Evening News - Scotland back issues from April 2005:
Rose out for sweet Thornton success
Apr 01, 2005; ... LINLITHGOW ROSE boss Jim Sinnet conceded today his side can kisstheir Super League title hopes goodbye if they fail to pick upmaximum points at home to Thornton Hibs tomorrow. The West Lothian club trail league leaders Lochee United by sevenpoints and Sinnet knows that anything ...
I have been a rover ROAD TEST: Rover 75 Contemporary SE Motoring editor Jim Dunn comes up with a winning combination for the Rover 75 estate
Apr 01, 2005; ... PICK the right combination of engine, transmission and trim, arguehard with your dealer and Rover's first luxury estate will be a caryou can be proud of. This should really come as no surprise, because the Tourer and 75were essentially designed and developed by BMW during their ...
Leader: Landing air show in it
Apr 01, 2005 ... WHEN the decision was taken to stage this summer's G8 conferencein Scotland, there were always going to be winners and losers. But no-one could have forecast that the annual air show staged at the Museumof Flight would have its plans shot down by the influx of worldleaders expected to ...
McNamee out to put one over mentor Hay
Apr 01, 2005; ... IT'S FAIR to say that David McNamee's career would have been a lotless productive were it not for Davie Hay, who returns to Livingstontomorrow with Dunfermline. The Almondvale full-back has had a long relationship with hisformer manager, dating back to his formative years with St ...
All is not what it seems
Apr 01, 2005; ... ONE of the few times you should ignore the evidence before yourvery eyes is when looking over a second-hand vehicle. Even if a careful visual examination of the car's condition andpaperwork appears to tick all the right boxes, there is evidence youneed to check that can't be seen ...
Phil: Robbos's Under Review
Apr 01, 2005; ... NEW Hearts chief executive Phil Anderton today refused toguarantee the long- term future of boss John Robertson. The Tynecastle supremo insisted the manager's position would bereviewed in the summer, with performance critical to the board'sassessment. Anderton revealed the ...
I wish I had a healer like Marv
Apr 01, 2005; ... into contention during the Hibs reserve clash with Rangers atBroadwood Stadium. The midielder may be back in Tony Mowbray's firstsquad as soon as Saturday - Kevin Thomson KEVIN THOMSON glances down at the scars on his right knee,recalling almost a year of cruciate ligament ...
Travel: PEARL OF THE ALGARVE
Apr 01, 2005; ... LOCATED on the south coast of Portugal where the Atlantic Oceanmeets the Mediterranean Sea lies the popular holiday destination ofthe Algarve. With its lagoons and luxuriant vegetation, long, white, sandybeaches and whitewashed homes, not to mention its elite golf courses,the ...
Webster insists Dallas is 'right man for the job' at Parkhead
Apr 01, 2005; ... HEARTS star Andy Webster today shrugged off the controversysurrounding the appointment of Hugh Dallas as the referee fortomorrow's league clash with Celtic, insisting: "He's the right manfor the job." As we revealed earlier this week, the Scottish FootballAssociation allocated ...
Scottish chemists spared a drug war
Apr 01, 2005; ... SCOTLAND'S pharmacists today said plans by supermarket giant Asdato cash in on rule changes that allow them to increase the number ofin-store pharmacies would not directly affect them. And local pharmacists even questioned whether the plans by Asda -owned by Wal-Mart, the world's ...
Restaurant boss slammed for spy snaps of pupils
Apr 01, 2005; ... A RESTAURATEUR infuriated by pupils dropping litter in his doorwayhas come under fire for photographing the youngsters and taking thepictures to their headteacher. Con Ruddock, 47, claims the radical move is the only way to stoppupils littering the doorway outside Parrots in ...
Train strike due to cause 'utter chaos'
Apr 01, 2005; ... A STRIKE by train drivers next week will bring "utter chaos" toservices across the UK, it was claimed today. Train operators were holding emergency talks with drivers' unionAslef today in a bid to avert the action which will hit hundreds oftrains running on the west coast mainline ...
'Secret' pensions shake-up attacked
Apr 01, 2005; ... TONY BLAIR was under attack today over secret plans to shake uppensions. Cabinet Minister Peter Hain revealed the proposals which couldinclude raising the retirement age and forcing workers and theirbosses to contribute to retirement savings. Opposition parties immediately ...
