The Scotsman back issues from January 2001:
How Scotland finally broke with the booze
Jan 01, 2001; ... From The Scotsman of Friday, 1 January, 2021 WHATEVER happened to Hogmanay - those huge throngs in PrincesStreet, pubs packed to capacity, and frantic sales at off-licences?How distant (and macabre) a memory they seem now. To ask what happened to Hogmanay is to ask what ...
Straining credibility to portray men as the new victimised sex
Jan 01, 2001; ... FASHION experts famously tried to convince us some time ago thatbrown was the new black. This was followed by a headline in abusiness paper stating that tea was the new coffee. One televisiondrama even had a character recently claim that stupid is the newclever. Maybe we've heard it all ...
Poll reveals high hopes of the UK
Jan 01, 2001; ... BRITISH homeowners are confident of maintaining high livingstandards and 65 per cent think that the value of property will risein 2001, according to a recent survey conducted by NOP for theHalifax. However, figures from the mortgage lender show that last year,house prices in ...
NEW YEAR, NEW STARS
Jan 01, 2001; ... It's been a while since we've heard from the Mac Pack. EwanMcGregor, Kelly MacDonald and Robert Carlyle became the world's best-loved junkies in the media whirlwind after Trainspotting, but you'dbe forgiven for thinking that all had gone quiet on the northernfront. In fact, with ...
Eggs, bread and mobile phones - Sainsbury jumps into telecoms
Jan 01, 2001; ... SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury will launch its own mobile phoneservice this week, and claims to guarantee customers will get thebest deal available as they will be charged the lowest rate of thefour biggest networks. Sainsbury will operate the service, Sainsbury'sOne, inpartnership ...
WH Smith to drop plans for national distribution deals
Jan 01, 2001; ... WH SMITH has shelved its plans for national distribution dealswhich would have threatened the livelihoods of newsagents inoutlying areas. The move will be welcomed by smaller distributors, such asEdinburgh-based John Menzies, which has vigorously opposed the planand whose share ...
The Archers to celebrate with added drama
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE world's longest-running radio soap opera The Archerscelebrates its 50th anniversary today. The BBC Radio 4 programme, which attracts a weekly audience of4.5 million, has turned from a conservative rural drama to anoccasionally raunchy radio soap and has kept audiences riveted ...
Clarke vision not yet reality
Jan 01, 2001; ... PEOPLE alive today could witness the year 3001, according to thegreatest technological prophet of the last century. Humanity has yet to achieve the vision of space colonisation thatArthur C Clarke, in 2001: A Space Odyssey - his novel which was madeinto a classic film in 1968, had ...
Party-goers defy weather to join Scotland's biggest street party
Jan 01, 2001; ... REVELLERS across Scotland braved arctic weather conditions toflock to organised Hogmanay parties. Despite the threat of blizzard conditions and temperatures of -2C, more than 100,000 partygoers were gathering in Edinburgh's citycentre. Organisers insisted the event would go ...
Overseas interest in Cuillin
Jan 01, 2001; ... A FOREIGN buyer is expected to take control of one of Scotland'smost famous mountain ranges within months, it emerged yesterday. Three contenders, two from the United States and one from Europe,have expressed "serious interest" in purchasing the Black Cuillin onthe Isle of Skye ....
Daewoo cuts prices
Jan 01, 2001 ... ANOTHER car manufacturer yesterday joined the ranks of those whoare cutting prices for new models. Daewoo will reduce ticket prices by up to 16 per cent on itsmodels. Its three main models would be 10 per cent lower on averageafter the reductions. Savings would range from ...
It's pants
Jan 01, 2001; ... WHAT are Robbie William's pants like? Well, the literal answer isthey're like black Y-fronts but with a picture of a tiger on thefront. That aside, they're exactly like the last pair of pants anysane adult would want to wear. The trouble is, they're for sale onthe internet, and normally ...
Labour plan for crackdown on apartheid protester
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE Labour government of 1970 was prepared to have anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain arrested to ensure a South Africancricket tour went ahead. The cabinet wanted Mr Hain, now a Foreign Office minister,prosecuted for conspiracy if it could be proved that he was plottingto ...
