The Independent (London, England) back issues from January 2009:
2009 THE YEAR OF THE BICYCLE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Want to shape up, save cash - and feel fantastic? There's onevery simple solution: start pedalling. Below, Simon Usborne explainswhy now is the time to get cycling, while over the page, OlympianVictoria Pendleton reveals her training tips 1. EVERYONES AT IT If you thought ...
Blue chips end torrid year on positive note
Jan 01, 2009; ... Market Report THE FTSE 100 ended its final session of 2008 with a gain ofalmost 1 per cent, climbing 41.49 points to 4,434.17 yesterday. Volumes dwindled, with just 242 million shares changing handsduring the reduced session before the new year. The benchmark haslost almost ...
Parkinson goes full-time at Charlton despite run of eight without a victory
Jan 01, 2009 ... Football in brief charlton athletic The club have named Phil Parkinson as their newmanager. Parkinson took over at The Valley on a caretaker basis inNovember after Alan Pardew left. The Addicks are rooted to thebottom of the Championship and have failed to win any of the ...
SHARES AND MARKETS
Jan 01, 2009 ... UP Taylor Wimpey 13.5p (up 0.5p, 3.85 per cent) Read-across fromsuccessful arrangement of new banking facilities at Bovis Homes. British Airways 179.7p (up 2.2p, 1.24 per cent) Oil prices easebelow $39 per barrel amid renewed concerns about slowing globaleconomic ...
Lessons of Lebanon return to haunt Israel
Jan 01, 2009; ... Livni adopts hardline stance against truce as candidates seekvotes in Israeli elections Analysis Although their proposals differ in detail, two of Israel's best-known writers, Amos Oz and David Grossman, have joined the calls fora ceasefire after several days of Israel's ...
Quotes of the day
Jan 01, 2009 ... I want to quote Colonel Kilgore in 'Apocalypse Now' when he says'Someday captain, this war is going to end'. Mayor of London Boris Johnson draws a sanguine economiccomparison in his New Year message to the City Whenever he goes back, it's fantastic, He wears a tracksuit ...
NEW YORK
Jan 01, 2009 ... Stock markets Wall Street saw a merciful end to a dreadful year as stocksclosed with a sizeable advance. Investors took some comfort from theLabour Department's report of a sharp drop ...
CHINA
Jan 01, 2009 ... Stock markets The country's stock market ended 2008 with an annual loss of 65per cent, the biggest drop in its 18-year history, after the globaleconomic slump burst a ...
Police hunt men who helped shot teenager
Jan 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief crime Police are hunting two men who took a seriously injuredteenager to hospital after he was shot in the chest. Medical staffcalled in officers after the 14-year-old was brought to NorthwickPark Hospital, in north-west London. Two unidentified men put ...
'Mamma Mia!'breaks DVDsales record
Jan 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief entertainment Mamma Mia! The Movie has become Britain's biggest-selling DVD. The musical has become the first disc to sell more thanfive million copies after its release on DVD five weeks ago. It hasovertaken Pirates Of ...
Twins turn 101
Jan 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief Britain's oldest twins, Betty Richards and Jenny Pelmore, rightand above as children, celebrate their 101st birthday today, beatingodds of 700 million to one to reach the milestone. The sisters, wholive in Cornwall, were born half an ...
Comic 'did not break phone'
Jan 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief courts The comedian Lee Hurst pleaded not guilty yesterday tosmashing an audience member's mobile phone at one of his gigs. MrHurst, pictured, is alleged to have grabbed the phone during aperformance at the Stoke Pub in Guildford, Surrey, and thrown it tothe ...
eBay bans sale of ivory products
Jan 01, 2009; ... Investigation found 63 per cent of online sales went throughauction site THE internet auction site eBay is to cease selling virtually allivory products from its website after coming under intense pressurefrom conservationists who accused the site of acting as a majorblack market ...
