The Scotsman back issues from December 2000:
Learning to love the older workforce
Dec 01, 2000; ... OVER the past few months many public policy debates haveconcentrated on job-ready school leavers, high staying-on rates inpost-compulsory education, higher education finance, pay andconditions for teaching staff, standards in schools and, mostrecently, the SQA debacle . While ...
Couch potato lifestyles threaten children's health
Dec 01, 2000; ... IN 1955 101,000 men were conscripted into national service, witha further 33,300 of the 289,000 who were eligible declared medicallyunfit. Within two weeks of registering, the 18-year-old would receivenotice to attend a medical examination, designed to determine intowhich of ...
Tokyo bites back in food
Dec 01, 2000 ... ASIAN stocks closed mostly lower as technology andtelecommunications shares took some big hits, although Tokyo'smarket was lifted by bargain hunting in the banking and foodsectors. TOKYO: The Japanese benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose140.87, or 1 per cent, to ...
Baird sells menswear business in 19m pound MBO
Dec 01, 2000; ... GLASGOW-based clothing manufacturer William Baird, which ispursuing a legal action against Marks & Spencer over the loss of itscontract, is to sell its BMB menswear business in a GBP 19 millionmanagement buyout. The management buy-out is being led by executivedirector Peter Lucas and ...
Dealers' lethal armoury
Dec 01, 2000 ... LETHAL weapons used by drug dealers - including a nail-studdedbaseball bat - have been seized in a crackdown by Scots police. Officers who took part in the operation in Fife also seized aSamurai sword and crossbow along with drugs worth more than GBP130,000. The ...
The Shortlist
Dec 01, 2000 ... Allan Murray Architects, Edinburgh: Founded in 1993, but stillconsidered relatively untested. Have already worked alongside theBBC for the past year, providing the design for the new Tun buildingat Holyrood Road, where BBC Scotland will base its Edinburghoperation from 2001. Described by ...
Seven hold Quay to the new-look BBC HQ
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE minds behind the Millennium Dome, the rotating Gatesheadbridge, and an award-winning Venetian cemetery are among thoseshortlisted to build the new GBP 30 million BBC Scotlandheadquarters in Glasgow. The announcement that seven architects will be asked to producedetailed ...
Business Comment Better late than never?
Dec 01, 2000 ... BANCASSURANCE was the new rock 'n' roll, at least theoretically,when Royal Scottish Assurance was set up in 1990 as a joint venturebetween Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Equitable. But the devastating critique of RSA's management failings by theFinancial Services Authority ...
Crucial evidence that made it impossible to point the finger of blame
Dec 01, 2000; ... THIS week's public accounts committee report into the acceptanceof the Chinook MkII into service six years ago has re-opened thedebate on the fatal accident which befell airframe ZD-576. The committee has accused the MoD of "unwarrantable arrogance"for not re-opening the inquiry ...
Big wheel plans in doubt over safety fears
Dec 01, 2000; ... EDINBURGH'S showpiece Christmas celebrations descended into farceyesterday after the city council's plans to open a Ferris wheel inPrinces Street were scuppered by officials, including some from itsown planning department. Health and safety experts warned the wheel, which is ...
Church murals sacrificed in renovation
Dec 01, 2000; ... ARCHITECTURAL purists have been accused of sacrificing uniqueVictorian artwork in a plan to restore a landmark church to its drabGeorgian design. Experts have criticised the loss of the murals, which werepainted on the interior of St Andrew's in the Square by a leadingGlasgow ...
Lorry driver, 26, is latest CJD victim
Dec 01, 2000 ... A 26-YEAR-OLD father of two has become the latest victim ofCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Scott Boyd, a lorry driver, from Lanarkshire, died leaving awidow, Julie-Ann, and two sons Jamie, aged two, and Robbie, one. Mr Boyd died almost 11 months after he first contracted ...
Clipper
Dec 01, 2000 ... US CAR and truck sales are set to fall for the second monthrunning. November figures, due today, may herald further productioncuts and lay-offs. GM has predicted an industry-wide slowdown ofbetween 4 and 7 per cent, ...
