News from 13/12/1998
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Robert Trotter, Azra Aziz, Waldemar Januszczak, Michael Prescott, Steve Lawless, Philip Marsden, John Dugdale, Gillian MacKley, Matthew Wall, lain Morrison, Barbara Hall, Suzannah Olivier, Nigel Botherway, Sebastian Faulks, Hugh McManns, Fred Redwood, Jon Swain, Philip Norman, Nicholas Rufford, John Peter, Nicholas Lezard, Pam Barrett, Elizabeth Miekle, Amanda Ursell, Emma Moore, George Pendle, Arthur Rose, John Jay, Dan Buxton, Fellma Whitbread, Frank Whitford, Sheridan Morley, Ivo Tennant, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, David Smith, Kirstie Hamilton City Editor, Chris Dignan, Melanie Phillips, D J Ferris, Nick Pitt, Neil Wormald, Lucy Irvine, Andrew Sullivan, Clive Davis, Stephen Grey, Mary Wilson, Tony Allen-Mills, Simon Wilde, Martin James, Robert Sandall, Dr Alan Bullion, Anthony Sattin, Sir John Mills, Shella Clayton, Irwin Stelzer, Peter Wilson, Roger Anderson, Marian Phillips, David Dougill, Jeremy Chance, John Evans, Irene Collins, David Hewson, Tania Alexander, Harvey Porlock, William Dalrymple, Margaret Coles, Jonathon Carr-Brown, Margarette Driscoll, Joan Tudor, Ben Radford, Hugh Mcllvanney, Gerald Scarfe, David Cairns, Edward Porter, Steve Coogan, Betrayal, Louise Taylor, John Waples Deputy City Editor, Stewart Lee, Dr Morris Nitsun, Robert Harris, Nick Newman's, J G, David Eimer, Natasha Narayan, Cathy Scott-Clark, Graham Otway, Robin Marlar, Nick Gardner, Paul Daniel, Shelley von Strunckel, Peter Parker, Mike Laws, Richard Johnson, Christine Barrow, Winner, M Day, Thomas Hearns, Paul Donovan, Jean Pitt, Barbara Hendricks, Steve Waugh, Frances Spalding, Angela Newing, Sue Lawrence, Smita Talati, Paul Driver, Paul Bray, Owen Cima, Martica Heaner, Simon Fanshawe, Boris Schapiro, Maeve Sheehan, Ian Hawkey, Richard Girling, Dr Michael Humphreys, Dave Hannigan, Michael Prescott Chief Political Correspondent, Kirstie Hamilton, Alicia Wyllie, Rebecca Bradley, Tom Shone, Mark Edwards, Susan Clark, David Lawrenson, John Halow, Nicholas Rufford Home Affairs Editor, John Foliain, Julie Dorrell, Lord Hanson, Zoe Brennan Westminster Correspondent, R S, Phil Baker, Hugh Canning, John Harlow Arts Correspondent, Tom Shakespeare, Jennifer Asiama, Anne Barrowclough, Moses, Raymond Keene, Cralg Lord, Douglas Alexander, Cosmo Landesman, Zoe Brennan, Andrew Roberts, Marie Colvin, David Kells, Douglas Ennedy, Diana Wright, Kipper Williams, Helen Hawkins, Stephen Jones, Nick Cain, Stephen Bevan, Andrew Smith, Paul Nuki, David Pleat, Tony Allen Mills, Hugh McManners, Martin Searby, Keith Wheatley, Claire Oldfield, David Walsh, Mary Archer, David Maguire, Oliver Peck, Jack Grimston, Debora Patta, Lucy, Bryan Appleyard, Trevor Lewis, Ron Clarke, Michael Berkeley, Mark Macaskill, Paul Kavanagh, Mark Prigg, R W Johnson, Nick Harvey, Josh Salzmann, Christopher Goodwin, D H, Garth Alexander, Emma Marlin, William Rees-Mogg, Maurice Chittenden, Alex Fortune, Kevin Pratt, Ron Potts, Andrew Lorenz Business Editor, David Rees, Mark Franchetti, Jonathan Powell, Craig Lord, Jon Ungoed-Thomas, Ray Hutton, Peter Watts, Tom Mair, Michael Sheridan, Sean Hargrave, Niall Ferguson, Margaret Walters, Emmanuel Steward, Matthew Lynn, Nicola Horlick, Clare Brown, Michael Hodges, Kate Thornton, Mandy Payne, John Waples, Terry Murden, A A Gill, David Parsons, Carmen, Matthew Campbell, Brian Glanville, John Carey, David Hutcheon, Tom Robbins, David Sumner Smith, Christine Lynch, Jo Viccari, Robert Johnston, Stephen Pettitt, Jonathan Carr-Brown, Peter Stearn, Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, Cherry Norton, Chrissy Iley, Sally Kinnes, Andrew Lorenz, Naomi Caine, Liam Clarke, Adrian Levy, David Wickers, Jane Hardy, Sam Lowther, Tom Rhodes, R Charter, Jo Howlett, Mark Hodson, Andrew Frankel, Nicholas Hellen Media Correspondent, Joe Lovejoy, Jonathan Futrell, Rupert Steiner, Hugh Pearman, David Parsley, Mrs Mills, David Smith Economics Editor, Maurice Sherlock, Anthony Howard, Carey Scott, Nicholas Kenyon, Bob Dwyer, Walter Ellis, Joanna Simon, Lord Rogers, Simon Howard, Barry Newcombe, William Gray, Georgina Howell, Karen Robinson, Zoe Heller,
