The Scotsman back issues from October 1998:
Smells and Bells The Arches, Glasgow
Oct 01, 1998; ... CHRISTOPHER Deans's new play Smells and Bells - on tour in aproduction by the Glasgow-based MCT Company - is a long, dark,bittercry of rage against the attitude of the Catholic Church in Scotlandto gay sexuality. Its thesis seems to be that the Catholic faith -with its powerful, ...
Jesus Christ Superstar His Majesty's Theatre
Oct 01, 1998; ... DO YOU love, or indeed loathe, the Lord Jesus? As the 11th hourapproaches in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, one reallyought to be feeling something for the man about to be crucified. Sowhy, in this new touring production, is one left with theoverwhelming impression that he ...
Odyssey over the border into Hispanic hinterland
Oct 01, 1998; ... MEN WITH GUNS (15) **** THE elder statesman of American independents, John Sayles,followshis epic Texan masterpiece, Lone Star, by moving across the borderwith this Spanish language film that reaches into the magicalrealismof the South American authors and the Steinbeck ...
The 'It's A Wonderful Life' of the 90s
Oct 01, 1998; ... Buffalo 66 {15} **** BUFFALO is the Dundee of New York State - industrially bypassed,inward-looking and prone to urban planning disasters. Nearer Torontothan New York, it is Detroit's violent smaller cousin, only withoutthe Motor Town's musical heritage. The wintery emptiness of it ...
Capital trams scheme could be derailed
Oct 01, 1998; ... PLANS for a tram network in Edinburgh could be derailed afterlocal authority officials recommended that councillors should notsupport the scheme. The New Edinburgh Tram Company (NETC) launched its proposals lastweek and said the whole GBP 24 million transport project would ...
Give every officer CS spray, say constables
Oct 01, 1998; ... SCOTLAND'S rank and file police called yesterday for every patrolofficer to be armed with disabling CS spray after completion of year-long trials. The Scottish Police Federation urged the country's chiefconstables to deploy the weapon permanently, despite a newinvestigation, ...
Flats near gardens may get go-ahead
Oct 01, 1998; ... PLANS to build flats near Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden couldbe approved despite more than 200 objections from residents.Objectors claim the proposed development, earmarked for a plot ofland in Inverleith, will ruin the character of the area, damageviewsof the garden and the skyline ...
Aberdeen wins beauty contest
Oct 01, 1998; ... IT was branded the dirtiest city in Britain last year but, in aremarkable turnaround, Aberdeen yesterday collected an award as themost beautiful. Councillors led a triumphant Scottish contingent in the annualBritain in Bloom awards, announced in Bath, winning best large ...
Sheriff to look into appeal by sacked detective
Oct 01, 1998; ... A RARELY used Scottish legal hearing has been ordered by theScottish Secretary, Donald Dewar, to examine a former drugs squaddetective's appeal against his dismissal two years ago by GrampianPolice. Douglas Risk, Sheriff Principal of Grampian and the Highlands,hasbeen appointed ...
Inquiry after aeroplane 'nearly hit' tower block
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE Civil Aviation Authority is investigating claims that apassenger plane nearly hit a tower block in Aberdeen while coming into land at the city's airport. Witnesses said the Brymon Airways plane had to climb steeply toavoid flats in the Stockethill area of the city and a large ...
Man treated in hospital after arrest
Oct 01, 1998; ... A GLASGOW man who was a victim of police brutality and an allegedcover-up has needed hospital treatment after being arrested near hishome. Gerald Rae, who won GBP 3,000 compensation after being beaten upduring a raid, was detained by police after an incident outside aburger ...
Motorist denies she put on make-up while overtaking
Oct 01, 1998; ... A WOMAN is to go on trial accused of driving dangerously bybrushing her hair and putting on make-up at the wheel. Catherine McGuire, 35, is alleged to have carried out the offencewhile driving her Rover 213 at speeds of between 50mph and 70mph onthe M9 on 24 April. A single ...
Widows gets green light for office plan
Oct 01, 1998; ... A five-year stand-off between Scottish Widows and City ofEdinburgh planners over the commercial redevelopment of part ofCharlotte Square, has been resolved. The two parties have been at odds since Shepherd & Wedderburn,thelaw firm, moved to Saltire Court, vacating three adjoining ...