Record rail fare rises 'punishing passengers'
Jan 01, 2009; ... Season ticket prices to increase by 6 per cent - twice the levelof inflation Passengers must be protected from the biggest fare increasessince the railways were privatised, according to opposition parties,unions, green campaigners and the rail watchdog. With record rises in ...
Parkinson goes full-time at Charlton despite run of eight without a victory
Jan 01, 2009 ... Football in brief charlton athletic The club have named Phil Parkinson as their newmanager. Parkinson took over at The Valley on a caretaker basis inNovember after Alan Pardew left. The Addicks are rooted to thebottom of the Championship and have failed to win any of the ...
Smith should stay as England coach for season, says Morley
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sport in brief rugby league England's senior player, Adrian Morley (below), hasbacked Tony Smith to carry on as national coach, despite the dismaleffort in the World Cup. "What happened was totally disappointing,but Tony has a great record as a coach and don't forget it's ...
Three Dutch players in last eight after double top for Van Barneveld
Jan 01, 2009 ... Sport in brief darts Raymond van Barneveld's (below) win against Ronnie Baxterin the World Championship at Alexandra Palace, London, means theformer champion heads a list of three Dutch players in the quarter-finals after earlier wins for Co Stompe and Jelle Klaasen ....
Three Dutch players in last eight after double top for Van Barneveld
Jan 01, 2009 ... Sport in brief darts Raymond van Barneveld's (below) win against Ronnie Baxterin the World Championship at Alexandra Palace, London, means theformer champion heads a list of three Dutch players in the quarter-finals after earlier wins for Co Stompe and Jelle Klaasen ....
Radio Choice
Jan 01, 2009 ... New Year's Day Concert from Vienna 10.15am radio 3 Daniel Barenboim conducts this traditional collection of waltzes,polkas and marches for the first time, with the emphasis as usualheavily on the Strauss family. Frost Fair 11am radio 4 Between 1309 and ...
POP
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE ZUTONS Hammersmith Apollo, London *** It is no mean feat for a band to carry off a performance in whichtheir best-known song has been covered in prolific fashion by theinsouciant Amy Winehouse. But nonetheless, and without a touch ofhumility, The Zuton's flex their ...
DANCE
Jan 01, 2009; ... ANGELMOTH Sadler's Wells, London *** Ballet Lorent's family show Angelmoth starts with a library. Thecharacters come and go, dancing and clambering through the toweringstacks of Phil Eddolls's terrific set. You can see theireccentricities and their cherished secrets in the way ...
Definitely not sharper than a serpent's tooth
Jan 01, 2009; ... THEATRE THE CORDELIA DREAM Wilton's Music Hall, London ** The Cordelia dream in the title of Irish playwright Marina Carr'snew play for the RSC is that of a Woman who hears the four howls (asopposed to five nevers) in King Lear. Is this Woman, playedincisively by Michelle Gomez, ...
After a life of suffering, Malika finds change to believe in
Jan 01, 2009; ... A drop-in centre in the Bangladeshi capital teaches womenpractical skills and builds self-confidence. By Andrew Buncombe This Liberation Day, as on every other, Malika Begum thought ofthe people she had lost. Her mother and father and some of herbrothers were killed in the chaos ...
Empathy for the devil
Jan 01, 2009; ... Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry is relishing moral outrageat his new film The Reader, he tells Tom Teodorczuk Stephen Daldry might have spent much of the last year worn out bya punishing work schedule, but when we meet in downtown Manhattanshortly before Christmas he is ...
Eta car bomb hits TV station
Jan 01, 2009 ... World in brief bilbao A car bomb exploded outside a regional television stationin northern Spain yesterday following a warning call from the armedseparatist group Eta. No one was injured. The bomb exploded shortlyafter 11 am outside the offices of the EITB station in the centre ...
Ready for change
Jan 01, 2009; ... Convenient but not very healthy, instant dinners are getting amakeover, discovers Sophie Morris How do you fancy tucking into a Thai coconut curry instead of acurling cheese sandwich in your lunch hour? Or sitting down to a peaand mint risotto, or canellini and borlotti beans with ...
