Evening News - Scotland back issues from May 2000:
A TRUE LABOUR OF LOVE
May 01, 2000; ... Despite Ronnie Broadbent being near death, his life-savingsurgery was postponed so he could watch his baby's birth beinginduced. Gina Davidson hears of his life and death dilemma ... AS he watched his daughter Megan coming into the world, RonnieBroadbent was unable to speak. Filled ...
ONE IS FUN, TWO BETTER
May 01, 2000; ... THERE is a merry new twist to the US government's notion thatMicrosoft should be broken into two separate units. The stock markethas been thinking about the idea and concluded it would be in theinterest of Microsoft shareholders. The Justice Department wants to divide the mighty ...
NICHOLSON HOLDS HER HEAD HIGH AT TROON
May 01, 2000 ... LESLEY NICHOLSON from Haddington is no longer the Helen HolmScottish Women's Open amateur stroke-play golf champion - but theGullane-based player can hold her head high after finishing jointeighth at Royal Troon yesterday. The tournament was won by Rebecca Hudson, who beat ...
GOAL GRABBER CRABBE VOWS TO STAY A BAIRN
May 01, 2000 ... FALKIRK captain Scott Crabbe scored what is likely to be the last-ever goal at Brockville during Saturday's 2-2 draw with InvernessCaley Thistle. But he admitted afterwards that he took littleconsolation from his strike after he missed penalties either side ofhalf-time. In an ...
DAVIS TAKES FIRST EUROPEAN TITLE
May 01, 2000; ... ENGLAND'S Brian Davis took a one-shot lead into today's finalround of the Spanish Open at PGA Golf de Catalunya. But the 25-year-old from Enfield was casting a few anxiousglances over his shoulder as he went in search of his first EuropeanTour title in Girona. Davis' third ...
NO EASING UP FOR HIBEES' LEAGUE RUN-IN
May 01, 2000; ... THIS season may not produce any tangible reward in the way ofsilverware or a European place, but if any Hibs player thinks it isnow simply a case of idling in neutral between now and the end ofnext month they'd better have second thoughts. The next four matches, like this encounter ...
MURRAY MAD AT MISSING EUROPE
May 01, 2000; ... HIBS kid Ian Murray today admitted he and his team-mates werestill kicking themselves after letting two chances of Europeanfootball slip through their hands. And the 18-year-old revealed that it was the points dropped athome which hurt most as hopes of clinching a place in next ...
WALES WAKENS UP JAMBOS
May 01, 2000; ... IN the lead-up to this game, Hearts manager Jim Jefferies waskeen to see that his players had learned from their mistakes duringlast week's home defeat by Dundee United. In the end, though, the only thing they learned from that resultwas that you don't have to play well to win. And ...
TITLE HEAT IS ON
May 01, 2000; ... THE Division One Championship has become a three-horse race withLinlithgow Rose, Newtongrange Star and Whitburn all involved in whatpromises to be a thrilling climax to the junior football season. Defending champions and current leaders Linlithgow are fourpoints clear of ...
CHARADE GOES ON
May 01, 2000; ... THE saga of Edinburgh's electoral fiasco, when over 3000 voteswent uncounted for local and Scottish elections last year, seems setto run and run . . . simply because no-one is empowered to bring itto a conclusion. The voters of the city have heard Chief Executive and ...
NEW VENUE FOR STRING FELLOWS
May 01, 2000 ... A NEW venue devoted to classical music has been officially openedin Edinburgh. And the owners of classical music company Stringers, whichunveiled its new home in a Georgian mansion in York Place, todaypromised it had plenty to offer. As well as being used as a venue for ...
WELL-BEHAVED RUGBY FANS WIN PRAISE FROM POLICE
May 01, 2000 ... TENS of thousands of Rugby League fans who brought a partyatmosphere to Edinburgh were today praised for their behaviour. Around 50,000 supporters travelled from northern England to seethe sell-out Challenge Cup Final at Murrayfield. But there wasn't a single arrest or ejection ...
PEDAL MISCHIEF WITH CYCLE PATH DENNIS THE MENACE
May 01, 2000 ... COMIC book legends Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan haveofficially launched the new Edinburgh to Aberdeen cycle route map. The two characters, of Beano and Dandy fame, also opened a newpart of the National Cycle Network route at Discovery Point inDundee. Leaving Edinburgh, ...
