The Scotsman back issues from November 2002:
Anger as levels of domestic abuse rise for the third year
Nov 01, 2002; ... A WORRYING increase in the incidence of domestic abuse has beenseen in Scotland for a third consecutive year, leading to accusationsof complacency being levelled against the Executive. According to the latest police figures, there was a 5 per centrise in reported attacks, from ...
Husband escapes jail
Nov 01, 2002; ... A JEALOUS husband who attacked his cheating wife and threatened tocut off her head was ordered by a judge yesterday to undergo therapyfor domestic violence. Stephen Houston, 44, was spared a jail sentence after his wife,Caroline, 40, said the seven weeks he had spent in custody on ...
Artificial Intelligence Marred stras
Nov 01, 2002; ... IT BEGAN as light, Saturday evening comic relief - Geri's squeaksadding as much to the hour's entertainment as the woeful attempts byfirst round, wannabe-pop stars to impress the judges. But as the pace has stepped up, so the frolics have turned sour atPop Stars: The Rivals. Now ...
Allied chief in barley pledge
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE chief executive of Allied Domecq, the world's second biggestspirits company, flies into Scotland today to meet institutionalinvestors - with encouraging words for the country's farmers. Philip Bowman said Allied, whose prime selling whisky isBallantine's, hopes to continue ...
Pity the cheaply famous
Nov 01, 2002; ... Last Sunday morning I watched a round-table discussion on extra-terrestrial television about the exploits of Roy Keane. Keane, youmay recall, is the Manchester United captain, who was recently foundguilty of bringing football into disrepute. He was fined pounds150,000 and suspended for 5 ...
Key moves to build our tourism industry
Nov 01, 2002; ... As I See It IF, AS Edinburgh Council's Donald Anderson suggested yesterday,tourism is booming for the gateway cities, why do its operators stillhave a list of demands as long as your political arm? And if tourismis so important, why is there not the political commitment to ...
High street banks move to improve SME service
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE government has welcomed undertakings given yesterday byBritain's eight main clearing banks to improve the way they treatsmall business customers. The Department of Trade and Industry said the "remedies" covered arange of issues, mainly measures to ease switching of banks by ...
Bett happy with 70 per cent jump in pre-tax profit
Nov 01, 2002; ... BETT Brothers, the Scottish housebuilding and commercial propertygroup, announced a record year with a 70 per cent hike in pre-taxprofits and a rise in its final dividend of 20 per cent. The Dundee-based group said profits rose from 10.1 million poundsto GBP 17.2 million for the ...
Listen to mother
Nov 01, 2002; ... When famous names take up good causes, you can expect to readabout the issue in the press. Brigitte Bardot moved heaven and earthfor doggy welfare; Audrey Hepburn rooted for UNICEF in front of theworld's media; and these days Hildur Runa Hauksdottir has taken thename of the Icelandic ...
Blair drawn to Simpsons role
Nov 01, 2002; ... TONY Blair is being lined up to follow Ringo Starr, Bill Gates andBuzz Aldrin in accepting the highest honour Americans can bestow - aninvitation to appear in The Simpsons. The Prime Minister, who has confessed the US cartoon programme isoften watched at No10, has been asked by ...
Lords reject Blunkett's asylum move
Nov 01, 2002 ... DAVID Blunkett's plans to toughen up Britain's asylum laws wererejected by the House of Lords last night amid claims that he triedto sneak in a clause that would have allowed him to bypassparliament. Peers said that the Home Secretary could not give himself HenryVIII-style ...
Panoz enjoys his life in the fast lane of business
Nov 01, 2002; ... IN ANY walk of life, there's never a shortage of people willing todole out advice - much of which needs to be taken with a hefty pinchof salt. But when Dr Don Panoz addresses the Institute of Directorsconference next week on the subject, he's likely to make Scotland'sbusinessmen ...
Theatre chief vows Highland show will go on
Nov 01, 2002; ... SIR Cameron Mackintosh, the West End producer, will ensure thatthe show goes on for Inverness and the Highlands despite the failureto be shortlisted for the coveted European Capital of Culture titlein 2008. Sir Cameron said yesterday he was disappointed that the region hadnot ...
