00:02
Football Diary: Nicholl gets the kiss-off00:02
Leading Article: Let Britain lead on genetic debate00:02
Racing: Sandown snowed off00:02
Allders adds to Christmas cheer with 10% sales rise00:02
Classic Thoughts / All we need to know: Amanda Craig on the satire and humanity of Great Expectations (1861)00:02
Sporting digest: Football00:02
BOOK REVIEW / South Africa: memories in black and white: Mary Benson on memoirs by Helen Suzman and Rich Mkhondo00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Rugby League: Tuigamala experiences culture shock00:02
Drink-driver who killed three jailed00:02
Scottish Football: Killie face revenge mission00:02
Obituary: Pierre-Paul Schweitzer00:02
Auctions00:02
Iran-Contra report to be released00:02
Kleinwort in Europe00:02
New French floods00:02
Motoring: Driving a hardy bargain: Second-hand cars from developing countries can be good buys, says James Ruppert00:02
Would you credit it?: Our appetite for the extreme, the bizarre and the frankly grotesque is apparently insatiable. John Windsor has the astounding facts00:02
Dustmen reprieved00:02
Travel: High and drei in Austria - France is not alone in offering three-valley skiing. Chris Gill slopes off to a quieter place00:02
Nato will offer guarded welcome to East Europe00:02
The way I was: Essex boy makes good: Sir Norman Fowler tells Nicholas Roe how his National Service introduced him to the real world00:02
Conservationist under fire00:02
Inkatha threatens to boycott SA poll00:02
Saturday Night: To no man's land in lame00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Driving conditions worsening: Big thaw will add to misery of floods00:02
Waters cuts costs00:02
Free toys pull in guns00:02
Appeals: Benjamin Franklin00:02
Upbeat: Hundred up00:02
Engineering Council00:02
View from City Road: Decks clear for change at Ladbroke00:02
Property: Take a step up to Scotland: The North-South divide is not what it was, but you can still find a splendid house in rural Scotland for the price of a South-east semi, says Anne Spackman00:02
Cuttings00:02
Writ claims secret payments by Lonrho00:02
Holy row00:02
Air UK flies back to profit after three years in red00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Tough act00:02
Upbeat: Coda00:02
Leading Article: Let Britain lead on genetic debate00:02
Prague halts planned cuts in armed forces00:02
Sporting digest: Ice Skating00:02
Waters cuts costs00:02
The gene dilemma: Testing question for insurance firms00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
Gardening: Now my trolley runneth over00:02
Travel: Top 20 resorts: Argentiere00:02
Sporting digest: Tennis00:02
Viacom ups studio bid with merger00:02
Cricket: Morris digs in as going gets rough00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Salinas talks tough as Zapatistas strike back: Army poised for offensive as rebels threaten attack on Mexico City after destroying power lines in two more states00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Recipe: The way to curry up some flavour00:02
Hang Seng plunge seen as healthy correction'00:02
Double Play / A nose for voices: Discs: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson on mysterious piano sonatas and women on the verge00:02
Postcard from Jerusalem - Five wars in metaphors: Jo Glanville meets Yehuda Amichai, whose poetry featured in the Middle East peace talks00:02
Art's unlikely man in the street00:02
Athletics: Ireland's farm girl ready for Radcliffe00:02
View from City Road: Actuarial pension party poopers00:02
Style: Hotfoot for the big time: Who's setting the pace in footwear? Tamsin Blanchard puts on her toothfish loafers and goes in search of young design talent00:02
Style: Hotfoot for the big time: Who's setting the pace in footwear? Tamsin Blanchard puts on her toothfish loafers and goes in search of young design talent00:02
Football Diary: Nicholl gets the kiss-off00:02
Saudis ask for credit00:02
Football: Entertainer Allner ready to upset his beloved Blues: Paul Newman on the Kidderminster manager keen to overthrow the club he has supported all his life00:02
Golf: Silhouettes against the Sussex skyline shape up for golf action00:02
Bridge row may topple Swedish government00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Bristol's Asset00:02
