Scotland on Sunday back issues from June 2005:
Style bible
Jun 05, 2005; ... Sitting pretty IF YOU are looking for some organic inspiration, you can't beatMother Nature. A delicate leaf provides the inspiration for thelatest chair by the Barcelona-based Lievore, Altherr & Molinapartnership, unveiled by Arper at this year's Milan Furniture Fair.The ...
SRU panel investigate Stott claim
Jun 05, 2005; ... A RUGBY development officer is at the centre of an inquiry intoallegations that he used threatening behaviour towards a refereefollowing a match involving the side he coaches. The SRU confirmed yesterday that a disciplinary panel isinvestigating a complaint against former Glasgow ...
Few stars, but Smith given a sign
Jun 05, 2005; ... WALTER Smith really doesn't seem to be the kind of guy who turnsto the horoscopes first when picking up a newspaper. Even if he did,as an old-fashioned West of Scotland man's man, there's no way hewould admit to it. Which is why, even if he was perturbed by such fanciful things ...
Determined Scotland flower again
Jun 05, 2005; ... IT WAS a turgid affair at Hampden, an awful spectacle for those45,000 fanatics who turned up and behaved as if it was vintagefootball they were watching. The quality is hardly relevant, though.Not when Scotland have at last managed to win a game after failing todo so in their previous ...
Eno's never ending story
Jun 05, 2005; ... THERE are many men - and they're mostly men - who have made it totheir 40s despite their lives taking a turn for the worse back in1973 when classic-era Roxy Music lost their sonic wizard. And when Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Enoemerges from the shower after ...
no headline
Jun 05, 2005; ... While many see the annual voyeur-fest that is Big Brother as ashaming addiction, I'm out and proud. I justify my sin, however, byclaiming my obsession with the freaks is purely in the name ofresearch. As every keen homeowner knows, fashions in interior designschange as fast as David ...
Macfarlane set for return to profit as shake-up pays dividends
Jun 05, 2005; ... MACFARLANE, the troubled Scottish packaging and plastics group, ispoised to return to the black - five years after its disastrousattempt to buy its larger rival, British Polythene Industries. Analysts expect the Glasgow company to make pre-tax profits beforegoodwill, amortisation ...
Iconic artist Bellany survives double heart attack
Jun 05, 2005; ... JOHN Bellany, one of the most influential Scottish artists, waschatting to nurses and demanding pencils and paper in his hospitalbed last night, despite suffering two heart attacks less than 24hours earlier. The 63-year-old, whose figurative paintings on the complexities ofthe ...
Artist recovering after heart attack
Jun 05, 2005; ... JOHN Bellany's wife and children were at his hospital bedsideyesterday after the Scottish artist suffered a double heart attack. Family and friends of the 63-year-old said that they expected himto "pull through" and that he was in good spirits, chatting away andwas hoping to start ...
Debt wrangle poses threat to Eurotunnel
Jun 05, 2005; ... EUROTUNNEL'S major creditors have entered into a blistering rowwith the two prospective chairmen of the company, claiming that thepromises being made by both camps risk pushing the company into anearly grave. Jacques Gounon, who was co-opted as Eurotunnel chairman earlierthis ...
Symphony to a soccer bad boy
Jun 05, 2005; ... FOR many he is the ultimate football hardman. His competitivenature on the pitch has raised eyebrows while his performances infront of goal have inspired generations. But few could have guessed that former Rangers striker DuncanFerguson, who was sentenced to three months' ...
In the City: Woolies may rue takeover collapse as sales slide
Jun 05, 2005; ... GERALD Corbett, the Woolworths chairman, could be in for a ratherrough ride at his annual general meeting this week. When the former Railtrack boss appears before his shareholders atthe Royal College of Physicians on Tuesday morning, City analystsexpect him to reveal that sales ...
Animators given nod to produce TV series
Jun 05, 2005; ... ABSOLUTE Digital, the Glasgow-based animation company, is puttingthe finishing touches to a new educational children's TV seriesstarring Noddy. Say It With Noddy - a language-teaching programme aimed at pre-school children - will go on air in the US on July 2 and in the UKlater ...