DEMENTIA MAY HELP BRING OUT THE ARTIST IN YOU
May 01, 2000 ... SUFFERING from dementia or a stroke can actually improve people'sartistic abilities, according to a new study. Psychiatrists have discovered that people whose language andintellect was damaged by dementia or stroke suddenly became able tocompose music, perfect inventions or improve ...
ENGLISH SIDE EYE RENWICK
May 01, 2000; ... ENGLISH Third Division outfit Darlington are on the trail of out-of-favour Hibs star Michael Renwick. The 24-year-old has already been down south to play in a trialmatch for the Feethams Ground club which, earlier this season,signed Easter Road midfielder Paul ...
DEWAR PUTS A STOP TO BATTLE FOR SUCCESSION
May 01, 2000 ... THE ambitions of Labour's Henry McLeish to become Scotland's nextFirst Minister received a further setback after comments from DonaldDewar today. It was claimed last week that Mr McLeish would lead the Labourside of the coalition while Mr Dewar is out of action for his ...
MORE INTEREST RATE WOE BECKONS SAY ECONOMISTS
May 01, 2000; ... FURTHER misery is on the cards for UK business and home-owners,according to economists today. They expect the Bank of England to raise its lending rate againlater this week, despite the risk that it will drive the rampantpound even higher. Wages growth, a strong housing ...
ATTACK ON EDI RULE IS RUBBISH SAYS ANDERSON
May 01, 2000; ... EDINBURGH City Council leader Donald Anderson today dismissed astinging attack on himself and colleague Lezley Cameron O'Brien overtheir handling of EDI Group as "nonsense". George Kerevan, the founder of the local authority's 'arms-length' development group, accused the two ...
TWO CHARGED AFTER DERBY INCIDENT
May 01, 2000 ... TWO men have been charged following an alleged coin-throwingincident at the last Hibs versus Hearts derby match. Lothian and Borders Police said two Lothians men, aged 22 and 19,had been arrested and charged in connection with an incident at thematch at Easter Road on March ...
GROUP MADE WELLCOME
May 01, 2000 ... FI Group, the FTSE 250 technology services business, has beenappointed a preferred UK supplier for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoWellcome. FI's managing director Allan Wood refused to give details of howmuch the deal might be worth to the Hemel Hempstead-based company,but said its ...
INTERNATIONAL SPIN-OFF BENEFITS HEARTS
May 01, 2000 ... HEARTS midfielder Thomas Flogel reckons that the Gorgie club'sever growing league of nations can help them find the consistencythey need to challenge the Old Firm's domination of Scottishfootball on a more regular basis. The Austrian, speaking after his side's 1-0 win over ...
CITY DRUGS PROJECTS SET FOR 80,000 POUND CASH BOOST
May 01, 2000 ... CITY drug services have received a funding boost totalling overGBP 80,000 to help set up initiatives aimed at tackling drug misusein the capital. The Edinburgh Drug Action Team has prioritised action forvulnerable young people, homeless projects and support for HepatitisC ...
A VERY LUCKY ESCAPE
May 01, 2000 ... THE floods may have caused up to GBP 25 million worth of damagein Edinburgh and the Lothians - but Lucky the goldfish has found anew home after being found in a puddle. Suzie Evason and next-door neighbour Bill Jennings were helpingclean up damage caused when the Water of Leith ...
SPORTING CHANCE FOR ALL
May 01, 2000 ... A NEW internet company catering for those who are mad on sport has been launched in Edinburgh. Britsport.COM covers a range of activities such as hockey and icehockey, amateur football, Amercan football, cycling and volleyball. The venture, based in Waterloo Place, has ...
GIRLS IN FIGHT FOR LIFE AFTER CAR OVERTURNS
May 01, 2000; ... TWO teenage girls were today fighting for their lives after the car they were travelling in overturned and they were thrown out ofthe vehicle. The girls are in a critical condition in hospital with serioushead and back injuries. Joanne Ross, 15, and Sharon McKeen, 14, both ...
HELEN MARTIN: BITCHING FROM BRUNTSFIELD
May 01, 2000; ... AGE-OLD ATTITUDE JUST ISN'T WORKING AROUND 20 years ago, most journalists on daily papers worked onlya four-day week. This was in an attempt to make them live longer because repeatedhealth surveys had proved they died early as a result of continuouspressures and ...
