The Scotsman back issues from September 1999:
Bert Jansch Book Festival ****
Sep 01, 1999; ... WHO would have thought that Bert Jansch would emerge as acontender in the Scottish National Anthem bunfight? But this was theexpatriate singer returning to his roots in a big way, telling aneager audience of his boyhood paper round just down the road fromCharlotte Square, and turning out ...
Arms sales and Labour ethics
Sep 01, 1999; ... HERE ARE two questions for a moral philosophy test. Since theLabour Government has an ethical foreign policy, should it haveperhaps considered selling British Aerospace Hawk jetfighters to EastTimorese rebels resisting illegal Indonesian occupiers who havekilled an estimated 250,000 ...
The great school trousers debate
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE ISSUE of school uniforms may be among the most contentious onthe planet. Children of every generation have complained about themsince schools were first invented. Little boys in Victorian timeswere required to wear dresses until they were five or six. Boys atEton wear short jackets ...
Monica and Hillary both seek fresh start in New York
Sep 01, 1999; ... MONICA Lewinsky has re-emerged into the spotlight with news thatshe has rented a chic apartment in New York - where the first lady,Hillary Rodham Clinton, happens to be campaigning for a Senate seat. A typical cartoon yesterday showed President Bill Clinton askingthe chauffeur in a ...
Timor poised for militia backlash
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE body of the murdered East Timorese militiaman was carried intothe warehouse on a sack and laid out for foreign reporters to see.Dozens of other militiamen, who reject Timorese independence fromIndonesia, watched grimly or shook with sobs. The deep cut on Placido Ximenes' neck ...
Second tremor terrifies Turks
Sep 01, 1999; ... TURKEY, still recovering from last month's massive earthquake thatkilled more than 14,000 people, was rocked again yesterday by astrong tremor and an aftershock that killed one person and injureddozens of others. Two tremors registering 5.2 and 4.6 on the Richter scale ...
New row as 'depressed' student killed by NY police
Sep 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK's police have again been accused of unacceptablebrutality after a Jewish medical student suffering from depressionwas shot dead by four NYPD officers. The death of Gideon Basch, who had struck one officer with ahammer, sparked a series of street protests in the normally ...
United in common lost cause
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE only immediately apparent connection between Aberdeen andNewcastle before Stephen Glass left the former for the latter was abitter north wind that would sweep off the brine, through thedockside vennels. And yet there is a heat harboured in both east coast ports too,most of ...
New panel consider Rangers role in Old Firm shame
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Scottish Premier League's hearing into Rangers' part in thedisturbances at the Old Firm title decider last season will bechaired by Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, along with Lex Gold, the chiefexecutive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, and William Stewart,who is partner of the law ...
Irish relief as United clear duo
Sep 01, 1999; ... ROY Keane and Dennis Irwin of Manchester United will play for theRepublic of Ireland in tonight's Euro 2000 qualifying tie withYugoslavia, after doubts arose whether their club would release themfor the game. The tie is the first of three qualifiers in eight days for theIrish, ...
Brown pins hopes on Ferguson as Lambert drops out
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Scotland squad gathered yesterday against the usual backdropof personnel problems, Paul Lambert joining Tom Boyd on the sicklist, and pulling out of the European Championship qualifying tripsto Bosnia and Estonia with a knee ligament injury. Adding an extra and unwanted ...
Shake-up will give MSPs more say on Euro cash use
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Scottish parliament will be able to divert European aid moneyto its chosen areas when EU rules are changed on the distribution offunds, it was revealed last night. When the population criteria changes start to work through by2002, many rural areas and those which suffer from ...
In English Gaelic Page
Sep 01, 1999 ... AS Gaelic speakers claim their rights to a share of the media andthe educational system, they find themselves subject to abuse. This,say activists such as Rob Dunbar of the Faculty of Law at GlasgowUniversity, is racism ....
Rate fears spook stock markets
Sep 01, 1999; ... STOCK markets tumbled on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday asinvestors continued to retreat in fear of higher interest rates inBritain and the United States. The FTSE slumped 128.8 points, or more than 2 per cent, aftershare dealers returned from the Bank Holiday to contemplate ...
