Scotland on Sunday back issues from June 2003:
Fortune teller: Retail therapy is on hand as war and Sars take their toll
Jun 01, 2003; ... AIRPORTS operator BAA heads another strong line-up of majorcompanies reporting results this week. The impact of the war in Iraq and Sars on the travel industry havebeen well documented, not least by airports operator BAA which issuesfull results on Tuesday. BAA's traffic ...
New investors for SE company cash scheme
Jun 01, 2003; ... SCOTTISH Enterprise has taken on three more firms to run its GBP20m co-investment scheme for young companies and claims it will haveallocated the entire fund by the end of this month. The new investors include Hamilton Portfolio, run by the DirectHolidays founder John Boyle; MMI, ...
Board rift as MDIS chief quits
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE chief executive of an organisation set up to promote theScottish medical device industry has resigned after becoming"frustrated" with her board's strategy. Gillian McIntosh left Medical Devices in Scotland (MDIS), whichwas set up to raise the profile of the industry and ...
Scottish Biomedical acquired by management buyout
Jun 01, 2003; ... A COMPANY set up by Scottish universities to commercialise theirbiotechnology expertise has been bought by its management. Scottish Biomedical, based in Glasgow, was acquired by its chiefexecutive, Steve Hammond, and finance director, Eric Smith, for anundisclosed cash sum ....
Pampered tourism industry needs to put its own bed and breakfast in order
Jun 01, 2003; ... AS ONE who has never been too keen on over-priced tourist'attractions', poor quality service and the frustration of delayedflights to sunshine destinations, I take a lot of convincing thattourism is all that it is cracked up to be, or that it deserves allthe attention it gets ....
Aberfan survivors suffer 37 years on
Jun 01, 2003; ... ALMOST one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster arestill suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 37 years on,according to a new study. On October 21, 1966, a coal slagheap collapsed on to a primaryschool in Aberfan, South Wales, killing 116 children. Some ...
Pilot left badly injured after crash at classic aircraft show
Jun 01, 2003; ... A REPLICA of the legendary aircraft the Spirit of St Louis, whichplummeted to the ground shortly after take-off at an air show,appeared to have suffered a rare structural failure, organisers saidlast night. The male pilot was left seriously injured following yesterday'scrash, ...
Under the junta
Jun 01, 2003 ... ARGENTINA'S military junta came to power in 1976 in a coup thatoverthrew the government of Juan Peron's second wife Isabelita. For the next seven years the country was run by four successivegenerals, including Leopoldo Galtieri. It was his decision to invade the Falkland ...
Ethical investments can be good for the environment and bank balance
Jun 01, 2003; ... ON A midsummer day in the 1980s, a group of friends climbed to thesummit of the Merrick in Galloway to protest at the proposal tocreate a nuclear dump in one of Scotland's sparsely populated andunspoiled areas. The group were not cranks or dropouts but concernedabout the potential ...
Critics' choice: Art
Jun 01, 2003 ... GILLIAN STEEL: COME TO MY HOUSE Families and their complexities are the subject of Gillian Steel'sfascination. In her work we have a house-like construction framing aseries of projected images, allowing the outsider an in-depth glimpseinto a world far removed from domestic bliss. A ...
Police arrest key suspect in bombing at Atlanta Games
Jun 01, 2003; ... A WHITE supremacist accused of bombing the 1996 Olympic Games inAtlanta was yesterday arrested after living off the land for years inthe mountains and caves of North Carolina. Eric Rudolph, who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and eludeda massive manhunt for five years, was ...
Barfly
Jun 01, 2003 ... Not the retiring type DONALD Macdonald of Macdonald Hotels (try saying that quickly),has no intention of heading off quietly into the sunset now he hasmoved upstairs. He recently quit as chief executive to become chairman but thatwon't mean he is prepared to put his feet up ...
Icelandic retail chain set for GBP 220m MBO
Jun 01, 2003; ... BAUGUR, the maverick Icelandic retail chain which last year threwits support behind Scottish entrepreneur Tom Hunter's bid for Houseof Fraser, is taking itself private in a management buyout. It will be led by chief executive Jon Asgeir Johannesson,following a fraud squad ...
