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Tuesday, 31 August 1993
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- Aircraft crashes
- THE DAILY POEM
- Three remanded
- Bomb hoax charges
- 'News at Ten' fight
- School milk threat
- Tandem deaths
- Thames barrier
- Labour campaigns against benefit cuts: Warning of reduced spending on housing and sickness. Colin Brown reports and unemployment
- Fakes campaign
- Cat out of the bag
- Man in court
- Scheme targets vandalism: The Community Force: As confidence in the rule of law falls, citizens are organising the defence of their own communities in increasing numbers. Independent reporters found examples in a wealthy suburb, a village, on council estates, and on the London Underground
- Burglary rate 'has halved': The Neighbourhood Watch: As confidence in the rule of law falls, citizens are organising the defence of their own communities in increasing numbers. Independent reporters found examples in a wealthy suburb, a village, on council estates, and on the London Underground
- Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- Colourful volunteers travel in search of situations: The Guardian Angels: As confidence in the rule of law falls, citizens are organising the defence of their own communities in increasing numbers. Independent reporters found examples in a wealthy suburb, a village, on council estates, and on the London Underground
- Belfast woman shot on doorstep
- Ageing gene ethics under scrutiny: The British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting
- Cameras to study wreck of ship: Funding given for sea-bed investigation
- NHS changes 'harm medical research': The British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting
- Mergers 'threaten small TV firms': Labour seeks longer takeover moratorium
- Carnival crowd nears 1 million
- Plants suck metal from polluted land: The British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting
- TUC leader puts faith in Middle England: Barrie Clement interviews John Monks, new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, ahead of next week's annual assembly
- State schools 'need private investment': Surplus places and red tape hinder expansion
- Failed marriages create a female underclass: The British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting
- Union to fight Timex closure Timex action to be fought
- Peat bog yields a champion snorkeller: Women maintain their dominance of a race through weed-clogged water with zero visibility. Keith Elliott reports
- Briton scrabbles to world title in a 'wet' finale: Small word seals greatest triumph
- Police inquiry
- Comfortable win for Speelman
- Rail sale 'will not raise fares'
- Brighton bonus
- Old device defused
- Regular night patrols in hamlet end spate of break-ins: The Villagers: As confidence in the rule of law falls, citizens are organising the defence of their own communities in increasing numbers. Independent reporters found examples in a wealthy suburb, a village, on council estates, and on the London Underground
- Private guardians of a fragile peace: The Suburb's SAS: As confidence in the rule of law falls, citizens are organising the defence of their own communities in increasing numbers. Independent reporters found examples in a wealthy suburb, a village, on council estates, and on the London Underground
- Law Report: Transaction loss shared: Cheese v Thomas - Court of Appeal (Sir Donald Nicholls, Vice-Chancellor, Lord Justice Butler-Sloss and Lord Justice Peter Gibson), 30 July 1993
World
- Mubarak guard held over plot
- Algerian death sentences
- Angola offensive threatens Unita city stronghold: Army 'killed 2,000 rebels last week'
- Mbeki gets top ANC post
- Iraq executions
- Nigerians step up strikes
- 'PLO capital' cool about peace plan: Sarah Helm visits Israeli-occupied Jericho and finds residents confused about the modern role that Yasser Arafat is casting for their ancient city
- Cholera menace returns to Mexico: Poor hygiene underlies a serious outbreak of the disease, reports Phil Davison from Mexico City
- People: Table talk leaves Keating furious
- Guards freed
- Rio killings
- Speechless
- Pilot error
- Tycoon's arrest
- Hi-tech mosque
- Boy's father calls Jackson 'evil guy': Pop star cancels third concert as publicity battle heats up over allegations of sexual abuse of children
- SA revolution is being televised: John Carlin meets four journalists bringing democracy to the South African Broadcasting Corporation
- This little piggy goes to stud in the Philippines
- Hurricane alert
- Baptist jailed
- Talks progress
Business
- Business and City in Brief
- Bairstow blames QMH board for his absence: Correction: John Bairstow
- Commodities: All that's gold does not glister for RTZ
- Smaller Companies: Russian link breathes new life into Aminex
- No need to worry about Bundesbank
- Facelift for Shell logo in pounds 500m 'new look' drive: Petrol giant plans to update outlets in 100 countries ready for next century
- Japanese car makers' ratings may be cut: Standard & Poors to monitor Toyota, Honda and Nissan as trading conditions look set to deteriorate further
- US trade deficit at five-year high: Economic growth estimates likely to be cut
- Pembroke: Virgin stowaway on BA flight
- Hoechst profits down by 30%: Second-half warning brings fears of third dividend fall
- New mobile phone set for launch next month: Technical snags ironed out, says Mercury
- Firstdirect outgrows its headquarters
- Hire the hall, pay the band and hope for a meagre profit: Continuing our series on creative businesses, Jason Nisse talks to David Jones, joint managing director of Serious Speakout, promoters of jazz and new music
- Accountancy & Management: Getting to grips with a bad debt problem: Roger Trapp hears it said that accountants are not good managers
Voices
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- Letter: Anti-Semitism in Wagner's music
- Letter: Commercial restraints limit UN's effectiveness
- Letter: Accuracy sets the Benn diaries apart
- Leading Article: King Hassan's message to God and man
- Leading Article: Co-operation in fighting crime
- Letter: Injustice of proposals for Bosnia
- How to make your life into a best-selling autobiography
- Letter: Commercial restraints limit UN's effectiveness
- Letter: Accuracy sets the Benn diaries apart
- Letter: Old Prommers have lost their shout
- Leading Article: Giving parents greater choice
- My Week: Bin there, dump that: Jonathan Green throws away a writing career to become an Environmental Operative (aka dustman)
- A stone's throw from peace: Yasser Arafat needs Arab backing for the Gaza-Jericho deal to succeed, argues Conor Cruise O'Brien
- Letter: Anti-Semitism in Wagner's music
- Letter: Fax, don't phone
- John Birt and the enemies of the faith
- 1 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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