Evening News - Scotland back issues from August 2001:
Aussies bowl over Scotland
Aug 01, 2001 ... Australia's Commonwealth Games bowls squad wrapped up acomprehensive 4-1 win over their Scottish counterparts when theirfive-match Test series came to an end in Eddlewood yesterday. The Scots went into the final two tests knowing they neededvictory in both of them to force an ...
A walk on the dark side
Aug 01, 2001; ... A war veteran lives in fear of the children who throw stones athim. Old people are afraid to leave their homes. Shop workers arespat on. This is the dark side of Royston, the north Edinburgh estate inthe news for all the wrong reasons, a place where the vast majoritytry to live ...
30th that went down a storm . .
Aug 01, 2001; ... Why have a booze-up with your mates when you can have white-outblizzards and home-made toilets? Liam Rudden meets the man who choseto spend his birthday in the Antarctic So how did you celebrate your 30th birthday? A big bash in thepub with your mates perhaps, or a more refined ...
Leader: Build on a mystery
Aug 01, 2001; ... The value of Edinburgh properties continues to advance, happilyif you own any, less so if you don't yet have a mortgage. It is not easy to explain why the world economy is ailing, butdomestic consumption is bubbling along merrily. The Halifax Bank, soon to be merged with the ...
Short back and sides no hair way to treat a girl
Aug 01, 2001; ... At what age do girls, as a rule, start wearing make-up? At the moment I'm on holiday with my seven-year-old niece, Amy,who is already carrying around a junior make-up kit which she spendsages lovingly applying - 30 minutes before going to bed. At seven I would have loved to ...
Scots take Euro title
Aug 01, 2001 ... Scotlsnd's cricketers completed a tournament clean sweep bybeating Denmark in the Under-19 European Championships atInverleith. With their place in next year's World Cup in New Zealand alreadysecured, the Scots clinched the title with a six-wicket win. "I'm absolutely ...
Rose hold Whitehill in thriller
Aug 01, 2001; ... Bonnyrigg Rose and Whitehill Welfare drew 3-3 in a competitivepre-season friendly last night to give both sides encouragement forthe forthcoming season. Whitehill, who lost eight players during the summer including sixwho followed previous manager Mike Lawson to Spartans, are in ...
Weed out chemical casualties
Aug 01, 2001; ... I SAW my first one of the season last week - sounds a bit likethe entry in a birdwatcher's diary, but in my case it was actually atomato plant destroyed by chemical injury. Viewers of the Beechgrove Garden will be aware that this seasonwe have been visiting various parts of the ...
French ace in Hibs link
Aug 01, 2001 ... Hibs were today reported to be on the trail of French starFrederic Biancalani despite intense interest from English outfitHuddersfield Town. The 27-year-old Nancy ace impressed during a trial match for LouMacari's side, but was also watched by the Easter Road outfit.Biancalani ...
Boyd has Burgess' backing
Aug 01, 2001; ... Former boss Keith Burgess today claimed Pumpherston have picked awinner in Walter Boyd. Burgess, now in charge of Fife aces Glenrothes, led his side to a3-0 win in last night's friendly. But he still predicted good times for Pumpherston, who have givenex-Meadowbank Thistle ...
Leader : Unhealthy alliance
Aug 01, 2001 ... When Tony Blair declared his intention to make Britain's publicservices the best in the world, with a little help from the privatesector, he must have anticipated the furore his plans would sparkoff. Even so the Government must be getting increasingly frustrated bythe unholy ...
Design floors
Aug 01, 2001; ... IT'S the decorating dilemma even Laurence Lewellyn Bowen and hisfriends can't always solve. Walls and furnishings are a schoosh, butif anything's going to go wrong it's odds on to be the floor, wherethe wash doesn't work on the floorboards, the tiles don't hold thepaint or the carpet ...
