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COMEDY / Fool with your life: James Rampton reviews Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Swallows' nests and neologisms: Ian Thomson discusses Italo Calvino with Tim Parks00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Jaws drop and fists clench: Christopher Bray on a biography of Peter Sellers which uncovers the cruelty behind the Inspector Clouseau mask: The life and death of Peter Sellers - Roger Lewis: Century, pounds 2000:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: All together now00:02
Artist's latest work is a racing certainty for controversy00:02
News in Brief: N&P fee cut00:02
Obituary: Ken Mackenzie00:02
Gardening: Where am I? Birmingham?00:02
French will block BA flights in Orly sky wars00:02
British agencies launch Rwanda appeal00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Coda00:02
Murder plot defendant is shot: Trial halted after attack outside pub00:02
Church appointments00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Food & Drink: Nice things come in small packages: Our cookery writer puts her stamp of approval on a selection of small pastry parcels of European origin00:02
Handbags and glad rags in clubland comeback: Alison Veness dressed up for a night out at Stringfellows - where glamour is the buzz word and the owner oozes hospitality00:02
Mayhew prepares to clarify declaration00:02
Golf: Green adds colour to evergreen brigade: The oldest swingers in town relish the profitable new challenge as senior servicemen begin tour00:02
Food & Drink / Competition: Can you cook up a winner of a dinner?00:02
History breaches walls of Jericho: As jubilant Palestinians took over the city yesterday Sarah Helm joined the first joint Palestinian-Israeli police patrol00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Travel: Footballers play tourists, and lose . . . but they score a few goals: With the World Cup just five weeks away, Simon Calder kicks around in the host cities, and puts the boot into one of them00:02
Food & Drink: Eating a Matisse for lunch00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Tennis: Courier falls to inspired Czech: Holder evicted from his Italian Open home by wide-awake Dosedel while Sampras powers on00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Pittencrieff phones to bypass London: Extra costs kill hopes for listing in UK00:02
US urged to press for Syria accord00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Six translators in search of an author: Israeli dreams, Californian nightmares, memories of Italy, a Vietnamese warrior and death in Lisbon00:02
Fierce bidding pushes up price of Churchill's love letters00:02
Angry Serbs rally behind their martyrs: As Belgrade celebrates a historic mutiny, parallels are being drawn with its current quarrel with the West, writes Emma Daly00:02
Money Grouse: Bank assured of hold on borrower00:02
Mexico's would-be presidents strive to pass the screen test00:02
News in Brief: Clubs conference00:02
Faith and Reason: The cost of freedom: We resume our series on whether God can be held to be guilty when crimes against humanity are committed, with an article by the Right Rev Hugh Montefiore.00:02
News in Brief: TSB bond00:02
Letter: John Smith: a man who will be sorely missed00:02
News in Brief: House sales fall00:02
Golf: Dredge recovers from experiencing bottom line00:02
Tobacco Advertising: Lobby firm 'helped block smoking Bill': Government accused of receiving help from cigarette makers as MP's proposal runs out of time00:02
Obituary: John Attenborough00:02
Gardening Cuttings: What's that tree?00:02
Slough loses pounds 40m on Bredero stake: As one developer counts the cost of an untimely London venture, another gambles on the success of an innovative deal in America00:02
Contest opens for Smith's mantle: Party in mourning hopes for early leadership decision00:02
Scottish Football: Saints have to hope for helping hand00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: A house built on dead wood: Robert Winder on Cathy Porter's view of Grigorij Baklanov00:02
View from City Road: Treasury ambivalence towards the PIA00:02
Rugby League: Bradford deny bid to sign Guscott: Car starts rumour00:02
Rugby League: Wigan look well on way to the treble: Eagles grounded00:02
Letter: Treat it seriously00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Chelsfield and P&O unload US portfolio: As one developer counts the cost of an untimely London venture, another gambles on the success of an innovative deal in America00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Speciality joins market and buys centre00:02
