Evening Times back issues from February 2007:
PLACE YOUR OSCAR BETS Cate and Judi might not win, but they probably will gamble . . . ANDY DOUGAN'S MOVIE WORLD
Feb 01, 2007; ... I HAVE a sneaking suspicion Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench willhave a bet on each other's chances at the Oscars. They are bothnominated for Notes On A Scandal, Dench for Best Actress andBlanchett for Best Supporting Actress. However, the Australian star has revealed they would bet ...
WHERE'S THE SOUL? Big Screen Action
Feb 01, 2007; ... DREAMGIRLS (12A) Stage musical's poor songs can't carry big screen adaptation FOR a long time, almost 25 years, Dreamgirls was one of the mostcoveted projects in Hollywood. A Broadway smash it was the musicaleveryone wanted to film but super-producer David Geffen, ...
LIVING THE DREAM Award-winning Jennifer even wins an apology from Simon Cowell
Feb 01, 2007; ... JENNIFER HUDSON has a Golden Globe in her trophy cabinet for herrole in Dreamgirls, this week she won a Screen Actors Guild award forher performance and her nomination as Best Supporting Actress is agood bet to win an Oscar next month. She is bound to win many more awards in what ...
PERFECT DUET Ballet is back with Tchaikovsky masterpieces
Feb 01, 2007; ... THE Russian State Ballet of Siberia returns to town with a seasonof Tchaikovsky's ballet masterpieces. Swan Lake runs from Monday to Wednesday and The Nutcracker runsfrom Thursday to Saturday. Swan Lake is an immortal love story filled with magic, emotion ...
ENJOY THE VIEW Why the Dundee boys will be the hottest band of 2007 Why the Dundee boys will be the hottest band of 2007 SOUNDS OF THE CITY
Feb 01, 2007; ... LIFE could hardly be sweeter for The View right now. Riding highat the top of the charts with their debut album, Hats Off To TheBuskers, they are about to tour the UK as the lead band of thisyear's sold-out NME Awards Indie Tour. And having just scored a No3 hit with irresistible ...
Celtic Connections 2007 REVIEW ROUND-UP Songs of Conscience with Peggy Seeger and Thea Gilmore
Feb 01, 2007; ... Royal Concert Hall When she first took the stage at the RoyalConcert Hall on Sunday, the 71-year-old Peggy Seeger appeared as arevolutionary matriarch conducting her small band of younger femalerebels. But as the evening wore on the ageing singer - who has espousedevery cause ...
Vive la Republic! DINER TEC
Feb 01, 2007 ... Republic West, 374 Great Western Road Tel: 0141 339 9177 IT WAS an unexpected detour. The Moll was hell-bent on abusing theplastic at her favourite chic West End emporium. You know the kind of place - one of those high falutin' interiorsjoints where a set of six table ...
Anger at delay in services to help the blind
Feb 01, 2007; ... BLIND and partially sighted people are having to wait years to getvital help in their homes, say campaigners. Disability rights groups have expressed concern about the lengthof time it takes for some patients to be registered blind. Visual aids, home adaptations and benefits ...
Glasgow launches crackdown on the bus stop bandits Tough new action for rogue parkers and operators who cause chaos on city centre streets
Feb 01, 2007; ... A CRACKDOWN has been launched on drivers who block Glasgow'sstreets by parking illegally at bus stops. Drivers have been warned parking attendants will be out in forcethis month and any motorist caught at a bus stop will be fined - andhave their cars towed away. In a separate ...
Help for men who suffer depression
Feb 01, 2007 ... MEN are being encouraged to think about their mental health in anew campaign. Today is the first Breathing Space Day which aims to highlight thework of the charity. The Breathing Space phoneline and website offers help to peoplesuffering from a low mood and ...
Fan will star in author's novel
Feb 01, 2007 ... A GLASGOW author is giving one lucky fan the chance to star in hernext best-seller. Crime writer Denise Mina is auctioning a part in her new novel oneBay to raise cash for ...
School canteen goes cashless
Feb 01, 2007 ... LUNCH money could soon be a thing of the past after a councilintroduced cashless catering in its secondary schools. Port Glasgow High School is the first in Inverclyde to switch tothe new system, and the ...
