Evening News - Scotland back issues from March 1999:
Plans for new town on edge of Capital unveiled
Mar 01, 1999 ... THE final plans for a major new town on the outskirts ofEdinburghwere unveiled today. The South-east Wedge will stretch across 4000 acres of fields andcreate 12,000 jobs when it is completed in 20 years' time. After months of consultation the GBP 500 million project ...
Supply in demand, but it's all wrong for Scots schools
Mar 01, 1999; ... REMEMBER Dorothy in the Golden Girls? She was a substituteteacher, who in Scotland would be known as a "supply teacher" or"holder of a short-term temporary contract". How many parents are aware of how often such teachers likeDorothyare used? Do your children come home and ...
MAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDERING MOTHER-OF-FIVE
Mar 01, 1999; ... A SMALL West Lothian community was in shock today after adevoted mother-of-five was found dead in her home. The body of 32-year-old Diane Stone was discovered in a councilflat in Polbeth at 8.30am yesterday. Police confirmed that a woman's body had been found and that ...
It's the crunch time for Golden Wonder
Mar 01, 1999; ... IT has been dubbed Crisp Wars - an all-out attack to win over thehearts, and more importantly the stomachs, of the monster munchers. And in the fight by crisp manufacturers to bite off a biggersliceof the billion pound snack market, Scotland is set to become thecrunch ...
Winter's boom sets city house prices on fire
Mar 01, 1999; ... THERE may be few certainties in the housing market, but there wasa time when estate agents and solicitors could safely put away theirsigns and put up their feet over the winter months. Nothing much moved and no-one was interested in traipsing aroundthe streets looking for a new ...
Bosses believe in euro
Mar 01, 1999 ... SCOTTISH business executives say the euro will be good forbusiness - but many are concerned their companies are unprepared forthe move. A new survey carried out by the Marketing Society revealed eightout of ten senior Scottish marketing executives believed entry tothesingle ...
Charity's study aims to help beat childhood cancer
Mar 01, 1999; ... NEW hope for children with cancer emerged today with theannouncement of a major study into how the disease affects them. The Cancer Research Campaign is funding an examination of thelong-term effects of cancer in youngsters. The charity is also backing new trials of drugs which ...
Bryce is right as Heriot's eye the main prize
Mar 01, 1999; ... CAPTAIN courageous Jock Bryce helped Heriot's post their highest-ever league total at Hawick with a 47-21 win to prove to the criticsthat the Goldenacre club's title bid was anything but on the skids. Bryce, who led from the front throughout at Mansfield Park, waswell aware that ...
Livvy friendly fire as David returns
Mar 01, 1999; ... LIVINGSTON star David Bingham is set to give the Second Divisionleaders a timely boost tonight when he returns to action in afriendly at Almondvale. The club's top scorer, who has bagged 15 goals this season, hasbeen sidelined since being injured in the Scottish Cup victory ...
BINGHAM BOOST FOR LIVINGSTON
Mar 01, 1999; ... LIVINGSTON star David Bingham is set to give the Second Divisionleaders a timely boost tonight when he returns to action in afriendly at Almondvale. The club's top scorer, who has bagged 15 goals this season, hasbeen sidelined since being injured in the Scottish Cup victory ...
Cancer drug shelved due to funding
Mar 01, 1999 ... A NEW cancer treatment is being shelved because healthauthoritiescannot afford to pay for it, it was claimed today. The new technique was developed to treat ovarian cancer which canbe resistant to other drugs, but could eventually be used to treatother forms of cancer. The ...
Cala profit surge as house sales hold up
Mar 01, 1999; ... PROFITS at Edinburgh-based homes and commercial developer Calaareup 12 per cent to GBP 5.5 million despite slower turnover, the groupannounced today. Although house sales in Scotland held up well, the strength ofthepound and economic turmoil hit business in the Midlands and ...
Bank is ready to cash in
Mar 01, 1999 ... THE Bank of Scotland has emerged as the front-runner to sponsorthe Scottish Premier League for a knockdown price. The deal, which is believed to have been agreed between the bankand the SPL, is said to be worth GBP 3m and will run for theremainder of this season and the following ...
