The Scotsman back issues from February 1999:
Boroughmuir on the rack
Feb 01, 1999; ... Melrose 18 Boroughmuir 17 BOROUGHMUIR have never been relegated from the top division ofScottish rugby. This season with only three wins from 14 starts theyare getting perilously close.They know that if they win their remaining matches they can stayup and after Saturday's ...
All-clear for Cyfor Malta
Feb 01, 1999 ... MARTIN PIPE has given Cyfor Malta a clean bill of healthfollowing his Tote Gold Cup rehearsal victory in the Pillar PropertyChase at Cheltenham on Saturday. The six-year-old, stepping up to three miles plus for the firsttime, stayed on strongly up the Prestbury Park hill for Tony ...
Matthew comes up to par again
Feb 01, 1999; ... CATRIONA Matthew remained the leading British money-earner on theUS women's tour this season when she matched winner Karrie Webb'sclosing 70 in The Office Depot Tournament at West Palm beach inFlorida. The Solheim Cup player finished in 21st place on par 288, and onthe same mark ...
Els misses out after a killer triple bogey
Feb 01, 1999; ... ERNIE Els had never heard of Australian golfer Jarrod Moseleyuntil the weekend. But he will never forget the name now. In aquite remarkable finish to the Heineken Classic at The Vines inPerth, Els, the world No5, squandered a six-stroke lead and localhero Moseley grabbed the GBP 108,890 ...
Tosh on target to silence critics
Feb 01, 1999; ... Raith Rovers 2 Dair (10), Tosh (49) Clydebank 1 McDonald (18) THE man Raith Rovers fans love to hate savoured one of thesweetest moments of his career on Saturday with a goal that mayproveinvaluable to his side's hopes of survival in the First Division.Stevie Tosh, a target ...
Dons quixotic as Jorg tilts it
Feb 01, 1999; ... Aberdeen 2 Newell (34), Jess (50) Rangers 4 Porrini (10), Wallace (11), Albertz (86 pen),Kanchelskis (89) THE challenge, for Paul Hegarty, of knocking Aberdeen into shapebefore the club are knocked out of the Scottish Premier Leaguebecause of their own shortcomings becomes ...
Armstrong finds it tough
Feb 01, 1999 ... AFTER playing more than 1,000 matches, management, you wouldthink, would be a piece of cake by comparison, but it has notstartedthat way for new Stenhousemuir boss Graeme Armstrong with Saturday'sloss to Albion Rovers his second straight defeat. A midweek loss to Queen's Park ...
Alloa's spirit impresses new manager Christie
Feb 01, 1999 ... TERRY Christie, in charge of Alloa for the first time, saw histeam draw 0-0 with an improving Queen of the South. "I'm happy with the point and impressed by the fighting spiritshown by the players. This was particularly evident in the final 20minutes when we were down to ten men ....
Hendrie profits from his decision to recall Mendes
Feb 01, 1999 ... OF all the taxing managerial decisions St Mirren's Tom Hendriewill make, the move to call Junior Mendes back from his loan spellatCarlisle could prove the most profitable. It was Mendes' 54th-minute strike which ultimately proveddecisiveas Saints gave Hendrie his first win as ...
Television jinx strikes again as Sky falls in on Saints
Feb 01, 1999; ... ST JOHNSTONE and Sunday nights just do not get along. InNovember, in front of Sky's cameras and a nationwide audience, SandyClark's team were humiliated 7-0 at home and last night nearlyoffered a repeat performance. "I think we should ban Sky from showing St Johnstone," ...
Poetry from mild Harald
Feb 01, 1999; ... A HAT-TRICK from recalled striker Harald Brattbakk was thehighlight of Celtic's utterly convincing 5-0 win over St Johnstonelast night, which saw the Parkhead club continue their doggedpursuitof Rangers and Kilmarnock at the top of the Premier League. The victory, which closes ...
Dunn shocks cup heroes
Feb 01, 1999; ... Livingston 1 McPhee (78) Partick 1 Dunn (1) THE scenario is familiar; an early goal, the anticipation of afeast to follow, and then really nothing much.On Saturday at Old Almondvale - well, if it can't be given adecent name at least we'll call it something endearing - that's ...
