Scotland on Sunday back issues from October 2008:
Officer kills himself over stun gun death
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT WAS a routine police call, which led to a man being killed andan officer taking his own life. Lieutenant Michael Pigott of the New York Police Departmentkilled himself last week after ordering the fatal Taser shooting ofan emotionally disturbed man in Brooklyn. Pigott, a ...
Officer kills himself over stun gun death
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT WAS a routine police call which led to a man being killed andan officer taking his own life. Lieutenant Michael Pigott of the New York Police Departmentkilled himself last week after ordering the fatal Taser shooting ofan emotionally disturbed man in Brooklyn. Pigott, a ...
Cancer patients 'expect too much from the NHS'
Oct 05, 2008; ... Drug chief says extra months of life not worth the cost Cancer drugs not worth the cash SERIOUSLY ill Scots pin too much hope on new drug treatments andpharmaceutical firms are partly to blame because they over-hypetheir products, the head of Scotland's drug rationing body ...
Riordan double piles pressure on Calderwood
Oct 05, 2008; ... Aberdeen 1 Hibernian 2 IN THE game of managerial hangman playing out with Aberdeen'sJimmy Calderwood, yesterday's defeat might prove the equivalent ofthe rope being drawn on to the gallows sketched following previoushome defeats. The loss to Hibs wasn't as horrible as the ...
Analysis: Spin doctor sidelined for Mandelson
Oct 05, 2008 ... The return of Peter Mandelson was broadly welcomed by most LabourMPs yesterday. Such has been the complete disarray within the partyover recent months that any hint of a change of direction is seen asnecessary. Added to that, Mandelson's business experience, and hisstrategic genius, are ...
Lynn O'Rourke
Oct 05, 2008; ... I rashly started sorting out all our piles of paperwork and filesat home. The box files currently take up a lot of shelf space thatcould be better used, so my intention was to spend a morningorganising it, shoving into the attic the stuff we are unlikely toneed and keeping all the ...
Coolest gig ever? KT's Arctic jam session
Oct 05, 2008; ... KT TUNSTALL has performed the most bizarre gig of her career - inthe Arctic Circle. The Scottish singer, who usually plays to audiences of thousands,delighted residents of a tiny community in Greenland by belting outtunes from her latest album. The 33-year-old and her new ...
Barfly
Oct 05, 2008 ... It's tough at the top table, and lonely too NEITHER of the two candidates competing for the top prize at theElite awards last week were present at the Prestonfield dinner,which was a pity as it pitched the chairman and chief executive ofScottish & Southern Energy against each ...
Briefs
Oct 05, 2008 ... RAIL LINK FEARS BUSINESS lobby groups in Scotland have expressed dismay at theTory party's proposal to invest in a high-speed rail link connectingLondon with the north of England. They have welcomed the party's pledge to build a line but want itextended to Scotland ....
Cut us some slack on interest
Oct 05, 2008; ... EMERGENCY bank bailouts. Emergency bank rescues. Emergencydeposit guarantees. And coming with a force incredible: emergencysummits, emergency interest rate cuts - and, soon after, emergencynational budgets. We have moved, in the space of barely a month, from a state ...
Lift off for Boeing's debut in Scotland
Oct 05, 2008; ... BOEING, the US aircraft builder, is to invest in Scotland for thefirst time and is considering a manufacturing facility. The company is sending a delegation to Glasgow this week, whereexecutives will meet potential suppliers. "The aim of the day is to discuss how and where ...
Market Watch: Sainsbury faces pressure to reveal strategy for crunch
Oct 05, 2008; ... RETAILERS are in the spotlight again this week, with J Sainsbury,the third-biggest supermarket group, expected to report a 3.9 percent rise in second-quarter underlying sales on Wednesday. Although this is a pick-up from 3.4 per cent for the firstquarter, it is lagging rivals and ...
Briefs: Body found
Oct 05, 2008 ... AN INVESTIGATION was under way yesterday after the body of a manwas found in a street. The body was discovered in Douglas Street in Dundee earlyyesterday. Tayside Police are trying to establish the ...
