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Thursday, 8 May 1997
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- Quebec plan to break away stuns Canada
- Abuse claims heap pressure on Banana
- `Megan's law' murder puts public on trial
- Would you buy a lighter from the Great Helmsman?
- Yeltsin tries doublethink on Nato deckys
- Dictator's acolytes deny he is quitting
- Kok serves Blair his hot potatoes
- Maids of honour caught off their guard
- Pasqua's eloquent gestures say it all for Balladur
- Clinton visit to Mexico raises wave of protest
- Taste of English beer to pull the Peking crowds
- Kabila: saint or dictator? Zaire awaits its fate
- Mobutu camp claim dictator will be back
- Swiss savaged in US report on Nazi gold
- Kasparov gets the blues in half-time draw
- Paris and Bonn hail Britain as equal partner
- FBI launches inquiry into Israeli mole
Business
- Bed maker profits rise and shine
- Kwik Save feeling heat in kitchen as store sales crumble
- Bre-X president alleges fraud
- Don't miss out on Oxford rights issue
- High street spree gathers pace
- Pension funds defend a skewed playing field
- Body Shop plans ad blitz to lift UK sales
- Sticking with ex-mutual benefits smarter investors
- Labour acts quickly to change PFI review rules
- Is Beckett trapped by a presidential precedent?
- pounds 1.5bn wiped off BTR shares after warning
- ERM rumour trips up sterling
- NAPF warns Brown over tax credits
- Minister plugs in to power row
- Lonrho sugar sale triggers fall in rand
- Kwik Save to spend pounds 18m on consultants
- BT to get early release from bar on broadcast TV
- CWC set to cut 500 jobs in initial overhaul
- Telewest delays joint venture with CWC
- Hollick invests pounds 120m in bid for digital terrestrial licence
- Noel Edmonds signs deal with Toad
- BCCI fraudster jailed for record 14 years and fined pounds 3m
- BG in renewed effort to delay gas competition
- BSkyB unveils BT interactive TV link-up
- GEC set to combine Marconi with Thomson-CSF
- Europhile BP chief moves to key Blair job
- Home-shoppers soon able to cast their Net wide
- Buoyant sterling erodes industry growth
- Rewards in sight at Sainsbury
- pounds 5bn Unilever deal marks new focus at ICI
- Dalgety shares in dog house after profits warning
- Willis Corroon hit by strong pound
- Sainsbury points to signs of recovery
- Laura Ashley boss earns pounds 1m
- Jacques Vert shares crash
- With one bound, ICI breaks free of its old image
- RBS holds back from buying building society
- Review prompts slump in Tate & Lyle results
- Cable & Wireless expected to clinch deal with China
- Today's results, with Chinese titbits or cream cheese
- Expect something dramatic in Brown's first Budget
- HTV plea for licence timetable
People
- Obituary: Finn Hoffding
- Obituary: Hugh Faulkner
- Obituary: Sir Michael Shersby
- Obituary: Prince Napoleon
- Law Report: Mutual wills are not binding without clear agreement
- Obituary: Murray Kempton
- Obituary: Abe Feder
- Law Report: Home Secretary could return asylum seeker to France
- Obituary: Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
- Obituary: Geoffrey Midgley
- Obituary: Henry Hyde
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Letter: The people decide how to elect MPs
- Letter: Lawbreakers on the roads
- Letter: Lawbreakers on the roads
- Letter: The people decide how to elect MPs
- Letter: Where is the freedom we voted for?
- Letter: Where is the freedom we voted for?
- Letter: The people decide how to elect MPs
- Leading Article: A lot of promise, Mr Blair, but how to deliver?
- The well of cynicism runs dry
- Welcome to `Blair's Babes' but the struggle goes on
- What little doctors need to learn
- Letter: Where is the freedom we voted for?
- Letter: Lawbreakers on the roads
- Letter: American ways to fund universities
- Letter: Abortion can be a loving solution
- Letter: PR: some pointers for the puzzled
- Letter: PR: some pointers for the puzzled
- Letter: Feeling good
- Letter: PR: some pointers for the puzzled
- Letter: PR: some pointers for the puzzled
- Letter: Self's philosophy
- Letter: Shaking with insincerity
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 4 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 5 Why Arsène Wenger must spend to put icing on the cake and buy likes of Stevan Jovetic for Arsenal
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