The Scotsman back issues from August 2002:
Cream de la cream
Aug 01, 2002; ... I've just sprayed myself with the rather pungent basil and cypresssensitive skin formula from Susan Ciminelli. The smell takes me rightback to last week, when I was given what must be the ultimate infacials in the Susan Ciminelli Spa. I felt so Sex and the City, lyingon my super white, ...
Object Lesson
Aug 01, 2002 ... Monocles DOES anyone, apart from Sir Patrick Moore and the ventriloquist'sdummy Lord Charles, still wear a monocle? Apparently, yes, accordingto high street optician Dolland & Aitchison, which has denied reportsthat it plans to stop making the single-lens eye ...
Unhappy medium
Aug 01, 2002; ... Reality television has turned us into a nation of voyeurs, givingus access to worlds we thought we always wanted to go to and some wenow wish that we had never seen. So, it was only a matter of time before UK TV producers took theconcept one step further - into the land of the ...
Top Ten Films
Aug 01, 2002 ... IT'S been a shagadelic weekend for Mike Myers, whose Austin Powersin Goldmember topped the box office charts in the UK and the US. Overhere the man with the muckle chestwig raked in ...
Going out,staying in
Aug 01, 2002 ... COMEDY Frankie's Pick of the Fringe THEATRE Romeo and Juliet ROCK& POP Liars/Miss Black America Gail Davies The Stand, Glasgow, today and tomorrow CATCH a bumper comic bonanza for less than the price of two(expensive) pints, as upbeat Glaswegian comic Frankie Boyle hosts ...
Review Vanity Fayre Lovely & Amazing (15) Director: Nicole Holfcener Starring: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin
Aug 01, 2002; ... WHILE most films about neurotic Americans either rip-off WoodyAllen or trade on their characters' insecurities for quirky comedykicks, Lovely & Amazing seems intent on punishing its protagonistsfor their self-involvement. It stars Brenda Bleythn as Jane Marks, an ageing divorcee ...
Equities crisis leads to deep cuts for savers
Aug 01, 2002; ... IF YOU want to see an example of how the current crisis inequities can hurt the real economy, look no further than the lifeassurance sector and with-profits policies. Savage cuts to with-profits policies over the past year have madesome of the investors who have poured money into ...
Artificial Intelligence
Aug 01, 2002; ... Ramsay Street AUSTRALIANS. They're everywhere. Everywhere but Australia, thatis. It used to seem that all our antipodean friends were living inRamsay Street, Melbourne, in the soap Neighbours. But now they've had enough of the folks next door, and prefer tofind ...
Tokyo bucks upward trend
Aug 01, 2002 ... ASIAN stocks tumbled yesterday on the back of weak consumerconfidence figures from the US. Tokyo's market fell due to losses intechnology companies and carmakers. But Hong Kong's prices rose ongains in banking issues. TOKYO: Stocks snapped a two-day winning streak and closed lower ...
Pick of the day Van Morrison
Aug 01, 2002; ... WITH the exception of Bob Dylan, there can hardly be anothermusician of his vintage and stature who tours as relentlessly as VanMorrison - not bad for a man known to have suffered from chronicstage-fright. No matter how often he crops up, audiences never tireof him and he almost always ...
Video & DVD
Aug 01, 2002; ... The Shipping News (Buena Vista, 15, rental) KEVIN Spacey's resemblance to Droopy the dog has never served himbetter than in this adaptation of E Annie Proulx's bestseller. Spaceyplays Quoyle, a sad case left to bring up his daughter alone afterhis wife runs off with another man ...
AWG's 500m pound windfall
Aug 01, 2002; ... AWG, owner of Anglian Water, is to hand a GBP 500 million windfallto investors as part of a refinancing move. The group said the planned 177p per share payout will arrive onshareholders' doormats in October, accompanied by a parallel move tocut the number of shares in issue ....
Council 'failed to save baby'
Aug 01, 2002; ... A LOCAL authority criticised for its failure to prevent thekilling of a baby at the hands of his abusive father admitted lastnight that there had been "unacceptable delays in taking action" toprotect the child. The head of Dumfries and Galloway Council's social work ...
