News from 23/04/1998
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Peter Tandy, Phil Yates, Giles Tremlett, Michael Hornsby Agriculture Correspondent, Edward Gorman, Sailing Correspondent, Raymond Snoddy Media Editor, Edward Owen, S. J. Stinchcombe, Nick Nuttall, Andrew Pierce, Julian Muscat, Tennis Correspondent, Rob Hughes, Sarah Potter, Richard Ford, Home Correspondent, Stephen Farrell and Roger Maynard, Magnus Linklater, Victor Bockris, Robert Carr, Philip Howard, Hilary Finch, Colin Croskin, Alan Hamilton and Russell Kempson, Jeremy Kingston, James Bone, George Sivell, Clive Davis, Victoria Fletcher and Peter Foster, Oliver Holt Football Correspondent, Peter Foster, Gillian Harris Scotland Correspondent, Richard Eaton, Simon Wilde, Tom Walker, Kevin Eason, Geoff Brown, Robert Sheehan, Bridge Correspondent, Joe Joseph, John Bryant, Malcolm Bradbury, Marianne Wiggins, Patrick Janson-Smith, Janet Bush, Economics Editor, Dominic Walsh, Ruth Gledhill, Shirley English, Jim McCue, John O'leary, Education Editor, Matthew Barbour, Raymond Keene Chess Correspondent, Michael Hofmann, Martin Barrow, Libby Purves, Peter Bills, Michael Evans, Defence Correspondent, Peter Waymark, Robin Young, Ian Murray, Medical Correspondent, Paddy Ashdown, Robert Nye, Douglas Fairbairn, Jenny MacArthur, Robert Bruce, Michael Clark, Helen Dunmore, James Landale Political Reporter, Tony Blair, Phil Gordon, William Burroughs, David Hands, Charles Bremner, A. P. Machen, Peter Barnard, Bill Frost and Grace Bradberry, Clive Seward, Derwent May, Jasper Gerard, Valerie Elliott Whitehall Editor, Daniel McGrory, Paul Durman, Brenda Maddox, Helen Wallace, Ben MacIntyre and Adrian Lee, Jane M. Crick, Gabriella Gamini, Barry Millington, John Hopkins Golf Correspondent, John Higgins, Raymond Keene, Adam Sage, Matt Dickinson, Peter Stothard, Paul Wilkinson, Paul Watkins, David Lowry, David Orr, Katherine Bergen and Damian Whitworth, Carl Mortished, International Business Editor, William Rees~Mogg, Melvyn Bragg, Jill Sherman, Richard Owen, Erica Wagner, Roger Boyes, Oliver August, Robert Cole, City Correspondent, David C. Green, David Hands Rugby Correspondent, John Allison, Richard Duce, Dominic Kennedy, Giles Whittell, Nick Nuttall, Technology Correspondent, Christopher Walker, Chris Parker, Simon De Bruxelles, Jane Shilling, Des Dearlove, Richard Schweid, Kathryn Knight, Philip Delves Broughton, Matthew Parris, Justin Webster, Richard Goldsmith, Amanda Craig, Chris McGrath, Alan Franks, Russell Jenkins, John Shaw, Alan Hamilton and Richard Miles, Joanna MacGregor Gerald Larner, Danny Kushlick, Brian Glanville, Philip Webster and Janet Bush, Philip Webster and Michael Evans, Richard Miles, Graham Searjeant, Fraser Nelson, David Sinclair, John Swales, Martin Waller, Chris Ayres, Marianne Curphey Insurance Correspondent, Delyth Morgan, Tom Rhodes, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, Marianne Curphey, David Powell, James Christopher, Christopher Fairfax, Neil Cooper, Michael Henderson, Robin Lodge, David Maddock, Susan MacDonald, Valerie Grove, Graham Cavency, Richard Miles Banking Correspondent, Emma Rolph, Leslie Isaiah Thomas, Laura Brook and Dom Young, Lisa Verrico, Arthur Leathley Transport Correspondent,
ResumoMystery over where Linda McCartney really died 20 million calls swamp French football lines Index Abbey National Superbug defies antibiotics Best for World Book Day Two songs for fans who get to France Aspirin's Latest Miracle Pay warning by Brownp Step aside Dicaprio Jobs My Story When canaries sing and no bad birds squawk Political Sketch Thatcher speaks of pessimism over Ulster peace deal Marchers Wait BT Jail deaths of blacks 'not linked to genetics' Ministry looks into Gulf War race claim News in Brief Window cleaners die in 100ft fall Smugglers face tough penalties London councils £4bn in debt Teachers' talks make progress Circus owner on cruelty charge Student wins ?2.3m damages Police officer 'lured girls home to rape' Paul Wilkinson on alleged victims who kept silent Post-mortem fails to discover why girl died in nanny's care Smuggler at centre of sea strike Secret drug conviction led to sacking, writes Richard Duce in Calais Direct By a Correspondent: Stolen statue was buried deep in garden Rover Men with no future keep looking on the bright side of Liffe High Speed Processing with 64Mb Memory Sacked organist to appeal to Queen Ruth Gledhill reports on an acrimonious dispute that