Scotland on Sunday back issues from June 2008:
Thoresen to land wider Aegon brief
Jun 01, 2008; ... AEGON UK chief executive Otto Thoresen is expected to be givengreater global responsibility when the pensions and insurance groupunveils a shift in strategy tomorrow. Alex Wynaendts, who took up the role as executive board chairmanand chief executive of Scottish Equitable owner ...
Aberdeen group in energy bid
Jun 01, 2008; ... A GLOBAL energy corridor stretching 30 miles from Bridge of Donin Aberdeen to Peterhead will be unveiled this week, with itsbackers hoping it will attract up to GBP 750m of investment. Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum - the public-privatepartnership that is spearheading ...
70 per cent of women wanting abortion to be treated by week nine of pregnancy
Jun 01, 2008; ... WOMEN who want abortions will be guaranteed treatment within nineweeks of becoming pregnant under controversial new healthcarestandards. A report by sexual health experts has drawn up the new waiting-time policies amid Scotland's soaring abortion rates. Under the rules, 70 ...
Isle of plenty
Jun 01, 2008; ... Peter Cool transformed a neglected walled garden on Jura into athriving collection of native and exotic subtropical plants that is100 per cent organic IF ASKED to describe Jura in Argyll, most people would mentionthe dramatic hills, the moorlands, the red deer or the ...
Lynn O'Rourke
Jun 01, 2008; ... I DO what I can to live a green life. We recycle and I am one ofthose people who carries a little bag in my handbag in a bid to stopme acquiring another carrier bag should a dreaded impulse buystrike. (Usually the sort of purchase I have to carry back to theshop in the same wee fold-up ...
Appleby offers a touch of eastern promise to take featherweight title
Jun 01, 2008; ... EVEN allowing for the exuberance of youth, Paul Appleby has to beone of the most confident young men in Scottish sport. Next Friday in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall, Appleby will attempt tobecome the latest east coast boxer to put one over on a west ofScotland fighter when he challenges ...
Global Monitor: Bankruptcy looms as ailing US carriers seek protection
Jun 01, 2008; ... AIRLINES are cutting US flights, shedding employees and puttingoff plane orders. But with cash bleeding fast, fuel prices high andcredit tight, there may be nothing they can do to avoid bankruptcyand possibly liquidation. Unlike when four of the six legacy carriers filed for ...
Barfly: Terry slips - would you credit it?
Jun 01, 2008 ... WHILE pocketing massive salaries for their day jobs, many EnglishPremiership players are also directors of their own companies orlimited liability partnerships, though, in John Terry's case, it'sanother missed target. Research by Creditsafe reveals that Newcastle's Michael ...
Hughes Next The man who used to offer his ring opponents a blast of the 'sleeping pill' tells Tom English how he made it, and damns his detractors' ill judgment
Jun 01, 2008; ... ALL IN all, it was not the best week in Barry Hughes' young life,not by a long way. On Sunday night, Jack McGill was found hangingfrom a tree in the Cathkin Braes in south Glasgow. Hughes knewMcGill. Did him a turn from time to time. Did his nephew a turn,too. Over a hundred grand's ...
Shoppers deserve a medal
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHAT bravery! What unflinching courage against impossible odds! Irefer to that army of unsung heroes: the charge of the ever lighterbrigade, the UK consumer. Today it rides straight into the blazingguns of a worsening downturn. Our military history is replete with acts of stunning ...
Market Watch: Ryanair's confidence grounded by sky-high fuel costs
Jun 01, 2008; ... MICHAEL O'Leary, Ryanair chief, is expected to warn of adifficult year ahead for the budget airline this week as it faces asqueeze from rising oil prices. O'Leary, who usually gives a belligerent performance at annualresults, has been slightly more muted about the company's ...
Briefs: Deportation halted
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE deportation of a university worker who was arrested under theTerrorism Act has been put on hold. Lawyers acting for Hicham Yezza, who was due to be returned toAlgeria today, ...
Briefs: Unionists plea
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE dissolution of the power-sharing government in NorthernIreland over differences between Unionists and Nationalists would beludicrous, the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ...
