The Scotsman back issues from June 1998:
Business Diary
Jun 01, 1998; ... High-volume interest in management THE American management guru Tom Peters was his usual provocativeand loud self at a management conference in Glasgow last week. Withevangelical fervour, Peters, the author of the 1982 blockbuster InSearch of Excellence, declared: "I am no longer ...
Scottish hotel industry healthy
Jun 01, 1998; ... SCOTLAND'S hotel industry is continuing to demonstrate theoutwardsigns of robust health, according to a report published today. Despite the strength of sterling, average daily room ratesincreased by 11 per cent last year, while occupancy increased by 0.1per cent over 1996 to 72.9 ...
Airports chief lands job in property group
Jun 01, 1998; ... SIR JOHN EGAN, chief executive of the airports group, BAA, and aformer boss of Jaguar, will become the next chairman of MEPC,Britain's third largest property group. MEPC is expected to announce that Sir John will take over fromLord Blakenham, who is retiring, when it presents ...
So far so good on route to low inflation - but risks are still there
Jun 01, 1998; ... I AM on record as being an optimist on the chances of achievinglow inflation, low interest rates and continued steady, albeitslower, growth into the millennium - the so-called soft landing.Nothing has happened to the economy so far this year to keep meawakeat night, wondering if I ...
British group working on late R-R bid
Jun 01, 1998; ... A CONSORTIUM of Rolls-Royce and Bentley enthusiasts is preparingto make an eleventh hour attempt to keep the car company underBritish ownership. With just four days left before shareholders decide the fate ofRolls-Royce Motor Cars, the consortium said it was prepared ...
Royal Bank agrees deal to release Midshires
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE Royal Bank of Scotland has made an abrupt U-turn and agreedtofree up Birmingham Midshires Building Society to talk to potentialbuyers in exchange for a GBP 5 million payment. After months of refusing to free Midshires from the exclusivitydeal struck when the two sides agreed ...
Slowdown hits north of Border
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE SCOTTISH economy is slowing and is no longer enjoying growthlevels higher than the UK average which were seen for most of thepast year, according to the latest survey of business conditionsnorth of the Border. Results of the Bank of Scotland monthly economic survey show ...
Tilney to sell stake to US backer
Jun 01, 1998; ... TILNEY Investment Management, the independent fund manager withoffices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has secured the support of a majorUnited States backer. The privately owned company, which recently changed its name fromTilney & Co, is to sell a 25 per cent shareholding to Refco ...
Christine Kydd and Norman Chalmers/Blazin' Fiddles Glenfinnan
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE Highland Festival's brief promises "world class events inspectacular locations", and Friday's entertainment certainlydelivered that on both counts. The evening began by stepping aboard the MV Sileas, a 50 ft 1940cruiser which formerly plied the route between Mull and Iona, ...
Rambert Dance Company Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE audience leaving Cruel Garden on Friday evening were in aconsiderably more upbeat mood than the one leaving Rambert DanceCompany's bill earlier in the week. Certainly the free sherryprovided by the sponsors helped to create a party mood in the bar,but this disparity highlights the ...
e-mail from Tony
Jun 01, 1998 ... Dear Donald It's June, it's summer time again, the sun is shining, and justwhen I thought it was safe to pack the beach shorts and World Cupguide into my briefcase, and go out and do crazy heat-stroke-inducedcapers, such as teaming up with Des O'Connor to make with thefunnies, ...
The Wheeler Suite Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Jun 01, 1998; ... IT is always rewarding to hear a new piece which makes good useofthe sonic and textural palette a big bandmakes available. That wasthe case with the new suite which Kenny Wheeler composed to acommission from the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Wheeler has a deserved reputation ...
Perfect shots in line of fire
Jun 01, 1998; ... ONE photograph, a split-second against all time's immensity, anatom of eternity. So how on earth do we get such satisfaction fromit? If knowledge is based on experience, how can a micro-secondbecome great art? In a different form, this was a problem that Hume cracked hisbrains ...
Not just another Aquila sunrise
Jun 01, 1998; ... FAR out in the darkness and biting cold between the stars, spaceclouds, right, blow about on the thinnest of winds. They are notlike terrestrial ones - they are a million million million timeslesssubstantial for a start - and they don't make rain. But they aresimilar in one respect ....
