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Travel: Departures: Cyprus in bloom00:02
House siege00:02
Cementone reverses into Multitrust00:02
Body found by loch00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Gastropod00:02
Mourners renew call for inquiry into death after police raid: Mary Braid finds anger undimmed at the long-delayed funeral of Joy Gardner00:02
Market soars to new peak on hopes of cut in base rates00:02
Insurers' Company00:02
Ethiopia arrests00:02
Birthdays00:02
Saving cheer for young and old00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Counting blessings00:02
Obituary: Sir Robert Reid00:02
Out of Germany: Foreigner at Sie over what to du about an intimate problem00:02
Landmarks: Docklands00:02
Bakers' Company00:02
Up to 19,000 have fled to Britain00:02
Motoring: Unleaded is not as clean as it seems00:02
No relief for retailers, warns Asda: Norman says that food margins will remain under pressure despite sharp recovery in profits to pounds 84m00:02
Market Report: Another peak, but BAe misses the celebrations00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Brown box blues00:02
Christmas competition00:02
Trusting in units: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
Juvenile crime is focus of attack00:02
Share in a vineyard is a sparkling offer: Ian Hunter looks at companies that rent out wine-growing land in France00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Parrot attack00:02
Books for Christmas: A year in the life of Benetton00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Manweb interim payout up after 48% advance to pounds 55m: Cost control and increase in sales boost half-year figures00:02
Winter bites deep into the heart of old republics: Fuel crisis brings worst Christmas in living memory to former Soviet states00:02
Money Grouse: Whinge about water wins the whisky prize00:02
Rugby Union: Undaunted Wasps are ready to buzz in the Bath bearpit: Steve Bale weighs up a meeting of giants at the Rec00:02
Upbeat: Plus ca change00:02
PM in doubt on Bosnia deal00:02
Boxing: Holligan awaits the 'Superstar' treatment: An unfancied British challenger squares up to his idol tonight. Jonathan Rendall reports from Mexico City00:02
Assignment nearer home for the financial advisers: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
Obituary: Sir Robert Reid00:02
'Horror' at tree prices in garden centres: Christmas tree growers upset at mark-ups of 400%, writes David Nicholson-Lord00:02
Loyalists keep peace lines open00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
A believer in doing things by halves: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
Police Bill draws criticism00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
View from City Road: Painful prospect for the pension industry00:02
Royal College of Physicians00:02
Upbeat: Coda00:02
Talking terms00:02
Property: Only as safe as houses: Burst pipes? Power cuts? Anne Spackman tells you where to turn if a disaster occurs over the holiday00:02
Shias fight over world leadership00:02
Country Matters: Loud purrs from Bodmin Moor00:02
Fixed rates sent from Coventry00:02
Makers of Playing Cards Company00:02
Letter: The practice of Chinese herbalism: From Mr RICHARD J. BLACKWELL00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Hockey: Crutchley cracks five on debut: England trounce Czechs in European Indoor Cup qualifier00:02
60 Mafia suspects held00:02
Travel: Departures: Brought to book00:02
Letter: Universities and independent schools pass the Taiwan test00:02
Quotes of the Week: Sport00:02
Appointments00:02
Travel: The Things I've Seen: The Hastings net shops00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Out of the ghetto: Rowland Morgan talks to Douglas Coupland and William Gibson about science fiction00:02
Football: Captain Havoc seeks to ease Souness' stress: Henry Winter previews a programme full of consuming distractions00:02
Four guilty of torture killing: SIMON MIDGLEY00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
Books for Christmas: Public performances of a cavalier privateer: Derick Allsop salutes Rob Walker, bon vivant and dean of derring-do00:02
Football: Team News00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Odd black dots: Dermot Clinch tackles a trickier CD guide. 'The Gramophone Good CD Guide' - General Gramophone Publications, 14.95 pounds00:02
Sailing: Winston still not quite in the clear00:02
US Aids deal sends Wellcome surging00:02
Letter: Salgado inspires hope: From Ms LESLEY ROBERTS00:02
Last chance saloon for BES punters00:02
Travel: Departures: Danger zone00:02
Golf: The high-flyer Kite brought down to earth: American has nightmare at first00:02
Travel: A bit of piste and quiet: Ski resorts once notorious for rowdy Brits are calming down, says Chris Gill00:02
Travel: Departures: Lire lure00:02
Journalist honoured00:02
Wills00:02
Horror fiction became reality00:02
Equestrianism: Slick Sloothaak makes giant leap to victory: Horse feathers fly at seasonal circus as brothers get on their marks00:02
Obituary: The Earl of Bessborough00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: Phew and far between: The new, blue Clio Williams is a rare treat: buy now or miss out, says Roger Bell00:02
Lib Dems accused of 'whitewash' over racism expulsions00:02
Letter: Universities and independent schools pass the Taiwan test00:02
Treasurer quits00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Starve a fever? Not likely00:02
Books for Chrsitmas: Harvey rabbits and America is rapt: Tim Glover escapes the rough but falls for the seductive wiles of golf's best-read little red book00:02
Ice Skating: Grace and fervour highlight comeback00:02
