Scotland on Sunday back issues from February 2003:
All in a name as Aberdeen plans rebrand
Feb 02, 2003; ... ABERDEEN Asset Management is working on plans to change its namein a bid to regain investor trust in the wake of the split-capfiasco. The rebranding proposal is part of a new drive led by MartinGilbert, the chief executive, to rebuild the fund manager into amajor force, after losing the ...
Senior accountant attacks watchdog's audit ethics proposals
Feb 02, 2003; ... A SCOTS chartered accountant has attacked the industry's standardswatchdog over its insistence that accountants should not provideaudit and non-audit services to the same corporate clients. Michael Sheppard, the senior partner of Wylie & Bisset, arguesthat, in the wake of Enron ...
Adie's not for turning - she'd rather walk away Feeling poorly Stiff competition Virgin territory
Feb 02, 2003; ... IT USED to be a standing joke among the military: the British armycould not start the battle until Kate Adie was on the front line.They will have a long wait this time. Last week, Adie became the first casualty of the phoney war withIraq, the fatal blow inflicted by BBC executives ...
Fax and figures in 'real-life' ad
Feb 02, 2003; ... IT LOOKS like a personal fax that has been sent to the wrongnumber. But the hand-written notes marked for the attention of'Sarah' are actually the latest advertising wheeze. Rather than using more modern ways of reaching customers, such asthe internet and e-mail, a slimming ...
Crackdown warning in A&E crisis
Feb 02, 2003; ... MINISTERS have threatened to send in a team of troubleshooters totackle the accident and emergency crisis gripping Glasgow'shospitals, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. We revealed last week that A&E departments in the city wereregularly shutting to all but life-or-death cases as a ...
Vareille in fine form as Airdrie hit the heights
Feb 02, 2003; ... AIRDRIE UTD 3 BRECHIN CITY 0 THE indomitable Airdrie United finished comfortable winners ofthis Division Two contest with a three-goal margin that barelyreflected their superiority in this match in which they had threeother goals contemptuously disallowed. Brechin's league ...
Marvellous for Marvyn as Celtic carrot recalls glories
Feb 02, 2003; ... MARVYN Wilson is associated with cup highs thanks to exploits withAirdrie, when he scored a winner against Celtic at a crammed NewBroomfield in 1998, and also with Ayr United, where giant-killing hasbecome a habit - culminating in the ousting of Hibs in the League Cupsemi-final last ...
Israel and America united in grief for dead astronauts
Feb 02, 2003; ... AMERICA awoke yesterday morning to the news it had hoped never towitness again - the lives of a shuttle crew cruelly wiped out in afireball. Again, as with Challenger 17 years ago, the tragic image of thedoomed spacecraft, spewing burning debris, played over and over againon all ...
Cruel disaster deals a body blow to America
Feb 02, 2003; ... AMERICA woke yesterday morning to the news it had hoped never tohear again - the lives of a shuttle crew cruelly wiped out in afireball. Again, as with Challenger 17 years ago, the tragic image of thedoomed space craft spewing burning debris played over an over againon all the ...
Passion-filled Amor is Barcelona's very own god of love
Feb 02, 2003; ... "HE doesn't score like Ronaldo, nor dribble like Figo, nor shootlike Koeman, nor astound like Rivaldo. But for el Barca, he is moreimportant than all them put together," so read a Barcelonista tributeto Guillermo Amor when he was at the height of his powers with theCatalan club ....
It's a knock-out
Feb 02, 2003 ... ANAESTHESIA was first induced successfully in 1846 by the dentistWilliam Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He used ether to send one Gilbert Abbott to sleep before removinga lump under the patient's jaw. Before this, surgeons used alcohol,morphine and other ...
Coach breaks silence to stress two sprinting icons are clean
Feb 02, 2003; ... CHARLIE Francis, the coach who supercharged Ben Johnson withsteroids to Olympic infamy in 1988, yesterday broke his 14-yearsilence to defend the reputations of the current world's fastest man,Tim Montgomery, and woman, Marion Jones. He declared that they didnot use banned substances ...
Chances a rarity for strangers to a score
Feb 02, 2003; ... AYR UTD 0 ST MIRREN 0 IT WAS not an afternoon for purists, and had the teams playeduntil midnight it is doubtful whether either of them would havetreated us to a goal. The most complimentary thing you could sayabout the 90 minutes was that it got better as it wore on, and ...
