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Computers: Hidden power lurking in the shadows: Kay Ewbank argues the unloved database can be trained to become an essential business tool00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Racing: Value in taking Distant View: Rivals may run Turtle close in the absence of his preferred amphibious terrain00:02
FILM / On Cinema00:02
Rugby League: Wigan go for West00:02
Obituary: Billy Burden00:02
Danish upset00:02
Rowland promises Lonrho will make large acquisition: 'Household name' in South African mining industry expected to be target00:02
PC 'killed wife'00:02
Best of friends through the worst of times: Fame, fortune or failure can often wreck a friendship. But Brigid McConville talks to women who have stayed chums despite everything00:02
Show of arms00:02
Kwik-Fit fined over dangerous tyres00:02
Dear Julia Stent: So the mother of Tim Yeo's love child has left the Tory party. What took her so long?00:02
Obituary: Patsy Dalton00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Yardies using increasingly brutal violence against rivals00:02
Tennis: Father confesses00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Needed: someone to take on this firm00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
FBI seize crack hotel in New York00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead: Motor Racing, British Grand Prix00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
After Hours00:02
ARTS / Outside Edge: Tom Stein on the gentle art of the music curator00:02
Letter: Good news at the top, but house prices remain low00:02
Athletics: Christie 'thought of suicide' over drugs charge: Britain's world and Olympic 100 metres champion highlights the futility of steroid abuse00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
The truth about Alison Lurie: Alison Lurie writes best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning books. But don't ask her to make the tea. Sabine Durrant visits her London flat00:02
Scare stories 'encourage children to try drugs' (CORRECTED)00:02
THEATRE / On Theatre00:02
Bottom Line: Happy landing00:02
Computers: Feedback: 'Clipper' charts a stormy course00:02
Letter: Allegory and the Potter's tale00:02
Managers in NHS seek costs inquiry: Independent review needed to 'identify positive benefits that buying and selling of services has brought to patients'00:02
National Bike Week: National Bike Week gets a boost as figures show fewer riders being injured on London's roads00:02
My Week: How the suburbs were lost - or won: Claire Healy wrestles with Disgruntled of Bromley for the sake of a Tory Europe00:02
View from City Road: Riding the Lonrho tandem00:02
Obituary: Sir William Murrie00:02
Yeo's ex-mistress and 20 others quit Tories claiming victimisation of colleague00:02
Tennis: Insults for Shriver: McQuillan unleashes verbal volleys00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Blair backers ready to come forward: The battle for the Labour Party leadership opens today. Colin Brown reports00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
Boxing: Lawyers deny Tyson 'deal': Rumour of former champion's early release knocked down00:02
Howard rules out drug law changes: Jason Bennetto reports on the Home Secretary's address to the Association of Chief Police Officers in Wakefield00:02
Thanks, brother]00:02
Law Update: Wilde moves00:02
Law Update: Struck off00:02
Letter: Research and rhetoric on 'satanic' child abuse00:02
Dutch shun European poll00:02
More war-war00:02
Ad 'in poor taste'00:02
Tsarevich trains00:02
Leading Article: The logic of Austria voting 'Ja'00:02
Landscape guardians seek harmonious change: Foundation aims to mediate between protesters and developers. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Maguire will face further court charges: Former convent girl cleared of terrorist offences in four countries since 1989 to stay in custody, writes David McKittrick00:02
Cricket: Blow to bowler no bonus for Bolus00:02
Rushdie on TV quiz00:02
Law Update: European reform00:02
Lloyds bid faces tough new hurdle: Court ruling would exclude many mortgage borrowers from receiving pounds 500 sweetener in merger with C&G00:02
BNP men convicted00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Forever combing his enigmatic beaches: 'A Way in the World' - V S Naipaul: Heinemann, 16 pounds00:02
Cricket: Dashing Fleming leaves best behind00:02
Austrian right finds EU hard to swallow00:02
Claim sunk00:02
Crisis in blood reserves00:02
People: Rostropovich heads home00:02
Inquiries into boy's pool death00:02
Neo-Fascists hope for poll boost00:02
Where shall we meet?: Ridley Bagel Bakery00:02
Party removes all traces of pol defector: Newham by-election: Voters baffled by last-minute change of allegiance as local Lib Dems leave ballot papers blank00:02
Bottom Line: Pilkington shows potential00:02
