Scotland on Sunday back issues from August 2003:
Sarah Milne
Aug 03, 2003; ... THERE COMES a time in everyone's life when you outgrow yourcurrent situation. Like when you first move from rented accommodationinto a place all of your own, or when you upgrade your favouritebattered trainers for a much more grown-up pair of heels. There areways, however, to grow within ...
Celtic have Miller touch
Aug 03, 2003; ... CELTIC 1 Miller 55 ARSENAL 1 Kanu 70 JUST as Celtic's players were alarmed by an aborted take-off inLithuania last week, their supporters must be growing anxious to getthis season off the ground. Given that the formality of theirChampions League qualifier against FBK Kaunas can ...
US expansion on agenda as RBS considers options
Aug 03, 2003; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland will bring cheer to investors this weekwith results expected to show an 8 per cent increase in half-yearprofits to GBP 3.4bn. The Edinburgh bank, led by chief executive Fred Goodwin, isenjoying another bumper year and continues to reap the benefits ofits ...
AAM property sale to British Land on brink of collapse
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE sale of Aberdeen Asset Management's property arm to BritishLand was on the brink of collapse last night, after weekend meetingsbetween the two sides broke down. Martin Gilbert, AAM's chief executive, who cut short a holidaylast week to personally intervene in the negotiations, ...
Trouble brewing as Coors heads north
Aug 03, 2003; ... COORS Brewers, the company behind Carling lager, is to trigger abeer war in Scotland after claiming it can take 8 per cent of thelocal market within five years. The company, which owns the Carling and Grolsch brands, will spendGBP 30m on promoting its brands in Scotland over the ...
GBP 300m buyout bid for Scottish telecoms group
Aug 03, 2003; ... PEARSE Flynn, chief executive of phone services group Damovo, issounding out investors to back a management buyout worth over GBP300m. Glasgow-based Damovo was formed two years ago after venturecapital house Apax Partners bought an 80 per cent share in Ericsson'swireless ...
Director leaves brother's games company to join rival
Aug 03, 2003; ... ANDREW McLennan, commercial director at Glasgow computer gamesdeveloper Steel Monkeys, has deserted his brother, managing directorDerek McLennan, to join rival firm DC Studios. Andrew McLennan will take on the role of business developmentdirector at Glasgow-based DC. The move sees ...
'Slow planning laws threaten economy'
Aug 03, 2003; ... DAN Macdonald, the Scottish property developer of the year, haswarned that Scotland's planning system is restrictive and is stiflingeconomic growth. Macdonald, a former director of Morrison Group and now head of hisown firm Macdonald Estates, has written to the Scottish ...
Macdonald eyes partner in Spain
Aug 03, 2003; ... DONALD Macdonald, the chief executive of Macdonald Hotels, willturn his attention towards buying out the company's Spanish resortjoint venture partner, once shareholders accept his offer to take thecompany private. Macdonald has a 50 per cent share in the timeshare resort, at ...
Bank on blue chips to take centre stage as analysts look for growth
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE banking season continues this week, with Royal Bank ofScotland, HSBC and Barclays among the blue chips reporting half-yearfigures. RBS takes centre stage on Tuesday. Its most recent tradingstatement, which came as it unveiled the acquisition of ChurchillInsurance, was ...
New helpline to offer advice on jobs in media
Aug 03, 2003; ... A HELPLINE offering training advice to Scotland's media industryhas been launched by careers service skillsformedia and LearndirectScotland. John McCormack, BBC Scotland's controller, and Stuart Cosgrove,Channel 4's director of nations and regions, are also backing theproject, ...
Hutchison's mobiles 'give 3G technology a bad name'
Aug 03, 2003; ... ORANGE has told rival operator Hutchison that its new generationof mobile phones aren't working properly and that it is giving theindustry a bad image. Mike Newnham, Orange UK's finance director, said that customers ofHutchison's high-speed internet phones - branded under the logo ...
Commercial station proves really popular while Radio 1's listening figures hit record low
Aug 03, 2003; ... REAL Radio has become the most listened to station in centralScotland, according to new figures released by industry body RAJAR. The station has overtaken arch-rival Clyde 1, owned by ScottishRadio Holdings, with a 12.2 per cent market share. Real Radio added 90,000 listeners ...
