Scotland on Sunday back issues from July 2008:
MP bids to outlaw abortions for club foot or cleft palate
Jul 06, 2008; ... ABORTIONS carried out because babies have a club foot or cleftpalate could be banned under plans to be put before MPs later thismonth. Campaigners claim it is time to specifically rule out anyabortions where such abnormalities are given as the principal reasonfor parents to ...
Interview: Robert Cook I'm here to stay
Jul 06, 2008; ... The chief of the Malmaison and Hotel du Vin chains wants toexport the brands, he tells Rosemary Gallagher 'I'M A born and bred hotelier," is how Robert Cook introduceshimself when we meet in the opulent surroundings of DevonshireGardens in Glasgow's West End. He's also returning to ...
Archives: July 4, 2004
Jul 06, 2008 ... Smoking is to be banned in all of Scotland's 7,500 pubs and barsunder government plans to follow the highly successful tobacco-freezones in Ireland and New York. Ministers had previously restricted any plans for a smoking banto restaurants because they feared a massive backlash ...
Grab yourself a little piece of the auction
Jul 06, 2008; ... Repossessed properties may be going cheap but do your homeworkfirst. WITH the housing market bloated with unsold homes andrepossessions climbing, business is booming for propertyauctioneers. But how easy is it to pick up a bargain at an auctionand what are the pitfalls? At ...
Scots mother rolls out her canine therapy to help autistic children
Jul 06, 2008; ... A MOTHER who helped her autistic son communicate by using theirfamily dog has launched a scheme to help other Scottish childrenwith the condition. Nuala Gardner's son Dale was severely autistic as a child, butshe encouraged him to break his silence by pretending her words ...
Barfly
Jul 06, 2008 ... Radio legend on crest of wave JAY Crawford, pro- gramme director at Real Radio owner GMGScotland, believes he's just achieved the highlight of his 34-yearcareer in radio after being elected a Fellow of the Radio Academy.The honour, which is only given to two people a year, was ...
12-year-old boy dies in motorbike road crash
Jul 06, 2008; ... A 12-YEAR-old boy has died after his mini-motorcycle collidedwith a car while being driven on a public road. The incident happened in broad daylight on Friday evening as theboy was driving along Gartmorn Road in Sauchie, Clackmannanshire. The street was closed for several ...
13-year-old boy dies in motorbike road crash
Jul 06, 2008; ... A 13-YEAR-old boy has died after his mini-motorcycle collidedwith a car while he was riding on a public road. The incident happened in daylight on Friday evening as Wayne Shawwas riding his bike along Gartmorn Road in his home village ofSauchie, Clackmannanshire. The street ...
Troubles heading from High Street to Downing Street Treasury is next in line as the credit crunch continues to bite
Jul 06, 2008; ... REPORTS of a morale meltdown at the Treasury, with mountingworries over the state of the public finances, completed a week ofutter misery for Chancellor Alistair Darling. The problems he faces are far greater than the prospect of theNational Audit Office declining to 'sign off' ...
Briefs
Jul 06, 2008 ... BT RINGS CHANGES SHONAIG Macpherson, above, formerly seniorpartner of the law firm McGrigors, has been appointed chairman ofthe BT Scotland board. She takes over from Iain Robertson, formerchief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland's corporate bankingand financial markets division, ...
Briefs: Doctor Stays Put
Jul 06, 2008 ... FEARS that last night's season finale of Doctor Who could seeDavid Tennant's Time Lord killed off proved unfounded. With the help of a small army of his companions, the Doctor,played by the Scottish actor, right, defeated the Daleks and theirevil creator Davros to save the ...
High prices fuel car sharing
Jul 06, 2008; ... CAR-SHARING in Scotland has risen by 50 per cent in the last yearas motorists change their commuting habits due to soaring fuelprices. New figures from the UK's biggest car-sharing network reveal thatthe number of drivers north of the border who have signed up withcar-share ...
Barclays hit but still top
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE stock pickers at Barclays Wealth have maintained their leadin the Scottish Investment Challenge but have suffered along withthe other five participants from the continuing downturn in stockmarkets. The team's original GBP 10,000 investment grew in May, but Junehas been a bad ...
