Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) back issues from September 2006:
Tea and biscuits for a royal visitor
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Royal Mail issued a special commemorative miniature sheet ofstamps yesterday to mark 70 years since Britain was ruled by threekings in one year - George V, Edward VIII and George VI. The year, 1936, was dominated by the abdication crisis when EdwardVIII gave up the throne so ...
Close encounters with As Robbie Williams kicks off the British leg of his Close Encounters tour tonight in Glasgow, Nicola Barry and Wil Marlow take a behind- the-scenes look at what goes into putting on such a huge live show
Sep 01, 2006 ... As Robbie Williams kicks off the British leg of his CloseEncounters tour tonight in Glasgow, Nicola Barry and Wil Marlow takea behind-the-scenes look at what goes into putting on such a hugelive show Crooning is about reassurance, about soothing the savage breast.Real crooners ...
Boost for sector as new drive gets under way
Sep 01, 2006; ... Major growth in the number of lambs processed in Scotland wasreported yesterday by the country's red meat promotion body as itprepares for its biggest campaign yet to boost sales. Quality Meat Scotland said the 28 abattoirs dealing with lambslaughtered 25% more in the first half of ...
Scottish beef lobby group sets out stall
Sep 01, 2006; ... The new group representing Scotland's beef farmers has set out itspriorities as it steps up its activities. The Scottish Beef Cattle Association has pledged to work tomaintain the premium for Scotch Beef and increase farm-gate prices. Chairman Jim Kennedy, of Carrick Primestock ...
Bowled over by score
Sep 01, 2006 ... Having 18 runs scored off the last ball of the game might get eventhe most enthusiastic cricketer down. Pity, then, poor Broch bowlerPeter Clark who delivered the two no-balls that racked up 14 and thefinal delivery for a ...
Bed-blocking should not be a fact of life
Sep 01, 2006 ... For the man in charge of acute services at NHS Grampian toeffectively admit that so-called bed-blocking is a fact of life in anarea with an ageing population is not good enough. Those who are told that operations they have waited months toundergo are being cancelled because the ...
Tory plans to tackle polluters
Sep 01, 2006 ... Bit by bit, the reborn Conservative Party appears to be puttingmore meat on its policies ahead of the battle for support that willbegin when Tony Blair leaves Downing Street. The problem, however, is that sometimes less is more, lest youalienate significant sections of the ...
Going back to nursing basics
Sep 01, 2006 ... Sir, - Reports that elderly patients, especially those over 80,suffer from malnutrition in hospital because of lack of time fornurses to feed them are not surprising. I retired from nursing 10years ago and, about then, nurse education began to go through manychanges. My ...
Campaigners calling for withdrawal from CFP hail decision by processors
Sep 01, 2006; ... Two fishing industry groups yesterday backed the stand taken byScotland's seafood processors over the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The Fishermen's Association Ltd (FAL) and lobby group SaveBritain's Fish (SBF) welcomed Wednesday's decision by the ScottishSeafood Processors ...
Deal for ua meat processor revealed
Sep 01, 2006; ... Family-owned John Scott Meat (Paisley) has bought the meat-processing subsidiary of United Auctions. The firm revealed the acquisition of William Bosomworth yesterdayfor an undisclosed price. John Scott Meat managing director Hazel Scott said: "We are next-door neighbours and ...
Awareness is first step in taming drink - macdonald
Sep 01, 2006; ... Raising awareness of drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour on ourstreets is the first valuable step to stamping out the problem forgood, a senior minister said last night. During its month-long awareness campaign, the Press and Journalhighlighted the volume of crimes in which misuse ...
Scotland game is sidelined by BBC
Sep 01, 2006; ... Television licence payers in Scotland are up in arms over theBBC's decision to sideline coverage of Scotland's Euro 2008qualifying match to a midnight slot while England's match receivesprime-time nationwide coverage. Television sets tuned to BBC1 across the UK from 4.45pm ...
