The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from August 2008:
The sister who stood by him
Aug 01, 2008 ... BARRY GEORGES older sister Michelle Diskin has never abandonedhim and has led the campaign for his release since he was arrestedeight years ago. In the dark days after his conviction and when his first appealwas thrown out she renewed her efforts, urging supporters to wear ...
He stalked Diana and had 400 women on film
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE jury reached their verdict today unaware that Barry George isa convicted sex offender who had tried to break into Princess Dianashome in Kensington Palace. The judge ruled that details of his arrest in the palace groundswearing combat gear, an SAS gas mask and armed with two ...
Witness: Killer looked like comic
Aug 01, 2008; ... A CRUCIAL part of the case against Barry George was a witnesssclaim that the fleeing killer resembled quiz show host Bob Mills. Jill Dandos next-door neighbour, Richard Hughes, told the jurythat from his fleeting glimpse of the assassin he resembled Mills,the TV comedy writer and ...
So if George didnt kill Jill Dando, who did? ; From sweating man to Serbian warlord, the other theories
Aug 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND YARDS most senior murder detective said police weredisappointed by todays verdict but did not order a new inquiry. Commander Simon Foy, the head of Scotland Yards Homicide Command,instead praised the investigation which led to Barry Georgesprosecution. The Crown ...
JILL DANDO: HE DIDNT DO IT ; [broken bar]Barry George dramatically cleared of killing TV presenter [broken bar]I cant believe it... first words as seven- year jail ordeal ends
Aug 01, 2008; ... BARRY GEORGE was dramatically cleared of killing TV presenterJill Dando today. A retrial jury at the Old Bailey found him not guilty of murder,leaving him to walk from court seven years after being jailed forlife. His first words as a free man were: I cant believe ...
China refuses to lift ban on key websites
Aug 01, 2008; ... POLITICALLY sensitive websites in China remained closed toforeign journalists today despite promises that all restrictionswould be lifted during the Beijing Olympics. Some sites relating to Tibet were blocked and links to the FalunGong spiritual movement, banned and labelled an ...
Hatton fixes Vegas date for title bout
Aug 01, 2008 ... RICKY HATTONS title challenge against Paulie Malignaggi was todayconfirmed for 22 November at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The IBF light-welterweight bout will be Hattons first since hisbelow-par victory over Juan Lazcano at the City of ManchesterStadium in May. Malignaggi ...
JILL DANDO: HE DIDN'T DO IT ; Barry George dramatically cleared of TV presenter killingHe walks free after serving seven years for 'gun murder'
Aug 01, 2008; ... BARRY GEORGE was dramatically cleared of killing TV presenterJill Dando at the Old Bailey today. A retrial jury found him not guilty of murder, leaving George towalk free from court seven years after being jailed for life. Yet in acquitting George, the eight woman, four man ...
Yard pays out [pounds]37m in bonuses to its officers
Aug 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND Yard paid out nearly [pounds]37 million in bonuses lastyear, it was revealed today. An average of [pounds]1,184 was awarded to each of the force's31,410 officers, according to figures obtained by Police Reviewmagazine after a request under the Freedom of Information ...
Message from 80 % of residents: scrap the C-charge extension ; LOCAL LONDON
Aug 01, 2008; ... HAMMERSMITH: Nearly 80 per cent of residents living in thewestern extension of the congestion zone want it scrapped, accordingto an online poll. Hammersmith & Fulham council is carrying out the survey aftercomplaints that commuters are clogging up roads on the zone'sboundary by ...
Astronomers in the park make sense of summer's dark day
Aug 01, 2008 ... LONDON: The capital was this morning treated to a clear view of arare partial eclipse of the sun. It began at 9.32am, reaching its maximum point at 10.16am when 12per cent of the sun was blotted out. Astronomy buffs gathered inHyde Park with their telescopes to watch the event ....
Defeated Federer may lose his crown
Aug 01, 2008; ... ROGER FEDERERS reign as world No1 will end after four-and-a-halfyears if Rafael Nadal, the man who beat him in the French Open andWimbledon finals, wins the Cincinnati Masters this weekend. Federers position became vulnerable last night when he was beaten7-6, 4-6, 7-6 by the ...
