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Letter: Hemispherism00:02
City: Prophet-taking00:02
Success for 'Independent on Sunday' writers00:02
Letter: The hidden costs of making CDs00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dotty scenes from a Bohemian rhapsody: 'The Little Town where Time Stood Still' - Bohumil Hrabal; trs James Naughton: Abacus, 8.99 pounds00:02
Bunhill: Stormy annual meetings00:02
French in a frenzy over philosopher of love and seduction: Steamy dialogues with a former minister have become the non-fiction bestseller. Julian Nundy reports from Paris00:02
Tax: Revenue's paper chase: Shared liability and a cascade of assessments put a strain on partnerships00:02
Cricket: Richardson is the spur00:02
Sport in Short: Table Tennis00:02
Allitt could have been stopped at the beginning00:02
Q & A: Wide trousers in China .. and hatred in the Potteries00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: JILL TWEEDIE, writer00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Sorted your pension, John?00:02
Khmer Rouge kill UN peace-keepers00:02
City File: Thorn EMI00:02
BOOK REVIEW / For love or money This welfare business: 'The Charity Business: The New Philanthropists' - Tom Lloyd: John Murray, 19.99 pounds00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
GARDENING / Planting Techniques00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Peter Webber00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A-Z of Treats: Florentines00:02
GARDENING / The Essential Garden Library00:02
'Super-councillors' to earn pounds 20,000 a year00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bombay walkie-talkie: 'Breach Candy' - Luke Jennings: Hutchinson, 14.99 pounds00:02
Ukraine muffles nuclear blast00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the Week00:02
Sport in Short: Rowing00:02
City File: Sold too hard00:02
Economics: Spenders lay down their debt burden00:02
Golf: The golden age of Huggett, Coles and Co: Seniors golf, a moneyspinner in the US, is taking off over here. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Rugby Union: Hunter blow in Lions' success00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Paperbacks00:02
Public Services Management: Financing path to the future: Berkshire means business, says Antonia Simkins00:02
Pension money missing at Budge00:02
Letter: Ethnic separation is not possible without violence00:02
The Royals: join the debate, watch the bulletins, buy the books00:02
Anniversaries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Stony sentences from life's dark book: 'Collected Poems 1945-1990' - R S Thomas: Dent, 25 pounds00:02
Mad, bad and fully qualified00:02
Some strange bedfellows00:02
National Savings to sound the alert00:02
Postcard from a Berlin building site: To escape the UK recession workers are pricing themselves into a job and out of the protection of the law, reports Steve Boggan00:02
Mortgage isn't over until it's all paid off: Sue Fieldman on a shock for borrowers who thought last payment was made00:02
Rebecca did it. Sherpas are always doing it - so why all the fuss?: Brian Cathcart profiles Everest, once the ultimate endurance test but now in danger of becoming little more than a conversation piece and a Majorca for mountaineers00:02
When the PC goes awry - try DIY00:02
Letter: MPs should resist being railroaded00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Police move in on M3 protesters00:02
The Disagreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Britain down the toilet00:02
Automation can save shops, say sub-postmasters00:02
Ferry threat has Scots steaming00:02
Profile: Cutback kid grits his teeth: Michael Portillo: The Treasury Chief Secretary is tipped for the top but a political storm over benefits may spoil the ride00:02
Unhappy borrowers find a new champion00:02
City File: Water results00:02
Football: Marseille accused00:02
Letter: Made in China00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: VIVIEN MITCHELL, secretary00:02
Maddox on the spot as it fails to match forecasts00:02
Cricket: Wily Hemmings enjoys a whale of a time00:02
Satellite deal that is proving pure stardust00:02
City: Pushy Swiss00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Opening the Royal Yacht Britannia to the public00:02
Italy's industrial barons count the wages of sin: Scandal is now breaching the wall of influence that has kept out competition, writes Michael Sheridan00:02
GARDENING / Shaping a Flower Bed00:02
Football: A Croatian ready to meet the might of Milan: Look out for Alen Boksic in this week's European Cup final. Jasper Rees reports00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: MARCELLE d'ARGY SMITH, editor00:02
How We Met: Carmen Callil and Harriet Spicer00:02
A Surfer on the Zeitgeist: This isn't exactly life on the edge: Greil Marcus is married, nearly 50, and lives in a nice big house in northern California. But he is still making something new out of writing about rock00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Just barking at the fat cats00:02
GARDENING / Soil Testing00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: The man who put the botany in Botany Bay00:02
Football: Taylor's tired troops await Wright verdict00:02
ART MARKET / Up for Sale00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Tipple that's the toast of Somerset: Kathryn McWhirter finds a cider brandy from the West Country to be the equal, perhaps the superior, of its finest Calvados cousins00:02
Unita blamed00:02
A Death in the Family: What happens when your father dies - to him, to you. An extract from 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'00:02
True horror of tall stories: Cal McCrystal has come across the warped world of Munchausen's syndrome before00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: LIZ BROWN, office administrator00:02
