The Scotsman back issues from August 2001:
Review Staying in the frame Patricia Macdonald: Airworks
Aug 01, 2001; ... Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh PATRICIA Macdonald's photographs are in a tradition that runsfrom the earliest of cave paintings to Turner's landscapes andbeyond. The images are not just reproductions or representations,they are attempts to capture the natural world and the ...
Waiter victim of acid attack
Aug 01, 2001; ... AN ASIAN restaurant worker has been left scarred for life afteracid was thrown over him . Police say the attacker was white, but remain unsure if hismotive was racial. The 35-year-old victim was ambushed as he left the Indian Villarestaurant in Motherwell, where he is a ...
All-hotels is booked up
Aug 01, 2001; ... ALL-HOTELS, the online hotel booking agency, shrugged offinternet sector gloom to report a 60 per cent jump in bookingsduring the first half of 2001. The privately-held company said sales from hotel bookings overthe past three months reached almost GBP 3.5 million. The ...
Ford fails in court appeal
Aug 01, 2001; ... NEWSREADER Anna Ford yesterday lost her High Court bid tooverturn a Press Complaints Commission (PCC) decision rejecting hercomplaint that her holiday privacy was invaded by paparazzi. In what was believed to be the first case of its kind, Ms Fordwas seeking a judge's permission ...
Japan's blue-chips bounce back
Aug 01, 2001 ... ASIAN equities were broadly firmer yesterday. Stocks in Japan,Hong Kong and South Korea made most of the running, with hi-techfirms and banks in favour, and the key index in Tokyo reboundingfrom a 16-year low. TOKYO: Japan's benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average surged281.50 ...
Caisteal Tioram: 9 a-mach 10 air son leasachaidh?
Aug 01, 2001; ... "CHA d'rinn Alba Eachdraidheil son mun chaisteal gu ruige seo,"tha Donaidh MacGillebhrath ag rdh. "A-nise tha iad shuas a' sabaid'na aghaidh. 'S chan fhaic thu diofar mr bhon rathad, dreachuinneagan is mullach. "Se ite bragha, bragha a th' ann. Thadhail mi air gu tric, 's mi'nam ...
More customers switching banks
Aug 01, 2001; ... CONSUMERS who are unhappy with their bank are more likely thanever to defect to a rival financial provider, according to a reportpublished yesterday. The traditional inertia surrounding current accounts among thebig four banks in UK high streets has been eroded, according to ...
BAT results burn bright but company warns of downturn
Aug 01, 2001; ... BRITISH American Tobacco has posted a higher-than-expected 33 percent rise in half-year profits, but warned it could still beaffected by a global economic slowdown. The world's second largest tobacco group, whose brands includeLucky Strike, Kent, Dunhill and Rothmans, said profits ...
Security alert for Blair in green protest
Aug 01, 2001; ... TONY Blair was at the centre of a security alert yesterday afterenvironmental demonstrators burst through police cordons to getwithin feet of the Prime Minister as he visited So Paulo in Brazil. Members of Greenpeace were pulled away from Mr Blair by securityguards as they ...
Lib Dems at war over Borders education crisis
Aug 01, 2001; ... LIBERAL Democrats in the Borders were embroiled in a politicalrow last night after the area's four parliamentarians distancedthemselves from party colleagues who run Scottish Borders Council. In a statement ahead of a crucial council meeting today toconsider the financial crisis ...
Halifax goes out on a high as shares rise
Aug 01, 2001; ... SHARES in Halifax jumped almost 6 per cent yesterday, despiteposting a 5 per cent fall in pre-tax profits at pounds 839 millionin its last ever results before the creation of HBOS. But Halifax went out on a high note, spectacularly reclaiming itsposition as the UK's largest ...
ScottishPower sails into windfarm row
Aug 01, 2001; ... SCOTTISHPOWER has unveiled controversial plans to build the UK'sbiggest windfarm - generating enough electricity to power 150,000households - on moorland just 10 miles south of Glasgow. The pounds 150 million, 140 turbine project, with a capacity of240 megawatts, will be situated ...