ResumoContents Don't mention Delors to the Brits, warns Brussels Revealed: another minister's tax haven Sainsbury's tax haven Horlick tells of daughter's final hours Contents Railtrack Newman Contents IRA chooses hardline leader Contents Thai aircrash kills 100 Sales Climb Magazine News Review Classified British Airways Business News Review Oftel to order cuts in mobile phone charges EU gangs up on Blair to snatch rebate Trade-Offs for Peace Pinochet denounces Straw for 'kidnap' Fleet Street hunts its MI6 spy Article Withdrawn TV mogul Lew Grade dies in London hospital at 91 BT Marks & Spencer Briton tells of escape as Thai plane death toll tops 100 Computer games in price-fixing row Spot the Difference Travelodge Over 150 Travelodges nationwide at £19.95 per room per night Staples Militant fire union fights off reform Moet & Chandon Rugby's Lomu may tackle 007 in Oddjob role Sports academy knocked for six Pig blood may replace human transfusions Jenkins makes pitch to lead Lords reform IBM Camelot denies charities £150m Defence companies 'cheat' MoD of £1bn Jameson Diana butler in clash with fund Sterling disappears from Royal Mail's stamp for Europe TV cooks whip up £25m food park Seeking refuge from a string of 'dads' and a violent mother Sunday Times Christmas Appeal for Crisis Standard Life Bank Ports alert for gypsy invasion Debenhams Second take: Michael Heseltine's daughter Annabel… Cook's aide helps donor in £15m row Insight Primus Archers on BBC hit-list of high-cost shows Diane Blood 'on cloud nine' after birth of baby boy Nationwide VW Churchill had iceberg plan to beat U-boats Disney demands total revamp of Elton John show Pension boost for mothers Court 'lottery' angers victims of drink-driving Voted 'Best UK Hotel Group' Defiance Britain's decision to allow General Pinochet's extradition to Spain has started a battle that will run and run, report Michael Prescott, Carey Scott and Nicholas Rufford Dixons Law lords in the spotlight Turning a tidy prophet in Hollywood Profile Moses Make this prisoner eat, or make him a martyr Scottish Widows Nick Newman's Week A Viennese farce Ulster's stark choice BBC Stretch the law on dictators and it's democracy that snaps, m'lud Picture Gallery We can't go on saying Europe will never work Squaring up for a good Oldie punch-up Atticus Cabinet enemies plot to evict Irvine from his Pugin splendour Atticus Pity our gongless Brussels worthies Atticus Peppermint-flavoured lies about teenage sex Purdey Some songs of praise Orange Science is on a slippery slope Fury over fees A British showcase Points Birthdays Rip off Roger King is the spokesman for the car industry. He says we got good value. But we don't Paul Nuki reports What the Car Companies Say Fujitsu Orange Horror in Chechnya What really happened to four engineers seized in one of the most dangerous spots of earth? Carey Scott and Mark Franchetti report The Men behind the Unholy War Philip Gould Clinton puts in his final mercy plea Comet It's one crisis after another Top Eurocrats in bribery inquiry Relatives pursue Rwandan colonel Skydigital Safe refuge: Two-year-old Sade Hodza, a refugee from… Smith defies Mugabe's land-grabbers IBM Tantric sex craze sets US panting French cinema flickers towards the final reel Net closes on Briton's Khmer Rouge killers Business First Nokia Connecting People Dalai Lama embroiled in war of the golden boy-gods Curie school built on radioactive site Fresh bid to solve death of 'God's banker' Annan tilts at Trump's towering ambition Inside New York PC World Princely tantrum Inside New York O Jackie, that hurt Inside New York Bad hair day for duchess Inside New York US store set to ignite price war Weather and Travel Outlook Sad tidings: The message of Christmas went begging… 'Unethical' arms trade triggers cabinet row Comic awards Psychiatrist accused of sex attacks Fraud charge French National Front faces split Mario Sorrenti Correction Single ticket wins £9.1m jackpot Strepsils Hunger striker 'drank juice' News in Brief Teacher charged Pizza stabbing Olympic snub Lagging behind Batting on United go top but Campbell makes a point Contents Cross Contents Kidd gets result, up to a point Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Gullit's trusty aide enjoys quiet life Douglas Alexander says the relationship between modest Scott and Dutch extrovert is founded on respect Inter show interest in Ince Forest hopes disappear with red card for Van Hooijonk Clinical Carbone finishes Charlton Tables turned on Vialli Reid the envy of realist Rudge FA Carling Premiership Fixtures and Tv Games Nationwide First Division Second Division Third Division Minor Leagues and Statistics Scotland Pools The Conference Hammers attack blunted Israeli peace plan in force West Ham's Eyal Berkovic is enjoying a happy family lifestyle on and off teh pitch Come on ref, raise your game