Evening News - Scotland back issues from June 2002:
De-stress test: Hip-hop and street funk dance work-out
Jun 01, 2002; ... From the top A lunchtime hip-hop work-out at Dance Base with Spanish trainerJ.C. Ferron. Perfect, I thought. Just the right kind of exercise fora fitness-shy lass who can still be found shaking her booty on thedance floor every Friday night. No experience needed? Even ...
Skin deep
Jun 01, 2002 ... J.C.'s energetic routines are guaranteed to give you a thoroughwork-out, but if you're going to dance your way to fitness you'llneed to look after your feet. Here are three of the best ways to keepyourself on your toes Boots Put Your Foot in it Foot Fizz aims to get all ten ...
Dinner with Jennie Bond
Jun 01, 2002 ... The BBC Royal correspondent's book, Reporting Royalty, ispublished by Headline What's the best meal you've ever had? Despite all the very posh restaurants I've eaten in, the best mealin recent times has been my husband's chicken and ham pie. It tookhim seven hours. He hates ...
Dish of the day: Jubilee chicken
Jun 01, 2002 ... Dish of the day Jubilee chicken When Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, celebrity chefs at LeCordon Bleu School in London, were asked to dream up a classicdelicacy to mark the Queen's coronation in 1953, they presented theworld with the universally popular if not inspirationally ...
Everyone's eating it: fifty years of food fads
Jun 01, 2002 ... Spam Spam Spam Spam that's all they ate in the 1950s, right? Thatand fish fingers, the decade's great culinary discovery. Well, notexactly. A tin of tasty chopped pork and ham did probably show up onthe family dinner menu more often than is strictly desirable, butdiners in the '50s ...
Reviews: Thaisanuk: Gillian Glover finds Shangri-La
Jun 01, 2002; ... Thaisanuk 21 Argyle Place Edinburgh 0131 221 1231 It's not often that fate delivers a party gift of all one'sfavourite foodie things tied up in just one parcel, but that's how Ifelt when I came across Thaisanuk. You see, I had been looking forsomewhere suitable for a small ...
Sounds of the seventies
Jun 01, 2002; ... AT the beginning of this year some people thought that the GoldenJubilee was going to be a flop with few interested in thecelebrations. Instead it looks like it's going to be a resoundingsuccess as many embrace the patriotic sentiment - and the extra bankholidays. The same thing ...
Just happy to be alive
Jun 01, 2002; ... A six-week exotic honeymoon on the other side of the world wouldturn into a lasting memory for most people, but for newly-wed actressJuliet Aubrey it was for all the wrong reasons. The 33-year-old star of ITV's royal drama Bertie & Elizabethnearly died when a sea plane carrying ...
Milwaukee mile may prove tonic for Dario
Jun 01, 2002; ... JUST seven days after his Indianapolis 500 debut, Dario Franchittiis hoping to make up for his personal disappointment, and that of hisTeam Kool team-mate Paul Tracy, when he tackles the Milwaukee Miletomorrow. Franchitti, whose bid to win the Indy was wrecked by a poor callfrom ...
Swedes are still waiting on fitness of Ljungberg
Jun 01, 2002 ... FREDDIE LJUNGBERG'S chances of facing England in the World Cupshowdown with Sweden in Saitama tomorrow were touch-and-go thismorning. The Arsenal star was undergoing a strenuous fitness test afterwhich coach Lars Lagerback would decide if his most vital playercould take his ...
Brave Irish make point
Jun 01, 2002; ... MATT HOLLAND today kept the Republic of Ireland's World Cup dreamalive with only his fourth international goal as Mick McCarthy's sidesecured a well-deserved opening Group E draw against Africanchampions Cameroon. The Republic looked as if they missed the inspiration of ...
Holland puts the smile back on Irish fans' faces
Jun 01, 2002; ... Ireland1 Cameroon 1 MATT HOLLAND was the toast of the Emerald Isle today afterrescuing a point in the Republic of Ireland's opening World Cup gameagainst Cameroon. The Ipswich Town captain swooped on a mistake by Rigobert Song tostrike a clean left-shoot drive into the ...
