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Review: A whale of a plot packed into a sardine tin00:02
Appointments00:02
Appeals: Care International00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Smug, wet, pink orthodoxy: 'Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC' Chris Borrie and Steve Clarke: Heinemann, 16.99 pounds00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Food & Drink: Recipe: Simply spiced curries of Sri Lanka00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Contract for water supply criticised00:02
Granada wins bitter battle to own LWT: Chairman regrets loss of independence00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Football: Venables' key to revolution is flexibility: England seek surprise00:02
Landmarks: Castle Drogo00:02
Travel: Harmony, good hope and super sass: Tumbling rivers, azure shoals - James Bond's Jamaica leaves Katie Hickman stirred by glamour, not shaken by danger00:02
Obituary: Don Phillips00:02
God and Mammon vie in the heart of darkness: Diamonds and religion keep Kisangani alive, Richard Dowden writes from a Zaire town whose history is steeped in blood00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Property: Innocent buyers and evil cellars: Asbestos, lead, mercury . . . thousands of homes are perched on toxic landfill sites. Amanda Seidl digs deep to learn the worst00:02
Berlin cover-up00:02
Cricket: England welcome back injured paceman00:02
Postcard from Vienna: Deep in blood: Frederick Baker on a striking Croatian version of Faust that has opened old wounds00:02
Painter who lost his sight 'sees' as sculptor00:02
Russian miners warn on closures00:02
Heart Searching: A significant step forward: Matthew Campling on a new agency for lesbians and gay men00:02
Company news in Brief00:02
Profile: So farewell, socialist about town: Roy Hattersley, Labour's Yorkshire pudding, bows out00:02
Film tickets00:02
Football: Johnson set for Goodison00:02
Court Circular00:02
Racing: Word power to dazzle veterans: Gifford's progressive chaser can give punters cause to raise the roof over the season's richest National Hunt card outside the Festival00:02
Bogus policeman fined00:02
Church appointments00:02
Winter Olympics: Results from Lillehammer00:02
Ceasefire brings no relief to Mostar00:02
Letter: Coached towards seat-belt safety00:02
OFF THE SHELF / Roaring, heavenly visions: Kenneth Baxter on Margery Kempe's autobiography00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Russian expelled by US in spy row00:02
Golf: Nicklaus proves a stranger on familiar ground: Designer Jack fails to avoid pitfalls of his own making as Australia's Fowler shoots an eagle to take wing in Turespana Masters00:02
Football: Parreira's dynasty so sure of their destiny: Brazil sense the time is ripe to end 24 years of World Cup failure. Joe Lovejoy reports from New York00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Recommended00:02
Obituary: Tom Skeffington-Lodge00:02
Portman's island offer00:02
Free exchange00:02
Palme case hope00:02
Travel: Bogart puzzle00:02
Sterilising proves fertile for Isotron profits00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Pea super00:02
View from Frankfurt: Electoral catharsis beckons for Germany00:02
Obituary: Georges Lamirand00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Apologies 'make no difference': Angry government in Kuala Lumpur says that 'patronising' articles in the UK press forced its hand00:02
Travel: The Location Hunters: The perfect city for an imperfect murder: Warm and hospitable Hamburg appeared fraught with menace through the cold eye of Wim Wenders, says Simon Calder00:02
Anger as Dublin judge frees terrorist suspect00:02
Travel (Skiing): Good runs for your money: With Italy a bargain at the moment, Chris Gill compares the scenic slopes at a new package resort, and finds that it's a close run thing00:02
The smartest jackets in town: Buyers are being persuaded to judge a book by looking at its cover, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
Markets rally but rate fears persist: Hedge fund rumours rattle markets Soros fund says it lost dollars 600m Home loan offers withdrawn00:02
Extra security pays off00:02
Letter: Falsely accused00:02
France shooting00:02
DANCE / Little England: Judith Mackrell reviews Janet Smith's 'Intimate Strangers' at The Place00:02
S Korea offers meeting to North00:02
The Hebron Massacre: Doctor who 'vowed to take revenge'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A grand tour in the circles of hell: Ian Thomson considers the history of Dante's masterpiece and a lively new translation00:02
