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Monday, 12 October 1992
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- Law report: No right of silence in poll tax proceedings: Regina v Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court and another, ex parte Watkins: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Henry), 9 October 1992
- Art market hopeful despite recession
- Success for Ozbek in design awards
- IRA bombing at Covent Garden pub injures five
- Ministers to intensify Jubilee Line campaign
- Five years for killing was 'too lenient'
- Mixed blessing of Booker accolade
- Private train firms will set fare levels
- Hockney stamp
- Restaurant that became a symbol for radicalism: An action for damages by a civil rights leader has ended but without an apology. Heather Mills reports
- Police pay pounds 50,000 to settle case: An action for damages by a civil rights leader has ended but without an apology. Heather Mills reports
- Further education system 'in a mess'
- Woman cleared of pounds 1m fraud
- Luton sees Madonna disappear in a flash
- Farmer 'ignored ban'
- Damages for dismissed union clerk
- Escaped prisoner gives himself up
- Singer dies
- Rave arrests
- Law Report: Case Summaries
- Ministers fight to keep capital funds
- Fischer is three games from victory
- Survey of judges
- Docklands move for civil servants in doubt
- Scientists warn against panic cuts
- Heroin charges
- Inquiry into insurance fraud claims
- Nikki Allen case man released
- Chelsea ball returns with a flourish
- Treatments in health service to be assessed
- Dinghy death
- Natural barrier to invasion by the tides: Salt marshes instead of concrete barriers could hold the key to combating the encroachment of farmland caused by rising sea levels. Nicholas Schoon reports
- Museum tries to stem disease affecting glass: Chemists are being used to combat a disease that is shattering exhibits. Steve Connor reports
- Theatre groups concerned at 'arts police' rating plays
- Magistrates 'should lose power to jail offenders'
- Plea to halt sacking of pregnant workers
- Speeding motorists targeted by automatic cameras: Terry Kirby looks at the photographic evidence that can convict motorists
- Innovative housing block condemned as unsafe
- Schools targeted by 'pro-fish' documentary
- Recovery plan for Bronze Age ship under A20
- BBC will not bow to campaign over Radio 4 change
- Bird debate
- Hindus object to goddess's name on rubbish vans
- UN guidelines on refugees 'ignored'
- 'Spitting Image' Jesus survives critical test
- Thunderbirds are not quite go
- Floor renewal
- Contemporary Art Market: Galleries in India profit from boom in interest
- Sleeping bears may hold key to bone disease
- Wills campaign
- Addicts face loss of treatment centre cash
- Decline in NHS dentistry lower than predicted
- Law Report: Case Summaries: Correction
World
- The US Presidential Elections: Bush feels the ground shift beneath him: Rupert Cornwell, in Washington, on how the candidates fared in the first TV debate. Below, what they said in detail
- Botha joins peace trail in Angola
- China plans for wealth under party control
- Iraqi envoy summoned over jailed Britons
- Former army man confesses to involvement in political killings
- De Klerk government reform opposed
- The World this Week
- Indian unrest threatens Bush in the old West: John Lichfield, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, meets a group of Native American voters for whom today's Columbus Day celebrations have a bitter taste
- Georgian aircraft shot down
- Palestinian prisoners' strike fuels violence
- Out of Cambodia: A 'Q' turns up with gadgets of peace
- Georgia votes in defiance of chaos
- Lebanese poll is divisive
- Chinese Central Advisory Commission
- Iraqgate feud breaks into open
- China reformers set to crush old guard: Pragmatists in the Communist Party plan to drop ideology and use market forces to maintain a hold on power, says Raymond Whitaker, Asia Editor
- Guatemala tries to block peace prize candidate
People
- Obituary: Denholm Elliott
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Lord Hatch of Lusby
- Obituary: Dr Kit Ounsted
- Obituary: Lennie Peters
- Obituary: Bill Rowe
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Peter le Huray
- Obituary: Ed Blackwell
- Obituary: Johnny Carisi
- Obituary: Professor Allan Bloom
- British Council
- Application for Appointment as Queen's Counsel
Science
- Thermometer on top of the world: At 78, John Wright returns to Iceland to check the glacier he first saw as a student
- Microbe of the Month: Warfare waged by a gadfly: Bernard Dixon looks at a would-be weapon now adding to the woes of what was Yugoslavia
- Gene genius that cuts out the need for vivisection: Molecular biologists now play a key role in drug research, says Ruth McKernan
- PC pirates who sail the software seas: Rogue programs are bad news for supplier and user alike, warns Martin Whybrow
Life & Style
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- Special Report on Multimedia: Like ducks to water to make a splash in the market-place: Already leading the way in adopting developments, the Japanese are hungry for more success in the multimedia arena. Terry McCarthy reports from Tokyo
- Special Report on Multimedia: Another world is virtually here: A fast-developing technology is now opening doorways to our dreams, writes Tony Feldman
- Special Report on Multimedia: Solutions still search for a problem: The battle to launch a new generation of multimedia products is starting in earnest, writes Steve Homer
- Special Report on Multimedia: Apple sets its sights on the 21st century: Susan Watts finds that sections of the computer industry believe a revolution is on the horizon and that it will open up a new mass market
- Special Report on Multimedia: Technology seeks the right partner for marriage: Integration in the industry is opening up a host of possibilities. Steve Homer reports
- Special Report on Multimedia: Breathing new life into world of the desktop: George Cole finds that television and computer technologies are converging
- Special Report on Multimedia: Crucial questions to cut through the hype
- Special Report on Multimedia: Discs at the heart of a revolution: Patrick Gibbins examines the developments that are changing personal computing
- Special Report on Multimedia: The need to touch hearts before pockets: Software producers must create interactive products to capture the imagination, writes Tony Feldman
- 1 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 2 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 3 Exclusive: Championship clubs set to push for safe-standing trials
- 4 China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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