Scotland on Sunday back issues from August 2008:
Lynn O'Rourke
Aug 03, 2008; ... DO MEN and women see things at home in a different way? Is theresome particular lighting that affects blokes and they just don'tnotice things that we ladies feel are staring us in the face? In ourold flat it was the dust-balls under the sofa on the wooden floors.They didn't exist for my ...
Pensions overhaul could damage existing schemes, experts warn
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE Government's planned overhaul of pensions through theintroduction of Personal Accounts in 2012 could damage existingcompany schemes and prove to be an expensive mistake, pensionexperts have warned. Personal Accounts are being established as part of the NationalPensions ...
Interview: Paul McLaughlin: Aiming for the top of the food chain
Aug 03, 2008; ... IT is a sign of the times when Scotland's food and drink industryoutperforms that of manufacturing. For a nation that was once theworkshop of the world, famous for its thousands of shipbuilders,steel workers and coal miners, these days it's more likely to bewhisky production, salmon ...
Shot newlywed back home for critical tests
Aug 03, 2008; ... DOCTORS treating the newlywed who was shot in a suspected bungledrobbery in Antigua, in which his wife was murdered, said yesterdaythat the man remained in a coma. Benjamin Mullany arrived at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, in theearly hours of yesterday after being flown home from ...
Lab chimps show same stress symptoms as tortured humans
Aug 03, 2008; ... CHIMPANZEES subjected to laboratory experiments suffer similarlevels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as humans who havebeen tortured, according to a new study. The study, which will be presented to a scientific conference inEdinburgh tomorrow, will fuel calls for a ...
Investors see beauty in fine art
Aug 03, 2008; ... COLLECTING Monets and Warhols used to be the hobby of a select,wealthy few but now ordinary investors are turning to fine art asreturns from traditional asset classes flounder during the creditcrunch. Fine art funds are reporting a boom in interest since the startof the ...
Flying into a storm
Aug 03, 2008; ... WHEN Giovanni Bisignani, the director-general and chief executiveof the International Air Transport Association, prophesied thepresent crisis engulfing the airline industry he talked about a"perfect storm" that was potentially more destructive "than ourrecent battles with all the ...
Barfly
Aug 03, 2008 ... MacAskill's grave New World for wine producers SCOTLAND'S Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, whose war on bingedrinking has earned him the nickname 'Kenny MacAskilljoy', has foundan unlikely opponent to his plans to introduce minimum pricing perunit of alcohol which would result in ...
Highest paid BBC stars avoid 10 per cent cuts to salary
Aug 03, 2008; ... STAR presenters will not be expected to take a 10 per cent paycut being imposed on lesser-known names in the BBC hierarchy, it wasclaimed yesterday. All presenters in national and regional television and radio willbe faced with minimum 10 per cent salary cuts when contracts come ...
Evening plans for Beanscene founder
Aug 03, 2008; ... GORDON Richardson, the founder of coffee bar chain Beanscene,says he will press ahead with plans to develop the firm into an"evening destination experience" if he is successful in buying thecompany back. Speaking from the south of France where he is on holiday,Richardson, who ...
We need a Hoover to clean up economy
Aug 03, 2008; ... AFTER one of the worst weeks for economic news since, well, theweek before, America and Britain now seem to be in a race as to whowill be the first to dive over the recession line. It is shaping upto be a photo-finish. But who wins in the end is secondary to theappalling direction in ...
Briefs: SL sales fall
Aug 03, 2008 ... STANDARD LIFE is tipped to reveal that worldwide sales of lifeand pensions fell 1 per cent in the first six months of the yearwhen it posts its latest figures on Wednesday. However, analysts expect a 39 per cent rise in ...
Briefs: Fuel plea
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE Federation of Small Businesses is urging the Government tointroduce an adjustment mechanism to protect UK companies from sharphikes in energy prices. The Federation wants fuel duty to be automatically lowered ...
Briefs: CBI dinner
Aug 03, 2008 ... CBI director general Richard Lambert, above, has been lined up tospeak at the business group's annual dinner ...