All that glitters is not goals
Feb 01, 1999; ... Kilmarnock 0 Dundee 0 THIS was a game all about two goalkeepers. It was a saver's day.Both Kilmarnock's Gordon Marshall and Dundee's Robert Douglas hadafternoons of considerable worth, and even during the break we couldnot escape another fully paid-up member of the stoppers' ...
New Motherwell but still the same old problems for frustrated Jefferies
Feb 01, 1999; ... Heart of Midlothian 0 Motherwell 2 McCulloch (48), Adams (71) AS Jim Jefferies, the Hearts manager, watched his team fade toanother home defeat on Saturday, a sense of unreality must havestolen over him.It's one thing to be out-spent and out-resourced by Rangers orCeltic, ...
Leaders still play game of caution
Feb 01, 1999; ... Airdrie 1 Black (30) Hibernian4 Paatelainen (40), Skinner (46), Lovell (57, 87) THESE days only one man earning his living in the First Divisionrefuses to admit that Hibs already have the title trophy wrapped upin a fetching green ribbon. That man is Alex McLeish, manager of ...
Airdrie scare and soccer's poverty trap
Feb 01, 1999; ... FOR centuries radicals have railed at it, trade unions and tub-thumping socialists have demonstrated against it, but, even in theclassless days of New Labour, the inequality between rich and poorhas remained. And, in football, that yawning gulf has widened. When a financial crisis ...
Battling Tendulkar can't stop Pakistan
Feb 01, 1999; ... AFTER a nailbiting finish, Pakistan scored a 12-run victory overIndia in the first Test played in the subcontinent between the twoarch-rivals for 12 years in Madras yesterday. Pakistani players kissed the ground and jumped with joy as off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq bowled India's ...
Disgraced Ponting makes heroic return for Australia
Feb 01, 1999; ... RICKY Ponting made a remarkable comeback from disgrace yesterdaywhen he won the man of the match award as Australia beat Sri Lankaby45 runs in their tri-series one-day cricket match in Perth. The result guaranteed the best-of-three finals will be betweenAustralia and England, ...
Fanshawe's anger over Doncaster going report
Feb 01, 1999 ... JAMES Fanshawe has criticised what he claimed was "atrocious"going at Doncaster on Saturday. The trainer reckoned the ground wasmuch softer than the official description of "good, good to soft inplaces" -to the detriment of his Bold Gait, a well-beaten 2-1favourite for a ...
Adam on top of the world
Feb 01, 1999 ... MARCUS Adam, the forgotten man of British athletics, emerged fromthe wilderness to claim the 200m title at the Lynx Express AAAIndoorChampionships in Birmingham. Adam looked to have a bright future when he beat a high-qualityfield to win the 1990 Commonwealth Games 200m in ...
Yorke gets the nod and United get ahead
Feb 01, 1999; ... Charlton 0 Manchester United 1 Yorke (89) DWIGHT Yorke headed his side back to the top of the Premiershipwith a dramatic last-minute goal, a result as gratifying forManchester United as it was demoralising for their opponents.Charlton, battered an bruised in a relegation ...
Arsenal deliver a sting in the title tale
Feb 01, 1999; ... Arsenal 1 Bergkamp (32) Chelsea 0 A MAGNIFICENT goal from Dennis Bergkamp helped to begin a re-writeof the book that makes Chelsea the favourites for the Premiershiptitle, as Arsenal overcame their London rivals to move to within apoint of them at the top of the table.If ...
Read of the week
Feb 01, 1999; ... The great leap forward to zeroThe Universal History of Numbers Georges Ifrah Harvill GBP 19.99 AS AN honest reviewer, I admit that I have not read every page ofthis book. But on the basis of the hundreds I have read so far Icalculate that this mighty effort of explanation by ...
Mick McGahey: the end of an era
Feb 01, 1999; ... IT IS customary when a person of stature dies to say that we willnever see his or her likes again. Often this is untrue; very fewpeople are irreplaceable. But it is hard to foresee the emergence ofanother Mick McGahey. He was very much a man of his time and hisplace. With his passing an ...
The rantings of plastic prophets
Feb 01, 1999; ... GLENN Hoddle's gratuitous insult to the disabled was vile andmoronic. The most abject apology would be insufficient to atone forso spectacular a gaffe. Mr Hoddle has not offered such an apology.Instead he has launched one of his increasingly frequent assaults onjournalists. It will not ...