has shoked church music circles Home works Uranium deal had to be a secret, says Blair Mother 's lover denies murder of 'torture' girl Dolphin Domingo demands opera seat price curb Karate man punched judge after traffic row French feeling Diana 'guilt' By a Correspondent: Malaria protection played part in suicide Airbus Healthy interest in Hirst's chest Critics of a sale of mordern art say people have been deluded by the hype of Cool Britannia In the Saturday Times Jockey who quit blames fear of developing Cjd The High Court has been told of worries over growth hormone. Dominic Kennedy reports Disease kills woman who was vegetarian for 13 years Halifax Spanish fishermen fined £1m By a Correspondent: Pair deny stealing bluebells from wood Travelodge Bishop joins the calls for repeal of beef ban Plan to help bright pupils 'fails the all-round child' Plants of the future to grass on thieves Musicians develop more brainpower By our Environment Correspondent: Pollution 'biggest influence on climate' Renault Marquess gives up ancestral home He spent £7m improving his house, but now Lord Bristol has sold the lease, writes Daniel McGrory Dixons By a Correspondent: Pair died in car fire after biker jumped lights Archer buys piece of running history NR Northern Rock Army launches gender-free tests for new recruits By a Correspondent: Model cleared of bottle attack on boyfriend DB Dun & Bradstreet Ferry's dry run reverses tide of history Campari and Luton part, with bitterness Dance music discovery is reel thing British Poultry ?3bn a year lost to Eu fraud and mismanagement Andrew Pierce reports on a waste of taxpayers' money Currys Norris 's goal to be top city father Parkinson defends secret donations Britannia Irvine condemns equality policy In Parliament Nurses told to challenge poor levels of care Prime Health Bride goes bananas over photos Homebase Neo-Nazi poll blitz wins jobless voters Sensational Lowest Price in the Uk! (AFP): Murder call on video (AP): 'Saviour' of Greece dies at 91 Laura Ashley mid Season sale Eurocrats vote for one-day strike over jobs Italy outraged by proposal to sell Colosseum P&O Picture Gallery NatWest Riviera murder suspect held by police Troubled states cast long nuclear shadow Isolated Communist leader vows to resist Yeltsin candidate Time Computer Systems The Sunday Times Kosovo fighting flares on eve of ballot Ranchers started rainforest fires to claim aid Debate of the age Decision on Vanunu's parole put back to next month (Reuters): Appeal robs dockers of their triumph Hi-tech cards will help us to screen 'illegals' Travel First Class Democracy flourished in the shade of the Jolly Roger New rescarch suggest pirates treasured civil liberties and social welfare benefits, writes James Bone Rwanda public to see executions Government orders death in a football stadium for those guilty of 1994 genocide writes David Orr Florida socialite accused of abducting daughters 19 years ago Directline Cyprus protest over live-fire exercises World in Brief Netanyahu to see Mubarak (AP): French MPs vote for euro (Reuters): Honduran plea ignored China revives Taiwan talks Model sues 'kinky' tycoon Check out this stealthy killer Dr Thomas Stuttaford reports on a form of screening that will pick up cancers of the colon and rectum and how aspirin can cut the incidence of the diseases; why shaking a baby can cause irreparable brain damage; and uncovering the heavy drinker Tiny Computers Limited Aspirin and Cancer Shaking a baby can be lethal Spotting the heavy drinker Plain English No gibberish British Jews on the state of the nation Israel 50 Years In the second part of our series on Israel, Bill Frost and Grace Bradberry canvass the views of British Jews Dan Jacobson Midland Bank Miriam Margolyes Janet Reger Let 's invite Shakespeare to the feast Robert Nye says the Bard, not St George, is the lion of England PR offensive The Times Diary Picture Gallery From Beatles to Blair Thanks to pop music, we have learnt to listen to our hearts more than our heads Cultural orbit The Times Diary Heavy load The Times Diary Nuclear leaks are bad news There was too much secrecy, says Magnus Linklater Irradiated Rage Blair has done nothing to be ashamed of at Dounreay Escape from the Steak The time has come to drop the beef-on-the-bone ban This Day for Readers If the Book is to survive, books should be better made Doubt raised on Dounreay waste Duty on diesel Collective responsibility in Cabinet