Clubs, players and supporters will benefit if referees get the go-ahead to turn professional Contents Come on ref, raise your game Teesside hails its new heroes Picture Gallery Swede will lift the tempo Arsenal are reintroducing an expensive purchase who has been waiting in the wings Redwood Drive Today's Big Matches Everton claim higher ground Keane's double earns Wolves deserved point Ipswich sunk by sub Turner Francis celebrates magnificent seven Creditors close in on desperate Pompey Graham Otway on the grim plight of a famous old football club in danger of going to the wall Taylor has a win to croak about The Football Round-Up Fulham close in Owusu winner Safe Southall Wallace decider Win a video Cole & Co still boxing clever Nobody will relish meeting Manchester United in the European Cup quarter-finals Red tide rolls on Juventus cast shadow of doubt over United England's standard bearers will be keen to avoid their Italian rivals in the quarter-final draw of the European Cup. By Joe Lovejoy Wenger's young guns lack killer touch Despite a remarkable result in Athens, Brian Glanville feels Arsenal's manager must look beyond his reserves to maintain progress Gin and Tonic The mercurial French star has been reborn thanks to an appetite for work that has sharpened his skills David Ginola . . . Vive La Difference Gin and Tonic Tigers take command Old Speckled Hen Stuff this turkey before it's too late Stephen Jones fears that top English clubs have hijacked a competition meant to cure the game's ills, strangling it at birth French lessons for Pontypridd Bellot returns in winning style The New Face of British Rugby Northampton hit the heights Howarth recharges Sale batteries Brewer the inspiration as West finally win Top of Table Lewsey strikes as Wasps cut it fine Boycott heads for Sky MCC miss Triumph of girl power Larry, no ordinary Joe Pipeline or pipe dream? Euro values misplaced Letters to the Sports Editor Moore the merrier Diary of. . . A Test umpire Sport on TV Q & A Book review An Arm And Four Legs Bestsellers What they said Sporting CV Dynamic Luger the lethal weapon in Woodward's arsenal Nick Cain assesses the impact of the new England winger who matches his southern hemisphere rivals for pace and power Missing the points It was a famous and stirring victory, but it would be unwise to believe everything is rosy Happy Hickman leads medals charge Cralg Lord sees Britain's swimmers hit top form as records tumble at the European short-course championships in Sheffield Stransky switch on cards The Rugby round - up England incensed Atherton gloom hangs over teat fightback A therton gloom hangs over Test fightback A controversial dismissal dominated a gripping second day in the Test at Adelaide Australia v England Third Test, third day Adelaide England First Innings Lara admits long way back after seeing batsmen buckle Ian Hawkey in Port Elizabeth witnesses a humiliating collapses by the West Indies McGrath again the tormentor Port Elizabeth Scoreboard Umpire's snap decision points finger at cameras The whole issue of using TV replays to judge dismissals is now brought into question Poms cry foul, say Aussies The Times Former skipper calls for change After falling victim to a questionable decision by the third umpire, Michael Atherton wants the clock turned back, says Alex Fortune Maruyama the hero as US get a drubbing Sports Round-Up Results Round-Up This Week's Fixtures The Sunday Times Racing Rugby Union Caught out A Cover-up continues over the shocking cash-for-information stroy that has shamed Australian cricket says Simon Wilde Bookie tried to bribe me before game, says Hollioake Crisis brings team closer together Two men made a naive error and were punished. The matter should now be history The victims of injustice The Olympic hsitory books are full of chets Yesterday the IOC diclined to rewite them The Brits who were Victims of the Drug Cheats Sports Stars Have their Say McCoy weighs in with victory Jonathan Powell reports on Northern Starlight's hard-earned triumph in then Tripleprint Gold Cup at Cheltenham Closing the Book Jonathan Powell on why on of Brotain's most respected bookies is truning his back on the ring Suny Bay remains on course The Sunday Times Pessoa wraps up year at Olympia Equestrianism Right Royal Split There was no sense of loss, just liberation as Naseem Hamed and Brendan lngle completed the last act Thorne gets his kicks making power point Play the Game The Tale of Broken Partnerships Thomas Hearns and Emmanuel Steward McEnroe