Business View
Oct 01, 1998 ... Bank of Scotland shares going down with a case of the jitters THE 3 per cent fall in Bank of Scotland's share price yesterdayhad little to do with a decent set of half-time trading figures, andeverything to do with stock market jitters on economies in generaland bank exposures in ...
The hotshot moneymen who walked away from Scotland
Oct 01, 1998; ... CORPORATE raiders make for good movies. "Greed is good," criedGordon Gekko, and we all laughed, nervously. "Lunch is for wimps."It was entertainment, pure and simple, which created the audienceforthe film Wall Street, a window on a world where the hotshots mademoney, loads of it, while ...
Rapid fire wipe-out on the acquisition trail
Oct 01, 1998 ... VIASYSTEMS in St Louis was kick-started in October 1996, but itsorigins date back to 1973 with the formation of Circo Craft and theestablishment of AT&T's Richmond Works and to 1950 with Zincolcelereof Italy. But with the backing of Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate &Furst and St ...
SFO drops copper scandal inquiry
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE Financial Services Authority (FSA) will continue toinvestigate whether UK authorised firms broke regulations during theSumitomo copper scandal, despite the decision yesterday by theSerious Fraud Office (SFO) to close down its investigation. The SFO said there was insufficient ...
Selfridges rules out property deal after dip to 1.9m pounds
Oct 01, 1998; ... SELFRIDGES, the department store group, yesterday reportedprofitsfell to GBP 1.9 million and said a property deal on its flagshipLondon store was not a priority at present. Since early August, property group British Land has built up a6.3per cent stake in Selfridges, which was ...
Write-downs push Saga 85m pounds into red
Oct 01, 1998; ... SAGA Petroleum, Norway's largest listed company, has been forcedinto the red by write-downs on the value of oil and gas interests inUK waters bought last year from Santa Fe Petroleum. Results for the first eight months of the year issued yesterdayshowed Saga with net losses of 971 ...
Shopping centre to create 5,000 jobs in East Kilbride
Oct 01, 1998; ... MORE than 5,000 jobs are to be created from a plan to build ashopping and leisure complex in East Kilbride. South Lanarkshire Council said the centre would transform EastKilbride into a boom town. The three-level complex, Centre West, isto be built on the site of the former Centre ...
SNP hits at Blair's election tactics
Oct 01, 1998; ... A FORMER senior Scottish Office official who is now a leadingmember of the Scottish National Party has accused Tony Blair ofbreaching a convention which allows opposition parties access tocivil servants six months before a general election. James Scott, whose civil service posts ...
200 face axe with 'imminent' closure of Peterhead plant
Oct 01, 1998; ... TWO hundred jobs at Peterhead's biggest employer hung in thebalance last night amid fears that a decision to close Cleveland(Europe) was imminent. Production at the tool manufacturing plant is expected to bemovedto a site in Sheffield although campaigners are to try to save ...
Pressure grows for ministers to have free rein on reform
Oct 01, 1998; ... OPPONENTS and supporters of electoral reform last night joinedforces to put pressure on the Prime Minister to allow Cabinetmembersto campaign freely for or against change when a referendum is heldonthe issue. The unprecedented move came on the eve of what is expected to ...
Rail firms face hard line on poor services Blackpool 1998
Oct 01, 1998; ... RAIL companies that provide poor services will have theircontracts terminated under plans announced yesterday by JohnPrescott, the Deputy Prime Minister. The shadow Strategic Rail Authority, due to be set up nextspring,will be able to demand high standards through the power to ...
Rebels fail to win seats on ruling committee Blackpool 1998
Oct 01, 1998; ... TONY Blair won a clear victory against rebel back-bench MPsyesterday after pro-leadership candidates won all threeparliamentaryseats on Labour's ruling executive committee. Senior Labour officials were pleased last night when an expectedback-bench revolt against the leadership ...
New look for the thoroughly modern Mini
Oct 01, 1998; ... IT first found fame as the last word in small car design beforebeing elevated to celebrity status by upstaging an all-star cast,including Michael Caine, in The Italian Job. Last night in Glasgow the Mini was reinvented yet again at theDesign for Life show held to honour its place ...
