Scotland on Sunday back issues from June 2007:
Q & A with Pete Irvine
Jun 03, 2007; ... Pete Irvine is the author of Scotland the Best!, a guide to someof the best things in Scotland. He is also the director of UniqueEvents, which is responsible for the Glasgow Art Fair and Edinburgh'sHogmanay. His latest project, The Outsider, is the first festival tocombine music, comedy ...
Lynn O'Rourke
Jun 03, 2007; ... It's BEEN a year since our last green issue and awareness ishigher than ever of the effect that the way we live has on theplanet. This can make for depressing reading, but it also means morepeople are taking notice. We're still doing our bit in our household. I can't say ...
Style Bible: Cut your carbon footprint, eco-friendly buys for the home and new natural clay paints
Jun 03, 2007; ... Paint it green PLANNING TO give your home a new lick of paint? Thanks to a newrange of eco-paints from interior designer and TV presenter OliverHeath and EarthBorn Paints, you can now splash out with a guilt-freeconscience. Gone are nasty toxins, such as volatile organic ...
Style Doctor
Jun 03, 2007; ... Question: Where do I start when it comes to saving energy at home?A Johnson, by e-mail Answer: The Energy Saving Trust has some great tips. Start byswitching to energy-saving light bulbs, which last up to 12 timeslonger than ordinary light bulbs. It only costs a few pounds ...
Showing the way
Jun 03, 2007; ... MOVING HOUSE is a life-changing event in anyone's book. However,for Brigit Strawbridge and family, it really was a voyage into theunknown. Brigit, husband Richard and children Charlotte and Jamesswapped their comfortable village house in Malvern, Worcestershirefor a derelict 300-year-old ...
Lawwell to urge easier access for foreign talent
Jun 03, 2007; ... CELTIC chief executive Peter Lawwell is seeking the relaxation ofBritish immigration laws in a football context to enhance his club'scompetitiveness in the European arena. As Lawwell welcomed Scott Brown by insisting that it "was not outof the question" that Celtic could spend ...
Carphone aims to win over critics of broadband plans
Jun 03, 2007; ... CARPHONE Warehouse is this week expected to report strong demandfor its broadband service and update investors on plans to expand inAmerica. The independent mobile phone retailer was catapulted into theposition of the UK's third largest broadband provider in October withthe GBP ...
The pits and the pendulum
Jun 03, 2007; ... FROM his constituency office in Dalkeith, David Hamilton gazes outover a town once known for coal mining but now seen by many as aplace you pass through quickly en route to Edinburgh. The Labour MP for Midlothian knows better than most of hiscolleagues at Westminster what impact ...
Property chief has 'fun' with equity venture
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE private equity venture set up by Scottish propertyentrepreneur John Kennedy is ramping up its activity with investmentsin renewable energy, a caravan park and a sportswear manufacturer. Kenmore Private Equity - part of Edinburgh-based group KenmoreGroup - has amassed stakes in ...
HBOS bets on bricks and mortar with acquisition of 50 per cent stake in Kilmartin
Jun 03, 2007; ... BANKING giant HBOS has acquired a 50 per cent stake in fast-growing Scottish property group Kilmartin in a deal believed to valuethe company at GBP 75m. The deal is likely to mean a big pay day for chief executive IainWotherspoon, whose company has ridden the crest of the ...
Profits in the pipeline for improving water firms
Jun 03, 2007; ... DRUGS giant GlaxoSmithKline was in the doldrums on Friday asshares headed south for the second week running on the back offallout from health fears over its diabetes treatment, Avandia. Shares fell by nearly 9 per cent two weeks ago and slipped afurther 3 per cent last week to end ...
Long wait to join the club class
Jun 03, 2007; ... We can learn from those already operating. It is not always bad tobe second HAMISH Taylor made his name introducing flat beds into BritishAirways. Back then the concept of sleeping horizontally while flying35,000 feet above the Atlantic was not only seen as radical, itcatapulted ...
Now wine lovers can think out of the box
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT USED to be the scourge of the summer party, reserved for thehoi polloi and definitely not for connoisseurs. But now a Frenchwoman living in Scotland is aiming to do for boxedwine what Volkswagen did for Skoda, with a new range targeted at justthe kind of discerning drinker you ...