Ridiculed in his home country, Vogts has yet to convince in his adopted Scotland
Jun 01, 2003; ... FOR a little man, Berti Vogts casts a long shadow. The gloom thathas enveloped Scotland's national side since his appointment over 15months ago, as well as the mirth it has prompted among his manycritics in Germany, is sure to be the main attraction when thecountries meet at Hampden on ...
Revealed: How pro-Gaddafi businessmen funded Lockerbie lawyer's trips to Libya
Jun 01, 2003; ... SCOTLAND'S most vocal legal critic of the case against convictedLockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi received financialassistance worth thousands of pounds from businessmen linked toColonel Gaddafi. Robert Black, QC, who has secured widespread publicity to protestthe ...
Blair pledges to reveal new Iraq weapons dossier
Jun 01, 2003; ... A DEFIANT Tony Blair last night pledged to produce a new dossierproviding conclusive proof that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons ofmass destruction. The Prime Minister said there was "no doubt at all" that thedictator had been developing an illicit arsenal of deadly ...
Blair pledges to reveal new Iraq weapons dossier
Jun 01, 2003; ... A DEFIANT Tony Blair last night pledged to produce a new dossierproviding conclusive proof that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons ofmass destruction. The Prime Minister said there was "no doubt at all" that thedictator had been developing an illicit arsenal of deadly ...
Blair's peace offensive
Jun 01, 2003; ... IN RUSSIA, there is a solution to bad weather. Three miles northof St Petersburg sat the Ilyushin-76, a cargo aircraft laden withchemicals to dissolve clouds which threatened to rain on the city'stercentenary celebrations. It was a ploy used in Soviet days to ensure sunshine for ...
Blunkett office denies bid to block parole for Lord Archer
Jun 01, 2003; ... HOME Secretary David Blunkett has been accused of intervening todelay the release of disgraced peer Lord Archer. A leaked letter published by a Sunday newspaper appears to showthat a senior Home Office official wrote to the Commissioner forCorrectional Services to say Blunkett ...
Off the shelf
Jun 01, 2003 ... Who Ate All The Pies: The Life And Times of Mick Quinn, OliverHarvey and Mick Quinn, Virgin (GBP 16.99 hardback) An outrageous biography devoted to life and times in which thenaff, naughty and nefarious came together in buttock-clenchingfashion. The one-time Coventry City forward ...
Critics' choice: Books
Jun 01, 2003 ... TONY PARSONS Tony Parson's humour, passion and stories of male frailty and theperils of modern parenting have made him a household name in over 30countries. His first novel in 10 years, Man and Boy (1991) took theBritish bestseller list by storm as he revealed a tenderness and ...
Agency begins brand new life as private ambassador for Scotland
Jun 01, 2003; ... SCOTLAND the Brand, the marketing agency, begins a new life in theprivate sector this week and will broaden its role as an ambassadorfor the country. Nick Kuenssberg, its chairman, said: "We will do anything thatenhances the image of Scotland and helps those doing business, ...
Boozing women set cancer timebomb ticking
Jun 01, 2003; ... UP TO 500 Scottish women a year will develop breast cancer fromexcessive drinking unless urgent action is taken to tackle soaringlevels of alcohol consumption, the country's top doctor has warned. The burgeoning drinking culture among women will be responsiblefor as many as a ...
British Energy in write-down survival bid
Jun 01, 2003; ... BRITISH Energy, the struggling East Kilbride energy producer, isexpected to write millions off the book value of its eight UKgenerating plants when it reports its full-year results on Tuesday. The company, which is surviving on a GBP 650m government loan, isfighting to save itself ...
Real buzz confirms something special pervades South African air
Jun 01, 2003; ... BY THE time this newspaper lands on your breakfast tables, I willbe in Durban counting down the hours to Scotland's first test matchon South African soil in more than 40 years, and with only fiveinternational matches remaining before the start of the World Cup inOctober. This ...
C&W mulls sale of loss-making US outfit
Jun 01, 2003; ... CABLE & Wireless is expected to unveil plans to sell all or partof its struggling US business and shed more staff in the UK when itreports full-year results on Wednesday. The troubled telecoms carrier will also indicate its plans for itsJapanese operations, although a straight ...
