The Scotsman back issues from November 2000:
The plane fell,flames were everywhere
Nov 01, 2000; ... SURVIVORS of the Singapore Airlines disaster last night spoke oftheir terror when the Boeing 747 jetliner exploded and broke apart. Many passengers on the Los Angeles-bound flight, including BritonSteven Courtney, reported the plane hitting something on the runwaybefore take-off ...
Alliance axes Scots staff to cut costs
Nov 01, 2000; ... ALLIANCE & Leicester, which owns Girobank, is to axe up to 1,500staff over the next three years in an effort to cut costs. Some ofthe job losses are likely to be at Scottish branches. The bank's shares which have lagged other banks by some 40 percent this year, leapt on the news ...
Arden sold by Unilever
Nov 01, 2000; ... UNILEVER has struck a deal to sell its Elizabeth Arden perfumesbusiness to FFI Fragrances, a small US perfume maker, for pounds 155million. Unilever, whose products include Persil washing power and Magnumice cream, said the deal was part of its plans to reorganise or ...
Asian markets higher
Nov 01, 2000 ... ASIAN stock markets closed generally higher, with the key indexesrebounding in Tokyo and Hong Kong on bargain hunting. In Tokyo the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 75.04,or 0.52 per cent, to 14,539.60. On Monday, the average shed 0.81 percent, to finish at 14,464.56, ...
Autonomy's star debut
Nov 01, 2000; ... AUTONOMY, the Cambridge-based group tipped to become Europe'sleading software company, staged an impressive debut yesterday onLondon's stock exchange. Already quoted on Easdaq and Nasdaq, Autonomy's secondaryoffering of GBP 218 million in London was more than six ...
Barclays' double honour
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE Barclay brothers were knighted by the Queen yesterday in thefirst "double dubbing" of modern times. Sir David and Sir Frederick, 66, identical twins and owners ofThe Scotsman, received their honours at Buckingham Palace for theirservices to charity, particularly cancer ...
Bass wins latest round of shop war
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE battle between two firms vying over a valuable site onGlasgow's main shopping street took a new twist yesterday with theminority owner scuppering the plans of the larger. After going to the Court of Session for the chance to put itscase before Glasgow City Council, Bass ...
John Smith bookshops are saved by buyout
Nov 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND'S oldest independent bookseller has been saved fromclosure through a management buyout, it was announced last night. Willie Anderson, the managing director of John Smith & Son, hasjoined forces with Julian Hardinge and Robin Hill, his colleagues onthe board, in a deal ...
Smack in the middle of a dilemma
Nov 01, 2000; ... Your toddler is sitting on the swing in the park, his fingersclamped around the chains. It's getting dark, his baby sister needsto be fed and you haven't begun to think what you could prepare forsupper. But at the mere mention of heading home, his lower lipbegins to tremble, his face ...
Crisis over Anniesland maverick
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE Scottish Labour leadership yesterday held emergency talks todiscuss the selection of a left-wing rebel for the crucialAnniesland by-election. Ministers and MSPs expressed their fears that the party had madea mistake in choosing Bill Butler, a Glasgow councillor, as ...
Council faces inquiry into sackings battle
Nov 01, 2000 ... GLASGOW City Council is being investigated over claims that itwasted public money fighting the reinstatement of two sacked socialworkers. The Accounts Commission confirmed yesterday it had received acomplaint from a member of the public alleging the council breached"best value" ...
Catalogue of problems
Nov 01, 2000; ... CHIANG Kai-shek International Airport is Taiwan's busiestairport, operating over 100,000 international flights a year. It hashad a mixed safety record since it opened in February 1979. Yesterday's tragedy came two years after 202 people were killedwhen a China Airlines Airbus ...
We're so angry my brother died of CJD
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE family of the latest CJD victim in Scotland has criticisedthe government over the lack of help for sufferers and called for asupport group to be set up to help those who lose loved ones to theillness. David Antonio, 28, from Alness, Ross and Cromarty, took ill atChristmas ...
