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Hospital watchdog to get the chop early00:02
Interest Rates: Clarke predicts tough public spending round after rate rise00:02
Break-out jail cut searches after threats to staff00:02
Commission with a wide range of talents00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Even governments have to bow before the bond markets: National anti-inflation strategies are increasingly globally led, explains Hamish McRae00:02
Cricket: Simmons lightens gloom in home farewell: After beating Hampshire, Leicestershire look favourites to take runners-up position in County Championship00:02
FILM / John Lyttle on cinema00:02
Accountancy: Relationships too close for comfort: A survey of finance directors highlights the 'personal chemistry' involved in choosing auditors. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Rowing: British pair put down a marker00:02
Jeb Bush's way open to contest Florida00:02
Simple rate rise, complex plot00:02
Royal police to show their weapons00:02
Anniversaries00:02
POP / Angela Lewis on pop00:02
etc . . . Baseball: Five baseball teams you can watch playing for free.00:02
Letter: Pros and cons of DSS computers00:02
Health Update: Early amniocentesis and risk to foetus00:02
Nigerian minister fired by military00:02
Diary00:02
Banging the gong: Poor partitions reveal more about the neighbourhood than a survey ever can00:02
Porn video man given custody of children: Council faces further allegations00:02
Business & City Summary00:02
Site Unseen: Telephone boxes, suicides and Thomas Hardy: A weekly look at London's hidden gems00:02
Attack on traditional teaching kept secret00:02
Rugby League: Simms takes over at Halifax: Reilly's successor as coach sorry to leave Leigh00:02
Bogus profit claim a lie, says Walker: Auditors 'would have seen discrepancies'00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Racing: The art of the old weighting game: The official handicapper, often maligned but too seldom understood, unburdens himself on his exacting profession to Greg Wood00:02
BA's European business class gets pounds 70m revamp00:02
Racing: Morley Street bows out00:02
Health Update: Sweat over saunas00:02
View from City Road: Closer look at the regulators overdue00:02
Bottom Line: Dalgety tastier minus snacks00:02
Swimming: Haller not worried by absence of medals: Optimism over Olympics00:02
Germans seize nuclear material00:02
Health: Better drugs, but the voices go on: What can modern medicine do to help schizophrenics? Roger Dobson reports on new treatments for old problems00:02
US adds the final touch to plans for Haiti invasion00:02
Obituary: Roy Richardson00:02
And What's More . . .00:02
Football: Wolverhampton bids Wright a fond farewell: Phil Shaw reports on the funeral of a football 'heart-throb'00:02
Clubs: Concrete Jungle: Everyone who's anyone is going to Manchester for the In The City Festival. Jessica Aitkenhead laces up her dancing shoes00:02
CENTREFOLD / Rock 'n' roll at a price: Sotheby's are flogging pop memorabilia from Johnny Rotten and other 'rebel rousers'00:02
Letter: Proms: choral chauvinism or jolly good fun?00:02
Review of church remarriage ban00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Belgian bargains00:02
Meridien offer raised to pounds 230m00:02
Law Report: Receivers adopted contracts: Re Leyland Daf Ltd; Re Ferranti International plc - Chancery Division (Mr Justice Lightman) 26 July 199400:02
Three British soldiers killed in Bosnia crash00:02
BBC report on single mothers 'simplistic': Broadcasting watchdog rules complaint by one-parent council inappropriate. Maggie Brown reports00:02
Mitterrand 'would go' if too ill to rule00:02
Smugglers jailed00:02
Further rate increases expected: Gilt and currency markets welcome the rise but share prices only partly reverse an early tumble00:02
Boxing: King in no mood to play ball: Lewis's opponent makes a mysterious arrival far from London00:02
Interest Rates: Factory price rises more than expected00:02
Racing: Clovis bets in clover00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Cycling00:02
Crew unhurt as Navy frigate runs aground off Chile coast00:02
True Gripes: Fined for honesty: On the spot for renewing a pass - late00:02
Letter: Don't mock the modern mop00:02
Stadium recaptures glory days00:02
Human bones found00:02
Threat to rare stone landscape00:02
Health Update: Circumcision alert00:02
Today's Number: 1500:02
Russia fights for Pacific islands00:02
Football: United bank on youngsters: Glenn Moore considers Alex Ferguson's options for their European tie00:02
Star Grazing00:02
Car meter aims to cut cost of road pricing systems: Low-tech device could reduce investment needed for congestion charging00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Flash flights00:02
