The Scotsman back issues from June 2002:
Aaargh factor
Jun 01, 2002; ... Balance and guts are the two attributes that you need most fordownhill mountain-biking, according to professional mountain bikerMartin Ogden. Looking over the edge of the start ramp of the World Cup downhillcourse at Fort William, it is safe to say that a kamikaze-likedisregard ...
Headlong plunge into a soap opera of dysfunctional royalty - PART 1
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE Silver Jubilee was evidence that the monarchy, and the Queenherself, retained their fascination for the British public and theirhold on our affection. Prince Philip's reported fear a few years previously that themonarchy would come to be seen as a museum piece appeared to ...
Reviews: Gould's book of fish: In at the deep end
Jun 01, 2002; ... Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Atlantic Books, GBP16.99 Cue a multiple hurrah! for Gould's Book of Fish, a novel so loftyin achievement, it would have to plummet steeply to reach theuppermost glinting edge of the towering hype that stacks like cloudsto greet its ...
Tributes paid to Big Country star
Jun 01, 2002; ... BIG Country singer Stuart Adamson was last night remembered at atribute concert at one of Britain's most famous music venues. Stars including Midge Ure, Runrig, Steve Harley and Bill Nelsonwere due to join the three former members of the band at the GlasgowBarrowlands ....
Oh Brother! Call that reality TV when the football is on?
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE girl who's forgotten to pack any bras is pretty tiresome but Ihave to say that the two Scots are letting the side down again -they're the most tedious house-guests on Big Brother. If there's aworse place to be than locked inside Channel 4's reality game showthen I don't know about ...
AIT stock plunges 80 per cent after profit warning and news of cash crisis
Jun 01, 2002; ... SOFTWARE company AIT Group saw its shares plummet 80 per centyesterday after warning investors it was running out of cash and thatassurances it gave a few weeks earlier were "no longer accurate". Birmingham-based AIT, which specialises in customer relationshipmanagement software ...
Hamilton libel case hits al-Fayed tax deal
Jun 01, 2002; ... MOHAMED al-Fayed's victory in the Neil Hamilton cash-for-questions libel case came back to haunt him yesterday, when he lost acourt battle in Scotland which could force him to pay millions ofpounds more in tax. Mr Fayed and the Inland Revenue had struck an agreement for him ...
Anarchy in the Uk
Jun 01, 2002; ... HONESTLY, without checking the teleprompter, how was 1977?Straight away, I think of a song by The Clash, named after the year.It is a short, rough thing, which appeared on the B-side of thegroups first single, White Riot. It is not one of Strummer andJones's more lyrically accomplished ...
Aston Quorum put into receivership
Jun 01, 2002; ... LIVINGSTON-BASED software firm Aston Quorum has gone intoreceivership with the loss of 22 jobs. The rest of the group's 38 staff will remain with the companywhile appointed receivers Gary Fraser and Blair Nimmo of KPMG seek abuyer for the firm. Nimmo, head of KPMG corporate ...
France bows to EU pressure over tunnel security
Jun 01, 2002; ... FRANCE has finally agreed to tighten security around the ChannelTunnel entrance, giving in to British demands amid threats ofEuropean Union sanctions. The interim French government has promised full police patrols atthe Frethun freight terminal, where asylum seekers have been ...
Audio books review: The Titian Committee
Jun 01, 2002; ... The Titian Committee, by Iain Pears (Isis, GBP 15.99) IN THIS stylish thriller, excellently read by Daniel Philpott,Rome's theft squad sends Flavia di Stefano to Venice to help thecarabinieri in what they think is the fatal mugging of a member ofthe Titian Committee. Flavia finds ...
A bet which can offer a whole spread of chances to cash in
Jun 01, 2002; ... AS AN alternative to buying or selling shares, spread betting isan exciting approach with distinct benefits over the traditionalroute. If your financial hunches - from indices such as the FTSE andDow Jones to the price of gold - are sound, such betting could bringlarge but risky returns ....
BP to axe 800 North Sea sub-contracting jobs
Jun 01, 2002; ... OIL GIANT BP is axing a further 800 jobs in the North Sea as partof its savage cost-cutting programme. Following on from the 500 posts it cut in March, the new round ofjob losses will hit the firm's sub-contracted staff. Although BP had warned of further cutbacks, ...
