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THEATRE / Coming apart at the themes: Playland - Donmar Warehouse00:02
Clinton prepares for US-Russian summit00:02
Clinton prepares for US-Russian summit00:02
Theatre's trap for a Dame in her prime: As two leading British actresses return to the stage, David Lister looks at the problem of finding roles00:02
Theatre's trap for a Dame in her prime: As two leading British actresses return to the stage, David Lister looks at the problem of finding roles00:02
Ice Hockey: Steelers fined on two counts00:02
Athletics: Johnson banned for life by IAAF00:02
Scene set for Green to scheme00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations' Championship: England gambling on rapier's thrust: Lions captaincy one of the prizes on offer at Twickenham as Wales look for a running game in Cardiff00:02
Racing: Active role for Derbi in final trial00:02
Racing: Oh So Risky's stable runs into form00:02
Boxing: More heed less speed for Benn: Nick Halling anticipates a champion in cautious mood for tonight's world super-middleweight title fight in Glasgow00:02
Rugby Union: Twickenham Focus I: Scott shines in shadows: The Hastings clan provides Scotland's Calcutta Cup team today with their central thrust. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Rugby Union: Twickenham Focus II: Barnes back to break the midfield mould: England look for a fresh benchmark from the maverick outside-half who tired of being left out. Steve Bale reports00:02
Table Tennis: Douglas' desire undimmed by age: James Leigh on the enduring qualities of a table tennis enigma00:02
Basketball: Gordon faces trial by video00:02
Rugby Union: Richards reigns over Spain00:02
Rugby League: Dumas threat to Schofield's musketeers00:02
Racing: Novice bonus00:02
Hockey: Southgate aim for second place00:02
Rugby Union: Humphreys tonic for Irish00:02
Cricket: England stumble as Azharuddin ascends: Hick clicks but India's revitalised captain shines brightest as an unhappy tour ends in disarray and despair00:02
Cricket: Russell go-slow stripes00:02
Football: FA Cup: Arsenal fearful of a Baker's dozen: Henry Winter looks forward to the FA Cup quarter-finals00:02
Football: Record that leaves Hartlepool with a score to settle: Derek Hodgson on how the Second Division club's day of Cup glory has proved no inspiration for their season00:02
Football: FA Cup Countdown: Bassett's ambition can beat handicap: Sheffield United's manager is dreaming of reaching Wembley on a shoestring. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Scottish Football: Gillhaus finally moves on00:02
Snooker: Wattana to meet Davis00:02
Golf: Payne makes quick impact00:02
Cricket: Crowe flies as Reiffel fires00:02
Football: Sullivan buys Birmingham00:02
Football Diary: Wrong said Fred00:02
Shepherd Neame hops up to high table: Michael Jackson, impassioned connoisseur, recommends a range of beers good enough to eat.00:02
The Way I Was: I was a swotty little prig: Austin Mitchell tells Nicholas Roe about his early loneliness as a long-distance swot at Bingley Grammar School in Yorkshire00:02
Saturday Night: Dancing in the aisles at 7-1100:02
Bella] Bella] Bella] (and Naomi): A supermodel called in to help a famous name become a little more famous. Roger Tredre met the latest Freud00:02
Gainsborough bought at street market for pounds 8500:02
Rugby Union: Elwood to lift Irish blues00:02
Slowly on to the roof of Africa: At 5,000 metres on Kilimanjaro it is minus 15C. To keep warm you have to move quickly; if you move quickly you get acute mountain sickness. David Belton reports00:02
German interest rate cut boosts stock market00:02
Property: Whatever happened to the Ideal future? Call them old-fashioned, but Mr and Mrs Public know what they like. David Lawson marvels at the persistence of the 'Tudorbethan' home00:02
Lord Ridley, 'a great Englishman', dies00:02
SPENDING / Auctions00:02
Miners vote in favour of one-day strikes00:02
Ben Johnson given ban for life00:02
Property: Time for another kind of neighbourhood watch00:02
Ministers lay down law to Euro-rebels: Opponents of Maastricht told to back Major on Europe and warned against 'forging weapons' for French and German competitors00:02
Motoring: False prophets of life after death00:02
Motoring: Revealed, a new model for 007: Aston Martin, maker of the James Bond car, has taken the Geneva Motor Show by storm with a successor to its famous Sixties models, writes Gavin Green00:02
Sufferin' satellites, The Comic is dead: Jonathan Glancey traces a mutant evolution00:02
