The Scotsman back issues from June 2001:
Archer trial hears of secret tapes
Jun 01, 2001; ... DETAILS of secretly taped conversations, said to reveal anattempt by Lord Archer to cover up a liaison with a prostitute, wereheard yesterday by an Old Bailey jury. The former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party offered hisfriend, Ted Francis, pounds 20,000 to provide an ...
Secretary put false entries in diary
Jun 01, 2001; ... LORD Archer's secretary created a paper trail to cover her backbecause she was so concerned at his request to help fake an alibi, acourt heard yesterday. Angela Peppiatt secretly photocopied documents in a "dishonestinstinct of self-protection" when told to falsify entries in a ...
Asia tumbles after US
Jun 01, 2001 ... ASIAN stocks showed some sizeable declines in response to the 4.2per cent plunge by the US Nasdaq market, with Tokyo and Hong Kongexchanges among the big losers. TOKYO: Japanese stocks ended sharply lower. The 225-issue NikkeiStock Average shed 231.21, or 1.74 per cent, to end at ...
Invensys axes 1,700 jobs after US slump
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE engineering group Invensys is to axe 1,700 jobs from itsworkforce after a slump in orders following a slowdown in the US. Up to 10 per cent of the losses are likely to be in the UK, thecompany said. The redundancies come on top of the 7,300 job cutsInvensys has already ...
Friends of the Earth highlight the good, the bad and the ugly of Scotland's beaches
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE opening of the bathing season is greeted today with a damningreport which labels Scotland's beaches a "national disgrace". It shows that some of the top coastal spots are filled withsewage and ten beaches failed to meet minimum water qualitystandards, three more than in 1999 ....
Election 2001 Partnership can benefit both sides of the Border
Jun 01, 2001; ... FOR me, the Big Idea in this election is partnership. After a term of Labour government at Westminster and two years ofthe Labour-led Scottish executive, things are better in Britain andScotland. In this very short time, a close working relationship has grownup between ...
Fianc faces charges over Blind Date woman's death
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE fianc of a former Blind Date contestant is facingmanslaughter charges in Italy after she died in a car crash, despitea British coroner ruling it was nothing more than an accident. Although a verdict of accidental death was recorded at Windsorcoroner's court yesterday, Vito ...
Boots bid to go upmarket
Jun 01, 2001; ... HIGH street chemist Boots yesterday outlined plans for a new typeof "Pure beauty" store, selling top-of-the-range branded merchandisesuch as Estee Lauder, as it seeks to exploit the boom in premiumcosmetics. The announcement came as the company reported pre-tax profit forthe ...
BP's 700m pound jobs boost
Jun 01, 2001; ... OIL super-major BP is to invest more than GBP 700 million inNorth Sea projects in a move that will create and sustain thousandsof oil platform fabrication and service company jobs, if Scottish-based companies capture contracts. The Scotsman can reveal GBP 400 million of the cash ...
Breast feeding campaign failing to reach its target
Jun 01, 2001; ... RESEARCH in Glasgow has shown that a key Scottish executiveinitiative to improve children's health by encouraging mothers tobreast feed is falling well short of its targets. Breast milk has been proven to protect children against gut,chest and middle ear infections, and mothers ...
Election 2001 Fiscal autonomy finds no favour with the Chancellor
Jun 01, 2001; ... William Hague and his wife Ffion - complete with Keep the Poundballoons - in Torquay yesterday rally the faithful as the campaignenters its final week Picture: Matthew Fearn GORDON Brown will today reject the growing demands for theScottish parliament to be given more financial ...
Election 2001 Why I am voting Ford Kieran Chewin' over the choices
Jun 01, 2001 ... FORD Kiernan, Chewin' The Fat's hapless actor Ronald Villiers, onthe coming election Q: Which constituency do you vote in? A: Kelvin Q: Who did you vote for at the last election? A: I didn't vote. It passed me by. Q: Who is your local MP? A: ...
Vandals delay trains
Jun 01, 2001 ... VANDALS caused major disruption to train services between Glasgowand Edinburgh last night after placing tree branches across the lineand stoning rail staff trying to remove them. A series of incidents at Cowlairs, north of Glasgow Queen Streetstation, delayed 35 trains by a total ...