The character and art of Eric Gill Drugs strategy Hunting damage Government bans Nhs research cuts McCartney death puts focus on life Sex offenders Chancing their luck? Court Circular Today's royal engagements Appointments Memorial service Picture Gallery School news Dinners Personal Column Birthdays today Luncheons Service luncheon York Minster University news Forthcoming marriages Anniversaries The Times Court & Social Immigration Marriage Church news Joan Heal Joan Heal, actress and singer, died on April 12 aged 75. She was born on October 17,1922 Multiple Display Advertising Items Personal Column Prominent Placements Norma Skemp Rec. Ltd Scandanavian Plastics Limited Major Sir John Fuller Major Sir John Fuller, Bt. landowner, died from pneumonia on April 3 aged 61, He was born on December 18,1936 Legal, Public, Company & Parliamentary Notices Alberto Sartoris Alberto Sartoris, architect and theorist, died on March 8 aged 97 He was born on February 2,1901 (From our Own Correspondent): The Paris Salons The Times Crossword No 20,773 News Picture Gallery Business Newspapers Support Recycling Sport D General : eastern Scotland and England ? Sw… Insurance Services Arts In the Times Features Travel Books The Papers Lottery Numbers Tv Listings Opinion Columns Obituaries Letters Inside Section 2 Today Mellon Bank under $24bn siege Bank of New York launches sector's biggest hostile bid Liffe defers publication of proposal for reform Annual report on UK plc British Midland Business Dfs issues second warning Sacked Biotech executive talks to us regulators Arts Sport City cheered by jobs and earnings news Television and Radio Business Today Leschly astonished by Glaxo retreat Britannia pilots set to strike on eve of flotation Tourist Rates Argos plc Bank of Scotland plans to diversify with acquisitions Axa Sun jumps ahead despite selling shake-up Rake voted a senior at KPMG Philips expects strong growth Oh brother, we're Game for ?50m Strauss-Kahn in pledge to sell off Credit Lyonnais Microsoft cautious SNCF reduces loss Unity Trust at record Budgens expansion Monument alliance Woolwich 'one-off' Tax costs hit US Airways Carlton to spend £20m Army deal safeguards up to 500 GKN jobs Business Roundup Euro Disney loss falls but investors remain concerned Jjb Sports plans to open 50 more stores this year S&n joins Lloyd in sports clubs Drinks group takes 15% stake in Next Generation By our City Editor: Give Rose a chance to grow on you Commentary Picture Gallery Falling prices hurt Shell's us company Castle paid £520,000 in compensation Argos plc Abbey sells Spanish operation Commodities Liffe Options Pilkington shows signs of being on road to recovery Stock Market Michael Clark London Financial Futures Money Rates (%) European Money Deposits (%) Gold/precious Metals (Baird & Co) Sterling Spot and Forward Rates Major Indices Recent Issues Major Changes GKN Euro Disney Dollar Rates Other Sterling Ftse Volumes Scottish success story Tempus JJB Sports Wall Street Outdated laws about to crumble in the face of Citigroup 's bank raid Crossed line The Times City Diary Shell puts itself in for the hamburger test High and dry The Times City Diary Beam me up The Times City Diary BT Card enables PCs to tune in to digital radio Leschly blames Glaxo for failed merger Paul Durman hears the first insider's account from SmithKline's chief Life and times of a £100bn deal Any Other Business Budget hurts earners abroad Accountancy The abolition of a safeguard against double taxation must be rethought, says Douglas Fairbairn Rake 's progress into senior partners' circle Cadcentre shares fall on trading statement Bupa announces profits drop as Jacobs retires Siemens 'close to selling Pc arm' High-tech investment by Reuters Dawson makes payout pledge Standard Life Bank Cosalt registers improvement Saint-Gobain bids for Ashworth Bentalls boosted by site deals From a Correspondent in Seatile: Boeing's earnings fall 91% in first quarter Tomkins acquisition referred to MMC Business Roundup Fraudbusters' success Proteus seeks £7.6m Delta sells to managers Grant appointment Optimism from Lex Severfield chief goes Arena 's racecourse deal The Times Unit Trust Information Service Share Offer Buyers stay away PA Consulting Group U. 