Business Comment
Nov 01, 2000 ... Weak euro easy excuse THE political arguments as to whetherBritain should or should not join the euro are still to be won orlost at some future date. Meanwhile, some foreign manufacturers of cars, in particular, aremaking their own decisions now. Honda was the latest ...
New police squad starts city centre crackdown
Nov 01, 2000; ... CRIMINALS attracted by rich pickings in booming central Edinburghare to be tackled by a new police unit which takes to the streetstoday . The 25-strong unit will tackle violent shoplifters and otheroffenders throughout the heart of the capital as part of aninitiative by Lothian ...
Parliament bill will top 200m pounds
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE final cost of the Scottish parliament building at Holyroodcould exceed the GBP 195 million target figure, MSPs were toldyesterday. Paul Grice, the parliament's chief executive, admitted he couldnot guarantee a further increase in the budget. "As in any major project ...
Euro bolstered
Nov 01, 2000 ... THE euro maintained a strong tone against the dollar and yenyesterday, bolstered by weak American data and intervention from theBundesbank president, Ernst Welteke, and US Treasury Secretary,Larry Summers. Mr Welteke said the European Central Bank was watching the euro/dollar ...
More Scottish flights to follow easyJet float
Nov 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND will reap the benefit of low fares airline easyJet'sstock market flotation as the no-frills carrier announced it wouldincrease its Scottish services as part of a European expansionprogramme which will be funded by the GBP 200 million it hopes toraise when it goes public later ...
Put up the white flag
Nov 01, 2000; ... In the mid-1980s the learning of modern languages was in crisis.A majority of pupils were opting out of language studies at theearliest opportunity - at the end of their second year at secondaryschools. The Scottish Association for Language Learning, of which I waschairperson, ...
In love with Shakespeare
Nov 01, 2000; ... There's strutting your stuff, looking cool, hanging out with thegang and scoring points off the opposition; and then there'sfancying someone something rotten, no matter where they come from.Nobody knows more about these scenarios than teenagers. Nor areyoung adults strangers to parental ...
Exam body fails appeals deadline
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE pressure on the schools exams body increased yesterday afterit failed to meet its deadline for processing non-urgent appeals,following this summer's marking fiasco. Politicians and teaching unions called for urgent reassurancesafter the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) ...
Recovery blow
Nov 01, 2000 ... THANKS to strong exports to Germany over the last three quartersthe Czech Republic appears to be pulling out of a recession. Statistical work from Merrill Lynch suggest that the relationshipbetween Germany and the Czech Republic is largely one to one . Forevery percentage point ...
Consumer demand set to grow
Nov 01, 2000 ... OPTIMISM in the French economy was given a fillip with therelease of the latest unemployment figures. Headline unemployment in September fell by a much-larger-than-expected 59,000, having fallen by 9,000 in August. The market hadbeen expecting a fall of 20,000 ....
Investors return to workhorses
Nov 01, 2000 ... OLD economy shares stalwarts, such as basic producers, cars,chemicals and construction, powered European exchanges higher,helped by a strong Nasdaq. Investors took cash out of erstwhile defensive favourites such ashealthcare, and food and drink. Telecoms were the standout ...
FAQ Rosie Boycott No smoke without fire
Nov 01, 2000; ... Is that as in Cider with Rosie? No, something stronger, actually. Ms Boycott picked up thenickname "Rizla Rosie" for her vocal support of the campaign todecriminalise cannabis. She once admitted to hiding her stash in herunderwear. Ah, I see. Is she one of these hippy-dippy ...
Unemployment falls in France
Nov 01, 2000; ... FRANCE'S unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low of 9.5 percent in September as a steady decline in dole queues accelerated inthe euro zone's second biggest economy. The labour ministry said the total number of unemployed fell by58,600 to 2,270,200 in September from 2,328,800 in ...
Anger as Gaelic law fight is scrapped
Nov 01, 2000 ... GAELIC learners have accused a leading body of deserting acampaign seeking legal status for the language, writes John Ross. CLI, an organisation for new speakers of Gaelic, has expressedanger over reports indicating An Comunn Gaidhealach has put on holdits 100-year constitutional ...