Style THURSDAY
Feb 01, 2007; ... New in BUTTERFLY DRESS, GBP40, FRENCH CONNECTION French Connection's newspring range has just arrived, and there are some fab dresses in thecollection this year. However, I've fallen for this sweet tunic dress, left, with itsclean and fresh butterfly print. For info: ...
RISEN FROM THE ASHE S New nursery school opens after GBP1 Mblaze
Feb 01, 2007; ... A GLASGOW nursery school ravaged by a GBP1million blaze has risenfrom the ashes. Hundreds of pupils welcomed in a new dawn of education today as anew joint nursery school opened its doors. The GBP1.8m building brings together Festival Park Day Nursery andKinning Park Nursery ...
Big chance to hit the stage for homeless
Feb 01, 2007 ... HOMELESS people in Glasgow are being given the chance to take tothe stage thanks to an innovative theatre project. Glasgow Simon Community has joined forces with Cardboard Citizens,the UK's only professional theatre company for the homeless, for aspecial performance at the RSAMD on ...
City woman is new chief at kids' charity
Feb 01, 2007 ... A GLASGOW woman has been promoted to spearhead Scotland's largestchildren's charity. Addie Stevenson has been appointed chief executive of Aberlour,which runs 47 ...
Man jailed for having pot in car Driver couldn't smell cannabis ashe 'had a cold'
Feb 01, 2007 ... A MAN caught with up to GBP3000 of cannabis in his car told policeofficers he could not smell it because of a bad cold. Constables stopped Ian Scott's car because they spotted a faultyexhaust, a court was told. "Inside the car was an overwhelming smell of cannabis, " ...
CDs
Feb 01, 2007 ... MIKA - Grace Kelly Add a dash of Freddie Mercury to a sprinkling of the ScissorSisters and you get Mika. Already top of the charts, his debut single, Grace Kelly, is a'thumbs up' song to a record company who wanted him to conform.Lively and unique with a chorus you can sing ...
GAMES
Feb 01, 2007; ... Pilot Academy, Codemasters, PSP GBP34.99 Website: www.risingstarsgames.com/PilotAcad emy-intro. asp Learning to land a Cessna light aircraft isn't the best practicefor doing the same with a 747 in a hurricane, but in Pilot Academythat's called jumping right in. The ...
MEMORIES : Lewis's was real one-stop shop in the city centre
Feb 01, 2007 ... FOR generations of Glasgow shoppers, Lewis's on Argyle Street wasthe place to go. Opened in 1929, the imposing art deco store boasted everythingfrom a basement barbers' shop to a zoo come pet shop. Famous for its window displays, Lewis's was also the ...
Driver killed after lorry crushed car Man drove truck with lifting arm without training
Feb 01, 2007 ... A MOTORIST was crushed to death when a lorry with an improperlystored lifting arm struck a low bridge and caused the vehicle to rollover. Grandfather William Williamson, 47, died instantly at the scene,in Main Road, Elderslie, last August, a Sheriff heard. When he appeared at ...
Masterclass hits right note
Feb 01, 2007 ... MUSIC students in Glasgow had a masterclass from a noted Americancomposer beamed to them by video conferencing technology. John Adams delivered the lecture yesterday from the LondonSymphony Orchestra's centre in London. It was beamed ...
Grab some pillow talk with business tycoons 'In Bed with Mogul' event to encourage new entrepreneurs
Feb 01, 2007; ... FORGET In Bed With Madonna, this weekend there is the chance toget 'In Bed with a Mogul'. Anew event for young entrepreneurs kicks off at the SECC onSaturday - and it is offering the chance to get up close withinspiring Scottish business leaders. The Prince's Scottish Youth ...
Donohoe meets PM over jobs cuts
Feb 01, 2007 ... AYRSHIRE MP Brian Donohoe has met Prime Minister Tony Blair todiscuss the loss of 420 jobs at electronics giant Simclar. The company shut its two Ayrshire plants - at Kilwinning andIrvine - on Monday just weeks after some staff were warned theywould be laid off. Computer ...
Guard tells of terror at boss's texts Woman wins sex harassment claim at tribunal
Feb 01, 2007 ... A SECURITY guard left terrified after late-night calls and textmessages from a manager has won her claim for sexual harassment. Jane Lapsley, 50, said she had to ask her son to stay with herfearing the colleague would come to her house. A Glasgow tribunal heard that Mrs Lapsley ...
