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The Tax Debate: Labour unlikely to give spending details: Smith expected to back Beckett tactic of setting out objectives without giving precise figures00:02
Boxing: Akinwande's labour of glove: Lightweight heavyweight show as Nelson is outpointed00:02
Six-year-old boys held after house rampage00:02
Tariff deals boost demand for mobile phone services00:02
Letter: Rat race for the nuts00:02
Man runs amok on campus00:02
Back me or fight me, says Major: Prime Minister leaves the wild world of Westminster to win hearts and minds of Essex man00:02
Defiant China detains leading dissident: Chinese queue to view Chairman Mao at site of anti-democracy massacre00:02
Woman, 80, killed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mr Plain shares a joke with Mrs Normal: 'A Short History of a Small Place' - T R Pearson: Secker & Warburg, 9.99 pounds00:02
Today's Number: 000:02
Management: Breaking the myth of the one-man band00:02
Critical reaction00:02
Museum staff threaten strike00:02
The Daily Poem: Blackbird00:02
Cheap cider upsets the applecart: 'Drink of the Nineties' is shaken by the advance of economy brands. John Shepherd reports00:02
Bucharest boys muscle in on Dutch trade: In Amsterdam alleys Annika Savill met some of the growing numbers of young Romanians 'rented' by Western men00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Curator's Choice: The Loch Ness Centre00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Letter: Is it theologically possible for a Jew to be a Christian?00:02
On-the-spot Tube fines raise pounds 5,00000:02
Berlusconi threatens fresh poll after talks break down00:02
Celsis sacks chief executive after one year: Finance director describes Tony Martin's performance as 'ineffectual'00:02
Birthdays00:02
Obituary: Pierre-Olivier Lapie00:02
Court Circular00:02
Two shot in 'clash of robbers'00:02
Milky Way devours a newly discovered galaxy00:02
Ivory Towers: Love and the manic accountant00:02
Media: Get a picture and get out fast: Journalists covering student riots in Paris found themselves under attack. Philip Jacobson explains why00:02
Volatile equity markets bounce back: Change of mood among bond dealers spreads to shares in New York and London, leaving prices higher00:02
Envoys stake claim on prime sites of Germany's old capital: After 60 years the British are returning to Wilhelmstrasse, writes Steve Crawshaw in Berlin00:02
Leading Article: Alternative to the shopping list00:02
Bottom Line: IBC faith rewarded00:02
Why Natalie became a thief for a day: If you saw someone shoplifting, would you report them? Are you sure? Nicholas Roe meets a student who found out how many people would do the right thing00:02
OPERA / Tall, dark and Hampson: Thomas Hampson is the thinking man's baritone, equally at ease in everything from Mahler to American musicals. But, asks Edward Seckerson, isn't he just a bit too good to be true?00:02
Squash: Draw favours Nicol with chance to reach final00:02
MUSIC / Wrap it up: Tess Knighton on early music at Aldeburgh00:02
Man ran computer porn line, court told00:02
US acquisition costs Smiths dollars 32m00:02
Robbers clip wings of South Africans00:02
Dear Tom Jones: Congratulations on your fellowship of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, but for the sake of womankind, please don't give up being an open-shirted sexpot00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Golf: O'Grady says players use beta-blockers: Drugs 'helped win majors'00:02
Obituary: Frank Wells00:02
Third case of abortion 'without consent' at hospital00:02
THEATRE / The Fringe: Families, and other animals00:02
Missing head found00:02
Architecture: Disney to the rescue in Times Square: New York is trying to clean up a part of Manhattan that has been taken over by sleaze and drugs. Who else to lead the way than Walt Disney? Peter Slatin reports00:02
Cricket: England's prospects in pieces: Tufnell bowls himself into reckoning for Barbados Test despite conceding the winning runs00:02
Hazardous crayons00:02
Rugby Union: Police ask Cardiff difficult questions00:02
Binder moves closer to merger00:02
'Baby Doc' does moonlight flit00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: County's eccentric appeal: No 68 - Notts County00:02
Oh to sleep without the wretched bleep: Susan de Muth in bed with John MacGure00:02
Trial of bowel cancer vaccine 'positive': American biotechnology company to develop antibody after failure to interest British partner00:02
Body count00:02
Letter: Is it theologically possible for a Jew to be a Christian?00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Bottom Line: One rule for all00:02
Bletchley advances 45%00:02
Racing: Magic Genie00:02
IBC turns corner with 2p payout00:02
Pol Pot 'fled to Thailand'00:02
Chess: Bishops on strike over Easter00:02
REVIEW / Flying in the face of a painful death00:02
Rutskoi renews Yeltsin attack00:02
Lasmo names Agnew as next non-exec chairman00:02
Climbers rescued00:02