Murder beside motorway struck fear into women: Freed man tells family 'to go back to the police for truth'. Ian MacKinnon reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rugby Union: Zimbabwe fill the gap00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Service appointments00:02
Hockey: Halls returns to test Teddington: Cup final lift for old boys00:02
Cuban wrestlers defect to US00:02
News in Brief: So farewell00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Letter: John Smith: a man who will be sorely missed00:02
Motorway rape00:02
Football / FA Cup Final: United possess the power for more glory: Free-ranging Peacock presents chief danger as champions prepare to strut their stuff in search of Double. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Comment: Labour must choose the man the Tories fear00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Rugby Union: Ireland start Australian tour00:02
THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW / Survival, revival and a pumping good success story: Ron Garrick00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Hot pots00:02
Travel Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Loophole gives knifeman freedom00:02
Unappealing aspects of rent assessment: Tenants who take action can be losers, warns Paul Gosling00:02
Travel Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
Berlusconi heals breach with president00:02
Appeal dismissed00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Master of the rolls: Bayan Northcott on Conlon Nancarrow, the maverick who crossed Bach with boogie-woogie on the player piano00:02
Self-assessed: Revenue may lift the limits: Taxpayers will have choice of paying lump sum or instalments00:02
News in Brief: Call for BT00:02
Shoplifter flees without baby00:02
Letter: A life of service to the community?00:02
Palestinians back in force for a new beginning00:02
PWS merger forces dividend cut00:02
THEATRE / Polite society: Robert Hanks reviews The Old Devils at Chichester Festival Theatre00:02
Letter: John Smith: a man who will be sorely missed00:02
Names plan more muscle for Lloyd's action group00:02
Trouble and strife for cricketer on village green00:02
Counsellors aim to quell HIV fears00:02
Football: Day of destiny for Deportivo: Phil Davison reports from Spain on an unfashionable club's quest for the title00:02
South Korean flees to the warm North00:02
Forgers 'had printed dollars 4.5m'00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: A quisling goes round in circles: Dina Rabinovitch speaks to Ina Rilke about Cees Nooteboom00:02
Cricket: England set for Gooch experience: Former captain a contender00:02
Football: Dutch referee replaced00:02
Letter: John Smith: a man who will be sorely missed00:02
Cricket Round-up: Gooch outbats Kent00:02
Girl attacked00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Spain honours Carlos Fuentes00:02
John Smith: Edinburgh prepares final farewell: Tributes continue to pour in as Labour Party faces up to task of finding his successor00:02
Soap war dilutes first-quarter profit at Unilever: Company closes plant and changes marketing mix to stem decline00:02
Travel Departures: Gomera guide00:02
Patten faces new revolt over school curriculum: Anger among English teachers and top authors threatens consensus. Ben Bradley reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Travel: Detroit: hitsville is just the pitsville00:02
Football / FA Cup Final: Chelsea prepare to cheer Clarke's forward march: Trevor Haylett on the Scottish defender who has the task of stopping Ryan Giggs00:02
Pembroke: Bank staff test the Watermark00:02
Anorexic in hospital00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Songs for Europe00:02
Treasury dashes hopes of statutory status for PIA00:02
Letter: Animal league's democracy endangered00:02
Tobacco Advertising: Safer cigarettes plan 'abandoned'00:02
Cricket: England set for Gooch experience: Former captain a contender00:02
Travel: Fear of flying00:02
A big fish out to catch votes00:02
Tobacco Advertising: Activists upset by compromise over displays: Celia Hall hears reaction to the new code that the tobacco industry has agreed with the Government00:02
Letter: A life of service to the community?00:02
Miami robbers fleece Norwegians00:02
Wills00:02
Wide range of fixed rates on offer00:02
Cricket: Walsh's war of attrition00:02
Pensioner jailed00:02
Equestrianism: Smith's early pace leaves rivals behind00:02
North Yemenis 'capture key town'00:02
Rugby Union: Tourists start off with seconds first: Rowell opts for experiment00:02
Wall Street death shows depth of drug abuse00:02
Gardening / Tool Box: The clip that's a snip00:02
Life on the line00:02
Turks seek to repair Iraq oil pipeline: Hugh Pope, in Istanbul, reports on the government's desire to restore its money-spinning dealings with Baghdad00:02
