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News 

• Burns was my biggest inspiration, admits Dylan
  By Melanie Reid
• Why honour deal that had come unstuck?
  By Lorraine Davidson
• McConnell denies “stitch up” over special envoy role
  By Lorraine Davidson
• Punk's Shirley Temple should be happy
  By Mike Wade
• Lottery Results
• Banks will pay €500m for rescue
  By Brian Carey and Colin Coyle
• Patients ‘at risk’ from flawed £12bn IT system
  By Jon Ungoed-Thomas
• The Cabinet reshuffle: supergroup, or a sad tribute act?
  By Jonathan Oliver, Isabel Oakeshott and Marie Woolf
• Asteroid blast may have thwarted life on Mars
  By Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
• Tesco ditches tainted Chinese sweets
  By Jon Ungoed-Thomas
• Tired Sir Trevor to quit ITN again
  By Dipesh Gadher, Media Correspondent
• Autism genes can add up to genius
  By Jonathan Leake
• With one swift snip of wire a new forest is born
  By Richard Goss
• Tenors honour Pavarotti with his dream concert
  By Dipesh Gadher Media Correspondent
• Dying patient forced to pay £20,000 for NHS care
  By Sarah-Kate Templeton
• News in Brief
• New Met chief quizzed on audit
  By David Leppard
• Britons accused over roadside bomb network
  By Paul Henderson and Robert Watts
• There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all
  By David Leppard
• Queen’s maestros laud last hero of great war
  By Richard Brooks, Arts Editor
• Red tassels are only remains of saintly cardinal
  By Simon Caldwell and Ruth Gledhill
• Cool-headed father of 007 saved MI6
  By Michael Smith
• New minister may cap immigration
  By Jonathan Oliver Political Editor
• Government will spy on every call and e-mail
  By David Leppard
• War on Taliban cannot be won, says army chief
  By Christina Lamb Helmand, Afghanistan
• Cap’n Roman Abramovich builds his Bismarck
  By Maurice Chittenden and Chris Gourlay
• Britain spirals into recession this winter
  By Robert Watts and David Smith, Economics Editor
• Mandelson damned PM to top Tory
  By Martin Ivens, Jonathan Oliver and Isabel Oakeshott
• Relentless Taliban just keep coming
• Grim reality of life beyond Helmand
  By Christina Lamb
• Hillary Clinton praises Sarah Palin
  By Sarah Baxter
• Desperate McCain gets tough with attack on Obama’s character
  By Sarah Baxter, Washington
• World news in brief
• Price rises to force cuts in water use
  By Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor
• Return of the geisha
  By Michael Sheridan
• Saatchi backs angry art of Middle East
  By Richard Brooks
• Correction
• European summit split over how to halt meltdown
  By Richard Woods and Nicola Smith
• Bad Luck Chuck loses four Wall Street jobs
  By Dominic Rushe
• Mittal drops £16bn as crunch bites
  By Steven Swinford
• Head of failed Lehman sees wife make art fortune
  By Chris Gourlay
• Loner gunman shoots Democrat maverick
• I said I’d get tough with knifings, says Boris Johnson
  By David Leppard
• Our boys share a sperm-donor father
  By Sarah-Kate Templeton
• Armed racist Ellis Hammond's police links ‘kept from court’
  By Daniel Foggo
• Middle-class French fall for the gigolo
  By Matthew Campbell, Paris
• Life insurer blocks Heath Ledger cash
  By John Harlow, Los Angeles
• Makaton - Sign of the times
  By Roger Waite
• Somali pirates vow to stand and fight
  By Rob Crilly in Nairobi and Matthew Campbell
• It’s ‘payback’ as OJ is convicted of robbery
  By Tony Allen-Mills in New York
• Botched investigation leads to British Transport Police overhaul
  By Daniel Foggo
• Glasgow space congress brings it all home
  By Allan Brown
• The colourful side of Labour’s Gray man
  By Gillian Bowditch
• The revolution starts here
  By Sian Griffiths
• A poem learnt by heart is a friend for life
• Weather: torrential rain expected as strong winds hit Wales and the South West
  By Paul Simons
• Derek Brown convicted of double murder despite absence of victims' bodies
  By Adam Fresco, Crime Correspondent
• Man pleads guilty to killing Hell's Angel Gerry Tobin
  By Russell Jenkins
• Picture: final seconds of armed robber with gun before he is shot by police sniper
  By Sean O'Neill
• Product reviews: Multitools
• Driving games get serious
  By Dan Emery
• Game review: Pure
  By Stuart Andrews
• Don't panic
• Gadgets of the week: Nintendo DSi
  By Alex Pell
• Private-sector space travel
  By Mark Harris in Seattle, New Tech City
• Gadgets of the week
  By Alex Pell Matthew Bingham
• Fighting insurgents in Baghdad, USA

