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Wednesday, 24 March 1993
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- Horse mutilated
- The daily poem: November digging
- Sexual harassment in police 'serious': Supervisors accused of inaction
- Inquiry into canoeing tragedy considers criminal charges: Teenagers gave unconscious friends kiss of life as they drifted out to sea after boats capsized
- Parents question rescue team's delay
- Policemen will not face charges: Lack of evidence in child abuse claims
- Howard abandons grand vision of 'linear city': A task force of civil servants will prepare plans for the Thames estuary. Nicholas Schoon reports
- Death crash boy 'out of control'
- Doctor's hours
- Letter bomb linked to Scots anger over water
- The bluffer's briefing on: The M25
- ITC to analyse violence on commercial television: TV watchdog's annual survey finds widespread public concern
- Go-ahead for pit closures review: Decision taken over 31 threatened mines
- The School Canoe Tragedy: Schoolchildren's adventure at sea that turned: Father tells of survivor's anger at delay in being rescued after wind drove canoes away from shore
- Scientists discover gene for Huntington's chorea: Ten years' research brings hope of accurate test
- Burnt-out incendiary device found in Warrington: Community shaken further as gasworks bomb is found at site of previous IRA attack
- The School Canoe Tragedy: Canoe instructors were not qualified teachers: No official checks on centres offering activity holidays
- Heads will not block English tests boycott: Teachers' war of nerves with Patten escalates
- The School Canoe Tragedy: Tragedy leaves school in shock: Spring flowers express pupils' grief for lost classmates
- White-collar stoppage to go ahead at Ford: Aslef to ballot on action over British Rail sell-off
- Battle lines drawn in the fight to decide future of tourism in the Lakes: Malcolm Pithers reports on the moulding of Cumbria
- The daily poem: Emboldened by love
- Motorway speed limit to be cut: Flow on m25 to be eased in pounds 10m scheme
- Search for climbers
- Patients 'denied drugs to stop ulcers recurring'
- Blair backs 'retreat' from mergers plan
- Attack on horse
- 'Masterplan for murder' found in bedroom: Defendant in Manwaring trial says notebook was idea for a novel
- Copyright breached
- Cancer litigant dies
- Letter bomb blast
- Setback for Laura
- Islamic school 'faces closure'
- Jobless find a message in code of the West
- Raider convicted
- Law Report: Doctor cannot bring racial bias complaint: Khan v General Medical Council. Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice May, Mr D G Davies and Miss C Holroyd). 18 March 1993.
World
- Correction: Sun sets for Japan's flag-burner
- Keating cabinet gets youthful look: PM starts drive to regenerate labor government
- US to keep its man in London
- Liberians flee 'peace-keeping' offensive: Karl Maier in Greenville sees the effects on civilians of the war against Charles Taylor's rebels
- Pyongyang lifts war alert
- Wanted: retired elder statesman to take on Cyprus mediation
- Winnie could face longer term in jail
- Malawi rift
- Ready for Peking
- Mia's Valentine to Woody?
- Kim Basinger's scruples cost her 6m pounds: Actress only prepared to consider roles featuring 'artistic' nudity
- Salvador watch
- 'Ringleader' in NY bombing under arrest: FBI may have trailed suspects before blast
- The Japanese way of debt: Tale of gangsters, underwear and cooked books
- Israel elects 'hawk for peace' as president: Architect of 1979 peace with Egypt returns to politics
- Police beefed up
- Nairobi halts IMF and World Bank reforms: President Moi says it is impossible for Kenya to meet the conditions for western aid
- Jewish settler kills Palestinian
- Explosive fight on if Oliver North runs for Senate: Iran-Contra figure set to stand in Virginia
- Ex-SA troops held
- Clinton fails to hide his problem with the Pentagon: President's press conference performance does not appease his foes in the forces
- Gunning for a South African race war: Radicals may have lost control of their 'soldier' members
- Bombers 'flee to Pakistan'
- US ambassador
- Likud faithful set to elect leader for a new generation: Benjamin Netanyahu, darling of the CNN chatshows during the Gulf war, hopes to be crowned prince of the Israeli right
- Allen 'affair'
- Mandela appeal
- Settlers wooed
- Kaunda's son free
- Britain told to snap out of it and use assets: 'Special relationship' needs to be worked at, says US ambassador
- Patten backs off from HK reform law: China steps up pressure by urging Britain to sack governor of colony
- North Korea brings Asia to brink of nuclear arms race: Seoul minister in Washington for talks with US leaders
- Rao under fire over phone tap: Indian minister challenges PM
- Out of America: Perot sees a role for a pint-sized puppeteer
- Serbs to leave Muslim enclave with UN help: Security Council poised to enforce Air Exclusion Zone over Bosnia
- Atlanta's poor lose out to Olympic glitz: Not everyone will be welcoming the Games, writes David Usborne
- Sun sets for Japan's flag-burner
Media
- Media: Kiss goodbye to the 'gels with pearls': Maggie Brown meets an editor determined to take 'Country Life' into new territory
- Media Viewpoint: Journalists must cure themselves of this Aids madness
- Media: With respect, I was a nice Day: Sir Robin tells Lisa O'Kelly why today's TV interviewers annoy him
Arts & Entertainment
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- Lyric Sheets
- Did anybody hear that?: Funny Noises Part II: Readers wrote in offering studio gaffes. Giles Smith couldn't believe his ears
- My old man said follow the Van: Jim White sees Van Morrison mark the end of an era at the Town & Country Club, London
- Sheffield Sound City 93
- Albums: Going belly up with Suede - Andy Gill on Suede's highly hyped and deeply average debut. Plus Ice-T
- Riffs: Mike Oldfield on the groove of Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle
- 1 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 2 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
- 5 Top A&E doctors warn: 'We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore'
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