Briefs: Death plunge
Jun 01, 2008 ... A WOMAN died after falling 200ft on a mountain and a man wasinjured when he fell going to her aid. The 49-year-old woman and the man were both airlifted ...
Briefs: Airport protest
Jun 01, 2008 ... THOUSANDS of protesters from around the world yesterday staged ademonstration against further expansion of Heathrow Airport. Stilt-walkers, brass bands and hundreds of people in ...
Briefs: Jobs warning
Jun 01, 2008 ... THOUSANDS of Scottish fish farming and processing jobs are atrisk after a Brussels decision to ditch rules barring cut-priceNorwegian salmon, the industry warned last night. The European Union is scrapping laws which limited the amount ofcheap farmed salmon that the Norwegians ...
Weir edges out as Burley favours Celtic duo
Jun 01, 2008; ... DAVID WEIR'S international career is teetering on the brink afterScotland boss George Burley stressed Gary Caldwell and StephenMcManus are now his first choice centre-back pairing. The Rangers defender has been capped 61 times for his country andfeatured in all 12 of the recent ...
Soaring oil prices fuel green car drive
Jun 01, 2008; ... SOARING fuel prices have led to a big increase in the number ofmotorists opting for 'green cars' this year, according to newindustry figures. Sales of alternative fuel and hybrid and electric cars increasedby 14 per cent in the first four months of the year, compared withthe ...
Notebook: Camp, surreal and often grotesque... we love it!
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHY do people hate Sex And The City? If I were to slip on a pairof micro shorts, nibble on the fruit from my Cosmopolitan and ponderthe big questions in the manner of the highest-paid and highest-heeled journalist in the business, this is the one I would want theanswer to. In ...
Author battles to clear 'butcher of Culloden'
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOR centuries he has been reviled throughout Scotland as 'thebutcher' and was named as one of the most evil Britons of all timeby the BBC. But now an English historian claims that the Duke of Cumberlandwas merely misunderstood - and his reputation as a war criminal ...
Curling stoned
Jun 01, 2008; ... IT IS among the most unlikely of sports to have a brush with drug-related controversy. Over the centuries, curling has developed a reputation for beinga genteel game played by middle-aged couples. But, in a move thathas raised eyebrows at bonspiels, Scotland's curlers are ...
Drumlanrig
Jun 01, 2008 ... NO REST FOR WENDY If you think everything seems to have gone quiet on the WendyAlexander leadership front, think again. Drumlanrig hears thatshadowy figures in London have been tasked with finding out if thereis the mood for a change at the top of the Scottish party. Backersof ...
A magnificent seven put smile on Scots faces
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE weather gods were not so much smiling down on Murrayfieldyesterday afternoon at the IRB Sevens as beaming their broadest grinand there was plenty to smile about. The crowd was not onlyentertained by some cracking good rugby but the results weren't tooshabby either, with Scotland ...
Dream start for home squad but Russia get as many cheers
Jun 01, 2008; ... AND LO it came to pass that the sun did shine and Scotland didlook pretty tasty at the rugby. Granted, it wasn't 15-a-side, andyes Scotland did lose against the South Africans when it lookedeasier to win, but after a year which contained significantly morelows than highs, for the opening ...
Wogan blames 'racists' for Eurovision failure
Jun 01, 2008; ... TERRY Wogan has blamed "racist" Eastern Europeans for failing toaward a single vote to Britain's entrant in the Eurovision SongContest. He claimed Andy Abraham finished in joint last place in thecontest because Eastern Europeans could not bring themselves to votefor a black ...
No business like Scots business...
Jun 01, 2008; ... AFTER another tough week in which the Treasury was accused offurther U-turns on key tax issues, Alistair Darling was all smilesas he walked through the gates of Firrhill High School in Edinburghon Friday, where he met children who have been tracking a portfolioof shares on the stock ...
IVF 'being used as fertility safety net'
Jun 01, 2008; ... A GENERATION of 30-something women are delaying motherhoodbecause they falsely believe IVF treatment will turn back theirbiological clocks, experts have warned. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, head of the department ofobstetrics and gynaecology at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, ...