Books in brief: The Real Bravo Two Zero
Jun 01, 2002; ... The Real Bravo Two Zero, by Michael Asher (Cassell, GBP 16.99) THIS book is much too good to be left to the SAS-worshippers - notleast because it raises such key questions about the cult's presidingdeities, "McNab" and "Ryan". But if Asher has an axe to grind it'snot as iconoclast ...
The browser
Jun 01, 2002 ... IN A week in which a survey (by the mobile phone company Orange,just so you'll notice how neatly this column is themed) revealed weonly read fiction for a mere 11 minutes a day, it is no surprise sofew of us finish even the greatest classics. At an event organised on Tuesday in ...
Buy-to-let investors get fingers burned
Jun 01, 2002; ... OVER the last five years, buy-to-let has been the buzz phrase ofthe new urban professional. Buying a second property and then watching as someone else paysyour mortgage is seen as a dripping roast - a simple way to makemoney in a market where property prices are soaring by the ...
Call it chemistry: Chrissy Iley on the Queen and Prince Philip
Jun 01, 2002; ... The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been married for nearly55 years I met the Queen the other day. I don't mean I had a personal chin-wag, but I did get close enough to see that she has a silkycomplexion and piercing cornflour blue eyes. And she knows how topretend she ...
Far East threat to Scottish workers
Jun 01, 2002; ... MORE jobs could be lost in the wake of the NEC redundanciesbecause of the threat to Scotland from cheap labour in China'srapidly expanding economy, experts have warned. Hundreds of workers at the NEC plant in West Lothian face anuncertain future amid speculation that the firm is ...
CJD cases 'may be missed'
Jun 01, 2002; ... MANY cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may be being missedbecause of a cut in post mortems, a leading scientist warned lastnight on the eve of the opening of a new complex that will speed upresearch into the fatal condition. Professor James Ironside, the director of the National ...
Senegal new boy's World Cup can-can
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE 2002 World Cup finals opened in Seoul with one of the greatestshocks in the competition's history. France, ranked number one in the world and the tournamentfavourites, were beaten by Senegal, the West African nation whichuntil 1960 was colonised by the French and who have ...
Beckham's parents fly out but Posh stays home
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAVID Beckham's parents were expected to arrive in Japan today intime for England's first World Cup match against Sweden but hispregnant wife, Posh Spice Victoria, will not be making the trip. The England captain revealed that Victoria would not be flying outbecause of the length ...
Sven and the art of money maintenance
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE DAY after Sir Alf Ramsey led England to World Cup victory in1966, the Football Association invited him to the inner sanctum oftheir Lancaster House headquarters for a slap-up meal and presentedhim with a new contract and a personal cheque for 2000 pounds. Scant reward for such ...
Vicar puts her shirt on a personal relationship with England's patron saint
Jun 01, 2002; ... A FEMALE vicar with Scottish blood will wear an England shirtduring Sunday Service tomorrow as David Beckham's squad take onSweden in their first World Cup match. Reverend Ruth Gostelow, 53, who is half Scottish and a long-standing Rangers fan, decided to show her support for the ...
Dollar bounces back on yen after BoJ intervenes
Jun 01, 2002 ... THE dollar leapt against the yen as Japan intervenedintermittently to weaken its currency, fearing its recent strengthwould damage the nation's tentative export-led recovery. The greenback - which sank to six-month lows below 123 yen onThursday - shot up more than 1 per cent to ...
Off your trolley
Jun 01, 2002 ... Out of the basket and onto your plate in 20 easy minutes Honey and Sesame sausages As many party packs of cocktail sausages as you need - think interms of 3-4 per person Runny honey 1 packet of sesame seeds 1 pack of cocktail sticks Grill or ...
Britain's smallest ferry re-opened
Jun 01, 2002; ... ROBERT the Bruce used it, as did James IV, but a farmer turnedferryman has helped ensure modern day travellers can continue tofollow the Royal route. John Henderson, who farms on the Black Isle, has taken on theoperation of the Cromarty to Nigg ferry to maintain the ...