Sex abuser is jailed
Jun 01, 2001 ... A SEX abuse victim saw the pensioner who preyed on him jailedyesterday - thanks to a chance meeting 25 after the offences. Robert Hannah, 76, abused Ian Fryer when he was a teenager in theSeventies. Mr Fryer - who waived his right to anonymity after thecase - thought Hannah was ...
Power and the glaury
Jun 01, 2001; ... WHERE there's muck there's money - or at least enough electricityto supply 20,000 Scottish homes. To prove that, Scotland's first power station fuelled by chickendroppings is now working in Fife. The GBP 22 million project - claimed to be the world's mostadvanced power ...
Clipper
Jun 01, 2001 ... Fed warns on "euro sclerosis" ROBERT McTeer, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallassaid it was inevitable that Europe's economy will weaken as theglobal economy slows. He remarked that any European downturn may not be as severe asthat in the United States, but ...
Arrest after teenagers' drugs binge
Jun 01, 2001; ... A TEENAGER was last night arrested by police investigating thesupply of a potentially lethal cocktail of drugs to a group ofyoungsters. The youths, including a boy aged only 13, triggered a huge policeoperation in the Howden area of Wallsend, north Tyneside, onWednesday night as ...
Critics renew attacks on Clydebank College
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE running of a Glasgow further education college threatenedwith closure has been heavily criticised in an internal Scottishexecutive briefing document passed to The Scotsman. The paper, produced last month for the lifelong learningdepartment, details a raft of concerns about the ...
Business Comment One chance to consolidate
Jun 01, 2001 ... AS BUSINESS becomes more and more global in nature, so investors,particularly the big institutions, increasingly want to buy and sellshares in international companies across national boundaries. It is a massively lucrative business for those who handle thetrades. But competition ...
German feels sick as officials declare him dead
Jun 01, 2001; ... REPORTS of Heinrich Wehrhahn's death have been greatlyexaggerated. A year after the German government declared him an ex-person -confusing his name with that of a victim of the Concorde disaster -Mr Wehrhahn is still struggling to prove that he is alive. "I am finding it ...
What could be closer to heaven?
Jun 01, 2001; ... LIVINGSTON, West Lothian, in the last century. It was the sunnyFriday night, about half past 1992, that the Pop Star came to town.The community centre was crowded, full of buzz-cut, cement-faced,double-earringed youths. The look was then, as now, shiny sportscasual. The air of menace ...
Euro at six month low
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE euro held at fresh lows for the year against the yen, dollarand pound, undercut by remarks made by European Central Bankofficials that blurred market sentiment about possible intervention. ECB President Wim Duisenberg said that the euro's exchange ratewould pose a problem if it ...
Election 2001 Lib Dems climb the wobbly poll
Jun 01, 2001; ... UNTIL now, the polls have only contributed to the lack ofexcitement in this election. Not only have they been consistentlyclaiming a large Labour lead, they have also been reporting it is anutterly unchanging one. But at last, the polls have wobbled. On Wednesday, the ...
Diary Less majesty
Jun 01, 2001; ... READERS of a certain age will recall the Monty Python Book ofEtiquette, which offered tips on addressing royalty and otherimportant personages. Very much in vogue were simple phrases such as"Yes, Your Majesty" and "No, Your Majesty"; very much out of fashionwere terms such as "sodding", ...
Oasis of the dinosaurs
Jun 01, 2001; ... SCIENTISTS believe they may have stumbled across "dinosaurheaven" after finding the remains of one of the largest animals towalk the earth. The new species of dinosaur, which is believed to be the secondbiggest creature found, was discovered in the Sahara Desert. A ...
Lara Croft firm hits big trouble
Jun 01, 2001; ... EIDOS, the UK computer games publisher and creator of cyberheroine Lara Croft, reported a substantial earnings loss for theyear and confirmed plans to raise pounds 51.7 million from a deeply-discounted rights issue. The one-for-three issue will be priced at 155p, representing ...