Best recovering well after liver transplant
Aug 01, 2002; ... GEORGE Best was showing encouraging signs of recovery after hisliver transplant but would remain in intensive care until today, hisdoctors said. The former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballerunderwent a ten-hour operation on Tuesday at the Cromwell Hospital,in west ...
Open skies deal will pave the way for cheaper transatlantic flights
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE government is to have urgent talks with the US over plans toincrease choice and cut fares for transatlantic air passengersthrough greater competition. Leading airlines were yesterday told by ministers that freshdiscussions between the two countries on a new open skies ...
Irate caravan owners target artist
Aug 01, 2002; ... AS CULTURE clashes go, the world of avant-garde art and the humblehobby of caravanning could not be further apart. But one of Scotland's most eccentric modern artists has had a run-in with the Caravan Club, the organisation which boasts 800,000members who enjoy nothing better than ...
Japanese cars top reliability league as recalls rise across board
Aug 01, 2002; ... JAPANESE cars continue to dominate the reliability league, takingthe lion's share of the vehicles that were 100 per cent free frombreakdowns, a new survey shows. But the bad news for Britain's motorists is that more cars arebeing recalled by manufacturers because owners are being ...
Clipper
Aug 01, 2002 ... The bear market may not be over IT IS not always easy to see when a market has turned: Is it afundamental re-direction or just a correction? Stephen Lewis of Monument Securities has identified threeconditions that need to be fulfilled before there can be said to bean end to ...
Business Comment Its good to sweet-talk for Vodafone chiefs
Aug 01, 2002 ... THE much-speculated-upon storm of shareholder protest atVodafone's AGM about chief executive Sir Christopher Gent's Croesus-style pay package turned out to be relatively bloodless. True, some investors did make the point that the bar on corporateremuneration was being set too low ...
BT charge crofter 11,000 pounds for line
Aug 01, 2002; ... BT WAS yesterday accused of discriminating against Highlandcommunities after quoting a crofter GBP 11,000 to install a phoneline in her new home. Augusta Hutt, a Caithness crofter, was shocked to be told the costof laying just 440m of cable to the house she is having built, only ...
US rejects British Taleban case
Aug 01, 2002; ... CIVIL rights campaigners last night condemned an American judge'sruling that two Britons accused of fighting for the Taleban cannottake their case to a US court. Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, both in their twenties, and fromTipton, West Midlands, were detained by US forces during ...
Greenback remains fragile
Aug 01, 2002 ... THE dollar quickly recovered from a short-lived setback in theform of the latest US GDP figures. American gross domestic productrose at an annualised rate of 1.1 per cent in the second quarter.However analysts say that the greenback still remains fragile. The euro popped up to ...
Customs office banned from seizing goods
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE government is facing a potential compensation bill runninginto hundreds of millions of pounds after the High Court ruledefforts by customs officers to crack down on alcohol and tobaccosmuggling were incompatible with European law. Yesterday's landmark judgment came after a ...
Diana memorial winning design dismissed as a 'national nothing'
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE winning design for a memorial to the late Princess of Waleswas finally unveiled yesterday, almost five years after her death andafter months of bickering and back-biting. But if the government had hoped to draw a line under thecontroversy that surrounded the project, it was to ...
Diary
Aug 01, 2002; ... SUFFER the little children. At the McArthur Glen shopping centrein Livingston our woman Beryl spotted in The Jockey shop window alarge poster of a couple in slinky, Jockey underwear. Her in vest andpants, him in gundies with the slogan "The next best thing to beingnaked." Elsewhere in ...
Correction
Aug 01, 2002 ... Kirkcudbright is,of course,in Kirkcudbrightshire,not ...
Elan cuts 1,000 jobs in cash crisis
Aug 01, 2002; ... TROUBLED Irish pharmaceuticals group Elan is to axe 1,000 jobs asit struggles to allay investor fears of a financial crisis. The Dublin-based group, embroiled in a US Securities and ExchangeCommission investigation into its accounting practices, said the jobcuts amounted to one ...