What's on your mind,chook?
Jun 01, 1998; ... DOG-lovers like to talk up the talents of their precocious pets."Oh, he can do everything but talk," they say, like proud parents.But are they kidding themselves? Is loveable old Fido any more thana collection of automatic responses without a single thought in hishead - just a machine ...
Why friendly fire hurts most
Jun 01, 1998; ... WHY is the bust-up between female best friends so much nastierthan between men? This week two women from Glasgow fell out afterwinning a GBP 108,000 bingo jackpot which saw their friendshipdissolve into threats of court action and years of amassedgrievance.When Lorna Anderson struck ...
Fangs for the memory
Jun 01, 1998; ... IT WAS a perfectly innocent question, politely asked. How didIngrid Pitt, the vampire queen, enjoy Plockton? Before it becamehome to television's country copper, Hamish Macbeth, Plockton had astarring role in the cult horror film, The Wicker Man, whichfeaturedpaganism, naked dancing, ...
Kick in the stalls from rare Dutch double-bill
Jun 01, 1998; ... WHAT'S this, zooming into Glasgow this quiet June week? Is it ascandal? Is it a rare artistic experience? Is it a display ofpublic obscenity fit to frighten the Arts Council of England? Orjust an unusually explosive event in the Victorian Bar at the TronTheatre? Well, a bit of ...
They'd lather star in soap than Ibsen
Jun 01, 1998; ... RACHEL stares blankly at the one they call Tinhead and Tinheaddoes likewise in the direction of the dreadful Susannah. "Arehearsal?" they chorus like three Lady Bracknells in The Importanceof Being Earnest. The question which stumps Brookside stars Tiffany Chapman, PhilipOlivier ...
Why do we feel guilty when someone else loses the plot and suspects our motives? Loud and Clear
Jun 01, 1998; ... I ALREADY have the reward in the bag; I thought I'd tell you thatnow. The last thing we need is the entire readership jamming thepolice switchboard trying to turn someone in for the loot. Last weekI was forced by family necessity to leave the literary constructionbehind and brave the ...
Ernst Kovacic and friends Perth Festival
Jun 01, 1998; ... SCONE Palace has a bowl on its regal front steps for thepeacocks.These, with their strange mewing, near-human cry whining across thelawns and through the long windows, seemed not inappropriateparticipants in a concert which had at its climax a major Messiaenwork written in the midst of ...
Black to the future
Jun 01, 1998; ... BILL Clinton's favourite author she may be, but don't let thatmislead you. The president's authority is backed by all thetrappings of office. Toni Morrison, the novelist, essayist andchronicler of slavery, has none of those; yet she exudes the kind ofauthority which almost makes ...
Ringing the changes with a career in co-operation Profile: Graham Bruce
Jun 01, 1998; ... WHEN the history of machinery rings in Scotland comes to bewritten, Graham Bruce will deserve a chapter. Ten years ago he became the manager of the Mearns and Angusmachinery ring which was setting out to help farmers to reduce on-farm costs. In his first year, the turnover of ...
Union may pay high price for super district success
Jun 01, 1998; ... IT can scarcely be claimed that it has been reflected inScotland's international results, but most of the players concernedgenuinely feel that they are better for their involvement inEuropeanties, Heineken Cup or Conference. Yet, so far, the price paid interms not just of the Scottish ...
Goal spark still eludes the striker light Scots
Jun 01, 1998; ... CRAIG Brown couldn't even escape in the bowels of the RFK Stadiumin Washington. "Do you think Ally McCoist would have taken thosechances?" squawked the baseball-capped American journalist. Cue typically friendly Brown response which he had to be carefuldidn't sound like: "Not ...
Entangled in the messy affair of the sporting tantrum
Jun 01, 1998; ... A DISTURBING thing happened to me in a supermarket recently, thelatest in a long sequence of disturbing things which have beset meinsuch places over the years. In this instance, a small, red-faced child which was confrontingits mother in an animated showdown beside the bacon and ...