Staff cut plan but no sale at Trinity Mirror
Aug 03, 2003; ... A SMALL sigh of relief emanated from the Central Quay offices ofthe Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow on Thursday morning. Sly Bailey, chief executive of publisher and parent companyTrinity Mirror, announced the tabloid papers would not be put up forsale as part of her ...
Canongate appoints finance chief to manage the books
Aug 03, 2003; ... CANONGATE Books, the Booker prize winning publisher, has recruitedits first full-time finance director from construction firm StewartMilne. Kathleen Anderson, who managed finance and business developmentfor Milne's housebuilding division, joined Canongate last month. The ...
Green technology firms to be nurtured in GBP 2.3m incubation centre
Aug 03, 2003; ... A GBP 2.3m incubator for 'green' technology companies has been setup on the Moray Firth. The Innovation and Incubation Centre, in Forres, aims to provideemployment for up to 54 people. It will have particular focus onrenewable forms of energy such as wind, solar and wave power ....
Unhappy BankWest shareholders threaten to thwart HBOS GBP 400m move Down Under
Aug 03, 2003; ... HBOS's Australian expansion plans could be scuppered byshareholders who want the Edinburgh company to raise its GBP 400mbuyout bid for BankWest. HBOS owns 57 per cent of BankWest and intends to acquire theremaining shares as part of a plan to move into eastern Australia ....
Leader: Developers and objectors must meet half-way over planning applications
Aug 03, 2003 ... THE SCOTTISH Executive's white paper on the planning system - YourPlace, Your Plan - received little media coverage when it waspublished in March. The invasion of Iraq meant more pressing matters were at hand,despite the fact that the white paper held one or two ...
Ryanair faces turbulence as challenger launches 'with-frills' service
Aug 03, 2003; ... RYANAIR'S success story could be coming to an end, with thisweek's first-quarter figures revealing the slowest earnings growthfor a long time, and a new start-up airline threatening its keyDublin to London route from October. FreshAer, billed as a 'with-frills' - as opposed to ...
Booth dons the old mantle
Aug 03, 2003; ... A WALL of faces is installed in the Aberdeen FC boardroom. Stagedand framed snapshots of Dons squads down the years reflect a plethoraof hairstyles and team outfits that betray the fashion of particularperiods. Any booty captured from a season is accorded due prominence at ...
Barfly: Braehead: Ikea's meatball capital
Aug 03, 2003 ... AS IF controlling Scotland's home furnishings market wasn't goodenough, Ikea looks to be building up something of a monopoly inmeatballs too. The Swedish company's cavernous store at Braehead near Glasgow isone of the busiest in Britain, and contains the country's secondbusiest ...
Prince Charles named as new head of Black Watch as bid to enlist William fails
Aug 03, 2003; ... A BID by the Black Watch to bring a touch of sex appeal andglamour to its ranks by recruiting a prince as its colonel-in-chiefhas not worked out quite as planned. Buckingham Palace has dashed the regiment's hopes of enlistingPrince William as its symbolic figurehead and given it ...
Bobby's homest policy
Aug 03, 2003; ... SAYING what you believe doesn't always make you popular, but notsaying what you believe can often just make things worse.Particularly in the subjective world of football, where passionrather than common sense still rules heart and head. One man who knows this to be the case is ...
Glasgow's underground buskers set to get training
Aug 03, 2003; ... THERE may be light at the end of the tunnel for commuters tired oflistening to drunks crooning tunelessly into their beer cans onGlasgow's 'Clockwork Orange' underground system. The company that sponsors training for buskers on London's Tubesystem said it was considering extending ...
Family favourite passes screen test
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE new Plus version of Ford's flagship Fusion might be theultimate family car. While the boxy body may be reminiscent of ascaled-down 4x4 or pumped-up Focus, it packs in a lot ofpracticality. Rear seat passengers are particularly well catered for, with aremote-control DVD ...
It's Miller prime as Celtic kid silences Gunners
Aug 03, 2003; ... CELTIC 1 Miller 57 ARSENAL 1 Kanu 70 JUST as Celtic's players were alarmed by an aborted take- off inLithuania last week, their supporters must be growing anxious to getthis season off the ground. Given that the formality of theirChampions League qualifier against FBK Kaunas can ...