Driver who left pal to die is jailed Man gets 3 years after fatal crash in dad's new car
Feb 01, 2007 ... A SPEEDING driver who left his best pal dying in a wrecked car hasbeen jailed for three years. Ashe was led to the cells, John Blair, 24, turned to the family ofvictim Christopher McStravick and repeated: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." An earlier trial heard Blair lost control after ...
Talks on GBP480 M aid scheme for Pakistan
Feb 01, 2007 ... GLASGOW'S Pakistani community will today get the chance to helpshape the Asian country's future. Muslim leaders, councillors and members of the public are to begiven a say in how GBP480million of UK aid should be spent. The event, at the city's Central Mosque, is part of a ...
HIV woman in condom claim over ex-partner
Feb 01, 2007 ... AWOMAN told a court that a man accused of infecting her with HIV"aggressively" refused to wear a condom when they had sex. Italian Giovanni Mola, 38, is accused of passing the HIV virus andhepatitis C to the woman by refusing to wear a condom. The alleged victim, who cannot be ...
Politicians back castle revamp plan
Feb 01, 2007 ... MSPs are to challenge Historic Scotland after a castle's ownercomplained the heritage body had hindered its development. Niall Campbell hopes to restore Rowallan Old Castle in Ayrshire aspart of a GBP55million project which includes a golf course designedby Colin Montgomerie and a ...
Fury as rail workers fell trees at 1 am Chainsaw gang angers residents with night work
Feb 01, 2007; ... ANGRY families in Glasgow are being woken up in the middle of thenight by workers felling trees with chainsaws. Rail bosses say the work is a "vegetation emergency" after lastyear's heavy rainfalls left embankments all round the Cathcart Circleline vulnerable to ...
Glasgow man in GBP1 M Ernie bonus
Feb 01, 2007 ... A GLASGOW man is celebrating becoming a millionaire today - thanksto Ernie, the Premium Bond computer. The man, who has not been named, is one of two Brits to land acool million each in the ...
Election talk for new candidates
Feb 01, 2007 ... PEOPLE wishing to stand for election to a council are beinginvited to a special information meeting. Jeff Hawkins, returning officer for East Renfrewshire Council,will explain how to register as a candidate. The event will take place on February ...
Education course adults can count on
Feb 01, 2007 ... A GLASGOW college is to launch a free adult numeracy course nextweek. Stow College and Workers Educational Association Scotland aims tohelp people learn basic numeracy, while easing them back intoeducation. Course tutors Aileen Harrison and Alison McLachlan said: "We wantto ...
Overtime ban after strike by civil servants
Feb 01, 2007 ... CIVIL servants today imposed an overtime ban in protest at jobcuts and the threat of privatisation. Thousands returned to work after a 24-hour stoppage, which thePublic and Commercial Services Union said was backed by up to 30,000civil servants across Scotland and had caused ...
Want a breath of fresh air? That'll cost GBP7 please! A NEW oxygen bar opened this week in Glasgow's West End selling bursts of oxygen for GBP7 a throw. A NEW oxygen bar opened this week in Glasgow's West End selling bursts of oxygen for GBP7 a throw. Reporter JONATHAN RENNIE went along to try it out
Feb 01, 2007; ... THERE'S a new bar in town but it won't be serving up liquidlunches. Instead it's fresh air that's on the menu. I spent half an hour in Reecharge breathing in oxygen through ahardto-miss nasal tube. Spending GBP7 a go for 10-minute blasts of what is basically freshair may seem ...
Glasgow to get lowdown on viruses
Feb 01, 2007 ... AN exhibition at Glasgow Science Centre will reveal what viruseslook like and how they work. Scientists and an artist have created a series of new images thattell the inside story of viruses such as bird flu, HIV and HepatitisC. The ...
Shock therapy may be answer to young killers NEVER LOST FOR WORDS
Feb 01, 2007; ... SO let's put the notion of a life sentence into some kind ofperspective. Around 20-per cent of children born in Western and Central Africawill die. There will be two General Elections. A high-speed, 30-minute rail link between Glasgow and Edinburghwill be ...