Fighting for the right to know
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE relatives of the 29 men killed in the accident on the Mull ofKintyre more than six years ago are by no means the first to fightfor years to hear exactly how their loved ones died. Successive governments have resisted the pleading calls of manygroups of grieving relatives, ...
Crossfire hits sterling
Dec 01, 2000 ... STERLING fell to two month lows against the euro, caught in thecrossfire between the single currency and the dollar. The dollar slipped to three week lows against the euro andtumbled to seven week troughs against the Swiss franc, bruised by agloomy outlook for the US economy ....
TV captures Damilola's last walk
Dec 01, 2000; ... A WITNESS has told detectives hunting the killers of DamilolaTaylor that he saw three children marching a smaller child along thestreet in a headlock near the murder scene. Scotland Yard said Damilola, ten, was also captured on CCTVfootage leaving a library with a smaller boy and ...
Football boss denies 14 abuse charges
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE former Southampton football manager, David Jones, carried a"dark secret" of physical and sexual abuse against boys while heworked as a residential school carer, a jury heard yesterday. Jones, 44, a former Everton and Coventry City player who alsomanaged Stockport County, faces ...
'Debates, for us, were a passion'
Dec 01, 2000; ... FOR MENZIES Campbell, defence spokesman for the LiberalDemocrats, debating was an essential part of university life. "So many of my contemporaries in the Glasgow University debatingunion have gone on to high-level positions," said Mr Campbell, whograduated from Glasgow in 1965 ...
Students poised for final words
Dec 01, 2000; ... GORDON Brown, Robin Cook and the late Donald Dewar built theirpolitical careers on the debating skills they developed atScotland's universities. Today another generation of students will demonstrate theirpowers of conviction at a debating championship in St Andrews ....
Brewers find some cheer
Dec 01, 2000; ... SOUTH African Breweries reported a six per cent rise inunderlying interim profits yesterday, despite the weakness of therand against the US dollar and difficult trading in its heartlandAfrican market. Beer volumes fell six per cent in South Africa, partly hit bywhat SAB chief ...
Business Diary Blair advisor needs some help to find the on switch
Dec 01, 2000; ... TONY Blair's e-commerce advisor Professor Jim Norton had a bad hi-tech day last Friday after he had left his London base to fly toScotland to address the IoD conference in Edinburgh. In answer tothe question "Is it insane to stay in sterling?" he successfullymanaged to confuse the nice ...
Dracula has that sinking feeling
Dec 01, 2000; ... A CLIFFTOP graveyard immortalised in Bram Stoker's gothic novelDracula is in danger of being consigned to the murky depths of theNorth Sea. The churchyard of St Mary's, perched on a dramatic headland inWhitby, North Yorkshire, is inches from the edge of a cliff afterthe recent ...
Brave attack victim's TV appeal for help
Dec 01, 2000 ... A BRAVE teenager who escaped an attacker minutes before he rapedan 11-year-old girl is to go on national TV in a bid to catch him. The 17-year-old fought off the rapist as passers-by ignored herpleas for help on a footpath behind the Cameron Toll shopping centrein Edinburgh ....
Enterprising Scotland Joint winners for entrepreneur accolade
Dec 01, 2000 ... THE Entrepreneurial Exchange last night awarded its highestaccolade - the title of entrepreneur of the year - to two ofScotland's leading businessmen. Willie Haughey of City RefrigerationHoldings and David Sibbald, Atlantech Technologies co-founder andnow with the Communications Software ...
TMT stocks fall to new lows
Dec 01, 2000 ... EUROPE's beleaguered technology, media and telecoms stocksfloundered to their lowest levels this year, as the US Nasdaq indexwas walloped to yet another year low. The FTSE Eurotop 300 fell 1.8 per cent and the narrower DJ Stoxx50 2.4 per cent. Heading the list of blue-chip ...
Briefing
Dec 01, 2000 ... Tories under fire on EU: TORY MSPs were accused of scaremongering yesterday after warningthat next week's Nice summit could lead to the creation of aEuropean superstate. Conservative leader David McLetchie warned: "A Europeansuperstate would mean a Europe with its own ...