Bonn wants faster freeing of telecoms00:02
American Football: Montana shoots down young guns: The Kansas City quarterback shows he still has the killer instinct00:02
Kohl allies face oblivion after election debacle00:02
Britain strengthens Cuba trade links00:02
Disabled workers to strike00:02
In Thing: Mini-backpacks00:02
Bottom Line: Canny Candover steps up the pace00:02
Letter: Proms: choral chauvinism or jolly good fun?00:02
UN Population Conference: Operation on TV enrages Egypt00:02
Tennis: Even Stich falls to the charm of Agassi: Larger than life character wins friends besides US Open title with a show of maturity based upon subtle skills00:02
Soviet submarine at Woolwich00:02
Leading Article: Mr Prudent opts for pain today00:02
Cat and mouse game being played over border roads00:02
Kidnapped manager is found dead after kidnap00:02
Eurofile: Dominoes or house of cards?00:02
They cannot let His Royal Hulk lose his fig leaf00:02
View from City Road: The rate rise is not all gloom00:02
Letter: Democracy and the missing millions00:02
Letter: If we do not help, Bosnia's blood will be on our hands00:02
KKR to spend dollars 2bn on another food firm00:02
Football: Blackburn out to dispel jibes: Glenn Moore expects a straightforward passage for Dalglish's men00:02
Rafsanjani sends Paris a warning00:02
Travel: Respectability on the Rhine: Valerie James is awed by a Gothic Dom and discovers a hotel in the round00:02
Strikes help to derail Liberty00:02
Barristers set to face compensation claims over shoddy work: Review group recommends making Bar more accountable00:02
Hospital ward used as remand prison: Lynn Eaton reveals how a plan to reduce suicides in jails is being thwarted by long court delays00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Tunnel talk00:02
Drugs-bust mayor heads for poll win00:02
THEATRE / Smouldering fires: Jeffrey Wainwright on Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton00:02
Half of rail services will run, BR says00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Sussex park00:02
Health Update: For asthma or colds00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Putney puts stars in Moscow nights00:02
Leading Article: Fingers in the broadcasting pie00:02
Rugby Union: Rowell bows to pressure of role00:02
Air assault punctures President's defences00:02
Plaza cinema wins a year of grace00:02
Charter puts pressure on buses to speed up00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Health Update: Birth tub infected00:02
IBM clears the way for its new world order: A sales force organised by client industries, not countries, is taking shape, writes Larry Black00:02
Interest Rates: Big lenders move quickly to raise cost of borrowing00:02
The trash ethic: Kitsch is cool and good taste is passe. Londoners are snapping up cheap, lurid trinkets from around the world. Monique Roffey meets two entrepreneurial magpies who are redefining style.00:02
Obituary: Major Lance00:02
Letter: Tea is better than continental bars00:02
The mother of all career choices: Women in the armed forces should be compensated for loss of their right to raise a family, says Rosalind Miles00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Fly away00:02
THEATRE / David Benedict on theatre00:02
BPI faces 50% surge in costs of polymer00:02
Health Update: Vanity old and new00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
In the studio: No bovver with a hoover: Dillwyn Smith00:02
Site Unseen: A weekly look at London's hidden gems - Telephone boxes, suicides and Thomas Hardy00:02
By-election blow for Berlusconi00:02
Motor Racing: Schumacher deepens Benetton's gloom: Briatore determined to keep his driver as storm clouds swirl around the championship leaders00:02
Athletics: Battling Britain able to finish on positive note: World Cup performances by men and women at Crystal Palace divert attention away from drugs00:02
Football: Scots in need of talisman00:02
Letter: Home Office responsibility00:02
Cricket: Round-Up: Kent finish off Somerset00:02
Tory chairman left exposed after new gaffe: Following another blunder, Jeremy Hanley is looking vulnerable. Colin Brown reports00:02
Cook sells US corporate travel arm to Amex for pounds 250m00:02
Lions maul intruder in London zoo enclosure00:02
Leading Article: When marriage turns into a life sentence00:02
Interest Rates: Business complains of 'surprising' decision: Industry lobby stung by 'unusual move' and warns against further rises that could hit confidence00:02
Motorcycling: Cadalora upstages Doohan00:02
Letter: If we do not help, Bosnia's blood will be on our hands00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Football: Beardsley boosts Newcastle with surprise return: Kevin Keegan will not alter his attacking policy in the Uefa Cup. Guy Hodgson reports from Antwerp00:02