Couper has no time for lapses as 'Muir look for final glory
Apr 01, 2005; ... RORY COUPER today called on Boroughmuir to use the misery of ashock injury-time defeat last time out as a wake-up call going intotomorrow's home BT Scottish rugby Cup semi-final with Ayr. The Meggetlanders are looking to bounce back having slipped 27-29in the Premiership against ...
Parking fines for one year hit 250,000
Apr 01, 2005; ... THE number of parking tickets issued in the Capital in a singleyear has reached 250,000 for the first time, new figures revealedtoday. The city's parking Enforcers handed out more fines than any otherlocal authority in Scotland last year. The income generated by the charges ...
Beating the drop all that concerns Coertze
Apr 01, 2005; ... WATSONIAN rugby skipper Kian Coertze has called on his team to setaside their off-field concerns and focus entirely on taking a stepnearer securing a BT Premiership Division One future when the club'ssurvival campaign continues at Biggar tomorrow. "Nothing can be more important ...
Webster's back where it began
Apr 01, 2005; ... ANDY WEBSTER will never forget the day Parkhead partied as MartinO'Neill's rampant Celtic side were crowned SPL champions in theIrishman's first season in charge. It's not that the Tynecastle star is one of the Bhoys - far fromit in fact, with his allegiances lying very firmly at ...
World's End dad praises police officers
Apr 01, 2005; ... THE father of World's End murder victim, Helen Scott, todaypraised detectives who have spent almost 30 years working on theinquiry. Helen's father, Morain Scott, 74, said he had "great admiration"for the Lothian and Borders Police officers, who have been searchingfor his ...
'Secret' pensions shake-up attacked
Apr 01, 2005; ... TONY Blair was under attack today over secret plans to shake uppensions. Cabinet Minister Peter Hain revealed the proposals which couldinclude raising the retirement age and forcing workers and theirbosses to contribute to retirement savings. Opposition parties immediately ...
Memorial to boys who died in blaze
Apr 01, 2005; ... A NEW housing development in the Lothians is set to include amemorial for two young boys who were killed in a devastating blaze onthe site. Craig Quinn, 12, and Blair Easton, 11, died in a warehouse fire atthe Eskmills industrial estate in Penicuik, Midlothian. The area has ...
Hibees fans are up for the Cup
Apr 01, 2005; ... HIBS fans went Cup crazy today as the Easter Road outfit'sremaining 10,000 tickets for the semi-final against Dundee United aweek tomorrow went on sale. Fans began queuing almost 12 hours before the ticket office doorsopened at 7.30am by which time more than 2000 were snaked ...
Hugh're The Man For Us
Apr 01, 2005; ... HEARTS star Andy Webster today shrugged off the controversysurrounding the appointment of Hugh Dallas as the referee fortomorrow's league clash with Celtic, insisting: "He's the right manfor the job." As we revealed earlier this week, the Scottish FootballAssociation allocated ...
Lothian road deaths driven down by 25 per cent
Apr 01, 2005; ... ROAD deaths in Lothian and Borders have plummeted by a quarter inthe past year, new figures reveal today. The number of people killed in accidents on the area's roadsdropped 25 per cent from 47 in 2003/04 to 35 in 2004/05, making itone of the lowest years for fatalities since ...
Japanese downbeat as hopes of recovery fade
Apr 01, 2005; ... BUSINESS confidence among Japanese companies deteriorated sharplyin March according to a new survey published today, dashing hopes ofan economic turnaround. The Bank of Japan's influential tankan report showed bigmanufacturers were still downbeat following a slowdown in exports ...
Festival aims to scare up ghosts in Close
Apr 01, 2005; ... IT is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in Scotland,drawing thousands of amateur ghost-hunters into its dark tunnelsevery year. Now a massive scientific experiment is set to find out just howhaunted Mary King's Close really is. More than 200 volunteers are to ...
Mela's funding crisis forces major cutbacks
Apr 01, 2005; ... ORGANISERS of Edinburgh's multicultural extravaganza todayadmitted they are facing making major cutbacks in this year's tenthanniversary event. A cash crisis is threatening the scaling down of the freeEdinburgh Mela laid on over two days in Pilrig Park. Fewer stages and a ...