Scarbrough leaves after losing place at Saracens
Jan 01, 2009; ... RUGBY UNION Former England full-back exits after starting justone match this season Dan Scarbrough, the former England full-back, is to leaveSaracens by mutual consent. Although a club spokesman insisted thatthere was nothing untoward in the departure of the ...
'Our bowlers lack flair,' says Warne
Jan 01, 2009; ... CRICKET THE AUSTRALIA spin legend Shane Warne has singled out thecountry's bowlers as the key concern after their long reign as theworld's best side was all but ended by defeat to South Africa inMelbourne. Australia crashed to a nine-wicket loss at the MCG onTuesday to suffer a ...
Grilled aubergine with fattoush
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Life Kitchen INGREDIENTS TO SERVE 6: AUBERGINE 3 medium aubergines, ends discarded, cut into 1cm slices extra virgin olive oil sea salt, black pepper 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed to a paste 3 ...
Cooks in just 12 hours
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sales of slow cookers are booming - but do the results alwayshave to be bland? Jamie Merrill puts the crunch-busting appliance tothe test On a cold and dank winter's evening there is surely nothingbetter than coming home from a hard day's work to find a bubblingstew or creamy ...
1 JANUARY 1980
Jan 01, 2009 ... Days Like These Hugh Casson, architect, writer and broadcaster, begins his diary:"Another year ... another deadly blow" - so Wordsworth, but not some. I enjoyed 1979 and expect to enjoy 1980 - my 70th on earth ...Resolutions? Two. First, to keep up this diary. My last attempt - ...
'I really missed it, the whole atmosphere. Getting back to normal life was really hard'
Jan 01, 2009; ... In the last of a series of interviews with the men and women whohelped make Beijing 2008 Britain's best Olympics, Ian Herbert talksto Rebecca Adlington, the golden girl who captured the country'sheart WHAT THE GAMES MEANT TO ME So here she is, in the place we all thought she ...
'Let's watch Mamma Mia!' said my wife. I didn't fight. I was outnumbered...
Jan 01, 2009; ... Home And Away As a lone male in an otherwise all-female household, I have gotused to losing every argument. So when the conversation turned toways that we might provide ourselves with some festive entertainmentthe other evening I had little hope that my suggestion of a game ...
Critic's Choice
Jan 01, 2009 ... New Year's Day Concert from Vienna 11.20am bbc2 The second half of the Viennese Strauss-fest, which is also onRadio 3. The Krypton Factor 7.30pm itv1 After a 14-year break, Ben Shephard hosts the brain-and-brawncontest named after Superman's ...
Film Choice
Jan 01, 2009 ... Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl 8pm bbc3 (Gore Verbinski, 2003, right) Far better than you'd expect of afilm adapted from a Disney World ride, this swashbuckling, big-budget adventure is kept afloat on a witty script. But it's JohnnyDepp's notion to ...
Daly at his 'lowest point' after USPGA Tour suspension
Jan 01, 2009 ... Sport in brief golf John Daly revealed yesterday that he has been suspended forsix months by the USPGA Tour for "conduct that brought unwelcomepublicity", including a night in a North Carolina jail to sober up."Is it fair that I got suspended? It's not fair in reality, but ...
Collision with 'growler' rips away rudder to end Dick's Vendee Globe
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sport in brief sailing Already struggling with imperfect repairs, Jean-PierreDick was knocked out of the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world raceyesterday when collision with an unknown object ripped away the portrudder of his Paprec-Virbac. "The race is over for me," said ...
Three Dutch players in last eight after double top for van Barneveld
Jan 01, 2009 ... Sport in brief darts Raymond van Barneveld's (below) win against Ronnie Baxterin the World Championship at Alexandra Palace, London, means theformer champion heads a list of three Dutch players in the quarter-finals after earlier wins for Co Stompe and Jelle Klaasen ....