The laugh of Brian
Aug 03, 2003; ... I AM walking along London's Euston Road, looking for the turningto 1973 or thereabouts. Ronnie Barker is a recluse so I'll never meethim and he'll never sign off: "And it's goodnight from him." Justlike that, I can say with some certainty that I'll never meet TommyCooper either - magic ...
Life of Brian
Aug 03, 2003 ... Name: Brian Howard Clough OBE MA Born: 21st March, 1935, Middlesbrough Before football: Worked for ICI after leaving school and playedfor Billingham Synthonia and Great Broughton. Playing career Middlesbrough FC, 1955-1961: Scored 197 goals in 213 league ...
Texting to get police back on the beat
Aug 03, 2003; ... POLICE are embracing the text message revolution in a bid to cutthe thousands of hours wasted in court each year and put hundredsmore officers back on the beat. Plans are being drawn up to issue police witnesses in court caseswith a mobile phone to summon them to the witness stand ...
Why we always forget babies don't equal bliss
Aug 03, 2003; ... THERE'S something just so irritating about Gail Hipgrave. I don'tknow if it's the big doe-eyes, the faux naivete or the LondonUnderground-sized gap between her innocent demeanour and herpredilection for shedding her clothes the second there's something topromote, but whenever she opens ...
Europe brings Rae of hope as Dundee eye Albania as springboard to success
Aug 03, 2003; ... IT IS a problem which faces every successful performer in sport,showbusiness or life in general. How do you top an achievement whichvastly exceeded even your own expectations? According to Gavin Rae, Dundee face that happy problem withenthusiasm intact, after a memorable second ...
McInnes sparks the Tangerine dream team
Aug 03, 2003; ... STRIPPED for action, loosened up and ready to lead by example inhis new role as captain of Dundee United, Derek McInnes spends halfan hour chatting over an early-morning coffee before anxiouslychecking the time. He needn't bother. Under the new regime atTannadice, where training starts ...
Hurt that lingers in Dunfermline's psyche fires up professional counter-attack
Aug 03, 2003; ... SOME insults are so infuriating, their implications so offensive,that the platitudes for which professional football is noted are castaside, and the game exposed in all its raw and tender beauty. Thus, there is no disguising Scott Thomson's disgust with thesuggestion that he and ...
Britain 'could get referendum on European constitution'
Aug 03, 2003; ... BRITONS may get the chance to vote in a referendum on theconstitution that critics fear could create a European "superstate",a government minister has signalled. Denis MacShane, the Europe minister, has indicated that thegovernment is prepared to soften its hardline stance, which ...
Ralf needs to rev up the rivalry to prove he has those Schumacher champion qualities
Aug 03, 2003; ... AT MONTREAL in June, as Ralf Schumacher tracked his elder siblingaround the Giles Villeneuve circuit like a dog faithfully followingits leader, Formula One fans experienced the same sinking feelingthey struggle with when team orders are enforced and one team-materefuses to even attempt ...
Call to scrap sex disease drug
Aug 03, 2003; ... A KEY treatment against one of the most common sexuallytransmitted diseases no longer works effectively and should beabandoned, according to a new report. A study by scientists at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and an NHSclinic in Glasgow found that 11 per cent of the bugs which ...
De Vries is all heart on and off the field
Aug 03, 2003; ... STRIKERS, it seems, are bit like the No.10 bus. Having waited forwhat seems like an eternity for one, five suddenly come alongtogether. At Tynecastle last season there were times when Craig Levein musthave wondered what he had done to offend the gods as, one after theother, his ...
Hearts' Festival Party
Aug 03, 2003; ... HIBS 0 HEARTS 1 Webster 17 ALL those old jokes about Hibs/Hearts trophy rooms are going tohave to be revised now that this Festival Cup has been introduced tothe sporting calendar. As of 4.45pm yesterday, Hearts fans couldheave a sigh of relief. No matter what happens from here ...
Holyrood probe to demand Wark film
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE inquiry into the soaring cost of the Scottish parliamentseemed almost certain last night to request hundreds of hours ofunseen video footage documenting the controversial project. A spokesman for the Fraser inquiry into the ballooning cost of theHolyrood project has confirmed ...