Fears over US keeps bourses on hold
Aug 01, 2002 ... EUROPEAN shares rose yesterday but an early Unilever-led surgelost steam as data showed that US economic recovery was muted,leaving more room for disappointment in company profits. Among the day's big movers, German drug and chemical firm Bayerslid 6.7 per cent ahead of its ...
Review Film of the week Are you sure this thing is safe? Men In Black II (PG) Director:Barry Sonnenfeld
Aug 01, 2002; ... The original Men In Black, released in 1997, shared with The X-Files the conceit that aliens were everywhere, and that theirexistence was being concealed by a sinister government agency. Bothfeatured a double-act of government agents, but from different sidesof the fence. The X-Files's ...
Friends Provident cuts bonuses
Aug 01, 2002; ... LIFE insurer Friends Provident administered another blow to with-profits investors yesterday when it announced it is cutting bonuseson its long-term savings policies. Friends said it would reduce final payouts on with-profitspolicies by 6 per cent, bringing the group's cuts to the ...
FSA chief issues warning to City
Aug 01, 2002; ... SIR Howard Davies gave a tongue-lashing to stock market analystsyesterday and proposed a raft of new regulations to break up cosyrelationships in the financial advice and investment bankingindustry. The chairman of the Financial Services Authority delivered adamning indictment ...
Cover property Ethie Castle,by Arbroath Angus
Aug 01, 2002 ... How much? Offers over pounds 775,000. Where is it? Six miles from Arbroath and eight miles from Montrose in EastAngus. What do I get? A magnificent A-listed castle of historic and architecturalimportance. Set in 13.5 acres of grounds, the property ...
Breathe easy
Aug 01, 2002; ... Do you rarely open the windows because you don't want to wasteheat? Are your ventilators permanently closed - that's if you evenknow where they are or whether you have them? If the answers to thesequestions are "yes", your house may be slowly suffocating. Every house needs to ...
Court upholds fox-hunting ban
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE ban on fox hunting in Scotland will take effect from todayfollowing the Court of Session's decision to throw out an 11th-hourlegal challenge from the Countryside Alliance. From today, all forms of hunting with dogs will be banned inScotland. The country's ten hunts will not be ...
AOL bullish as SEC probe accounts
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE US Justice Department has launched a probe into accountingpractices at AOL Time Warner in part linked to its dealings withWembley plc. American prosecutors are working with the Securities and ExchangeCommission, which is already investigating the world's biggest mediacompany ...
Murder of innocence
Aug 01, 2002; ... As he lay crying in his cot 11-week-old Kyle Metcalfe's limitedsight would not have enabled him to focus on his father standingabove him tightly clenching the pillow that would drain his lastbreath away. As one policeman poignantly put it last night: "Kyle wasone of life's true ...
Bush rules out early attack on Iraq as US struggles to build coalition
Aug 01, 2002; ... THE BUSH administration has told leaders of the US Congress thatit has ruled out an early strike against Iraq. Senior officials have privately briefed key lawmakers on CapitolHill, it is reported, that there will be no assault on SaddamHussein's regime until at least after the ...
Lord Irvine's son held in US jail on stalking charge
Aug 01, 2002; ... A SON of Lord Irvine of Lairg, the Lord Chancellor, is in jail inthe US after being charged with stalking a girl and threatening toshoot her boyfriend. Alastair Irvine, who was sent to the US last year for a course totreat his addiction to crack cocaine, is currently being held in ...
Emily's naked hunch
Aug 01, 2002; ... It looks set to become one of the most talked about movie momentsof the year. In a scene from Lovely and Amazing, Emily Mortimer'scharacter Elizabeth strips off and stands stock still for a full fiveminutes in front of her boyfriend, a vain Hollywood actor, whoproceeds to analyse the ...
Vive la revolution! The package tour worm is turning
Aug 01, 2002; ... HOW heart-warming was the tale of the runway rebels in Nice, thosereturning holiday-makers who would not be moved when their airline(EasyJet) decided they should give up their seats to (mainly French)passengers from another, broken-down jet. Rather like the harried rail commuters ...