BAE already showing wear and tear
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE three-way alliance between BAE Systems, French giant Thalesand the Ministry of Defence to build the Royal Navy's next generationaircraft carriers was last night creaking at the seams, just daysafter the contract was awarded. The uncertainty will be heightened following crisis ...
Yogi Bairn out to be new Brockville Godfather
Feb 02, 2003; ... FALKIRK 1 ST JOHNSTONE 1 YOGI is confirming the score from Tannadice. "2-1?" asks JohnHughes. "That guy's anointed." Ian McCall is godfather to one of hischildren. "God help the bairn. But I wish him all the best." OverHughes' shoulder, Owen Coyle, also charged with taking ...
Antic's bizarre career twists towards blaze at Nou Camp
Feb 02, 2003; ... IF THERE are to be any more adverse antics emanating from FCBarcelona before the end of a thus-far turbulent season then at leastRadomir Antic can irrefutably say he has seen it all. Dutch king Louis van Gaal departed Nou Camp for the second timethis week citing media opprobrium ...
Barr aims to turn tide with breath of fresh air for group
Feb 02, 2003; ... BILL Barr, the Ayr United chairman, is planning a shake-up of hisBarr Holdings construction business after losses on a number ofcontracts saw profits hit for the second year running. Although turnover at the company rose by 7% to 122.5m pounds, pre-tax losses widened from GBP 2.3m ...
New financial broom has work cut out
Feb 02, 2003; ... UNHAPPY with your job? Always take comfort from the jobs that youdo not have. Imagine waking up these days as the share tips editor ofthe Investors Chronicle. Or here in Scotland, taking the phone callthat tells you: "Congratulations! You're the next chief executive ofScottish Financial ...
No clear vision for US media giant
Feb 02, 2003; ... AOL TIME Warner's chief executive Dick Parsons has his work cutout in deciding what to do next with the ailing media group, whichlast week posted $100bn losses - the biggest ever in Americancorporate history. Ted Turner, the founder of news channel CNN and the man behind ...
Leader: Let's not get carried away
Feb 02, 2003 ... THE government's decision to award BAE Systems the bulk of thecontract to build the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers wassupposed to draw a line under the defence company's woes. But the new three-way alliance between BAE, Thales and theMinistry of Defence is a recipe for ...
Leader: Aberdeen name can keep some credit
Feb 02, 2003 ... THERE is a feeling that the true measure of a corporate board isits ability to react positively to adversity. Everyone makes mistakesbut how many companies can learn from them and emerge stronger as aresult? Well, there is certainly one firm doing it rather well right now:and ...
Politics show aims to counter voter apathy and attract younger people to May elections
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE BBC will today begin its attempts to drum up public interestin affairs at Holyrood and Westminster with the first broadcast ofits new flagship weekly politics show. The Politics Show, with presenters Jeremy Vine and Glen Campbell,will feature a 40-minute slot broadcast from ...
Cheers for Pires as hungover Arsenal take points with less-than- vintage show
Feb 02, 2003; ... ARSENAL 2 FULHAM 1 THE Highbury faithful these days are accustomed to seeing theirfootball flow like fine French wine. But there was a distinctlyvinegary after-taste about Arsenal's injury-time victory in thisLondon derby after they had struggled to break down Fulham for solong ....
Exploding the Boudica myth
Feb 02, 2003; ... BOADICEA, the flame-haired Warrior Queen who drove the Romans fromBritain. Well, almost. And if she lost, she did so in spectacularstyle, hurling javelins from the back of a chariot with scythes onits wheels amid hordes of hairy, blue-painted tribesmen who had thetemerity to prefer their ...
Another Oscar-winning performance promised whoever emerges as latest shooting star
Feb 02, 2003; ... OSCAR De La Hoya is back in the driver's seat, basking in renewedglory and pressing hard bargains with other fighters who can eitheraccept his terms or get left behind. Fans get the same treatment. Team De La Hoya are feeling so friskythese days that they slated a May tune-up ...
Parents' fears for son
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE parents of two-year-old Jordan Mount know from first-handexperience the anxiety involved when a child has an operation undergeneral anaesthetic. And the news that drugs commonly used to put children to sleep forsurgery damages the brains of rats - and could do the same to ...