City File: Disney rights will animate Carlton00:02
FASHION / Antique and old lace00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Something for them to do: 'The Royal Family at War' - Theo Aronson: John Murray, 17.95 pounds00:02
Wartime anniversary fuels feud00:02
Football: Planet Venables makes a move00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Out of mind, out of sight: 'The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900' - Andrew Scull: Yale, 29.95 pounds00:02
BMA under fire over Aids film00:02
Maastricht from A to Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz: The Danes have said yes. So what does the new Europe mean to you? Andrew Marshall in Brussels explains00:02
Treasury 'betrayal' threatens liquidation for Canary Wharf: Banks furious as Government refuses to guarantee pounds 400m Jubilee Line deal00:02
RECORDS00:02
Everest heroine has mountain of cliches to climb00:02
Prisoners may be held on ships00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Imelda Macbeth turns catcalls to cheers00:02
A place in the sun loses its shine: Ian MacKinnon reports on the plight of elderly Britons who retired to Spain00:02
Owner is home free from runaway loan: A mortgage that just kept on growing has been ruled invalid. Sue Fieldman reports00:02
In Brief00:02
Football: No time to show you are fallible: Des Walker was the man England could rely upon above all others. But as two vital World Cup games approach, is that still the case? Richard Williams reports00:02
Letter: Somersaults and sex expectations00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Profile: Carpet king laughs again: Sir Philip Harris shows his powers of survival as his new company, Carpetright, heads for a pounds 70m market flotation. Nick Gilbert reports00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: Celebrity 'Older Women' ooze glamour, confidence - and 'youth'. But do other women want them as role models? asks Geraldine Bedell00:02
Drawn curtains in a silent village: The Beverly Allitt case: on Friday this baby killer will be sentenced for 26 attacks including four murders. What do they make of it all back home?00:02
Man in the Middle: Square dasher of The Oval: Alistair Brown00:02
Search fees soar despite downturn: Neasa MacErlean on the difficulties of finding out if a new house is a good buy00:02
Tax deadline on pension plans00:02
Attali asked French for plush Paris flat00:02
SCIENCE / The Dr Doolittle of Kewala Basin: A researcher in Hawaii has been talking to the dolphins with some success. The problem, says John McCrone, is getting them to talk back00:02
Cricket: Essex take upper hand00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell looks back in anger00:02
Horse acid attack00:02
Cricket: Alleyne's lone fight00:02
Signs that the banks are beginning to go straight00:02
Golf: Lane on right course00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Motor Racing: Precise Prost tames streets00:02
Leading Article: Just for the record00:02
Alzheimer's hope00:02
Irving enlists video Nazis to attack ban on Australia visit00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Racing: Tenby eases to 4-700:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Thackeray desk is a walking treasure00:02
Burton still paying former executives: Correction00:02
Church to be sued00:02
Ear today . . .00:02
Letter: System lets MI5 tap whichever phones they like00:02
VIDEO00:02
The Best and Worst: Europe slow in boosting PEP: PEP-qualifying unit trusts00:02
Letter: Huge personality00:02
DANCE / From the Netherlands, with class00:02
Bunhill: Sleeper00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Strange case of the attic prints: Several big names have been found tucked away in darkest Peckham. Who collected them is a mystery, but they knew what they were doing00:02
Sailing: America's Cup plays fair at last: Stuart Alexander on a rule change that will bring hope to challengers00:02
Nationwide investors make stand for power: Directors of the society face a challenge from members in the coming election for board seats00:02
BOOK REVIEW / 'IXI',00:02
Rambutan for the rich, beans for the broke: When big food stores move out of town, the customers left behind pay the price with their health. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Overheard00:02
Letter: The sky is beyond the limit00:02
Tomb find00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A culinary shrine: Nicholas Faith honours a family-run restaurant that has attracted French gastronomic pilgrims for three generations00:02
The undesirable side of academic affairs: Should tutors who have sex with students declare an interest, ask Harriet Martin and Jane Flanagan00:02
Football: Hail the men of Vale as Slaven steps up to claim glory for the Potteries00:02
Paul Johnson's MAY 1968: When student riots rocked France, the British journalist Paul Johnson was there. This is the report he wrote for the New Statesman 25 years ago00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: BARBARA KEALY, Joan Collins look-alike00:02
Football: When the batteries start to go flat: Are footballers justified in complaining of feeling stale after a long season? Chris Maume reports00:02
Letter: Conductive education may not be a cure, but it helps00:02
Bunhill: Europe in action00:02
EC rules on worker rights may slow contracting out00:02
Now & Then: Justice on Trial00:02
Bunhill: Hard fax00:02
THEATRE / A giant among kings00:02
Cricket: Family values of a demolition man: Glenn Moore traces the influences that combined to make Robin Smith the scourge of Australia at Edgbaston00:02
15 killed in SA township00:02
Athletics: Remorseless Murray in mint condition00:02
Sport in Short: Sumo00:02
Letter: British Rail safety regulations00:02
