The Independent (London, England) back issues from October 2008:
Look Here lights up Arc prospects for Hughes
Oct 01, 2008; ... RACING BARELY DID the door of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe shut inRichard Hughes's face, than it has sprung open again. Last week therider was jocked off Youmzain, on whom he was beaten a head in theParis showpiece 12 months ago; yesterday he was booked for LookHere, who has ...
Any colour you want, as long as it's bright
Oct 01, 2008; ... We used to call them white goods, because that way everybody knewwhat we were talking about. Then we used to paint the cupboardsaround them in bright colours to introduce a bit of style to thekitchen. But if you want to be really fashionable this year, youneed to paint the walls and ...
Brace yourself for a turbulent ride
Oct 01, 2008; ... Five years ago, it was easy to predict where the hot propertymarkets would be - you simply had to keep an eye on new airlineroutes. From Eastern Europe to South America, each time a low-costor charter company announced that it was launching a service to somepreviously unknown or ...
Mountains and the Med
Oct 01, 2008; ... For somewhere so seemingly low-key, Slovenia has a lot to offer.Its short coastline has several pretty harbour towns and it boastssome of the most dramatically beautiful scenery in Europe, fromrolling farmland dotted with forests and lakes to the snowy peaks ofthe Julian ...
we're loving... we're hating... we're buying
Oct 01, 2008 ... LOVING ...A BUILDERS CODE OF CONDUCT It's hardly a revelation that the relationship between buildersand homeowners is often far from harmonious. It is, however, a hugerelief that the Office of Fair Trading has deemed it necessary tointroduce a code of conduct to which developers ...
1 OCTOBER 2002
Oct 01, 2008 ... Days Like These PAUL WOLFOWITZ, the US Deputy Secretary of Defence, addresses theUS Northern Military Command: "Let me go back in time, and recallthe reaction of England's prime minister following news of theattack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill reacted not with sorrow, but with ... ...
Who reads terms and conditions, anyway?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Cyberclinic There's a computer-related affliction that's becoming endemic.We're not talking repetitive strain injury, back trouble or workshylethargy, but a bizarre kind of word blindness. The lengthy tractsof legalese that appear when we install software or sign up for anonline ...
Sound waves
Oct 01, 2008; ... Are waterproof MP3 players music to swimmers' ears - or are theysimply a washout? Simon Usborne tests the new aquatic gadgets thatare flooding the market Man has gone to great lengths to make exercise less mind-numbingly boring. Visitors to gyms have it pretty good - TV ...
Word wide web
Oct 01, 2008; ... A new online dictionary lets you add your own definitions ofwords - in video form. So does this DIY revolution spell RIP for theOED? John Walsh investigates A quarter-millennium after Dr Johnson published the first-everEnglish dictionary in 1755, "the world's first ...
Samba De Amigo (Wii) Pounds 39.99
Oct 01, 2008 ... Game of the week Although it won't make the week of lone-wolf gamers who prefer aspot of first-person shooting or some solo space travel, Samba DeAmigo will prove entertaining in the extreme for front-roomexhibitionists. The idea of Nintendo's ...
USB Negative Scanner Pounds 79.95
Oct 01, 2008 ... Gadget of the week The latest in a slew of analogue to digital converters - thinktapes and vinyl to MP3 files, or VHS to DVD - is this nifty negativescanner. Transform forgotten 35mm negatives or slides into digitalphotos by loading them ...
Ferrari chief slams Singapore 'circus'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Motor racing Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has poured scorn onSunday's Singapore Grand Prix, saying the "circus" track and the useof the safety car had been humiliating for Formula One. The sport'sfirst night race drew a positive response from participants andonlookers, ...
Graham earns Man of Steel honour
Oct 01, 2008; ... RUGBY LEAGUE James Graham has crowned an unforgettable season by being namedas Man of Steel. The 22-year-old St Helens prop, already the RugbyLeague Writers' Player of the Year, received the game's leadingindividual honour at a ceremony in Manchester last night. The award ...
DAVID COOPER
Oct 01, 2008; ... Organist and music director at Blackburn and Norwich cathedrals David Cooper was a dynamic and diverse musician whose influencepermeated all aspects of the subject, from the classroom to thechoir stall, as organist, teacher, composer, examiner, conductor,lecturer and adjudicator ....
TOMMY JOHNSTON
Oct 01, 2008; ... Striker widely considered to be one of the best footballers neverto win a cap for Scotland When Tommy Johnston's left arm was mutilated so badly in a coal-mining accident that amputation was contemplated, the 17-year-old'shitherto buoyant hopes of earning at least part of his ...