Food and Drink: What fresh hell is this?00:02
Bank union fears pressure on employees: Performance-related pay will lead to high-pressure selling, Bifu claims00:02
Arts: Clerk of works: Herbert Read set standards in British art criticism that have rarely been matched since. Iain Gale considers his enduring influence00:02
Appointments: University appointments00:02
MG shares down 25% in Frankfurt as talks open00:02
Classic Thoughts / All we need to know: Amanda Craig on the satire and humanity of Great Expectations (1861)00:02
Sporting digest: Cricket00:02
New French floods00:02
Togo calm00:02
Birthdays00:02
Firestorm threatens Sydney suburbs with catastrophe00:02
Saturday Night: To no man's land in lame00:02
Palestinians find Israelis hold keys to justice00:02
Policewoman found safe00:02
Racing: Myth can work the oracle on Ladbroke riddle: Greg Wood previews today's big handicap00:02
Sporting digest: Football00:02
Football: Entertainer Allner ready to upset his beloved Blues: Paul Newman on the Kidderminster manager keen to overthrow the club he has supported all his life00:02
Sporting digest: Rugby Union00:02
William Donaldson's Week: It's the way you bleep 'em00:02
Unit Trust Letter00:02
Departures00:02
Six of the best00:02
Unit trusts facing east: Gold investments justify the high risks involved00:02
Sporting digest: Rugby Union00:02
Warrant news00:02
Letter: Spare the Highlands from sentimentality00:02
Banned driver jailed00:02
Strobe lights up the world stage for his friend Bill: Praise is mixed with some doubt as Mr Clinton promotes an old chum at the State Department, writes Rupert Cornwell from Washington00:02
Car makers warn of sales slowdown00:02
Obituary: Simon Pettet00:02
MUSIC / Arm's length principle: Review: David Fanning on the Halle Orchestra00:02
Anniversaries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Where the wild and darling things are: Jan Morris on penguins, plankton, zebra, butterflies, wolves and cats00:02
The way I was: Essex boy makes good: Sir Norman Fowler tells Nicholas Roe how his National Service introduced him to the real world00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: The appliance that could not be saved by science: A turbocharged diesel engine adds something to the Ford Escort, but still not quite enough. John Simister drove it00:02
Hockey: Garcia strikes form and goals00:02
Father jailed for snatching boy: 18 months for contempt after judge is told abductions have left 12-year-old 'in a mess'00:02
Bar code: In the Norfolk LA pub, the staff dance on the bar, the drinkers are under-age and there's no booze. Julie Aschkenasy reports00:02
GRE trims term assurance rates00:02
Fears of skipped generation raised by use of tissue: The fertility debate: Consultation document to consider ethics of using eggs of aborted foetuses00:02
Unit trusts facing east: Gold investments justify the high risks involved00:02
Gardening: Now my trolley runneth over00:02
Upbeat: Hundred up00:02
Bridge row may topple Swedish government00:02
Travel: This beats paradise all to hell - Hemingway gazed from his hotel window over Lake Maggiore and thought he saw heaven. When Frank Barrett looked, he agreed00:02
Overseas jobs00:02
Travel: Prey for the preacher: Jeremy Hart joins the hunters of Whigham, Georgia, in their annual round-up of deadly snakes00:02
Travel: The Minister for American Tourists00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Overseas jobs00:02
Profile: The beast beneath the sea: Sir Alastair Morton, abrasive Channel tunneller00:02
Travel: Come on up, the walkers love it - There are no cream teas on Alston Moor, a high, lonely stretch of the North Pennines. David Hewson visits England's last wilderness00:02
Obituary: Simon Pettet00:02
Sporting digest: Ice Skating00:02
Letter: Euro-morris dancing00:02
Travel: Prey for the preacher: Jeremy Hart joins the hunters of Whigham, Georgia, in their annual round-up of deadly snakes00:02
Special cover for new houses00:02
Viacom ups studio bid with merger00:02
Appeal made over brothers00:02
Senior Iraqi visits Turkey00:02
The gene dilemma: Ethics of DNA ownership under scrutiny00:02
United Carriers plans to float again: Placing will raise pounds 10m and value parcels group at pounds 50m00:02
Country Matters: A moorland fight to the death00:02
