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Hi-Tec chairman denies rumours as directors quit: Sports shoemaker expects an upturn after pounds 3m losses, writes Nick Gilbert00:02
Holiday hitches with annual cover00:02
Last rites for the worst-verse prizes00:02
Why I'm relieved I was a spoilsport mother00:02
All G-one: the sofas of the Sixties: Jonathan Glancey remembers G-Plan and the art of colour supplement living00:02
Slump in morale alarms Barclays00:02
THEATRE / The way he tells them: Tom Stoppard's first stage play for five years opens next week. The story so far is one of unusual success, unmatched wit and underrated wisdom. But what of the uncertainty that really makes him tick?00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
Letter: Howling wolves00:02
INTERVIEW / Prepare to meet thy future: Big books about the 21st century are supposed to make your flesh creep. But Paul Kennedy argues that the end of the world is not, quite, nigh00:02
FOOD & DRINK / The high priest of pasta: For chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, pasta is more than a food. It is a way of life, the cornerstone of Latin civilisation. Michael Bateman unravels his philosophy00:02
Football: Hoddle digs in for point00:02
Football: Deane joins injury list00:02
Sport in Short: Sumo00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes exploits the gap00:02
City File: Adding Coventry aerospace operation00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A home on the rolling deep: Ocean Steamers - John Adams: New Cavendish, pounds 3500:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall: Fontana, pounds 9.9900:02
News in Brief: Gas heater deaths00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Hollywood bosses bow to the power of the rising yen: Phil Reeves in Los Angeles on how a film's villain ceased to be Japanese00:02
Scab] Scab] the pickets scream: The era of bitter disputes is back. Outside the high metal fence at Timex's00:02
FASHION / The trying on game00:02
Business and City in Brief: Chinese heat00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The feuding fiefdom of the left: Changing Faces: A History of The Guardian, 1956-88 - Geoffrey Taylor: 4th Estate, pounds 2000:02
City File: Verge of making a large acquisition00:02
Your Money: Hung up on sale of BT00:02
Right time to go it alone00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings: Asta's Book - Barbara Vine: Viking, pounds 15.9900:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Rugby League: Wigan make it six on the trot00:02
Letter: A woman's right to boost employment00:02
Football Round-Up: Sinclair strike sinks Stoke00:02
Bunhill: A prince among men not his own00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
Letter: Victors in war pay a high price00:02
City: Rail link still waiting for tunnel vision00:02
Letter: A woman's right to boost employment00:02
TELEVISION / Womanly airs and disgraces00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ape expectations: The Imaginary Monkey - Sean French: Granta Books, pounds 12.9900:02
Letter: For pity's sake00:02
Energy: Power firms feel wind of change: Britain is finally taking advantage of an inexhaustible natural resource. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Controversy grows as Black turns on critics00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Payout to Jean Walker: George Walker's wife receives pounds 340,000 compensation after resigning as director00:02
Value added on the eleventh floor: Valerie Strachan's role as head of Customs & Excise calls for delicate management. Sarah Hegarty talked to her00:02
Revived: The big mac of the Fifties: Hester Matthewman and Gabrielle Morris on the return of the plucky Pakamac00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
Safe under thatch: A thatched roof need not load your premium, writes Mary Wilson00:02
VIDEO / 8 1/2 (15; Connoisseur)00:02
BOOKREVIEW / Mad Major steals the scene: Utopia and other places - Richard Eyre: Bloomsbury, pounds 16.9900:02
Why on earth was I there?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Right to the funny-bone The quick and the dead: 85 Poems - Gavin Ewart: Hutchinson, pounds 7.9900:02
'Le grand cock-up' that led to British Rail's missing link: Christian Wolmar reports on the trail of blunders, confusion and changes of mind that have blighted plans for a high-speed rail route to the Channel Tunnel00:02
City File: Pearson gloom00:02
Spring Ram leads its flock astray: The City showed blind faith in an incredible success story. Then it all fell apart. Robert Cole reports00:02
