The Scotsman back issues from September 2002:
Artificial Intelligence
Sep 02, 2002; ... Good grief, Charlie Brown THE ANTICS of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and Lucy still pop upin the Sunday strips, but the most ardent of Peanuts fans can satisfytheir craving for the gang with a visit to the newly opened Charles MSchultz Museum in northern California. Those ...
Lilley blossoms for Thistle on return to Aberdeen
Sep 02, 2002; ... Aberdeen 0 Partick Thistle 1 Lilley (30) Referee: J Rowbotham. Attendance: 12,591 ABERDEEN may have coped comfortably with the Moldovans, and coachDrew Jarvie was in Germany yesterday starting to plot the downfall ofHertha Berlin but Ebbe Skovdahl's side had no ...
Sweet-talking for Hershey bid
Sep 02, 2002; ... CADBURY and Nestl are understood to have held secret talks toagree on a joint GBP 8 billion plus bid for American sweets giantHershey. But it is not clear whether the talks will lead to a jointlyfinanced bid for Hershey, or Nestl bidding with an agreement to sellbrands on to ...
Green returns to the fray with solo bid for Arcadia
Sep 02, 2002; ... PHILIP Green, the billionaire owner of Bhs, is to return toclothing retailer Arcadia this week with a GBP 770 million bid thatdoes not need the support of Icelandic company Baugur. The deal was thrown into doubt last week after police raidedBaugur's headquarters in connection with ...
Clydesdale is voted among worst banks
Sep 02, 2002; ... CLYDESDALE Bank has been branded among the worst in Britain in acustomer survey by the Consumers' Association. The poor showing for Scotland's third-largest bank resulted fromresearch which showed an increasing trend towards better services andrates among online banks ....
Scotland's 1,000 big cat sightings
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE number of reported sightings of so-called big cats in Scotlandis expected to reach 1,000 within a matter of weeks following arecord number of cases logged this summer. Although a group compiling a database of sightings of non-nativecats such as pumas, panthers and lynxes is ...
Raffarin faces a stern test on economic questions
Sep 02, 2002; ... AS FRANCE returns from its summer holiday, its new governmentfaces a series of economic tests, which are attracting criticism fromboth left and right. Its handling of these challenges will be asignificant factor in the fortunes of the euro-zone as its othermajor economy, Germany, wallows ...
BoE expected to keep rates on hold
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE Bank of England is widely expected to ignore fresh calls fromthe manufacturing sector to cut interest rates when its monetarypolicy committee meets later this week. Continuing uncertainty over global economic recovery and nervousstock markets are certain to convince the MPC ...
BE set to offload its US assets
Sep 02, 2002; ... EAST Kilbride-based nuclear power producer British Energy is setto sell North American assets worth up to GBP 1.5 billion, in aneffort to avert a funding crisis. The plight of the company, caused by the fall in wholesaleelectricity prices, has prompted the government to consider ...
Pensioner's shock at capital prices
Sep 02, 2002; ... DOROTHY Bruce wanted to move to Edinburgh from her home inTyneside, to be near her son and family - but found she had todownsize because of the soaring property prices in the city. Mrs Bruce, 80, made some tough decisions and sold her home inSouth Shields - a three-bedroom, ...
Queuing all night just to buy a flat
Sep 02, 2002; ... QUEUING overnight in an Edinburgh street was not Susan Pollard'sidea of house-buying. But breaking into the Edinburgh market proved alot harder than she first thought. Mrs Pollard, 47, wanted to buy a flat for her son who was due toattend Edinburgh College of Art, but selecting a ...
Children hit wrong note in classical music poll
Sep 02, 2002; ... ALMOST two-thirds of British children cannot name a traditionalcomposer, with many citing Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or evenShakespeare, as examples of classical musicians, according to a newsurvey. The Classic FM magazine poll of more than 600 children agedbetween six and ...
Sissons accuses BBC of ageism
Sep 02, 2002; ... PETER SISSONS, the veteran BBC newsreader, announced yesterdaythat he was stepping down from presenting the 10 O'Clock News,accusing the corporation of being "ageist". Sissons, one of the anchors of the flagship news programme, saidhe was saddened by the number of colleagues over ...