Bank on the future? Maybe not
Sep 01, 1999; ... CENTRAL bankers are usually loathe to indulge in disturbingprovocations. They tend to prefer judicious objectivity to jarringobservations; balanced analysis to outlandish scenarios. So when acentral banker says something startling we should sit up and takenotice. It's hard to ...
MSPs refuse to flap over blue doo for pigeons
Sep 01, 1999; ... IT wasn't exactly the top priority of the new public petitionscommittee of the Scottish parliament, but MSPs attending yesterday'smeeting were only too willing to home in on a problem issue - theplight of homing pigeons being killed by birds of prey. The Scottish Homing Union was ...
The wild, wired West
Sep 01, 1999; ... IT HAS been described as one of he biggest security breaches inthe history of the wired world. When computer hackers breached thesecurity systems of Microsoft's Hotmail system -claimed to be theworld's largest free e-mail service - allowing potentialindiscriminate access to the e-mails ...
You can get in on the act
Sep 01, 1999; ... MORE than 300 seats in parliament's public gallery provide abird's eye view of democracy in action - and taking one of them is alot easier than it was for the 129 MSPs sitting in the chamber below. It need not always mean booking, and it's free. When parliament is in session ...
Letting go of certainty India Song King's Theatre
Sep 01, 1999; ... A PIECE of advice: don't go anywhere near Ivo van Hove's gorgeous,tantalising, fascinating production of Marguerite Duras's India Song,brought to the Festival by the Zuidelijk Toneel of Eindhoven, unlessyou're prepared, for a brief 75 minutes, to let things go. Don't goarmed with any ...
Welcome to Scotland the Brave's new world
Sep 01, 1999; ... NOBODY said it would be easy. As the Scottish parliament getsdown to serious business in the weeks and months ahead, the quieteuphoria, the air of optimism - of innocence almost - engendered bythe uplifting opening ceremony in July has gone. It has been replaced by a cooler ...
Giving power to the people
Sep 01, 1999; ... IDEALISM infused with hope underpins the working arrangements ofthe Scottish parliament. If the rhetoric means anything, this is abody which will not only break with the ancient traditions ofWestminster, but seek to slay the cynicism that characterises modernattitudes to politicians and ...
Persimmon reports house sales boom
Sep 01, 1999; ... PERSIMMON yesterday reported its best ever half-year performanceas house prices jumped and it sold a bumper number of homes. The group saw the average selling price of its houses leap fromGBP 86,685 last year to GBP 94,685 this year. It sold 8 per cent more new homes over the ...
Hats off to a real smoothie
Sep 01, 1999; ... CONSTANTLY variable transmission has long been the ambition of carengineers, who have tried it, at least in part, on models as diverseas the pride of Holland's motor industry, the Daf Daffodil, and aWilliams Renault Formula One car. The system used on both cars, indeed that fitted ...
Dissident misses a masterpiece Grigory Sokolov Queen's Hall
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Queen's Hall management nearly had a small riot on their handsduring Grigory Sokolov's solo piano recital on Tuesday. It all blewup after the first set of pieces, an assortment of keyboard works byWilliam Byrd. The sombre lighting (a predilection of Sokolov's idolSviatoslav Richter) ...
Checks after soy sauce is linked to cancer
Sep 01, 1999; ... ALL SOY sauce sold in the UK is to be surveyed after reports thatsome products contain unacceptably high levels of a cancer-causingsubstance. The Government announced yesterday that the survey would becarried out as quickly as possible to make sure all bottles of thesauce meet ...
Verdict of suicide on Screaming Lord Sutch
Sep 01, 1999; ... A CORONER yesterday recorded a verdict of suicide on the maverickpolitician Screaming Lord Sutch, after hearing of his long battleagainst depression. The 58-year-old founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party was "acomedian with tragedy at his heart", said the Hornsey coroner, ...
Swiss deny they asked spy to form secret army
Sep 01, 1999; ... HIS NAME is Bellasi - Dino Bellasi - and, the way he told it, hehad a licence to spend. The former military acountant claimed his mission was to equipSwitzerland with a secret army capable of guerrilla warfare in thegrottoes, caves and mountain passes of its rocky ...