Leader: Danger on the streets
Jun 01, 2002; ... THAT any woman should feel she has to turn to prostitution to makea living is a cause for concern, and more often than not moraloutrage, in our society. But when a prostitute is not yet a woman, but a 14-year-old girl,that concern is rightly heightened. Whilst a tolerance ...
Monarchs face tough task in return clash
Jun 01, 2002; ... EDINBURGH Fulfilment Factory Monarchs' Knockout Cup hopes arebalanced on the proverbial knife edge. An uninspiring 49-41 second-round, first-leg victory over NewportWasps at Armadale last night did nothing to abate the flood ofcriticism which is currently being directed at the ...
Korea opportunities
Jun 01, 2002 ... SCOTLAND might not be in Korea for the World Cup but a taste ofKorea came to Scotland today with the opening of an exhibition on thecountry's shamanic tradition at Edinburgh's Royal Museum. The exhibition - Mediating With Spirits, Shamans in Korea,explores the ancient occupation ...
Moscow joy for Hoy
Jun 01, 2002 ... EDINBURGH cyclist Chris Hoy picked up his third World Cup gold ofthe year when he teamed up with Olympic kilo champion Jason Queallyand new sprinter Jamie Staff to win the Team Sprint (formerly theOlympic Sprint) in Moscow. On the huge 333 metres track, they clocked 59.3 seconds, ...
Trapattoni warns of the challenge from out of Africa
Jun 01, 2002 ... ITALY coach Giovanni Trapattoni believes Senegal's shock winagainst France today should act as a warning that African football isready to rival the game's traditional superpowers. The 63-year-old former Fiorentina chief was not shaken by the 1-0result in Seoul. Indeed he claims ...
World champions ponder future as defeat sinks in
Jun 01, 2002; ... FRANCE coach Roger Lemerre admitted today the reigning champions'World Cup future hangs in the balance after Senegal pulled off one offootball's great upsets. The French side now face the very real prospect of having to playArgentina or England in the next phase, if that they ...
Lyle delighted to be back in the hunt at Woburn
Jun 01, 2002; ... PHILLIP PRICE wants to prove himself - and Sandy Lyle wants to doit all over again. Entering today's third round of the VictorChandler British Masters the chance was there for both of them. Welshman Price, only three months away now from his Ryder Cupdebut, held a two-stroke lead ...
Tarver will block out rivals to get World Bowl glory
Jun 01, 2002; ... HURLEY TARVER became an instant hero with Scottish Claymores fansafter a critical block which kept them on course for the World Bowl. But the razor-sharp cornerback knows that the Claymores will haveto be fully-focused at Berlin Thunder tomorrow to keep their WorldBowl hopes ...
Limmond hasn't got a prayer says Alex
Jun 01, 2002; ... ALEX ARTHUR has revealed his three-point plan for beatingGlasgow's Willie Limmond and lifting the British super-featherweighttitle in Glasgow next week - speed, punch power and body shots. The Capital's undefeated IBF Continental Champion has beenstudying Limmond's previous fights ...
Air guitarists are all fret to rock
Jun 01, 2002; ... EVERY schoolboy wannabe rock star does it behind closed doors -but very few admit to it in public. With his favourite rock classic on the stereo, school tie roundhis head and optional tennis racket in hand, he cavorts around thebedroom pretending to be a guitar legend like Eric ...
Blunkett: I agree with far-right on Muslims
Jun 01, 2002; ... HOME Secretary David Blunkett has voiced his agreement with someof the opinions on immigration of murdered Dutch far-right politicianPim Fortuyn. Mr Blunkett compared Muslim forced marriages with practices seenin medieval England and suggested that they might cease as ...
Library exhibition does it by the book
Jun 01, 2002 ... A TREASURE trove of books ranging from the manuscript of the firstHarry Potter novel to an antique version of Tom Thumb have gone ondisplay in Edinburgh. The exhibition, taking place at the NationalLibrary of Scotland, started today and runs until October 31. The collection, ...
Scots fans' Swede plan
Jun 01, 2002 ... PUNTERS at a city bar will be able to raise their glasses withfree beer if England are defeated in their opening World Cup gamewith Sweden tomorrow. The Waverley Bar in ...
