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July 20 IRA Ceasefire Takes Effect
Unionists call it a "fraud"
London and Dublin welcome the truce
ETA Urged to Call Truce
Bosnian Serbs Vote to Expel Plavsic
Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Calls For Inquiry
McAlpine Succeeds Goldsmith
Free University Tuition Ends
Thatcher Funds Free Market Research
July 19 IRA Announces New Ceasefire
The full text of the IRA statement
London and Dublin welcome the truce
Unionists Doubt Ceasefire Will Last
ETA Urged to Follow IRA Example and Call Truce
Industrialist James Goldsmith Dies
Goldsmith's colourful and eventful life
MPs Demand Action on Building Society "Carpetbaggers"
Scotland to Keep Cabinet Seat
Liberia Goes to Polls
Greens Fight "Pre-historic" Road Schemes
Charles Holds Lavish Bash for Camilla
July 18 Sinn Fein Urges New IRA Ceasefire
Full text of Sinn Fein's statement
British, Irish governments firm on decommissioning
More Health Trusts Facing Money Problems
PM Takes Devolution Crusade to Wales
Dewar: Devolution Will Help Rural Scotland
Government Attacked over Indonesian Arms Sales
Charities in Aid Plea for Sierra Leone
Warning to Incompetent Teachers
Targets For English And Welsh Schools
Tories Mark Time in Uxbridge
E-coli Bug Strikes Glastonbury
Charles Plans Lavish Party for Camilla
July 17 Radical Review of Pensions
Cooks Sets Out Foreign Policy Vision
Unionist Harden Line on Decommissioning
Call for Reform of Women's Prisons
New Measures to Limit Teenage Drinking
Browns Kicks Off Single Currency Debate
Student Anger over Tuition Fees Proposal
The Cost of Higher Education - the Facts
Government Names Referendum Dates
Married Charles Should not Head Church
Worst Teachers "Could be Ousted Within a Month"
News in Brief
July 16 New Research Shows Difficulty of Transmitting BSE to Humans
Unionist Walkout over Arms Decommissioning
Prosecutions over Sea Empress Oil Spill
Government to End Two-Tier NHS Waiting Lists
CAP Warning as EU Plans Enlargement
Euro Parliament Allows Patenting of Genes - Plant, Animal and Human
Unemployment Reaches Seven Year Low
PR Possible for 1999 European Elections
Annan Launches UN "Quiet Revolution"
Survey Shows Speed Cameras Cut Road Deaths
Aitken Returns
Competition for New Scottish Parliament Building
Government Meets Council Leaders
Students Face Tuition Fee Debts
July 15 Pensions Industry "Needs Shaking Up"
Cunningham Fails to Budge Euro Beef Ban
Straw Cracks Down on Security 'Cowboys'
Blair Assured Loyalist Ceasefire Will Hold
Water Firms to Offer Free Repair Service
Sarwar Resigns from Council
EC Plan to Extend Working Time Directive
Milosevic Elected Yugoslav President
Haughey Admits Receiving £1.3 Million
Arafat Warns of Further Middle East Unrest
Select Committee Members Named
July 14 Bosnian War Criminal Sentenced to 20 Years
Abbott to Lose Place on Treasury Select Committee
Cook Seeks to Reassure Moscow
Chris Smith to Head New Ministry
Row over Court Fees
Government Plans to Lower Age of Homosexual Consent
Government Still in Contact with Sinn Fein
Student Clashes in Nairobi
Serious Fraud Chief Urges More Power for Judges
Age Limit May Rise for Smoking
Government Launches £6.5 million Gulf War Syndrome Initiative
Church of England Debates Homosexuality
Uxbridge By-election Campaign Kicks Off
July 13 Mowlam Calls for IRA Ceasefire
Outrage at ETA Murder
West "Getting Tough" over Bosnia
Smoking Age May Rise to 18
Radioactive Waste "Dumped in Thames"
New Emphasis on Community Sentencing
Blair Battles Left-wing
Talks on Gulf War Syndrome
News in brief
July 12 Orange Parades Pass Off Peacefully
Blair Appeals to Sinn Fein "to Opt for Hope"
Violence in Run-Up to Day of Marches
Blair Says Labour Reforms Must Go On
New Help for Mining Communities
Student Loans to be Sold Off
July 11 Unionists Split Over Orange Parades
Praise for Orange Marchers
The Orange Order's Decision
Delay Over Freedom of Information Act
Sterling Surges to Seven-Year High
MPs Warn of National Savings Black Hole
Plan to Get All Schools on Internet
Doubts Over Anti-Hunting Bill
Dewar Mocks Critics of Devolution

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