Flo kicks off 4m pound centre for football, rain or shine
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE largest all-weather football centre in Scotland openedyesterday with an inaugural kick-about by the country's mostexpensive player. Rangers' GBP 12 million signing Tore Andre Flo stole thelimelight from Scotland coach Craig Brown at the new Glasgow GreenFootball Centre at ...
Gay rights victory hailed
Dec 01, 2000; ... GAY rights campaigners claimed a historic victory yesterday afterlegislation equalising the homosexual age of consent to 16 wasforced through parliament. The Speaker, Michael Martin, invoked the rarely-used ParliamentAct to push through the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill after ...
Profit warnings stoke market fears on growth
Dec 01, 2000; ... ESCALATING fears over a sharp US economic slowdown reverberatedthrough world markets yesterday, sending Wall Street stocks tumblingand propelling the still-fragile euro higher as the strong dollarfaltered on the foreign exchanges. Profits warnings from two heavyweight US high-tech ...
Gleneagles on-line for tourists
Dec 01, 2000; ... GLENEAGLES Hotel, plans to expand the scope of its website,Gleneagles.com to attract non golfing holiday makers. The hotel said it has appointed Internet Export Resources (IER)to manage the on-line marketing of the website, which has been aimedprimarily at the golf market for the ...
Was the government right to moralise on boy's murder?
Dec 01, 2000 ... YES says Ian Baillie who wants politicians to be honest I THINK that politicians have a moral and ethical responsibilityto speak honestly and frankly upon matters concerning the public andabout the behaviour of the public when they feel that somethingneeds to be said. We ...
Festive hacker warning
Dec 01, 2000; ... A LEADING Scottish internet security company has predicted that amajor online retailer will be shut down by hackers in the run up toChristmas. Charles Robinson, managing director of Glasgow-based BuchananInternational, said multi-national e-tailers were at risk of beingtargeted ...
Divas and buttheads
Dec 01, 2000; ... It takes the auctioning of a diva 's underthings to shoehornopera into the headlines these days.To young audiences,the formcould hardly be more alienating. In today 's media,ear-bruisingsoprano squalls serve as shorthand for high cul-ture 's haughtiestexcesses,while typical opera-goers ...
Sister ship dredged over Solway Harvester tomb
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE sister ship of the Solway Harvester scallop dredger, whichsank with the loss of all seven crew, dredged over the sunken vesselwhile the dead men were still on board, according to new reports. Fisherman Kevin Smith, who worked on the Solway Ranger, claimedhe had been told to ...
Nokia internet link with AT&T
Dec 01, 2000; ... FINNISH cellphone giant Nokia has signed a deal with AT&TWireless to supply it with high-speed mobile web-enabled GPRStechnology. The deal includes moving AT&T Wireless in North America to high-speed third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks which will givewireless phone users ...
Jonathan King bailed on three sex charges
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE pop impresario Jonathan King appeared in court yesterdayfaced with three charges of sexually abusing boys in the 1970s.King, 55, a millionaire, faces charges of buggery of a boy under 16,indecently assaulting a male, and attempted buggery involving a maleunder 21. The offences are ...
Tony Blair delivers his beef to Chirac about the EU's future
Dec 01, 2000; ... FUEL duty demonstrators last night staged a noisy protest as TonyBlair hosted an informal dinner for the French president, JacquesChirac, in his north-east England constituency. Dozens of protesters jeered, blew whistles and chanted "Down withBlair" as the Prime Minister and ...
British Land asset value increased
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE property giant, British Land, which counts East Kilbride'snew Centre West Shopping development in its pounds 8 billionportfolio, demonstrated investors' disillusionment with the sectorwhen it announced a further increase in its asset backing yesterday. While the chairman John ...
A time for action, not moralistic waffle
Dec 01, 2000; ... HOW very telling of the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, and hisCabinet colleagues to seize on the gruesome death of ten-year-oldDamilola Taylor to sound a wake-up call for "a new culture ofresponsibility". To address the mounting problems of thuggery,bullying and violence, it is his own ...