People power
Sep 01, 2006 ... As An industry, public relations (PR) continues to thrive andgrow, and nowadays plays an increasingly important role in anyorganisation's communications strategy. Used effectively, it can help to develop a favourable image -often through the media - of an organisation to its ...
Bursary scheme
Sep 01, 2006 ... In Today's modern workplace, gaining valuable work experience canbe extremely difficult, particularly for students unsure of thecareer path they wish to pursue. However, bursary schemes can provide an excellent way for studentsto gain an insight into the workings of an organisation ...
Former England pair star for Fochabers
Sep 01, 2006; ... North cricket followers will have the chance to see former Englandbatsmen Allan Lamb and Robin Smith pit their wits against the creamof Scottish talent when Fochabers take on the Saltires on home soiltomorrow. Lamb and Smith will don the pads for the Moray club in a ...
Stoneywood-Dyce blood youngsters
Sep 01, 2006; ... Stoneywood-dyce will use the final game of the season to blood twoof the club's rising young players. Michael Leask, 15, will join 16-year-old Mark MacPherson in thefirst team for tomorrow's SNCL Second Division trip to Perthshire. Captain Mike Louw has been impressed by the ...
Umpires in wrong decision
Sep 01, 2006; ... Jan Stander has hit out at the umpires in the SNCL who he believeshave jeopardised Aberdeenshire's chances of winning promotion to thePremier Division. The Shire captain is furious with the decision to call off hisside's game against Ayr at Mannofield last Sunday, a decision ...
Hair's poor judgment provided icc with a scapegoat
Sep 01, 2006 ... As The cricket season comes to a climax there is still only onetopic of conversation in the dressing-rooms around the country. The ball-tampering affair continues to run and has seeminglydrowned out any actual cricket being played. Darrell Hair's unfortunate email to his line ...
Captain cusiter's comeback game
Sep 01, 2006 ... Border Reivers scrum half Chris Cusiter will not only mark hisfirst game as captain against Connacht tonight, but he will also bereturning from a chest injury which has sidelined the Scotland andLions international for six months. The Aberdonian suffered theinjury against Italy in Rome ...
Oliphant sets sights on victory in dash
Sep 01, 2006; ... The sound of tearing flesh on wet Tarmac punctuated the peleton inyesterday's Tour of Britain - but Wick's Evan Oliphant stayed safelyin his saddle. World champion Tom Boonen was the biggest name to take a tumble,losing control on a steep descent, made doubly treacherous by ...
Four charged over filmed gang attack
Sep 01, 2006 ... Four people have now been charged in connection with an allegedassault filmed by perpetrators in Fraserburgh. A 17-year-old man wasarrested by police investigating an incident in the town in which a48-year-old father-of-five was attacked by a gang who then postedfootage on a website. He ...
Rival parties hit back as labour sets out its feats
Sep 01, 2006; ... Labour proclaimed its achievements in Scotland yesterday - only toface scorn from other parties, including its Liberal Democratcoalition partners. A list of measures taken by the Scottish Executive was posted onthe Scottish Labour Party's website, under the heading Results - ...
Perth nurse retires after 40 years
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Senior nurse based at Perth Royal Infirmary has retired aftermore than 40 years in the health service. Shiona Milne, a senior charge nurse at the Tay Ward for theelderly, began her general nurse training at Stirling Royal Infirmaryin 1965, before moving into midwifery at the ...
American tourist allegedly attacked at beauty spot coming out of coma
Sep 01, 2006; ... An American tourist left with serious head injuries after beingallegedly attacked at a Highland beauty spot, is beginning to wakefrom her coma. Marty Layman-Mendonca, a primary school teacher from Vermont, hasbeen in Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for almost two ...
Diver hits out at killing of lobster
Sep 01, 2006; ... The killing of a giant lobster caught off Lossiemouth has beencriticised by a diver who said the creature had become something ofan underwater celebrity in the area. Kenneth Ross and other members of the local Burgsac Sub-aqua Clubwould seek out the 10lb lobster which they knew ...