Harmison backed to make Oval return
Aug 01, 2008; ... MICK NEWELL and Dale Benkenstein both think Durham fast bowlerSteve Harmison is ready for a Test recall. Harmison today added the wicket of another England reject, DarrenPattinson, to last nights double strike but could not stop CountyChampionship leaders Nottinghamshire taking a ...
Another stinker for flop Vaughan ; 17 England fightback falls apart as skippers out for just
Aug 01, 2008; ... MICHAEL VAUGHAN failed again here today and left England fightingfor their lives against South Africa. Struggling captain Vaughan is coming under increasing pres-sureas a batsman, having made just 40 runs from five innings in thisseries and not scored a half-century for eight ...
McClaren is first for Arsenal in Champions League
Aug 01, 2008; ... ARSENAL will play Steve McClarens FC Twente in the thirdqualifying round of the Champions League a draw the former Englandmanager today described as fate. McClaren took charge of the Dutch side in June and the Eredivisieoutfit will make their debut in the competition after beating ...
Energy firms may have to pay windfall taxes
Aug 01, 2008; ... ENERGY giants may be hit with a windfall tax under proposalsbeing considered by Alistair Darling, a Cabinet minister confirmedtoday. Business Secretary John Hutton said the Chancellor was "lookingat" options including stinging energy firms with a one-off levy. The move would ...
Political gimmickry which can only harm Labour
Aug 01, 2008; ... YOU can almost hear the cogs turning in Southwold. The PrimeMinister is on his summer break in the Suffolk resort, his ratingsare desperately low, there is revolt in the air, the economy issliding downwards, hastened on its trajectory by soaring energyprices ? and meanwhile BP, Shell and ...
'Ex-lover' stabs woman to death during meal with new boyfriend
Aug 01, 2008; ... A WOMAN was stabbed to death in the street just yards from whereshe was having a meal with her boyfriend last night after a trip tothe cash machine. After being stabbed twice by another man - believed to be an ex-boyfriend ? the 23-year-old stumbled back to the ...
Brown clears way for reshuffle next month
Aug 01, 2008; ... GORDON BROWN is clearing the decks for a possible Cabinetreshuffle as early as 1 September, the Evening Standard can reveal. Notes are going out to ministers' private offices ordering themto be available for the first week of next month. It would be a "proper" reshuffle, ...
Oxford 'needs donors to help fund tutorials'
Aug 01, 2008; ... A LEADING Oxford don warned today that the university's historictutorial system may not survive without radical new sources ofincome. Andrew Dilnot, principal of St Hugh's College, said the tutorialswere the key to students blossoming academically, but wereexpensive. He ...
Theatre doors shut as musicals and credit crunch take hold
Aug 01, 2008; ... FIVE leading West End theatres are in darkness amid fears thattraditional plays are being squeezed out of theatreland by theeconomic downturn and an excess of musicals. Only seven non-musical plays are being staged in the West End atthe moment, including two long-running ...
60% RISE IN NUMBER OF FIRMS GOING BUST
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE number of companies going into administration has leapt by 60per cent, official statistics showed today. The Insolvency Service figures reveal that 938 companies inEngland and Wales were in administration in the three months to theend of June, up from 585 in the ...
Depressed mother goes missing with son aged 11 ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2008 ... POLICE today issued an urgent plea for help to trace a mother andher 11-year-old son. Salma Kadri, 29, and her son Hassan Nasser,pictured, left their home in Paddington on Tuesday. Ms ...
Renewable power and proper planning are in short supply
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE collapse of the sale of British Energy is a major setback forthe Government's nuclear plans. Even if French generator EDF had taken over the company,ministers would have struggled to replace Britain's ageing nuclearplants on schedule: EDF said it could complete the first new ...
High drama in the City as nuclear deal collapses
Aug 01, 2008; ... GORDON BROWN'S energy policy was in tatters today after a deal tosell Britain's nuclear power plants to a French company collapsed atthe last minute. The deal to offload British Energy to EDF was on the verge ofbeing announced officially when it was scuppered by two ...
Conrad faces losing his last shred of honour ; The Londoner's Diary
Aug 01, 2008 ... BLACK TIMES ahead for Conrad. As Lord Black of Crossharbour ekesout a six-and-a-half year prison sentence in a Florida jail, theauthorities in Canada are taking the first tentative steps towardsstripping him of the country's highest honour, the Order of Canada. Charlie Angus, an MP ...