Ally Goes Dutch Rangers' assistant manager tells Andrew Smith new signings will help the Ibrox club follow example of Ajax and PSV and achieve consistent success in Europe by nurturing young talent and playing attacking footbal
Jul 06, 2008; ... WHEN HE made the breakthrough at Burnley three years ago,supporters nicknamed Kyle Lafferty 'Kylovic' because his bony 6ft4in frame, languid gait and sure touch recalled Swedish strikerZlatan Ibrahimovic. Rangers will be hoping the comparisons do notend there. The Ibrox club's ...
Revealed: cost of councillors hits GBP 22m as pay and expenses soar
Jul 06, 2008; ... COUNCILLORS' wages and expenses cost Scottish taxpayers GBP 22mlast year, amid evidence that the local authority wage bill hasrocketed because of a new salary package. The wage bill in one council doubled last year following reformsbrought in after the May 2007 elections which now ...
Why Connery and Canongate failed to bond
Jul 06, 2008; ... WHEN the most famous living Scot teamed up with the country'smost dynamic publisher it appeared to be a literary marriage made inheaven. Sir Sean Connery agreed to work with Canongate to unleash hislong-awaited memoirs on an expectant public. But now Jamie Byng, who owns ...
Labour In Crisis: Brown's future rests on third choice Curran
Jul 06, 2008; ... LABOUR'S battle to win the Glasgow East by-election and save thepremiership of Gordon Brown looked increasingly desperate last nightafter party chiefs were forced to parachute in a new, big-hittingcandidate. Margaret Curran, a local MSP and former minister, was persuadedto step ...
Respected MSP is ready to fight
Jul 06, 2008; ... MARGARET Curran is Scottish Labour's proverbial 'bonnie fechter' -a woman who is committed to the cause and happy to take the fight toher enemies. Now 49 and the party's Holyrood health and communitiesspokeswoman, she is popular in Glasgow and regarded as a ...
MPs back return of exiled islanders
Jul 06, 2008; ... AN INFLUENTIAL group of MPs has called for the originalinhabitants of the Indian island of Diego Garcia to be allowed toreturn to their homeland in the Indian Ocean. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee has said"there is a strong moral case" to allow the people of ...
Drumlanrig
Jul 06, 2008 ... NO FRENCH FANCY FOR POOR ALEX You would have thought Alex Salmond would have been positivelysalivating at the prospect of giving Gordon Brown a killer blow withan SNP win in Glasgow East. So why has his party been bleating onabout Labour calling an early poll in the middle of the ...
Duck's out as flagship restaurant up for sale
Jul 06, 2008; ... MALCOLM Duck, the feted restaurateur, is selling his flagshiprestaurant in Edinburgh to concentrate on his second business inEast Lothian. Duck's at Le Marche Noir, the longest-serving Edinburghrestaurant in the Michelin guide, was put up for sale this weekendafter opening its ...
Notebook: It's no wonder politicians want to put their families first
Jul 06, 2008; ... ALAN Milburn started it. Five years ago, the then HealthSecretary shocked everyone. First he resigned entirely unexpectedly.That was mildly interesting. But then it emerged that his statedreason for doing so - "to spend more time with the family" - was infact true. Now that was weird ....
Island strife breaks out as Skye's clear blue water and rugged mountain landscape is scarred by a council CCTV camera
Jul 06, 2008; ... IT IS one of the quietest corners of one of Scotland's mostbeautiful islands. Crime is almost unknown in the village of Elgol on south-westSkye where most residents enjoy a lifestyle free of many of theother downsides of mainland, urban communities. Livings are madefrom the ...
Time Ernie saw the light
Jul 06, 2008; ... Martin Hannan finds the South African is not ready to walk intothe sunset just yet, despite a stuttering season IN THE absence of Tiger Woods for the rest of the season, thegolf world awaits the crowning of a new No.1. It is anticipated thatPhil Mickelson will surely step up and ...
Flying Finn Takes Pole At SIlverstone
Jul 06, 2008 ... HEIKKI Kovalainen secured the first pole position of his F1career to put McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the shade. The Finn blitzed the Silverstone circuit, finishing half a secondquicker than the most unlikely candidate to join him on the frontrow in Red Bull's Mark Webber ....
Final Statement: My own painful experience of today's house-buying hell
Jul 06, 2008; ... EVERYONE'S a 10-minute expert on what's wrong with the propertymarket. But I'm the real thing: one of a tiny minority who actuallymanaged to exchange contracts last month and who, fingers crossed,will move into a new home this week. The experience has left me badly bruised. I have ...
