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Letter: British Coal's stranglehold on pits00:02
MUSIC / Young man's fancy: Bayan Northcott re-examines the impact of Johannes Brahms in the light of an upcoming South Bank series of his early music00:02
Alvis lays off 230 at Coventry site00:02
Letter: British Coal's stranglehold on pits00:02
Retail Therapy: Living art00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Skating00:02
Offering a new way with wills00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Subject of school fees requires careful study: Draw-down facilities are a sensible alternative to loans or a doubled mortgage00:02
Pop's long-player records social change: The music charts are 40 years old next month. David Lister examines their history and hears the argument that they have become devalued00:02
Allain steps down from job in Cambridge00:02
Obituary: William Douglas-Home00:02
Thames Water gives sailing club reprieve00:02
EC puts pressure on France to give way on Gatt00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Scalpers from Sheffield: 'Fathers and Crows' - William T Vollmann: Andre Deutsch, 17.99 pounds00:02
Failure of private services may hit British Rail sell-off00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Excuse me, do I come here often?: It's good, and it's cheap. But Granita didn't make a great impression on Emily Green because, she says, it's lacking in character00:02
THEATRE / Broom for improvement: Paul Taylor reviews the 'operamusical' Which Witch at the Piccadilly Theatre00:02
Letter: Time warp muddles cross-Channel vibes00:02
Racing: Armiger to bolster Abdullah hand: Richard Edmondson on a prospective addition to a winning team who faces his sternest test at Doncaster this afternoon00:02
English Heritage to shed over 100 sites00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Deal signed for trams network00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
US Presidential Elections: Despondent Bush camp prepares for defeat00:02
Quotes of the Week: Sport00:02
Tebbit ready to sacrifice Major on Maastricht00:02
Akihito deplores Japanese atrocities: China remembers the horrors of invasion, but time heals much, writes Raymond Whitaker in Peking00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
Heseltine accuses Delors over trade deadlock00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: As quick as a Porsche at half the price: Roger Bell takes a spin in the 220 Turbo, Rover's class-beating performance coupe00:02
Letter: Confidence must be given boost : A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Bank link-up trims cost00:02
Letter: Don't do the dirty on orimulsion00:02
Doctors jailed in HIV-blood trial00:02
Power and perils face Lebanon's richest PM00:02
Rugby Union: Wasps press for Andrew's early return00:02
Wines of the Week00:02
Profile: Onward with the duke of hazard: Marmaduke Hussey, old man of the Beeb00:02
Birthdays00:02
Dearest Fidel, lots of love from Guernsey: When the Cuban missile crisis threatened, Simon Calder's family fled to the Channel Islands00:02
Tory MPs seek help for losing Lloyd's investors00:02
Sale of miniature horses00:02
Cricket: Kiwis try to placate Pakistan00:02
'School run' puts children at risk00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Row over dam goes to court00:02
Mince the meat, candy the peel: We should be as adventurous in cooking for Christmas as we are for the rest of the year, says Joanna Blythman00:02
Football: Team News00:02
HIV boy settles00:02
Three pits stop production00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Love and greed at the dead centre of town: Euan Cameron on the eloquent new novel by Gunter Grass. 'The Call of the Toad' - Gunter Grass; Tr. Ralph Manheim: Secker & Warburg, 14.99 pounds00:02
Return of London trams takes step closer00:02
Him? No use for his face here00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Selection of judges 'farcical'00:02
Marketors' Company00:02
Ulster alert00:02
Tennis: Graf rolls on confidently00:02
NHL borrowers get relief at last00:02
Bottomley backs hospitals shake-up: The Government believes the capital's health services are in danger of becoming locked into a 'spiral of decline'00:02
Football: Beasant loaned to Grimsby00:02
New bond offers to put icing on cake00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Trying on terrorist chic for size: 'Leviathan' - Paul Auster: Faber, 14.99 pounds00:02
Departures: Vienna deal00:02
Departures: A ferry tale00:02
The cap fits with TSB00:02
Letter: Misleading label00:02
Country Matters: Slugging it out over a gutting job00:02
View from Tokyo: Brokers will have to bite bullet00:02
Banks agree to fund Tube line to Docklands00:02
Appeals00:02
Choosing your own pension AVCs (CORRECTED)00:02
Automotive half-year profits soar00:02
Turks attack Kurds in Iraq00:02
Any colour you like, so long as it's black: Anna McKane meets gardeners who are concentrating on the darker side of plant life00:02
Letter: British Coal's stranglehold on pits00:02
Franc 'should become ERM anchor'00:02
Rugby League / World Cup Final: Betts bears the burden of his gifts: Great Britain could be enjoying too much of a good thing. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
Cool reception for credit counselling pilot scheme00:02
