The Scotsman back issues from October 2002:
Artificial intelligence
Oct 01, 2002; ... Not-so-soft drink fights back THE news last week that the terrible summer weather has affectedsales of Irn-Bru in Scotland was tempered somewhat by the fact thatsales are up in England and Wales. The Other National Drink seems tobe finally breaking through to markets down south ....
The most common female cancer ...
Oct 01, 2002; ... Britain already has one of the highest breast cancer death ratesin the world and it is the most common cancer among women across theUK. In 2000, 1,116 women in Scotland died as a result of the disease,with more than 4,000 women diagnosed. Breast cancer is the most common ...
Warrior women
Oct 01, 2002; ... Christine Thomson clearly remembers discovering the lump in herbreast. "I was in the shower. I do regularly check myself for lumps,but I wasn't checking this time, just washing, and I felt a lumpabout the size of a grape in my breast." In the weeks and months that followed, ...
On a path to self-delusion?
Oct 01, 2002; ... FOR years we've been listening to constant enthusing about thebenefits of yoga. Geri Halliwell moved from being a curvy picture ofwomanhood to looking like a 12-year-old boy, and thousands rushed outto buy the video. Madonna wandered around, biceps bulging, and womenphoned the local ...
AAM to cut costs as new business dives
Oct 01, 2002; ... EMBATTLED Scottish fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management revealedyesterday that difficult trading conditions for equities had cut netnew business by 37 per cent in its 2002 financial year. AAM, whose shares have lost more than 90 per cent of their valuethis year as it has become ...
Terrorist overlord to peace architect
Oct 01, 2002; ... DAVID Trimble and John Hume may have stood shoulder to shoulder inOslo's opulent City Hall to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, but thereare those who remain convinced that the key figure who brought aboutthe historic Northern Ireland peace agreement was absent from thatplatform, four years ...
Foreign Secretary escaped death bid
Oct 01, 2002 ... THE IRA came close to assassinating Sir Geoffrey Howe when he wasForeign Secretary, according to Ed Moloney's book. Howe, one of Margaret Thatcher's most senior ministers at thetime, was saved by British intelligence from a huge car bomb whichwould have signalled the start of a ...
Policeman's HIV fear following arrest
Oct 01, 2002; ... A POLICEMAN who saved a street from a possible gas explosion iswaiting to find out if he has caught a killer virus. PC Marcus Lorente, 29, whose wife is expecting their first childat Christmas, may have been infected with HIV or hepatitis. He mustawait the outcome of further tests ...
Is it time we had a song for Europe
Oct 01, 2002; ... Even for those who regard golf as a good walk spoiled, it wasimpossible not to be swept up in the weekend's excitement surroundingthe Ryder Cup. Who could forget those elegant drives and perilousputts, all the bright excitement of a European victory, made the moremerry because it was so ...
Contract talks fail at Borders knitwear firms
Oct 01, 2002; ... MORE than 400 knitwear workers are set to have their contractsterminated, after last-ditch talks aimed at ending a long-runningindustrial dispute failed. Management at the parent company, Dawson International, had set adeadline of midnight last night to accept plans to harmonise ...
Pick of the day King Lear
Oct 01, 2002; ... THIS has been a brilliantly successful year for the London-basedEnglish Touring Theatre Company and its new artistic director, formerTraverse associate Stephen Unwin. The company already has twoacclaimed productions - of Peter Gill's new play The New York Realistand Ibsen's Ghosts - ...
Executive fails with GBP 20m plan to free beds
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Scottish Executive came under fire yesterday for failing tosolve the problem of bed-blocking, despite an investment of GBP 20million. Official figures revealed that, in July, patients were waiting anaverage of 83 days to be discharged from hospital, a week longer thanthree ...
Sales pace quickens at Boots
Oct 01, 2002; ... UPBEAT news on second quarter sales helped health and beautyretail giant Boots beat the stock market blues yesterday. The share bounce was sparked by a trading statement from thecompany ahead of half-year results on 7 November that sales at itsmain Boots The Chemist chain grew ...