TRAINEES YOU CAN BANK ON
May 01, 2000 ... EDINBURGH-BASED Intelligent Finance, the new GBP 100 millioninternet and phone banking operation being set up by the Halifax,today began the mammoth task of training the first batch of newstaff. The company, which is also setting up an operation in Livingston,has filled 1200 ...
FLOURISH AS JAZZTRANE HITS END OF LINE
May 01, 2000; ... JAZZ Dave Heath, Jazztrane at St Bride's Centre **** THERE is good news and bad news. The good news is that Jazztrane at St Bride's Centre on Fridaywas a sell-out. We were treated to three fine acts in the form ofthe Freddie King Quintet, John Samson, and the Dave Heath ...
A MATCH TOO MANY
May 01, 2000 ... ST MIRREN McDonalds, pipped in double overtime in the second gameat Portobello on Saturday, came out with all guns blazing to win thedecider 99-78 at Linwood yesterday to add basketball's ScottishChampionship Play-off title to their league crown with victory overEdinburgh ...
JEFFERIES COOL OVER STEVIE BID
May 01, 2000; ... HEARTS manager Jim Jefferies today played down speculation thathe was set to make a sensational swoop for ex-Hibs stikerStevieCrawford at the end of the season. The forward, currently on a short-term contract with FirstDivision Dunfermline, is a free agent at the end of the season, ...
FLAMING GREAT
May 01, 2000; ... HALF-NAKED pagans returned to Calton Hill to the sound of beatingdrums and an enormous fire to celebrate the Beltane Festival. Up to 12,000 people turned up at last night's event to mark thebeginning of summer. Children sitting on their parents' shoulders joined ...
BLUE CIRCLE PREDICTS IT WILL FOIL TAKEOVER BID
May 01, 2000 ... CEMENT group Blue Circle Industries today said it is close tofighting off the GBP 3.65 billion takeover bid from French companyLafarge. Estimates suggest it has the backing of 45 per cent ofshareholders. The bid is due to close on Wednesday. A source close to Blue Circle, ...
DAY OF BLUES PROVES TO BE JUST THAT
May 01, 2000; ... MUSIC Blues 2000, Corn Exchange *** A CITY of Edinburgh's stature certainly deserves its own world-class blues festival. Sure, there's the Jazz and Blues Festival, butit consists of a series of performances at different venues over afew weeks. This was a valiant attempt to ...
CAMERAS TO SPY ON BUS LANE CHEATS
May 01, 2000; ... SPY cameras are set to be put on buses to catch car drivers usingEdinburgh's Greenways and bus lanes. Motorists could face a fixed penalty of GBP 20 in the same waythey are issued with speeding or parking tickets. Transportation convener Mark Lazarowicz said the move was ...
LIONS FANS ROAR AS LIVVY SIGN OFF
May 01, 2000; ... THE warm applause from the Almondvale fans as the Livingstonplayers took their bows after the final home game of their season onSaturday was evidence that the supporters were quite satisfied, notonly with the 3-1 victory over Ayr United, but the campaign ingeneral. Although the ...
NEWCASTLE OFF
May 01, 2000 ... NEWCASTLE'S meeting scheduled for today has been abandoned due towaterlogging. Clerk of the course David McAllister said: "We have abandoned themeeting. There is still water standing on the course which ...
BEAU'S A BEAUT IN GOLD CUP WIN
May 01, 2000 ... BEAU ensured that the last day of the jumps' season ended with abang with a record-breaking victory in the Whitbread Gold Cup atSandown Park. The admirable young jumper thumped his rivals by a distance andmore to record the longest winning margin in the 43-year history ofthe ...
STOUTE CAN STRIKE GUINEAS GOLD
May 01, 2000; ... SIR Michael Stoute has his string in good form as he preparesKing's Best and Petrushka for the Sagitta 2000 and 1000 Guineasrespectively at the weekend. Meantime, the Newmarket trainer can strike at a lower grade withthe promising Shablam in the Doncaster Racecourse Sponsorship ...
COLONIAL CAN RULE AT BATH
May 01, 2000; ... COLONIAL RULE, one of the horses John Gosden inherited on hisarrival at Manton, can take command in the Tattenham CornerClassified Stakes at Bath tomorrow. The American-bred colt holds an entry in the Vodafone Derby andalthough that looks a bit ambitious, Colonial Rule should at ...
