The Scotsman back issues from August 2000:
Show offs
Aug 01, 2000; ... What is the Edinburgh Festival? Is it just that slim programme ofmusic, dance and drama staged between the second Sunday in Augustand the first Saturday in September, the official InternationalFestival in fact? Strictly, it is. But for most people, all the same, "theFestival" is ...
STILL NO LIFE, LIZ?
Aug 01, 2000; ... Elizabeth Blackadder's work draws you into a seductive, tastefulworld. She paints flowers and cats, Venetian architecture, andexquisite trinkets from exotic places. Nothing is unpleasant,disturbing or ambiguous. Her most characteristic works are asprecise as a Japanese tea ceremony. It ...
Spammers in the works
Aug 01, 2000; ... Anyone with access to e-mail will be used to receiving jokes andmpeg files with amusing little clips and chain e-mails sent bymischievous colleagues. But recently, a new phenomenon has beentaking over inboxes. Advertising companies, becoming increasinglycanny in their tactics, have ...
JAZZ Kenny Werner
Aug 01, 2000; ... La Belle Angle, Edinburgh KENNY Werner, the American jazz pianist, has become something ofa guru since the publication of his book, Effortless Mastery. Werner, who made his Scottish debut at the Edinburgh JazzFestival, believes passionately that musicians must play from ...
Art Review
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Homecoming: Kirkcudbright - 100 Years of an Artists' Colony Town Hall, Kirkcudbright KIRKCUDBRIGHT is a pretty town in a lovely part of Scotland. Inthe late 19th century it became a kind of outstation for the GlasgowBoys. One of them, Hornel, came from the town and returned ...
City analyst 'forced to quit' 125,000 pound job in equal pay row
Aug 01, 2000; ... A FEMALE market analyst has told a tribunal that she was forcedto leave her pounds 125,000 a year job at a leading investment bankbecause her bosses refused to pay her as much as her male peers. Julie Bower, 35, said she managed to meet her targets at SchroderSecurities, based in ...
Double vision
Aug 01, 2000; ... IT REMINDS Hayley of the land of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie andthe Chocolate Factory. It reminds me of the Woody Allen film where,dressed in a white body stocking, he plays a neurotic sperm about tobe ejected into the great unknown. Hayley, 13, is with me to see an exhibition by ...
Heads on the block
Aug 01, 2000; ... MARY Queen of Scots was beautiful, wilful and amorous. Caught ina political struggle between Scotland, France and England, betweenCatholic and Protestant, she was sent to an awful, public death by aheartless cousin, also a woman. Small wonder that Mary, one of thegreat romantic victims ...
Culture clash Shirin Neshat
Aug 01, 2000; ... SHIRIN NESHAT's life has been marked by cultural confusion. In1974, aged 17, the artist left her native Iran to study in America.On her first return visit, in 1990, she found a country greatlychanged from the one she remembered. Neshat had left a highlyWesternised homeland ruled by a ...
Jazz On A Summer's Evening
Aug 01, 2000; ... JAZZ Ross Bandstand, Edinburgh CONTRATHEMATIC polyphony, that's what I came for. Who couldforget how Charlie Mingus rewrote the rules of jazz in the 1960s,setting half his band simultaneously against the other on completelydifferent songs? And with Elton John playing on ...
Tourists show signs of going cool on historic hot properties
Aug 01, 2000; ... HISTORIC attractions including the Tower of London, WindsorCastle and Buckingham Palace all suffered a dip in visitor numberslast year, according to the English Tourism Council. Visits to properties in England fell by 0.6 per cent to around 69million last year compared with 1998 ....
You done good, Vinnie
Aug 01, 2000; ... Vinnie Jones's metamorphosis from football thug into film star isart imitating life. The craziest of Wimbledon FC's Crazy Gang - hewould regularly leave opposing players writhing in agony - is beingreincarnated by a Hollywood largely ignorant of the violence whichcharacterised both his ...
Every picture tells a story
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE Blairs are not a picture of happiness at the moment. Arguablythe most photographed couple in Britain, they have complained aboutthe use of snaps of their baby Leo taken at his christening lastweekend. Even Chris Smith, a trusted member of the cabinet, conceded thatthe photos ...
