The Scotsman back issues from January 2000:
Best Deals
Jan 01, 2000 ... A BEACON for any weary traveller, Galloway's Corsewall LighthouseHotel offers unparalleled views of the some most breathtakingscenery in Scotland and one of the country's warmest welcomes. The four-star hotel, which has a fully operational A-listedlighthouse as its centrepiece, is ...
Why 2K?
Jan 01, 2000 ... Rock & Pop Fiona Shepherd On the live music front, the social calendar opens with theannual Celtic Connections festival (11-30 January), which embracesan increasing number of venues around Glasgow to its eclectic bosom,including the Barrowland where Martyn Bennett's Cuillin ...
Best Avoided
Jan 01, 2000 ... IN KYRGYZTAN, as in many other parts of the former Soviet Union,the hospitality can be overwhelming. To avoid offending your hostsand becoming seriously ill, the following rules may be useful. Manyindividuals sell very cheap vodka in the streets which often costsless than GBP 1 per ...
Dance till you drop
Jan 01, 2000; ... There's a strong chance that the thought of any more partyingwill be the last thing on your mind this weekend. But if you didmanage to keep a semi-level head last night then you might be up formore of the same, so it's just as well there are plenty of eventsover the next few days to test ...
Netting a bargain
Jan 01, 2000; ... So there you are, huddled in a sleeping bag, drinking tea from aThermos while you wait outside the entrance to a department store.Or there you are, struggling through a packed shop, determined toget a knock-down January bargain. But before you set off for thewindswept, rain-sodden, icy ...
Dirty work but Home work Cleaning
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT WAS lovely to see all those old friends, especially the oneswith children old enough to walk and talk but young enough tobelieve Jesus was born long ago, a few years before granddad, andthat Santa Claus won't come if you don't go to sleep like a goodgirl. Children like that ...
Satisfying a Craven
Jan 01, 2000; ... The most shocking thing about meeting the film director WesCraven is discovering just how normal he is. This, after all, is theman who gave us Freddy Krueger, the knife-fingered fiend who stalkedthe nightmares of the kids on Elm Street; the man whose debutfeature Last House on the Left - ...
Pasta lessons
Jan 01, 2000; ... I SUPPOSE it is just as much my job to tell you what not to cookas it is to keep you posted on what tastes absolutely brilliant. Wehave all experienced dishes that sounded delicious and had ourmouths watering - until we actually cooked them. If you are at home,you can at least discard ...
Best Freebie
Jan 01, 2000 ... A PERFECT time can be had just wandering around Rome's ancientsites. The centre has more than 400 churches, many beautiful,including the Santa Maria del Popolo with works by Raphael. Oppositethe Gothic Santa Maria sopra Minerva (open daily 7:30am-noon, 4-7pm) is the best-preserved ...
There's no alternative to 2000, so I'll buy it
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT HAS come, gift-wrapped, a new product that the manufacturers,Life Inc, have asked me, among others, to test for researchpurposes. Entitled 2000, it is guaranteed for a year withappropriate after-sales service and advice on upgrades. Promotionalliterature claims that it is likely to ...
Poet prepared for the party
Jan 01, 2000 ... CURIOUSLY, few of the great 20th century poets anticipated the millennium. Pablo Neruda did. His collection 2000 or Dos Mil ,written in the last two years of his life, was published in BuenosAires after his death. For the first day of the millennium, wepublish Celebration, one of the ...
Tramore the merrier with the new year No Problem for Irish
Jan 01, 2000; ... THERE will be a few courses on this side of the Irish Sea castingenvious eyes in the direction of Tramore this afternoon when theCounty Waterford track has the racing scene all to itself. Originally six English venues, Cheltenham, which had planned toput on a GBP 100,000 televised ...
Pitt is real McCoy to pip jockeys
Jan 01, 2000; ... RODDY Pitt will make his first public appearance as the new"Flying Scot" in rather bizarre circumstances at Musselburgh onTuesday. The 18-year old from South Queensferry, who won the New Year'sSprint when it was held for the first time at the East Lothiancourse this week, has ...
