The Scotsman back issues from July 2000:
Burns caught in Groundhog daze
Jul 01, 2000; ... IT'S a good time to be a Celtic fan. In fact, it's the best timeto be a Celtic fan. The season has not started, not a ball has beenkicked. A new manager has been appointed and everything seemspossible. Again. Consider this. On Thursday, the philosopher and former Celticmidfielder ...
Crown in the thorns
Jul 01, 2000; ... 'By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen." If anyone has theright to use these words on their letterhead, it is Hardy Amies, whohas been dressing the Queen for 42 years . Amies, couturier to the upper classes, has always ignored thenoisy clamouring of the media, and puts the ...
Rosyth will shed 390 jobs now submarine is refitted
Jul 01, 2000; ... NEARLY 400 dockyard workers are to be made redundant in arestructuring of the former naval dockyards at Rosyth. A spokesman for Babcock Engineering yesterday confirmed that 390employees would be losing their jobs in Fife. He said the job cuts were due to increased ...
Disturbed mind of a suburban fascist
Jul 01, 2000; ... DAVID Copeland, a loner whose only friend was a rat, dreamed offame, power and the establishment of a master race - as had hishero, Adolf Hitler. Copeland believed he could ignite a race war in Britain bybombing racial minorities and that an Aryan national socialist statewould ...
Two -week trail of destruction
Jul 01, 2000 ... FEW at Brixton Market would have noticed the nondescript youngman wandering among the bustling Saturday crowd. For about an hour David Copeland walked the streets and mingledinconspicuously in one of Britain's most high-profile multi-cultural areas. A handful of witnesses ...
Books in brief
Jul 01, 2000; ... The Western Island, by Robin Flower (OUP, pounds 5.99) Hectare for hectare, Great Blasket must be by some distance theworld's most written-about island. Oddly enough, Oxford have formany years now been the Blaskets R Us of British publishing,bringing out books full of storm-tossed ...
Seeking Private Bryan
Jul 01, 2000; ... I knew he would be difficult, difficult for all sorts of reasons.Difficult because I liked him, difficult because he sang the lullabyto my teenage hormones so hypnotically and difficult because he canstill warble straight into my heart. He also has a reputation for being moody and ...
Call it chemistry Kate Moss, Johnny Depp and Jesse James Woods
Jul 01, 2000; ... KATE loved Johnny. Johnny loved Kate. Tumultuously, dramatically,destructively, for four years. They were on, they were off, theywere jealous, they wrecked hotel rooms, threw things out of windows.In one of the off periods, Johnny Depp met French actress VanessaParadis and knocked her ...
School with only one pupil closes its gates for good
Jul 01, 2000; ... IT IS not often that children cry when school breaks up for thesummer holidays but, equally, it is not often that the school willremain closed after the summer because all its pupils have left. That, however, was the situation yesterday when the end of termarrived at a school in ...
Connoisseur No.5 Chillies
Jul 01, 2000; ... It's summer and that means barbecues. Mild-mannered saladmunchers become slavering carnivores and family members who haveshown no inclination to cook for the other 364 days of the yearsuddenly take a caveman's interest in catering over hot charcoal. Inthis fired-up atmosphere even the ...
Politicians need industry's help to end arms-for-jewellery trade
Jul 01, 2000; ... The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, believes governments and thediamond business must join forces to prevent a 'deadly link' THE immediate crisis in Sierra Leone is over. Our timelydeployment of troops to support the democratically electedgovernment helped. We succeeded in our ...
'Doing what I did was my destiny'
Jul 01, 2000 ... MANY court hours were spent using the expertise of severalpsychiatrists to try to unravel what moulded Copeland from atroublesome but unremarkable adolescent into an insular killer He had achieved one of his goals - notoriety. He was theundisputed centre of attention in Britain's ...
Country Diary
Jul 01, 2000; ... Swimming and diving in and out of the tall reeds that stretchedout from the shoreline as though it was playing, the otter wasunaware of my presence as I watched it through binoculars near theedge of the loch. With its long, slender body, short legs and a longtail, which was surprisingly ...