Stan To Miss Clark, alto, violist, Nordic blonde00:02
Sufferin' satellites, The Comic is dead: Where the 'Eagle' once dared, in its inimitable Boy's Own style, there is now a void filled only by TV spin-offs and bleak, post-apocalyptic imagery. John Windsor discovers an afterlife at auction00:02
Tool box: Give your moles bad vibrations00:02
Private health insurance needs careful treatment: Correction00:02
Letter: American myth00:02
Letter: Studied answer00:02
Profile: It's such a laugh being somebody else: Harry Enfield, Mr I-don't-think-I'm-funny-as-myself00:02
Letter: A pension success story for miners00:02
Celebrity chest burster to kill for00:02
Paying less for your prescription medicines00:02
Letter: The quality films that Granada has promised but failed to deliver00:02
Married couple's guide to splitting the tax allowance: Wives on the higher rate stand to benefit from the imminent changes. Maria Scott reports00:02
Appointed reps on SIB register00:02
Letter: Major and the manufacturers00:02
General Public? Off the bus]00:02
High income at Rintoul00:02
Cashing in at NatWest00:02
Boy killed00:02
Other futures funds to fry00:02
Inmate hanged00:02
Index guarantee at Britannia00:02
Obituary: Art Hodes00:02
Free guide to retirement00:02
Ethical advice specialists00:02
Peterborough firm suspended00:02
Ignorance uncovered00:02
Chance to win a car00:02
Virus warning00:02
McGlinchey free00:02
Fake notes found00:02
Parking demand00:02
Birds protected00:02
Macedonia air crash kills 7900:02
Remands in Wessex fraud case00:02
Extra judges will ease High Court load00:02
UN and Serbs in deal to pull out Muslims00:02
Police dismayed at Clarke's plan for league tables00:02
Cafe crackdown00:02
Commission lists its performance targets: Rosie Waterhouse examines the criteria by which police forces will be ranked into league tables00:02
French right laughs at Rocard's 'big bang'00:02
Lat in circulation00:02
Cheap alcohol00:02
Jesuit dies00:02
Arms ship held off Seychelles00:02
Russia to reject Soviet debt00:02
Roseau killed00:02
Food first00:02
Aid strings00:02
Stalin tribute00:02
Ozone damage over Europe00:02
'350 die' in Angola battle00:02
UN mission to assess Iraq aid00:02
Imperial heir in hospital00:02
Yeltsin's adversary rejects truce plan00:02
Spanish farmers' invasion00:02
Cleric wants UK imports cut00:02
Gorbachev revels as a crowd-puller00:02
MGN reinstates early pension rights00:02
Business leaders condemn EC 'hijack'00:02
Middleton warning00:02
Congdon attacks fellow 'wise men'00:02
Buxton faces rising hostility from Barclays shareholders: Patrick Hosking finds investors keen on rolling heads at the troubled bank00:02
Battle lines drawn as SA talks resume00:02
Bundesbank signals easier policy00:02
Amex drops reins at First Data00:02
Cult leader rejects idea of mass suicide00:02
Nigerian primaries held under watchful army eye00:02
Another suspect arrested in FBI investigation00:02
Questions over NY explosion: One week after a blast rocked Manhattan, killing five people, detectives have discovered how it was done but have no idea why it was done00:02
Let the people eat Borodinski: In the first of two pieces from Russia, Joanna Blythman reports on how M & S is putting its stamp on Moscow bread distribution00:02
Gem in a safety deposit vault: Nice wine, but what about the food? Emily Green samples Bristol fashion and finds an exception to the establishment rule00:02
Zambia 'coup plot' arrests00:02
Patten fears more strife in HK talks00:02
Tunnel chief attacks failure over rail link00:02
Travel: A spring break in Paris with Matisse from pounds 13300:02
Travel: Nice views, shame about the leeches: The Thai guide said no to opium but promised elephant rides, hill-tribe folk and hard walking. A honeymoon? Perhaps, but certainly not a picnic, writes Sheila Paine00:02
Books Recommended00:02
INTERVIEW / An elf-hero with a case of the mauves: Anthony Quinn talks to Armistead Maupin about his latest book, a tale set in Tinseltown00:02
The Independent Foreign Fiction Award: A palatial resonance00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Folly, grandeur and death in Venice: Jan Morris on a wonderful and scholarly account of a life devoted to the building of a palace: The house of gold - Richard J Goy: Cambridge University Press pounds 6000:02
Parents should to under-5s daily, Patten says00:02
Classic Thoughts: A curse on common man: Continuing our series of reflections on great books, Melvyn Bragg revisits Sons and Lovers (1913) by D H Lawrence00:02