Cleaning up on our quality time
Aug 03, 2003; ... WHEN it comes to shifting those stubborn stains, getting clothescrease-free, or cooking up a delicious meal, nothing works as well asa fat wallet. Increasing numbers of cash-rich but time-poor Scots are shellingout a fortune to take the pain out of household chores ...
Case study: They made a traumatic experience even worse
Aug 03, 2003 ... CRAIG Williams and Pauline McLean from Glasgow found the ordeal ofclaiming for money and possessions stolen on holiday added to thetrauma of the original theft. On Friday, June 20, the couple - both BBC Scotland journalists -were sleeping in a first-floor hotel room near the Paris ...
This week: Ready, steady... Baum's away
Aug 03, 2003; ... IF GOD had meant man to fly ... he would have given us 6ft carbonfibre wings and pushed us out of an aeroplane. Felix Baumgartner, forever now destined to be a pub quiz question,showed us all how with his heroic - some would say foolhardy - flightacross the English Channel. It was ...
Forward-thinking Canero sets out Kilmarnock's position
Aug 03, 2003; ... FOR many SPL observers, the surprise package of last season couldbe found at Rugby Park. Kilmarnock's sterling efforts in finishingfourth gained Jim Jeffries' men plenty plaudits for theirconsistency, as they lost only three SPL matches to the eventual topthree clubs in an impressive run ...
SPINNING THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Aug 03, 2003; ... OVERWEIGHT and unshaven, his once carefully clipped hair spillingdown over his collar, John Leslie looked like a broken man. Histrademark ebullience was absent and his voice, when he spoke at all,was subdued. John Amabile hardly recognised him as the friend he hadknown for five years ...
Taken to hell and back - but was it in the public interest?
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE John Leslie case exposes the media at its sleaziest and mostrapacious. Having dragged the TV presenter's name through the mud,relying on evidence provided by a host of young women, most of themanonymous, it now has the effrontery to pretend concern over whethersexual offence ...
Maloney sizes up a lead role
Aug 03, 2003; ... WHEN it comes down to measuring up most aspects of Shaun Maloneyare big. Quite justifiably he has big ideas while his manager andcolleagues concur that he will seize that big future which thediminutive player is engrossed in preparation for. A most articulate,personable and reasonable ...
Labour pains for maternity shake-up plan
Aug 03, 2003; ... PLANS to force hundreds of thousands of women across Scotland tomake long, potentially dangerous journeys to give birth could bescrapped following a revolt led by Labour MSPs. Critics claim lives will be put at risk by the plans to centraliseconsultant-led maternity services, ...
Gas power helps take bite out of midges at Mull Little Theatre
Aug 03, 2003; ... AUDIENCES at Scotland's smallest theatre will no longer provide afree meal for midges. Mull Little Theatre has been gifted a new midge-eating gas-powered machine after Scotland on Sunday highlighted its plight.Visitors to the tiny Hebridean theatre were being eaten alive ...
McFadden and Burns embark on a promising partnership
Aug 03, 2003; ... MOTHERWELL 2 Burns, 40 pen; 89 FULHAM 2 Saha, 18; Marlet 60 MOTHERWELL matched their Premiership opponents for much of thismatch and deserved their share of the result even though that wasonly established at the very end. An old favourite and a new face setto become a favourite ...
Elder statesman Marshall helps Motherwell find renewed strength through their adversity
Aug 03, 2003; ... UNCERTAINTY about your future is always agony, and when itinvolves a whole football club and all its fans, how much greatermust be the communal pain. At the end of last season, Motherwell FC and their loyal supportspent weeks in a peculiar hell caused by the failure of ...
Cash freeze puts lives at risk claim mountain teams
Aug 03, 2003; ... LIVES will be lost in the Scottish hills as a direct result ofgovernment penny-pinching on mountain rescue services, ministers werewarned last night. The amount of money given to the country's 26 rescue teams hasbeen at a standstill for seven years, despite big increases ...
