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Saturday, 18 June 1994
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News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Pupils hurt in 'flame-thrower' attack
- Hostage's father tracks down gunmen
- Heseltine rejects the 'poisoned chalice': Challenge to Major over job as party chairman
- Man uses train to amputate his leg
UK
- Tango with a twist
- 'Spiderboy' held
- Panda goes home
- Calculated killing
- Parents' cruelty
- 'Vigilante' jailed
- Race stunt apology
- Gloucester dig ends
- Unions attack delay in rail talks
- Killers mistook graduate for drugs dealer: Two jailed after shooting trainee accountant dead in flat - 'You picked wrong house, wrong man and wrong day,' judge says
- Policeman stabbed to death as he helps colleagues
- Army of Mrs Mops object to being 'taken to the cleaners': MI6's cleaning ladies are being compelled to fight for their jobs in secret. Ian MacKinnon reports
- MPs expect IRA to declare ceasefire within three weeks
- Hell hath no fury like Joan Collins sued
- Anger as 850 jobs axed at Devonport dockyard
- Beckett courts union support: Call for fresh look at industrial laws
- Student in van of motorised art movement: Exhaust-fume sculpture dominates 'involved' degree-show works. Dalya Alberge reports
- 'Arthur Daley' spirit attacked: Police says public turns blind eye to theft
- Clean-up for nuclear sites costs pounds 8bn
- Reshuffle will test John Major's mettle: Colin Brown speculates on the top-level changes the Prime Minister may make in an attempt to quell the right wing
- Minister blocks move to revive disabled Bill
- Navy sacks two ratings for mock hanging
- Note under floor tells a tale of murder: Builders uncover a tormented confession to a killing in 1901. Marianne Macdonald reports
- Drink-driver who killed friends gets five years
- Staff error blamed for scalding of woman, 90
- Prince's tax bill rises as wife cuts workload: Publication of Duchy's accounts reveals Highgrove is leased to Charles
- Anger as BNP chief walks free over race attack
- All good things must come to an end . . . that's life: Rhys Williams recalls the mix of tabloid fun and campaigning that fuelled a TV hit
- ITV withdraws pounds 2.5m bid to televise lottery draw
- Junior doctors want law to enforce 56-hour week
World
- N Korea and US on track to talk again
- Turkish courts ban pro-Kurdish party
- Japan admits it can make atomic bomb
- Cambodia digs out seeds of death: A farmer who steps on a mine loses both a limb and a livelihood, Terry McCarthy writes in Phnom Penh
- LA police pursue fugitive Simpson: Authorities embarrassed as sports superstar goes to earth after being charged with murder of ex-wife
- Mobutu appoints prime minister
- Punk-rock star found dead
- UN fears for Bosnia ceasefire
- Cuban asylum-seekers 'can't leave'
- Three held over death of French MP
- Foreigners flee besieged Aden
- Mexican peace plan in danger
- Judge tough on Waco members
- French plan for Rwanda gets cool reception
- Out of Russia: No entry for capitalist-roaders
- Moscow hungers for a seat at Nato's table: East European states fear a security carve-up at their expense, writes Andrew Marshall in Brussels
- Delors' EU post divides member states
- Limp Greens surge back in Germany: A party written off in 1990 may join Bonn's next coalition government, writes Steve Crawshaw in Wiesbaden
- Tchaikovsky key to success
Business
- Business and City in Brief
- Nuclear clean-up could cost pounds 12bn: Gains from selling Atomic Energy Authority's commercial arm will be dwarfed by decommissioning expense
- Job in china for Mrs O'Reilly
- Procedo chief arrested on suspicion of vast fraud: Banks lash out with charges but fail to agree on how to spread the damage
- Confident Greycoat buys big at Victoria
- Fears for issue as Eurotunnel shares hit low
- Cater Allen cash call will pay for two Tyndall banks: Purchase will double retail deposits of discount house to pounds 700m
- Cardinals discard the red and go into black
- Dollar dives after gloomy forecast
- Market Report: Suspicion of a counter-bid fuels Lasmo performance
- Company News in Brief
- View from City Road: Swiss headache in the Channel tunnel
- View from City Road: The floating rate pushed to its limits
- View from City Road: An inscrutable move from Ritblat
- View from City Road: Crisis in Germany's cosy boardroom
- Slough threatens to end Bredero listing: John Ritblat's motives remain a mystery as wrangle with British Land intensifies
- Dawson heads for Mongolia: Knitwear firm moves closer to cashmere
- Raw material warning sends Vita into dip: Brokers reduce profit estimates on news of price damage
- Wainhomes beats forecast with pounds 6m maiden results
- Rugby Group buys Bunzl's US building supplier for pounds 61m
People
- Faith and Reason: Camcorders and a glimpse of heaven: What is holy is different: you cannot capture holiness on camera for the image destroys it, writes Peter Mullen. Our series on whether God is guilty will be concluded next week.