Peace and punishment
Feb 01, 1999; ... SOMETHING happened last week. Opposition insistence that thesettlement in Northern Ireland is threatened by the savage IRA (andProtestant paramilitary) attacks called punishment beatings wentunanswered. Indeed, ministerial responses deepened the case againstfurther release of ...
Mick McGahey
Feb 01, 1999; ... Michael (Mick) McGahey, miners' leader Born: 1925 in Shotts, Lanarkshire Died: 30 January, 1999, inhospital in Edinburgh, aged 73 MICK McGahey is regarded by many as the greatest leader theBritish miners never had. He rose to the post of vice-president ofthe National Union of ...
Newspeak - or how to get on-message with The Project
Feb 01, 1999; ... WITH the advent of the Holyrood parliament this year, it hasbecome necessary to issue this revised list of B vocabulary Newspeakwords for aspiring New Labour MSPs and those wishing to followHolyrood debates. Newspeak is the official language of Ukania andhas been devised to meet the ...
What does British mean, Mr Blair?
Feb 01, 1999; ... OSCAR Wilde correctly insisted that travel narrows the mind. Thefurther you travel around the world, the easier it becomes to focuson home, and to see how peculiar Britain looks on the brink of thenew millennium. The very idea of Britain is an extraordinary invention, ...
Cancer campaign pioneer honoured Week Ahead
Feb 01, 1999; ... A SCOTTISH woman who has pioneered a campaign to raise awarenessof and funds for breast cancer research in Scotland is one of fivesenior citizens who is to be honoured by the charity Help the AgedinLondon on Wednesday. She will be presented with a Help the Aged NPIGolden Award - a ...
Thousands to be axed by Rover, new German boss announces
Feb 01, 1999; ... THOUSANDS more jobs are to go at the Rover car firm in an attemptto force it out of the red, according to reports today. Professor Werner Samann, the company's new German boss, alsowarned of cuts among Rover's British suppliers because of the highstrength of the pound. The ...
Anger at 17 million pound payoff for car chief after 750 jobs cut
Feb 01, 1999; ... A GOVERNMENT minister has hit out at a reported GBP 17 millionpayoff for the chief executive of the Lucas Varity car parts group,which last week cut 750 jobs in an unemployment blackspot. The Welsh Office industry minister, Peter Hain, said yesterday:"It is just obscene that this ...
Minister for the disabled joins calls for Hoddle to resign
Feb 01, 1999; ... GLENN Hoddle, is to face an inquiry by the Football Associationasthe minister with responsibility for the disabled called on theEngland team coach to resign over his claims that people withdisabilities were paying for sins committed in a previous life. The minister, Margaret ...
Squabbling tourists thrown off aircraft
Feb 01, 1999; ... A JET taking holidaymakers from London to the Caribbean landed inthe US last night after fighting broke out among a dozen passengers. The flight from Gatwick airport to Montego Bay, Jamaica, carrying325 passengers landed at Norfolk, Virginia. The people involved weretaken off the ...
Johnny Depp arrested outside London restaurant
Feb 01, 1999; ... THE Hollywood film star Johnny Depp has been arrested in Londonafter an incident outside a restaurant. He was held by police for almost four hours after photographerswere threatened with a piece of wood. The incident happened outsideMirabelle's restaurant in Curzon Street in the ...
Temperatures soar in south of England
Feb 01, 1999 ... PARTS of the south of England had their highest Januarytemperatures this century, according to monthly weather figurespublished yesterday. England and Wales generally had a reasonably mild month, with anaverage temperature of 5C (41F). Scotland recorded the lowest temperature ...
Fresh lead in hunt for missing teenager
Feb 01, 1999; ... DETECTIVES are following up a new lead in the hunt for themissingScots teenager Vicky Hamilton, eight years after she disappeared. She was last seen on 10 February, 1991, at a bus stop inBathgate,West Lothian. Her family reported her missing when she failed toreturn to her home ...
Trimble warning on peace process
Feb 01, 1999 ... DAVID Trimble, the First Minister of Northern Ireland, has warnedthat the peace process is "in regression". The leader of the Ulster Unionists said that the Good Fridayagreement could be fully implemented only when paramilitary beatingsstopped and decommissioning of terrorist ...