Executive challenged to find rail cash as 90 per cent back new link
Oct 01, 2002; ... NINE out of ten people who took part in a public consultationexercise said they would use train services if the Waverley linebetween Edinburgh and the Borders was reinstated. The Scottish Executive was challenged to find funding for theproject, as supporters claimed the survey ...
British Energy slides after credit rating cut
Oct 01, 2002; ... BRITISH Energy's return to favour with the stock market stalledyesterday, after credit rating agency Moody's cut the company's bondrating. Moody's took the step to downgrade the East Kilbride-based group'srating to Caa1 from B2 after the company said it had granted firstclaim ...
Telecoms cast doubt over SE's Project Atlas
Oct 01, 2002; ... A pounds 6 MILLION plan by Scottish Enterprise to create atelecoms "trading exchange" for SMEs was called into doubt yesterday,after a host of companies within the industry said prices in Scotlandwere no higher than in the rest of the UK. BT, NTL, Thus and Telewest all said that ...
Edinburgh bus drivers prepare to vote on updated pay offer
Oct 01, 2002; ... DRIVERS at Edinburgh's main bus firm will start an indefinitestrike at midnight tonight if the latest pay offer is rejected intoday's ballot, their union has warned. City council officials are again poised to introduce emergencytraffic measures in case the walkout goes ahead, but ...
Who killed god's banker?
Oct 01, 2002; ... The pounds 9,000 Patek Philippe watch on the wrist of RobertoCalvi was exclusive, but not waterproof. Its hands had stopped at1:50am, the approximate time the man, who was to become known as"God's Banker", died. Since that day - 19 June 1982 - the official story is that ...
Ever-changing trends
Oct 01, 2002; ... The UK population is 58,789,194. England accounts for 83.6 percent of the total (49,138,831), Scotland 8.6 per cent (5,062,011),Wales 4.9 per cent (2,903, 085) and Northern Ireland 2.9 per cent(1,685,267). Since 1801, the population of the UK has increased sixfold, thesame rate ...
Census findings reveal an ageing Scotland
Oct 01, 2002; ... CHEAPER air travel, longer life expectancy and delayed motherhoodare all transforming Britain's population, according to the findingsof the 2001 census published yesterday. The popularity of lengthy foreign trips and "gap years" hasresulted in up to 600,000 young people, ...
Dangers of Scotland's vanishing youth
Oct 01, 2002; ... CHILDREN under the age of 16 are outnumbered by the over-sixtiesfor the first time in British history, according to statistics in the2001 census released yesterday. Elderly people now make up 21 per cent of the UK population whileonly 20 per cent are of school age or younger, ...
Outrage as Swedish hijack suspect is freed from jail
Oct 01, 2002; ... A SUSPECTED hijacker who was said to be planning to crash a London-bound jet into an American Embassy building was yesterday releasedfrom custody. Prosecutors said they are still investigating why Kerim Chatty hada gun in his hand luggage when he tried to board a Ryanair ...
Grandmasters square up to new chess
Oct 01, 2002; ... LORD Byron said life was too short for it, but chess in its purestform has proved popular for almost 1,500 years. But now the game could be facing its most radical change yet afterclaims that two of the world's most celebrated players have endorseda radically different version ....
Original and the best?
Oct 01, 2002; ... MANY have argued over the years that "classical" chess has been"played out", with games at the top level ending in draws due to thedevelopment of opening analysis. Masters would memorise the thousandsof opening variations - and this was before the advent of computertechnology where they ...
Greenback dips after Japanese reshuffle
Oct 01, 2002 ... THE yen jumped to its highest level against the dollar for morethan a week yesterday after a cabinet reshuffle in Japan sparkedhopes that the country may be able to clean up its debt-laden bankingsector. Weakness in global equity markets also put pressure on thedollar. The ...
Major faces 50,000 pound demand
Oct 01, 2002; ... THE owners of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers aredemanding John Major returns the GBP 50,000 they lost after a legalsettlement or he will face a new lawsuit. Sport Newspapers Ltd, the major shareholder in Scallywag, the nowdefunct satirical magazine, announced ...
