Evening News - Scotland back issues from November 1998:
Rock star loses jail appeal
Nov 02, 1998 ... ROCK star Ian Brown today lost an appeal against a four-monthprison sentence for threatening to chop the hands off an airstewardess and hammering on a flight-deck door as a passenger jetcame into land. Brown, 35, former front man with the Stone Roses, was convictedand sentenced ...
Hunt for robber
Nov 02, 1998 ... POLICE today released new information in a bid to track down awould-be armed robber in Edinburgh. They revealed a gunman who tried to hold up staff at the AbbeyNational in Newington Road last week may have been hanging aroundinthe area ...
Fireworks destroyed in swoop
Nov 02, 1998 ... MORE than 11,000 fireworks, valued at around GBP 15,000, havebeenseized and destroyed by Edinburgh trading standards officers in amajor crackdown before Guy Fawkes Night. The four-week investigation saw 192 firework retailers' premiseschecked, with a dozen found to be breaking ...
50,000 cars blaze
Nov 02, 1998 ... CARS valued at up to GBP 50,000 have been destroyed in a blaze ata city dealership. Police are treating the fire at Archers of Edinburgh Ltd assuspicious and have launched an investigation. Ten cars, believed to be of various makes, were destroyed and onewas badly damaged in ...
Football boss on sex charge
Nov 02, 1998 ... A PROMINENT Scottish lawyer and football club boss has appearedbefore a Sheriff accused of sexual offences. Julian Struthers Danskin, the 47 year-old owner and chairman ofsecond division East Fife football club, appeared in private beforeSheriff Susan O'Brien at Kirkcaldy ...
A dated play fails to shock
Nov 02, 1998; ... The Collector, The Royal Lyceum HHH SERIAL killers make for fascinating fiction. And when John Fowleswrote his novel The Collector, in 1963, it caused quite a shock. But35 years later, the adaptation of the novel for the stage is notfascinating or shocking. Mark Letheren does ...
World Today
Nov 02, 1998 ... Disco blaze charges likely SWEDEN: Organisers who sold too many tickets to a teenage discowhere dozens died in a fire could face criminal charges. The death toll from Thursday's fire in Gothenburg rose to 62overnight after two teenagers died in hospital. Many victims ...
Iraq snubs UN weapons men
Nov 02, 1998 ... IRAQ will not renew co-operation with United Nations weaponsinspectors unless the UN Security Council lifts "devastating" tradesanctions, it was claimed today. Iraqi officials shrugged off ...
PM in appeal for Davies
Nov 02, 1998 ... THE Prime Minister today made a personal appeal for former WelshSecretary Ron Davies to be allowed to rebuild "his life and hiscareer". It came as the former Welsh Secretary prepared to make anemotional personal statement to MPs. As he drove from his Caerphilly constituency ...
Handcuffed at my girl's funeral
Nov 02, 1998; ... THE mother of teenage suicide victim Katie Ross was forced to goto her funeral shackled to a prison officer, she revealed today. Thirteen-year-old Katie's funeral was held just a week before hermother Ann was due to be released from the notorious Cornton ValePrison in ...
Anger as man weds mum, 13
Nov 02, 1998 ... THE marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a 29-year-old man has ledtocalls for the husband to be prosecuted. Tina Akers was already pregnant when she stepped down the aislewith Wayne Compton, 16 years her senior. But now prosecutors in Annapolis, Maryland, are looking into ...
War dead remembered
Nov 02, 1998 ... VETERANS and well-wishers gathered in Princes Street Gardens forapoignant service of remembrance today. About 100 people took part in the service at the Garden ofRemembrance next to the Scott Monument. Among those present was 95-year-old Military Medal holder JockWilson, ...
Top police officer denies anti-English race claim
Nov 02, 1998; ... A FORMER high ranking police officer today admitted he may havesworn at a new recruit. But former Chief Superintendent Jimmy Johnstone strongly deniedhecalled Alan Caulfield a "bent English b******d". Mr Johnstone, 57, clashed with Mr Caulfield over claims that helaunched a ...
