The Scotsman back issues from March 1998:
Jury still out on law in the dock
Mar 02, 1998; ... LIKE small children utterly dependent on their parents, most ofustrust our legal advisers implicitly to protect us from life's littleDickensianisms - financial ruin, for example - at some of the mostimportant stages in our existence. We do not expect, havingpurchased our dream home, to ...
Two out of battle for Dewar's
Mar 02, 1998; ... ALLIED Domecq, the spirits giant, has pulled out of the biddingbattle to buy the Dewar's whisky brand from Diageo as the GBP 700million price proved too difficult to swallow. It is understood that Seagram, the Canadian spirits andentertainment group, has also withdrawn from the ...
Standard Life opens up lines to business
Mar 02, 1998; ... STANDARD Life Bank, the telephone banking subsidiary of Edinburgh-based Standard Life, is expecting a significant upturn in depositswhen it begins to target business customers from next week. Since being launched at the start of the year the telebank, whichalready employs 200 ...
Kingfisher says Woolies sell-off is 'codswallop'
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE Kingfisher group yesterday dismissed as "codswallop" weekendspeculation that its famous 89-year-old Woolworths retailingbusiness is up for sale. Its robust denial came after a report that Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy,Kingfisher's chief executive, had decided on a GBP 1.2 billion ...
Look past the hype and home pickles for farming's big future
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE Countryside Rally is reported extensively elsewhere in thisnewspaper. In fact, it is reported extensively in every newspaper,on radio and television. Countryside campaigners and farmers shouldmake the most of it because it indicates an astonishing change inthepast few months; after ...
Restructure or go under Profile: Jim Pate
Mar 02, 1998; ... UNLESS production-based farm subsidies are phased out within thenext five years, it will be too late to save much of Scotland'sruralinfrastructure, warns Jim Pate, a senior and respected member of theBorders farming community. While admitting to being very much a minority voice ...
Stock Exchange site on sale for 10m pounds
Mar 02, 1998; ... SCOTTISH Metropolitan, the Glasgow property company, has put thecity's Stock Exchange House up for sale for around GBP 10 million. The former home of the Stock Exchange is earmarked for a majorredevelopment into a 60,000sqft department store. The l00-year old grade A listed ...
The Bobby Campbell Benefit Concert Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Mar 02, 1998; ... FOLLOWING January's highly successful memorial concert inGlasgow,last night it was Edinburgh's turn - in the shape of a 600-pluscrowd- to pay tribute to The Scotsman associate editor, who died suddenlylast year, with an aptly multi-faceted celebration of his life andpersonality, all ...
Ocean Colour Scene SECC, Glasgow
Mar 02, 1998; ... ROCK'N'ROLL was never meant to be like this. What happened to sexand drugs and don't-give-a-damn rebellion? When did teen fury giveway to meticulous Beatles-by-numbers noodling? In short, when didrock become a career choice? Because that is exactly what Ocean Colour Scene ...
Yes Clyde Auditorium, SECC
Mar 02, 1998; ... A YES gig is just how you'd expect a prog rock concert to be.Almost three hours stuffed with separate guitar, bass and drum soloswith the appropriate facial grimaces, Phantom of the Opera cascadingkeyboards, psychedelic light show, a gallery of guitars by the sideof the stage , an ...
To: Donald Dewar, New St Andrew's House e-mail from Tony
Mar 02, 1998 ... Dear Donald, What is it with luvvies and gongs? You would think that being anactor is a pretty cushy option these days, especially with hundredsof thousands of young people out of work and being forced into slavelabour schemes on low wages, er, sorry, old boy, I mean ...
Mystery Juice The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
Mar 02, 1998; ... FIDDLE, guitar, bass, drums ... if preconceptions are surfacing,prepare yourselves for a shock. In an age of musical eclecticism,Edinburgh's Mystery Juice take notions of fusion or crossover intoexhilarating, frequently mind-boggling new dimensions, throwingelements of classic funk, ...
Country folk go hunting justice in London
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE list of disadvantages and injustices suffered by those wholive and work in the British countryside is a long one. Lambs bought for fattening last October are being sold now for upto GBP 25 less by already hard-pressed hill farmers struggling tocope with reduced ...
