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Wednesday, 13 August 1997
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- The legacy of midnight, marked in Britain, Pakistan and India
- Crowds cheer `vampire' hanging
- Peace talks deadlock
- Child beauty queen may have been murdered in sado-masochist ritual
- $1bn bid for tank monopoly
- Bomber McVeigh accuses his lawyer of `screwing up'
- The Great Leader rules from beyond the grave
- The legacy of midnight, marked in Britain, Pakistan and India
- French take up Cook's arms challenge
- Iran cabinet changes signal a shift in policy
- Gypsies sell up for the good life
- Soldiers watch aloof as children walk the streets weak with hunger
Business
- Time to start practising for single currency membership
- London's Lord Mayor gets in gear for Cancer Research
- Flying Flowers issues warning of slower growth blights
- Passenger surge at BAA
- Copthorne's rates have room to grow
- Independent insurer seeks deals overseas
- War games are a serious business
- Wall Street drives London to mid-summer madness
- ITV programme budget lacking
- Attempting to square the virtuous circle
- Struggling BICC ripe for demerger
- August car sales on track for new record
- Sterling concern kept interest increase
- Granada chief to take on ITV programmes role
- Beach Hotels sold for pounds 46m
- Warburg helps SBC profits rise 84%
- Hollick rules out cable merger
- RBS on hunt after pounds 630m Midshires buy
- Inflation fears as jobless rate falls to 17-year low
- Bank report to study pounds 36bn windfall effect
- RECs warn controls will damage competition
- Deals at top legal firm hit pounds 5.9m
- Here's a water scheme that's too good to waste
- Strong sterling takes further toll of UK companies
- Sir Desmond wins stay of execution
- Premier League blocks Man Utd TV game plan
- Headline inflation at two-year high
- Guardian courted over sale of GMTV stake
- Rival supplier offers to cut water bills in half
- Holliday cashes in on Glaxo's misery
- A short-term fix to offset the impact of a volatile currency
- Alpha moves towards an international image
- Bronchitis pill results `better than expected'
- American investors feast enthusiastically on BTR
- S&N remains comparatively dull
Media
- Help! I need somebody
- How `free' is free banking?
- Find a good home for your overdraft
- ME & MY BUDGET
- I couldn't believe it. I'd been predicted BCC and come out with ABB!
- You have 10 seconds to impress me
- How to get the right result if your A-levels miss the mark
- Managing on a shoestring
- Your results: the aftermath
- Dejected? Don't give up. Clearing worked for me
- What now?
- Take your places - the rest of your life starts here
- How I got to university by harassing the history department
- LUNCHBOX
- The Temp
- New line of business
- Office politics #7
- I work for Gail Rebuck
Voices
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- Letter: Confusion over student fees policy
- Letter: Confusion over student fees policy
- Letter: Confusion over student fees policy
- Letter: The problem God can solve
- John Walsh's Column
- Letter: Heavy price of angering the US
- Letter: BBC evolution
- Letter: Vive la France
- Letter: Ungrammatical
- Rita, high priestess (special rates for Royals)
- Hawks and doves in the Lightning Club
- Letter: Boredom in the infantry
- Letter: A way out of the drugs dilemma
- 1 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 2 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
- 5 Top A&E doctors warn: 'We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore'
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