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Letter: Theatre is blooming, but television could lend a hand00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
All the trimmings00:02
Tax deals for stately homes under attack: MPs question secrecy surrounding public access agreements00:02
Bodies found00:02
Europe's leaders haggle to the end00:02
Killer driver's sentence could go to appeal court00:02
View from City Road: Darkness in the power industry00:02
INTERVIEW / The only script, the only writer: The writer Mary Agnes Donoghue talks to Sabine Durrant about Hollywood, French and Saunders, herself and Mamie O'Rourke00:02
Don't ask, just do as you're told: Frances Crook deplores the Government's policy of legislation without consultation00:02
Electricity firms keep high dividends coming00:02
Cricket Books for Christmas: Harte's radical review of game: Derek Hodgson on historic legends and cricket controversies00:02
Inside File: Oslo baffled by Arafat's flight of fancy00:02
Leading Article: The realistic path to peace00:02
MUSIC / Choice pickings: Robert Maycock comes across educational pleasures in odd places00:02
Falklands plea00:02
China favourite for investors as foreign capital pours in00:02
Letter: Russians need true socialist alternative00:02
Sports Letters: Song of the Canary00:02
Gore calls Zhirinovsky an enemy of freedom: Yeltsin hopes to shape pro-reform coalition - Intelligentsia stands aloof - Comforting words fail to allay Turkish alarm00:02
Last exiles return from Lebanon: PLO chief insists that delay in Israeli troop pull-out will not be repeated00:02
Leading Article: Last of light sentences for drink-drive deaths?00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Football: Brady is surprise Brighton manager00:02
Charles Dickens' manuscript on display00:02
Mercedes opts to build new city cars in Germany00:02
Cricket: Yorkshire join chase for Schultz00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Initiative unites the sceptics on both sides of divide: West Belfast00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Nationalists must decide if time is right to end violence00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Early morning drams and elbow nips: 'Whisky' - Gavin D Smith: Carcanet, 14.95 pounds00:02
ROCK / Gig guide00:02
Sailing: Compensation puts Winston into second: Protests over jury's award00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Solemn commitment on road to peace: This is the full text of yesterday's declaration from Downing Street00:02
View from City Road: The Bank may have to bow to its break-up00:02
A decent deed worthy of celebration00:02
The Daily Poem: The Trouble with Geraniums00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Chronology00:02
Bottom Line: Kunick in winning form00:02
Arts Council backtracks over orchestra funding: Anger at Philharmonia as music panel's advice is ignored00:02
SFO braces for court reverse in BCCI case00:02
Steps to project's go-ahead: Sellafield00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Jury refuses new hearing on King murder00:02
Golf: Big prizes but no Price in paradise: The world's best have not all fallen for the attractions of the Johnnie Walker World Championship00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Arafat misses history in making: The Scene in Downing Street00:02
ROCK / Riffs: The singer and songwriter Nick Heyward on 'She's Leaving Home' by the Beatles00:02
Flat death00:02
Lockerbie claim00:02
Racing: Star slides after hiccup00:02
View from City Road: ASB stands firm in wonderland00:02
Actor's friends 'in drunken high jinks'00:02
ROCK / Summers' seasons: In an occasional series on the men who manage, Simon Napier-Bell talks to Jazz Summers, with whom he once launched Wham]00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Most confessions made immediately after arrest: The British Psychological Society's conference in London00:02
Dorling price slides after profits warning: MD departs as analysts downgrade forecasts00:02
Cricket: Bicknell breaks down: Easy win for England's A team00:02
Bottom Line: Clean sweep at Pentos00:02
Dear Professor Stewart Sutherland: You could do better, especially on homework, a parent tells the Chief Inspector of Schools00:02
Sports Letters: Make penalty fit the crime00:02
Inmate escapes00:02
Today's Number: 2000:02
Lending succour to the IRA: Dublin and London have agreed before. And only the gunmen have benefited, warns Conor Cruise O'Brien00:02
Football: Pele doubtful for World Cup00:02
Letter: Knickers to all that00:02