Korda's confirmed ban blow for Walker
Sep 01, 1999; ... PETR Korda's one-year ban for doping, announced yesterday, comesas a severe blow to the hopes of rehabilitation for the Britishathletes Dougie Walker and Linford Christie after their positivetests for the same banned substance. The Czech tennis player was found to have traces of ...
Trademark The middle-aged unpromoted teacher
Sep 01, 1999 ... Walter is the most dangerous breed of teacher in the profession.In the cycle of life he knows he peaked ten years ago and now it'sdownhill with feet on the handlebars for the next 15 years. Havingtaught for two decades, he is bored with his existence. Withpromotion being as likely as a ...
Restless, boatless and fishless. Something had to be done ...
Sep 01, 1999; ... BOATS have been part of my life ever since I first took to thepond at Stonehouse in Lanarkshire in one of those hand-paddledironclad waterborne dodgems that have now largely disappeared fromScotland's public parks. Since that first experience of the calming, separating, ...
Rivals fold as Trinity shareholders agree 1.6bn pound merger with Mirror
Sep 01, 1999; ... TRINITY'S GBP 1.6 billion merger with Mirror Group moved nearercompletion yesterday when the newspaper company declared its offerunconditional as to acceptances and its own shareholders approved themove, quashing any lingering possibilities of a rival offer. Britain's biggest ...
Girl fights her school's'sexist' ban on trousers
Sep 01, 1999; ... A GIRL forced to wear a skirt to school, yesterday launched alegal action against the "sexist and impractical" uniform rulesbanning her from wearing trousers. The Equal Opportunities Commission is supporting Jo Hale, 14, fromGateshead, and will provide the legal and financial ...
Louise Patterson: 'Madame Moscow'
Sep 01, 1999; ... LOUISE Alone Thompson Patterson, a civil rights and labouractivist from the Harlem Renaissance who was dubbed "Madame Moscow"for her role in America's communist movement, has died in New York,aged 97. The daughter of a Chicago bartender, she was among the first blackwomen ...
Wallace refuses to accept blame for Ruddle's release
Sep 01, 1999; ... JIM Wallace, the justice minister, faced renewed criticismyesterday after he refused to accept full responsibility for notstopping the release of the psychopathic killer Noel Ruddle. He insisted throughout a one-hour grilling by the Scottishparliament's powerful justice committee ...
www.scottish.parliament.uk
Sep 01, 1999; ... THINK of a question about the Scottish parliament. Who are my MSPs? When does the justice committee next meet? Whatinterests have been registered by my MSPs? Who voted what way inlast week's big debate? Just how does the parliament work? If you've got access to the ...
Terrorists fight a losing battle on Ulster's grimmest streets
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE night Maureen 's son was shot she drove round Twinbrook in arage, looking for a "chuckyhead" to kill. A "chuckyhead" is a member of Sinn Fein or the IRA. The coarseslang derives from the Republican slogan Tiochfaidh (pronouncedchucky) ar la, meaning Our Day Will Come. She ...
Fall in tea prices hits Finlay
Sep 01, 1999; ... JAMES Finlay, the Glasgow-based tea producer, blamed unusually dryweather and depressed prices for a 70 per cent wilt in pre-taxprofits yesterday. The company's tea plantations - in Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh andSri Lanka -went from a contribution to operating profits of GBP ...
Japanese Delia gives readers a yen for Scotland
Sep 01, 1999; ... SHE IS a one woman phenomenon who could turn around Scotland'stourism problems overnight. Harumi Kurihara is Japan's answer to Delia Smith, only much morefamous. She is recognised wherever she goes, the Japanese slavishlybuy whatever she recommends, and she has decided to ...
Pre-school provision: the backlash begins
Sep 01, 1999; ... IN THE new spirit of joined-up thinking, and in honour of thebackground of Sam Galbraith, the minister for children and education,I am going to start with a medical story. Back in the Fifties, whenmy granny had problems with her digestive system, she was given theprevailing advice - ...
