The Scotsman back issues from June 1999:
Elton John's 'turnip' leads Watford to Premiership
Jun 01, 1999; ... Bolton 0 Watford 2 Wright (38), Smart (89) ELTON John's I'm Still Standing belted across the Wembley PAsystem following Watford's shock defeat of Bolton Wanderers in theDivision 1 play-off yesterday.Never was a song more meaningful in football. Sung by the Watfordchairman, ...
Duvall lands bit part in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jun 01, 1999; ... HAIL, hail the gang were there, a vast crew of press men frombothends of Glasgow, from Motherwell and Dundee and Edinburgh. Therewere players aplenty, past and present, Hollywood superstars andcomedians. Hell, there was even a woman present. The glittering occasion was the ...
Fatal crash mars Touring Car meet
Jun 01, 1999; ... A TRAGIC accident marred the Auto Trader British Touring CarChampionship at Oulton Park yesterday. Neil Shanahan, 19, was killed during the Formula Ford race afterhis car left the track in an accident on the circuit's Clay Hill. The Irish driver was transferred to the Countess ...
Super Six tie beset by security concerns
Jun 01, 1999; ... IT promises to be a cricketing confrontation to put Old Firmrivalry into global perspective. While a Rangers director may haveaimed sectarian songs at the other half of Glasgow, the Ibrox clubhave not yet threatened Celtic with a pre-emptive nuclear strike.Yet, that is the background to ...
United striker supplies finish
Jun 01, 1999; ... Scotland 1 Thompson (45) Republic of Ireland 0 STEVEN Thompson's second goal in four international appearanceswas enough to give Scotland a winning start to the triangular Under-21 tournament in Elgin last night.The Dundee United striker showed the one flash of ...
Ireland enjoy Country stroll
Jun 01, 1999; ... IRELAND ran in five tries as they romped to a 43-6 win over NewSouth Wales Country to get their Australian rugby tour off to aflying start in Woy Woy yesterday. The Irish, leading 16-6 at half-time, scored four of their triesas they cut loose in the second half. Former New South ...
Stevens set to make a splash
Jun 01, 1999; ... FOOTBALL is not the only sport where it is fashionable to importbig-name stars from abroad, but at least top American jockey GaryStevens will not have a multi-million pound transfer fee to live upto now that he has decided to ply his trade on this side of thePond. Stevens, 36, ...
Collins is ruled out of Derby
Jun 01, 1999 ... WINTER favourite Commander Collins was finally ruled out of theVodafone Derby yesterday. His place had been in doubt after a heavyreappearance defeat in the Sagitta 2,000 Guineas, and he waswithdrawn at the five-day stage for Saturday's Epsom race. Trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam has ...
Monty majestic in major key
Jun 01, 1999; ... AS COLIN Montgomerie followed in the footsteps of Nick Faldoyesterday by becoming only the second golfer in the 45-year historyof the Volvo PGA Championship successfully to defend the title,fellow Scot Sam Torrance predicted that success in a majorchampionship lay just around the ...
Superb Monty cruises to Volvo victory
Jun 01, 1999; ... JOSE Maria Olazabal described Colin Montgomerie's golf at theBenson and Hedges two weeks ago as awesome. Yesterday, as he came close to lapping the field in the GBP1.3million Volvo PGA Championship, the Scot, if anything, producedaneven more majestic display of ...
Garcia's Scottish sojourn to provide vital pointers for career move
Jun 01, 1999; ... HOW Sergio Garcia performs in Scotland this summer could wield ahuge influence on whether he decides to play on the European Tournext year or to base himself in the United States. The way things are expected to work out, Garcia - the mostexciting prospect to emerge in European golf ...
Rusedski to put best foot forward for Stella Artois
Jun 01, 1999; ... GREG Rusedski will return to the scene of the most crushingmomentof his career next week certain that his legs are strong enough tocarry him to the title that means most to him - the Stella Artois. Rusedski's agonising tumble in his second-round match againstItaly's Laurence ...