Sex beast attacks teenager
Nov 02, 1998 ... A TEENAGE girl was indecently assaulted in a late-night attack inEdinburgh. The 15-year-old was walking up Patrick Geddes Steps between theGrassmarket and Johnston Terrace when she was pushed to the groundbya man and attacked. Police say the man was scared off as the area ...
Scots copy US-type schools
Nov 02, 1998 ... EDUCATION chiefs are to pilot a new type of school aimed atchildren in deprived areas. New Community Schools are aimed at cutting expulsions, raisingstandards and reducing drug abuse and teenage pregnancies amongpupils. Based on 'Full Service Schools' in America, Scottish ...
Dome in line for a home loan
Nov 02, 1998 ... AS the birthplace of the men who gave the world the telephone andanaesthetic, Lothian has long held its head high as a home ofinvention. With such scientific successes as Dolly the sheep , it could havebeen expected to make an unforgettable mark on Britain's biggestMillennium ...
Help the Aged refuses to rue morgue advert
Nov 02, 1998; ... HELP the Aged today hit back after a controversial postercampaign featuring bodies on a mortuary slab was attacked. The black and white poster, which shows eight pairs of feetpokingout from underneath sheets on mortuary slabs above the slogan"Thousands of elderly people will ...
Bypass go-ahead
Nov 02, 1998 ... SCOTTISH Secretary Donald Dewar today gave the go-ahead for anewGBP 3m Hawick bypass road. The ...
The hardest thing is not knowing why Katie died.. she had so much to live for
Nov 02, 1998; ... A GRIEVING mother today revealed the full horror behind thefoster-girl suicide that shocked Scotland. Artistic 13-year-old Katie hanged herself while her naturalmotherAnn Ross was behind bars in Stirling's notorious Cornton ValePrison. It is thought to be the first time a ...
Global warming cost is a growing city problem
Nov 02, 1998; ... GLOBAL warming has been blamed for storms, floods and droughts -and now it could cost Edinburgh council taxpayers GBP 600,000 forextra grass-cutting. During the summer, wet weather caused vegetation to shoot up at aquicker than usual rate - and Edinburgh City Council's ...
Jacobite goblet is a glass act at GBP 34,500
Nov 02, 1998 ... A GLASS symbolising the Jacobite dream, which was found wrappedina rug stored in a loft, today sold for GBP 34,500. The spectacular trumpet-shaped Amen goblet is in near-perfectcondition, despite being wrapped in carpet for almost 100 years. One of the last remaining in ...
Holyrood loser Geddes vows fight for election
Nov 02, 1998; ... EDINBURGH council leader Keith Geddes today made clear he stillhopes to sit in the Scottish Parliament despite being rejected asLabour candidate for his home seat. He was defeated by city finance convener Angus MacKay in aclosely-fought contest to become the male choice in the ...
11,000 fireworks seized in blitz
Nov 02, 1998 ... MORE than 11,000 fireworks, valued at around GBP 15,000, havebeenseized and destroyed by Edinburgh trading standards officers in amajor crackdown before Guy Fawkes Night. The four-week investigation saw 192 firework retailers' premiseschecked, with a dozen found to be breaking ...
Missing code delays
Nov 02, 1998 ... ONE in five Edinburgh letters could face delays over Christmasbecause people are still not using postcodes. Only 79.6 per cent of mail posted in the Capital area has apostcode on it compared to a UK average of 83.3 per cent. Letters with ...
Top hotel points to bigger future
Nov 02, 1998 ... AN award-winning Edinburgh hotel built inside an old Co-opbuilding is set to expand. The Point Hotel in Bread Street - built in the formerheadquartersof the St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society - has applied for planningpermission to build an extension which will take its number ...
World Today
Nov 02, 1998 ... Glenn's glad to be back USA: John Glenn, the world's oldest space traveller, is amazinghis doctors after suffering no queasiness or discomfort in space andfeeling so energetic that he's tried out the shuttle commander'sseat. In his first news conference since rocketing into ...