Still going to law school, the teenage lottery winner
Oct 01, 2008; ... A teenager whose lottery win turned her into an overnightmillionaire said that, when the truth sunk in, she screamed so muchthat it alarmed her dog, who bit her on the bottom. Would-be lawyer Ianthe Fullagar, 18, from Ravenglass, Cumbria,won more than 7m in the EuroMillions ...
'Will inheritance tax put paid to our grandson's deposit?'
Oct 01, 2008; ... House Doctor Question: Our 31-year-old grandson is getting married soon and wewant to help him get on the property ladder, but don't know the taxrules for handing him a lump sum for a deposit. We'd like to givehim 15,000 of our savings but would there be any inheritance tax(IHT) ...
CONNIE HAINES
Oct 01, 2008; ... 'Little Princess of the Air' who sang romantic duets with Sinatradespite their uneasy relationship In the history of American popular music popular music there havebeen few better judges of talent than the trombonist Tommy Dorsey.At its peak in the early 1940s, his band featured ...
1962 Monday 1 October
Oct 01, 2008 ... Race riots in Mississippi Two people were killed and many injured during violent clashesbetween US ...
PRIVATE VIEWING
Oct 01, 2008 ... HOMES SHIRE HEAVEN The Ballroom, Hawkswick, Skipton North Yorkshire Price: 695,000 Agent: Carter Jonas Tel: 01423 523 423 They say: An impressive barn conversion providing spacious familyaccommodation arranged over three ...
A memoir of love and captivity through the eye of an artist
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Wednesday Book In 1940, Agns Humbert - art historian, painter and mother of two -could have compromised with the situation in which she found Franceand herself. Instead, she was a leading member of one of theearliest groups of the Resistance. The enterprise was ...
CLASSICAL
Oct 01, 2008; ... MULLOVA / BEZUIDENHOUT Queen Elizabeth Hall, London ***** The crowd that came to hear Viktoria Mullova open her "artist infocus" series was as heterogeneous as you'd expect, given the scopeof this statuesque star's activities. Her recital on periodinstruments was to be followed by ...
THEATRE
Oct 01, 2008; ... ERIC'S Everyman, Liverpool *** It could have been a mawkish evening: a "rockumentary" set in thelate 1970s around a dingy Liverpool dive, Eric's, interwoven with anaccount of one man's fight against cancer. In fact Eric's, themusical, turns out to be a highly effective piece of ...
THEATRE
Oct 01, 2008; ... GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ** As an exercise in painterly evocation, David Joss Buckley'sadaptation of Tracy Chevalier's novel is fair enough. As drama,though, it's a non-starter. The whole point of the book is theunselfconscious artistry of the ...
Rehab, guitar lessons and now a winning gig
Oct 01, 2008; ... POP KEANE Kentish Town Forum, London **** Tom Chaplin has never, on paper, made the most convincing of rockstars. His unblemished countenance is that of a head choristerdestined not for pop ubiquity, but for the Tory A-list. Yet since welast saw him, he has done the requisite ...
Try that for starters
Oct 01, 2008; ... Last Night's Television JAMIE'S MINISTRY OF FOOD CHANNEL 4 TRUESTORIES: CHOSEN MORE4 DAWN PORTER: FREE LOVER CHANNEL 4 "If School Dinners was like Star Wars," said Jamie Oliver, "thenthis is going to be like The Empire Strikes Back." I couldn'timmediately work out the analogy ...
BOOK NOW
Oct 01, 2008 ... Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra Not just a stand-up comic and regular on TV's Never Mind theBuzzcocks, Bill Bailey also has an honorary degree from the LondonCollege of Music. Here, he puts his knowledge to good use bydemonstrating how an orchestra works, and ...
No sex please, I'm an actress
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Week in Radio It's that time of year when familiar old programmes flutter back,like flocks of geese over the North Sea. In Our Time (BBC Radio 4,Thursday) is back before I've even finished going through thepodcasts from the last season, which I resent. More cheerfully,after ...
The Ten Best Compact digital cameras
Oct 01, 2008; ... Olympus MJU 1030SW This 10-megapixel Olympus can handle anything you throw at it,and is larger than the average compact. Price: 209 www.ukdigital.co.uk; 01200 444 744 Canon Digital Ixus 970 IS While the wavy design may not be to everyone's taste, the ...
Ashley to slash Newcastle price
Oct 01, 2008; ... There is renewed speculation surrounding the price Mike Ashleyexpects to ask for Newcastle United given the global economicdownturn and the fact that several of the interested parties arefrom overseas. According to reports a fortnight ago in the MiddleEast, Ashley was hoping for a figure ...
Rangers happy to play catch-up game, says Miller
Oct 01, 2008; ... Rangers have proven they can cope with the pressure of playingcatch-up to Celtic in the Scottish Premier League, according to thestriker Kenny Miller. Miller scored twice on Sunday as the Ibroxclub ran out 3-0 winners at Hibernian a day after their Old Firmrivals beat Aberdeen to edge ...
