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Wednesday, 8 December 1993
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- The Daily Poem
- Murder charge
- Hospital accused of losing pounds 300,000: Correction
- 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
- Short school hours 'equal to a year's lost teaching': Action pledge over differing class hours
- 'Secure' satellite put into orbit
- Rail office will balance interests
- Radio 5 'going out with a bang': Station wins praise but no reprieve
- Woman guilty of killing husband to protect secret life: Council official's life of prostitution and gambling was under threat of exposure
- Older drivers 'take the most chances': Country publicans have to steer a fine line to attract trade. Martin Whitfield reports
- Review urged on drink limits
- Council's new chief resigns
- Runaways 'fear abuse'
- Computer expert jailed for cash machine fraud
- Seafood link to asthma
- Festive return to Victorian values at Kensington Palace this Christmas
- Paperweight fetches pounds 20,000
- Gorbachev visits Thatcher
- College concert circuit 'at risk': Education Bill could kill off the breeding ground for bands, writes David Lister
- Book squeaks in to take title
- Files released on Nazi accused over massacre: SS general linked to POW deaths
- The Daily Poem: Present
- Father loses test case over child agency payments: Court rejects application to overturn clean-break deal
- Call to bar genetic test results for insurance firms: Report calls for central body to regulate bioethics
- Police officer denies causing crash deaths
- MP proposes fourth Sunday trading option: Tory wants only 'special shops' to open in morning. Patricia Wynn Davies reports
- Worker tells of threats to agree 7-day week
- Police recruitment frozen for second year
- Ministers at odds over state pension
- Nutcracker rehearsal
- Major soothes fears of Unionist exodus fears of Ulster exodus
World
- Athens bus strike
- Car bomb in Baghdad
- Winnie Mandela triumphant
- Ivory Coast dispute
- Angola ceasefire agreed
- Clinton signs for Nafta
- Russian mafias carve up drugs trade: The Bosnian war has forced crime clans to find new Balkan routes for smuggling heroin into Europe, writes Leonard Doyle
- German spy case
- Extremists surrender
- De Klerk seeks the royal seal of approval: Return to Commonwealth on agenda as Queen meets SA leader for the first time in 32 years
- Lover loses his head
- Briton shot dead in Algeria
- People adjust to Hong Kong's daily ups and downs: Teresa Poole finds that people riding the hillside escalator are confused about the row with China
- Train gunman 'driven by race hate': Jamaican-born black man arrested after shooting 21 passengers in a white commuter train, killing four
- Algerian robbers murder Briton
- Kazakh parliament dissolved
- Japan's shadow shogun nurses grievance in silence: Ichiro Ozawa (right) is the man behind the government, but he's not talking to journalists. Terry McCarthy reports from Tokyo
- 'Vacuum' fear as Israelis get ready to leave: Doubts over security threaten deadline
- US women defend abortion clinics: Supreme Court asked to help end harassment of doctors
- Clinton warns of N Korea crisis
- Inside File: Advice to the Prince about Islam
- Six die in Paris blaze
- Former envoy attacks Patten's democracy plan
- Honecker gets pacemaker
- Band doesn't play on
- 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
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 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 3 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 4 EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
- 5 Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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