Another wasted chance for industry
Aug 01, 2008; ... IT WAS supposed to be cut and dried. Electricite de France (EDF),the giant electricity company, had been negotiating since May to buyBritish Energy, our nuclear generator which owns Sizewell, Hinkleyand the majority of the other nuclear generators. At [pounds]12 billion it was ...
HBOS fall 'not due to bandits' ; REGULATION
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE City watchdog admitted today there was no evidence thatillegal trading was behind the abrupt fall in the share price ofHBOS prior to its [pounds]4 billion rights issue. The Financial Services Authority said there was "no doubt thatfalse and damaging rumours were circulating ...
Another blow for Mr Brown
Aug 01, 2008 ... GORDON Brown's troubles do not come singly: the latest blow isthe collapse of the planned takeover of nuclear operator BritishEnergy by French energy giant, EDF. The move throws into disarraythe Government's hopes for a renewal of the country's nuclearfacilities, personally backed by Mr ...
Man shot dead in row outside Forest Gate pub ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2008 ... A MAN was shot dead early today outside the Live and Let Live pubin Forest Gate. The victim, described as black and in his latethirties or early forties, was shot after an argument with anotherman ...
Shares in General Motors tumble 7% ; IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2008 ... SHARES in General Motors tumbled 7% in pre-market trading todayafter shocking results. The stock, which has crashed 67% in the pastyear, fell again to $10.30 ...
Factories 'battered by double blow' ; IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANUFACTURERS are being battered by a "dangerous combination" oftumbling demand and rising costs as Britain plunges into recession.The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply said ...
JPMorgan disappoints City by switch to Canary Wharf ; PROPERTY
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE City of London was dealt a major blow today when investmentbank JPMorgan Chase turned its back on the Square Mile to move toCanary Wharf. The Wall Street giant last year announced plans to to build a 20-storey office block near London Wall in the heart of the City tohouse ...
John Lewis suffers as shoppers cut
Aug 01, 2008 ... DEPARTMENT stores group John Lewis today said sales plunged 4.5%last week as shoppers reined in spending in the face of soaring foodand fuel bills. The owner of Peter Jones in Sloane Square and the departmentstore on Oxford Street said revenues fell to ?45.8 million. It wasthe ...
Attacks on aid groups in Afghanistan up by half ; WORLD IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2008 ... AID AGENCIES in Afghanistan are being forced to scale backoperations after an increase in insurgent attacks. A statement by100 agencies today said there was a 50 per cent rise in attackscompared with last year ....
The man who said 'au revoir' to French
Aug 01, 2008; ... NEIL Woodford is the man who broke the deal. As the head ofinvestment for Invesco Perpetual, Woodford oversees assets of morethan [pounds]15 billion, largely holdings in energy, tobacco andother industrial stocks. When chief executives or government officials in those sectorswant ...
Uncommon failure for Labour's chief fixer Montague
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE failure to pull off the deal with EDF could yet prove to bethe biggest failure of the career of Sir Adrian Montague, theBritish Energy chairman and known as the Treasury's chief fixer inthe City. Montague was the man the Government turned to when BritishEnergy, having ...
Tragedy of stranded whale ; Rescuers to put down six-ton bottlenose with kidney failure
Aug 01, 2008; ... RESCUERS today faced having to put down a sixton whale that hadbecome stranded on a sandbank near Portsmouth. The northern bottlenose whale became stuck on harbour flats nearLangstone Mill and, after about 12 hours, suffered irreversiblerenal failure caused by dehydration, and ...
Passenger cuts off man's head in bus attack
Aug 01, 2008; ... A MAN is under arrest today in Canada after frenziedly stabbing afellow bus passenger, cutting his head off and parading it beforeonlookers. Tim McLean, 22, was killed on an overnight Greyhound on adesolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway. Passengers on theEdmonton-Winnipeg ...
Karadzic phones wife for first time in six years
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE wife of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic today describedher first contact with him in six years. Ljiljana Karadzic claimed after receiving a telephone call fromhis cell in The Hague: "It was like talking to someone who hasreturned from the dead." The former Bosnian Serb ...
Coming home ... groom shot in Antigua is carried on to plane
Aug 01, 2008; ... NEWLY MARRIED Ben Mullany was being flown home to Britain in anair ambulance today, fighting for his life and unaware his wife hadbeen shot dead in front of him. Mr Mullany, who was shot by suspected robbers who killed hisdoctor wife Catherine at their Antigua honeymoon hotel, was ...