World's longest bridges
Feb 02, 2003 ... THE development of suspension bridges has led to an almostexponential growth in the lengths of bridges in recent years. Scotland's Forth Road Bridge is now only number 18 in the globalleague table, having been overtaken by a number of constructionsacross the world. They ...
Britannic under pressure over investment arm
Feb 02, 2003; ... BRITANNIC Group, the life assurer, will come under increasingpressure this week to make clear what the future holds for itsinvestment division, Britannic Asset Management, with sourcessuggesting a sale could be imminent. The group's share price plunged by more than 60% this week ...
Individualist Patterson warms to the beat of well-deserved Indian summer
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE prospect of 90 minutes attempting to shackle the attackingprowess of John Hartson, Chris Sutton and marksman extraordinaireHenrik Larsson, would raise the blood pressure of most defenders inthe run-up to a Premierleague clash with the champions. But such isthe calm demeanour of ...
Right time for SRU to budge
Feb 02, 2003; ... EARLY on Monday evening a call came through to my office tellingme of Budge Pountney's disappearing act from Murrayfield. The flankerhad left his fellow Scotland players, I was told, in no doubt that hewould not be coming back. At roughly the same time, another telephone call was ...
S&N eyes Bulmer as cidermaker runs out of fizz
Feb 02, 2003 ... SCOTTISH & Newcastle could be poised to swallow HP Bulmer as theUK cider company's days as an independent look increasingly numbered,analysts believe. After three years of misery, during which its share price hasfallen by more than 80%, family-run Bulmer, the UK's No1 ...
Chequered history of a Nasa workhorse in space
Feb 02, 2003; ... MORE than 20 years before yesterday's tragedy Nasa staff fearedthat the shuttle would be destroyed while re-entering the atmosphere. Columbia was protected by thousands of tiles to shield it from theintense heat that builds up from air friction during re-entry. Butsome had been ...
Carlyle takes on role of Hitler
Feb 02, 2003; ... SCOTS actor Robert Carlyle is pictured for the first time in whatis likely to prove the most controversial role of his career. Carlyle, who shot to fame as Begbie in the movie Trainspotting, isplaying the young Adolf Hitler in a mini-series called Hubris, beingfilmed in the Czech ...
Minister attacks Jamieson over 'shocking' league tables
Feb 02, 2003; ... CATHY Jamieson, Scotland's education minister, came under intensepressure yesterday after a government minister branded theExecutive's policy on school league tables as "pretty shocking". In an intervention expected to raise tensions between London andEdinburgh, Brian Wilson, the ...
Till divorce do they part
Feb 02, 2003 ... ZOE BALL and NORMAN COOK: Ball was a Radio One DJ and Cook, alsoknown as Fatboy Slim, was an international star when they first metin Ibiza in 1998. They wed in 1999, with their son Woody born inDecember 2000. Ball walked out in late December and is now seeinganother DJ, Daniel Peppe ....
Crainey tired of taking two steps back at Parkhead
Feb 02, 2003; ... A YEAR can seem like an age for younger players trying to make thebreakthrough at the Old Firm. Just ask Stephen Crainey. Around 12months ago, the Celtic defender was enjoying regular senior outingsand forcing his way into the full Scotland set-up. Now he has back-pedalled, believing his ...
'Suddenly there was silence. No voices'
Feb 02, 2003; ... AGAIN and again mission control called, first on one radio channeland then on another. But from space there was only a silence thatstretched on until there was no hope. Their voices remained calm, professional, despite growing evidencethat space shuttle Columbia and its seven ...
Close quarters: Graham Sibbald
Feb 02, 2003 ... GRAHAM Sibbald is a corporate lawyer who heads the Media Group atcommercial law firm Dundas & Wilson. Ranked a leader in his field byindependent guides to the profession, he lives in Glasgow with hiswife Diane - also a lawyer - and two-year-old daughter Cate. What do you sing in ...
Bad news for Clyde & Forth as profits take a tumble
Feb 02, 2003; ... CLYDE & Forth Press, the regional newspaper group, reflectedgeneral gloom in the publishing sector by posting reduced profits forlast year, although sales enjoyed a modest rise thanks to theresilience of the local advertising market. The Dunfermline newspaper group, which ...