Leader If you pull the trigger, a gun should go bang
Aug 01, 2002 ... AHEAD of the planned deployment of British troops in a majoroperation against the military regime in Iraq, what is the state ofBritish army equipment? Is it reliable in desert conditions? Do theradios work? Or the guns? To these questions, the report of the National Audit Office ...
Leader Why does it always rain on us?
Aug 01, 2002 ... WILL it never end? The settled gloom of a wet summer - Glasgow hadonly one dry day in June - has erupted into apocalyptic floods. Roadsare blocked, rivers have burst their banks, people are marooned intheir homes. The washed-out figures valiantly rehearsing yesterdayfor the Edinburgh ...
Leader BT's wrong number
Aug 01, 2002 ... LONG gone, it seems, is the world of those warm, touchy-feely, BTtelevision advertisements which portrayed the 'phoning of distantrelations in Australia as a low-cost, everyday family activity. Thisis not the side of telephony from BT that Caithness crofter AugustaHutt is experiencing ....
Ambulance service to prioritise emergencies
Aug 01, 2002; ... PATIENTS who call ambulances will be prioritised from today forthe first time in Scotland . The move, in the Lothians, is the first phase in a GBP 22 millionoverhaul of the Scottish Ambulance Service, which will also seecontrol rooms merged into three centres. At present, ...
Executive must go the extra mile for our athletes
Aug 01, 2002; ... HAROLD Wilson started it. The wily Wilson realised that he couldbenefit politically by courting sports heroes such as England's WorldCup winners and basking in their reflected glory. Since then,politicians of all parties have sought to be associated with sportingsuccess. It was, ...
Irvine hit as Silicon Glen pioneer sheds 750 jobs
Aug 01, 2002; ... ONE of the pioneers of Silicon Glen is to shed up to 750 jobs atan electronics plant in Irvine, leading to fears the closure willdevastate the local economy. The US multinational, Sanmina-SCI, told the workforce yesterday,blaming the global slump in the electronics industry for ...
Merrill Lynch pulls plug on Scots operation
Aug 01, 2002; ... MERRILL Lynch is to close its private wealth management operationsin Scotland, after axing the last member of an equity team that inits heyday managed GBP 200 million of assets. The decision to close the Edinburgh office will come as a big blowto the company's wealthy private ...
75m pound rebranding ditched after 51 days
Aug 01, 2002; ... THEY don't like Mondays after all. One of the most expensiverebranding exercise's in corporate history - in which PWC Consultingwas renamed after the first day of the week - has been scrapped afterjust seven weeks. The repackaging plan cost GBP 75 million earlier this summer ...
BSkyB viewers swell as MPs warn against Channel 5 bid
Aug 01, 2002; ... BSKYB revealed that the collapse of ITV Digital helped boost itssubscriber base through the six million mark yesterday, asspeculation continued to mount that the Rupert Murdoch-backedbroadcaster was planning to swoop for Channel 5. Despite an influential parliamentary committee ...
Nasdaq report
Aug 01, 2002 ... THE technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index fell 15.92 points, or1.18 per cent, to 1,328.27. Chipmakers came under heavy selling pressure, led by NationalSemiconductor which eased $1.79 to $18.12 and Micron which dropped$1.50 to $19.48. Market heavyweight Intel dropped 18 ...
A new home for everyone
Aug 01, 2002; ... Imagine a range of show-houses claiming to represent "the sixdifferent ages of home-buying" and not a 'starter' flat among them. The reason, according to developer Gordon Millar, is that for anincreasingly affluent section of the population, a "starter home"could actually be a ...
To suit all tastes
Aug 01, 2002 ... ON THE other side of the country, house-buyers were able to viewthe very latest trends in interior design when Bryant Homes launchedtwo new show houses at its development at Dykebar in Paisley. Commenting on her approach to the four-bedroom Malden andStratford villas, Rebecca ...