I dumped Cara's body, admits Brazilian
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE boyfriend of a London teenager stabbed to death in Braziltoday admitted disposing of her body but denied killing her. Cara Marie Burke's body was found dismembered and dumped in asuitcase in the city of Goi?nia on Monday. Her head, legs and arms,still missing, had been thrown ...
Analysts fear that BA could plunge into the red ; AVIATION
Aug 01, 2008 ... TEN weeks after British Airways reported record profits of[pounds]883 million and chief executive Willie Walsh delivered hisHoly Grail of a 10% operating margin, the flag carrier todayadmitted its sights are set no higher than breaking even for thecurrent year. "All our focus is ...
GUIDE TO THE C4 TV RACES TOMORROW ; GOODWOOD
Aug 01, 2008; ... 2.05 Richard Fahey has found the key to DEEP WINTER, who has wonher last three races and, with only a 6lb penalty to shoulder, isthe one to be on again. This is the fillys first attempt at thetrip, but last time at Carlisle it was a case of the further shewent the better she looked ....
Marcos and Maria forced out of tennis medal hunt
Aug 01, 2008 ... MARCOS BAGHDATIS and Maria Sharapova have both withdrawn from theOlympic tennis tournament with injury. Baghdatis, the 2006 Australian Open finalist, has a problem withhis wrist, while former Wimbledon champion Sharapova is strugglingwith a shoulder injury. Sharapova today ...
Russians fight back over bans
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE drugs scandal which has engulfed Russias Olympic athleticsteam looks poised to cause the first political conflict of the Gamesseven days before the event starts. Following the suspension of seven of Russias top athletes,including middle distance star Yelana Soboleva (below), ...
Heikki takes on Lewis as he moves up a gear ; Kovalainen needs to raise his game for McLaren and he doesnt intend letting team-mate Hamilton have it all his own way.
Aug 01, 2008; ... ONE YEAR on from one of McLarens darkest races, Lewis Hamiltonsbelief that all is now sweetness and light has been called intoquestion by an ominous statement of intent issued by HeikkiKovalainen. At last years Hungarian Grand Prix the fragile relationship thatalready existed ...
Ambitious Cech needs cup to hold
Aug 01, 2008; ... PETR CECH has let more things slip through his fingers thannormal in the past 12 months, but failing to get hold of a trophy iswhat troubles the goalkeeper most. Cechs high-profile errors againstArsenal and Aston Villa cost Chelsea crucial points in the titlerace while his blunder in a ...
England pair are fired up to follow Flintoff example ; Sidebottom and Anderson take up the gauntlet to keep Third Test in the balance by restricting tourists to a lead of only 83
Aug 01, 2008; ... JIMMY ANDERSON and Ryan Sidebottom took two wickets apiece asEngland managed to polish off South Africas first innings here todaywithout any significant help from Andrew Flintoff. The man who put the spark back into Michael Vaughans team wasrobbed of a fifth victim when Paul ...
Diaz swoops to register eagles feat
Aug 01, 2008 ... AMERICAN Laura Diaz equalled a womens golf record today when shecarded three eagles in the same round to take the lead in theBritish Open at Sunningdale. The 33-year-old Solheim Cup player made threes on the par-fivefirst and 10th holes and then sank a 65-yard pitch shot for a two ...
Sehwag not out 201 but India slump
Aug 01, 2008 ... VIRENDER SEHWAG hammered a magnificent unbeaten 201 but Indiawere bowled out for 329 on the second day of the Second Test againstSri Lanka in Galle. Sehwags fifth double-ton in Tests came off only 231 balls. Hecarried his bat in an innings lasting 348 minutes, striking 22 ...
Harmison backed to make Oval return
Aug 01, 2008; ... MICK NEWELL and Dale Benkenstein can both bear witness to SteveHarmisons form and agree the Durham fast bowler is ready for a Testrecall. Harmison took two top-order wickets at Trent Bridge yesterday asCounty Championship leaders Nottinghamshire struggled early on inreply to ...
Empty seats wont be a problem at big finale
Aug 01, 2008 ... SURREY have assured England that there will be sell-out crowds tocheer Michael Vaughan (left) and his men at The Oval in the FourthTest. England Cricket Board executives were disappointed to seeEdgbaston, which has a capacity of 21,000, only two-thirds full onthe first two days ...