Talks on 'rolling watershed' for violence on TV00:02
Football: Goram injured as Rangers fire blanks: Kitson at the double as Dutchman keeps Dundee United in game00:02
FA ready with the red card for 'Hitler's birthday' match00:02
Woman dumped 'like dead animal'00:02
Ernie draws first pounds 1m prize00:02
Football / FA Cup Countdown: Bruce hangs loose for pressure game: Caps apart, not much eludes Manchester United's indomitable captain. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Teenage Romanians prowl for customers in Berlin00:02
Failures that will outlast a change of face: The Tories may regard John Major as their main liability. But the party's troubles run much deeper, says John Curtice00:02
Hosokawa's denial00:02
Architecture: Fonthill: a house that haunts: It was the marvel of its day, until it came crashing down. But the magic lives on, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
Greene's library of revealing scribbles for sale00:02
Rent-a-dog gives lead to opponents of ban on pets00:02
THEATRE / On tour00:02
Football: Havelange is cleared to extend his Fifa rule00:02
Out of America: First buy yourself a leader, then ask him questions later00:02
Pakistan shooting00:02
Rogue cyclists00:02
Letter: Amputation and the costs of crime00:02
Group 4 wins praise from prison service: Governors criticise surprise report as 'unrepresentative'00:02
Football: Leicester rescued by Roberts' trick00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Korea warning00:02
Welsh pit threat00:02
Market Report: New York turns London trading into a 'casino'00:02
Blandford warrant00:02
BBC offers 'easy-pay' licence to cut evasion00:02
Racing / Grand National: Silk's story heightens the romance: Handsome and courageous, a 'natural' from the West Country turns from stone to Valentine's. Ken Jones reports00:02
Reflective cows00:02
It's never easy when you're fattysomething: Debby Holt wanted to have fun while getting fit. Easier said than done . . .00:02
Police 'know who planted Bishopsgate bomb': Men seen on video may be in Irish Republic. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Golf: Pyman shares stage with Palmer: Amateur champion in Augusta spotlight as past masters set ball rolling00:02
Letter: Only a faint Eco of green politics00:02
Letter: Video influences00:02
ARTS / And What's More . . .00:02
Letter: Licensed cyclists00:02
View from City Road: Holding out for a better PIA00:02
Ministers debate return to a narrow-band EMS00:02
Obituary: Professor W. A. Wilson00:02
Hundreds lament the passing of a 'ray of sunshine': A community united by shock and grief pays its respects to Nikki Conroy. Malcolm Pithers reports00:02
Council aims to break teachers' test boycott00:02
HSBC directors in at Midland00:02
Teachers vote for action against violence: Union delegates tell conference about serious incidents of classroom disruption. Judith Judd reports00:02
French handouts refuel car market: Government incentive scheme to scrap old bangers brings buyers back to the motor showrooms00:02
Craftsmen restore country house to former glory: Sculptors use delicate skills to recreate rococo ceiling destroyed by fire. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Prisoners fail to escape the clutches of diligent agency officials00:02
Turks to tighten their belts: Ciller imposes a bold austerity plan and slashes value of currency00:02
Rugby Union: Chalmers cancels S African visit: Scot's fear of unrest turns his thoughts to home00:02
UN chief visits Gorazde as Serbs close in00:02
Servicemen challenge pregnancy payments: MoD change of heart on compensation00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 reasons for starting to smoke again00:02
Bottom Line: Sacking is a blow to biotechnology00:02
Shortage of top quality homes send prices soaring: City money is fuelling the boom in the cost of property in London. Anne Spackman reports00:02
No marks for free-thinking: The mania for assessment is giving scholarship a bad name, says Lincoln Allison00:02
Armed Zulus defy Natal emergency laws00:02
Bosnia's peace, Kosovo's war?: Jonathan Eyal argues that the West's remedies for one region of former Yugoslavia will only encourage the emergence of bitter conflict in others00:02
Planet lounge wizard: At a new purpose-built London nightclub, it's computers and not ecstasy that influence your behaviour. James Robertson gets hi-tech00:02
Turks undertake a Herculean task for art's sake: Ankara wants to reclaim a wealth of 'stolen' Greek and Roman antiquities that are now abroad, writes Hugh Pope in Istanbul00:02
THEATRE / Around the country00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Ukraine sends troops to Crimea00:02
Letter: Is it theologically possible for a Jew to be a Christian?00:02
View from City Road: Stresses and strains reflect global decoupling00:02
Power shifts from Israelis as exiles return home00:02
Mass suicide alert00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
P&O warms to cold storage with California purchase00:02