Last night's first night:Stuart Adamson Tribute Concert: Adamson tribute from the heart
Jun 01, 2002; ... Stuart Adamson Tribute Concert Barrowland, Glasgow WILLIAM Stuart Adamson was never the coolest of rock stars, neverthe most influential, never the most rebellious. But judging byatmosphere at this musical tribute to his life, which ended by hisown hand late last year in a ...
Reviews: Grand theft auto III
Jun 01, 2002; ... Grand Theft Auto III PC, GBP 29.99; Take 2/Rockstar **** The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been the source of much debateover the last few years, mostly for its questionable taste forviolence and crime and, to an extent, for its poor aesthetics (thelatter of which was largely ...
Cultivating new ideas
Jun 01, 2002; ... Creativity and a cold climate may not seem like natural bedfellowsbut at this year's Gardening Scotland exhibition, there's a happycoupling of artistry and utility. Now in its third year, the event, held at the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston, by Edinburgh Airport, hosts ...
GSK hits low after merger talk
Jun 01, 2002; ... SHARES in drugs major GlaxoSmithKline hit four-and-a-half yearlows yesterday as the group stonewalled questions after a report thatit recently held talks with US pharmaceuticals group Bristol-MyersSquibb about a merger. A GSK spokesman said: "We never comment on market rumours." ...
Reviews: Body language: A novel: Corporeal imaginings
Jun 01, 2002; ... Body Language: A Novel by Dan Gunn Mainstream, GBP 9.99 IDENTIFYING Body Language as a novel isn't the redundant exerciseit first appears. Gunn's collection of oblique, absurd tales readsmore like a collection of short stories - that the characters in thevolume all interact with ...
HIT's 150m pound bid for Gullane is derailed
Jun 01, 2002; ... CHILDREN'S entertainment group HIT looked set to derail its 150million pound bid for rival Gullane yesterday, after the Thomas theTank Engine owner issued a shock profit warning. Gullane said pre-tax profits were likely to be flat at around GBP9.7 million in the year to 30 June, ...
International market report: Strong consumer sentiment data pushes Wall Street ahead
Jun 01, 2002; ... STOCKS held higher ground on Wall Street yesterday aftersurprisingly strong gains in consumer sentiment data boosted hopesfor battered corporate profits and helped offset fears of more globalunrest. A report that Europe's top drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is in talksto buy US drug ...
Investment spotlight: Holidaymakers 'mis-sold' insurance
Jun 01, 2002; ... MILLIONS of holidaymakers buying in travel insurance thinking itwill insulate them from medical mishaps on their journeys could findthey are unable to claim on it because they were mis-sold theirpolicies, an insurance group has warned. Direct Line Travel Insurance estimates that ...
Wacky way to play
Jun 01, 2002; ... BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Toy Symphony Glasgow Royal ConcertHall I first met, and reported on, the American composer Tod Machover15 months ago. He and his zany team of musical inventors at Boston'sMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were busy refining ToySymphony, a ...
Instant Karma: Horse
Jun 01, 2002 ... Horse is opening for Bryan Ferry at Princes Street Gardenstonight. Her new album, Hindsight's a Wonderful Thing, is out now Feel the burn or yogic breathing? From the distance I thought this said feel the bum! So I wouldhave chosen that but as it happens feel the burn is ...
War fear hits India travel
Jun 01, 2002; ... BRITAIN and the United States last night warned their nationals inIndia to consider leaving, amid rising fears of a new war withPakistan. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, has repeatedly asserted that"war is not inevitable", but yesterday Pakistan acknowledged it hadbegun ...
Church told it must sell up or pay out
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE Church of Scotland must sell off a significant number of itsbuildings or face a mounting repair bill which could becomeimpossible to pay off, the General Assembly was told yesterday. William Carswell, the chairman of the Kirk's general trustees,said the Church could no longer ...
Ex-minister wins hearing
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE Kirk is to convene a special committee to consider the case ofa former minister who resigned more than four years ago amidcontroversy over an alleged affair with a married elder. Since the scandal in 1997, Helen Douglas, formerly the Rev HelenPercy, has made several attempts ...
