The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from February 2008:
DEALS THAT BEAT THE TRANSFER DEADLINE
Feb 01, 2008 ... Stephen Bywater (Derby to Ipswich, loan) Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal toNorwich, loan) Mark Randall (Arsenal to Burnley, loan) Lee Peltier(Liverpool to Yeovil, undisclosed) Krystian Pearce (Birmingham toPort Vale, loan) Grzegorz Rasiak (Southampton to Bolton, loan) AndyReid (Charlton to ...
I left Spurs to salvage my England career, says star Defoe ; Defoe hoping Harry can revive his England hopes
Feb 01, 2008; ... JERMAIN DEFOE today admitted he had to leave Tottenham becausehis lack of first-team football was threatening his England career. Defoe completed a Pounds 9million move to Portsmouth just beforethe transfer window shut at midnight last night. It came on the same day he was left ...
Fulham fight for Cousin
Feb 01, 2008; ... MANAGER Roy Hodgson today revealed that Daniel Cousin may yetplay for Fulham this season even though any official go-ahead forthe Gabon strikers Pounds 3million move from Rangers will come afterthe transfer window has closed. The Cousin deal looked dead earlier this week when FIFA ...
Toseland showing no fear as his MotoGP debut nears
Feb 01, 2008 ... JAMES TOSELANDS preparations for his MotoGP debut took a majorstep forward after he recorded the third-fastest time in the latesttest. The reigning World Superbike champion lapped the Phillip Islandcircuit in Australia on his Tech 3 ...
Johansson quits top level tennis
Feb 01, 2008 ... FORMER top 10 player Joachim Johansson today quit tennis at theage of just 25 because of a shoulder injury. The doctors say ...
Aussies embarrass India with Twenty20 drubbing
Feb 01, 2008 ... INDIA suffered a humiliating nine-wicket defeat to Australia intodays Twenty20 clash. Their tally of 74 was just one better than that set by Kenyaagainst New Zealand last year the lowest score in an internationalTwenty20 match not affected by the ...
Shaky Tiger fails to blow away rivals ; EUROPEAN TOUR GOLF
Feb 01, 2008 ... TIGER WOODS birdied the last hole to earn a one-shot lead at theDubai Desert Classic today but struggled in the windy, sandyconditions. The world No1 began the day with a two-shot lead after an openinground seven-under 65. However, he bogeyed the first hole afterdriving the ball ...
Singapore stake buyer sends Rio roaring ahead ; MARKET ROUND-UP
Feb 01, 2008; ... NEWS of stakebuilding sent shares of Rio Tinto soaring a whopping786p, or 15%, to 5742p today adding almost Pounds 8 billion to thecompanys stock-market value of Pounds 49.4 billion. Shining Prospect, a Singapore-based company owned by Chinalco andAlcoa, spent $1.2 billion (Pounds ...
Google rival born in students breaks
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE history of Yahoo is another of those everyday stories ofinternet multibillionaires who came up with their world-changingidea in their downtime as students. While at Californias Stanford University, Jerry Yang and DavidFilo began organising their website interests on a most-hit ...
Goldman dropped in Gates Yahoo bid ; INTERNET
Feb 01, 2008; ... MICROSOFT has shunned Goldman Sachs as its adviser. Theinvestment bank, which advised the software giant on its failed bidfor Yahoo last year, could now miss out on one of the biggest dealsin corporate history. Bill Gates has chosen Morgan Stanley and Blackstone to ...
Shares celebrate the mega-deals return
Feb 01, 2008 ... NEWS of the internet mega-merger triggered a surge in shareprices tonight, helping offset yet more grim news about the USeconomy. Shares in Time Warner rocketed more than 9% on Wall Street asanalysts used the Microsoft bid price to revalue its AOL division. Wall Street opened ...
Supermarkets spell end for The Works ; IN BRIEF
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE supermarkets move into selling cheap books looks to be theauthor of the downfall of discount bookseller The Works. The 300-strong chain owned by Hermes Private Equity has been put intoadministration ...
Scots Power joins the price rise stampede
Feb 01, 2008 ... SCOTTISH POWER is the latest energy provider to raise the priceof its electricity and gas supplies far and away above the rate ofinflation. The company plans to raise electricity prices by an average of14%, with gas prices up by 15%. It follows a similar move last monthby ...
