00:02
View from City Road: Superstores take cue from utilities00:02
MUSIC / Played for time: Adrian Jack on recitals of new work for basset horn and soprano00:02
Bottom Line: Electron fired up00:02
Pay-off for health director00:02
POP / Albums: But where's the beef?00:02
Mandela warns far right to hold fire: ANC leader says estranged wife to stand in parliamentary polls00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Everton humbled by Coyle: Bolton pull back two-goal deficit to earn tie with holders00:02
Henry VIII helps put red tape to the torch: The Government yesterday launched what it calls the biggest purge of bureaucracy since the war. 'Independent' writers examine the details of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill00:02
MP seeks release of more details00:02
Proud Ferruzzi dynasty brought low by scandals: Graft inquiry heaps humiliation on Italian company still reeling from the suicide of its leading light00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Health: Concern over care of elderly00:02
BRIDGE / A prickly pair00:02
Kent failure blamed on Guy's snags00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
POP / Interview: The man who gets all the credits: When the composer Michael Kamen gave us 'Everything I Do', it hung around for months. Now 'All for Love' looks set to do the same. Can we forgive him? Giles Smith thinks so00:02
Athletics: Ma threatens to quit over 'conspiracy'00:02
Abortions testify to Srebrenica despair: Residents of a Muslim enclave in Bosnia are sliding into a spiral of madness and gloom, writes Robert Block in Belgrade00:02
BOSNIA APPEAL / Helping the helpless00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
30-year feud led to village massacre00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Everton humbled by Coyle: Bolton pull back two-goal deficit to earn tie with holders00:02
POP / Charts00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Business: Burdens will be lifted from small companies00:02
View from City Road: Sea of red tape around nation of shopkeepers00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Transport: Permits abolished but lorry ban stays in force00:02
Dear Dorothea Sharp: The first fictional feminist? Bah] George Eliot must have been tearing her hair out as she penned her creation's fate00:02
BA demands that Air France aid be repaid00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Transport: Permits abolished but lorry ban stays in force00:02
MEPs' row with France threatens Euro-elections00:02
Police hold 60 in Cairo raids00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
European court to hear gay case00:02
Obituary: Madge Ryan00:02
Review points to gap in air safety00:02
Sports Letters00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Ice Skating: Struggling Cousins lands in trouble: British contender hits the boards as Petrenko bounces back in style00:02
Earthquake takes gloss off Golden State: Many Los Angeles residents are rethinking their decision to live in California00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
View from City Road: Slip in retail sales catches markets out00:02
Letter: Good and bad uses of overseas development aid00:02
Crest builds on recovery: Revitalised group kicks off growth strategy with cash call00:02
New governor for rebel Mexican state00:02
Letter: Fairness to Scott inquiry witnesses00:02
MUSIC / Played for time: Adrian Jack on recitals of new work for basset horn and soprano00:02
Minister was asked to lobby for grants: Westminster council used part of millions received on 'homes-for-votes' gerrymandering after briefing local MP00:02
Bottom Line: Blast from the past00:02
Flexibility in the long term: Proposals to replace the traditional academic year with two semesters have drawn a mixed response, says Ngaio Crequer00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Tennis: Sampras staggered by shots of Kafelnikov: World No 1 survives an extended encounter with the blond from the Black Sea while Leconte wilts in the heat00:02
POP / Nilsson Schmilsson, and other disguises: There was far more to Harry Nilsson, who died last week, than 'Without You'. Chris Salewicz looks back over an exemplary record00:02
Inspector says Wandsworth housing policy inadequate00:02
United stand against Boutros: Inside File00:02
Tourist arrested in Sri Lankan 'orgy'00:02
Hidden clues to the workings of the minds behind the crimes: Psychological profiling can give police new leads, but we should not expect it to be infallible, says Linda Joffee00:02
Ethnic Germans hail Czech deal for Jews00:02
Giro thefts arrests00:02