Athletics: Jackson ready for snap decision: TSB International00:02
Investment trusts missing great chance, says report00:02
Football: Blake's Welsh call-up00:02
Football Diary: Blooming youth at Rangers00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Wills00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Shoot to kill00:02
Endowment sale00:02
Mercouri ill00:02
Food & Drink: A good judge of fine clarets: In our series on wine collectors, Lord Slynn explains to Anthony Rose how he started to build his cellar00:02
Food & Drink: Give me the old taste of Russia00:02
Fees halved00:02
The Hebron Massacre: Brutal birth pangs of a nation00:02
Rugby Union: Turner unveils vision of a Manchester united: Underdogs Sale come to The Stoop prepared to conquer as surface tension threatens Bath's supremacy. Steve Bale reports00:02
Racing: Security cash for Aintree00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Business chief blames media00:02
The Hebron Massacre: Holy town where talk is only of vengeance: Yesterday's tragedy was all too predictable. Sarah Helm visited both sides in Hebron a few weeks ago. This is what she found00:02
Obituary: Dr Jane Chomet00:02
Appeals: The Homeless Furniture Project,00:02
Rugby League: Widnes dedicated to hard graft: Wigan's wobbles give Rovers hope of Challenge Cup upset00:02
Food & Drink: Fine wine, and good food to boot: Emily Green has a soft spot for Suffolk. So, when she heard from readers about two very different places serving honest-to-goodness fare, she was off00:02
Mentally ill PC 'at centre of police cell death'00:02
Leading Article: Press comment and trade are unrelated00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Fixed-rates fall to market fears: Mortgage lenders withdraw or re-price long-term loans after uncertainty over interest rates, writes Vivien Goldsmith00:02
FILM / From out of the cold: Blackpool: gale-force winds, no lights, and the man himself is ill. But, reports Martin Kelner, Alan Bleasdale Presents might just work00:02
Patten steams on with people power00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Zhirinovsky ruling00:02
Union Bank of Switzerland soars to pounds 1bn: Warning that 1994 will not be so good00:02
Court ruling puts rescues at risk: Administrators may have to sack entire workforces to avoid personal liability for redundancy costs00:02
BOOK REVIEW / An angel on a hillside: 'The Earth Made of Glass' - Robert Edric: Picador, 14.99 pounds00:02
Sink or swim: The Big Splash Action Group is fighting to save its London lido from imminent closure. Julie Aschkenasy tests the water00:02
Arson investigation00:02
Appointments: Recorders00:02
Motoring: Independent Road Test: Civic pride given a flash of colour: Brett Fraser drives Honda's new coupe, aimed at drivers who want a bit of dash for not much cash00:02
Financing care00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Guide to exams00:02
Contras call it a day00:02
SECOND THOUGHTS / A soul bleeds to death: Elaine Feinstein recalls the surprises in the writing of Lawrence's Women (Flamingo, pounds 6.99)00:02
Boxing: Wharton ill-equipped to get Duff off the hook: Nigel Benn ready to go the distance and retain his WBC super-middleweight title at Earls Court tonight. Ken Jones reports00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Alway and his bleeping jokes00:02
DISCS / DOUBLE PLAY: Hearing voices from the other side: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson compare notes on new-minted Holloway and revamped Gershwin00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Hurd says deals and aid were entangled00:02
Food & Drink: Souffles can rise to every occasion: Don't panic, and don't tamper with the recipe, if you want to produce a foolproof, fluffy dish00:02
Travel: Not for you-hoo00:02
Cod psychology00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: Citrus boom00:02
Russian says spy row will blow over00:02
Cricket: Sweeping swing to Pakistan00:02
Cricket: West Indies spectators take up a variety of vantage points to view Test cricket in Jamaica00:02
Tories 'to fight next election on low taxes'00:02
Chez Gerard plans to expand after float: Restaurant chain founders set to be multi-millionaires00:02
Obituary: Ruth Adler00:02
Bowls: End of the world for McClure after dynamic display from indoor champion Corsie00:02
Gardening: Slugs ordered off for fowl play: Ducks and worms are the latest biological weapons which could win the war against slimy pests, says Anna Pavord00:02