Pacific Quay challenge
Dec 01, 2000; ... ARCHITECTURAL competitions in Scotland have had a troubledhistory. That for the new Holyrood parliament has proved fraughtwith charges flying of manipulation, secrecy and cost over-runs. Andthe new Museum of Scotland was famously disliked by Prince Charlesfor being a touch too ...
Taking over the Moon
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE man in the Moon is probably German. Call it cosmicimperialism. Or call it a canny investment. But our Teutonic cousinshave already bought up large tracts of the Moon. Indeed, nearly aquarter of extra-terrestrial landowners are German. This isn't mere moonshine. Few purchasers ...
Sad case of missing public accountability
Dec 01, 2000; ... TWO young men with an unblemished military record are condemnedby a court for the manslaughter of 27 people. Beyond all reasonabledoubt they are found guilty of gross professional negligence, offlying a helicopter in a reckless manner that killed the entiresenior intelligence community ...
New responsibilities for businesses in Rights Act
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE Human Rights Act has already made a big impact on the legalscene, not least in Scotland where the temporary sheriffs fiasco wasrightly forecast to be just the first in a series of decisionslikely to bring about major changes in the workings of the legalsystem. Business ...
Avoiding unwarranted funding heartache
Dec 01, 2000; ... AT SOME stage in their lives, most companies are expected toconsider expansion of their activities. Funding growth raises avariety of issues, and whether the business is an aspiring dotcomoperation, or simply a one-man band, outside investors can clearlyoffer an invaluable source of ...
BPI deal collapses over 10p Macfarlane bid fails
Dec 01, 2000; ... MANAGEMENT of Macfarlane Group and British Polythene Industriesacrimoniously blamed each other as a potential deal between themcollapsed, for the sake of just 10p a share. Yesterday morning Glasgow-based Macfarlane raised its bid from250p to 310p a share, valuing BPI at GBP 114 ...
How long before internet kills the video star?
Dec 01, 2000; ... THINGS have come a long way since Paul Morrison squeezed into asweaty Glasgow Apollo to see the Buzzcocks and Joy Division as afresh-faced schoolboy. Now the managing director of media productioncompany Done and Dusted, the 33-year-old Scot was behind the wheelof Madonna's ...
Cinematic abuse
Dec 01, 2000; ... 'How low can Hollywood go," the New York Post's film critic LouLumenick wondered recently, "and still manage to escape an R rating?I've just seen a new PG-13 rated movie in which the devil anallyviolates a cross-dressing Hitler with a pineapple." The scene is from Adam Sandler's ...
Piece of the moon that won't cost the Earth
Dec 01, 2000; ... THOUSANDS of buyers are snapping up plots on the moon - and therush is being led by the Germans, it emerged yesterday. Aside from jokes about towels and pools, estate agents warn thatif Britons do not move soon, many of the best locations will begone. Daniel Goettlich, 28, ...
Why Blunkett found himself trapped in a moral maze
Dec 01, 2000; ... DAVID Blunkett was feeling rather bruised yesterday as hecontemplated a raft of headlines suggesting he had blamed thetelevision game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for the growthof greed and selfishness in society. Politicians take on popular culture at their peril. The ...
Life without hope ended at the hands of a drunken beast
Dec 01, 2000; ... KAREN Collins was blessed with charm, beauty and intelligence. Those who knew her as a young pupil at Dalneigh primary school inInverness where she grew up believed her natural gifts would be herpassport to happiness. For a while it seemed the predictions werebecoming reality, as ...
My working day Keith Miller chief executive, Miller Group
Dec 01, 2000 ... WHEN I can, I get up at 6am and go to the gym. This really is thebest way to set yourself up for the day. I like to go at least threetimes a week, but because I do a lot of travelling it's not alwayspossible. This week I have to be in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester andLondon, mostly to see ...
The rise and fall of the ice cream dynasty
Dec 01, 2000; ... June 1935 - Nardini's Cafe in Largs is built by Pietro and RosaNardini and their three sons, who emigrated from Italy to Scotlandin 1890. Pete and Aldo Nardini are their grandsons. 1959 - Nardini wins the Ice -cream Alliance Supreme Trophy, theequivalent of Olympic gold ....
