The Scotsman back issues from February 2000:
Which kind of deputy would Henry McLeish be?
Feb 01, 2000; ... DONALD Dewar is certainly a leader in need. He needs ideas,talent, and a bit of good luck. It is not clear that he needs adeputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party. The argument for the appointment may appear obvious. The deputyfirst minister is a Liberal Democrat. So, say Mr ...
Tarka and Tufty triumph
Feb 01, 2000; ... THIS is a day of rejoicing for brethren feathered and furry.Tarka and Tufty may frolic without fear, safe in the knowledge thatthe Scottish executive has their interests at heart. No longer shallthe malign combustion engine pose a threat to lumbering badgers andlittle hunted hares. In ...
BBC Scottish/Polianichko
Feb 01, 2000; ... THIS studio concert was very much in the minor mode: Haydn in thesombre colours of his Sturm und Drang period, Shostakovich andSchnittke in brooding Russian vein. But how exhilarating it was, theintimacy of the studio proving to be the perfect setting for bothHaydn's Mourning Symphony ...
RSNO/Lazarev Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Feb 01, 2000; ... IT IS always intriguing to hear the same work performed bydifferent artists within a relatively short space of time,particularly one as challenging as Rachmaninov's First Symphony. Aspart of the BBCSSO's "Steel & Gold" series a few months ago, OsmoVanska took the cool-headed approach, ...
SCO/Leppard City Hall Glasgow
Feb 01, 2000; ... BOYS just wanna have fun. That might have been the marketingslogan for this concert of young man's music, for none of the threecomposers represented had reached 24 years of age when these workswere first performed. And there were chunks of enjoyment to be foundhere, in a concert that was ...
Miller scores with football scheme Deals
Feb 01, 2000; ... MILLER Ventures and West Lothian Council have sealed apartnership agreement for the development of seven acres of landadjacent to Almondvale Stadium, home of Livingston FC. As part ofthe deal, Miller Construction is building an extension to thestadium to provide 10,000 all-seated ...
A little heartfelt pampering ... Style notebook
Feb 01, 2000; ... JUST in time for Valentine's Day, a new mail-order catalogue hasbeen launched with gifts for lovers specifically in mind. BilletDoux provides a range of luxury items from gorgeous lookingunderwear, silk slips, home-made chocolates, fragrances andpampering products for both men and women ....
McLelland lands key hi-tech role
Feb 01, 2000; ... A LEADING Scottish IT executive has been chosen to headTechnology Ventures Scotland as it enters the second phase of itscampaign to spin world beating companies out of the country'sscience base. John McLelland, above with a robot at the TechnlogyVentures launch, the senior vice-president ...
Has devolution begun to break up England?
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE SHOCK in Westminster at Peter Kilfoyle's departure from theBlair government cannot be underestimated. It was neither foreseenby the Prime Minister nor is it welcomed by him, whatever warm wordswere written in reply to Mr Kilfoyle's resignation letter. It is abolt from the blue, or in ...
Milk Tray Man is back, and the secret's out of the box
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE MAN in black is back. Once he would have jumped fearlesslyfrom helicopters, abseiled down cliffs and swum through shark-infested seas - all because the lady loved Milk Tray. Now he bluffs his way into the lady's company without the aid ofa stuntman, and for the first time in ...
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group:Musgrave
Feb 01, 2000; ... IN THE United States, Thea Musgrave is seen as one of Britain'soutstanding composers. In the UK - even in her native Scotland - sheis more respected than played. Fair enough, she has lived in LosAngeles for 28 years. But when her work is heard over here, itreveals a composer as assured ...
And pop goes the youth vote
Feb 01, 2000; ... IN WHAT is being viewed as a make-or-break year for the Gallagherbrothers, criticism of Oasis's new album, Standing on the Shoulderof Giants, has come from an unexpected quarter. Reviewing the follow-up to the band's disappointing Be Here Now album in the NME, Londonmayoral candidate Ken ...
Acid test for outsiders McCain and Bradley Election USA 2000
Feb 01, 2000; ... VOTERS go to the polls here today with the power to make or breakthe dreams and aspirations of seven men who would be the presidentof the United States. Today's primary election -the first in the nation leading toNovember's full blown electoral extravaganza - represents ...