Comment 

• Atticus
  By Roland White
• Right, brothers. Let the music stop
• Time for tin hats in the age of austerity
• Mischievous Mandy drops another brick
  By Martin Ivens
• English is our great prize but teachers are tossing it away
  By Minette Marrin
• Boris has wielded a cosh for real policing
  By Simon Jenkins
• A gamble that seems destined to fail
• Out of the darkness
• Goodbye, Mr Chips of Whitehall
  By Anthony Seldon
• To halt the bank tsunami, slash interest rates
  By Vince Cable
• Key to successful education
• Dubai’s threat to Heathrow
• Voters have the power to punish failure
• Points
• Exit the awful Ian Blair, re-enter the awful Mandelson
  By Rod Liddle
• Don’t push, having faith in a child works wonders
  By India Knight
• Behind the lipstick, the pitbull vanishes
  By Andrew Sullivan
• Fingers on buzzers, you bunch of ignorant twerps
  By Jeremy Clarkson
• Hardcore made easy
  By Rachel Johnson
• Belief in the office
• Fit like a glove
• Sir Ian Blair and the Mayor of London
• British design
• Street Pastors bring prayer to the mean streets
  By Brian Pedley
• Simple but effective
• Police go free
• Cricket bias against the spinner
• Credo: The spark of God within us is truth, not empty words
  By Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba
• Tuition fees: the middle classes can't pay more

Business 

• Iceland's Kaupthing seeks to calm fears on finances
  By Matthew Goodman
• Bet on Warren Buffett, not on slogans
  By Dominic Rushe: Wall Street
• Business Letters
• Britain spirals into recession this winter
  By Robert Watts and David Smith, Economics Editor
• Wachovia bank deal in the balance
  By Iain Dey
• Time for a big, bold cut in interest rates
  By David Smith: Economic Outlook
• There’s no accounting for bankers’ greed
  By John Waples, Business Editor
• Plea from chief of Renault and Nissan for EU car subsidies
  By Ray Hutton in Paris
• Old ‘friends’ are happy to blame US for the chaos
  By Irwin Stelzer: American Account
• Market crash rocks insurance giant Aviva
  By Iain Dey
• Banks taxi for Gatwick airport sale
  By Dominic O’Connell
• Frozen out by utility bills
  By Danny Fortson
• Baugur seeks to reassure UK retailers
  By Matthew Goodman
• European summit split over how to halt meltdown
  By Richard Woods and Nicola Smith
• Bad Luck Chuck loses four Wall Street jobs
  By Dominic Rushe
• Row over financing for car-wash giant IMO Car Wash
  By Ben Marlow
• Magnet firms told to wait for cash
  By Ben Marlow
• Mittal drops £16bn as crunch bites
  By Steven Swinford
• US engineering group Jacobs set to win British missile plant
  By Dominic O’Connell
• Interest rates to drop to 50-year low
  By David Smith, Economics Editor
• National Grid in £17.5bn upgrade
  By Danny Fortson
• Ghost of a chance for new money
• JP Morgan ‘brought down’ Lehman Brothers
  By Iain Dey and Danny Fortson
• Oiling the financial machine
  By John Waples, Iain Dey, Andrew Stone and Jonathan Oliver
• Man in the street takes a dim view of the bailout
• Bet on Warren Buffett, not on slogans
  By Dominic Rushe
• Prufrock: Aggregate is a dish best eaten...
  By Kate Walsh
• BAE split could do the trick in US
  By Dominic O'Connell: Inside the City
• How I Made It: Nissim Alfassa, Founder of NMI Safety Systems
  By Rachel Bridge
• Business Doctor: Hiring an offender? | Buying shares in private firms
• Follow the rules on redundancies
  By Andrew Stone
• Animal magic does the trick for Vets Now
  By Andrew Stone
• An icy blast cuts deep into Iceland
  By Matthew Goodman
• Bonfire of the hedgies
  By Kate Walsh
• Kris Gopalakrishnan: HCL vs Infosys
  By The Andrew Davidson Interview
• America's darkest fear: to end up like Detroit
  By Tony Allen-Mills in Detroit
• Depression of 2008
  By David Smith