Babies postponed due to IVF hype
Jun 01, 2008; ... A GENERATION of thirtysomething women are delaying motherhoodbecause they falsely believe IVF treatment will turn back theirbiological clocks, experts have warned. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, head of the department ofobstetrics and gynaecology at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, ...
'This is my fourth manager and my fourth campaign and we are now as good as we have been'
Jun 01, 2008; ... THERE'S NO such thing as a comfort zone where the footballingelite are concerned. Minutes after winning the Champions Leaguetitle the Manchester United management and players were in theirdressing room in the Luzhniki Stadium, in Moscow. "We were saying,'yeah, we've won it, enjoy it, ...
Fopp shops sing the praises of a digital rebirth
Jun 01, 2008; ... A CHAIN of music shops, which started life as a Glasgow marketstall, is set to go digital in a bid to secure its future. There was despair among music fans last year when more than 50Fopp stores around the UK closed their doors. The brand was bought by HMV and a handful of ...
Freeze Frame: Willie Carson's Four Derby Victories Five-time champion jockey's proud record of success at Epsom's flagship event
Jun 01, 2008; ... The greatest Scottish jockey ever, Stirling-born Willie Carsonwas renowned for his strength in a finish and for his love affairwith the Epsom Derby which he won four times. In terms of overall winners he is the fourth most successfulBritish jockey of all time, booting home 3,828 ...
End of Gretna as the rescue 'bid' is pulled
Jun 01, 2008; ... GRETNA FC will cease to exist tomorrow after the man who mighthave supplied the financial muscle for the one remaining bid to savethe club confirmed that he had withdrawn his support. "There is no bid," said football agent Scott Hume of HumeInternational agency in Glasgow. "The ...
Hadden banishes thoughts of his own future to concentrate on lifting Scots up the rankings
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOR A man who is widely thought to be sitting in his condemnedcell while having to endure the sound of scaffolding being erectedjust outside, Frank Hadden was in a chirpy mood ahead of yesterday'sflight to Argentina. The national coach is nothing if not asurvivor. This tour ...
HBOS tickled pink to back charity Moonwalk
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE landmark Scottish headquarters of the HBOS bank will be litpink to encourage the thousands of walkers taking part in theEdinburgh Moonwalk later this month. The iconic building, at the top of The Mound, will join otherbusinesses in the city in brightening up the darkness ...
Babies postponed due to IVF hype
Jun 01, 2008; ... A GENERATION of 30-something women are delaying motherhoodbecause they falsely believe IVF treatment will turn back theirbiological clocks, experts have warned. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, head of the department ofobstetrics and gynaecology at the city's maternity hospital, ...
Credit crisis: 'We're still going down'
Jun 01, 2008; ... ONE of Scotland's top fund managers has warned the credit crunchis far from over and even darker news for the economy could be onthe horizon. According to Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief investment officer atAlliance Trust, the Dundee-based investment trust, the sub-primecrisis may ...
Nippy Sweetie: 'Adding up my merits and demerits, it would appear that I am a very poor wife indeed'
Jun 01, 2008; ... IT'S not often that I hear approving noises from Mr Turner whenhe's reading the paper of a morning. Mostly he sounds like someretired high court judge. If you thought that harrumphing went outwith the Famous Five and ration books, then think again. It's aliveand well at Turner Towers ....
Perspective: It's an Ace idea - so why so sly, Fiona?
Jun 01, 2008; ... A FRIEND of mine is a teacher and he's definitely in the wrongjob. "At the start of the year I hate pupils in general," heexplains, "but as the months go in, and I get to know them better, Ihate them individually." At this time of the year, though, even he manages to tame ...
Leader: Now show some substance
Jun 01, 2008 ... CRISIS? What crisis? It may have escaped your notice, but theScottish Government endured what quickly became known as "WobblyWednesday" last week. In less than 24 hours, the SNP's local incometax was condemned as possibly illegal; education experts lined up tosay plans to cut class sizes ...