Hungry for love Dinner with Raymond Blanc
Jul 01, 2000 ... " I was not going to celebrate my birthday at all last year,"groans Raymond Blanc in an accent that would not sound out of placeon Allo Allo. "I was very unhappy. I was 50 years old and I expectedto be married with children by now. But I am all alone." Luckily Blanc's friends got ...
At Drumcree the war never ends
Jul 01, 2000; ... THE politicians and gunmen made peace on paper and pledged toforget three decades they cannot bear to remember, but, tomorrow thewounds will be re-opened with razor wire, separating two sides in aconflict that cannot end. History forbids it. Wire will be strung across a ...
Leisure boost for capital
Jul 01, 2000 ... THE opening of the Southside centre, scheduled for 2001 or 2002,will be the latest boost to leisure and sport facilities in thecapital. Last year, a pounds 3.7 million council leisure centre atDrumbrae with a games hall and 25-metre ...
Pensioners celebrate after 23-year fight for facilities
Jul 01, 2000; ... THE announcement of pounds 500,000 of lottery money was apersonal triumph for two pensioners who have been at the forefrontof the campaign to build a sports centre in Edinburgh's Southsidesince 1977. Mary Whitfield, 80, and Maggie Wilson, 65, have lived in the areafor most of ...
Deprived area gets sporting chance
Jul 01, 2000; ... A 23-YEAR campaign to build a sports centre for the people ofEdinburgh's Southside and Old Town looks set to succeed with theannouncement of pounds 500,000 of National Lottery money. Householders who have fought for almost a generation to build acentre in their area reacted with ...
The exile files (far away but not forgotten)
Jul 01, 2000 ... Name Kirsty Hume. Born 4 September 1976, in Ayr. Adopted home New York City. Years away Six. She went to NY in 1994. Reasons for leaving Chance. She hadn't planned to be a model butfound herself in Miami (as you do) at a shoot. She says she only didit so she ...
My favourite place Rory MacLean
Jul 01, 2000 ... Where is your spiritual home? It has to be a place called Weeki Wachee Springs, on the westcoast of Florida, just above Tampa. I have a soft spot for mermaidsand Weeki Wachee Springs is a place where you can meet a real,American mermaid. I've been in love with mermaids for a very ...
Jane SmernickiGame fair will be focus of hunt ban protests
Jul 01, 2000 ... THIS year's Scottish Game Fair has become a rallying point foropposition to proposed legislation to ban hunting with dogs. Yesterday, during preparations for this weekend's event, FergusMcGregor of the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, said: "There willbe a real threat to the ...
Hope springs eternal
Jul 01, 2000; ... THE Atlantic gale rages in with a malevolence that is trulymagnificent, scorching trees with sea-salt and battering the soilinto submission. Not the best of days in Ross-shire. However, the lettuce, the epitome of luxury, is doing verynicely, thank you. It is growing in a fish ...
Weekend gardener
Jul 01, 2000; ... FOR years grasses have hovered on the fringes of horticulture.Now they are the 'in' thing. The range of grasses is huge, fromsmall carex in shades of green, brown and gold to the tall, elegantbamboos with bright yellow or black stems. I particularly enjoy using grasses because of ...
Eating Out
Jul 01, 2000; ... Gulnar's Passage to India 46 Queen Charlotte Street, Leith, (0131 554 7520) Khushi 32b Broughton Street, Edinburgh, (0131 556 8092) It HAPPENS to every Glaswegian. Maybe it's something in thewater; more likely it's due to other liquids entirely, ...
Global hypermarket
Jul 01, 2000 ... INTERNET Don't just stand there ...let's get to it. Vogue claims to be the most popular fashionsite in the world. There are precious few goods on sale to detainthe serious shopaholic but it is good on gossip and fashion. You canchat to someone who claims to be Tara P-T in ...
Walton takes stand in last-chance saloon
Jul 01, 2000; ... PHILIP Walton, Europe's Ryder Cup hero five years ago, whosecareer appeared to be in ruins after he lost his Tour card lastseason, gave himself the chance to rise from the ashes by shooting asecond successive 67 in the Murphy's Irish Open at Ballybunionyesterday. If tomorrow he ...
