The Scotsman back issues from April 2000:
New home wanted for rare Victorian ceiling
Apr 01, 2000; ... A RARE Victorian dining room ceiling which has been in storagefor more than a decade is to be given away because historians areworried it could crumble and vanish. The ornate 19th century dining room ceiling is valued at GBP12,000 and is one of only two surviving pieces by the ...
Growers hit out at snub on extra aid
Apr 01, 2000; ... ARABLE farmers in Scotland have reacted angrily to theirexclusion from the GBP 39 million extra aid announced by thegovernment this week. Douglas Morrison, the chairman of the National Farmers Union ofScotland's combinable crops committee, said yesterday: "We are ...
Pick a country, place your bets
Apr 01, 2000; ... SECURITY and growth are what the personal investor wants from hisportfolio: anything else is stuff and nonsense, really. While itshould be relatively easy to pick a company that offers security,targeting growth is a more complicated art form. Of course, the fund manager wants to ...
Seven years for 'horrific' attack
Apr 01, 2000 ... A MAN who burned and tortured his flatmate after he made gayadvances was detained for seven years yesterday. During a four-hour ordeal, Martin McGinley, 19, doused ThomasGillan, 44, with boiling water, wrapped him in burning bedding,beathim with a hammer, mole-grip pliers and a can ...
All together now: Guide us all, thou great Receiver Dancing in the streets Airdrie
Apr 01, 2000; ... IT IS not often you hear somebody give thanks for the existenceof Clydebank, but it is a measure, perhaps, of Airdrie FootballClub's plight that fans of the Lanarkshire club breathe a sigh ofrelief as another winless Saturday for the Bankies passes on by. Airdrie are currently ...
'Plain English' plays shock and delight Parisians
Apr 01, 2000; ... A SERIES of provocative and hard-hitting British plays has takenone of the world's most cultured cities, Paris, by storm. Hailed by Parisian critics as potent examples of "new Britishtheatre", and dubbed by Le Monde as a "rediscovery", the Londres surSeine festival, featuring six ...
Stories from the aftermath of empire in the Near East
Apr 01, 2000; ... Birds of Passage By Robert Sole Harvill, GBP 15.99 When I Lived in Modern Times By Linda Grant Granta, GBP 15.99 THESE novels are both set in the Near East. Robert Sole's coversa longer period, starting during the First World War, withflashbacks that take you deep into the 19th ...
Word of the Week
Apr 01, 2000; ... fool: person lacking in wisdom, judgment or sense; a weak mindedperson; a jester; a dupe or victim; to deceive; to cause to appearfoolish; to be exuberant, comical, high-spirited (from the OldFrench fol, French fou, from Latin follis meaning a windbag) - Chambers Many more ...
Driver tells court Noye 'just nodded after killing'
Apr 01, 2000; ... AFTER stabbing a man to death, Kenneth Noye turned to a Rolls-Royce driver and nodded as if to say: "That sorted him out", awitness told the M25 murder trial yesterday. Alan Decabral claimed he saw the sun glinting off a knife blademoments before Noye stabbed Stephen Cameron, 21, ...
Nurse who stole from patient fund struck off
Apr 01, 2000; ... A NURSE who stole money that had been donated to a hospital inmemory of a young patient who had died was struck off yesterday. David Mallinson, from Edinburgh, was found guilty of misconductafter admitting stealing GBP 4,000 which had been donated to thechildren's ward at Borders ...
444m pounds to mend decaying roads network
Apr 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND'S crumbling motorway and trunk road system is to have aGBP 444 million facelift over the next two years, the Scottishexecutive said yesterday. The executive said the 22 per cent increase in the roadmaintenance budget is designed to rectify years of under-investmentthat ...
Appeal after sex assault
Apr 01, 2000 ... POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a 30-year-old woman wasindecently assaulted in Edinburgh late on Thursday night. The woman was walking on Broomhouse Drive when she was grabbedfrom behind and dragged into a park where ...
Reckless disregard for the strength of pensioner power
Apr 01, 2000; ... FOR A party that prides itself on its youth and cleverness, newLabour can sometimes be remarkably obtuse. Busy fashioning itself asthe champion of "Young Britain", it managed to overlook the factthat the number of pensioners in this country is now fastoutstripping the number of ...
