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Tuesday, 8 March 1994
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- River death
- Prisoners 'claiming millions in benefits'
- Fewer women give up smoking habit than men: Health campaigners concerned over teenage girls as surveys show 25 per cent take up cigarettes by age of 15. Celia Hall reports
- The Daily Poem: In the hills at nightfall in autumn
- Council ordered to repair graveyard
- Conditions sought for 'Independent'
- Grave error
- Blasphemy case
- Crown king Miyake scores with hat trick
- House of Death: Excavations yield mounting toll of grisly secrets: A compelling human drama is played out daily behind the run-down facade of the three-storey property
- Chase driver jailed
- Sunbed warning
- Two die as raft capsizes on swollen river
- Shootings inquest
- MPs split over calling Thatcher to inquiry: Tories oppose telling former PM to give aid-for-arms evidence. Colin Brown reports
- Team games set to be compulsory after 14: Revised national curriculum to end pupils' choice after pressure from sports minister and MPs. Judith Judd reports
- Pupils expelled
- Gaultier warms to vision of the cold North
- Lovers in Navy took 11,000 pounds from their ship's safe
- Thousands of people who disappear without trace
- House of Death: Residents cash in on street's fatal attraction: Neighbours trade with press as sightseers are drawn to newly notorious address
- Patient died after nurses 'tied her to lavatory'
- 'Landmark' racism victory for lecturer
- False drugs alert
- Staff urge head in 'touching' row to resign
- Destroyed Bentleys the stuff of legend: Jonathan Glancey on the loss of several 'automotive adrenalin pumps' yesterday
- Sports stars warn of the stigma of teenage failure: Ngaio Crequer on the view that PE should be for health, not competition
- Theatre sponsor
- Raider rapes woman, 74
- Food recalled
- Biggs faces extradition treaty threat
- Expulsion plea fails
- 'Scream' case
- Newspaper attacked for Malaysian trade claims
- Boy, 13, remanded
- Minder 'drunk'
- Open verdict
- 'Vigilante' fathers guilty of assault
- Mental care inquiry
- Father gets life term for raping baby daughter: Judge condemns 'depraved and dreadful offences' that followed 12-hour drinking binge
- TB epidemic among the homeless feared: London tests find infection rate higher than in Third World. Celia Hall reports
- Father jailed for leaving baby to die in squalor
- Woman shopper 'beaten up with a baseball bat'
- British airport facilities criticised
- The Daily Poem: Time and Again
- 'Scream' lawyer pulls out
- Murder retrial PC admits 'short fuse'
- Docks firm fined
World
- Clintons pay price for dragging their feet: The President and First Lady believed that because they were innocent they could ignore Whitewater, Patrick Cockburn writes in Washington. They were wrong
- Out of America: Ames exposure casts doubt on KGB 'traitor'
- Mercouri's last journey
- Grunge as usual
- White House names counsel: President moves swiftly to defuse Whitewater scandal with appointment of Lloyd Cutler
- India faces censure on Kashmir
- Hussein in Mecca to woo King Fahd
- Prosecutors pursue Japanese MP
- 1,802-year sentence for Eta man
- Sixty-three commuters killed in Durban train crash
- French deploying troops, says Nigeria
- Israeli police arrest Jewish militants
- Israelis admit security lapses: Commission of inquiry opens into Hebron massacre but Palestinians say they have no faith in the investigation
- China defies US pressure on rights
- Six killed as jets collide
- SA right-wingers head in different directions
- Troops storm hijack plane
- Kazakhstan vote was 'unfair'
- Moldovan vote
- Army blamed for Burundi massacre
- Peter Pan flies into controversy
- Eagle snared
- Hostile to Jews
- China develops market for heroes: The party is reviving an old cult in an attempt to combat the new materialism of the Nineties, writes Teresa Poole in Peking
- Georgia backing
- Rockets blast Kabul food queue: Long vigil in Afghanistan for the supply trucks that cannot get through
- Clinton defends his wife over Whitewater: Scandal and suspicion are eroding the First Lady's authority, writes Patrick Cockburn in Washington
- Arafat and Israel hold secret talks
- People: Fat's fun for heavy Helmut
- Tyson's rape appeal denied
People
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: The Rev Professor John Marsh
- Obituary: Professor Donald MacKinnon
- Obituary: Ray Arcel
- Obituary: Max Schubert
- Obituary: Walter Kent
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Scottish Episcopal Church
- Wills
- Obituary: Walter Kent
- Obituary: Sir Richard Hayward
- Obituary: Sofka Skipwith
Media
- Media: Can we still make them like we used to?: Factual programming can survive the threat of US-style 'infotainment', argues David Glencross
- Media: A woman with so many true stories to tell: Britain has a good reputation for factual films, yet only now are we to hold a documentary festival of our own. Sue Summers meets its organiser
- Media / Talk of the Trade: Souffles, not sex
- Media / Talk of the Trade: Once bitten . . .
- Media Viewpoint: What the papers didn't say: The press has defended its freedom too little, too late, argues Clive Soley
- Media / Talk of the Trade: Scots miffed
- 1 Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
- 2 Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
- 3 Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
- 4 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 5 We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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