Life story
Jul 01, 2000; ... Karl Marx said that "thoughts that come on tiptoe change theworld". As he scribbled away in the British Museum he was probablythinking that his words would one day convulse human history. Manyrevolutions have come like that, on tiptoe, taking us by surprise.But that is not how the latest ...
Home improvements
Jul 01, 2000 ... CHILLING IN THE HOUSE As summer hits it's time to think pretty,not a word you'll see here very often, but hey, go with the flow.The Relaxed Home by Altanta Bartlett showcases pared-back interiorswith delicate hues, smatterings of florals and second hand pieceswhich, after so much ...
Will biggest wheels in north east drive the government into action?
Jul 01, 2000; ... EVERY time Nissan coughs, it seems that the government catches aeuro-cold. A month or so ago, Nissan said that costs would have tobe cut by 30 per cent at its Sunderland plant if it was to stay inthe car-making business. Despite the fact that it is the company'smost productive plant , ...
The Jury's out
Jul 01, 2000 ... BRITISH MEN SHOULD NEVER TAKE THEIR SHIRTS OFF IN PUBLIC YES THEY SHOULD Pies, pints and Match of the Day are out, sweetie. Caesar salads,Chardonnay and regular trips to the gym are in. If you want you canstop reading now and just look at Lee from Steps, (right) Ahhh. Nowthat ...
Younger readers start here
Jul 01, 2000; ... My Shimmery Glimmery Book illustrated by Salina Yoon (Orchard,pounds 4.99) A fresh look at early learning, this large format board-bookintroduces colours, shapes, counting, opposites and - perhaps mostusefully - getting dressed. With its kaleidoscopic inlays and exoticcolours, it ...
Jenice says it with flowers once more
Jul 01, 2000; ... AS A LITTLE girl of eight Jenice Plenderleith presented a posymade by her grandmother to the queen, and yesterday, after growingup to be a florist, she had the honour for a second time. Mrs Plenderleith, 55, remembers vividly how her grandmother'shands were shaking as she made up ...
Late deals
Jul 01, 2000 ... New York, New York Two-night business class breaks to New York from Manchester areavailable from Major Travel for just pounds 1,319 per person, validfor travel from 15 July until 31 August. The offer includes returnflights with Delta Airlines from Manchester to New York, and ...
It may be a brave new world, but what about the basics?
Jul 01, 2000; ... BOTH stories are about bodies and their workings andtransmutations. Both are about speed, and money. Both are aboutscience, and social priorities. Taken together, they map the pathfrom glorious rhapsody to grimmer reality. At the start of the week, we learned that the human genome ...
Design for life?
Jul 01, 2000; ... We must all cry out and give thanks for the human genome project.We must all gladly accept that, whatever the ethical implications alittle further down the moral road, the sequencing of the humangenetic code is a watershed of such epic proportions that it morethan merits the scientific ...
Long live the wind
Jul 01, 2000; ... WHEN I was two, and my sisters eight and ten respectively, myfather, Eric Linklater, sat down to write a children's book. He hadbeen out with the girls for a walk, had been caught in the rain, andto keep them quiet had begun telling them a story about twoextremely naughty girls who fall ...
Who's making waves
Jul 01, 2000; ... IT'S A quiet weekday evening at Balmaha, where the lushly woodedslopes of Conic Hill tumble down to Loch Lomond. At the jetties offMacFarlane's Boatyard, halyards are chiming against masts as boatsbob in the breeze. In the distance, there is the growl and slap of asolitary jet ski - for ...
Floating statistics
Jul 01, 2000 ... All boats with engines using Loch Lomond are required to registerwith the Loch Lomond and Trossachs Interim Committee. Overall, boatregistration figures for 1999 were 8.7 per cent up on the previousyear, but the rise in personal watercraft (jet skis and jet bikes)was up 24.9 per cent, ...
Widow tells of husband's fight to beat care queue
Jul 01, 2000; ... SINCE Jim Elliot died from lung cancer, his widow Barbara hastried not to consider that her husband might still be alive if hehad been treated sooner. For nine weeks he waited for radiotherapy but, in a cruel twistof fate on the first day of his treatment, a mild heart attack ...