Diana remembered in Royal Family's prayers
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales markedthe fifth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales,yesterday in a quiet service in Crathie Kirk on Royal Deeside. In a move that will appease the harsher critics of the RoyalFamily, who believe they are ...
Cheap rates Roberts on a shoestring
Sep 02, 2002; ... JULIA Roberts, who is one of Hollywood's highest-paid film starsafter commanding a fee of GBP 13 million in 1999 to star in ErinBrockovich, will appear in a new film for rather less exorbitant feeof just GBP 3,000. Ms Roberts accepted her lowest fee for many years after ...
Asylum film in line for award
Sep 02, 2002; ... A CONTROVERSIAL film by the Scottish director Peter Mullan, whichtells the story of three young Irish women brutalised by nuns in aRoman Catholic asylum, could win top honours at the Venice FilmFestival. Mullan's new work, The Magdalene Sisters, has gripped audiences atthe ...
Finnie says sorry for 'prat' slur
Sep 02, 2002; ... JACK McConnell, the First Minister, intervened from South Africayesterday to demand that Ross Finnie, his embattled rural affairsminister, apologise immediately for calling Britain's top businessleader an "English prat". Mr McConnell, who is in Johannesburg for the World Summit ...
Trash TV? Perhaps, but a ratings winner
Sep 02, 2002; ... IT IS a shameless copy of Survivor, and that was a major ratingsfailure. So taking a motley selection of so-called celebrities (low-grade) to maroon them in the Australian wilderness, hardly seemedlike the recipe for a sure-fire winner. Yet I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! is ...
Playing cat and house
Sep 02, 2002; ... Few things in life are more hazardous than cat-sitting. OK, theoutcome, should things go wrong, is less painful than, say, for adeep-sea diver or training-shoe-brand namer, but it is no comfort atALL, when one's little toe connects at high speed with a carelesslyplaced table leg, to be ...
Time for a brief history
Sep 02, 2002 ... STEPHEN HAWKING Title: Lucasian professor of mathematics, Cambridge University -once held by Sir Isaac Newton. Age: 60 Educated: St Albans School; University College, Oxford. Claim to fame: Author of ten-million selling A Brief History ofTime, about the ...
Clash of the atom-smashing academics
Sep 02, 2002; ... HE HAS won admiration throughout the world for his brilliantbrain, best-selling books and courageous fight against debilitatingillness. Yet Professor Stephen Hawking is clearly not lionised by all hispeers. One highly respected contemporary has launched an attack onthe esteemed ...
Old-tech view of scientific study
Sep 02, 2002 ... PETER HIGGS Title: Professor (Emeritus) of theoretical physics, EdinburghUniversity. Age: 73. Educated: Cotham Grammar School, Bristol (Paul Dirac, whodiscovered anti-matter, also attended the school); King's College,London. Claim to fame: Predicted ...
Troubled history of the boy who became Swedish hijack suspect
Sep 02, 2002; ... GUNILLA Chatty says was nothing unusual about the way her sonKerim was brought up in a neatly anonymous suburb of Stockholm. It was, she recalls a "gentle" and "idyllic" upbringing. She is bewildered and distressed by her boy's arrest forattempting to hijack Ryanair flight FR ...
Soaring property prices prompt a boom in 'paper millionaires'
Sep 02, 2002; ... MORE than one in 20 home-owners in Edinburgh will be "papermillionaires" by 2020, thanks to the city's soaring property prices. Around 12,000 homes in the capital currently worth GBP 330,000 ormore are predicted to push through the GBP 1 million barrier over thenext 18 years, ...
Banks: shock jock
Sep 02, 2002; ... Iain Banks likes a good rant. It might come as a surprise to somethat the easy-going grizzly bear of Scottish literature can be apolitical animal. But his new novel Dead Air, he readily admits, is aseries of rants punctuated by a plot: Euroscepticism, the monarchy,Israel, Scottish ...
Powell: US must justify attack
Sep 02, 2002; ... COLIN Powell has backed Britain's position on Iraq by saying thatthe United States must publish its evidence against Saddam Husseinbefore launching any military action. The US Secretary of State is joining forces with the PrimeMinister, Tony Blair, by arguing that the President, ...