Kabul ceasefire00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Sporting digest: Cricket00:02
Halifax drop00:02
Darts: George has the final word00:02
Race hate charge00:02
Briton kidnapped00:02
Public to have a say on use of aborted ovaries00:02
Country Matters: A moorland fight to the death00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
Property: Locks won't help, so party00:02
Tennis: Seles still not ready to make a grand entrance: The former world No 1 decides against making a comeback to defend her title at the Australian Open00:02
1.5m pounds gems snatch00:02
Obituary: Professor David Ritchie00:02
Ice Skating: Torvill and Dean show they mean Olympic business: British maestros demonstrate they have lost none of their original eye-catching touch00:02
Letter: Echo of Heath's Irish message00:02
Trickle of claims precedes the deluge: Vivien Goldsmith explains some facts for flood victims00:02
Correction00:02
Patten emphasises nursery 'diversity'00:02
Bonus cuts bring down life insurance policy payouts: Caroline Merrell reports on a shock for policyholders and warns more may be on the way00:02
Football: Norwich anger as Everton appoint Walker: Canaries manager's exit on eve of Cup leads chairman Chase to complain to authorities of illegal approach from Goodison00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Double Play / A nose for voices: Discs: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson on mysterious piano sonatas and women on the verge00:02
Businessman funds a drive for stardom00:02
Stein leaves Ladbroke with a pounds 1m pay-off: Company chief who accepted, then rejected, a back-seat role agrees to step down as non-executive00:02
Cricket: Wessels happy to stand down00:02
Sporting digest: Basketball00:02
Gardening: A midwinter night's dream: A new year, a new garden. Stephen Anderton pictures his ideal plot, all clean, mown lines, subtle scents and shapely trees, elegant in the January frost and also under the August sun00:02
Property: Daydream homes00:02
Ice Skating: Torvill and Dean show they mean Olympic business: British maestros demonstrate they have lost none of their original eye-catching touch00:02
Wills00:02
Sporting digest: Tennis00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Postcard from Jerusalem - Five wars in metaphors: Jo Glanville meets Yehuda Amichai, whose poetry featured in the Middle East peace talks00:02
Inkatha threatens to boycott SA poll00:02
Rugby Union: Postponed game on again as Bath told to play Bristol00:02
Obsession pulls down a father to prison: The Malkin case: Man's love for his son has cost him dear, writes Will Bennett00:02
Patten emphasises nursery 'diversity'00:02
Travel: Mickey takers ahoy00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Upbeat: Venture over00:02
Life salesmen to reveal commission: SIB publishes draft rules to end eight-year battle with insurance industry over full disclosure to customers00:02
Profile: The beast beneath the sea: Sir Alastair Morton, abrasive Channel tunneller00:02
Holy row00:02
Warrant news00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
Bishop opposes abortion but supports treatment: Andrew Brown and Mary Braid find little unity among clerics or academics00:02
Briton kidnapped00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
BOOK REVIEW / From galliards to massacres: 'A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh' - Stephen Coote: Macmillan, 17.9900:02
Rugby League: Jack back at the top of his game: Salford's illustrious player-coach is revved up for today's Regal Trophy semi-final. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
Clerical cuts00:02
Leader of councils review body criticised00:02
Market Place: Stalham00:02
Rugby League: Tuigamala experiences culture shock00:02
Life can be super00:02
Food and Drink: Bin-end sleuths should get on the case: There are duds but also bargains in the wine merchants' sales, says Anthony Rose00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Food and Drink: A public offer in private company: The Green Street club has opened its doors to anyone who enjoys a good lunch, says Emily Green00:02
Strobe lights up the world stage for his friend Bill: Praise is mixed with some doubt as Mr Clinton promotes an old chum at the State Department, writes Rupert Cornwell from Washington00:02