Late deals: Moroccan magic
Jun 01, 2002 ... Stay five nights at the world-renowned La Mamounia hotel inMarrakech, Morocco, and get one free. The offer, valid from 20 Juneuntil 10 September, includes return flights, private transfers, abottle of wine on arrival, one dinner at "Le Marocain" restaurant, anevening at the Grand Casino, ...
Leader: Monarchy's lesson on the importance of trust
Jun 01, 2002; ... IN WHO, or what, do we trust? Seldom in recent history has theword "trust" - confidence in the integrity of an institution andfaith in its innate honesty and worthiness - come more to the fore.As in the Chinese definition of a wheel - that it is not just thespokes, but the space between ...
7m pound project could create 400 jobs for Lennoxtown
Jun 01, 2002; ... UP TO 400 jobs are set to be created through a 7 million poundproject to regenerate Lennoxtown in East Dunbartonshire. A company has been set up to help establish new businesses in thearea, still reeling from the closure of the Lennox Castle hospitallast month, which led to 800 ...
Reviews: Still here: Liverpool losers
Jun 01, 2002; ... Still Here by Linda Grant Little, Brown GBP 15.99 (hard back)/GBP 10.99 (paperback) IF THE publishers' breathless blurb on the jacket of Linda Grant'slatest novel - "an exhilarating story of war, emigration, cities andlust" - makes this work sound like the thinking-woman's ...
Livingstone under pressure as party guest falls 12ft from flat
Jun 01, 2002; ... KEN LIVINGSTONE was last night under pressure to explain events ata party in North London where one of the guests fell down a 12-footstairwell. The Mayor of London was last night refusing to comment on reportsthat a man ended up in hospital after attending a small dinner partyat ...
Smart money analysis: Major banks called to account
Jun 01, 2002; ... PROVIDING consumers with access to all of their bankinginformation free of cost, in one convenient location, 24 hours a dayis a tough sell in Britain. This is not because consumers don't likethe idea, but because most of their banks don't like it. It is possible for all of us to ...
Reviews: Permanent Violet: Frame unfrozen
Jun 01, 2002; ... Permanent Violet by Ronald Frame Polygon, GBP 8.99 Two years ago The Lantern Bearers, Ronald Frame's first novel forfive years, won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year award. That wasan interesting choice. Frame has never been in the mainstream ofcontemporary Scottish writing; ...
Perfect lens reflex
Jun 01, 2002; ... I saw a picture of Allan Milligan the other day. It was black-and-white, a little dog-eared, and our hero was holding a Speed Graphicplate camera, on assignment somewhere, the image reminiscent of some1950s newsreels. The strange thing was that "Millie", based in our Glasgow ...
Monarchy in the UK
Jun 01, 2002; ... BY THE sudden death of my dear father I am called to assume theduties and responsibilities of sovereignty," the Queen told her PrivyCouncil in her Accession Declaration on 8 February 1952, the dayafter she flew back from Kenya, where she had been told of hersuccession. "My heart is too ...
Money briefs: High street banking a waste of time
Jun 01, 2002 ... BRITISH consumers waste eight hours each year by banking on thehigh street - equivalent to 324 million hours per year for the entirebanking population, according to online banking service Zurich Bank.The time saved by switching services to an online bank could earnconsumers an extra ...
Call to halt talks on Cairngorms park
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE Scottish Executive has been urged to halt all consultation onthe proposed Cairngorms National Park until it has explained why ithas halved the planned size of the designated area. The call has come from Cameron McNeish, president of RamblersScotland and a renowned walker and ...
Reviews: Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography: Freddie and the dreamers
Jun 01, 2002; ... Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski transShelley Frisch Granta, GBP 25 IN December 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche's landlady, looking throughthe key-hole of his flat in Turin, saw him chanting and dancing nakedround the room. It was the beginning of the end ....
Oil sees slight recovery
Jun 01, 2002 ... OIL prices recovered slightly from six-week lows yesterday astraders cashed in the sharp down move prompted by surplus US gasolinesupplies. Government data released earlier in the week showed inventories inthe world's largest consumer rose at a time when they should befalling as ...
Snapshots: Sinn Fein councillor to become Belfast mayor
Jun 01, 2002 ... BELFAST is poised to have its first Sinn Fein Lord Mayor. Membersof the cross-community Alliance Party yesterday decided to back SinnFein councillor Alex Maskey in his bid to become mayor in an attemptto "consolidate the peace process". The party, whose three councillors hold the ...
