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In Essex, something is burning00:02
Equestrianism: Loheit enjoys her first impression: On their debut at Badminton a talented German pairing make dressage look easy. Genevieve Murphy reports00:02
New saviour at Brown & Jackson: South African group to inject pounds 20m and gain three seats on board00:02
Major may lurch from defeat to disaster00:02
Wills00:02
The lethal charm of Charles Sobhraj: This week a serial killer stood in an Indian court, precisely where he wants to be. Tim McGirk reports on an audacious attempt to escape the gallows00:02
Insurance watchdog to halve ceiling on compensation: Nic Cicutti looks at life under the new investment dispute system00:02
UN imposes embargo on Haiti00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Wild and rocky shores: 'Away' - Jane Urquhart: Bloomsbury, 15.9900:02
Briers completes rehabilitation00:02
Nurse raped patient00:02
Hungary set to elect former Communists00:02
RALLYING: High-powered beasts turn to fancy dress00:02
Cricket: Stewart and Brown provide the dashes of colour00:02
Motoring: Don't let buying power go to your head: A turbocharged bargain might give you a kick, says James Ruppert, but it could also hit you where it hurts, in the wallet00:02
Rugby Union: Holmes plans release of Llanelli's tight grip00:02
Letter: Sermons that can serve to spur us on00:02
Crime: What the country really thinks: Children's upbringing seen as key to a law-abiding society00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
New tests ordered on lethal bacterium00:02
Football Diary: Piercer Pearce is all ears00:02
Going, going00:02
Letter: Sermons that can serve to spur us on00:02
Local results sound a warning of losses at home and abroad00:02
Power to the people00:02
Food and Drink: Back through the hole in the wall - Emily Green returns to an old favourite in Bath and finds its high standards faithfully revived00:02
Racing: Jockey dies in Lingfield fall: Fatality after Flat pile-up00:02
Rugby Union: Cup final teams00:02
Rugby Union: Davies' loyalty on the record: Cup final00:02
Auctions00:02
Confusion over police records of fatal night00:02
Letter: Now, Sir Norman00:02
Prince wanted referendum on breaching of moat00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Traveller's chance00:02
Letter: Contraceptive advice for under-16s00:02
First fix until 199900:02
Consultant settles damages claim00:02
Lincoln's Inn00:02
Racing: Barons to retire00:02
Local Elections: BNP failure masks growth in support00:02
Local Elections: Voters make sure Major's crisis continues: David Cowling on the three-way fight that has left the Conservative Party battered00:02
Food and Drink: I smell the first cheese of summer00:02
Football: Ardiles under a cloud00:02
Motor Racing: Car speed to be reduced: Rules 'will change'00:02
Obituary: Lord Sharp of Grimsdyke00:02
Racing: Chocolat a dark horse for the Derby: Outsiders go on trial for Epsom as Turtle turns to France and Brocco prepares to take Bull by the horns in the Run for the Roses00:02
Private clients can take slow lane: There will be an alternative to speedier share deals - at a price. Vivien Goldsmith reports00:02
Departures00:02
Toolbox: Job done sharpish00:02
The Saturday Interview / A general takes up the gauntlet: Rudolph Agnew00:02
Obituary: David Holden00:02
The Things I've Seen: The Agglestone00:02
Letter: Swiss answer charges of non-cooperation00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Scottish Football: Aberdeen target00:02
Radical reshape planned for IBM00:02
Country Matter: Old Brock stars in set piece00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
IRA reports 'not contempt'00:02
US carriers launch price war with BA00:02
Letter: Writing on the wall00:02
Ten tips to drive your bill down: Common sense and inside knowledge can save tax. Sue Fieldman steps through the maze00:02
Birthdays00:02
RBS snaps00:02
Opening of tunnel ends great divide: Julian Nundy and Christian Wolmar report on a historic day of shuttle00:02
Letter: Prince hits the target00:02
Cricket: Yorkshire find the going slow00:02
Travel: French radio00:02
Rugby League: Castleford hold off late burst00:02
Letter: Urban development: a success story00:02
Care centre for young criminals 'out of control': 'Stressed staff use excessive restraint'00:02
Digital plans up to 20,000 job cuts00:02
How Spam saved the free world's bacon: The Post-it is in, but the pacamac is past it. John Windsor dips into a new book which celebrates the century's great inventions, some now consigned to the dustbin of history00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Cruelty under a bright blue sky: 'Innocents in Africa' - Drury Pifer: Granta, 15.9900:02
Critical cover00:02
HIV cover00:02
The House of fun: Dreadlocks in Parliament00:02
CONCERTS: Out of court00:02
He just can't get away from it all: Christian Wolmar finds himself in the same hole as the Prime Minister00:02