BLOWN AWAY
May 01, 2000 ... CHRIS Paterson led an Edinburgh Reivers comeback at St Helens onSaturday, but the 47-24 defeat by Swansea means they still finishedthe away games of their first season in the Welsh/Scottish Leaguewith just three wins from 11 long trips south. With two home matches to come, ...
CHALLENGE CUP FINAL COULD BE SET FOR CAPITAL RETURN
May 01, 2000; ... FAN power is set to determine how quickly the prestigious rugbyleague Silk Cut Challenge Cup final, which saw Bradford Bulls defeatLeeds Rhinos 24-18 at Murrayfield on Saturday, returns to Edinburgh. Soon after the dust had settled on a final that attracted a near-capacity crowd of ...
SAINTS TAKE TITLE AS RAITH GIVE UP GHOST
May 01, 2000 ... IT'S neither an easy nor ideal situation for a team to turn upfor a game in the enforced role of supporting artists, but the RaithRovers players were left in that position on Saturday as they tookthe field at Love Street in front of nearly 9000 Paisley Buddies. For those fans were ...
GRAHAM KEEN TO STAY PAR OF EAST END
May 01, 2000; ... DUNFERMLINE striker David Graham, who signed for the Pars for GBP200,000 from Rangers 18 months ago, revealed he has been offered anew contract, and is poised to step into the breach if the Fifersfail to hold on to 16-goal hitman Stevie Crawford. Musselburgh-based Graham's early ...
LOTTERY BACK ON AFTER BIG SWITCH-OFF
May 01, 2000 ... LOTTERY operator Camelot said its machines were up and runningagain today - after a power loss over the weekend saw newsagentslose out on thousands of pounds worth of business. Thousands of retailers across Scotland had to turn frustratedcustomers away after Edinburgh's flooding ...
CASTLE DROPS OUT OF TOP 10 ATTRACTIONS
May 01, 2000 ... EDINBURGH Castle has dropped out of the UK's top ten visitorattractions, a new report reveals today. The Visits to Tourist Attractions 1999 survey found that whiletrips to UK attractions rose by one per cent last year, Scotlandsuffered a one per cent drop. The study found ...
PROBE AFTER SLEEPER TRAIN SPLITS APART
May 01, 2000 ... AN investigation is under way today into how a ScotRail carriagewith passengers on board came apart from the rest of a sleeper trainwhile travelling through Edinburgh. Startled passengers saw the end carriage of a Fort William-boundsleeper train become detached from the other three ...
DUMPED CARS PILE UP IN THE LOTHIANS
May 01, 2000; ... JOY-RIDERS and car owners are dumping thousands of unwantedvehicles around the Lothians, figures revealed today. Police and local authorities are so concerned about a massiveincrease in dumping they are now to take action. And they have warned the public to stop dumping the ...
TEAM TO COMBAT THREAT OF E.COLI OUTBREAK
May 01, 2000 ... LOTHIAN Health has drawn-up a new outbreak control plan to handleE.coli epidemics. Lessons have been learnt from the E.coli scares of the 1990sincluding one which saw a toddler die in West Lothian. Now the strategy for handling outbreaks has been revised and morecouncil and ...
INVASION FROM YORKSHIRE A LIFT FOR EDINBURGH
May 01, 2000; ... EVIDENCE that rugby league's Silk Cut Challenge Cup had crossedboth national and cultural boundaries arrived in its most strikingform shortly before midnight. It swayed into the pub, a football stronghold. Cheeks flushed under the amber and red war-paint, it wore a SeeYou ...
MONARCHS THROW IT ALL AWAY ONCE AGAIN
May 01, 2000; ... IF speedway bosses ever invent a competition for pressing theself-destruct button then hapless Edinburgh Monarchs would becrowned champions without breaking sweat. The 45-44 Premier Trophy defeat against Glasgow Tigers atAshfield yesterday exemplified their frustrating habit of ...
VANDALS GO ON RAMPAGE AT SCHOOL
May 01, 2000 ... VANDALS ran amok inside a former Edinburgh primary school andthen set it on fire before they fled. Craigmillar Primary School, which has just been saved fromdemolition by Historic Scotland, was broken into on Saturday night. The vandals smashed windows, threw around the ...
MUGGING VICTIM HURT IN BOTTLE ATTACK
May 01, 2000 ... A MAN was left with cuts to the back of his head after he wasassaulted with a bottle in the early hours of the morning. The victim was making his way along Albany Street when he wasattacked from behind. As he fell to the ground, two men demandedmoney. But the 33-year-old ...