Painting by American artist claimed as inspiration for Raeburn's skating minister
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE tilt of his hat, the crossed arms, the way he glideseffortlessly across the ice. This is not Sir Henry Raeburn's ReverendRobert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, but the work of anAmerican artist painted just two years before the Scottishmasterpiece. Now it is claimed that ...
RBS poised to ring up 700 Direct Line jobs
Jun 05, 2005; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland is poised to expand its presence in Glasgowby leasing space for around 700 jobs in a flagship Clydeside officebuilding for its Direct Line insurance subsidiary. Property sources say RBS has up to 70,000sq ft under offer at 6Atlantic Quay and that it plans to ...
No love lost as ex-oil partners row over rent
Jun 05, 2005; ... TROUBLED oil exploration firm Regal Petroleum is embroiled in alegal row with its former joint venture partner in the Ukraine.Regal, which saw its shares nosedive again last week followingfurther bad news from its dud Greek drilling project, is disputingrent payments due to Russian firm ...
Martin Currie has week to sell new fund as brokers tip value of just GBP 80m
Jun 05, 2005; ... MARTIN Currie has only one week left to sell the replacement toits troubled Securities Trust of Scotland, with brokers predictingthe new fund will raise just GBP 80m. Following the decision of the trust's board to reject a hostiletakeover bid from Perpetual Income and Growth ...
Share of the week: Venture rallies on impressive gas and oil prospects
Jun 05, 2005; ... VENTURE Production has seen a rally in its shares recently,climbing around 30 per cent over the past three weeks. Having dippedto about GBP 2.50 in the middle of May, they closed on Friday at morethan GBP 3.20. To some extent this reflects the changing fortunes of the oil andgas ...
Last orders called on school bars
Jun 05, 2005; ... FOR years they have played an integral part in boarding schoollife. With names like Tap, JCR and Blundells, the sixth form bar waswhere generations of public school pupils learned to drink. But now time has been called on Britain's sixth form bars as partof the government's ...
Business chief warns arts for all should not compromise quality
Jun 05, 2005; ... ONE of Scotland's leading businesswomen has warned that an accessfor all policy in the arts should not compromise quality. Susan Rice, the chief executive of Lloyds TSB, says any move topromote greater audience participation in Scotland should not impingeon artistic excellence ....
DC Thomson risks GBP 6m losses if Emap succeeds in SRH takeover bid
Jun 05, 2005; ... DC THOMSON, the Dundee media empire, is facing losses of about GBP6m on its investment in Scottish Radio Holdings if Emap succeeds indriving through its GBP 374m takeover bid. The publisher of the Beano and the Sunday Post - the second-biggest shareholder in SRH with a 10 per cent ...
Trainspotting in Scotland St as rival writers join forces
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE conflict in styles is riveting, but the potential clash ofegos is alarming. Three of Scotland's literary sensations are toshare a stage for the first time to raise the profile of a communitycharity. The three authors are Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh and IanRankin, ...
Failed laser company given a second chance
Jun 05, 2005; ... A LASER technology company which raised GBP 22m but collapsed lastyear has been revived amid signs of recovery in the market foroptical devices. Kamelian was set up in Glasgow in 2000 and became a leading memberof Scotland's optoelectronic sector but suffered when ...
High-speed aim for computers trundles to halt
Jun 05, 2005; ... ACUID, a technology company which raised GBP 12m with the promisethat it would speed up computers, is to be wound up after failing tomake its technology work in practice. The Midlothian firm is expected to appoint a liquidator this weekdespite three years of attempts to get its ...
Belhaven shapes up for smoke ban
Jun 05, 2005; ... BELHAVEN, Scotland's biggest independent brewer, is planning tospend GBP 2m on rebuilding its pubs to comply with the smoking banwhich is due to come into force next year. Belhaven, led by chief executive Stuart Ross, will tomorrow unveilrecord profits for the 14th successive year ...
Money down the drain
Jun 05, 2005; ... ON A winter's day just over three years ago, Sir Graeme Davies,the then principal of Glasgow University, approved what seemed likethe ultimate technology transfer deal. The university team which wasresponsible for star companies such as Kymata was "spun out" into theprivate sector with ...