Airshow disappears in a puff of smoke
Apr 01, 2005; ... THE annual airshow at East Fortune has been grounded by the G8summit. The controversial meeting of international leaders in July hasforced organisers to scrap the flagship airshow at the Museum ofFlight in East Lothian, which attracts up to 15,000 visitors everyyear. The ...
Is this the way to our Armadillo?
Apr 01, 2005; ... A BID to bring some of rock and pop's biggest names to Edinburghfor the first time was kick-started today. Council leaders have spelled out plans to compete head-on withGlasgow for the right to host shows by superstars who shun Edinburgh. The Capital is regularly bypassed by ...
Anger as plan for bar near mosque is backed
Apr 01, 2005; ... A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to transform one of the city's mostprominent gap sites into student flats and a restaurant and bar haswon the backing of planners despite a storm of opposition fromreligious leaders. A company owned by pub tycoon Kenny Waugh plans to transform thesite at ...
Restaurant boss criticised for spy snaps of children
Apr 01, 2005; ... A RESTAURATEUR infuriated by pupils dropping litter in his doorwayhas come under fire for photographing the youngsters and taking thepictures to their headteacher. Con Ruddock, 47, claims the radical move is the only way to stoppupils littering the doorway outside Parrots in ...
Picturing brighter days for TV giant
Apr 01, 2005; ... AFTER years of low profit margins, the faltering consumerelectronics industry was thought to be facing a precarious andvolatile future. But the outgoing finance director of one of the industry's majorplayers now says the dark days of drastic overhauls are over. Jan Hommen ...
Pinewood in GBP 2.7m deal for TV studio
Apr 01, 2005; ... FILM studio Pinewood Shepperton, home to the James Bond and HarryPotter movies, today snapped up the former studios of ThamesTelevision for GBP 2.7 million as it looks to "diversify revenuestreams". Pinewood told the stock exchange it had acquired both the businessand the assets ...
Profit & Loss: Cardpoint happy to cash in on convenience
Apr 01, 2005; ... CASH machine operator Cardpoint provoked fury last year when itsnapped up hundreds of HBoS automated tellers and announced plans tocharge customers up to GBP 1.75 a time. Issuing a fresh trading update, the firm says the "ground-breaking" deal with the Edinburgh banking giant will ...
Taxpayers face GBP 3.3m bill for Holyrood rates
Apr 01, 2005; ... TAXPAYERS will be forced to shell out GBP 3.3 million to pay thisyear's business rates for the Scottish Parliament building. The massive bill was revealed today at the start of the new taxyear and follows a valuation of the Holyrood site. Tax assessors said the inflated cost ...
Flagship project injecting fresh life into city
Apr 01, 2005; ... FROM the redevelopment of Leith's waterfront to Edinburgh Park onthe city's western fringes, the face of Auld Reekie is taking on aradical new look. In between, key projects such as Quartermile on the site of theold Royal Infirmary and Edinburgh Quay in Fountainbridge show ...
Star to hit a high note at Tartan Day
Apr 01, 2005; ... A RISING musical star who once busked on the Royal Mile is set tojoin a host of celebrities at Tartan Day. Scotland's hottest new singing talent, KT Tunstall, will jet offto the Big Apple next week to take part in the Dressed to Kiltfashion show alongside Sex and the City actor ...
Controlled by drink, wallowing in self-pity
Apr 01, 2005; ... VERONICA MAWDSLEY reached for another drink and tried to blot outher miserable life. A bottle of vodka a day usually did the trick; enough to dull thestresses of work, the pressure of being a single mother, her twofailed marriages and her plummeting self esteem. Every sip ...
Victim's father praises detectives
Apr 01, 2005; ... THE father of World's End murder victim, Helen Scott, todaypraised detectives who have spent almost 30 years working on theinquiry. Helen's father, Morain Scott, 74, said he had "great admiration"for the Lothian and Borders Police officers, who have been searchingfor his ...
Work goes on.. and so must giving Almost 100 days after the tsunami, survivors are beginning to rebuild their lives. But your help is still badly needed. Julia Horton reports on our appeal's latest fundraising drive - and what your money will buy
Apr 01, 2005; ... WHEN the most p o w e r f u l earthquake since the Boxing Daytragedy hit Indonesia this week, it looked as though history wasgoing to repeat itself in an unimaginably horrific way. Monday will mark the 100th day since the worst natural disaster inliving memory wiped out at least ...