Police hold 60 in Cairo raids00:02
View from City Road: California can build again and prosper00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
'Obsessed' man imprisoned tourists in custody battle00:02
Don't read too much Tolstoy, Mr Smith00:02
The Age of Consent Debate: Face to face in the homosexual debate: Marianne Macdonald listens to the opposing arguments of a gay teenaged boy and a mature Tory traditionalist00:02
Problem child back with retail's big boys: Tesco has realised that shoppers want value, not more stores. Heather Connon reports00:02
Death sentence for gangsters00:02
Rising drug problem linked to violence: Rave parties increase demand as shipments worth pounds 519m are seized00:02
No such thing as an 'efficient market'00:02
Review points to gap in air safety00:02
ARTS / Right of Reply: Derek Deane defends an 'unchallenging' Nutcracker00:02
Stent resigns00:02
Problem child back with retail's big boys: Tesco has realised that shoppers want value, not more stores. Heather Connon reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Real Tennis00:02
Racing: Jockey Club closes Maguire's escape route: A harsh penalty is in prospect for the jump season's most successful rider while, in France, a famous track is doomed00:02
30-year feud led to village massacre00:02
'Rogue heroin' fear as seventh victim collapses00:02
RIFFS / Steve McDonald of Red Kross00:02
Quebeckers enthusiastic about sex00:02
Serb-Croat pact signals new battle for Bosnia00:02
Secretaries' pay beats the recession00:02
Obituary: Helen Stephens00:02
9,000 pounds magnum00:02
Paris Haute Couture, Spring 199400:02
Royals' rooms revealed00:02
Arms deals 'linked to biggest increases in overseas aid': Countries benefit after placing orders for weapons00:02
Flexibility in the long term: Proposals to replace the traditional academic year with two semesters have drawn a mixed response, says Ngaio Crequer00:02
The music's over for decaying CDs00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Health: Concern over care of elderly00:02
POP REVIEW / Scenes from the Cornershop: Marek Kohn on Cornershop in concert at the Camden Palace, London00:02
Here Today00:02
Tourist arrested in Sri Lankan 'orgy'00:02
US computer profits weaken00:02
Today's Number: 99900:02
Maintenance hike00:02
THEATRE / Flights of fancy: Perhaps. Dancers swamp the actors in Caryl Churchill's The Skriker. Judith Mackrell talked to the playwright during rehearsals00:02
Wife 'threatened to cut off penis'00:02
Rugby League: Highfield likely to be fined00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
GLOSSARY / A Utopian language of unsplittable hairs00:02
Mandela warns far right to hold fire: ANC leader says estranged wife to stand in parliamentary polls00:02
Diary00:02
Inspector says Wandsworth housing policy inadequate00:02
Survival of rare poplar hinges on tree 'zoo'00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Employment: Ministers fight shy of relaxing rules on safety00:02
Clinton in defence appointee dilemma00:02
Bottom Line: Electron fired up00:02
Wife 'threatened to cut off penis'00:02
Henry VIII helps put red tape to the torch: The Government yesterday launched what it calls the biggest purge of bureaucracy since the war. 'Independent' writers examine the details of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill00:02
Gandhi murder trial opens in secret00:02
No such thing as an 'efficient market'00:02
POP / Interview: The man who gets all the credits: When the composer Michael Kamen gave us 'Everything I Do', it hung around for months. Now 'All for Love' looks set to do the same. Can we forgive him? Giles Smith thinks so00:02
Private sector put to the test: The head of Roedean believes new inspection procedures will enhance credibility. Julia Hagedorn reports00:02
Obituary: Samuel Bronston00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Pull-out denied as Hurd visits British UN troops00:02
Serb-Croat pact signals new battle for Bosnia00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Pay-off for health director00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Inside Parliament: Peers attack quango culture: Baroness Williams deplores the erosion of civic society; Lib Dems condemn Tory party's 'fountain of patronage'00:02
Cricket: Tendulkar turns the screw00:02
View from City Road: Superstores take cue from utilities00:02
PC convicted00:02
Tobacco duty knocks the fire out of the PSBR00:02
Obituary: Professor C. M. White00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Letter: Not a spy, a traitor00:02
Diary00:02
Fashion Update00:02
Rugby League: Highfield likely to be fined00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