Spencer's self-proclaimed masterpiece up for auction
Mar 02, 1998; ... A PAINTING regarded as a masterpiece by the 20th-century artistSir Stanley Spencer, which reveals the passionate affair he washaving with the wife of a friend, is to be offered for sale byChristie's in London on Friday. It forms part of a comprehensivesale of 20th-century British art, ...
Lacklustre Celtic do enough to open gap
Mar 02, 1998; ... ON a hard, glacial day in Edinburgh, Celtic put a stranglehold onthe Premier Division championship and worsened the plight of Hibs,who are beginning to take on the air of quiet desperation associatedwith the truly doomed. The Parkhead side were a long way from their best at Easter ...
McLean ready to pull the communication cord
Mar 02, 1998; ... TOMMY McLean appears to be having some difficulty in getting hisplayers to listen to him as he prepares his Dundee United squad forSunday's Scottish Cup quarter-final tie at home to Celtic. On Saturday, the Tannadice manager sounded like someone trappedinthat no-man's land ...
Chilly welcome for Robertson
Mar 02, 1998; ... AN AIR of bitterness engulfed Dundee on Saturday. A bitter north-easterly wind chilled spines and threatened fingers as Bovrilsglazedover at Dens Park. This was Dundee catching a brutal cold fromScandinavia and no other town in the Western Hemisphere greets acoldlike Dundee does ....
Season of hope ruined by freefall toward relegation
Mar 02, 1998; ... IF THE unthinkable happens and Clyde get relegated to the bottomdivision at the end of this season, they will possibly pinpoint thismatch as the turning point in their downfall. Despite dominating for long periods of play and creating chancesaplenty, they somehow failed to record ...
Scotland captain returns to action
Mar 02, 1998; ... SCOTLAND'S captain, Gary McAllister, will kick start his WorldCupbid this week in front of a handful of spectators. Coventry City have arranged a reserve game to give the midfielderhis first run out after nine weeks on the sidelines with kneeligament damage. McAllister, 33, ...
Hearts denied at the death as red mist descends on Ibrox
Mar 02, 1998; ... ALMOST 90 minutes after the referee, Kenny Clark, had brought atumultuous match to its conclusion, three fire tenders screeched toahalt outside Ibrox. It was suggested they had arrived to hose downRichard Gough. Recalling how inflamed Walter Smith and Archie Knox had alsobecome ...
Title pressure takes toll as Rangers lose the place
Mar 02, 1998; ... RANGERS showed on Saturday that the pressure of their bid for arecord tenth consecutive league is getting to them as they fell fourpoints behind Celtic in the championship race. Two deflected Jorg Albertz shots handed the champions, who lookeda creatively bankrupt force, an ...
Angry Levein brought down to earth by second defeat
Mar 02, 1998; ... HAVING suffered two defeats in the space of a week, it wouldappear the honeymoon period between Craig Levein and Cowdenbeath isfinally at an end. Now the altogether more difficult task of making the marriageworkin the long term begins. Given their recent spell of inspired ...
Transfer fees to be scrapped for older players
Mar 02, 1998; ... TRANSFER fees for out-of-contract players over 24 are expected tobe scrapped today, giving hundreds of footballers in Scotland thefreedom to move between UK clubs. The move is a belated response to the 1995 Bosman ruling, whichdecreed that out-of-contract players of any age could ...
Champions' blueprint to 'save' club rugby
Mar 02, 1998; ... MELROSE, who have always been at the forefront of the fight for abetter deal for clubs, have again led with their chin by publishingadocument which they reckon will be to the benefit of Scottish rugby. An Alternative Strategy For Scottish Rugby, which has been senttoall clubs, ...
Townsend fit for the fray
Mar 02, 1998; ... Northampton17 Newcastle Falcons7 GREGOR Townsend left the field shortly before no-side in thisTetley's Bitter Cup quarter- final with a broken nose and bloodtrickling down his face.If the damage was done by a punch, I did not see it butafterwards Pat Lam came up to Townsend ...
Higgins in a happier frame of mind
Mar 02, 1998; ... JOHN Higgins captured his first snooker trophy this year in Derbylast night, but it was a close call for the relieved Scot before heedged out Ronnie O'Sullivan in another memorable Liverpool VictoriaCharity Challenge final. Higgins, the world No2, beaten by O'Sullivan in last ...