Football: On the move00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Art de pays that's a shade ordinaire: Provincial France has invaded the National Gallery. With mixed results00:02
Serbs bar relief to siege town00:02
Bunhill: What happened to Victor Lownes?00:02
News in Brief: 'Waiters' found desserted00:02
Letter: Don't you love being in control?00:02
THEATRE / Barker's up for assault again: The Europeans - Greenwich; Blood Wedding - Lyric Hammersmith; Don't Fool With Love - Queen's Hall Arts Centre00:02
VIDEO / 1492: Conquest of Paradise (15; Guild)00:02
You can't pick him, surely?: Britain's sports selectors are having a more than usually rough ride. Guy Hodgson on the choosing game00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Accidental tourist: Natural opium: Travelling Tales - Diane Johnson: Chatto, pounds 10.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Humbug in the tuckshop: Delusions of grandeur: A Headmaster's Life 1966-86 - John Rae: HarperCollins, pounds 16.9900:02
Football: Take two for Walsh00:02
ROCK / Still in the vanguard: Suede00:02
DANCE / Introducing Sissi: crazy name, crazy Empress: Rudra Bejart Lausanne - Sadler's Wells00:02
To Hell and back (by way of the office): Your journey to work may be causing you more stress than the job itself, says Caroline McGhie00:02
Storm over sheltered flats: Pensioners are complaining about high service charges. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
MOTORING / Withnail, the cat from Coventry and I: Me & My Motor: Richard E Grant made his screen name in a Mark 2 Jag; now he has his own XJS. Matthew Gwyther goes for a gentle spin00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
'Brainy Doris Day' to run Sotheby's00:02
My Biggest Mistake: David James00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: A Case of Curiosities - Allen Kurzweil: Penguin, pounds 5.9900:02
Profile: Leader fights on at Lucas: Sir Anthony Gill has endured a tough year, but his engineering flair and decentralising instinct may yet prevail. David Bowen and Terence Wilkinson report00:02
Hotels still have room: Shares in the sector may see early gains from any recovery, writes Derek Pain00:02
Letter: Naga people are Christian00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Winner's police memorial has officers cringing (CORRECTED)00:02
Athletics: Skah searching for a scrap: Mike Rowbottom reports from Spain on today's world cross-country championships00:02
Russia on the Brink: The man who would be king of a better kind of Utopia: Imre Karacs in Moscow profiles Alexander Rutskoi, waverer on the threshold of power00:02
Letter: BBC's reputation for truth deserves a better guardian00:02
Drugs test Clinton's mettle00:02
Venture firms call for wider CGT relief00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Virgin set for another transatlantic route00:02
Briefly: US to ease up un Saddam00:02
Motor Racing: Senna geared for the fight00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
VIDEO / La Belle Noiseuse (15; Artificial Eye)00:02
Briefly: Drinking up00:02
Bunhill: Pie in the sky flies into trouble00:02
News in Brief: Bookshop attacked00:02
Racing: Zeta's Lad can land lottery: Paul Hayward makes his National selections00:02
THE BROADER PICTURE / A short life in the fast lane00:02
Glaxo jets to top of high-flyers' league00:02
Football: A tall order even for the complete footballer: Five former internationals talk to Jasper Rees about the elusive art of goalscoring00:02
City File: LWT slipping00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Taking liberties with the J-word: The spirit of the age: An Account of Our Times - David Selbourne: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 2000:02
Rugby Union: Davies applies the kick-start00:02
Leading Article: Rule by quango00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Rowing: Light blues' clear water revival: Cambridge at last tasted victory in the University Boat Race yesterday. Richard Williams reports00:02
VIDEO / A League of Their Own (PG; 20/20)00:02
BOOKS / The arc of affection: The correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand, two lions of French literature, has been called 'perhaps the finest of all time'00:02
Bunhill: Bloomer00:02
Making the most of manufacturing00:02
VIDEO / Zero de Conduite (PG; Artificial Eye)00:02
ART / Gloomy adventures of a stick-in-the-mud: Correction00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Love in the Time of Victoria - Francoise Barret-Ducrocq, trs John Howe: Penguin, pounds 6.9900:02
Bupa incentives for low claimers00:02