ready to double effort Tennis Nicole gets a racier image And even Papa would be impressed by the new Renault Sport Clio V6. Andrew Frankel certainly was Multiple Classified Advertising Items Aston Martin Multiple Display Advertising Items Grange JCT600 Audi Road Sage Stuck for some Christmas ideas or uncertain how to have a care-free drive through the festive season? Fear not BMW Authorised Dealers Scotthall Sytnerdirect Multiple Classified Advertising Items L&C Ivor Holmes Victoria Neep Colchester MLG of Chiswick Cooper 4Four Plus Cheyne Altwood Holland Park First Front Wimbledon Winter Value Heathrow Dick Lovett Honda Multiple Classified Advertising Items Koncept UK Ltd. AVC British Car Auctions Jaguar Multiple Display Advertising Items Lancaster Multiple Classified Advertising Items Sunningdale Lancaster Multiple Classified Advertising Items Speeds of Stratford Park Royal Multiple Display Advertising Items Falcon Multiple Display Advertising Items Venturi Bramshaw Rivervale Hughes of Beaconsfield Mercedes-Benz Retail Edgware Road Great West Road B & K Thomas Mercedes-Benz Multiple Classified Advertising Items Dick Lovett Sunningdale Greenoaks Malaya Tradition of Excellence Malaya Trading of Excellence PSS William Loughran Savernake of Newbury Winter Value Park Lane Bramley Multiple Display Advertising Items Puttocks Jacksons Arlington Multiple Classified Advertising Items Porsche Merlin Hottingham JCTOOO The Sunday Times Dick Lovett Swindon H. R. Owen St. Albans Car Marks Mark Hunt of Hull Time DVLA Classic Collection Auction Multiple Display Advertising Items Saab Approved Registration Transfers Guy Salmon H. R. Owen Tradition of Excellence Lancaster Land Rover Assured Top of the tree Oh darling, a DB7! You shouldn't have! Ray Hutton looks at the ultimate Christmas present from Aston Martin Multiple Classified Advertising Items Audi Midlife crisis? The Volvo will make you feel better H. R. Owen Traditions of Excellence Broughtons Multiple Display Advertising Items Burton House Guaranteed Motor Cars Tarmac close to merger with Aggregate GEC gatecrashes BAe-Dasa deal Interest rates will drop below 3% as economy slides into recession Shell slashes costs to beat oil price slump Shell cuts Contents A Nose for Business. . . Paul Smith, the fashion… Lloyds abandons Barclays bid plan Contents Think 1st Scotland may hold key to clearance for bank takeovers Agenda Mandelson to pay grants in euros BT Trouble looms in Toytown as bidder goes for Noddy Paul Smith scents worldwide success British car market will slump says BMW Business Digest Brown's shock exit puts C&W on bid alert Spring Ram boss halves his pay to aid ailing company Hobson Jr gears up for bodyshop repair venture Stars back UK-funded film project Software firm gets £11.6m Apax lift Inktomi London Electricity East meets west as Chow engineers new-look GKN Profile The group's chief executive grew up in Hong Kong but mastered western management techniques to become the first Chinese to run a Ftse 100 company The Sunday Times Ck Cho… Vital Statistics On the Edge Britain is showing dangerous parallels with the middle of 1990 when the economy 'fell off a cliff'. Reports by David Smith Easy Jet Emu cost likely to rocket to £51bn German gloom Greek rate cut Americans dump cars in favour of powerful light trucks Sales of thirsty 'sport utility vehicles' are outstripping ordinary cars and regulators are aiming to crack down, writes Garth Alexander in New York Standard Life Bank Denial of recession gives way to panic Economic Outlook Oil giants merge to match power of Opec sheikhs American Account American deal powers Scots into big time After Scottish Power's takeover of PacifiCorp it has to overcome regulatory hurdles before it can extract value, writes Terry Murden Buffett's investment secrets Multiple Display Advertising Items Trouble in store for Reid as predators circle Sears The former shell and British Rail supremo has found running a clothing retailer a tougher job than he expected, writes Kirstie Hamilton The Sunday Times Business Focus Zeneca's growth cure Zeneca's £43bn deal with Sweden's Astra has turned it into the world's third-largest drug company, by sales, five years after the split from Ici Matthew Lynn reports GEC fires up its search for a merger The consolidation wave sweeping the defence industry could swamp GEC unless it finds a patner for Marconi fast. Andrew Lorenz reports on its options Shell shake-up clears decks for speedier decision making Top-level changes in the oil giant's two