Scotland on Sunday back issues from March 1999:
A case of criminal bad taste
Mar 07, 1999; ... MANY moons ago we were burgled. It was not a subtle violation;the thieves jemmied the front door and entered, blithely ignoringthe"Beware of the rabid Rottweiler" sign and the Neighbourhood Watchposter. The splintered door jamb was the first clue things were notquite right. The second ...
If I were a year...
Mar 07, 1999; ... THIS was the year I was happiest. It's not that I haven't beenhappy before or since, it's just that this year really sticks in mymind. It was the year I turned 18, the year I really felt my lifebegan. It was the moment my life took a new direction. I had comeof age and was finally ...
WALK OF THE DAY
Mar 07, 1999; ... BY CLYDE'S BONNIE BANKS Adjoining the model village of New Lanark is the Falls of ClydeWildlife Reserve. A footpath runs along the Clyde offering dramaticviews of the three main falls, Dundaff Linn, Bonnington Linn andCorra Linn. MAP - OS Sheet 72. The Scottish Wildlife Trust ...
"Smile please"
Mar 07, 1999; ... WALKING through a tunnel of sandbags into a Bosnian militaryhospital, the newly arrived photo-journalist was almost retching atthe stench of blood. At the entrance he met a 17-year-old boy,drowsily emerging from surgery to realise that he had lost both hislegs to an artillery ...
What's new, pussycat
Mar 07, 1999; ... ACTRESS Valerie Edmund has always had an inquiring mind. Evenwhen her mother taught the little girl from Springburn fairy-talesand poems like 'The Owl and The Pussycat' Edmund was looking forcharacter motivation. "The fact that the owl and the pussycat wentto sea in a beautiful pea green ...
To have and to behold
Mar 07, 1999; ... GETTING hitched may be going out of fashion, but fashion, itseems, is having trouble staying away from the big day. Kate Winsletfamously fed her wedding guests on an anti-fashion statement ofbangers and mash on canteen crockery (although she couldn't resistcosseting her curves in an ...
Child's play
Mar 07, 1999; ... KIDS are a problem for the restaurant reviewer. You don't see toomany food critics extolling the quality of Burger King or McDonald'sfries. But with deadlines approaching, it became inevitable that myfinal review would have to be a weekend affair - and that meanttaking the ...
Trust him, she's a doctor
Mar 07, 1999; ... AMID the gore and cannon smoke of the Crimean War, FlorenceNightingale, white-capped and lace-collared, relied on the Victoriancode of courtesy towards the fair sex to get her own way in tendingthe wounded. But one day, walking across a hospital square, she waswaylaid by a high-ranking ...
Country ramble
Mar 07, 1999; ... THERE has to be a psychological equivalent between the awful 24-hour flight from Heathrow to Auckland and childbirth. I say thisbecause 10 minutes after landing I had no recollection of the hoursspent cramped in a window seat with a hard-of-hearing elderly coupleblocking access to the ...
Going up in the world
Mar 07, 1999; ... AS with all the best plans it started with a few drinks. AlisonFord hadn't even considered living in a loft space until oneChristmas a friend introduced her to another friend and they allended up back at a flat in Timberbush, Leith. The friend-of-a-friendhad a top floor loft conversion ...
Loadsa fashion
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE second leg of the fashion show world series was London,apparently lacking in buzz or hype, but not in great models. StellaTennant came in from New York with her little baby, and appeared inAlexander McQueen's show. Nadja uermann's legs are even longer thanthe ones Julia Roberts wraps ...
Blue brothers
Mar 07, 1999; ... STEFANO Giovanazzi cuts a slick character. With his northernItalian features, jet-black hair and classic suiting, he is groomedto a level of perfection that most Scottish men (or should that bewomen) can only dream of. Sipping espresso and effusing charm in acosy booth of Big Blue, the ...
Scottish Design Awards
Mar 07, 1999; ... IMAGINE if the chair you were sitting on, the lamp you werereading by and even the corkscrew you were using on that bottle ofwine were all stamped with the words 'Designed In Scotland'. WithScottish design output at all-time high, it's not such a far-fetchedscenario and judging by ...