Mr Dewar's little mentor
Sep 01, 1999; ... SUPER-BLAIR flies in from France to rescue the Northern Irelandpeace process and tackle what his spokesman calls a "huge reformingagenda" on welfare and the NHS. Donald Dewar makes a mildlyremonstrative appearance on Good Morning Scotland, presides over ameeting of his executive, and ...
Barrichello and Irvine swap seats
Sep 01, 1999; ... RUBENS Barrichello, the Brazilian driver who has come closest togiving Stewart Grand Prix their first win in Formula One, will leaveat the end of the year to partner the two-times world championMichael Schumacher at Ferrari. The move will complete the swap deal which sees Irishman ...
Toodle-pip to the Big Apple again for hapless Henman
Sep 01, 1999; ... OUT-played, out-thought and out of the US Open. That was TimHenman yesterday after taking a bite of the Big Apple -and promptlychoking. The British No1 was taken apart by 21-year-old Argentine GuillermoCanas - a player ranked 63 places below him in the world rankings. Canas ...
Patients' rights 'being ignored'
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE NHS in Scotland has been accused of breaching the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights over mixed wards and failings in the waycomplaints are handled. The Scottish Association of Health Councils (SAHC) says the healthminister, Susan Deacon, faces potential legal challenges ...
Cook under pressure to ban defence sales to Indonesia
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Government came under pressure last night to stop exportingdefence equipment to Indonesia after Robin Cook, the ForeignSecretary, admitted that British-made Hawk jets had been used tointimidate the population of East Timor. Mr Cook was also urged to ban Indonesia from attending ...
V for vintage year as sales of new cars soar
Sep 01, 1999; ... THOUSANDS of drivers took to the roads at midnight last night innew V-registration cars as dealers across the country celebrated thelast great new car bonanza of the millennium. Up to 250,000 new cars are expected to take to the roads thismonth, putting sales on target to reach ...
Spy's lies over secret army
Sep 01, 1999 ... A FORMER military accountant, who plunged the Swiss governmentinto crisis when he claimed that he had been ordered to set up asecret army, has withdrawn his allegations ....
Pulp Flux Festival
Sep 01, 1999; ... AN exclusive preview of new material from one of the country'sbiggest bands is just the kind of show with which the Flux Festivalhas made its name. As the rest of Fringe-deprived Edinburgh goesinto cultural mourning, the Queen's Hall is alive with anticipationof Jarvis and ...
A promise unfulfilled Bruckner/NDR Symphony Orchestra Usher Hall
Sep 01, 1999; ... TRUTHFULLY, Gunter Wand's performance of Bruckner's SeventhSymphony with the NDR Symphony Orchestra wasn't quite in the sameradiant class as his Fifth last year; but then that would have beendifficult. Wand's Edinburgh Fifth was simply one of the greatestBruckner performances any of us ...
Look for Gold Cup clues at York
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE Captain Sensible part of us knows only too well that gettingfinancially involved in a race with 144 entries almost three weeksbefore it is run borders on gross stupidity, but gambling and reasonhave always made uneasy bedfellows. That's why those who fancy a little ante-post ...
Can this really be the shape of things to come?
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE first time I set eyes on the Renault Avantime's off-the-wallshape (see picture) it was a concept car called the Vel Satis which,the designer assured me, would be the form of luxury cars to come. I reckoned at the time he was overdue a long rest amid tranquilsurroundings and, ...
Take your seats and let battle commence
Sep 01, 1999; ... IT WAS once a phoney war, but since Scotland took possession ofher new powers a battle royal has been looming between the firstintake of MSPs and their seasoned Westminster counterparts. The ancient Palace of Westminster was squeezed from above andbelow to allow political power to ...
Supporting cast are key for Telfer
Sep 01, 1999; ... WHILE Chris Paterson's elevation and Craig Chalmers' exclusionsuggested an "out with the old, in with the new" policy towards WorldCup selection, the unwelcome prospect of injury befalling captainGary Armstrong during the tournament ultimately did most to determinethe make-up of ...