Floating debris the first clue in search for missing yacht
Aug 01, 2000; ... COASTGUARDS searching for a missing yacht with three CambridgeUniversity students on board, last night revealed floating debrishad been seen on the same route as the lost vessel. A passing motor cruiser reported seeing cushions of the same typeand colour as those on the Tuila, ...
Warning shot fired across Carlton's bows
Aug 01, 2000; ... ANY takeover bid for Scottish Television and Grampian Televisionwill face close political scrutiny from the Scottish parliament,politicians pledged yesterday. Mike Russell, the broadcasting spokesman for the ScottishNational Party, said members of the parliament's cross-party ...
British Airways faces pressure to ground Concordes
Aug 01, 2000; ... FRENCH and British aviation experts were last night locked intalks over the future of Concorde safety regulations in the wake ofthe Paris crash which killed 113. The meeting, which was held in Paris, came after a series ofsafety scares hit the supersonic aircraft over the ...
Totally gross
Aug 01, 2000; ... Orson Welles liked the finer things in life, such as Pour UnHomme aftershave. He wasn't big on the smell of faeces, and when heventured into the sewers beneath Vienna to film The Third Man, hedemanded the walls be sprayed with cologne, ordered a stand-in toplumb the murky depths on his ...
Road bridge to be placed on heritage list
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE FORTH Road Bridge is to be designated a structure of nationalimportance and given a Category A listing under plans beingconsidered by Historic Scotland. Heritage chiefs want to add the 1964 bridge to more than 40,000listed buildings across the country, including the ...
Snarl please
Aug 01, 2000; ... EDINBURGH'S Lord Provost, Eric Milligan, was invited to turnhimself into a snarling Maori as he joined New Zealand's NgatiRangiwewehi for a performance of the haka at the City Chambers. Mr Milligan, chairman of the board of the Edinburgh MilitaryTattoo, joined in the stirring ...
FAQ The Brigade Of Guards Unbearable
Aug 01, 2000; ... So, it looks like those bleating PC do-gooders are set to hammeryet another nail into the coffin of great British tradition. What now? Have Euro watchdogs deemed our custard too lumpy? Havehumbugs been judged to be too sugary by the British DentalAssociation? Is the Queen Mother to ...
Review
Aug 01, 2000; ... Silent Bomber Publisher/producer:Virgin/Studio Format/RRP: PlayStation/pounds 29.99 Virgin were smart enough to realise that Studio 3 would be asound investment and quickly snapped up the rights to some hottitles. Following the success of Guilty Gear earlier this year ...
Gay group sex set to be made legal after court ruling
Aug 01, 2000; ... HOMOSEXUAL group sex among consenting adults is set to becomelegal in Scotland following a European court ruling yesterday. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that legislationoutlawing men from taking part in gay orgies is a breach of humanrights. The move paves the way for a ...
It's a slug's life in the techno world
Aug 01, 2000; ... CURSES! Foiled again. Once more my plans for wealth beyond thedreams of avarice have been crushed by meddling fools. This time it was the turn of a naturalist from Sydney to thwartmy escape from the dismal lab where I am currently wasting my life.If it had not been for Martyn ...
Gin is icing on the Queen Mum's cake
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE Queen Mother's favourite tipple will be the icing on the cakefor her 100th birthday celebration on Friday, it was revealedyesterday. Liberal amounts of gin and real gold powder were used to top themammoth 40lb creation, which is decorated with sculpted roses,thistles, acorns ...
Ayrshire pensioner is witness as US colonel faces espionage trial
Aug 01, 2000; ... A PENSIONER living in retirement in a quiet suburb is waiting tobe cited as a witness in one the largest spy trials in the UnitedStates. Gene Drozdza, 67, from Craigie in Ayr, is expected to giveevidence against a retired US army reserve colonel George Trofimoff,the highest ...
BT decides that it's had enough of just talking
Aug 01, 2000; ... GOLIATH triumphed over David yesterday when thetelecommunications giant British Telecom carried out a threat to cutoff Scotland's smallest phone company. BT began blocking outgoing calls on lines used by 241 of theGlasgow-based Ecosse Telecoms' 700 customers at noon over an ...