MCC dinosaurs hang on to position as laughing stocks of sport
Mar 02, 1998; ... UNTIL newspapers left Fleet Street in the late Eighties, the ElVino was the favourite watering hole for many hic-hic-hic hacks. Itwas a sort of El Vino Dorado for those guzzling scribes of red-nosedlegend. Women were not allowed in the place until the winds of change ...
Song sung blue, everybody knows one on the golf course
Mar 02, 1998; ... BEN Hogan used to say he couldn't wait to get up in the morningsothat he could rush out to the practice ground and work on whateveritwas he was working on at the time. I've often thought that I'd feellike that too if work consisted of pottering about a golf course onalovely morning ...
Under-par Olazabal storms to desert title as rivals feel the heat
Mar 02, 1998; ... JOSE Maria Olazabal was at the centre of a desert storm yesterdayas he overhauled adversity, as well as the challenge of Australia'sStephen Allan, to claim the Dubai Desert Classic title - his mostsignificant achievement in golf since winning the US Masters in1994. It was here a ...
Master Bavard on form for our race
Mar 02, 1998; ... GETTING money out of a newspaper is a popular pastime these days,but, as Allan Mel, Peter Monteith and Mark Bradburne hope to prove,alibel suit isn't the only way of going about it. And the legaleagles at North Bridge will be glad to hear that, because the paperthe three gentlemen wish ...
Myreside flair and steel keep the double in focus
Mar 02, 1998; ... ON PRESENT form, only Glasgow Hawks look candidates to burstWatsonians' double bubble. It is not that the Myreside side havesecond sight; they are simply sick of the sight of second place andthe cup and league are within their grasp. There is an air of steel about the side that has ...
Ayr raids leave Preston Lodge hopes grounded
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE biggest surprise of the Tennent's Velvet Shield fifth roundcame at Pennypit Park, where a beleaguered Ayr side put recenttroubles behind them to cruise home against Premier 2 opposition. Preston Lodge had felt their chances of reaching the finals weregood, but Ayr found the ...
Myreside clash a stern test of resolve for high flyers
Mar 02, 1998; ... WHILE the Kelso v Melrose tie will be the talk of the Borders,"there's no doubt that our meeting with Watsonians at Myreside istheglamour game of the quarter-finals". At least that's the view of former hooker Kenny Hamilton, who isresponsible for the playing side of the Glasgow ...
Hay sees victory as 'good omen'
Mar 02, 1998; ... PERHAPS his closing comment - "Let's hope this is a good omen; webeat East Kilbride on the way to winning the cup two years ago" -gave away the true feelings of the Hawick skipper, Jim Hay, abouthisside's chances of picking up some silverware this year. He had been careful with ...
Hawks hammer home a message
Mar 02, 1998; ... "AS we saw at Murrayfield last week, pace is the essence of goodmodern rugby, and that is what we are striving to achieve." For anyone unsure, Glasgow Hawks' coach, Iain Russell, was nottalking about the Scotland team. After watching his side tear Jed-Forest apart in the fifth ...
Angry Edwards blames national coaches for exit
Mar 02, 1998; ... WEST of Scotland coach Brian Edwards partially blamed his side'sdismal performance at Poynder Park on Saturday on the enforcedabsence of Scotland hooker Gordon Bulloch. "We won only about 25 per cent of our line-out ball," he said."That is purely down to the fact that Gordon ...
Fifers pay dearly for taking the wrong option
Mar 02, 1998; ... BOROUGHMUIR would be opti-mistic to see this as the springboardtoa return to a Murrayfield final. "However, we hardly set the heather on fire last season until therun-in to the cup final brought out our best form," said the coach,Sean Lineen. "Maybe we can do it again." The ...
Promotion battles begin to hot up
Mar 02, 1998; ... WITH the various Tennent's competitions taking centre stage and anumber of call-offs caused by the weather, the National League wasforced to take a back seat over the weekend. Only seven games went ahead and only two had any real bearing onthe various promotion ...
Melrose negotiate dangerous route to arrive in final eight
Mar 02, 1998; ... TREKKING halfway across the country to visit Bellsands for a cuptie in late February is a contest any top side would not relish.Even if you win, there's precious little chance of lookingconvincingin the process. In the depths of winter, with the snow sheeting down, a wind ...