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Marshals Bringer of gladdie tidings Filthy old devil Night of the living dread POP American blues guitarist fills the Albert Hall; plus the band still happy to be out of syne Chamber plot There are Crimes and crimes Soldiering on New Model Army Coppola is exonerated by appeal New Movies: Geoff Brown sees a great maverick go mainstream for John Grisham's The Rainmaker 'Tedious and cliched' City of angels with dirty faces New on Video Destructing Harry Brendel in bulk Briefly Noted Opera & Ballet Coliseum 0171 632 8300 (24hr) English… Antique & Art Fairs Today's Choice Aida Speedy Gonzalez Clive Davis meets the spry Cuban grandfather whose 80 years belie his spirited key board playing A Fool and His Money 298,000 Readers of this Section Attend the Theatre… Beaten by the rhythm Growing up with bites of Bach Hilary Hahn is one teenage violinist resolved not be marketed as a glamour-puss, as she tells John Allison Percussive miss of a hit Glennie/LSO Barbican Hall New Classical CDs: Decca's Turkish delight; streamlined Schoenberg; and English songs Opera Finely attuned to the past Vienna Sextet Queen Elizabeth Hall Interminable summer nights Philharmonia/Pletnev Festival Hall Crème '98 Virtuoso with visuals Manchester The faces of the deep An anthology reveals one ocean of water and another of the imagination, Paul Watkins discovers The Sea Granta 61 The Times Which words in the beginning? The pros and cons of literal thinking: Peter Stothard lakes a look at a new New Testament and an old Irish monk Don't cut out and keep The "Priest" the Called Him The land that is a timebomb A new history of Kosovo cuts through the misunderstanding that has clouded its past, says Paddy Ashdown You'll need a good map On World Book Day, Michael Hofmann circumnavigates poetry All the colours of emotion caught in black and white New Authors Fundamentals of revenge from a literary outcast The Times It pays to be incisive Bibliomane Conditional fee deal in arbitration valid Proving owner guilty over use by another driver The Times Confining remedy of rectification of settlement Tankel and Others v Tankel Religious poverty justifies housing benefit Regina v Stratford-upon-Avon Council Housing Benefit Review Board and Another, Ex parte White Appeal invalidated Regina v Immigration Appeal Tribunnal, Ex parte Jeyeanthan New arrangements for delivering judgments Compassion balance Corrections Pack your Bags Bargains of the week: from cycling in the Cotswolds to the historic sites of Turkey's mountatinous interior Airline Network Americana Best Offers! 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Hidden talent Progress report Tea ceremony Healy falls short Beverley The Times The Glow-Worm turns to Italian Derby Racing: Hills-Trained Colt Bypasses Epsom Classic despite Success in Blue Riband Trial Yesterday's Results Perth Fontwell Park Course Specialists By our Racing Staff: Speculation over successor angers Bhb chairman Rapid Raceline If music be the food of sport, play on Listening to bagpipes or humming a tune could cure your rhythm blues The Times Word-Watching Sheehan on bridge Constable displays seeds of success Badminton Winning Move Keene on chess Thomas's course given new severity Equestrianism Lenihan is favourite to succeed Whelan Rugby Union: Second Defeat in Four Days Wipes out Newcastle's Premiership Advaniage Wasps halt the title march Battling Irish sink deeper into trouble For the Record Today's Fixtures Culhbert 218. Mistral women (alter 7 races): BT Norman ruled out by shoulder surgery Sport in Brief McRae forced to retire Le Long steals show Henley extends invitation Williams sisters chosen Brass glitters Collings on target Wurz seizes his chance to take over in the fast lane Kevin Eason reports on the young Austrian whose extravagant skills have left some established drivers toiling in his slipstream 3Com Heiner and crewhold off spimecl challenge Sailing Marathon man still setting records Flora London Marathon David Powell on arguably the most successful British distance runner Spotlight in Spain switches to young pretender Golf Scotland not yet the finished article Football: Brown's Experimental Side Fails to Get the Better of Second-Rate Opposition Chelsea move for Lazio forward Klinsmann forced to sit and watch Irish celebrate as Patterson shows the way to goal Le Tissier remains rare source of natural talent Gascoigne facing vital test Ortega hints at delights still to come Last Night's Football Results Rusedski let down by backhand Tennis: Canny Becker is Quick to Capitalise on Familiar Failings of Briton Bombardier Word-Watching Hendry on brink of defeat Snooker Radio Choice Watch bookworms wriggle Television Choice Telepathy? 