Smith should stay as England coach for season, says Morley
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sport in brief RUGBY LEAGUE England's senior player, Adrian Morley (below), hasbacked Tony Smith to carry on as national coach, despite the dismaleffort in the World Cup. "What happened was totally disappointing,but Tony has a great record as a coach and don't forget it's ...
Sharapova faces uphill struggle to be fit in time for Australian Open
Jan 01, 2009 ... Sport in brief tennis The defending Australian Open champion, Maria Sharapova,withdrew from a Hong Kong exhibition tournament yesterday saying sheis still recovering from a shoulder injury just weeks ahead of thefirst Grand Slam of the year. The three-times Grand ...
Wine racks
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Ten Best Drinkstuff If you're looking for impact and something that's a talking pointover practicality, the Wine Chain Cradle is a good bet. Sure, it canonly hold one bottle, but it makes a great feature while doing so. Price: 19 www.drinkstuff.com; 0870 ...
Mellow but not vintage
Jan 01, 2009 ... Last Night'sTelevision LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE BBC1 MOSTANNOYING PEOPLE 2008 BBC3 It's always sad when a beloved public figure dies. But there wasa particularly traumatic aspect to the passing of Kathy Staff, lastmonth, at 80. Can the actress really have been just 80? That ...
The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act
Jan 01, 2009; ... Comment There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" - themillions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman,Beirut - and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the MiddleEast. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And now -after ...
Spurs make Pounds 15m Defoe bid
Jan 01, 2009; ... Harry Redknapp goes back with improved offer for the Portsmouthstriker Harry Redknapp has turned down the chance to buy the Brazilianstriker Adriano from Internazionale and persuaded Tottenham to goback to Portsmouth today with a 15m offer for Jermain Defoe.Redknapp regards ...
Rivals approach former Derby manager Davies to succeed Calderwood
Jan 01, 2009 ... Football in brief nottingham forest The club are holding talks with former Derbymanager Billy Davies (below) after identifying him as the man theywant to replace the axed Colin Calderwood. Forest sacked Calderwoodon Boxing Day after the 4-2 defeat to Doncaster, with ...
Struggling Spanish club still hopeful Shepherd will emerge as saviour
Jan 01, 2009 ... Football in brief spain La Liga side Real Mallorca remain in talks with formerNewcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd (below) about a possibletakeover, the club said yesterday. "At the moment there is onlycontact with Freddy Shepherd, the only party formally interested ...
This may be the year when O'Neill brings football back home to Villa
Jan 01, 2009; ... Two and a half years ago it was possible to make one of the mostoutlandish statements in the history of English football. You couldsay, without fear of being hauled off by the men in the white coats,that suddenly you envied the supporters of Aston Villa. All it hadtaken was the ...
Turner total 'breaks the barriers'
Jan 01, 2009; ... AFTER THE euphoria of the night before, it was just a routine dayat the office for Hayley Turner at Lingfield yesterday: three rides,three losers on one of the all-weather tracks that provide low-grade competition and betting fodder through the winter. And really,she would not have had ...
The Life Browser
Jan 01, 2009 ... ON THE WEB TODAY ... Wonder of Warhol InterviewMagazine.com has released footage of Steven Spielbergbeing quizzed by Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger in the early 1980s.Not one for a conventional line of questioning, Warhol insteadprobes Spielberg's knowledge of television static ....
2008 - a Premier League odyssey The top flight's year in numbers
Jan 01, 2009; ... 0 Both the number of home defeats suffered by Liverpool and away defeats suffered by Chelsea in 2008. 26 The Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo hit the net 26 times. 16 Number of times Arsenal hit the woodwork, 12 of which were ...
Prices high as football refuses to be crunched
Jan 01, 2009; ... Predictions that the game is set for recession look wide of themark as clubs - led by Manchester City - get set to spend, writesJason Burt The January transfer window opens today and here are a few pricesto digest: Jermain Defoe - 24m, Roque Santa Cruz - 18m, CraigBellamy - 15m, ...