main divisions will help it recover from a 56% drop in third-quarter profits. David Parsley reports The Sunday Times Multiple Classified Advertising Items Corporate Business Sales Casson Beckman Consulting Document Shredding is Big Business The Business Opportunity That's Got People… Eveshamvale Mortgage Direct Mail Order? The Sunday Times Newspapers Radical & Challenging Salmon Assessors Databank Top 200 companies MFI and Carpetright mark retailing fall Sharewatch Caradon RJB Mining Landround Fountain Forestry The Times Minerva A Share in the Boardroom Gus Newcastle United White paper or white elephant? Peter Mandelson's promised reforms will need to be backed up by Treasury concessions on taxation if he is to overcome scepticism in the small-firms sector, writes Claire Oldfield Driven man who became grand prix king My First Break Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was just nine when he spotted a business opportunity—selling Chelsea buns. Rupert Steiner reports Bulletin How Entrepreneurs Get Started Working out tax relief on varying trips Questions of Business Here, we tackle owner-managers' business problems, giving advice and guidance on survival and growth in an increasingly competitive world Hedging the risks of exchange rate Financial aid with buying shares Hotel feels the muscles from Brussels The European Union's working time directive brings additional costs, disruption and extra recruitment challenges to many companies, particularly labour intensive businesses such as Sir Rocco Forte's Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh. David Sumner Smith reports The Balmoral's Challenge The Sunday Times The Experts Sunday times Gelstra Marketing man is a legend in his own launchtime Prufrock Official: mobile makers are barking mad Prufrock Place your spread bets on the next mayor of London Prufrock United they fall as Express loses sales Inside the City Contents Lone Wolf At the end of a long, dirt track, in the middle of Quebec's frostbitten wilderness Douglas Ennedy puts himself into the Neanderthal hands of Poppa and his sled team of six huskies Contents Union Castle Line Sunsail The Good Gear Guide For the traveller who has everything by Jonanthan Futrell Travel Brief Best of British The Wykeham Arms is the latest winner of our reader-nominated award Books of the Week Attitude a la carte Websites of the Week Where to go to eat and where not to go at all. Mark Hodson finds the answers are out there—on the Internet Holiday Clinic Lucy and Oliver Peck want to take their three young children away for up to two weeks next June. They would like somewhere warm and sunny and within four hours' flying time. Their budget is £3,000-£3,500 The Holidaymakers' Profile Favourite Things Trivial Rirsuil Eilat Where was I? Valle dAosta Australia's leg break From next weak, subway commuters in Stockholm will… Cape Town crackdown Directions Himalayan altitude warning Multiple Display Advertising Items Austravel Travellers fear CJD risk in hepatitis jab Write stuff Question & Answer Holiday Money Chile still on the menu Sky high Getting plastered The medieval architects of Saffron Walden used wood and plaster instead of stone, and today the houses they built lean can and totter like drunks. Richard Girling treads a careful path through a charming and idiosyncratic Essex town Making a Weekend of … Stena Line Horses for courses You don't have to be a skier to enjoy the snow, says David Wickers, and St Moritz is a great resort for alternative thrill-seekers Ireland Travel Brief Diary highlights The Perfect 10: Tunis For a touch of the exotic, Tunis, with its ancient souk, spectacular ruins and luxury hotels, is a perfect winter weekend destination. David Wickers chooses his top 10 Tunisian things to do Voyages Jules Verne Swan Hellenic Trailfinders Flights Direct Dial a Flight Travel Insurance Debonair Go Jetline Austravel Thomas Cook Travel Insurance Multiple Display Advertising Items Travel Options Multiple Display Advertising Items Sapphire CGU Direct Faresavers Globe Savers Dial a Flight Easy Jet Multiple Display Advertising Items Postcard from the edge William Gray discovers that an adrenaline-sapping adventure week on the rapids of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi is not for the faint-hearted Times Newspapers Limited Travel Brief Travelbag Delta Air Lines Travel mood Bridge the World AB Airlines STA Travel Flight Centre Check-In continued from page 8 Multiple Classified Advertising Items AiR Tickets Direct Multiple Classified Advertising Items Solo's Africa Travel Centre South African Affair Africa Connection Red Sea Multiple Classified Advertising Items Africa Exclusive Wildlife World Wide Quest Worldwide The Travel Bug American Best Offers!! 