In-form Striker set to score quick hat-trick
Feb 01, 2000; ... AFTER five seconds in a row, some people were beginning toharbour grave doubts about Red Striker ever hitting the target, butif trainer Norman Mason toyed with the idea of putting the six-year-old on the transfer list, he must be a happy man now that heresisted the ...
Water, water everywhere
Feb 01, 2000; ... IN JANUARY of every year the National Gallery shows its Turnerwatercolours, and every year, also in January, the Royal ScottishSociety of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) has its annual exhibition.Turner is the greatest master of watercolour there has ever been.Indeed he invented it in its ...
Private investors get own on-line service
Feb 01, 2000; ... A GROUP of venture capitalists, corporate financiers and mediaexecutives announced the launch yesterday of the UK's first on-lineportal for the private equity community. Venturedome.com aims to bring entrepreneurs, investors andadvisers together on a single site to "transform the ...
Business View
Feb 01, 2000 ... Unfeasibly large rabbit wanted THE size of the rabbit Klaus Esser, Mannesmann's chairman, needsto pull out of his hat to save his company from the clutches ofVodafone AirTouch is reaching unrealistic proportions. Either MrEsser is biding his time ahead of Vodafone's 7 February bid ...
24-hour deadline for Mannesmann
Feb 01, 2000; ... MANNESMANN directors face a 24-hour deadline to recommendVodafone AirTouch's GBP 93 billion hostile bid for the telecoms andindustrial company or face losing the sweetener of slightly improvedterms. Chris Gent, Vodafone's chief executive, has said he would raisethe proportion of ...
Dramatic rise in domestic violence recorded
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE number of incidents involving domestic violence reported toScotland's largest police force has climbed dramatically in the lastyear. Cases of domestic abuse involving sexual violence in Strathclyderose to 47 cases from 19, an increase of 147 per cent, whilephysical violence ...
ARM sees its profits double
Feb 01, 2000; ... RISING royalty revenues powered ARM Holdings, the UK microchipdesigner, to a 91 per cent increase in pre-tax profits last year asthe company more than trebled the number of chips it shipped. Shares in ARM, the FTSE-100's top performer last year aftercoming to the market in 1998, ...
17m pound boost for Eurocentral
Feb 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND'S largest industrial and distribution development couldsoon be on the fast-track to completion following a major injectionof funding from the private sector. Eurocentral at Mossend in Lanarkshire is to receive a GBP 15million injection of cash from the Royal Bank of ...
Seeking out the best 'hot-spots'
Feb 01, 2000; ... WHERE is the best place in Scotland to do business? A simple question but not one, as far as I am aware, that hasbeen satisfactorily answered from the point of view of the aspiringentrepreneur. Most people who start up in business do so close to their lastplace of work or ...
Betting finds new armchair market
Feb 01, 2000; ... ARMCHAIR fans of all sports will soon be able to back up theirwords of wisdom with hard cash after online betting company BlueSquare announced plans yesterday to be interactive on televisionscreens by the end of March. In a move that will strike fear and excitement into the hearts ...
BoS moves to trump Royal bid
Feb 01, 2000; ... BANK of Scotland last night moved to trump an early morningincreased offer for NatWest from its rival Royal Bank of Scotland,but the eleventh-hour move saw neither bank emerge as clearfavourite in the long-running contest. On the final day for takeover offers for NatWest, the ...
Six seconds that shook Francis Haymaker
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE clockwatchers may say that Julius Francis lost his fightagainst Mike Tyson in 243 seconds. In reality, he was beaten afterjust six seconds. It took three seconds for Tyson to connect with a glancing lefthook to the top of Francis's bald head, and another three secondsfor the ...
Going with the traffic flow SIAS The latest winner of The Scotsman's Changing Companies competition
Feb 01, 2000; ... STEPHEN Druitt has been cycling to work every day for the last 20years. He is a model Edinburgh citizen, because he has seen thefuture of traffic congestion. His company has pioneered a software package which mimics driverbehaviour at a microscopic level and can accurately predict ...
SMG wins vote for Ginger
Feb 01, 2000; ... SMG's GBP 225 million acquisition of Ginger Media was yesterdayvoted through by its shareholders, although Granada - which owns18.6 per cent of the company and has opposed the deal -abstainedfrom voting. The deal was approved by 34.4 million votes - 99.6 per cent ofthe ...
