Scotland on Sunday back issues from January 2009:
Bard blood between two Burns experts
Jan 04, 2009 ... THEY are both acknowledged experts on national bard Robert Burns,writes Fiona Gray. But a dispute between writer Patrick Scott Hogg and academicGerard Carruthers is threatening to overshadow the 2009 Year of theHomecoming and the 250th anniversary of ...
Matt Smith, that's Who: BBC unveils Doctor of the future
Jan 04, 2009; ... AGE and experience have been exterminated. Unknown actor MattSmith became the new face of Doctor Who last night and the youngestTime Lord in the history of the iconic science fiction series. The unveiling of Smith, 26, ended weeks of speculation about theclosely guarded identity ...
Why every golf bag should come with a pair of earplugs
Jan 04, 2009 ... SHOUTS of "fore" on the golf course to warn of an errant shot mayhave to become louder. Doctors are suggesting golfers shouldconsider using earplugs to guard against going deaf, writes JeremyWatson. The advice follows the case of a 55-year-old player who visitedhospital ...
Pain of getting into the swing
Jan 04, 2009 ... Golf, the consensus goes, is one of the great non-contact sports.Yet its long history is littered with tales of unpleasant injuries. Tory MP Terry Dicks fell on a golf course and ended up requiringa hip replacement. Then in the 1991 Open, the crack of Richard Boxall's drive ...
Ashley Davies
Jan 04, 2009; ... 'Space' is such a loaded word. In a relationship, if someone asksfor more of it, there's a very good chance that they want to hangyou from a tree by your intestines. By this time of year, we're gouging our eyes out for more of it,particularly if we've been squashed up with ...
Archives: January 2, 2005
Jan 04, 2009 ... It is the picture that the Scottish Labour elite, and the BBC aswell, would rather the nation did not see. The first families ofScottish politics and broadcasting are shown strolling through theMajorcan countryside on Hogmanay. The First Minister, and his wife Bridget, accepted ...
Oil tycoon sees hotels in rundown properties
Jan 04, 2009; ... AVANA Properties, a firm set up to find international investmentopportunities, is looking for buildings with the potential to beconverted into hotels in the UK. The company was established by oil entrepreneur Sam Malin, whobuilt his career through Madagascar Oil, which is now 60 ...
Darling plans another cash injection to bail out banks
Jan 04, 2009; ... A SECOND multi-billion pound bailout of the UK's banking systemis being considered by ministers, Treasury sources confirmedyesterday. Amid growing evidence that the GBP 37bn part-nationalisation ofthe banks last November has failed to get credit moving, ChancellorAlistair ...
Darling plans cash injection for banks
Jan 04, 2009; ... A SECOND multi-billion-pound bailout of the UK's banking systemis being considered by ministers, Treasury sources said yesterday. Amid growing evidence that the GBP 37bn part-nationalisation ofthe banks last November has failed to get credit moving, ChancellorAlistair Darling is ...
Sex discrimination laws prevented ban on the belt for girls, reveal archives
Jan 04, 2009; ... EARLY moves to ban teachers from giving girls the belt at schoolwere thwarted by sex discrimination laws, newly released governmentpapers reveal. National Archives of Scotland documents also show Scottisheducation officials feared a move to ban the belt altogether wouldbe met ...
Signs point to gain following a year of pain
Jan 04, 2009; ... Positives can be drawn amid unprecedented turmoil GET set for economic history in the making this year. We areflying blind towards an inflection point without precedent in moderneconomics. Our fate in 2009 critically hangs on the outcome of the clashbetween the forces of ...
Brewster focused on survival
Jan 04, 2009; ... Under-fire Inverness boss has no time for those who question hisability to steer Highland club to safety Man on a mission: Craig Brewster is determined to ignore therumour mongers and lead Inverness Caley Thistle out of therelegation zone, and he sees Steven Pressley, below, as an ...
Brown reveals his love of cabbage
Jan 04, 2009; ... IT'S a recession, eat cabbage. Gordon Brown has proposed hislatest remedy to Britain's deepening recession. The Prime Minister is among a number of politicians who havenamed their favourite recipes for a fundraising book in aid of theDonaldson's school for the deaf in Edinburgh ....