Take it as red
Mar 07, 1999; ... THOSE who enjoy the flavours of Bordeaux should sample the redsfrom the Loire. Made from the Bordeaux grape varieties - mostcommonly Cabernet Franc - they are seriously impressive, especiallyconsidering their much-less-than-Bordeaux prices. Interestingly,many of the world's wine hacks ...
By a hare's breath
Mar 07, 1999; ... WELL it's been an interesting week, as you may have read. Lastweek, I went to the Waterloo Cup for a day, and, as I have beenmisquoted or half-quoted in the press, I will address a few words tothis event. There are people who do not approve of hare coursing,usually those who have never ...
Beware of the cat
Mar 07, 1999; ... MARCH sees an increase in the number of birds and animals in thegarden. Maybe we can't all boast a sighting of the Beast ofGlenbuchat, but we can see some frantic feeding as even a swankycitygarden provides a habitat for insects and a place to rest, nest orfeed for animals higher up ...
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE Last days of disco (15) THE third instalment in cult indie filmmaker Whit Stillman'strilogy, The Last Days Of Disco is a rich, funny and articulatestudyof romance and ideas. The film centres on two recently graduated NewYork publishing editors: the socially ...
Dark visions
Mar 07, 1999; ... THERE was a report on Newsnight recently which opened with anunforgettable shot: a long, slow, aerial view of a derelict city insome forbidden part of China. Presumably, it was taken from ahelicopter which circled close to the massive, decaying buildingsandpanned along the eerily empty ...
Don't do the hippy hippy shake
Mar 07, 1999; ... A LONG-abiding hatred of hippies has kept me away from Amsterdamsince the Sixties. And true, lifeless cannabis cafes, psychedelic-vomit colours, taste-free crusties and drug-driven dullards arethere. But for a first-time visitor it is a pleasant surprise to seewhat a minor detail they ...
Travellers' notes
Mar 07, 1999; ... Mum's the word NEXT Sunday, for those of you not likely to remember such things,is Mothering Sunday. For many of us this commercial guilt-inspirerentails a last-minute rush to the florist for a feeble bunch ofdaffs. Maybe this is the year to put in a bit more effort. BANISH ...
The half Monty
Mar 07, 1999; ... HOW do you cream success from the cheesier side of The Sound OfPhiladelphia? Given the lack of space in their bookings diary, thetop suggestion would be to ditch the street clothes, don outrageousAfro wigs and sharp Seventies suits and call yourselves The SoulKings. The theory sounds ...
Album releases
Mar 07, 1999; ... WILCO: Summerteeth (Reprise)Wilco's new country origins in the band Uncle Tupelo had thempegged in their native America as the epitome of their newlyinventedy'all-ternative rock category.Summerteeth transcends such marketingspeak with astounding ease,being an incredibly ...
That's what friends are for
Mar 07, 1999; ... IN Central Station, director Walter Salles offers a compassionatebut unsentimental study of two lost souls struggling to survive inthe margins of Brazilian society. Dora is a sour, middle-aged womanwho scrapes a living writing letters for the illiterate in Rio'srailway station. From her ...
Sizzling Danish
Mar 07, 1999; ... IT'S a large claim for such a small film but Festen might justrepresent the future of cinema as we known it. Thomas Vinterberg'sedgy, unsettling psychodrama is the first British release of aproduction filmed under the constraints of Dogma 95, a back-to-basicsmanifesto for Danish cinema ...
Oi, Damon, no!
Mar 07, 1999; ... ANYONE who thought Britpop would not dare show its face againafter the embarrassment of those Cool Britannia cocktail parties at10 Downing Street was sadly mistaken. He may not have been knockingback the spritzers with Tony in person, but the distinctive tones ofDamon Albarn still have ...
Easy reader
Mar 07, 1999; ... Soft Touch by Maeve Haran: Little,Brown GBP 15.99 Catherine is a middle-class, liberal mother of two who realisesthat "somewhere along the line her sympathetic, understandinggeneration had lost control of their offspring altogether". Whileher husband treats their kids with ...
