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Saturday, 26 June 1993
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- Ridley legacy
- Bonds
- Unique moss is found in Peaks
- Can MPs resist the temptations?: Stephen Castle examines the conflicts of interests at Westminster
- Sleaze, smears, Saudis, leaks and dodgy money: Donald Macintyre and Nick Cohen pick through a week of accusations and denials
- Fermat's theorem is proved at last . . . but what does it matter?
- We think we're honest. Are we?: Martin Whitfield on corruption and backhanders in British life
- How some murder victims are picked by natural selection
- BR wants more black drivers
- The MG is back - looking for vroom at the top: David Bowen reports on the revival of a British classic
- Gateway to the Isles faces gift-wrap
- Radio 1 in a turmoil after chief quits: Commercial pressure and crises of identity among broadcasters could change the face of some of Britain's most popular media institutions
- Flower firms risk children's lives in illegal roadside work: Bosses flout the law but Angus Stickler discovers that few county councils care
- Jack the Ripper show 'glorifies violence against women as fun'
- Political interference hindered war on Aids
- Coma girl gives birth
- Conran restaurant fitter goes bust
- A little of what you fancy can prove confusing
- This is the news at 10 or 9 or 8: Commercial pressure and crises of identity among broadcasters could change the face of some of Britain's most popular media institutions
- Nissan chief found guilty of Britain's biggest tax fraud
- Is this the gay serial killer?
- Drugs shooting
- Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- Jury still out
- Burglar jailed
- Crash charges
- Prisoners on run
World
- The Kurds: Why are they causing havoc in Europe? - Why are the Turks making war on them? - Why does Saddam keep hounding them?
- The unlikely hit that was ordered by J Edgar Hoover
- 'Louie Louie': written on lavatory paper and sold for only dollars 750: Richard Williams on a rock 'n' roll classic that sold 300m and inspired a generation
- End arms ban, Clinton urges: The West is agonising again over giving the Muslims the firepower to defend themselves - while a carve-up threatens to shatter their state
- A torrent of words sweeps Bosnia away: The West is agonising again over giving the Muslims the firepower to defend themselves - while a carve-up threatens to shatter their state
- Elusive bomber renews campus reign of terror: The West is agonising again over giving the Muslims the firepower to defend themselves - while a carve-up threatens to shatter their state
- Bishop killed
- Going strong at 110
- Moroccan results
- Guerrillas brew up a storm for the tea-growers: Tim McGirk reports from Assam on the armed rebels who are raiding estates
- Yeltsin offers a compromise
- Babangida says Nigeria will have fresh elections
- Kurdish Embassy Attacks: German call for ban on guerrillas: Bonn passes buck to regions as new Turkish PM hints at fresh initiatives on the ethnic problem
- War of words over land: An Australian High Court judgment has touched off a furious controversy
- Brotherly chat
- Kurdish Embassy Attacks: 'Iron lady' pushes forward with reform: Bonn passes buck to regions as new Turkish PM hints at fresh initiatives on the ethnic problem
- Kurdish Embassy Attacks: Leader of Iran's Kurds chooses non-violent path: Annika Savill on Mustapha Hijri: against terrorism but at risk of assassination
- New tribe
- Khmer ban
- Somali clash
- Writer killed
- Row over UN rights chief
- Moroccans go reluctantly to the polls: Hassan hopes 'honest and open' election will ease external and internal pressures
- Sudanese 'plot'
- Fire kills 18
- Clinton lives to fight again on budget bill: Vice-President's casting vote breaks Senate deadlock
- Present fears lead Japanese to seek solace in the past: A people troubled by modern uncertainties is taking a profound interest in the 'Golden Age' of the Edo era, writes Terry McCarthy in Tokyo
- White extremists gatecrash South African political negotiations
- Sheep and children first as floods drive Bangladeshis from their land
- Babangida gives a date for handover
People
- Wills
- Anniversaries
- Service Appointments
- Church Appointments
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Obituary: George Norman
- Obituary: Admiral Sir Mark Pizey
- Appeals: The Kathmandu Environmental Educational Project
- Obituary: Prebendary Norry McCurry
- Obituary: Derek Hersey
- Obituary: Piergiuseppe Beretta
- Obituary: Professor Zdenek Kopal
- Obituary: Patrick Crosse
- Appeals: Action on Pre-eclampsia
- Faith and Reason: Doubtful claim to unique authority: The Bishop of Durham, the Right Rev David Jenkins, looks at Catholicism without Rome and regrets the emphasis put on ecclesiastical labels at the expense of sharing the Gospel.
Life & Style
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- Food & Drink: From block to wok, chop chop
- Food & Drink: Berry yourself in ice-cream: Recipe
- Food & Drink: Summer Choice
- Food & Drink: So what's your poison?: Emily Green samples Toxique chic at a converted Wiltshire farmhouse, then has a sweet and sour time in Devon
- Food & Drink: Will Augustus wed Victoria?: Two of our leading high-street drinks chains are set to merge. Anthony Rose reports
- Food & Drink: Tale of the little speckled hen: Pheasant is pleasant, chicken is tasty, but in between there is guinea fowl, which has its own special flavour
- Food & Drink: Bing's big hit days are over: Joanna Blythman predicts that the cherry will follow the apple into a brave new world of diversity and flavour
Arts & Entertainment
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- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Coda
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: All together
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: New tunes
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Over there
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Now you hear it, now you don't: The echo has sounded through music since the Renaissance and before. Bayan Northcott considers the pleasures of reverberation
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review recordings of exiled Europeans, before and after
Books
- BOOK REVIEW / Gritty fruit and dreams of rubies: The weather in Iceland - David Profumo: Picador, pounds 13.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Love on the Dole - Walter Greenwood: Vintage, pounds 5.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Aquamarine - Carol Anshaw: Virago, pounds 5.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Baa Baa Black Sheep - David Malouf: Chatto & Windus, pounds 8.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: The Trouble with Being Born - E H Cioran: Quartet, pounds 8.95
- BOOK REVIEW / A casual king of elves: Jan Morris goes on a foray into modern fairyland, and sorts the princes from the frogs: The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales - Ed. Alison Lurie: Oxford, pounds 17.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Putting earrings on crocodiles: Barbara Everett on Roberto Calasso's vertiginous retelling of the tales of the gods and heroes: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso Tr. Tim Parks: Jonathan Cape, pounds 19.99
- BOOKS / Classic Thoughts: Bored man of action: Julian Barnes on Mikhail Lermontov's audacious A Hero of our Time (1840)
- BOOK REVIEW / War games with Sitting Bull: Misreadings - Umberto Eco Tr. William Weaver: Cape, pounds 9.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Some mucking about and the dewy stuff, too: Ten is not too young to be a hero, as Giles Smith finds in Roddy Doyle's new novel: Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - Roddy Doyle: Secker & Warburg, pounds 12.99
- BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Insolent, brutish defiance
- 1 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Strewth mate. Aussies wave goodbye to Britain as it becomes too pricey to stay
- 4 Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
- 5 Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
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