Reviews: Five Finger Discount: Paperbacks
Jun 01, 2002; ... Five Finger Discount, by Helene Stapinski, (Bloomsbury, GBP 7.99) *** BRUCE Springsteen may eulogise the blue-collar grittiness of hishome state, New Jersey, but Stapinski's memoir of her family's lifein the state capital, Jersey City, offers a far more ambivalent andintriguing ...
Travelling roadshow planned for MSPs
Jun 01, 2002; ... SCOTTISH Parliament chiefs are planning to take MSPs on tour everyyear, visiting towns and cities all over Scotland at a cost of atleast 50,000 pounds a day, despite the construction of a permanentbuilding at Holyrood for at least GBP 280 million. The Presiding Officer, Sir David ...
Scot celebrates being first woman green beret
Jun 01, 2002; ... IT IS a course so tough it has reduced military men to tears. Butyesterday, a 5ft 4in, nine stone Scottish officer passed thenotorious all-arms commando course with flying colours - securing herplace in history as the first woman to win the green beret of theelite Royal Marine commandos ....
PC faces charges of sexual assault
Jun 01, 2002; ... A MARRIED policeman is facing a catalogue of allegations of sexualassaults and other serious charges over a 14-year period, TheScotsman can reveal. Constable William Crawford, 38, has been indicted on nine chargesof indecent assault, one of assault with intent to rape, as well as ...
Man logs cancer scare
Jun 01, 2002; ... A RECOVERED prostate cancerpatient has shared his personalexperience of the illness to encourage other men to be more openabout the disease. Philip Broad, 69, from Haddington, East Lothian, has posted hisown message on Cancer Research UK's website after experts warned ...
Police oppose plans for prostitute tolerance zones
Jun 01, 2002; ... POLICE officers yesterday opposed plans to allow councils to setup "tolerance zones" for street-based prostitution. The Scottish Police Federation oppose the plans, which are beingproposed by SNP MSP Margo Macdonald. However, Doug Keil, the generalsecretary of the federation, ...
Robert McNeil's diary: Strange things happen on the way to Aberdeen
Jun 01, 2002; ... MONDAY PUT down your pipe, missus, and answer me this: why are railwaystation pubs always full of dodgy people who aren't even travelling? At Waverley station, Edinburgh, I pop in for a pint prior tosailing on the train to Aberdeen. It's only early evening but,already, many ...
Toast masters
Jun 01, 2002; ... FIFTY YEARS ago, Royals toasted their new Queen with vintagechampagne while the streets were awash with oceans of beer, claret,burgundy and sherry - revellers relishing their sticky sweetnessafter wartime sugar-rationing. By 1977 at the Silver Jubilee, thecognoscenti had moved on to ...
Stairway to heaven
Jun 01, 2002; ... Spiralling up gracefully, the staircase of Stirling manor TouchHouse ascends on a truly impressive scale, without being a frostymuseum piece. Rhiannon Batten feels at home in the Georgian bachelorpad Please don't make me sound like some smug lord of the manor, allarrogant and ...
Sarah Smith's diary: Punk is dead
Jun 01, 2002; ... Where were you in 1977? Celebrating the Silver Jubilee at one of the Sex Pistols' firstgigs? Hanging out with Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons in a dive barsomewhere? Busy slashing a T-shirt and carefully positioning thesafety pin ready to wear out on Saturday night? Will ...
Priest found hanged
Jun 01, 2002; ... A ROMAN Catholic priest has been found hanged in his West Lothianparish after an apparent suicide. Father Gerard Prior, 37, of St Peter's, in Livingston, wasdiscovered hanging from an attic hatch in his parish home onThursday. The Most Rev Archbishop Keith O'Brien was among ...
Jobs under threat as Churchill's tailor forced to call in receivers
Jun 01, 2002; ... CHESTER Barrie, the Savile Row tailor best known for makingWinston Churchill's suits, yesterday announced it had called inreceivers following a downturn in trade. The company, founded in 1935, blamed the decision on the worldwiderecession and competition from overseas ...