Ian Smith
Feb 01, 2000; ... Ian Smith, teacher Born: 21 March, 1944 Died: 22 January, 2000, in Kirkcaldy, aged55 FOR the last ten years, Ian Smith had been assistant headteacherat Dunfermline High School and was a prominent member of Fife localassociation of the EIS for 30 years. Educated at ...
Wiranto sacked over role in E Timor
Feb 01, 2000; ... INDONESIA'S president, Abdurrahman Wahid, yesterday said he wasasking General Wiranto, the former leader of Indonesia's powerfulmilitary, to resign from the cabinet. "Of course he should resign at once," Mr Wahid said at the WorldEconomic Forum. "As soon as I get home, I shall call ...
Sore head? Blame it on the hair of the wolf that bit you
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE MOON has long been credited with powers to pull the tides,awaken werewolves and inspire romantic novelists. Now a new study byGerman scientists suggest it is responsible for binge drinking. Researchers in Baden-Wuerttemberg studied police reports for 50lunar cycles. They say a ...
Son of Sam Sheppard fights to clear 'fugitive'
Feb 01, 2000; ... A 45-YEAR-old murder once more made its way an Ohio courtyesterday, as the family of Dr Sam Sheppard, whose murder convictioninspired The Fugitive television series and film, began their effortto have him cleared. Sheppard was jailed for ten years and then acquitted of themurder ...
The disquiet revolutionary
Feb 01, 2000; ... BARCELONA, Pontevedra, Karlsruhe, Erfurt, Cologne, Zurich,Frankfurt: Ian Hamilton Finlay lists the places he has workscurrently in progress, and then he hesitates. There are so many, heis not sure he has remembered them all. In addition, last year hehad a major exhibition of new work in ...
Shearer silences the boos
Feb 01, 2000; ... Blackburn Rovers1 Jansen (26) Newcastle United2 Shearer (20, 79) THE Toon Army are back on themarch, with Wembley once again looking the ultimate destination. FACup finals would not be the same without thousands of Newcastle fansdisconsalately filing down Wembley Way, after ...
Under-fire whistlers are being left out on a limb
Feb 01, 2000; ... THERE is a growing feeling of discontent among referees in thiscountry and it is time for action from the SFA, which must not onlysupport its referees, but be seen to be backing them. It can't let people get away with incidents such as lastweekend's. Imagine a referee saying what ...
Scotland in line for a fair boost
Feb 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND is in the running for a fourth UEFA Cup place nextseason - and a fifth European slot in total - after ending the firsthalf of this term fourth in the European fair play league. The nation which leads the table gains an automatic extra placein the UEFA Cup, and all ...
Collette Ruddy in Recital Adelaide's Glasgow
Feb 01, 2000; ... I LIKE Collette Ruddy's voice. Her firm mezzo is bright andsupple and her use of it is clear and unfussy. And from the evidenceof her recital with Robert Melling, it is maturing to a bigger voicethan I had previously suspected. By the time she reached her closing encore - a lovely ...
Shipman case must be the cue for change
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE LAW may have caught up with Dr Harold Shipman; medicalscience has not. We can stare long and hard into the heart of thisdarkness and detect not a glimmer of the recognisably human, thereadily explicable. Baffled and horrified in equal measure at thepossibility, advanced by a coroner, ...
Currie consider citing over Caldwell injury
Feb 01, 2000; ... CURRIE officials were last night weighing up whether to cite aWatsonians player after what they believed might have been adeliberate stamp on winger Geoff Caldwell. Caldwell was stretchered off after only six minutes of Currie'sBT Premiership victory at Myreside on Saturday with a ...
Ireland and England think again as No10s withdraw
Feb 01, 2000; ... ENGLAND and Ireland were both hit by injury problems yesterday asthey prepared for their Six Nations match at Twickenham on Saturday. Northampton stand-off Paul Grayson has withdrawn from the Englandsquad with a shoulder injury, while his Irish counterpart RonanO'Gara and lock ...