Heart Searching: Comfort and joy: Fed up with turkey? Home alone this Christmas? Cathy Aitchison looks at some alternative ways of spending the festive season00:02
MUSEUMS / Back on track: The London Transport Museum has changed. Out go the trainspotters. In come the feminists. Christian Wolmar reports00:02
Banking on NS: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Donkeys and billiards: Jonathan Keates tackles a tempting feast of operatic work. 'The Viking Opera Guide' - Ed. Amanda Holden, Nicholas Kenyon and Stephen Walsh: Viking, 60 pounds00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Conservation piece00:02
Cali talks00:02
Man began death fire over noisy neighbours00:02
Christ crucified is made ready to join the world of opera00:02
Non-Russians face Yeltsin clampdown00:02
'Violent' Sega game taken out of shops00:02
Juvenile offenders face tougher court sentences: Criminal Justice Bill outlines measures to crack down on crime00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: The kindest cut00:02
Arms-to-Iraq trial witness admits misleading jury00:02
Travel: Tickety boob00:02
Petty grudges settled by torture spree then murder: Suzanne Capper's short life ended in horror at the hands of 'friends' who lived an equally bleak existence00:02
Rugby League: O'Donnell ends McClennan era with late winner: Saints get the drop00:02
Tigers' friend wins his stripes: No one has done more than Fateh Singh Rathore to alert India to the demise of its big cats, writes Tim McGirk in Ranthambore00:02
RBS on Saturdays00:02
FOOD & DRINK / King Creole's feast day: Enjoy a Po' Boy sandwich, say ya ya to the gumbo .. and all that jazz. At Christmas, the best of New Orleans cuisine goes on parade00:02
Positive deals on negative equity00:02
'Hitman' sentence00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Travel: Departures: Warm Bath00:02
COMPACT DISCS / Play it again, Sebastian: Our 'Double Play' duo of Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson check their cards for the year's best compact disc releases00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Be sharp with the gifts00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Big cheese in small dairies: Emily Green meets Randolph Hodgson, champion of the small producer, who also runs one of the best cheese shops in the country00:02
Skiing: Foser the beneficiary after weather's poser00:02
Cockney Visionaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
EC subsidy ruling lifts Swan hopes00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Squash: Marshall comes close00:02
Arms-to-Iraq trial witness admits misleading jury00:02
Cricket: Crawley's century turns up the heat00:02
Kidnappers sought00:02
Chrysalis ends dividend drought with one-off payment of 3.25p00:02
NatWest warms up for winter00:02
Aiming for the higher yields: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
Mayor jailed00:02
I shared a lavatory with Picasso00:02
Football Diary: Heaved into touch00:02
Leading Article: Flexible women take over the job market00:02
THEATRE / Too full of the milk of human kindness: Adrian Noble's new production of Macbeth focuses on the sensitivity of the villain. But is Derek Jacobi too good to be true?00:02
Letter: Bosnia's struggle for tolerance00:02
Travel: A long day on the capitalist road: John Torode grabs the chance of a day trip to the new China, as its relations with Britain deteriorate00:02
Cricket: Houghton stabilises Zimbabwe's innings00:02
Phone services to bank on over festive season00:02
Todes String Quartet playing at the Royal Homeopathic Hospital00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Letter: Andersen's role in the Wessex saga: From Mr KEITH BURGESS00:02
Today's Number: 4,901,85600:02
BOOK REVIEW / How many Romans to make a salad?: Sue Gaisford confronts wild boars and jalousies of kohlrabi, in the cookbooks of 199300:02
Faith and Reason: A liturgy set in historical time: David Martin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and an assistant priest at Guildford Cathedral, gives us a sermon for Advent00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Scottish beer in full flower: Heather ale, the secret weapon of the Picts, is still being brewed in Scotland, says Michael Jackson00:02
Mink is blamed for killing city wildlife00:02
Rugby Union: Die-hard Evans is back in big time: Robert Cole previews this afternoon's matches in the fourth round of the Swalec Cup00:02
Service appointments00:02
And what's more ..00:02
Obituary: Professor Bernard Scott00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mould-breakers turned inside out: 'The Elephant Vanishes' - Haruki Murakami; Tr. Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin: Hamish Hamilton, 9.99 pounds00:02
From Quality Street to mean street00:02
Rugby League: Wigan wise to Davies00:02
S Korea shuffle00:02
Life sentence for robber who killed taxi driver00:02
Miners transfer pension schemes (CORRECTED)00:02
Basketball: Kings may still lay down arms: League fingers crossed after partial wage payments00:02
Letter: Savagery and morality in the 'Iliad'00:02
Letter: Local government structure debate00:02
Football: Inquiry likely to call Petric00:02
Ex-Communist is set to steal protest vote: A 'man of the people' in Potsdam's mayoral election has a message for Bonn00:02
Drivers count the cost of a drink: Failing a breath test can lead to an enormous rise in premiums, as one driver found out00:02
Quebec's federal party appoints new premier00:02
Second Thoughts: Cracks in the crust of life: Victoria Glendinning looks back on her portrait of Elizabeth Bowen (Phoenix pounds 7.99)00:02
Apathy greets veteran peace campaigner: Alex Renton detects little optimism or enthusiasm for action in Antrim00:02