Review Brimful of hat tricks
Nov 01, 2002; ... Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed The Fish? (XL) GBP 13.99 IT WOULD be just like Damon Gough to screw up his own career.Anyone who has already witnessed the Badly Drawn Boy live"experience" will know that perversity (and Jack Daniels) reigns."Who wants to hear a perfect ...
Islanders sue Britain
Nov 01, 2002 ... A GROUP of Indian Ocean islanders launched a multi-million poundaction against the government in the High Court in London yesterday. The islanders, who are British subjects, were cast out of theirhomes in the Chagos isles during the Cold War to make way for a USmilitary base on ...
Used mattress link with cot deaths
Nov 01, 2002; ... BABIES who sleep on mattresses previously used by other infantsare three times more at risk of cot death than other children,according to a new study. Doctors in Glasgow who conducted the research, which confirmsearlier findings, said parents should use a new mattress for ...
Families mourn crash victims
Nov 01, 2002; ... SCOTTISH families were last night mourning the loss of relativesin a bus crash in South Africa which killed a total of ten tourists,five of them Britons. John and Gillian Forbes, of Uddingston, were named as being amongthe four Scots who perished in the accident which took place ...
Dollar weakens again on poor US GDP data
Nov 01, 2002 ... STERLING jumped to a two and a half week high against the dollaryesterday after US economic data failed to live up to financialmarkets' best hopes. US third-quarter GDP growth was 3.1 per centagainst expectations of 3.6 per cent, while the Chicago PurchasingManagers' Index also gave a ...
Review Ray Davies
Nov 01, 2002; ... Usher Hall, Edinburgh WATCHING Ray Davies can be like going into the kitchen at a bigfamily party to hear your uncle lead a boisterous singalong on hisold guitar. It's jolly and life affirming. Look around, listen, seehow the happy glow of nostalgia softens the jangling edges? A ...
BMA split as Scots vote for pay deal
Nov 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S most senior doctors are today expected to open talkswith the Executive about accepting the 15 per cent pay rise rejectedyesterday by consultants across England. The Scottish branch of the British Medical Association is meetingin Edinburgh today to discuss ending the ...
Nurse found guilty of attack
Nov 01, 2002; ... A DENTAL nurse was yesterday found guilty of biting her formerboyfriend's genitals during a street attack. Sheryl Davidson, 19, bit into Kevin Keillor's penis so hard thathe needed 18 stitches and spent three days in a special plasticsurgery unit. Yesterday she burst into tears as ...
NHS office staff in strike threat
Nov 01, 2002; ... HOSPITAL waiting lists and patients' records could be thrown intochaos in a threatened strike by medical secretaries across theLothians. About 120 medical secretary supervisors are calling for more payafter rejecting a "derisory" salary offer of around 15,000 poundswhich would ...
Teacher denies indecency
Nov 01, 2002; ... A PRIMARY school teacher yesterday denied staring at female pupilsas they dressed in a girls' changing room and encouraging them tolook at indecent magazines. James Robertson, a 47-year-old teacher at Edinburgh's respectedSciennes Primary School, pled not guilty to committing a ...
Messages from the past
Nov 01, 2002; ... TWO-hundred-year-old graffiti etched by American and Frenchprisoners of war is one of the attractions of a 3.5 million poundsscheme at Edinburgh Castle. The project will focus on the castle's role as a detention centrefor around five hundred 18th century PoWs, including the ...
Capital wages soar above inflation rate
Nov 01, 2002; ... SALARIES in Edinburgh are rising at more than three times the rateof inflation with workers earning an average of just under 25,000pounds a year, according to a new survey. The winners include financial sector workers, where a shortage ofqualified staff is pushing up pay ....
Finnie vows to back farmers
Nov 01, 2002; ... SCOTTISH agriculture minister Ross Finnie has vowed to protectScottish farmers' investment in animal welfare as the World TradeOrganisation pursues market liberalisation strategies. Preliminary meetings between the European Commission and the WTOappear to indicate that the latter ...