Ex-IRA member survives kidnap
Feb 01, 1999; ... A HARD-LINE Republican was back home with his family last nighthours after being abducted in the Republic of Ireland amid claimsthat former IRA associates were out to kill him. Paddy Fox, 29, was released unharmed nine hours after he was seenbeing dragged from his car and bundled ...
Deadly fish bug could wipe out Scots industry
Feb 01, 1999; ... GOVERNMENT marine scientists are drawing up plans to cope with asalmon killer even more deadly than the one already forcing fishfarming to its knees. So dangerous is the enemy that Norwegian authorities have justgiven permission for all life in 17 rivers to be wiped out in ...
Fears for under-age rent boys
Feb 01, 1999; ... OUTREACH workers fear boys below the age of 16 may be being "run"as gay prostitutes in Glasgow by exploitative older men. Glasgow's community of 40 to 50 rent boys, who sell sex on thestreets around the city centre, have told workers about boys youngerthan themselves who are kept ...
Respiratory research chair for Aberdeen
Feb 01, 1999; ... A NEW medical chair at Aberdeen University could bring aid tothousands of sufferers of respiratory disease across Britain. Researchers at the university have been awarded a GBP 400,000grant to develop the first Chair of Primary Care RespiratoryMedicinein the country, bringing ...
Milky Way drawn by unknown force
Feb 01, 1999; ... GALAXIES are streaming across the universe at two millionkilometres an hour, attracted by an unknown force, according toresearch completed by British astronomers. Since 1985 scientists have known that our galaxy, the Milky Way,and its nearest neighbours are moving together towards ...
Scientist cleared by new study on genetically modified food
Feb 01, 1999; ... SHOPS and restaurants will soon have to label all geneticallymodified food, it was disclosed yesterday, as research vindicated aScottish scientist who claimed that such produce was harmful. Dr Arpad Pusztai was forced to retire from his job at theGovernment-funded Rowett Research ...
Curbs on cameras at pools to stop perverts
Feb 01, 1999; ... FEARS that paedophiles are infiltrating swimming competitions tofilm children have led to a clampdown on cameras and camcorders. The Scottish Amateur Swimming Association decided to act afterincidents where individuals thought to have no involvement in thesport arrived to film ...
New technology signals the end of an era
Feb 01, 1999; ... MORSE code, the signalling system of dots and dashes that hassaved the lives of thousands of sailors, is consigned to history asaworldwide distress system today. It was used by the Titanic to signal it had hit an iceberg in1912and helped to capture the notorious poisoner Dr ...
Unity urged to protect Moray Firth
Feb 01, 1999; ... RIVAL organisations are being asked to set aside traditionaldifferences to produce the first unified strategy to protect theMoray Firth. A new document covering all aspects of life around the sensitivearea aims to end the conflict between economic development andconservation. It ...
Tough man of the unions respected by everyone
Feb 01, 1999; ... THE Prime Minister led tributes yesterday to Mick McGahey, theformer Scottish miners' president, who died on Saturday aged 74. Mr McGahey had suffered from respiratory illnesses for a numberofyears. In paying tribute to the man described by the NUM's presentScottish leader ...
Parents' fears hit meningitis vaccine trials
Feb 01, 1999; ... TRIALS to develop a vaccine against meningitis are being delayedbecause parents are reluctant for their children to be tested withthe drug, according to research. Problems in recruiting children for the trials of a vaccineagainst Group C meningococcal disease may mean up to a ...
Chimp origin of AIDS revealed
Feb 01, 1999; ... CHIMPANZEES slaughtered for food in west central Africa were theoriginal source of HIV and AIDS, according to a new scientificstudy. British experts involved in the fight against AIDS and HIVwelcomed the apparent breakthrough in the scientific study of thevirus. They said that ...
Hopes on cancer raised by gene discovery
Feb 01, 1999; ... A GENE discovery could lead to the development of more effectivetreatments for skin cancer. Scientists have found two tumoursuppresser genes that can slow malignant skin cancer, which kills1,500 people a year in the UK. Tumour suppresser genes, or TSGs, are important in ...
Teachers' time being wasted on menial work
Feb 01, 1999; ... BAD management robs Scottish schools of the equivalent of 1,500teachers because they spend their time doing menial work outside theclassroom, according to a report. A joint study carried out by schools inspectors and publicspending auditors found that most teachers spend hours ...
