The Scotsman back issues from April 2003:
Review To Ms Baker and 100 years of liberation
Apr 01, 2003; ... Art Deco V & A London 'Modernism is the only possible art for all," wrote Charles RennieMackintosh a century ago. Given the uncertain, bumpy ride that modernart has had with public opinion over the intervening years, it mightseem he was wildly optimistic. But, in fact, his words ...
Best in show Favourite artworks from Scotland's galleries
Apr 01, 2003; ... Child's lunch box Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, People's Palace, Glasgow,until 5 May IF YOU want to make any argument about war, talk about children.Take Iraq, for example. Both sides of the current argument have usedchildren shamelessly - we shouldn't invade Iraq ...
Review Nutcracker!
Apr 01, 2003; ... Edinburgh Festival Theatre MESSING around with a classic can be a risky business. And thephrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" certainly still holds water.But while The Nutcracker wasn't exactly broken, it had been aroundthe block a few times and needed a shot in the arm ....
Tapping a popular vein of intelligence is the life-blood of a successful soap
Apr 01, 2003; ... Othe morning after the first episode of Eldorado was broadcast, Ifound myself inside the BBC archives at Caversham. I was researchingthe history of Dr Finlay's Casebook , which was about to be revivedby STV. Every cough and wheeze of Dr Finlay's history was in thearchive, and the ...
Toads on the road force detour for motorists
Apr 01, 2003; ... MOTORISTS in Edinburgh are used to coping with congestion duringthe capital's rush-hour but they are now being forced to avoid a city-centre road which has been closed to allow for crossing toads. Wardens have taken the unusual step of shutting part of Queen'sDrive, which runs ...
Sale Room
Apr 01, 2003 ... THINK OF THIS AS A WINDOW What is it? A three-layered paper cut-out measuring one metre by one metre anda half, using a photograph from a 1970s edition of The Squatters'Handbook, a popular "survival guide" containing practical and legaladvice for squatters, which has been ...
Day in the life Beatles photographs on display after 30 years in attic
Apr 01, 2003; ... A RARE glimpse of the Beatles relaxing at a spiritual centre inIndia can be seen for the first time in an exhibition of photographsthat lay undiscovered in an attic for more than 30 years. The series of pictures was taken by the Canadian film-maker PaulSaltzman during the band's ...
Home thoughts that hurt as the black snow falls
Apr 01, 2003; ... WHEN they awoke, it was everywhere, the oily cinders coating everysurface, falling like tiny flakes of black snow. It was in theirsleeping bags, on their skin, in their hair, melting into diesel-dark streaks and seeping into their pores. Overnight, the wind had changed, and the ...
Eight decades on and I think I spy TS Eliot's 'Waste Land'
Apr 01, 2003; ... 'April is the cruellest month." TS Eliot began The Waste Land witha line that is now one of the most overquoted in the whole canon, butlooking at the headlines on CNN and News 24, he certainly wasn'tfooling. The 80th anniversary of a defining 20th-century poem passeda few months ago with ...
A real little Madame
Apr 01, 2003; ... In March 1902, Giacomo Puccini was working feverishly on hislatest opera, Madama Butterfly. He had his plot, taken from DavidBelasco's tragic drama Madame Butterfly, based in turn on a shortstory by John Luther Long. But Puccini was also eager to find a reallive Japanese woman on whom to ...
Good day,bad day
Apr 01, 2003 ... GOOD DAY: BRUCE SKIVINGTON The campaign director of the Scottish People's Alliance had anextremely good day when he was officially informed that KeithHarding, the Tory front-bencher, was leaving the Conservatives tojoin his young party. Mr Skivington is a former Tory and must ...
Swinney gives pledge on poll for independence
Apr 01, 2003; ... A REFERENDUM on independence would be held within three years ofan SNP administration taking control at Holyrood, John Swinneypledged yesterday. The Nationalist leader refused to be specific about a date for areferendum, but said it would take place within the first term of ...
Nats prove breaking free is a very wait-y matter
Apr 01, 2003; ... INDEPENDENCE. Normally, a bracing, positive, romantic, even manlyword. But not in Scotchland, where it's often seen as an expressionwith which to scare the children. The Labour Party actually spells itind*******ce which, for those of you who can't translate asterisks,reads: indqxyghoece ....