- Appeals: The Hovercraft Museum
- Wills
- Cutlers' Company
- City of London Solicitors' Company
- Birthdays
- Service appointments
- Church of Scotland: Appointments
- Appointments
- Church appointments
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Terence de Vere White
- Obituary: John Lord
- Obituary: Royal Dano
- Obituary: Professor James Topping
Opinion
Opinion RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Country Matters: And the groom wore a pork-pie hat
- Profile: Wish you'd never joined the club?: Alan Sugar, football's one-man angry brigade
- Leading Article: New faces yes, but new purpose too
- Quote Unquote
- William Donaldson's Week: What the butler was called
- In for a penny, in for a pound
- Letter: A computer revolution for schools
- Letter: Striking statistics
- Letter: Running under false colours
- Letter: Running under false colours
- Letter: Korean dangers
- Letter: Stars of symmetry
- Letter: Kurds' 'protectors' are terrorists
- Letter: Bats out of the belfry with bells and smells
- Letter: Bats out of the belfry with bells and smells
- Letter: Brake on cyclists
- Letter: Dubious cafe culture
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Cricket / Second Test: England fight back after tail-whipping: Atherton's side fail to follow up their early breakthroughs but batsmen reassert control after Stewart sets a sparkling pace
- Cricket / Second Test: Kiwis steer clear of crowing
- Cricket / Second Test: Crowe makes wrong decision
- Cricket: Gatting maintains a cool head: Middlesex's batting bravura
- Cricket: Gritty Russell leads fightback: Notts loose grip
- Cricket: Hooper happy but the rift remains: Tempers frayed at Edgbaston
- Racing / Royal Ascot: Lochsong makes stately progress: After another scorching success, the Breeders' Cup and sprinting crown await the mare who reigned on the Queen's parade
- Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips
- World Cup Diary: Team Spirit
- World Cup Diary: England's finger of suspicion
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Harkes embarks on mission improbable: 94: Derby County's American midfielder prepares to educate his countrymen. Phil Shaw reports
- Football: Walker keen to settle pounds 1.8m deal for Dahlin: Everton want Swedish striker
- Motor Racing: Bell is compelled to drive all night: Five-times Le Mans winner geared up for what may be his final 24 Hours
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Cops and firemen are Big Apple's friendly rivals: As the Irish and Italians prepare to meet today, local supporters declare their loyalties. Rogan Taylor reports from New York
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Dependable Bonner still captures the Irish imagination: Trevor Haylett on the penalty save that secured a place in the folklore of football
- Football / World Cup USA '94: It's a funny old World Cup
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Colombia prepared for Hagi's challenge
- Football / World Cup USA '94: World Cup update
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Dome breaks new ground
- Sport: The Week in Review
- Sport: Quotes of the Week
- Football / World Cup USA '94: South Korea strike twice to stun Spain
- Farewell to the queen of Wimbledon: In 1973 a shy, 16-year-old Czech girl beat Britain's Christine Truman Janes 6-1, 6-4 to begin a Wimbledon career that has become the stuff of legend. Twenty-one eventful and frequently successful championships later, Martina Navratilova bows out this year, her place in the history books secure
- Sporting Digest: Tennis
- Sporting Digest: Swimming
- Sporting Digest: Squash
- Sporting Digest: Sailing
- Sporting Digest: Rugby Union
- Sporting Digest: Rugby League
- Sporting Digest: Hockey
- Sporting Digest: Golf
- Sporting Digest: Football
- Sporting Digest: Equestrianism
- Sporting Digest: Cycling
- Sporting Digest: Baseball
- Sporting Digest: Athletics
- Hockey: Slack England punished
- Tennis: Harvey-Wild makes all the right moves: Two unseeded players reach women's final
- Tennis: Rafter gets the breaks
- Golf / US Open: Briton lets his rivals sweat it out: Montgomerie shoots 65 to set the pace in the second round of the US Open
- Equestrianism: Britain win jump-off
- Boxing: Lewis to meet Bowe
- Sailing: Lakota to take on airs
- Tennis: Spitting images are not a pretty sight
- Today's Number: 250,000
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Klinsmann provides Germany's first thrust
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Keane fit to face an Italian side still in a muddle: Charlton tries to remain cool amid clamour and stays faithful to the team who brought the Republic on to the grand stage
- Football / World Cup USA '94: Missed match fuels rumours about Romario
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Florida: A new short story by Mavis Gallant
- Heart Searching: 'Hello? It's Cupid calling . . .': Ever thought about finding love over the airwaves? Dolly Dhingra reports on the growth in lonely hearts programmes on the radio
Fashion
- Saturday Night: Is this a wise investment?