Laudrup quits as joy goes out of playing
Jun 01, 1999; ... BRIAN Laudrup is set to walk out on FC Copenhagen just six monthsinto his 30-month contract, after admitting he had failed to regainthe joy of playing football. The former Rangers winger, who stopped playing for Denmark afterthe World Cup to spend more time with his family, said he ...
Time Rangers called new tune
Jun 01, 1999; ... DONALD Findlay's grovelling apology for his impromptu karaokespotmay be an admission of guilt, but it will have done little to softenthe latest, and most damaging, blow to David Murray's aim of riddingRangers of its notorious sectarian image. The Ibrox vice chairman's actions ...
Shields set to quit East End Park
Jun 01, 1999; ... DUNFERMLINE defender Greg Shields last night rejected an offer toextend his contract, with the upshot likely to be a transferscramblefor the 22-year-old. The former Rangers player has one year left on his present deal,and East End Park manager Dick Campbell wanted him to sign on ...
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Perth City Hall
Jun 01, 1999; ... ILIA Gringolts is a real prodigy. The 16-year-old Russianviolinist is clearly phenomenally gifted. He can play the SibeliusViolin Concerto - one of the most challenging pieces in the violinrepertoire - as though he was born to it; you'd never guess that hewas playing it for the first ...
Ryden gears up for surge in business
Jun 01, 1999 ... RYDEN, the property consultant, has launched a new and expandedinvestment and finance team to capitalise on the strength of theproperty market and an expected investment surge in post-devolutionScotland. The new team will be headed by Ryden partner Fiona Morton, whosepromotion to ...
Welfare review
Jun 01, 1999 ... THE Farm Animal Welfare Council has started its first review oflivestock markets since the mid-1980s. The review will look at market design and construction, as wellashandling facilities ...
Unigate snaps up frozen French foods
Jun 01, 1999; ... UNIGATE, the dairy, meat and distribution group, whose brandsinclude St Ivel, has agreed to buy the frozen and chilled readymealsoperations of Danone, the French food firm, for about GBP 145million. The deal comes just a month after Unigate emergedvictorious from its GBP 274 million ...
Police digs fail to find graves of the 'disappeared'
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE distress of families who lost relatives in IRA murders morethan 25 years ago was prolonged still further last night afterexcavations at four locations in the Republic of Ireland failed touncover the remains of any victims. As Sinn Fein leaders tried to distance themselves from ...
Cherie's father urges public to tackle 'Tony' over crucial issues
Jun 01, 1999; ... TONY Blair's father-in-law has called on voters to confront thePrime Minister face-to-face over his changes to disability benefits,asylum rights, the Kosovo conflict and trial by jury. The actor Tony Booth, the father of the Prime Minister's wifeCherie, has admitted to being "in a ...
Latin Americans set for last tangos
Jun 01, 1999; ... FERNANDO Meligeni followed fellow Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten intothe quarter-finals of the French Open yesterday as Latin Americantennis held unprecedented sway in Paris. Meligeni's 6-1, 5-7, 7-5,7- 6 victory over the Spanish 14th seed, Felix Mantilla, made himthefourth South American ...
If the suit fits, bin it
Jun 01, 1999; ... SITTING at the window of a cafe in Edinburgh the other day, I wasreminded of one of the reasons I've never quite understood whatmakesScottish Man tick. The rain was battering down, and the wind was blowing to theextent that unless old ladies were weighed down by their ...
M&S in 'sup and see' bid to arrest decline
Jun 01, 1999; ... SHOPPERS at Marks & Spencer are to be offered a "sup it and see"approach to wine buying. In a move designed to help reverse the troubled high streetchain's flagging fortunes and to cash in on soaring demand for winein the UK, M&S is to set up dedicated wine counters in its stores ...
Would-be investors still wary of shares
Jun 01, 1999; ... NEARLY two-thirds of the population have yet to be convinced thatover the long term, shares represent a better form of investmentthansavings accounts, according to a study published today by the LondonStock Exchange. However, the survey, conducted by MORI, found ...
Critics see racist menace in Star Wars
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE new Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, has been accused ofracism by film critics and audiences unhappy with its depiction ofalien races. Many viewers have been uncomfortable with the characters ofaliensfeatured in the film amid allegations that they are thinly veiledracist ...