Bid to help vulnerable in courts
Nov 02, 1998 ... CHILDREN, vulnerable adults and victims of rape are set to getextra protection when they give evidence in court, it was revealedtoday. A new consultation paper, launched by the Government, recommendsthat witnesses open to intimidation should receive as much help aspossible to ...
Honouring war dead
Nov 02, 1998 ... EDINBURGH'S war dead were remembered at a special Garden ofRemembrance ceremony today. Veterans joined Lord ...
Tory peer calls for ban on gays in senior posts
Nov 02, 1998 ... TORY peer Lord Tebbit today called for homosexuals to be bannedfrom holding some sensitive senior Government posts, such as HomeSecretary. He said it was important they were not in a position to do eachother favours. The former Tory chairman spoke out amid the growing ...
'Village' plan for fever hospital
Nov 02, 1998 ... AN old fever hospital once feared for its infamous isolationwardsis set to be transformed into a 400-home village. The City Hospital in Greenbank Drive is in the process of closingas its facilities become part of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmarydevelopment in Little ...
Britain Today
Nov 02, 1998 ... Warning over Ulster death BELFAST: A new spate of sectarian murders could follow thekillingof a Catholic man by a breakaway Loyalist group, it was warnedtoday. Billy Hutchinson, of the Progressive Unionist Party, said hefeared for the safety of people in north Belfast after ...
Inquiries into boys' deaths
Nov 02, 1998 ... THE deaths of two teenage boys who died after treatment at theunder-fire Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow are to be investigated incourt. Procurator fiscal Alf Vannet today announced that separate ...
Bully punishment 'illegal'
Nov 02, 1998 ... A TEACHER who let a bullied five-year-old smack his tormentorswith a ruler was acting on good intentions but behaved illegally,her headmaster said today. Brenda Davies allowed the special-needs boy to tap the pupils onthe hand in an effort to "empower" him. She claims she was ...
Brown tells of move to join euro
Nov 02, 1998 ... CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown today took a major step towards Britainjoining the European single currency, by revealing Government plansfor how the changeover will work. The announcement - which will infuriate the Tories - is theclosest the Government has so far come to admitting it ...
Action on baby food fears
Nov 02, 1998 ... LEVELS of pesticides in British baby foods are set to facetightercontrols, following fears that babies' health may be at risk. The European Commission plans action to reduce the level ofpotentially harmful chemicals, found especially in fruit-based babyfood. The regulations ...
Thieves attack mum and son in New Town home
Nov 02, 1998; ... POLICE are today hunting a gang who attacked and robbed ajewellery dealer and his elderly mother in their Edinburgh home. Ten thousand pounds worth of jewellery was taken in what policehave described as a vicious assault. Three men carried out the attack after pushing their way ...
Crippling injury for Gladiator
Nov 02, 1998 ... GLADIATOR Siren has suffered a nightmare injury which could leaveher out of training for months. The 27-year-old Scottish basketball international was playingwithEdinburgh side Polonia Phoenix when she snapped her Achilles tendon. Siren, whose real name is Ali Paton, could ...
Need a job? Over 35? You'll do very nicely
Nov 02, 1998; ... VICTOR MELDREW would be hard pushed to believe it. In a worldthat seems to revolve around 20-somethings, with nothing left tooffer an old-timer but a lot of scrambled egg on a doorman'suniform,Scottish Equitable has set the cat among the young pigeons of thefinancial world. Its ...
ON A WING AND A PRAYER
Nov 02, 1998; ... TV vet Trude Mostue adds a cherubic touch to today's launch oftheRoyal Mail's Christmas stamps - ...
Move to throw out race-claim Pc case
Nov 02, 1998 ... AN English policeman who claims he was racially discriminatedagainst by Lothian and Borders Police was today at the centre oflegal moves to have his case thrown out. Alan Caulfield is fighting an industrial tribunal case on thegrounds that his nationality barred him from ...