MP's career threatened by Iraqi TV appearance: Friendly exchange with Saddam infuriates Labour leadership00:02
Drummed out00:02
ARTS / Right of Reply: Derek Deane defends an 'unchallenging' Nutcracker00:02
Goldman Sachs loses another high-flyer from its London office: Debt trader follows top earners out of investment bank00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
2.5m pounds pirate videos00:02
Hamburg avoids a political own goal00:02
Football / FA Cup: Stein inspires demise of Barnet00:02
Tired, friendless and trapped: Struggling to form a government, President Yeltsin has lost his way, says Andrew Higgins00:02
Letter: Good and bad uses of overseas development aid00:02
Obituary: Arthur Dooley00:02
Royals' rooms revealed00:02
American makes fourth annual loss00:02
Maintenance hike00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Letter: Changes are vital after Jamaica flight00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: The task force: High flyer makes comeback00:02
Thyssen warns of job losses following 'worst year'00:02
Inside Parliament: Peers attack quango culture: Baroness Williams deplores the erosion of civic society; Lib Dems condemn Tory party's 'fountain of patronage'00:02
Today's Number: 99900:02
Sports Letters00:02
Athletics: Earthquake was like a 'firework display': British runners recount the moment when devastation struck Los Angeles. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Instruments of the King's will00:02
Secretaries' pay beats the recession00:02
Letter: Violence in London00:02
BRIDGE / A prickly pair00:02
Leading Article: A crime that must not be forgotten00:02
Rugby Union: The craft of a true hard man00:02
Relax, don't do it. Exercise with me and shed no tears00:02
Giro thefts arrests00:02
Motor Racing: Senna quick to show vision: Williams-Renault's brilliant Brazilian fires opening salvo as he settles confidently into his new team. Derick Allsop reports from Estoril00:02
Here Today00:02
Leading Article: Arrogant and unaccountable00:02
Market Report: Second-line stocks take centre stage00:02
DILEMMAS / Are they mature enough to handle young love?00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: A girl drinking outside The Flask pub in north London.00:02
Turkish lira takes tumble on markets00:02
Bottom Line: Crest has missed the boat00:02
DILEMMAS / Are they mature enough to handle young love?00:02
Cricket: Tendulkar turns the screw00:02
Letter: Russian response raises concerns in Latvia00:02
Racing: Jockey Club closes Maguire's escape route: A harsh penalty is in prospect for the jump season's most successful rider while, in France, a famous track is doomed00:02
Bank offers cars to lure cardholders00:02
'Rogue heroin' fear as seventh victim collapses00:02
Lords expected to give Government rough ride00:02
Minister was asked to lobby for grants: Westminster council used part of millions received on 'homes-for-votes' gerrymandering after briefing local MP00:02
Letter: France is top for tips00:02
Walking: Norfolk, cold in the extreme: Michael Leapman follows Parson Woodforde's frozen footsteps in Weston00:02
Saint Laurent offers sorbets and sweeties00:02
European court to hear gay case00:02
Relax, don't do it. Exercise with me and shed no tears00:02
POP / Gig guide00:02
COMEDY / Holiday on dry ice: Martin Kelner on Billy Connolly00:02
Obituary: Professor C. M. White00:02
Tired, friendless and trapped: Struggling to form a government, President Yeltsin has lost his way, says Andrew Higgins00:02
Letter: France is top for tips00:02
MEPs' row with France threatens Euro-elections00:02
Obituary: Dixy Lee Ray00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympics00:02
Rugby Union: The craft of a true hard man00:02
Scott inquiry defends 'pragmatic approach'00:02
Letter: Not a spy, a traitor00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
REVIEW / Undermining the fabric of our society00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Bottom Line: Blast from the past00:02
Out of France: Mme Defarge lives00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Sweeping away regulations: plans for the short and medium term00:02
Tesco slashes spending on new stores: Retailer faces up to harsh climate00:02
Private sector put to the test: The head of Roedean believes new inspection procedures will enhance credibility. Julia Hagedorn reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Education: Real-life struggles of a TV pupil: Bridgette Lawrence on the first appearance of a disabled pupil in Grange Hill00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Employment: Ministers fight shy of relaxing rules on safety00:02