Leah's family look north
Mar 01, 1999; ... THE father of Ecstasy victim Leah Betts said he and his wifewouldstill like to move to Scotland - despite being targeted last year byanti-English threats and taunts. Former policeman Paul Betts, 50, said he and wife Janet may lookfor houses to move up in the immediate ...
Mother Teresa soon to be saint
Mar 01, 1999 ... THE POPE today granted a special dispensation from CatholicChurchrules to put Mother Teresa of Calcutta on the fast track tosainthood. Church rules call for five years to pass after a person diesbefore the bureaucratic procedure that can lead to sainthood canbegin. But a ...
Pub landlord robbed at gunpoint
Mar 01, 1999 ... TWO armed raiders made off with GBP 5000 in cash from anEdinburghpub early today. The men - one carrying a firearm and the other a knife - wentintoMr Qs in Portobello Road as the landlord was cashing up. They demanded cash from the 31-year-old and then made off ...
Student in swimming trunks survives 50ft plunge from window
Mar 01, 1999; ... A STUDENT wearing only a pair of swimming trunks has survived a50ft fall from the window of a second-floor Edinburgh flat. Alessandro Badalotti plunged to the ground outside the flat inAlvanley Terrace, Whitehouse Loan, in the early hours of yesterdaymorning during a beach ...
Annan stutter in race for title
Mar 01, 1999 ... PREMIER DIVISION leaders Annan left the door open for Whitehilland Spartans to leapfrog them at the top following their 2-2 drawwith the City Park side at the weekend. Annan had looked on their way to defeat when trailing 2-1 withonly a couple of minutes to go, before Phil Docherty ...
Asda hits back in price war
Mar 01, 1999 ... SUPERMARKET chains are gearing up for one of the fiercest pricewars for years as Asda prepares to launch an offensive to counterTesco's price cutting initiative last week. Industry insiders say the price of thousands of goods will be cutand that the store chain will promise to ...
Wills finds real friend
Mar 01, 1999; ... IF there's one boy in Britain who needs a big brother figure,it'sPrince William. He's been through so much and has already exhibiteda lifetime's worth of princely duty to the public. Now he's found someone to lean on in Tom Parker-Bowles, Camilla'sson. Tom is ...
Lineen bid to have South African Angus back at Muir
Mar 01, 1999 ... BOROUGHMUIR coach Sean Lineen is pulling out all the stops topersuade South African flanker prospect Angus Martyn to put downroots in Scotland after he starred in the 25-24 win over West ofScotland at Meggetland. Teenager Martyn is scheduled to return to his native land at theend ...
Silent witness to the evil words of racism
Mar 01, 1999; ... THE revelations about the Stephen Lawrence case were stillflowinglast week when I stepped into a taxi. The driver remarked that hewas new to the trade and I naturally asked him what he'd donebefore. "I had a newsagent's, but it was very hard. We had no holidaysfor 12 years. So ...
Old news not good
Mar 01, 1999; ... PERHAPS it's because I'll never see 40 again, but I'm beginningtofind all this good news for pensioners fairly nauseating. First we had pensioners being signed up for part-time jobs withB&Q, then retired bank managers being urged to come back in order tosell and explain financial ...
I hope it's the last Noel
Mar 01, 1999; ... THE sad thing about Noel Edmonds House Party being axed is notthat viewing figures have plummeted to six million. It is that oncethey were as high as 15 million. I've watched it once or twice . . . by accident, at friends'houses - honest. I am aghast that there are 15 million ...
Different league to Bill claim
Mar 01, 1999; ... BY and large, the women of America were prepared to forgivecharismatic Bill Clinton for his doings with Monica Lewinsky. When all's said and done, she was a consenting adult who has madeno secret of the fact that she still has feelings for him. And most women are aware of the ...
He's Hamann for the big occasion
Mar 01, 1999; ... DIETMAR HAMANN rescued Newcastle with a spectacular 77th-minutesolo goal in a 1-1 St James' Park draw to end his side's Arsenalhoodoo. The German's improvised right-foot strike cancelled out NicolasAnelka's first-half opener, and spared the blushes of Steve HoweyandNikos ...
