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Tuesday, 7 December 1993
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- Assets seized
- Pit sets European record
- Belfast man shot
- Manslaughter verdict
- Boys' torture trial
- Murderer given life
- Tories suffer after Budget
- Car drags woman, 81
- Pounds 62,000 award
- Miscellany page
- Children preparing for a charity fashion show
- Standards in schools criticised: Handwriting a target for concern
- New role for breakfast TV star
- Private patients told to shop around for deals
- Wildfowlers seek easing of gun laws
- Compulsory life terms 'should end': Leading judge says automatic sentence for murder causes potential injustice. Heather Mills reports
- The Daily Poem: Old Lags
- Progress made in mission to be plain
- Sex education to have moral tone: Education guidelines emphasise traditional family values. Judith Judd reports
- CSA targets paying fathers: Leaked letter shows emphasis on parents most likely to pay maintenance
- Cash shortage limits NHS improvements
- Thatcher to take centre-stage: Former Prime Minister to appear at Scott inquiry. David Connett reports
- Four human 'hens' fly their coop
- Girl killed herself after family rape
- Concern over scale of asthma epidemic: Number of children affected could be double previous estimate
- Cabinet steers a careful course: Education guidelines emphasise traditional family values
- Council seeks closure of home carved from cliff
- Mortgage rate cut announced
- Action on diet
- Leukaemia victim awarded pounds 167,000: Landmark ruling opens up claims for radiation exposure. Heather Mills reports
- Gun laws campaign
- Fans demand cash
- Car boot killing
- Boy injured
- Bail in race case
- Kidnap father ordered to return son
- Art raid
- Drink-drive launch
- Ulster declaration stalled by impasse over aspirations
- Rapist jailed after sister's suicide
- Pensioner sentenced
- Boys accused of torture
- River rescue plan is watered down to save money: Government applies pressure for cuts in 12m pounds project. Nicholas Schoon reports
- Prints fraud led by grandmother
- Marquess jailed for possessing drugs: Rhys Williams charts the decline and fall of a junkie aristocrat who squandered millions of pounds on life in the fast lane
- End of the 'quickie' divorce proposed: Green Paper says couples seeking split should be interviewed (CORRECTED)
World
- Secret US nuclear tests
- Bad ruling for brothers
- 10 years for Denny beating
- UFOs ignore flight ban
- Hindu leaders arrested
- 90 per cent of aid held up
- Ex-prisoner points way to Palestinian peace: Sarah Helm in Gaza City talks to a former 'terrorist' who is taking over the running of part of the occupied territories from the Israelis
- New camera for Hubble
- Out of America: Buddy, can you spare a home?
- Banda's return upsets Malawi
- Rabin and Arafat set to break deadlock: Leaders prepare to meet in Cairo to show peace accord is on track as deadline for Israeli withdrawal nears
- Boers try to turn clock back at historic fort: 'Pretoria Commando' seizes monument on the day blacks share power for first time
- Sudanese rulers accused of atrocities in civil war: Eyewitness testimonies handed to the UN speak of rape, murder and the abduction of children, writes Robert Fisk in Khartoum
- Ivory Coast's leader is dead
- Ban on Kurds pleases Turkey
- Hairy Elke to get a fat cheque from Zsa Zsa
- Three killed as bombs explode across India
- Election victory for the 'cockroach': Early results in Venezuela indicate that the veteran leader Rafael Caldera has again won the presidency
- Christopher counsels Mid-East caution: Uncertainty over chances of meeting Rabin-Arafat peace accord deadline
- People: Libyan tales of love for a president
- Iran reopens embassy wrecked in 1980 siege
- Astronauts to replace flawed Hubble camera
- US ex-priest jailed for child sex abuse
- Honecker seriously ill
- Hani killer denied retrial
- Algerian judge murdered
- Frank Zappa dies
- Four die and 19 wounded as Serbs shell Sarajevo
- Angolan peace talks resume
- Vienna suffers 10th letter bomb
- Amnesty condemns Pakistan
- Hurd warns on HK elections
Media
- Media: He lives to fight VAT another day: Budget battles do not come any tougher. Michael Leapman meets the mastermind of the publishers' campaign
- Media: Society should be our worry, not the media: Viewers watch TV news and current affairs to find out what is going on in the world. But they are often shocked and upset by what is shown, says the Broadcasting Standards Council in 'Violence on Factual Television', part of its annual report, published today. Here we reproduce two contributions
- Media: Cautiously depicting a war-torn world: Viewers watch TV news and current affairs to find out what is going on in the world. But they are often shocked and upset by what is shown, says the Broadcasting Standards Council in 'Violence on Factual Television', part of its annual report, published today. Here we reproduce two contributions
- Media Viewpoint: A quick fix is no good for ITV
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 3 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 4 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
- 5 'It was just like the movie Twister': Man survives Oklahoma tornado by taking refuge in horse stall
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