Obituary: Yen Chia-kan00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: . . . and the ones that got away00:02
Obituary: Yen Chia-kan00:02
Markets soar on rate hopes: Disappointing retail sales and better inflation news sends shares and bonds rocketing00:02
Earthquake takes gloss off Golden State: Many Los Angeles residents are rethinking their decision to live in California00:02
Athletics: Ma threatens to quit over 'conspiracy'00:02
Baltic leaders warn Russia on troops presence00:02
Leading Article: Unusual skills that attract rare rewards00:02
TUC in drive for workers' rights00:02
Sailing: Dalton closing in on leaders00:02
THEATRE / Love hurts: Paul Taylor on September Tide at the Comedy00:02
Christian 'will not be executed'00:02
Taylor returns to law and order fight: A day after the Lords' police Bill revolt, the Lord Chief Justice has criticised a key part of the criminal justice proposals00:02
Violence in Crimea after Tatar is shot00:02
Mouldy crust's clue to life00:02
Football / FA Cup: Allison finds return ticket for lively City: Touch of Rush not enough for lax Liverpool00:02
Egging each other on: They have been billed as physical theatre, live art, mime, dance and oral Palestinian theatre. Naseem Khan gets a hold on dA dA dUMB00:02
Football: McStay makes a point for Celtic00:02
View from City Road: California can build again and prosper00:02
Letter: France is top for tips00:02
Letter: Good and bad uses of overseas development aid00:02
Test offers hope on bone disease00:02
Obituary: Arthur Dooley00:02
Motor Racing: Senna quick to show vision: Williams-Renault's brilliant Brazilian fires opening salvo as he settles confidently into his new team. Derick Allsop reports from Estoril00:02
Letter: Russian response raises concerns in Latvia00:02
Paris Haute Couture, Spring 199400:02
COMEDY / Holiday on dry ice: Martin Kelner on Billy Connolly00:02
Lords expected to give Government rough ride00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Education: The crack-up of a vital back-up: The Government's commitment to special needs teaching has an increasingly hollow ring as support services come under pressure from its reforms, says Fran Abrams00:02
Letter: Fairness to Scott inquiry witnesses00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools Dividends00:02
Court Circular00:02
Russia needs help with the small print00:02
Letter: Good and bad uses of overseas development aid00:02
The Daily Poem: Four Years00:02
Topic Plus takes over at the Stock Exchange00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Business: Burdens will be lifted from small companies00:02
Football / FA Cup: Allison finds return ticket for lively City: Touch of Rush not enough for lax Liverpool00:02
Ice-skater's former husband gives himself up00:02
Saudis may bless Arafat pilgrimage00:02
Hidden clues to the workings of the minds behind the crimes: Psychological profiling can give police new leads, but we should not expect it to be infallible, says Linda Joffee00:02
RIFFS / Steve McDonald of Red Kross00:02
Rugby Union: Welsh to take no action against Jenkins: Wales hooker's hooks anger Edinburgh lawyer and inspire protest to police00:02
Chess draw00:02
Bouquet for Cadbury00:02
French ponder fertility ethics00:02
QMH rescue hit by blunder: Resolutions passed at recent meetings found to be invalid00:02
Birthdays00:02
Walking: Norfolk, cold in the extreme: Michael Leapman follows Parson Woodforde's frozen footsteps in Weston00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
'Obsessed' man imprisoned tourists in custody battle00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Heseltine lights flames of change: Promised bonfire of red tape aims to widen choice for consumers and help industry by cutting billions of pounds off costs00:02
TUC in drive for workers' rights00:02
Football: Williams joins B men00:02
POP REVIEW / Scenes from the Cornershop: Marek Kohn on Cornershop in concert at the Camden Palace, London00:02
Chess draw00:02
Jail for sponsorship chief in arts swindle00:02
9,000 pounds magnum00:02
You call it a disgrace, we call it home: New Age travellers and gypsies should be respected, not hounded, says a surprising champion of their way of life. Harry Pugh reports00:02
Crest builds on recovery: Revitalised group kicks off growth strategy with cash call00:02
Turkish lira takes tumble on markets00:02
POP / Charts00:02
Pull-out denied as Hurd visits British UN troops00:02
Sailing: Dalton closing in on leaders00:02
Obituary: Madge Ryan00:02