View from City Road: Mobile phone boom is back00:02
Taken aback by a memo from a stickler and his minions00:02
Eurotunnel and TML patch up differences: Settlement clears way for rights issue00:02
Baseball: Strawberry's problem reappears: LA Dodger enters rehabilitation centre for 'substance abuse'00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Media: The terrible bother of making a fuss: You don't like what you see on TV. But who will listen to your protest - the BSC, the ITC, the BCC or the station itself? Martin Rosenbaum on the clash of the regulators00:02
Spaniards grill get-rich-quick ex-police chief00:02
Charges against Lopez expected in US and Germany 'in months'00:02
A slice of the action00:02
Boxing: Smith ready to contest board ban00:02
Children 'flew' doomed Airbus00:02
Lehman sets out details of spin-off from Amex00:02
Obituary: David Semple00:02
View from City Road: Pound for pound on Eurotunnel00:02
Obituary: Harold Stewart00:02
Cause of Dutch air crash still unknown00:02
Happy then, and happy ever after: Nicholas Tucker explores what makes grown people pay pounds 3,000 for a copy of Peter Rabbit00:02
Ticket agencies face price restrictions: Proposed law would force disclosure of face value. Glenda Cooper and Danny Penman report00:02
Labour and Tory truths about tax00:02
Obituary: Pierre Vozlinsky00:02
Battered image gets hospital treatment00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Protests mark CSA's first birthday: Slogan daubed outside home of social security minister and wreath laid near regional office. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Biosphere plea00:02
Letter: The parable and the poverty trap00:02
Squash: Jansher set for journey into legend: The world's best player will exploit a reshaped game and a reformed character at the British Open, beginning today. Richard Eaton reports00:02
PM urges Kuwaitis to pull together to lift national gloom00:02
Dennis Potter. The last word: Last night on television, the playwright talked about his imminent death and about his feeling for home and work. These are edited extracts from the Channel 4 'Without Walls' interview with Melvyn Bragg00:02
Pembroke: A sticky situation on the Victoria Line00:02
Staff views about tests 'ignored by leaders'00:02
Quarto lifts turnover and profits00:02
New sick pay measures today: Employers hope increased burden will be lifted next year00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Drugs in Sport: Chinese begin campaign of prevention00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Out of America: First buy yourself a leader, then ask him questions later00:02
Youths rampage00:02
Law Report: Joint tenancy is not affected: Re Palmer (a deceased debtor): Court of Appeal - (Lord Justice Balcombe, Lord Justice Evans and Lord Justice Roch); 11 March 199400:02
THEATRE / It's the way we tell 'em: Joking apart, Terry Johnson's Dead Funny, now in the West End, is a cannily comic look at how we use and define humour. By Paul Taylor00:02
Giant step for designer of 'superbike': Inventor of gold-medal cycle to work for Taiwanese. Jonathan Theobald reports00:02
Diary: Withdrawal from the pall of Nepal00:02
Lethal cocktail00:02
EU voters fail to register in Belgium: Europeans indifferent to, or ignorant of, democratic rights00:02
Jericho takes cover to welcome peace: There were supposed to be celebrations in Jericho yesterday to mark the return of 26 deportees. But instead, as Sarah Helm witnessed, there were clashes00:02
Honduras plot00:02
Bloodstains inquiry00:02
Leading Article: Common sense and video violence00:02
Racing: Ebony's durability put to test00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV tips00:02
Death inquiry00:02
Letter: Jet-lagged monuments00:02
Stylo back in the black with pounds 2.5m00:02
The Tax Debate: Dorrell says tax rise will be average of pounds 5.75 a week: Conservatives defend increases as necessary while Labour says pledges were broken00:02
Letter: Amputation and the costs of crime00:02
6,000 plan Auschwitz march00:02
Call to restart peace talks as IRA ceasefire begins: Hume urges the Government to pursue demand for clarification. David McKittrick reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Cost - a continual tunnel irritant00:02
THEATRE / Previews and First Nights00:02
France calls on Euro-citizens to sign up for polls00:02
World's tallest roller coaster offers pleasure-seekers highs and lows at record speed00:02
Lead balloon00:02
Lloyd's 1991 losses could rise to pounds 3bn, says Chatset00:02
Southwestern Bell calls off dollars 5bn Cox link and blames new rules00:02
By-pass for Curtis00:02
Leading Article: A peace process that defies the odds00:02
Allied Radio on ice ahead of restructuring00:02
Rugby League: Roe waits for Hull's decision00:02
Letter: The parable and the poverty trap00:02
Angry Greek tobacco growers cut road to Athens with tractors00:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan stuns Bond: UK champion marches on00:02
Delhi riot