New York now safer than crime-ridden streets of London, say actresses
Sep 02, 2002; ... TWO of Britain's leading actresses provoked a debate about crimelevels in London yesterday, saying they felt safer in New York. Fear of being attacked by gangs has prompted Joan Collins to voicepublicly her fears about walking alone in the city where she was bornand brought up ....
The snow that tarnished America's golden door
Sep 02, 2002; ... NEW YORK is a surreal place at the best of times. Not really apiece of the United States, but more a never-never land of humanaspirations and dreams. A dense, cosmopolitan village that is thecrossroads of all the world and therefore a target of hate as well aslove. Little wonder then, ...
Leader Blair must spell it out
Sep 02, 2002 ... ANOTHER day, and another discordant voice on Iraq from within theUS administration. This time it was the Secretary of State, ColinPowell. In an interview for the BBC Breakfast with Frost programme -an extract was broadcast yesterday - Mr Powell commented on thejustification for any ...
Leader Romeo Beckham
Sep 02, 2002 ... HE MIGHT have been called Trafford, but the smart money was onParis. After Mrs Posh Spice Beckham revealed that her first son,Brooklyn, was named after the place where she learned he had beenconceived, the bookies were inundated with geographical bets. But thenew parents outwitted the ...
Object Lesson Betamax RIP
Sep 02, 2002 ... BETAMAX video recorders are finally to be laid to rest. For thosewho don't remember the advent of video, Betamax was the superiorquality option in home entertainment but lost out to the dominance ofVHS in the 1980s. Sony launched Betamax in 1975 and at its peak in1984, 2.3 million ...
'CELEBRITIES' HIGHS AND LOWS
Sep 02, 2002 ... TARA PALMER TOMPKINSON Job: "It" girl. Best moment: Screaming in hysterics as millions of maggots raineddown on her. Worst moment: Tantrum when Darren said she wasn't pulling herweight. CHRISTINE HAMILTON Job: Wife of former MP Neil; serial TV ...
McLeishes put home on market as US beckons for fresh start
Sep 02, 2002; ... HENRY McLeish, the disgraced former first minister, and his wifeJulie Fulton, have put their St Andrews home on the market in anattempt to bow out of public life for good . The couple's four-bedroom villa has an asking price of GBP320,000, but could go for as much as GBP 400,000 - ...
Austria may have Euro 2008 sewn up
Sep 02, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S joint bid with Ireland to host the Euro 2008 footballchampionships might already have been rejected by European football'sgoverning body, Jack McConnell, the First Minister, warned yesterday. Officials from UEFA, the body in charge of European football, aredue to come to ...
Why the knives are out for Clarke
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE WHISPERING campaign against Charles Clarke gathered pace atthe weekend when it emerged that the Labour Party chairman haddenounced Gordon Brown and John Prescott at a now infamous dinnerduring which he ate two pizzas. Mr Clarke is said to have described Mr Prescott as ...
Blair wants euro vote next October, hints former minister
Sep 02, 2002; ... TONY Blair faced demands last night to make clear the government'sstrategy on the euro, after a former minister claimed that areferendum on British membership is likely to be held in October nextyear. George Foulkes, a former Scotland Office minister, claimed thePrime Minister ...
MEAL DEALS EATERIES OF NOTE
Sep 02, 2002; ... IF Charles Clarke decides to quit before the whispering campaigngathers pace, there will be one memorial to his downfall: thePizzaExpress in Victoria Street, London. The meal took place more than a year ago - yet his decision to eattwo pizzas was remembered by the Westminster ...
SNP calls for action on private jail
Sep 02, 2002; ... SNP leaders yesterday demanded an urgent inspection of Kilmarnockjail, Scotland's only private prison, after publishing figures whichthey claimed showed it had the worst record in Scotland. John Swinney, the party leader, claimed Kilmarnock was bottom ofthe leagues for ...
Time we went back to renting
Sep 02, 2002; ... COMMENTARY HERE we go again. The housing market is causing trouble. In many parts of the country, house prices are looking distinctlystrained, and I am reminded of the time in early 1988 when I pleadedwith my wife that we should sell and move into rented accommodation.She ...
