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Sunday, 18 April 1993
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- British woman serving life for cannabis offence: Grandmother held in US top-security jail is not eligible for parole until 2017
- Pathe news pool
- Law firms hostile to anti-bias proposals
- 'Sharp practices' by lawyers condemned: Minister says solicitors should be forced to specify fees
- Weir drowning
- Labour presses for opt-out vote: Amendment 27 takes spotlight again
- Noddy film role
- Hospital to restrict surgery
- Bodies recovered
- Siege shooting
- Painting 'found'
- National's night of triumph: West End productions lose out as subsidised theatre dominates Olivier awards
- Implant allows child to hear
- Police rammed in car chase
- Lid comes off tip's past: Collectors unearth a treasure trove of Victorian artefacts at dump site that was closed to them for 20 years
- Road plan will cause 'irreparable damage': Campaigners unite against widening the A303 in the Blackdown Hills, an area of outstanding beauty. Peter Dunn reports
- Video link-up urged for MPs: Report sees savings in time and money
- The Daily Poem: The Charlotte Gibson Bed
- Trade agreement raises fears over food safety: Increased levels of pesticides would be permitted by GATT regulatory organisation
- Cash cuts hit research by Nobel winner
- Union calls early ballot on Labour link
- Contemporary Art Market: Critic's words worth eating: Subversive fun from Swinging Sixties now on display at Nineties prices
- Bookmakers to profit from Aintree fiasco (CORRECTED)
- Stolen car deaths
- Fur flies again
- Lessons of History: Ghetto that resisted to the end: 50 years ago today, the Poles who felt Jews lacked the will to fight were proved wrong, writes Jozef Garlinski
- Driver escape
- Hit-and-run death
- CD price fall rejected
- Premium Bonds
- Is the recession over? Crawley keeps growing but fails to rejoice: Cal McCrystal finds the Gatwick town trying to live up to its motto
- Chawton is crumbling as Janeites cross swords
- 'Using guns. That's nothing to do with any sort of music': A man was hurt in a shooting at a ragga concert. Is violence taking over? Lloyd Bradley looks for some answers
- Stirring of the angry Isles: Their council lost millions in the BCCI collapse. Now, facing huge tax rises, Western Islanders have risen in public protest, reports James Cusick
- Pregnant woman knifing: 3 charged
- Weekend voting urged on Labour
- Why bold ENO caught a cold: As once high-flying English National Opera faces a financial and artistic crisis, David Lister examines its record and interviews one of its leading sopranos
- Private firms to take over 20 prisons
- MPs try to save Bhagwan women
- Patten tells teachers to end boycott 'mania'
- Jargon leaves police with their TWOCs in a twist
- The sensual evangelist and follower of passion: As once high-flying English National Opera faces a financial and artistic crisis, David Lister examines its record and interviews one of its leading sopranos
- Employers end union dues collection deal
- Binliner body: man confesses
- Children die in fire
- Body in bags: man charged
- And the ghost said to Alan: 'Now build me a green car'
- Book prize runners
- 'Saint' creator dies
- Stabbing suicide
- Patten urges boycott rethink
World
- Out of Japan: Good intentions hit the glass ceiling
- Link with Tories claimed
- Japanese plane erupts into flames in strong winds after passengers are evacuated
- LA awakes from its nightmare: Gangs' guns fall silent in wake of verdict in Rodney King trial
- The World This Week: Votes for president or a king
- Clinton wary on gay rights issue
- Ozal death 'no bar to progress': Pragmatic Turks ponder succession
- Pakistan's President sacks 'corrupt' PM: Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves parliament and troops take over state broadcasting, preventing Nawaz Sharif from rallying support
- Hani suspect a key figure of far right: Former South African Conservative MP arrested in ANC murder inquiry is president of controversial London-based think-tank
- 12 die as Azeris down helicopter
- US jet fires on Iraqis
- Chamorro killers freed
- Bomb rocks Paris restaurant
- 200 die in Afghan fighting
- Israeli murdered in Gaza
- Egypt replaces interior minister
- One more quits Waco compound
- Chechen MPs revolt
- Vietnam hands over documents on PoWs
- Mid-East peace talks delayed
- BOSNIA / 'I want the world to go in for Christ's sake and stop this - we can't go on watching'
- BOSNIA / History says keep out . . . but can we still stand by?: And suddenly she came back. Nick Cohen, Stephen Castle and Patrick Cockburn explain how Lady Thatcher stirred the world
- BOSNIA / History says keep out . . . but can we still stand by?: Brian Cathcart examines the record of armed intervention in other people's conflicts, and finds disaster far outweighs success
- NEW YORK / UN holds its fire until the 13th hour: As the ravaged town of Srebrenica comes under heavy shelling, the world's politicians debate its future
- White gunman held after two Hani marchers killed
- THE SIEGE / Bosnian town's diary of despair: As the ravaged town of Srebrenica comes under heavy shelling, the world's politicians debate its future
- Star in the East heralds TV revolution: No nation in Asia can resist the Hong Kong-based satellite station, writes Teresa Poole
- Death shatters oasis of the new South Africa: Hani died in a suburb where he had helped to bury the past. John Carlin reports
- OPTIONS IN THE BALKANS / Bombs, sanctions and maps on the dark path to peace: As the ravaged town of Srebrenica comes under heavy shelling, the world's politicians debate its future
- Turkey's worldly wise man dies
- LONDON / Major calls for Serbia blockade: As the ravaged town of Srebrenica comes under heavy shelling, the world's politicians debate its future
- Fat is back as Mega Mac hits the streets
- Blacks hail King verdict but LA still in the dock: Police are on the alert - but the people are celebrating as the city breathes a sigh of relief. Phil Reeves reports
- Yeltsin ducks out of campaign trail ordeal: Many Russians who put their faith in the President now feel he has little to offer. Andrew Higgins reports on his attempt to woo Siberian voters
Science
- Science: Why the fur flies in the vivisection debate: Rhetoric and crude caricature obscure the facts about the use of animals in research, says Andrew Rowan
- Science: Big questions for little people: A family dig for buried treasure is a major attraction at Edinburgh's science festival, says James Cusick
- Computer Contracting: Recovery measured in small bytes: Computer recruitment agencies can see light at the end of the tunnel - and the future, says Lynne Curry
- Science: Molecule of the Month: Silent killer in the air we breathe: John Emsley explains the perils of carbon monoxide
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 'He was always smiling': Lee Rigby named as Woolwich victim
- 3 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 4 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Two bailed after arrest over Woolwich attack Twitter comments
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