Dewar wants lottery money used to buy Scots estates
Oct 01, 1998; ... DONALD Dewar is to tell lottery chiefs to open up a GBP 135million environment fund to rural communities in Scotland which wantto buy local estates for economic reasons. The Scottish Secretary's move comes after Tony Blair announced onTuesday that a GBP 400 million community grants ...
McLeish calls for air guns crackdown Blackpool 1998
Oct 01, 1998; ... HENRY McLeish, the Scottish home affairs minister, yesterdayurgedthe Home Office to crack down on airguns after revealing that theywere involved in two-thirds of all gun crimes in Scotland last year. The latest firearms statistics show a 28 per cent drop inScotlandlast year ...
Pressure grows over arms Blackpool 1998
Oct 01, 1998; ... GERRY Adams came under unprecedented pressure yesterday to agreeatimetable for the handing over of IRA weapons when Mo Mowlam, theNorthern Ireland Secretary, said she would be prepared to delay thetransfer of power to the Belfast assembly. In an effort to break the deadlock over ...
Inquiry may open mothballed wards Blackpool 1998
Oct 01, 1998; ... FRANK Dobson, the Health Secretary, last night announced aninquiry that could lead to closed hospital beds in England beingreopened. Mr Dobson ordered hospitals to examine the number and use of NHSbeds in England, which will enable mothballed wards to reopen andhelp to ease ...
Scotland's filthy bathing beaches fail health tests
Oct 01, 1998; ... ALMOST half of bathing beaches in Scotland failed to reachminimumstandards of hygiene this summer, equalling the worst year onrecord. High levels of sewage and other pollutants meant that 11favouriteholiday spots around the country were more of a health hazard than aplace of ...
EU calls time on long hours for British workers
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE working day will never be the same again. From now on lunchwill not be just for wimps, and bosses will be clock watching asassiduously as their employees. European Union working time regulations, which come into forcetoday, mean that employees should not work for more than 48 ...
Rejected lover jailed for torture and rape ordeal
Oct 01, 1998 ... A REJECTED lover was jailed for ten years yesterday for rapinghisformer girlfriend and torturing her boyfriend. Terry John tied the man to a chair and taped electric wires tohisgenitals and back before switching on the electricity mains. He toldhis victim: "This is Death Row ....
Shetland homes to be heated by North Sea waste
Oct 01, 1998; ... WASTE from 19 of the North Sea's biggest oil platforms is to beused to heat public buildings and hundreds of homes in the NorthernIsles in a pioneering energy scheme. Shetland Islands Council will use packaging and catering wastefrom Shell Expro platforms to provide fuel for a GBP ...
Boarding Arc a costly business
Oct 01, 1998; ... BRITISH companies which trade abroad have long been blaming thestrong pound for many of the ills which are now afflicting them, andbefore anyone starts wondering if perhaps they have turned to thewrong page in the Business Section, do not worry, this is a racingpiece. The reason ...
Di Canio 'lynch mob' is biased says Vialli
Oct 01, 1998; ... CHELSEA'S player-manager, Gianluca Vialli, last night accusedEnglish football of double standards in its treatment of Paolo DiCanio, suggesting that his compatriot may receive a harsherpunishment than he deserves, because he is Italian. Vialli agrees that Di Canio must be given a ...
Gullit plans shock tactics
Oct 01, 1998; ... RUUD Gullit's Newcastle side were in a relaxed mood as they flewinto the Yugoslav capital for tonight's Cup-Winners' Cup firstround,second leg clash against Partizan Belgrade -despite the news thatthecity had been rocked by a minor earthquake. But then Newcastle's players have ...
Upbeat Hearts wait on Fulton
Oct 01, 1998; ... THIS evening, for the second time in four months, Hearts enter amajor cup tie as the underdogs. In May, facing Rangers and thepsychological burden of 36 years without a trophy, they deservedlywon the Scottish Cup. Tonight, on the holiday island of Mallorca, Jim Jefferies' ...
Fears over safety of fans
Oct 01, 1998 ... Hearts last night expressed concern that at least 1,800 of theirsupporters had been able to purchase tickets locally for tonight'sEuropean Cup-Winner's Cup tie with Real Mallorca. The Tynecastle club are worried that those travelling fans willnot be segregated from the home ...