Nice work
Jul 01, 2000; ... IT'S not what you'd expect to find at the world's biggestcorporation. Lunchtime at Microsoft's UK head office and the staffrestaurant is packed with kids visiting their parents during half-term break. Down the hallway, among the fish tanks and pastel sofasof the 'anarchy area', a group ...
NO RELATION Damon Hill AND BENNY HILL
Jul 01, 2000; ... Picture, if you will, Damon Hill, replete with cloth cap, beingchased through a small village by a bevy of bikini-clad beauties.Hold that image. Now summon up the scene of Benny, racing helmet under one arm,dressed in leathers beside a sleek, lean machine. Now be honest, itjust ...
Open gardens
Jul 01, 2000; ... Chapel-On-Leader, Earlston Taking its inspiration from Sissinghurst and Jekyll, this largecountry garden is lovely at this time of year. Featuring a whitegarden modelled on the one at Sissinghurst, a rose avenue, an azaleaborder, a paved swimming pool area and a recently restored ...
JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY
Jul 01, 2000; ... England, the Scots have always insisted, is far too important tobe invented by the English. So Scots writers, from the first, haveset about inventing it themselves, with a mix of observation andimagination. First it was John Mair and David Hume with their histories; thenit was ...
Open water sailing
Jul 01, 2000 ... The Elie and Earlsferry Sailing Club is holding the Craw's NestTrophy, a nine-mile open sea race, today. For further information,contact Jethro Jeffery on 01333-330 675. The Peterhead Sailing Club is holding a two-day limited event forCats travellers today. For further information, ...
Green peace Emma Kennedy
Jul 01, 2000; ... I've done my time, served my sentence. Never again!" says EmmaKennedy, whose game show is billed as a cross between Shallow Graveand Friends. The TV presenter has had her share of hellishflatmates. Her experience at university would have put most peopleoff sharing forever. "Every ...
Why late nights out in Glasgow beat drinking in exclusive London bars Sarah Smith's DIARY
Jul 01, 2000; ... What does a girl have to do to get a drink around here? I wasleft pondering this immortal question as I headed to Camp Van Zeistin Holland to cover the Lockerbie trial. I was mildly concerned thatthe Dutch authorities were preventing England fans at Euro 2000 from drinking ...
A work of shear genius
Jul 01, 2000; ... From the shores of Loch Earn to the rolling farmland of NewZealand, Colin MacGregor has spent the last 28 years shearing sheep.This weekend, with more than half-a-million fleeces behind him,MacGregor will be putting down the shears and taking up his role aschairman of the Lochearnhead ...
SKIN DEEP
Jul 01, 2000; ... You kind of know what to expect from an appointment at thehairdressers, right? Wrong. At Charlie Miller's in Edinburgh theycan also throw in a head massage, light extravaganza and hairnourishment with their Kerastase Ritual - this is not just for thehair, it's for the mind too. And I ...
Deacon under attack over Tayside health
Jul 01, 2000; ... THE HEALTH minister Susan Deacon was last night the target of afierce opposition attack after a damning report on the healthservice in Tayside. Investigators found a lack of effective financial control in theregion, an absence of obvious leadership, poor communication, and alack ...
Table Talk
Jul 01, 2000 ... PESTO AND MORTAR It's one of summer's top gourmet moments: making your own pestosauce with homegrown basil. So what if you only decanted it from thesupermarket grow-bag into your best terracotta pot? To really actthe Genovese part, it has to be a pestle and mortar. Pounding ...
Caddick lays low Windies
Jul 01, 2000; ... A DRAMATIC spell of bowling from Andrew Caddick sent the WestIndies crashing to 54 all out, the third lowest score in theirhistory and left the second Test at Lord's wide open. Caddick powered through the tourists batting as he bowledunchanged from the Nursery End and finished with ...
Young lives in the shadow of evil
Jul 01, 2000; ... The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo (Puffin, pounds 4.99) THIS superb political adventure, set in Nigeria in the period ofdictatorship following the hanging of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, canbe recommended for anyone aged 11 and over, but it is teenagers whowill respond most ...
