Scotland on Sunday back issues from September 2002:
Aberdeen's fate sealed by fickle error factor
Sep 01, 2002; ... ABERDEEN GSFP 25 BOROUGHMUIR 38 A SLICK performance by a confident Capital side aided and abettedby two breakaway tries gifted to them by the home team sawBoroughmuir win this entertaining match by a comfortable margin. The undeserved reputation for stinginess which ...
Fan power holds sway as original Crazy Gang rule roost in bitter battle for the soul of Wimbledon
Sep 01, 2002; ... WHEN AFC Wimbledon played their inaugural match in the CombinedCounties League at Sandhurst the other week, many of their 2000-strong travelling support were forced to sit on straw bales scatteredaround the field. AFC, nominally 100 days old this Friday, butclaiming to be the moral ...
Call him the child Rover
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE fans evacuating Cliftonhill with wet hankies and long faces onthe final, dramatic day of last season had every reason to feel sorryfor themselves, and many no doubt spent an uneasy summer frettingabout their team's future. A stirring, but insubstantial draw with Elgin City ...
Armchair investor: Time your investment in bricks and mortar to cement steady returns
Sep 01, 2002; ... A LITTLE more than a year ago I rang my stockbroker to ask hisadvice on investing around 4,000 pounds in a company which mightprovide a higher dividend than current accounts at the bank. I had enough speculative shares offering no dividend and shares inAbbey National, HBOS and ...
Half-time turnaround is a Sheerin delight for Ayr
Sep 01, 2002; ... AYR UNITED 1 ARBROATH 0 HAVING toiled for most of a first half in which they lookedthoroughly out of sorts, Ayr collared the points with an exquisitegoal courtesy of Paul Sheerin's left foot. His 45th-minute strike -curling a 20-yard free-kick into the corner of the net - ...
Why the corporate coffee market doesn't add up to a hill of beans
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE fundamental errors made by the big four national andmultinational coffee operators in the UK - Starbucks, CoffeeRepublic, Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero - are coming home to roost withtalk of mergers and acquisitions rife. Coffee Republic is presently in merger talks with ...
Faroes Curse Awaits Vogts' Spartan Army
Sep 01, 2002; ... WHEN Berti Vogts was but a fledgling full-back, just seven monthsinto a sprawling international career, he underwent a chasteningexperience. The year was 1967, the match a week before Christmas, andthe location unfashionable Tirana, a grim footballing outpost fromwhich West Germany were ...
Johnson's 24-carat strike shows Birmingham in sparkling light as Leeds fail to live up to star billing
Sep 01, 2002; ... BIRMINGHAM 2 LEEDS UTD 1 AS their most famous fan, Jasper Carrot, might say, BirminghamCity lining up against Leeds United is like asking a Lada tooutsprint a Ferrari. Carrot, more than anyone, has helped to perpetuate the light-hearted image of Birmingham City as ...
Scientists step in to rescue the Scottish oyster
Sep 01, 2002; ... THEY were once at the heart of a thriving industry. Famed fortheir superior taste, the native oyster was part of the staple dietin Scotland. But decades of over-exploitation, pollution and, more recently,theft, have almost wiped out the once-plentiful supplies, with onlysmall ...
Leader: Anti-English feeling is never 'harmless'
Sep 01, 2002; ... DIGBY Jones is right - some Scots do have a chip on their shoulderabout England. Misguided patriotic fervour bordering on overtnationalism was inspired when Mel Gibson, an Australian with adecidedly English-sounding surname, starred in the film Braveheart afew years ago. The ...
Fury over business rates as Kerr refuses to budge
Sep 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S business community is on a collision course with theScottish Executive after the CBI produced overwhelming evidence tofinance minister Andy Kerr last week showing the country is at adefinite disadvantage due to unequal business rates with England. On Wednesday last week ...
Daly still a sponsor's dream
Sep 01, 2002; ... FOR the casual golf fan, the 2002 version of the BMW InternationalOpen has so far been great fun to watch. It is, as the Americansmight say, a "birdie-fest" of epic proportions. After three rounds,as many as 27 players are at least 10 under what is officially par,with Thomas Bjorn ...