ROCK REVIEW / Verse, chorus, soft bit, false ending, chorus: As the song says: 'There's always something magic; that's when rock'n'roll dreams come true.' Jim White works his way through a generous portion of Meat Loaf at Wembley Arena00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Kerkorian gambles dollars 1bn on a grand design in the desert: Despite fierce competition in Las Vegas and across the US, the world's biggest casino complex will open on Saturday. Phil Reeves reports00:02
Amber Day pounds 15m equity issue tipped00:02
Letter: Christ was born seven years early00:02
Fashion: No sweater is an island: The traditional aran fisherman's jumper has been trawled for haute couture. Tamsin Blanchard investigates00:02
Letter: Theatre is blooming, but television could lend a hand00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Christmas toys at Hamleys00:02
Birthdays00:02
Bridge: A fresh approach00:02
Obituary: Roland Davies00:02
Here Today00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Rugby Union: Bath plan ahead and face Wasps cup tie without Hill: Former England captain's club career drawing to a close - Anglo-Welsh contest back on agenda00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Victims' families wary: The Bereaved00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Inflation under control, says Clarke: Chancellor hails 'spectacular' fall to 26-year low but gives no clue on his future interest rate policy00:02
Nanny tells of finding three dead00:02
Letter: Who's angry? Yes, Hell is here on earth00:02
Football: Webb's late wonders sink unsettled City: Forest thrive on composure and creativity00:02
Liechtenstein's choice00:02
Education: Schools Inc takes charge: Lucy Hodges reports on a US city's radical attempt to place its whole education system in private hands00:02
The gavel descends and Gatt becomes history: It's 'sayonara' to Uruguay Round and hello to World Trade Organisation00:02
Santa shot00:02
Letter: Funding lags behind university growth00:02
Rowing: Testing time in the Tideway as last year's Boat Race losers battle against the elements in preparation for this year's race00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Reynolds optimistic over loyalist ceasefire: The Dail00:02
And what's more ..00:02
British troops head for Srebrenica00:02
Higher Education: The first lesson: how to learn: Many students need courses in essay-writing and exam skills, says Stephen Pritchard00:02
Bosnia Appeal: Give a little, help a lot: Readers donate more than pounds 40,000 in a week00:02
HK row enters a new phase00:02
Three Capital stations join GWR stable00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Major confronts Unionist wrath: The House of Commons00:02
Soul mining: Glyn Marshall's grandfather died 46 years ago. Now the artist recreates the rigours of his life in the pits. Dominic Cavendish met him00:02
Forces warned over drinking00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Nissan UK wins battle against liquidation00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Plant set to make Britain main plutonium producer: Tom Wilkie looks at the prospects for Sellafield when operations begin in two months after years of delay00:02
Our industries must pass the Taiwan test00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools Dividends00:02
ROCK ALBUMS / Back-street strolling: Andy Gill on tributes to Don Covay and John Cage, and the latest from a modest Michael Penn and lukewarm Art Garfunkel00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Loyalists scrutinise text to see what lies between lines00:02
Table Tennis: England rescued by Holt00:02
Mother freed00:02
Football / FA Cup: Cotterill scuppers Nuneaton's plans00:02
BT strike vote00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Review of broadcasting ban00:02
The Ulster Declaration: 'If any of them fail to take up this chance they will never be forgiven': Ulster declaration by Major and Reynolds opens the door for the IRA to end the bloodshed and join the peace process00:02
Murders in Algeria00:02
ROCK / The Lounge Lizards and other animals: John Lurie, master of the hip and the narrow cheekbones, is back. This time, he's learnt how to play. Adrian Dannatt reports from New York00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Thorp approved with tighter discharge limit: Gummer rules out public inquiry into pounds 2.8bn nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield00:02
Cities are urged to create cafe culture00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Bottom Line: Mail plays into Rothermere's hands00:02