Bard Blood
Jan 04, 2009; ... IT IS the Year of the Homecoming when all Scots are expected topull together to celebrate their country and the glorious legacyleft by national bard Robert Burns. But an acrimonious feud between two eminent Burns scholars, whichcould end up in court, is threatening to overshadow ...
Car industry braced for worst year since 1997
Jan 04, 2009; ... EUROPEAN car manufacturers are heading towards their worst yearsince 1997, experts are warning. According to analysts at PricewaterhouseCoopers, car productionin Europe will fall to 15.5 million vehicles this year - theindustry's poorest performance for well over a decade and a 12 ...
United put brakes on title push
Jan 04, 2009; ... Celtic 2 Samaras 12, 57 Dundee United 2 Dixon 60, Feeney 77 League leaders let go of two goal lead to give nearest rivalshope for the future CELTIC surrendered a two-goal lead against Dundee United in themost dramatic fashion to give Rangers a chink of light in ...
Whisper it, but Brown isn't going anywhere
Jan 04, 2009; ... There will be no exodus from Celtic Park to England this month,Gary Caldwell tells Andrew Smith THOSE WILLING to take transfer gossip as gospel could convincethemselves it will come to pass that a posse of Celtic players willgo forth to the English Premier League. Scott Brown was ...
Plan for new jab to eradicate chickenpox
Jan 04, 2009; ... WOMEN and children could be vaccinated against chickenpox underplans being considered by health officials. Adults could also be vaccinated against shingles, which is causedby the same virus. One option being considered by Government advisers would be tocombine the ...
Council puts controversial GBP 1 church deal on hold
Jan 04, 2009; ... SCOTLAND'S biggest local authority has backed out of acontroversial deal to sell a historic church for just GBP 1. Glasgow City Council last year signalled it would accept a tokensum for the city's Archdiocese for St Francis, the landmarkVictorian building in the Gorbals that once ...
Action urged to boost 2014 Games' health legacy
Jan 04, 2009; ... MORE action is needed to ensure that the 2014 Commonwealth Gameshelp Scotland cure its reputation as the sick man of Europe, it wasclaimed last night. Using the legacy of the Glasgow Games to create a healthierScotland has been cited as the main benefit of the country hostingthe ...
Complaints police too busy to fight crime
Jan 04, 2009; ... ENOUGH Scottish police officers to patrol the city of Perth arespending their time investigating complaints made against theircolleagues. Amid fears that resources are being diverted from major crimefighting, even Scotland's Police Complaints Commissioner Jim Martinsaid far too ...
Why solving financial problems may soon be child's play
Jan 04, 2009; ... A GAME to help school children avoid the pitfalls of debt hasbeen created by a Scottish headmaster. Peter Hogan, who masterminded a stock market game for teenagersin which they traded real shares, has turned his attention topersonal finance because of the worldwide credit crunch ....
Drumlanrig
Jan 04, 2009 ... TROUBLE AND STRIFE. WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR 2009? Having failed to persuade Brown to go for a general election,Lord Mandelson resigns from the Cabinet in June. Mandelson issues apersonal statement. "The damaging speculation about an imminentleadership contest involving myself and ...
Global protests end in riot on London streets
Jan 04, 2009; ... RIOT police had to be deployed last night as a protest outsidethe Israeli embassy in London over Israel's invasion of the GazaStrip erupted into violence. In a day of global demonstrations over Israel's military campaignagainst the Islamist Hamas movement, thousands of ...
Final Statement: Our battered housing market is down but not out
Jan 04, 2009; ... THEY say the way to make God laugh is to tell him your futureplans. I can't help wondering what secrets all those bankers wereoffering up in their nightly prayers to bring our current calamityupon us. It's not surprising we're all feeling shell-shocked as we start2009, given the ...
New plan for Forth bridge in disarray
Jan 04, 2009; ... PLANS for a new Forth road bridge were in disarray last nightafter the UK Government threw out a request to give the SNPadministration a multimillion-pound cash advance. Scottish finance secretary John Swinney had asked Westminster forthe cash injection during construction of the ...