Lawyers threaten courtroom chaos over lack of pay
Jun 05, 2005; ... SCOTLAND'S courts are heading for a summer of delays and chaosafter senior lawyers refused to continue acting in appeal hearingsbecause of the amount of legal aid payment they receive. Members of the Faculty of Advocates have begun dropping caseswhere offenders are appealing ...
Car of the week: Audi A4: New Audi proves a gripping ride
Jun 05, 2005; ... IF YOU can get your head round the fact that diesel is the engineof choice in a modern executive saloon then the local Audi garageshould be the first stop in the search for a new car, as theyprobably have the best range of modern diesel engines on offer. Ignore the ageing ...
Build wind farms off coast, urges adviser
Jun 05, 2005; ... A SENIOR government adviser on climate change is calling for morewind farms to be built offshore to prevent turbines spoiling theScottish countryside. Alan Werritty, professor of geography at the University of Dundee,believes renewable forms of energy must be developed to ...
Lawyers threaten courtroom chaos
Jun 05, 2005; ... SCOTTISH courts face delays and turmoil this summer due to arebellion by top lawyers against the legal aid payments they get forcarrying out criminal appeals. Members of the Faculty of Advocates are refusing to act in appealcases because they believe that the fees do not take the ...
Weir wears it well
Jun 05, 2005; ... IT'S not the years in your life that count, it's the life in youryears. It was Abraham Lincoln who originally spawned the phrase butDavid Weir subscribes to the theory. Perhaps it was the years the Scotland international spent atcollege in the USA getting his degree in advertising ...
Sunday Essay: Horror too close to home
Jun 05, 2005; ... SOMETIMES I look at my teenage son and wonder if there is anythingin the world he could do that would stop me loving him. The questionalways comes on the back of reading about some terrible deed thatsome other parent's son has committed. If my son stole, lied,cheated, would I still love ...
Business comment: More than smoke and mirrors behind Belhaven success
Jun 05, 2005; ... STUART Ross is one shrewd operator. In public, he has been anarticulate spokesman for the pubs and drinks industry, opposing theScottish Executive's draconian ban on smoking in public places. He asked in vain for the industry to be given more time toimplement the ban and pointed ...
City under siege as Geldof ups the stakes
Jun 05, 2005; ... IT IS a bizarre contradiction that Edinburgh is often depicted asa cold, unwelcoming place, even though every summer it throws opensits doors to more than 500,000 visitors to the world's biggest artsfestival, and hosts 250,000 more at the annual Hogmanay celebrations. But the ...
My Sporting Week: Monty is hardly innocent abroad
Jun 05, 2005; ... COLIN Montgomerie continues to wear a look of wounded innocencethat would shame Bambi, but any sympathy for him in the vexedbusiness of the Jakarta Affair would be as misplaced as thereplacement ball he dropped on the 14th hole at the Cengkareng golfclub, the home of the Indonesian Open ....
Turftalk at the Derby: I'll leave Epsom Ups to the nags
Jun 05, 2005; ... IT HAS long been a mystery to me why they call these hills southof London the Epsom Downs. Even on television you could see there wasnothing "down" about them. Take it from me, these Downs should be called the Ups, because asI stood at the starting post for the Vodafone Epsom ...
Just one in 10 Scots back EU treaty
Jun 05, 2005; ... ONLY one in 10 Scots say they will back the European constitution,according to a new poll giving startling new evidence of the collapsein support for the treaty in the wake of the French and Dutch 'no'votes last week. A survey conducted by Scottish Opinion found that just 10 per ...
Blair gives up his fight for Europe
Jun 05, 2005; ... TONY Blair has decided to give up on Europe and focus hispremiership instead on campaigning against poverty in Africa, closeallies have revealed. In a U-turn that will infuriate the leaders of France and Germany,Blair has told senior aides that he no longer believes that ...
McConnell orders fair trade quota
Jun 05, 2005; ... SCHOOLS, shops and even police stations across Scotland are to betold to stock 'fair trade' products as part of a Scottish Executiveplan to fight world poverty. Ministers want to turn Scotland into a 'Fair Trade Nation', a movewhich will mean that public agencies will have to ...
