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Enterprise boards prove that small can be profitable: Agencies that were set up mainly to create jobs have thrived as venture capital operations, writes Paul Gosling00:02
Dirty Dogs Campaign: Dogs with chips on their shoulders00:02
TELEVISION / The department of employment: The latest series on ITV is set in the exciting world of customs and excise. James Rampton compiles a brief history of work-based drama, while (overleaf) Robert Butler meets one of its icons00:02
Police hunt killer00:02
Eating Out: Not just like mummy made00:02
Lesson for gamekeepers in staff-poaching season: Ian Hunter reviews a book on employment law that has as much to offer managers as it does solicitors00:02
Letter: Misled on the Midwest00:02
Spy papers plea rejected by Lords00:02
Lethal danger lurks in peanuts: Simon Midgley reports on a new campaign to heighten awareness of a potentially fatal allergy - which can easily be triggered unwittingly by simple snacks00:02
Exercising boss rule: One of this century's nastiest experiments in institutionalised racism began three years after Hitler's defeat. We look at some key moments in the establishment of apartheid00:02
Rugby Union: Jones leaves his mark00:02
Tory cars 'dogma' blamed for asthma00:02
Leading Article: Ordinary enough for humility00:02
Poor testament to free market: Your legacy could turn out to be a shock to your heirs if you fall foul of a cowboy will-writer00:02
Opinions: Who is a good DJ?00:02
Letter: Power pulled to the centre by party preaching less government00:02
EXHIBITIONS / At the heart of the matter: Not many painters can conjure metaphysics out of a box. But Antoni Tapies's new work does just that00:02
Reign of regulators tested: Investors are adding their voice to calls for curbs on privatised utility watchdogs. Helen Kay reports on the City's concerns00:02
Books: In brief00:02
The Broader Picture: Killing comes to the city centre00:02
Long runners00:02
Racing: Grand National: Runner-by-runner analysis of how the National was won00:02
Racing: Grand National: Miinnehoma's starring role: Grand National: Dunwoody claims his second Aintree triumph as the gallant grandmother is one of only six finishers00:02
TELEVISION / Under our skin to the last00:02
Golf: US Masters: Spain's main chance: Olazabal makes quick advances to fly the flag for the European challenge as he sets out in pursuit of Mize00:02
Letter: Type cast00:02
School bullying goes on trial: Becky Walker is the first victim of alleged bullying to seek legal redress for the misery of her schooldays, reports Suzanne Glass00:02
Letter: French student protests00:02
Christian right splits the Republicans: Political mobilisation of religious radicals in America is sidelining moderates and threatening the party's ability to regain power00:02
Oxbridge spurns tradition with its MBA courses: Our most venerable universities have entered the business market at last - with a down-to-earth approach00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Maxwell Davies' shockers sprout again in Brussels00:02
Motorcycling: Cadalora's front-row pick-me-up00:02
Brown on the brink00:02
Bunhill: Branson in for a bumpy bus ride00:02
Major's gift horse looks down in the mouth00:02
Hockey: Whitchurch first for Wales00:02
Public Services Management: It starts by answering the phone: Direct lines into public service agencies and privatised utilities are pointing the way to improvements in service, writes Liza Donaldson00:02
Too good for this world: Kurt Cobain, singer with Nirvana, was found dead on Friday. Ben Thompson reviews a short life00:02
Letter: Dounreay left in the dark00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell third00:02
Security codes break down on car radios: The failure of manufacturers to set up owner databases or a register of stolen units has virtually written off a strategy to deter thefts00:02
Gandhi, meet Pepsi: Western culture is sweeping India. Urvashi Butalia, a Delhi publisher, says that few can resist its power00:02
Books: In Brief00:02
Gardening: Fast Plants: A guide for impatient gardeners: 1: Shrubs and trees00:02
Letter00:02
Can you take a break?00:02
Bridge00:02
Letter: Power pulled to the centre by party preaching less government00:02
US alarm over crisis in Tokyo00:02
Letter: Bird-killing law is a vote loser00:02
Offer that enraged BZW: Competitive strike forced creator of scrip dividend to slash margin00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A question of glass distinction: Consider the shape of your glass, counsels Kathryn McWhirter. It will influence your enjoyment00:02