Letter from Slough: A balanced passage to England00:02
Rothmans to take Russia by storm00:02
Column Eight: Still minding the shop00:02
The president who became an icon00:02
Conservatives in Harrogate: Media excluded from debate on democracy: Accountability confined 'behind closed doors' - Recession regrets surface - Labour attack00:02
Political setbacks reduce coalition support to 22%00:02
Winterflood sale imminent00:02
View from New York: Morality tales on Wall Street00:02
Smith challenges Major to mount Leyland rescue00:02
Agency seeks to tackle cycle of care and prison: Heather Mills reports on help in the community for mentally ill offenders00:02
Market Report: TSB takes its turn under the spotlight00:02
Conservatives in Harrogate: Tories find no praise for 'liberal do-gooders'00:02
THEATRE / A touch of class: Mick Mahoney makes a comeback, a day in the greenhouse for playwrights in Birmingham, and Athol Fugard's Playland reviewed00:02
OPERA / The voice from the crowd: Terry Edwards, the chorus director at the Royal Opera House, tells Mark Pappenheim why he thinks it is time for the chorus to take a bow00:02
BBC unions call for Birt's resignation00:02
Hunger strike at asylum seekers jail00:02
Ulster feminist seeks European stage for reform: Mary Clark-Glass's campaign uses the cross-party strategy that won Mary Robinson the Irish presidency. David McKittrick reports00:02
L&G's cap and collar00:02
Conservatives in Harrogate: Heseltine displays his anguish00:02
Ulster feminist seeks European stage for reform: Mary Clark-Glass's campaign uses the cross-party strategy that won Mary Robinson the Irish presidency. David McKittrick reports00:02
Britannia rules on no notice00:02
INTERVIEW / The language of the streets: Mick Mahoney's plays did a nice line in all things tough and cockney, until their author hit on bad times. Now he's back with Fantasy Bonds. Leo Burley met him00:02
Mystery of lost years in pension forecast: Sue Fieldman tackles a puzzling and costly discrepancy that has confused even the DSS00:02
Quick variations on the BES loan-back theme: Building societies have added more get-out options to new schemes, writes Neasa MacErlean00:02
Go-ahead for Manchester complex00:02
Midland change lifts some fees 30%00:02
Payoff anger as Wheway yields to bid00:02
Small firms with an offer of liquid investment00:02
Juggling charges and pensions advice: Christine Stopp looks at costs that eat into your retirement fund and compares high and low-charging schemes00:02
A little something to wear00:02
Shares outlook is tempting: With stock market confidence soaring and recovery in the air, Maria Scott sees strong arguments for switching out of low-yielding deposit accounts00:02
Money Grouse: How a public-spirited gesture backfired00:02
RECORDS / Watertight Handel: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson review the latest issues of Baroque suites for orchestra00:02
Upbeat: Phil goes east00:02
Upbeat: Trinity stays00:02
CONCERT / Such distant memories: David Fanning reviews the BBC Philharmonic and Matthias Bamert at the Royal Northern College00:02
They've never had it so good: Bayan Northcott surveys the changing prospects for young composers in the light of two upcoming celebrations of new work00:02
Wine box00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Retail therapy00:02
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Quotes of the week00:02
Football: Team news00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
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Sport in Short: American Football00:02
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Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
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Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Coda00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
The Week in Review: Home News00:02
The daily poem00:02
Bookshop window00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
IRA charges00:02
Court circular00:02
Obituary: Lord Ridley of Liddesdale00:02
Obituary: Lord Ridley of Liddesdale00:02
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Service appointments00:02
Royal engagements00:02
Quote unquote00:02
Church appointments00:02
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Wills00:02
Letter: Major and the manufacturers00:02
Letter: Major and the manufacturers00:02
Letter: The quality films that Granada has promised but failed to deliver00:02
TSB cuts loan rates00:02
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