Briefs: Mayor's met plea
Oct 05, 2008 ... LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson has urged Home Secretary Jacqui Smithnot to rush into appointing a new Metropolitan Police Commissioner. And he added that he wants to work alongside Smith in theshortlisting and final interviews of any candidates for the job. Previous commissioners ...
Briefs; Festival tickets
Oct 05, 2008 ... TICKETS for next year's Glastonbury Festival will go on saletoday - eight months before the event, in June. The music and arts extravaganza in Somerset was criticised thisyear after tickets failed to sell out on the first day, as usual. Organiser Michael Eavis said the new ...
Briefs: Station death
Oct 05, 2008 ... A POLICE station in Doncaster has been sealed off after a youngwoman died there. Detectives are investigating after a man walked into Thornepolice station in Doncaster with the woman, who had collapsed, at3.55am yesterday. The woman was taken to Doncaster ...
Fur flies as Scots rocker stalks Catwoman role
Oct 05, 2008; ... Pfeiffer and Berry just not up to scratch, says feisty Garbagefrontwoman Shirley Manson IT'S a Hollywood cat fight. Scottish rocker-turned-actressShirley Manson has sent the fur flying in Tinseltown by claimingthat she is the ideal person to play Batman's feisty felineadversary ....
Spin doctor's orders: bring back Mandy
Oct 05, 2008; ... Alastair Campbell was key to minister's return ALASTAIR Campbell has emerged as a key player in the dramaticreturn of Peter Mandelson to the cabinet and in wholesale changes toGordon Brown's Downing Street operation. Tony Blair's former spin doctor was "intimately involved" ...
Briefs: Shock wedding
Oct 05, 2008 ... US "SHOCK jock" Howard Stern has married his long-termgirlfriend. The radio talk show host tied the knot with BethOstrosky, right. "I can't wait to marry Howard," she told reporters before theceremony at Manhattan's Tony Le Cirque restaurant, adding: "I know,everyone laughs." ...
Bhoys give Hamilton a battering
Oct 05, 2008; ... Celtic 4 Hamilton Academical 0 THIS was no great advertisement for the dear old SPL. God loves atrier but Hamilton were annihilated, absolutely battered from firstwhistle to last and it wasn't all that comfortable watching it.Having conceded four against Falkirk last week, only a ...
Vennegoor of Hesselink a doubt for Old Trafford clash
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE only blight on Gordon Strachan's day was the early injury toJan Vennegoor of Hesselink, a strain of the adductor muscle in hisgroin, which is going to keep the big Dutchman out of action for alittle while. Strachan couldn't give a timescale of recovery but theslightly pained ...
The Scottish Investment Challenge: Barclays Wealth of talent scoops prize
Oct 05, 2008 ... BARCLAYS Wealth emerged as the winner of the inaugural ScottishInvestment Challenge which raised GBP 8,000 for two local charities. The winning team of Nick Dunn, Saftar Sarwar and John Godfreywere presented with an engraved crystal bowl at a lunchtime ceremonyheld at the Edinburgh ...
Investors swoop for 'distressed' property
Oct 05, 2008; ... INVESTORS are buying up properties being sold at a knockdownprice by owners struggling to sell. A wave of investment in so-called "distressed" properties ishelping to inject funds into the sector. Money stopped flowing into commercial property last year asinvestment returns ...
Putting your savings into safe hands
Oct 05, 2008; ... INVESTOR confidence hit rock bottom last week, with billions ofpounds of savings moving round institutions as consumers frettedover the question of how safe their money is. And their worries are no longer confined to banks. Many areanxious about their pensions and other ...
'No hiding place' as deal activity collapses
Oct 05, 2008; ... DEAL activity in Scotland has fallen dramatically over the pasttwo years, contracting by half in each of the past two years, newresearch reveals. KPMG has found that the number of deals completed in the firsthalf of this year was down 51 per cent on the same period last year.The ...
Economy heads into eye of storm
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE UK economy is entering the eye of a storm as banks around theworld are bailed out amid consumer panic, and families and companiesfeel the icy blast of the credit crunch at their doors. Governments will need to steer a wary course if we are to survivethe hurricane of rising ...