Equitable seeks deal over GAR policies
Oct 01, 2002; ... TROUBLED mutual Equitable Life said yesterday it was seeking acompromise with former policyholders after a study it commissionedshowed that they may have valid mis-selling claims. The report by actuarial consultants B&W Deloitte showed that about70,000 Guaranteed Annuity Rights ...
Euro divisions revealed
Oct 01, 2002; ... LABOUR divisions over the euro were thrust into the open on thefirst full day of the party's conference yesterday as Gordon Brownand Charles Clarke, the party chairman, offered differentinterpretations over the timing of the single currency referendum. Mr Clarke appeared to reveal ...
Supermarkets yield to pressure over retail cheese as farmgate price rises 2p
Oct 01, 2002; ... AS THE Countryside Alliance announced plans for an all-embracingrural council yesterday, it was confirmed that dairy farmers hadmanaged to squeeze a fairer share of retail cheese prices out ofsupermarkets. The 2p farmgate price increase for milk used to make cheese andother ...
Business courses aim to boost management skills
Oct 01, 2002; ... BORDERS farmers have been invited to take what will be a refreshercourse for some, but a starter for others, to improve their businessmanagement. The aim of the course is to encourage farmers to reach standardsnow set by the top 25 per cent. David Dalling, a farm business ...
P&O ends 31-year ferry link to Northern Isles
Oct 01, 2002; ... THE ferries St Sunniva and St Claire sailed from Aberdeen andLerwick for the last time yesterday, ending a 31-year link between P& O Scottish Ferries and the Northern Isles. The ferry company, which had operated the lifeline route since1971, lost the contract to continue the ...
Buchanan St becomes a stand-in for Dublin
Oct 01, 2002; ... A FERRY company was forced to apologise yesterday after it wasrevealed that they used a picture of girls walking through Glasgow topromote trips to Dublin. The gaffe was made by P&O Irish ferries on the cover of the firm'sWelcome Aboard magazine to entice tourists to the Irish ...
Consumers are not convinced of benefits of GM food, survey reveals
Oct 01, 2002; ... THE public remains highly sceptical of genetically modified foodand sees little benefit in it for themselves, a new report hasrevealed ahead of a decision by the Scottish Executive on whether toroll out commercial plantings. The Consumers' Association has found confidence in ...
BA plays a bogey with golfing website of Britain
Oct 01, 2002; ... SUNDAY'S stunning victory by Sam Torrance's team in the Ryder Cuphas put British and European golf back with a bang on the worldgolfing map. But, when it comes to British Airways and its golfing website,finding your way to the most famous courses in Scotland is likely toprove a ...
Greener energy as 4m pound power station opens
Oct 01, 2002; ... THE first hydro-electric station built in Scotland for nearly 40years was officially opened yesterday by Ross Finnie, the environmentminister, as part of a drive to increase the contribution ofrenewable energy. The new GBP 4 million station on the River Cuileig, near ...
Dow dives as gloomy economic news forces investors to take cover
Oct 01, 2002 ... GLOBAL stock markets ended the third quarter on the slide, aseconomic weakness, poor profits and rumblings of a US war on Iraqdrained confidence. US stocks slumped to new multi-year lows, pushing the tech-ladenNasdaq to a low unseen in six years as retailers such as ...
Straw heads off rebellion on Iraq stance
Oct 01, 2002 ... JACK Straw, the Foreign Secretary, successfully headed off a partyrebellion over the government's stance on Iraq last night writesHamish Macdonell. Mr Straw celebrated what he claimed was a significant victoryafter the Labour leadership secured enough votes to defeat an ...
Blair:This is just the start
Oct 01, 2002; ... TONY Blair will today brush aside last night's party conferencedefeat on PFI contracts, telling delegates he has only just startedto shake up Britain's public services. The Prime Minister will say PFI deals are vital for theregeneration of schools and hospitals and that, if ...
Chancellor owns up to 4bn pound mistake
Oct 01, 2002; ... GORDON Brown is preparing to admit that he was too optimistic inhis last Budget forecasts - and must now either raise tax by theequivalent of 1.5p in the pound or borrow some GBP 4.7 billion. The Chancellor is expected to confirm next month that Britain'seconomic growth has been ...