People: Emmy opts to sing the Blues00:02
Fairey gains boost from defence activities00:02
Where are they now?: Bobby Moncur00:02
Pilot of plane that hit White House is named00:02
Peking wins support from Carey00:02
The artist as director: Derek Jarman was too ill to hold a brush, but he died a painter. Edward Lucie-Smith reviews his work and Karen Finley's, both in Manchester00:02
Two injured by loyalist shoebox bomb on train: Serious casualties avoided as denonator explodes in station00:02
Flights of fancy . . . Flight fright00:02
TELEVISION (Review): Starting a new term with the interminable00:02
Birthdays00:02
Inmarsat joins race to build first global satellite mobile phone system00:02
On Tour00:02
Unionists to visit US at Vice-President's request00:02
Bar accountability: Key measures to help smooth legal process00:02
Obituary: Jessica Tandy00:02
Woss goin' on? We're turning teenagers into yobs00:02
Interest Rates: Decision forced by strong growth: Why now? Robert Chote examines the background to the rates move and finds Kenneth Clarke apparently determined to break the old pattern00:02
Football: Muller takes step nearer to Everton debut: Everton woo Brazilian00:02
Forte will face uphill fight to win the Savoy: Trusts run by former chairman's family oppose suggested agreement00:02
Woman hit by train00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Pembroke: Caught on the hop00:02
Council approves 'glass church'00:02
Rates rise but Clarke rules out tax cuts00:02
Market Report: Figures from Kingfisher expected to disappoint00:02
Dalgety sells Dutch snacks arm to UB00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Strong demand drives Pendragon: Payout lifted as profits surge 32% on turnaround in luxury vehicle sales00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Ankara moves to throttle media's access to Kurds: The ban on foreigners visiting Iraqi Kurdistan reflects growing Turkish nationalism, writes Hugh Pope in Ankara00:02
Boxing: How the game was the real loser in Birmingham: Following Saturday's violent scenes at the NEC, questions are being asked as to how such behaviour can be prevented at future contests00:02
UN Population Conference: Vatican set to hold back from accord on abortion00:02
Heads attack law on daily worship: Rules on school assemblies 'unworkable'00:02
Young Bush's path cleared00:02
Letter: World beaters00:02
County pressure00:02
MUSIC / Age before beauty: Adrian Jack reviews Anya Alexeyev at the Wigmore Hall00:02
Cricket: Rain leaves Devon with the double00:02
Damascus seeks perfect time to make its peace: President Assad knows he has no option but to come to terms with Israel. The question is when, writes Charles Richards00:02
Ice Hockey: Medway hold their position00:02
Health Update: Tampon advice00:02
Germans hit the jackpot00:02
Sports Politics: Walker to chair new Sports Council: Rugby League chief appointed successor to Yarranton00:02
Showering platitudes on Islam's suffering women: Forget Cairo: The West will put Arab stability before sexual equality, argues Robert Fisk00:02
Letter: Proms: choral chauvinism or jolly good fun?00:02
Football: Le Tissier makes Tottenham pay: London all-stars stumble to a home defeat against Southampton after Klinsmann gives them perfect start00:02
Bayer regains name with dollars 1bn Sterling purchase from SKB00:02
Gas deaths inquiry00:02
VAT on fuel disturbs the Tory grassroots: Conservative chairman remains in spotlight to launch agenda for Bournemouth conference with selected constituency motions00:02
Court Circular00:02
Nato hoists banner in Poland amid a blaze of ceremony00:02
Victim gave drug warning: Singer who died at rave had expressed concern about the use of Ecstasy at clubs00:02
A new life for two bobbins and an acorn: Bartering is back, bringing a sense of community to the post-industrial age, says David Nicholson-Lord00:02
RADIO / English as she is spoke: Speaking in tongues - Robert Hanks reviews the airwaves00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Health: Heart attack? But I'm a woman . . .: Everyone thinks it's a disease that only strikes men; for a woman it's just a pain in the chest. Lee Rodwell explains that the truth is very different (CORRECTED)00:02
Poll tax imposed on Peking residents00:02
Bardon profit held back by slump in US sales: Results of quarrying group disappoint despite recovery at home00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Tory health appointees 'show bias to business'00:02
Interest Rates: Six City experts who got their predictions wrong00:02
Nurse backed00:02
Racing: Record whitewash00:02
Letter: Pros and cons of DSS computers