Something Else: Correction00:02
A nod to tradition: From the beaches of Normandy to the quads of Oxford, President Clinton has proved himself a master of the art of the image this week. And he's not the only one. Jim White reports00:02
Computers: Testing time for the big three: Joanna Bawa invites some real people round to try out the leading contenders00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Athletics: National Championships, Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield00:02
Bicyclists seek equal road rights: National Bike Week gets a boost as figures show fewer riders being injured on London's roads00:02
Maurice Saatchi's pay cut by pounds 400,000: Chairman agrees new contract after 'cathartic' tension with chief executive00:02
RUC funeral00:02
Bomb alert00:02
Rugby Union: South African suspended for his sending-off: Eastern Province takes action00:02
View from City Road: Malaysian row rumbles on00:02
Profits slip at Johnson Matthey00:02
Man given life term for baseball bat attack: Doctor condemns system that prevented schizophrenic from getting treatment00:02
Letter: Threats to North Korea00:02
Police investigate bankrupt Kidsons partner over funds00:02
Next week in Parliament00:02
Senate finds evidence Keating made 'balance' offer to Black00:02
Auction records tumble as buyers flock back00:02
Water company suffers 10% fall00:02
Leading Article: Old settlements for new in Essex00:02
Walker had great charisma, court told00:02
Diary: Correction00:02
Rose gardens and a skyline to rival New York: Michael Leapman strolls along the Regent's Canal and encounters a floral delight00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Cricket: Archer finds target00:02
Law Report: Solicitor's duty to borrower and lender in flat purchase: Mortgage Express Ltd v Bowerman & Partners (a firm). Chancery Division (Mrs Justice Arden), 11 May 199400:02
Letter: Bon appetit for French Communists00:02
Still in a class of their own: Modern informality seems to blur social distinctions, but the clues are as loud as ever, says Richard Hoggart00:02
Law Update: On the panel00:02
The Purnells, the ministry, the house: Kafka comes to Lewisham: First there was going to be a road, then there wasn't - perhaps. The hassle started there and went on and on and on00:02
Tyson comeback00:02
Diary00:02
Children's pounds 2 billion welfare services 'fail for lack of focus': Government asked to intervene - Up to 40 per cent of children in residential care do not attend school. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Can central banks deliver us from evil?00:02
Labour under fire for BBC botcott00:02
A desperate night for Major: Tories forced into third place in three by-elections as Liberal Democrats storm Eastleigh and Labour majorities soar00:02
Inside Parliament: Falklands chief marshals peers over war crimes00:02
Killers jailed00:02
UN delay as Rwanda massacres continue00:02
Lorry driver jailed00:02
Woman robbed00:02
Computers: Feedback: 'Clipper' charts a stormy course00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Fresh wave of job cuts expected at PowerGen: Competition from nuclear helps to lower market share00:02
Keating knows Australia's mood00:02
Cricket: Hooper helps improve the mood00:02
Radio watchdog backs call for fewer ownership limits: Expanding GWR pins hopes on relaxation of restrictions00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Labour politicians under fire for boycott of BBC: Strike causes widespread disruption of radio and television00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Campaigner held00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
REVIEW / Potter returns to talk among the living00:02
Equestrianism: Promising Aspyring00:02
Murder fantasy comes alive in Spain00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell return would hold no fears for Hakkinen: Young pretender to the throne thinks champion would find new-look Formula One much more difficult to master00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Nato tries to tempt Moscow with 'peace partnership' deal00:02
Hamas and PLO battle for power in Gaza00:02
FILM / Stranger than fiction: Shin Sang Okk, the Korean director, has survived it all: dictatorships, prison, Cannes. By Sheila Johnston00:02
Monochrome mummers: A retrospective of the theatrical photographs of Nobby Clark has just opened in London. Marina Benjamin on the artist and his methods00:02
Pembroke: Numbers crisis for the Bank00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Africa File: Rebels lose their 'good guys' image00:02
CENTREFOLD / White out: A blizzard of White Albums slays the competition at HMV's exhibition of classic rock sleeves00:02
FILM / Best of the Reps00:02
OPERA / A season in hell: Edward Seckerson on Lucy Bailey's new staging of Janacek's Jenufa at English National Opera00:02
Rugby Union: Welcome win for Welsh00:02