To the manor Barn
Aug 01, 2001; ... Built in the 1880s this charming one-storey stone barn in Drum-crosshall, near Bathgate, was converted in 1988 to create a modernhome set in the heart of the rolling West Lothian countryside. Called The Barn, it has four-bedrooms, features a third of anacre of well-stocked gardens ...
Home on the Grange
Aug 01, 2001; ... Built in attractive red brick and situated in Livingston's leafyMurieston Valley, Morton Grange is set to be a hit withhousehunters. This is only the second Scottish development from David WilsonHomes but a relative lack of experience north of the Border does notseem to have ...
Ascot absence can benefit Solo Mio
Aug 01, 2001; ... Amanda Perrett may regret not entering Solo Mio for the Gold Cup,but the regenerated seven-year-old entire can prove himself king ofthe stayers with victory in the JP Morgan Private Bank Goodwood Cuptomorrow. The son of Sadler's Wells has won both his starts for thePulborough ...
Martina back in triumph
Aug 01, 2001 ... Martina Hingis, in singles action for the first time since heropening-round defeat at Wimbledon five weeks ago, beat AmericanLilia Osterloh 6-1, 6-4 at the Acura Classic in California. "I played better then I expected," said the top seed ...
World Today : British girl dies in mountain plunge
Aug 01, 2001; ... A 17-year -old British girl on a school trip in Vietnam hasfallen to her death from the country's highest mountain, it wasrevealed today. Amy Ransom, a pupil at Wycombe High School, High Wycombe, Bucks,died on Monday while on an expedition with seven schoolmates. They and ...
Old Firm in English cup move
Aug 01, 2001 ... Celtic and Rangers were today reported to have been invited totake part in this season's Worthington Cup in England. The Old Firm, who have already expressed a desire to quitScotland and play in the English Premiership, have been earmarked toenter the knockout competition in the ...
McCall ignores the friendly fire to earn Lothians semi spot
Aug 01, 2001 ... Grant McCall, who fell at the final hurdle in this year'sLothians Championship, has given himself another chance of golfingglory. McCall is through to the semi-finals of the Evening News-sponsored Lothians Champion of Champions Tournament, having beatenBaberton clubmate Ron ...
Jambos can take their cue from Boro's move
Aug 01, 2001; ... Hearts' plans to uproot from Tynecastle and move to a new groundon the outskirts of Edinburgh may have had some traditionalistsquestioning the wisdom of such drastic action. But the proposals, as exclusively revealed in yesterday's EveningNews, could be the start of bigger and ...
Gap widens in Scots two-speed economy
Aug 01, 2001; ... Further evidence of the growing divergence of Scotland's "twospeed" economy emerged today with reports showing a further drop inmanufacturing output coupled with 12-month high retail salesfigures. A report from the Bank of Scotland shows that Scottishmanufacturing output for ...
Telfer accuses Lions chiefs of selection prejudice
Aug 01, 2001; ... Scottish director of rugby Jim Telfer has broken his silence onthe British and Irish Lions' ill-fated summer tour, accusing thecombined side's bosses of selection bias and grossly under-estimating the abilities of Scots' players both left out and takento Australia. In a ...
Jim hails club players for the third-district stance
Aug 01, 2001; ... Jim Telfer has hailed Scotland's club players for providing theimpetus to ensure Edinburgh will again have its own professionalteam this season after the creation of a third super-district in theBorders from 2002-03. "The decision at this year's SRU annual meeting in favour of ...
Harkess bids for Sky show
Aug 01, 2001; ... Edinburgh Monarchs boss Alex Harkess will challenge Sky Sports tobring their cameras to Armadale when he meets with executives fromthe satellite broadcaster at Sunday's National Four Team Finals atPeterborough. Sky are televising the star-studded Premier League event live aspart ...
Gretna Green pulls them in
Aug 01, 2001 ... More couples are marrying at Gretna than at any time since civilregistration was introduced in 1855, it was revealed today. A report by the Registrar General for Scotland shows 5278marriages last year compared with just 100 a year in the ...