Ticket office loss is a blow to community
Feb 01, 2007 ... I AM writing to express my sadness and dismay with regard to theplanning system in Glasgow. I witnessed the completely unnecessary demolition of Partick's oldrail ticket office by Tesco, which took place with the approval ofGlasgow City Council's Building Control Department, on ...
Tributes as ex-Thistle bossDonald dies aged 62
Feb 01, 2007 ... FORMER Partick Thistle co-owner and chairman Jim Donald has diedsuddenly at the age of 62. Donald, a successful businessman who owned property and nursinghomes, spent five years in the hot-seat at the Glasgow football clubuntil it was sold to Jim Oliver in 1990. His death was ...
A 35-hour week, 40 days' annual holiday, and GBP 200 K That's what GHA is offering for vacant chief exec post
Feb 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW Housing Association's new chief executive will earn up toGBP100 a hour. According to the job description, the boss of Scotland's biggestsocial landlord will work a 35-hour week for a salary of up toGBP190,000. The organisation has launched a hunt for an "outstanding ...
Get Subway staff back on the rails
Feb 01, 2007 ... NO wonder Glasgow doesn't have an efficient Subway when so many ofits staff are constantly off sick. Any commercial company which tolerated such absence rates would gobankrupt. A culture has obviously grown up which transport bosses havefailed to tackle over many ...
Keep up pace to increase success
Feb 01, 2007 ... THE pace of jobs' creation in Glasgow is impressive and counciland business leaders deserve credit for it. Bringing more jobs to the city than anywhere outside London is anotable achievement. But many challenges lie ahead including a need to deal with skillsshortages and ...
Did Jack and the Executive let Glasgow down on casino?
Feb 01, 2007; ... IS Glasgow fed up with Jack McConnell? We would not bet againstit. The fall-out from the city's super-casino bid failure has seenthe First Minister and the Scottish Executive lambasted for theirlack of support. As the jackpot prize was awarded to Manchester, the CasinoAdvisory ...
Girls' chance to make key career move
Feb 01, 2007 ... AN AWARD-WINNING computer club for youngsters is to be rolled outacross Glasgow. Computer Clubs for Girls - dubbed CC4G - encourages girls aged 10to 14 to become more interested in technology and consider a careerin computers. Launched last year, the project provides a ...
Flood risk cut as sewer work ends
Feb 01, 2007 ... WATER bosses have finished a GBP60,000 overhaul of sewers on amain access road to the M8. The upgrade, on Greenock Road in Paisley, will reduce the risk offlooding from burst or collapsing sewers in the area. Contractors May Gurney had to create three new ...
GBP300,000 drive to beat drug dealers is launched
Feb 01, 2007 ... ASPECIAL exhibition in Glasgow city centre today launched thestart of a GBP306,000 roadshow calling on the public to pick up thephone and help rid the streets of drug dealers. The Drug Dealers Don't Care InfoTruck, a police and ScottishExecutive initiative, was unveiled in St Enoch ...
VIVA GLAS-VEGAS! But St Enoch and Corinthian venues are not super- casinos
Feb 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW may have failed in its super-casino bid - but could soonhave more casinos than any UK city outside London. Three new gambling venues are due to open in the city this year,taking the total to eight. And it emerged today that figure should rise to nine within thenext ...
Body found confirmed as Nessa
Feb 01, 2007 ... ABODY found in a Glasgow flat has been formally identified asmissing woman Agnes Mechen. The 62-year-old grandmother went missing more than four years ago. Her body was found by police forensic officers in a tenement flatin Jamieson Street, Govanhill, at the ...
21 sick days every year for Subway workers Shock absence rates cost underground GBP50,000 every month
Feb 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW Subway staff were off sick an average of 21 days last year- more than three times the rate among all UK workers. Shock statistics released today show the financial cost ofsickness on the underground was GBP47,969 a month. The figures are in a damning report which goes ...
Dawn raids to go on despite protest
Feb 01, 2007 ... ASYLUM seekers in Glasgow face the threat of more dawn raids byimmigration officers. Phil Taylor, who runs immigration services in Scotland, issued thewarning despite a political backlash. The immigration chief said he would "love to do away" with thepolicy. But he ...