Coach lays it on the line for Leslie
Feb 01, 2000; ... NO WONDER John Leslie confessed to feeling a "bit mixed up".Barely two hours after completing a 30-hour journey from Aucklandvia Los Angeles and London, Scotland's new captain was out onMurrayfield's back pitches yesterday, taking the next step in whatmust be the most emotionally and ...
New captain formulates right words
Feb 01, 2000; ... A MERE 48 hours after delivering his groom's speech in NewZealand, John Leslie has had precious little time to undergo anygrooming for his new role as Scotland's rugby captain. But he made a decent fist of it yesterday as he was thrust intothe media spotlight at Murrayfield hours ...
Heriot's look beyond transitional season
Feb 01, 2000; ... WHILE admitting that Heriot's 1st XV were having a poor season interms of results, Douglas West stressed yesterday that it was "notall doom and gloom" at the Edinburgh school. To prove his point,Heriot's won their first game of the season, outside of cup rugby,by beating Morrison's ...
Wales call up Australian to replace Gibbs
Feb 01, 2000; ... JASON Jones-Hughes, born in Sydney, will make his championshipdebut for Wales in their opening Six Nations match against France onSaturday. The Australian, 23, who qualifies because his father is Welsh,replaces the injured Scott Gibbs as one of two changes from the sidebeaten by ...
Ferguson rebukes his players for chasing referee
Feb 01, 2000; ... SIR Alex Ferguson has berated his Manchester United players forhounding referee Andy D'Urso off the pitch during Saturday'sPremiership match against Middlesbrough. D'Urso claimed that he feared for his safety after a posse ofUnited players, led by captain Roy Keane, squared up to ...
Wallace delights in Lisbon Lions and their tamer
Feb 01, 2000; ... WHEN Willie Wallace walks out at Parkhead before tonight's matchagainst Bayern Munich with the rest of Celtic's 1967 European Cup-winning side to celebrate the opening of the Lisbon Lions Stand,the former centre-forward will reflect on how it has taken him halfa lifetime to appreciate ...
SFA to charge Celtic chief
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE SFA will take the first steps towards prosecuting Celticchief executive Allan MacDonald on a disrepute charge a week fromtoday, when the general purposes committee considers the primafacie case against him. MacDonald seems certain to be called to account at a ...
Zerouali cleared for cup semi-final
Feb 01, 2000; ... HICHAM Zerouali will, after all, get the chance to help Aberdeentry to reach a first major final in five years. The club learned yesterday that Morocco's Olympic qualifyingmatches against Tunisia have been switched to dates later thismonth, meaning the talismanic striker, who was ...
Monty may star in Texas
Feb 01, 2000; ... COLIN Montgomerie is considering making an unexpected addition tohis schedule on the US PGA Tour by teeing up at the Shell HoustonOpen in April. Europe's leading golfer will make his first appearance of the2000 season at the Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship ...
Lehman ends his trophy drought
Feb 01, 2000; ... TOM Lehman put three barren years behind him when he came fromthree shots off the pace to win the Phoenix Open by one stroke inhis hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona. Lehman, winner of the 1996 Open, sank a seven-foot putt at thelast hole before watching Australian Robert Allenby, ...
Wonder Warner rams in record
Feb 01, 2000; ... AMERICAN football's greatest showpiece has rarely lived up to thehype - but Super Bowl XXXIV did. The St Louis Rams' 23-16 win overthe Tennessee Titans in Atlanta's Georgia Dome now rests firmly atthe top of the totem-pole of championship classics. A whirlwind second half ended ...
Friedrich Gulda
Feb 01, 2000; ... Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer Born: 16 May, 1930, in Vienna Died: 27 January, 2000, inWeissenbach, Austria, aged 69 FRIEDRICH Gulda earned a reputationas something of a rebel in the generally conformist world ofclassical music, but also gained respect for the clarity ...
Simple steps to a great makeover
Feb 01, 2000; ... Do your research First look for pictures of hairstyles you like. These do notnecessarily have to be from specialist hair magazines. Flickingthrough the pages of glossies and magazines such as Hello! can giveyou an idea of what you do and don't like. Simply narrowing downwhat you ...
Minister offers glimmer of hope after income gloom
Feb 01, 2000; ... AVERAGE net farm income in Scotland for the current financialyear is forecast at GBP 3,600 by Scottish executive economists, downmore than 20 per cent on the previous year. A separate set of figures from the 1999 calendar year indicates afurther GBP 67 million drop in Scottish ...