Leaders: A solution of sorts
Apr 02, 2005 ... IT would be nice to think that the 100,000 or so people expectedto descend on our city in July to participate in marches anddemonstrations to coincide with the G8 summit would all be seekingbed and breakfast or hotel rooms during their stay. But that would beterribly naive. The ...
999 chiefs under fire over risk of injury to medics
Apr 02, 2005; ... AMBULANCE chiefs have been rapped by workplace watchdogs amidconcerns over paramedics suffering back injuries while liftingpatients. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found crewsdid not have proper training on how to move patients in and out ofvehicles without ...
Drive to put Tartan holiday on calendar
Apr 02, 2005; ... SCOTTISH Nationalists want MSPs to debate calls for Tartan Day tobe made a national holiday. SNP frontbencher Christine Grahame has tabled a motion in theScottish Parliament proposing that April 6 - the focus of Tartan Weekcelebrations in the United States to mark the contribution ...
Drivers face new misery over gas repairs
Apr 02, 2005; ... MORE misery is being heaped on Capital motorists with newroadworks hitting one of the city's busiest roads. An entire lane of Leith Street is set to remain closed for up tonine days from today for essential gas main repairs, causing furtherchaos for city centre motorists who have ...
Stadium is in the running to be G8 camp
Apr 02, 2005; ... IT has staged everything from the Commonwealth Games to boxingmatches and pop concerts. Now Meadowbank Stadium could be set to play host to thousands ofanti-G8 protesters set to descend on the city. Edinburgh's ageing sports complex is being touted as the maincontender to ...
A stadium of protest
Apr 02, 2005; ... MEADOWBANK Stadium is set to be turned into a huge campsite forthousands of protesters flocking to Edinburgh for the G8 summit. The sports complex is being lined up as an accommodation centre toprevent "tented cities" sprouting up in beauty spots such as PrincesStreet Gardens and ...
Shops 'being driven out of business by Enforcers'
Apr 02, 2005; ... TRADERS on upmarket Morningside Road today claimed the city'sparking Enforcers are driving them out of business. Retailers in the posh suburb reacted angrily to shock new figureswhich named the thoroughfare as one of Edinburgh's major parkingticket hotspots. Just under 3500 ...
Nicol set for Norway switch
Apr 02, 2005; ... CROCKED Hibs star Kevin Nicol is poised to join Norwegian outfitStromsgodset on loan in a bid to kick-start his Easter Road career,the Evening News can reveal today. The 23-year-old has been out of action since breaking his leftfoot during a reserve match against Inverness ...
Catholics uniting in prayer for dying Pope
Apr 02, 2005; ... MILLIONS of Catholics across the globe joined together in prayertoday as the ailing Pope John Paul II entered the last hours of hislife. Cardinals from around the world travelled to Rome in preparationfor choosing a successor to the 84-year-old pontiff, as the Vaticanannounced ...
Capital losing GBP 90m in business taxes a year
Apr 02, 2005; ... THE Capital is losing up to GBP 90 million a year of taxes paid bylocal businesses, it was revealed today. The total flow of revenue which has left Edinburgh in the form ofbusiness rates paid by city firms over the last nine years is GBP700m. The money has been handed out ...
Robbo hails Miko ban cut
Apr 02, 2005; ... HEARTS boss John Robertson today hailed the decision to slashSaulius Mikoliunas's five-match ban - and claimed it's a major boostin the Jambos' bid for Europe. The Lithuanian saw the five-game suspension handed out by the SFAfor barging assistant referee Andy Davis at the end of ...
Stink fears leave sewage site cloud
Apr 02, 2005; ... A CONTROVERSIAL GBP 6.7 million sewage treatment plant is set toget the go-ahead despite fears the facility will cause a stink. Scottish Water plans to build the new plant on the outskirts ofSouth Queensferry in a bid to transform the quality of water in whatis a popular area for ...
