The Scotsman back issues from April 2002:
Review Music Makars
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Hub and Queen's Hall, Edinburgh THE mini-festival of Scottish music concerts and workshops jointlypresented by The Hub and The Queen's Hall included the last night ofthe Scottish Women tour, a concert by Dick Gaughan and Brian McNeill(with Michael Marra as a guest), and a ...
AAM faces threat of legal action over split trusts
Apr 01, 2002; ... ABERDEEN Asset Management could face legal action from out-of-pocket private investors over its underperforming split capitalinvestment trusts. It is understood that more than 30 individual cases are beingexamined by London firm Class Law from investors who claim they ...
Victim of bus shelter car crash is named
Apr 01, 2002; ... AN elderly woman who was killed when a driver apparently suffereda fatal heart attack at the wheel and ploughed into the bus stop shewas waiting at has been named. Margaret McCormack, 69, from Edinburgh, died in the RoyalInfirmary after the accident in Liberton Gardens on Friday ....
Critic's choice Classical
Apr 01, 2002; ... Kenneth Walton highlights the best concerts around the countryover the next seven days ... La Traviata Marimba! Schumann Two Mahler One Beethoven Seven OrganRecital Haddo House, Aberdeen, 3, 5 and 6 April BEN Parry conducts Haddo House Operatic Society's production ...
New Releases
Apr 01, 2002; ... CLASSICAL Berwald: Symphonies Vol 1 Walton: Collected Works ClaraSanabras: Irish Folk Songs and Ballads JAZZ Tomasz Stanko Quartet:Soul of Things FOLK Sharon Shannon & The Woodchoppers: Live In GalwayWORLD Arabia: The Woman's Voice Chandos: CHAN 9921 IF YOU liked what you ...
Rapping railway child
Apr 01, 2002; ... With power bob, black bra visible under a cream blouse, and anolive pencil skirt cut tight and high above the knee, Jenny Agutterthrows a leg over a chair in her caravan and explains she's dressedto impress. OK, I'm impressed. She's 49 but doesn't look it, not a bit. "Ifeel 29," ...
A tale of two traditions
Apr 01, 2002; ... CENTRAL Asia may be the focus of world attention right now, butits largest country - where a lot of Scots are currently working - isstill an enigma. Kazakhstan's 16 million souls inhabit a land massthe size of Western Europe, and they are heirs to some of the world'sbiggest sources of ...
Review Gillianne Haddow (viola) and Peter Evans (piano)
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Town House, Haddington SALLY Beamish is one of Scotland's most prolific and versatilecomposers. The premiere of her viola sonata, commissioned by theHaddington Music Club, follows a second viola concerto and Monster,her first opera. Inspired by the life of Clara Schumann, the ...
Singing with no promise of a supper
Apr 01, 2002; ... It's a bitter irony that on the very day Scottish Opera's chiefexecutive Chris Barron spoke to me about his company's 40th birthdayaspirations - the big day is 5 June - his major funder, the ScottishArts Council (SAC), was announcing a draft five-year music strategythat sends out a ...
Barry Took, pioneer of radio comedy, dies at the age of 73
Apr 01, 2002; ... BARRY Took, the comedy scriptwriter and former presenter of BBC'sPoints Of View, has died in his sleep. He was 73. His family said Took, who was suffering from cancer, diedyesterday morning at a nursing home in north London. Took was a natural comedian, but found greater fame ...
Orkney tribute to Italian PoWs who became part of the family
Apr 01, 2002; ... AN EXHIBITION commemorating the arrival of Italian prisoners ofwar in Orkney opens today, celebrating the relationship between thecommunity and the incomers who arrived as enemies and left asfriends. The exhibition, at Stromness Museum, marks 60 years since thearrival in Orkney ...
Chess becomes the beautiful game
Apr 01, 2002; ... FOR years it has been considered the preserve of the eccentric,played by bespectacled geniuses, intellectual loners and men incorduroy jackets. Now, thanks to a 17-year-old Russian who is being touted as the"Anna Kournikova of the black-and-white board", the game of chess isto ...