Dressed for success
Aug 03, 2008 ... ITV is hoping for a boost from the new series of Trinny AndSusannah's Undress ...
Don't make us all pay for alcohol abuse, say Scots Public oppose 35p hike to deter problem drinkers but SNP claims poll is biased
Aug 03, 2008; ... TWO-thirds of Scots believe ministers are acting unfairly bypushing up the price of alcohol for everyone simply to crack down onthe minority of problem drinkers, according to a new survey. In the first poll of public opinion since the Scottish Governmentunveiled its plans for a ...
Briefs: Racing Suiceide
Aug 03, 2008 ... A RENAULT Formula One engineer is believed to have shot himselfat the team's headquarters, police confirmed yesterday. Thames Valley Police said they are not treating the death ofWilliam Millar as suspicious, after he was found on a footpathwithin the grounds of the Whiteways ...
Briefs: Body Found
Aug 03, 2008 ... POLICE yesterday launched an investigation after a 43-year-oldman was found dead in an Ayrshire house. The man was found in a house in David Dale Avenue in ...
Briefs: Mill Protest
Aug 03, 2008 ... HUNDREDS yesterday took part in a rally to save a closure-threatened paper mill. Redundancy notices were served on 180 of the 270 staff at theCurtis Mill in ...
Briefs: Salt Shake Up
Aug 03, 2008 ... A COUNCIL is hoping to cut salt intake by handing out saltshakers with fewer holes to fish and chip shops. King's Lynn and West Norfolk District Council distributed around200 five-hole shakers to 39 businesses, replacing the more common 17-hole variety. The ...
Briefs: Innocent Guilty
Aug 03, 2008 ... INNOCENT, Britain's leading manufacturer of smoothie drinks, hasbeen accused of misleading consumers about its green credentials. The firm claimed on its website that fruit used in its products"always travels by boat or rail". In reality, the company's European fruit imports ...
Briefs: Teenage Stabbing
Aug 03, 2008 ... A TEENAGER was stable in hospital yesterday after being stabbedin the leg in a street attack. The 18-year-old suffered "significant" blood loss after theincident in Dundee's St Nicholas Place ....
Whitehall to urge EDF to make fresh offer for British Energy
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE UK Government is expected to urge French power giant EDF toresume talks on a revised offer for British Energy to ensure itsnuclear power programme remains on course. British Energy pulled out of the GBP 12bn deal with EDF late onThursday after two of its major institutional ...
David emerges from the shadow of a Goliath Size won't matter as a relative unknown moves into pole position to become Brown's successor
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE Romans gave Minorca its name, meaning "little one", in directcontrast to its bigger neighbour, Majorca, the "the large one".Yesterday, as David Miliband arrived at the smaller of the Balearicislands with his wife Louise and their two adopted children for atwo-week holiday, he could ...
Big guns rally to Brown's defence
Aug 03, 2008 ... THREE Labour heavyweights have issued a public vote of confidencein a bid to crush speculation of a leadership bid this autumnagainst Gordon Brown. Chancellor Alistair Darling, deputy leaderHarriet Harman and skills secretary John Denham all spoke out,insisting that Brown was the best ...
Big guns rally to defend Brown
Aug 03, 2008; ... THREE Labour heavyweights have issued a public vote of confidencein Gordon Brown in a bid to crush speculation of a leadership bidthis autumn. Chancellor Alistair Darling, deputy leader Harriet Harman andskills secretary John Denham all spoke out, insisting that Brown wasthe ...
Blair attacks Brown's judgment
Aug 03, 2008; ... TONY Blair has launched a scathing attack on his successor GordonBrown's performance as Prime Minister, it was reported last night. In a secret memo, obtained by a Sunday newspaper, the formerpremier accused Brown of making a "fatal" mistake by repudiatingBlair's record in ...
Byng in war of words with Booker judges after his top choice fails to make longlist
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE book jackets are off for the literary spat of the year. Scotland's most high-profile publisher has launched a witheringattack on the judges of the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Canongate's Jamie Byng said he has "no respect" for the selectionpanel after they failed to ...