Bullies and whingers spoil the show
Jun 01, 1999; ... SO NOW we know what the Scottish parliament is all about. Not thegreat issues of the day - the need to develop a first-classeducationsystem, for example; or to create a flourishing high-technologyeconomy; or even whether we should have a full-time minister fortourism to cover one of ...
Rupert Lonsdale
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE former submarine commander Rupert Lonsdale, the only Britishnaval captain to surrender his warship during the Second World War,has died in Bournemouth. Lonsdale, who later became a minister inthe Church of England and finally Canon Emeritus, was 93. Lonsdale was the captain of ...
Robert Scott
Jun 01, 1999; ... Robert Scott, former joint general manager, Bank of Scotland Born: 31 May, 1919, in Uddingston Died: 15 April, 1999, inEdinburgh, aged 79 ROBERT Scott, better known to his family, friends and colleaguesas "Bob", was a man who possessed an incredible range of talents ...
Widow of Schindler condemns husband as a 'self-publicist'
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE widow of Oskar Schindler, the man who risked his life to savethousands of Jews from the Nazis, has returned to Germany for thefirst time since the end of the war - to demolish her husband'sreputation. Emilie Schindler, 91, intends to sue Steven Spielberg for 6 percent of the ...
ANC's challengers from left and right
Jun 01, 1999 ... TOMORROW'S election is open to 18.2 million registered voters,andis contested by 16 parties. Several fringe parties could affect theANC's goal of a two-thirds majority, which would give it the powertochange the constitution. lNew National Party Founded in 1914 as the National ...
From the isolation of apartheid to economic world player
Jun 01, 1999 ... SOUTH Africa's second democratic election will have globalramifications, for in economic terms it has emerged from theisolation of apartheid into a major player in the world trademarket. These are the key events in the nation's economic development inthe five years since the end ...
Irish government demands call-off
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE Irish government yesterday called on UEFA to cancelSaturday'sEuro 2000 qualifier between the Republic of Ireland and YugoslaviainDublin and threatened to withhold the visiting team's visas in a bidto prevent the game taking place. The government has called on UEFA to ...
Aberdeen face long trek to the promised land
Jun 01, 1999; ... A FORMER carpenter is surely a man with the right sort ofbackground to resurrect the fortunes of Aberdeen Football Club.Turning water into wine will seem like a breeze compared with EbbeSkovdahl's task of transforming another cast list of Pittodrieunderachievers into something remotely ...
No action against PC in 999 call accident
Jun 01, 1999; ... A POLICE constable is to be allowed to continue his drivingdutiesafter his car struck a pedestrian as he responded to a 999 call, itemerged yesterday. The unnamed officer was driving along West Main Street, Whitburn,West Lothian, on Saturday night, when the pedestrian is said to ...
Mrs Cook risks the unthinkable with bedroom boasts
Jun 01, 1999; ... IT'S DIFFICULT to find the time to gather these few words,becauseI've been knitting furiously since yesterday morning - and not justmy brow. I'm hoping the relentless tsk tsk tsk of those knittingneedles will finally unfurl a sturdy lavender twinset because I nowknow I have crossed ...
SNP accused of conning voters in Stirling deal
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE Nationalists have been accused by the Tories of conning theelectorate by agreeing to the appointment of one of its councillorsas a spokesman in a Labour administration. Brian Monteith, a member of the Conservative group in theScottishparliament, said the appointment by the ...
Pop stars and refugees unite for Kosovo charity concert
Jun 01, 1999; ... DONALD Dewar joined pop stars and celebrities for a charityconcert in Glasgow last night to raise funds for Kosovar refugees. The First Minister met more than 100 refugees who arrived inScotland last month seeking sanctuary. Over 6,000 people listened as Aida Dumani, 12, from ...
Cheese runners savour painless chase
Jun 01, 1999; ... CRASH barriers and a cordon of marshals kept a crowd of more than100 Gloucestershire locals safe from the dangers of rolling cheeseyesterday. Organisers of the annual cheese rolling competition at Cooper'sHill, near Cheltenham, took great care to protect runners with arange of ...