Adams and Keown show Arsenal the route to goal
Oct 01, 1998; ... Arsenal 2 Adams (64), Keown (72) Panathinaikos1 Mauro (88) ARSENAL had two defenders to thank for their Champions Leaguevictory over Panathinaikos at Wembley last night.The English champions had dominated most of the game, but hadlittle to show for it until Tony Adams and ...
Graham finally ready to move to Spurs
Oct 01, 1998; ... FOOTBALL'S worst kept secret will finally be made public at 4pmthis afternoon, when George Graham is unveiled as manager ofTottenham Hotspur. Yesterday, Leeds United gave Spurs permission to talk to Graham,following a week of press speculation. Alan Sugar, chairman of the ...
Gattuso does some fast talking on Rangers' behalf
Oct 01, 1998; ... BEITAR Jerusalem players emerged from the Yom Kippur day ofatonement last night to find one Rangers opponent making an unholyremark about their chances of causing an upset at Ibrox. Tonight's UEFA Cup tie was postponed for two days because theIsraeli players were required to honour ...
Olofsson wanted back in Norway
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE Dundee United striker Kjell Olofsson's former club have saidthey would like to take the player back to Norway. Moss FK claim Olofsson, right, is unhappy in Scotland and wantstoreturn to Scandinavia. Yesterday, Knut Thorbjoern Eggen, the Mossmanager, said: "We have been told ...
All Burley's saying is give us a goal
Oct 01, 1998; ... WHEN Craig Burley launched an attack on his team-mates forfailingto pull their weight, the name of Harald Brattbakk sprang to mind. The Celtic and Scotland midfielder said he had no desire to betheclub's top scorer, which pointed the finger at the forwards who havestruggled to ...
Eat football, sleep football, drink sangria
Oct 01, 1998; ... THERE may be a corner of a foreign field that is forever England,but this week Mallorca is most definitely Scottish. Or, morespecifically, the temporarily adopted homeland of Hearts fans fromevery corner of the world. Official estimates say that 2,000 Jambos, sporting maroon ...
Ferguson puts on brave face as Bayern snatch late draw
Oct 01, 1998; ... Bayern Munich 2 Elber (11, 90) Manchester United2 Yorke (29), Scholes (48) TRYING to gauge Alex Ferguson's mood-swings by the expression onhis face is an exercise in futility. Last night, a tight-lippedsmile suggested a certain satisfaction with United's performance.Beneath ...
Labour's refusal of access bodes ill for the new parliament
Oct 01, 1998; ... IN A democracy, information is power - or rather access toinformation. And because governments control access, the period ofpotential transition for one government to another can be difficultand sensitive. That is why a tradition of pre-election contactbetween oppositions and civil ...
Rev David Robertson
Oct 01, 1998; ... Rev David Kelman Robertson, Church of Scotland minister Born: 1932, in Edinburgh Died: : 10 September, 1998, aged 66 THE Rev David Kelman Robertson was the elder son of adistinguished physician, Dr Charles Kelman Robertson. David grew upin Edinburgh and received his early ...
Gordon Richards
Oct 01, 1998; ... Gordon Richards, racehorse trainer Born: 7 September, 1930, near Bath Died: 30 September, 1998, aged68 THE fact that trainer Gordon Richards was referred to simply as"The Boss" by those who knew him best is indicative of the status heenjoyed in the world of National Hunt ...
Labour leftists in search of a vision
Oct 01, 1998; ... AS USUAL at the Labour conference, this column has been hangingaround the fringe meetings, bars, receptions and the flashycorporateinstallations looking for hairline cracks in the Blair edifice. Theyare there, if you look - but not many of them and they don't runverydeep as yet ....
Rattling, roaring swingy keeps up the French connection
Oct 01, 1998; ... UP THE High Street, the spine of old Edinburgh, up towards wherethe crown of Saint Giles glows in the dark like a great gothiclantern ... but instead I take a dive into Anchor Close and downthisnarrow chasm alongside the City Chambers, past an ancient doorlintelthat has carved along ...