Bobbitt in trouble again00:02
Classical Music: Tapping the roots: Traditional music has turned creative, and it's reaching a new public. Robert Maycock reports00:02
Sweet sour stench of death fills Rwanda: Richard Dowden in Rusumo finds only flies, goats and chickens remain in villages emptied of all humanity by weeks of devastating tribal bloodshed00:02
Landmarks: Cordoba Mosque00:02
High Noon for the beleaguered sheriff of Downing Street00:02
Launcher seized00:02
Today's Number: 5700:02
Gardening: Cuttings00:02
The Week in Review00:02
Thirsting for knowledge in the Ardennes: Stephen Wood took his plastic cup and set off in the footsteps of Peter the Great to try the waters of Spa00:02
Move to ease that sinking feeling: Roger Trapp finds existing guarantees are not all they are cracked up to be00:02
Cycling: Obree's style is cramped00:02
Liverpool books00:02
Grim discovery00:02
Obituary: Sir Alexander Ross00:02
Obituary: Robert Legget00:02
View from City Road: Palmer's days at PIA are numbered00:02
Rugby League: Bell and Platt out with virus: Stalwarts missing00:02
Miners offered new deal: British Coal package would still apply after privatisation00:02
Letter: Swiss answer charges of non-cooperation00:02
Voyage vouchers00:02
Flotation at Denby likely to net 10m pounds00:02
Nuns want more power in Vatican00:02
Local Elections: Favourable verdict on homes-for-votes00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Hospital criticised00:02
Property: Time-wasters should be made to pay00:02
Local Elections: Opposition parties jubilant at gains00:02
Hospital waiting lists rise to 1 million00:02
Turnover woe for Euro Disney00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Travel: Bohemian rhapsodies - David Bowen motors through Bohemia, to find lakes, meadows, sleepy villages, and potent reminders of the region's chequered past00:02
ATHLETICS: Base of the pyramid needs more support: League season starts with scramble for money00:02
Father names CSA in death note00:02
View from City Road: Disney melodrama is not over yet00:02
Cricket: Rutherford the key to success for the Kiwis00:02
Man jailed for cell killing after third trial: James Cusick on the conviction of a businessman for manslaughter after claims of a police cover-up were rejected00:02
Local Elections: SNP revival pushes Tories into fourth00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
BOOK REIVEW / Mellow tunes and firing squads: 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' - LOuis de Bernieres: Secker & Warburg, 15.9900:02
Bill Bird, boot and shoe maker of Blockley in the Cotswolds.00:02
Letter: Sermons that can serve to spur us on00:02
Correction00:02
Charges on unit trusts slashed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Shockwaves in the lagoon: 'Dead Lagoon' - Michael Dibdin: Faber & Faber, 14.9900:02
Which will?00:02
Car classic00:02
Patten forced to retreat over sex education guidelines00:02
Hockey: Sherwani stiffens Staffs' staff: County champions acquire Olympian muscle00:02
Minister may resign over Nanking comment00:02
On the road00:02
Fed poised to raise key interest rates: Bonds tumble after stronger than expected growth in US employment00:02
Crafts exhibition provides showcase for leading artists and designers00:02
Cover for underpinned properties00:02
Pensions ruling deals blow to women workers00:02
Court Circular00:02
Golf: American pie drives Ballesteros: Spanish magician lifted by English crowd in quest for points to qualify him for US Open00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Armed Forces: Operational Service Honours00:02
View from City Road: No walkover for Enterprise00:02
Gardening: Pigs will go like stink if you let them00:02
Japan's heavyweights share the pain of paralysis00:02
Staffless Co-op00:02
Travel: Meaty argument00:02
Rugby Union: Leicester ready to spoil Rowell's grand day out00:02
KwaZulu vote declared 'fair' by commission00:02
Local Elections: Capital provides crumbs of comfort00:02
Mountain deaths double in three years: Minister rules out 'red tape' curbs for Highland climbers and walkers00:02
ANC wins seven out of nine provinces to complete landslide: Mandela claims 18 cabinet posts with 6 for National Party and 3 for Inkatha - Mbeki beats Ramaphosa for deputy president00:02
TELEVISION / Oranges have never been the only fruit00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Lawsuit filed against Clinton in sex case00:02
So select, I didn't meet anyone: Heart Searching: Continuing our series on the downside of introduction agencies, Lynne Curry goes on the trail of the man behind Selective Searches00:02
Advice on supergun 'ignored'00:02
Yates Wine Lodges to join market: Company confirms growth plans00:02
Kidnap charge00:02
Discs: Tightening the Screw00:02
PROFILE: Life enters yet another section: Andrew Neil, an editor in love with America00:02