Higher interest move will cost Leeds pounds 4.5m00:02
Cricket: Quiet benefactor a factor in England's future: Patrick Whittingdale, a novel sponsor concerned with the top order rather than bottom lines. Martin Johnson reports from Portugal00:02
Scheme to cut output of ethylene collapses00:02
MUSIC / Don't hit the delete button yet: Independent music writers raid their memories for the best events of 1993 in concert and on stage00:02
British Gas will shed 20,000 jobs in big shake-up: Company to split into five divisions00:02
William Donaldson's Week: The Princess has an idea00:02
Sporting Digest: Luge00:02
View from City Road: Asda has the power to prevail00:02
Private shareholders welcome Chelsfield00:02
Gardening: All branches of the family: With a little imagination and foliage from the garden you can transform the home for Christmas, says Anna Pavord00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Football: Pythonesque circus in a football desert: The draw for next year's World Cup finals will be made tomorrow. Joe Lovejoy, in Las Vegas, sets an unsettling scene00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Football: Sorry City fail to find successor to Swales: McDonald on hold00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Train evacuated in police chase00:02
Palestinian aid00:02
Reuters pays dollars 125m for rival Teknekron: Takeover of software firm expected to provide customers with more choice00:02
Contentment cover00:02
Football: Fifa keen on world club competition00:02
Somalia pull-out starts00:02
Racing: Young Hustler to have the last word: An each-way chance straight from the horse's mouth may not interrupt the favourite's progress00:02
Banks sack board of Metallgesellschaft00:02
Business as usual on targeted railway line00:02
Inman itching to get down to business: Pentagon officials welcome the new US Secretary of Defense as one of their own00:02
I Confess: Stephen Poliakoff's Life of Crime00:02
Right in talks on SA constitution00:02
Profile: Sad Vlad, a Hitler with a degree: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russia's would-be saviour00:02
Drink-drivers who kill get new jail threat: Row over three-month sentence as new guidelines say worst offenders will be imprisoned for 10 years00:02
Travel: Kish and tell00:02
Eva's spirit brings English to Javanese00:02
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh00:02
Forging the bonds of family life: Sue Fieldman hears how some of the professionals would handle their children's pounds 100 Christmas presents00:02
MUSIC / Setting a pace for the relay: Jan Smaczny on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra00:02
Sixteen wounded Bosnians to be treated by NHS: Delay blamed on negotiations with ethnic factions00:02
JAZZ / Counting bars, local heroes: Pubs not clubs are where it's at, argues Phil Johnson, who caught the Stan Tracey Quintet at the Albert in Bristol00:02
Appeals00:02
Italy's Socialists look to new beginning00:02
US support00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A perfect opening for the festive season: Anthony Rose chooses some classic wines to wrap up, or crack open, for Christmas00:02
Row over funding closes French schools00:02
Turkish army arrests fuel civilian fears00:02
Glovers' Company00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Court Circular00:02
Second Costco club00:02
Rugby Union: The day Skinner goes hunting for Tigers: Barrie Fairall on the England flanker who returned to Blackheath and today gives Leicester the charge00:02
RECIPE / From the melting pot00:02
Travel: Departures: Moving ahead00:02
Travel bookshelf00:02
HIV lawsuit00:02
Aycliffe inquiry00:02
Travel: Top 20 Resorts: Hintertux00:02
Leading Tory sues newspaper over Nadir00:02
Church appointments00:02
Rugby League: Salford's hard test00:02
Drivers get an earful as meters shout back00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Winter warning00:02
Party bust-up00:02
Upbeat: From the top00:02
DANCE / Domestic science: Judith Mackrell reviews Divas at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells00:02
Badminton: Riot sweeps Clark under the table: James Leigh reports on the Grand Prix Finals in Kuala Lumpur where the police intervened00:02
William Hill float scrapped as banks refinance Walker: Pounds 325m debt agreement saves jewel in leisure group's crown00:02
Bank workers' union goes ape over sales incentive00:02
Recommended Books00:02
Low profile for Army after violence ends: Defence ministers are considering plans for scaling down the military presence in Ulster if the IRA agrees to a ceasefire. Colin Brown reports00:02
Jury returns00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Racing: 100-1 Juliet plays havoc00:02
Lord Justice Scott arriving at his inquiry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Know your wine guide: Nicholas Faith tastes the 1993 vintage00:02
Travel: How Greek was my valley: Every year, the sheep and cows are driven from summer pasture in the Pindhos mountains down to the plain for the winter. Tim Salmon often helps out as a cowhand00:02
Mother jailed for girl's manslaughter00:02
Football: Rowbotham on cruise control00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Art and Christianity: 'Art and the Beauty of Good' - Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford: Mowbray, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Property: London back with a boom00:02
Israeli soldier and Jewish tourist struggle over right to pray00:02
Travel: Silent night, lonely flight: On Christmas Day, Britain's transport system gets away from it all, says Simon Calder (CORRECTED)00:02
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