Scotsman Diary
Oct 01, 1998; ... Withdrawal symptom WE WISH to draw to your attention the following communicationfromMiddlesbrough council's education committee, guidelines sent toschool governors about sex education: "Paragraph 35 of circular 5/94indicates that governing bodies are required to make and keep ...
Too conservative, Chancellor
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE International Monetary Fund was on the defensive yesterday.Some of its critics, suggested its director of research, wereclearlyso deluded one might think they had been smoking illegal substances.The wounded IMF certainly has a point when it argues that some oftheevents that have ...
Mr Dewar must open the books
Oct 01, 1998; ... IN opposition, New Labour made frequent demands for access tocivil servants. Shadow ministers who have now made the transition tooffice gave high priority to the need to see official statistics andto discuss their policy proposals with those who would one day berequired to implement ...
Poll boosts teachers' pay fight
Oct 01, 1998; ... TEACHERS are to push for better pay and conditions after a pollshowed widespread public support for their work. The 32 local authorities that run Scotland's schools are due tomeet unions next week for long-awaited discussions which couldresultin more money for teachers in ...
ME patients 'are failing to get urgent treatment'
Oct 01, 1998; ... TREATMENT for ME sufferers is so patchy across Britain that manypatients are not getting the treatment they urgently need, a reporthas found. An independent task-force into provision of services for thechronic fatigue syndrome has recommended that specialist ...
Unions call for check into claims of dirty tricks at Viasystems
Oct 01, 1998; ... A DOSSIER of evidence alleging the Viasystems plants in theBorders were deliberately run down has been passed to the Governmentby union officials. The dossier allegedly proves that production costs from twoViasystems factories in England and the Netherlands were charged tothe ...
Bio babies and gene factories
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE heady combination of pre-millennial tension and sci-fi-styletechnological advances, especially in fields where technology andbiology overlap, continues to supply grist to the cultural mill,whether for Hollywood disaster movies or subtler treatments of thesedevelopments. Not ...
Moral bankruptcy laid bare
Oct 01, 1998; ... A PINK dummy on a plastic chain hangs out of the mouth of a deadbaby in the woods outside Pristina. Just one of hundreds ofphotographs documenting Serb atrocities in the ethnic-Albanianregionof Kosovo, the horrific image does not even reach the newspapers.Public horror and threats to ...
Shayler in court for first time since arrest
Oct 01, 1998; ... DAVID Shayler, the renegade former MI5 agent facing charges inBritain of revealing official secrets, appeared in a Paris courtyesterday for the first time since his arrest by French counter-espionage agents two months ago. In the brief appearance before an appeal court judge, ...
Viewers vent anger at Sky on eve of its digital launch
Oct 01, 1998; ... SKY Television is facing embarrassing accusations over theperformance of its main general entertainment channel on the daythatit launches its much-hyped digital service. A senior executive who was responsible for Sky One has left thecompany, and the Channel 4 programme Right to ...
Doctors are accused of cover-up on boy's death
Oct 01, 1998; ... DOCTORS at the hospital which treated a Glasgow schoolboy, ImranKhan, for his stab wounds were yesterday accused of conducting a"cover-up" after his death, a murder trial heard. The jury at Glasgow High Court, where a 16-year-old boy isaccusedof murdering Imran, heard that the ...
Gynaecologist struck off after surgical errors
Oct 01, 1998 ... A CONSULTANT gynaecologist who removed a mother of four's healthyovaries without her permission was struck off the medical registeryesterday. Rodney Ledward was found guilty of serious professionalmisconductand a lack of care and judgment by the General Medical ...
Fireman's invention could help save lives
Oct 01, 1998 ... A FORMER Glasgow fireman has invented a gadget which could meananend to chip pan fires. Tom Aitken believes his invention will cut the number of kitchenblazes and reduce the toll of fire deaths. The device works by detecting movement around the cooker andissuing a ...
Catholics to keep other faiths out
Oct 01, 1998; ... THE Roman Catholic Church yesterday voiced its determination tocontinue to bar members of other Christian faiths from taking itscommunion. In a document setting out its teaching and rules, it stated itaims to stick to the doctrine that prevents non-Catholics fromreceiving Holy ...