Manpower boosted to cope with spate of murders
Aug 03, 2003; ... EXTRA officers have been drafted in to help a major Scottishpolice force after the murder rate soared to twice that of London. There have been eight killings in Lothian and Borders in the pasttwo months, way above the normal average of around one a month. As a result, ...
America digs itself out of a hole
Aug 03, 2003; ... AFTER two consecutive quarters of very weak growth, there was somebetter news from the US economy last week. Growth was stronger thanWall Street had anticipated in the second quarter and there were thefirst concrete signs that investment and manufacturing were startingto pick up again ....
John Prescott's wife is reunited with love child she put into care 47 years ago
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE WIFE of the deputy prime minister John Prescott has beenreunited with the love child she gave away as a teenager, it emergedyesterday. Pauline Prescott put her son into care when he was just threemonths old and had him formally adopted at three years of age. The deputy ...
The hatchet man from the Pru
Aug 03, 2003; ... FOR someone who eschews the limelight and prefers his business todo the talking, Jonathan Bloomer has made a habit of hitting theheadlines - often for the wrong reasons. The 49-year-old chiefexecutive of Prudential secured his place in the history books lastweek when he announced the ...
Patavellian well stewarded to cup that cheers
Aug 03, 2003; ... WITH a burst of acceleration that left his rivals looking likestatues, Patavellian won the Vodafone Stewards' Cup almost as hepleased at Glorious Goodwood yesterday. The five-year-old has always hinted at being better class than amere handicapper, and after this devastating ...
Sex probe into radio show
Aug 03, 2003; ... A SCOTTISH broadcaster is being investigated by industry watchdogthe Radio Authority after it allowed a caller to offer a priestsexual favours. During a show in late June, the caller told Father Andy Monaghan,a Roman Catholic priest who hosts a late-night advice programme ...
The great handicap race
Aug 03, 2003; ... WITH highs like these, who needs crises? As Rangers hurtleheadlong into the maelstrom of another exhausting campaign, AlexMcLeish must be wondering if it was in fact a treble he chanced uponat the end of last season, or merely the ominous trident of a devilin disguise. In the ...
McConnell in new Red Rose row
Aug 03, 2003; ... JACK McConnell was last night accused of "shocking arrogance"after it emerged he accepted financial help from the notorious RedRose Dinner account within days of winning this year's Scottishelection. In spite of ongoing police inquiries into claims that money hasgone missing ...
Roly meets Scots' needs
Aug 03, 2003; ... SCOTLAND'S new coach, Matt Williams, will begin his palacerevolution this week with the appointment of Irishman Roly Meates ashis specialist scrummaging coach. Meates, who at 62 is roughly the same age as his predecessor inthe role, Jim Telfer, is the first new name on the ...
School trips safety crackdown
Aug 03, 2003; ... SAFETY rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid toreduce the potential for tragic accidents. Ministers are set to issuetough new guidelines that will bring Scottish schools into line withEngland, where controls on excursions are already much stricterfollowing a series of ...
SNP slumps into GBP 500,000 debt crisis
Aug 03, 2003; ... THE crisis in the SNP deepened last night as it emerged the partyis more than half a million pounds in debt, throwing into furtherdoubt its chances of ever winning power. The official opposition, already battered by a leadership battleand the loss of eight MSPs at the polls, is ...
Precious metal
Aug 03, 2003; ... It was an event not to be missed. Sir Terence Conran, theseptuagenarian style guru who has given the world such augustculinary institutions as Bibendum, Quaglino's and Mezzo, was openingEtain, his first UK "destination" restaurant outside London. Glasgowhas obviously arrived. What took ...
Fast & Furious
Aug 03, 2003; ... RHONA CAMERON talks like a woman who got a D-minus on her anger-management course. Everything she says sounds like she's offering tostoat your head off the nearest wall, when in fact she might besaying something perfectly innocuous like "I quite fancy some pizzafor lunch". Two hours into ...
Sports Diary: Nevin has got it off to a T as the embodiment of the old Stamford Bridge before Chelski age took shape
Aug 03, 2003; ... CHELSEA FC, that London footballing institution, is well on theway to being Russified in the wake of the buyout by billionaire RomanAbramovich. It requires nary a cursory look at the sort ofmerchandise they are punting to these Chelsea punters ahead of thenew Premiership season ....