Money 

• Ten tips for distressed landlords
  By Ali Hussain
• My battle to show I could pay off loan
• How secure will my offset mortgage be?
  By Diana Wright
• Get ready for a cut in Bank rate
  By Ali Hussain
• Savers losing out in flight to safety
  By Kathryn Cooper
• A question of money
  By Diana Wright
• Warning over pension pitfalls
  By Jennifer Hill
• Irn-Bru boss snaps up shares while sales fizz
• Will Brown bear the brunt for banks?
  By William Kay
• What to buy, when to buy and how to do it
• How the experts thrive in a crash
  By Jennifer Hill
• Cheap shares to snap up now
  By Jennifer Hill
• Where on earth can you make a decent return?
  By Kathryn Cooper
• Savers asked to give up income guarantees
  By Ali Hussain
• Profit on the swings
  By Peter Shearlock: Heaven and Hell
• Investment club burnt by banks
• Little or nothing for shareholders
  By Jennifer Hill
• Our guide to the best home for your cash
  By Kathryn Cooper
• Briefing

Sport 

• Aiden McGeady caps rout
  By Douglas Alexander at Celtic Park
• Derek Riordan rocks Dons
  By Simon Buckland at Pittodrie stadium
• Kevin Phillips strikes to lift Birmingham into top spot
  By Paul Rowan at St Andrew’s
• Martin Jol: Spurs have identity crisis
  By Jonathan Northcroft
• Danny Cipriani out as Wasps lose
  By Stephen Jones
• Clumsy Preston keep sliding as defensive woes continue
  By Roy Collins at Vicarage Road
• Beattie double turns the tide
  By John Aizlewood at Bramall Lane
• Championship Round-up
  By Peter Wilson
• Football Shorts: Gerry Francis ponders Newcastle coaching job
• Shot at glory for Billy Mehmet
  By Mark Palmer
• Craig Gordon interview
  By Douglas Alexander
• Sasa Papac at war with Bosnia
  By Rodger Baillie
• Andy Robinson is hungry for more
  By Mark Palmer
• Time for England to gamble with Nick Abendanon
  By Stuart Barnes
• Willie Walker tramples on Wasps
  By Stephen Jones at Kingsholm
• Richard Mustoe keeps hungry young Sharks at bay
  By Nick Cain at Edgeley Park
• Bristol suffer for their sins
  By Barry Newcombe at Franklin’s Gardens
• Bath take eye off the ball
  By Nigel Botherway at The Rec
• Dimitar Berbatov shines as Manchester United sting Blackburn Rovers in the rain
  By Jonathan Northcroft at Ewood Park
• Australians put their crown on the line
  By Simon Wilde
• Why I’m mad about Zarkava
  By Hugh McIlvanney
• Padraig Harrington revels in storm
  By Paul Forsyth at Carnoustie
• Rory Delap: missile launcher
  By Brian Doogan
• Lewis Hamilton sits pretty but needs to be big in Japan
  By Martin Brundle
• Confident Ashley Young plans to reclaim his England place
  By Joe Lovejoy
• Sport letters: Defending Nick Faldo
• Women show the way
  By Richard Lewis
• Coach’s firing leaves ragged Raiders in turmoil
  By Brian Doogan
• An awful lot of football chants are difficult to defend
  By Rod Liddle
• I’m embarrassed to go out, says Aaron Lennon
  By Joe Lovejoy
• Fabio Capello seeks Wembley boost
  By Joe Lovejoy
• Sacking is spur to Martin Jol's ambition
  By Jonathan Northcroft
• Hooligan hell for shamed Napoli
  By Ian Hawkey
• Buddhas backfire on Jurgen Klinsmann
  By Ian Hawkey
• Roman Bednar has last word
  By Joe Lovejoy at The Hawthorns
• Juan Martin Hernandez heads the prize pack
  By Stephen Jones
• Tournament’s topsy-turvy nature proves enthralling
• Stuart Barnes picks his five summer signings to star in the Heineken Cup
• Questions of Sport: Karren Brady
• Caught in Time: Franz Klammer for gold
  By Greg Struthers