Paperbacks
Mar 07, 1999; ... Remind Me Who I Am, Again by Linda Grant: Granta, GBP 7.99 The author's mother Rose was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants,and the onset of senile dementia posed a threat not only to Rose'sidentity but moreover to a seam of family history from thegenerationof which Rose was the ...
Good guys wear black
Mar 07, 1999; ... Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr:HarperCollins, GBP 20 BOOM-chicka-boom. Aficionados of Johnny Cash will recognise thislick since, as he readily admits, it was all he and his band couldplay. When you hear it there's no mistaking what's coming next, avoice ...
Liberty, egality, maternity
Mar 07, 1999; ... The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer: Doubleday, GBP 16.99 A YEAR before its publication, one of the brigade of lipstickfeminists Greer despises told us that this book was pap. Shortlyafter, a 17-year-old who runs a women's group in London said: "I'venever given Germaine Greer much ...
Something to smile about
Mar 07, 1999; ... Malignant Sadness by Lewis Wolpert: Faber and Faber, GBP 9.99 IT is wise to be ready to look tactfully the other way when anexpert in one field attempts, through the application of personalexperience and intelligence, to contribute to the understanding ofanother. Here, Wolpert, an ...
In the name of the father
Mar 07, 1999; ... Feet of Clay by Roddy Wright: HarperCollins, GBP 12.99 AFTER moving from a busy urban parish in Glasgow to the solitudeof Blairs College in Aberdeenshire, Roddy Wright - then still only apriest - was asked what he missed about his previous post: "Miniskirts," he ...
Love's labours lost
Mar 07, 1999; ... OUR FATHERS by Andrew O'Hagan: Faber, GBP 16.99 A TALE of towerblocks, titans, and tentative transformations, OurFathers rises from the roots of Scottish experience, aspiring topoetry, to confession, to celebration and epiphany. It is dark, andit rips with anguish, hate, and loss, ...
Brave new worlds
Mar 07, 1999; ... CITIES have had an unrivalled grip on 20th-century imaginations.They have been the setting for much of our greatest literature, thebackdrop for the most memorable films and photographs. On theirstreets Ulysses and NYPD Blue have unfolded; against their skylinesphotographs by Robert ...
It's a question of sex
Mar 07, 1999; ... IN one of the stories in Ali Smith's new collection, OtherStoriesand other stories, a woman is sent a huge bunch of flowers. Sheassumes they're from her girlfriend, but the girlfriend says sheknows nothing about them. Unease creeps into the relationship, and alot more sex than usual ....
Give start-ups a first-year tax break
Mar 07, 1999 ... CUT red tape and reduce the first-year tax bill, urges MichelMone, 27, left, who remortgaged her home to help raise GBP 20,000 tostart MJM International in 1996. Since then, the Glasgow company's padded bras, an alternative tobreast implants, have lifted it into a starring role as ...
Two way fight to push First Choice deal up to GBP 750m
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE bid battle for control of First Choice Holidays has beennarrowed down to Airtours and German travel agents Preussag. A dealworth up to GBP 750m is expected to be announced by the end of themonth. First Choice insists that negotiations are at a early stage andhas described the ...
British Aerospace seeks GBP 350m in state aid for European superjumbo
Mar 07, 1999; ... BRITISH Aerospace has made informal approaches to the governmentseeking up to GBP 350m aid to build Airbus's double-deckersuperjumboaircraft. The superjumbo, codenamed A3XX, will seat up to 650 people, 200more than the latest generation of Boeing 747s. The double deckerwill ...
Granada's plan for global TV giant
Mar 07, 1999; ... GRANADA, the media, hotels and catering combine, is planning todemerge its TV arm as part of a plan to create a global broadcastinggiant worth as much as GBP 5bn. The big split, never before seen as a core strategy at thecompany, is being discussed at board level and is expected to ...
Ready to join the jetsetters
Mar 07, 1999; ... SUCCESSFUL economies share four characteristics: a strong base oflocal entrepreneurs; an educated and motivated workforce; acompetitive infrastructure which is built ahead of demand; and anattractive environment to live in and do business. So how doesScotland measure up, what is lacking ...
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Mar 07, 1999; ... ALTHOUGH the phrase is reminiscent of an Ealing comedy, theconsequences of a 'banana war' with the United States could be trulyterrifying. Historians will recall that the tariff war between the nationswhich was started by the US in the wake of the stock market crash ofthe 1920s ...