Hendry: Brazil are there for the taking
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE Scotland captain, Colin Hendry, last night delivered arousingaddress to the nation in which he predicted Craig Brown's side coulddo the unthinkable and upset Brazil. Hendry reflected on a successful ten-day training camp -whichended in a scoreless draw against the United ...
Hoddle swings the axe on stunned Gascoigne
Jun 01, 1998; ... A SHOCKED Paul Gascoigne arrived back in Britain last night afterbeing left out of England's squad for the World Cup finals. Hereturned to the home of his estranged wife Sheryl after earlierstorming out of England's base in Spain following a row with GlennHoddle, the England ...
Fresh greens, blue plasters and red tape on a Sunday morning
Jun 01, 1998; ... IN LAY-BYS round the country you will see what look to theuntutored eye like salmonella or E coli accidents waiting to happen. These are the nation's burger bars and you are entitled to wonderwhy food poisoning outbreaks should be caused by products frombutchers' shops or ...
Time for change in Dewar's team
Jun 01, 1998; ... WESTMINSTER is alive with reshuffle rumour. On the reputationexchange, where ministerial futures are traded, briefing is reachingfever pitch. Some are traded short. The Secretary of State forSocial Security, Harriet Harman, looks increasingly certain toperform a lateral arabesque. There ...
Never mind 'young Blair'. I just wish somebody would call me 'young Jack'
Jun 01, 1998; ... ONE could hardly suppress a wee smirk at Gerry Irvine's impudentaddressing of the prime minister as "young Blair". Despite the LordChancellor's overweaning sententiousness it is as nothing to thebalding Prime Minister's overweaning tendentiousness. Young Blairhas sententiousness to go ...
The guests who will miss the royal party
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE entirely predictable chorus of outrage which greeted the newsthat the Secretary of State of Northern Ireland had invited GerryAdams and Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Fein, to attend the annualgarden party at Hillsborough Castle was premature and wrong. MoMowlam's decision to include the ...
Abolish direct labour
Jun 01, 1998; ... NO SOONER does the promise of a real shift to New Labour appearinScotland than the sleazy habits of old Labour return to drop theparty in the mire. The Scottish Secretary's enthusiasm, howeverbelated, for the radical policies operating down south is already atrisk of being swamped by ...
Taylor backs struggling Stirling to get it right
Jun 01, 1998; ... STIRLING captain Jon Taylor was in defiant mood after seeing hisside crash to their third defeat in four games, at home to Arbroath.Now, even at this early stage, they are left in grave danger ofbecoming somewhat detached at the foot of the Conference withEdinburgh ...
Worrying signs as Scots miss chance to run riot
Jun 01, 1998; ... Victoria 13 Scotland 42 WITH almost an hour played at Olympic Park, Melbourne, onSaturday, everything was going to plan. With 42 points on the board,Scotland seemed poised to run up the sort of sizeable score whichwould boost the morale of the entire squad. Instead, a ...
Telfer searches for Test answers
Jun 01, 1998; ... WITH only 12 days to go before their first Test against theWallabies, Scotland are further away than ever from forging a Testteam. The side to play New South Wales Country in Bathurst tomorrowis neither a second string nor anything approaching a convincinginternational line-up: neither ...
Coach tells Townsend to obey team orders
Jun 01, 1998; ... GREGOR Townsend will have what could be his last chance tomorrowto convince Jim Telfer that he should be Scotland's stand-off forthetwo Tests against the Wallabies. Townsend is in the team to play New South Wales Country inBathurst, but Telfer insisted yesterday that he would ...
Direct hits, misses - and scandals
Jun 01, 1998; ... POOR old Harry McGuigan's getting it in the neck. The Labourleader of North Lanarkshire Council faces a massive job to convinceapublic, already sceptical about local government's ability to spendmoney wisely, that the latest direct-labour scandal should not belaid at his door. Yet ...
Can Russia's 'pseudo-democracy' ever become the real thing?
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE GENERAL AGAINST THE KREMLIN: ALEXANDER LEBED, POWER ANDILLUSION Harold Elletson Little, Brown. GBP 17.50 THE DAY after Boris Yeltsin joins Ivan the Terrible, Peter theGreat, the Alexanders, the Nicholases and Catherine the Great in thecelestial abode that is doubtless ...