Leader Hollow victory for the Labour leadership
Oct 01, 2002 ... YESTERDAY was a topsy-turvy day in Blackpool. On the face of it,the Labour leadership clocked up one major victory, on Iraq, and onemajor defeat, on the Private Finance Initiative. In reality, thedefeat was of no consequence and the victory was hollow. Take first the PFI, a source ...
Leader Jim and Wendy
Oct 01, 2002 ... WENDY Alexander could hardly be described as a conventionalpolitician. She is a policy wonk, an undeniable talent in a party notexactly brimming with originality, and it is perhaps that which meansher being viewed with some suspicion among her colleagues. That, andthe fact, of course, ...
Leader Rangers' colour blindness
Oct 01, 2002 ... FOR all the efforts being made to combat sectarianism in Scottishfootball, Rangers' decision to produce an orange strip must have setback the cause by several years. The brave soul who dared question the club over the message thissends out received an earful at the club's annual ...
Violence continues in prison dormitories
Oct 01, 2002; ... A SECOND night of violence at a Scottish prison saw inmates on therampage for the fifth time this year. Prisoners at Low Moss, in Bishopbriggs, were reported to beinvolved in disturbances in a dormitory. The Scottish Prison Service said problems began at about ...
Floored by Malcolm
Oct 01, 2002; ... For an architect who dislikes competitions, Malcolm Fraser isdoing quite nicely. The man already voted Scottish Architect of theYear 2002 was awarded a GBP 20,000 prize on Friday by the RoyalIncorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) for his work on DanceBase in Edinburgh. That same ...
Manchester Utd scores healthy dividend
Oct 01, 2002; ... MANCHESTER United, the world's biggest football club, scored inthe stock market yesterday with a cracking 55 per cent dividend booston the back of higher profits. Cash continues to pour in from television rights and gatereceipts, though the club also saw players' wages shoot to ...
Global markets plunge on fears of slowdown
Oct 01, 2002; ... STOCK markets around the world suffered further extensive fallsyesterday, the last day of the third quarter, on renewed fears ofeconomic weakness and worries over a US war on Iraq. Investors scurried into safe-havens such as gold and governmenttreasuries. In London, leading ...
McConnell takes fight to SNP in speech
Oct 01, 2002; ... JACK McConnell signalled his intention yesterday to make thebattle against independence the key theme of next year's electioncampaign. Making his first address to the Labour Party conference as FirstMinister, Mr McConnell launched a scathing attack on the politics ofnationalism, ...
Concern rises over health of Scot held in an Indonesian jail
Oct 01, 2002; ... FEARS were growing last night for the health of a Scottishacademic imprisoned in Indonesia and left unable to walk afterhospital treatment. Dr Lesley McCulloch, 40, from Dunoon, was arrested on 11 Septemberalong with her travelling companion, Joy Lee Sadler, a retired USnurse ....
Blue skies for Menzies above share storms
Oct 01, 2002; ... FEW may have spotted it. But in the middle of the stock marketstorm, one Scottish company is defying the gloom. John Menzies looksto have pulled off a miracle - and it is walking on something muchmore substantial than water. While shares all around have plunged, those in John ...
Murgitroyd profit hike boosts expansion plan
Oct 01, 2002; ... GLASGOW-BASED Murgitroyd, the world's only listed patenting andcopyright firm, said its European expansion plan was ahead ofschedule yesterday, as it racked up a 49 per cent hike in pre-taxprofits. Chief executive Keith Young said new bureaux in Italy and Swedenlook likely to be ...
MyTravel dives to nine-year low
Oct 01, 2002; ... SHARES in MyTravel dived 36 per cent in yesterday's trade afterthe company warned full-year figures would come in GBP 15 millionlower than expected and threatened to cut its dividend. Europe's largest holiday company said a change in the way itaccounted for revenue from insurance ...
Man, 73 , appears in court after artist's body is found
Oct 01, 2002; ... A 73-YEAR-OLD man will appear in court in Inverness todayfollowing the discovery of the body of a Scottish artist in her crofthouse above Loch Ness. Police were called to the house in the village of Errogie, 15miles from Inverness, on Sunday evening and immediately described ...