The new cold war
Apr 01, 2002; ... Losing a lone pork chop is understandable. Forgetting about a pintof milk until it makes an attempt to escape itself is commonplace.Not remembering that you bought a bag of fresh vegetables - with thelaughable intention of making something healthy to eat some time soon- until they melt ...
DIY-ers spend GBP 1200 to give homes a makeover
Apr 01, 2002; ... BRITAIN'S enthusiasm for home improvements shows no sign ofslowing, with people planning to spend an average of GBP 1,243improving their home this spring, a survey reveals. The increase in the amount of money DIY-ers plan to splash out onprojects around the house, which is 65 per ...
Former wife in legal threat to impound body of Dudley Moore
Apr 01, 2002; ... ONE of Dudley Moore's former wives is threatening to halt hisfuneral after she was barred from the ceremony, it emerged yesterday. Nicole Rothschild is said to have hired an attorney to "impoundthe corpse" ahead of tomorrow's service, after claiming that theirsix-year-old son, ...
Enterprise trust merger aims to end confusion
Apr 01, 2002; ... A MERGER of four Enterprise Trusts in the North East will see thecreation of Scotland's first "super-Trust" with a turnover of nearlypounds 3 million and a staff of 60. The new Enterprise North East Trust, which is being launchedtoday, is made up of four trusts, each with a staff ...
FMD debate: All over bar the shouting?
Apr 01, 2002; ... The voice of the people remains only partly heard despite liveradio 'debate' MOST of us have had experience of being lost in a city, asking apromising-looking passer-by for directions and being told that theytoo are strangers. You get the same sort of feeling with a vox-pop ...
Week in politics Tony Blair in limbo as he prepares for George Bush talks
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE CRANES have already moved into the Palace of Westminster. Bythe end of this week, the politicians' home will have been convertedinto a temporary resting place for the Queen Mother. The Great Hall, the most spectacular and emptiest building in thePalace, is being transformed to ...
The Forsytes on TV
Apr 01, 2002 ... WHEN The Forsyte Saga was first shown in 1967, only seven millionpeople could receive BBC 2. Six million of them tuned in to watch. From then on, the 26-part series started breaking all kinds ofrecords. When shown on BBC1 the following year, it gained an audienceof 18 million ....
For the love of Ada
Apr 01, 2002; ... Something happened to John Galsworthy in 1891. Before then, hislife had been on the stereotypically even keel of the late Victorianupper-middle class: childhood in a Surrey mansion with its owncricket pitch; empire-ruler's education at Harrow and Oxford;undemanding career at the Bar ....
The book
Apr 01, 2002 ... WHO reads John Galsworthy now? There is no biography in print, thewhole tide of modernism runs against him, and the world he describesseems hopelessly dated. Yet for the first three decades of the last century, he wasBritain's most successful writer, with 30 novels and short ...
Villagers' victory over Pictish site
Apr 01, 2002; ... A HIGHLAND community which won a fight to keep a historic Pictishstone in the village where it was created has taken over the landwhere the monument lies. A tug-of-war developed last year over the recently discovered baseof the 8th century Hilton of Cadboll cross slab stone carved ...
Belief in fate could be fatal for heart attack victims who delay
Apr 01, 2002; ... HEART attack victims delay going to hospital because of a beliefin fate and "what will be, will be", a study has shown. Researchers, who questioned heart attack patients at EdinburghRoyal Infirmary, found that those who felt they had little controlover their destiny were more ...
Granada and Carlton set to offer League 90m pounds
Apr 01, 2002; ... GRANADA and Carlton, owners of collapsed ITV Digital, are set toimprove a payoff to the Football League from GBP 50 million to GBP 90million, amid signs that the bitter row between the two sides couldbe resolved. Loss-making ITV Digital was put into administration last weekowing ...
Music's bold bridge maker
Apr 01, 2002; ... From the street below, the muted traffic noise rises from theUnter den Linden, that great European thoroughfare restored to Berlinby the fall of the Wall. The sound is a kind of music. In a suite of the Adlon hotel - another historical landmark in thecity, not torn down but ...
What options for TV after the Digital debacle?