Nuclear waste dumped in the Forth
Jan 01, 2000; ... GOVERNMENT scientists tried to persuade an Edinburgh company notto dump radioactive waste in the Firth of Forth, according todocuments released today under the 30-year rule. The scientists also believed that the defence and electronicsfirm Ferranti had failed to seek authorisation ...
Always an ugly side to the beautiful game
Jan 01, 2000; ... FANS taken to hospital, missiles thrown and the chanting ofobscenities. Football appears to have been little different in 1969than 2000, although today there is less of an obsession with toiletrolls. Thirty years ago, the government set up a working party to lookat crowd ...
Vaughan's visit curtailed gang violence
Jan 01, 2000; ... FRANKIE Vaughan's famous visit to Easterhouse helped to reducegang violence, according to government papers released yesterday. The survey by sociologists for the Scottish section of the HomeOffice research unit also documents the level of gang membership inGlasgow in the late ...
Duke in running for talks on Ulster
Jan 01, 2000; ... HAROLD Wilson's Labour government considered asking the Duke ofEdinburgh to chair cross-party peace talks on Northern Ireland,according to secret files made public for the first time today. Holding round-table talks with the duke occupying the sensitiverole played some 30 years ...
Essay
Jan 01, 2000; ... WHO would have thought getting to the Moon would be so easy? Longbefore 20 July 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin emerged fromApollo 11 and bobbled across the crusty surface, two men had beenthere many decades before them. You will not, however, find theirnames mentioned in the ...
Batten down, cover up a and then head for the armchair
Jan 01, 2000; ... RIGHT now you may not feel much like gardening - you may not evenbe able to get out of bed if you were seeing in the millennium instyle and your head has taken the brunt of it. But by the time yourmetabolism comes-to, a little clear air and a little activityoutside may be just the ...
Island Guide Komodo
Jan 01, 2000 ... INDONESIA'S eastern islands stretch from Lombok to Timor and areknown collectively as Nusa Tenggara. The region is markedlydifferent from the rest of Indonesia: as you travel east, theclimate becomes drier and the flora and fauna more evocative ofAustralia than of tropical ...
Is this the dawning of the age of the female?
Jan 01, 2000; ... IF THERE'S one thing of which we can be certain, on this newestof all new mornings, it's that a baby girl born in Scotland todayfaces a life full of possibilities that most of our great-great-grandmothers, a century ago, could barely have imagined for theirdaughters. The 20th ...
Steel appeal
Jan 01, 2000; ... JAMIE Oliver and his kind have a lot to answer for. Not only dothey make most of us feel inadequate coming home to a fat-free ready-made meal from M&S, but they make us reconsider our humble pine andFormica kitchen ensembles. Rustling up a little something on an expanse of ...
Facing up to the new century's first great challenge
Jan 01, 2000; ... THE IDEOLOGICAL confrontation that dominated the 20th centurybegan when a small group of men in St Petersburg and Moscow seizedpower in a great but crumbling empire called Russia. That centuryended with a former disciple of Leninism seeking to bequeath powerto his chosen successor in a ...
Waqar to replace disgraced Shoaib
Jan 01, 2000; ... WAQAR Younis will replace the suspended Shoaib Akhtar, who is toreturn home from Pakistan's forthcoming tour of Australia after hisaction was ruled illegal yesterday. A nine-man International Cricket Council panel ruled againstShoaib's bowling action after discussing it during a ...
England's Cape of good hope
Jan 01, 2000; ... ENGLAND begin their preparations for the fourth Test againstSouth Africa today knowing that at least their luck appears to beholding. They flew out of hot and sultry semi-tropical Durban immediatelythe third Test ended as a draw bound for Cape Town where theweather, less than two ...
Fair way to a cultural alliance
Jan 01, 2000; ... IN A CITY where three great Irish men of letters, Oscar Wilde,James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, had previously found their spiritualhome, this time it was the turn of Alasdair Gray, Chris Dolan, AgnesOwens, and Janet Paisley among several other Glasgow writers. Why aGlasgow Book Fair in ...