Bank of Scotland eyes new Australian venture
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE Bank of Scotland is in talks with a group of potential jointventure partners in Australia to set up a direct banking service tospan the country. The Edinburgh-based bank is understood to be talking to at leastone major retailer and two potential partners from the ...
Getting better all the time only way to ensure survival
Mar 07, 1999; ... POWER to the people eh? How often have you read the following inthe chairman's statement of a set of company accounts: "Our mostimportant assets are our people" ? And how often have you laughedquietly ? Such a response is undoubtedly still common among the employeesofmany ...
Scots build hope in the Third World
Mar 07, 1999; ... A STALWART of Glasgow engineering since Victorian times hasbecomeone of the leading players in the drive for private sectorinvolvement in developing the Third World. Babtie has been recruited by the Asian Development Bank to adviseon a scheme to clean up the sewers of Bombay. And ...
Calls for controls on unlicensed allergy clinics
Mar 07, 1999; ... ALLERGY test clinics which charge up to GBP 170 for treatmentfacecalls for strict regulatory controls following a Scotland on Sundayinvestigation. The investigation revealed the potential for people to be givenunrealistic results which cannot be scientifically justified ....
Hostess in air rage attack to sue firm
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE Scottish air hostess subjected to a horrific air rage attackis planning to sue the company that employed her. Fiona Weir, who was coshed and slashed by a passenger armed withabroken vodka bottle in a case that sparked worldwide revulsion, hasnow joined a rival company and has ...
Seven murdered in house fire
Mar 07, 1999; ... MURDER squad detectives were last night hunting the killer offourgenerations of the same family. Twin four year-old girls, Sarah andAbbie Day, and their two-year old brother Lee died in a smoke-filledinferno that was started deliberately at their home at Chingford inEssex on the ...
Jobless rise blamed on false figures
Mar 07, 1999; ... THE government has launched a scathing attack on its ownstatistical service for producing "deeply flawed" unemploymentfigures in Scotland. Scottish trade minister Lord Macdonald has lodged two officialcomplaints with the Office for National Statistics after itreleaseddata ...
WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE?
Mar 07, 1999; ... IN case anyone hadn't noticed, this is supposed to be Glasgow'syear. To be specific, this is Glasgow's year as the UK City ofArchitecture and Design and it is supposed to be unforgettable. It is supposed to be the year that Glasgow sloughs off itsdespondency over its uncertain ...
Sorry, you're allergic to 69 types of food
Mar 07, 1999; ... A NEW 'allergy industry' is growing unchecked in Britain. Thereare now more alternative medicine practitioners offering treatmentfor food allergies than there are conventional GPs. In high streetsthroughout the country, specialised clinics are springing upofferingtests which promise ...
TV for victory
Mar 07, 1999; ... AND FINALLY ... suitably refreshed, the Beloved Julia signalsvictory as she emerges from the ITN party thrown to celebrate thelast News At Ten. But what kind of victory? She still has a job,and remains, as an emotional Trevor McDoughnut said in his last10.29pm goodbye, one of those who ...
Dinnie do that! How Oz left out Mel and muscled in on oor Irn- Bru Willie Wallace
Mar 07, 1999; ... BARR'S Irn-Bru - puts girders in Willie Wallace's a limbs! A farfetched advertising campaign? Perhaps, but there is a connectionbetween the Man Who Would Be Mel Gibson and The Perfect MineralWater. And strangely enough, it is as Australian as the diminutiveMel. According to ...
Art of rhythm and bruise ...
Mar 07, 1999; ... SOMEBODY'S gonna suffer. A martial arts shoot-out in theGilmorehill Groves of academe could be on the cards, followingbizarre goings-on at Glasgow University's Aikido Club. The police have already been called once in order to remove,somewhat fearfully, the club's furious ...
Word games
Mar 07, 1999; ... A NEW word has been added to the Gaelic dictionary: Sciaf,pronounced, Skee-aff, meaning compassion. God knows this is true,and I do not say it lightly, because the word is now in use withinthe Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Have compassion, priests aresaying to one another; or, as our ...