Apr 01, 2002; ... TODAY, your television licence fee goes up to GBP 122, or a cut-price GBP 37.50 for those of you in still in monochrome. Is thisvalue for money or are the days of the BBC poll tax now numbered? This is an old chestnut, of course, but one thrown into new lightby the dramatic TV ...
Painting of Denis Law is stolen from Old Trafford
Apr 01, 2002; ... A painting of Manchester United legend Denis Law has been stolenfrom the club's Old Trafford ground. Thieves made off with the 35in by 30in oil painting of theScotland striker by Salford-born Harold Riley which was in the VIPlounge of the stadium. Law, 62, is said to be ...
Legal brief Vicarious liability law is widened
Apr 01, 2002; ... VICARIOUS liability is the legal term that governs theresponsibility of one person for the actions of another. In theemployment relationship, employers are responsible for the actions oftheir employees within the scope of their employment. If the act hasnothing to do with the employment, ...
Land Reform Bill offers taxing time for Scotland
Apr 01, 2002; ... ONE of the biggest threats to wealth in Scotland at the presenttime is the Land Reform Bill which, if passed in its present form,will enable crofters to relieve landowners of their land and fishingrights - irrespective of whether the landlord wishes to sell them -and add insult to injury ...
How one man goes to mow says a lot
Apr 01, 2002; ... FOR some men, it is a tiresome garden chore, but for others it isa pleasurable and skilful pastime. But new research has revealed men fall into one of five categoriesdepending on the way they mow their lawn. It found that different men spend varying amounts of time ...
Leader Passing of an age - and a message for tomorrow
Apr 01, 2002 ... QUEEN Elizabeth the Queen Mother was the first Scottish female tobear that queenly title since Mary Stuart. And thus uniquely she isthe only Scottish queen in the centuries that followed the Union ofthe Crowns after 1603, or the Union of the Parliaments after 1707.Born Elizabeth ...
Extra officers join the hunt for missing schoolgirl
Apr 01, 2002; ... POLICE investigating the disappearance of 13-year-old AmandaDowler have drafted in extra officers to assist the inquiry after aflood of calls from the public. The girl, known as Milly, disappeared ten days ago in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Superintendent Alan Sharp, of ...
Selfridges the target for Ocean Terminal
Apr 01, 2002; ... OCEAN Terminal, Edinburgh's pounds 120 million shopping andleisure development, is in talks to woo the prestigious retailerSelfridges, as part of a major expansion plan. The Oxford Street department store is understood to be keen toopen a fourth UK store in Edinburgh, but has so ...
What the Sunday papers saidMurdoch and Berlusconi meet to share out the spoils of Kirch
Apr 01, 2002 ... The Business RUPERT Murdoch and Italian Prime minister and mediamagnate Silvio Berlusconi will this week begin the carve-up anddismemberment of the media assets of stricken media firm Kirch.Murdoch is understood to have called a meeting in Los Angeles forthis week in a bid to finalise ...
Pass mark for North beaches
Apr 01, 2002; ... A NEW report on six Highland beaches gives all pass marks,although environmentalists warn that improvements are still needed. The six passes are contained in the 2001 results of the ScottishEnvironment Protection Agency (SEPA's) Scottish bathing watersreport. The EU Bathing ...
Wallace looks to extend Scotland's input into EU
Apr 01, 2002; ... JIM Wallace is planning to raise Scotland's profile in Europe byensuring the Scottish Executive has an input into a wider range ofEuropean Union issues. The external affairs minister has put a paper before the Scottishparliament's European committee suggesting Scotland's focus ...
Liddell favourite to champion the euro
Apr 01, 2002; ... HELEN Liddell is set to lead a Labour "yes" campaign for the euro. Sources confirmed that the Scottish Secretary is now the favouriteto take on the high profile role in Scotland if Labour agrees to goahead with a referendum on the euro. Mrs Liddell has been adopting an ...
Health quango shake-up will benefit Scottish patients
Apr 01, 2002; ... PATIENTS in Scotland may get new drugs more quickly if theScottish Executive presses ahead with plans to change one of itshealth quangos. Critics claims the current bureaucratic system means drugs totreat diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's are available muchearlier in ...
