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Wednesday, 2 June 1993
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- The Daily Poem: Things
- Sentences clouded by history of doubt: The Carl Bridgewater murder case
- Head teachers give Patten rough ride over league tables: Secretary of State accuses his opponents of 'living in the Dark Ages'
- Strange companions await their fate at Olympia's art and antiques fair
- Britain 'jails 10,000 a year without trial': Report condemns detention under immigration laws as a scandal without parallel in Europe
- Murder victim was sex abuse suspect
- Refugee 'treated as if he were a criminal': Heather Mills reports on a Ghanaian held for four months in British prison
- Labour group calls for shift to power-sharing: Party urged to embrace 'collaborative government' at all levels
- Advice on health risks in food 'being ignored': Government shuns experts' views for harmony with EC rules
- Taxpayers face bill for nuclear reactors: A leaked report revealing the cost of demolishing old plant has added to pressure for a government review of the industry. Tom Wilkie reports
- Scientists design chemicals to fight flu
- Advice on conserving energy criticised: Electricity companies and British Gas 'fail' survey
- York aims to dispel 'museum' image
- Statues ruined by 'ignorant' care: Heavy-handed cleaning is damaging public sculptures, leading conservators warn
- Smoker wins sacking claim
- The daily poem
- Law Report: Jury agreement on guilty verdict: Regina v Mitchell - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (Lord Justice Simon Brown, Mr Justice McCullough and Mr Justice Swinton Thomas), 28 May 1993
- Body in canal
- Guns seized
- Faithful friend
- Taxi laws review
- Hunt faces EC anger over work-time directive: Government to go ahead with a legal challenge to 48-hour maximum working week
- Sex attacker 'beat his victim with a gun'
- Timex talks
- Poor public lavatories 'put health at risk'
- Hunt for clothing
- Jet panel falls on school field
- Bank overdraft charges attacked: Shadow Chancellor claims highest loan rates reach 1 million per cent in real terms
- Sketches record life in London prison camp: Drawings by German interned in Alexandra Palace during First World War go on sale
- Pressure grows on Mates over Nadir: Downing Street orders minister to remain silent
- Lloyd's name MPs 'not bankrupt': Conservatives facing financial losses deny they will forfeit parliamentary seats
- Missing couple feared killed by drugs dealers: Police examine ashes for human remains as search leads to woodland site
- Good Samaritans
- Police offer more cash for burglary information
- ITV firms fear law change could allow mergers: Heritage Secretary to meet television chiefs amid angry claims that independence may be undermined
- Doctors to look inside patients by using 3-D computer images
- Employers launch campaign for better child care: Business leaders seek government help. Marianne Macdonald reports
World
- Deliverance from Pagans
- US request to N Korea
- 150 Turkish Kurds killed
- Call for EC summit
- Shock around the croc
- Price deal for caviar
- Plzen 'may go broke'
- Huge car bomb found near Rome parliament
- South Africa to decide about next year's elections
- Turmoil in Guatemala brings snap Belize poll: Former British colony fears revival of territorial claim by generals
- Court blocks execution
- SA sighs with relief as Winnie avoids jail: An appeal judge's decision not to imprison Mrs Mandela has removed a serious threat to the peace talks, writes John Carlin from Johannesburg
- Bridge: Left guessing
- Militant Islam sweeps away Sudan's diversity: The military regime brooks no dissent, writes Charles Richards in Khartoum
- Burundi leader voted out
- Offer to Dalai Lama
- Out of America: Big bird holds out a promise of big bucks
- End is nigh for mummified Marxists: Andrew Higgins meets Moscow's chief embalmer, who sees no future for his prized craft of preserving Communist leaders
- Child soldiers
- LA bride killing
- Vietnam 'helpful'
- Burundi polls
- Tibet threat
- Mystery illness hits Navajos
- Nuclear problem
- Uzbek trial
- De Klerk shows weakness on right flank: President panics as the government's centre starts to fall apart
- Libyans cut short Israel pilgrimage: Arab protests mar trip to holy sites by worshippers who have Gadaffi's blessing
- Cambodia ruling party calls for new election: Tension mounts as opposition pulls ahead in voting and Khmer Rouge rebels say they are ready to start fighting again
- Guatemala president forced out of office
- Uffuzi to open later this month
- Russia gay law
- Thirty years on, police computer names a killer
- Rio summit nations fail to deliver on their promises: One year on from the historic meeting, the state of the Earth has only got worse, writes Nicholas Schoon
People
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- Service appointments
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Gonzalo Barrios
- Obituary: Brian Raymond
- Obituary: Pierre Naville
- Obituary: Billy Baker
- Obituary: Charlie Barnett
- Royal Engagements
- Anniversaries
- Court circular
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Edouard Pignon
- Obituary: Professor Hugh Hunt
- Obituary: Bishop Paul Liu Shuhe
- Obituary: Sir Alex Page
- Obituary: Peter Brown
Media
- Media Types: Gorillas with calculators in search of freebies: The planner/TV buyer
- Media: Talk of the Trade: Beefcake complaint
- Media: Talk of the Trade: Donald's adieu
- Media: Talk of the Trade: Theme thoughts
- Media: Please, Sam, we'll pay you not to play it again: War-zone hotels are a far cry from Rick's cafe, however much hacks romanticise them, says Robert Fisk
- Media: The new House mistress: Michael Leapman talks to BBC veteran Margaret Douglas about her new job as supervisor of parliamentary broadcasting
Arts & Entertainment
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- ROCK / The crowd goes bananas: Here we go again: Giles Smith met the members of the Velvet Underground and watched their first show for 25 years
- ALBUMS / He still wears it well: Andy Gill on Rod Stewart and the week's other new releases
- ROCK / Oh, and the songs were good, too: Joseph Gallivan on Peter Gabriel's mobile performance at Earls Court
- 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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