Daniela: Icy relations that made me feel like casting the first stone
Dec 01, 2000; ... SHE has, until now, kept a discreet distance from the ice-creamwars that have split her family in two. But now Daniela Nardini has jumped into the dispute with bothfeet - and says she is so frustrated that she would like to "throw astone through the window" of the famous family ...
Nasdaq report
Dec 01, 2000 ... THE Nasdaq Composite Index closed 96.27 down at 2602.85, on a daythat over 2.6 billion shares changed hands, the second biggest inthe market's history. At one point the index fell to a session low of 2,523, a levellast seen in August 1999. Semiconductor makers, such as ...
Nat Fraser freed after nine months in jail
Dec 01, 2000 ... THE husband of missing mother- of- two Arlene Fraser wasyesterday freed from prison after serving half of an 18-monthsentence for assaulting her. Arlene Fraser has not been seen since she dropped her childrenJamie, 12, and Natalie, seven, off at school on April 28, 1998 ....
Nutkins hopes magic touch will transform abbey
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE historic Fort Augustus abbey on the shores of Loch Ness hasbeen bought by a group headed by the television personality TerryNutkins with plans to create a new multi-million pound touristattraction. The former Animal Magic presenter yesterday promised there wouldbe no "naff ...
Iraq fears boost price
Dec 01, 2000 ... OIL prices firmed in a market gripped by fears that Iraq wouldhalt crude exports in its latest pricing dispute with the UN. Brent crude oil futures for January stood 20 cents higher at$32.88 a barrel as traders dissected news flashes in an effort tofind any signals of a compromise ...
Crash pilot's emergency landing bid
Dec 01, 2000; ... THE pilot of a light aircraft who died when his plane crashedinto a Scottish hillside had requested permission to make anemergency landing at a local airport just minutes before hisaircraft plunged to the ground. Witnesses at the scene last night reported hearing the enginefail ...
Rallying cry on extra powers for Holyrood
Dec 01, 2000; ... SNP leader John Swinney yesterday called on civic bodies,business leaders and other parties to back his call for increasedpowers for the Scottish parliament. In a St Andrew's Day speech, Mr Swinney said a united front couldwin full fiscal autonomy for Holyrood and prevent a ...
We're not fighting fit any more
Dec 01, 2000; ... New recruits for the Royal Marines get fit on their trainingcourse. But more than 9,000 army men and women are only fit forlight duty. 'Britain's armed forces are already undermanned andoverstretched' TEN per cent of the army is unfit for frontline duty, puttingfurther ...
Fury over Chinook probe ban
Dec 01, 2000; ... TONY Blair was last night accused of a cover-up and of betrayingthe armed forces after he dismissed demands for a fresh inquiry intothe Chinook helicopter disaster. Relatives and campaigners said the government's attitude was"beyond belief" as ministers insisted there was no new ...
Portillo resolves to stay, but not to lead
Dec 01, 2000; ... MICHAEL Portillo was forced to tour the television studiosyesterday to insist he had no plans to drop out of front-linepolitics - but continued to insist that he really didn't want tolead the Conservative Party. The shadow chancellor belatedly sought to quell several days ...
Stars face up to racism
Dec 01, 2000; ... BRITISH celebrities, who are well used to lending their faces tomoney-making schemes, have agreed to pout for a more altruisticpurpose. Some of the country's A-list personalities have undergone amakeover with a difference to allow the viewing public to see whatthey would look ...
Train speeds raised
Dec 01, 2000 ... RAILTRACK is to raise almost half the speed limits that have beenparalysing the network after ministers demanded immediate action toease the plight of travellers. The action is being taken to help the rail network cope with theextra demand over the festive period. Royal ...
Albertz breaks German wall
Dec 01, 2000; ... Rangers 1 Albertz (88) Kaiserslautern 0 Referee: G. Veissiere (France). Att: 47, 279 RANGERS travel to Germany next week with a single-goal lead intheir UEFA Cup tie which was the least they deserved from a firstleg in which their limited success was principally ...