Drive to ensure game bird's survival
Feb 01, 1999; ... A CAMPAIGN to save the capercaillie from extinction in Scotland -for the second time -is to begin today. Threats ranging from foxes to bad weather and deer fences havecombined to reduce drastically the population of one of the largestwild birds in Britain. Now a host of ...
Holyrood MPs get 6,000 pounds less than London
Feb 01, 1999; ... MEMBERS of the Scottish parliament are to be paid about GBP40,000a year - up to GBP 6,000 less than their Westminster counterparts -it was confirmed last night. Representatives of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and theConservatives reacted angrily to the Government's decision ...
Doctor turned away by Yemenis
Feb 01, 1999; ... THE supporters of five Britons who stand trial on terrorismcharges in Yemen today have repeated calls for the case to beabandoned, after doctors failed to gain access to the defendantsyesterday. Chris Milroy, a Home Office pathologist who travelled to Aden inaprivate capacity ...
Late rush as tax deadline expires
Feb 01, 1999; ... THE Inland Revenue reported heavy demand at its 300 officesyesterday as taxpayers from around the country rushed to beat thedeadline for submitting self-assessment forms. Anyone with an outstanding return had to ensure it was posted atatax office before Revenue staff arrive for ...
Scots climber survives as friend dies in Alps ordeal
Feb 01, 1999; ... A SCOTTISH climber was recovering in a French hospital lastnight,after surviving against all odds for four days in the Alps as hisbest friend slowly froze to death. In bitterly harsh conditions and stranded 13,000ft up in the MontBlanc range, Jemmison Andrew, 28, and his flatmate ...
Tory Euro-MP quits in drugs and gay porn scandal
Feb 01, 1999; ... TOM Spencer, a prominent Conservative MEP, stood down as acandidate in June's European elections last night, when it emergedthat he had been caught by customs carrying cocaine as well ascannabis and gay pornography last month. Mr Spencer, a former chairman of the Conservative group ...
Iron Lady's worries that young Blair is just too bossy
Feb 01, 1999; ... TONY Blair was awarded the Order of the Handbag yesterday when itemerged that Baroness Thatcher thinks he is "bossy". Politicians from all sides were delighted by the Iron Lady'scriticism of Mr Blair. The former prime minister was sittingopposite Mr Blair and the Queen when she ...
High adventure that draws world's climbers
Feb 01, 1999; ... IN CHAMONIX yesterday, there was sadness but little surprise thatthe mountains had claimed the life of yet another climber. The 15,766ft high Mont Blanc and the peaks that surround itcontinue to exert a powerful attraction to climbers from all overtheworld. The residents of ...
Sharks give Brandon a black eye
Feb 01, 1999; ... EDINBURGH Rocks coach Jim Brandon likes to draw analogies betweenbasketball and boxing. He would then have felt like a punch-drunk pugilist after hissidewere on the wrong end of a 108-69 beating yesterday by BudweiserLeague leaders Sheffield Sharks at Meadowbank. Their ...
When the yips were down, Freud knew nothing of putting
Feb 01, 1999; ... THERE was a harrowing moment on BBC Radio's It's All In The Mindprogramme last week when the resident shrink and an all-star castturned their attention to the yips. Actually, it might have been more harrowing than it turned out tobe if they'd known what they were talking about, but ...
Hopeful Redpath waits on ankle diagnosis
Feb 01, 1999; ... SCOTLAND will wait until tomorrow or Wednesday before decidingwhether to exclude Bryan Redpath from their squad to play Wales inSaturday's Five Nations Championship game at Murrayfield. The Edinburgh Reivers scrum-half was thought to have chipped anankle bone while playing in his ...
Indian ready to hit winning trail
Feb 01, 1999; ... HIGH-flying Len Lungo introduces a smart young jumping recruit inthe Failford Novices Hurdle at Ayr today. The Carrutherstown trainer, who struck at the Craigie course onSaturday with Santa Concerto to record his 36th win of a record-breaking season, gives Red Hot Indian his first ...
Meeting of the old and the new fails to ignite tousy relegation battle
Feb 01, 1999; ... Dundee United 1 Olofsson (32) Dunfermline 1 Smith (46) POSSESSING, as it did, all the classic characteristics of arelegation tussle - a dearth of goal-mouth incidents, some nervousdefending, and an abundance of reckless challenges - there were fewhighlights to savour in this ...