What a trip
Nov 01, 2000; ... You thought it was impossi-ble. You were told it didn't, couldn'thappen. But you reckoned without the steely determination of thisnewspaper; the dedication, the fortitude, the sheer force of willwhich our esteemed title represents. Yes. Some of us, a very selectfew, did travel to London ...
Ditch that car and hitch a ride
Nov 01, 2000; ... IT'S that time of year again. No, not for thoughts of roaring gasfires and exploding chestnuts - if you don't know to make a hole inthem before cooking. But when the noble non-car-owner is forced tohang around shiftily at evening events feeling like a cross betweena Brylcreemed Second ...
Drugs giants get ready for merger
Nov 01, 2000; ... MERGING drugs giants SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome havegiven upbeat trading reports in their final set of results beforethey officially tie the knot. The pair, which agreed to merge in January, hope to completetheir merger before the year is out. The tie-up is still ...
Go steps up flights battle
Nov 01, 2000; ... GLASGOW is set to become Britain's fiercest air faresbattleground today as a third budget airline launches services toLondon. Go, the British Airways subsidiary, will take on low-cost rivalseasyJet and Ryanair with four flights a day to Stansted. The othercarriers fly to Luton, ...
In loving memory
Nov 01, 2000; ... Michael Hutchence's half-sister thinks for a minute. "It's like asoap opera, right?" says Tina Hutchence of the death of the rockstar, the death of Paula Yates, and what life may now have in storefor their four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily. "Oh no," corrects her mother, Patricia ...
Jokes prize for Megan
Nov 01, 2000 ... A GLASGOW girl was yesterday named as the nation's bestplayground joke teller after developing her talents to help herfamily cope with her brother's terminal illness. Seven-year-old Megan McIntyre beat more than 5,500 children in acompetition organised by sweet makers Chewits to ...
Muggers target trendy children
Nov 01, 2000; ... CHILDREN as young as eight have become the victims of crime inStrathclyde because of their fashionable clothes and toys, it hasemerged. Strathclyde Police said youngsters were being attacked in thestreet for designer items like micro-scooters and mobile phones. The force ...
Latapy's early strike brings out best in Kilmarnock
Nov 01, 2000; ... Kilmarnock 2 McLaren (47), Dargo (72) Hibernian 1 Latapy (1) Referee: H Dallas. Attendance: 7,819 THE stamina needed for either of these teams to continuechallenging for league supremacy was displayed a fraction moredoggedly by Kilmarnock than Hibs in this CIS ...
Need for more candour on costs of parliament
Nov 01, 2000; ... ON the 3rd of October this year, Mr Paul Grice, chief executiveof the Scottish parliament, appeared before its audit committee toanswer questions on the new Scottish parliament building. There herevealed two things. First, that a mysterious extra 40,000 squarefeet of building had ...
Kevin Keegan's legacy
Nov 01, 2000; ... IT PROBABLY won't have escaped your notice, but there's a rowbrewing south of the Border after Sven-Goran Eriksson was namedEngland football coach. Part of the problem for our patrioticEnglish friends lies in the fact that Eriksson is a Swede who isbeing imported from Italy. Another ...
Word power
Nov 01, 2000; ... IN THE beginning was the word, not the dot.com. News that JohnSmith, the famous Glasgow booksellers, is not after all to disappearin this internet age is to be welcomed by all those whom it hasserved over the years - not to say centuries. John Smith is to berescued by a management ...
Parliament accused of lack of openness
Nov 01, 2000 ... CONSERVATION groups yesterday attacked plans to decide the fateof historic Queensberry House in secret. Works at the 17th century A-listed mansion, at the heart of plansfor the new Scottish parliament, have been delayed because the citycouncil's planning committee must see final ...