Cambridge boat enjoys the creatine effect00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Cornish oyster dredgers face their final catch00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Letter: No soap please, we're novelists00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Media-wallah who knows too much00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Grace and PR favours00:02
Racing: High Premium proves costly for the punters: Paul Hayward reports from Doncaster on a long-awaited win in the Lincoln Handicap00:02
Briefly: Hangings in Japan00:02
Ready to put the boot in: The boardroom split at shoemaker C&J Clark threatens to break out into open warfare. Russell Hotten reports00:02
Rugby Union: Lions' weakness is already an open secret00:02
Briefly: Seitz confirmed00:02
Football: Taylor's striker struggle: Norman Fox finds England's attack in the post-Lineker period is a cause for concern00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Angels beneath a stuffed flying turtle: American Ghosts & Old World Wonders - Angela Carter: Chatto, pounds 13.9900:02
Meeting Mrs T00:02
Business and City in Brief: Savings launch00:02
Business and City in Brief: Italian deficit00:02
New vintage00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: 27 copies short00:02
Last chance to find a tax shelter: Pension contributions are one way that you can still beat the Inland Revenue's deadline. Christine Stopp reports00:02
Employment: Workers face low blow in the war over wages: Scrapping wages councils will hurt the weakest, says Ian Hunter00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Mischief - Chris Wilson: Flamingo, pounds 4.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Menace on main street: The strange Kees to success: William Scammell on some new and revisited reputations00:02
News in Brief: Bonds00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
City File: Row coming to a head00:02
HEALTH / Common Procedure: Biopsy00:02
News in Brief: Record art sale00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Never too hot to handle: Christopher West takes a tour around the wilder shores of armchair travel00:02
Economics: England stuck at the back of the class00:02
Executives duck dollars 1bn of new tax: Clinton supporters join scramble to cash in share options before D-Day00:02
Fishing Lines: Hooked for life00:02
Ruffled Yeltsin tries to win time00:02
Business and City in Brief: Delayed float00:02
Watchdogs alerted to fears over VAT on bills: Addition of tax threatens to compound errors in estimated charges00:02
Destinies collide on the Nile: Robert Fisk takes a train journey to the Valley of the Kings where the signposts of Islamic resurgence mark the end of Egypt's tourist trail00:02
Rugby Union Round-up: Seventh fifty takes Llanelli back to the top00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Aching-Bones refuses to be laid to rest00:02
Destinies collide on the Nile: Robert Fisk takes a train journey to the Valley of the Kings where the signposts of Islamic resurgence mark the end of Egypt's tourist trail00:02
Briefly: Andreotti shock00:02
Letter: Hong Kong was no accident00:02
Business and City in Brief: EFM Dragon wins Drayton00:02
Prudential demands changes at Spring Ram00:02
Business and City in Brief: Brierley win00:02
Q&A: A pigeon's part in the downfall of Dujon . . . and the crossbar that pole-axed Keelan00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hoch analysed: Cut With the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch - Maud Lavin: Yale, pounds 27.5000:02
PROPERTY / For sale: old house with a bit of garden: Jonathan Sale on a new Act to curb agents' hyperbole00:02
The angry south, the weary north: Irish people voice their feelings on the horrors of the IRA's Warrington bombs and the loyalist shootings of Catholics00:02
European units regaining ground00:02
Summer time arrives00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Flotation in view as Clark rebels act to block bidder00:02
How We Met: David Sweetman and Franco Zeffirelli00:02
ART MARKET / War Memorials: Inspired by the Cubists and Futurists, C R W Nevinson painted battlefield scenes of haunting psychological power. One is now up for sale00:02
Briefly: Indian hijacking00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: A year since Punch died00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: False Gods - Louis Auchincloss: Constable, pounds 14.9900:02
ROCK / Merry Easter, Mr Bowie,you're back on form: David Bowie's new album is his best in donkey's years, they say. But they're not sure they want you to hear it. Ben Thompson got hold of a copy00:02
ARTS / Show People: Long player gets another spin: 70. Richard Skinner00:02