Susie's singers put the soul into send-offs
Mar 01, 1999; ... SUCH time-honoured hymns as Abide With Me, Rock of Ages and the23rd psalm might once have been automatic choices for funerals, butnot any more. A survey last week showed that Celine Dion's Titanic weepie, MyHeart Will Go On, was the song chosen most often at ...
Raith left in a spot of Fother
Mar 01, 1999 ... RAITH boss Jimmy Nicholl was in no mood to mince his words afterSaturday's defeat by Airdrie, describing it as "another disaster". This latest reversal at Stark's Park leaves the Kirkcaldy sidestill hovering on the edge of the First Division relegation zone. It was Rovers' ...
Fun pub looking for complex staff
Mar 01, 1999 ... RECRUITMENT of 80 new staff has begun for a GBP 2.9 million puband hotel complex due to open in Newhaven in April. The Newhaven Quay Brewer's Fayre and Travel Inn has been built byWhitbread Inns to combine a family pub and a 60-bedroom hotel on onesite. It is now taking on ...
School joy at GBP 1000 for garden
Mar 01, 1999 ... AN Edinburgh primary school has been awarded a GBP 1000 grant bythe Post Office to build a sculpture garden. The Post Office handed out GBP 30,000 to voluntary groups fromacross the country at a ceremony held in the Capital. At the ceremony, Trinity Primary School's parent ...
Gardeners fight their ground
Mar 01, 1999 ... GARDENERS battling a plan to build houses on their allotmentshavebeen cleaning up the site in a bid to prove it is not derelict. Thirty residents from Inchview Terrace in Portobello loaded oldcar doors, pieces of rusty iron and even a lawnmower into a skipoverthe weekend in a ...
Take a Continental view to ring up big returns
Mar 01, 1999; ... PRIME Minister Tony Blair likes to think he is taking the lead inbringing us deeper into the European Union, but he is being outpacedby several fund managers. The money men are not chasing Europe because they want to bepolitically correct, but because they see far better ...
Celtic set to take Villa increased bid for Stubbs
Mar 01, 1999 ... CELTIC look set to finally accede to Alan Stubbs' wishes and letthe homesick centre-back return to England. Head coach Jozef Venglos picked Stubbs, who is returning fromankle injury for the 2-1 win over Dundee United at the weekend butlater withdrew his name explaining: "It is a ...
Berry loses then wins top award
Mar 01, 1999; ... ALL-STAR Ted Berry has demonstrated once more why Edinburgh Rockschiefs MUST secure his signature again for next season. The American guard was named Most Valuable Player at Saturday'sDairylea Dunkers showpiece game between North and South atbasketball's Newcastle Arena. He ...
High five for flat Falkirk
Mar 01, 1999 ... FALKIRK made it five out of five victories over Stranraer thisseason after a third-minute strike from Marino Keith ensured thepoints were brought back to Brockville. However, the result hid a poor performance and if Alex Totten'smen want to avoid a humiliating defeat when they ...
Virgin calls for a contest
Mar 01, 1999; ... RICHARD BRANSON does enjoy cocking a snook. Today he polishes theimage of Virgin Airlines in a cheeky manner. He is going to repainthis planes in the former colours of British Airways - silver bodywith the red, white and blue of the Union Flag on his tailfins. He also says he has ...
Singer Marti back at work after collapse
Mar 01, 1999 ... SCOTS pop star Marti Pellow was back at work in the recordingstudio today - less than 48 hours after he collapsed and was rushedto hospital unconscious. The lead singer of Wet Wet Wet is in good health and has joinedthe rest of the band to continue recording their latest album, ...
Police search for killer on the run
Mar 01, 1999 ... A MAN serving life for murder is being sought after failing toreturn to prison. Patrick ...
And finally .. here is a new look for news
Mar 01, 1999 ... ITN today unveiled a bright new look for the news bulletins whichwill replace News At Ten next week - ditching the familiar bluebackground for multicoloured screens and wooden trim. It has been created by designer Simon Jago, who revamped Channel4News last year and set the style ...