Influential Coventry leaves mark
Mar 02, 1998; ... TOM Coventry flew home to New Zealand yesterday content in theknowledge that he has left Stirling County in much better shape thanhe had found them on his arrival as the coach last August. While the Bridgehaugh club failed to make the top-five play-offfor the championship, they won ...
Women have Grand Slam in sight
Mar 02, 1998 ... SCOTLAND will be going for the Grand Slam when they play Englandin the women's Five Nations Championship at Inverleith on 21 March. Thanks to a rousing display by their forwards and a polishedperformance from Paula Chalmers at scrum-half, Scotland beat Wales22-12 at Swansea ...
No escape for the young offenders
Mar 02, 1998; ... IT MAY be the beautiful game to many, but for the aspiring youngprofessional, football can be a crash course in the school of hardknocks. The sweaty battle at the foot of the First Division is no placetolearn your trade gently while being helped along by kindly olderpros ....
Safety breeds contempt in premier comfort zone
Mar 02, 1998; ... NO goals, few incidents, negligible excitement and a lack ofapplication from both sets of players just about sums up a trulydreadful game. Both managers, Alex Miller and Bobby Williamson, may still talkindeferential terms about Hibs' chances of overhauling ...
Dermot Morgan
Mar 02, 1998; ... Dermot Morgan, actor, comedian Born: 3 March, 1952, in Thurles, Tipperary Died: 28 February,1998, in London, aged 45 THE death of Dermot Morgan will for millions be the demise not ofan actor, writer and comedian whose career was on an upward curve ofsuccess, but simply of ...
Standard Chartered shares set to rise
Mar 02, 1998; ... STANDARD Chartered Bank shares are set to rise today after itemerged that Barclays Bank was sounded out over the possiblepurchaseof the Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Khoo's 15 per cent stake in thebank. It is believed Martin Taylor, chief executive at Barclays, wasinformally ...
BTR set to sell packaging operation for 1.5 billion pounds
Mar 02, 1998; ... BTR, the conglomerate aiming to reshape itself as a focusedengineering group, is expected to announce a milestone in thatstrategy this week with the GBP 1-GBP 1.5 billion sale of itspackaging business. It is understood BTR's board, led by the chief executive, IanStrachan, hopes ...
Business Diary
Mar 02, 1998; ... Abbey chief gets warm send-off LAST week's party for Peter Birch, below, the departing chiefexecutive of Abbey National, at Stationer's Hall in the City, haditsshare of familiar faces. Among those guests sipping champagne and nibbling canapes was thePrudential's Peter ...
Glaxo has SmithKline in its sights
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE drugs giant Glaxo Wellcome is set to step up its campaignthisweek to secure institutional backing for a possible GBP 50 billionhostile strike for its rival SmithKline Beecham. The aim would be to deliver the benefits of the original derailedGBP 100 billion merger without ...
Depressing effects of Bank's interest rate rises start to kick in
Mar 02, 1998; ... READERS will recall that last autumn I suggested that there wouldbe a recession beginning, slowly but surely, in the last half of1998. During the past five months or so, I have had no reason tochange the prediction or its albeit broad timing. The facts are simple. From last May to ...
Bid to find owner of blaze gutted building
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE owner of a building destroyed by one of the biggest fires inAberdeen city centre in recent years was on holiday in Tenerifeyesterday, unaware of the incident. Efforts were being made yesterday to contact owner, Ian Emslie.He recently spent hundreds of thousands of pounds ...
Aberdeen hands down ten commandments
Mar 02, 1998; ... THEY may appear in type rather than on tablets of stone, butcouncillors in Aberdeen now have their own Ten Commandments to guidetheir way through life. The city authority is believed to be the first in Scotland todrawup its own "statement of culture," laying down the basic rules ...
Teenagers tell of fears in streets split by race
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE teenagers talk of knives, funerals, and the Ku Klux Klan.Younger children warn of armed white strangers, racist beatings, anddeath threats. For seven days, the sandstone tenements of Glasgow's southside,home to the city's biggest Asian community, have been ringing withlurid ...
