1.   IRA bombers were probably responsible for two nights of blasts on Tyneside at a gas depot and Esso oil terminal say Northumbria police.

2.   Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Stewart also disclosed they were studying security video film from the Gateshead gas depot.

3.   Corn farmers blocked access to gas depots to demand that the government impose higher tariffs on corn imported from the United States.

4.   Giant traffic jams and fears of empty gas stations afflicted France on Monday, as striking truckers blocked gas depots and clogged highways and border routes to Spain.

5.   In the meantime, mutineers remained in control of a vast southwestern section of the capital, including the road leading to the sole gas depot.

6.   Truck drivers blockaded three major gas depots in this northern French city Saturday, hours after negotiations to avoid a paralyzing nationwide strike broke off.

7.   Truck drivers briefly blockaded three major gas depots in this northern French city Saturday, hours after negotiations to avoid a paralyzing nationwide strike broke off.

8.   Yezhov said Gazprom was interested in receiving Ukrainian underground gas depots, parts of gas mains and related industrial objects to cover some of the debt.