Gold bullion best asset bar none
Jan 04, 2009; ... GOLD bullion beat all other asset classes in 2008 for the secondyear running and its prospects "look good" for 2009, according toBullionVault, an online market. Its analysis shows that GBP 1,000 invested in gold bullion on NewYear's eve in 2007 was worth GBP 1,427 by December 31 ...
Golf club racket can make you deaf
Jan 04, 2009; ... IT IS Scotland's other national game and a healthy way to enjoythe great outdoors while demonstrating sporting prowess. But a hidden hazard of golf has now been uncovered - it couldmake you deaf. Those at risk are the players who use a new generation of thin-faced titanium ...
Detectives question offenders over discovery of woman's head in bag
Jan 04, 2009; ... POLICE investigating the discovery of a woman's head in a bag areto question known offenders in the area, it emerged last night. The dismembered head was initially thought to have been decadesold, but police yesterday announced that new tests showed the womanmay have died as ...
Hearts 0 Hibs 0: How they rated at Tyncastle
Jan 04, 2009 ... HEARTS JANOS BALOGH 7 The Hungarian had solid handling when called upon and was paceyoff his line when required. Never really tested, though, untilFletcher jinked his way goalward in second half and he made theblock. ROBBIE NEILSON 7 Brave and committed as ...
Keeping the keepers high on Laszlo's list as he waits for 'the new Craig Gordon' to mature
Jan 04, 2009; ... IN an era when some clubs struggle to find one goalkeeper ofmerit, the fact that Hearts have three primed for first team action,and one who is more than capable, but is currently consigned to acoaching role bringing through another who manager Csaba Laszloclaims could be as good as or ...
Clinton on a diplomatic tightrope to prove she can deal with the Arabs
Jan 04, 2009 ... WHEN Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for a New York Senate seat nineyears ago, she struggled to persuade sceptical Jewish voters of hersupport for Israel. After all, she had once stood by as the wife ofYasser Arafat delivered an inflammatory attack on Israeli policies. Now, having ...
Money Help Desk: Give me a break from soaring timeshare fees
Jan 04, 2009; ... I'm trapped in a holiday points scheme where management chargesare going up by 40 per cent I AM a member of a points holiday timeshare company, DiamondResorts International. The points owned 'purchase' holidays at theirresorts worldwide. In addition to having to initially buy the ...
When will property prices hit bottom?
Jan 04, 2009; ... With falls in Scotland about to set a record, Teresa Hunter askswhen the worst will be over SCOTLAND is heading for its biggest fall in house prices onrecord when the Nationwide publishes its end of year property dataon Tuesday. Values are expected to have plunged by around ...
Nation Under Fire
Jan 04, 2009; ... THE sirens sounded twice in 20 minutes as Anne Berkeley did herSabbath shopping. It was the afternoon of New Year's Day and she wasin her local supermarket in Beersheba, one of the Israeli citiesunder fire from Hamas and its randomly aimed rockets. With eachalarm Berkeley and other ...
Bank plans lowest ever interest rate
Jan 04, 2009; ... Pressure on MPC to slash price of lending this week as economistswarn of deflation threat THE Bank of England is tipped to slash interest rates by at leastanother 0.5 per cent this week as the Government comes under renewedpressure to ensure cuts are passed on to cash-strapped ...
Interview: James Espey
Jan 04, 2009; ... Going against the grain The outspoken drinks industry veteran and distillery chief tellsWilliam Lyons why recession may bring benefits JAMES Espey knows a thing or two about an economic slowdown. Thisyear is set to feature his fourth recession; fifth if you count thedotcom ...
Jobless women sent from the dole to the pole
Jan 04, 2009; ... WOMEN are being asked to prostitute themselves after applying forvacancies in job centres, the Government has admitted. Job centres across the UK are routinely advertising for escortagencies, lap dancing clubs, massage parlours and TV sex channels,according to a new report ...
Nippy Sweetie: 'I've got to get back into a routine. Probably one that doesn't involve afternoon naps'
Jan 04, 2009; ... DO YOU know what day it is? I feel like one of those little oldladies plonked down in the TV lounge of Leafy Pastures - a council-run home for retired gentlefolk. "Do you know what day it is,dearie?" Any minute now I expect to be asked if I know who the PrimeMinister is before being ...