Prince Charles warned Wilson about threat to Scottish salmon
Jan 01, 2001; ... PRINCE Charles waged a war of words with Prime Minister HaroldWilson to protect salmon fishing on Scottish rivers, it wasrevealed. He warned that the combination of a virulent disease in Atlanticsalmon and over-fishing off Greenland was reducing numbers to suchan extent that rod ...
Diplomat's war of words over hostage deadlock
Jan 01, 2001; ... BRITAIN'S most senior diplomat resorted to swearing in a war ofwords with his American counterpart as they attempted to resolve thedeadlock with prevented the release of Western hostages byPalestinian guerillas seeking the return of comrades imprisoned inforeign jails. The ...
Warnings on dumping of nuclear waste were ignored
Jan 01, 2001; ... BRITAIN dumped up to 60 tonnes of highly radioactive waste intothe Atlantic Ocean despite warnings that the containers would burstopen because of the pressure at the bottom of the sea. Secret files made public at the National Archives of Scotlandtoday reveal that scientists warned ...
How the Declaration of Arbroath meant a big dilemma for Labour
Jan 01, 2001; ... IT IS a stirring statement of Scotland's historic right toindependence, and a stinging rebuke to English nobles who thoughtthey could assume mastery of their neighbours. Unfortunately 650 years later, it presented the Labour Governmentwith the dilemma of recording the anniversary ...
Heath's plan to axe shipyards
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE cabinet meeting which sealed the fate of the Upper ClydeShipbuilders, threatening 8,000 jobs, took place three days beforeChristmas 1970, newly-released government documents reveal. Ted Heath's Conservative administration had been in power for sixmonths when it decided to cut ...
At last, a day to remember at Dome
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE Millennium Dome ended its year-long run last night, after alate rush by visitors to see the controversial London attraction. The New Millennium Experience Company, which runs the Dome,allowed 27,000 to visit yesterday. The figure, following anattendance of 37,000 on Saturday, ...
Closing time for the white elephant of Greenwich
Jan 01, 2001; ... In Greenwich land did Tony Blair a stately pleasure dome decree. And little did the PM know it would all end in ignominy. PARDON the pitiful poetry but when in Dome and all that. Lastnight, the controversial breast-shaped attraction closed its doorsfor the last time. Until, ...
Labour's 2m pound mystery
Jan 01, 2001 ... LABOUR is refusing to name the person behind a GBP 2 milliondonation reportedly banked just weeks before its anti-sleaze lawstake effect. The cash was so vital for the party's finances that Lord Levy,Labour's chief fundraiser who screened the gift, was invited toChequers to ...
Equitable Life comes under investigation
Jan 01, 2001; ... PROBLEMS for Equitable Life, the stricken life insurance group,are set to increase following revelations that the Office of FairTrading is investigating claims that it may have broken competitionrules by imposing massive penalties on people trying to cash intheir policies early ....
FAQ Hair of the dog It'll bite you
Jan 01, 2001; ... Good morning, sir. Permit me to wish you a very happy new year. Mmph? Oh ... yes. Morning, Hargreaves. Shall I prepare breakfast just now, sir? Breakfast? Not on your life, Hargreaves. Can't you see the rumstate I'm in? Got a touch squiffy last night, seeing in the ...
Veil of ignorance fails to hide the arrogance
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE American Philosopher John Rawls, in his controversial work ATheory of Justice, invented what he called a "veil of ignorance" asa means of deriving the basic principles of justice. Behind this"veil of ignorance", he supposed, all things would be equal and itwould thus be possible to ...
Top 10 scientific developments for 2000
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE mapping of the human genome was the most importantbreakthrough of the year. Researchers are already reaping new knowledge from theachievement, including insights into the diversity of cancer, thecauses of ageing, and the complexity of the immune system. The first ...