SNP has a tax shock for a quarter of students, warns Labour
Jun 01, 2008; ... TENS of thousands of students who do not pay council tax could becharged under the SNP's scheme for a local income tax, according toLabour. Opposition MSPs have highlighted figures published by ministers,which show that a quarter of Scottish students in full-timeeducation would ...
Inspiration for Lorenzo's Oil dies aged 30
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE man whose parents' battle to save him from an incurable nervedisease was depicted in the inspiring movie Lorenzo's Oil has diedafter living more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted. Lorenzo Odone was expected to die in childhood after beingdiagnosed with the ...
Macdonald targets Ireland and warns against recession 'delusion'
Jun 01, 2008; ... MACDONALD Estates, the Scottish property developer founded by aformer director of Morrison Group, is to expand into Ireland in abid to exploit the development opportunity in market towns. Chief executive Dan Macdonald, who will open an office in Dublinthis year, said he hoped to ...
CBI: Darling can't afford 2p fuel cut
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE CBI has warned that there is not enough money in theTreasury's coffers to allow Chancellor Alistair Darling to reversethe controversial 2p hike in fuel duties. Ian McCafferty, chief economist at the CBI, told Scotland onSunday that the Government's fiscal position is "very ...
Mergers 'stalled' by unrealistic high prices
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE mergers and acquisitions market is unlikely to recover beforethe end of this year when there will be a critical re-pricing in themarket, according to industry insiders. Banks and corporate law firms say the M&A market has "stalled".Although there are buyers with the cash ...
Miliband told not to miss his leadership shot
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband is being warned by allies thathe will have "missed his chance" if he fails to mount a leadershipchallenge to Gordon Brown this summer. Miliband is being pressed by backbench supporters to 'throw hishat into the ring' in order to force the Prime ...
Brown urged to get rid of 'Scots Mafia'
Jun 01, 2008; ... LABOUR figures have called on Gordon Brown to purge the "ScotsMafia" around him in an effort to curry favour with voters south ofthe border. The Prime Minister is being urged to give key jobs to ministersseen as able to reach out to Middle England amid concern that theparty will ...
Catch Up On The Week
Jun 01, 2008 ... SUNDAY Scottish Labour MP Anne Moffat, right, was brutallymugged on a coastal path near her Cockenzie home. The East LothianMP, 50, was knocked unconscious and suffered broken ribs after theattack by a group of teenagers, who stole her watch, money andjewellery. MONDAY Nasa's ...
Debut figures show housing holding up
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE Scottish housing market's relative resilience to the creditcrunch will be confirmed by figures to be published by the Councilof Mortgage Lenders (CML) on Tuesday. For the first time, the trade body will produce quarterlystatistics on the size of the Scottish housing market, ...
Bank tipped to hold interest rates at 5 per cent
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 5 percent on Thursday despite a slowing economy and falling house pricesacross much of the UK. Of 71 economists polled by Reuters only two expect the MonetaryPolicy Committee (MPC) to reduce the Bank base rate this ...
Leafy streets that became Beirut
Jun 01, 2008; ... EIGHTY Queen's Drive appears to be one of the most desirableaddresses in one of the most affluent areas of Scotland's largestcity. The front door of the imposing blond sandstone tenement isflanked by intricately carved statues which look out over a tree-lined avenue filled with ...
Murdered woman was crime fighter
Jun 01, 2008; ... MURDERED businesswoman Moira Jones had helped close a hostel forhardened criminals before she was battered to death, Scotland onSunday can reveal. The 40-year-old executive, who was attacked with a bluntinstrument in Glasgow's Queen's Park as she walked to her flat, ...
Murray tells of day killer struck school
Jun 01, 2008; ... TENNIS star Andy Murray will this week give his most detailedaccount yet of the day his primary school came under attack by massmurderer Thomas Hamilton. In his autobiography Hitting Back, Murray, who was born and bredin Dunblane, recalls how Hamilton entered the school gym on ...
Briefs: Climber named
Jun 01, 2008 ... A MAN who fell 80ft to his death in a climbing accident was namedby police last night. Neil Wyllie, 34, was one of two walkers who had been climbing inthe ...