Perspective: Obama's war on the home front
Jan 04, 2009; ... BARACK Obama is edging closer to power. The President-elect takesup residence today in the Hay-Adams Hotel, just 200 steps from thegates of the White House. On January 15 he and wife Michelle anddaughters Malia and Sasha will move into Blair House, thepresident's official guest ...
Kenya's Soldier Of Good Fortune
Jan 04, 2009; ... African star David Etale has seen his life change on and off thepark since joining the British army. OVER THE next week, David Opati Etale will be immersing himselfin the romance of the Scottish Cup, hoping international clearancecomes through in time to allow him to vie for a ...
Leader: Middle East's best hope
Jan 04, 2009 ... THE new year is only four days old and already there is adepressingly familiar feel to events in the Middle East. Hamas inGaza is effectively at war with Israel, with the former provokingmass panic by sending rockets into populated areas over the borderand the latter retaliating with ...
Leader: Middle East's best hope
Jan 04, 2009; ... THE new year is only four days old and already there is adepressingly familiar feel to events in the Middle East. Israel isnow effectively at war with Hamas in Gaza. After days of escalatingaction in response to the rockets being fired into neighbouringtowns, in which more than 400 ...
Market Watch: Traders focus on banks
Jan 04, 2009; ... THE FTSE 100 made an optimistic start to the new year on Friday,gaining nearly 3 per cent. The market finished the first day oftrading in 2009 up 127.6 points at 4,561.79. Traders said Friday's result reflected the customary new yearbounce and warned investors to brace themselves ...
Equity firm launch is par for the course
Jan 04, 2009; ... A GROUP of Scottish entrepreneurs is setting up a private equityfirm in Edinburgh to take advantage of the depressed marketconditions. Paul Atkinson, managing director of Edinburgh-based recruitmentcompany Head Resourcing, is among the businessmen behind Par Equity,which will ...
Kate Foster at large: NHS 24 workers survive heavy dose of festive phone calls
Jan 04, 2009; ... IT'S DRESS-DOWN day so the staff are in their jeans and jumpers,chatting into their headsets and scribbling notes. Like any callcentre, supervisors pace the floors, attending to raised hands, andthe computer screens flash up calls waiting and customer details.But on the second day of the ...
Phones fingered in spread of superbugs
Jan 04, 2009; ... FIRST it was handwashing, then it was cleaning the floors. Nowmobile phones are revealed to be the latest battleground forhospital superbugs as a team of experts reveals the bacteria thriveon handsets. A startling image released by researchers reveals colonies ofbacteria grown ...
Purple spud will put you in the pink
Jan 04, 2009; ... THEY have remained an unchanging staple of the British diet forgenerations with hardly a nod to more health-conscious consumers. But scientists may now have come up with the perfect chip, whichnot only tastes good, but could prolong your life. The only downsideis that it is ...
World unites in protests
Jan 04, 2009; ... Tens of thousands took to the streets across the world yesterdayto protest against Israel's bombing of Gaza. More than 5,000 demonstrators, including singer Annie Lennox,former model Bianca Jagger and comedian Alexei Sayle, marched onTrafalgar Square in London. Hundreds ...
Retail giants to reveal misery of next 12 months
Jan 04, 2009; ... THE severity of the crisis facing retailers in 2009 will becomeclearer this week when some of the UK's biggest stores issue theirlatest figures. Marks & Spencer will give its third-quarter trading update forthe three months ending December on Wednesday. Freddie George,retail ...
Business Comment: Final hurdle for Lloyds merger as pensions agreement blocks race to finish
Jan 04, 2009; ... JUST as they thought the most controversial merger in UK bankinghistory was finally done and dusted, Lloyds TSB and HBOS face yetmore opposition to the deal. Having overcome protests from high-profile Scottish businessmen,including Jim Spowart, Sir Peter Burt and Sir George ...
The News In Brief: Sheridan odds-on for first eviction
Jan 04, 2009; ... DUBBED "sunbed Tommy" for the care he lavishes on his personalappearance, Tommy Sheridan yesterday spent his first full day in theCelebrity Big Brother house working out in the bathroom. But despite the suntan and the bulging biceps, the formersocialist politician was revealed ...