Atlantic Square site is first deal for Fitzsimons
Jul 06, 2008; ... PROPERTY developer Jim Fitzsimons has bought the proposed GBP 70mAtlantic Square site in central Glasgow in the first acquisition forhis newly launched company. Fitzsimons has left Wilson Bowden Developments, where he wasScottish director, to set up Capella Developments and has ...
Glasgow 'will struggle to sell properties' to raise GBP 100m for 2014 Games
Jul 06, 2008; ... CONCERNS are growing that Glasgow City Council will be unable toraise up to GBP 100m towards the 2014 Commonwealth Games due to adecline in interest for regeneration projects. The council is hoping to raise funds from the sale of 56 "surplussites". But commercial property experts ...
Home Reports 'will ruin market'
Jul 06, 2008; ... CONTROVERSIAL new Home Reports which will add hundreds of poundsto the cost of selling homes in Scotland should be postponed untilthe current turmoil in the housing market subsides, according toproperty experts. The three-tier reports - including a seller's survey, an ...
Nippy Sweetie: 'I've had three months to get ready. So why am I clutching last-minute lists?
Jul 06, 2008; ... WE SPENT ages poring over websites to pick the perfect place togo on holiday. There were hours on the phone making arrangements fortime off and coordinating diaries. We did all of this nearly threemonths ago, so it shouldn't exactly come as a surprise to me thatwe're going on holiday ...
Barratt moves to calm fears of debt crisis But analysts warn GBP 400m refinancing deal is still not enough to protect the housebuilder's future
Jul 06, 2008; ... BARRATT boss Mark Clare will this week attempt to reassureshareholders that he has put the brakes on its spiralling debtproblems when he is expected to announced a GBP 400m refinancingdeal with lenders. But analysts are already warning that it will not be enough tosecure the ...
The strange tale of Labour and the missing candidate
Jul 06, 2008; ... AS THE members of Glasgow East Labour party filed into TollcrossLeisure Centre at 7pm on Friday, they were expecting a relativelyshort meeting. Local man George Ryan, a burly councillor with a typically quickGlaswegian sense of humour, was about to be rubber-stamped as ...
Look who's not talking in Glasgow East
Jul 06, 2008; ... "LABOUR?" growled pensioner Davie Robb outside the Centaur Bar inEasterhouse. "That lot are so hopeless that Chipperfield's wouldnaetake them on as clowns." He and his cronies wheeze with laughter as they point to a redand yellow poster that is hanging precariously from a lamp ...
Revealed: BBC under attack for 'pro-SNP' coverage
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCOTTISH Labour chiefs have openly accused BBC journalists of pro-SNP bias in a bitter attack on the corporation's political coveragenorth of the border. Labour specifically complains about BBC reporters using thephrase "London Government", claiming it is calculated to ...
Laura Lives The Dream Unseeded British 14-year-old takes pressure of expectation in her stride to win girls' title
Jul 06, 2008; ... SHE claimed she felt sick as she walked out on to No.1 Court andsaw the crowd crammed in to cheer her but it didn't show. LauraRobson look as comfortable as ever in the spotlight. Apart from aslight blip in the second set, which saw the match move into a thirdand decisive set, the new ...
Labour may dump referendum pledge
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCOTTISH Labour may dump Wendy Alexander's historic commitment toa referendum on Scottish independence by the end of this summer in abid to make a "clean break" with her year in power. The claim comes as senior party sources say enterprise spokesmanIain Gray is emerging as ...
Leader: Slapstick politics
Jul 06, 2008; ... OBSERVING Scottish Labour over the past few months has been likewatching a re-run of the Seventies slapstick comedy Some Mothers Do'Ave 'Em, with pratfall followed by a slip on a banana skin, thenstepping on a garden rake. You half expect the party to crash enmasse through a shop window ...
Everything to play for
Jul 06, 2008; ... AARON Thomson was just five years old when his mother Barbaraheard the words every parent dreads. Following a bout of headachesso severe they would leave him gripping his head in tears, doctorsdiagnosed leukaemia. That was June 2004, during a trip to the emergency department ...
Market Watch: Banking and retail woes set to worsen City jitters
Jul 06, 2008; ... A DISASTROUS week for retail and housebuilder stocks saw the FTSE100 temporarily dip into bear market territory when it fell to 5358on Thursday. The position, which marks a 20 per cent decline since last year'shigh, satisfied the official definition of a bear market ....