Boxing's best on a hiding to nothing
Sep 01, 2002; ... WHEN Sheffield's Clinton Woods steps into the ring next Saturdaywith light heavyweight champion Roy Jones, he will be facing the mostskilled fighter he has ever faced. At least that's been theexperience of all Jones' opponents thus far. Jones simply dazzlesthem. His almost supernatural ...
In brief: Two killed after car hits tree
Sep 01, 2002 ... TWO people died and two others were seriously injured after a carveered off the road and hit a tree yesterday. The male driver and a female passenger in the silver Vauxhall Novaboth died in the crash. The two other passengers, a man and a woman,sustained serious injuries and were ...
Royal London unveils its Bright new product idea
Sep 01, 2002; ... ROYAL London has revealed that its soon-to-be-launched Edinburgh-based multimillion pound protection insurance business will be calledBright Grey. The executive team of the new firm, which will be based in thecapital's Queen Street, believe the new name "reflects the contrastthe ...
Sparks fly in British Energy saga
Sep 01, 2002; ... THERE is more than whiff of Railtrack to the furore which has beenclouding Britain's largest electricity generator and nuclearoperator, British Energy, these past few days. Energy minister Brian Wilson was given the all clear from Number10 to man the barricades on television and ...
Britannia sails on to 500,000 pounds profit
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE Royal Yacht Britannia, which opened to the public in Edinburghin 1998, is on target to make a 500,000 pounds profit, according toits director, Bob Downie. It is proving to be one of the success stories in a tough periodfor Scottish tourism. The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, ...
Digging for victory and a single day off as Lambie's great incentive proves drawn out
Sep 01, 2002; ... THIS morning as you nibble your croissants or dunk your friedbread, flicking through the papers refreshed by a long lie-in, sparea thought for the players of Partick Thistle concluding preparationsfor today's Premierleague clash at Pittodrie. Days off are but a distant memory for ...
Bulldogs' salary scam chews big bits off their status and that of rugby league
Sep 01, 2002; ... IMAGINE Celtic or Rangers becoming embroiled in secret, illegalpayments to their players. The Premierleague step in and move theguilty club from the top of the league to bottom, and impose a fineof 180,000 pounds, prompting the chairman and directors to resign indisgrace. A ...
Celtic can't do the continental
Sep 01, 2002; ... CELTIC will be seeking to extend their run of league games withoutdefeat to 24 when they face Livingston at home this afternoon, havinglast week beaten the SPL record that was their possession intriumphing over Partick Thistle. In the course of clinching the titlethese past two seasons ...
Australia reject Elliott reduces Caddick to Ashes to bank Yorkshire the C&G Trophy
Sep 01, 2002; ... MATTHEW ELLIOTT provided a brilliant preview to the Ashes seriesthis winter by taming one of England's key bowlers and leadingYorkshire to long overdue success in the C&G Trophy final yesterday. The Australian left-hander hit an unbeaten 128 to guide his newemployers to a ...
Hitches in the Bates hotel plan
Sep 01, 2002; ... "THE fine balancing act which clubs have to perform is how toreduce their cost base whilst maintaining performance on the pitch.It is certainly not a quick fix with clubs looking at a two-to-three-year consolidation period whilst a number of contracts unwind andcosts are reduced to match ...
Fare concession scheme drives busmen round the bend
Sep 01, 2002; ... CONCERN is growing among Scotland's bus companies that theScottish Executive's 40m pounds concessionary fares project will maketravel more confusing for the people it is designed to help. Neil Wood, managing director of Scottish Citylink, has called forsimplification of the ...
Close quarters: Anne McLean
Sep 01, 2002 ... OTHERWISE known by friends and colleagues as 'Anne the Shoe', AnneMcLean has been in the ladies' footwear business since 1979.Sandalwood Shoes has branches in Perth and Glasgow and stocks a widerange of continental shoes, boots and accessories. McLean believesnew and innovative ...
Archbishop says politicians in 'ivory towers' must act over poverty
Sep 01, 2002; ... ARCHBISHOP Mario Conti has accused Scottish politicians of livingin "ivory towers" for putting issues like fox-hunting and parentalsmacking of children ahead of the fight against poverty. In his first political intervention since taking over fromCardinal Winning as Archbishop of ...
Sponsorship deal woos test greats
Sep 01, 2002; ... JUDGING by the plethora of negative headlines which surroundedlast weekend's resignation of SCL chairman, Alun Davies, one couldalmost be forgiven for supposing that Scottish cricket was on theverge of spontaneously combusting in the build-up to next summer'sdebut in the English Sunday ...