The start is nigh
Jan 01, 2000; ... WELL, thank God that's over. It feels odd, doesn't it, living ina decade with no name? In the dank compartments of the long corridorat the end of the last hundred years, we have grown so used tothinking in decades that events began to mould themselves into akind of pre-destiny. In the ...
Turn to page 2050 and plunge into the realms of fantasy
Jan 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND's literary scene is very different now, in the year2050, to what it was at the turn of the last century. Environmentaldevastation almost meant the end for the book industry 30 years ago,but international ecology laws allowed for limited editions inpaperback. Still, most ...
Two more deaths add to drugs toll
Jan 01, 2000; ... THE YEAR in which Strathclyde recorded its highest number of drug-related fatalities, ended yesterday with the deaths of two morepeople attributed to drug abuse. The death of Brian Miller, 33, at a hostel for the homeless inGlasgow, brought to 148 the total number of people in the ...
2000: A sports odyssey
Jan 01, 2000; ... GREEN shoots might be the operative phrase. On the last ChristmasDay of the last century, on a soggy park field a few hundred yardsaway from Easter Road, an eight-year-old was cheerily booting aroundhis new Christmas football. He was doing so with an understandableconsideration for the ...
FUTURE WORLD Saturday Profile
Jan 01, 2000 ... Miracle cures and made-to-order babies, wrist-top computers andtrips in space: the promises and possibilities of the next 100 years SO COLONIES on the Moon and Mars have not got off the ground andno aliens have turned up demanding to see our leader. Thetotalitarian world ruled by ...
Rangers set sights high by tracking GBP 9m Flo
Jan 01, 2000; ... RANGERS' search for attacking re-inforcements has seen the Ibroxclub linked with a move for Chelsea's Norwegian striker Tore AndreFlo. The champions had the gangling forward watched in the 3-0 winover Sheffield Wednesday on Wednesday, when the player scored his11th goal of the ...
Fergie's lost inheritance
Jan 01, 2000; ... HISTORY runs on a complicated system of quirks of fate, each onecapable of deflecting even the most purposeful from their course,bringing that curious mixture of joy and resentment which ispeculiar to humans. The dawn of a new century seems as good a time as any to play"What ...
Scrappy birthday as Tiger falters
Jan 01, 2000; ... TIGER Woods' 24th birthday celebrations did not go quite as wellas he had planned on the second day of the Williams World Challengein Arizona. While a par 70 would have been good enough for most golfers,Woods was unhappy with his performance after he fell two shotsbehind leader ...
Wilson's flare-up at 'miniskirt project'
Jan 01, 2000; ... HAROLD Wilson was incensed when he discovered that the Governmentwas funding research into why men preferred women in miniskirts,according to official papers made public today. Files released to the Public Record Office show that Mr Wilsonangrily demanded a review of all such ...
Yeltsin bows out in style for heir
Jan 01, 2000; ... WITH brilliant timing, Boris Yeltsin resigned as Russianpresident yesterday and ushered in the prime minister, VladimirPutin, as acting leader. His decision to step down, announced in a televised address tothe nation at noon, was clearly the result of a carefully-honed dealwith ...
Putin displays cool head and killer instinct
Jan 01, 2000; ... EVERY Russian leader does or says one thing that defines hiscareer for posterity. Boris Yeltsin's greatest moment was when hestood on a tank during a coup attempt in August 1991 and ralliedRussia to the cause of democracy. But Vladimir Putin's defining moment came as he flung a ...
Dramatic finale for political showman ANALYSIS
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT SEEMS unbelievable. The Russian president, whom few peoplereally wanted and many were anxious to get rid of, who foughtdesperate ill-health to win a second term and tried to fight theconstitution to get a third, and who swore publicly that he wouldsee his time out -yes, Boris Yeltsin ...
Salmond hails new era for the nation
Jan 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND and its people are preparing for independence "in a fewyears", the leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond,says today in a millennium message to the nation. Mr Salmond says that Scotland had a head start in the millenniumcelebrations - the country had made a ...