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Win a long weekend in Montreal with British Airways Holidays News Review Nicola Horlick, who famously fought for her job, tells how she has lost a far more important battle—for the life of her eldest daughter Contents The x-stream network A Death in the Family Pregnancy's new tyranny Lashings more sex for all with Janet and Jim the whip The Sunday Times Kim Howells The Bard outwits Father Time The Bard outwits Fathers Time Wanted: a nation of risk-takers The government is trying to encourage a spirit of enterprise. But, David Smith says, the task ahead will be a tough one You can keep the office, Bill, but not the power All served with a dollop of ego Interview Abandoned by fickle fashion on the mean streets of Toy Town The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe BT Selling our souls to the cloning devil Bryan Appleyard Huxley's vision of the brave new world is fast becoming a terrible reality Maybe my husband didn't die in vain Jayne Zito has fought for reform of care in the community since her husband's murder in 1992. At last she seed hope, says Margarette Driscoll Racist threats and animal sacrifices: the perils of marrying a Zulu prince Debora Patta, a guest at this weekend's Channel 4 dinner party, White Lives, on life as half of South Africa's most famous mixed-race couple Thresher Speaking up for Tony On Massage Eureka! This Life President Clinton's Zipper is sewn up, the Society of Happy People, William Hague's Christmas card, Blair's soapboxes, and the pile of dirty underpants that orbits the earth What you didn't know about Stephen Hawking Is British life a waste of time? Quiz The Daily Telegraph: Serge Ganjou Last word . . . Acrobat and restaurateur, 1904-1998 Ian Stanton The Times: Albert Gore Politician. Father of the American vice-president, 1907-1998 Deidre won't shrink from a chap's little problem Shock Exchange President Clinton's Zipper is sewn up, the Society of Happy People, William Hague's Christmas card, Blair's soapboxes, and the pile of dirty underpants that orbits the earth Talking heads Multiple Classified Advertising Items Allsop People of the Week Duffer's guide: Cards Foxtons Prowting Homes Multiple Classified Advertising Items Foxtons Barratt Hopkins Homes Summoned by cathedral bells The houses of a cathedral close are so popular you may need a miracle to buy one, writes Fred Redwood Multiple Classified Advertising Items Touched by the charm of Tuscany A retreat for the rich and famous, Mary Wilson discovers a property awash with Etruscan history Multiple Classified Advertising Items Taylor Woodrow Mowlem Property of the Week Crown Cottage Nuffield Henley-on-Thames Berkeley Homes Charles Church Midshires savers get bonanza Revenue eyes inheritance tax loophole Home sellers face fines in shake-up Contents Christmas Cracker. . . If you are at your wits'… Shoppers warned over 'free credit' Contents M&G Contents Savers urged to shelter in bonds after rate cuts Your Best Buys Government unsure whether to use pension carrot or stick Comment Insurers ignore genetics code Scottish Widows Terrorised hostel victim was misled over compensation Questions of Cash Every week our own consumer champion tackles readers' money problems, giving answers and seeking redress on their behalf Open and shutter case for insurer Abbey National Betting watchdog proves toothless Know your rights if you live together Home in on falling interest rates Lenders are cutting mortgage rates after another drop in the base rate—and that means better deals. Naomi Caine reports The Mortgage Choice of the Experts Virgin Cashing in your Endowment Money Section How Borrowers are Affected C&G Direct Transfer Account Cut boosts the price of housing Northern Rock How British Motorists Pay over the Odds Drive off with a bargain buy Are you fed up having to pay over the odds for a car that is much cheaper on the Continent? Nick Gardner steers you towards finding value for money The Sunday Times Door slammed on gazumpers A shake-up of the housebuying process will put the responsibility on the seller to speed up house sales. By Nick Gardner Savings make an ideal present Stuck for ideas for the children's Christmas presents? Why not start a savings plan for them? By Kevin Pratt Hiring the