Metcalfe becomes ceo amid GNER management cull
Sep 01, 2006; ... Train operator GNER announced a shake-up in its senior managementyesterday. Chief operating officer Jonathan Metcalfe has been promoted tobecome chief executive, replacing Christopher Garnett who steppeddown. Mr Garnett's departure plans had been revealed at the end of ...
Directors buy in to optimistic outlook at plectrum
Sep 01, 2006; ... Banchory-based oil and gas minnow Plectrum Petroleum saidyesterday it had made good progress in building a portfolio ofexploration assets in Tunisia, Peru and western Australia in thefirst half of 2006. It said the next year would be focused on completing 2D seismicsurveys and ...
Axis-shield set to grow stronger
Sep 01, 2006 ... Medical diagnostic kit manufacturer Axis-Shield said yesterday ithad made record profits in the first half of this year without anycontribution yet from big investments in two laboratory and point-of-care diagnostic systems. Chairman Nigel Keen said the Dundee-based group expected ...
High-flier Hugh takes over at trust
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Fresson Aviation Trust has appointed a former managingdirector of Highlands and Islands Airports as its new chairman. Moray-based Hugh Lawson has taken over the reins of the 15-year-old charitable trust in succession to Western Isles businessman andlocal government figure Sandy ...
Bigger Scottish businesses hit harder by dip in orders
Sep 01, 2006 ... Scotland's engineering industry saw a dip in orders during thepast three months following a prolonged period of strong growth,according to new figures released yesterday. Scottish Engineering's latest quarterly review also said mostsectors of the industry had been able to raise ...
New footbridge links Deeside and Angus
Sep 01, 2006; ... A New footbridge linking Deeside and Angus in the Cairgorms wasunveiled yesterday. The steel bridge crossing the Water of Tanar, deep in themountains south-east of Ballater, has been built by the Upper DeesideAccess Trust. The structure lies at an important crossing point on ...
We Don't have a spy in your rubbish bins, council tells residents
Sep 01, 2006; ... Aberdeenshire Council insisted last night that it was not usingelectronic tags on recycling boxes to spy on residents. Tiny devices have been attached to the boxes, which are designedto keep track of household recycling activity. Politicians and members of the public were ...
Rocky horror in a stir for coffee
Sep 01, 2006 ... Cast members of the Rocky Horror Show launched The World's BiggestCoffee Morning at HM Theatre yesterday by relaxing before the show with a cup of coffee. Actor David Bedella, better known as Dr Carlos Fashola in HolbyCity, Suzanne Shaw, formerly of the pop group Hear'say, and ...
Lorry driver was chatting on cb before horror crash
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Lorry driver was happily chatting to colleagues over their CBradio link shortly before he died in a horror smash, a fatal accidentinquiry heard yesterday. The court heard that the likely cause of the crash was excessivespeed, although a pathologist found that the driver had a ...
Deeside man who piped for sultan dies at 61
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Member of a well-known Deeside piping family who brought thegift of music to thousands of people around the world has died. Pipe Major Gordon Meldrum, of Braemar, died on Monday aftersuffering a massive heart attack just days before this year's BraemarGathering. He was ...
Two family doctors elected to help represent nation's GPs
Sep 01, 2006 ... Two family doctors from the north-east have been elected as jointdeputy chairmen of the British Medical Association's Scottish GeneralPractitioners Committee. Dr Andrew Buist, a GP from Blairgowrie and Dr Stuart Scott, a GPin Aberdeen, will join chairman, Dr Dean Marshall to ...
Cup rivals both eager to get back on track
Sep 01, 2006 ... There is an eagerly awaited cup tie tomorrow as Islavale entertainStrathspey Thistle for a place in the first round of the GAEngineering Inter Regional Cup. Both sides lost four goals on their travels last Saturday,Islavale at Hillhead, the Grantown side at Fraserburgh ....
Car insurance staff are caught speeding
Sep 01, 2006; ... Two car insurance company employees were caught speeding on anAngus road as they drove courtesy vehicles to Aberdeen. Police spotted Crawford Hughes and Ronald Wickstead driving at 95miles per hour in a 70-zone on the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen road nearthe Brechin junction on March ...