Underestimate PSV at your peril, warns Benitez
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dutch clubs should never be under-estimated, especially not a PSVEindhoven side which has won at Arsenal and Tottenham in the pasttwo seasons. Nevertheless, that is the danger Rafael Benitez seeksto guard against ahead of Liverpool's Champions League tie atAnfield ...
Ellis's return from injury is latest boost for Johnson
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE England manager Martin Johnson was given a double helping ofgood news by his old club Leicester yesterday. No sooner had Waspsannounced the return from injury of Danny Cipriani, than the Tigerswere able to name the scrum-half Harry Ellis in their line-up totake on Northampton Saints ...
Look Here lights up Arc prospects for Hughes
Oct 01, 2008; ... RACING BARELY DID the door of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe shut inRichard Hughes's face, than it has sprung open again. Last week therider was jocked off Youmzain, on whom he was beaten a head in theParis showpiece 12 months ago; yesterday he was booked for LookHere, who has ...
All the right moves
Oct 01, 2008; ... Exquisite and painful, the gymnast's quest for perfection iscaptured in a new show. Hannah Duguid reports A photograph of the German Olympic gymnast Alfred Schwarzmann ispart of an artwork by Jo Longhurst called A-Z of Gymnastics.Schwarzmann's muscles are exquisitely defined; he ...
Life after Brideshead
Oct 01, 2008; ... Some became superstars, others slipped into obscurity. As the newfilm opens, Alice Jones catches up with the cast of the original1981 TV series Revisiting Brideshead Revisited was never going to be easy. Andwhen you throw in such traditionalist-baiting elements as apassionate ...
'A little OCD may be no bad thing. Turn it into a lifestyle, like Woody Allen'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Take It From Me Like all Brits, I consider a resolutely tumescent stiff upper lipthe most exquisite human feature. My great-grandfather skated overthe fact that he had become a double amputee by informing his wifethat he hadn't had the best day at work. And it is hard to think ...
Quotes of the day
Oct 01, 2008 ... This gives our country the chance to right a great wrong and towipe out a national shame that has stained us all. Joanna Lumley on the High Court's decision to grant retiredGurkha soldiers the right to stay in Britain We talk about protecting rights ... because in the end we ...
NUMBERS OF THE DAY
Oct 01, 2008 ... 3.9m British children living in poverty - in some areas, equivalent to98 per ...
As the world sees it...
Oct 01, 2008 ... BAILOUT BILL FAILS Washington Post After the shocking vote of 228 to 205, party leaders did theirusual rounds of partisan finger-pointing, but it really wasn't apartisan issue at all. The centre had collapsed in favour of acoalition of far-right and far-left zealots. What was ...
What is the Swedish schools model, and can UK education learn from it?
Oct 01, 2008; ... The big question Why are we asking this now? Michael Gove, the Conservatives' schools spokesman, spelt out hisblueprint for education at his party's annual conference -announcing that his party would adopt the Swedish model of allowingparents' groups, charities and companies ...
A crisis that leaves Cameron struggling for a meaningful role
Oct 01, 2008; ... IT WAS ALL going swimmingly for David Cameron until yesterday'sComRes poll for The Independent cruelly brought home the power ofincumbency still enjoyed by Gordon Brown. For several months it was not only the consistent headline pollleads for the Tories that gave them the political ...
Pandora
Oct 01, 2008; ... Any old Irons won't do for 'Brideshead' Jeremy Irons claims to have been offered a part in a new big-screen version of Brideshead Revisited, but the film's director sayshe didn't want him. Just before shooting of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel began lastyear, Irons (who found ...
How to be both good and famous
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the many very fatuous aspects of "celebrity culture" isthe kind of disapproval it sometimes attracts. There is a puritanstrain in our society which likes to suggest that those fortunateenough to have a saleable talent should also, by coincidence, beadmirable in very many other ...
Quick! These bankers need rescuing
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE NEXT move, presumably, will be to nationalise the country'sgambling debts. To revive confidence amongst blokes in bettingoffices, the Government will hand over 300bn to cover the moneythey've lost. Then a leading gambler will be quoted as saying: "Thispackage goes some way towards ...
We're back to the world of tight credit and miserly banks
Oct 01, 2008; ... The banking crisis is getting worse and it will go on gettingworse until the authorities, principally in the United States butalso in Britain and Europe, take full charge and start to helprebuild confidence in the world banking system. The longer this takes and the more botched the ...