Load lugger packs a punch
Jun 01, 2003; ... IF YOU take your load carrying as seriously as your driving andwant real pace packaged in a premium-market motor, don't settle foranything less than a Saab 9-5 estate. In the classy cargo-carrier stakes, the Saab 9-5 is a genuine all-round thoroughbred, and is rarely beaten out of ...
Legal curbs on fat cats would hurt investors
Jun 01, 2003; ... SMALL investors are increasingly voicing their anger at executivedirectors who receive substantial increases in pay and perks whilethe asset value of their companies goes down. Shareholders of GlaxoSmithKline have already openly rebelled andHSBC shareholders are not happy either ....
The loss was heavy, but Celtic will always have Seville
Jun 01, 2003; ... OLD FIRM supporters forced to endure an unexpected championshipdethroning have never been known to grant their club a dispensationfrom recriminations. That this has been Celtic's fate in the week-long aftermath of the most remarkable league season in memory,though, reveals the true ...
Up on the catwalk
Jun 01, 2003; ... IT WAS a bit surreal to slip by the burger vans on Sir Matt BusbyWay last Wednesday and encounter only fans with a rather more refinedtaste. In the network of streets beyond, every kerb, parking spaceand spare patch of grass seemed covered either by the black and whiteof Juventus or the ...
Do the Old Firm fit the bill?
Jun 01, 2003 ... AS RUNNERS-UP in the Premierleague, UEFA Cup finalists Celtic willcontest a two-legged second qualifying round on July 30 and August 6. The draw, on June 20, will include them alongside some trickyrunners-up, such as Belgian side Anderlecht, as well as a host ofchampions from ...
Scotland's child criminals
Jun 01, 2003 ... SCOTLAND has one of lowest ages for criminal responsibility inEurope. Under Scots law, children as young as eight may be heldresponsible for their actions. In practice, however, the vast majority of child criminals aredealt with by children's panels rather than by courts and ...
SBC Cinemas mooted to reel in Cine-UK
Jun 01, 2003; ... SBC Cinemas, which has grown rapidly from its Scottish roots intoBritain's biggest owner of multiplex venues, is believed to betargeting Cine-UK as its next acquisition. According to trade sources, SBC will follow up its recent GBP 250mpurchase of Warner Village Cinemas with ...
CIS urges institutional investors to lift the veil and publish AGM voting records online
Jun 01, 2003; ... CO-OPERATIVE Insurance Society, which has been at the vanguard ofshareholder activism, is calling on all institutional investors tolift the veil of secrecy surrounding company meetings and to open uptheir voting records to public scrutiny. Its campaign has won the backing of ...
Critics' choice: Classical
Jun 01, 2003 ... DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The first American orchestra to feature in the Usher Hall'sInternational Classics programme, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra hascome a long way since it emerged back in 1900. From its earlybeginnings as a 40-piece, this high-flying Texan ensemble is ...
Claymores' World Bowl dream lives on as thumping victory silences the drum beats
Jun 01, 2003; ... AND so the band plays on. The Scottish Claymores needed to soundthe right note last night to keep their hopes of reaching World BowlXI at Hampden in 13 days time. That they managed, and then some. TheBarcelona Dragons, comfortable winners when the sides met earlierthis season, raised ...
Battle over radio franchise title set for court
Jun 01, 2003; ... WARK Clements, the husband-and-wife television production company,is taking legal action against Emap, the Midlands-based media group,over the use of the name Glasgow FM in the bidding battle for thecity's new FM radio station. Alan Clements will seek an interim interdict in the ...
Business comment: More needs to be done before the green shoots can bloom
Jun 01, 2003 ... IT WAS Norman Lamont who gave us green shoots, but so often werethey said to be making the breakthrough during that long early 1990srecession that many commentators lost patience waiting for them toflower. It is therefore with caution - shared no doubt by PeterHughes of Scottish ...
Children's party and Westminster Abbey to crown Queen's golden anniversary
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE QUEEN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of her Coronationtomorrow with a service at Westminster Abbey and a children's teaparty in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Fifty years to the day she was crowned in the historic abbey, thesite of every coronation since that of ...