Hollywood babble on
Aug 01, 2000 ... Oasis to sue over festival fracas The wake of mayhem left in the path of Oasis continues, as thegroup has announced it will sue organisers of the Paleo Festival inNyon, Switzerland, after being pelted with bottles, cans and coinsby the crowd. Frontman Liam Gallagher abruptly called ...
Advertising-the unstoppable machine
Aug 01, 2000 ... IN 1976 Marshall McLuhan said that advertising was the great artform of the 20th century. As we enter the 21st, the average adultglimpses up to 3,000 adverts per day, lending more than a littlecredence to his words. It's all a far cry from the early 1900s, when neither ...
Child protection and prejudice
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE welfare of children is paramount. The urge to protect isinnate. Paedophiles must be prevented from pursuing their heinouscrimes. These are incontestable statements, incontrovertible truths.To hijack them as a breeding-ground for prejudice seriously distortsthose decent instincts ....
Mr Blair cries wolf
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE Prime Minister has taken the grave step of approaching thePress Complaints Commission, the official watchdog on mediareporting standards, regarding the photographing in a public placeof himself and family attending the christening of his new child. Ofcourse no responsible newspaper ...
The birthday spirit
Aug 01, 2000; ... IN THE year 1650, the learned Dr Franciscus Sylvius of theUniversity of Leyden invented a new cure for stomach and kidneyailments by distilling juniper berries. By 1685, the Dutch wereexporting ten million gallons of this miracle every year, mostly tothe English. Four years later, the ...
Sparkle and shine
Aug 01, 2000; ... Silver Publisher/ Producer: Infogrames/Spiral House Format/RRP: Dreamcast/pounds 39.99 Two-second summary: Comfortingly familiar, action-based role-playing game. ROLE-PLAYING games have long since ceased to be the fodder of thestereotypical pale-faced bearded bloke ....
Facing the music
Aug 01, 2000; ... 'If it comes to getting the whole CD package and getting it forfree, people are more likely to want to get it for free' It is 12:30pm on Wednesday, 26 July, and the crowd outsidecourtroom 15 on the 18th floor of the Federal Building in SanFrancisco has already swelled to capacity ....
Taking the safety of children a step too far?
Aug 01, 2000; ... IT WAS in pitch darkness on a cold February morning in 1991 thatfour cars and four vans swept across the causeway from SouthRonaldsay to the Orkney mainland. Inside were nine children, agedbetween eight and 15, forcibly taken into care by police and socialworkers. The children, ...
False accusations cause different kind of bruising for families
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE need to pre-empt the News of the World by stepping up theprotection of children is recognised by the authorities, but myexperiences make me unsure of how new powers would be used inpractice. In my time at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, I have dealt with morethan 300 cases from ...
Newsbyte
Aug 01, 2000; ... Ring cycle TO SOME it may sound like a dream, but to most it will seem likea nightmare. A company in Microsoft's home town of Seattle has comeup with a technology that solves the problem caused by the rapidlyincreasing numbers of phones people have. There will often be one ...
Is Brussels getting to you, Mr Patten?
Aug 01, 2000; ... CHRIS Patten can be an emotional soul. Who can forget the sightof the last British governor of Hong Kong quietly sobbing into aUnion Jack as the handover of power to the Chinese was completed andthe sun set (actually there was torrential rain) on yet anothercorner of Empire? That ...
Police question man, 41, in hunt for girl's killer
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE chief suspect in the hunt for Sarah Payne's killer was lastnight arrested as he left a courtroom having faced charges of theft. Detectives said the arrest followed new information, but refusedto give details. He was being held at a secret location. Roy Whiting, 41, who was ...
Backing for petrol protest
Aug 01, 2000; ... MILLIONS of motorists are being called on to boycott petrolstations today as part of the "Dump the Pump" protest against fuelprices. Petrol costs in Britain are the highest in Europe, with tax andduties swallowing up 75p of every pound spent on premium unleadedpetrol. Fuel has ...