SS oath of silence foiled massacre inquiry: Papers show investigators were certain that officer ordered killing of up to 90 British prisoners. Stephen Ward reports00:02
Out of France: Mme Defarge lives00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
US computer profits weaken00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Liberal values: property, elitism, authority: 'The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain' - Jonathan Parry: Yale University Press, 30 pounds00:02
ARTS / and what's more . . .00:02
The Age of Consent Debate: Face to face in the homosexual debate: Marianne Macdonald listens to the opposing arguments of a gay teenaged boy and a mature Tory traditionalist00:02
Veil firm on HIV-scandal sentences00:02
Howard accepts UK holidays for offenders: Prison sentence 'not always necessary'00:02
Leading Article: A crime that must not be forgotten00:02
Football: McStay makes a point for Celtic00:02
Survival of rare poplar hinges on tree 'zoo'00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: A girl drinking outside The Flask pub in north London.00:02
Abortions testify to Srebrenica despair: Residents of a Muslim enclave in Bosnia are sliding into a spiral of madness and gloom, writes Robert Block in Belgrade00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Teacher turns back on Romeo's loving00:02
Education: Real-life struggles of a TV pupil: Bridgette Lawrence on the first appearance of a disabled pupil in Grange Hill00:02
Mouldy crust's clue to life00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
THEATRE / Love hurts: Paul Taylor on September Tide at the Comedy00:02
POP / Albums: But where's the beef?00:02
Member of zoo board is sacked00:02
Peking lectured on rights00:02
Sporting Digest: Real Tennis00:02
Leading Article: Arrogant and unaccountable00:02
Pembrook: Murray takes an early bath00:02
Fires blaze in Gaza as Palestinians vent their anger00:02
SS oath of silence foiled massacre inquiry: Papers show investigators were certain that officer ordered killing of up to 90 British prisoners. Stephen Ward reports00:02
PC convicted00:02
Letter: Squeezing the Tube00:02
Blight at the end of the tunnel: The Government must act to stop homes being robbed of their value, says Andrew Rowe00:02
POP / Nilsson Schmilsson, and other disguises: There was far more to Harry Nilsson, who died last week, than 'Without You'. Chris Salewicz looks back over an exemplary record00:02
Court ponders prelude to apocalypse: Rupert Cornwell attends the San Antonio trial of Koresh followers accused over the shoot-out that paved the way for the Waco disaster00:02
New governor for rebel Mexican state00:02
Christian 'will not be executed'00:02
Fires blaze in Gaza as Palestinians vent their anger00:02
Saint Laurent offers sorbets and sweeties00:02
Uzbek finance minister paid off00:02
Football / FA Cup: Stein inspires demise of Barnet00:02
Howard accepts UK holidays for offenders: Prison sentence 'not always necessary'00:02
Correction: Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith00:02
Racing: Chantilly all set for the coup de grace: Greg Wood reports on worsening symptoms of decline in the fortunes of the French turf00:02
Russians begin to form government: Western jitters are calmed by reports that Fyodorov will stay on as finance minister, but coalminers threaten to strike00:02
Bottom Line: Crest has missed the boat00:02
Football / FA Cup: Bart-Williams topples Forest00:02
QMH rescue hit by blunder: Resolutions passed at recent meetings found to be invalid00:02
MP's career threatened by Iraqi TV appearance: Friendly exchange with Saddam infuriates Labour leadership00:02
CHESS / A touch of Dutch delicacy00:02
American makes fourth annual loss00:02
Greycoat rides again00:02
French ponder fertility ethics00:02
Ethnic Germans hail Czech deal for Jews00:02
2.5m pounds pirate videos00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Ice Skating: Struggling Cousins lands in trouble: British contender hits the boards as Petrenko bounces back in style00:02
Stent resigns00:02
Education: The crack-up of a vital back-up: The Government's commitment to special needs teaching has an increasingly hollow ring as support services come under pressure from its reforms, says Fran Abrams00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Near-disaster in the crowded sky00:02
Test offers hope on bone disease00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Tobacco duty knocks the fire out of the PSBR00:02
81 ponies killed00:02
MP seeks release of more details00:02
Killer of boy, 7, 'was sex offender on parole'00:02
Virani 'inflated BCCI profits': Court told of issue of false documents00:02