Tough McLeish orders review of every policy
Nov 01, 2000; ... HENRY McLeish used his first cabinet as First Minister yesterdayto set his ministers a ten-day deadline to ditch unpopular policies. In a move that signalled his determination to stamp his mark onthe administration, Mr McLeish underlined his desire for a "changeof emphasis and ...
The mouse that roared
Nov 01, 2000; ... RESIDENTS of Monte Carlo are being rallied to send theirneighbours packing. Fed up with accusations of dubious bankingpractices, the Principality of Monaco is telling France to leave italone and let it get on with its own affairs. Prince Rainier is not going as far as to declare ...
Children's arts
Nov 01, 2000; ... The Diary of Anne Frank and Sparkleshark Save the pantos for the wee ones and take the teenagers out to acouple of meaty plays at Edinburgh's Kings Theatre instead -Sparkleshark and The Diary of Anne Frank are both playing thismonth. The Diary of Anne Frank is a European ...
Staring down a barrel of laughs
Nov 01, 2000; ... COMEDY in Scotland is a funny business. Glasgow may be renownedfor its sense of humour but until recently the city has been astranger to "organised comedy". Even the excellent Stu Who's FunnyFarm was no more than an example of that great Scottish institution -talented guys putting ...
A year to the day after the EgyptAir Halloween crash
Nov 01, 2000 ... LAST night's disaster came on the first anniversary of theEgyptAir Flight 990 crash, off the north-eastern coast of the UnitedStates. The Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic on Hallowe'en last yearafter taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York en routeto Cairo ....
Music to their ears
Nov 01, 2000; ... The world music market follows a well-worn pattern: musicologists"discover" performers then record producers swoop in, pay a one-offfee and run off with the goodies to rake in the profits from salesto you and me. Very neat, very exploitative. But a new album, Kairo -Sounds of the Gambia, ...
Top of the pops
Nov 01, 2000; ... The last art form of the 20th century was the pop video. Whereashit records and vocalists from Elvis Presley to Bjrk havecircumnavigated the world for the past 50 years with language beingno inhibition to their popularity, the idea of images interpretingor counterpointing their songs is ...
Twist in Kinky tale
Nov 01, 2000; ... Even without their voices raised you might notice the Friedmanparty out for a Monday-night curry in Aberdeen. The man at thecentre, Kinky Friedman - songwriter, musician, comic novelist andraconteur - is dressed in black from the tip of his ten-gallon hatto the toe of his brontosaurus ...
Glass master
Nov 01, 2000; ... Alison Kinnaird was rejected by Edinburgh College of Art when shefirst applied. Today, she lectures there. Awarded an MBE forservices to art in 1997 and scooping this year's Adrian SassoonAward for the Arts of the Kiln at the Chelsea Crafts Fair, Kinnairdhas brought new life to glass as ...
Town's house price boom leaves capital in the shade
Nov 01, 2000; ... AVERAGE house prices in the East Lothian coastal town of NorthBerwick are now more than 40 per cent higher than in Edinburgh,according to the latest figures from solicitors in the capital. The town has experienced a property boom as families leave thecapital and commute ....
New chief for HIE
Nov 01, 2000 ... THE Scottish executive is expected to announce today that SandyCumming has been appointed as the new chief executive of Highlandsand Islands Enterprise. He will replace Iain Robertson, who left the agency to take up apost with the Morrison Group. Mr Cumming, a ...
The Rambert recruit
Nov 01, 2000 ... BEING one of the newest members of Britain's oldest dance companyis not easy. It is also a far cry from attending classes at thelocal dance school in Peterculter, Aberdeen. When Angela Towlertravelled down to London ten years ago, she did not know thatcontemporary dance existed, let ...
The great glam leap
Nov 01, 2000; ... Marie Rambert once said: "The Royal Ballet Company can be theNational Gallery; Rambert will be the Tate." Whether she wouldextend that analogy to the Tate Modern is a matter for debate. Sotoo is what the great lady of dance would make of the company'slatest commission by Javier de ...