Labour denies broken promises over road safety
Jun 01, 2002 ... LABOUR has defended its record on road safety outside schoolsafter accusations of "broken promises". Liberal Democrat Councillor Moyra Forrest accused the citycouncil's Labour administration of raising false hopes after figuresshowed only 18 out of 103 Primary Schools have had ...
Minister close to contract pledge for new teachers
Jun 01, 2002 ... A GUARANTEE to newly-qualified teachers of a one-year trainingcontract is close to being delivered, Education Minister CathyJamieson has told freshly-graduated teachers in Edinburgh. She told them that every eligible primary student had been found aplace under the deal, which ...
Back should be censured for his blatant cheating
Jun 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S glistening record of being the only major rugby countrynever to have had a player sent off in an international shines evenbrighter today as a consequence of events south of the border thisweek. The Scots' reputation for fair play, like many other rugbynations, can be ...
Couple raising stakes in fight to get 400,000 pounds from bookies
Jun 01, 2002 ... A CITY couple who claim they lost out on 400,000 pounds afterbookmakers refused to hand-over a major jackpot have taken their caseto an independent gambling panel. Claire Dickson and her husband Brian say they won a GBP 400,000jackpot at Coral bookmakers in Shandwick Place in ...
Raunchy role for dancers at fair
Jun 01, 2002 ... SEXY male dancers are just one of the attractions at one ofEdinburgh's largest annual community-run events today. A group of local men are set to entertain the crowds at ...
City cricket captain dies during game
Jun 01, 2002; ... A 35-YEAR-OLD Edinburgh cricket captain has died after collapsingduring a match in the Meadows. Married man James Green is believed to have suffered a massiveheart attack in front of his shocked team-mates. He was playing for Marchmont Cricket Club's first team in a ...
'Horse-and-cart' roads can't cope with more cars, says Darling
Jun 01, 2002 ... NEW Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has said drivers mustaccept "constraint" because Britain's "horse-and-cart" road networkcannot cope with the volume of traffic. In his first newspaper interview since taking office after theresignation of Stephen Byers, the Edinburgh ...
Afghans killed by friendly fire
Jun 01, 2002 ... UNITED States special forces killed three Afghan allies aftermistaking them for al-Qaida fighters in the latest friendly firemishap of the Afghan war. Colonel Roger King ...
New York to light up for the jubilee
Jun 01, 2002 ... THE Empire State Building is to be lit up in purple and gold nextweek to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The New York skyscraper will beam the Royal colours across thecity from sunrise to midnight on Tuesday. The tribute is a reciprocal gesture following the Queen's ...
City doctor wins cancer post in US
Jun 01, 2002 ... A CITY scientist is set to take up a post at the world-famousHarvard University to push forward pioneering cancer research. Dr Brian Huntly, 35, has been awarded a 260,000 pounds grant tocarry out research at the US institution. He is set to move to the US with his family at ...
Scots get chance of World Cup glory
Jun 01, 2002 ... ORGANISERS of this year's Great Scottish Walk are set to stage amini World Cup - which even Scotland could win. The group behind the event want a team from every countryrepresented at the World Cup to take part. And at the end, if they still have the stamina, the teams ...
Man in fight for life after flat fire
Jun 01, 2002; ... A MAN was fighting for life today after a ferocious fire on the11th floor of an Edinburgh tower block in which four firefighterswere injured. Three people in a flat in Restalrig Gardens were trapped on abalcony when the blaze broke out just after 3am today. Firefighters ...
Bridge gets vital repairs
Jun 01, 2002 ... VITAL repairs to one of the longest footbridges in West Lothianare due to get under way next week. Work on the 130-metre long Houston Footbridge, in Livingston, isexpected to take around ten weeks and starts on Tuesday. It includes carrying out concrete ...
Broken neck 'undiagnosed for 3 weeks'
Jun 01, 2002 ... A GRANDMOTHER walked around for three weeks with a broken neckafter doctors failed to diagnose the injury, according to reportstoday. Lavina Thompson, 75, was given painkillers by doctors afterinjuring herself in a fall at her home in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. It was only on ...