Man assaulted his girlfriend in front of her 11-year-old brother
Sep 01, 2006 ... A Man assaulted his teenage girlfriend in front of her 11-year-old brother at her Forfar home, the town's sheriff court heardyesterday. David Dodds, 20, attacked Sabrina Bannister at her home in CraigO'Loch Road on April 13. Fiscal Brian Bell told the court her younger ...
Police appeal for witnesses to crash
Sep 01, 2006 ... Grampian Police are appealing for witnesses to a road accidentwhich occurred on a busy north-east commuter route yesterday morning.A collision occurred between an articulated lorry and a grey FordEscort van at around 6.30am yesterday on the northbound carriagewayof the A90 Aberdeen to ...
Shopkeeper fears armed robber could strike again
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Dundee newsagent targeted by an armed robber twice in two ...
Community says final farewell to north-east roof plunge teenager
Sep 01, 2006; ... Virtually an entire community turned out yesterday to pay theirlast ...
Two attacked man outside Ellon police station
Sep 01, 2006; ... Teenagers who assaulted a man outside a police station because hewas going to report an attack by them on a younger boy have each beenfined pounds400. Gordon Clark, 18, kicked and injured Mark Stephen in Ellon'sBridge Street on December 29. At the same place, Christopher ...
Travellers ask for understanding from the public as site is tidied up
Sep 01, 2006; ... Travellers have called on the public to understand their way ...
MP flies to meet Molly as row rages
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Moslem politician mediating in a child-abduction row is expected to meet the Lewis schoolgirl at the centre of the disputein Pakistan today. Molly Campbell's disappearance from her home in Stornoway lastweek provoked an international police hunt for the 12-year-old, amidpolice ...
Reborn Islay distillery unveils its first whisky
Sep 01, 2006 ... The team which brought a distillery back to life is releasing itsfirst malt - six years after the rescue mission. The Bruichladdich distillery on Islay was consigned to the historybooks when it shut down in 1995, but in 2000 the site was bought bywhisky lover Mark Reynier who ...
TA soldiers train for tour of Iraq
Sep 01, 2006; ... Soldiers from Territorial Army bases in Scotland have started anintensive training programme in preparation for a six-month tour ofIraq later this year. More than 100 members of the 51st Highland, 7th Battalion TheRoyal Regiment of Scotland from the north and central belt areas ...
ARI on red alert as bed crisis hits admissions
Sep 01, 2006; ... The north-east's flagship hospital has been forced to close itsdoors to some non-urgent patients as health chiefs struggle to copewith the demands of the region's ageing population. Officials at NHS Grampian confirmed last night that AberdeenRoyal Infirmary was on "red alert" for ...
Primestock
Sep 01, 2006 ... Dingwall - Dingwall & Highland Marts sold 160 store cattle. Bullocks (65) averaged 125.4p (+1.9p) to 148.6p per kg for a penof 286kg Aberdeen-Angus crosses from Tomchrasky, Glenmoriston, andpounds640 gross for a 545kg Charolais cross from Inverchoran, ...
Long waits for patients at a&e in Aberdeen
Sep 01, 2006; ... Patients at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary face some of the longestwaits to be transferred from the accident and emergency department. The average time between arriving at the unit and switching toanother department stood at 250 minutes, in the week when thehospital was studied for a new ...
Argyll health providers pioneer new model of help for the elderly
Sep 01, 2006; ... A New model of care for the elderly is being developed in Argyllwith the aim of providing a workable alternative to residential andnursing care. NHS Highland and Argyll and Bute Council are working with localcommunities to develop a new Progressive Care Model which will ...
Quality of education getting better at alness Academy
Sep 01, 2006; ... An Easter Ross secondary school told to improve the quality ofeducation it provided following a visit by HM inspectors last year isreported to have made a "promising start" towards doing so. Inspectors who visited Alness Academy in June 2005 said the schoolshould raise pupils' ...
