Day In a Page
Sunday, 17 January 1993
Jump to:
News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedUK
- Law Report: Case Summaries
- Three injured in restaurant raid
- Woman's body found under car
- Coma victim is pregnant
- British Coal rejects need for large subsidies
- Police hope to question man over ski death
- Rifkind calms MPs' fears over risk to Bosnia troops
- Lourdes trip 'made volunteers ill'
- Twenty hurt as 'freak' waves rock car ferry
- Children die in road crash
- Prisoners find that all their world's a stage: A production of 'The Tempest' is changing the lives of some inmates at Maidstone jail. David Lister watched them in rehearsal
- Jet grounded by mouse scare
- Families flee homes cut off by floods
- Streamlining of doctors' training moves closer
- Lamont considered resigning over ERM (CORRECTED)
- Privatised engineering workers face redundancy
- Ministers divided by proposal to withhold benefit
- Softer nylon wins fashion credibility
- Revolt over ordination of women fails to move laity
- Competition brings chaos on the buses: The rail sell-off Bill is expected this week. Do past deregulations hold a lesson? Christian Wolmar reports
- Bart's likely to be spared by ministers
- Rolling news plan attacked by BBC man
- Catholic killed on visit to Protestant boyfriend
- Briton held over 33m pounds 'fictitious tribe' plot
- Hedgehog keeps his bottle
- Short leads in fight to find challenger
- Fiennes hits Pole
- Gales batter ship
- Pit closure challenge
- Ski collision death
- Comedy stage veterans die
- Scotland's big thaw
- Memo to John Birt: re gobbledygook: The BBC's outward-centred communications need objective-oriented enhancement, postulates Michael Leapman
- Labour accuses Tory placemen of 'blowing windfall tax off course'
- Refugees set deadline on 'broken promises': Edward Pilkington meets ethnic cleansing victims desperate to be reunited with their families
- Jobs for the Ministers
- Adrian the Editor keeps it strictly in the family
- Speech unit may be forced to close
- Oh Mr Major, what shall we do, we wanted to go to Aberdeen and there isn't a train from Crewe: The junction at BR's heart is a shadow of its former self. Will privatisation mean the end? Peter Crookston talks to passengers and railwaymen
- Clarke in clash on right to silence
- Short finds form to take the lead
- Never-on-Sunday shop staff to lose protection
- Private Lives?: The tightrope between free expression and privacy; the Law
- Plan to boost use of coal will save pits, say MPs
- Government re-think may save Bart's
- Britain backs into Bosnia no-fly deal
- Private Lives?: Victims served on a plate for a news-hungry nation; the Public
- Scotland braves a no-drive zone: London was not impressed, but 'the white stuff' caused havoc in the Highlands last week, reports James Cusick
- Is it time for the cult of youth to grow up?: Age Concern thinks older people are increasingly being marginalised. Geraldine Bedell investigates
- It must be true, they leaked it to the papers
- Tales from the Frozen North
- Bugging: Can you hear me? Yes, darling, and so can an awful lot of other people
- Cold comfort for the perfect human body
- Bomb damage cost hits flats
World
- Iraq: Iraqis remove police posts - Kuwait
- A Tomahawk cruise missile
- Clinton bruises Hollywood egos
- Iraq: Hawkish Rifkind backs raids
- Iraq: City's fireworks mark both fury and festivity: The mood in Washington
- Bill takes bus-ride to supreme power
- Iraq: President invokes God in tirade against Kuwaiti Emir: Anniversary speech
- President-elect casts his net to pay party debts: Despite much talk of fundamental change, the new cabinet has familiar faces, writes Rupert Cornwell
- A US soldier chatting to Somalis near some 500lb bombs, part of the huge arms cache discovered in a bunker near Mogadishu
- Iraq: Saddam 'was seeking confrontation': The White House view
- Iraq: 'Kamikaze' missiles reduce risks: The weapon
- Haiti army agrees to talks
- Plea on deportees
- Suicide before surrender
- Huge arms cache found
- Rebels seize Britons
- Indian PM reshuffles cabinet
- Renewed civil war dashes Angolan hopes for talks
- Hong Kong delegation back-pedals on reform
- Out of Japan: Mother Earth holds no fears for the stoics
- UN chief in Sarajevo calls for intervention to end conflict
- Yugoslav army shells Muslim posts in Bosnia
- Showdown in Iraq: Images of glory deflated by pin-prick tactics: Baghdad sees signs of confusion as Clinton walks into the crossfire of a hot and cold running war; The US View
- Showdown in Iraq: The Gulf war that Saddam won: To the West it was a spanking for a despot, but to Arabs it was another example of our hypocrisy; The Middle East
- Nominee fined
- Medicine man casts a spell on Karadzic: Michael Sheridan reports from Geneva on how Lord Owen scored a victory over the Bosnian Serbs
- Secret lives of Kremlin wives: Andrew Higgins on the loneliness of women at the heart of Soviet power
- 'Hoffa with a halo' film angers Kennedy aides: Phil Reeves in Los Angeles on a row over Hollywood's distortion of history
- Space play
- UN aid convoy halted outside Muslim town
- Tests for Honecker
- Pupils raped
- Indian shuffle
Science
- This mouse should roar: To make animals suffer is one thing. To profit from it is altogether another, says Tom Wilkie
- What will they think of next?: Steve Homer finds himself in techno-nerd heaven amid the latest gadgets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
- Molecule of the Month: How to lie back and still rise to the occasion: Nitric oxide is an environmental pollutant. But in our bodies, says John Emsley, it relaxes muscles and causes erections
- Virus that came in from the cold: A dose of herpes could bring relief to Parkinson's disease sufferers. Ruth McKernan examines a radical treatment
- 1 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 2 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 3 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 4 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
Enter the latest Independent competitions
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.
Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.