Paul is latest tackling Jock
Mar 01, 1999; ... PAUL BURNELL has done so well standing in for Matthew Proudfootthat, a little ironically, his stock has never stood higher. Just last week, Jim Telfer was noting approvingly how much bettera tackler Burnell now was as a full-time professional and howimportant in the modern game ...
Highland heartache as Lions fail to halt rivals
Mar 01, 1999; ... THERE was no hiding the disappointment on the faces of theLivingston players after Saturday's defeat from Caley Thistle. The league leaders had made the long trek north to Inverness inthe knowledge that victory over their nearest rivals would be asignificant step towards the Second ...
Dualling of A1 stretch under way
Mar 01, 1999 ... WORK has begun on the converting a section of the A1 to dualcarriageway. The stretch of road being upgraded is south-east of Dunbar fromWest of Spott to Oswald Dean. East Lothian Council is acting as agent for the Scottish Officeonthe GBP 3 million, project which is ...
500m housing plan unveiled
Mar 01, 1999 ... THE final plans for a major new town on the outskirts ofEdinburghwere unveiled today. The South-east Wedge will stretch across 4000 acres of fields andhave 12,000 homes built there when it is completed in 20 years'time. After months of consultation the GBP 500 million ...
Cinemas show brutal anti-fur advert
Mar 01, 1999 ... A HARD-HITTING anti-fur advert is being screened in Edinburghcinemas. The advert shows animals being slaughtered while a woman buys aminx coat. Lothian Road's ABC cinema and the multiplex at Wester Hailesshowed the 15 certificate, two-minute commercial Open Your Eyes ...
Stag night attack at city pub
Mar 01, 1999 ... A MAN was beaten unconscious in an attack by members of a groupona stag night inside Edinburgh pub Filthy Macnasties. The men, believed to be from Halifax, West Yorkshire, were inEdinburgh on a stag weekend when a fight broke out in the RoseStreetpub just before 8.30pm on ...
Players at Tynie will save Hearts
Mar 01, 1999; ... HEARTS boss Jim Jefferies today gave his players a vote ofconfidence by insisting that he didn't necessarily need to bring innew faces to get the Tynecastle club out of relegation trouble. Jefferies will continue his search for players after watching theJambos crash to a fifth ...
Computer firm to bring 350 jobs to city
Mar 01, 1999; ... A COMPUTER services company is creating hundreds of new jobs inEdinburgh as part of a major expansion in Scotland. The multinational ICL is to create 350 new jobs, mainly in theCapital, as part of a new Scottish division. Managers said the move comes in the wake of devolution ...
Grant will train volunteers
Mar 01, 1999 ... AN Edinburgh agency has been given a GBP 164,000 Lottery grant toprovide support for local volunteer organisations. Edinburgh Volunteer Exchange plans to use the three-year grantfrom the National Lotteries Charities Board to help train volunteermanagers. Welcoming the grant, ...
Charities get grants of GBP 40,000
Mar 01, 1999 ... TWO Edinburgh charities have been given a total of GBP 39,080 bythe Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland. Edinburgh Sitters received GBP 35,800 to help fund the salariesoffour sitters over a three year period. The sitters help lone parents or parents whose children ...
Residents' fury over food plan for hostel
Mar 01, 1999 ... A TOURIST hostel which had to be told to keep the noise down isnow set to get permission to start a restaurant which could be openuntil 3am - despite fears of further rowdiness. Householders near the Backpackers hostel on Cockburn Street,Edinburgh, are worried their peace will ...
Youth gets switch benefit
Mar 01, 1999 ... LABOUR has made it plain it intends to merge the pound with theeuro and it should be gone in only a few years. I'll skip the geopolitical implications to look at what it meansfor savers. The euro offers base rates of three per cent and isaiming for 2.5 per cent. The UK rates are ...
Holyrood hologram vision now in sight
Mar 01, 1999; ... SPACE-AGE holograms and virtual images could bring the ScottishParliament alive for millions of people - and enable politicians toattend even when they are miles away. It could even mean having a hologram of Donald Dewar inParliamentwhile he is thousands of miles away on an ...