SAS man who led failed coup flown to torture prison
Feb 01, 2008; ... SIMON MANN, the Old Etonian and former SAS officer jailed for anattempted coup in West Africa, has been spirited out of his maximumsecurity prison. After four years in a Zimbabwe jail fighting extradition toEquatorial Guinea, where he is accused of hiring mercenaries tooverthrow ...
Hole in one for blind golfer, 92
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BLIND Florida golfer of 92 has hit his first hole in one afterplaying the game for 60 years. Leo Fiyalkos 110-yard shot with a five iron was witnessed byfriends at the Cove Cay Country Club. I was just ...
Boy, 17, chased and stabbed by gang
Feb 01, 2008 ... A TEENAGER was stabbed in the leg, back and chest after beingchased by a gang, police said today.The 17-year-old, who wasattacked in Paddington yesterday evening, remains in hospital. Hiscondition is not life-threatening. A ...
Four freed in trial over murdered brothers
Feb 01, 2008; ... FOUR youths have walked free after one of the longest-runningmurder cases in Old Bailey history was dramatically halted by thejudge. Judge Christopher Moss stepped in amid allegations that keyprosecution witnesses had changed their evidence. As a result police have launched ...
The Bush Theatre saved by stars ; Arts Council backs down on grant cut & but 52 groups lose their cash
Feb 01, 2008; ... LONDONS Bush Theatre was saved today after a massive campaign bytheatre stars angered at plans to slash its public funding. A proposed reduction in its Arts Council grant was scrapped aftera campaign by actors including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen andDaniel Radcliffe, which ...
Millionaire beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts
Feb 01, 2008; ... A RECLUSIVE millionaire was battered to death in his Hampsteadhome by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey heardtoday. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright GeorgeBernard Shaw but had become rather eccentric in his old age, thejury was ...
Former head held over sex abuse claims
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE former head of an independent Catholic school has beenarrested following allegations of sexual assault. Father David Pearce was arrested at his home in Ealing Abbeyafter claims made by a pupil at St Bene-dicts senior school. Father Pearce, 66, who retired as head of St ...
Appeal launched against terrorists lenient term
Feb 01, 2008 ... ATTORNEY General Baroness Scotland today launched a formal appealagainst the lenient jail term handed out to an al Qaeda-trainedLondon dentist. Sohail Qureshi, 30, of Forest Gate, pleaded guiltylast ...
Flatpack drug smuggler is jailed for 26 years
Feb 01, 2008 ... A JOBLESS London man who imported Pounds 350 million worth ofdrugs in flatpack furniture was jailed for 26 years today atBlackfriars Crown Court. Robert Flook, 46, of Eltham, was part of aDevon-based ring ...
The Bush Theatre saved by stars ; Arts Council backs down on grant cut & but 52 groups lose their cash
Feb 01, 2008; ... LONDONS Bush Theatre was saved today after a massive campaign bytheatre stars angered at plans to slash its public funding. A proposed reduction in its Arts Council grant was scrapped aftera campaign by actors including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen andDaniel Radcliffe, which ...
We must do it better next time, admits London chief
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE head of the Arts Council in London today admitted the grantsreview process must be handled better next time. Moira Sinclair, London executive director, said: Its the firsttime weve done anything on this scale. Well have to think about howto do it better next time. She ...
Police cadet forces for schools to cut offending
Feb 01, 2008; ... PUPILS will be able to join police cadet forces in their schoolsunder new Met plans to reduce juvenile offending in the capital. The proposals modelled on Army cadet schemes will give childrenas young as 14 the opportunity to take part in police operations andlearn skills such as ...
37 airlifted from ships battered by 70mph storms
Feb 01, 2008; ... VIOLENT storms today led to a series of rescues in high seas offthe coast of Britain. Twenty-three passengers and crew were airlifted from a ferrywhich ran aground on Blackpool beach early this morning. TheRiverdance got into difficulty after it was hit by a giant wave ...
Its the end of the world as we knew it for 11,600 years
Feb 01, 2008; ... MAN has changed the earth to such an extent that it has broughtto an end one epoch of the planets history, geologists claimedtoday. Experts from the Geological Society of London and the Universityof Portsmouth have named the new epoch the anthropocene. It takesover from the ...