Fluoride claims
Nov 02, 1998 ... CHILDREN drinking non-fluoridated water are four times morelikelyto have their teeth extracted than those who drink water withfluoride added. Figures today from the National Alliance for Equity in DentalHealth show that in ...
OAPs' home closes
Nov 02, 1998 ... A COUNCIL has taken action to close down a private home for 16pensioners following allegations that it failed to improve care andconditions for residents. Fife Council said the registration of Fosterton Firs residentialhome in Thornton was ...
Home loan for the Dome
Nov 02, 1998; ... AS the birthplace of the men who gave the world the telephone andanaesthetic, Lothian has long held its head high as a home ofinvention. With such scientific success stories such as Dolly the sheepmaintaining its reputation for imagination and flair, it could havebeen expected to ...
Time for tee at the new home of golf
Nov 02, 1998; ... THEY may not have the glamour of St Andrews or the grandeur ofMuirfield - but at least there's no long walk back to the clubhouseat Patrick Hamburgh's golf courses. For as little as GBP 300 for an off-the-peg design, the Penicuiklandscape gardener is turning keen golfers' back ...
Private sale plan ruins residents' rental hope
Nov 02, 1998; ... RESIDENTS of Gorgie and Dalry are to miss out on the chance torent a home in one of Edinburgh's biggest housing developments. A GBP 30 million scheme to build more than 350 homes on the siteof the former Ferranti factory site in Gorgie was originally due toinclude 100 housing ...
Fever hospital set for 400-house village plan
Nov 02, 1998; ... AN old fever hospital once feared for its infamous isolationwardsis set to be transformed into a 400-home village. The City Hospital in Greenbank Drive is in the process ofclosing, as its facilities become part of the Edinburgh RoyalInfirmary development in Little ...
New switchboard to free up police time
Nov 02, 1998 ... A NEW centralised telephone switchboard, which was launchedtoday, should cut the number of call-outs police in Edinburgh maketominor incidents. Calls to all city police stations, except the Fettes HQ andEdinburgh Airport, will now be diverted to an upgraded switchboardat ...
Brown set to raise borrowing
Nov 02, 1998 ... SPECULATION mounted today that Chancellor Gordon Brown was set toraise borrowing to protect his GBP 40 billion spending plans forschools and hospitals. Mr Brown will tomorrow announce in his pre-Budget statement thathis growth estimates for next year are to be revised ...
1000 buried in mudslide
Nov 02, 1998 ... RESCUE workers were today working to recover hundreds of bodiesfrom Nicaraguan communities buried when a crater lake overflowed andsent mud and rock hurtling down a volcano on to villages below. The confirmed deaths throughout Central America blamed onHurricane Mitch rose to ...
Weekend spent on the Wagen
Nov 02, 1998 ... FOR hundreds of car enthusiasts, a West Lothian sports centrebecame heaven on earth for a day. And the star attraction was a new VW Beetle, making a specialappearance in Scotland five months before its official UK launch. Fans of the new Bug, which has been taking North America ...
Campbell teaches Clark a lesson
Nov 02, 1998 ... DICK CAMPBELL and Sandy Clark became involved in a schoolboy tiffafter Dunfermline brought St Johnstone crashing back down to earthafter the heroics of their 3-0 midweek League Cup win over Hearts byholding them to a 1-1 draw. The Pars assistant manager and St Johnstone chief ...
Britain today
Nov 02, 1998 ... Peace talks for Ahern BELFAST: Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was due to take partinintensive round table talks in Belfast today aimed at kickstartingthe stalled Northern Ireland peace process. He will also hold a series of private meetings with party leadersin a bid to ...
Livvy survive horror show
Nov 02, 1998; ... LIVINGSTON coach Ray Stewart is a great believer in the theorythat the harder his team work in training the luckier they willbecome. Judging by Saturday's 3-2 victory at Bayview, when the SecondDivision leaders were more than a little fortunate to escape withthree points from ...
