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Saturday, 8 October 1994
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- Worst violence fear as hunting starts: New laws are voted on after clashes with saboteurs increase (CORRECTED)
- Inside Story: Inflation hero is man in a billion: When retired banker Dragoslav Avramovic came to the rescue, Serbs were using their worthless currency as wallpaper. He tells Richard Thomson how he brought the runaway dinar to heel
- Author keeps cool, and no mistake
- Hedge wars: man is guilty
- Journalist shooting
- And only 75 shopping days to go . . .
- Colour me beautiful, beg Tory MPs: Major 'a bozo in casual clothes' - Clarke 'extra chins' - Portillo 'overboard with Spanish quiff' - Widdecombe 'stick-insect legs'
- Gas deaths: landlords targeted
- Odds fixed on Christmas chart-toppers
- Today's papers: Killer duo
- Arson charge
- Fresh font is chosen to baptise Labour image: New typeface heralds break with old shibboleths
- Body Shop look-alike to open in UK
- Inside Story: Killing the Clause: How Tony Blair and his closest advisers plotted their assault on the Labour Party's historic creed
- Ageing ships threaten lives of their crews
- Highland hawk set to swoop south
- Inside Story: So who was responsible for Clause IV
- Government cuts consumer grants
- How much does he earn?: No 49: Patrick Minford.
- Anti-cult groups riven by schism and bitter feuds: Many despise rivals more than sects they monitor
- Sit up straight at the Tate: James Whistler's mother has her eye on you
- Opposition to Blair caves in
- 'Heil' apology
- Missing mother shuns family
- Treasure threat
- Tories are warned of slump in numbers
- Westminster auditor is accused of bias: 'Council homes for votes' case defendants say investigator who announced interim guilt cannot be open-minded at public inquiry
- Kasparov peace move takes Short by surprise
- Missing woman found safe and well
- Wild boars
- Virgin wins one of six new slots on London's airwaves
- Soldiers charged with Cyprus murder
- 'Mad cow' fears for humans eased by research unit
- Schools' modern book list cut to 12 authors
- Labour in Blackpool: Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie
- Labour in Blackpool: Turning the tide for women: Patricia Wynn Davies reports on the campaigner who is winning the gender war
- Labour at Blackpool: Brown says Labour would cut 'wasteful' Civil List
- Labour in Blackpool: Blair signals possibility of links with Lib Dems: Conference ends with recruitment call to give party half a million members
- Fire verdict brings call for tougher hostel laws
- Labour in Blackpool: Prescott attacks 'despicable lying Tories'
- Call for time limits in civil court cases
- Howard wants to curtail right to elect trial by jury
- Lesbian writer rests in restored peace
- Lang fails to endorse Monklands inquiry
- Savaged man tries to apologise to lion at zoo
- Satellite block
- Trains keep running as Tube strike fails to bite
- Mortgage firm chief jailed for 43m fraud
- 9m pounds heroin find
- Doctor quits on health grounds after 186 errors
- Fabulous start to London Fashion Week
- Garden to be dug up in hunt for boy
- Carey gives full support to Durham's bishop-elect
- Drink appeal fear
- Extortion charge
- Mortgage fraud
World
- Flat Earth
- LA lawmen who get away with murder: Police force with reputation for shooting first and asking few questions faces first murder charge in 10 years
- Zambia feels chill of the free market
- US sends crack force to counter Saddam: Iraqi moves 'very similar to those that preceded 1990 invasion' bring Republican Guard division to within an hour of Kuwait border
- Ladykiller lands bullring bit-part
- Serb snipers attack Sarajevo civilians
- Ferry problem
- US stirred by a native renaissance: EchoHawk aims to be first Indian governor
- Italy business plan
- Israelis decide that it's far better to be Red than Dead: A vast desert canal plan is seen as a key to Middle East peace - or disaster
- Indian riot deaths
- Death cult was riven by disputes: Swiss and Canadian police hunt leaders as evidence points to murder, not suicide, of most Solar Temple victims
- Three Haitians killed
- Canon fire rocks campuses
- Cardoso faces challenge to fulfil promises of reform
- Pro-Aristide peasants defy thugs: As rural Haitians await the President's return, fears of violence are growing, writes Patrick Cockburn in La Bastille
- Allies move to increase forces lined up to contain Saddam
- Senate approves coup leaders' amnesty
- Diva hits false note in royal encore
- Angry Congress wreaks havoc with Clinton programme
Life & Style
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- Food and Drink: Italy aims for another renaissance: After a long period of confusion, Italian reds are now coming back in force and, what's more, at affordable prices, says Anthony Rose
- Food and Drink: I could eat pasta for ever
- Organic Harvest October '94: Flavour? Let's hear it from the chef: In praise of the organic: Joanna Blythman talks to Shaun Hill about his choice of ingredients
- Food and Drink: Blythman's unfavourite veg - the Dutch answer back: Eric Truffino, of the Central Bureau of Fruit and Vegetables in Holland, defends the reputation of Dutch produce:
- Reader recipe: Hot stuff in a soup tureen
- Regional passions: The Newcastle stotty bounces back: In the first of a series from around Britain, Terence Laybourne finds deliciously rich morsels in the North-east's poverty cuisine
- Food and Drink: A la recherche du temps fondu: It's truly a dinner to forget. Sadly, Rosie Millard remembered
Arts & Entertainment
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- Recommended books
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- BOOK REVIEW / Walk on the word side: 'Moo Pak' - Gabriel Josipovici: Carcanet, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Baroque feasts snatched from hell: 'The Book of Intimate Grammar' - David Grossman: Cape, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW: Category A literature in Glasgow: How does a literary outsider become the Booker favourite? Anthony Quinn meets James Kelman
- BOOK REVIEW / Biblical thunder and steamy cries: 'Imperium' - Ryszard Kapuscinski tr. Klara Glowczewska: Granta, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Fireworks, rubies and an ayah: 'East, West' - Salman Rushdie: Cape, 9.99
- Letter from Lewes: Fossilised fish-hooks]: Anthony Buckeridge is 82, but the schoolboy he created remains eternally 11.
- BOOK REVIEW / Oh marvellous, marvellous: 'Writing Home' - Alan Bennett: Faber, 17.50
- 1 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 2 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 3 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Mourinho will be a reunion that can only end in tears
- 4 Civil partnerships amendment 'could wreck' gay marriage Bill, Government sources warn
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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