SCL's 100,000 pounds sponsorship deal will light way for star performers
Sep 01, 2002 ... SCOTTISH cricket's governing body this month will announce asponsorship deal worth 100,000 pounds to boost their drive towardsthe English Sunday League next season. Gwynne Jones, the SCL's chief executive, confirmed the advanceyesterday, and revealed that he has drawn up a ...
Capitulation of Currie gives firm ground for theories that Heriot's will take much stopping
Sep 01, 2002; ... CURRIE 10 HERIOT'S FP 51 BY DESPATCHING Currie without ever breaking out of third gear,Heriot's served notice at Malleny Park that they will once againchallenge for the Premiership title. In a scrappy early-season encounter Heriot's ran in eight triesagainst an ...
Mourners pay tribute to Diana
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE fifth anniversary of Princess Diana's death was marked withbouquets at sites across Britain yesterday. Kensington Palace, Princess Diana's former home, became a scene ofmourning, with the palace gates scattered with flowers and cards. Mourners and curious onlookers ...
Investors show interest as stem cell research makes headlines
Sep 01, 2002; ... HOLLYWOOD star Michael J Fox may be an unusual poster figure for arevolutionary science, but for the actor, who is suffering fromParkinson's disease, the research being conducted into stem cells iscurrently his only hope of finding a cure. Along with thousands of sufferers of ...
Sub attack leaves Dundee smarting
Sep 01, 2002; ... DUNDEE UNITED 0 DUNDEE 0 FOR a cake made without eggs, there were still enough tastymorsels to be picked over following the first Dundee derby of theseason yesterday. And after producing both the better football andchances, the visitors will feel they should have been ...
Interim results trigger fears of further EFM client losses
Sep 01, 2002; ... FEARS are rising that Edinburgh Fund Managers may lose more keyclients when it reports what are likely to be less than spectacularinterim results in three weeks. The beleaguered investment house recently lost its flagship fund,the 1.2bn pounds Edinburgh Investment Trust (EIT) due ...
Build it and they shall complain
Sep 01, 2002; ... EVERYONE knows that the public is a fickle beast, but Scotland'sarchitects must be wondering how they have managed to go from ratedto hated in such double-quick time. Only three years ago, theupmarket dating agency Drawing Down The Moon announced the findingsthat 'creative and reliable' ...
Auld Reekie's 18th-century James Dean
Sep 01, 2002; ... IF ROBERT Burns was the Elvis of the Scots language then RobertFergusson was its James Dean. He was a fast-living genius that diedtoo young (24 years old) but markedly influenced all who followed.Fergusson changed the nature and range of Scots poetry with hisinnovative use of form and ...
Swiss-Austrian official sounds a friendly warning over Euro 2008 bid
Sep 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND and Ireland's bid team for Euro 2008 face searchingquestions over their plans from the UEFA inspectors who will decidein December on which country or countries will host the tournament. That was the friendly warning given yesterday by Thomas Helbling,the project manager ...
Gambling against the odds
Sep 01, 2002; ... GEORGE Foulkes was in ebullient mood. Back on the big stage andwith an important job to do, the new chief of Scotland in Europe wasdetailing his new role to the gathered media. He had, Foulkesconfided, been granted audiences with both the Chancellor and thePrime Minister after being ...
Euro vote set for next year
Sep 01, 2002; ... LABOUR is gearing up to hold a referendum on the euro in Octobernext year and has ordered the pro-single-currency lobby to step upits campaign, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. George Foulkes, the former deputy Scottish Secretary, hasdisclosed that the party is looking to hold the ...
What the cotton-wool generation finds so hard to swallow
Sep 01, 2002; ... TOPIC for this week: Biting the core of the apple. Recently a woman friend of a certain age remarked to me at adinner party that she sometimes wondered how so many children of hergeneration had survived to such comparatively grand old ages. Icouldn't immediately see the point she ...
Anti-ageing weed has Scottish trial
Sep 01, 2002; ... FADING beauties could soon be turning to a weed grown in Scotlandrather than plastic surgery to restore their lost looks. Scientists have begun crop trials in Scotland aimed at thecommercial cultivation of the plant - whose oil is said to give anatural facelift. The ...
