The Scotsman back issues from May 1999:
That Bloody Woman The Thatcher years: A survivor's tale
May 01, 1999; ... The end, when Howe, the dead sheep finally turned on his masterand yet somehow left himself more diminished than her. Thebeginning, at the entrance to Downing Street, where, quoting some"biblical" text which turned out to have been penned by herscriptwriter, she promised to restore ...
Restless natives That bloody woman
May 01, 1999; ... THE Scots invented Thatcherism," she once said, "long before Iwasthought of." If you spin Adam Smith and David Hume in their graves atime or two, and overlook the odd historical fact, that might justbetrue. It would be more accurate, nevertheless, to note that ifMargaret Thatcher had ...
Laugh? We nearly cried That bloody woman
May 01, 1999; ... TWENTY YEARS since the end of innocence. Two decades since theworld ended and adult life began. How bad does that feel? Well, notas bad as all that. It was terrible, but it was lovely. It justdidn't feel like it at the time. I have a number of wounding memories of the long, dull ...
A mother writes Love hurts
May 01, 1999; ... IT'S painful being a mother. Not just the emotional trauma ofparenthood, but the real, physical stuff. This morning I was wokennot with the gentle brush of a baby's kiss, or the tiny encirclingofa little arm around my neck, but with a minute toenail kicked withforce into my eye ...
Pots to choose from The urban garden
May 01, 1999; ... OH, THE joys of retail therapy! Finally Pamela and I have beenout to spend real money on real things this week, like bricks andstone, terracotta pots, paving slabs, timber arbours and intricatetrellising. It is, we both feel, a major leap forward on the journeyfrom our drawing-board ...
Glued to the box
May 01, 1999; ... IT ALL started eight years ago when a customer of Michael Bennett-Levy said he wanted to collect early televisions, and asked Bennett-Levy to look into it for him. And so he did, quickly realising thatpre-war sets were the rarity. By the time his customer changed hismind, televisions ...
It takes more than a miracle pill to cure the bedroom blues
May 01, 1999; ... HAVING difficulty with sexual relations is not something manypeople would readily admit to - until Viagra came on the scene.Through publicity surrounding the impotence drug it has becomeapparent that these difficulties are not uncommon, and people whoareaffected are now more likely to ...
Wine
May 01, 1999; ... ALSACE, in north-east France, is renowned for being the seconddriest region in the country, with the sunniest vineyard slopes andsummers as hot and parched as the Riviera. When flowering occurs indry weather and summers are hot, like 1997, this is expressed inAlsace's rich full-bodied ...
Testing,testing
May 01, 1999; ... Gareth MacLean watches television for a living, as The Scotsman'ssoap columnist. He cast a critical eye at some smaller screens thanusual, with mixed results. Mini-TVs supplied by Argos Roadstar Mini CTV-5503 GBP 179.99Moulded out of the cheapest plastic ever, this is hugely ...
Supermarket sweep
May 01, 1999; ... THE real plaudits for supermarket ready-meals should usually gotothe photographer rather than the chef, and Sainsbury's Tuscanchicken(GBP 2.99 for 350g) is no exception. The picture looks colourful andenticing. The contents are not a complete denial of this, but thelarge pieces of ...
It's different for Coeliacs
May 01, 1999; ... IMAGINE a life with no croissants, no black forest gateaux, nobaguettes slathered with brie, no lasagne, and no Guinness. A lifewithout the convenience of instant foods, tinned soups and gravymixes. This is the life of a coeliac - a person with an inability todigest gluten, a protein ...
Food People Jenny Burn The Brunswick Eatery
May 01, 1999 ... THE Brunswick Eatery is full of colour: clean lines and blockbrights that mirror the minimalist modern style of the hotel it'spart of. The Brunswick is one of the style landmarks of thedeveloping Merchant City, perfectly at home among the loft andwarehouse conversions emerging around ...
Royalty ban for band players
May 01, 1999; ... A HIGH Court judge who became an unlikely convert to theflamboyant new romantic pop group, Spandau Ballet, yesterdayovercamehis admiration to reject a royalties claim by three of its formermembers. Mr Justice Park, who enjoyed listening to hits such as True, Goldand Musclebound ...