Milburn removes red tape in English NHS trusts
Apr 01, 2002; ... ENGLAND's National Health Service will pull further away from itsScottish counterpart today by scrapping two substantial layers ofbureaucracy. Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, will today activate plans toscrap the NHS Executive in England - passing power to the primarycare ...
Betting industry pays out to Blair
Apr 01, 2002; ... TONY BLAIR has come under fresh attack for his links with businessmagnates, as it emerged that two of Labour's most generous donorsstand to profit from the proposed deregulation of casinos. The party is understood to have received about pounds 170,000while the gambling industry ...
Executive spending disproves claims of Barnett squeeze, says academic
Apr 01, 2002; ... SPENDING by the Scottish Executive confounds the theory that it isbeing "squeezed" by the Barnett formula, a leading academic hasclaimed . In his latest study of the issue, Arthur Midwinter, the emeritusprofessor of politics at Strathclyde University, says that theScottish ...
Bereavements wreck Queen's jubilee joy
Apr 01, 2002; ... A NEW term will have to be forged accurately to capture theterrible circumstances of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Year. What should have been a celebration has been tarnished by the lossof her sister and mother, separated by only seven weeks. At the close of 1992, after the ...
TOLL OF TIME A FAMILY FADES
Apr 01, 2002 ... THE Queen Mother was one of ten children, the second youngestchild of a Scottish aristocrat. She never knew her eldest sister, Violet, who died of diphtheria,aged 11, seven years before she was born. Her brother Fergus, 26, was killed in the Battle of Loos in 1915 ....
Favourite grandson set to inherit beloved home
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE Prince of Wales, the Queen Mother's favourite grandson, islikely to take over Clarence House, her London residence. While there has been no official consideration of what will happento the residence, it is felt it would be appropriate for the heir tothe throne to move in. The ...
Curse of the House of Windsor
Apr 01, 2002; ... SINCE 1989, when Princess Anne separated from Captain MarkPhillips, the stresses facing any commoner marrying into the House ofWindsor have been catalogued meticulously. Wonderful weddings, shameabout the marriages. But, while millions of newspaper readers are now familiar with ...
'She reminds me of my grandmother - she was open and honest and she cared about people'
Apr 01, 2002; ... OUTSIDE Windsor Castle's King Henry VIII gate yesterday, wherehundreds of mourners gathered to pay their final respects to theQueen Mother, sat one young women who had kept an overnight vigil,huddled under blankets on a bench. Dressed in Reebok trainers, jogging bottoms and ...
Queen's second night of prayers
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE Queen led senior members of the Royal Family in prayer lastnight as they gathered around the coffin of the Queen Mother. For the second time in a matter of weeks, she spent Sunday eveningin mourning at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in the Great Park atWindsor. On 10 February ...
How she planned her own funeral
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE Queen Mother took personal charge of her own funeralarrangements, issuing strict instructions on all the details of howthe event should be handled. She would watch videos of rehearsals and is said to have asked fora horse to be replaced after it shied up as the cortge went ...
A model for the monarchy's future
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE then ex-king of Egypt, Farouk, once remarked that soon therewould be only five kings left in the world: the kings of Spades,Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds, and the King of England [sic], so securedid the British monarchy seem half a century ago. Less than five years ago, that ...
Hitches hit BBC's historic bulletin
Apr 01, 2002; ... IT WAS the news bulletin the BBC had been preparing for more than30 years. In an exercise codenamed Operation Lion, first drawn up in the1970s, the corporation set down precisely how the nation would beinformed of the death of the Queen Mother. Darkened screens on both BBC1 ...
Castle was her labour of love and 'haven from the world'
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE Castle of Mey, which the Queen Mother bought and lovinglyrestored following her husband's death, is likely to be opened to thepublic as a "gift to the nation". The Queen Mother handed the castle, which includes a 200-acrefarm, to a charitable trust six years ago but continued ...
Parliaments recalled to hear politicians' tributes
Apr 01, 2002; ... POLITICIANS throughout Britain are being recalled from theirEaster vacations so they can pay their respects to the Queen Mother. Both the Westminster and Scottish parliaments will reconvene onWednesday. In Scotland, the parliament, which began a two-week Easter recessat the ...