Letter00:02
RADIO / A big break all round00:02
Fishing Lines: Spare the rod, spoil the angler00:02
The agreeable world of Wallace Arnold: Sports that are vital to our national character00:02
Letter: Out of Asia00:02
Food & Drink: A-Z of treats00:02
Turmoil adds a twist to US foreign policy00:02
Athletics: Radford faces future amid discontent: Mike Rowbottom finds that the sacking of Andy Norman has not ended athletics' problems00:02
Small Business: Woodwork is good work: How the rich and famous found a furniture maker toiling in his father's garage00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Waves of joy and despair: The lure of the sea: Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840 by Alain Corbin trs Jocelyn Phelps, Polity Press pounds 3500:02
New Guinea joins Scots in axis against women priests: As female ordinands of the Church of England measure up in their new role, doubts grow elsewhere in the Anglican Communion00:02
City turns on Swiss rebels: Regulators investigate alleged breaches of rules00:02
ROCK / Meanwhile, back on the road to stardom . . .00:02
Books: Marriage of two minds: As his sparkling study of our aristocracy is published, star historians David Cannadine and Linda Colley talk about their parallel careers00:02
Hidden cost of exercising the right to buy: The dream of ownership becomes a nightmare for a former council tenant faced with a huge service charge. Caroline Merrell reports00:02
Zhirinovsky visa00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Best and worst: Smaller Companies unit trusts00:02
Base to chopper: down here the crook's escaped00:02
Lloyds ponders card rebates: Barclaycard's strategy for new cardholders has been widely advertised on television00:02
Football: Ndlovu has last laugh on Spurs00:02
Arafat plea for help over 'betrayals': Israel is deaf to charges that it is going back on its word, the PLO leader tells Annika Savill00:02
Tennis: Chang takes his chance00:02
Q & A: Prop has eyes on higher things00:02
Fresh thinking urged at Tesco: Investors to pile on pressure after plunge in profits00:02
Innovation: Swarm enemies00:02
Sailing: Dolphin & Youth reaches Rio00:02
Food & Drink: Bouquets behind barbed wire: Michael Bateman enters the reclusive world of flavour scientists, whose lobster stock acquires the whiff of St Tropez in the laboratory00:02
Pit closure opposed00:02
Cricket: Jones retires from international arena00:02
US Haiti 'failure'00:02
Leading Article: Jobs pay, so does crime00:02
Letter00:02
Books: Paperbacks00:02
Real Life: Lisa and the instant baby: Jane Harrold tells how her sister had no idea she was pregnant until she was about to give birth00:02
Home thoughts00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The tip of our tongues: The language instinct by Steven Pinker, Allen Lane/Penguin Press pounds 2000:02
Property: If you could live anywhere00:02
Real Life: Any colour you like - as long as it's ecru: Helen Fielding objects to being condemned to wear this year's drab international uniform00:02
Travel: A painterly city: Dalya Alberge has a perfect excuse to revisit Venice: Tintoretto's 400th anniversary (CORRECTED)00:02
Exclusive: Deals at the heart of Mid East peace plan revealed00:02
Overheard00:02
York on ads: No 23: Pizza Hut00:02
Pricey outfit but no hint of frou-frou00:02
Books: Events00:02
Letter: Nazis went 'back to basics'00:02
Profile: Aintree's baron looks to the next hurdle: Sir Desmond Pitcher: In hi-tech or retail, Mr Merseyside has always seen the real task as managing people. He talks to David Bowen00:02
Football: Bright sparks for Wednesday00:02
Science: March of the timewalkers: New evidence suggests that man's precursors set out to travel the globe much earlier than previously believed. Clive Gamble reports00:02
Notice Board: Banks last resort for start-up loans00:02
Swiss grab for keys to City: The Establishment is no longer hiding its anger over the way Swiss Bank is challenging the old codes of the Square Mile. William Kay gauges the heat00:02
Names of the game00:02
School left pounds 3m00:02
Profile: An interesting man: Steve Davis: Ian Ridley discovers the former world snooker champion in a more positive frame of mind00:02
Football: The title Challenge: United's nervous breakdown: Eamon Dunphy believes Alex Ferguson has played a part in his side's fall from grace00:02
Murder bride's father sues over 999 'bungle'00:02
The list00:02
Sport on TV: Tough riders, bad breaks and Gazza's funny bone00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
Innovation: Smart manoeuvre00:02