Election 2001 Candidate is hit by airgun pellet fired from flats
Jun 01, 2001; ... A LIBERAL Democrat election candidate who was shot by an airgunpellet said last night he thought the assailant was aiming for hisrosette. Chic Brodie, 57, was treated in hospital yesterday after theattack while he was campaigning in Greenock. Police were last night trying ...
Study boosts Euro 2008 bid
Jun 01, 2001; ... A CONFIDENTIAL report prepared for the Scottish FootballAssociation says only a Scandinavian bid stands in the way ofScotland hosting the Euro 2008 championships. An internal feasibility study by a firm of consultants saidScotland would be in a strong position to win the fight for ...
Allianz gives shares a boost
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE German insurer Allianz propped up an otherwise sluggishEuropean market as it promised huge savings from a planned takeoverof Dresdner Bank, while techs languished. Allianz, Europe's biggest insurer by market capitalisation, sawits stock jump 4.4 per cent after saying it could ...
Report for SFA says new stadia key to success
Jun 01, 2001; ... ONLY the Scandinavians stand in the way of Scotland winning thebid to host the Euro 2008 football championships, according to areport for the Scottish Football Association. The consultant DTZ Pieda has secretly assessed Scotland's fourmain rivals for the money-spinning tournament ...
Woman claims she is being victimised
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE threatened eviction of a woman from her home over allegedanti-social behaviour by her 14-year-old twin sons has been welcomedby anti-racist groups. However, single mother of four Jean Brown, from Sighthill, claimsshe is being victimised by Glasgow City Council for attacking ...
Vets on verge of farm plague revolt
Jun 01, 2001; ... ALMOST pounds 600 million foot-and-mouth compensation has nowbeen paid to farmers and the length of time new victims have to waithas been reduced. But most, if not quite all, of the hundreds of private vets fromthe UK and abroad who have worked during an epidemic now in its ...
Sir Alex eyes drugs role
Jun 01, 2001; ... SIR ALEX Ferguson could become the government's new drugs czarafter he retires from Manchester United at the end of next season.Britain's most successful football manager yesterday revealed thatthe Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has already asked him to head anationwide GBP 300 million ...
Election 2001 Big Idea buried beneath mountain of spin
Jun 01, 2001; ... Analysis VOTERS have been crying out for inspiration all through thiscampaign. It is therefore deeply disappointing when the political partywhich has dominated British politics for the last four years failsto come up with a single Big Idea to galvanise the debate and ...
Gig guide
Jun 01, 2001; ... Fiona Shepherd highlights some of the best gigs around thecountry in the next seven days ... Travis Barrowland, Glasgow, 5 June, 7:30pm AN "INTIMATE" gig to acquaint fans with new album, The InvisibleBand. Tel: 0141-332 4400 (Sold out) Victoria ...
New releases ROCK & POP The Pearlfishers: Across The Milky Way
Jun 01, 2001; ... Marina LIKE Crash Test Dummies, The Pearlfishers are the vision of oneman, sometime broadcaster and Serge Gainsbourg fan Davey Scott, whohas devoted his recent musical endeavours to maintaining the time-honoured connection between the music of the west coast of Scotlandand its ...
Future perfect
Jun 01, 2001; ... Prize-winning architect, Rab Bennetts, is a healthy looking 48-year-old. Born in Aberdeen, his Scottish accent has been tempered bytwo decades in London. Sporting a black top and charcoal trousers,he conducts himself with confidence and easy-going lucidity that haswon him a reputation ...
Review Trotting it out by numbers S Club 7
Jun 01, 2001; ... Wembley Arena S CLUB 7 are the ultimate airbrushed band - not just pop stars,but multimedia entities. Their image has been so carefullycultivated and controlled we're used to seeing and hearingperfection. Which all mitigates against them when we get the chanceto see them in the, ...
Silent protest
Jun 01, 2001; ... Once a decade,give or take the odd hiccup,you used to be able toset your watch by the next seismic musical and cultural shift:from60s protest and psychedelia through 70s punk to 80s rap and dance.Since then,well nothing,unless you include the invasion of clonesfrom planet pop that ...
