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Thursday, 18 November 1993
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- Law Update: Hard times
- The daily poem
- The Queen's Speech: European budget measure 'could lead to revolt'
- Social workers to rethink training: Anti-racist committee to be abolished under reorganisation
- Games reveal minority fears over oppression
- Rising NHS management costs to be reviewed
- Killer in court outburst at police
- One-parent families 'are crime red herring': Poverty and stress are more likely to cause delinquency, expert says
- Handwriting tests 'useless as guide to job suitability': Psychologists are scathing about value of graphological analysis. Celia Hall reports
- The written word: what two samples revealed to an analyst
- Judge highlights the injustice that prejudice inflicts on black people
- St Paul's launches appeal for pounds 12m
- Retired scientist to take key post: Top job failed to attract applicants
- Thousands call for peace in Ulster: Huge rallies across the province as a minute's silence is observed for the dead
- Eccles bids farewell to 'little angel' Laura: Hundreds attend funeral of five-year-old transplant patient. Liz Hunt reports
- Law: A job with prospects: Sharon Wallach talks to Diana Faber, a newly appointed Law Commissioner, about her responsibilities and what she hopes to achieve
- Law Report: Vandals to blame for company's oil pollution: National Rivers Authority v Wright Engineering Co Ltd - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Simon Brown and Mr Justice Buckley), 15 November 1993
- Law: A new way of protecting the innocents: Paula Nicolson looks at the increasing use of video links to improve the quality of evidence given by child witnesses in the courtroom
- Law Report: River polluted by sewage works operator: National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Simon Brown and Mr Justice Buckley), 15 November 1993
- Former prisoner swaps the cells for life in the stage: Correction
- First Night: Disney genie conjures a children's delight: Aladdin: Odeon, Leicester Square
- Petrol price cut
- Charges dropped
- Britain excluded from European talks on works council
- Changes to NHS 'have cut 20,000 nurses'
- Prison officers face court ban on action: Union given noon deadline to call off protest
- No action against assault parents
- Boy in Bulger trial changed his story: Second child blames co-accused for abducting toddler. Jonathan Foster reports
- Rapist gets 15 years
- Flare kills football fan at World Cup qualifying match
- Man given life term for killing wife's child
- Man sells his sperm to lesbian couples
- Ulster's troubles cloak long history of secret meetings: Sinn Fein is said to have had talks with the Government. David McKittrick traces clandestine contacts with republicans
- Princess's vision of care is 'too rosy'
- Judge in spy trial revokes two guilty verdicts: Jury given leave to reconsider findings
- Decade of decline for wildlife: Unique countryside survey charts loss of plant species in woods, meadows and farmland
- Major finalises Bills package for crucial year: Ministers given preview of programme
- BR could lose lines to foreign bidders
- Tobacco firm accused of Iraqi arms deal: French TV programme alleges mysterious international company was key player in shipment of 9 million anti-personnel mines, which were used in the Gulf War. Chris Blackhurst reports
- Businesses put up pounds 1m reward
- Officer dismissed
- Jealous killing
- New charges at Windsor will help to pay restoration costs: St George's Hall put on display to reveal the extent of devastation at the fire-damaged castle
- Professions 'reeling under onslaught on their status'
- PC attacked
- Pounds 1m cash stolen
- Cleaning up
World
- People: VIP treatment for landless leader
- South African right softens separatist line: Hopeful start to talks on reaching deal with Afrikaner group that rejects new constitution
- Nigerian parties banned by new ruler
- Monkey trick
- Pentagon denial
- Hijack penalty
- Past and future leaders party into the new dawn
- War cannibals
- Out of hiding
- Green dreams
- Little brother begins to talk back to big brother
- Clean sweep for Hosokawa
- Pact can show way to real recovery
- Clinton gamble pays off with Nafta victory: As the voting in Congress goes the President's way, he turns to east and west to tackle new trade opportunities
- Sino-US talks dominate Apec summit
- Booming China gives the American dream a low rating
- Inside File: Not-so-happy families chafe in the East
- President wears Nafta next to his heart
- South Africa: Five years to build for the future: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society
- South Africa: Language deals create new Babel: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society
- China sticks to hard line on rights
- Sick Gulf troops suspect cover-up: Mystery surrounds cause of US veterans' illnesses
- Korean noses to be reburied
- Banda no longer life-president
- South Africa: Historic bargain for 'stalemate': New constitution ratified, but whites seek assurances that privileges will remain
- South Africa: Women prepare for power in new state: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society
- Aideed move spurs hopes
- Cool assassins stir Palestinian hatred: Robert Fisk, at the funeral in Sidon of Moueen Shabaita, a trusted ally of Yasser Arafat murdered this week, says support for the PLO leader among refugees is becoming a dangerous business
- Eastern Med woos tourists
- South Africa: Key events in history
- US bans assault weapons
- Demjanjuk evidence withheld by US
- Tunisian exile denies bombings
- Nigerian leader quits
- Saddam executes dozens of 'plotters'
- Absentee votes give Bolger slim majority
People
- Obituary: Professor Sir William Paton
- Obituary: Anna Sten
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- Obituary: Professor Gerald Wibberley
- Obituary: Canon Roy McKay
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- Obituary: Kevin FitzGerald
- Obituary: Lucia Popp
- Obituary: Paolo Dria Paolo
- Obituary: Speedy Acquaye
- Obituary: Hilda Grieve
- 1 Asteroid nine times the size of the QE2 liner to sail pass Earth
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 British business: We need to stay in the EU - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 4 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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