View from City Road: Decks clear for change at Ladbroke00:02
Palestinians find Israelis hold keys to justice00:02
Obituary: Lord Maxwell00:02
Rugby Union: Postponed game on again as Bath told to play Bristol00:02
Infernos engulf Sydney suburbs: Thousands evacuated as more than 100 bushfires rage out of control across New South Wales00:02
SIB stand on costs disclosure welcomed00:02
Bank union fears pressure on employees: Performance-related pay will lead to high-pressure selling, Bifu claims00:02
Property: Take a step up to Scotland: The North-South divide is not what it was, but you can still find a splendid house in rural Scotland for the price of a South-east semi, says Anne Spackman00:02
Japanese make space for UFOs00:02
Postman Phil falls foul of takeover: A Royal Mail agreement that allows senior postmen to 'pick and choose' rounds has upset villagers. Richard North reports00:02
Reformists warn of anti-Yeltsin pact00:02
Obituary: W. Edwards Deming00:02
Sailing: Keen Kiwis primed for bare-knuckle fight: The third leg of the Whitbread Round The World Race begins tomorrow. Stuart Alexander reports from Fremantle00:02
Policewoman found safe00:02
Fears of skipped generation raised by use of tissue: The fertility debate: Consultation document to consider ethics of using eggs of aborted foetuses00:02
Sporting digest: Badminton00:02
Recipe: The way to curry up some flavour00:02
Upbeat: Coda00:02
Sporting digest: American Football00:02
Scottish Football: Killie face revenge mission00:02
Sporting digest: Golf00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: The appliance that could not be saved by science: A turbocharged diesel engine adds something to the Ford Escort, but still not quite enough. John Simister drove it00:02
Today's number: 3,00000:02
Gamsakhurdia body politics00:02
Motoring: Driving a hardy bargain: Second-hand cars from developing countries can be good buys, says James Ruppert00:02
The gene dilemma: Society agonises in race to keep up with laboratory: In the last of a three-part series, 'Independent' writers consider the moral issues raised by applying genetic research to humans00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
Drink-driver who killed three jailed00:02
Six of the best00:02
Athletics: Ireland's farm girl ready for Radcliffe00:02
Destiny over the phone: Heart Searching: Believe in fate? Star-crossed lovers? Lyndsay Russell decides to consult Britain's first clairvoyant dating agency00:02
I Confess: George Melly - Prisoner of Cell Block H00:02
BOOK REVIEW / South Africa: memories in black and white: Mary Benson on memoirs by Helen Suzman and Rich Mkhondo00:02
The gene dilemma: Testing question for insurance firms00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fallen mother of a nation: 'The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela' - Emma Gilbey: Jonathan Cape, 18.9900:02
1.5m pounds gems snatch00:02
Upbeat: Venture over00:02
Racing: Talent to bridge generation gap: New faces for '94: Mick Fitzgerald, of growing repute in jump racing, will find pole position well within his compass. Greg Wood reports00:02
Nato will offer guarded welcome to East Europe00:02
Obituary: Patrick Sullivan00:02
Property: Daydream homes00:02
Travel: Come on up, the walkers love it - There are no cream teas on Alston Moor, a high, lonely stretch of the North Pennines. David Hewson visits England's last wilderness00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Travel: Mickey takers ahoy00:02
Paris calls for tougher US line on Bosnia00:02
Sporting digest: Golf00:02
Hang Seng plunge seen as healthy correction'00:02
Money Grouse: Penalised because of her date of birth00:02
Special cover for new houses00:02
How to get a car and cut debt00:02
Race hate charge00:02
Birthdays00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Market Report: Investors climb the peaks as sellers stay at home00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Rugby League: Jack back at the top of his game: Salford's illustrious player-coach is revved up for today's Regal Trophy semi-final. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
SIB stand on costs disclosure welcomed00:02