New flu cases are falling
Feb 01, 2007 ... SCOTS floored by the flu dropped to 3000 new cases last week withexperts predicting the worst of the outbreak is over. Cases reached an eight-year ...
Glencoe victim, 78, named
Feb 01, 2007 ... A 78-YEAR-OLD man killed by a car while walking in Glencoe at theweekend has been named as a retired clergyman. He was Father Kenneth Wigton, of Old Croft Cottage, ...
Fear for salmon stocks
Feb 01, 2007 ... SCOTLAND'S river managers warned today that one careless anglercould wipe out the country's wild salmon stocks and ruin ruralcommunities. They fear a fisherman will accidentally import a ...
Boxer's 3 court dates in 5 days Harrison held after drugs arrest in city
Feb 01, 2007; ... TROUBLED boxer Scott Harrison is facing a triple-whammy of courtdates after being arrested on drugs charges in Glasgow city centre. The former world champion is in custody after being arrested alongwith a 35-yearold man in Sauchiehall Street. Harrison, 29, spent last night in a ...
Move to make health boards elected fails
Feb 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW MSP Bill Butler's attempt to make health boards moreaccountable has failed. The Executive survived a feared backbench revolt when Holyroodvoted down plans for directlyelected health boards. MSPs voted by 64 votes to 55 to defeat Mr Butler's proposals. Today he ...
Under-fire bosses quit
Feb 01, 2007 ... TWO council leaders have resigned after a damning report foundvulnerable children were not being adequately protected. Midlothian Council`s deputy leader, Danny Molloy, and director ofsocial work ...
Big day for city's new Gaelic school
Feb 01, 2007 ... GLASGOW'S first Gaelic superschool was officially opened today. Education Minister Hugh Henry led the ceremony at the GBP4millioncampus, which caters for children from pre-5 to secondary school atthe former Woodside Secondary School. Pupils are taught entirely in Gaelic from ...
GOOD JOB, GLASGOW!
Feb 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW is booming with more jobs being created in the city thananywhere else in the UK apart from London. Newly-released Government figures show there was an increase of17,166 jobs in a single year bringing the total number of jobs in thecity to 410,934. They confirm a trend ...
Happy birthday, Wall St
Feb 01, 2007 ... GLASGOW'S "Wall Street" is one of the city's great successes. As it celebrates its fifth birthday today, enterprise chiefs saythe International Financial Services District has surpassedexpectations. It may not yet rival London's Square Mile - home to the City'smoney men - but ...
Huge rise in tourism adds to the boom
Feb 01, 2007; ... THE tourist industry in Glasgow is booming, with spending at anall time high. New Government figures show foreign visitors made 775,000 trips toGlasgow and the surrounding area in 2005 - more than a quarter up onthe previous year. Visitors are also staying longer, spending a ...
Travellers forced to pay as air tax is introduced
Feb 01, 2007 ... THOUSANDS of air travellers were forced to stump up extra moneytoday when they arrived to check in for flights. They had to pay an increase in Air Passenger Duty, which came intoeffect this morning. Chancellor Gordon Brown announced a doubling of the tax during hisPre-Budget ...
Council workers to protest over major jobs transfer
Feb 01, 2007; ... HUNDREDS of union members are set to protest council plans totransfer nearly 2500 culture and leisure workers to a new charitabletrust. Unison members will stage a demonstration outside Glasgow CityChambers tomorrow, ahead of a meeting to decide their fate. Morale among the ...
Overtime ban as civil servants back at work
Feb 01, 2007 ... CIVIL servants today imposed an overtime ban in protest at jobcuts and the threat of privatisation. Thousands returned to work after a 24-hour stoppage, which thePublic and Commercial Services Union said was backed by up to 30,000civil servants across Scotland and had caused ...
Storm over all-night chainsaws
Feb 01, 2007 ... FURIOUS residents have slammed rail bosses for sending outchainsaw gangs in the middle of the ...
Council workers to protest over jobs transfer
Feb 01, 2007; ... HUNDREDS of union members are set to protest council plans totransfer nearly 2500 culture and leisure workers to a new charitabletrust. Unison members will stage a demonstration outside Glasgow CityChambers tomorrow, ahead of a meeting to decide their fate. Morale among the ...