Bentley thrills at full throttle
Aug 03, 2008; ... LAST summer I drove the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead, which isjust about the biggest (and at GBP 307,500 the most expensive)convertible in the world. It's big and imposing, and even without customising it to yourown taste with the likes of polished wood decking, it's going ...
Warning over additives in 1 in 8 Chinese meals
Aug 03, 2008; ... ONE in eight Chinese meals purchased from takeaways andrestaurants in Scotland contains illegal levels of a chemicalflavouring that can cause an "extremely distressing" reaction indiners, according to a new survey by health watchdogs. The use of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in ...
'It's Europe's worst nightmare. US players may quit the Ryder Cup'
Aug 03, 2008; ... IF YOU were to characterise Hunter Mahan's crass rant this weekas the mealy-mouthed threats of a terminally pampered and over-indulged country-club brat, few would disagree with you. But they'dbe wrong too. While the 26-year-old rising star of US golf chose toexpress himself in a ...
Mortgage problems 'will last until 2010'
Aug 03, 2008; ... HOUSE prices fell at the fastest rate on record in July, knockingGBP 15,000 off average UK values; mortgage offers tumbled 64 percent; and Sir James Crosby, parachuted in by the Treasury to kick-start the property market, warned that things will only get worseuntil the end of 2010 ....
Police consider cold case review of Dando murder
Aug 03, 2008; ... JILL Dando's murder could be the subject of a cold case review inwhich the huge body of evidence amassed in the investigation intothe Crimewatch presenter's murder would be re-examined. Detectives have more than 2,500 witness statements and 3,700exhibits to trawl through in the ...
Drumlanrig
Aug 03, 2008 ... NO GRAY AREAS IN THIS CLASH An extra twist of bitterness between the two male candidates forthe job of Scottish Labour leader falls over the matter of smoking.Iain Gray is one of the few leading politicians left who refuses tobend to health fascism and continues to enjoy a regular ...
Ground rules for election campaign
Aug 03, 2008 ... The forthcoming election of the leader of Labour's Holyrood groupwill be the first of its kind. Neither Donald Dewar, Henry McLeishnor Jack McConnell were subjected to the judgment of the entireLabour movement. The vote is decided by an electoral college made up of threeequal ...
Final Statement: Windfall reveals skeletons in insurance firms' closets
Aug 03, 2008; ... A MILLION Aviva policyholders who bought with-profit contractswith the old General Accident and Commercial Union companies are inline for a cash windfall of around GBP 1,000. But the giveaway has also shone a spotlight on unsavouryskeletons in the with-profits cupboard ....
Lack of interest forces Friends to rethink sell-off
Aug 03, 2008; ... NEW Friends Provident boss Trevor Matthews is expected to reviewthe proposed sale of assets as reluctant buyers threaten toundermine the firm's latest strategy. The firm has not attracted high enough bids for Pantheon, thefinancial advisory business it bought last summer ....
Fringe was warned months ago of box office fiasco Venue operators say untried ticketing system was a gamble which has damaged the Festival
Aug 03, 2008; ... FRINGE chiefs were told at least six months ago they were headingfor disaster with their new untested ticketing system but ignoredthe warning, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. The world's biggest arts festival has been thrown into chaos by aseries of computer failures which crippled ...
Fabiani steps into Fringe ticket row
Aug 03, 2008; ... CULTURE Minister Linda Fabiani has entered the row over ticketingchaos at the Edinburgh Fringe, asking for assurances from organisersthey were resolving the crisis. The build-up to the world's largest arts event was thrown intodisarray by a series of technical failures which ...
Government wades into Fringe chaos
Aug 03, 2008; ... CULTURE Minister Linda Fabiani has entered the row over ticketingchaos at the Edinburgh Fringe, demanding assurances from organisersthat they are resolving the crisis. The build-up to the world's largest arts event was thrown intodisarray by a series of technical failures which ...
Minister wades into ticket crisis at Fringe
Aug 03, 2008; ... CULTURE Minister Linda Fabiani has entered the row over ticketingchaos at the Edinburgh Fringe, demanding assurances from organisersthat they are resolving the crisis. The build-up to the world's largest arts event was thrown intodisarray by a series of technical failures which ...