Children too frightened to play outside
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE THREAT of bullying and a fear of strangers is deterringchildren from playing outdoors this summer, a new survey hasrevealed. A poll of 800 youngsters aged four to 16 for the Children'sSociety found that, while about two-thirds felt they had enoughplaces to play outside, 61 ...
'I don't think I'm over-cautious'
Aug 01, 2001; ... ELEANOR MacDonald, 39, lives in Edinburgh with her husband,Richard, and their three children, Alisdair, seven, Hamish, six, andAngus, four-and-a-half. "With three boys, I am well aware that they do need to get out ofthe house and expend some energy, but you do worry about ...
TV star Carol launches bid to protect children
Aug 01, 2001; ... TELEVISION presenter Carol Vorderman yesterday launched acampaign to protect children from being abused by paedophilesthrough the internet. Ms Vorderman is leading the NSPCC call for the government to funda public awareness campaign to show children how to safeguardthemselves ...
NET GAINS: MORE MOTORS SOLD ON WEB
Aug 01, 2001 ... CAR dealers gearing up for what they hope to be a sales bonanzawhen the new registration plates arrive next month should make themost of it while the going is good, according to new advice. Because British car buyers are embracing the internet and turningaway from traditional ...
Top marques are given low marks in reliability survey
Aug 01, 2001; ... PAYING top prices for a prestigious badge and the latest designdoes not guarantee freedom from roadside breakdowns, according to anew car reliability league table due out tomorrow, which claims thatthe Land Rover Discovery is the least reliable buy. One in five Discoveries between ...
Celtic jubilant over share-issue as 22.5m pound investment is raised
Aug 01, 2001; ... CELTIC yesterday defied speculation over the success of theirlatest share-issue by announcing they had raised GBP 22.5 million ininvestment. Last week, the Glasgow football club extended the timing of theissue over fears it was under-subscribed. However, the chairman, Brian ...
Water chief loses adviser role after taking PR job
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE former chief executive of West of Scotland Water yesterdaylost his consultancy role with the authority amid fears that his newjob at their PR firm would result in a "conflict of interest". Ernie Chambers left his post running the water authority ten daysago with a pounds ...
Baby death arrest
Aug 01, 2001; ... A LOCAL authority-registered childminder was last night chargedin connection with the death of a one-year-old baby. The woman, who has not been identified, is due to appear atEdinburgh Sheriff Court later this morning. Alexander Graham, who had his first birthday last month, ...
Woman's conviction for baby's murder quashed
Aug 01, 2001; ... CHILDMINDER Helen Stacey yesterday had her murder conviction forshaking a baby to death quashed and reduced to a conviction formanslaughter. The decision by the Court of Appeal means the 44-year-old formerprostitute's life sentence has been cut to seven years. She will nowserve ...
Clipper
Aug 01, 2001 ... Temporary indicators of staffing levels EUROPEAN firms started hiring fewer temporary staff a few monthsago. But they have yet to impose the kind of jobs clampdownwitnessed in the US, according to the head of the world's largesttemporary employment agency. John Bowmer, ...
Curtain goes down on the end of an era as Clydeside yard puts up For Sale sign
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE birthplace of three of the world's greatest ocean liners -Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and QE2 - is destined to be swallowed upby a massive Clydeside business, leisure and housing complex beingmasterminded by Scottish Enterprise Dumbartonshire. Never again will the former John ...
Business Comment BT still keeping us hanging on
Aug 01, 2001 ... BT MIGHT have been trumpeting plans yesterday to finally connectsome areas of the Highlands to broadband, high speed internetservices via satellite. But, given its track record on delivery of such services by moreeasily deliverable terrestrial means, small business owners might ...
Dazzling insights of the merry French seer
Aug 01, 2001; ... I HOPE you will not think it unseemly if I confess I am in lovewith a man. It gets more perverse. He has been in his grave for 150years. Every time I think of him, my sentiments are of the warmestaffection. Every time I read one of his articles, I hug myself withpleasure ....