Marching back to war
Jun 01, 1998; ... TWO cats in a shack can seldom be relied upon to enjoy eachother's company. Unfortunately, reliance on this principle isprecisely the basis of Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement -andit is precisely the basis on which it might founder. Judging byevents over the weekend, the crisis ...
David Williamson
Jun 01, 1998; ... David Williamson, former Keeper of the Registers of Scotland Born: 1920 Died: 16 May, 1998, as a result of accident in thehills of Wester Ross IN 1937, shortly before his 17th birthday, David Williamsonjoinedthe staff of the Department of the Registers of Scotland as ...
The exile returns to take on the world
Jun 01, 1998; ... WHILE Roberto Carlos admits he doesn't know too much about theScottish side he will face in nine days' time, you imagine JimLeighton will feel as though he is sleeping with the Brazilianbanana-kick expert. The Scotland goalkeeper's American dreams weresurely haunted by flickering images ...
Dundee fix up Motherwell rejects for Premier return
Jun 01, 1998; ... PREMIER League newcomers Dundee will today complete the singingsof the freed Motherwell players Shaun McSkimming and Eric Garcin. French midfielder Garcin and left-sided utility playerMcSkimming,28, will join the Dens Park club as part of manager Jocky Scott'ssquad-building for ...
Finals dress rehearsal fails to skirt attacking frailties
Jun 01, 1998; ... United States 0 Scotland 0 THE mocking sign claimed "Men In Skirts Can't Play". Yet hadKevin Gallacher not scorned a couple of blinding second-halfchances,these visiting Aunt Sallies would have embarrassed Uncle Sam on hisfarewell party.Mercifully, it was Scotland who ...
Watson looks for vital spark
Jun 01, 1998; ... WILL the real Craig Watson please stand up on the first tee atMuirfield? When the reigning Amateur champion starts his defence of theprestigious title today, the director of Exciting Lighting inFalkirkdoesn't know whether he will switch on the spotlights or blow ...
Galaxy in different world to Claymores
Jun 01, 1998; ... DAMON Huard, the Galaxy quarterback, threw two touchdown passesand notched his first rushing touchdown of the season to inflict theseventh defeat on the Scottish Claymores in nine games and keep theGerman side's World Bowl hopes alive. Huard, allocated by NFL giants Miami Dolphins, ...
Dream finish for Bary at Chantilly
Jun 01, 1998; ... DREAM Well and Croco Rouge provided Pascal Bary with a memorable1-2 in the French Derby at Chantilly yesterday as Saratoga Springsall but bid au revoir to the English equivalent at Epsom onSaturday. Bary had been confident beforehand that he could win the bigrace,which he did, ...
German publisher in no hurry for Mirror
Jun 01, 1998; ... AXEL Springer, the German publisher which two weeks ago said itwas considering a bid for Mirror Group, seems unlikely to launch atakeover offer this week preferring to play a waiting game. Although Mirror, whose share price has jumped almost a quarter onthe bid speculation, is ...
Minor in name only as fans celebrate car's golden anniversary
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE new car was to be named the Mosquito - conjuring images ofsudden speed and hidden menace. Thanks to the conscience of itsdesigners, it became the Morris Minor. The change of name seems as good an idea now as it did 50 yearsago when the first models trundled off the assembly ...
Fuel trouble brings Edmonds down to earth
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE television personality Noel Edmonds made a forced landing inaBorders village when his helicopter ran low on fuel yesterday. The former Radio 1 disc jockey and his pregnant wife, Helen, 35,were stranded for more than two hours in a school playground inBonchester Bridge, near ...
Diana-crash paparazzi set for trial
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE photographers charged with manslaughter after the death ofDiana, Princess of Wales, look certain to face trial, according tolawyers in Paris. Lawyers for the paparazzi, accused of pursuing the car thatcrashed killing the princess and her companion, Dodi Fayed, believethere is ...
End is nigh for Spiceworld, say critics
Jun 01, 1998; ... IT WAS a time-honoured exit line as old as pop itself, but withone telling variation. When Geri Halliwell blamed "differences" within the Spice Girlsfor her widely heralded departure, she conspicuously left out theword "musical". In a career which included stints as a ...