Leaders tell MPs to declare if they employ relatives
Feb 01, 2008; ... GORDON BROWN and David Cameron today ordered their MPs to declarewhether they employ family members as the two main parties scrambledto clean up their act in the wake of the Derek Conway scandal. Mr Cameron was the first to act, revealing that more than 70Conservative MPs gave jobs ...
Microsoft moves to check upstart rival ; COMMENTARY
Feb 01, 2008; ... IT is no coincidence that Microsoft chose today to announce whatwould be one of the largest mergers in techie history. No sooner does Google fail to deliver with dismal results itsoverall growth of paid clicks slowed to 30 per cent, half the 61 percent it enjoyed in the same ...
BATTLE WILL BE GOOD NEWS FOR CONSUMERS
Feb 01, 2008; ... IF Microsofts attempted takeover of Yahoo goes ahead, it couldlead to the biggest and bloodiest battle the internet has ever seen. The move would allow Microsoft to take on arch-rival Google witha new arsenal of consumer products, and things we use every day email, search engines ...
BILL GATES IN Pounds 22bn BID TO BEAT GOOGLE ; (1) Microsoft moves to buy Yahoo and create worlds biggest net firm(2) Clash of the techie titans
Feb 01, 2008; ... COMPUTER giant Microsoft today launched an audacious Pounds 22billion takeover of search engine Yahoo. Shares in the search giant, the second most popular in the world,jumped 54 per cent after the proposal from Microsoft. The deal wasseen by analysts as an attempt by Bill Gates to ...
I left Spurs to salvage my England career, says star Defoe ; Defoe goes to save England career but Benjani deal falls apart
Feb 01, 2008; ... JERMAIN DEFOE today admitted he had to leave Tottenham becausehis lack of first-team football was threatening his England career. Defoe completed a Pounds 9million move to Portsmouth just beforethe transfer window shut at midnight last night. It came on the same day he was left ...
Six Nations to bank Pounds 400m rugby booty ; (1) Tournament sets record and Pounds 8m of it will be spent at HQ tomorrow (2) Six Nations Pounds 400m cash bonanza
Feb 01, 2008; ... ENGLAND will bank a record Pounds 8million from tomorrows sell-out RBS Six Nations clash with Wales at Twickenham but that is justthe start of a Six Nations bonanza that will see an incrediblePounds 400m spent across Europe. Such is the level of interest in the game after Brian ...
Rolland answers ref SOS
Feb 01, 2008 ... ALAIN ROLLAND, who refereed the World Cup Final, has answered alate call to take charge of Sundays clash between Scotland andFrance at Murrayfield. The Irishman ...
Beckham will bounce back to hit his century, says Wenger
Feb 01, 2008; ... ARSENE WENGER today backed David Beckham to come out fighting andprove to Fabio Capello that he deserves to win his 100th Englandcap. The 32-year-old was left out of Capellos squad for the friendlyagainst Switzerland next week, after the Italian insisted he hadntplayed enough ...
Scots clash off
Feb 01, 2008 ... PLANS for a friendly between England and Scotland in May havebeen scrapped because new national team boss George Burley does notwant to field a weakened team. SFA chief executive Gordon ...
Adebayor targets the ultimate goal ; The Arsenal striker is aiming to finish above United star Cristiano Ronaldo in the race for the Premier Leagues prized golden boot. By Wayne Veysey
Feb 01, 2008; ... CRISTIANO RONALDO has acquired a taste for garish tangerine.Emmanuel Adebayor rotates between the scarcely more traditional redand white. But the one boot colour the Premier Leagues two most in-formplayers would love to be parading when the end-of-season gongs aredispensed is ...
Indians embarrassed by Aussies in Twenty20 clash
Feb 01, 2008 ... INDIA suffered a humiliating nine-wicket defeat to Australia intodays Twenty20 clash. Their tally of 74 was just one better than that set by Kenyaagainst New Zealand last year the lowest score in an internationalTwenty20 match not affected by the ...
Shaky Tiger fails to blow away rivals ; EUROPEAN TOUR GOLF
Feb 01, 2008 ... TIGER WOODS overcame a shaky start to his second round at theDubai Desert Classic today to hold a one-stroke lead over Shiv Kapurand Miguel Angel Jimenez. A visibly-frustrated world No1 held a two-stroke overnightadvantage at seven under, but saw it halved after picking up ...