Unearthing the websites
Apr 01, 2000; ... My favourite sites this week are: www.beechgrove.com The programme is back on BBC2 next week, and this site tells youall about the design and setting up of the Brotherfield site inAberdeen as well as a virtual tour of all the gardens on the ...
Sheriff to rule on Forfar Orange walk
Apr 01, 2000; ... A SHERIFF will convene a special sitting of his court today todecide whether an Orange order march can go ahead for the first timein a Scots market town. Angus Council had banned the march through Forfar, which wasplanned for tomorrow by the locally-based Wishart Arch ...
Secret garden sojourn
Apr 01, 2000; ... WHEN we hear of hidden gardens, we tend to conjure up images ofsecret but perfect places; inspirational, well tended plots justwaiting to be discovered. Newhailes Estate in East Lothian is different. Hidden itcertainly is -acquired by the National Trust for Scotland in 1997and ...
Kuerten shuts out an injured Agassi
Apr 01, 2000; ... SIXTH-SEEDED Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil pressed his advantageagainst an injured Andre Agassi yesterday to claim a 6-1 6-4 victoryin the semi-finals of the $5.72 million Ericsson Open tennistournament in Key Biscayne, Florida. The top-seeded Agassi, who had beaten Kuerten on four of ...
Just days until deadline for ISAs
Apr 01, 2000 ... LAST-minute ISA investors have just a few days left if they wishto take advantage of the tax relief on GBP 7,000 for the current taxyear, which ends on 5 April - next Wednesday. The deadline for some ISAs closed earlier this week and anycheques received after 5 April will not be ...
Wise King a smart switch
Apr 01, 2000; ... IT'S supposed to be a woman's prerogative to change her mind butwhy should they have all the fun? In these days of sexual equality,racing tipsters should surely be allowed to indulge in a littlevacillation every now and then as well. Whether you share that opinion or not is really ...
Pearson pops up for DK
Apr 01, 2000; ... DORLING Kindersley, the troubled publisher laid low byoverstocking Star Wars books, was snapped up by the media giantPearson yesterday in a GBP 311 million deal. Peter Kindersley, hisfamily and trusts earned GBP 95 million from the sale. The 58-year-old, who set up the educational ...
Site-seeing
Apr 01, 2000; ... TRAVELLERS seeking a more independent style of holiday are oftenfrustrated by travel agents that deal exclusively in hotelaccommodation. If you don't know where to start looking for a villaor someone to do a short-term home-swap with, it will be worth yourwhile dipping into the ...
BLAND LEADER Saturday Profile Phil Collins
Apr 01, 2000 ... WHILE it would be untrue to suggest he has ever really been away,in recent months the public profile of Phil Collins, the world'sforemost singing drummer, has been higher than at any time since thelate 1980s. In the past week, Collins has made news both for filing a highcourt ...
Downpour fails to dampen Burns
Apr 01, 2000; ... ENGLISHMAN Richard Burns leads the way after a rain-drenchedopening leg of the Catalunya Rally at Lloret de Mar, Spain,yesterday. Oxford-based Burns finished eight seconds ahead of fierce rivalColin McRae of Scotland, a third of the way through the fifth roundof the FIA World ...
A true believer with a flair for the heretical
Apr 01, 2000; ... MICHAEL Arditti's new novel is certain to offend many Christians. A funny and touching epic novel, it focuses poignantly on adivided London congregation during the Easter services, parallelingthe core events of Christian belief in a contemporary and originalway. The work bursts with ...
Promise of crofting reform
Apr 01, 2000 ... AN attempt to reverse population drift away from remote ruralareas by developing new opportunities for people to become crofters,was announced yesterday by Ross Finnie, the rural affairs minister. Speaking at the Scottish Crofters Union Millennium conference atSabhal Mor Ostaig in ...
Art chief focuses on school for photography museum
Apr 01, 2000; ... ONE of the most potent symbols of Scottish nationalism, the oldRoyal High School in Edinburgh, could be transformed into a NationalMuseum of Photography, if daring plans come to fruition. The distinctive neo-classical building on Calton Hill, which wasplanned to house the Scottish ...