Firm Ideas: Debts hit hopes of budding tycoons
Jun 03, 2007; ... HOW many graduates with business ideas would love to have freeoffice space in Edinburgh, commercial and academic mentoring and aGBP 10,000 interest-free loan? Thousands, you might have thought, butthe real answer appears to be fewer than 60 a year. Edinburgh University set up its ...
Business airline take-off looms after funds fly in
Jun 03, 2007; ... FLY First, the business-class only airline headed by formerEurostar boss Hamish Taylor, is closing in on funding after two yearsof delays and its first flight is expected to take off within 12months. The company, backed by John Campbell, the former Scottish Mutualmarketing ...
SE pumps GBP 30m into Proof of Concept scheme
Jun 03, 2007; ... SCOTTISH Enterprise is to pump GBP 30m into its Proof of Conceptscheme which backs inventions from universities and hospitals in aneffort to keep ahead of rival programmes elsewhere. The extra funds will allow the grant programme to back twice asmany inventions in an average year ...
Interview: Shonaig Macpherson: Tech agency chief lays down the law
Jun 03, 2007; ... Anybody who knows me or works with me knows that I have thehighest standards SHONAIG Macpherson's light voice assumes a harder edge as shegives vent to her exasperation: "People ask, 'Why have they got her,a corporate lawyer?' I am not a corporate lawyer, I am anintellectual ...
Scot leads telecoms buyout from Siemens
Jun 03, 2007; ... A SCOTTISH-led consortium has bought a telecoms network servicesbusiness from Siemens, the German engineering group, for GBP 50m. Keith Cameron, the former European boss of US communications groupGlobal Crossing, led the buyout which created a new telecoms company,Solution1, based ...
Vamosa Knox on US doors for more cash
Jun 03, 2007; ... GEORGE Knox, the IT entrepreneur, is raising GBP 8m from Americanventure capitalists to finance US expansion for his Vamosa softwarebusiness. Knox said his Glasgow-based business required support which itsbackers Bank of Scotland and Scottish Enterprise were unable toprovide ....
Military on standby to free journalist
Jun 03, 2007; ... A CLOSE adviser to the Palestinian president confirmed last nightthat military action was being planned to free kidnapped Scottishjournalist Alan Johnston. A day after a video was released by a group claiming to be hiscaptors, picturing him alive and well, Saeb Erekat, an adviser ...
Rescue team poised to free BBC reporter
Jun 03, 2007; ... A CLOSE adviser to the Palestinian president confirmed last nightthat military action was being planned to free kidnapped Scottishjournalist Alan Johnston. A day after a video was released by a group claiming to be hiscaptors, picturing him alive and well, Saeb Erekat, an adviser ...
ABI urges pension annuities shake-up
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE Association of British Insurers (ABI) will call on thegovernment for a major shake-up in the regime governing pensionannuities, when the committee stage of the Pensions Bill begins inthe House of Lords tomorrow. It is pressing peers to lift from 75 to 80 the age at ...
Teachers want to ban army from class
Jun 03, 2007; ... SCOTLAND'S largest teaching union will this week consider a ban onarmy recruiters visiting schools. Colin Mackay, from the union's Edinburgh branch, felt the presenceof recruiters in schools would wrongly give children the idea thatteachers were supportive of them joining up ....
Scrooge banks snub savers
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT'S back to the drawing board for investors this weekend afterhigher returns kicked in on Friday, or rather didn't for millions ofsmall savers. Some of our biggest banks, including Abbey and Alliance &Leicester, have been castigated for not lifting returns for somesavers at ...
Food price inflation is hard to stomach
Jun 03, 2007; ... IN THE clearest sign yet that we have a food price problem, thereis now a strawberry crisis. Prices are rising because there is ashortage of strawberry pickers. The EU migrants of recent years arestaying at home as Eastern European wages have surged. But the strawberry crisis is ...
