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Tuesday, 16 March 1993
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- 'Slip of the pen'
- Seabirds dying
- Death 'suspicious'
- BBC governors back Birt and admit 'errors': Director-General of the BBC re-emerges in public as support for his position strengthens despite continuing controversy over his tax affairs
- Somerset cider brandy wins favour in Calvados country: A traditional illicit liquor is being revived commercially. Oliver Gillie reports
- Fish trade rejects charge of making excessive profits: The fall in dockside prices has not been reflected in cheaper sales over the counter. Oliver Gillie reports
- Tory's ex-wife sues solicitors
- THE DAILY POEM / Anne Welby - (Died 9 May 1770, Beeby, Leicestershire)
- Half-smile on show for the cameras: Director-General of the BBC re-emerges in public as support for his position strengthens despite continuing controversy over his tax affairs
- Life sentence for lawyer who killed his wife
- Girl 'legally held in hospital'
- The funky Seventies look returns to Paris
- Smoker sues over incurable tumour: Dying man who is claiming pounds 500,000 from Imperial Tobacco gives evidence to a commission in his front room
- Car dragged dog
- Canal appeal
- Payroll sell-off
- Baby drowns
- Health grants
- Priest loses first attempt to prosecute Bland doctor
- Chinese researchers find evidence of earliest writing
- Youths remanded
- Power workers' pay offer brings rise of up to 12%
- Prison bridesmaid
- 'Cheetah' move
- Man gets nine months for 'vigilante' killing
- Baby killed by straps on high chair
- PC weeps as he tells court of double shooting
- Sharp fall in working time lost to disputes
- Law Report: Harassing telephone calls can be restrained: Khorasandjian v Bush - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Dillon, Lord Justice Rose and Mr Justice Peter Gibson), 16 February 1993
- Dealer jailed
- Woman killed
- Number of families living in B&B falls
- Law Report: Journalists allowed newspaper costs: Smith (Inspector of Taxes) v Woodhouse and others - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Ralph Gibson, Lord Justice Mann and Lord Justice Nolan), 15 March 1993
- Law Report: Judicial review not possible: Regina v Lord Chancellor, Ex parte Hibbit and Saunders Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Rose and Mr Justice Waller), 11 March 1993
- Blood test could identify women at risk of cancer
- Buying British project could close food gap: Producing the right foods and marketing them well could halve the pounds 5bn cost of the UK's imports. Oliver Gillie reports
- 'Cathy Come Home' to be repeated
- Selling operation traced to caravan: Mail-order customers are suffering heavy losses through company liquidations. David Hewson reports
- Victorian roots
- Art Market: Theft, nationalism and drugs at fair
- Prize for V S Naipaul
- The Daily Poem: Towards nightfall, Arizona
- Loophole puts computer buyers at risk: Mail-order customers are suffering heavy losses through company liquidations. David Hewson reports
- Lottery cash could be used to fight crime
World
- Algeria killing
- 45 feared dead in Calcutta bomb attack
- US warns India over new terrorist danger
- North Korea defies UN over nuclear arms pact
- Rabin cuts short US visit after 14 killed
- Japanese politician stricken by an understated disease: A horror of the illness means little mention of it when a public figure suffers. Terry McCarthy reports from Tokyo
- Muslim militants claim bus bombing
- Envoy defects
- JFK's sister tipped for Dublin post
- Third Kaunda son arrested
- Peking tots up the cost of its boom
- Out of the West: English loses its teeth to the word dentists
- Brazil debt deal
- First direct talks in Waco siege
- Japan 'failing' asylum-seekers
- Storm death toll reaches 213
- Call for Italy to close Iran embassy in Rome
- Smoking ban for the forces
- Refugees to return home
- Rabin ready to compromise
- Clinton-Delors meeting may ease tension
- Costly peace-keeping in Somalia
- Turks welcome peace offer by Kurdish rebels: Hugh Pope writes from Istanbul on cautious optimism that the end might be in sight for a conflict that has led to 6,000 deaths
- Mulroney party backs Campbell
- UN blames El Salvador atrocities on military
- Facing the storm
- North Korea steps up war preparations
- Li sets sights on higher growth and drastic cuts
- Israel pillories UN worker: Sarah Helm in Gaza examines the dilemma of an American who witnessed the killing of an Israeli by Palestinians but could do nothing to help
- Sex-obsessed police chief to be executed
- Broadsides exchanged in row over Hong Kong
- Bombay beats bombers on a phone and a prayer
People
- Obituary: David Gow
- Obituary: David Gow
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Professor R. A. McCance
- Obituary: Robert Tiffany
- Obituary: Myrtle Maclagan
- Obituary: Carlos Montoya
- Obituary: Max August Zorn
- Obituary: Sylvain Floirat
- Obituary: Lord Underhill
- Obituary: Beatrice Behan
- Obituary: Christopher Morris
- Obituary: Professor Bill Price
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Professor Howard Mayer Brown
- Obituary: Alberto Franco Nogueira
Media
- Media: More fireworks to come for a fragile BBC: The governors have in their care a great national institution. But even without the Birt affair, it would not take much to lose legitimacy, warns Maggie Brown
- Media: Students and trainees: attend a workshop at the TV Show
- Media: Everyone wants to talk to the 'Messiah': In Waco, Texas, religious cult members in a stand-off with the FBI are also on the media's most-wanted list. Peter Pringle reports
- Media: Soap cleans up children's viewing: Sex, violence, riots . . . TV stands accused of corrupting the young. William Phillips looks at what they actually watch
- 1 Terror at Woolwich barracks: Attacker tried to behead and disembowel British soldier
- 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 China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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