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May 31 Heseltine Backs Clarke In Leadership Battle
IRA Bomb Warning Threatens Irish Peace Talks
Queen Said To Be "Irritated" Over Not Meeting Clinton
Rifkind: Devolution May Not Break Up Union
French Election Campaign Ends With National Front Leader In Brawl
Hague Attacks "Fiddled Figures" Windfall Tax
Ulster Factions Hold Talks In South Africa
Union Leader Warns Labour Over Annual Conference
Jackson Kick-starts Anti-Pollution Campaign
News In Brief
May 30 Blunkett on Collision Course Over Woodhead
Secret Ulster Talks Held in South Africa
Mowlam Seeks Parade Solution In Six Weeks
Jackson Launches Traffic Pollution Campaign
"Don't Choke Britain" - The Facts
Government Urged To Change Roads Policy
Prescott Promises Innovation For The Regions
The Tory Leadership Battle Heats Up
Northern Ireland Peace Process On Irish Election Agenda
News In Brief
May 29 Clinton Calls For IRA Ceasefire
Clinton Meets The Cabinet
Two First Ladies Tour The Globe
The US-UK Special Relationship
The Visit In Pictures
Euro: "No Cooking The Books"
Blunkett Makes Controversial Appointments
Teachers' Union Warns Of Schools Cash Crisis
Mowlam and Spring Step Up Pressure for Ceasefire
Smith Summons Lottery Fat Cats
Radical Shake-Up at Agriculture
Pledge on Gulf War Syndrome
Cook Warns Nato Troops May Have to Stay in Bosnia
Redwood Sets Out European Vision
News In Brief
May 28 Huge Pay-outs to Camelot Bosses Enrage PM
Defence Review "Not to Cut Costs"
RUC Defends Parades Policing
Mowlam Hopeful After Loyalist Talks
Government Seeks Ways of Shedding Bad Teachers
Harman Plans Full 'Pension Splitting'
Cook Sets Agenda For Key EU Summit
Europe Warns "No Give-aways"
Labour Set to Ease Immigration Controls
Short to Step Up Attack on World Poverty
Clarke Makes Move in Leadership Race
Blair Re-affirms Backing for Britain's World Cup Bid
Beckett Pledge on EMU
News In Brief
May 27 Yeltsin Upstages Nato-Russia Treaty Signing
Blair Feted on World Stage
Posthumous Pardons Considered for WWI Deserters
Ulster Talks to Avoid Violence
Chirac Warns of Return to Socialism
Beckett Pledge on EMU
Redwood: "Fightback Starts in Scotland"
Plan to Let Lay People Help Choose Judges
Hong Kong Democrat Appeals to UK
Think-tank Against Income Tax Rises
Bank Calls for End to "Volatile Cycle"
Teachers' Union Leader Demands More Pay
Call to Regulate Nursery Schooling
"Target Run-Down Estates"
May 26 Government Promises Action On Crime
French PM to Resign After Election Defeat
Spring Shocks Unionists
Government Urged To End Mortgage Tax Relief
Adams Expects Further Success
Blair Has Secret Meeting With Thatcher
Devolution "Probably Not End Union"
Beckett Reassures Japanese Industry
May 25 Blair Has Secret Meeting With Thatcher
France Goes To The Polls
Clinton To Address Cabinet
Sarwar Sleaze Attack Worsens
Top Businessman Backs Clarke
Howard Watches Cat-Fight
May 24 Blair warns EU against 'navel-gazing'
Mowlam Says Cease Fire In A Sense Already In Operation
Cook To Discuss Compensation Claims From World War Two Veterans
Blair Asks Thatcher To Tea
Brittan Praises Blair and Backs Clarke as Tory Leader
Dorrell Steps Up His Leadership Campaign
Government To Look At Ban On Using Phones While Driving
May 23 Blair warns EU against 'navel-gazing'
Fresh start on fish at Euro-summit
Alleged vote-rigging in Ulster
Mowlam in American talks
Possible Bosnia role for Portillo
Redwood boosted by hustings win
Grass roots threaten "own election"
Taylor initiates Commons reforms
Heseltine reappointed to Millennium Commission
Other news in brief
May 22 Government Targets Health Savings On Cancer
Nursery Vouchers Scrapped
Date Set for Tory Leadership Battle
Tory Leadership Contenders Row Over Major
Mowlam To visit Washington
Devolution Bill Backed By Commons
Unionists Face Loss of Belfast City Hall
Three High Spending Councils Capped
"Major Surgery" For Big Ben
Homeless Families Get Priority Rights To Social Housing
Lord Chancellor Acts To Speed Up Youth Justice
Landmine Ban Welcomed
Twenty MPs Given Chance For Place In History
Internet Fills Poll Void In France
News In Brief
May 21 Landmine Ban Announced
Mowlam Confronts Marching Crisis
Government Resumes Talks With Sinn Fein
Straw To Crack Down On Young Offenders
First Steps Toward Devolution
Labour NEC Announces Inquiry Into Sawar Allegations
Blair Resists Naming Windfall Tax Firms
1922 Committee Chooses Chairman
Hague Attacks Major's "Fudge"
News In Brief

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