All-Hotels checks in record set of results
Aug 01, 2001 ... All-Hotels the hotel rooms booking service based in Edinburgh,has announced what it describes as record results for the secondquarter of 2001. Sales from hotel bookings during the past three months reachednearly 3.7 million pounds, with more than 80,000 hotel rooms soldduring ...
Milestone as heart cells are grown in lab
Aug 01, 2001 ... Heart cells have been grown in the laboratory for the first time,scientists announced today. The breakthrough, described as a scientific "milestone", pavesthe way for a revolution in heart treatment. A team of Israeli researchers grew the tissue from embryonic stemcells - ...
A ray of hope as Asda recruits 100
Aug 01, 2001 ... Supermarket giant Asda is set to create 100 new jobs inLivingston as the first phase of its 30 million pounds conversion toAsda Wal-Mart nears completion. The Asda Wal-Mart store is the first of its kind in Scotland andwill be the biggest in the country when it opens next summer ....
Despair at death of young talented athlete
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE family of a talented teenage athlete who died in hospitalwithin 24 hours of falling ill at work are considering legal actionover her death. Promising 18-year-old sports student Lynsy Myles died inEdinburgh's Western General Hospital after suffering a massive brainseizure, it ...
EastEnders star to open city store
Aug 01, 2001 ... Eastenders bad boy Craig Fairbrass - dodgy Dan Sullivan in thehit BBC soap - is to open a new health and beauty shop on PrincesStreet. The new Superdrug outlet, which brings 30 jobs, is one of thechain's new format stores ....
Tesco peanut butter in cancer chemical scare
Aug 01, 2001 ... Cancer-causing chemicals have been found in peanut butter on salein the UK. Excessive levels of aflatoxin, a naturally occurring contaminantwith links to liver cancer, were found in pots of Tesco peanutbutter. The discovery follows warnings from the trading ...
Hearts 'no' to 8m pounds cash injection
Aug 01, 2001; ... Hearts have rejected an 8 million pounds capital injection intothe club, the Evening News can reveal today. It is believed that the proposed investment, the largest-ever sumto be offered to the club, was made by a consortium headed by formerchairman Leslie Deans. The ...
Playing puff ball
Aug 01, 2001 ... A Chef today has picked what could be Scotland's largest ediblemushroom after he discovered one bigger than a football. French chef Christofe Pelletier, 41, spotted the giant fungusunder a roadside hedge in South Queensferry as he searched for wildmushrooms to cook in his ...
Firm has it covered
Aug 01, 2001 ... One of Edinburgh's most specialist small companies has been givennational recognition for what is a rather dying art in the city. Bookbinding by Crawford, which is based in Jane Street and has aturnover of around 100,000 pounds, was today awarded corporatemembership of the Guild ...
Bingo win nets gran more than 100,000 pounds in cash
Aug 01, 2001 ... An Armadale grandmother has scooped more than GBP 100,000 duringa weekly bingo game. The winner, who has asked not to be named, was playing at theRoyal George Club in Portobello with her husband when her numberswere called. She was stunned when officials told her she had ...
Meet the talking head
Aug 01, 2001; ... "Welcome to Rhetorical Systems." The perfectly modulated voice isthe sort of calm, authoritative tenor much favoured by maletelevision newsreaders. However, it is being produced by a laptop computer on the desk ofRhetorical's chief executive Marc Moens. A click of the mouse ...
Woman killed in canal car plunge
Aug 01, 2001 ... A Woman died today after her car plunged into a canal. The emergency services were alerted to the accident on a stretchof the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow by a passing off-duty policeofficer. After calling ...
Ship rescue drama
Aug 01, 2001 ... A rescue was under way today after a cargo ferry with seven crewon board suffered engine failure off Shetland. Just before 5am, the Inverness-registered vessel Highland Carriercontacted Shetland ...