Buying time
Oct 05, 2008; ... Should NHS patients be allowed to pay for life-prolonging'wonderdrugs', asks Kate Foster The NHS should not be failing you like that. I have paid my taxesall my life. It's not fair on my girls DIANE Wishart has a rare form of breast cancer and has told heryoung daughters, as ...
Drumlanrig
Oct 05, 2008 ... WHELAN 'N' DEALIN' FOR GLENROTHES The return of the old New Labour crew (Mandelson, Campbell, etall) also includes Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Charlie Whelanwe hear. Now working at the super union Unite, Whelan, below, is setto play a key behind-the-scenes role in the ...
Boy of 13 charged with fire murder
Oct 05, 2008; ... A 13-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged with murder in connection witha fire in which a mother died trying to rescue her children. Angela Brown, 31, died trying to pull her family from a blaze attheir home in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, last Sunday morning. The 13-year-old and two other ...
Harrington the one to watch as field struggles to weather storm
Oct 05, 2008; ... AS THE raging winds howled across the fairways of Fife for asecond successive day yesterday, at least the sounds of frustratedsighs from the sparse galleries on hand to witness missed putts andpulled drives were cast to the four winds. Or should that be cast tothe roaring forties, ...
Boy of 13 charged with fire murder
Oct 05, 2008; ... A 13-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged with murder in connection witha fire in which a mother died trying to rescue her children. Angela Brown, 31, died trying to pull her family from a blaze attheir home in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, last Sunday morning. The 13-year-old and two other ...
Haining all ready for take-off
Oct 05, 2008; ... FIRST GAME of the season and St Mirren's Will Haining is walkingtowards the away dressing room with just 61 minutes played. Red-carded, anger burns inside him but it's nothing compared with thesense of injustice harboured by his manager. That only intensifieswhen Barry Robson nets the ...
Hambro poaches duo for Scots launch
Oct 05, 2008; ... SG HAMBRO private bank is to open in Edinburgh after poaching twotop directors from rival Kleinwort Benson. Sources say that Societe Generale, which owns SG Hambro, islooking for offices and that the operation will be run by Mike Smithand Christopher Thomson. It is expected the ...
Back to the drawing board
Oct 05, 2008; ... Now that the boom years appear to be over, Rosemary Gallaghersays the financial markets face some tough challenges AFTER much heated debate and one failed attempt, US Treasurysecretary Henry Paulson will have breathed a sigh of relief onFriday night when politicians finally gave ...
Final Statement: Without spirited Sarah, we haven't got a ghost of a chance
Oct 05, 2008; ... THEY say there's a ghost of a lady, tear-stained and dressed inblack mourning, who haunts the Bank of England, or to be moreprecise, Prince's Street, the road running up the side. Her name is Sarah Whitehead, and she was the sister of a bankclerk sentenced to death for forging a ...
US plan for luxury apartments at the home of golf is bunkered
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT WAS meant to be a palatial viewing point over the most famousgolf course in the world. Sited at the back of the 18th green of the iconic St Andrews OldCourse, the former university hall was to be transformed into aluxury residence and prestigious address for wealthy businessmen ...
Hearts finally broken by Bryson
Oct 05, 2008; ... Hearts 1 Kilmarnock 2 KILMARNOCK have misfired lately after a fine start to the season,but got back on track and moved into third place in the ClydesdaleBank Premierleague with a narrow and late but deserved win overHearts at Tynecastle. The visitors upped their work rate ...
Top teacher warns of cash crisis in schools
Oct 05, 2008; ... Headteachers' leader says cash shortage damaging education SCOTLAND'S primary and secondary schools are facing a cash crisisof unprecedented proportions which will cause serious damage tochildren's education over the next three years, according to thecountry's top headteacher ....
Top teacher warns of cash crisis in schools
Oct 05, 2008; ... Headteachers' leader says cash shortage damaging education SCOTLAND'S primary and secondary schools are facing a cash crisisof unprecedented proportions which will cause serious damage tochildren's education over the next three years, according to thecountry's top headteacher ....