Trickle of claims precedes the deluge: Vivien Goldsmith explains some facts for flood victims00:02
William Donaldson's Week: It's the way you bleep 'em00:02
Obituary: Dick Donald00:02
Food and Drink: It's time to turn out the lites: Miller's Clear Beer died, but its Amber Ale lives. Michael Jackson takes hope from a year that saw a shift from watery brews to the real thing00:02
Obituary: Professor David Ritchie00:02
Letter: Euro-morris dancing00:02
Reformists warn of anti-Yeltsin pact00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
View from City Road: Right step but SIB rules are not watertight00:02
Travel: High and drei in Austria - France is not alone in offering three-valley skiing. Chris Gill slopes off to a quieter place00:02
Food and Drink: Bin-end sleuths should get on the case: There are duds but also bargains in the wine merchants' sales, says Anthony Rose00:02
Banned driver jailed00:02
Obituary: Lord Maxwell00:02
View from City Road: Actuarial pension party poopers00:02
Driving conditions worsening: Big thaw will add to misery of floods00:02
Obituary: Dick Donald00:02
Insurers accused of cherry-picking00:02
Nato called on to accept new states: Former Warsaw Pact countries press for full membership00:02
The gene dilemma: Society agonises in race to keep up with laboratory: In the last of a three-part series, 'Independent' writers consider the moral issues raised by applying genetic research to humans00:02
View from City Road: Right step but SIB rules are not watertight00:02
Letter: Safeguards on the use of genetics00:02
Free toys pull in guns00:02
Gastropod00:02
Clerical cuts00:02
Football: Norwich anger as Everton appoint Walker: Canaries manager's exit on eve of Cup leads chairman Chase to complain to authorities of illegal approach from Goodison00:02
Market Place: Stalham00:02
Bristol's Asset00:02
Appeals: David Lewis Centre00:02
Cuttings00:02
Travel: This beats paradise all to hell - Hemingway gazed from his hotel window over Lake Maggiore and thought he saw heaven. When Frank Barrett looked, he agreed00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Writ claims secret payments by Lonrho00:02
Hockey: Garcia strikes form and goals00:02
MUSIC / Arm's length principle: Review: David Fanning on the Halle Orchestra00:02
Sporting digest: Badminton00:02
The gene dilemma: Ethics of DNA ownership under scrutiny00:02
Yeo keeps talking as colleagues urge silence: Former minister attacks constituent00:02
Moscow makes its devotions for Orthodox Christmas00:02
Market Report: Investors climb the peaks as sellers stay at home00:02
Paris calls for tougher US line on Bosnia00:02
Russia paying a high price for low air-safety standards: Fears heightened by figures showing massive growth in plane crash deaths00:02
Gastropod00:02
Firestorm threatens Sydney suburbs with catastrophe00:02
GRE trims term assurance rates00:02
Food and Drink: What I am suggesting is just a load of tripe00:02
Wills00:02
Golf: Silhouettes against the Sussex skyline shape up for golf action00:02
Rugby League: McCurrie leaves Leigh in the cold00:02
Life can be super00:02
Togo calm00:02
'Salvaged' collection is offered for 1m pounds00:02
Moscow makes its devotions for Orthodox Christmas00:02
BOOK REVIEW / From galliards to massacres: 'A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh' - Stephen Coote: Macmillan, 17.9900:02
United Carriers plans to float again: Placing will raise pounds 10m and value parcels group at pounds 50m00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
How to get a car and cut debt00:02
Money Grouse: Penalised because of her date of birth00:02
Letter: Horse sense00:02
Tool Box: Start with a clean sweeper00:02
Saudis ask for credit00:02
THEATRE / All shirk and low pay: Paul Taylor on a new comedy by Tim Firth at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ultra, Purple, Magic: all crackers: 'The Ultra-Magic Deals & the most secret special relationships 1940-1946' - Bradley F Smith; Airlife Publishing, 17.9500:02
Recommended books00:02
Rugby League: McCurrie leaves Leigh in the cold00:02
Life salesmen to reveal commission: SIB publishes draft rules to end eight-year battle with insurance industry over full disclosure to customers00:02
Businessman funds a drive for stardom00:02
Recommended books00:02