Reckless Republicans are to blame for this economic catastrophe
Oct 01, 2008; ... Podium WHEN was the last time anyone ever asked you for $700 billion? It's a staggering number. But only a part of the cost of thefailed Bush economic policies to our country. Policies that werebuilt on budget recklessness. When President Bush took office, heinherited ...
Congress must act, but with more deliberation
Oct 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE The US public has spoken and theirrepresentatives must listen The defeat in Congress of the $700bn bank rescue bill leftAmerica and much of the world staring into the economic abyss.President Bush warned yesterday that the consequences would be"painful and ...
Elite should not be a dirty word
Oct 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE The Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten, laid it on theline yesterday, warning that the university would not be able tomeet government targets for admissions from state schools unless thegap in performance between the state and private sectors ...
A moral duty
Oct 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE It is always good to see justice done. But in the case of theretired Gurkhas who have now won the right to settle in Britain, ithad a bitter tinge. Their claim should never have had to go anywhere near a court.They should have been welcomed as honoured ...
Rural notebook
Oct 01, 2008; ... Out of Aberdeenshire - broccoli all in a row Been up and down the land judging the Farmer of the Year for theBBC. I've seen cows, I've seen cucumbers, I've seen all sorts. Therewas a lady in Aberdeenshire growingorganic vegetables, the cutestlittle market garden I've seen outside ...
Oxford 'is not a social security office'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Chancellor of university rejects government plan to attract morestate pupilsOxford University should not be treated by the Government as "asocial security office" to widen participation in higher educationamong disadvantaged pupils from state schools, its chancellor ...
Scores die in stampede at Hindu temple
Oct 01, 2008; ... Disaster that crushed worshippers may have been sparked by bombscare FRANTIC Hindu devotees battleddesperately to revive peopletrampled and crushed in a stampede at ahistoric temple yesterdaythat left at least 168 worshippers dead. Television footage filmed outside the ...
Police arrest 22 in milk scandal
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief BEIJING Police in the Chinese province at the centre of a scandalover tainted milk powder have detained 22 people suspected ofinvolvement in introducing the chemical melamine into the supplychain, according to state media. Thousands of children have been taken ...
Plump dolphins on low-fat diets
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief TOKYO Dolphins at a marine park in Japan are on a low-fat dietafter developing pot bellies and ...
Zuma charges may be refiled
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief JOHANNESBURG South African prosecutors made an application toappeal against the dismissal of corruption ...
Coastguard rescues 229 African migrants
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief MADRID Spanish coastguards have rescued 229 Africans trying toreach the Canary Islands, after intercepting a boat off the islands'coast. The officers found the 30m fishing boat yesterday eveningabout 60 miles south of Gran Canaria and took the would-beimmigrants ...
Three held over murder of banker
Oct 01, 2008; ... Tributes paid to father kicked to death as he tried to protecthomeless man THREE MEN were arrested last night in connection with the deathof a wealthy banker who was punched and kicked after he rushed tothe aid of a homeless man. Frank McGarahan, 45, a successfulbusinessman with ...
Gorbachev back in political fray
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief MOSCOW Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will join tycoonAlexander Lebedev in a new ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Oct 01, 2008 ... 'A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as aremonstrative whisper to a ...
CIPRIANI Prodigy makes early comeback
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wasps' boy wonder may be the new favourite of the paparazzi but,writes Chris Hewett, his rapid return from injury is headline news It took Jonny Wilkinson more than 50 international appearances topersuade the paparazzi that there was more to life than the royalfamily and Jordan's ...
Unknown Bruegel painting is discovered
Oct 01, 2008 ... World in brief A previously unknown work by the 17th-century painter PieterBruegel the Younger has been discovered, a Dutch art televisionprogramme reported yesterday. The small, circular painting - 17cm(6.7in) in diameter - portrays a farmer and his wife resting againsta tree, ...
US election diary
Oct 01, 2008 ... *In Hollywood, supporting John McCain represents a one-way ticketto social Siberia, but Pete Sampras isn't bothered. The former worldtennis No 1 greeted paparazzi outside a Malibu restaurant at theweekend by shouting "vote McCain". The announcement met with stunnedsilence. Then a ...
Cold War stand-off over pirates' weapons ship
Oct 01, 2008; ... Tanker laden with deadly military hardware remains under thecontrol of hijackers off the coast of Somalia Russia sends frigateto the Indian Ocean, joining US vessels as concern grows over fateof cargo Russia has dispatched a frigate to the scene of an increasinglytense stand-off ...
Rasputin: the opera
Oct 01, 2008; ... The tale of the mad monk has made it to the Moscow stage - whereits sex, Kremlin intrigue and violence are eerily familiar. By ShaunWalker It's a story of violence, orgies, a protracted murder and death,vacillating and manipulated royals, and the collapse of an empire.The life ...