Security scandal
Jun 03, 2007; ... Serious security lapses at one of Britain's major airports will berevealed this week by a TV documentary. An undercover investigation by ITV1's Tonight With Trevor McDonaldfound "shocking failures" at Birmingham International Airport (BIA),including security officers sleeping ...
Scots put British titles on the line home and away
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT'S been a very long time, if ever, since two Scottish boxersdefended their British titles simultaneously at separate venues northand south of the Border. Indeed, a search through the British BoxingBoard of Control's records back to 1889 suggests that two Scots maynever have made ...
Horlick puts herself close to the hedge
Jun 03, 2007; ... NICOLA Horlick's Bramdean Asset Management is launching a fund offunds that will expand the opportunities to invest in private equity,hedge funds and special asset classes. The launch of Bramdean Alternatives, which floats in early July,comes as wealthy individuals switch more of ...
Brown plan to boost anti-terror laws
Jun 03, 2007; ... GORDON Brown is planning to dramatically increase the strength ofanti-terror laws when he becomes Prime Minister later this month. The far-reaching measures include boosting police powers to holdand question suspected terrorists, and allowing wire-tap evidence tobe used in British ...
Police charge man in connection with Olivia's hit-and-run death
Jun 03, 2007; ... A MAN is due in court tomorrow charged in connection with thedeath of a four-year-girl killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident. Olivia Donachie died as she walked down a road close to herEdinburgh home with her mother, Rachel. The man was arrested onFriday after being admitted ...
Motoring: Sad tail of a flawed beauty
Jun 03, 2007; ... JAGUAR don't make a four-seater coupe, haven't done for 30 years,but if they did it would have the engine and gearbox from the Peugeot407 coupe, for the simple reason that this unit was developed byPeugeot primarily for Jaguar and it's a powerful, silky smooth oneworthy of the British ...
Notebook: Bungled mugging spells more trouble ahead
Jun 03, 2007; ... ALEX Salmond has coined it the 'new politics', but last week ittranspired that, actually, it's all a little bit like old politics.The tender flower of Salmond's consensus-building came up against thehedge-trimmer of realpolitik, giving us the first clue of how, in thecoming weeks, the ...
Brown relives day of eye injury
Jun 03, 2007; ... GORDON Brown has told how a boyhood rugby accident almost robbedhim of his eyesight. The Chancellor spoke of the incident when he addressed a Labourleadership hustings in Glasgow's City Halls yesterday. He also signalled that he would call a general election in 2009,ruling ...
Frankie gets authorization to break jinx
Jun 03, 2007; ... IN THE end it was easy. He was on the best horse, he rode a finerace, nothing else came close and at last, at long last, FrankieDettori won The Derby aboard Authorized. Racing's most famous racewas won by racing's most famous personality aboard the hot favouritewho carried the hopes of ...
'I made racist jokes out of ignorance'
Jun 03, 2007; ... ONE of Scotland's most powerful businessmen has admitted he maderacist remarks to Pakistani immigrants when he was growing up inLeith - acts which he still feels shame over. Sir Tom Farmer says he made the offensive comments out of "sheerignorance" and is hoping that youngsters ...
My racism shame, by Sir Tom Farmer
Jun 03, 2007; ... LEADING businessman Sir Tom Farmer has admitted making racistremarks to Pakistani ...
Briefs: Cuba
Jun 03, 2007; ... CUBAN leader Fidel Castro has almost fully recovered fromintestinal surgery that put his life at risk last year, a seniorCuban official has revealed. But National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon gave no indicationof when or if Castro (right), who has been sidelined from power ...
Briefs: Mexico
Jun 03, 2007; ... TROPICAL Storm Barbara was expected to make landfall last nightnear the Mexico-Guatemala border, an area notorious for itsvulnerability to flooding. A tropical storm warning was in force from Sipacate, Guatemala, toBarra de ...
Briefs: United States
Jun 03, 2007; ... FEDERAL authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyrightviolations for allegedly uploading four episodes of Fox's 24 on theinternet before the show's season premiere earlier this year. Jorge Romero, 24, used a website to download the episodes of ...