Conman warning00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ultra, Purple, Magic: all crackers: 'The Ultra-Magic Deals & the most secret special relationships 1940-1946' - Bradley F Smith; Airlife Publishing, 17.9500:02
Racing: Talent to bridge generation gap: New faces for '94: Mick Fitzgerald, of growing repute in jump racing, will find pole position well within his compass. Greg Wood reports00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Sporting digest: Basketball00:02
Kleinwort in Europe00:02
Tough act00:02
Postman Phil falls foul of takeover: A Royal Mail agreement that allows senior postmen to 'pick and choose' rounds has upset villagers. Richard North reports00:02
Conservationist under fire00:02
Care worker jailed00:02
Obituary: Pierre-Paul Schweitzer00:02
Letter: Horse sense00:02
Racing: Myth can work the oracle on Ladbroke riddle: Greg Wood previews today's big handicap00:02
Allders adds to Christmas cheer with 10% sales rise00:02
Appointments: Service appointments00:02
Property: Locks won't help, so party00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Letter: Echo of Heath's Irish message00:02
Arts: Clerk of works: Herbert Read set standards in British art criticism that have rarely been matched since. Iain Gale considers his enduring influence00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Monopoly on a grand scale: 'Disraeli' - Stanley Weintraub: Hamish Hamilton, 25 pounds00:02
Travel: The Minister for American Tourists00:02
I Confess: George Melly - Prisoner of Cell Block H00:02
Racing: Sandown snowed off00:02
Obituary: Patrick Sullivan00:02
Hardened Boggans of Haxey give their all for the hood: Marianne Macdonald watches the Fool get smoked before a mud wrestle to the pub00:02
Singer dropped from Aids ad00:02
Bishop opposes abortion but supports treatment: Andrew Brown and Mary Braid find little unity among clerics or academics00:02
Appointments: University appointments00:02
Cricket: Morris digs in as going gets rough00:02
Iran-Contra report to be released00:02
Appeals: David Lewis Centre00:02
Art's unlikely man in the street00:02
Dustmen reprieved00:02
Food and Drink: It's time to turn out the lites: Miller's Clear Beer died, but its Amber Ale lives. Michael Jackson takes hope from a year that saw a shift from watery brews to the real thing00:02
Music adviser quits over cuts00:02
War with Kurds makes Turkey think again00:02
Leader of councils review body criticised00:02
Halifax drop00:02
Japanese make space for UFOs00:02
US jobless down again: Rate near three-year low as consumer confidence lifts growth hopes00:02
Sailing: Keen Kiwis primed for bare-knuckle fight: The third leg of the Whitbread Round The World Race begins tomorrow. Stuart Alexander reports from Fremantle00:02
Bonus cuts bring down life insurance policy payouts: Caroline Merrell reports on a shock for policyholders and warns more may be on the way00:02
Burnt body inquiry00:02
Unit Trust Letter00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Monopoly on a grand scale: 'Disraeli' - Stanley Weintraub: Hamish Hamilton, 25 pounds00:02
Cricket: Wessels happy to stand down00:02
DANCE / As seen on television: Judith Mackrell looks back on an unusual week of specially commissioned pieces for television00:02
'Salvaged' collection is offered for 1m pounds00:02
Senior Iraqi visits Turkey00:02
Hardened Boggans of Haxey give their all for the hood: Marianne Macdonald watches the Fool get smoked before a mud wrestle to the pub00:02
US jobless down again: Rate near three-year low as consumer confidence lifts growth hopes00:02
Correction00:02
Letter: Safeguards on the use of genetics00:02
Appeals: Benjamin Franklin00:02
Secrecy of the man whose family shouted the odds00:02
Russia paying a high price for low air-safety standards: Fears heightened by figures showing massive growth in plane crash deaths00:02
War with Kurds makes Turkey think again00:02
Music adviser quits over cuts00:02
Sporting digest: American Football00:02
Scot is shot dead when mistaken for prowler00:02
THEATRE / All shirk and low pay: Paul Taylor on a new comedy by Tim Firth at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough00:02
Destiny over the phone: Heart Searching: Believe in fate? Star-crossed lovers? Lyndsay Russell decides to consult Britain's first clairvoyant dating agency00:02