Total farm output for 1999 estimated at 1.9bn pounds
Feb 01, 2000; ... TOTAL output of Scottish farming for 1999 is provisionally put atGBP 1,917 million by Scottish executive economists. That includes more than GBP 450 million of subsidies. It is downGBP 67 million on 1998 and down GBP 222 million on 1997. Cereal output was GBP 476 million (GBP ...
Why laughter sans frontieres just goes on and on - and on
Feb 01, 2000; ... MENTION Montreal, Canada and the chances are you will conjure oneof the following responses: the 1976 Olympic Games, the place whereJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in bed recording Give Peace AChance, or a blank stare. Canadian cities are not known for theirability to set the maple ...
The e-commerce revolution that is leaving Scotland behind
Feb 01, 2000; ... ANY SCOTTISH politician or business leader attending the Davosworld economic summit would have learned the hard way that theScotch mist of false economic optimism with which we surroundourselves does not survive meeting Bill Gates and the leaders of theAmerican e-commerce revolution. The ...
Chip market growth brings Kymata jobs
Feb 01, 2000; ... KYMATA, the Livingston-based firm which manufactures opticalchips for telecoms networks, announced plans yesterday to create 150jobs during the coming year, increasing its workforce to 250. The company made the announcement as the MP for the area, RobinCook, officially opened its ...
L&B changes likely after US disposal
Feb 01, 2000; ... LOW & Bonar, the Dundee-based packaging-to-plastics mini-conglomerate, yesterday finally sold its North American operationsfor GBP 80 million to a US packaging business, two months later thanplanned. The deal means L&B has now cleared the decks ahead of an expectedroot-and-branch ...
McGregor chooses right role to cement his stardom in US
Feb 01, 2000; ... A FILM featuring Ewan McGregor as the stalker of a serial killerhas topped the box-office in the United States, despite a series ofdamning reviews. In Eye of the Beholder, the Scottish actor portrays The Eye, alonely British secret agent who becomes obsessed with the subject ...
Loraine Maclean of Dochgarroch
Feb 01, 2000; ... Loraine Maclean of Dochgarroch, editor and author Born: 1920, in London Died: 23 December, 1999, in Inverness, aged79 THE death of the inimitable Loraine Maclean of Dochgarroch hasrobbed the Highlands of one of its hardest working editors ofhistorical research whose catalytic ...
Look at the new me The big news is that bourgeois chic is in ... think Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour or Samantha in Bewitched. It's a look that doesn't usually come cheap, but fashion-savvy student Charlotte Williamson (left) decided on a DIY make-over, and went to style heaven
Feb 01, 2000; ... ACTUALLY it wasn't that tricky, and if I can do it, anyone canbecause the steps to so-called Bourgeois Chic were simple. Lastyear's bright colours - those limes and fuchsias -can be teamed withwardrobe staples such as a black pencil skirt and a pair of heels.Accessories should be sparkly ...
Yes, we do need a national theatre
Feb 01, 2000; ... ONE THING at least may be said for the Scottish parliament. Nowthat we have the thing, we no longer need to argue whether or not itshould be set up. If that argument has been resolved, the pros andcons concerning the creation of a Scottish National Theatre have notbeen. But according to ...
Pressure on Blair for policy to combat farming slump
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is expected to "come clean" onhis government's attitude to farming at the English NationalFarmers' Union annual conference later today. The union's president, Ben Gill, said this was the basis on whichhe had invited Mr Blair to address about 1,000 ...
Parkhead boss finds good intentions pave road to Hell
Feb 01, 2000; ... FIVE minutes in the company of Allan MacDonald would be enough toconvince anyone that Celtic's chief executive is a compulsivetalker, at the mercy of a natural garrulousness that would, bycomparison, make a barrow-boy appear mute. To one section of football's community - a hack ...
'High rollers' fund hybrid development
Feb 01, 2000 ... THE computer manufracturer, Compaq, has taken almost 200,000 sqft of hybrid space at Inchinnan, near Glasgow Airport, in one of themarket's more unusual deals. The building comprises 189,000 sq ft of space in all, 50,000 sqft of it offices and the remainder warehousing. Compaq has ...