Rare fungus turns up in city centre
Aug 03, 2008; ... IT HAS never been recorded in Scotland before and certainly notnear a city centre. But a leading fungi expert accidentally stumbled upon a newspecies as he walked home from work in Aberdeen. Dr Andy Taylor, from the city's Macaulay Institute, noticed theXerocomus bubalinus ...
Actress stages search for former husband
Aug 03, 2008; ... ACTRESS Jill Gascoine is hoping to find her first husband - whoshe has not spoken to since the 1960s - while she is in Edinburghduring the Fringe festival. Gascoine, who is appearing in the dark comedy Sister Cities atthe Gilded Balloon, has revealed the private turmoil that lay ...
Ten to win gold for Britain
Aug 03, 2008; ... SINCE THE very first Olympic Games, in 1896, Britain have had apresence on the medals leaderboard. Finishing ahead of all comers in1908, when London hosted the Games, the worst performance came inAtlanta 12 years ago, when only Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsettin the coxless pairs ...
Parents warned on gymnastic photos
Aug 03, 2008; ... FEAR of paedophiles on the internet has prompted Scots sportschiefs to warn parents and coaches not to photograph young athletesin their gym gear. Controversial new advice from governing body Scottish Gymnasticssays photographs of youngsters should only be taken if they ...
Premier League 2008-9 Preview: Hearts: Realism flows from Laszlo expectations
Aug 03, 2008; ... WHEN VLADIMIR Romanov first came to Tynecastle, he set out hisstall in simple terms. The former submariner said he wanted Heartsto torpedo the Old Firm's domination of Scottish football, and hewas prepared to pay to achieve that aim. Apart from one season when Hearts split Celtic ...
Fletcher finally finds net
Aug 03, 2008; ... Hibernian 2: Fletcher 8; 60 Middlesbrough 3: Alves 65; 72;Wheater 70 HIBS played their part in this highly entertaining friendlyfixture at Easter Road yesterday, but were beaten by a three goalsin seven minutes spell after taking a deserved lead against theEnglish Premiership ...
Fletcher finally finds net
Aug 03, 2008; ... Hibernian 2 Fletcher 9; 60 Middlesbrough 3: Alves 65, 72;Wheater 70 HIBS played their part in this highly entertaining friendlyfixture at Easter Road yesterday, but were beaten by a three goalsin seven minutes spell after taking a deserved lead against theEnglish Premiership ...
Gunning for gold
Aug 03, 2008; ... FOR THE PAST FOUR years it is what all the training, the gymwork, the strength and conditioning work, the physio sessions, thetravelling, the competing, the healthy eating have all been about.After four years of non-stop dedication to the cause, it's now therelative inactivity which ...
Funds put trust in commercial property
Aug 03, 2008; ... THERE are signs that the commercial property sector is emergingfrom the doldrums, with Hunter Property Fund Management (HPFM)launching an investment trust and Scottish Widows lifting theredemption period on its funds. HPFM has secured GBP 30m from Royal Bank of Scotland to ...
India still worth investing in, say fund managers
Aug 03, 2008; ... INDIA should not be overlooked as a lucrative emerging market forinvestors, despite its widening trade deficit, increasing energycosts and the falling value of the rupee, according to fundmanagers. JP Morgan Asset Management said the value of the rupee has beendamaged by the ...
Interest rates on hold as fears remain
Aug 03, 2008; ... INTEREST rates are expected to be held in Britain and the US thisweek as the Bank of England and Federal Reserve battle with theeconomic downturn and inflation. The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 5 percent on Thursday amid fears that inflation will rise ...
Nippy Sweetie: 'A friend's wife thinks football lasts five hours. He isn't about to put her straight'
Aug 03, 2008; ... IT'S nearly that time of year again. Everyone is getting very,very excited. Poring over dates, making sure that there are noconflicts in your diary. You keep looking at your ticket, imaginingthe delights to come and you spend ages phoning and e-mailingfriends that you haven't seen in ...