Rainbow comrades in new Left challenge
Jun 01, 2001; ... A COUPLE of years ago, I found myself attending the funeral ofthe Scottish miners' leader Mick McGahey, that crusty old followerof Uncle Joe Stalin. The gathering was attended by all the differentdenominations of the Left - Stalinists, Trots, Maoists, SocialDemocrats. Most of them, in ...
Review Closer To Heaven Arts Theatre, London
Jun 01, 2001; ... MY father would hate this show, a simple and simplistically toldmorality tale of a beautiful boy just off the boat from Ireland whoflirts his way into a job as dancer in a gay club. There is badlanguage, loud music, alcohol, drugs, boy sex, more drugs, boy-girlsex, more drugs and death ...
See u in court
Jun 01, 2001; ... IT IS a telling paradox of modern life that the most accessibleand informal means of communication should be so fraught withmatters of protocol and manners. Technology has delivered us the e-mail message system, hailed for its immediacy, informality andspeed. Time and again it catches us ...
Lowdown dirty trick
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE Animal Planet television channel is to advertise its petawards scheme by putting up posters on lamp-posts at doggy-eyelevel. But posters with a difference. They will be artificiallyimpregnated with the scent of canine urine to entice an excitedRover across the road, dragging his ...
Helen Liddell's big one-party idea
Jun 01, 2001; ... WHAT is Labour's big idea for Scotland during this UK generalelection campaign? Writing in The Scotsman today, the Secretary ofState for Scotland, Helen Liddell, says: "For me, the big idea inthis election is partnership." Ms Liddell defines this as follows:"Other parties may not like ...
A Life less ordinary gets the vote
Jun 01, 2001; ... MEMBERS of pensions company Scottish Life yesterday gave thegroup's GBP 1.1 billion takeover by Royal London the green light inan almost unanimous vote. At Scottish Life's extraordinary general meeting, the group wonthe support of 98.3 per cent of the registered votes - far ...
Inquiry on property development grant
Jun 01, 2001 ... SCOTTISH Enterprise Ayrshire yesterday confirmed an investigationis under way into a GBP 250,000 grant it gave a property developerwhose director was on the board of the agency. The public money was given to Irvine Business Centre, whosedirectors are George Glover and Jack ...
Marilyn's eternal youth
Jun 01, 2001; ... Let's all sing it together. It doesn't matter if a billowing-skirted dress no longer suits - or fits. It matters even less thatprogress has slid another six American presidents into that birthdaygreetings plush-seat. Today Marilyn Monroe would be 75 years old,and it's a birthday which ...
Vodaphone boost keeps FTSE ringing
Jun 01, 2001; ... A BOUNCE back by the mobile telecoms giant Vodafone, togetherwith a series of upbeat company news statements, kept the Londonmarket on an even keel yesterday after a shaky start. The FTSE 100 index of the UK's most valuable companies closeddown 0.8 points at 5,796.1, but that ...
McVeigh appeals for stay of execution
Jun 01, 2001; ... TIMOTHY McVeigh, the convicted Oklahoma bomber, yesterday asked afederal court in Denver to delay his scheduled 11 June execution. His lawyers are preparing to argue that thousands of pages ofundisclosed evidence rendered his conviction unsafe. McVeigh - who has admitted ...
Election 2001 Media watch 'Tis better to have played
Jun 01, 2001; ... LOOK, I don't know how to break this to all the hacks, huckstersand hangers-on out there for whom elections are life and deathstruggles, but there are people out there on the web who may not betaking this whole thing entirely seriously. The Prescott punch was a gift to every ...
Election 2001 Grey vote is attracting attention
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE parties slugged it out over NHS waiting lists yesterday, butthe Scottish Liberal Demo-crats also set out its priorities forelderly people and claimed the party offered them the bestdeal.Malcolm Bruce,the Lib Dem president,said pensioners had beeninsulted by Labour 's 75p pension ...
Family plea for help in search for young mother
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE family of a young mother who has been missing from herEdinburgh home for a month yesterday pleaded for information whichwould help police find her. Amanda Lawson, 24, who has not been seen since 5 May and has lefther five-year-old daughter behind with the youngster's ...