Cash bonanza for Asda store staff as share scheme pays
May 01, 1999; ... MORE than 250 workers at Asda stores in Scotland will be amongthose to benefit from a GBP 34 million cash bonanza after sharestheyagreed to purchase five years ago increased in value by 300 percent. The 272 employees are among 4,000 on the Asda payroll who aregetting an average ...
Mastermind of England's World Cup triumph dies
May 01, 1999; ... SIR Alf Ramsey, who led England to victory in the 1966 World Cup,has died aged 79, after a long illness. He was manager of the national team for 11 years and guided hiscountry to football's greatest prize in the nail-biting final atWembley against West Germany. However, ...
Two die in nail bomb horror
May 01, 1999; ... RIGHT-wing extremists widened their terror campaign to targetBritain's gay community last night after a nail bomb ripped into theheart of London's Soho, killing at least two people and injuringmorethan 70. Thousands of revellers were relaxing in bars and restaurantsafterwork ...
Labour's woes grow over private cash scheme
May 01, 1999; ... LABOUR'S disarray over the private finance initiative deepenedlast night after two senior Labour candidates for the Scottishparliament joined the mounting criticism of the scheme. The former Scottish Office minister Malcolm Chisholm and theUnison activist Scott Barrie said that ...
Dame Shirley wins appeal in Westminster homes scandal
May 01, 1999; ... DAME Shirley Porter, the controversial former Conservative leaderof Westminster City Council, was cleared yesterday of wilfulmisconduct over the homes-for-votes scandal. The judges at the Court of Appeal in London allowed the appeal bythe Tesco supermarket heiress and her former ...
Council caused outrage with plans to shift balance of power
May 01, 1999; ... WESTMINSTER City Council was the Conservatives' flagship localauthority during the privatisation frenzy of the 1980s and Labourpoliticians were delighted when it landed at the centre of thebiggest corruption scandal in local government history. Led by the fervent Thatcherite Dame ...
Prisons staff face inquiry on porn ring links
May 01, 1999; ... AN investigation has been launched into a pornography ringinvolving Scottish prison officers. Nine members of staff - seven men and two women - have beenbannedfrom using the Scottish Prison Service's internal e-mail, which isbelieved to have been used to exchange hardcore ...
Celebrity five-day marathon drives off in style
May 01, 1999; ... STARS and their cars took to the roads and grand prix circuits ofEurope yesterday as a 3,000km rally, inspired by the cult movieclassic The Cannonball Run, set off from London. Among the line-up of celebrities taking part in the marathoneventare Dannii Minogue, the singer and ...
7,000 expelled from Kosovo as Serbs 'mop up'
May 01, 1999; ... SERBIA expelled 7,000 Kosovars to Albania yesterday in what aidofficials say is part of a "mopping up" operation to clear parts ofthe province overlooked by the ethnic cleansing of the past month. Most of the expelled were from the south-western town of Prizren,which with its ...
Party's boycott leaves Montenegro on edge
May 01, 1999; ... MONTENEGRO yesterday moved a step closer to civil conflict as thepro-Serbian party declared a boycott of the pro-western president'sefforts to preserve domestic unity. The decision by the Socialist People's Party (SPP), whichsupportsthe Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, and ...
Conflict a case of good against evil, Blair says
May 01, 1999; ... TONY Blair yesterday described NATO's conflict with Yugoslavia asa fight between good and evil, as the allies dismissed the Yugoslavgovernment's hints of a peace deal. Speaking in Glasgow, the Prime Minister seemed to suggest that aNATO invasion of Kosovo was inevitable as he used ...
More Serb homes hit by 'stray' missiles
May 01, 1999; ... AS DUSANKA Filipovic looked at the shattered ruins that had hoursearlier been her home, the elderly Serb had one question: "Why areweto blame?" Her Belgrade house was destroyed by one of at least two bombswhich went astray in what NATO said were its most intensive attacksyet on ...
Students to sue over 'disastrous' exchange trip
May 01, 1999; ... A GROUP of former St Andrews University students who claim theywere attacked during a disastrous exchange trip to the Ukraine havereceived legal advice supporting their claim for damages against theuniversity. One of the students, Erin MacLean, 25, was gang-raped by a groupof ...