Brits facing up to ticket chaos ; BEIJING OLYMPICS
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRITISH Olympic chiefs have warned of an acute shortage oftickets for the Beijing Games, writes Matthew Beard. Heads of several major Olympic sports say the lack of tickets isworse than at any Games in recent memory. Beijing organisers have given Britain just 30,000 ...
Market Man is no Scilly bet
Feb 01, 2008; ... A NEW name for an old race, but THE MARKET MAN can continue afine tradition and take the Totesport.com Challengers Novices Chase(3.10) at Sandown tomorrow. The Grade 1 contest is better known as the Scilly Isles NovicesChase but the rebranding reflects the hopes of the sponsors ...
Singapore stake buyer sends Rio roaring ahead ; MARKET ROUND-UP
Feb 01, 2008; ... NEWS of stakebuilding sent shares of Rio Tinto soaring a whopping800p, or 16%, to 5756p today adding more than Pounds 8 billion tothe companys stockmarket value of Pounds 49.4 billion. Overnight, Shining Prospect, a Singapore-based company ownedjointly by Chinalco and Alcoa, spent ...
SocGen bidding war shapes up ; SCANDAL
Feb 01, 2008 ... FRENCH bank Credit Agricole today entered the race for scandal-hit Societe Generale, paving the way for a bidding war set to makeinvestment bank advisers millions. CA has hired Lazard and its own investment bank Calyon to study apossible approach for SocGen, which suffered e4.9 ...
Whole Foods seeks City store ; RETAIL
Feb 01, 2008; ... A NEW Whole Foods Market could be open in the City within theyear. It is understood that the American supermarkets group is castingaround in the Square Mile for a site to complement its flagshipstore opened last year in Kensington. The purveyor of pricey foods is believed to ...
BA profits go flying towards a new record ; AVIATION
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRITISH Airways is en route to delivering its biggest-everprofits, today reporting a 35% rise in earnings to Pounds 788million in the first nine months of its financial year. The flag carriers new-found confidence saw it announce its firstbusiness class-only service, from London ...
Slowdown in UKs factories turns the screw for rate cut ; ECONOMY
Feb 01, 2008; ... GLOOM was cast over the economy today as the manufacturing sectorplunged towards recession and soaring numbers of firms went bust. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply said its indexfor manufacturing activity fell from 52.4 in December to 50.6 lastmonth the lowest ...
HSBCs Korea bank bid is hit by scam ; IN BRIEF
Feb 01, 2008 ... HSBCs long-running bid for a controlling stake in Korea ExchangeBank was thrown into further confusion today, with equity fund LoneStars country head Paul Yoo found guilty of stock ...
Superstores spell end for The Works
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE supermarkets incursions into selling cheap books looks to bethe author of the demise of discount bookseller The Works. The 300-strong chain, owned by Hermes Private Equity, has beenput into administration with Kroll after lender HSBC wanted to closethe chapter on its ...
SAS man who led failed coup goes missing from jail
Feb 01, 2008; ... SIMON MANN, the Old Etonian and former SAS officer jailed for anattempted coup in West Africa, has vanished from his maximumsecurity prison. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Mann who has spent fouryears in a Zimbabwe jail fighting extradition to Equatorial Guinea,where he is ...
Judge rejects plea by Conrad Black to stay out of prison
Feb 01, 2008; ... CONRAD BLACKS plea for a judge to keep him out of jail until hisappeal against a fraud conviction has been heard has been thrown outof court. The disgraced media tycoon was sentenced to six and a half yearsin November for illegally siphoning $6 million (Pounds 3 million)out of ...
Women bombers kill 64 in Iraq pet markets
Feb 01, 2008 ... TWO female suicide bombers blew themselves up in Baghdad petmarkets today, killing at least 64 people and wounding dozens. The attacks were the deadliest in the capital since 30,000 moreAmerican forces flooded into the centre of Iraq the surge lastspring. In the first attack, a ...
The class with 60 pupils ... and three teachers @
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE head of a city academy called today for pupils to be taughtin super-size classes. Frank Green, headteacher of Leigh Technology Academy in Dartford,has introduced the 60-strong classes, led by teams of threeteachers, because he believes they are key to improving ...