When tragedy strikes twice
Feb 02, 2003; ... HELEN Cormack is living testimony to the fact that lightning canstrike the same place twice. Like Sally Clark, the solicitor whosemurder conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal last week,she lost two babies, Ailie, four months, and Stuart, five months, toSudden Infant Death ...
Public warned over toxic wreckage
Feb 02, 2003; ... DEBRIS from the space shuttle Columbia rained down on to fieldsand highways in Texas yesterday, smashing into homes and sparkingfires across the state. Bewildered witnesses stumbled across smouldering metal wreckageranging in size from small lumps of twisted metal to whole ...
Men stock up on shares as women remain cautious
Feb 02, 2003 ... MEN are planning to invest more of their disposable income thismonth than at any time during the past two years, despite theplunging stock markets and economic turmoil, according to a surveyout today. Research for Alliance & Leicester found that on average men intendto invest 91 ...
No voice for absent crofters
Feb 02, 2003; ... CIVIL servants have closed a legal loophole to stop nearly 2,000crofters living as far away as Turkey and Texas from voting to seizetheir laird's land. The controversial Land Reform Bill is due to be given the RoyalAssent later this month. The bill grants communities the ...
'Stalinist' ban keeps school out of guide
Feb 02, 2003; ... ONE of Scotland's top-performing comprehensives has been bannedfrom a prestigious guide to academic excellence because educationheads feared it would embarrass neighbouring schools. The publisher of 'education bible' the Good Schools Guide wantedto include Cults Academy, Aberdeen, ...
Rogue investor confuses Digital calculations
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE battle for control of Digital Animations, the computeranimation group, took another twist yesterday after a rogue investorclaimed he was on the brink of becoming the firm's largestshareholder. Paul Scott, who is leading a campaign to break up PPLTherapeutics, claimed he was ...
The seven lost crew members of STS-107
Feb 02, 2003 ... ILAN RAMON, 48, payload specialist: The colonel in Israel's airforce was the first Israeli in space. His mother and grandmothersurvived the Nazi concentration camp at Aushwitz during the SecondWorld War. The fighter pilot served for nearly three decades, seeingcombat in the 1973 ...
Directors boost stakes as prices plunge
Feb 02, 2003; ... STEVE Remp, executive chairman of Ramco, the oil group, has addedanother 3,000 shares to his 8.5m pound stake in the company as thefalling market prompts a spate of buying among Scottish directors. He is one of a dozen board directors who have ploughed more thanGBP 240,000 into ...
Latest in a long list of tragedy as glitter of space fails to fade for mankind
Feb 02, 2003; ... ONLY last week President Bush confirmed funding for a Nasa missionto Mars. Yesterday, mankind was reminded of the dangers of operatingin our own backyard. The explosion which ripped apart Columbia was the latest in a longline of disasters and near misses since man first sent a ...
Once united, now untied?
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE stereotypical image of warring spouses in Scotland wassatirised in Billy Connolly's take-off of the Tammy Wynette song'D.I.V.O.R.C.E'. In his own inimitable way, the Big Yin captured the petty fights,punctuated with swear words, and the bolt for the door at the firstsight of ...
Iraq catalogue of chaos could prove final straw
Feb 02, 2003; ... IT IS a frightening piece of work: a slim document cataloguing theextent of Iraq's alleged abuse of its obligations to co-operate withinspectors and to disarm over several months. And it could be one ofthe final pieces in the jigsaw that leads to concerted internationalaction against ...
Profile: Paul Dollman: Eager for the challenge
Feb 02, 2003; ... PAUL Dollman, the new finance director of John Menzies, isbrutally honest when asked how a potential war with Iraq will affectthe Edinburgh group's growing aviation services business. "We haven'tgot a clue," he said in his first interview since joining thecompany. "That is the only ...
Number of Scots in hospital due to drug abuse soars by 62 per cent
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE number of Scots hospitalised as a result of drug abuse hassoared by 62% over the past five years, it has been revealed. Last year, 4,700 people were admitted for treatment as a result oftheir drug habit, compared with 2,900 in 1997, according to thelatest official figures ....
Banging the big drum
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE man was a Cambridge graduate and high-powered businessmanwhose family owned one of Clydeside's most beautiful estates onArdmore peninsula, near Cardross. The boy was the son of a shipyardworker from Govan, who had been raised in a socialist household. Despite their disparate ...