Bank rentamob must be called to account
Mar 07, 1999; ... TWO contrasting protests were launched last week, reflecting theconflict of values between the collective moral inversion that isTony Blair's Cool Britannia and the vestigial remnants of the Judaeo-Christian ethic. The first protest was signalled by reports in the Scottish ...
Davies, Motherwell tight-lipped on Coyle
Mar 07, 1999 ... MOTHERWELL manager Billy Davies insisted last night that he knewnothing of an alleged personality clash between Owen Coyle and anofficial at Fir Park. The 32-year-old striker, who joined Dunfermline last week in adeal worth GBP 175,000, claims that an unnamed person, thought to ...
Mistakes and missed passes - only a Sullivan blunder breaks the monotony
Mar 07, 1999; ... Wimbledon 0 Leicester City 1 FORGET Wimbledon's Crazy Gang moniker. After this alarmingly-comatose display they should be retitled the Mogadons. Together withLeicester City, the unfortunately-titled Wimbledon of the North,theymanaged to pump football's pleasure principle full of ...
Ross County hit six on fast track to promotion
Mar 07, 1999; ... NEALE COOPER's Ross County are hurtling towards promotion after ascintillating 6-0 victory over Berwick Rangers. The Highlanders hadtheir fans in raptures after cracking in four goals in 10 minutes inthe second half. The game was only two minutes old when Neil Tarrant, still ...
Fighting talk as Peters denies tunnel clash
Mar 07, 1999; ... ALLEGATIONS of an after-match bust-up in the Murrayfield tunnelwere last night denied by Scotland skipper Eric Peters. Reports thathe clashed with Massimo Giovanelli, his Italian counterpart, afterScotland's 30-12 victory, were dismissed by Peters. He said:"Nothing happened. I hardly saw ...
Hamilton and Watters serve up the winning mix of youth and experience
Mar 07, 1999; ... Stenhousemuir 4 Queen's Park 1 EVERYONE at Ochilview yesterday was privy to the emergence of apromising talent as Stenhousemuir claimed a hugely-important victoryin their bid for promotion. The name: Ross Hamilton. Remember where you heard it first. This19-year-old has the ...
Kachloul on target to hit Hammers Europe hopes
Mar 07, 1999; ... Southampton 1 West Ham 0 HASSAN KACHLOUL was the man of the moment at The Dell yesterdayasSouthampton made it five victories out of six home games in theirbattle to steer clear of the relegation dogfight at the foot of thePremiership. However, West Ham only have themselves ...
Stirling standards fall down, down, deeper and down
Mar 07, 1999; ... Queen of the South 3 Stirling Albion 0 AT the turn of the year it seemed that Queen of the South weredestined to end a decade of unremitting gloom by plunging into theThird Division. Then manager Rowan Alexander parted company with theclub and caretaker duo Ken Eadie and George ...
Motherwell hit by dose of the blues
Mar 07, 1999; ... Motherwell 0 St Johnstone 2 THE bagpipes which have followed St Johnstone to one finalalreadythis season were warming up for another last night after the Perthteam eliminated Motherwell from the Scottish Cup with enoughcomposure to suggest they can end the season on a high ...
Moss can gather speed in late full time role
Mar 07, 1999; ... ELEVEN years of his adult life had elapsed before David Mossdecided to make a living from professional football. Like hisdelayed runs into the box, which have produced a flood of goals,Falkirk's formidable captain believes that his change of heart wasbetter late than never. Past ...
Idol with feet of gold
Mar 07, 1999; ... NUMBER crunching is for those of a prosaic nature. And thesection of society with zipped-up waterproofs and bedroom shrines toCarol Vorderman must positively gush over the exploits of HenrikLarsson this season. If facts and figures are your fancy, then nirvana can be ...
Nothing doing as dull Kilmarnock fade into oblivion
Mar 07, 1999; ... Kilmarnock 0 Dunfermline 0 HE falsely built up our hopes, the swine. Kilmarnock's half-timeannouncer bounded on to the pitch yesterday booming about how wewereto be treated to an appearance of "famous supporter" and"cartoonist"Malky McCormick and his "tin flute". But the ...