White papers raise doubts
Aug 01, 2001; ... TWO government white papers aimed at reforming competition andbankruptcy rules to encourage "risk-taking entrepreneurs" havereceived a cautious welcome from business leaders. The Department of Trade and Industry yesterday unveiled its much-heralded competition white paper, in ...
Victims of mis-sold pensions are still entitled to windfalls, rules High Court
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE High Court in London gave a boost to the victims of pensionmis-selling yesterday after ruling that demutualisation benefitscannot be set off against compensation payments. Up to 43,000 consumers will benefit from he decision of vicechancellor Sir Andrew Morritt, who said that ...
Computer charts universe
Aug 01, 2001; ... A SUPERCOMPUTER capable of making 10 billion calculations asecond and which will simulate the creation of the universe wasofficially switched on yesterday. With the click of a mouse, the trade and industry minister,Patricia Hewitt, started up the GBP 1.4 million Cosmology ...
Dollar dips on weak data
Aug 01, 2001 ... THE dollar dipped slightly against the euro after weakmanufacturing data from the United States heartland dropped sharplyin July and US consumer confidence declined more than expected inJune. The weak reports were counter-balanced by a bigger thanexpected rise in personal income and ...
Deacon accused of snub to tobacco adverts bill
Aug 01, 2001; ... SUSAN Deacon, the health minister, was accused yesterday ofsnubbing attempts to ban tobacco advertising in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP's health spokeswoman, said she was "verydisappointed" that her attempt to win the support of the executivefor her member's bill appeared to ...
Depression and stress top illness league
Aug 01, 2001; ... SCOTS are suffering high levels of depression and hypertension,according to figures published by the NHS in Scotland yesterday. Depression was the most common complaint recorded by GPs lastyear, with 15.2 per cent of patients complaining of the condition.The second most common was ...
Stagg will join panel to discuss TV crime
Aug 01, 2001; ... COLIN Stagg, who was cleared of the murder of Rachel Nickell, isto discuss with television executives the growing obsession withcrime on the small screen, it was announced yesterday. He joins a panel who will debate the effects of crime shows withindustry chiefs at the Guardian ...
Junior doctors work illegal hours as staff fall
Aug 01, 2001; ... NEWLY-QUALIFIED junior doctors starting their first jobs onhospital wards today face working illegally long hours, the BritishMedical Association has warned. The caution comes as the latest figures show that there are nowfewer GPs entering the profession as more take early ...
Religious group calls for ban on rock acts
Aug 01, 2001; ... A GROUP of Christian campaigners launched a petition yesterday toban controversial American rock stars Eminem and Marilyn Manson fromthe line-up at this year's Gig on the Green festival. Rapper Eminem has provoked outrage with his Texas ChainsawMassacre act and controversial ...
Fourth day of recovery rally for tech sector
Aug 01, 2001 ... EUROPE'S technology shares lifted bourses as the batteredsector's recovery stretched to a fourth straight day on hopes theworst may be over as US consumers continue to spend. Tech sentiment was helped by US mobile phone maker Motorolamaintaining its earnings forecasts ....
Gender gap concerns grow as girls continue to excel in exams
Aug 01, 2001; ... SCHOOL pupils achieved the best results in eight years during theexams fiasco, it was revealed yesterday. However, the Scottish executive was urged to close the gapbetween girls and boys, as new figures revealed that girls arebetter when it comes to obtaining qualifications at ...
GM tomato may be key to future food production
Aug 01, 2001; ... SCIENTISTS have created a tomato that thrives on salty water in adevelopment which could allow vast areas of poor quality land tobecome fertile and productive. The genetically engineered plant is the first truly salt-tolerant crop. It could hold the key to boosting food production ...
'Anomalies' found in Scottish LFA payments
Aug 01, 2001; ... ANALYSIS of 13,500 less-favoured area payment claims byScotland's hill, upland and moorland farmers has shown "anomalies"the rural development minister admitted yesterday. After a meeting with representatives of the Scottish LandownersFederation, an organisation which argued two ...
Executive urged to fight EU ban
Aug 01, 2001; ... PRESSURE increased on the Scottish executive yesterday to take atougher unilateral line to re-open the meat and livestock exportmarket. Although the epidemic continues in England and Wales - eight newcases by mid-afternoon yesterday in Cumbria and Powys, taking thetotal for the ...