ARTS / And what's more ..00:02
Peacock feathers ruffle the London catwalk00:02
Letter: Clunis case reveals the community unprepared for care00:02
US begins 'superspy' reprisals00:02
Travel: Departures: Cambodia risks00:02
Money Grouse: Problems with protecting plastic00:02
Gonzalez denial00:02
Football: Celtic to move out of town00:02
Anniversaries00:02
City drug toll mounts00:02
Auctions00:02
Fresh shots fired in card battle00:02
Phone service00:02
Wimbledon depositors prepare for a long wait: Sue Fieldman looks at the effect of a small London bank's slide into administration00:02
Letter: Eat your words on cannibalism, Marina Warner00:02
Letter: Clunis case reveals the community unprepared for care00:02
Motoring: The shaping of things to come: Royden Axe, Rover's former design chief, talks cars with Phil Llewellin, and explains how his huge taxi could revitalise city transport00:02
Insurers and lenders told to stamp out inertia sales: Customers buying on credit should no longer have to take out insurance unknowingly. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
Football: Horton to face judgement day: Phil Shaw on the twists in the tale of three cities whose teams face decisive fixtures this weekend00:02
BAe faces pounds 30m bill for early payment of loans00:02
Clinton tries to stop backlash after massacre: Peace talks in peril despite Rabin's denunciation of 'loathsome act of murder' by militant Jewish settler who opened fire on worshippers in Hebron mosque00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Winter Olympics / Ski Jumping: Bredesen reborn00:02
Travel: Departures: Confident women00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Palace burglar steals Prince's heirlooms00:02
Letter: Malaysian dam project funding00:02
Gardening: Cuttings: My big question00:02
Sport: The Week in Review00:02
Parents are found guilty of killing baby: Fifteen-month-old child found covered in sores and 'left to die'00:02
Travel: Departures: Mind-broadening00:02
BOOK REVIEW / From Peter Pan to Casualty: Tom Hiney on Richard Powers' epic and furious novel about our freaked-out future: 'Operation Wandering Soul' - Richard Powers: Abacus, pounds 9.9900:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Travel: The Things I've Seen: Ailsa Craig00:02
Letter: Conditions in Belgrade parallel those in Sarajevo00:02
Obituary: Lores Bonney00:02
Short, sharp shock for Ukraine's junior criminals00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Trust evicts marquess from his stately home00:02
Birthdays00:02
Yemen fighting dies down00:02
When Adam lost the tail-light of his T-Bird, things got bad. Then they got worse: A truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. Keith Botsford reports00:02
MI5 'played no part in Murrell murder'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A battered fjord concertina: 'Grieg and Delius' - Lionel Carley: Marion Boyars, 19.95 pounds00:02
OPERA / A welcome in every valley: Stephen Walsh on WNO's touring version of Handel's Ariodante in Cardiff00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Appeals: Panshanger Archive00:02
Provisions knock profits at North of England BS00:02
Rush is on to harness valuable subsidy00:02
Basque threat to bomb Brussels00:02
Institution of Mechanical Engineers00:02
Money Nous: Charity's solution for foreign cash00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Power farms sail close to wind: Plans to generate electricity from alternative sources have split local communities and environmentalists. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Insurers found lacking on peace of mind: Mental health cover is an area that is often overlooked in the search for a medical policy. Lee Rodwell reports00:02
The Hebron Massacre: Land soaked in blood of rival claimants00:02
Letter: The benefits of installing water meters00:02
BR safety procedures 'inadequate'00:02
Major targets nationalists with plea for Ulster peace00:02
Travel: Departures: Round the world00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Basketball: Towers go to Wembley00:02
The Hebron Massacre: The slaughter of the innocents: 'Preserve the sanctity of this building' reads the sign at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where dozens died at Ramadan prayers00:02
Tax check00:02
College strikes called off00:02
Ban on trade deals to cost Britain millions00:02
41 still missing in SA disaster00:02