Money Help Desk: How much tax do we have to pay on house sale profits?
Jul 06, 2008 ... WE SOLD our house last June and have accrued approximately GBP27,000 in interest since then. Proceeds were put into my wife'saccount for tax reasons (she doesn't pay tax as she doesn't work). Would you advise me on her tax liability? The 'profit' is overtwo tax years, ie 2007/08 ...
Dive in mortgage approvals points to lower house prices
Jul 06, 2008 ... MORTGAGE approvals fell by 60 per cent in May compared with ayear ago and will reduce further over the next three months,according to figures from the Bank of England, leading to fears thatwe are now heading for a 1990s-style property slump, writes TeresaHunter. Lenders granted ...
Nationwide reveals fall in property values
Jul 06, 2008 ... HOUSE prices in Scotland have begun to fall, according toBritain's biggest building society the Nationwide, although averagefigures for the country mask wide regional variations, writes TeresaHunter. As these pages predicted last Sunday, the Nationwide revealedthat average ...
Orangutans 'heading for extinction'
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE endangered orangutan could become the first great ape tobecome extinct if urgent action is not taken to protect the speciesfrom human encroachment in its native South-East Asia. The stark warning about the future of one of the world's mosticonic animals emerged yesterday in a ...
Confusion over law halts Scots organ transplants
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCORES of desperately ill Scots have been denied organtransplants because of mistakes by medical staff and confusion overthe law, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. An investigation by the authorities has established that on sevenoccasions in one year, relatives stepped in to stop ...
Pentech sets sights on GBP 45m tech fund
Jul 06, 2008; ... PENTECH Ventures, the Glasgow venture capital firm, is understoodto be raising cash for a GBP 45m fund to be launched this summer. The subsidiary of Penta Capital Partners, the group set up byfive former Royal Bank of Scotland directors, is understood to beplanning a fund aimed at ...
The admirable Nelson takes command as O'Brien eclipses his rivals once again
Jul 06, 2008; ... HE HAS been dismissed as fortunate to have the best horsesprovided for him and that's obviously true. He has been accused ofusing illegal team tactics in big races, and the jury is out on thatone. He has been called everything under the sun by jealouscompetitors, but yesterday Aidan ...
Peter Ross At Large: Champ who gives a toss for future of Highland Games
Jul 06, 2008; ... In the US I'm up against ex-Olympians - here I might be upagainst some guy smoking a cigarette SCOTLAND'S strongest man lives on top of a hill in the far southof Glasgow, in a room above his father's garage. From this vantagepoint he can see across the Clyde Valley to where a ...
Lobby groups unite for London rail link Scots firms join forces for rail link
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCOTTISH business groups are planning a joint campaign to backplans for a GBP 30bn high-speed rail link between London andScotland. The country's main business organisations, including the ScottishChambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Institute of Directors and theFederation of ...
Ten tips for surviving a recession
Jul 06, 2008; ... Scotland on Sunday's Personal Finance Editor Teresa Hunter givesher top 10 tips for surviving a recession 1 Slash your spending Draw up a budget, cutting out unnecessaryluxuries, and stick to it. Cancel subscriptions you don't use forgyms, clubs, cable or satellite TV. Take ...
Beware texts on the beach The EU is on the case but you still need to take care to avoid a GBP 1,000 holiday mobile bill
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE cost of text messaging from abroad looks set to fallfollowing moves by the European Commission to force mobile companiesto cut their tariffs. But holidaymakers departing over the next fewweeks should take care before they travel to avoid eye-wateringbills on their return ....
Food deals face ban under plan for 'zero waste'
Jul 06, 2008; ... SUPERMARKETS could be barred from offering two-for-one deals onperishables ranging from fruit and vegetables to pizzas. Ministers want a "zero waste" society - and a levy on disposablegoods such as razors could also be imposed. Research has proved that shoppers regularly ...
Police say missing sex offender is dangerous
Jul 06, 2008; ... POLICE have stepped up their hunt for a missing sex offender. Joseph Herbert Millbank, 47, was last seen in the Perth area onFriday, June 27, and could be a danger to children. He was convicted in January 2002 at the High Court in Aberdeen ofthree charges of lewd, indecent ...