Former BR head 'knew nothing of bribe claims'00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Scottish Football: Rangers ready to repel northern invaders00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Dan-Air forced down with image-fatigue: Michael Harrison charts the course of the 'cheap and cheerful' carrier that never managed to be taken completely seriously00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Lloyd's members 'treated unfairly' (CORRECTED)00:02
Leading Article: The pathologist's diagnosis00:02
MUSIC / Master Barber: Anthony Payne on the RPO at the Festival Hall00:02
Bill clamps down on money laundering00:02
A cut above the breast00:02
OPERA / Bit between the teeth: The vampire is back with a vengeance at the cinema, and is making a return after 164 years to the opera. Mark Pappenheim reports on two new versions of Marschner's Der Vampyr00:02
When doing it by the book pays off for a landlord00:02
Recipe: Sugared and spiced00:02
From Gin Lane to gin & tonic: Jonathan Glancey sees elegance return to the once notorious Seven Dials in Covent Garden00:02
Business and City in brief00:02
Racing: Easy Street00:02
Motoring: Basking in the Shadow's glow: Walnut, leather, silky silence: James Ruppert is sorely tempted by a pounds 5,000 Rolls-Royce00:02
MUSIC / Singcircle - St Giles Cripplegate, EC200:02
Market Report: Hong Kong doubts slow the advance00:02
Tajik curfew00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Sting claims pounds 6m fraud00:02
From a Prodigal Son to a Black Sheep: Paul Theakston is brewing again in Masham. Michael Jackson hears what the vicar thinks of the new beer00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Gastropod00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Morality for goodness' sake: Ray Monk applauds the audacious, optimistic and refreshing new philosophical adventure by Iris Murdoch. 'Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals' - Iris Murdoch: Chatto & Windus, 20 pounds00:02
In Vegas, dollars 40 down and about to die : Theme hotels, English Sex, blackjack, slot machines and the Grand Canyon . . . Simon Garfield, out of pocket and airsick, counts his losses00:02
Auctions: Lalique looks at its glass bottom00:02
Obituary: Cleavon Little00:02
Ernst pays pounds 4.6m in Walker case (CORRECTED)00:02
Touche threatens BCCI action00:02
Up the creek with the Eagles00:02
Next week in Parliament00:02
Placing puts pounds 102m tag on Dorling00:02
Property: Is the smart money spent on the rent?00:02
SECOND THOUGHTS / Sculptors who carve the clouds: J G Ballard on the vision of the future that prompted 'Vermilion Sands' (Orion pounds 5.99)00:02
Bank talks as Crown is suspended00:02
Baseball: Morris endures a change of fortune00:02
Appointments00:02
PC banned from driving00:02
When all the fashion world's backstage: Roger Tredre goes behind the scenes at the fashion shows in Paris, where the couture sometimes plays second fiddle to the gossip and the feuds00:02
Metro mystery00:02
Chamonix: best resort for adventurous skiing00:02
Japan's ruling elite in disarray00:02
Letter: Who can? Who will?: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Bond rates falling00:02
Racing: Japanese claim Rodrigo for stud00:02
Service appointments00:02
Letter: Sounds familiar . . .: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Rugby League: Reilly relies on half-back blend00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Saturday Night: Drunk again, time for a curry00:02
Retail Therapy: Hallowe'en is back00:02
Racecourse crash00:02
Christian businessmen are jailed for tax fraud00:02
Wills00:02
Departures: Latin Christmas00:02
US Presidential Elections: Vietnam to give US access to war files00:02
Snooker: Doherty does for Davis00:02
Property: This is the house that Jeff built: In the first of a series on the way people choose to live, Arabella Warner talks to a couple who built one family home, and are planning another00:02
Better deal for bikers00:02
View from Tokyo: Liable to delay00:02
Journalists jailed for libel00:02
Channel Ports: Le weekend? Les enfants . . . Le Touquet]: Anne Spackman finds a huge beach, a forest, good food and great shopping just a few hours from Frinton00:02
Polio vaccine trials are ruled out as origin of Aids00:02
Letter: Transport need not mean roads: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Dearest Fidel, lots of love from Guernsey: When the Cuban missile crisis threatened, Simon Calder's family fled to the Channel Islands00:02
Pep investors warned over high-yield trusts00:02
When legal cover is the judge00:02
Football: Grobbelaar gives Souness a problem: Derek Hodgson on the weekend football programme00:02
Column Eight: Robbers in the red00:02
How was it for you?00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Cheaper health plan00:02
Letter: Hints from the reconstruction of eastern Germany: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Write your way round the world00:02
Letter: Transport need not mean roads: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Hanson hits out at RHM break-up plan00:02
Clarke branded 'complacent' on crime00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
London University to found college in Kuala Lumpur : As colleges seek independence, the university proclaims its vitality. Donald MacLeod reports00:02