BGI HAS NO VOTING RIGHTS IN STANDARD LIFE'S FUTURE
May 01, 2000 ... BARCLAYS Global Investors - which has been linked with playing akey role in the demutualisation of Standard Life - has no votingrights whatsoever with the Edinburgh-based pensions giant, itemerged today. BGI announced two weeks ago that as a significant investor inStandard Life, ...
STUDENT LANDS SCIENCE PRIZE
May 01, 2000 ... AN Edinburgh student has been given top scientific award at aLondon environmental ceremony. Anna Wright, a geophysics undergraduate at Edinburgh University,was one of only eight students chosen nationwide to receive anaccredited Natwest Environmental Fellowship. Anna will now ...
GROWTH SPURT FOR ECONOMY
May 01, 2000 ... THERE has been an improvement in the output rate of Scotland'smanufacturers, while service sector growth remains high, accordingto latest figures published today. Higher output reflected a stronger demand for Scottish goods andservices, especially from the UK market. Export ...
JOLENE GET TOP GRADES FOR COLLEGE ROCK
May 01, 2000; ... MUSIC Jolene The Attic **** HAILING from North Carolina, Jolene have that American collegerock sound which emerged in the 1980s and was made most famous byREM. Funny this, as lead singer John Crooke has a more than passingresemblance to Michael Stipe in REM's earlier ...
VOTE PROBE 'NOBBLED'
May 01, 2000; ... THE consultant lined up to investigate Edinburgh's missing votesfiasco was "nobbled" and persuaded not to carry out the inquiry, itwas claimed today. Keith Hathaway was to chair the probe into the conduct of localand Scottish Parliament elections last May, when about 3500 ...
ACCOUNTS STILL TAXING SAVERS
May 01, 2000 ... SAVERS in the UK are still confused by what savings accounts aretax-efficient, a month after the Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budgetannouncement on allowances on ISAs, according to a survey. The Norwich Union poll found that one in two people still thoughta deposit account with a ...
POST OFFICE SET TO DELIVER NEW BANK
May 01, 2000; ... THE Post Office is in the final stages of plans to set up its ownbanking operation, which it wants funded by large banking groups andthe Government. The move is aimed at filling the gap left by local bank branchshut-downs, such as those recently carried out by Barclays,according ...
PRISON CONTRACT PLANS 'POSE A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY'
May 01, 2000 ... SCOTTISH Prison Service plans to contract out social workservices for inmates could pose a threat to public safety, it wasclaimed today. Norman Murray, president of the Convention of Scottish LocalAuthorities, expressed concern about the move today following ameeting of council ...
WHY OUR CHILDREN NEED THE HARD CELL
May 01, 2000; ... ONE of the worst aspects of a prison officer's job is dealingwith scared teenagers who find themselves in prison. The sight of a young lad, barely out of school, being searched,stripped of his own clothes and banged up in the same prison ashardened sex offenders and murderers, ...
MSP'S BID TO SORT HOLIDAY CONFUSION
May 01, 2000 ... Full version of story appears in the Home Edition. AN MSP today called for a review of Scotland's public holidays assome Edinburgh citizens enjoyed their fourth day off in three weeks. Tory backbencher David Mundell insisted he was not calling forthe number of holidays to be ...
CALL FOR SLICE OF MOBILE WINDFALL TO GO ON ROVER
May 01, 2000 ... THE Government was today urged to use the GBP 22 billion from thesale of mobile phone licences to help save Rover. General secretary of the MSF union Roger Lyons said Trade andIndustry Secretary Stephen Byers and Prime Minister Tony Blair werecommitted to helping Rover. But ...
CLEAN UP FOR SEWER SYSTEM
May 01, 2000 ... EAST of Scotland Water are to start work on a multi-million poundscheme to bring Cramond's sewer system in line with Europeanstandards. The GBP 5.5 million project will see a new sewer and pumpingstation installed to take existing sewage from the system to themain ...
A CAPITAL THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE
May 01, 2000; ... SCIENTISTS are trying to shed their dry and dusty image by takingtheir subject out of the lecture halls into the pub. Organisers of this year's International Science Festival weredisappointed that many of the talk shows they organised attractedonly a few people and suspect that the ...