Mobile phone will find your friends for you
Jan 04, 2009; ... MOBILE phones that can tell you where your friends are, warn youif it is going to rain and advise if it is worth waiting for the buswill be on sale within a year - developed by Scottish scientists. Users will simply have to wave the mobile phone in the air to getinformation about ...
Chitra Ramaswamy
Jan 04, 2009; ... WELCOME, paupers, to 2009! As people are wont to do on thebright, dew-kissed dawn of a new year, here are some predictions foryou for the 12 months ahead. This, I assure you, will be a year ofless money, lower job security, fewer holidays and hardly any newclobber. The only thing we ...
Clean Slate
Jan 04, 2009; ... ISN'T it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with nomistakes in it yet? I'd like to pass off this little piece of wisdomas my own, but literary types will recognise it as a quotation fromLucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. I've adopted it assomething of a motto. Failures, ...
Daddy Cool
Jan 04, 2009; ... CHILDREN love music, but I'm beginning to suspect that all thenursery rhyme stuff is a gimmick. Our pride and joy's favourites are'Old MacDonald', 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and 'Rock a Bye Baby' - the"ee-I, ee-I, oh" on the former is a sign of operatic success tocome, I am certain ....
All in the mind
Jan 04, 2009; ... YELLOW roses. Anton FitzSimons always chose yellow roses forwomen. He imagined it so often when he was dying, willing himselfout of the high-dependency hospital bed, picturing the walk up thehospital corridor holding the delicate, perfumed blooms. When hiscancer treatment failed, he ...
A new world to discover
Jan 04, 2009; ... AS FAR as wine is concerned, Portugal is something of a paradox.Since its glory days in the 15th and 16th centuries when it wasresponsible for the discovery of much of the New World, this ancientseafaring nation on the western flank of the Iberian peninsula hasdeclined in power and ...
Appealing peels
Jan 04, 2009; ... 1 Big results Micro/mini peel system **** GBP 95, Ole Henriksen,at Harvey Nichols (www.harveynichols.com) 2 Scrub up greatMicrodermabrasion exfoliating cream **** GBP 56, Dr Brandt, at SpaceNK (www.spacenk.com) 3 On the bright track Turnaround radiance peelonce-a-week system **** GBP ...
Restaurant Review: Monteith's Bar: In safe hands
Jan 04, 2009; ... EATING out always presents me with a quandary. On one hand,there's the lure of novelty - a temptation encouraged by televisiongastro-porn, with its promises of ingenious new things than can bedone with just a chicken breast, soy sauce and Coco Pops - but itcarries the real chance of ...
Walk of the Week
Jan 04, 2009; ... BEECRAIGS AND WITCHCRAIG, WEST LOTHIAN FOR some, a good walk is all about getting as far away aspossible from everything, but exploring your own backyard can beenjoyable too. There's less of a journey to get there, for a start,and it can introduce you to places you never knew about ...
They wear it well?
Jan 04, 2009; ... It's not just us mere mortals who feel the need to tone up in thenew year. Celebs feel the pressure to get exercising too - well,they do have DVDs to flog. 1 Anna Friel must find all that exercising exhausting - daughterGracie certainly does. 2 It's always safety first for ...
Words Of Wisdom
Jan 04, 2009; ... Katzenjammer is a far quainter word than 'hangover', although itliterally means 'cat distress', and cures for this specific form ofover-indulgence include the 'corpse-reviver', from ...
Crackdown on special needs help for exams
Jan 04, 2009; ... EXAMS chiefs are cracking down on help for students withdisabilities and learning difficulties amid concerns proper checksare not being carried out. The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has written to allschools and colleges to warn that pupils could be refused extra ...
'No January, that's wish number one. But there are others'
Jan 04, 2009; ... TIRED, FOLKS. Real tired. This time of year? Transfer windowopens and a bitter wind blows in. Chilled to the bone already. ScottBrown off to Portsmouth for GBP 9m. Rubbished by Gordon Strachan.Newcastle swooping for Madjid Bougherra. Dismantled by Walter Smith.We're going to get a month ...