Scot accuses Met police of race bias
Mar 02, 1998; ... A GLASWEGIAN policeman has accused the Metropolitan Police ofracial discrimination and is suing the force for compensation. Allan McPherson says he suffered four months of abuse from afellow officer in London who called him names. Mr McPherson, 32, aconstable with the territorial ...
Nardinis set for expansion as warring cousins agree to talk
Mar 02, 1998; ... PEACE has broken out in the war between members of the Nardinidynasty, clearing the way for the expansion of the business with newice-cream parlours. Two sets of cousins became embroiled in a courtroom battle inJanuary when brothers Robby, Riccy and Fabby obtained an ...
Western Isles Council eyes oil revenue in RAF Stornoway bid
Mar 02, 1998; ... WESTERN Isles Council is considering making a joint bid to buytheRAF's most northerly air base in an attempt to cash in on proposedoffshore oil developments. The move by the council -which lost GBP 23 million in thecollapseof Bank of Credit & Commerce International - and ...
Museum hits 8.3m pound goal ahead of target
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE team raising cash for Scotland's new national museum hasreached its target of GBP 8.3 million in donations months ahead ofschedule. Money has poured into the National Museums of Scotland in anunprecedented display of support for a national institution, withlarge sums coming ...
Fettes head says latest abuse claims are part of a vendetta
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE headmaster of Fettes College last night claimed that avicioussmear campaign is at the root of fresh allegations of abuse at theEdinburgh school. Malcolm Thyne said that claims of sexual abuse levelled against aswimming coach were untrue and part of a continuing ...
Lawyer's witness hope for Steele, Campbell
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE lawyer for the two men convicted of the ice-cream warsmurderssaid last night he was hopeful of tracing another new witness vitalto the fight to clear Thomas "TC" Campbell and Joe Steele. John Carroll revealed that he was close to ascertaining thewhereabouts of a person who ...
Bishop Holloway tells how he fended off sex assault as a boy
Mar 02, 1998; ... ONE of Scotland's religious leaders reveals in a new book toraisefunds for a children's charity how being sexually assaulted as a boyleft a lasting impression on him. Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh and primus of the ScottishEpiscopal Church, discloses in A Scottish ...
Lochhead braves cold to prove poetry has a place in everyday life
Mar 02, 1998; ... THE Glasgow poet and playwright Liz Lochhead braved freezingtemperatures and snow yesterday to open the ninth ScottishSainsbury's store in Glasgow with a special poem. Doughnuts, Irn Bru and a piper welcomed shoppers to the Partickstore before Lochhead delivered a rendition of her ...
When stakes are high, the kitchen revolution could still keep you off the campaign streets Loud and Clear
Mar 02, 1998; ... LISTEN. What can you hear? No, this isn't Listen with Mother,not the BBC version anyway. What you can hear is silence. Well allright, if you must quibble, there are noises going on in thebackground. The gingerbread clock is striking, the cats are tumblingup and down the hallway fighting ...
Body-building was Jo's life but did her passion kill her?
Mar 02, 1998; ... HER dress is a fantastic confection of frills and white lace. Itcould not be more feminine. So it seems strange that the womanwearing it is five foot four inches of pure muscle, has broad sturdyshoulders and clutches her delicate bouquet with a mighty grip. This is Jo Amies-Winter ...
Boogie night beginners
Mar 02, 1998; ... GLASGOW city centre, teatime, Saturday. The snow, fresh in fromthe high Arctic, is gently flecking down, turning the streets into adreich and slushy mess. On a night like this, the sensible place tobe is in front of the fire, toasting crumpets as you watch theomnibus edition of Brookside ...
Watch (touch, listen and smell) this space
Mar 02, 1998; ... WE have, we are told, entered the era of touchy-feely politics.Welcome, then, to touchy-feely architecture. In Ayr, they are spending GBP 10 million on rejuvenating the towncentre. Of this, GBP 500,000 has gone on the Loudon Hall forecourt.In place of a shabby collection of benches ...
Sharp exit for marriage when love hits the rocks
Mar 02, 1998; ... WHEN Margaret Cook, wife of the Foreign Secretary Robin Cook,quietly filed for divorce at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last Thursday,she began the paper chase which constitutes divorce. After 28 yearsof marriage, the soon-to-be former Mrs Cook is no doubt hoping thatthis last acrimonious ...