Bright lights,big City
Jan 01, 2000; ... PLAYING with fire is how many would see the gamble of investingyour hard-earned cash in stocks and shares. But if the jobbers andbrokers who thronged the London Stock Exchange at the turn of thecentury could have stayed in the market for 100 years, most wouldhave made a ...
Colossus of Roads, brick by brick
Jan 01, 2000; ... Thomas Telford By Anthony Burton Aurum Press, GBP 19.99 THOMAS Telford was an excellent example of how Scots like to seethemselves - the lad o' pairts who made his way in the world from apoverty-stricken, but morally sound, Scottish childhood by dint ofclean living, unremitting ...
Robert McNeil's Week
Jan 01, 2000 ... Monday DON'T talk to me about being lonely this Christmas. Six days offwork and I hardly spoke to another soul. I had one telephone call -from Help The Aged (Help the Middle-Aged might have got more moneyout of me) - and until Christmas Day I had a grand total of oneconversation ...
Global battleground awaits would-be centurions Business View
Jan 01, 2000; ... So who should we pick as the Scottish business of the century?The list of candidates is strong, although not long. Only a handfulof our major businesses have made it all the way through the last100 years, continuing to thrive and expand. Brian Souter's Stagecoach could easily walk ...
Banks hail a bug-free beginning
Jan 01, 2000; ... SCOTTISH banks breathed a sigh of relief yesterday, as theircomputer systems on the other side of the world survived the threatof the so-called millennium bug. Officials were confident that systems at home would not beaffected by the computer glitch which technology experts had ...
Today's heroes are forced to walk in the shadows of ghosts
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT is the privilege of every generation to imagine that the bestdays are gone, that things ain't what they used to be. Sport, like pop music, has acquired a history, and a self-consciousness about its golden moments. For Elvis, the King, thereis Muhammad Ali, the Champ. For the ...
Woodstock, strikes and the Troubles , welcome to 1969
Jan 01, 2000; ... THE year was 1969, a time of industrial and political strife whenthe British government sent troops into Northern Ireland as tensionsbetween Protestants and Roman Catholics erupted into violence. In London, the talk was of beer and sandwiches in smoke-filledrooms at No 10, as trade ...
Harrison attack charge man sent to secure unit
Jan 01, 2000; ... A 33-YEAR-OLD man appeared in court yesterday charged with theattempted murder of the former Beatle, George Harrison, and hiswife, Olivia. Michael Abram was bailed by magistrates in Oxford to be detainedat a medium secure psychiatric unit under section three of theMental Health ...
Eight-day hijack ends as India frees rebels
Jan 01, 2000; ... THE Indian airliner hijack ended peacefully yesterday when theIndian government freed three jailed Islamic militants and flew themto Afghanistan in return for the freedom of more than 150 hostages. Within minutes of the aircraft from New Delhi arriving atKandahar airport, the five ...
Never say never again a just relax in the bath, crack open a beer and fry an egg
Jan 01, 2000; ... THIS morning thousands of people all over the world will beswearing never again. Every time those symptoms of furry tongue, pulsating brain andnauseous gut return, hung-over drinkers the length and breadth ofthe globe stare at their haggard features in the mirror and promisethey ...
Magi moments
Jan 01, 2000 ... Amahl and the Night Visitors is probably the work for which GianCarlo Menotti is best known. This charming opera tells theenchanting tale of a crippled boy whose meeting with the Bethlehem-bound Magi results in a startling miracle. The Italian-born composer is also something of a ...
Millennium meltdown
Jan 01, 2000; ... WELCOME to the 21st century and a happy new gardening millenniumto everyone. But, now that we have come to it, will it be happy?Gardeners are as susceptible to the various theories aboutmillennial doom as anyone else, but unless you installed a verysnazzy digital watering system or have ...
Old years' honours list
Jan 01, 2000; ... ANNIVERSARIES are interesting rather than important. Sometimesthey encourage the revival of some author unjustly neglected; oftenthey just offer an excuse for publishers to give a new impetus tostandard works. So what can we look for in the year that is alreadyjust a few hours ...