Warning from across the ocean
Nov 01, 2002; ... ALAN Guebert, an outspoken commentator on US farming policy, hastwo messages for Scottish farmers - keep control of production andstick together. But based on what is happening in the US and what he has seenduring a tour of Europe, he is not optimistic. He told The ...
Era ends as YSL shuts his shop
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE doors at Yves Saint Laurent's Paris atelier closed for thelast time yesterday, bringing to an end four decades of haute couturethat forever changed the way women dressed. Ten months after the great designer said he was retiring, thesmall army of seamstresses who brought his ...
University principal's radical views spark fierce debate
Nov 01, 2002 ... "I would obviously regret the need to introduce tuition fees. Ifeel naturally opposed to anything which raises the cost of highereducation - but we have to face realities." DR BRIAN LANG Principal, St Andrews University "Tuition fees remain a barrier to entry for many ...
Is education a price worth paying?
Nov 01, 2002; ... LIKE many people, a family doctor working on the south side of thecapital assumed that a lecturer at Edinburgh University enjoyed areasonably comfortable lifestyle similar to his own. It was only when he was required to make a home visit to one ofthe lecturer's children that he ...
Firefighter talks end 'positively'
Nov 01, 2002; ... HOPES of averting a national strike by firefighters remained"evenly balanced" last night after a meeting between union leadersand employers ended without agreement. Officials from the Fire Brigades Union and local authorityemployers both said progress was made during 11 hours of ...
Garden memorial opens for McCartney
Nov 01, 2002; ... A MEMORIAL garden will be unveiled in Campbeltown today in honourof Linda McCartney, who died in 1998 aged 57. She and her husband, Sir Paul McCartney, spent many memorableholidays over 25 years on the Mull of Kintyre, where they owned anumber of hill farms. The area was ...
Thieving carer 'not a criminal'
Nov 01, 2002; ... A CARE worker who stole more than 6,000 pounds from an 80 year-old woman with senile dementia has escaped jail after being told shewas "not a criminal". Rachel Hamilton was given a year's probation and 240 hourscommunity service after pocketing the cash to cover up her ...
Rail services hit by failure
Nov 01, 2002; ... THOUSANDS of rush-hour rail commuters were hit by delays yesterdayafter a mass signal failure at Glasgow Central Station. A total of 66 trains were delayed after a signalling system short-circuited just after 7.30am. The knock-on effects lasted throughoutthe morning peak and ...
Virtual reality on wheels
Nov 01, 2002; ... A VISION of the car showroom of the future in which would-bebuyers see a computer-generated image of their vehicle floating infront of them was shown in London yesterday. The world's biggest virtual projections from the Glasgow-basedDigital Design Studio and developed for the Ford ...
Football fan guilty of race abuse at game
Nov 01, 2002; ... A BLACK Scottish footballer was racially abused and threatened ashe left the field at the end of a Third Division match, a court heardyesterday. It was the second time in seven days the Hamilton Academicalsstriker, Brian McPhee, was subjected to a torrent of jibes from ...
The art of deception
Nov 01, 2002; ... Modern-day art is no stranger to criticism of a scatological bent. Ivan Massow was sacked as chairman of the Institute ofContemporary Art recently after he wrote that today's arts elite wasin danger of "disappearing up its own arse." But when the government's guardian of all ...
ICI jumps 10 per cent on rocketing profits
Nov 01, 2002; ... SHARES in ICI, the UK's largest chemical company, climbed 10 percent yesterday after the company reported a 34 per cent rise in pre-tax profits for the third quarter. The group, which makes Dulux paints, said strong sales in Asia andNorth America coupled with a return to growth in ...
Wall Street looks for a rate cut next week to boost growth
Nov 01, 2002; ... INVESTORS stayed on the sidelines yesterday, with a flurry oflight profit taking towards the close after the release ofdisappointing economic data. But analysts said investors are still feeling upbeat in the mainafter the market's three-week rally on better-than-expected ...