Just wait a minute now Your Majesty..
Jun 01, 2002; ... EDINBURGH'S 21-gun salute in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubileeis to be fired a minute later in Edinburgh than the rest of the UK. The Army received a special dispensation from the Lord Chamberlainas the salute would have clashed with the firing of the One o'ClockGun from ...
Tribute to man of the people
Jun 01, 2002; ... A NEW People's Festival is set to be held this year in a bid torevive the "original" spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The event is designed to be a tribute to Hamish Henderson, thecelebrated Scots writer, singer and historian who died earlier thisyear at his city home ....
Hibs boost as fans back club by renewing season tickets
Jun 01, 2002; ... HIBS today insisted season-ticket sales were "holding up prettywell," raising hopes they could yet come close to last year's total. The Easter Road outfit admitted that so far sales had failed tomatch those made at this time last summer, but revealed they werestill outstripping ...
Copping a million is just the job for most
Jun 01, 2002; ... HE survived standing on a log for 23 hours and eating live crabs -he even managed to put up with boring Bridget and insufferably smugSusannah in his battle to win 1 million pounds. But after beating 11 rivals and bagging the cash, Edinburgh copperJonny Gibb was in a quandary this ...
Kangaroo is hopping to lift recycling
Jun 01, 2002 ... A KANGAROO was due to visit Edinburgh's longest running communityfestival today in a bid to encourage more people to recycle. A man dressed in a kangaroo costume was to entertain families andgive out information about the importance of recycling householdproducts at the Meadows ...
Jobs fear sparked by bus tour firm buy-out
Jun 01, 2002; ... WORKERS at one of the main companies running bus tours throughEdinburgh city centre have been thrown into turmoil after it wassuddenly taken over by a rival firm. Guide Friday, which has around 50 staff in the Capital, has beenbought out by Ensign Buses, which already runs City ...
Revamped plan for docks flats to get go-ahead
Jun 01, 2002; ... SCALED-DOWN plans for a major luxury housing development in theheart of Leith are to be given the all-clear. City planning officials have recommended that Cala Homes ScotlandLtd is given planning permission to build on the site at ConstitutionPlace, which is currently a derelict ...
SNP dumps maverick MSP Quinan
Jun 01, 2002 ... LEADING Scottish Nationalist MSP Lloyd Quinan will be out of a jobnext year after being dumped by the SNP, it has been revealed today. The Leith-born politician, who used to be a weather man for STV,failed to secure any support in his bid to stand again for the Westof Scotland ...
Lotto boost for disabled youngsters
Jun 01, 2002 ... DISABLED children in West Lothian have been given a 100,000 poundscash boost from a lottery grant. The support group, Signpost, has been given the award from theCommunity Fund to pay for extra staff at its new base in Livingston,as well as provide training and travel costs ....
A recipe for fresh success
Jun 01, 2002; ... THIS week I had lunch with a group of friends - some old, some new- at the Balmoral Hotel's Number One Brasserie on Princes Street.Chefs, restaurateurs, deer farmers, a soft fruit grower, a fishmerchant, an organic producer, a game dealer and cook book mongerwere all gathered to ...
Police warn parade will mean delays
Jun 01, 2002 ... MORE than 5000 people are expected to take part in an Orange Orderparade in Dalkeith next month. Police have said many roads in the Midlothian town will close totraffic and have warned people to expect long delays. The parade, on Saturday June 29, will begin in Lindores Drive ...
Missing mum's son is convicted
Jun 01, 2002; ... A MISSING city woman disappeared just days before her son wasconvicted of causing death by dangerous driving. Now relatives of Louise Tiffney fear that the stress of the courtcase may have caused her to vanish. At Edinburgh High Court yesterday Sean Flynn, 18, admitted ...
Nobel Prize scientist opens city CJD centre
Jun 01, 2002 ... A NEW centre for research into the human form of mad cow diseasewas being officially opened in Edinburgh today by a leadingscientist. The new home for the Creutzfeldt-Jakob National DiseaseSurveillance Unit at the Western General Hospital was due to beopened by American Dr ...