Rasul unloads lettings firm to property duo Newcomer Murray & Currie acquires rental company and plans to expand into sales market
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCOTLAND'S richest Asian, Shaf Rasul, has sold his Exceletlettings business to recently launched Murray & Currie for a six-figure sum. Murray & Currie was established only six weeks ago by RichardMurray and his business partner Steven Currie. Murray is a nephew ofSir David ...
Sly smokers spark more pub inspections
Jul 06, 2008; ... PLANS to scale down smoking inspectors are to be scrapped afternew research suggested a many pub customers are lighting up duringlock-ins. Health officials had hoped that the ban on smoking in pubs andclubs would become self-policing. The study on the effectiveness of the ...
Men's magazine wipes the smirks off Scots stars' faces
Jul 06, 2008; ... ROBERT Burns wished, famously, that we were able to "See ourselsas ithers see us". But three of Scotland's most famous sons could today be forgivenfor believing ignorance is bliss. Alex Salmond, Gordon Ramsay andEwan McGregor have been included in a list of Britain's 20 ...
The long and short of spread betting
Jul 06, 2008; ... Rosemary Gallagher learns how to be quids in by placing wagers onfinancial markets TODAY I begin a foray into the weird and wonderful world ofspread betting. Over the next three weeks, I will be attempting tomake a profit for Yorkhill Children's Foundation by betting on ...
Teach yourself Gaelic
Jul 06, 2008; ... Mr: big/great Pronounced more, and also sometimes spelt mr in older books. Itcomes up in many place names, such as An Gleann Mr, the Great Glen.It also appears in some personal names and nicknames. Great clanchiefs of the past might be referred to as Iain Mr, John the ...
Diary Of A Spread Better: Clouds over US economy bring a silver lining to portfolio
Jul 06, 2008; ... IN the first of four diary updates on the performance of myspread betting portfolio, I can report that I generated a 19 percent profit in June for Yorkhill Children's Foundation on the GBP2,000 placed in my account by CMC Markets. This took my balance toGBP 2,374.33 at the end of the ...
Architect to offer homes for GBP 40,000 Company receives funding for idea to sell kit properties ready to move into within 10 days
Jul 06, 2008; ... HOME buyers will be able to buy a kit house online for as littleas GBP 40,000 and have the keys within 10 days if the vision of aScottish architect takes off. Andrew Stoane aims to develop a house building system for "futureurban living" to help tackle the shortage and ...
Our future hopes for Wimbledon may rest on Devine intervention
Jul 06, 2008; ... For Carlos Rodriguez to show faith in her, you couldn't get muchbetter when it comes to women's tennis SHE'S already got the drive and the poise for Wimbledon's CentreCourt. Now she has the opportunity to fulfil her potential and getto tennis's hallowed ground. Emma Devine, ...
Business Comment: UK banking can ill-afford Bradford & Bungle fundraising debacle
Jul 06, 2008; ... WITH the banking sector still deep in crisis the last thing itneeded was another Northern Rock-style embarrassment. The catalogueof errors at Bradford & Bingley has shown that it is quite capableof making a regular fool of itself. The withdrawal of US private equity firm Texas ...
Professor spreads the word on joy of text
Jul 06, 2008; ... IT HAS become part of everyday life, especially for the youngergeneration, but texting has also been widely blamed for triggering alinguistic malaise that is undermining the nation's literacy skills. Now a new book, published by the world-renowned Oxford UniversityPress, has ...
Swinton keeps it reel at home with launch of Nairn film festival
Jul 06, 2008; ... CANNES it may not be, but Tilda Swinton is hoping to place herquiet Scottish hometown on the world stage. The award-winning actress is behind a film festival which will belaunched in the Moray community of Nairn this summer. The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams event is ...
The Man From Uncle How Toni Nadal nurtured his nephew's talent and continues to do so even when officialdom frowns on his courtside antics, finds Moira Gordon
Jul 06, 2008; ... HE TELLS the story of throwing a tennis ball to a four-year-oldand watching a future Grand Slam champion returning it. That's howsure Toni Nadal was that there was some genius in his nephew. Since that day, they have formed a formidable partnership. Onewhich has garnered Rafael ...
The Week Unzipped: Disposable income for families drops to a five- year low
Jul 06, 2008 ... FAMILIES are feeling the pinch more than ever, with disposableincomes at their lowest in five years and household costs soaring,according to a study by Ernst & Young. The average household is left with just GBP 755 a month to spendon food, clothes, holidays and other costs after ...