Prince highlights fears over safety of GM foods
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE Prince of Wales has used a hard-hitting newspaper article tovoice his fears on the safety of genetically-modified foods. He questions claims that GM foods are safe, and attacks the lackof independent scientific research on GM crops. Accusing supportersof such foods of using ...
Capital plans to charge drivers in city centre
Jun 01, 1999; ... EDINBURGH is to press ahead with a controversial scheme to forcemotorists to pay to drive into the city centre. The Labour-run city council believes that its road pricing plan,which would be the first in the country, is the best way of payingfor multi-million pound public transport ...
Banana wars' surprise boost for cashmere
Jun 01, 1999; ... SCOTTISH cashmere producers, threatened with closure during theso-called banana wars, will hold a GBP 100,000 sales drive in NewYork and other cities of the United States this year to underlinetheindustry's recovery. Industry sources believe that the US decision to impose 100 ...
Royal Bank takes the strain in CALA takeover battle
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE Royal Bank of Scotland has been left with a dilemma over thestance it should adopt in the final stages of the GBP 94 milliontakeover battle for the housebuilder CALA. Not only does the Royal have a 9 per cent stake in CALA, but italso has had a long-term banking relationship ...
Unique buildings on Clyde 'falling into ruin'
Jun 01, 1999; ... COUNCIL leaders in Glasgow, which is hosting the Year ofArchitecture and Design, have been criticised for allowing one ofitsmost architecturally important buildings to go to ruin. For almost 100 years, the rare B-listed boathouses have stood onthe banks of the River Clyde as ...
Blue Circle cements Greek deal
Jun 01, 1999; ... BLUE Circle Industries, the building materials group which isBritain's biggest cement producer, has taken control of the largestcement maker in Greece through a GBP 401 million deal. It has agreed to buy majority stakes in Heracles General CementCompany and Halkis Cement from ...
Just pretend it's hot
Jun 01, 1999; ... IN THE south of France no girl would consider her wardrobecomplete without one. On the French Riviera you are simply notdressed if you are wearing anything else. It's the bikini, and thissummer it's back in all its Cote d'Azur-filled glamour glory. Of course, chances are that the ...
Stabbing victim's family hits out at Old Firm sectarianism
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE family of a teenager stabbed to death shortly afterSaturday'sScottish Cup Final between Celtic and Rangers last night condemnedthe sectarian bigotry surrounding the fixture. Thomas McFadden, 16, was involved in an incident yards from hishome in Govanhill, Glasgow. He was ...
Hand it to college that puts its cards on the table
Jun 01, 1999; ... ASK a charity, a voluntary organisation and an educationalestablishment what they would most wish from the world of business,and I bet you they would answer: "The support and endorsement of aname." It doesn't seem to matter what type of name that might be -whether a fast-moving ...
Dudgeon trims back time again
Jun 01, 1999; ... SINEAD Dudgeon (Edinburgh Woollen Mill) cut half-a-second off herScottish national 400-metres hurdles record when she won the eventfor the East of Scotland in 56.48 seconds at the English Inter-Counties Championships at Bedford yesterday. After a disappointmentat Coatbridge last month, ...
A love affair with America
Jun 01, 1999; ... IT'S FUNNY what becomes significant. I mean, I remember thethrill of watching Starsky and Hutch, and how nothing else matteredthan being in the house when it was on, but I don't think any of uswith our childish pop-corrupted brains ever imagined we would besitting, as we were last night, ...
Vow to rid fish fleet of drugs
Jun 01, 1999; ... SCOTTISH fishing leaders yesterday vowed to rid the industry ofthe scourge of drug abuse. The first action in the campaign will see the industry joinforceswith Grampian Police, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency andGrampianHealth Board to produce a special drugs information ...
Robertson under fire over condemnation of Scotland
Jun 01, 1999; ... PAT ROBERTSON, the right-wing televangelist and American businesspartner of the Bank of Scotland, faced a barrage of criticismyesterday after his condemnation of Scotland as a "dark land" whichhad lost its way. The bank's embarrassment over his latest controversial remarkscould ...