14-year-old vice girl 'is found in Capital'
Jun 01, 2002; ... A 14-YEAR-OLD girl has been found working Edinburgh's streets as aprostitute, according to a leading support group. And this backs up claims by streetworkers that the loss of thecity's tolerance zone and the protection it gives will encourageunder-age prostitutes. The ...
Radio Kabul goes Forth on airwaves
Jun 01, 2002; ... AN Edinburgh-based broadcaster has helped a new radio station inthe heart of war-torn Afghanistan get on the airwaves. Equipment formerly used by Radio Forth is now being used forbroadcasts from the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul. Good Morning Afghanistan is a humanitarian ...
Plea to make cannabis cafe an experiment in drug use
Jun 01, 2002 ... THE man behind Edinburgh's cannabis cafe plan today challenged theauthorities to let it stay open for 12 months to see if it helpsreduce hard drug use. Trainspotting publisher Kevin Williamson said he wanted the cafeto be used as an experiment and invited the authorities to ...
Painters set the scenery
Jun 01, 2002 ... A DISPLAY of landscape paintings by Edinburgh-born artists isrunning at Edinburgh University's Talbot Rice Gallery on SouthBridge. Painter Jonathon Brown left his homeland ten years ago to live inFrance and this is his first major exhibition in Scotland since heleft . His ...
School's out for teachers
Jun 01, 2002 ... A NEW scheme to tackle a shortage of university science studentswill allow teachers to escape the classroom for up to three months. They will get front-line specialist experience in business,industry or research under the Royal Society of Edinburgh pilotproject. Backers ...
Women's city experiences go on show
Jun 01, 2002 ... A CITY gallery is to showcase art by Edinburgh's Afro-Caribbeanand Asian women later this month. Twelve artists feature in the exhibition, to be held at the StillsGallery in Cockburn Street. Based on the women's own experiences of living in the Capital, theexhibition ...
Challenge to Turin Shroud fake theory
Jun 01, 2002 ... THE Turin Shroud may not be a fake, scientists claimed today afternew evidence dated it to the time of Christ. The shroud was previously dismissed as a medieval fake by experts,but a fresh analysis using new techniques reportedly point to therelic being 2000 years old. Dr ...
School wins award for combating racism
Jun 01, 2002 ... A CITY school has won a national award for combating racism. Tynecastle High School was recognised for a scheme that reachesout to the Capital's Urdu and Bengali-speaking communities. Prior to the project being launched, many parents from theminority groups had not visited ...
It's official: the weather in Edinburgh is a lottery
Jun 01, 2002 ... SCHOOLS, sports clubs and political party members will be tryingto guess the temperature in Edinburgh and five other Europeanlocations in a novel fundraising scheme. Around 150 schools have signed up to The Great Weather Lottery, inwhich parents try to guess the temperatures ...
School's facilities come bottom of the class
Jun 01, 2002 ... A LOTHIAN school has been slated by inspectors for its filthytoilets and potentially dangerous playground conditions. A report examining Murrayfield Primary in Blackburn ordered urgentaction to fix "significant weaknesses related to facilitiesmanagement". Her Majesty's ...
Headlong plunge into a soap opera of dysfunctional royalty - PART 2
Jun 01, 2002; ... On the other hand, there was all too much evidence of adisintegrating society, and though the Prince's Trust, set up by thePrince of Wales, did much good work among the disadvantaged youth ofthe inner cities and housing schemes, this received little publicattention. It didn't prevent the ...
Campbell's rallying call to heat leaders
Jun 01, 2002; ... HAVING hammered Stoke Potters 55-35 at Armadale, EdinburghFulfilment Factory Monarchs believed they were capable of winning thereturn clash at Loomer Road. And the aggregate bonus point was surelysafe. But in collapsing to a hefty 56-34 defeat against their Englishrivals last ...
Meldrum vows to move into top gear
Jun 01, 2002; ... NEW Monarchs signing David Meldrum didn't fall in love with Stokeafter scoring a single point in his debut meeting - but vowed: "Iwill get better." "It didn't go as well as I had hoped," Meldrum added. "But no-one went well. I was nervous with it being my first match.I ...