Front-bencher Harding walks out to sign up with Scottish People's Alliance
Apr 01, 2003; ... KEITH Harding, the Tory front-bencher, will walk out on theConservatives later today to join the Scottish People's Alliance - ashock move that represents the first major coup of the electioncampaign. Mr Harding will become an official election candidate for thecentre-right SPA ...
Man on a mission
Apr 01, 2003; ... KEITH Harding developed a reputation as a diligent, butuncharismatic, Tory MSP during his four years in the ScottishParliament. He was the only Tory MSP to pilot a private member's billsuccessfully through the Parliament - his Dog Fouling Act became lawjust before the Parliament ...
Snapshots
Apr 01, 2003 ... Spotlight falls on health issues JACK McConnell, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, willtoday pledge to cut hospital waiting times. Mr McConnell and Malcolm Chisholm, the health minister, will visitthe former HCI Hospital in Clydebank as they turn the campaignspotlight ...
Robbie the Pict to stand again
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE veteran Skye bridge toll protester Robbie the Pict is to standagain for the Scottish Parliament . The activist, who describeshimself as "Britain's leading ethno-linguistic scholar and haphazardblues player", polled 1,151 votes at the last election in 1999 as theScottish People's ...
Election 03 On the fringe Pro-Life calls for abortion vote
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE Pro-Life Party yesterday called for a Scotland-wide referendumon abortion. Robert Rodgers, the party's spokesman, said a public vote on awoman's right to terminate her pregnancy should follow an independentreview of the social impact of abortion. The party will field ...
Promise to put more police on streets finds favour with public
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE SNP has found a popular tune with its promise to put morepolice officers on the street and more money in nurses' pay packets. Yet its policy on independence remains an albatross around theparty's neck. This is one of the key findings of a poll released yesterday, onwhat ...
Army nurse sues government over sacking
Apr 01, 2003; ... A NURSE has launched a landmark human rights challenge against thegovernment which could revolutionise employment rights for everymember of the armed forces. In the first case of its kind in the UK, Katie McQuade is suingthe Department of Trade and Industry, claiming she suffered ...
Fourteen years on, Central Park rape victim speaks of her ordeal
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE crime was so brutal even hardened New Yorkers were shocked - awoman jogger left for dead after being brutally beaten and raped inthe city's Central Park. Now, 14 years after the attack, the victim has finally spoken outabout her ordeal, the five teenagers originally convicted ...
Hong Kong flats sealed off as virus strikes residents
Apr 01, 2003; ... HUNDREDS of residents in a 33-storey block of flats in Hong Kongwere ordered to stay in their homes or risk prison as healthauthorities scrambled to control a worrying surge in the number ofpeople falling victim to the deadly flu-like virus sweeping south-east Asia. The strict ...
Relatives mourn 600 victims of the Srebrenica massacre at mass burial
Apr 01, 2003; ... AMID tears and fresh calls for justice, survivors of theSrebrenica massacre buried hundreds of victims at the site they werelast seen alive. Yesterday's mass burial brought peace only to the families of 600Muslim men and boys whose remains have been identified. As many as8,000 ...
At least four dead and seven injured after landslide buries Bolivian village
Apr 01, 2003; ... A LANDSLIDE buried a gold-mining village in Bolivia's tropicallowlands yesterday, leaving four dead and seven injured in a tragedythat authorities say may claim hundreds of lives once rescuepersonnel begin excavation. Survivors spent the afternoon digging through a mountain of ...
Injured children treated on hospital ships and in UK
Apr 01, 2003; ... A BADLY-burned Iraqi baby is being treated in a UK hospital aftershe was airlifted out of the war zone by British forces. Mareyam Ailan, six months, arrived in Liverpool yesterday on aflight with nine injured British soldiers. She was smuggled out of Basra by her parents ...
'Fantasist' accused Hamiltons of rape
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE woman who falsely accused Neil and Christine Hamilton ofraping her is a sex-obsessed fantasist who was out to gain fame andfortune, a court heard yesterday. Nadine Milroy-Sloan, 29, was so confident she would profit fromthe false allegation she told a friend to plan shopping ...
Warning of 100 bin Ladens
Apr 01, 2003; ... ISLAMIC opinion against the coalition's war in Iraq hardenedfurther yesterday as Egypt and Syria both signalled their growingconcern with the conflict. Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, a key moderate Arab leader andlong-time ally of the West, warned of the "horrible consequences" ...