Test department
Jul 01, 2000; ... Peaches & Banana Smoothie, Pete & Johnny pounds 1.29/330ml Appearance The original smoothie. Lives up to the "ain't lifegreat? let's bottle it and take it home ..." blurb on the label. Taste Lovely consistency and rich colour. Peaches were slightlymasked by the more powerful ...
The whole Hogg
Jul 01, 2000; ... What colour are my knickers?" screams the pixie-faced peroxideblonde with the black-ringed eyes. Back comes the reply. There's aburst of laughter and a round of high fives. It's Groucho St Judes, Glasgow, and Pam Hogg is enjoying a warmwelcome home. It's been eight years since ...
A riviera runs through it
Jul 01, 2000; ... 'The legendary phrase "see Naples and die" has taken on newmeaning' 'The most picturesque place in the most perfect country everinvented" - that was Francis Nevile Reid's opinion of Ravello. Sothe Scottish philanthropist bought a palazzo, which his wife, SofiaCarmichael, modestly ...
The virulent hatred that knew no pity
Jul 01, 2000; ... JULIAN Dykes should today be the proud father of Jordan, a nine-month-old baby boy made all the more precious by his parents'patient wait for the conception of their first child. But there are no gurgles of delight to welcome his return fromwork, only the silence which fills the ...
Backpacker killed by masonry fall planned to travel through Europe
Jul 01, 2000; ... SHE had only planned to stay in Edinburgh for five months so shecould see the city's festival and build up her savings to fund moretravelling. After leaving home in March and hitchhiking around NorthernIreland for a month, Australian backpacker Christine Foster, 26,made her way ...
Wardrobe of the week India Miller
Jul 01, 2000; ... India, 33, is artistic director at Charlie Miller's hair salon inEdinburgh. Her work involves organising training programmes, hairshows and photographic work for the salons. Where do you keep your clothes? I have a dressing room. It's not bulging with clothes, but what ...
The juice of Zeus
Jul 01, 2000; ... WINEMAKERs flocked from far and wide to the Oenorama Wine Fair inAthens this spring, all hoping to catch the attention of one man.For wannabe Greek wine exporters, Steve Daniels holds the goldenchalice that can launch their wine onto the international stage. As chief buyer at ...
How a glass of red wine packs a punch on cancer
Jul 01, 2000; ... DOCTORS have long marvelled at the apparent paradox that allowsthe French to indulge their love of rich food without suffering thehigh rates of heart disease and cancer which plague theirindustrialised neighbours. With typical Gallic aplomb, the French have made an art ofshowing ...
Off the wall
Jul 01, 2000; ... When work and all of your day-to-day chores begin to take theirtoll, do you ever feel as though you're ready to start climbing thewalls? Well, now you can do it for real, thanks to a fitness crazesweeping America and making its way over to Scotland - indoor rockclimbing. While ...
Short and sweet
Jul 01, 2000; ... When Lonely Planet published Across Asia on the Cheap back in1973, the short-break traveller didn't feature too highly in theirreader profile. Travel guides were for the backpacker generation,aimed at those who were crossing continents with time to kill. But things are changing. As ...
Converts on the road to Damascus
Jul 01, 2000; ... In the Umayad mosque, the limestone minarets are built up overthe old Roman citadel, shadowing the mosaics of the Byzantine churchwhose walls were worked into the mosque. They have survived theconquests of competing caliphates, Mongol hordes, French and Britisharmies. Hidden from the ...
Cool days, hot nights
Jul 01, 2000; ... Reykjavik has been a cold place for a long time, but it is onlyrecently that it has become cool. Since Bjrk's appearance on theworld stage suggested Iceland might have more to offer than fish andhot springs, celebrities such as Jamie Theakston and Damon Albarnhave become ambassadors for ...
Out and about this weekend
Jul 01, 2000 ... Show time The Doune and Dunblane Show, one of the largest one-dayagricultural shows in central Scotland, is where rural dwellersescaping the farming crisis will be today. But there's plenty tointerest townies, too. Events in the morning include show classesfor cattle, horses and ...