F1 protester lays bare Hockenheim's faults
Aug 01, 2000; ... THE Frenchman who almost forced the abandonment of the GermanGrand Prix by wandering around the Hockenheim circuit during therace and crossing the track in front of oncoming Formula 1 cars wasreleased from police custody yesterday and allowed to return home. The man was released ...
30,000 pound private flight to deport refugee
Aug 01, 2000; ... A GHANAIAN asylum seeker was flown home in a private jet at acost of GBP 30,000 after she became hysterical about leaving hersick son, the Home Office confirmed yesterday. Patience Sapani-Awnobi was accompanied by immigration officers onthe flight to Ghana on Saturday as a "last ...
Advocate cleared of racial abuse is promoted to QC
Aug 01, 2000; ... AN advocate who was cleared last year after an inquiry intoalleged racial abuse has been promoted to the rank of Queen'sCounsel, it was announced yesterday. Jock Thomson was one of 12 new "silks" appointed on therecommendation of Scotland's senior judge, Lord Rodger, the ...
Reivers back to the future
Aug 01, 2000; ... EDINBURGH Reivers will play a pre-season friendly against Ulster,the 1999 European champions, in Belfast on Friday, 18 August. Thegame kicks off at 7.30pm at Ravenhill, the venue where the Reiversopened their 1998-99 Heineken Cup campaign with a 38-38 draw. The Scottish side's ...
Labour 'failing' on class sizes
Aug 01, 2000; ... LABOUR'S schools policy was branded a failure yesterday when itemerged that the number of children in illegally large classes hadtrebled last year. The unexpected increase leaves the Scottish executive open to alegal challenge by parents. Critics claimed that ministers wouldalso ...
Telling our future
Aug 01, 2000; ... Picture an elevator made completely of diamonds stretchingskyward from the Earth's surface. High above, its spindly form isanchored to a giant space station encircling the planet, from whicha steady stream of people and materials is routinely whisked to andfro from the outermost reaches ...
Executives resort to legal action to beat the glass ceiling
Aug 01, 2000; ... FEMALE executives have often complained of the difficulties putin the way in their attempts to reach the top of the male-dominatedculture of City institutions. Many women have been forced to take legal action after findingtheir ambitions frustrated by what they have called a glass ...
This season's colours
Aug 01, 2000 ... THE new season's collections are very much a mixed batch ofcolours and styles - from Bette Davis's 1940s screen siren look and1980s tailored suits to hippie Afghan coats. The excursion back to the 1970s has a nostalgic mix of suedetrousers, nipped-in waist jackets trimmed with ...
IT'S A SHADY DEAL
Aug 01, 2000; ... Cultural historians will refer to the 1990s as the decade ofdesigner beige and expensive ecru and recall the caring, sharing,democratic adspeak imbuing everything from social inclusion policiesto Gap's utility chic. The consensus is that the decade's dominantcolours in fashion, interiors ...
That sinking feeling ...
Aug 01, 2000 ... THE slip in English tourism figures come after it was revealedforeign visitors to Scotland were down by 10 per cent last year. The Scottish Tourist Board's Annual report, released last month,showed the amount spent by foreign tourists in Scotland was down by13 per cent. Early ...
Seeing too much of Carol is a TV turn off
Aug 01, 2000; ... SHE can juggle long division with interior design, capture thelimelight at any award ceremony and even appear on three channels inthe same week. But television regulators have now confirmed what many of us havebeen feeling for some time - there is too much Carol Vorderman onour ...
Raid on Paisley night-club
Aug 01, 2000; ... POLICE were last night hunting an armed gang who stole a fivefigure sum during a robbery on a Paisley night-club early yesterday. During the raid about 1am, employees were tied up and threatenedwith a firearm by up to five masked men who forced their way intoClub 30 in New ...
Losing healthy breast not as bad as divorce,says surgeon
Aug 01, 2000; ... A SURGEON who removed a woman's healthy breast unnecessarily toldher she was lucky not to have cancer and should get on with herlife, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday. William Thomson performed the mastectomy on the patient atHairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride without ...