From pounds and shillings to millions in under a century
Sep 02, 2002 ... A SEARCH of Scottish properties at the Register of Sasines andLand Registry in Edinburgh revealed meteoric house price increases onboth sides of the country. At the start of the 20th century, house price increases weremodest in comparison to income, but as properties changed hands ...
House Buying-The truth Part One: The Scottish property revolution
Sep 02, 2002; ... From DIY and style shows on television to Sunday shopping at IKEA,owning our homes has become a national obsession. In a three-partseries, Frank O'Donnell finds out why RALPH Weir and his wife Lucy are typical of Scotland's newproperty-owning generation. Six years ago, they ...
Works wonders
Sep 02, 2002; ... When Callum Crichton was still at school, he didn't dare to dreamabout being a fireman, an engineer or anything else his schoolmatesaspired to. He just hoped somebody would give him a chance to earnhis keep. As a child, Callum, now 20, was diagnosed as havingepilepsy. He also had minor ...
Invisible mothers
Sep 02, 2002; ... Desperate for food, a young mother scavenges in a black bin baglooking for sustenance for her new-born baby. A common sightthroughout the Third World,we might feel sympathy for her plight. Butthis scene is not being played out in Bombay, San Salvador orMombassa, this is Britain in 2002 ....
Boating friends' last-gasp rescue
Sep 02, 2002; ... A SURVIVOR of a speedboat accident hailed his friend a hero lastnight for swimming for two hours to raise the alarm - and saving hisfriends from drowning in the freezing water of the Firth of Clyde. Robert Thompson swam a mile in heavy seas and strong winds to gethelp after the ...
To the Beckhams, a Shakespearian inspiration; Romeo, born as Caesar
Sep 02, 2002; ... SO, why Romeo? Probably Britain's most famous young couple hadtheir second son yesterday, and sprung another surprise with anunorthodox choice of name. If Shakespeare seemed unlikely inspiration for David Beckham,England's football captain, and Victoria, his pop singer wife, ...
Review
Sep 02, 2002; ... Triumph of the trio CLASSICAL MUSIC Batiashvili/Gerhardt/ Osborne Queen's Hall, Edinburgh BRAHMS and Ravel invested a substantial amount of personal emotionin their music and they were constantly revising and perfecting theirwork. As a result, the final versions of their ...
ScottishPower in green drive
Sep 02, 2002; ... SCOTTISHPOWER aims to spearhead a campaign to introduceenvironmentally-friendly electricity production to one of the poorestregions of South Africa. ScottishPower chief executive Ian Russell and First Minister JackMcConnell are to pitch the concept to other large ...
Scrutineer
Sep 02, 2002; ... British Energy seeking a level playing field in energy market BRITISH Energy, the nuclear generator, might think it could havedone without the market speculation over the past few weeks which atone stage pushed its shares down to a closing price as low as 54p on20 August ....
Review Quartet for the End of Time
Sep 02, 2002; ... Usher Hall, Edinburgh IF ONE wasn't a lover of Messiaen at the beginning of this year'sfestival, one certainly ought to have been by the end after the threeravishing performances of his works, the last being this performanceof his Quartet for the End of Time at the final GBP 5 ...
Going out,staying in
Sep 02, 2002 ... VISUAL ARTS Little Sparta: A Portrait of a Garden ROCK & POP TheCrescent, Minuteman and Appliance JAZZ Equinox: A Tribute to JohnColtrane Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, today until 28 September IT'S been a good year for Ian Hamilton Finlay. In the spring hestaged a major ...
Review Richard Goode and Randall Scarlata
Sep 02, 2002; ... Queen's Hall, Edinburgh OVER the last few weeks we have heard pianist Richard Goode as aconcerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist and in this finalconcert at the Queen's Hall he was as meticulous as ever asaccompanist to the baritone Randall Scarlata. Goode did ...
NSP can eradicate scrapie in 10 years
Sep 02, 2002; ... IT WILL take ten years and probably more to rid the UK's sheepflock of scrapie, the wasting disease associated with BSE. However,much will depend on the uptake by breeders, both pedigree andcommercial, according to David Gray of the National Scrapie Plan(NSP). Speaking at Hallhill Farm ...