McCall's crew of swashbucklers put Doonhamers to the sword despite truly vintage display from Goram
Sep 01, 2002; ... FALKIRK 3 QOS 0 THE Brockville bandwagon rolls on as Falkirk set an unrelentingpace at the top of Division One. Ian McCall has said he wants tobring back the good old days, no doubt referring to his time as aplayer with Falkirk, as there have also been a lot of bad days in ...
Scots line up for Falklands hotel work
Sep 01, 2002; ... MORE than 70 Scots have applied to be hotel workers in theFalklands this winter. The Falkland Islands Development Board advertised in the Highlandsand Islands in July for people who were qualified to run two 12-bedroom tourism lodges on the islands. As part of the deal, the ...
Scottish sports hall of fame: Ken Oliver OBE
Sep 01, 2002; ... KEN OLIVER OBE (1914-1999) KEN Oliver was the most successful Scottish-based trainer. In acareer spread over seven decades, his outgoing personality and talentas a handler ensured that he became one of the best-known figures inNational Hunt racing. When he died at 85, he was the ...
Faraway foes guaranteed to put wind up even well-weathered campaigners
Sep 01, 2002; ... A STORM was brewing in the Faroes. Even the sharp gale blowing inoff the Atlantic could not cool the atmosphere in Torshavn'sGundadalur Stadium. Jakup a Borg, a Faroese international and the B-36 club's striker, had been shown a red card for striking the GIteam's midfielder, Magni ...
Raffarin tries to escape the 'Bermuda Triangle'
Sep 01, 2002; ... AS PRIME Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin returned this week from hissummer holidays to face a possible winter of discontent, it looked asif the brief honeymoon between French voters and their new centre-right government was nearing an end. Recent polls show a rising dissatisfaction ...
Catholics pray for miracle as Irishmen turn their back on priesthood
Sep 01, 2002; ... THEY used to be one of the country's most famous exports, butIrish priests could soon become a peculiar rarity. The closure of one of the country's oldest and most prestigiousCatholic seminaries this week underlines a recruitment crisis whichis gathering momentum. Along ...
Young footballer dies after car falls in harbour
Sep 01, 2002; ... A TALENTED young Scottish footballer died after the car he wasdriving fell into a harbour. Mark Dewar, 18, was driving along Fraserburgh Harbour's middlejetty when the car left the road and plunged into 20ft of water onFriday night. Dewar, a midfielder for Fraserburgh ...
Free-wheeling Davidson hopes trip to Spa will prove another refreshing experience for F1's prime movers
Sep 01, 2002; ... COUNTLESS exponents of the motor-racing art will vouch for thefact that catching up with Anthony Davidson can prove a forlornmission, and many more will confirm that even when they do, it'sstaying with him that is the trickier part. On the track, the speed of Formula One's latest ...
Expect slick results from Wood Group
Sep 01, 2002; ... COMPANY results are coming in thick and fast as the reportingseason gathers momentum. But Wood Group, the Aberdeen-based oilservices company, should still stand out with its first resultsfollowing its May flotation. Wood was one of the few successes among the early summer ...
Tensions in Afghanistan silence songs by women
Sep 01, 2002; ... AFGHANISTAN'S supreme court yesterday backed a decision by thecountry's state-run media to ban women from singing on the radio andprevent Indian films from being aired in the capital. "We have no opposition to the watching of films, but we totallyoppose the idea of half-naked ...
Bulgaria lures the tourists two by two
Sep 01, 2002; ... BULGARIA is hoping to inject new life into its fledgling tourismindustry by creating a theme park of biblical proportions dedicatedto Noah and the Great Flood. The Bulgarians are hoping that the latest evidence which shows thecountry was at the heart of the great flood will also ...
Little yellow book lifts the lid
Sep 01, 2002; ... ALONG with food and electricity, the telephone is a rare commodityin the Stalinist wonderland of North Korea. Diplomats posted therehave to learn a style of diplomacy that owes more to the conspiracy-fuelled, twilight imagination of thriller writers than the modernworld. "They ...
Fragile peace as Albanian gunmen free bus hostages
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE Albanian kidnapper is speaking on a Mobimak mobile phone linefrom the mountains. He will not say his name, nor where he is. His friends in this small ethnic Albanian village in westernMacedonia sit in the living room of a red brick farm house, listeningas the crackling phone ...