Cordon of steel tightens on city but stage is set for a long siege The gathering forces
Apr 01, 2003; ... BRITISH forces were completing a ring of armour around Basrayesterday as they prepared to place Saddam Hussein's militia undersiege in Iraq's second city. Troops and tanks with the Queen's Dragoon Guards advanced to takecontrol of a motorway leading north out of Basra, the city's ...
Food and water distributed around Umm Qasr
Apr 01, 2003; ... WATER, food and other necessities were being distributed in andaround the strategic southern port of Umm Qasr yesterday, as the headof the United Nations World Food Programme expressed concern aboutthe possible consequences of a long conflict. This coincided with the launch of a ...
US MARINES SCOT DIES IN TANK
Apr 01, 2003 ... A SCOTSMAN serving with the US marines in Iraq died when his tankfell off a bridge into the Euphrates river, it was revealed lastnight. There were no witnesses to the incident last week and the tank'swhereabouts were a mystery until bags with the names Lance CorporalPatrick ...
Jackson moves from hobbits to giant monkeys
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE classic blockbuster King Kong is to be remade for a thirdouting by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings, whorates the film as his biggest inspiration. The story of the massive gorilla which wreaks havoc on New Yorkhas been filmed twice before, but Hollywood ...
Leader Getting the message of democracy across
Apr 01, 2003 ... ALASTAIR Campbell, the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor, rarelygrants interviews. But these are unusual times, and yesterday MrCampbell was moved to talk to Australian television regarding the warin Iraq. He put into words what many people had been thinking thisweek, namely that the ...
Leader Ready, steady, don't cook
Apr 01, 2003 ... IF WE are what we eat, the news could hardly be worse. Sales ofready meals are booming. They are up a dizzy 90 per cent in sixyears. Last year, we munched our way through 482 million frozen readymeals and 389 million chilled, grabbing 42 per cent of all ready mealsales across Europe. All ...
Leader Tired and evasive strategies
Apr 01, 2003 ... IN A parallel universe, an election campaign for the ScottishParliament has begun. Politicians are competing for the interest ofvoters whose attention is distracted by the drama in Iraq. In a bid to switch the focus away from tanks to teachers, the BBCasked the pollsters System ...
Flying blind
Apr 01, 2003; ... Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher was disgruntled.Although chosen for the first bombing run on Baghdad, he wasdesignated as a "spare" to take over, should any of the nine other F-18 Hornet pilots be unable to complete their mission. Still, it wasan honour for the 33-year-old ...
Supermarket billionaire boosts Labour Party funds by 2.5m pounds
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE LABOUR Party has been given a pre-election cash boost of GBP2.5 million from Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the supermarketbillionaire who is now a Labour peer and government minister. The donation, announced yesterday, will boost the party's warchest ahead of the Scottish ...
Call costs threaten 3G mobile phones
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE long-awaited introduction of third generation (3G) mobilephones, regarded as the saviour of a heavily indebted telecomsindustry, will fail to attract users unless call costs are reduced,according to a new report. Research funded by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Microsoft has ...
Bombing raid targets the palace of Saddam's son
Apr 01, 2003; ... SADDAM Hussein's youngest son was targeted in an allied bombingraid on Baghdad last night, as coalition forces continued to fightfor control of key bridges and transportation routes 50 miles southof the Iraqi capital. Pentagon sources claimed that a presidential palace, gifted ...
Coughs halt Millionaire trial
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE Who Wants to be a Millionaire? trial, in which a contestant isalleged to have won the television quiz with the aid of strategiccoughs, was adjourned yesterday because of an outbreak of coughingamong the jury. For most of the morning, one of the defence barristers ...
Further chaos on way for rail network
Apr 01, 2003; ... PASSENGERS suffered widespread disruption yesterday during asecond conductors' strike, as future rail chaos was signalled withplans to close the Forth Bridge and Waverley station in Edinburgh formajor engineering work. Half of ScotRail's services were cancelled in a repeat of ...
Reviews
Apr 01, 2003; ... Scottish Chamber Orchestra RSAMD Glasgow I CAN think of numerous examples of composers turning toconducting and making an absolute hash of it. Not so with GeorgeBenjamin, whose performance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra onFriday was a mind-blowing and illuminating experience ....