Call for interest rates cut after shock rise in jobless figures
Aug 01, 2001; ... PRESSURE is mounting on the European Central Bank to cut interestrates when it meets tomorrow following the news that Frenchunemployment has risen for the first time in three years. The number of people out of work in France, the eurozone's secondlargest economy, increased 0.1 per ...
Friends' sales slump
Aug 01, 2001; ... INSURER Friends Provident, which floated on the stock exchangethis month, has posted a slump in sales on the back of uncertaintysurrounding its demutualisation and listing. Like a number of insurers, the life insurer is dependent onindependent financial advisers for its sales ....
Faulty gene linked to breast cancer
Aug 01, 2001; ... A FAULTY gene linked to bowel cancer also plays an important rolein the development of breast cancer, scientists reported yesterday. Researchers in Japan found that the gene, which normally defendsthe body against cancer, was switched off in more than a third ofthe breast tumours ...
Why the WTO is asking its members, 'Can we talk?'
Aug 01, 2001; ... "YOU talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" So said Robert De Niro inTaxi Driver, infamously spawning generations of kids with wetbacksposing in front of the mirror with combs, vests and a dubiousattitude. A similar refrain might be heard if one were to step onto thestreets of ...
Pool talks break down
Aug 01, 2001 ... THE first talks between Govanhill pool protesters and GlasgowCity Council broke down last night with no solution reached over theoccupation of the baths. The protesters have staged a round the clock sit-in at the poolsince the local authority locked the doors - and vow to ...
What I certainly would not do for love
Aug 01, 2001; ... Dear Rosie, I hope you don't mind my using your first name. It'sjust that if I were to call you Ms Wodehouse, all those spiffing one-liners which your father's cousin PG honed for the lips of Jeevesand Wooster might distract me from the seriousness of my message.And I can't, of course, ...
Court told of pensioner's 12-year village hate campaign
Aug 01, 2001; ... A PENSIONER waged a 12-year hate campaign against his neighboursfrom behind the faade of a picturesque village, a court heardyesterday. It was alleged at Teesside Crown Court that James Forster, 67,terrorised his elderly neighbour, Molly Christian, and two familieswith a series ...
Scottish house prices lagging behind UK
Aug 01, 2001; ... HOUSE prices in Scotland are grinding to a halt despite soaringdouble-digit growth south of the Border. The latest snapshot of the UK housing market by the Nationwidebuilding society shows prices rose 1.1 per cent during July, whilethe last quarterly figures for Scotland, also ...
Intelligent moves ahead
Aug 01, 2001 ... EDINBURGH-based Intelligence Finance (IF), the 'telenet' banksubsidiary of Halifax, captured a nine per cent share in the UKmortgage market in June. In the past two months, it claimed to haveexperienced an unprecedented demand for its products, with a 47 percent increase in balances from ...
Israelis are condemned as rockets kill eight
Aug 01, 2001; ... BRITAIN and the United States last night condemned an Israelimissile attack on a West Bank office of the militant Islamic groupHamas that killed eight Palestinians, including two senior Hamasleaders and two young boys. Eye-witnesses at the scene in the Palestinian-ruled city ...
ITN fights Murdoch's BSkyB for ITV news contract
Aug 01, 2001; ... ITV is considering two competitive tenders for the first time tocover provision of news content on the ITN network - business whichcould be worth GBP 150 million over the next four years . ITN has provided ITV's networked news since independenttelevision was introduced in Britain ...
More staff for troubled behavioural school
Aug 01, 2001; ... STAFFING is to be increased at a residential school for some ofScotland's most disturbed children after inspectors questionedwhether the existing number of workers could cope. An extra 22 posts will be created at Kerelaw School in Ayrshireas part of GBP 788,000 of improvements ...
Environment agency on the wrong path?
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE Auditor General, Robert Black, is the Scottish parliament'sofficial watchdog for ensuring propriety and value for money in thespending of public funds. In January of this year, he published acaustic report criticising the performance of the ScottishEnvironment Protection Agency ...