The greatest scandal never told
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sex, bribery, betrayal, a royal feud and more sex - the onlything missing from the story of Mary Clarke and the Grand Old Dukeof York was a tabloid press to titillate the nation, reports AndyMcSmith The greatest scandal in the history of the British Parliament hadeverything: ...
'We are in a state of shocked disbelief'
Jan 01, 2009; ... As the financial world's movers and shakers struggled for words,the hardest one was always going to be "sorry". Sean Farrell reportson a memorable year for quotes IT WAS the year that the great and the good of the financialworld were humbled as the severity of the credit crunch ...
My New Year resolution is to lose my bottle - and quit Coke
Jan 01, 2009; ... By the time you read this, my head will be thump-thumping - butthis is not a standard-issue New Year's Day hangover. No. My NewYear's resolution is to finally give up my addiction to two liquidsthat are trashing the lives of some of the poorest people on earth:bottled water, and Coke. In ...
PAUL WEYRICH
Jan 01, 2009; ... Republican political activist In the conservative army that propelled the Republican Party to ageneration's dominance of US politics, Paul Weyrich was among thefiercest warriors. Others might do deals with the Democratic foe ifthey helped advance the cause. Not Weyrich. For him, ...
We must not succumb to a counsel of despair in 2009
Jan 01, 2009 ... The challenges ahead are colossal, but not insurmountable The new year dawns with no shortage of reasons for forebodingclustering on the horizon. The global economic downturn willcontinue throughout 2009, and in all likelihood well into thefollowing year as well. In mature ...
A message from God: people have a duty to feed the poor, too
Jan 01, 2009 ... Podium Pope Benedict XVI THE CHURCH'S social teaching has always been concerned with thepoor. At the time of the Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum, the poorwere identified mainly as the workers in the new industrial society,new forms of poverty were gradually explored, as the scope ...
NUMBERS OF THE DAY
Jan 01, 2009 ... 150m The amount invested by the Church of England in Al Gore'senvironmental investment ...
As the world sees it...
Jan 01, 2009 ... Rod Blagojevich CHICAGO SUN-TIMES This is about a politically and ethically bankrupt governormaking a decision that should have been turned over to the voters.We don't know what will happen next. While Senate Democratic leadershave vowed to refuse Roland Burris his seat, they ...
Pure politics is driving this war
Jan 01, 2009; ... The year 2008 is finishing as it began, as indeed the millenniumhas begun, with the abject failure of politics to do anything aboutman-made violence. You can list the roll call of calamity -Zimbabwe, Darfur, Somalia, Burma, North Korea, the Congo, the MiddleEast. In each case the leaders ...
ROBERT GRAHAM
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sculptor of figurative monuments across America whose workincludes the 'Olympic Gateway' in Los Angeles Robert Graham was the premier contemporary sculptor of figurativemonuments in America. England played a significant part in hiscareer. He lived in London from 1967 to 1971, and ...
EWEN BALFOUR
Jan 01, 2009; ... Influential public relations executive in government and the artsworld Ewen Balfour was the eminence grise of invisible networking. Heoperated as a benign Cardinal Richelieu in the world of the arts, ina career that spanned journalism, government service and publicrelations. He ...
We must not succumb to a counsel of despair in 2009
Jan 01, 2009 ... LEADING ARTICLE The challenges ahead are colossal, but notinsurmountable The new year dawns with no shortage of reasons for forebodingclustering on the horizon. The global economic downturn willcontinue throughout 2009, and in all likelihood well into thefollowing year as well ....
Test of resolve
Jan 01, 2009 ... LEADING ARTICLE january is the month of the self-denying ordinance. Smokers,drinkers, gamblers, over-eaters; there are few of us without vice,and fewer still who do not consider at least some sacrificefollowing festive over-indulgence. And we all know precisely how bad our ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Jan 01, 2009 ... 'Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.Middle ...