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Tuesday, 31 March 1998
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- BMW pledges thousands of jobs for Rolls
- Pentland defends pounds 1m payoff to directors
- Bacardi wins Dewar's in pounds 1.15bn deal
- Export plea for rates freeze as pound hits 10-year high
- Chinese premier's visit awakens bitter memories
- Buy-back bonanza for three firms' investors
- Decaux trumps More Group bid
- Government sells Mersey Docks stake for pounds 70m
- Mattel offers pounds 46m to put Polly in its pocket
- ICI pays pounds 560m for US speciality chemicals unit
- Milk float delivers a 25% share price gain for Express Dairies
- The Investment Column: Burmah keeps its foot down
- Market Report: Next bounces back as directors buy up shares
- Outlook: Bavarians take another drive down nostalgia lane
- The Investment Column: Premier price for Man Utd
- The Investment Column: Newsquest profits rise
- UBS `was warned over controls'
- HSBC flies to Canary
- MFI chief moves
- How free trade in services could boost the world economy
- Industrial claims up
- Market Report: Taking Stock
- Market Report: The future looks red for Orange buyer
- Lucky Jim nets pounds 8.7m from EMI options
- CBI appeals to Bank as pound hits new high
- Strength of sterling gives the whisky business a headache
- Outlook: Exporters need to lie back and think of England
- OFT does U-turn as Coral deal is referred
- Swift plans to hand rail routes to rivals
- Drug tie-up boosts biotech group
- GUS looks the winner in Metromail battle
- Computacenter confirms flotation as profits rise
- LucasVarity to supply GM
- `Euro-regulator' idea panned
- The Investment Column: Highland spirits low
- The Investment Column: Hepworth targets costs
- RAP's chief executive quits
- UK bus operator wins pounds 55m franchise
- The Investment Column: Eastern plans at Monument
- New name for 7-11 stores
- Rover makes first profit since takeover
- Bank of England to hand back pounds 700m
- Outlook: How will this rail rivalry work?
- CIA looks to US as talks with advertising giant end
- GWR broadcasts warning
- Former Pru chief receives pounds 1.3m
- Outlook: German bidders slug it out
- Horlick unit trust takes off slowly
- Volkswagen trumps BMW's pounds 340m bid for Rolls-Royce
- College girls' Fantasy Budget was close to the real thing
Obituaries
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Kate Cruise O'Brien
- Obituary: Jim Poole
- Law Report: Use of words `farm fluid' in name was passing off
- Obituary: Elias Freij
- Obituary: Ferdinand Porsche
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Law Report: 1 April 1998: Doctor owed no duty of care to job applicant
- Obituary: Betsey Whitney
- Obituary: Ian Fleming-Williams
- Obituary: Catherine Sauvage
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Letter: Bug foreseen
- On The House Of Lords: How the Tories could outflank Labour
- Leading Article: Seeing the light
- Letter: Bug foreseen
- Letter: Hereditary peers
- Letter: A Tory's vision
- Letter: Why read?
- Caught on video: the strange case of the buttercup massacre
- Britain's new film censor: Why I read, watched, listened - and then passed Lolita for cinemas
- Letter: Cost of disability
- Letter: Arts Council row
- Letter: Tight money
- Letter: National games
- On saving the greenbelt: John Prescott, saviour of rural England? Don't laugh
- Leading Article: Back to the roots of Rolls-Royce
- Letter: Who pays the Bug bill?
- Letter: Poplar planning
- Letter: We need natural food
- Leading Article: Role for Blair in the Middle East
- Leading Article: A great health project - despite the spin
- Letter: Battle for green power
- On the rise and rise of sterling: When a high pound is inevitable, rela x and enjoy
- On the PM's spokesman: Alastair Campbell - Blair's virtuous thug and no w a key Tory target
- Letter: Who pays the Bug bill?
- Letter: Promoting adoption
- Letter: ITC regulations
- Things that go crash in the night of 31 December 1999
- Letter: Home for historic library
- Letter: Poplar planning
- Letter: We need natural food
- The rights of smokers: I've seen the future and it makes me smoke
- 1 The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey pays more income tax than big cities of the North
- 2 Gareth Bale agrees new £130,000-a-week Tottenham contract - but can leave next season for £50m
- 3 'Revenge porn' is no longer a niche activity which victimises only celebrities - the law must intervene
- 4 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 5 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
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