Crew: How we caught bomber
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE two US flight attendants who tackled Richard Reid, thesuspected shoe bomber, have revealed that they became suspiciousafter he refused to eat or drink on the long-haul flight from Paristo Miami. Cristina Jones and Hermis Moutardier, whose actions are alleged tohave saved the ...
Review CLASSICAL MUSIC Saint Ludmila
Sep 02, 2002; ... Usher Hall, Edinburgh DVORK'S lengthy oratorio Saint Ludmila has its moments. Like thepious heroine's final aria in part one - music as enthralling andspine-tingling as any the Czech composer penned. Or the starryheights Ludmila soars to in a finale heaving with monumental ...
Be clear of tax benefits on venture capital deals
Sep 02, 2002; ... LAST week the Inland Revenue produced a new manual explaining taxreliefs and rules regarding venture capital investments. At a timewhen venture capital activity is low it is clearly helpful to letmore companies and individuals know the significant tax advantages ofthis form of investment ...
Time to start planning for euro currency is here
Sep 02, 2002; ... FOR anyone who has travelled abroad this year the euro is areality. Shops in many of the eurozone countries may still printtheir prices in the former currency but increasingly everyone isbecoming very familiar with the euro and are increasingly using itwithout giving it too much thought ....
Staff allowed back into Soham schools
Sep 02, 2002 ... STAFF at two schools at the centre of the investigation into themurder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells will return to work thisweek to prepare for the new term. Soham Village College and St Andrew's Primary School have beensealed off for the past two weeks while police searched ...
Sir Cliff turns in a vintage performance
Sep 02, 2002 ... SIR Cliff Richard is top of the charts again, only this time it'snot his records that are flying off the shelf, but his new wine. Vida Nova, a red wine made from grapes grown around Sir Cliff'sPortugese villa in the Algarve, has broken all records on thesupermarket chain Tesco's ...
Lady Archer tribunal
Sep 02, 2002 ... THE wife of Lord Archer, the author and disgraced peer, willappear before an employment tribunal today, accused of unfairlydismissing her former secretary. Lady Archer, 57, of Grant-chester, Cambridgeshire, will contestthe claims made by former employee Jane Williams at a hearing ...
Race murder charge
Sep 02, 2002 ... AN 18-year-old Scot has been charged with the murder of an Iranianasylum seeker who was stabbed to death in Sunderland last week. The man, who was arrested in Edinburgh on Friday, will appearbefore Sunderland magistrates charged with murder, violent disorderand ...
Pick of the dat Suede
Sep 02, 2002; ... SUEDE'S first album since 1999, A New Morning, is due to bereleased on 29 September, and a handy little countdown feature on theband's website, www.suede.net, is telling me that the big day isprecisely 30 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes and 44 seconds away. But willA New Morning be worth the ...
Review FOLK Scottish Political Song: Campaigns and Causes
Sep 02, 2002; ... The Hub, Edinburgh THE eighth and last in the series of the Us and Them: ScottishPolitical Song concerts seemed to provide a repository for all thematerial which did not fit into any of the previous seven. We heardof women's suffrage, ban the bomb, anti-monarchy - and there were ...
Stagecoach fears cut in 1.7bn pound rail franchise
Sep 02, 2002; ... BRIAN Souter's Stagecoach is set to have a 20-year, GBP 1.7billion contract to run South West Trains shortened dramatically, asthe Strategic Rail Authority looks to make operators moreaccountable. Perth-based Stagecoach has run the UK's biggest rail franchisesince privatisation ...
The Sunday papers Bishop ready to up sticks with his wife
Sep 02, 2002; ... THE former Bishop of Argyll, who provoked a national scandal whenhe eloped with one of his parishioners, is quitting Britain. The Mailon Sunday revealed that Roddy Wright and his wife - the divorceeKathleen MacPhee - would depart for a new life in New Zealand, wherehe intends to write ...
Tracker
Sep 02, 2002 ... IoD launches attack on the DTI The Institute of Directors launched a stinging attack on theDepartment of Trade and Industry insisting it had been damaged by an"extraordinary level" of political instability because of thedifferent secretaries of state appointed over the past few ...