Supply fears push Brent up
Aug 01, 2002 ... OIL prices rose yesterday as oil inventories fell in the UnitedStates, the world's largest consumer, while demand for gasolinestayed strong. Fears that the United States could be planning a massive militarycampaign to topple Saddam Hussein, president of oil-exporter Iraq,also ...
Big names are given respite by Boundary Commission
Aug 01, 2002; ... ALISTAIR Darling and John Reid were granted a stay of execution bythe Boundary Commission yesterday as it agreed to review its plans toabolish their parliamentary seats. Plans to cull MPs in Edinburgh, Fife, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire areto be put to a public inquiry after protests ...
NHS bears brunt of public service dissatisfaction
Aug 01, 2002; ... SATISFACTION with many public services is dropping - according tothe final soundings of the government's "people's panel" before itwas axed. More than 1,000 members of the public were asked about a range ofservices in March as part of a major consultation exercise launchedin ...
Challenge for PFI as building initiative is launched
Aug 01, 2002; ... A SCOTTISH council is to challenge the controversial privatefinance initiative (PFI), creating its own model which it hopes willprovide new schools and hospitals as well as giving the taxpayerbetter value for money . Falkirk Council, run by the Scottish National Party ...
Birlinn snaps up Polygon
Aug 01, 2002; ... NO OTHER firm in Britain started out with Gordon Brown on itsboard, but Edinburgh publisher Polygon has always been a one-off. Anduntil yesterday, it had always avoided the clutches of any of itscommercial rivals. Yesterday's deal saw the firm acquired for an undisclosed sum ...
Livingstone wins road toll battle
Aug 01, 2002; ... MOTORISTS can be charged GBP 5 to drive into central London, acourt ruled yesterday, in a landmark finding that will boost plans tolevy a toll on drivers entering Edinburgh. Westminster Council lost its High Court battle to block a projectby Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, to ...
Setback for city toll plan as expert quits
Aug 01, 2002; ... MOVES to introduce roads tolls in Edinburgh face a setback after akey consultant to the project has quit after complaints fromcouncillors and fears of a conflict of interest. The news came as the High Court in London overturned WestminsterCouncil's bid to block a project by Ken ...
Scotland mops up ,but storms chaos set to continue for days
Aug 01, 2002; ... SUMMER is expected to finally reach Scotland this weekend after anEnglish heatwave triggered thunderstorms north of the Border causingthe wettest July day since records began. Forecasters predicted sunny weather until Sunday as the clear-upoperations began yesterday after ...
Sympathy for rape family
Aug 01, 2002; ... A JUDGE yesterday sent his sympathies to the family of a teenagerape victim who committed suicide days after her attacker wasconvicted. Lord McEwan was speaking as he sentenced a 15-year-old boy, whocannot be named for legal reasons, to four years detention for thesexual assault ...
Rapist of suicide teenager is given 4 years
Aug 01, 2002; ... A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was sentenced to four years' detention yesterdayfor the rape of a teenage girl who committed suicide after goingthrough the ordeal of giving evidence in court. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had gone to a parkwith Lindsay Armstrong, 17, near ...
SE unveils 20m pound SME fund
Aug 01, 2002; ... SCOTTISH Enterprise unveiled details of its much-vaunted "fund offunds" yesterday as part of a GBP 40 million package of measures toboost Scotland's ailing business birth rate. The GBP 20 million fund, to be called the Scottish Co-InvestmentScheme, will provide matching funds for ...
Scrutineer
Aug 01, 2002 ... AWG AWG has joined the bandwagon of water companies to do a financialrestructuring of its business, swapping some equity for debt, whichit argues is cheaper in the face of tough price cut demands by theregulator Ofwat. Shareholders will get 177p per share as part of a GBP ...
Share spotlight
Aug 01, 2002 ... Selfridges bouncing back in style ADMITTEDLY it was coming from a low base, but the 5.7 per centbounce in Selfridges' share price yesterday was a welcome relief forinvestors in the department store group. The cause was a trading update before the retailer goes into itsclose ...