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Monday, 8 March 1993
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- Murder remand
- Journalist sacked
- Strike ballot
- Keeping starlings away
- Reception to mark the fourth birthday of Womankind (Worldwide)
- HIV safety review ordered by Bottomley
- Taxi fans offer tips for royal cabbie
- Hatton trial allegations 'unfounded'
- Delay for nuclear plant 'could cut investment in UK'
- John Birt's Taxes: Review of accounts reveals saving of 810 pounds
- Lord Chancellor says judges' work will be monitored
- The Daily Poem: Springfield, Virginia
- John Birt's Taxes: Director-General's letter
- Crime in Britain: Prevention measures could cut crime rates say Liberal Democrats
- Bishop quits after police caution for indecency
- Land management scheme puts clock back 40 years: Oliver Gillie reports on steps to create a more natural environment by shifting the agricultural balance away from intensive cultivation
- Veteran Russian officer returns 14m pounds art works
- Evangelist Luis Palau addressing business men in London
- Murder case man 'was forced to bury bodies'
- Crime in Britain: A community robbed of its heart: Wakefield and its villages used to be a safe area. Now violence is commonplace. Mary Braid talks to the victims
- Law Report: Prosecution was abuse of process: Regina v Croydon Justices, Ex parte Dean - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Staughton and Mr Justice Buckley), 19 February 1993
- Trident costs 'could rise by 200m' pounds
- Girl savaged by dogs to receive 15,000 pounds
- Law Report: Council's housing offer not sufficient: Regina v Wycombe District Council, Ex parte Hazeltine - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Lloyd, Lord Justice Hirst and Mr Justice Peter Gibson), 3 March 1993
- Baby death bail
- Law Report: Case Summaries
- Horses attacked
- Lessons of History: The British have always been addicted to doom-mongering: Paul Johnson argues that a sense of national and moral decline is part of a long tradition of gloom during hard times and that current disenchantment is based on fears of weak leadership and a loss of sovereignty to Europe
- 'Personal video' deal in sight
- Brown calls for National Insurance payments freeze
- Styles of the Seventies settle in for next winter
- 'No smoking' sponsors for motor racing
- Prison inquiry
- Pushchair death
- Television and the Young: Lilley blames family breakdown for crime
- Maastricht rebels turn deaf ear to loyalty plea
- Boys' failure in reading blamed on the teachers
- Television and the Young: Prime Minister flunks the couch potato test: Tom Sutcliffe, Arts Editor, offers a personal view in the debate
- Asylum protest
- Television and the Young: TV chiefs call on Major to prove violence claims
- Mental health bias fears
- THE DAILY POEM / That figure with the moulting beard
- Clark seeks return to Parliament
- Major likely to face attack from Tory councillors
- International Art Market: Victorians in demand as prices soar again
- Child gets compensation for abduction by father
- Compulsory HIV tests on health staff urged
- No warning for IRA car bomb: Four police officers seriously injured by second terrorist blast in seaside town in six months
- MPs question Clarke on MI5 chief's safety
- New assistant bishop for Russian Orthodox Church
World
- Britain makes pork-free meals for Bosnia
- Afghan radical appointed PM
- Muslims order east Bosnia offensive
- Angola waits on Savimbi
- Chihana appeals against sentence
- Kim replaces tainted ministers
- Poland leads way to growth: The economy is improving after three hard years: now the people want to reap the benefits. Adrian Bridge reports
- Israel seeks ways to counter Hamas: The Labour Party is tailoring its peace moves to combat the PLO's main rivals, writes Sarah Helm from Jerusalem
- Britain resumes contacts with PLO
- Arming for the fast-approaching Day of Judgement: There may be hundreds of US millennialist cults preparing to do battle with non-believers. David Usborne reports
- Strumming up votes in Australia
- Out of Nigeria: Invasion of the aliens divides nation
- Ambush in Natal brings toll to 19
- Kanemaru arrest distracts from wider corruption
- Too close to call in Australia
- Unita wins Huambo battle
- China's youngsters see a rose-tinted future: Economic reforms have contributed to a radical change in outlook for the next generation, writes Teresa Poole in Wuhan
- Afghans sign peace plan
- ANC and Pretoria rope Inkatha into the negotiation corral
- Kanemaru questioned
- Cult holds on to six-year-old British girl
- Democrat fears for her life in Kenya
- The World This Week: Too close to call in Australian poll
- Planners turning screws on the West Bank
- Arabs ponder thinking behind US 'terror' list: Middle East Muslims are wary in the wake of the New York bombing, writes Robert Fisk in Beirut
- Face of the clown
People
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Franco Brusati
- Obituary: Warren Elsworth
- Obituary: Jacques Roseau
- Obituary: Shizuo Tsuji
- Obituary: The Most Rev George Browne
- Obituary: Jeremy Tree
- Obituary: Beaumont Newhall
- Obituary: Paul D. Zimmerman
- Obituary: Paul D. Zimmerman
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Cyril Collard
- Obituary: Lord Pennock
- Obituary: Sir Dick White
- Diary: 8-14 March
- Obituary: Anne Maybury
Science
- How much is a test-tube in space worth?: Spacelab is about to take off again, but pure science is beginning to run into opposition from hard-nosed economics. Peter Bond reports
- A happy ending to the tadpole's tail: An enzyme first found in frogs may lead to new drugs for cancer, arthritis and some eye diseases. Tim Cawston reports
- Starting a dialogue with your computer: As manufacturers develop machines that can respond to spoken commands, Cliff Joseph reports on a system which will cope even with different accents
- A little therapy in the appliance of science: Surveyors have landed themselves a counselling role, says John Wright
- 1 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 2 Swedes set up 'ultimate Viking movie'
- 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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