City & Business: Seismic struggle moves the earth at Eurotunnel00:02
Football: In the grip of yellow fever: Norman Fox urges caution when Arsenal continue their European bid this week00:02
Football: Thrill of the final countdown: Norman Fox recalls the drama of seasons that have saved their best until last00:02
Rugby League: Rekindling of the Northern lights: Ian Ridley visits a famous stadium where dreams of glory are being revived00:02
Letter: Site for a seat of learning00:02
Investment: Burtonwood's plan for local industry airlift: Warrington, which sent US bombers into Europe, hopes its D-Day event will open a runway for inward investment00:02
National Myths: Why the Swiss need their William Tell00:02
Huh huh huh, nerds are cool00:02
Bank fails to give a direct answer00:02
Political Commentary: The dark horse in the Westminster handicap00:02
Insurers trailing the fleet00:02
Database: Most relegated English League football clubs00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter on the best on offer from Italy00:02
Birthdays:00:02
When I leave politics - by Major00:02
Tried & Tested: High and flighty: Tempted to do battle with the breeze or tangle with turbulence? Our panel takes to the hills to probe the pulling power of eight kites00:02
Anger at pounds 500,000 for pregnant major00:02
Slurry pollutes river00:02
As others see us: 'Horrible Germans'00:02
Chess00:02
Health: Second Opinion00:02
Books: In the lists00:02
Racing: Grand National: Miinnehoma's starring role: Grand National: Dunwoody claims his second Aintree triumph as the gallant grandmother is one of only six finishers00:02
UN winds up pressure on Serbs00:02
Bunhill: Topping the City Bill00:02
13 face multi-million loan fraud charges00:02
Labour: all must get pounds 4 an hour: Charter sets minimum wage and backs strikers00:02
A noisy night at the opera: Esther Oxford reports on a clash that is looming between traditionalist music lovers and avant-garde rivals at Covent Garden00:02
Racing: Danoli 5-1 for Champion00:02
Innovation: Crunch test00:02
Football Round-Up: Gazza has tibia set00:02
Pounds 50,000 jewel grab00:02
Cricket: Fletcher seeks to revive memories: Derek Pringle assesses the qualities of the England cricket team's father figure00:02
Records00:02
Angst: Expert advice on your problems00:02
Captain Moonlight00:02
Show People: Mr Humphries, reborn in the USA: John Inman00:02
I love you, said Cobain note00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Trudy Truth, Fry's funny: The hippopotamus by Stephen Fry, Hutchinson pounds 14.9900:02
Letter: Excellence ends at the barber's00:02
Exclusive: Police chiefs call for national witness-protection scheme00:02
Children: Tinker, tailor, palaeontologist or hairdresser?: At six, most little boys want to be footballers, girls to be teachers or nurses. Deborah Holder asks what influences children's ambitions00:02
THEATRE / Star-studded cast, shame about the show00:02
Football: Forest on course00:02
CINEMA / Hunting the killer, with no arrest in the final reel00:02
Live and kicking: Do I not like that . . .00:02
Football: Keeper of the secrets: Stephen Brenkley meets Alan Hodgkinson, the coach with an influence in both camps00:02
Books: The Independent on Sunday bestseller list00:02
Balladur backs off00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Home is where the heat is: The rift: The Exile Experience of South Africans by Hilda Bernstein, Cape pounds 2500:02
Almanack00:02
Letter00:02
US firm seeks stake in distress00:02
Football: Palace poised: First Division promotion race: Armstrong rises to the occasion while Lee leaves Charlton behind00:02
Spotlight on jobs-crime link00:02
Greece ready to defy EU: US attempts to break the stalemate over Macedonia00:02
Personal Finance: The trouble with Ernie00:02
How much will she earn?: No 24: Julie Goodyear, Coronation Street's publican and, from May, Granada's new chat-show host.00:02
Books for Children: Making the smallest matter to the small: Russell Stannard's new book makes fun of mind-boggling theories of the physical universe - Michael Glover reports00:02
Letter: Power pulled to the centre by party preaching less government00:02
Real Life: I don't blame myself for Stuart's behaviour: Two boys of six wrecked the contents of a house at Easter. Martha finds life difficult with her hyperactive son of seven00:02
Letter00:02
Letter: No profit in village buses00:02
City File: Free for all at Kalamazoo00:02
Chernobyl reactors to be closed down00:02
Rugby Union: Oliphant takes giant steps00:02