High-end property mothballed by crunch
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE credit crunch is now hitting the top-quality end ofScotland's residential property market, with HBOS-backed Heritor'sGroup being forced to put developments on hold. Edinburgh-based Heritor's, which buys properties in primelocations for refurbishment to let or sell, said the ...
Bryson's late intervention lifts Kilmarnock into third and leaves Hearts broken
Oct 05, 2008; ... Hearts 1 Kilmarnock 2 KILMARNOCK have misfired lately after a fine start to the season,but got back on track and moved into third place in the ClydesdaleBank Premierleague with a narrow win over Hearts at Tynecastle.There seemed little danger when Craig Bryson picked up the ball ...
Electricity firm 'abused subsidies'
Oct 05, 2008; ... ONE of Scotland's leading electricity companies is facingallegations that it deliberately reduced the generating capacity ofsome of its hydro power stations to attract Government subsidiesworth millions of pounds. In a petition to be discussed by MSPs this week, Scottish ...
Iceland moves to calm bank fears after krona comes under attack
Oct 05, 2008; ... ICELANDIC authorities will produce a financial stability planthis week to calm growing anxiety over the country's free-fallingcurrency and its banking sector. The head of Sedlabanki, the central bank, said the situation wasgrave but not a cause for despair. The latest ...
Pressure mounts on Bank of England to boost economy with base rate cut
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE Bank of England will be pressured to cut interest rates thisweek as market observers fear the dollars 700bn bailout package inthe US will only provide a short-term boost to world economies. In the aftermath of the rescue agreement that was finally reachedon Friday, there were ...
Nippy Sweetie: 'I try to cover up with sniffs and complaints about my hay fever, but I cry at everything'
Oct 05, 2008; ... CHERYL Cole and me have a great deal in common. I know, I know -you've been able to tell that for some time. Just look at mypicture. I am (pretty much) her mirror image. Well, I mean, she'sgot hair; I've got hair. Okay, I've not got quite so much of it, buthair none the less. She's got ...
Jack stays on to avert by-election
Oct 05, 2008; ... McConnell postpones Malawi move JACK McConnell's planned departure from Holyrood has been put onhold by Gordon Brown, ensuring that Labour will avoid a bruising by-election struggle against the SNP. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that McConnell will not be sent toMalawi as ...
Perspective: A curious way to run a country
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT WAS Norman Lamont who came up with the most witheringdescription of John Major's administration when it was teetering onthe brink. Major, he said, was "in office, but not in power". Ouch.It's hard to think of a more damning thing to say about a country'sleader. Yet it's the phrase ...
Island strife frustrates Fa'atau
Oct 05, 2008; ... ONE OF the superstars of Southern Hemisphere rugby signed forGlasgow last year but then concocted a disappearing act that wasworthy of Harry Houdini. All but the keenest Warrior watcher wouldhave been forgiven for not even noticing the arrival of the Samoanspeedster Lome Fa'atau on their ...
Leader: Risky business
Oct 05, 2008 ... MANDY'S Back!' 'The Return of the Prince of Darkness.' 'AriseLord Sleaze.' Gordon Brown's shock recall of Peter Mandelson fromEurope to help guide Britain's economy through the current choppywaters dominated the reaction to Friday's Cabinet reshuffle. How could it have been ...
How Burns lit the way for Lincoln
Oct 05, 2008; ... Poet's verse and passion for social justice informed USpresident's speeches and liberal crusades, claims scholar HE IS Scotland's national bard, whose timeless verse is veneratedaround the globe. But now it has been claimed that the stirring words of RobertBurns exerted such ...
Briefs: Kidnap Scot freed
Oct 05, 2008 ... A SCOT kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria has been released, theForeign Office confirmed last night. The man, who has not been named but is understood to be abusinessman originally from Aberdeen, was seized by a five-stronggang on September 15 in Port Harcourt, the heart of the Niger ...
Mettle that runs in the family
Oct 05, 2008; ... LYNSEY SHARP watches the videos of her dad Cameron winningCommonwealth gold, and competing in the highest echelons ofathletics and she struggles to recognise the man on the screen. Theman who won those medals changed in 1991, when a road accident lefthim disabled. At the time Lynsey was ...