Restaurant review: Sizzlers: Crowd cramps style but food turns tables
Apr 02, 2005; ... * Sizzlers Restaurant, Portobello High Street, Portobello, 0131-669 4333 YOU can't make a second first impression and it would beworthwhile for the owners of Sizzlers restaurant in Portobello toremember that. On the recommendation of a friend I had booked a table for two ...
Looking for ticket? You're Tattoo late
Apr 02, 2005; ... EVERY ticket for this year's Edinburgh Military Tattoo has beensnapped up in record time - four months before the annualextravaganza gets under way. The 208,848 seats for the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade spectacularsold out by lunchtime on Thursday, raking in around GBP 3.9 million ....
A look at the week in Edinburgh: GBP 30,000 for art is not just a ballpark figure
Apr 02, 2005; ... IN a sector constantly screaming for funding, conceptual artistMartin Creed must be laughing all the way to the bank. After all, as reported in Tuesday's Evening News, he's just sold aload of old balls, literally, to the National Gallery of Modern Artfor a whacking great GBP ...
Leader: A gift to the world
Apr 04, 2005 ... THE death of John Paul II brings a remarkable life and aremarkable era to a close in what will rank as the most dignifiedpassing of a world figure most of us will experience. From a distant figure seen carried on a chair in the Vatican Cityto a relentless traveller bringing his ...
Bitching from Bruntsfield: Retail rage drives us off our trolleys
Apr 04, 2005; ... THE only thing that sets retail rage apart from road and air rageis that, so far, we don't seem to have had any deaths or seriousinjuries as a result. I find that quite surprising because I've often felt my fingerstwitching in anticipation of closing around some dopey ...
Capital's creaking gateway to Europe
Apr 04, 2005; ... THE Scottish Executive was today accused of not doing enough tohelp establish flights between the Capital and the new EU states. There are currently direct flights between Edinburgh and only twoof the ten new entrants to the EU - Prague in the Czech Republic andCyprus ....
Sale of the 19th century
Apr 04, 2005; ... A FASCINATING glimpse into Edinburgh life during Victorian timesis going under the hammer - and could earn a city college GBP 10,000. Queen Margaret University College hope to make thousands of poundsby selling off part of the institution's history. They include an oak sea ...
Handling their Baggage Capital-style
Apr 04, 2005; ... THREE women of a certain age are sitting in a cafe discussingtheir lives, men and, naturally, shoes. In the background there is the clatter of coffee cups, staff swishpast and the soft, droning chatter of people fills the air. One friend is in deep despair, her life torn ...
Pointing the finger at a giveaway sign of age
Apr 04, 2005; ... IF the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the hands are thegiveaway to our real age. No clever make-up, nip and tucks, botox injections or flash rockswill disguise the condition of the hands. The state of the skin on our hands is an accurate predictor toage, with lines ...
Grateful to brainboxes at Western
Apr 04, 2005; ... WHEN Carolyn Thornton was being rushed by ambulance from her homein Penicuik to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, she was in luck - therewasn't a bed available. "It was very fortunate for me," agrees the 34-year-old mum. "Theambulance was diverted at the last minute - there wasn't a ...
Fall in number of city children on 'at risk' list
Apr 04, 2005; ... THE number of children in the Capital classed as "at risk" ofabuse or neglect has fallen dramatically. Latest figures show that the number of children on the childprotection register stands at 250, down from 326 in March last year. The department has been criticised in the ...
Outrage over day the music died at Edinburgh Castle
Apr 04, 2005; ... A SERIES of big name concerts on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade havebeen axed amid a bitter dispute over safety The annual extravaganzas - which are worth GBP 9million to thecity economy - have been held regularly since 1991, attracting thelikes of Van Morrison, Texas, Moby, Rod ...
Curtain up on fairytale line-up for city festival
Apr 04, 2005; ... UGLY ducklings, a singing bridge, acrobats and a stick of dynamitewill set this year's Children's International Theatre Festival offwith a bang. Organisers have pulled out all the stops to get hold of award-winning groups from around the world to headline the event. Running ...
That was for Robbo
Apr 04, 2005; ... HEARTS goal hero Lee Miller today hailed the Jambos' stunningtriumph over Celtic and insisted: "That was for the gaffer." The loan star opened the scoring with his first goal at Parkheadafter just eight minutes before strike partner Mark Burchill added asecond soon after to ...