Two faces of India: Tom Peters On Excellence00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Young love and ego-wars: A dreamer of pictures: Neil Young - The Man and his Music by David Downing, Bloomsbury pounds 16.9900:02
Winnie Mandela inquiry: ANC investigates fraud allegations against former welfare chief00:02
Omnicom man for Aegis job00:02
Balkan strife shakes Australia00:02
Data protection: Credit agencies nail wrong man: A retired professor was disturbed to find that reference firms carried false information about him: Correction00:02
Flat Earth00:02
Exclusive: Deals at the heart of Mid East peace plan revealed00:02
Stephen King v Gameboy: are books always best?00:02
Bunhill: Burying the 1990s00:02
Football: Peacock in proud style: Semi-final day in England and Scotland as Chelsea curb the underdogs and Aberdeen see their advantage pulled back00:02
A prime time for spreading the load00:02
Football: Welsh heeds wise words00:02
Truth behind Soros deal00:02
Nicholas Wright's Masterclass: The art of theatre: 23 Drink00:02
In today's other papers00:02
Football: Cottee's hot toddy warms Everton00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Geoff Morrow00:02
CCR to expand its menu00:02
France fears upsurge of Islamic terror: Algerian atrocities threaten mass exodus00:02
Arena: Day-dreams by the spires: Graeme Wright savours the timeless delight of a cricket ground that still has echoes of a bygone age00:02
Letter: The Seventies were sordid00:02
'8,000 butchered' in Rwanda capital00:02
Design Dinosaurs: 11: Lymeswold00:02
The past is a foreign country: South Africa does things differently now00:02
Rugby Union: Swift's timely flight00:02
Economics: Tax rises vital to long-term health00:02
Eyes in the sky00:02
Letter: Esperanto is not yet extinct00:02
Broadmoor is coming to the boil: Staff are seething - not the patients. Cal McCrystal on anger at a new, more open regime00:02
Rugby Round-up: Hapless Exiles near final exile00:02
Leicester passengers left out in the cold: Bus privatisation: Correction00:02
Profile: All the right angles: Laurence Marks on a Conservative intellectual with an answer for everything, even the bow tie: Madsen Pirie00:02
Racing: Grand National: Heroes in the mud: Andrew Baker on security patrol finds little relief for sodden punters00:02
Hedge funds keep markets volatile: Fears over interest rates and inflation cause heavily geared investors to retrench00:02
Innovation: Rover gets hip00:02
Deaths:00:02
Squash: Marshall gives Hill the boot00:02
Windfall for Front00:02
Barbra and her funny girl fans: David Lister on the devotion that makes women pay a tenth of their annual wages to hear Streisand sing00:02
Better off with no policies: Oppositions are not there to provide detail, but hard thought, says Jack Straw00:02
Books: Sport00:02
Tax deducted from sick pay00:02
P&O to bid for rail link: Ferry operator joins race for contract to connect Channel tunnel with London00:02
Cricket: Fourth Test: Fraser flays West Indies: Seamer's six-pack cheers England after Atherton's dispute with umpire QBY: By DEREK PRINGLE in Bridgetown, Barbados00:02
Rwanda's twins locked in eternal war: The Hutu and the Tutsi are old foes bound together by blood - and by colonial borders that are tearing a region apart00:02
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Athletics: Brown calls it a day00:02
Innovation: Inventor and British backers poles apart: Building system that uses waste timber goes to the US00:02
Art Market: The image take: Last year a collector paid pounds 250,000 for a single photographic print. Now, two forthcoming sales, in London and New York, signal that photography may finally have come of age as a collectable art form00:02
Football: Le Tissier hat-trick keeps Saints afloat00:02
Innovation: Genetic engineers go back to the roots: Nuala Moran on a hunt for a 'natural' way to cut fertiliser costs00:02
Golf: Nightmare on Magnolia Lane: Peter Corrigan sees a Welshman rue his luck in a less than perfect partnership00:02
China's one-child policy spawns secret slaughter: Vast exercise in social engineering proves lethal to millions of girls and puts the population out of balance00:02
How We Met: Marisa Robles and James Galway00:02
Shebeen killing sickens loyalists00:02
Football: Brightwell the bold00:02
Shares: Worries provide an ideal time to indulge in gilts00:02
What the papers said about . . . Paul Gascoigne00:02
Quango watch: A guide to those unelected quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations that run our lives00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Occupied by a bitter mystery of war: Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres: Secker pounds 14.99