Desperation pushes Sarajevans back into business: Though the big guns are silent, residents of the Bosnian capital are still facing tough times and are having to wheel and deal to get by, reports Emma Daly in Sarajevo00:02
Wrap artists make their mark: Stick your neck out and wear a hand-painted scarf - or treat it as a work of art and display it on your wall, suggests Tamsin Blanchard00:02
Property: The sincerest form of mockery00:02
Out of Russia: Communist secret of youth stays unsold on capitalist market00:02
EARLY MUSIC / Middle Ages spread: Tess Knighton reports on efforts to expand the home market for one of our most successful export industries00:02
Murder inquiries launched00:02
Badminton: Top seeds foil England00:02
Judge in school fees plea00:02
Clerical error stops trial00:02
Country Matters: A railway station reborn in Coaley00:02
Baqi fined pounds 120,000 on BCCI charges: Former oil chief who was used by others is a 'broken man' after conviction00:02
Hockey: Slough's survival battle00:02
Independent award winners00:02
Invest in Prague00:02
Sailing / Whitbread Round the World Race: Keeping watch on the rhythm of the race: Grant Dalton, skipper of maxi leader, NZ Endeavour, continues his Independent series on the Whitbread Round the World Race00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Olympic Games: Norwegians combine for a clean sweep: A nation rejoices as Kjus leads historic success on the ski slopes while a British bobber enters the final countdown with a medal in mind00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
The Tate gallery: it's such fun]00:02
Ethical PEP00:02
Rugby Union: Saracens set for backlash00:02
Widow gets pounds 85,000 award00:02
Obituary: Ruth Mortimer00:02
Pilot dies in mail plane crash00:02
Postal auction00:02
Language may fail us but we can all understand a big stick00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Premier 'ready to be nasty' to be better known00:02
Obituary: Mary Woodard Lasker00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Nation torn by breakneck pace of change: Influence is concentrated on a new urban elite as development gathers pace: Raymond Whitaker on the 'tiger' economy in which power is uneven00:02
Woman accused of kidnap00:02
Wnter Olympics / Ice Sating: Baiul ends Hollywood story for Kerrigan: Night of tears and histrionics finishes with Ukrainian triumphant over America's heroine00:02
Travel: Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Awards for journalism00:02
Letter: A towering eyesore00:02
Seaman given 30 years for pounds 100m cocaine plot: Sentence set to deter 'murderous cargoes'. John Arlidge reports00:02
Cricket: England reduced to one-day wonderers00:02
UK cash aided princes' firm: 49m pounds given without proper checks on water supply scheme backed by Malaysian royal family00:02
Church tax rebellion over women priests00:02
Crime movies accused of tunnel vision00:02
Minister quits00:02
What price yesterday's pound in our pocket?: John Windsor consults the experts, does his sums and works out how cheap (or expensive) it was to live in Britain in the distant past00:02
Sport: Quotes of the Week00:02
Letter: A bit like a pig00:02
French right wing sets a primary goal00:02
Travel: Departures: Jersey unravelled00:02
Leeds removes fixed rate00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dostoyevsky and drains: Anthony Quinn follows J M Coetzee on a mysterious journey through St Petersburg: 'The Master of Petersburg' - J M Coetzee: Secker & Warburg, 14.99 pounds00:02
Winter Olympics / Four-Man Bobsleigh: Tout confident for contest with the best: Chris Moore Reports from Lillehammer on the prospects for the four-man bobsleigh00:02
Security services 'cleared'00:02
Credit increase00:02
S Korea ready for summit with North00:02
Sheafbank shares suspended at 27p00:02
Two-card deal00:02
THEATRE / Youth custody: Jeffrey Wainwright on Talawa's production of King Lear in Manchester00:02
Japan starts work on market-opening plan00:02
Food & Drink: Raising the standard for Britain: Our emissary to Paris will have to fight for recognition of our native foods, says Joanna Blythman00:02
Saturday Night: Pulled off the catwalk by royal disappointment00:02
Market Report: Shares gain after quelling interest rate terrors00:02
Malaysian Trade Ban: Thousands of British jobs put at risk: UK firms may lose pounds 3bn, with airport contracts worth pounds 400m among the first to be cancelled00:02
Today's Number: 4400:02
Travel: Dover makeover00:02
Sailing: Smith shows class by heading south00:02
Winter Olympics / Speed Skating: Britain's O'Reilly appeal: Rerun demanded