Cash boost for dalriada history scheme
Sep 01, 2006 ... An Ambitious pounds3million project which aims to promote thehistory of the birthplace of the Scottish nation has received agrant of pounds182,000 from Scottish Natural Heritage. Dunadd, the Iron Age fort of the first kings of Scotland, in MidArgyll, was at the heart of the ...
Construction firm shows moving materials to Wick is plain sailing
Sep 01, 2006 ... A Construction company vaunted its green credentials in the methodit is using to haul north materials for the new Tesco supermarketbeing built in Wick. Barr Construction has chartered a ship to move 1,500 tonnes offloor tiles, roofing and timber from central Scotland. The ...
Old sailor in fight to have his British legion club reopened
Sep 01, 2006; ... An Easter Ross ex-serviceman who claims a decision to close hislocal Royal British Legion Scotland branch was unconstitutional iscalling a meeting of former members in the hope of resurrecting it. Dougie McLeod, 80, of Clyde Street, Invergordon, claimed he wasthe only person ...
World of pipers meet in aviemore
Sep 01, 2006; ... One of the most prestigious piping competitions, attractingcompetitors from across the globe, got under way in Aviemoreyesterday. Northern Meeting rivalry is so intense that just 100 competitorsare selected to take part. The two-day event was held in Inverness from 1841, but ...
Executive accused over delays in tendering for Kintyre ferry service
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Scottish Executive stood accused last night of delaying thetendering process for the long-awaited reintroduction of theCampbeltown to Ballycastle ferry service. And MSP Jamie McGrigor, claiming the delays are totallyunacceptable, has written to First Minister Jack McConnell, ...
Far north residents encouraged to recycle
Sep 01, 2006 ... Highland Council is encouraging Caithness and Sutherland residentsto do their bit for the environment by recycling suitable kitchen andgarden waste into compost. The council is offering householders in the two counties theopportunity to buy discounted compost bins for just pounds10 ...
Thefts from Dingwall gardens
Sep 01, 2006 ... Police are appealing for help following two thefts of ornamentsfrom gardens in the Craig Road area of Dingwall. A NorthernConstabulary spokeswoman said a Victorian urn was taken betweenAugust 26 and 29 and two stone urns and a metal sundial disappearedon August 26 or 27. Anyone with any ...
Helicopter crew uses infrared to find group
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Coastguard helicopter crew used an infrared search device totrack down a group of missing walkers on the remote Argyll island ofGometra. The Stornoway-based helicopter was dispatched on Wednesday nightto carry out an air search, over the island, which lies near Mull ...
Council in firing line over rent increases claim
Sep 01, 2006; ... Highland Council left itself wide open to criticism last night over a claim that rents in eight years' time would be 21% cheaperunder a private landlord than if the council retained control. It based the forecast on "extensive examination of budgets" byindependent advisors, but ...
Drunk woman had baby at window
Sep 01, 2006 ... Neighbours feared for the safety of a 10-month-old child as adrunken woman leaned out of a second-floor window, a court heardyesterday. As she leaned further out of the window, the baby, which had beenheld on the woman's hip, got as far as the sill, Sheriff DesmondLeslie was told ...
Victim of alleged attack going home
Sep 01, 2006 ... A Young Slovak woman student who was allegedly stabbed while on aworking holiday in the Highlands is expected to return home nextweek. The woman, who is in her early 20s, was on an extended holiday inthe Highlands with her boyfriend. After being treated for injuries at the ...
Calum's road - an epic journey
Sep 01, 2006; ... Ten years of hard work, resilience and stubborn resistance, whichsaw one man build by hand a near two-mile stretch of road on one ofthe remotest Hebridean islands, has been recorded in a major newbook. Few people in the Highlands have not heard of the epic story ofCalum MacLeod ...
New care at Caithness hospital welcomed
Sep 01, 2006 ... Community representatives in Caithness have welcomed new minoroperations to be performed at Caithness General. Currently, patients needing eye cataract surgery have to travel toRaigmore Hospital in Inverness. But the operations will soon be available at Wick, according ...