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Institute of Disctors Multiple Display Advertising Items Legal La Creme Creme Direct Secretary/pa Consultant Support Role Full Time Secretary Execitive Relocation World Book Day Every child shall have a voucher It began in Barcclona and now it's big in Britain: Derwent May explains the growth of World Bood Day Happy with a biography Welcoming today's celebration of books, Tony Blair explains why they remain so important to him Burn them or bury them: you can't beat books If they were to be invented now, says Melvyn Bragg, books would be hailed as a brilliant innovation Ode to the Book Waterstone's Readon Group texts - and how to enjoy them Reading groups are back in vogue with an enthusiasm once given to Tupperware parties. Malcolm Bradbury is among their admirers Why girls and boys like different books Valerie Grove says men's approach to narrative is spatial, while women's is emotional and domestic Waterstone's Readon A shelf where old books never die Some people discard books. Peter Stothard, Editor of The Times, has an eye to posterity Recapturing the feeling Looking again at the books she loved as a girl Libby purves was shaken by what she found Of reading when young Sitting at the feet of ghosts That historical fiction should enjoy a glorious renaissance as century and millennium draw to a close is no coincidence says Helen Dunmore Waterstone's Readon The Times / Waten Stone's literary quizrth of book £1,500 worth of book vouchers to be won Aid aims to satisfy a hunger for knowledge From Guyana to Ghana, Book Aid is spreading the word by shipping out textbooks. Susan MacDonald reports A healthy nation should rejoice in translation Erica Wagner wonders why the English, unlike the French or Germans, seem imprisoned in their own language Waterstone's Readon When their life is your brief As a biographer Brenda Maddox laments the power of the burgeoning archives market Exit, pursued by a character One-time author Alan Franks recollecrs the perils of publication with a shudder I doorstepped my way to a bestseller Publisher Patrick Janson-Smith is prepared to take a gamble with a first novel. But will it pay off? Waterstone's Readon Censorship, freedom and the book Derwent May finds an unexpected threat to traditions of tolerance A Testimony and a Therapy Love me, love my bedside In courtship, your choice of books is crucial. Katherine Bergen and Damian Whitworth suggest some lures So what, exactly, is a classic? Philip Howard takes his net and attempts to catch the butterfly word of literature Waterstone's Readon Catalonia Lovers say it with roses and a spot of literature Giles Tremlett introduces as 12-page report o Catalonia, which today honours its patron saint, St George Poet with a mission to promote culture Prosperity can't be measured in pesetas Edward Owen on promoting yet preserving a way of life Airtel Catalunya Rivers of romance in the city of sieges Giles Tremlett on how Girona resists every invader but the dedicated tourist A teeming life force under wetland calm The delta has been a test of how scriously government is taking conservation Giles Tremlett on how Girona resists every invader but the dedicated tourist Digging up the past to enrich the future Justin Webster in a city newly proud of its outstanding Roman heritage Las Ramblas: vibrant heart and lungs of the old quarter In Barcelona, art is not just in the galleries: Giles Tremlett marvels at old churches in the Gothic Quanter (left) and the warped and wonderful buildings of the great Modernist architect Antonio Gaudi (below) Catalan Modernists led by Eixample Portrait of an artist returning to his roots Surrounded by stars and in seventh heaven Edward Owen makes the pilgrimage to two summits of culinary skil, finds a hotel that is the height of discreet luxury, takes a shine to Frcixcnet's fine sparkling wine and slakes his thirst for knowledge Gastronomy Spanish cavas put the fizz into Britain Sparkling Wines All you need to know but were afraid to cask Wine Course Generalitat de Catalunya Dali's fascinating retreat goes public Edward Owen visits a hideaway with a pool of curious shape where a lot of naughtiness went on City that buzzes in the small hours It all happens later than late, says Richard Schweid Freixenet
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