Scientists say young Mars was once like the Earth
May 01, 1999; ... MARS could once have been similar to Earth, with volcanoesbelching hot gas and meandering rivers carving valleys into itsplains. The discovery of magnetic stripes across the face of the barrenRed Planet suggest it once had a geology like that of Earth,according to a study ...
Cancer charity calls for fry-up health warning
May 01, 1999; ... CHIPS and fry-ups should carry a health warning, a charity warnedyesterday, as bowel cancer threatens to become Scotland's biggestcancer killer. The Cancer Research Campaign said that messages about smokingweregetting through to the public, which would lessen their chances ...
Police seek two suspects in hunt for Dando's killer
May 01, 1999; ... DETECTIVES revealed yesterday more than one person may have beeninvolved in Jill Dando's murder, as they released an image of a manthey want to question in connection with her death. The E-fit was compiled by Scotland Yard from details given by awitness who saw a man sweating ...
Worker killed in site accident
May 01, 1999 ... A 47-year-old worker died yesterday when a pump toppled into atrench on top of him at a building site. Patrick McGinley of Mauchlin, Calderwood, East Kilbride, wasworking at Raynesway ...
Eating Out Pharmacy 150 Notting Hill Gate London
May 01, 1999; ... WHAT a lot of fuss. One grumbling-guts London food critic nipsnorth, declares that the restaurants of our capital serve garbageminimally garnished and a furore erupts as if he had burned thesaltire on the steps of St Giles' Cathedral. This is to give thecritic as a species rather more ...
The country haven Heyday of the camellias
May 01, 1999; ... PAMELA Moffat and I have not been the only ones severely hamperedby weather in the last week or so. In fact, perhaps I should havekept my mouth shut about the rhododendrons in Willie Duncan's Fifegarden last week, because the combination of late frost and wind-driven rain has reduced ...
The city allotment John henderson's patch in Leith
May 01, 1999; ... JOHN'S neck and shoulder problems have improved quite a bit thisweek, but no thanks to any anxiety that may have been caused by thefrosts that fell on his newly sown seeds. Everything under thecloches of course - two sets of them now - is ramping ahead. Thelettuce, always a quick grower ...
Home Work TV cabling Skirting the issue
May 01, 1999; ... WHEN you move house, or decide to make the master bedroom intothemain sitting room, or simply rearrange the furniture, you probablywon't even think about the TV aerial. You will put the telly down,gingerly, with that slight trepidation one always has aboutsomethingat once heavy and ...
Stay in with a poussin
May 01, 1999; ... ACCORDING to a new marketing campaign designed to encourage salesof ready-made dishes, "staying in is the new going out".Considering that the bill for four in a medium-priced eatery can beas expensive as the week's food budget, the idea of buying ready-madefood to enjoy at home is ...
The upper crust
May 01, 1999; ... IF you want to engage a taciturn, adult Scot in animatedconversation, turn from the troubles of the world to cakes. Do you remember the baker's shop with wooden shelves carved withwheatsheaves and fruit, culminating in an elaborately cornicedpainted ceiling? Or the one with ...
Minorities fear more attacks
May 01, 1999; ... WHEN the Pink Paper led this weekend's edition with a warning toits readers about a "fascist bomb alert," no-one thought that thethreat would be realised within hours of the publication hitting thestreets. A caller, who said he was from the White Wolves, claimedresponsibility ...
Police sift evidence but there are so few clues
May 01, 1999; ... BEFORE last night's attack, thousands of police hours had beenspent sifting through every shred of evidence in the hunt for theLondon nail bombers. MI5, the anti-terrorist squad, and Special Branch joined forcesand have been working round the clock to identify the ...
Start of holiday weekend shattered by Soho bomb 'Ideal time to kill and maim'
May 01, 1999; ... A STRANGE calm, punctuated only by sirens, fell over Soho lastnight as police and the emergency services battled to deal with therandom carnage of London's third bomb in a fortnight. Police rapidly cordoned off the area around the scene of theblast, holding back Friday night ...