Prince of Wales set to reveal blueprint for modernisation of the monarchy
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE PRINCE of Wales is at last preparing to produce his jobdescription, after spending most of his life as next in line to theBritish throne. Prince Charles has decided to issue a "mission statement" and adeclaration of his duties, responsibilities and areas of influence,after ...
Home side in misery as Essex enjoy all the advantages as Trent Bridge
Jun 01, 2003; ... NOTTINGHAMSHIRE looked to be heading towards certain defeat afteranother miserable day against Essex in their Frizzell CountyChampionship encounter at Trent Bridge. Having been bowled out for a paltry 79, having at one point beenseven for eight on Friday, Notts spent most of ...
Majid circle is split but Scots spinner hopes to cast spell on Pakistan
Jun 01, 2003; ... MAJID Haq admits that loyalties will be stretched when he takes tothe field on Saturday at Hamilton Crescent. The Scotland bowler is Paisley bred, but the branch of his familyin Pakistan will have mixed feelings when the tourists arrive inGlasgow for the first leg of a visit, ...
Police devote squad to Cronin
Jun 01, 2003; ... A SPECIAL squad of detectives has been set up to monitor themovements of notorious Scottish sex attacker John Cronin. Four officers from Lothian and Borders Police have been taskedwith tracking the sex offender, who was freed from an English courton Friday. The detectives ...
China opens floodgates to giant dams
Jun 01, 2003; ... WITH a flick of a switch a Chinese official will today close thelast remaining gap in the controversial Three Gorges Dam, making theworld's largest hydro-electric power project a reality. By 2009, it will have created a 350-mile lake, displacing morethan a million people and ...
Lack of regulation will harm spirit of giving
Jun 01, 2003; ... IT defies belief that a scandal of the proportion of the one thatsurrounds Breast Cancer Research (Scotland) has not resulted in theimmediate appointment of a regulator to oversee Scotland's 30,000charities. It is not as if the Scottish Executive hasn't had time to get itshouse ...
New lease of life for killer on Death Row
Jun 01, 2003; ... FOR four hours a day, three days a week, Horacio Reyes-Camarena ishooked up to a dialysis machine, which performs the task of his ownkidneys and keeps him alive. Taxpayers in the US are picking up the bill - running at more thanGBP 70,000 a year - and the authorities are now ...
Dead men walking
Jun 01, 2003 ... INMATES can live for more than 25 years on America's Death Rowbecause of the lengthy appeals system. There are currently more than 3,500 people in prison awaitingexecution across the US. Despite this bizarre existence, most clingto the hope they will be spared the death penalty ...
Spanish polis put hearts and soles into instant rescue mission for hapless Shoeless Shug
Jun 01, 2003; ... A WEEK and more later, and still the stories continue to pour outof the divine madness that was Seville. A Celtic fan who was based in a hotel many miles from theAndalucian capital slept in, and almost missed the bus to the game.His mates woke him with seconds to spare, and he ...
Sport digest
Jun 01, 2003 ... Aspiring Scottish athletes win debuts in sultry Slovenia AFTER a winter of indoor competition and cold-weather training,Scotland's athletics team take to track and field competition todayin rather different conditions in Slovenia. Warm and sultry weather greeted the squad on ...
SALTIRES BASK IN INDIAN SUMMER
Jun 01, 2003; ... SOME honeymoon. The recently-wed Mr and Mrs R Dravid of Indorebounded into Edinburgh on Wednesday, and found themselves cheesing upat once for an alternative set of wedding snaps. Having flown halfwayaround the planet, it was hardly an ideal moment for the blushingbride to confront the ...
Dundee have discovered another gem for Ibrox
Jun 01, 2003; ... A COMMOTION in a Dundee section of Hampden's main stand eruptedabout a quarter-of-an-hour into yesterday's Scottish Cup final. Thepresence of a rather inebriated Rangers fan incurred the wrath ofpumped-up travellers from Tayside, who subjected this tottering manto much finger-pointing ...
Amoruso orchestrates rhapsody in blue
Jun 01, 2003; ... DUNDEE 0 . RANGERS 1 Amoruso 66 THE record books will not record Dundee's wholesome contributionto what was a tight and fiercely competitive Tennent's Scottish Cupfinal at Hampden yesterday, but their efforts will live long in thememories ...