Final statement: Money for nothing will not give young the best start in life
Jun 05, 2005; ... I HAVE yet to read a single story by PG Wodehouse. The works of apublic school traitor hold no appeal. Yet last weekend I found myselfreaching for a biography of the man and I've been glued to its pages.Certain aspects of his life are common currency: he was a comicgenius and the ...
Blondes have more fun poked at them, but is it fair game?
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE rules and regulations of a club membership are something youare either built to fit in with or take flight from. The notion ofsigning up as a fully fledged member of a common cause has rarelybeen something I have found myself able to willingly sustain for anylength of time: be it the ...
G8 protest: now chaos spreads to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee
Jun 05, 2005; ... PLANS to mobilise hundreds of thousands more protesters in everycity in Scotland have been drawn up, spreading the risk of chaosduring next month's G8 summit nationwide. Following Sir Bob Geldof's surprise call last week for one millionpeople to descend on Edinburgh, Scotland on ...
G8 protesters: 'If I have to pay more to have a fairer world, I'll do it'
Jun 05, 2005; ... MANY of the protesters preparing to march in Scotland have takenpart in previous anti-globalisation protests. What unites them is adeep scepticism with the way that international markets andglobalisation work. ENRIC RODRIGO, a 24-year-old sociology student from Barcelona, isa ...
Accountancy merger 'bad for ICAS'
Jun 05, 2005; ... DES Hudson, chief executive of the Institute of CharteredAccountants of Scotland, believes the proposed merger of professionalbodies south of the Border would be "commercially disadvantageous" tohis members. While ICAS is not party to the merger negotiations that began ...
Interview: Amanda Forsyth: Shortening odds on success
Jun 05, 2005; ... FOR reasons best known to those present, Amanda Forsyth spent lastFriday night serenading a group of Standard Life guests in a Mayfairpub. They gathered for dinner ahead of yesterday's Epsom Derbymeeting, where Forsyth was due to place her stake according to thesort of disciplines ...
Bond yields send mixed message
Jun 05, 2005; ... STATISTICAL oddities are a byproduct of markets. It's the job offund managers to spot and exploit them. But what happens when anentire market becomes an oddity? Particularly when it is the US bondmarket - by far the biggest market in the world? Over the past week the US bond ...
Scots 'non' to languages will make it poor man of Europe
Jun 05, 2005; ... SCOTLAND'S arrogance and woeful record in teaching foreignlanguages has made it the laughing stock of Europe and threatens theeconomy, academics and businessmen warned last night. A hard-hitting report has led teachers, academics and businessleaders to call for a government ...
Livingston stick to guns over Kachloul as Killie exploit amateur loophole
Jun 05, 2005; ... AS THE Livingston row continues to mount over payments to theclub's registered amateur player Hassan Kachloul, Scotland on Sundaycan reveal that a second Scottish Premierleague player was paid byhis club while registered as an amateur. Simon Ford of Kilmarnock signed on as an ...
Village anger as prison doubles in size
Jun 05, 2005; ... AN open prison with a history of serious drug problems is doublingits number of inmates, provoking fear and anger from locals in apicturesque Perthshire village. Residents in Longforgan claim that the expansion of the CastleHuntly prison, from 150 inmates to nearly 300, will ...
Leader: Time for straight talking on G8
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE Scottish public is ill served by media and politicians who aretoo star-struck by ageing rock singers and too inhibited by politicalcorrectness to denounce in realistic terms the folly of the G8protests planned for our nation's streets. When Scotland, which hasproduced so many ...
It's Glasgow Greene
Jun 05, 2005; ... IF STATISTICS don't quite lie, they can be misleading. Look at thetimes still being clocked by sprinter Maurice Greene and they alludeto a man who must surely have quenched his thirst at the fountain ofyouth. But in the flesh his wrinkling and slightly sagging skin, combinedwith ...
It's a family affair as famous flying McRaes pit skills in Scottish Rally
Jun 05, 2005; ... RALLY fans across Scotland will head to the south-west of thecountry next weekend where they will be given the unexpected butentirely welcome chance to see three of Scotland's greatest-everrally drivers take part in a family occasion, the likes of which maynever be seen again ....