Steady Wall Street heads for best October with 11 per cent gain
Nov 01, 2002; ... DISAPPOINTMENT with latest economic data but hope that the Fed maycut interest rates next Tuesday kept Wall Street broadly stableyesterday. Stocks tap-danced either side of the opening level yesterday asinvestors hesitated to make big bets ahead of unemployment data duetoday and ...
Brother, this is going to be close
Nov 01, 2002; ... Once seen as heir apparent to the Oval Office, then First Brother,today he is fighting for his political life. Jeb Bush, youngersibling of President George W Bush, has called in every possiblefavour in his bid to retain the governorship of Florida, America'sfourth most populous state ....
Leader: Extending opportunity through higher fees
Nov 01, 2002 ... IT IS unlikely that the principal of St Andrews University, whohas spent much of his career in London and overseas, anticipated thestorm that would erupt when he said that one obvious solution to thefunding problems facing Scottish universities is to raise studentfees. In the ...
Leader: Not a job for a quiet man
Nov 01, 2002 ... FOR a vulnerable Conservative politician there are few sounds moredisconcerting than the supportive voices of new friends. It is a suresign that someone is being embalmed, prior to burial. Iain DuncanSmith leads a party which specialises in fratricide. He willrecognise the ritual now ...
Leader: Tony and The Simpsons
Nov 01, 2002 ... TONY Blair's reputation as a world-class statesman was confirmedyesterday, when it was revealed that The Simpsons, TV's mostdysfunctional family, are prepared to move up their cartoon sofa andmake room for him. It seems the writers and cast are as full ofadmiration for our Tony as he is ...
Macfarlane hit by share slump on profit fears
Nov 01, 2002; ... SHARES in Glasgow-based packaging company Macfarlane plummeted 17per cent to their lowest level in more than 10 years yesterday, afterthe company said trading conditions had deteriorated and it wouldmake a loss for 2002. Macfarlane was making its third profit warning in a year, ...
Mad Butler Hall dies in jail, aged 78
Nov 01, 2002; ... ARCHIBALD Hall, known by those who raised him as Roy Fontaine andthe "Mad Butler" by a shocked nation, died an old man's death; a morepeaceful end than the five victims of his psychopathic evil. An English coroner ruled yesterday that Scotland's most bizarreserial killer, who ...
Old Master must go to save duke's family heritage
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE aristocratic owner of one of the country's finest Old Masterpaintings yesterday defended his decision to sell it abroad. The Duke of Northumberland, who is worth an estimated pounds 250million, has decided to sell Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks to the JPaul Getty Trust in Los ...
Cattle mart site bought by locals for 50,000 pounds
Nov 01, 2002; ... EARLIER this year, more than a century of agricultural traditionwas brought to an end when the mart at Maud, once the largest cattleauction in Scotland, was closed - another victim of the BSE scare.The epicentre of agricultural life for the scattered farms of CentralBuchan, in ...
SNP seeks devolution of media regulation power
Nov 01, 2002; ... POWER to regulate the newspaper and broadcasting industries inScotland should be transferred from Westminster to Holyrood as soonas possible, the SNP claimed yesterday. The SNP culture spokesman, Mike Russell, told MSPs that the movewas necessary to safeguard Scotland's culture ...
Microsoft cuts off old IT systems
Nov 01, 2002; ... MICROSOFT Office, the ubiquitous business software package, willonly be compatible with the latest computers when the new version isreleased next year. Microsoft landed a massive extra bill on businesses looking tokeep up with the latest technology as it revealed Office 11, due ...
Former Airtours staff linked to MyTravel bid
Nov 01, 2002; ... TWO former employees of beleaguered holiday group MyTravel areunderstood to be looking at buying parts of the business, with thebacking of venture capitalists. The friends and former colleagues are Harry Coe, a former managingdirector of MyTravel, and David Burns, former group ...
Reviews ROCK & POP
Nov 01, 2002 ... U2: The Best Of 1990- 2000 Tom Jones: Mr Jones Blue: One LoveMercury Tilt Switch: Brundle Kid Smog: Accumulation: None RonSexsmith: Cobblestone Runway Island GBP 18.99 THE second instalment of U2's greatest hits covers the period whenthey, of all the lumbering, armour-plated ...