Arts & Entertainment 

• Tenors honour Pavarotti with his dream concert
  By Dipesh Gadher Media Correspondent
• Competition to revive dying art of poetry recital by children
  By Jack Grimston
• Queen’s maestros laud last hero of great war
  By Richard Brooks, Arts Editor
• Sparking danger with a passion
  By Profile: Sherry Jones
• Saatchi backs angry art of Middle East
  By Richard Brooks
• Toasting victory with champagne and a Gurkha battle cry
  By Joanna Lumley
• Middle-class French fall for the gigolo
  By Matthew Campbell, Paris
• Life insurer blocks Heath Ledger cash
  By John Harlow, Los Angeles
• Gangsters feel the credit crunch
• Serious music means more than just classical
  By Joan McAlpine
• Stick with us, son, we’re gonna be big
  By Cosmo Landesman
• The antidote to universal troubles
• Bookwise
  By Barbara Hall
• Let’s put the drink down and just talk
• News Review Interview: Richard Madeley
  By Rosie Millard
• Stick with us, son, we’re gonna be big
• Fear not, Chris Patten aka 'Fatty Pang' says all will be fine
• A poem learnt by heart is a friend for life
• The Sunday Times pick of the paperbacks
• The Sunday Times books of the week, October 5 2008
• Have a Nice Day by Justin Webb / In Defence of America by Bronwen Maddox
  By Reviewed by Ed King
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
  By Reviewed by Nick Rennison
• Radio Waves
  By Paul Donovan
• Radio Waves
  By Gerry McCarthy
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
  By Reviewed by John Carey
• Doors Open by Ian Rankin
  By Reviewed by John Dugdale
• Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
  By Reviewed by Ben Lewis
• Me Cheeta: The Autobiography
  By Reviewed by Lynne Truss
• A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
  By Reviewed by Christopher Hart
• Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey
  By Reviewed by John Guy
• Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration by Adam Boulton
  By Reviewed by Rod Liddle
• Othello, Theatre Royal Plymouth - the Sunday Times review
  By John Peter
• The Fall - the Sunday Times review
  By Edward Porter
• Heavy Load - the Sunday Times review
  By Cosmo Landesman
• Brideshead Revisited - the Sunday Times review
  By Cosmo Landesman
• Import Export - the Sunday Times review
  By Edward Porter
• Fear(s) of the Dark - the Sunday Times review
  By Cosmo Landesman
• Waste, Almeida, N1 - the Sunday Times review
• Merce Cunningham - the Sunday Times review
• The comedians entertaining the troops
  By Stephen Armstrong
• The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
• Short Cuts
• Who will chair the Arts Council - Liz Forgan or Helena Kennedy?
  By Richard Brooks
• Tarell Alvin McCraney: Out of the hoods
  By Louis Wise
• Face of the Moment: Claire Foy
• Creditors, Donmar Warehouse - the Sunday Times review
  By John Peter
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
  By Cosmo Landesman
• Fly Me to the Moon - the Sunday Times review
  By Edward Porter
• Jamie Oliver’s army has lost its way
  By AA Gill
• David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII
• Kevin Spacey revives The Norman Conquests
  By Jasper Rees
• Why does music so often divide the sexes?
  By Andrew Smith
• Come Dancing, Theatre Royal Stratford East - the Sunday Times review
  By Louis Wise
• The Revolution continues at the new Saatchi Gallery
  By Waldemar Januszczak
• My Must-Sees: Saskia Reeves
• Song of the year: 2006 Amy Winehouse - Rehab
  By Dan Cairns
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Theatre Royal Haymarket - the Sunday Times review
  By Christopher Hart
• Snow Patrol on fame, the future and A Hundred Million Suns
  By Mark Edwards
• Ingmar Bergman and his lovers
  By John-Paul Flintoff
• Jason Statham, last action hero
  By Chrissy Iley
• The hottest downloads: Kaiser Chiefs, John Legend featuring Andre 3000, Sugababes, The Unbending Trees featuring Tracey Thorn
• Relative Values: Kathy Lette and her daughter, Georgie
• Annie Leibovitz: Nothing left to hide
  By Report by Cathy Galvin. Portrait by Platon
• A Life in the Day: John Adams
• Will Young at Cadogan Hall, SW1 - the Sunday Times review
  By Lisa Verrico
• La Calisto - the Sunday Times review
  By Hugh Canning
• Playlist
• Breaking act: Kid British
  By Dan Cairns
• Bruckner: F minor Mass - The Sunday Times review
  By Stephen Pettitt
• Magnus Lindberg: Complete Piano Music - The Sunday Times review
  By Paul Driver
• Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 and 22 - The Sunday Times review
  By David Cairns
• Britten: Billy Budd - The Sunday Times review
  By Hugh Canning
• Handel: Italian Cantatas Vol 4 - The Sunday Times review
  By Hugh Canning
• Oasis: Dig out Your Soul - The Sunday Times review
  By Mark Edwards
• Top 10 paperbacks - fiction
• Top 10 hardbacks - non-fiction
• Top 10 paperbacks - non-fiction
• Top 10 hardbacks - fiction