A tribe is discovered in a clearing of the Brazilian rainforest: should we leave them alone or prepare them for the 21st century?
Jun 01, 2008; ... IT'S like a scene from an Indiana Jones blockbuster - but thistime it's for real. Photographed from a passing plane, paintedfigures stir in a clearing in the Amazonian rainforest. Two men withbows and arrows crouch, ready to fire at the overhead aggressor,strings drawn back and ready for ...
Murdered woman was crime fighter
Jun 01, 2008; ... MURDERED businesswoman Moira Jones had helped close a hostel forhardened criminals before she was battered to death, Scotland onSunday can reveal. The 40-year-old executive, who was attacked with a bluntinstrument in Glasgow's Queen's Park as she walked to her flat, ...
Murdered woman was crime fighter
Jun 01, 2008; ... MURDERED businesswoman Moira Jones had helped to close a hostelfor hardened criminals before she was battered to death, Scotland onSunday can reveal. The 40-year-old executive, who was attacked with a bluntinstrument in Glasgow's Queen's Park as she walked to her flat, ...
Final Statement: Brown has a duty to relieve stamp burden on homes
Jun 01, 2008; ... STAMP Duty is arguably one of the most despised taxes. Buying ahouse is a big financial strain for most of us, so the last thing weneed is to be forced to hand over thousands of pounds to HerMajesty's Revenue and Customs for the pleasure. While house prices have spiralled in ...
Peter Ross At Large: DIY Star Trek episodes are the final frontier for intrepid fans
Jun 01, 2008; ... I AM boldly going where I have never gone before - to the topfloor of a tenement in Dundee. This small attic flat with a viewover the glittering Tay (if you crane your neck) is the unlikelylocation for the next Star Trek film. Not the major studioblockbuster currently in post-production ...
HBOS tickled pink to back charity
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE landmark Scottish headquarters of the HBOS bank will be litpink to encourage the thousands of walkers taking part in theEdinburgh Moonwalk later this month. The iconic building, at the top of the Mound, will join otherbusinesses in the city in brightening up the darkness ...
Masta Plasta blasts his way to richest pot in Britain in Scottish Sprint Cup
Jun 01, 2008; ... AS THE result of an exchange of races with Musselburgh, theNational Express Scottish Sprint Cup took place yesterday at York,and despite a horse from Scotland going off favourite, it wasYorkshire all the way to land the biggest first prize in Britain. The GBP 31,000 pot went to ...
RBS rights issue in the balance as deadline looms
Jun 01, 2008; ... INVESTORS in Royal Bank of Scotland are expected to wait untilclose to Friday's deadline before deciding whether to take up theirallocation of shares in the record-breaking GBP 12bn rights issue. The markets expect further volatility in the price this week amidhigh trading ...
Withdrawal of Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry service will cost Fife GBP 20m a year
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE loss of the Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry is expected to cost theFife economy GBP 20m a year, according to research by propertyconsultants DTZ. The service is Scotland's only direct ferry link with continentalEurope and the knock-on effects on the local economy have beenrevealed ...
Little Big Man Andy Robinson's last brush with the Pumas cost him the England job, but the new Scotland forwards coach has nothing but respect for Argentina
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHEN YOU get thrown off a horse the best thing to do is to jumpback on again, although Scotland's newly promoted forwards coachcould still be excused for harbouring mixed feelings ahead of thetour to Argentina. The former England boss last chanced upon thePumas in November of 2006 and, ...
Got GBP 50m? Then Scotland has every jet-set luxury you'll need...
Jun 01, 2008; ... WEALTHY Russians, Chinese and Indians with more than GBP 50m attheir disposal are being targeted by an accountancy firm that saysit will provide for their every need. If they want to buy a Learjet, a Scottish castle or a helicopter,then Saffery Champness promises to find one and ...
The Sounds Of The Summer
Jun 01, 2008; ... So many bands and so little time ... Chitra Ramaswamy points youtowards the right stage with her top 10 acts playing gigs andreleasing albums in coming months Coldplay The conquering of the world's stadiums marches on. Coldplay'sfourth album has already produced a top 10 ...