Justice fails victims of child abuse
Aug 01, 2001; ... Much has been written in the past few days about the recent casein the High Court in Edinburgh, dropped because an eight-year-oldboy was unable to give evidence. The case was abandoned after he broke down in the witness box. Asa result six men accused of child abuse walked free ....
Childminder set for court
Aug 01, 2001 ... A childminder is expected to appear in court today in connectionwith the death of a baby boy left in her care. Alexander Graham, aged one, died after allegedly suffering headinjuries at Tina McLeod's Edinburgh home on Thursday last week. An ambulance was called to a house in ...
A real battery hen
Aug 01, 2001 ... Henrietta the chicken proved she was a real battery hen - byhitching a ride under the bonnet of a minibus. The hapless chicken was discovered heading to Edinburgh on a busy60mph road sitting on top of the engine's battery. Her trip wasended when it was pulled over for a routine ...
Holmes is where heart is as fans hit Dartmoor
Aug 01, 2001 ... ANn international convention of Sherlock Holmes fans was todaygathering on Dartmoor - each dressed as a character from one of the60 stories featuring the pipe-smoking Victorian detective. They have come from America, Canada, Germany and Japan to theweek-long event at Ashburton on ...
Taxpayer will foot bill for aid group's 90,000 pounds debt
Aug 01, 2001 ... A DEBT of 90,000 pounds run up by an Edinburgh urban aid projectis to be paid by taxpayers, councillors have agreed. Edinburgh City Council will cut almost 90 per cent of theCraigmillar Festival Society's group's GBP 662,000 annual fundingunder a rescue plan. The voluntary ...
A perennial favourite
Aug 01, 2001 ... One of the marvellous borders in Stranraer's Garden ofFriendship, which has been planted up by the local authority,contains nothing but dahlias. It so happens they were grown from seed, all had dark, copperfoliage but the flowers were a great range of yellows, oranges,reds, ...
Train services hit after carriage derails
Aug 01, 2001 ... Train services between Edinburgh and London were cancelled todayafter an empty carriage went off the rails near Portobello. It is believed that the derailment happened during the couplingof several empty carriages within GNER's Craigentinny depot shortlyafter 5am. The first ...
Unions hit out at rise in fatalities at workplace
Aug 01, 2001 ... Trade union leaders have condemned a rise of nearly 20 per centin the number of workplace deaths in Scotland. Figures from the Health and Safety Executive showed 36 workersdied in Scotland last year compared with 31 in 1999/2000. STUC general secretary Bill Speirs said: ...
Warning over new doctors' illegal hours
Aug 01, 2001 ... Thousands of newly-qualified junior doctors taking up their firsthospital jobs today will be working illegally long hours, theBritish Medical Association warned today. New legally-binding restrictions on hours worked by junior doctorhours come into effect from today, limiting them ...
Deutsche rings up latest loss
Aug 01, 2001 ... Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest phone company by sales, hasposted its third straight quarterly loss in the three months throughJune, hurt by costs from mobile-phone licenses and a 25 billionpounds acquisition in the United States. The second-quarter loss widened to 606 million ...
New laws set to call time on pub happy hours
Aug 01, 2001 ... A clampdown on happy hours, the introduction of compulsorytraining for publicans and a greater say for local people on pubapplications were signalled today as a major review of Scotland'slicensing laws got under way. The Committee on Liquor Licensing Law, chaired by ...
New laws set to call time on happy hour
Aug 01, 2001; ... A clampdown on happy hours, the introduction of compulsorytraining for publicans and a greater say for local people on pubapplications were signalled today as a major review of Scotland'slicensing laws got under way. The Committee on Liquor Licensing Law, chaired by ...
Death crash driver gets another ban
Aug 01, 2001 ... A driver who claimed to be full of remorse after knocking down anine-year-old boy in a fatal crash was today given a five-yeardriving ban for causing another road accident just months later. Jason Summers, 19, who had already been disqualified for fiveyears and ordered to carry ...
