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Wednesday, 27 January 1993
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- Decline in jobs reflects Britain's lean years: Britons are healthier and live longer, but there is little else to brighten the gloom in the latest 'Social Trends' survey. Charles Oulton reports
- BBC presents the case for quality
- One-year backlog on housing benefit claims
- Rare breed of buildings under threat: A new book highlights the architectural heritage of the troubled London Zoo. Jonathan Glancey reports
- Telephone calls to Whitehall offices going unanswered
- Law Report: Decision not to ban Nilsen interview upheld: Secretary of State for the Home Department v Central Broadcasting Ltd and another. Chancery Division (Mr Justice Aldous) and Court of Appeal (Sir Thomas Bingham, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice McCowan and Lord Justice Hirst). 26 January 1993
- Army reserves fully stretched by peace role: Christopher Bellamy explains why committing more troops to Bosnia is a problem for the Army
- Kangaroo court 'ordered girl aged 15 to be raped'
- Mass tourism blamed for paradise lost in Goa: Tour operators who promote an Indian state as a dream holiday destination are accused of turning a blind eye to reality. David Nicholson-Lord reports
- Police warn of copycat horse attacks
- Mother gets 352,777 pounds after attack by her son
- System failed to help tormented schizophrenic
- Mother stole money to pay bailiffs
- Drugs binge led to accidental death of porn heiress
- Father seeks computer ban on son
- Unemployment link to suicide
- Travel costs 'limit hospital visits'
- Gambler's 4,000bn pounds 'win' ends in court
- Lorraine Cornish, of the Natural History Museum, London, lying yesterday alongside a 180,000,000-year-old fossil of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, which is being restored in public view
- Chickens 'suffer needlessly in slaughterhouses'
- Fraud fines urged to avert complex trials
- Offer of Camillagate inquiry rejected
- Inquiry rejected
- Gay 'magic circle' claim dismissed by inquiry
- Cinema boost
- Timman well placed to keep chess hopes alive
- Maze IRA escaper held in US
- Railways safer
- Oil all-clear
- Child likely to be first gene therapy patient
- MPs compromise on plan for pit closures
- Whitbread Award winner
- A long black evening dress being modelled in Paris yesterday as part of Chanel's spring/autumn haute couture fashion collection by the German designer, Karl Lagerfeld
- Nilsen interview broadcast after appeal is rejected
- Vandalism toll
- Unemotional killer recalls the excitement and power
- Correction: Advertisers split on promotion of tobacco products
- Rabbi urges action on Bosnia
- Twitcher devotes his life to an obsessive flight of fancy
- Oil spill centre to close
- Heads say Patten interfered in blacklist (CORRECTED)
- Twins' gruesome scenes win award
- Marquess cleared of court contempt marital split
- British Coal warns of 'fudges'
- 1.5m pounds bronzes for museum
- Law Report: Assessing agricultural occupation: Hambleton District Council v Buxted Poultry Ltd - House of Lords (Lord Templeman, Lord Oliver of Aylmerton, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Mustill and Lord Slynn of Hadley), 10 December 1992
- Law Report: Strict liability for water pollution: Cambridge Water Co v Eastern Counties Leather plc - Court of Appeal (Sir Stephen Brown, President, Lord Justice Mann and Lord Justice Nolan), 19 November 1992
World
- Militants 'target Cairo embassies'
- Inventor of jukebox dies
- Auschwitz compromise near
- 'Code of conduct' for military
- Violent Soweto aims for the goal of peace: John Carlin in Mzimhlophe finds Sowetans ready to trade the bullet for the football boot as a still fragile peace takes the place of political violence
- Major gets to meet India's rich and poor
- Go-ahead for Patten reform
- Gaza children live and die under the gun: Troops yesterday shot dead a Palestinian activist in the Gaza Strip - the thousandth Arab killed by Israelis since the start of the initfada in 1987. Sarah Helm visits the killing grounds where youngsters throw stones and soldiers reply with bullets
- PLO proposal loses support
- Angolans arrive for peace talks
- Rabin insists he was right
- Hillary called to cure ills of US health system: Mrs Clinton faces a mammoth task: to cage a monster that threatens to wreck the economy, writes Rupert Cornwell
- Turks rally after killing
- President suspends Kenya's parliament
- Injection endd murderer's life
- Sihanouk threatens peace plan
- Nationality question haunts HK Indians: The territory's ethnic minorities want British status as a safeguard after 1997, writes Teresa Poole
- US to get maternity leave law
- Saddam tightens his grip on Iraq's Shias: Allied planes have done little to prevent Baghdad reining in its rebellious south and, in the north, UN aid lifelines are proving inadequate
- Out of the West: Pool stories dry up as Clinton goes on the run
- Tribal killings
- Dewi Sukarno in jail for assault
- Sudan 'using Iraqi planes'
- Japanese take fast track to madness
- Kurds teetering on brink of abyss: The author, Labour spokesman on development and co-operation, recently returned from a fact- finding trip through northern Iraq
- Indian army border guards march past the review stand at the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi. John Major, on a visit to boost business ties with Britain, was the chief guest
- Iran to execute German as spy
- Iraqi fighters being used
- Rabin hopeful
- Career diplomat picked as US envoy to Moscow
People
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- Obituary: Ugur Mumcu
- Obituary: Arthur Gandolfi
- Obituary: Mgr George Leonard
- Obituary: Nikolai Pollack-Polianov
- Birthdays
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- Court Circular
- Obituary: John Adlard
- Obituary: Brett Weston
- Obituary: John Horry
- Obituary: Robert Jacobsen
- Obituary: Ken Gray
- Obituary: Professor Holden Furber
- Obituary: Audrey Hepburn
Media
- The watchdog's bark is worse than its bite: The body responsible for complaints about television advertising lacks teeth, writes Martin Rosenbaum
- Loonies need not apply
- Talk of the Trade: The Oldie
- The news we don't want to hear: What do people really think about government control of the press? Bill Miller was one of a team that carried out an independent survey of both the public and politicians, the results of which appear here for the first time
- Talk of the Trade: Headhunting at the 'Economist'
- Talk of the Trade: Clinton's Strobe
- 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 China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- 4 Exclusive: Championship clubs set to push for safe-standing trials
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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