Falkirk shock win opens up race for title
Nov 02, 1998 ... FALKIRK FURY breathed new life into the men's Scottish BasketballLeague with a 87-82 win over unbeaten favourites Glasgow SportsDivision. Scottish cap Gordon Smith, who has played for Glasgow, Livingstonand Edinburgh in the past, was in top form with 27 points butGlasgowgiants ...
Rocks face axe
Nov 02, 1998; ... BASKETBALL'S Edinburgh Rocks lost again - and now coach JimBrandon has had enough. The Capital's new professional team suffered their eighthstraightBudweiser League defeat yesterday, going down 72-69 to the MiltonKeynes Lions at Meadowbank. It came just 24 hours after a ...
Peerless Gazza back with bang
Nov 02, 1998; ... MIDDLESBROUGH and Nottingham Forest fought out a 1-1 draw indramatic style at the Riverside Stadium - but all the talk centredontwo former Old Firm heroes - one playing, one not. Ex-Ger Paul Gascoigne, back in a Boro top for the first timesinceseeking medical help for personal ...
McCormick's best yet!
Nov 02, 1998 ... LIVINGSTON matchwinner Mark McCormick described the best goal ofhis career against East Fife at Bayview on Saturday as a "two-yardscreamer!" With the score level at 2-2 and the game looking like it wasdrifting to a draw, supersub McCormick was in the right place attheright ...
Capital juniors finally beaten
Nov 02, 1998; ... EDINBURGH UNITED boss Jimmy McLauchlan today paid tribute to theplayers who almost pulled off a shock result over Livingston United -after THREE of their team were sent off. The Capital juniors had Paul Cook, Rob Primrose and manager's sonRyan red-carded in separate incidents after ...
Jeff: It's up to you Stef
Nov 02, 1998; ... HEARTS boss Jim Jefferies today told axed star Stefano Salvatori:"What happens now is up to you." The Italian midfielder was dropped from the side which lost 1-0toDundee at Dens Park on Saturday. He didn't travel to Tayside with the rest of the first-teamsquad,having ...
'PATCHY' HIBS GRIND OUT A CRUCIAL WIN
Nov 02, 1998; ... ALEX McLEISH may not yet be getting the sort of consistency hewould like in terms of performance -but Hibs are now certainlybeginning to stack up the results which suggests that promotion,after all, will be well within the Easter Road club's grasp. A shaky start to life in the ...
I'm like a Numan now, says Arthur
Nov 02, 1998; ... RANGERS defender Arthur Numan is ready to inject fresh life intothe tiring Premier League leaders to ensure their domestic exploitsdo not backfire on the European front when they face BayerLeverkusenon Thursday, defending a 2-1 lead from the away leg of their UEFACupsecond round ...
Celtic want rub of green
Nov 02, 1998 ... HENRIK LARSSON insists Celtic still have the spirit to make shortwork of downing FC Zurich in tomorrow night's UEFA Cup second-roundreturn leg in Switzerland. With the tie poised at 1-1 after last month's Parkhead meeting,Celtic will again be weakened by injuries and bans with ...
McGuigan agrees to help Arthur
Nov 02, 1998 ... IRISH ring legend Barry McGuigan has handed Leith Victoria'sCommonwealth Games featherweight gold medallist Alex Arthur amassivecareer boost by agreeing to act on an informal basis as the Capitalfighter's career adviser. Arthur said: "Barry made his offer to me early last week ...
Monty keeps his cool to stay Europe's best
Nov 02, 1998 ... COLIN MONTGOMERIE sat down today, put his feet up andcongratulated himself on another job well done. To be European No. 1 just once takes an enormous amount of skill,determination and stamina. To do it six times in a row is almostbeyond belief. But that is what the ...
Thistle hang on in cup thriller!
Nov 02, 1998; ... LOTHIAN THISTLE and Craigroyston have it all to do again aftertheir thrilling Alex Jack Cup semi-final tie ended 3-3. Craigroyston came from behind to grab a late equaliser from ScottCampbell after Thistle were reduced to ten men early in the secondhalf. Lothian started in ...