TELEVISION / Nostalgia simply ain't what it used to be00:02
Thieves use dinghy in gem raid on castle00:02
Stars go out as Hollywood stays away00:02
Neo-Nazi riot rocks German town00:02
Germans to punish denial of Holocaust00:02
News in Brief: Tax helpline00:02
The making of an analyst - in just one day: Nic Cicutti finds a firm aiming to set customers on the way to riches00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Travel Departures: French deals00:02
Travel Departures: Crime warning00:02
Football Diary: The Blues in three chords00:02
China releases five dissidents00:02
ScotLife offers mortgage protection00:02
Advertising revival boosts Telegraph00:02
GP defends ambulance ban after bingo win00:02
Stagecoach gives in to OFT demands: Subsidiary backs away from MMC inquiry00:02
Obituary: Sir Alfred Beit Bt00:02
News in Brief: AA insurance00:02
Letter: Primates in peril00:02
Football / FA Cup Final: Ferguson ready for the highest honour: Manchester United's manager can become the fourth this century to win the Double. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Cricket: Johnson does the business00:02
Food & Drink: A supermarket that is on the case: With five Masters of Wine on its buying team, Waitrose is ranging farther and wider, says Anthony Rose00:02
Police chief fined00:02
News in Brief: One-off and away00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Two people lost in a blanket: Dina Rabinovitch talks to Amos Oz's translator, Nicholas de Lange00:02
Obituary: Sir John Bremridge00:02
Mass escape00:02
Property: Rising from the ashes: Oakfield in Berkshire was burnt to the ground. After restoration it's the same only different, says Anne Spackman00:02
Racing: Funeral of Steve Wood00:02
Travel: So farewell, then00:02
Letter: Planning shambles at the heart of London00:02
Letter: Treat it seriously00:02
Navy in firing line over new in-shore shooting range: Trawler incident adds to the fears of fishing communities opposed to planned 30-mile military exercise area. Peter Dunn reports00:02
Football: All set for the roller-coaster ride to Wembley and beyond: A tense test of nerve and ability awaits the 12 contenders in the Endsleigh League promotion play-offs, which start tomorrow00:02
PM praised for 'tough' decisions: Scottish Conservative Party conference resumes00:02
News in Brief: Japanese fund00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Sick girl rescued00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW / Too tight for comfort: Jan Smaczny on City of Birmingham Touring Opera's production of Gounod's Faust00:02
Boy crushed: Correction00:02
Food & Drink: A chef now at home in his kitchen: After eight years cooking for Nico Ladenis, Paul Flynn is back in Ireland, and building on some basic strengths, says Emily Green00:02
Fed poised for sharp rates rise: Fears remain despite consumer prices showing subdued inflation00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Andro versus gyno00:02
Motoring / Road Test: From a blast of the past . . . to the comfort of a leather-lined rocket: Phil Llewellin tests the marque's current Turbo RL, a 'smooth and sophisticated supercar'00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Hanoi, on a penny an hour: Peter Guttridge asks Frank Palmos about Bao Ninh00:02
It will be Dr Bill Clinton00:02
Whessoe sells engineering arm as profits tumble00:02
Body found in wheelie-bin00:02
Market Report: Bounding copper price puts mettle into RTZ00:02
Racing: Dunwoody neck-and-neck with Maguire00:02
The Week in Review00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tart with a golden heart: Violetta and her sisters: The Lady of the Camellias - Nicholas John: Faber & Faber, pounds 8.9900:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Counting house00:02
Rwanda carnage claims 88 students00:02
News in Brief: Fleming deadline00:02
Cricket: Hayhurst shows true grit00:02
Cricket: Underdogs bite back through Fleming00:02
Portals gets approach from unnamed bidder00:02
View from City Road: French arguments up in the air00:02
View from City Road: Kingfisher has the City worried00:02
Obituary: Rob van Gennep00:02
Tapie investigated for tax fraud00:02
Obituary: Monty Modlyn00:02
Obituary: Gwyneth Lloyd00:02
Food & Drink: Who's going to fill the winning roll?: Rosie Millard asks the Sandwich Bar of the Year finalists about the secret of our favourite fast food00:02
Blandford quizzed00:02
Cricket: Gentle giant with a need for rhythm: Essex needed a bowler. They chose the highly recommended but relatively unknown Michael Kasprowicz. Glenn Moore reports00:02