Life & Style 

• Oliver pelted over cooking crusade
  By Maurice Chittenden
• Birthdays
• Anniversaries
• Toasting victory with champagne and a Gurkha battle cry
  By Joanna Lumley
• Our boys share a sperm-donor father
  By Sarah-Kate Templeton
• Makaton - Sign of the times
  By Roger Waite
• Poker player plays cards right to go pro
  By Neil White
• Fame and fortune: Gary Rhodes
  By Ali Hussain
• There is no case for a mandatory age barrier
• Most workers know when it’s time to quit
• Coping with older staff is easier for big firms
• I’m a good teacher. Why must I stop?
  By Chloe Rhodes
• Diversity is a pillar of Tesco success
  By Karen Bartlett
• US-style policy would keep the doors open
• Restaurant review: Michael Winner in Venice
  By Michael Winner
• Winner’s letters
• The revolution starts here
  By Sian Griffiths
• Answer the question: Chris Woodhead
• Let’s put the drink down and just talk
• News Review Interview: Richard Madeley
  By Rosie Millard
• A poem learnt by heart is a friend for life
• New home reflects a Hebrides love affair
  By Jennifer McBain
• Scots tenants can get deals on their rent
  By Greg Gordon
• Is it worth it? Bothy, Midmar, Aberdeenshire, £95,000 o/o
  By Tim Dawson
• Anniversaries: Oct 4-5
• Birthdays: Oct 4-5
• Court Circular: October 4-5
• Feather Report
  By Derwent May
• Questions answered: dressage, colourful names and war poetry
• Modern times: door etiquette, dukes and odd socks
  By Philip Howard
• Dr Know
• Readers reply: public displays of affection
• Product reviews: Multitools
• Fighting insurgents in Baghdad, USA
• Don’t drive out nature
  By Caroline Donald
• Wormald's Week: autumn leaves, grapevines and windy winters
  By Neil Wormald
• Garden hedges - the great divider
  By Rachel de Thame
• Postcards from the ledge
  By Harry Mount
• Casa nostra
  By Anna Mikhailova
• Inner Vision
  By Emily Leppen
• Rooftop living
  By Hugh Pearman
• The big sleep
  By Katrina Burroughs
• Is it worth it?
  By Anna Mikhailova
• Bye-bye, buy to let?
  By Rosie Millard
• Time and place - Greg Wise
  By Interview by Caroline Rees
• Welcome to the future of property
  By David Smith
• Brighton really does rock
  By Daisy Waugh
• Capricorn
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Scorpio
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Sagittarius
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Libra
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Leo
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Virgo
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Gemini