Money Grouse: Beware the age pitfall in protection policies00:02
London's police set for change under new chief: Paul Condon has been appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Heather Mills examines the implications for Scotland Yard and the capital00:02
Court Circular00:02
Hockey: England bring in new faces00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Hong Kong ultimatum00:02
Letter: Foolish leaders: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Unita surrounds capital00:02
Judo: Howey's fresh challenge00:02
Motor Racing: Williams steps up efforts to re-sign Mansell00:02
Haines quits board of MGN : Correction00:02
Golf: Feherty finds flash of form00:02
US Presidential Elections: Clinton favours domestic team in his image : John Lichfield in Washington considers who might get the top jobs in the event of a Democratic victory00:02
ROCK / 'Hell, I know how. Question is, when?': LaVern Baker was the Queen of rock'n'roll until she slipped from the spotlights. But some have not forgotten. Last weekend, she played her first British shows and Martin Kelner was there00:02
Electricity plans could have saved coal jobs00:02
Letter From Vienna: A monkey's old tricks00:02
The good brochure guide: Planning a skiing holiday but haven't yet decided where? Chris Gill picks 20 firms offering something special00:02
Recommended Books00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Italians set to vote on PR00:02
Rugby Union: Australian tonic00:02
Departures: Language breaks00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A view over England, seen from above: Godfrey Hodgson on the comfortable historian, fell-walker and connoisseur of sour cider G M Trevelyan. 'G M Trevelyan: A Life in History' - David Cannadine: Harper Collins, 18 pounds00:02
Baseball: Smith stirs up Canada's fears : Mike Ross reports from Toronto on how the Braves' grand slam in game five has brought back bad memories for local baseball fans00:02
Departures: Late packages00:02
Keep a careful eye on brokers' charges00:02
Letter: Hints from the reconstruction of eastern Germany: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Vanguard of the Fleet00:02
Stempel rumours lift GM shares00:02
Russian held over sex murders00:02
Masterpieces from the white room: In the Meissen factory's dash for cash, the key to a treasure trove of unique pieces has been lost, writes John Windsor00:02
Lenders wary of portable debt to lift home sales: Vivien Goldsmith finds little enthusiasm for a new scheme to ease 'negative equity'00:02
Obituary: Peter Savigear00:02
Obituary: Professor Alan Woodruff00:02
A Bosnian Serb soldier00:02
Football Diary: Arsenal hit by blues00:02
The Way I Was: Liver and bacon in the Gorbals: Nicola Pagett tells Nicholas Roe how Glasgow taught her she really could act00:02
THEATRE / Avvakum and Carmina Burana - St Paul's Church, London W600:02
Rugby Union: France still fretting over Botha's boot00:02
Obituary: Wendy Hall00:02
RECORDS / DOUBLE PLAY: Supporting the reds and the blues: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson compare notes on recordings of Prokofiev and Gershwin00:02
The Week in Review: Home News00:02
Overdraft and card interest rates begin to come down00:02
Sellafield start-up is shelved00:02
Russian Speaker in militia scandal00:02
Prices for PEPs are reduced00:02
Togo MPs free00:02
Letter: Hints from the reconstruction of eastern Germany: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Revenue's kinder cut00:02
Mining museums exploit a rich seam of nostalgia00:02
MGN journalists stage sit-in to stop Montgomery00:02
Letter: Transport need not mean roads: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Brown calls for immediate action on economy00:02
Letter: Learning is for a lifetime: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Harland cash crisis ends with receiver00:02
Basketball: Cadle rues Irish absence00:02
US Presidential Elections: Campaign Diary00:02
Casting a rule over the insurers00:02
TELEVISION / With more bark than bite00:02
The Tomlinson report proposals in detail00:02
Letter: Bank support : A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Measuring the music industry 'nightmare'00:02
Girl, 14, found beaten to death on golf course00:02
Chilly word of warning00:02
Commodities: Cocoa00:02
Private colliers find small can be profitable: More and more pitmen are making a living in mines outside the confines of British Coal or at heritage projects. Steve Boggan reports00:02
Bill will widen insider trading net00:02
Departures: Paris pain00:02
Letter: Hints from the reconstruction of eastern Germany: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery00:02
Letter: British Coal's stranglehold on pits00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Letter: Manifesto for recovery: Gatt, housing market, monetary policy00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Dan-Air swallowed up by BA: Rivals say competition and choice will be cut by takeover that will axe 1,900 jobs00:02
Faith and Reason: Christ or Synod: whom do we obey?: Our series on the impact of feminism on Christianity is continued by Laurence Target, a solicitor, who argues that the Synod has no authority to ordain women