Nickel pickle
Aug 01, 2001; ... WARNING: the euro can seriously damage your health. Whileeconomists may be concerned about the implications of theintroduction of the new currency at the beginning of next year, thepoor souls who have to use unloved coinage are beset by a morepressing concern - the euro coins have been ...
No glory in murder
Aug 01, 2001; ... ISRAEL'S bloody attack on a Hamas office in the West Bank town ofNablus yesterday will have come as no surprise to the Islamicmovement, which is intent on the destruction of Israel. Indeed,Jamal Mansour, a founding member of the group, said he would welcomemartyrdom if it happened ....
Ban lifted on race-hate Nation of Islam leader
Aug 01, 2001; ... THE controversial Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, islikely to visit Scotland after winning a court battle against a 15-year ban on entering the UK. He has been excluded from Britain since 1986 by successive homesecretaries, who have argued that the Islamic activist's ...
Redundancy threat lifted at Mayflower
Aug 01, 2001; ... ENGINEERING group Mayflower Corporation yesterday said itsAlexander's bus manufacturing business was motoring again. The company, which reported a one third drop in first half 2001profits to pounds 19.3 million, said a massive shake-up of its busmanufacturing business had erased ...
Long and winding road for Beatles survivors
Aug 01, 2001; ... THERE is nothing guaranteed to make you feel the passage of timeso much as an ageing Beatle. Here is baby-faced Paul McCartney, aknight and almost of pensionable age, posing with Heather Mills, hisnew fiance. There is George Harrison, emerging from a Swiss clinicafter treatment for a ...
Nasdaq report
Aug 01, 2001 ... THE technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index added 9.28 points, or0.46 per cent, to 2,027.12. Web gear giant Cisco Systems rose 72 cents to $19.61. SalomonSmith Barney issued an upbeat note on Cisco, saying the company -due to issue its fiscal fourth-quarter results next week - ...
Worried owners may be allowed to swap homes
Aug 01, 2001; ... HOMEOWNERS on a new estate threatened by subsidence may be ableto swap their homes for others owned by the developer. Barratt East Scotland managing director Robin Guest told peoplewho have bought property at the development in Gilmerton their caseswould be looked at seriously if ...
NEC cuts 600 jobs at Livingston plant
Aug 01, 2001; ... ELECTRONICS giant NEC confirmed yesterday that 600 jobs will belost at its semiconductor plant in Livingston. A collapse in the market for the firm's DRAM memory chip wasblamed for the job losses. However, the company said production ofother electronic components will continue, ...
Website helps SMEs to log on
Aug 01, 2001; ... TELECOM regulator Oftel has welcomed the re-launch of a telecomsindustry-sponsored website aimed at offering small to medium-sizedenterprises advice on how to integrate IT into the running of theirbusinesses. The website, www.telecomsadvice.org.uk, has been re-structured toallow ...
Review could allow BT to increase call charges
Aug 01, 2001; ... BRITISH Telecom could be allowed to increase charges for itsdomestic customers following a review by the industry's regulatorinto price controls. Oftel is consulting industry and consumer groups before it scrapsprice controls, which will allow BT to charge what it likes for ...
Energy firms slide on well failure
Aug 01, 2001; ... SHARES in a group of energy companies pioneering the deepwaterhunt for oil and gas off Mauritania, North-west Africa, fellyesterday on news that their second exploration well had failedcommercially. Leader of the consortium, Australia's Woodside Petroleum,initially fell 35 cents ...
Focus on US fuel stocks
Aug 01, 2001 ... OIL prices dropped again yesterday, as concerns over the impactof the worldwide economic slowdown on petroleum consumptioncontinued to weigh on the market. With traders still assessing the impact of the Organisation ofthe Petroleum Exporting Countries' latest production cut, due ...
England bowled over
Aug 01, 2001 ... THE English cricket authorities have angrily denied trying towriggle out of bad performances after being ridiculed by theAustralian coach. In a memo to his team, John Buchanan said England had been"hanging on to excuses" instead of acknowledging they had been apoor second to the ...