New English and maths tests delayed as students do badly
Feb 01, 2008; ... FLAGSHIP reforms to national English and maths tests havesuffered a serious setback after children performed much worse thanexpected. Government officials admitted today they have delayed publicationof the pilot results involving 22,500 pupils at 411 schools. Thetests are ...
Less than Wilde about Penelopes frosty Lady ; FIRST NIGHT
Feb 01, 2008; ... The Importance Of Being Earnest Vaudeville *** I CAN think of no better form of comic pleasure than thatengendered by a pitch-perfect revival of The Importance of BeingEarnest. Oscar Wildes great comedy of doubtful morals, impeccablesnobbery and affected manners, set in a Victorian ...
Palace is turned into theatre for Queen Dido
Feb 01, 2008; ... KENSINGTON PALACE is opening its doors as a theatre for the firsttime. A production of a rarely performed play by Christopher Marlowe isto be presented by Angels In The Architecture, a company thatpresents classics in unusual places. The work, Dido Queen Of Carthage, is to be ...
Pop Idol Darius is back with the wind
Feb 01, 2008; ... TREVOR NUNN has chosen Pop Idol star Darius Danesh to play RhettButler in his new production of Gone With The Wind. The 27-year-old singer is stepping into the role made famous byClark Gable in the 1939 film. The stage version is one of the mosteagerly anticipated shows in London ...
Noel of Oasis pops out for some art ; LOCAL LONDON
Feb 01, 2008 ... NOEL GALLAGHER carries a pop art image of a young Bob Dylanoutside his home in Hampstead. The 40-year-old Oasis star, who once said he was happiestdrinking tea and listening to a Dylan CD, ...
Four walk free as judge halts trial for murder of brothers
Feb 01, 2008; ... FOUR youths have walked free after one of the longest-runningmurder cases in Old Bailey history was dramatically halted by thejudge. Judge Christopher Moss stepped in amid allegations that keyprosecution witnesses had changed their evidence. As a result police have launched ...
Husband who killed sick wife is spared jail
Feb 01, 2008; ... A DEVOTED husband who killed his seriously ill wife to spare herfrom the degenerative effects of multiple sclerosis was shown mercyby a judge today. Robert Cook acted on the wishes of Vanessa Cook when he placed aplastic bag and a pillow over her face after she had taken ...
Pounds 75,000 pay-off too little, says woman in charge of worst superbug outbreak
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE hospital boss who presided over Britains worst superbugscandal has turned down a Pounds 75,000 pay-off and demanded more. Rose Gibb left Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust after 90patients died from Clostridium difficile. Wards were filthy and overcrowded while nurses ...
Retired staff pressured to back runway
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRITISH AIRWAYS was accused today of blackmailing retired staffinto backing Heathrow expansion by suggesting their pensions may beat risk. The airline has sent a leaflet to former workers urging them towrite to Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to back plans for a ...
BA starts business-only flights from City Airport
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRITISH Airways is to launch its first all-business class servicewith flights twice a day from London City airport to New Yorks JFKairport. The service will start next year and is aimed at workers in theCity and Canary Wharf who currently have to make the journey toHeathrow to ...
Political death foretold ; The Londoner's Diary
Feb 01, 2008 ... HERES an interesting extract from a BBC Radio 4 documentary onDavid Camerons style of leadership that has yet to be broadcast: Themark of a strong leader is who are they prepared to kill on the way,not physically obviously, s ays one c o l league o f Camerons. And, interestingly, ...
Share frenzy stirs more uncertainty at all-star agency ; The Londoner's Diary
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE ongoing saga at entertainment agency Peters Fraser and Dunlophas taken another twist. The glamorous Caroline Michel was parachuted in to PFD by parentcompany CSS Stellar to try and stop its agents leaving to start upanother company however, most of them walked out to set up a ...
End of the road for Frances rude cabbies
Feb 01, 2008; ... IT IS the most perplexing puzzle of daily life in Paris: whereare all the taxis? For it is almost impossible to hail one. This is a grand European capital yet there are only 15,000 taxisin the entire Ile de France region, and 45,000 in the whole ofFrance. By comparison, London ...