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Thursday, 28 January 1993
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- Abuse claims
- Police hunting horse attackers release photofit
- Ken Hill's Invisible Man
- Discreet praise helps motivate worldly classes
- Ombudsman for prisoners
- Woman told to retire at 60 wins pounds 17,000
- One pupil in ten 'becomes hostile to school by 13': Research shows that almost a quarter of 13-year-olds played truant in a year as they grew more disillusioned with the education system
- Inquiry into Falklands 'war crimes'
- Nightclubs encourage a new social mixpounds pounds pounds against stri ctly homosexual or heterosexual venues. Roger Tredre reports
- Porn channel refuses to censor films
- Council cuts put crafts museum under threat
- Sale of Annie Oakley's gun aims at pounds 25,000
- Bible of left and satirical upstart are worlds apart: New Statesman is 80, Scallywag only a fledgling. Neither has a lot of money. Kathy Marks reports
- Inquiry yields 14th quashed conviction
- Search for cancer study volunteers
- Undercover police seized pounds 7m worth of ecstasy
- Water companies attacked for rise in disconnections
- Labour calls for inquiry after prison sex attack
- Television acts to end 'lottery' for job-seekers
- Editor denies article was stunt to lift sales: Two magazines are facing a legal tussle with the Prime Minister over the publication of rumours about his private life
- Short's coolness secures victory
- School vote tied
- Rail job cuts
- Monarchy warning
- Four hurt by IRA bomb outside Harrods
- TV channel to remain hard-core
- Dog reprieved
- Parents resort to litigation over food of love
- Pilot missing
- Officer fined
- Four lost as aircraft ditches
- University critic
- Gun for sale
- Singer discharged
- High society hails an American in Paris: The super-thin and super-wealthy turned out to support Oscar de la Renta. Marion Hume reports
- Bomb death
- Law Report: Visitors to Inns of Court amenable to judicial review: Regina v Visitors to the Inns of Court, ex parte Calder; ex parte Persaud. Court of Appeal (Sir Donald Nicholls, Vice Chancellor, Lord Justice Stuart Smith and Lord Justice Staughton), 21 January 1993
- IBM evangelists conjure up an all-digital future: In 10 years one small hand-held unit may provide all personal computer needs. Susan Watts reports
- Lord Poole dies
- Law: A check-list for good lawyers: The Legal Aid Board has drawn up a set of performance guidelines for firms seeking contracts, but some doubts remain. Adam Sage reports
- Law: Comedy could get you into serious trouble: Television is pushing humour to the edge of what is legally permissible. Medwyn Jones explains
- 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
- Winning idea keeps Timman's hopes alive
- Worker shot
- Postman jailed
- Show success
- MPs reach uneasy compromise over pit closures
World
- Palestinians say court ruling is setback to peace
- US 'out of Somalia in 6 months'
- Rats in the dock
- Agenda is agreed for Angolan peace talks
- Yeltsin makes deal with India
- Peking attack
- Peru goes to polls despite bombings
- Soldiers kill envoy in Zaire rampage
- Winnie's revolution call strikes chord in the ANC
- Clinton delays Senate clash on gays
- Japanese watch others watching them: Terry McCarthy examines a national obsession with identity and image
- US asks for delay on Israel sanctions
- May election for Cambodia
- 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
People
- Obituary: Lord Poole
- Obituary: Lord Poole
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Church appointments
- Court Circular
- Obituary: David Pye
- Obituary: Jeanne Sauve
- Obituary: R. H. Williams
- Obituary: Gwen Murless
- Obituary: Stephen Ridgley-Whitehouse
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Ugur Mumcu
- Obituary: Arthur Gandolfi
- Obituary: Mgr George Leonard
- Obituary: Nikolai Pollack-Polianov
- 1 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
- 2 Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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