The candidate has landed: Howard Stern, America's top shock-jock, is seeking the dignity of high office . . . and his campaign to be elected governor of New York is proving to be more than just a bad joke. Kevin Jackson reports00:02
View from City Road: Lasmo's document fails to convince00:02
Motor Racing: Formula One forced to act immediately: Berger and Lauda lead the initiative as authorities move to reduce power of cars and improve protection for drivers00:02
Turkish troops fight Kurdish rebels00:02
Man strangled00:02
Leading Article: Lessons from an untimely death00:02
Travel Departures: Europe air pass00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Rebel Seafield shareholders set out reasons for uprising00:02
Gardening: Haunts of ghostly gardeners: Who did what when? Anna Pavord sifts the layers of history in Walcot Hall's 300-year-old gardens, open to the public for a day00:02
Property: Software for the hard sell00:02
Clinton names judge at last00:02
INTERNATIONAL ART MARKET / Roller-coaster sale averts Impressionist collapse00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Alpine guide00:02
Savers can go up with the escalator00:02
Travel Departures: You'll be chuffed00:02
The making of an analyst - in just one day: Nic Cicutti finds a firm aiming to set customers on the way to riches00:02
News in Brief: Fail safe00:02
Country Matters: A human otter and a river of dreams00:02
Russians sanguine about Solzhenitsyn's return00:02
Motoring: From a blast of the past . . . to the comfort of a leather-lined rocket: Phil Llewellin drives a fast and furious 1930 'blower' Bentley00:02
Profile: The man most likely to succeed: Tony Blair, seriously modern shadow Home Secretary00:02
Heseltine declares himself 100% healthy00:02
Major seeks end to carping: Scottish Conservative Party conference resumes00:02
BR order slump prompts job cuts at GEC Alsthom: Pre-privatisation rail 'hiatus' costs 330 redundancies00:02
Homing in on the French: As the Channel tunnel brings us even closer to our neighbours, Caroline Merrell has some hints for househunting Britons00:02
Lasmo rejects claims of weakness: City gives cool response to emphasis on strategy in oil group's first salvo against Enterprise takeover bid00:02
Racing: Lodge has authority to export Guineas: The away team can score again at The Curragh as international competition puts on its Sunday best in Ireland, France and Japan00:02
BOOKS / The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Catcall, knucklebone, bedbug?: Margaret Sayers Peden tells Marianne Brace about Isabel Allende00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: Picture postcards from everywhere00:02
'Proud' IRA bombers jailed for 30 years: Police remain mystified why two Englishmen, who had no apparent connections with Ireland, became terrorists. Stephen Ward reports00:02
Party on wild side for Warhol museum00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Travel Departures: Late packages00:02
Sailing: Woman of the sea with rare pedigree: Dawn Riley is a reluctant trail-blazer. Stuart Alexander talks to the round the world skipper00:02
Letter: John Smith: a man who will be sorely missed00:02
Travel Departures: Pass reprieve00:02
News in Brief: Fortifying discounts00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Travel: The Things I've Seen00:02
Travel: Phrase that saves00:02
Travel: Wrong lines00:02
BOOKS / Second Thoughts: Family planning for kids: Prize-winning children's author Anne Fine looks back at Flour Babies (Puffin, pounds 3.50)00:02
Obituary: Ken Mackenzie00:02
John Smith: NEC to set timetable for electing leader00:02
Squeezing the self-employed: Andrew Bibby on moves to make it even harder to work for yourself00:02
Travel: I made a U-turn on the autoroute: Continental breakdown insurance? Who needs it? Chris Gill was quite confident he didn't - until he did00:02
William Donaldson's Week: And what of this Giggsy?00:02
Borrowers are lured away from the fix: Despite rising rates, Vivien Goldsmith says nimble buyers can still find bargains00:02
Today's Number: 500:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
FILM / It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it: Welcome to the Cannes Film Festival: the Sweet Smell of Success and The Day of the Locusts all in one. Sheila Johnston prepares for the invasion of the publicity snatchers00:02
And what's more ..00:02
Travel Departures: Mekong bridge00:02
Travel: Belgium is in fashion, and that's flat: Antwerp has been quietly turning out talented designers for years. Now it is where those in the know go, among them Alix Sharkey00:02
New plan for Bosnia00:02
BOOKS /: Harriet Paterson meets a so-called Sunday writer, the Italian novelist Antonio TabucchiPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in