Kabul ceasefire00:02
DANCE / As seen on television: Judith Mackrell looks back on an unusual week of specially commissioned pieces for television00:02
Care worker jailed00:02
Salinas talks tough as Zapatistas strike back: Army poised for offensive as rebels threaten attack on Mexico City after destroying power lines in two more states00:02
Appointments: Service appointments00:02
Tool Box: Start with a clean sweeper00:02
Engineering Council00:02
Gardening: A midwinter night's dream: A new year, a new garden. Stephen Anderton pictures his ideal plot, all clean, mown lines, subtle scents and shapely trees, elegant in the January frost and also under the August sun00:02
Nato called on to accept new states: Former Warsaw Pact countries press for full membership00:02
Insurers accused of cherry-picking00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Obsession pulls down a father to prison: The Malkin case: Man's love for his son has cost him dear, writes Will Bennett00:02
Bar code: In the Norfolk LA pub, the staff dance on the bar, the drinkers are under-age and there's no booze. Julie Aschkenasy reports00:02
Sailing: The shortest leg presents a test in shortage of options: Grant Dalton, skipper of the maxi leader, New Zealand Endeavour, sets the scene for the Independent as he plans the best alternatives for the trip to Auckland00:02
Departures00:02
Today's number: 3,00000:02
Infernos engulf Sydney suburbs: Thousands evacuated as more than 100 bushfires rage out of control across New South Wales00:02
Food and Drink: A public offer in private company: The Green Street club has opened its doors to anyone who enjoys a good lunch, says Emily Green00:02
Burnt body inquiry00:02
Obituary: W. Edwards Deming00:02
Appeal made over brothers00:02
Gamsakhurdia body politics00:02
MG shares down 25% in Frankfurt as talks open00:02
Football: Bolton seek a second Mersey scalp: Phil Shaw believes the bad weather will prove a great leveller in today's FA Cup third-round ties00:02
Conman warning00:02
Strobe lights up the world stage for his friend Bill: Praise is mixed with some doubt as Mr Clinton promotes an old chum at the State Department, writes Rupert Cornwell from Washington00:02
Yeo keeps talking as colleagues urge silence: Former minister attacks constituent00:02
Darts: George has the final word00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fallen mother of a nation: 'The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela' - Emma Gilbey: Jonathan Cape, 18.9900:02
Football: Bolton seek a second Mersey scalp: Phil Shaw believes the bad weather will prove a great leveller in today's FA Cup third-round ties00:02
Tennis: Seles still not ready to make a grand entrance: The former world No 1 decides against making a comeback to defend her title at the Australian Open00:02
Auctions00:02
Singer dropped from Aids ad00:02
Prague halts planned cuts in armed forces00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Where the wild and darling things are: Jan Morris on penguins, plankton, zebra, butterflies, wolves and cats00:02
Food and Drink: What I am suggesting is just a load of tripe00:02
Stein leaves Ladbroke with a pounds 1m pay-off: Company chief who accepted, then rejected, a back-seat role agrees to step down as non-executive00:02
Car makers warn of sales slowdown00:02
Sailing: The shortest leg presents a test in shortage of options: Grant Dalton, skipper of the maxi leader, New Zealand Endeavour, sets the scene for the Independent as he plans the best alternatives for the trip to Auckland00:02
Father jailed for snatching boy: 18 months for contempt after judge is told abductions have left 12-year-old 'in a mess'00:02
Public to have a say on use of aborted ovaries00:02
Secrecy of the man whose family shouted the odds00:02
Would you credit it?: Our appetite for the extreme, the bizarre and the frankly grotesque is apparently insatiable. John Windsor has the astounding facts00:02
Letter: A worse scandal than adultery00:02
Air UK flies back to profit after three years in red00:02
Letter: Spare the Highlands from sentimentality00:02
Letter: Leadership and priorities in the Church of England00:02
Travel: Top 20 resorts: Argentiere00:02
Scot is shot dead when mistaken for prowler00:02
Food and Drink: What fresh hell is this?