Anti-smoking links weakened tobacco claim case, says judge
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE judge who threw out a widow's landmark legal claim that atobacco giant was responsible for her husband's death said unreliablewitnesses undermined her case. Margaret McTear last week failed to win damages from ImperialTobacco. But in a damning criticism of the lawyers who ...
Action urged over MRSA at infirmary
Jun 05, 2005; ... POLITICIANS have called for tougher measures against hospital-acquired infections after dangerously high levels of MRSA weredetected at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Samples taken from wards and public areas found levels of thesuperbug up to four times higher than those classed as ...
Blair flies off to save his crumbling legacy
Jun 05, 2005; ... WHEN Tony Blair climbs on an aircraft, it is normally a sign oftrouble. In the next month, he'll fly to Washington, Moscow, Berlin,Luxembourg, Paris and Singapore: a sign of big trouble. Something isgoing badly wrong. His vision of a 25-member European Union run along ...
Celtic League debacle sees common sense fly out of the window
Jun 05, 2005; ... BACK in 1997, at the height of the technology boom, Microsoft wasworth about the same as Europe while its struggling competitor Applewas worth about a euro. Microsoft boss Bill Gates did anextraordinary thing; he invested dollars 150m in Apple to keep themafloat through difficult times ....
Scots in fettle to fell the Oaks
Jun 05, 2005; ... FRANK Hadden sends his first team out to a Test match this eveningin Bucharest, though it is doubtful that Romania, weakened by theabsence of their many French exiles, will prove worthy adversaries.At least the current Scotland crop should avoid the fate of the 1984and '91 sides, who ...
Nimmo walks tall with U21s on world stage
Jun 05, 2005; ... FOR at least one young group of players the most important actionof the summer will not take place in New Zealand, but in the otherhalf of the southern hemisphere when Argentina hosts the annual under-21 World Championships in Mendoza from June 9 to 25. The Scotland team, who flew ...
Caldwell is put on hold for Scotland
Jun 05, 2005; ... SCOTLAND'S World Cup qualifying mission could rest on a victory inMinsk on Wednesday but Walter Smith has warned players and supportersnot to underestimate the threat posed by the Belarus side. The international boss says the side who, prior to yesterday'smatches, had started ...
Television: Vice and a slice
Jun 05, 2005; ... WHAT do you get for the man who has everything on his 40thbirthday? Botox, of course. Well, at least that's Christian'ssolution to stop the march of time stamping its footprints all overhis plastic surgeon partner Sean's face. "But 40 is the new 30,"insists Sean, rather unconvincingly ....
Trick or treat?
Jun 05, 2005; ... LIKE most women who aren't blessed with naturally dark, lusciouslashes, I fake mine with mascara and an eyelash-curler. But when Idecided to go one step further, with a perm and tint, I wasn't surewhat to expect. Lashings of peroxide? Maybe temporary blindness? Thankfully, the ...
His name is...
Jun 05, 2005; ... THE word of the afternoon, while we wait for Sir MauriceMicklewhite - better known as Michael Caine - is "iconic". Girl #1reckons the new Batman film is "moody, mystical, iconic". "Iconic,"says Girl #2 knowingly. "I don't know how many times I've used thatin the past two weeks." "Yes," ...
The toast of Ireland
Jun 05, 2005; ... FAMED for their inimitable, melodious accent, the people of Corkhave good reason to sing this year: the city has been awardedEuropean Capital of Culture for 2005. More than 5,000 cultural eventshave been scheduled, and St Patrick's Street, the main thoroughfare,has benefited from smart ...
Feelin' hot, hot, hot
Jun 05, 2005; ... PRINTS AND FLORALS GIRLY, feminine and mostly floral, this season one particular itemof clothing will have tomboys quaking in their boots: the dress. From Laura Bailey to Beyonce Knowles, Sienna Miller and KellyBrook, it has been popping up everywhere, and in so ...
introducing...Liina Aunola, air acrobat
Jun 05, 2005; ... WHEN Liina Aunola was 11 years old, she joined her local eveningcircus school. It was just meant to be a bit of fun, but now, at theage of 26, she is performing with Billy Smart's Circus throughoutScotland this summer. Aunola specialises in cloudswing, a type of barless trapeze ...