Dead Dessie's family in fury at jail 'peace' note
Mar 01, 1999; ... THE family of a man killed by his partner two years ago has beenstunned by a letter from her brother seeking a reconciliation. Elaine Forrest admitted killing Dessie Hughes two years ago butwalked free after claiming she had been bullied, beaten and raped byMr Hughes. Now his ...
Howzat for good sportsmanship
Mar 01, 1999; ... ARSENAL, as Tibetan monks and aliens now know, recently acceptedthey flouted the unwritten law in football relating to an injuredplayer requiring attention, although Sky not surprisingly pointedouta plethora of other miscreants. It is indeed the fact that such laws are not down ...
Police in thief alert
Mar 01, 1999 ... POLICE in Bo'ness are warning residents to be vigilant aftervaluable china figurines and jewellery were stolen in a burglary. Thieves broke into a house in Hazeldean Avenue between 1pm and5pmon Thursday and stole property including Doulton figures and a goldwatch. Police ...
Gathering no moss
Mar 01, 1999 ... SOME of Scotland's most primitive plants have been given UK-wideprotection under a new Government Biodiversity Action Plan. Seventy-five lower plant species, including funghi, lichens andmosses have been given protection. Launching the scheme, Scottish Environment Minister Lord ...
Service sector strengthening
Mar 01, 1999 ... SERVICE sector activity in Scotland has risen for the fourthmonthrunning and manufacturers are slowly getting back on track. According to the Bank of Scotland in its February businessconditions survey, strong growth in the service sector has promptedthe first increase in jobs in ...
MID-LIFE CRISIS LEAVES JAMBOS IN FREEFALL
Mar 01, 1999; ... BY the time Jim Jefferies appeared in the Tynecastle press roomonSaturday - he spent a full hour talking to his players behind alocked dressing-room door - the television in the corner was showinga Sky Sports programme called 'Bobby Charlton's Football Scrapbook'. It featured a ...
Five alive, Dick asks for more
Mar 01, 1999; ... THIS was the one Celtic were pinning their hopes on Rangersslipping up in, so you would think that a 5-0 win at Kilmarnockwouldhave Dick Advocaat beaming. But the hard-to-please Dutchman still managed to find fault,despite seeing his side put on what most other observers ...
Scots want to get away from it all
Mar 01, 1999 ... JOB satisfaction levels in Scotland are seriously low - accordingto a voluntary service organisation fielding floods of inquiriesfromfed-up professionals. Voluntary Service Overseas commissioned a UK-wide survey ofattitudes to work in the wake of a major increase in ...
Gorman signs up
Mar 01, 1999 ... FORMER England assistant manager John Gorman today succeededStewart Houston as first-team coach at Ipswich. Houston joined Tottenham after Saturday's match at Bristol City,linking up again with former Arsenal boss George Graham. Ipswich boss George Burley said: "John has been ...
Minister sticks up for Sarwar
Mar 01, 1999; ... AGRICULTURE Minister Nick Brown today told a court he foundallegations Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar had paid GBP 5000 to apolitical rival implausible. Mr Brown said he met the newly-elected Govan MP in Downing Streeton the day a newspaper alleged the MP paid a bribe to election ...
Mistaken view on 'rip-offs'
Mar 01, 1999; ... THE Financial Services Authority, the new referee on personalmoney matters, held a "town meeting" at Edinburgh University'sPlayfair Library last week. FSA boss Howard Davies gave his audience some fascinatingglimpsesinto the money landscape as he and his colleagues see ...
Silence for soldiers
Mar 01, 1999 ... CHILDREN are being asked to observe a minute's silence as part ofa charity's campaign to end the use of child soldiers. Save the Children is asking UK secondary schools to hold a oneminute's silence at 9.15am on April 26. Pupils will be encouraged to reflect on the plight of ...
SFA CHIEF FARRY IS SUSPENDED
Mar 01, 1999; ... JIM FARRY was today sensationally suspended on full pay by theSFAover his role in the Jorge Cadete affair. And, as Farry's bosses agreed to pay Celtic an "undisclosed sumofcompensation" over the matter, Fergus McCann immediately called forhim be removed from his position ...