Football: Sugar delayed announcement over Venables: The new England manager was to be appointed today. Joe Lovejoy explains why he will not be00:02
The Daily Poem: Four Years00:02
BOSNIA APPEAL / Helping the helpless00:02
Court ponders prelude to apocalypse: Rupert Cornwell attends the San Antonio trial of Koresh followers accused over the shoot-out that paved the way for the Waco disaster00:02
POP / Beaten with a rhythm stick: Stomp is the 'musician's idea of theatre', a wall of sound built with crashing percussion. Nick Curtis reports00:02
Boxing: Bruno has Lewis in sights00:02
Rising drug problem linked to violence: Rave parties increase demand as shipments worth pounds 519m are seized00:02
Letter: Intelligence gatherers' unity of purpose00:02
Leading Article: Unusual skills that attract rare rewards00:02
Gandhi murder trial opens in secret00:02
Bouquet for Cadbury00:02
Dear Dorothea Sharp: The first fictional feminist? Bah] George Eliot must have been tearing her hair out as she penned her creation's fate00:02
Brandreth grant second highest to be written-off: Chris Blackhurst finds that only two tourist board awards exceeding pounds 200,000 have been scrapped00:02
REVIEW / Undermining the fabric of our society00:02
Egging each other on: They have been billed as physical theatre, live art, mime, dance and oral Palestinian theatre. Naseem Khan gets a hold on dA dA dUMB00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: The task force: High flyer makes comeback00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Tottenham survive penalty shoot-out00:02
Goldman Sachs loses another high-flyer from its London office: Debt trader follows top earners out of investment bank00:02
Athletics: Earthquake was like a 'firework display': British runners recount the moment when devastation struck Los Angeles. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Fortune deflected away from Pompey00:02
Greece to end row with Skopje00:02
81 ponies killed00:02
Kent failure blamed on Guy's snags00:02
THEATRE / Flights of fancy: Perhaps. Dancers swamp the actors in Caryl Churchill's The Skriker. Judith Mackrell talked to the playwright during rehearsals00:02
Test offers hope on bone disease00:02
Court Circular00:02
You call it a disgrace, we call it home: New Age travellers and gypsies should be respected, not hounded, says a surprising champion of their way of life. Harry Pugh reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools Dividends00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: Sweeping away regulations: plans for the short and medium term00:02
America's eastern states close down as temperatures drop to as low as 30 degrees below zero00:02
Letter: France is top for tips00:02
First break the ice, then break the taboo: Julia Hagedorn reports on a project in which pupils are teaching each other the facts about HIV and Aids00:02
Teacher turns back on Romeo's loving00:02
Baltic leaders warn Russia on troops presence00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
View from City Road: Slip in retail sales catches markets out00:02
Blight at the end of the tunnel: The Government must act to stop homes being robbed of their value, says Andrew Rowe00:02
The music's over for decaying CDs00:02
CHESS / A touch of Dutch delicacy00:02
Pembrook: Murray takes an early bath00:02
Death sentence for gangsters00:02
Athletics: Former charges angry at Temple allegations00:02
Clinton in defence appointee dilemma00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
Historic hatter finds world market for tweed caps and trilbys00:02
Racing: Chantilly all set for the coup de grace: Greg Wood reports on worsening symptoms of decline in the fortunes of the French turf00:02
Russia needs help with the small print00:02
Rugby Union: Welsh to take no action against Jenkins: Wales hooker's hooks anger Edinburgh lawyer and inspire protest to police00:02
Killer of boy, 7, 'was sex offender on parole'00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Quebeckers enthusiastic about sex00:02
Letter: Intelligence gatherers' unity of purpose00:02
Member of zoo board is sacked00:02
Correction: Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith00:02
Historic hatter finds world market for tweed caps and trilbys00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Instruments of the King's will00:02
Greycoat rides again00:02
Birthdays00:02
Heseltine lights flames of change: Promised bonfire of red tape aims to widen choice for consumers and help industry by cutting billions of pounds off costs00:02
Cricket: England's selectors spoiled for choice: Young guns stake their claim00:02
Don't read too much Tolstoy, Mr Smith00:02