I have a chip on my shoulder, says Knightley
Aug 03, 2008; ... SHE has played swashbuckling heroines and sophisticated Victorianand Edwardian beauties in a series of intelligent roles, but actressKeira Knightley has revealed she has a "chip on her shoulder"because she does not have a university education. The 23-year-old Oscar nominee dropped ...
Perspective: All strategies lead away from Brown
Aug 03, 2008; ... For Brown to lead Labour into the next election would be foolishand reckless THREE years ago some bright spark at the Daily Telegraph had theidea of bringing together two of the rising stars in the Labour andTory parties for a friendly chat. The two men were David Cameron,who at ...
One is 'talentless', another a 'hypocrite' and the third is 'boring' - and that's their own party colleagues talking. So, as the Scottish Labour leadership contest begins, Eddie Barnes asks is any of them...UP TO THE JOB?
Aug 03, 2008; ... THEY are, says George Galloway, Labour's "dwarves". Front-runnerAndy Kerr, spits one Labour MP, encapsulates "the triumph ofambition over talent". Iain Gray is the embodiment of "mediocrity",says a Kerr-ite MSP. As for Cathy Jamieson? "Can you imagine her asleader?" asks one senior ...
Civil war engulfs Labour
Aug 03, 2008; ... SCOTTISH Labour was facing full-scale civil war last night asleading MSPs demanded the new leader wrest "complete control" of theparty from its London headquarters. Former Finance Minister Tom McCabe said the next Labour leader atHolyrood should have total power over Scottish ...
Leader: Labour's chance to unite
Aug 03, 2008 ... WHEN Barack Obama recently visited Gordon Brown he had thisadvice for a Prime Minister beleaguered by electoral disaster andinternal discontent: "You're always more popular before you'reactually in charge. Once you're responsible then you're going tomake some people unhappy." ...
Market Watch: Banking heavyweights brace themselves for tough week
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE FTSE 100 struggled to make much progress as worse thanexpected news from the banking, aviation and telecoms sector spookedinvestors. The index ended the week up just 2.1 points at 5354.7 after poorperformances from some of the City's best known names includingLloyds TSB and ...
Marque Creative to open studio in Europe
Aug 03, 2008; ... BRANDING consultancy Marque Creative, headquartered in Glasgow,is to open its first studio in mainland Europe, following its re-branding from Third Eye Design. The firm was established as a design agency in Scotland 14 yearsago and decided to change its name this summer to reflect ...
McColgan claims today's athletes don't train enough
Aug 03, 2008; ... ONE of Scotland's greatest athletes has hit out at the newgeneration of Olympic hopefuls for not training hard enough. Liz McColgan claims that the latest generation of Britishathletes have been over-praised for under-achieving and have beenhindered rather than helped by trendy ...
Mey Selections agrees tasty Sainsbury's deal
Aug 03, 2008; ... MEY Selections, the Caithness-based food brand inspired by PrinceCharles, is to supply its oatcakes, conserves, preserves, honey andshortbread to all Sainsbury's stores in Scotland. Mey is part of North Highland Products, a company formed byCaithness farmers to select and source ...
Money Helpdesk: Can my wife cut her council tax as I live abroad?
Aug 03, 2008 ... I'M 52, married, with two grown-up daughters. For the last 10years I have worked for the Foreign Office as a contractor. I liveand work abroad and, as such, have 'No Tax' status with the InlandRevenue, which means I can only be in the UK for a maximum of 92days per year and typically ...
Scrutiny: When all seems lost, all that's left to do is protest
Aug 03, 2008; ... A third of older people in the UK have seen their local postoffice close IN THE thriving row of shops in my Glasgow neigh- bourhoodthere's a single blank shop front. The brown shutters went down inFebruary and have stayed down ever since. Despite protests andpetitions and a ...
New weapon in war on skin cancer
Aug 03, 2008; ... A SCANNER which can detect the early stages of skin cancer hasbeen made available to patients in Scotland for the first time - atGBP 100 a time. The device allows doctors to screen and evaluate a mole withinseconds and either reassure patients that it is harmless or referthem on ...