Going out,staying in
Oct 01, 2002 ... THEATRE Sunset Song Single Spies ROCK & POP The Divine ComedyOPERA Die Fledermaus Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, today until 19 October THE Royal Lyceum hosts a three-week run of Prime Productions'sbeautiful and engaging stage version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's greatnovel ...
Prices higher as talks over Iraq continue
Oct 01, 2002 ... OIL prices moved higher yesterday, supported by tropical storms inthe Gulf of Mexico and concerns over Iraq. London Brent crude futures were trading 17 cents higher at $29.05per barrel, while US light crude was up 24 cents at 30.78. All eyes were on Vienna, where UN weapons ...
Review Shock horror Ken Currie
Oct 01, 2002; ... Glasgow School of Art PERHAPS art can no longer shock. But if that is true, it is onlybecause the desire to shock and exploit the media value of scandalhas displaced the need to reflect some of the truths that droveartists to shock in the first place - catching art in a loop, ...
Review Only part of the picture David Wilkie, Painter of Everyday Life
Oct 01, 2002; ... Dulwich Picture Gallery, London I was once at a public lecture in St Andrews. The subject wasDavid Wilkie. Born in Fife, he was perhaps Scotland's greatestpainter. Celebrated throughout Europe, his example shaped much of theart of the 19th century, not least in his native ...
BMA backs new drink drive test
Oct 01, 2002; ... DOCTORS will be able to take blood samples from unconscious orincapacitated drivers without their consent under a new law whichcomes into force today. Under provisions of the 2002 Police Reform Act, which applythroughout the UK, officers can now ask doctors to take blood ...
New art centre reveals galleries' hidden gems
Oct 01, 2002; ... HUNDREDS of paintings and sculptures hidden away in the vaults ofthe National Galleries of Scotland will go on display to the publictoday with the opening of a new storage facility in Edinburgh. The GBP 2 million, purpose-built Granton Centre for Art willprovide a unique ...
Today's Agenda
Oct 01, 2002 ... 10am: Equal opportunities committee: Gender equality. 10am: Local government committee: local democracy inquiry. 11:15am: Subordinate legislation committee. 1:30pm: Justice 1 committee: Title ...
Political briefings
Oct 01, 2002 ... 10bn pound jet upgrade for Forces THE Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are to get the world's mostadvanced supersonic jump jets to replace the Sea Harrier aircraft. Upto 150 Short Take Off and Vertical Landing versions of the new F35,worth GBP 10 billion, are planned for 2012, said ...
New community schools offer 'one stop shop' after-hours education
Oct 01, 2002; ... MINISTERS are planning to turn every school in Scotland into thehub of their communities, offering pupils contact with youth-clubworkers, health staff and social workers as well as teachers. Under the radical scheme, which will cost GBP 47 million over twoyears, beginning in 2004, ...
Campaign anger as MSPs ditch smack bill
Oct 01, 2002; ... CHILD protection campaigners have renewed calls for Scotland tooutlaw smacking, following the Executive's decision to ditch plansfor a ban. Last month, Jim Wallace, the justice minister, announced theExecutive was abandoning plans to ban the smacking of under-threes -set out in ...
DEALS Glasgow portfolio for sale at 4.2m pounds
Oct 01, 2002 ... A PORTFOLIO of prime retail property in Glasgow's west end, whichincludes one of the city's best known public houses, is on the marketat offers over GBP 4.2 million. Montagu Evans, and the owners, Glasgow City Council, are jointlymarketing the investment which comprises a parade ...
Bird's eye view of the market
Oct 01, 2002; ... WHEN Sinclair Browne wants to get a break from the hurly burly ofthe commercial property world he goes rock-climbing and ice-climbing. He's hanging on thousands of feet above the ground, carefullycalculating his next move, knowing that if he gets it wrong it couldbe curtains. Is ...
Dalgleish jets in for treble at Hamilton
Oct 01, 2002; ... THEY breed 'em tough in the Borders and Keith Dalgleish obviouslybelieves jet-lag is something only wimps succumb to. Fresh from hisstint in Canada on Sunday night, he was back on the much morefamiliar territory of Hamilton Park yesterday and if hopping back andforth across the Atlantic ...