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Tuesday, 26 April 1994
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- The daily poem
- Customs seize drugs worth record pounds 250m: Operation to stem backdoor route of narcotics to western Europe
- Gardner supporters still seek public inquiry into death: A visit by police and Immigration Service officers ended in tragedy. David Connett reports
- Soldier in rail death
- Shergar ruling
- Boys, 11, cleared of 'sex attack'
- Jet hit helicopter
- Nurses call for ban on 'sex selection' baby clinics
- Doctor accused
- 'Mad cats' decision
- Banknote thieves told to repay pounds 1/2 m: Families' extravagant lifestyle ends with court order to give up ill-gotten gains. Ian MacKinnon reports
- Kneecappings fuel Ulster peace doubts
- Cheep victory
- Ordination offers hope to converts
- Ammonia attack
- MP to retire
- Prisoner escapes
- Widow attacked
- Spitfire found
- Hopes rise for boy missing in Greece
- Law Report: Blind person can claim allowance: Mallinson v Secretary of State for Social Security. House of Lords (Lord Templeman, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Mustill, Lord Woolf and Lord Lloyd of Berwick). 21 April 1994
- The Daily Poem: Washing on the Line
- Inquest juries 'must not attribute blame'
- Man blamed for fall that put wife in wheelchair: Couple 'very much in love' as ruling paves the way for insurance claim
- Rosemary West on joint murder charge
- Campaign to highlight asthma in workplace: Prevention is best defence, scientists say
- Community nurses fear attacks
- The Royal College of Nursing annual congress at Bournemouth: Minister 'had to wait 20 minutes for ambulance': Delay shows the need for Patient's Charter, nurses are told
- 'Sacked' Harrods chief flies to Switzerland
- Design for living transforms Crack City: Jason Bennetto describes how a crime-ridden estate is being revived by breaking down blocks of flats into more private 'family homes'
- Businessman arrested after 14-hour gun siege
- Terry Waite, the former hostage, recording an abridged version of his book, Taken on Trust, about his five-year captivity in Beirut, at a studio in Soho, central London. It is part of a series being launched in August by Hodder Headline Audiobooks, which also includes MP Edwina Currie's best-selling novel, A Parliamentary Affair
- Specialist bookseller to cut 185 jobs
- Motorway tolls will rise at peak times: MacGregor says road pricing will be used to control traffic
- Canoeist dies
- Hill Arches beginning its journey from the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, to Bretton Country Park, West Yorkshire, where 16 of the sculptor's works will go on show from 12 May.
- Quarter of under-12s 'bullied each term'
- Paper says sorry
- Pollution watchdog plans legal action: Record level of dioxins in river near Coalite plant
- Heroin worth 9m pounds seized
- Radio 1 loses more listeners: Commercial audience now rivals BBC
- The green and the rich vie for 'an ancient private kingdom': Nature groups want the 42,000-acre Glenfeshie estate taken into public ownership. Oliver Gillie reports
- Speed limiter on M2 crash coach 'was disconnected'
- Tory MPs hint at rebellion over further defence cuts
- 'Self-defence' man detained
World
- South African Elections: Election notebook
- CIA double-agent faces jail for life
- Exam plea
- Truce holds in Rwanda
- US pressure on Russia
- South African Elections: First voters' joy as dream comes true
- South African Elections: No violence but muddle at the polls
- 'Three strikes' victim rebels
- South African Elections: Time catches up on God's chosen race
- Ortega to quit
- Hata fights to save his coalition
- 261 killed in ball of fire as Airbus tries to land
- South African Elections: Landslide question
- South African Elections: Huddleston casts his vote and rejoices
- South African Elections: Flag is lowered on white minority rule
- South African Elections: ANC's Verwoerds defy family history
- South African Elections: Gandhi's heirs fearful of black majority
- South African Election: Zulus see wind of change blow its last
- South African Election: Afrikaners forced out of their laager: Richard Dowden found no one in Viljoenskroon prepared to man the new barricades and keep the blacks out of town
- South African Election: Poor greet ANC with whoops and dancing
- Body bags
- Saudi arrest
- Treason charge
- South African Election: Winnie says she still hopes to get Nelson back
- South African Election: Election Notebook
- Swedes eye Nato
- Haiti killings
- South African Election: The fear that stops De Klerk tackling terrorists: Commentary
- South African Election: The historic piece of paper
- Hata's new coalition fractures: Japan's Prime Minister faces baptism of fire as outraged Socialists pull out of government
- US to lift naval blockade of Aqaba
- Egypt police kill five
- Rare tortoises saved from Galapagos fire
- Minister dies
- Rwanda radio calls for massacres
- People: Fidel welcomes the 'worms' and their money
- Salvador victor seeks consensus with left
Media
- Media: Democracy means dial-a-leader: Political talk-shows have been given free rein on South African radio and television. David Cohen wonders whether it will last
- Media: Rock station that is finally on a roll: The wrong music policy and poor reception gave Virgin a shaky first year, reports Maggie Brown
- Media: Talk of the Trade: End of the World: Correction
- Media: Outside heir to the grey lady's chair: Peter Pringle reports on the crowning of an editor, New York-style
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 3 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 4 Archaeologists uncover nearly 5,000 cave paintings in Burgos, Mexico
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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