United respond to rally of McCall
Feb 02, 2003; ... DUNDEE UNITED 2 Tod 4, Miller 68 MOTHERWELL 1 Adams 20 pen SOMEBODY up there clearly likes Ian McCall. Nah, they may evenlove him. For amid incredible scenes at Tannadice yesterday, DundeeUnited, in their first game under McCall's tutelage, did what hadproved beyond them in their ...
Guardians of the corner shop: Statements from the Tannadice owner indicate a rare line in duplicity
Feb 02, 2003; ... MACHIAVELLI would probably have blanched if asked to justify themeans that ended with Eddie Thompson landing Ian McCall as DundeeUnited manager on Thursday. But attempting to enhance his club'sprospects is the priority for the Tannadice owner in binning PaulHegarty to make way for his ...
Golden Eggen
Feb 02, 2003; ... ON a stressful Saturday night in the Bernabeu in May 2001, DanEggen's Alaves career took a turn for the worse. A mere 10 days afterthe Basque club had lost in spectacular style to Liverpool in thatmemorable UEFA Cup final in Dortmund, Luis Figo was running amok asReal Madrid clinched La ...
Proctor's darkest hour
Feb 02, 2003 ... IT WAS a gloomy afternoon for Michael Proctor at the Stadium ofLight as Sunderland slipped to the bottom of the Premiership bylosing 3-1 to Charlton. Howard Wilkinson's side were not helped bytwo own goals from Proctor. Mark Fish's poorly-struck shot deflected in off Stephen ...
Andrew cool as Falcons spread wings
Feb 02, 2003; ... NEWCASTLE director of rugby Rob Andrew refused to get carried awayafter his side took a massive step towards securing ZurichPremiership survival at Kingston Park yesterday. His side had a comfortable 32-17 victory over Harlequins, touchingdown for four tries to record a maximum ...
Sparks fly as motor giants vie for first cheap and practical petrol- free car
Feb 02, 2003; ... THE next big thing in cars is how to make them go when the oilruns out. Futurologists can't make up their mind whether to back fuelcells, chemically manufacturing their own electricity, or hydrogenworking the sort of engines we have now. America seems to think fuelcells, Europe hydrogen ...
Never mind the bombs, here comes some celebrity gossip
Feb 02, 2003; ... AT A time when each day brings nearer to certainty military actionagainst Iraq in a war wilfully proposed by America and just aswilfully seconded by Britain, a war which could tilt the world on itsaxis, I come across four pages of a magazine devoted to the affairsof Jade Goody ....
Instant expert: Wallis Simpson
Feb 02, 2003 ... What's so terrible about an outgoing and independent 39-year-oldwoman playing the field? This was no ordinary woman. Wallis Simpson, an American, was beingcourted by the future King Edward VIII while bedding Ford carsalesman Guy Trundle, a parvenu and rake who boasted that every ...
3i bids to strike black gold with oil investment
Feb 02, 2003; ... BRITAIN'S largest private equity group, 3i, last week bought a 15%stake in Faroe Petroleum, a little-known independent oil and gascompany hoping to strike it lucky in the North Sea. 3i is investing 4.5m pounds in the company's exploration programmethis year off the Faroese ...
Pountney's reasons for quitting appear thoroughly petty in cold light of day
Feb 02, 2003; ... WE'VE all got our favourite story about rugby alickadoos and afterBudge Pountney's public hand-wringing about the "unprofessional"Scottish Rugby Union I can happily contribute a couple of my own. Freeloaders and hangers-on from the union's various committeeshave been a fact of ...
Liddell's friendly fire warning
Feb 02, 2003; ... SCOTTISH Secretary Helen Liddell has warned Westminster not toforce through emergency legislation to end the fire dispute withoutthe approval of MSPs. Her advice follows threats by John Prescott, the Deputy PrimeMinister, to end the strikes by introducing a new bill allowing ...
The reel thing
Feb 02, 2003; ... IT might have prompted the longest debate in the ScottishParliament, but the overwhelming majority of MSPs who backed the LandReform Bill voted on a piece of legislation that had hardly changedfrom the original consultation document of two years ago. In spite of 3500 written ...