New offer period attempt to attract buyers for Forth Ports
Jan 01, 2001; ... UP-FOR-SALE cargo handling and property developer Forth Ports isexpected to see in the new year with the launch of a new offerperiod designed to attract additional would-be buyers. Director Sandy Morrison, speaking to a Sunday newspaper, saidfinding the right buyer for the company ...
Hain targeted over apartheid protest
Jan 01, 2001; ... PETER Hain, the Foreign Office minister, was targeted forprosecution by the Labour government of the 1970s because of hisanti-apartheid activities. Papers released under the 30-year rule show Harold Wilson'scabinet considered charging the then 20-year-old Hain withconspiracy, ...
Heseltine accused of fuelling race hate
Jan 01, 2001; ... SENIOR Conservative Michael Heseltine was accused of fuellingrace hate last night after he launched a fresh attack on "bogus"asylum seekers. The former Deputy Prime Minister's comments on BBC Radio 4's TheWorld This Weekend were dismissed as "ill-informed" by Home Officeminister ...
Terror jet passenger sought police help
Jan 01, 2001 ... THE suicidal passenger who brought a British Airways jumbo jet towithin seconds of disaster after seizing its controls was allowed toboard the plane despite showing signs of confusion, police andairline officials admitted yesterday. As BA began an urgent review of its security ...
Cassini's close encounter with Jupiter reveals ferocious storms
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE most dramatic pictures yet seen of the solar system's largestplanet, Jupiter, have been captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraftafter it swung through its closest approach to the giant body. They include spectacular new images of thunderstorms swirlingacross the planet which ...
A festival that put the Dome in the shade
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE Millennium Dome is now history. But what will history make ofit? There is a precedent and a yardstick: the successful 1951Festival of Britain. The first suggestion for such a festival wasmade during the dark days of war in 1943, by the Royal Society ofArts. Thus the festival was an ...
The wizards of Oz
Jan 01, 2001; ... IT HAS been a good year for Australia. The world's enthusiasm forthe Olympics has been revived by clockwork organisation that will behard to match. Already world rugby and cricket champions, theAussies this year picked up the Bledisloe Cup with a famous victoryover the All Blacks; won ...
Millennialists' big night out
Jan 01, 2001; ... FOR numerous readers - to judge by the untiring vigour andvigilance of our letter writers - this morning's hangover will bespecial. This is because last night was the night: the real and truemillennium experience - as opposed to the imposter which a misguidedfew celebrated a year ago ....
World leaders' messages for 2001 full of hope and fears
Jan 01, 2001; ... LEADERS around the world last night expressed their hopes anddesires for 2001 in a series of New Year messages. Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain was standing on the brinkof a new era of opportunity for all. He re-stated the government's "coherent vision" of ...
Plan for mass nuclear graves
Jan 01, 2001; ... THOUSANDS of bodies were to be buried in mass graves dug by theunemployed in the event of a nuclear attack, which documentspredicted could immediately wipe out as many as a million Scots. Officials pondered over the fate of the dead in secret recordsmade public for the first time ...
Cost rises may kill North Sea projects
Jan 01, 2001; ... NORTH Sea oil companies are facing a steep increase inexploration and production costs because ultra-lean contractors nolonger have the capacity to cope with rising demand for theirservices, warns Salomon Smith Barney in its latest survey on theoutlook worldwide for the oil industry ....
River search for body
Jan 01, 2001 ... THE search for the body of an Oxford University rower willcontinue today after he was swept away in a swollen Spanish river. Leo Blockley, 21, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester,vanished on Friday morning after his boat was swamped by turbulentwaters during a ...
Warning over delay hitting morning after pill launch
Jan 01, 2001; ... WOMEN who need the morning after pill have been warned not toexpect to be able to buy it in pharmacies from today, despite agovernment ruling. While it is now legal for pharmacists to sell emergency hormonalcontraception, supplies will not appear in the shops for anothermonth ....
Thatcher's secret plan to charge for library books
Jan 01, 2001; ... IN ONE of her first acts as a Cabinet minister, Margaret Thatcherdrew up secret plans to impose borrowing charges on library books. Newly-released public records show that following the futureprime minister's appointment as the education secretary in EdwardHeath's Tory Government, ...