Nasdaq report
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE Nasdaq climbed 26.09, or 1.25 per cent, to 2,110.59, aftertumbling more than four per cent on Wednesday while the Nasdaqcomposite index is on track to break a three-day losing streak. TheNasdaq composite index touched a 30-month low on 4 April asinvestors dumped high-priced tech ...
St Ninian may have brought Christianity to Scotland but he was really St Uinniau
Jun 01, 2001; ... DOZENS of churches, schools and streets proudly bear the name ofSt Ninian, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotlandin the Dark Ages. The son of a Cumbrian chieftain, he is credited with bringing thelight of faith to the north just as the Roman Empire in Britain ...
Oil stocks grow
Jun 01, 2001 ... OIL prices fell, dented by increased stocks of gasoline in theUnited States. London Brent crude futures skidded 60 cents to $28.54 a barrel,while US light crude lost 72 cents to $27.83 a barrel. US gasolinefutures fell 1.77 cents to $1.0235 a gallon. Weekly US stock data ...
Election 2001 A PR writes
Jun 01, 2001; ... I AM not given to extremes. I have abhorred communism ever sincea prawn cocktail in Cuba forbade me any life outwith the lavatoryfor three days. Fascism is a closed book to me. I have one rule inlife: never trust a man in knee-length boots. What then am I to make of Tommy ...
Lots of problems ahead, but club bosses are enthusiastic
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE WORKING party briefed to pull Scotland's bid together forEuro 2008 have to find answers to a series of problems, encompassingeverything from the sensitivities of football club chairmen topolicing one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Six stadia are required for a ...
Election 2001 A borderline case for Labour's confidence
Jun 01, 2001; ... Constituency profile: Liberal Democrats face a tough fight asthey bid to retain their 35-year hold on Tweeddale, Ettrick andLauderdale THE main street in Penicuik is virtually deserted - not the besttime for election candidates to press the flesh. So, in the absence of ...
Trio book in for their job-share
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE discarded bottles of champagne outside the examination hallswhere students were finishing their finals told one story ofcelebration at the University of Glasgow. Inside Lecture Room G6, where the university's latest recruitsshuffled on to the podium for their first official ...
Story of a 'survivor'
Jun 01, 2001; ... ANDREW Colt was a successful 38-year-old financial consultantwith a nice house, wife, couple of cars and kids, when he firstexperienced severe work-related depression five years ago. Lethargyand lack of concentration led to anxiety about work and drinking. "I eventually had to ...
Working towards recovery
Jun 01, 2001; ... James Lawson killed his daughter Sarah. The simple words summingup the high-profile manslaughter court case last month are shocking.Observers can only begin to imagine the depths of despair that leada father to kill his child. Both James and Sarah were tortured byher manic depression and ...
All growing well in the garden of Zog
Jun 01, 2001; ... MARGO MacDonald had brought in plant food and was gamely offeringit to the vegetables on the Labour backbenches. Another Nat, Dorothy-Grace Elder, complained of "jargonism"; adiehard Labour man, Duncan McNeil, complained the beer in Norway wasrather dear. Welcome to another ...
Election 2001 The prime of this keen Tory
Jun 01, 2001; ... THOSE of you worried about the fate of the Conservative Party,amidst the floundering of William Hague, can take heart. For a newWilliam is in the making. I have seen him with my own mince pies. His name is MarcusMacLean, and he is a first-year pupil at Edinburgh's Royal ...
Union fury at SQA bonus plans
Jun 01, 2001; ... TRADE unions at Scotland's troubled exam body have lodged anofficial complaint over plans to extend a controversial bonus schemefor senior managers. UNISON, MSF and the TGWU have written to Bill Morton, chiefexecutive of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), to ...
Alliance may beat home team
Jun 01, 2001; ... DESPITE support from the Scottish executive and the popular willto bring Euro 2008 to the country, Scotland faces a huge challengeif it is to overtake the claim of a joint Scandinavian bid to hostthe tournament. Four countries have combined in the proposal - Sweden, ...