Rugby Union: Underwood a lonely spark00:02
RECORDS / Rock: Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol, LP/CD/ tape)00:02
Political Commentary: Labour and that old-time religion00:02
Football: Phillips keeps Barnet in the battle00:02
A rare event on the Thames: Oxford didn't win, so Cambridge must have done then00:02
'Patients raped' at mental hospital00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: Walking into the River - Lorian Hemingway: Simon & Schuster, pounds 14.9900:02
News in Brief: Fire started by dog00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Reggae trinity ascend to the heights of a pop chart heaven00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
RADIO / Things Chris said to mike00:02
News in Brief: March for Daf jobs00:02
Six-year hell of teacher beaten up by a pupil: Teachers face more than physical threats in the classroom. John Arlidge reports00:02
Letter: Churchill knew about mustard gas00:02
A hatred that will keep Ulster's terror machine running smoothly: David McKittrick finds that in its northern ghettos the IRA retains a fanatical support00:02
Football: Final act lacks goodwill00:02
Football: Pompey on up and up00:02
Your Oscar is no big deal: Cynthia Heimel explains why Americans don't give a damn about Emma Thompson00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Focus, finesse, now seduction: Pelleas et Melisande - Debussy; Israel in Egypt - Handel; Passion and Resurrection - Jonathan Harvey00:02
SCIENCE / How the West is attacking Russia: As tropical rainforests disappear, logging companies move into the north. Fred Pearce on a new ecological threat00:02
Argentine army probes evidence over shooting00:02
Bunhill: A prince among men not his own00:02
TRAVEL / Join the chateauxing classes: Aristos in western France have begun doing B & B. Peter Guttridge spends some posh nights en famille00:02
Inventor's 'clean air' exhaust rejected00:02
RECORDS / The IoS Playlist: The five best records of the moment00:02
Then & Now: Imperial Mint00:02
Golf: Pack closes in on Price00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Heseltine faces renewed revolt over pit closures00:02
City File: Wedgwood to shake off the blues00:02
News in Brief: Crash baby critical00:02
World health chief faces fraud inquiry: Correction00:02
Mitterrand in the firing line00:02
Everything you wanted to know about schmucks: Peter Pringle in New York watches Woody Allen act out his most tragic role00:02
Bunhill: Opening address00:02
Action on grants ring00:02
Cricket: West Indies lose spark00:02
Leading Article: The patriot shame00:02
Letter: BBC's reputation for truth deserves a better guardian00:02
Opinions: Should condoms be given out in schools?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: The Sayings of W B Yeats, ed Joseph Spence: Duckworth, pounds 4.9500:02
News in Brief: Boy, 9, assaulted00:02
Cricket: Crowe sets Kiwis flying00:02
Gunmen net fortune in tax discs from train00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A little more than kin: The Astors - Derek Wilson: Weidenfeld, pounds 2000:02
TRAVEL / America on 25 cents a day: Memorable Journeys: Malcolm Bradbury: From London to New York and Toronto00:02
FILM / Under a sun that never sets: Indochine (12); Wittgenstein (12); Distinguished Gentleman (15); Forever Young (PG)00:02
Russia on the Brink: Ghostly patriot who haunts Boris Yeltsin: Andrew Higgins in Moscow reports on signs that history could repeat itself00:02
Briefly: Algeria breaks links with Iran00:02
CHILDREN / A parent, in sickness and in health: Is understanding your child's illness the best way to protect it? Carmel Fitzsimons on challenging medical opinion00:02
City: The Black stuff00:02
RECORDS / Blues: Bukka White - Baton Rouge Mosby Street (Blues Beacon, CD only)00:02
King Commute of the Isle of Wight00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew profits as Northampton lose their way00:02
Fishing for fraternity in a sea of sadism00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Inside this building the officials are deciding what's best for Africa: Kenya has refused the World Bank's economic medicine. Richard Dowden explains why the Third World thinks the prescription is poisonous00:02
TRAVEL / Join the St Petersburg suburbanites: Tony Perrottet rents a flat from a Russian doctor00:02
Letter: Exoticism is the rich person's racism00:02
Sport in Short: Badminton00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Business and City in Brief: Electric car00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Lamont looks to trim spending00:02
Leading archaeologist says Old Testament stories are fiction