Reviews
Nov 01, 2000; ... Andras Schiff Royal Festival Hall, London EVERYBODY is playing the Goldberg Variations at present: lastThursday it was the turn of Andras Schiff. Bach wrote theseextraordinary pieces to soothe a rich insomniac: Schiff used them tokeep us on the edge of our seats. I have never ...
Oil price still above $30
Nov 01, 2000 ... OIL prices traded lower but held above $30 a barrel, defyingOPEC's attempt to cool the market with a crude supply hike. International benchmark Brent crude for December delivery wastrading 71 cents weaker at $ 30.43 a barrel. US light crude stood 56cents lower at $32.25 ....
Orphaned otters find new home at welfare centre
Nov 01, 2000; ... TWO baby otters who were saved from certain death by a fishermanare today starting new lives at a Scots wildlife centre. The six-week-old otters' brush with death came after their mothermysteriously disappeared, leaving them stranded on an Angusriverbank with neither food nor ...
A man's best friend
Nov 01, 2000; ... WHEN I played my first PlayStation game I was nothing short ofblown away. There was really nothing to match what this little greybox delivered: it wasn't just the great games or the high-techgraphics, it was actually trendy to be a twentysomething with agames console. Geek was definitely ...
Cue the queues
Nov 01, 2000; ... When the state police were called to a Wal-Mart store in the townof Minot in North Dakota last Thursday, the men in the mirroredshades expected an armed robbery. What they got was Cabbage PatchKids 2: The Sequel. Where in the past a cuddly toy with a fewlettuce leaves wrapped round its ...
Heartbreak MP finds new love
Nov 01, 2000; ... HE HAS suffered the worst two years of his life, with the deathof his wife, his mother, and then his adopted son. But Alan Beith, 57, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democratsand MP for Berwick-on-Tweed, is set to make a fresh start bymarrying a party colleague, Diana Maddock, 55 ....
Another day of chaos for Scots rail passengers
Nov 01, 2000; ... SCOTLAND suffered another day of rail chaos yesterday, with atotal of 179 trains cancelled and several hundred delayed. Operators warned that the major disruption of the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line would continue until Saturday following a landslip nearPolmont. ScotRail's ...
Relieved Rangers revived by CIS of life
Nov 01, 2000; ... Rangers 2 Miller (11), Ferguson (30) Dundee Utd 0 Referee: M McCurry. Attendance: 30,966 THE ANTICIPATED horrors of Halloween did not materialise lastnight for Rangers, in what was a simple passage into the semi-finals of the CIS Insurance Cup. Dundee United were no ...
Rector row attack
Nov 01, 2000 ... THE SNP have been criticised for meddling in the internal affairsof Glasgow University over the fate of its disgraced celebrityrector. Glasgow Lib-Dem MSP Robert Brown yesterday lodged a parliamentaryamendment to an SNP motion calling for the resignation of formerEastEnders star ...
Council denies shake-up job threat
Nov 01, 2000; ... COUNCIL leaders have denied a revolution in the way services aredelivered in Aberdeen will lead to job cuts. Under the proposals, the Labour-controlled city council will endthe current departmental structure in a move towards thedecentralisation of services. Hundreds of ...
Now sheep to be tested for BSE
Nov 01, 2000; ... MILLIONS of sheep could be slaughtered and the consumption ofBritish lamb banned if BSE was found to have infected flocks, thegovernment said yesterday. The drastic move is one contingency plan being considered by theMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) in the event ...
Singapore Airlines has safety record that is difficult to beat
Nov 01, 2000; ... IN ITS 28-year history, Singapore Airlines has never suffered aserious accident. The only tragedy to strike the airline had been the crash of aBoeing 737-300 belonging to Silkair, a wholly-owned regionalsubsidiary, in 1997 killing all 104 passengers and crew on board ....
The campaign to protect children
Nov 01, 2000 ... Princesses Beatrice,12, and Eugenie, 10, don't have to worryabout getting spanked - at least, not from dad. As Prince Andrewtold Britain's GMTV, "I have a very simple philosophy and that is,with my children, there are a set of boundaries - and boundariesneed to be set for children - and ...