Mujahedin defy Kashmir ban
Sep 01, 2002; ... A PAKISTAN-BASED Kashmiri militant group said yesterday it wascontinuing to send fighters into Indian-held Kashmir in defiance ofPresident Pervez Musharraf's attempts to stem cross-borderincursions. "The ban on the cross-border activity by the president of Pakistanhas certainly ...
ETA supporters find safe haven in France as crackdown backfires
Sep 01, 2002; ... IT LOOKED easy initially. The Spanish media celebrated Madrid'sdecision to outlaw the Basque separatist party Batasuna, thepolitical wing of the terrorist organisation ETA, as though itsignalled a final victory in Spain's domestic war against terrorism. Now, however, the ...
Snakeheads in Ireland prey on capital's Chinese student boom
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE Chinese students huddle outside the entrance to the languageschool, chattering animatedly while occasionally casting furtiveglances over their shoulders. The topic of the heated conversation is not their exam results buta menace which they believed they had left thousands of ...
Powell's caution falls on deaf ears
Sep 01, 2002; ... WHILE President George W Bush and his war hawks plot how and whento execute their planned assault on Iraq, Secretary of State ColinPowell will be attending the Earth Summit in South Africa, an eventalready judged meaningless in Washington DC by lack of presidentialinterest ....
US Taliban fighter wants Americans to forgive him
Sep 01, 2002; ... JOHN Walker Lindh is hoping Americans will forgive him for joiningthe Taliban. As part of that process he is now telling US federalagents what he knows about the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Lindh, 21, is still undergoing debriefings with several USgovernment agencies as part of a ...
Zambia probe into lost millions
Sep 01, 2002; ... ZAMBIA has stepped up its investigations of former presidentFrederick Chiluba in an effort to break the cycle of corruption thathas been the curse of much of the African continent. Yesterday police raided Chiluba's house, searching for proof theformer president has been dealing in ...
Zambia calls ex-leader to account for lost millions
Sep 01, 2002; ... FREDERICK Chiluba has been spending a lot of time at home.Sometimes the former president of Zambia writes his memoirs orwatches Newcastle United, his favourite team, on satellitetelevision, according to confidante and former information minister,Vernon Mwaanga. Other times, he is quietly ...
Five prove seaworthy as finance houses weather market storms
Sep 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S leading investment houses have suffered mixed fortunesin their battle to weather the volatile markets of the past 18months, with Friends Ivory & Sime emerging strongest following itsacquisition of Royal & Sun Alliance. Since January last year the FTSE All-Share has ...
A Borderline decision but we're building winning spirit for the future
Sep 01, 2002; ... OUR opening game may have ended in defeat against the Irishprovince Connacht, but I will say one thing right away: I have evenmore respect for the Borders players and the side as a whole afterFriday night. Over the last few weeks and in the days preceding the match it hasbecome ...
Tigerish Glasgow show claws
Sep 01, 2002; ... CARDIFF 35 GLASGOW 44 IT WAS a performance of guile and tenacity by Glasgow and surelyone of the most remarkably entertaining matches ever seen in Cardiff,with the game ebbing and flowing like the tides in nearby Tiger Bay. By half-time, and with the score locked at ...
Barlow over cuts and bruises to set pace
Sep 01, 2002; ... CRAIG Barlow shot a seven-under-par 65 to take sole possession ofthe lead on ten-under par at the Air Canada Championship in Surrey,British Columbia. Australian Robert Allenby outscored him with a bogey-free nine-under-par 62 to stand on nine-under at halfway at the Northview ...
Health service in crisis as one in five GPs set to quit
Sep 01, 2002; ... OVER one in five of Scotland's GPs plan to quit their jobs in thenext five years, threatening to plunge frontline medical servicesinto crisis. Family doctors have told government-funded researchers they havebeen pushed beyond breaking-point by paperwork, rising workloads ...
Grassroots...Glasgow High/Kelvinside CC
Sep 01, 2002; ... WHO ARE THEY? Their rugby brethren may be better known, but thisblithe group have done well. Formed in 1987 by amalgamation of the FPsections of Kelvinside Accies and Glasgow High, GHK's white-flannelmerchants began life in the First Division of the Glasgow & DistrictLeague and, ...