- Great leap backwards: The look of pre-war China, conjured up by the skin-tight cheung sam, is finding favour now with young Westerners, as Tamsin Blanchard reports
Food & Drink
- Food and Drink: Dressing light for summer - Potato salad deserves better than being drowned in a bottle of mayonnaise. The secret of a perfect salad lies in the right potatoes and a good blend of seasonings
- Food and Drink: Buyers with just a bit more bottle - Marks & Spencer's wine department is developing the taste for adventure, reports Anthony Rose
- Food and Drink: Now France enters the space race - Bruno Loubet and his partner are planning a giant restaurant in Regent Street. Emily Green visited the site
- Botsford & Son's soup kitchen
- Gastropod
House & Home
- Property: A losing battle in the trenches - Residents have no control over construction work on their doorsteps. Anne Spackman talks to two victims
- The grim facts of property blight: Residents have no control over construction work on their doorsteps. Sally Moore urges legal change
- Gardening: Cuttings - Alpine show
- Gardening: Cuttings - Festive contest
- Gardening: Cuttings
- Gardening: Memories of Muggeridge
- Tool Box: Cutter that's a a snip
- Gardening: Looking at a rose-tinted spectacle - Out of favour with some gardeners, roses remain Britain's favourite flower. Gatcombe Court has them in abundance, says Anna Pavord
Motoring
- Independent Road Test: Volkswagen turns up the volume: The latest, biggest Golf has a healthy appetite for luggage, says Phil Lewellin
- Sporting life in the past lane: Phil Llewellin talks to Lord March about a classic line-up for the Festival of Speed at Goodwood
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- THEATRE / All for one man: Jeffrey Wainwright reviews The Three Musketeers at the Sheffield Crucible
- ARTS / And what's more . . .
- THEATRE / Flight from the enchanter: Paul Taylor reviews Richard Eyre's production of Sweet Bird of Youth at the National
- The Barryness of Barry: This is a story about a singer with many fans and many enemies. It's about a career, about money, about a publicity machine that's out of control. It has a happy beginning, this story, and a happy middle. But does it have a happy ending? Giles Smith on Barry Manilow - show time
- Landmarks: Notre-Dame de Haut
- Lyre education: The Dolphin Opera aims to put on a professional show with community participants. Roberta Mock, shadow director, examines the pitfalls
Music
- OPERA REVIEW / A triumph for ritual theatre: Edward Seckerson on the Royal Opera's new production of Aida at the Royal Opera
- Double Play: Pleasures that come in short measures
- Upbeat: Coda
- Upbeat: Late love
- Upbeat: Hidden Haydn
- OPERA / Finding work for idle hands to do: Bayan Northcott sketches the complex background to Stravinsky's opera, The Rake's Progress
TV & Radio
Books
- BOOK REVIEW / Waiting for doodle: 'The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume I: Waiting for Godot' - Ed Donald McMillan & James Knowlson: Faber, 75 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Nautical knaves and forks: Anthony Quinn finds a salty atmosphere of unease in Candia McWilliam's latest novel - 'Debatable Land' - Candia McWilliam: Bloomsbury, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Royal progress with a dangerous tempo: Dermot Clinch on an uncontroversial biography of an amazing maestro, Leonard Bernstein - 'Leonard Bernstein' - Humphrey Burton: Faber /Sony, 25.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Ou est le Montmartre d'antan?: Godfrey Hodgson on an erudite and amorous elegy for the vanished beauty of Paris: 'The Assassination of Paris' - Louis Chevalier: University of Chicago Press, 23.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / A dish best eaten cold: 'Mothers and Other Lovers - Joanna Briscoe: Phoenix, 8.99 pounds
- Postcard from Tokyo: With one foot in the mudswamp: Richard Lloyd Parry meets a writer who tells Japanese stories in a Midlands accent
- BOOK REVIEW / Where people are no more than dust: Isabel Hilton on two fresh and painful accounts of life in Chinese labour camps
- BOOK REVIEW / Adam and Natalie plastered in Paris: 'Adam's Wish' - Paul Micou: Bantam, 14.99 pounds
- BOOKS / Recommended
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Travel: Gay Paree comes out on the streets - To mark international Gay Pride day, Simon Calder checks out the scene in Paris
- Travel: The Orly flight gets there late: Charles de Gaulle won the Great Air Race, beating its rival Paris airport, says Simon Calder
- Travel: No meat, no treats
- Travel: Don't quote me on that, please
- Travel: A day trip to the edge of Africa - Resting up in Dakar after a wild dash across the desert, Jeremy Hart met Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour and a New Yorker looking for his roots
- Travel: Departures - Travel bookshelf
- Travel: Departures - Lagos warning
- Travel: Departures - US goal rush
- Travel: Departures - Call for help
- Travel: Departures - Suez incident
- The Things I've Seen: Margate Scenic Railway
- Travel: Near-miss on the flightpath of the condor - A hair-raising bus journey and a precarious mountain trek took Alan Murphy into the Andes for a close encounter with a big bird
Money
Money RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Investors ask for more: Nic Cicutti on why societies are setting up unit trusts
- Think twice about surrender values
- Wills for pounds 35
- Visa from Toyota
- Currency fund offer
- Personal service
- Relocation tax guide
- Combined credit
- Direct loan
- Bristol bond
- Endsleigh discount
- Nationwide change
- Shares for charity
- PEP mortgage facts
- Foreign currency service from N&P
- Money Grouse: A costly touch of second-class
- Paying for a room with a view: Italy offers culture, fine food and sun. Andrew Bibby looks for the best way to pay
- Lloyds Bank escalates the bonds race
- Discounts on offer to the Chelsea set
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