Death of Lord Ryder brings to mind disastrous days of political meddling
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE death aged 86 of Lord Ryder of Eaton Hastings was a reminderof the futility of political meddling with industry. Dirigistegovernments, mostly though not exclusively Labour governments,invoked disasters that destroyed almost all the indigenous carmanufacturers. It is astonishing car ...
Eck's key games
Jun 01, 2003 ... Kilmarnock 1, Rangers 1, Date: August 3. A wake-up call on theopening day. Celtic 3, Rangers 3, Date: October 6. Hitting back to stay top ofthe table after going out of Europe to Zizkov. Partick, 1, Rangers 2, Date: ...
NHS ill-prepared for terror attack
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE SCOTTISH health service is not prepared to cope with aterrorist attack, an alarming NHS report has warned. The country's emergency planning procedures are "deficient",according to the report, which was prepared for the government by theScottish Poisons Information Bureau ....
Sharp rise in engineering orders offers new hope for economy
Jun 01, 2003; ... FURTHER signs that economic recovery may be under way have emergedin the latest survey of the engineering sector, though the evidenceis patchy and margins remain under pressure. According to the latest figures from Scottish Engineering, theindustry trade body, there has been a ...
Scots team leads estuary rescue
Jun 01, 2003; ... SCOTTISH scientists are leading a GBP 650,000 project to saveEurope's river estuaries from the effects of global warming. Low-lying coastal areas are at increasing risk of being flooded bygradually rising sea levels. Now coastal experts from St Andrews University in Fife ...
Ethicon victim of Euro closure costs
Jun 01, 2003; ... AMERICAN healthcare company Johnson & Johnson axed hundreds ofjobs at its Ethicon plants in Scotland because it would have been tooexpensive to close its plants in France and Germany. Scotland on Sunday has learned that five former long-servingdirectors of Ethicon in Edinburgh ...
What the EU constitution means to Britain and how it would affect our government
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE draft EU constitution proposes a number of measures that wouldhave a major impact on the way Britain is governed: AN EU PRESIDENT A FULL-TIME president or chairman of the European Council toreplace the current six-monthly presidency that rotates betweenmember states ....
Blair left battered over Europe
Jun 01, 2003; ... IT WAS the domestic issue that would not stay at home. In a week when Tony Blair returned to the international stage,made a triumphant visit to the freed Iraqi people, thanked theBritish forces who liberated them and then headed for a crucialeconomic summit with all the world's ...
Long march towards the euro
Jun 01, 2003 ... 1950: The French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman declares thatWest Germany has to be re-integrated into Europe to prevent therecurrence of war. 1951: Schuman's declaration leads to the establishment of theEuropean Coal and Steel Community in the 1951 Treaty of Paris. Thismerges ...
Protests swamp Florida's Jeb Bush for relaxing Everglades pollution law
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE brother of the US President - Florida governor Jeb Bush - hasbecome embroiled in a furious row over a relaxation of pollutioncontrols in the mangrove swamps of the Everglades. Political analysts said a growing backlash against the decision toallow phosphorous from large sugar ...
Risking life and limb in the dead zone of Eurovision
Jun 01, 2003; ... WE were five when we set out. We had made a pact to tackletogether one of the mountains of popular cultural or die in theattempt. Once we had started, there could be no turning back. Inprevious years some of us had done the foothills and retired injured.This time we were going all the ...
Doctors earn six-figure bonuses cashing in on compensation culture
Jun 01, 2003; ... SCOTTISH doctors are earning hundreds of thousands of pounds ayear by writing medical reports because of the rise of the'compensation culture'. Hundreds now offer their services as expert witnesses, providingspecialist knowledge in personal injury claims and medical ...
It was no affair that cost me my passport to Cannes, says film chief
Jun 01, 2003; ... AS THE head of Scottish Screen his absence from the mostprestigious festival in the film industry calendar was guaranteed toget the tongues wagging. His excuse - that he had lost his passport -didn't help. Amid mounting anger at Steven McIntyre's no-show at the CannesFilm ...