Oil sector pumps up the FTSE volume Market report
Apr 01, 2000; ... A RESURGENT oil sector pumped up the FTSE yesterday as continuingmarket nerves over the soaring valuations of new economy stocks ledto further sell-offs in software, telecoms and media companies. The positive flow that followed the output increase agreed byOPEC members this week ...
Former shooting star Thus descends towards harsh reality
Apr 01, 2000; ... THUS, spun-off from ScottishPower last year, became the latest ofthe telecoms-internet stocks to feel the draught of scepticismyesterday. Its shares plunged more than 16 per cent on an earnings downgradefrom the American investment bank, Goldman Sachs. It meant Thus hadthe ...
Feng shui for EFM
Apr 01, 2000 ... EDINBURGH Fund Managers is spicing up its personal financewebsite with a touch of feng shui. EFM has launched a new sub-siteto make its portal, which includes an ...
Grampian's policy of practical help pays off
Apr 01, 2000; ... THE decision by the marketing co-operative Grampian Pig Producersto concentrate on providing practical help to members paid off lastyear. Despite the financial crisis, few of the co-op's members werelost and pig sales dropped only 600 a week, to 9,700. Borrowing money to pay ...
The Key
Apr 01, 2000; ... 1 Why are we all getting in a flap about refugees Ah, Scotia's glorious history. William Wallace died a monstrousdeath in the name of liberty. Robert the Bruce took up arms againstthe superpower of his day to defend an oppressed minority. RobertBurns brings a tear to a sober eye ...
Dundee secure 500,000 pound trio
Apr 01, 2000; ... DUNDEE beat the Scottish transfer deadline by signing threeplayers for a total of GBP 500,000 in a day of wheeling and dealingyesterday which placed an even bigger doubt over the future of JockyScott at Dens Park . The manager, who is out of contract in the summer, was notpresent ...
In search of mountain spirit
Apr 01, 2000; ... 'DE MANGO, dem come to season in March," explains Moses, gazingwistfully at a 20-foot-high specimen barely visible amid the richconfusion of rainforest bordering the White River. "I plant her fiveyears ago and the time is coming." We stumble up an incline to theRasta homestead, perched ...
Prudent Advocaat keen to build for the long term
Apr 01, 2000; ... DICK Advocaat did not wear the look of a lottery winner yesterdayas he took stock of the financial shake-up which will put Rangersamong the elite of the continent's richest clubs. Instead, theRangers manager urged caution about the GBP 53million makeover tothe Ibrox scene and insisted ...
F&C lifts lid on trust briefings
Apr 01, 2000; ... FOREIGN & Colonial, the City fund manager which claims to haveinvented the first investment trust in 1868, is breaking more newground by lifting the lid on traditionally hush-hush analysts'results briefings. Designed to furnish stockbrokers and institutional investors withthe ...
Travel deals
Apr 01, 2000 ... Villas people SPEND 14 nights in the Algarve sun for GBP 354 with Thomson(08703 334400) departing Glasgow 20 April. The price is based onthree people sharing self-catering apartments and includes flights,transfers and taxes. Sovereign also has deals on villa holidays inPortugal ...
LOST SOULS
Apr 01, 2000; ... FOR Kenzi Ntundubale the warning signs came early last year.Suddenly members of the strange cult that had arrived two yearsbefore in the tiny village of Rushojwa began to die in unexplainedcircumstances. The deaths were particularly acute among children, but whenrelatives visited ...
Schoolboy found guilty of rape attack after disco
Apr 01, 2000; ... A SCHOOLBOY who taunted his young victim about taking hervirginity was found guilty of rape yesterday. The jury's verdict was greeted with uproar and shouts of "beast"from the family and friends of the girl who packed the publicgalleries at the High Court in Edinburgh. The ...
Don't believe the pipes
Apr 01, 2000; ... The Book of the Bagpipe By Hugh Cheape Appletree Press, GBP 6.99 The Scots Fiddle By J Murray Neil Neil Wilson Publishing, GBP 20Scottish Traditional Music for Guitar By Rob MacKillop Hardie Press,GBP 8.95 BAGPIPES probably attract more hackneyed cliches and ...
