A100:02
ARTS / And what's more. . .00:02
Football: Hoddle's principle problems00:02
Families left homeless in dollars 3m San Francisco fire00:02
Letter: No relief from motorway madness00:02
The Worst of Times: Up to my elbows in ice-cream: Chris Rea talks to Danny Danziger00:02
Racing Commentary: Fortt challenges stronghold of the elite: A little-known rider makes the most of a weight allowance and coaxes Cogent to victory in the Hennessy Gold Cup