Nick Thorpe's Great Escape El Chapare,Bolivia
Jan 01, 2000 ... TUESDAY SITTING watching the angry sun quieten into orange over thejungle canopy, I am awestruck to find myself being licked gentlybehind the ears by a small brown monkey. Perhaps Hector knows thisis the therapy I need after a long day at the animal refuge. Orperhaps he's just ...
Paperbacks
Jan 01, 2000; ... Guilt by Charlotte Grimshaw (Abacus GBP 9.99) *** A Generation X novel set in the New Zealand of the Eighties, withtwentysomething slackers trying to make sense of their lives. Marcusis the broody would-be writer trying to cast off the shackles of hismiddle-class suburban ...
Sanity's grotto for festive fugitives Eating Out Exceeds Methven Street Perth
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT MAY be that, in the words of Groucho Marx, "there ain't noSanity Clause". But there are some activities in which no saneperson with any choice in the matter would indulge during the periodfrom 5 December until 10 January. Chief among them is taking lunchor dinner at any restaurant or ...
Rich Hall
Jan 01, 2000 ... To: Head of Operations, NASA, Houston, Texas from: Roger Ayling, President British Airways Inc SIRS, I have been following with keen interest your plightconcerning the Mars Polar Lander. The dismal failure of thisproject, as well as your many past failures (Mars Climate ...
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Burns, burns and sunsets over Arran - sheer poetry
Jan 01, 2000; ... I WAS a shy only child when we first arrived in Scotland from mybirthplace, Leeds. I was 12 and I hadn't wanted to come at all. Ofall my first impressions of Ayrshire in the Sixties, there are twothat come back to me with great clarity. One is the sight of thosebrown papery roller blinds ...
Deck the halls a then deck the lodger Soap
Jan 01, 2000; ... If it moves, decorate it. Or so Vera Duckworth - CoronationStreet's very own interior assassin - would have it; ensuring everyanimal, mineral and vegetable within a five-mile radius wasfestively bedecked with as many garish baubles, spangly knick-knacks and crepe wotsits as the ...
Supermarket Sweep Scottish parliament hamper
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT SEEMS odd, somehow. Christmas is over and, anyway, one doesn'tassociate hampers with supermarkets. But they all seem to beproducing them. Trouble is, in among all the delicacies and tit-bits you do like, there's bound to be at least one that you don't.Like anchovy fillets, sun-dried ...
Sweet Tooth Pettigrews of Kelso (lemon curd)
Jan 01, 2000; ... I love a mystery. Lemon curd is the taste of an enigma. Nobodyknows where the lemon emerged from. It seems almost the essence ofthe Mediterranean. This enhances the pleasure of a midwinter tastethat echoes the sunshine. It is amazing to realise that its origins are not known ....
Time and notions
Jan 01, 2000; ... Ease yourself gently back into mundane, day-to-day, non-festivelife with the help of lavish costume dramas. Longitude (Channel 4,Sunday & Monday), Charles Sturridge's adaptation of Dava Sobels'sbest-selling novel, is at the top of the class; it ropes in everyfamous British actor ever to ...
Monuments to a tyrant
Jan 01, 2000; ... SO THERE I was, lost on the Palestinian West Bank, somewherenorth of Nablus in a hired car boasting startlingly obvious yellowIsraeli number plates. I had stopped to ask a passing Arab the wayto Herod the Great's palace at Sebastia. He pointed it out acrossthe valley: "There it is, see?" ...
Challenge and charm
Jan 01, 2000; ... LET'S be honest, there's more than a few of us out there whowould be a lot happier if our skiing holidays contained a littleless skiing. We've all seen the girl on the slope in tears becauseher ski-mad husband has persuaded her that after three lessons she'sperfectly capable of ...
Deep in the heart of Texel
Jan 01, 2000; ... Most holiday supplements cover places like Spain, Italy andFrance. The pages of the more exotic publications might try toentice us to Barbados, Hong Kong and Bali. City Weekend breaksspecify Paris, Amsterdam or Barcelona. We all know about thesebeauty spots, or ought to, because we are ...