Letter: Violence in London00:02
Near-disaster in the crowded sky00:02
America's eastern states close down as temperatures drop to as low as 30 degrees below zero00:02
Tesco slashes spending on new stores: Retailer faces up to harsh climate00:02
Poor shop sales lift hopes of rate cut00:02
POP / Gig guide00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Boxing: Bruno has Lewis in sights00:02
Obituary: Dixy Lee Ray00:02
Missile jobs fall to latest BAe axe00:02
Saudis may bless Arafat pilgrimage00:02
Letter: Changes are vital after Jamaica flight00:02
Pergau deal highlights sweetened trade success: David Bowen looks at the use of aid to make deals00:02
Cricket: England's selectors spoiled for choice: Young guns stake their claim00:02
Arms deals 'linked to biggest increases in overseas aid': Countries benefit after placing orders for weapons00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Tottenham survive penalty shoot-out00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 country music videos of 199300:02
Ice-skater's former husband gives himself up00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
ARTS / and what's more . . .00:02
Veil firm on HIV-scandal sentences00:02
Football / FA Cup: Bart-Williams topples Forest00:02
Missile jobs fall to latest BAe axe00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 country music videos of 199300:02
GLOSSARY / A Utopian language of unsplittable hairs00:02
Jail for sponsorship chief in arts swindle00:02
Obituary: Samuel Bronston00:02
Pergau deal highlights sweetened trade success: David Bowen looks at the use of aid to make deals00:02
POP / Beaten with a rhythm stick: Stomp is the 'musician's idea of theatre', a wall of sound built with crashing percussion. Nick Curtis reports00:02
Letter: Squeezing the Tube00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Brandreth grant second highest to be written-off: Chris Blackhurst finds that only two tourist board awards exceeding pounds 200,000 have been scrapped00:02
United stand against Boutros: Inside File00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
SILLY QUESTIONS / This growing mound00:02
Virani 'inflated BCCI profits': Court told of issue of false documents00:02
Proud Ferruzzi dynasty brought low by scandals: Graft inquiry heaps humiliation on Italian company still reeling from the suicide of its leading light00:02
Tennis: Sampras staggered by shots of Kafelnikov: World No 1 survives an extended encounter with the blond from the Black Sea while Leconte wilts in the heat00:02
Market Report: Second-line stocks take centre stage00:02
Obituary: Helen Stephens00:02
Peking lectured on rights00:02
Hamburg avoids a political own goal00:02
Greece to end row with Skopje00:02
Taylor returns to law and order fight: A day after the Lords' police Bill revolt, the Lord Chief Justice has criticised a key part of the criminal justice proposals00:02
SILLY QUESTIONS / This growing mound00:02
Scott inquiry defends 'pragmatic approach'00:02
First break the ice, then break the taboo: Julia Hagedorn reports on a project in which pupils are teaching each other the facts about HIV and Aids00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Athletics: Former charges angry at Temple allegations00:02
Football: Sugar delayed announcement over Venables: The new England manager was to be appointed today. Joe Lovejoy explains why he will not be00:02
Bank offers cars to lure cardholders00:02
Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill: . . . and the ones that got away00:02
Fashion Update00:02
Topic Plus takes over at the Stock Exchange00:02
BA demands that Air France aid be repaid00:02
Uzbek finance minister paid off00:02
Football / FA Cup Third Round: Fortune deflected away from Pompey00:02
Thyssen warns of job losses following 'worst year'00:02
Poor shop sales lift hopes of rate cut00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
View from City Road: Sea of red tape around nation of shopkeepers00:02
Markets soar on rate hopes: Disappointing retail sales and better inflation news sends shares and bonds rocketing00:02
Drummed out00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
Russians begin to form government: Western jitters are calmed by reports that Fyodorov will stay on as finance minister, but coalminers threaten to strike00:02
Violence in Crimea after Tatar is shot00:02
Sporting Digest: Olympics00:02
Football: Williams joins B men00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Liberal values: property, elitism, authority: 'The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain' - Jonathan Parry: Yale University Press, 30 pounds