Postcard from a faraway holiday Hill informed
Apr 01, 2000; ... COINCIDENTALLY, in the week when Outdoors profiles a Munroist whocompleted her round in 1962, three more hillgoers from that rapidlyreceding era have also come to mind. While the initial handful ofMunroists has been the focus of research over the years, informationis sparse on the ...
Schumacher warns on flying cars
Apr 01, 2000; ... MICHAEL Schumacher fears fans could be killed by a Formula Onecar flying into the crowd. The double world champion wants the FIA, the sport's governingbody, to act. "If you touch, you get tyre contact with another car," saidSchumacher, who leads this year's world championship ...
UK summit on NHS reform plan
Apr 01, 2000; ... TONY BLAIR, the Prime Minister, Donald Dewar, the First Minister,and John Reid, the Scottish Secretary, will travel to Cardiff nextweek to attend the first UK ministers' health summit. They will be joined by Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, RhodriMorgan, the Welsh First ...
Osborne extortion case man is jailed
Apr 01, 2000; ... A FORMER detective sergeant was yesterday jailed for 18 months atthe Old Bailey for trying to extort money from former jockey JamieOsborne. Judge David Paget told Robert Harrington, 58, his actionswere "a very serious perversion of all you stood for all your life". But he said ...
Faldo the fallen giant bids to walk tall
Apr 01, 2000; ... UNLESS your name happens to be Tiger Woods, golf is an ephemeralsport where form comes and goes as mysteriously as the gusts of windwhich swirled around the TPC at Sugarloaf yesterday. On a mild, breezy day, the largest gallery of the second roundthronged not behind the leaders of ...
Flexible way to save and prosper
Apr 01, 2000; ... NO longer does the mortgage provider call the tune. Today, thepiper is the property consumer. The rigid days of penalising thosewho underpay for a month, or not credit those who more generouslyfund their loan, could soon be over. With modern lifestyles, consumers like the idea of ...
Nicol has the final say again
Apr 01, 2000 ... PETER Nicol confirmed his position at the top of the world squashrankings with a second victory in consecutive meetings over JonathonPower of Canada in Hurghada last night. Nicol won 15-13, 15-7, 15-6 in the final of Egypt's Al Ahram PSAMasters in just under an hour - but admitted ...
Nothing but the sleuth
Apr 01, 2000; ... SUBURBIA, especially in the early hours of the afternoon when itis at its most deserted, is an unsettling, spooky kind of place. Sonear yet so far from the clamorous city's cry, the quiet seemsfalse, even forced, as if demanded by the director of a murdermystery. Such noise as there is - ...
Young Scots get chance to shine
Apr 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND set forth for their two-week tour of Zimbabwe today withJim Love calling on the youngsters to prove they are good enough tofill the boots of the men they have replaced. The director of cricket sees the trip which consists of fivegames in the Emerging Nations tournament "as ...
Carter the new dream heir to Jordan sneakers
Apr 01, 2000; ... IMAGINE that Scotland had one truly outstanding footballer - ayoung player who had been anointed the "saviour of the nationalgame" -and then imagine that Craig Brown decided he wasn't going topick this player for the World Cup Finals. Imagine the headlines,imagine the outrage on the ...
Begbie quits Penta Capital rebels in 'amicable' parting
Apr 01, 2000; ... ROD Begbie has quit the Glasgow-based corporate finance business,Penta Capital, which he founded with four other former executivesfrom Royal Bank Development Capital. The move came as it emerged that David Giffin, the newlyinstalled director of RBDC, has managed to fill the posts ...
Video
Apr 01, 2000; ... Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (GBP 13.99) The biggest problem with this lumbering piece of marketing,merchandising and computer wizardry is the dull aptness of thetitle. If only the villain was more palpable. With Darth Vader youknow where you stand. Menace is there, big, ...
A shrub for all seasons
Apr 01, 2000 ... Camellia Williamsii A super all-round evergreen shrub with flowers from white throughthe pinks to deep carmine from December to May. The Williamsiivarieties like *Donation* (semi-double pink) and JC Williams (singlepale pink) are hardier, taller and more free-flowering than ...