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Cancer
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Aires
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Taurus
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Pisces
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Make tea to a tea
  By Lyn Harris
• Q&A: Russell Sage
• Home front
• Talking trousers
  By David Mills
• People like them
  By Jessica Brinton
• People like me
  By Totty de Bouvier
• It's all about me
  By Shane Watson
• I am what I am: Helmut Lang
• Hairy eyeballs
• Going up
• Aquarius
  By Shelley von Strunckel
• Home detoxing my alcoholic friend
  By John Cornwell
• Relative Values: Kathy Lette and her daughter, Georgie
• A Life in the Day: John Adams
• Best of times, worst of times: Valentine Warner
• The beholder: lipstick
  By Edwina Ings-Chambers
• The Russell Sage interview
  By Kara O'Reilly
• Going local for haircuts
  By Joanna McGarry
• Dad rules
  By Andrew Clover
• Mrs Mills solves all your problems
  By Mrs Mills
• Women who conceive accidentally on purpose
  By Clover Stroud
• Sauce: affordable wine
  By Joanna Simon
• Restaurant review: Kate Spicer at Tierra Brindisa
  By Kate Spicer
• Why do we hate some women celebrities?
  By Shane Watson
• Shop tactics
  By Laurel Ives
• Testing a Mooncup
  By Olivia Gordon
• The mineral make-up revolution
  By Edwina Ings-Chambers
• Aunt Sally: My boyfriend won't move in with me
  By Sally Brampton
• Cox's apple tart
• Pan-friend scallops with pea puree
• Guyland: stuck in the world of male spinsters
  By Martin Deeson
• Honey-roast duck with cabbage and smoked bacon
• The unsung hero: Michael Caines
  By Lucas Hollweg
• Pedalling the look
  By Kevin Braddock
• Rumer has it
  By John Harlow

Travel 

• My hols: Alexandra Fuller
• Confessions of a Tourist: Lean over the car, sir, and spread 'em
• Taking a mosaic course in Venice
  By Andrew Quested
• Chilling in Trinidad and Tobago
  By Brian Schofield
• Britain's top 10 hotels for 2009
  By Walter F Stowy
• European weekend rugby breaks
  By Anthony Peregrine
• Surcharges cut, but not by BA
• News in Brief: the £20 charge for Blackpool Pleasure Beach
• Late deals
  By Gemma Brighton
• Family adventure in Turkey
  By Simon Spilsbury
• Neofile: skydive over Everest
  By Susan d’Arcy and Stephen Bleach
• The American Museums of dirty tricks
  By Rob Ryan
• Cruise-line bargains don’t count the hidden costs
  By Chris Haslam

Driving 

• Car Clinic
• Cycle Guy
• Jeep Grand Cherokee
  By Jason Dawe