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Saturday, 9 October 1993
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- Barn blaze remand
- First Night: Wagner's 'hymn to art' a riot of fun: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
- Flu warning
- Thatcher wins ban
- GP to refuse 'costly' patients: Leading fund-holder says more money needed to take on mentally handicapped people. Nicholas Timmins reports
- Women recalled for smear tests
- Windswept combination of hi-tech and romance
- Former Army officer 'admitted killing parents'
- Men jailed for plot to kill Ulster Tory
- Banned driver hit woman, 83
- Jew wins pounds 8,000 over abuse
- The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Major calls for defence of values: Patricia Wynn Davies and Stephen Goodwin report on the Prime Minister's speech at the close of the Tory conference
- Toxic fumes alert
- Minister plans compliance test for red tape
- Two held after raid
- Irish people who live abroad to get vote
- Cell mates
- Ulster arms find
- Newspaper is criticised over Aids articles: Claims over disease in Africa denounced
- 'Semi' fetches pounds 9m
- Lightning victims
- One-stage rise in VAT on fuel urged: Colin Brown reports on the Chancellor's options, as spending plans come to a head
- Child murderer is found strangled in prison cell: Police investigate death of paedophile who killed three boys. Graham Moorby reports
- On the Front
- The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Stamp of authority fails to dispel long-term doubts: Colin Brown samples the reaction from the audience at Blackpool
- Slimming tea strains belief
- Prisoner jailed
- Tube peace plea
- West End theatre casts its vote for Sunday opening: David Lister reports on a move that could herald a new trend in London theatregoing
- Stone Age footprints found on beach
- Probability stacked against radiation victims: Tom Wilkie looks at how quantum physics affects leukaemia clusters
- Threat to deselect rebellious MPs
- Refusal to treat smoker 'unethical': BMA criticises consultant over surgery ban
- Arts campaign finds platform for presentation of punk literary spectacular
- Night flights to be cut after court action: Anti-noise campaigners welcome reduction but still seek ban
- Leader of Strasbourg Tories warns of 'suicide'
- Irish churches urged to bless mixed marriages: Report says couples meet hostility
- Sixty escape caravan park after flood
- Sellafield families lose cancer damages fight: High Court rejects genetic link between disease and nuclear plant. Heather Mills and Ian MacKinnon report on a landmark judgment
- Boy hanged himself 'because of bullying'
World
- Victims of slavery find their voice: Nobel winner Morrison's 'shared honour'
- Jet-ski guerillas sunk by gunboats
- De Klerk son weds white South African
- Poet hangs himself after killing wife
- Croatians shell Muslims in Mostar
- The terror trail that won't grow cold: Dark forces bombed Bologna station in 1980, killing 85. At a retrial tomorrow, the victims' relatives may see justice done
- Yeltsin dissolves city councils
- Somalia cuts Clinton down to size: Just as the President's ratings take a turn for the better, the memory of his predecessors' blunders return to haunt him
- Knights saved the day: Elite squad snatched TV centre from rebels' hands
- Apartheid comes to a Belgian suburb: Language row stalls the outwardly mobile
- Freedom through repression: Yeltsin wanted a 'breakthrough to the future' - but he enlisted the more sinister services of the past
- Tempers rise at a Russian tea party: Economic reforms undermine intelligentsia
- Three Israeli hikers killed near Jericho
- 150 held in Karachi for ballot-rigging
- Still dreaming of his homeland: Robert Fisk in Damascus hears George Habash, orator, fighter and refugee, spell out his terms for a settlement with Israel
- PLO purges internal security service
- SA troops kill children in Transkei raid
- Series of explosions rocks Mogadishu: As American reinforcements arrive, uneasy quiet in Somali capital is broken by blasts and volleys of small-arms fire at patrolling helicopters
- South Korean army goes with the flow
- Storybook queen without a crown tries for happy ending: Fate of Pakistan depends on whether Bhutto has learnt from past mistakes
- Inquiry urged into UN deaths
- Message to ET: don't call us, we're off the air
- Talks due on Israeli pull-out
- Iraq gives UN list of foreign arms suppliers
People
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- Appeals
- Obituary: Sir David Sells
- Obituary: Professor Lorie Tarshis
- Obituary: William Henderson
- Faith and Reason: All in the same moral boat: The papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor was published on Tuesday. In the concluding article in a series prompted by the encyclical, Peter Hebblethwaite finds it hard to explain why it should have been issued at all
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Food and Drink: A feast justifies the joint effort: We have lost the habit of Sunday lunch, so now it can become a special treat
- Gastropod: Correction
- Food and Drink: Nine things more pleasurable than sex
- Food and Drink: Wine with a northern accent: There is a celebration in store all the way to the Scottish border, says Anthony Rose
- Food and Drink: This place is a gem, OK?: Chain restaurants can sparkle, while haute cuisine need not come at a high price. Emily Green enjoys herself twice
- Recipe: Corn off the cob
Motoring
- BMW's boxer bounces back: An engine born with BMW itself 70 years ago has been revamped for a futuristic new bike. Roland Brown reports
- The Independent Road Test: Raise the roof: the ultimate Mini has arrived: It's the smoothest, chunkiest, most cuddly and best. John Simister meets a soft-top to cherish . . .
Arts & Entertainment
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- Recommended Books
- Books: Toni Morrison: beloved and all that jazz: Margaret Busby on the new Nobel laureate, whose wisdom can nourish us all
- The Daily Poem: In defence of making nothing happen
- BOOK REVIEW / Misfits in a tyranny of goodness: 'The Grisly Wife' - Rodney Hall: Faber, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Wisps of wistful romance: 'A Summer Tide' - Tony Peake: Abacus, 8.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Lemon peel and dragons: Michele Roberts on Iris Murdoch's ornate, cunning and impressive new novel; 'The Green Knight' - Iris Murdoch: Cape, 15.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / The Botany Bay factor: Jan Morris on Tom Keneally's insights into the forthcoming Australian republic; 'Memoirs from a Young Republic' - Tom Keneally: Heinemann, 16.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Dreaming of Manderley again: 'Mrs de Winter', Susan Hill's sequel to 'Rebecca' was published this week, but Natasha Walter found it timid; 'Mrs de Winter' - Susan Hill: Sinclair-Stevenson, 12.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Too shadowy to be an enigma: Bryan Appleyard on two new books that probe the mystery of Shakespeare; 'Shakespeare: The Evidence' - Ian Wilson: Headline, 19.99 pounds and 'Shakespeare Reshaped' - Gary Taylor & John Jowett: Oxford, 40 pounds
- Off the Shelf: A terrible eye for evil: Kenneth Baxter on an exotic tale from an 18th-century eccentric
- 1 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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