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Saturday, 20 February 1993
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- Prisoner hanged
- Premium Bonds
- Pupils hurt in coach crash
- HIV fear dispelled
- Future of MPs' bar in doubt
- 'I left a note on the kitchen table saying: I will not be home at 5pm. You will know why.' Out from Arthur's shadow, Anne Scargill has found her own way: Once she was happy being a conventional miner's wife. Geraldine Bedell talks to the woman who has taken a key role in setting up camps at threatened pits
- No southern comfort for Sinn Fein
- Maastricht now vital, warns Hurd
- 'Cruel Sea' producer dies
- 243,500 pounds for car
- Battle for rare Irish beauty: Leonard Doyle reports from the Burren, where the EC is accused of 'trying to put a moustache on the Mona Lisa'
- How Bart's was unsaved: Judy Jones reports on the false hopes leading to its loss of independence
- Angry faces glower from Monty's Mirror: This front page is not typical of the Labour party's only tabloid ally, but Jason Nisse and Michael Leapman report big changes afoot
- Horses attacked
- Boy's life 'wrecked by arrest'
- Child criminal who received adult justice: The law allows any child over 10 years of age to be tried on a criminal charge. David Connett reports
- Way cleared for road through ancient woodland
- Court rejects case against informant
- Air 'injected into baby by nurse'
- Video stills enhanced by computer
- Major accused
- Man held over killing of tycoon
- Art sale stopped
- Islanders ill
- Travel firm folds
- Euthenasia row
- Court criticised
- Chess bid
- Dyke takes over at GMTV but denies crisis
- Major refuses pardons for executed soldiers
- Literacy of college students criticised
- Blair emphasises moral values in crime debate
- Patten will not publish English test league table
- Fraud case solicitor suspended
- Coroner's jail death ruling challenged
- Edinburgh University art sale challenged
- Lasers pinpoint the latest weapon in fight against cancer: Photosensitive drugs are being successfully tested on tumour patients. Liz Hunt reports
- Roman 'chewing gum' found
- Retrial for prisoner in police cell death case
- Bad design blamed for inciting pub violence
- Hidden influence of the shadowy Officials: As the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein, meets for its annual conference in Dundalk today, David McKittrick examines the other IRA, the Officials
- Crime in Britain: The 'nice' town plagued by theft: Cheltenham faces a soaring burglary rate, Terry Kirby reports
World
- Elton on the hop
- Strange tales on the trail of Carlos: Between the Jackal and the BBC, author David Yallop is no stranger to controversy. Cal McCrystal reports
- Old guard hero stalks champion of the people: Tony Barber on an epic power struggle between Yeltsin and Khasbulatov
- Amato clings to power in scandal-torn Italy
- Hijacking ends
- The darkness gathers again: When George Bush sent in the marines, food convoys to Somalia's starving millions began to move more freely. But the US force has not solved the country's deeper problems, which lie ready to re-emerge once the Americans depart. Richard Dowden and Karl Maier report
- Is America ready for the 'us' generation?
- Radio stations to close
- Rule of terror in home for elderly
- Face of despair in Haiti
- Mandela defies doctors' orders to prove he is fit for the fight
- Japan confirms death penalty for extremists
- ANC dons gloves for poll fight
- 'Thalidomide doctor' guilty of medical fraud: William McBride, who exposed the danger of one anti-nausea drug, has been disgraced by experiments with another, writes Robert Milliken in Sydney
- A nurse tends Haitian ferry survivors
- Baby boys 'stolen' from maternity clinic: A doctor in India is accused of replacing the newborn sons of his impoverished patients with aborted foetuses, writes Tim McGirk from Faridabad
- Out of Somalia: The dog it was that survived against the odds
- Clinton's speech hits jackpot in Middle America
- Former speaker cleared
- Harare blocks return of whites
- Peking sends mixed signals
- Israel faces UN 'rights' inquiry
People
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- Court Circular
- Obituary: Professor Fred Hollows: Correction
- Anniversaries
- Faith & Reason: The compatibility of incompatibles: In the final article in our series on warring religions, Dr Henry Hardy, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, says competing claims to the sole truth always bring conflict.
- Obituary: Ghulam Mohammad Aryanpoor
- Obituary: Professor Fred Hollows
- Obituary: Martin Tickner
- Obituary: Marjorie Townley
- Obituary: Axel von dem Bussche
- Obituary: John Wright
Life & Style
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- FOOD / Gastropod
- FOOD / From the forest floor to the ends of the earth, all year round: Thanks to the obsessive dedication of Jean-Claude Monteil, wild mushrooms are never out of season, writes Joanna Blythman
- Recipe: Crusty base for a transatlantic pizza
- FOOD / Michelin? I swear by it
- FOOD / So nostalgic, so voluptuous, so hip: Grand vision or folie de grandeur? Emily Green savours the glamour of Quaglino's, Sir Terence Conran's new restaurant
- DRINK / Elegant and grassy or big and buttery: New Zealand is making delectable chardonnay, says Anthony Rose
- FOOD / If at first you don't succeed: Add eggs, or flour or milk or butter. Discover how to achieve the balances between thin, thick and fluffy pancakes in time for Shrove Tuesday (CORRECTED)
Motoring
- ROAD TEST / This tiny roly-poly is made for big-city jams: Phil Llewellin succeeds in getting his six-foot frame into Subaru's diminutive Vivio and finds it surprisingly spacious, lively and agile
- Motoring: A digital duel over the dashboard: Sony and Philips are vying for the driver's ear, says David Rowlands
Arts & Entertainment
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- BOOK REVIEW / Books recommended
- BOOK REVIEW / The sacred kowtow: Godfrey Hodgson on how Chinese ceremony and British arrogance led to a historic stand-off - 'The Collision of Two Civilisations' - Alain Peyrefitte, Tr. Jon Rothschild: Harvill, 20 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Blue snow and green cream: 'Hotel Lautreamont' - John Ashbery: Carcanet, 7.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Downturn in the guilt market: Giles Smith on a shrill and rather petty addition to the growing library of attempts to educate men in the art of self-defence - 'Not Guilty: In Defence of the Modern Man' - David Thomas: Weidenfeld, 8.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Peeled eggs and a mania for the telephone: 'Fear' - Anatoli Rybakov Tr. Antonina W Bouis: Hutchinson, 15.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Isn't modern life just terrible?: Eric Christiansen considers David Selbourne's disgruntled attempt to analyse the faults and failings of the modern world - 'The Spirit of The Age' - David Selbourne Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 20
- BOOK REVIEW / How I let a good man slip away: When Nina Bawden re-read The Ice House (Virago pounds 5.99), things came back to haunt her
- BOOK REVIEW / Flowers of the sun, and pearl divers: Shusha Guppy reflects on some stories about ordinary and extraordinary Middle Eastern lives - 'Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East' - Ed. Edmund Burke III: I B Tauris, 14.95 pounds
- CLASSIC THOUGHTS / Swarms of bees and poppies: Continuing our occasional series of reflections on classic literature, Gabriel Josipovici considers the lofty realism of Homer's Iliad
- 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 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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