It's Just William brought bang up to date
May 01, 1999; ... GENERATIONS of schoolboys were entertained by the japes andscrapes of William Brown and his hapless victim, Violet-ElizabethBott. But now the cheeky hero of the Just William stories is to beintroduced to a new audience. The classic tales have been rewritten,80 years after they ...
CND protesters try to swim into path of Trident submarine
May 01, 1999; ... ANTI-nuclear protesters braved the cold waters of the Firth ofClyde yesterday in an attempt to disrupt the arrival of a newsubmarine in Scotland. A protester even tried to swim naked into the path of HMSVengeance as it arrived at the Coulport naval base. The protesterwas arrested ...
M'luds struggling to learn the language of pop
May 01, 1999; ... WHILE Mr Justice Park displayed an unexpected fondness for 1980spop trash yesterday, other members of the judiciary have not beenquite so musically literate. Last year, a judge at the High Court in Edinburgh was confusedwhen he was told that a man who carried out a robbery at ...
Doctor who shot his lover tells of sorrow
May 01, 1999; ... A FORMER SAS trooper who gunned down a young nurse turned to hersobbing mother in court yesterday and said: "I'm sorry." Thomas Shanks told Vicky Fletcher's mother that he did not plantokill her daughter, adding that shooting his former lover with anAK47assault rifle was "like ...
Hospital is cleared over care of knife death youth
May 01, 1999; ... A HOSPITAL criticised following the death of the Glasgow teenagerImran Khan was exonerated by a sheriff yesterday. Doctors at the city's Victoria Infirmary were blameless and notguilty of medical negligence, said Sheriff Edward Gowan, QC, whoadded that they had been the unjust ...
Pay dispute may hit CalMac ferries this summer
May 01, 1999 ... SCOTTISH ferry workers are to vote on strike action, in a disputeover pay and conditions, writes Ian Smith. If the ballot of about 500 staff on Caledonian MacBrayne'sferriesto the Western Isles and the Clyde is successful, strike actionwoulddisrupt services at the start of the ...
Trail of terror that crosses London
May 01, 1999; ... THE recent spate of terrorist attacks began at 5:30pm onSaturday,17 April, when a nail bomb exploded in Brixton. The district of south London was chosen because of its large,established, Afro-Caribbean community and was calculated to causemaximum damage. The alert was ...
Albert Morris
May 01, 1999 ... The Albert Morris column has had to be held over ...
Mind your own business
May 01, 1999; ... THE fund manager was just getting into his stride. He had spentthe first half of the meeting berating the chairman of the smallScottish quoted business who was there to explain his latest deal. To the chairman it was a takeover that would ultimately transformhis currently unfocused ...
It's a dog's life being full of insecurity in a Lanzarote pub
May 01, 1999; ... IT IS New Year, Celtic are playing Rangers, and I am inLanzarote.Oddly, this is good. Normally, as the last man in the world withoutcable telly, I have to listen to these encounters on the radio,whichis like reading poetry with your eyes shut. Lanzarote, though, doeshave cable, and I ...
Weals within wheels
May 01, 1999; ... Letter to Lorenzo By Amanda Prantera Bloomsbury, GBP 15.99) THIS book is a political novel, a mystery and a love story; andworks as all three. It is gripping, intriguing, intelligent, witty,and moving, and rings very true. The setting is Rome in the late Sixties and early ...
Feng shui for lesbian internet nuts? Bound to be a best-seller
May 01, 1999; ... PICTURE the modern book-lover. This person leaps vigorously aboutthe house clad in a Manchester United strip, busily closing thetoilet lid and shifting plants westwards before surfing the net withsmug self-confidence for exotic travel destinations. Into thedesigner suitcase will go Star ...
Highs and lows on Kilimanjaro
May 01, 1999; ... THERE I was, standing on top of Uhuru Peak, at 19,450ft the verysummit of Kilimanjaro, rooftop of Africa and the highest free-standing mountain on Earth. I should have been on cloud nine, aswell as above it. Instead, I was overtaken by a range of emotionsthat ran the gamut from joy to ...