Nuclear operator may face charges
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE operator of the Dounreay nuclear plant will face criminalcharges if safety legislation is found to have been breached duringaseries of recent alerts. Prosecutors will steer the work of an inquiry team arriving attheCaithness plant today to investigate a power failure amid ...
Scot who claimed the Holocaust was a hoax
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE Clement Attlee government put pressure on the Lord Advocatetoprosecute a bigoted Scottish preacher who was the first Briton topublish claims that the Holocaust was a myth invented by Jews. Public records seen by The Scotsman show that the then HomeSecretary, Herbert Morrison, ...
Afghan quake kills thousands
Jun 01, 1998 ... AID workers scrambled yesterday to get help to a remote region ofnorthern Afghanistan devastated by a earthquake that has ...
Tories back vote on break with the Union
Jun 01, 1998; ... A POWERFUL group of senior Scottish Tories yesterday backed callsfor a referendum on independence in the first term of the Scottishparliament. The demand has re-ignited the controversy over the ScottishNational Party's campaign for an early resolution of the ultimatequestion on ...
Mission impossible becomes a stroll in the rain to keep World Cup dream alive
Jun 01, 1998; ... IT WAS a challenge to make any aspiring World Cup hopefuls runstraight back into the changing room: Win by 17 goals to have achance to qualify for the finals. But yesterday the Scottish women's team overcame driving rain andridiculous odds to beat sodden Lithuania by an almost ...
Dewar's threat to 1,600 council jobs over debt
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE Scottish Secretary, Donald Dewar, yesterday threatened toshutdown a council department where staff received pay cheques worthmanymore times their basic salaries. Mr Dewar announced he is to serve a legal order on NorthLanarkshire Council, forcing it to provide a full, ...
Caberfeidh rue points gift
Jun 01, 1998; ... WHILE Kilmallie secured itself the North Division 1 shintychampionship with a 2-1 victory over Lochcarron, second-placedCaberfeidh can be justified in feeling somewhat unlucky. Last weekend, Caberfeidh lead the competition by three points,butKilmallie declared their intentions in ...
New talent surfaces at Grand Prix
Jun 01, 1998; ... SCOTLAND'S coaches have long been promising an upturn infortunes,and signs of a breakthrough came from three teenagers, Bryan Morgan,David Leith and Michael Cole, at yesterday's Speedo Super Grand Prixfinals in Sheffield. Morgan won the 100m freestyle in a new Scottish record ...
Heaven 17 for flower of Scotland
Jun 01, 1998; ... Scotland 17 Brown (2,3,47,60), Hamill (12,16,25, 49), McWhinnie(44,61,63,68), Fleeting (55,57,74), Marr (81), Grant (90) Lithuania0 THE rain lashed and teeth gnashed at Scotstoun yesterday. Thedownpour in Glasgow's west end seemed an appropriate metaphor fortheScots women's ...
McGonigle cries foul over lack of interest
Jun 01, 1998; ... SCOTTISH Women's Football Association President, MaureenMcGonigle, can be forgiven for taking a minute to catch her breathafter this thrilling match. The 17-0 win over Lithuania sees Scotland through to a play-offwith either Croatia or Ukraine for a place in next year's World ...
EIS threatens education targets
Jun 01, 1998; ... CONTROVERSIAL plans to set performance targets for every schoolinScotland could be thwarted by the country's biggest teachers' union. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said yesterday thatitis taking legal advice on whether it can urge teachers not to co-operate in ...
Walter Carr dies at 72 after two-year battle with cancer
Jun 01, 1998; ... SCOTTISH stage and television stars yesterday paid tribute toWalter Carr, who died at his home in Perth on Saturday after a two-year battle against cancer. Carr, who was 72, will be remembered as one of the finestpantomime dames in Britain and for his role as Dougie - the mate ...
Fund-raisers beat charity fatigue
Jun 01, 1998; ... VOLUNTEER charity workers raised GBP 29.5 billion last year andbeat the compassion fatigue which has seen donations to good causesfalling in recent years, according to a report by the Charities AidFoundation published today. Britain's top 500 fund-raising charities collected an ...