family can pay dividends Tax Saver Scottish Widows Standard Life Bank Keep cash safe from the taxman Virgin Cinema revival offers rich share pickings Investor's Journal Kevin Goldstein-Jackson offers advice for this festive season—and forecasts an investment opportunity for Christmas next year Investment claims mask performance Adwatch Legal & General Big boys lose race to provide instant online share service Net Shopper Matthew Wall welcomes the first service to offer instant share trading on the Internet, but finds that Stocktrade's package has some serious shortcomings Norwich Union Chase De Vere Best Savings Rates Top of the Peps Popular Shares Mortgage Deals Aston Villa scores with affinity card Charges will eat into high-risk loan deal Money Monitor Bank of Scotland Tep Loan Chase De Vere Investment PLC Direct Line Jupiter Chase De Vere Investments PLC Multiple Display Advertising Items Britain fails to follow America's crackdown on junk e-mail Electronic Commerce Day trippers may help fund space station Finance Advertising and tourism are among the schemes being considered by Nasa to make the station pay its way. Report by Mark Prigg and Sean Hargrave Safe petrol for emergencies cuts risk of fire in car boots Motoring "Oi Triv, what does the Ace of Spades… Mobile phones turn into London tourist guides Telecoms Surgery on foetus prevents paralysis Medicine Cut-price solar plant powers up remote villages Energy A Cambridge company has used a novel simplification to cut the cost of producing electricity. Reports by Sean Hargrave Microchip alarm immobilises stolen electrical goods Security Satellite tags reveal route of migrating fish Conservation Edited by Sean Hargrave E-mail address:… Software brings a natural touch to computer games Simulation Customise your PC screen in easy steps Sounding of You can create your own toolbars, shortcut keys and have pictures of The Simpsons, writes David Hewson Dealer benefits from bear market Money Makeover JUPiTER Don't waver when you plan pension protection The Wright Angle Semple in sight of profit rise Inside Track Update Human Resources Director Mercuri Urval BT Consulting The Welcome Trust Garth Heron search & consultancy DLA Recruitment Consultants Datacentre Service Provision Manager Global Telecommunications IT Services Solutions Selector Europe Michael Page Sales & Marketing Tyzack Selection One 2 one Pricewaterhousecoopers Hoggett Bowers Executive Search and Selection Michael Page City International Business Services Group Cpm More Connected Amethyst House Xaar Devonshire executive NB Selection Thomson SI Associates Owen - Williams - Lambert Interexec Haldane Connaught Merc Partners Nottingham Building Society Hunter Maclean Associates Adval Phoenix International Marks & Spencer Financial Services Nord Anglia Education Group Butler Technology Solutions National Consultancy Multiple Display Advertising Items CVs with Impact Excellent change management and project skills? Multiple Classified Advertising Items Gardiner-Caldwell Communications Ltd Country Landowners Association BACS Making Innovation Pay Harland and Wolf Antal International Ltd Human Resources Professional Neumann Brenda Hemmings Relationship Managers—Oursourcing Call Centre & Response Manager IT Management Opportunities A Senior Travel Consultant Grampian Country Food Group Hr/training Manager Iomega TCS HSA The Sunday Times Maldives Airports Authority Groundwork Public & Healthcare PricewaterhouseCopper NB Selection Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust British Museum The Sail Training Association Kumon Educational UK Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust Central Probation Council Education St. Clare's, Oxford International College University for Industry Multiple Display Advertising Items NHS Sleda Freelance Writing Chiropody Secretarial & Computer Studies Easter Revision St. Joseph's Hospice Eagle Eyes Required St. Aldates College The MBA Career Guide Marina Varastet The Sunday Times University of Oxford Are you too soft to be a manager? Too many managers are timid. They communicate badly and fail to accept responsibility. As a result, companies are unable to make decisions, move quickly, or be adaptable, writes Margaret Coles Cellnet Executives have little to fear in the new year The Last Resort Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents by Paul Theroux H Hamilton £17.99 pp376 Contents Pile 'Em High Critical List Harvey Porlock finds mutual back-scratching in the Christmas roundups Reaching