Keep ball rolling, says Williamson
May 01, 1999; ... KILMARNOCK manager Bobby Williamson has warned his side thattherecan be no let-up if they are to secure a UEFA Cup place for nextseason. Last week's defeat at Dundee, coupled with St Johnstone'ssurprisevictory over Celtic, has reduced the gap between the two to a singlepoint ....
Auction House at right price
May 01, 1999; ... THERE are times when even the most devoted of racing fans mightjust get round to thinking that you can get too much of a goodthing.A weekend such as this, when we have nine meetings, two Classics,more than 60 races in total and the Kentucky Derby stretching beforeus, may well be a case ...
Premier passions fuel real hopes of Highland triumph
May 01, 1999; ... FIVE years ago, a Highland team playing in the Premier Divisionseemed as likely as Scotland's pink-clad footballers winning inGermany, or its rugby players winning the last-ever Five Nationschampionship in Paris. Yet history has taught us that anything canhappen, and Inverness Caledonian ...
Finn pips Coulthard in opening practice
May 01, 1999 ... MIKA Hakkinen produced another blistering display to dominate theopening skirmish for tomorrow's San Marino Grand Prix in Imolayesterday. The world champion finished the first day of practice top of thetime sheets 0.01 seconds ahead of McLaren colleague David Coulthardwith the ...
The Saturday Profile Elizabeth Hurley
May 01, 1999 ... ANOTHER week, another major debate about something Liz Hurleyalmost wore. The occasion was the London premiere of Notting Hill,the sequel to Four Weddings and a Funeral, the film whose ownpremiere began the whole cycle of flashbulbs, headlines and hairdosfor the woman the Daily Telegraph ...
De Jong and the short of getting high Hill informed
May 01, 1999; ... THERE is no earthly reason why the Dutch should not come acrosstoScotland and climb our hills, but it always seems faintly comic,likethe idea of a Jamaican bobsleigh team or the Romanians beingreasonably adept at rugby. But come they do, from a famously flatcountry to one that is at ...
Planning to beat inheritance tax
May 01, 1999; ... THERE are two certainties in life: death and tax. However, it isdifficult to separate the former from the latter, despite thevariouschanges in successive Budgets, since inheritance tax (IHT) is stillathorn in the flesh for most who have an estate valued at more thanGBP 231,000 (a ...
The old man and the Big C
May 01, 1999; ... East Of The Mountains By David Guterson Bloomsbury, GBP 15.99 WHEN novels are adapted for the screen, readers throw up theirarms in horror. I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest a weekafter finishing the book. It ruined the film for me. I could seeall the changes and what had ...
Jenkins fit as Claymores aim to stay top
May 01, 1999 ... MICHAEL Jenkins, who has missed out on the Scottish Claymores'perfect start to the NFL Europe season with a shoulder injury, hasbeen passed fit to play for Claymores tomorrow when they bid toconsolidate their slot at the top of the table against FrankfurtGalaxy at ...
House of Stewart clings to dream
May 01, 1999; ... IT IS the nature of sport that renewed confidence is soon testedby adversity. A footballer earns acclaim only to find that hisopponents now foul him at every turn; a tennis player wins a lengthymatch and then feels his weary muscles succumbing to injury.Whatever the optimists might say, ...
Advocaat only sings when he's whingeing
May 01, 1999; ... IF Rangers win the championship at Celtic Park tomorrow night, oron any of the next three weekends, the transfer of the title willnotbe the only change to have overtaken the Old Firm during thislargelyengrossing season. Depending on the result, this swing may be witnessed in ...
Welsh moves to Simmons with rest of RMD team
May 01, 1999; ... COLIN Welsh, one of Scotland's leading corporate financiers, isleaving Rutherford Manson Dowds after 12 years to become managingdirector of the UK arm of Simmons & Company International, the USoiland gas acquisitions specialist. The other seven members of the RMD oil and gas team ...
Unipart signs 179m pound deal to buy distributor Partco
May 01, 1999; ... UNIPART, the car components and logistics group, has increasedthepace of consolidation in the sector with a GBP 178.9 millionrecommended takeover offer for Partco, the automotive partsdistributor. The 245p-a-share cash offer was a 36 per cent premium to Partco'sclosing price on ...