Heroin dealer sent back to jail
Aug 01, 2000; ... ONE of the first heroin dealers to be targeted by Scotland's newundercover Drugs Enforcement Agency was jailed for almost 12 yearsyesterday. The High Court in Glasgow heard how officers from the ScottishCrime Squad tracked Robert Willens, 35, after his release from jailon licence ...
Gloag helps launch luxury cruise venture
Aug 01, 2000; ... ANN GLOAG, the Stagecoach millionaire, took to the wateryesterday to launch a new luxury cabin cruiser. The pounds 200,000, 40-ft motorised yacht, Just Do It, willprovide pleasure voyages along Scotland's east coast from Stonehavento Anstruther. It will be the first time such ...
Anger at plans for third GM trial in north east
Aug 01, 2000; ... PLANS for Scotland's third trial of a genetically modified cropwere unveiled yesterday. Again the experiment is proposed for the north east, despiterepeated protests at the sites of the country's two existing GMplantations. The Scottish Agricultural College has applied for ...
DENNIS O'DONNELL on how he missed out on the Masons
Aug 01, 2000; ... SHH! Don't tell anybody, but it seems that the Masons are on arecruitment drive. They've set up a website and prepared leaflets inan attempt to turn around declining membership. Apparently, theywill now invite people to join, rather than wait for applications. Some years ago, when ...
SNP's gradualist approach could lead the party into suicidal trap
Aug 01, 2000; ... SUPPOSE the United Kingdom joins European Monetary Union: couldScotland subsequently achieve independence from the UK? This simplequestion is rarely addressed, but has profound implications for SNPpolicy. These hold whether one is a supporter of EMU or not. Consider first the ...
Man gets five years for brutal attack on wife
Aug 01, 2000; ... A MAN was jailed for five years yesterday for a brutal attack onhis wife, whose determination to recover from her life-threateninginjuries won the praise of doctors. James Higgins, 38, returned home drunk one night and beganarguing with his wife, Agnes. He lashed out with feet and ...
Deals
Aug 01, 2000; ... STANDARD Life Investments has sold Pentland House in Livingstonfor GBP 4.52m to a subsidiary of Sydney & London Properties. The six-storey, 60,000 sq ft office block, with 70 car parking spaces, iswholly let to West Lothian Council until May 2012 at a rental of GBP432,268 per annum. The ...
Drugs theft puts Sydney on red alert over black market
Aug 01, 2000; ... AUSTRALIAN Olympic Committee officials last night rejectedspeculation that the theft of 1,000 bottles of the bannedperformance-enhancing drug EPO from a hospital pharmacy in AliceSprings was connected with the Sydney Olympics. AOC media director Mike Tancred said it was impossible ...
Pole star Dragila is out to nail diamond
Aug 01, 2000; ... IT IS not difficult to see how steer-roping could lead to pole-vaulting. Strong arms are a pre-requisite for both, and StacyDragila - who chased calves around her parents' north Californianranch as a child - is still reaping the benefits of her somewhattomboyish upbringing. Those ...
Walker is ruled out of Olympic contention
Aug 01, 2000; ... DOUGIE Walker will not run at this month's British Olympic trialsdespite last week's High Court victory which allows him to competein Britain, the sprinter's agent, Elliot Bunney, said last night. After 18 months on the sidelines and faced with the threat of theInternational ...
Atlantic Telecom launching French SDSL services
Aug 01, 2000; ... ATLANTIC Telecom, the Aberdeen-based telecoms provider, saidyesterday it is launching live testing of its synchronous digitalsubscriber line (SDSL) services in France, and will start offeringfixed wireless services in Manchester. The SDSL services in France will be operated by ...
Borders starts drive for fed-up capital motorists
Aug 01, 2000; ... TRENDY young couples from Edinburgh are being urged to escapethis month's Festival mayhem and head for the Borders whereaccommodation for the night costs as little as the price of a cityparking fine. The so-called escape route is being offered by Scottish BordersTourist Board in ...
Scots women third as hosts capture the title
Aug 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND had to settle for third place in the Women's HomeInternational Bowls Championship after losing their final match ofthe series 91-78 to England at Llandrindod Wells yesterday. They managed just one winning rink, with Lauren Baillie beatingCheryl Northall 28-17, while in the ...