their centuries Born 1900 a Human History of the 20th Century—For Everyone Who Was There by Hunter Davies Little Brown £16.99 pp378 Close encounters Window on Westminster: A Canon's Diary, 1976-1987 by Trevor Beeson SCM Press £19.95 pp324 Vintage The secret history Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life by John Cg Röhl CUP £45 pp979 American's unofficial rose A Rose for Mrs Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson by Michael Troyan Kentucky UP £23.75 pp463 Beckett in the real world No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider ed Maurice Harmon Harvard £21.95 pp486 Jeremy Paxman the English Under Western eyes Ka by Roberto Calasso translated by Tim Parks Cape £16.99 pp443 Harper collins Publishers Diary A bright spark Mary Archer reads the stirring story of Thomas Edison, the man whose inventions lit up our lives and endure to this day Crystal clarity of a great scientific mind John Gribbin is bowled over by a marvellous biography of Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel prize-winner and Margaret Thatcher's tutor 130 Years Ago this Week Matthew Arnold writing to his mother from Westminster, December 16,1868 On the Shelf Philip Marsden finds the stories of Issac Babel electrifying in their bald morality Coleridge Darker Reflections Framing the right response to art The Penguine Book of Art Writing edited by Martin Gayford and Karen Wright Viking £25 pp620 Treading the nation's boards Exit through the Fireplace The Great Days of Rep by Kate Dunn J Murray £18.99 pp305 Looking for that Perfect Present? TLS Slight of hand Jacob's Hands by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood Bloomsbury £6.99 pp122 Shortlist Life goes on The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro Chatto £14.99 pp320 Romance The Sunday Times BBC The Sunday Times Concise Crossword No561 Paperbacks Crossword Enthusiasts Hardbacks Paperbacks Manuals Bibliofile Sebastian Faulks identifies with Tolstoy's Prince Andrei, but cringes at Peter Pan Time Scooby-Doo! Screen Snaps Fun Competitions! Asterix and the Black Gold Jarvis Funday on - line Twice the fun Upwardly mobile The Funday Times News Planet patrol A hero in training Beryl the Peril Dagsy Dog Buzz! Lift off Rex and Tex Robot Crusoe Willoughby The creature feature Squirt Next Week Funday The zone The Funday Times sport Fans utd You're a Legend Have a ball! Contents "well, it's only natural to explore your… Contents Yah! Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Yeah! Meg Mathews Heaven Brent: Tara in shopping nirvana It's a Wonderful Life It has been quite a year for Emma Bunton-she has lost the baby fat and spread her wings. But she's still not too old for Santa. Interview by Kate Thornton Picture Gallery We are Family Organza All Present and Correct From sumptuous sequins to madcap accessories, if you're looking for inspiration, Style has Christmas all wrapped up All present and correct Radox Solutions All present and correct Radox Solution All present and correct Issey Miyake Paris Soarks Will fly Picture Gallery Picture Gallery Special Branch Stylefile Hang out in razzle-dazzle dresses with bags to match, says Jennifer Asiama Martell Casio digital diaries Twelve days of hell There's no way I'll go home for Christmas says Tom Mair Family Life Britvic Letters State of the union Winner's dinners Four of the best. . . Places to eat Christmas lunch on your own Table Talk Out and about Feast for the Senses Who needs holly? 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The answers to all your problems Brief lives Easy Listening As a treat for Christmas, Radio 2 listeners have chosen their Top 50 easy-listening hits. It was all Terry Wogan's idea—or fault, depending on your point of view—yet there was no sign of his ground-breaking single, Floral Dance. Is this gratitude? Sony Nokia Contents Caine finds his voice Cover story You may have forgotten, but Michael Caine is a fine actor, and at long last he's back making decent films. He tells David Eimer why Little Voice could be his big break Cinema Art Television The Caine Career Sword and saucery Cinema Heaving bosoms and flashing blades cannot disguise the fact that The Mask of Zorro is a lost cause. But at least there's a deliciously bad performance from Anthony Hopkins to enjoy, says Tom Shone Albert Theatre Rest of the week's films The Nutcracker Be prepared to cry ReportOne thing the studios learnt in 1998 was to tap our tears. 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