Workers welcome an early Christmas present00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Informer 'espoused maximum violence'00:02
LU contract worth pounds 82m in jeopardy as firm fails00:02
Racing: 'Scu' a safe bet just lacking in bite00:02
ROCK / Charts00:02
Some perfectly good words that leave me speechless00:02
Luck refuses to be a lady as Florida man hunts for the fortune he threw away00:02
No place for racist names00:02
Sports Letters: Flower of genius00:02
Obituary: Mary Lobel00:02
Father cuddled baby, then shot her00:02
Sad tidings for partridges and turtle doves00:02
Photo exposes Andreotti link with the Mafia00:02
Algerian extremists murder 12 foreigners: Massacre by suspected Islamists brings country a step nearer anarchy00:02
Former cult members lose extradition plea: House of Lords to decide if women must face murder plot charges in US00:02
Law Report: Investment industry rule lawful: Regina v LAUTRO, ex parte Kendall. Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Latham), 26 November 199300:02
Football: Kristensen contrives the perfect finish for Portsmouth: Relief for Fratton Park faithful as Peterborough's dogged defence finally falters00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Bart's faces slow death in hospital reforms: Bottomley announces reprieve for University College sites in London shake-up, but 800-year-old institution to be run down00:02
Obituary: Myrna Loy00:02
Lockerbie: Pan Am sues Libya for dollars 300m00:02
ROCK / 'Ring Bang': the way forward: Eddie Grant, reggae singer turned entrepreneur and soca's Mr Big, is a hard man to track down. Philip Sweeney got tired of chasing after his Mercedes and invited him to tea in Bristol00:02
Education: Painting or pens, sand or spelling?: Diana Hinds visits two nursery schools with different views about what young children should learn in their important first lessons00:02
Power generators ordered to increase competition: Watchdog threatens companies with reference to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission if they do not comply00:02
Letter: Why the War Crimes Act is just00:02
TV 'undermines politicians': The British Psychological Society's conference in London00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Scientists complete the gene puzzle00:02
Bulmer pierces the festive gloom: Cider maker lifts payout but points to late dash for drink00:02
Two die in crash00:02
Rugby League: Pitch battle ended00:02
Rugby Union / The State of the Union: Amateurism, a mighty anachronism00:02
Blow for Clinton as Aspin quits defence post: Sudden end to a tenure marked by policy problems00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Change of strategy opened door to deal: The Steps to Agreement00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Well-concealed gambler's instinct produces a result: The Prime Minister's Role00:02
Potter sale00:02
TELEVISION / Famous for less than fifteen minutes00:02
Diary00:02
Decision upheld00:02
Moscow literati write off protest as too 'banal'00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
The Ulster Declaration: Tory MPs salute Major's game plan: The Conservative Party00:02
Director of zoo wins reprieve00:02
Thorp to go ahead00:02
Rate cut nearer00:02
Zoo reprieve00:02
Leading Article: A snip in time, Mr Chancellor00:02
Clark 'ignorant' on witness statements: Ex-minister signed trial papers without knowing charges00:02
Equestrianism: Sloothaak seeks to build on early gains: Olympia Championships00:02
Market Report: Optimism over rates puts the sparkle back in Bass00:02
Pounds 40,000 raised00:02
Letter: Knickers to all that00:02
Racing: Club calls halt to starting-poles trial00:02
Cairo toll may reach 7000:02
Chess: Gift scores direct hit00:02
Iraq starts withdrawing from Kuwait border area00:02
Pentos passes dividend in attack on debt: Pre-Christmas sales bring some relief00:02
Letter: Who's angry? Yes, Hell is here on earth00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Eurotunnel to lodge pounds 1bn claim: UK and France face massive payouts- Shareholders approve pounds 500m cash call00:02
Pembroke: Cleaners collared for charity00:02
Turks resurrect tales of murky past00:02
Sports Letters: Make penalty fit the crime00:02
Court Circular00:02
THEATRE / On the game: Paul Taylor on Alan Ayckbourn's Wildest Dreams at the Pit, London00:02
Arts Council backtracks over orchestra funding: Anger at Philharmonia as music panel's advice is ignored00:02
Tax deals for stately homes under attack: MPs question secrecy surrounding public access agreements