Public 'hostile' to Britain going into the EEC
Jan 01, 2001; ... PRIME Minister Edward Heath was warned by officials of the needto massage public opinion on Europe if he was to succeed in takingBritain into the Common Market, according to the files released tothe Public Record Office. The documents show the concern within Heath's ...
Diplomats came close to subverting Colombian justice system in Moore case
Jan 01, 2001; ... WHEN England's football captain Bobby Moore was arrested inColombia just before the 1970 World Cup finals for allegedshoplifting, British diplomats spared no efforts to secure hisrelease. With Prime Minister Harold Wilson breathing down their necks,diplomats came perilously ...
It's no smoke
Jan 01, 2001; ... I will, I will, I will do it. This year, this time, for sure, Iwill be a slim, fit, healthy, organised, non-smoking, vegetarianindividual who only has the odd social drink. Do you even believe your New Year's resolutions? Do any of themever last past 1 January? How damaging is the ...
2001: The real odyssey begins
Jan 01, 2001; ... AS THE world wakes up today to a new year, and according to some,a new millennium, it still remains home to every human being. Even the trio of astronauts constantly circling 300 miles abovethe planet in the International Space Station would hardly lay claimto being anything other ...
Ulster feud resumes
Jan 01, 2001 ... FEARS were growing last night of a fresh outbreak in a feudbetween rival loyalist paramilitaries after a man was gunned down. The Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Forcerecently called a truce to the feud which claimed seven lives, ...
New Year revellers brave big chill
Jan 01, 2001; ... THOUSANDS of Hogmanay revellers defied Arctic weather conditionslast night, to take part in street parties across the country. The partygoers who turned out for a range of spectacular eventsacross Scotland refused to be cowed by the howling blizzards,driving rain and sub-zero ...
Style wars heat up
Jan 01, 2001; ... TWO editors of celebrity style magazines are squaring up for thebiggest cat fight of the decade. The match is scheduled for nextseason, but the two opponents are already undergoing rigoroustraining. The formidable Dee Nolan of In Style will be in the righthand corner. In the left is ...
Modern suicide statistics echo medieval times
Jan 01, 2001; ... MODERN circumstances which cause more men than women to commitsuicide were replicated in medieval times, according to researchpublished today. The study of Eyre records, a judicial and administrative inquirythat was sent out to English counties from the 12th to early ...
What the Sunday papers tipped for the year ahead
Jan 01, 2001; ... SUNDAY BUSINESS ALTHOUGH Cable & Wireless has lost 40 per cent of its value sinceMarch, the newspaper is tipping it for the second year running. C&W,903p, is unlike other telecom companies in that it is not sinkingunder a mountain of debt. Consolidation in the banking ...
What the Sunday papers said Christmas bonus for stores after last minute deluge of shoppers
Jan 01, 2001 ... Sunday Business RETAILERS are preparing for a bumper new yearafter a busy week of pre-Christmas trading and a strong start to thesales season. The majority of Britain's biggest high street players expect asharp rise in sales over the last fortnight to make up for severalweeks of ...
Tracker
Jan 01, 2001 ... Footsie forecast to rise this year LEADING banks and brokers are forecasting a big jump for theFootsie this year from the 6225.5 it closed at last year. MorganStanley Dean Witter sees it finishing the year at 8125; LiontrustAsset Management at 8000; Salomon Smith Barney at 7,600; ...
As time goes by
Jan 01, 2001; ... Let us hope that when future historians come to ponder themillennial celebrations they find room among pictures of the ticker-tape in Times Square, the fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridgeand the face of Big Ben for Slocum's Bowl-O-Drome in Lawrenceville,New Jersey. Last ...
Blizzards cause more chaos for travellers
Jan 01, 2001; ... ATROCIOUS weather caused travel chaos across Scotland yesterday.Up to eight inches of snow fell in some places and there were galesof up to 70mph in exposed areas. Severe gales and snow made conditions hazardous across Britainand there were at least four deaths in 48 hours ....