Briefs: Ukraine
Jun 03, 2007; ... A TUNNEL collapsed at a Ukrainian mine yesterday, killing fourminers and injuring one. The incident occurred at the Yuvileyna mine in the eastern city ofKryviy Rih in the early hours of ...
Final Statement: Taxing times ahead for us all with grabbing Gordon
Jun 03, 2007; ... PEOPLE worry about what a government led by Gordon Brown will belike. They needn't. There'll be nothing wrong with a Brown regimewhich a tidal wave on the Thames couldn't cure. If you think I'm being harsh, try reading the latest report fromaccountants Grant Thornton, which ...
Briefs: Austria
Jun 03, 2007; ... BADLY decomposed remains of three babies have been found inplastic bags in the basement of an Austrian house undergoingrenovation, officials revealed yesterday. Police said the remains were discovered on Friday by a residentexcavating the cellar of the building in the Alpine city ...
Violence at G8 protest
Jun 03, 2007; ... PROTESTERS hurling bricks, bottles and rocks clashed yesterdaywith police at an anti-G8 demonstration in the northern German cityof Rostock. An estimated 25,000 people had gathered for a march to protestabout the forthcoming G8 summit, which begins nearby on Wednesday. But ...
Violence at G8 protest
Jun 03, 2007; ... MASKED demonstrators showered police with rocks and beer bottles,then were driven back with water cannons and tear gas during aprotest march yesterday against the upcoming G8 summit in Germany. Some 146 police were hurt, 25 of them seriously, and 17 protesterswere arrested ....
Teach Yourself Gaelic: BAILE: town/village
Jun 03, 2007; ... Pronounced Bal-luh, with a short a-sound, baile can refer toanything from a tiny collection of houses to an internationalmegapolis. The tiny Lewis village of Fibhig, with two or threehouses, is a "baile" as is everything up to and including Stornoway(Sternabhagh), Glasgow (Glaschu) and ...
Revenge of the golf widow
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT COULD be described as a typically Scottish male upbringing. RobHendry was introduced to golf at a young age, played throughout hisschool career and chose his university - St Andrews - because it waswhere he could best indulge his sporting passion. He played two or three times a ...
Revenge of the golf widow: The way we were...
Jun 03, 2007; ... Ten other things the modern family man is no longer able to do ... Snooze in an armchair after Sunday lunch. Give his wife her housekeeping money in cash from his pay-packet. Treat the local pub as an alternative living room. Sleep though the night while the baby ...
Double triumph for Scotland on Sunday as government accepts our demand for an inquiry into fingerprint scandal and university finally agrees to strip Zimbabwe's leader of honorary degree: Ministers face a grilling in McKie judicial inquiry
Jun 03, 2007; ... A JUDICIAL inquiry into the notorious McKie fingerprint case isset to investigate claims that the cover-up over the affair waslinked to fears it would scupper the Lockerbie prosecution. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that a full inquiry into the McKieaffair has been given the ...
Phone call doubles discount
Jun 03, 2007; ... UNIVERSITY lecturer Anthony Barr cut his home and contents premiumby a third by shopping around, writes Teresa Hunter. But his experience taught him another lesson, which is to notnecessarily grab the first discount offered. Barr, from Dundee, said: "My renewal quote was ...
With four UK bodyguards missing in Iraq, Brian Brady, Richard Elias and Marc Horne reveal the risks for private armies
Jun 03, 2007; ... I'd prefer he was back here and we had the debts that othercouples have 'WHEN Steven is away I try to occupy myself all the time." Carol'shusband has been in Iraq for almost three years, but she has neverquite got used to the terrible dangers that face him every day of ...
Underdogs Kelty eager to make Junior Cup history
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT IS the junior showpiece like no other. Or at least it could befor finalists Kelty Hearts. For if they prevail against overwhelmingfavourites Linlithgow Rose in the Scottish Citylink Junior Cup finalat East End Park today they will be history makers. No previous winners have ...
Perspective: Blair's blunder gives next despot free rein
Jun 03, 2007; ... TONY Blair's farewell tour is turning into a very publichumiliation. His final goodbyes in America, Africa and Europe wereintended as a celebration of his achievements on the global stage -like an ageing rocker promoting a 'Greatest Hits' compilation.Instead, his exit has become an ...