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Private education to cost more in Capital
Aug 01, 2001; ... Parents who send their children to Scottish private schools arefacing a hike in fees this autumn to cover a pay rise for teachers. The Scottish Council of Independent Schools says charges willjump as much as ten per cent in September to fund higher salaries. The increases ...
Fire at guest-house
Aug 01, 2001 ... A fire broke out at a guest-house in Edinburgh this morning. The blaze, at Kinnaird Guest-house in Morrison Street, started ina laundry room at around 9.30am ....
FirstGroup's US drive continues
Aug 01, 2001 ... Firstgroup, the Aberdeen-founded bus and train operator, todayextended its push into the US school bus market by buying aWisconsin-based company. FirstGroup, which is the second largest operator of school busesin the US, purchased the Verona Bus Service based in ...
Turn it on again
Aug 01, 2001; ... He was the former Edinburgh piano bar singer handed a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join one of the world's most popular rock bands. But when Genesis decided to call it a day, just two years afterhiring Ray Wilson as frontman, his career came to a standstill andhe ended up battling ...
AngloGold glitters as rivals face strike action
Aug 01, 2001 ... Anglogold, the world's largest gold producer, has issued a better-than-expected 22 per cent surge in first-quarter earnings ahead of astrike by miners at rivals Harmony Gold and Gold Fields. South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it wasstill prepared to discuss ...
Europe eclipses US for takeovers
Aug 01, 2001 ... Europe's technology, media and telecoms companies (TMTs) haveturned the takeover tables on United States counterparts, withfigures showing they dominated mergers and acquisitions (M&As) inthe first half of this year. A study by Thomson Financial found European TMT firms ...
Honda drives profits up by 40 per cent
Aug 01, 2001 ... Japanese car giant Honda has increased first quarter profits by40 per cent, as it grabbed market share at home and a weaker yeninflated the value of sales gains in North America. Japan's second-largest carmaker said group net income rose to 511million pounds in the three months ...
Npower hopes to clean up with Juice
Aug 01, 2001; ... Energy utility Innogy, the former domestic arm of National Powerset up last October, and environmental campaigner Greenpeace havelaunched a direct marketing project to boost public demand forBritish offshore wind projects. A day after ScottishPower announced plans to build a ...
Interbrew set to keep Scots arm in break-up
Aug 01, 2001; ... Brewing giant Interbrew is set to hold on to its Scottish BassBrewers operations under an Office of Fair Trading plan aimed atovercoming competition concerns following Interbrew's purchase lastyear of both Bass and Whitbread's beer business. However, other parts of Bass Brewers ...
McMurdo's singing style creates an impression
Aug 01, 2001; ... Craig McMurdo The Queen's Hall *** THE big band vocal tradition was alive and kicking last night asScots crooner Craig McMurdo paid tribute to Fifties lounge lizardsat the Queen's Hall. McMurdo basically acts out the part of Frank Sinatrareincarnated, or rather bits of Frank ...
Girl, 16 in city flats death plunge
Aug 01, 2001; ... A teenage girl plunged to her death from the tenth-floor windowof an Edinburgh high-rise block in the early hours of this morning. The body of the 16-year-old was found on the pavement outside thetower block in Firrhill Drive. The area surrounding 14-storey-high Allermuir ...
Harry creator 'set to say magic words: I do'
Aug 01, 2001 ... Edinburgh author JK Rowling, creator of the renowned Harry Pottersaga, could soon marry boyfriend Neil Murray, according to reportstoday. The writer and Mr Murray, currently on the island of Mauritius,are believed to be planning to marry before they return to theCapital ....
Kingfisher out to float Woolworths for 500m pounds
Aug 01, 2001; ... Retail giant Kingfisher today confirmed plans to float itsWoolworths high-street chain as a separately listed company laterthis month, in another step in Kingfisher's 1.1billion poundsdemerger strategy. However, the company warned that Woolworths' like-for-like salesfell in July ...