Labour plans new bid to have more women MPs
Jan 01, 2001; ... LEGISLATION to give political parties the right to adopt positivediscrimination policies in favour of women candidates is to bebrought in if Labour wins a second term in office. It would allow Labour to introduce a form of quotas for women inthe next Scottish parliamentary ...
Whose sock is it anyway?
Jan 01, 2001; ... Every year, in every town, at the epicentre of the Hogmanaycelebrations, the spot where the most drunken, slobbery kisses areexchanged, where swigs of unidentifiable alcohol are taken from themost unhygienic bottles in the hands of the most unsavourystrangers, and the spot furthest away ...
Hanging artwork
Jan 01, 2001; ... For those rich enough , designer clothes are a combination ofsecurity blanket and subversive statement. But are they art? HugoBoss would like to think so, having already sponsored an awardexhibition at the downtown Guggenheim. So would Armani, who recentlydonated a substantial sum of ...
Review 2001: Faces to watch
Jan 01, 2001; ... We all remember the big performances from the big stars. But theemergence of new talent can be as thrilling, and there are a numberof names that caught the headlines in 2000 which are worth keepingan eye on over the next twelve months. It is almost a year ago to the day since ...
Strings to come
Jan 01, 2001; ... If one big music story is guaranteed to run through 2001, it isthe ongoing plight of Scottish Opera. As was the case last year, itis likely to be a tale of ups and downs. At the centre of the debate will be the question over whether thecompany can continue to survive on the ...
The city's light fantastic
Jan 01, 2001; ... EVERYONE in New York spends a lot of time looking up, and thefestive holiday season makes for even more cricks in the neck. Butwe're not just talking fairy lights here - we're talking freeexhibitions of "artistic" lights like Anne Militello's faade atBroadway's New 42nd Street Studio, or ...
Access all arias
Jan 01, 2001; ... GOOD things are promised by the operatic powerhouses in Cardiffand Leeds this year, but nothing is likely to outshine the RoyalOpera House's dazzling new La Cenerentola, which gets back into geartoday. Other goodies include Hans Werner Henze's Manon-reworking ofBoulevard Solitude (20 ...
Opera Gala Night
Jan 01, 2001; ... Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow Dashing through the snow In a Fiat 1.8 To the opera show 'Fraid of being late ... ONE who wasn't as lucky as your correspondent was baritone KeithLatham who arrived from Manchester airport by coach just fiveminutes before ...
Nick Massi dies at 73
Jan 01, 2001; ... NICK Massi, an original member of the Four Seasons, who handledbass vocals and vocal arrangements throughout the group's glorydays, has died in his birthplace, Newark, New Jersey. He was 73. Massi performed with several bands before joining Frankie Valliin a group called the Four ...
Actor Leo Gordon dies
Jan 01, 2001; ... LEO Gordon, a tough-guy actor famous for playing the villain inscores of Westerns and television shows for nearly 50 years, hasdied in Los Angeles, aged 78. In a career that included about 70 films and dozens of TV shows,Gordon created a gallery of mobsters, killers and baddies ....
Meet the taxman who plans to show us a user-friendly face
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE largely unseen men and women who run the Inland Revenue havedecided it's time to come out of their shadows and appoint theirfirst ever director of marketing. The honour - or, some would say,"poisoned chalice" - falls to a Scots born and educated high flyingmarketing guru. Dr ...
Was this the biggest hoax on mankind?
Jan 01, 2001; ... HAPPY New Year, and in the spirit of the season I thought I wouldcheer you up with some good news. Despite your hangover, and moreespecially despite what you read in today's newspapers and hear ontelevision and radio, the year ahead is NOT going to be as bad asyou think. How do ...
Men who created a nation
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE three men whose vision and persistence brought about thebirth of modern Australia: ALFRED DEAKIN: A tall, fastidious man from Victoria, Deakin hadnursed the formation of an Australian nation as a sacred missionsince the late 1880s. He was a spiritualist, convinced he ...