Leader: A degree of justice
Jun 03, 2007; ... WHILE it is tempting to say "and not before time", it would bechurlish not to applaud the University of Edinburgh's move to stripRobert Mugabe of the honorary doctorate it awarded him in 1984. Giventhe president of Zimbabwe's behaviour in his own country in the faceof global ...
Briefs: Motorway plunge
Jun 03, 2007; ... A DRIVER had a miracle escape yesterday after his car left amotorway bridge and smashed into the road below. The accident, pictured, happened on the M876 at Dennyloanhead,Falkirk. The vehicle hit the pavement about 30ft below, rolledseveral times and ended up on its side ....
Nip and tuck with no tears... for lunch
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT IS a revolution in cosmetic surgery available in Hollywood,Harley Street ... and now Castle Douglas. A new procedure which allows those seeking bodily perfection tohave liposuction in their lunch hour is being offered for the firsttime in Scotland in the quiet Dumfries and ...
Harry Potter plan to help Madeleine search
Jun 03, 2007; ... HARRY Potter author JK Rowling is considering putting bookmarksbearing the face of missing Madeleine McCann in copies of her finalinstalment about the world's favourite boy wizard. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book inthe series, is due out on July 21 ...
Madeleine paedophile gang theory 'is likely'
Jun 03, 2007; ... MADELEINE McCann may have been abducted and passed on to apaedophile gang, according to one of Europe's leading politicians. The scenario, which the girl's parents have described as "moreupsetting than any other" has been outlined by Germany's JusticeMinister, Brigitte Zypries ....
Seize the spoils of insurance price war
Jun 03, 2007; ... MADNESS has broken out on the home insurance front, with consumersreaping the rewards of a premium price war which looks unstoppable,according to a new report on buildings and contents insurance due outthis week. Rising discounts, cashbacks and price guarantees are now biting ...
Studying the art of perfect football pitch
Jun 03, 2007; ... WHEN questioned about the secret of his success, Bill Shankly, thelegendary Ayrshire-born Liverpool manager, responded: "With me havingno education, I had to use my brains." But the latest generation of touchline supremos are leavingnothing to chance. Football coaches from ...
McGonagall memorial scrapped
Jun 03, 2007; ... HE FAMOUSLY walked from Dundee to Balmoral Castle to serenadeQueen Victoria - only to be turned away by sneering courtiers - andtook to carrying an umbrella to protect him from the rotten fruitthat was frequently hurled at him by strangers. Now the misfortune which dogged the ...
Mercenary firms fear bloodbath in Iraq
Jun 03, 2007; ... MERCENARY chiefs are urgently reviewing rules dictating when theycan use force in Iraq, amid growing fears that another confrontationbetween private security operators and police could explode into abloodbath. Days after four British bodyguards and their client were snatchedby ...
Debt pressures to keep piling on homeowners
Jun 03, 2007; ... HOMEBUYERS will be hit by higher mortgage bills from this week aslenders raise monthly home loan repayments following the Bank ofEngland's recent interest rate hike, writes Teresa Hunter. But the pain will not end there. Households are bracing themselvesfor higher bills still ...
Dishonoured
Jun 03, 2007; ... ROBERT Mugabe will this week be stripped of the honorary degree hewas awarded by Edinburgh University 23 years ago. Following a campaign led by Scotland on Sunday, the 83-year-oldZimbabwean dictator will receive a letter from senior officials atthe university telling him he no ...
Revealed: the naked ambitions of Scots
Jun 03, 2007; ... SHE is the dark-haired songstress who seduced a nation with hercool beauty and sultry vocals. He is the legendarily dour Scottishson of the manse who is about to become Britain's most powerfulpolitician. But Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri and Prime Minister-to-be GordonBrown have ...
Militants to stop oil kidnaps for a month
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE main militant group in Nigeria's lawless south pledgedyesterday to cease hostilities for one month so new President UmaruYar'Adua can create a plan for lasting peace in the Niger Deltaregion where Africa's oil giant pumps its crude. Hours earlier, however, kidnappings ...