The next big things
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE first day of November, and only eight more record releasedates till Christmas. The season's stocking-friendly albums, fromRobbie Williams to Shania Twain via Charlotte Church, will belaunched into the gift-buying market in the next two or three weeks. Thereafter, the novelty ...
Going out,staying in
Nov 01, 2002 ... CLASSICAL Lesley Garrett JAZZ The Martins 4 ROCK & POP HorseVISUAL ARTS The New Scots Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, tonight and 3 November A POPULIST show by the popular soprano, who will perform favouritepieces from her extensive career in musicals and opera, as well as -of ...
Reviews Moved by the monologues
Nov 01, 2002; ... THEATRE The Vagina Monologues ROCK & POP Suede Tenacious DCLASSICAL MUSIC ExileEdinburgh Festival Theatre IN THEORY, there should be no more need for a show like The VaginaMonologues. Whatever happened back then, in the feminist revolutionof the 1970s, it was surely supposed to ...
Sailor pays tribute to lifeboat heroes
Nov 01, 2002; ... A SAILOR who was rescued by a Scottish lifeboat has paid a lastingtribute - 62 years after his life was saved during the Second WorldWar. Bill Hall was a teenager when he was rescued in 1940 along withdozens of other men when ships in their merchant convoy began sinkingin ...
City on shortlist for agency HQ
Nov 01, 2002; ... INVERNESS has made the shortlist for the possible relocation ofScottish Natural Heritage's headquarters from Edinburgh. But there is no indication who is competing against the city forthe environment agency, which may create up to 270 jobs. A six-strong shortlist, which includes ...
Pick of the day Glasgow
Nov 01, 2002; ... BRIAN Souter and the Daily Mail, prepare to fume. Everyone else,prepare to enjoy one of the year's most colourful and diverse artsfestivals, as Glasgay! enters its ninth year. The most talked-aboutact is Annie Sprinkle, former prostitute and porn star turnedperformance artist, who will ...
UN harmony helps prices on the rebound
Nov 01, 2002 ... OIL'S recent price rebound gained pace as the United States andFrance seemed on the brink of agreement on a UN resolution to resumeIraqi arms inspections. Heating oil prices jumped as a cold snap in the US Northeast, theworld's biggest regional user of heating oil, cuts ...
Electronics firm axes 600 Scottish jobs
Nov 01, 2002; ... SCOTLAND'S battered electronics industry was dealt another hammerblow last night after Chunghwa Picture Tubes axed 600 jobs at itsNorth Lanarkshire plant. Hit by the global economic downturn, the Taiwanese company saidproduction at the Mossend site will be brought to a ...
Send it like Beckham
Nov 01, 2002 ... ENGLAND football captain David Beckham prepares for his role inthe advertising blitz that Vodafone is staging following the launchof its new Live! service, with picture ...
Who said dismal science? Economists get a Younger boost
Nov 01, 2002 ... THREE worthy winners of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Younger Medaleconomic essay competition yesterday - Tracy Butler (winner), ...
Dons object to Pittodrie housing plan
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE long-running saga over Aberdeen Football Club's controversialplans to quit Pittodrie and move to a new 30 million poundssuperstadium on the outskirts of the city took a bizarre new twistyesterday. The Dons, whose chairman, Stewart Milne, is the head of thehousing giant the ...
Call for regional fishing decisions
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE future of European fishing should be decided on a smaller,regional basis, Jack McConnell told MSPs yesterday. The First Minister was responding to claims that the Scottishfishing industry might be wiped out because of European proposals tooutlaw cod fishing altogether to ...
Finance scandal erupts again as McConnell redoes his sums
Nov 01, 2002; ... THE Labour accounting scandal, which has plagued the party forthree weeks, erupted again last night when Jack McConnell announcedthat he will amend his entry in the register of members' interests toinclude controversial trade union donations to his local party. The First Minister ...