Dalglish reluctant to take the reins
Apr 01, 2000; ... KENNY Dalglish strengthened the suspicion yesterday that he willnot be the next manager of Celtic when he failed to endorse his owncandidature and admitted that the search for a new man has scarcelycleared the first hurdle. The club's director of football hinted that last ...
Last post for four centuries of army tradition
Apr 01, 2000; ... ONE hundred and seventeen men have held the post over almost fourcenturies. However, when the current General Officer CommandingScotland hangs up his uniform for the last time, the historic titlewill also be retired from service. Major General Mark Strudwick, who as well as being ...
New this week
Apr 01, 2000; ... Any Given Sunday Director: Oliver Stone Stars: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, James Woods, Jamie Foxx (15) Not so deep beneath the surface of this bruising expose of thecommercialism and greed in American football is a corn-filled yarnabout an old coach, an under-performing ...
INSIDE OUT
Apr 01, 2000; ... When she was a teenager, Maggie O'Farrell's room was black andwhite. On the walls she had posters of the Cure and Albert Camus.There were political things too -anti-apartheid, free NelsonMandela, feminism. "And, oh," she exclaims in a voice of purehorror, "I had a really awful a this was ...
Open Gardens
Apr 01, 2000 ... Branklyn Garden AN impressive garden, especially so in Spring, when the two acresreally come alive with their specialities -rhododendrons, springbulbs, alpines, Meconopsis and rock gardens. Started in 1922 byDorothy and John Renton, the garden now belongs to the NationalTrust for ...
Brown's calling the shots
Apr 01, 2000; ... WHEN the BBC's coverage of the Masters gets under way nextThursday don't expect Ken Brown to take half as long to deliver atelling comment as he once needed to hole a putt. One of golf'sslowest players has sprouted wings and evolved into a quick-wittedTV pundit. After learning ...
Chateau D'Espere
Apr 01, 2000; ... AH, my grief. When I type that, I refer to the sad, long saga oftrying to find the dream master-craftsman to help us restore ChateauD'Espre to its former glory (cue wild gnashing of teeth, sobs,wailing, wolf-like cries to the moon). When Nigella Lawson types aversion of it in her ...
'Honey trap' robbers jailed
Apr 01, 2000 ... ROBBERS who attacked their victims with knives after luring theminto a "honey trap" with the promise of sex were jailed yesterday. Three men were attacked after being enticed to quiet spots aroundAberdeen Harbour, and a prostitute was also robbed after she wentbehind a building ...
Executive boost to open doors for new crofters
Apr 01, 2000; ... ROSS Finnie, the rural affairs minister, said yesterday that theScottish executive is to develop opportunities for new crofters. He told the Scottish Crofters' Union conference on Skye that themeasures would give people the chance to become crofters as part ofa plan to reverse ...
Flowers that died in the spring
Apr 01, 2000; ... Ariel's Gift By Erica Wagner Faber, GBP 14.99 THE picture is almost intolerably moving. The poem - not a greatpoem, none of those snarling, blood-boltered Ted Hughes specialeffects - is almost impossible to read without sadness doingdreadful things to the soul. Hughes had already ...
Brain science fiction set to become a physical reality
Apr 01, 2000; ... UNLOCKING the brain's secrets in order to grow a living computerout of brain cells is moving from the realms of science fiction to21st century reality. Scientists have been able to grow nerve cells in labs fordecades. But what they did not know was how these neurones - ...
Strength still in the unity of we ancient Brits
Apr 01, 2000; ... WHEN you look at me you see part of our old empire writ small. Standing as a one-man British square, defiant to the four, doubtlesshostile, corners of the earth, heart of oak, head of teak, bodyroughly shaped by patriotic nature and prudent husbandry to thegeneral contours of a ...
The sunshine boys
Apr 01, 2000; ... Summertime and the living is easy. Well, OK, so spring has barelymade an effort to bud, but the rocking breeziness of Toploader isjust the trick for imagining the delights of open-air gigs and hazydays drinking lager in the sunshine. It might be something to do with the jolly ...