Sustained by her indomitable spirit
Apr 01, 2002; ... HER physical well-being was more often in the spotlight than thatof any other member of the Royal Family, but, by any reckoning, theQueen Mother's health was robust throughout most of her long life. Although her condition was always of great public concern, it wasthought by royal ...
A talent for saying right things at right moment
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE Queen Mother was many things to many people, and her views ofthe age which she lived through have stood the test of time. Confiding to a friend in the 1940s: "It was my duty to marryBertie and I fell in love with him afterwards." On the death of her husband: "He was so ...
National Hunt racing will miss its favourite patron and one of the most successful owners of the 60s
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE "winter game" of National Hunt racing was always regarded asthe poor relation of its flashier and much richer sister sport overthe Flat. However, over the past half-century, National Hunt racing has hadthe ultimate weapon in promotional terms - the keen patronage of themost ...
Sense of fun and of duty forged by upbringing north of the Border
Apr 01, 2002; ... THROUGHOUT her life, the Queen Mother was fiercely proud of herScottish links, and her upbringing north of the Border provided boththe sense of fun and the sense of duty which helped define her Royalrole. She was born the ninth of ten children to Lord and Lady Glamis,later the ...
A nation in mourning for one of its own
Apr 01, 2002 ... ACROSS Scotland they came in their thousands to pay respect to oneof their own. Born the daughter of a Scottish nobleman in 1900, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon never forgot her Scottish roots - and yesterday the peopleremembered her, the unofficial Queen of Scots. From early on ...
Secrets taken to the grave
Apr 01, 2002; ... How many secrets will be buried with the Queen Mother? As a Strathmore, she admitted that her family was addicted tosecrecy, brought up to be tight-lipped about an often tempestuouspast. As a Royal, she believed that mystery and distance was thesecret of success. So no ...
WestLB set to join Railtrack bid
Apr 01, 2002; ... GERMAN banking group WestLB is expected to be invited to join anGBP 11.9 billion plan by not-for-profit group Network Rail to buyrail network owner Railtrack in an attempt to persuade the bank notto make its own bid. The move comes as it emerged that pressure is growing for ...
2.5bn pound Royal Navy contract could see creation of 1,000 Scots jobs
Apr 01, 2002; ... MORE than 1,000 jobs could be created in the north of Scotlandunder plans being drawn up by French defence contractor Thales tobuild the new GBP 2.5 billion Royal Navy aircraft carrier fleet atNigg. Thales, which is battling with BAE Systems to land the lucrativecontract, has ...
New classroom style intoxicates tutors
Apr 01, 2002; ... A TEACHER has stood on tables, impersonated a drunk and used quizshow-style buzzers as part of a radical staff development programmebeing piloted in a Scottish school. The course is the brainchild of Norma Black, the wife of themotivational guru, Jack Black, and encourages ...
Jury out over outgoing Northern Ireland police chief's performance
Apr 01, 2002; ... THE CHIEF Constable of the new Police Service of Northern Irelandstepped down yesterday amid disagreement among politicians about theimpact he has made on life in the province. After a career spanning 32 years, Sir Ronnie Flanagan left thePSNI to take up a new role with Her ...
SMG still awaiting sign-off on debt plans
Apr 01, 2002; ... SMG, the debt-laden media group, has still not had final sign-offfrom its bankers for a vital GBP 390 million debt restructuring plan,more than two weeks after an agreement was reached. The Glasgow-based owner of Scottish Television, Grampian TV andThe Herald newspaper announced ...
Colony of newts halts work at airport site
Apr 01, 2002 ... ENGINEERING work at London's Stansted Airport was stopped after acolony of rare newts was discovered on the site. Work on an electricity substation came to a halt when a workerrecognised the newts as a rare breed, because he had collected themas a youngster. The ...
Off course on buggy
Apr 01, 2002 ... TWO men trying to find their way home from a wedding receptionwere arrested for riding a golf buggy along a major road, police saidyesterday. Gloucestershire Police said officers stopped the buggy as it wasbeing driven on the A38 from Tewkesbury towards Gloucester ....