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Friday, 14 May 1993
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- Stabbing charge
- Murder charge
- Baker rejects contempt ruling: Former minister says he had judicial immunity in asylum case
- Operatic tenor Carreras plans to fill Hampton Court palace with song
- Doctor gets damages
- Army to reduce Belize garrison
- Life-support machines stopped by power cut
- Early end for effort to keep non-violent offenders out of jail: The short-lived Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a radical reform - and some think it was not given time to work. Heather Mills reports
- Firefighters to ballot on summer of strikes: Union leaders warn Clarke against confrontation over pay. Barrie Clement reports
- Babies 'at risk as HIV cases undetected'
- Yacht crew safe
- Prisoner's challenge
- Cotswold town calls foul on fair: Gypsies gathered at Stow-on-the-Wold are alarming the Volvo-driving classes. Will Bennett reports
- Public inquiry into school trip deaths rejected: Instructors warned company of canoeing dangers 10 months before tragedy in bay
- Life for sex killer
- New hospital opens
- Majestic Monet sells for pounds 6.5m: Impressionist work was sold in New York despite the pundits' doubts. Geraldine Norman reports
- Couturier's closure marks end of era: Fashion designer says that made-to-measure clothing has become an anachronism
World
- Appeal fails
- Defiant Norwegians set to resume whale-hunt: The international ban is rejected as interference in the country's way of life, Leonard Doyle reports from Reine in the Lofoten Islands
- Clinton over the moon for the stars
- Gangster suicide
- Afrikaner sunset
- Mother Teresa ill
- Tennis arrest
- S Africa makes a deal with Angola: Oil exploration contract paves the way
- Saddam's dinar ploy bankrupts Kurds
- Asylum inmates left to suffer and die: One man is trying to save patients at a Kabul mental hospital from starvation and marauding guerrilla bands
- Judge resigns
- Thatcher in HK
- Diplomats safe
- Nationality curbs
- 50 bodies found in mine disaster
- New name
- Afghan battles
- Diplomats walk across the border to freedom: Afghan tribal leader releases three hostages unconditionally after 23 days
- US tobacco growers fume over price threat: Rumours that a tax hike on cigarettes will fund health reforms have brought fear and fury to North Carolina, writes David Usborne in Bunn
- Spreading strikes
- Dirty dancing drives Tokyo crowds crazy: British company teams up with Japanese to turn porno peep shows into pop entertainment
- Saudi crackdown
- 53 miners missing
- Mid-East talks end on note of hope
- Russian hope
- Japan's threat
- Patten abused
- Rape conviction
- UN troops to quit Iraq
- Why Seven-Up bottled out of the Gaza franchise: A Palestinian family's soft-drinks enterprise was built up and cast down by the fortunes of war. Dependence on Israel exacted a cruel price
People
- Birthdays
- Schools: Sherborne School
- Court Circular
- Service appointments
- Northern Ireland Gallantry Awards
- Wills
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Philip Chappell
- Appeals: Mozart Bicentenary Statue Appeal
- Schools: Abberley Hall, Worcester
- Appeals: Nightingale House
- Obituary: Norvela Forster
- Obituary: Lester Del Rey
- Obituary: Dom Bede Griffiths
- Obituary: Philip Chappell
- Appeals: Cope: the Laura Centre
- Faith and Reason: A tired man bends to kiss the Tarmac: A series on Catholicism starts this week, trying to discover whether one can claim to be Catholic without obedience to the Pope. The first contributor is Dr Eamon Duffy.
- Obituary: Sir Ian Jacob
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Penelope Gilliatt
- Obituary: Robert Adley
- Schools: Sussex House School
- Obituary: Penelope Gilliatt
- Obituary: Dame Freya Stark
- Obituary: Robert Adley
Obituaries
- Heart Searching: Amazing response
- Heart Searching: Men are more needy
- Heart Searching: What do these fat, neurotic women want?
- Heart Searching: Love failed to bloom at garden centre
- Heart Searching: Too much gabbling
- Heart Searching: Hole in his sock was the last straw: Readers recount their experiences and prove the age of romance is not dead - well, not quite. More letters will appear at a later date
- Heart Searching: 13 years of marriage
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Recipe: Scones just as Granny made
- Food and Drink: Treat the little ones tenderly: Steamed, microwaved or in salad, the first vegetables of spring work best with subtle additions that enhance their delicate flavours
- Food and Drink: A hot Indian summer: Black peppercorns with big flavour and a kick will soon be on sale, says Joanna Blythman
- Food and Drink: Bad enough from a cow, but from a mare . . .
- Food and Drink: Don't be put off by how good he is: Les Saveurs is formal, French and affordable. Its chef, Joel Antunes, has earnt his place among London's top restaurateurs, says Emily Green
- Food and Drink: Bordeaux is suffering a vintage headache: Prices for the 1992 vintage are in free fall, reports Anthony Rose
Motoring
- Road Test: Bags of muscle in an elegant frame: Audi's 100-series S4 luxury estate combines serious load-carrying capacity with the performance of a supercar, says Roger Bell
- Motoring: A lasting token of India: Gavin Green leaves Bombay and sets off with a vengeance on the home leg of the London-Sydney Marathon in his native Australia
Arts & Entertainment
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- BOOK REVIEW / Gowns, gasps and goddesses to die for: Adam Mars-Jones on a unique work about divas by a self-confessed opera queen - 'The Queen's Throat' - Wayne Koestenbaum: GMP, 16.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / In the deserts of the heart: Wendy Brandmark on a Lebanese novelist's determined exploration of the secret lives of Arab women - 'Women of Sand and Myrrh' - Hanan Al-Shayk Tr. Catherine Cobham: Quartet, 6.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / A fear of flying axes: 'Remembering Babylon' - David Malouf: Chatto & Windus, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / A finger in every cosmic pie: Eva Salzman on Scott Bradfield, whose new short stories display a wonderfully perverse charm - 'Greetings from Earth' - Scott Bradfield: Picador, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Possessed by several dybbuks: 'The Certificate' - Isaac Bashevis Singer Tr. Leonard Wolf: Hamish Hamilton, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Intrigue, infighting and cold sausage rolls: Jeremy Paxman on George Brown, whose career was a triumph of chippiness - 'Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown' - Peter Paterson: Chatto & Windus, 20 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Monster eats the Muse: 'Tess' - Emma Tennant: HarperCollins, 14.99 pounds
- 1 Stoke City investigate 'religious abuse' after 'pig's head is found in Kenwyne Jones' locker'
- 2 Gove’s lesson: spare the comma, spoil the child
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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