Spin doctor sidelined for Mandelson
Oct 05, 2008; ... Spokesman moved in deal over Cabinet return PETER Mandelson returned to the Cabinet last week on thecondition that Gordon Brown remove his chief spin doctor to abackroom job. Brown's reshuffle included the move of spokesman Damian McBrideinto a less high- profile role at ...
Spin doctor sidelined for Mandelson
Oct 05, 2008; ... Spokesman moved in deal over Cabinet return PETER Mandelson returned to the Cabinet last week on thecondition that Gordon Brown move his chief spin doctor to a backroomjob. Brown's reshuffle included the move of spokesman Damian McBrideinto a less high- profile role at ...
Experts reject theory that murderer Manuel suffered from brain disorder
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT WAS a string of murders, the brutality of which still shocksScotland 50 years later. But a new book is attempting to lay to rest one of the mostcontroversial aspects of the trial and execution of multiplemurderer Peter Manuel: did he deserve to hang? Manuel was sent to ...
Money Helpdesk: Where do I find out who I can bank on?
Oct 05, 2008 ... I READ with interest the article about how safe is our money inthe September 14 edition of Scotland on Sunday. Unfortunately thearticle did not list those banks that are fully covered by the FSCSscheme, nor provide a list of building societies and their capitalratios. Would you please ...
Interest rate cut unlikely to help housing market
Oct 05, 2008; ... LOWER mortgage bills could soon be on the way if the Bank ofEngland cuts interest rates on Thursday as expected, but houseprices will continue falling for many months yet. The monthly cost of a GBP 100,000 home loan could fall by GBP 16if rates are cut by 0.25 per cent, as many ...
Brown's 'mistake' over Scottish role
Oct 05, 2008; ... LABOUR became complacent about its power north of the border andshould not have created a 'two jobs' Scottish Secretary, accordingto the new holder of the post. Jim Murphy, who was appointed to the Cabinet job on Friday, saidGordon Brown made a mistake when he hitched the job onto ...
Murphy out to make peace north of the border
Oct 05, 2008 ... The new Scottish Secretary tells Eddie Barnes why role shouldnever again be a job on the side LABOUR became complacent about its power north of the border andshould not have created a 'two jobs' Scottish Secretary, accordingto the new holder of the post. Jim Murphy, who was ...
DRESSED TO KILT
Oct 05, 2008 ... ACTRESS Daniela Nardini and her daughter Claudia don kilts for afundraising calendar showcasing Scottish celebrities in theirfavourite tartans, writes Kate Foster. Other famous Scots in the OneCity Trust's 'Kilted Scots' calendarinclude ...
Investors flock to security of NS&I
Oct 05, 2008; ... A 21-year-old from Lanarkshire holding just GBP 400 worth ofPremium Bonds last week won GBP 1m, but that is not the reason moneyis pouring into National Savings & Investments. The Government's savings arm is the least likely deposit-taker todefault, and investors are rushing ...
Jack stays on to avert by-election
Oct 05, 2008; ... McConnell postpones Malawi move, averting poll JACK McConnell's planned departure from Holyrood has been put onhold by Gordon Brown, ensuring that Labour will avoid a bruising by-election struggle against the SNP. McConnell will not be sent to Malawi as the UK's ...
Simpson faces life in jail for casino robbery
Oct 05, 2008; ... Lawyer says verdict is payback for death of OJ's former wife FALLEN sports star OJ Simpson will wake up in jail today with theprospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars after beingfound guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas. After a dramatic late-night ...
How bad can it get?
Oct 05, 2008; ... After a week that saw the world's financial systems teeter on thebrink ... With the dust settling, what does the upheaval in the moneymarkets mean for household budgets, asks Dani Garavelli JOB SECURITY With unemployment currently around 1.72 million - its worst levelfor a ...
Principle role for Papac
Oct 05, 2008; ... SASA PAPAC does not seem at first sight to be a standard-bearerfor a new moral army in football. He is almost diffident-looking,with halting English. Yet there is no doubting the sincerity of hisstrong views as he ruled himself out playing for his home country inprotest at the ongoing ...