Gutsy England set up a thriller ; Flintoffinspires fightback to put the Edgbaston Test in balance
Aug 01, 2008; ... ANDREW FLINTOFF was denied the fifth wicket he deserved heretoday but England still stepped up their fightback against SouthAfrica, dismissing them for 314. The all-rounder, whose ferocious spell of fast bowling yesterdaybrought the npower Third Test to life, had Mark Boucher ...
UBS lawyer named in New York attorney's fraud probe
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE top lawyer for UBSss investment banking unit is reportedly atthe centre of a civil probe by New Yorks attorney-general into analleged fraud in which the bank is said to have dumped worthlesssecurities on investors as the subprime crisis grew. General counsel David Aufhauser is ...
Rio Tinto eyes Iraq's gold and copper
Aug 01, 2008 ... MINING giant Rio Tinto is looking at a possible entry to Iraq totap the countrys copper and gold reserves, many of which are locatedin the less violence-prone north, according to the countrys Ministerof Industry and Minerals Fawzi Hariri. Rio Ttinto, however, played down the idea, ...
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Aug 01, 2008 ... The Hartley 64 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 (020 7394 7023)[pounds]18pp ex-drinks Mon to Fri noon-3pm & 6-10pm; Sat 11 am-4 pm& 6-10pm; Sun noon-9pm. The Hartley companys old jam factory is onthe other side of Tower Bridge Road and has been redeveloped intoexpensive loft apartments. So in this ...
DONT MISS
Aug 01, 2008 ... Raise the Red Lantern Tonight, tomorrow 7.30pm, Royal OperaHouse, WC2. (www.roh.org.uk; 020 7304 4000). [pounds]8-[pounds]75.This is the final production from the acclaimed National Ballet ofChinas short London stint. It is a specially staged version ofdirector Zhang Yumous 1991 film ...
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND ; Innocent Village Fete 11am-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, Regents Park, NW1. (0870 534 4444) [pounds]3.50-[pounds]7.50
Aug 01, 2008 ... A fun and child-friendly mini-festival spread over two days inRegents Park. There will be freebie smoothies from the sponsors tosip on of course, plus village fete-style entertainment to add tothe sensation of escaping from the City. The soothing, folkishmusical line-up includes the ...
Its the dip that makes the trip ; OUT AND ABOUT London Duck Tours
Aug 01, 2008; ... DO those ramshackle-looking yel-low tour buses you see lurchinground central London really motor down the Thames with a crew ofslightly scared children aboard? Hard to believe in an age of healthand safety panic that this is possible, but it is. And it allhappens very quickly, down a ...
WHAT ELSE IS NEW& ; OPERA Tete a Tete
Aug 01, 2008 ... Riverside Studios ..... NICK KIMBERLEY DONT go to Tete a Tetes Opera Festival expecting Mozart andPuccini. What you get instead is, in artistic director Bill Bankes-Joness description, opera and the edges of it, and edge is the word. Each night offers three short, ...
HBOS boss spins his way out of trouble - for now ; CITY SPY
Aug 01, 2008 ... WITH the bank results reporting season in full swing, this year'ssweettalking-of-investors tactic is becoming clearer. Having writtenoff billions through their own greed and stupidity, in piling in,lemming-like, into US subprime, the banks are linking arms,highlighting the tough market ...
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Aug 01, 2008 ... QUOTE OF THE DAY 'Exhausted? I am full of fire! I am like a greased boundingpanther. My legs are steel springs and every day I get out of bedand I beat my chest!' BORIS JOHNSON DENIES THE JOB IS TAKING ITSTOLL ROW OF THE WEEK Richard Barnes v John Biggs Score: Barnes 1, ...
30 new police teams to patrol Tube and trains ; SAFER STATIONS STANDARD CAMPAIGN
Aug 01, 2008; ... RECORD numbers of police will patrol Tube stations and trains,Boris Johnson said today. The Mayor was unveiling new teams made up of British TransportPolice and community support officers, led by a sergeant. They will be supported by 24-hour response teams across theentire ...
Mayor breaks protocol by endorsing Obama
Aug 01, 2008; ... BORIS JOHNSON today broke political convention by backing BarackObama for President of the United States. The Mayor said an election victory for the Democrat senator wouldbe a "fantastic" boost for black people everywhere. His remarks break the convention that politicians do ...