Big quake, not much damage00:02
FILM / Hi honey I'm homicidal: Adam Mars-Jones on ironic tastelessness posing as suburban warfare in John Waters' latest black comedy, Serial Mom00:02
EU melts Iceland00:02
Shame or survival in Europe - take your pick00:02
Doctors' vote shows extent of frustration00:02
View from City Road: Judge sets Pitman a Herculean task00:02
Caesareans 'cut HIV birth risk'00:02
British Land welcomes setback in bond market00:02
Letter: Good news at the top, but house prices remain low00:02
Prisons merge00:02
Labour reaps easy harvest of challenger's defection: Newham By-Election: Liberal Democrats remove all traces of the candidate who wrecked their campaign00:02
Chubb's surge to pounds 77m fails to impress the City00:02
File sent to CPS on hospital deaths00:02
US troops win pay-out for Gulf war mystery illness00:02
Estate upgrade00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Postcard Portraits00:02
MUSIC / The mark of the beast: The Lighthouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
87m pounds hostile bid for funeral business00:02
Manslaughter plea00:02
Letter: Narwhal horn sent to Coventry00:02
Today's Number: 5.3800:02
Mother forced to fight for entitlements: The failure to co-ordinate00:02
Fair-shares plea00:02
Faster motorways00:02
Hopes rise for release of hikers held in Kashmir00:02
Football: Romario is in obliging mood: Fifa president's tip for World Cup stardom responds with a hat-trick while the weather forces Irish outsiders to stay inside00:02
Leading Article: Lib Dems need a change of clothes00:02
Corpse in field was pregnant: West police refuse to comment on identity00:02
Law: How to bring order from chaos?: Roger Smith, director of the Legal Action Group, looks at the problems associated with the plans for franchising00:02
FILM / Take One Actor: Stairway to movie hell heaven: At first nights, the last thing on people's minds is seeing a movie00:02
Birthdays00:02
Clinton 'might ease' sanctions against Serbia00:02
Cricket: Cold-blooded first century for Vaughan00:02
'No support for education': Life in care00:02
Sheep charge00:02
Computers: Confessions of a database designer: The key to a successful system is bridging the gap between belief and reality. Kay Ewbank reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
No to McDonald's00:02
Patient has no claim for pain00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Equestrianism: Bramham International, Wetherby00:02
Mare beaten00:02
Russian gang law00:02
Market Report: Insurances in limelight on day of few bright spots00:02
Short beaten00:02
Press attacks Rafsanjani00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
Letter: Narwhal horn sent to Coventry00:02
Obituary: Jack Spurgeon00:02
Tories slump into third place: Bradford South By-Election00:02
But what did we do in the war?00:02
Law Update: Scottish mediation00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
POP / On Pop00:02
Golf: Woosnam struggles: Davis breaks away from pack as US stalwart returns00:02
Millions of taxpayers 'assessed wrongly': Revenue often at fault, watchdog says00:02
Golf: Couples takes first steps back: US stalwart returns after long lay-off00:02
Letter: Research and rhetoric on 'satanic' child abuse00:02
OECD raises growth hopes00:02
Journalists' awards00:02
Women in top jobs work harder00:02
IRA activists cleared of murdering officer00:02
Call to banish deadly lorries00:02
Floodgates open as water giants grapple with costs: Fat dividends could be next for the chop in an industry now shedding jobs wholesale. Mary Fagan explains00:02
China firm on rejecting N Korea sanctions00:02
Duke calls for curbs on charity status00:02
Law Report: Court bars bank takeover: Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society v Building Societies Commission. Chancery Division (Sir Donald Nicholls, Vice Chancellor), 8 June 199400:02
Hawk patrol clears town of pigeon nuisance00:02
The Daily Poem: Letters of the Dead'00:02
Rugby League: Ireland require a sense of tactical adventure00:02
FILM / Competition00:02
FILM / Reviews: White with a hint of grey: Sheila Johnston on the new releases, including Three Colours White, the latest part of Kieslowski's masterful trilogy. . .00:02
Tennis: Bates books his passage to the last eight: British No 1 gathers momentum towards the final as Ivanisevic rolls out00:02
German banks hit by another scam00:02
Boy, 11, left at garage as deposit for petrol00:02
Letter: Good news at the top, but house prices remain low00:02
Life stirs in Rwandan charnel-house: In Kabgayi, David Orr witnesses a saga of survival amid the immense army of the dead00:02
SAS unit axed00:02
VIDEO / On Release00:02
Letter: Car-parking parks00:02
View from City Road: Brighter outlook for Europe00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
TV doctor denies harassing colleague00:02
One-year passport 'to be abolished'