Books: Recommended books00:02
Accord gives Israelis a sunnier outlook00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Coin questions00:02
P&P adds Scottish company to network00:02
How to keep a lawyer quiet00:02
Executives got Lasmo options before bid00:02
Tories face 'narks' jibe as disabled Bill is lost00:02
Immigrants targeted in moves to fight TB: Government task force set up to reverse return of disease00:02
Letter: Prince hits the target00:02
Priest is third person to vanish in woods: Burnt car suggests similarities with disappearance of artist and her son being sought by gardai. Alan Murdoch reports00:02
1m pounds damages00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Blues on the Danube: 'The Glance of Countess Hahn- Hahn (Down the Danube)' - Peter Esterhazy, Tr. Richard Aczel: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 14.9900:02
Appeals: Institution of Mechanical Engineers00:02
Peasants bank on apples in Great Pear Tree village: In a remote region of China, Teresa Poole finds discontent among farmers left behind by the country's economic boom00:02
Cricket: Cavalier Kent fall by their own hand00:02
THEATRE / Under new orders: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews Saint Joan at Theatr Clwyd and Forty Years On at the WYP, Leeds00:02
Jett demands release of dollars 5m: Kidder Peabody trader accused over phantom trades goes on the offensive00:02
Gastropod00:02
German author in row over Stasi ties00:02
Whale moves on00:02
Have loads of money, will give it away: Andrew Bibby looks at an exclusive club breaking down the taboo over wealth00:02
Romania's Rabbi Rosen dies00:02
The Independent Road Test: Turbo pioneer thrives on pressure: Saab was the first company in Europe to mass-produce turbocharged cars, and remains committed to them. Roger Bell drives its latest 900 SE Coupe00:02
Market Report: Oil shares calm troubled post-election waters00:02
Gonzalez loses another key ally00:02
Russia rattles sabres at Estonia00:02
Football: Team news00:02
Washington attacks Akashi over Serb tanks00:02
Football: Everton face exile against eager Wimbledon: Las Vegas beckons for the Crazy Gang should they hit the jackpot at Goodison while for others it is the last throw of the dice00:02
Motorcycling: Battle resumes for Doohan00:02
The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Smiling and spiteful workers: 'The Moment Between The Past and The Future' - Grigorij Baklanov (Faber, 14.99)00:02
More directors of failed firms are being banned00:02
Tennis: Stich faces test on clay00:02
Letter: Abused children, adult pawns00:02
Pension review00:02
Football: Days of fear and falls, delight and disaster00:02
Travel: BA complaints00:02
Man had sex with girl, 1200:02
Jealousy theory over murders at taxi firm00:02
Firebomber kills00:02
Letter: Prince hits the target00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Truth and Popeye get to a dead end: 'Special Effects' - Hugh Barnes: Faber & Faber, 14.9900:02
Letter: South African coal destined for Wales00:02
Food and Drink: On a cook's tour of country kitchens - For a Channel 4 series starting next week, our cookery writer and her husband went to extremes to taste the variety of European cuisine00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Finding ten thousand Dervishes in a melee: Hugo Barnacle on two lives of Churchill, who was the right monster at the right time00:02
Gardening: Ponds' beauty treatments - A pool in the garden can be set off to enchanting effect by the right foliage, says Anna Pavord00:02
Rugby Union: Hill to climb his last peak: Enduring internationals set for grand stage00:02
Leading Article: Tory slaughter will stir the lynch mob00:02
Travel: Miles worse00:02
Payout for policeman in race bias case00:02
Second Thoughts / Phoenix from the ashes: Bryan Forbes looks back on the genesis of his novel, The Twisted Playground (Mandarin pounds 4.99)00:02
Money Grouse: Glitch in timepiece sends householder into stitches00:02
Lcoal Elections: Full results of the voting in local authority polls00:02
Anniversaries00:02
THEATRE: In the family way: Paul Taylor reviews Sean Mathias's production of Les Parents Terribles at the Lyttelton . . .00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Sackings on age grounds are ruled unlawful: Tribunal backs older workers' rights00:02
Local Elections: Vanquished local Tories blame national disarray00:02
Horse blanket00:02
New jail allowed00:02
Property: Sea air? Take a deep breath - The price of seaside houses may make you gasp, but the West Country still has bargains, says Anne Spackman00:02
Pembroke: Dead-eye Murphy collects00:02
Southern Yemenis bombard Sanaa00:02
Co-op sets bond rate00:02
Appeals: The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (Waggs)00:02
Letter: Sermons that can serve to spur us on00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
Travel: Go ahead punks, make my holiday: Orlando