MOTORING / Auto Biography: The Audi 80 in 0-60 Seconds00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Your Money: Wives look to fair pensions00:02
Do you feel Absolutely Fabulous?: CLAIRE RAYNER, agony aunt00:02
Leading Article: Who feeds the wolf?00:02
FILM / Raider of the lost heart: At his best, Spielberg can sweeten a disturbed child's view into an uplifting epic. Quentin Curtis assesses the output of the director who never grew up00:02
Deaths00:02
Opinions: How do you feel when you hear the word Maastricht?00:02
Fuji venture00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Training: Corporate needs go to university: Motorola's long-term view has lifted skills development into the realm of higher education00:02
The Broader Picture: The Same Time, the Same Place00:02
US deal 'to end Bosnia war'00:02
Fairbairn taken ill00:02
Cricket: Metson's true grit00:02
Six hurt in massive IRA blast00:02
ROCK & JAZZ / That's why the lady sings the dues00:02
Lamont rules out early ERM re-entry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The importance of writing to Ernest: 'The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939' - ed R Andrew Paskauskas: Belknap/Harvard, 29.95 pounds00:02
BOOKS / Cheques in the Post: Is the signature on that letter worth only the paper it is written on? To some collectors its true value could be much greater - but who really owns it?00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
City File: Chain reaction00:02
Unit trust tries cash card to lure savers00:02
Queens of soap attract a staunch camp following: Coronation Street's strong women - all buxon, brazen, brash and blonde - have ousted the vamps of Hollywood as the hot gay icons, reports Marianne Macdonald00:02
MAY 1968: Four Students Who Remember it Well00:02
Cricket: Cairns is in control00:02
TV executive tackled over double role00:02
'I will rebuild Polly Peck': Asil Nadir talks exclusively to Hugh Pope about his plans to foil the liquidators, clear his name and fight his way back to mercantile glory00:02
BBC endures unhappy trip to the market00:02
Tennis: French window of opportunity for lesser types: Guy Hodgson on the open look of the contest to be fought at Roland Garros over the next fortnight00:02
Marketing: The customer is the product: Malcolm McDonald says many British companies suffer from an accounting mentality00:02
City File: Union Discount00:02
UN Cambodia troops killed00:02
BP sale00:02
Great build-up, pity about the punch-line00:02
From riches to rags in designer fashion: A glamour industry is losing the backing of textile firms, says Roger Tredre00:02
Rugby Union: Jenkins sets up Wales00:02
Motor Racing: Remembrance of things Prost: The professor of the grand prix is back at the front of the pack. David Tremayne in Monte Carlo reports on skill at high speed00:02
Society calls in law firm for pounds 8m case00:02
How to ruin your holidays00:02
Council corruption sets off alarm bells in Britain: Russell Hotten finds that underhand practices are also a worry at home00:02
Scandals plague battered President: Patrick Cockburn on the latest White House farce, starring Bill Clinton00:02
Charity Competition00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Wrong type of dogma on the line: Rail privatisation is steaming ahead, but will be dangerous, damaging and ultimately unworkable, argues Brian Wilson00:02
Letter: Velvets did not wrangle over cash00:02
Tennis: Sampras beaten00:02
M3 work halted00:02
CINEMA / Too many kicks, and not enough punch00:02
Sheppard deal00:02
Cricket: Lathwell poised00:02
Letter: Somersaults and sex expectations00:02
Fire case boy held00:02
Show People: Still being kept on his toes: 78. Christopher Bruce00:02
Innovation: Windows of opportunity: Developers are losing the upper hand in an office design revolution. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Wilful ignorance on Aids is a relic of Thatcherism00:02
Swan Hunter vote00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Late charge00:02
Harris' twin role at Carpetright worries City00:02
Deserters take dangerous ride on Serb underground railway: Robert Block in Belgrade on the man who has a way out for those who will not fight00:02
Last ditch try for Gatt accord: Industrial nations fear collapse of negotiations would spark trade wars and forestall world recovery00:02
Letter: Weddings that ruin lives00:02
Public spending axe is poised to hit householders00:02
Bunhill: Determined Ivy00:02
Equestrianism: Britain a jump ahead00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fruits of ancient history: 'Caesar' - Allan Massie: Hodder, 14.99 pounds00:02
Rape case remand00:02
Shares: How to bag money in the street00:02
Bunhill: Top cops join the trend to privatise00:02
Bubbly war leads to bargains galore00:02
Cricket: Somerset the entertainers00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Strawberry Fare00:02
Letter: Conductive education may not be a cure, but it helps00:02
TELEVISION / I've started, and you're finished00:02
Three top police informers killed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / News company, three's a crowd: 'Paper Dreams' - Stephen Glover: Cape, 17.99 pounds00:02
BP is back with a rush: Since David Simon took over, the oil giant has recovered with dramatic speed. Has he worked a miracle? David Bowen looks at the record00:02
City: Sir Owen leads, but will others follow?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Knocking on a moonlit door: 'Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare' - Theresa Whistler: Duckworth, 25 pounds00:02
Destiny imposes its own apartheid on twin brothers of the white tribe: They are alike in every way except how they see the Afrikaners' future: one is a messiah of the right, the other backs the ANC. Karl Maier finds out whyPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in