Commuter train in crossing smash
Jun 01, 1999; ... A TRUCK driver was seriously ill in hospital last night after acommuter train crashed into his vehicle at an unmanned crossing anddragged it 250 yards along the track. The accident happened at an open level crossing at Allanfearn,near Inverness, where Railtrack are about to erect ...
Violence erupts at Eurotunnel picket line
Jun 01, 1999; ... BRITISH bank holiday travellers returning to the UK through theChannel Tunnel were caught up in violent protests yesterday during astrike by French workers. Cars were attacked as they tried to force their way through ablockade at the Calais end of the tunnel. Travellers were ...
Scotland Rocks for Kosovo SECC, Glasgow
Jun 01, 1999; ... COMING at the end of a short BBC season which displayed thevibrancy and diversity of Glasgow's music scene, it was somewhatironic that last night's gig in aid of the Kosovar refugees gave theimpression that nothing new had happened musically in Scotland for adecade. The cream of ...
Job in a model trial to get children to church
Jun 01, 1999; ... SUNDAY used to be a boiled-tongue kind of a day. Church was allbut obligatory for a generation of bored children who endured theservice rather than enjoyed it. The only way to survive that elastichour before escaping to Gran's house for Eve's pudding and OorWullie, was to giggle at Mrs ...
Revenge of the nerds
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE queues of predominantly white men in their late twenties toearly thirties, unshaven - a tribute to Chewbacca perhaps? -andsmelly after waiting for days on end on the streets of New York andLos Angeles, put their money where their mouths were. Star Wars:Episode I: Phantom Menace has ...
The harvest hit by doubt
Jun 01, 1999; ... TIME, tide and Sod's law wait for no man. Having accepted aninvitation from the US government to visit that fine country for thefirst time and spend a week becoming an expert on geneticallymodified crops, it was only to be expected that every day I was awaya story on that very topic ...
Eighty years old and stll the youngest poet in town
Jun 01, 1999; ... IT is a universally acknowledged truth that Edwin Morgan, now inhis 80th year, is Scotland's youngest poet. Forget chronology; theevidence is everywhere. He is, by far, this happy nation's mostdynamic poet - he can cover everything from the bloodlust of midgesto the journey of a sperm to ...
Tuesday with David Gray
Jun 01, 1999 ... WHEN dealing with dangerous dogs or birds of prey, say theexperts, never look them in the eye, as they will, in 99 per cent ofcases, eat you. Or something like that. Daily life as a Scottish male involves paying heed to both of theabove rules of thumb and a great many more, as most ...
Jury told 1.75m contraband cigarettes found in customs raid
Jun 01, 1999; ... CUSTOMS officers who intercepted a container from the CanaryIslands discovered that it held more than 1,750,000 contrabandcigarettes, a jury heard yesterday. But the elaborate plans to avoid paying duty were foiled by anundercover operation in which a customs man drove the ...
Final hero Dickov salutes finest moment of career
Jun 01, 1999; ... THE bank holiday was greeted with great fervour at Paul Dickov'sManchester home yesterday. Less than 24 hours after helping Cityovercome Gillingham 3-1 on penalties to win the Division 2 play-offfinal, the Scottish striker celebrated the sweetest moment of hiscareer by hosting a ...
Brown drafts in Euro back-up
Jun 01, 1999; ... PHIL O'Donnell's readiness to forfeit the first five days of hissummer holiday yesterday earned the Sheffield Wednesday-boundmidfielder a belated Scotland call-up for the forthcoming Euro 2000qualifiers against the Faroe Islands, on Saturday, and the CzechRepublic, on Wednesday ...
Skovdahl checks in as Hegarty dismissed
Jun 01, 1999; ... EBBE Skovdahl has become the highest-paid manager in Aberdeen'shistory after signing a two-year contract reputed to be worth GBP200,000 a season. The Dane's arrival signalled the immediatedeparture of former manager Paul Hegarty and coach Neil Cooper, whowere told they were no longer ...
Continued support key to Scotland future
Jun 01, 1999; ... SCOTTISH cricket has come this far. The question now is how muchfurther can it go. Around 10,000 people have watched Scotland takepart in the World Cup jamboree in Edinburgh over the last twoMondays, but the real test of the strength of domestic cricket willcome with the attendance for ...