Woodward brings Ubogu back into England fold
Sep 01, 1999; ... VICTOR Ubogu was left "surprised and completely shocked" by hisinclusion in the England squad for the Rugby World Cup, announcedyesterday. Ubogu, 35 next week, thought his chance had gone when the Englandcoach Clive Woodward overlooked him for the August Tests against theUS and ...
Paterson on top of the world
Sep 01, 1999; ... UNCAPPED Edinburgh Reivers stand-off Chris Paterson was allowed toofficially celebrate his surprise selection in Scotland's World Cupsquad two days ahead of schedule yesterday, the announcement broughtforward when the SRU were forced to delay naming a new sponsor fordomestic ...
Minister briefs cabinet on sheep
Sep 01, 1999; ... ROSS FINNIE, the rural affairs minister, briefed the Scottishexecutive yesterday on the crisis in the sheep industry. It is understood that the executive will consider his views, but aspokesman for Donald Dewar, the First Minister insisted that directcash aid for cull ewes, illegal ...
Scallop fishermen call for hardship compensation
Sep 01, 1999; ... THE government was urged yesterday to compensate scallop fishermenwhose livelihoods are at risk because of the enforced closure oftheir fishing grounds. A ban on fishing for scallops and queen scallops has affectedfishermen off the west, east and north coasts of Scotland. It ...
Scotia buoyant after success of cancer treatment trials
Sep 01, 1999; ... SCOTIA Holdings, the drug development company based at Stirling,saw its shares soar more than 12 per cent yesterday as it announcedpositive results in trials for its laser-driven cancer treatment,Foscan. The drug, which is being developed to treat head and neck cancerssuch as ...
Scot suspected over shooting
Sep 01, 1999 ... POLICE yesterday released a tape recording of a Scot they believeis a member of a gang who gunned down an IRA informer, MartinMcGartland. The ten-second recording was left on an answer phone in responseto an advertisement for a Bedford Rascal van placed in a car magazinein ...
Leading from the back
Sep 01, 1999; ... WHEN first approached to reveal the secrets of how to be aneffective backbencher, I reflected that perhaps there had been somemistake. For although I am Aberdeen born, I am also Member of Parliamentfor an English constituency and, in any event, failure has been amore frequent ...
Ek plots his own downfall
Sep 01, 1999; ... IN the golden age of the movies when emotion got too big everyoneburst into song and dance. But what if you're already dancing? Choreographer Mats Ek has come up with ideal solution. At keymoments in his updated staging of Sleeping Beauty, performed by theCullberg Ballet, he ...
Gunmen opened fire as Scot was snatched
Sep 01, 1999; ... FURTHER details emerged yesterday of the kidnap of a Scottishengineer at gunpoint in Colombia. However, no ransom demand has yet been received for AlistairTaylor, 44, who was driving to work near the town of Yopal lastFriday morning when his car was ambushed. His kidnappers ...
Kelly and Rankin out as youth has its fling
Sep 01, 1999; ... A NEW beginning beckons for Scottish amateur golf after thedecision to drop two high profile Walker Cup members, Lorne Kelly andGraham Rankin, from the team to play in the Home Internationals nextmonth at Royal County Down. Picking up on the success of Tiger Woods and Sergio ...
Hendry fights for semi spot
Sep 01, 1999; ... STEPHEN Hendry returns to action in snooker's Liverpool VictoriaChampions Cup in Croydon today requiring two more victories toguarantee his place in the semi-finals of the GBP 175,000 winner-take-all tournament. Hendry hasn't played since Sunday when he lost to Irishman ...
Veni, vedi, Verdi
Sep 01, 1999 ... IN the latest Meet the Artist Online session, Kathleen Broderick,the Canadian soprano who is playing Lady Macbeth in Luc Bondy'sproduction of Verdi's Macbeth, made a heartfelt plea for a greaterresponse from Festival audiences. In answer to one onlinequestioner, she agreed that "audience ...
More car buyers switch to internet
Sep 01, 1999; ... ONE in five new cars will be bought with the aid of the internetby 2003 as consumers log on to search for lower prices and avoidpressure selling on the forecourt, a report from new media firmFletcher Research said yesterday. Fletcher predicted that 500,000 new car buying decisions ...