Marching on the capital Tragedy as allied troops attempt to mop up guerrilla resistance
Apr 01, 2003; ... AS THE threat of suicide attacks grew increasingly in the minds ofallied forces moving towards Baghdad, seven women and children wereshot dead by US troops when their vehicle failed to stop at amilitary checkpoint last night. The dangerous and frustratingly slow process of dealing ...
Slaters measure suitable case for takeover
Apr 01, 2003; ... WHAT "Ralphie" would think is a matter for conjecture, but "MrSuits" would be happy to know that if his son acquires Austin Reed itwill add a name to the family business that is nearly as famous asSlater. It would also be the first time that the legendary menswearretailer has ...
Snapshots
Apr 01, 2003 ... Battle to save hedgehogs begins VOLUNTEERS have begun the fight to save thousands of hedgehogsfrom a cull. About 15 animal lovers arrived on the Uists, in theWestern Isles, over the weekend as the conservation charity AdvocatesFor Animals stepped up its efforts to rescue the ...
Scots film stars launch festival
Apr 01, 2003; ... IT MAY not have the allure of Montreux or the glamour of Cannes,but Ayr's first international film and television festival waslaunched yesterday by the cream of Scotland's entertainment industry. The weekend-long Robert Burns film festival, which will take placein May, hopes to use ...
Tory MSP defects to Scotland's newest party
Apr 01, 2003; ... A TORY front-bencher will deliver a body blow to his party'selection campaign today by defecting. Keith Harding, 64, who was a Tory MSP until parliament wasdissolved officially at midnight last night, will announce hisintention to stand for the Scottish People's Alliance (SPA) in ...
Fears over body image drive 20 per cent of girls to diet by the age of nine
Apr 01, 2003; ... ONE in five girls has been on a diet by the time they are nineyears old because they fear they are overweight, the latest researchshows. Girls are made conscious of their shape due to society's obsessionwith body images and because they copy their mothers' dietingbehaviour ....
Appetite for ready meals grows
Apr 01, 2003; ... TIME-PRESSURED Britons ate a record two million ready meals everyday in 2002, more than anywhere else in Europe. The UK accounted for 42 per cent of all European sales last year,spending GBP 1.4 billion on such food. France took 21 per cent ofsales, Germany 20 per cent and Italy 9 ...
Reporter sacked over television interview
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE television network NBC sacked the veteran reporter PeterArnett yesterday after he criticised coalition war plans in aninterview for state-controlled Iraqi television. Arnett, who made his name as CNN's reporter in Baghdad during thelast Gulf conflict, was denounced by pro-war ...
NORTHERN FRONT AIR STRIKES PREPARE THE WAY
Apr 01, 2003 ... AIRCRAFT from the United States pounded Iraqi positions near thenorthern town of Kalak yesterday, in support of Kurdish fighters asthey seized territory from Saddam Hussein's fleeing troops. Iraqi positions on a ridge west of the Zab river came underrelentless attack, sending ...
US troops kill seven women and children
Apr 01, 2003; ... US SOLDIERS killed seven Iraqi women and children at a militarycheckpoint yesterday in an incident that will further inflame Arabfury at the US-led invasion of Iraq. Sentries opened fire at a van approaching a roadblock at Najaf,close to where four US soldiers were killed in a ...
MPs on standby to counter Iraqi broadcasts of 'complete fiction'
Apr 01, 2003; ... DOWNING Street has organised a rota of ministers and MPs to appearon the Arab rolling news channel al-Jazeera to counter some of the"complete fiction" being broadcast on the war. Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's director of strategy andcommunications, has admitted the ...
Black Watch rescues hostages
Apr 01, 2003; ... TWO Kenyan lorry drivers captured ten days ago outside the town ofAz Zubayr, in southern Iraq, were rescued yesterday after Britishtroops burst into the school where they were being held. David Shira Mukaria and Jakubu Maina Kamau were kept blindfolded,with their hands and feet ...
Right-hand man who wields power by brutality The hunt for 'chemical' Ali
Apr 01, 2003; ... WHEN Saddam Hussein drew up his battle plans for Iraq two weeksago, he chose as one of his four key commanders a 62-year-old manwith no educational qualifications who began his military career as ataxi driver. But Saddam did not choose General Ali Hassan al-Majeed to controlthe ...
Tough-talking QC is a Questionable Cliche
Apr 01, 2003; ... He's the man with the plan, the bloke with the joke and, quiteclearly, the dude with the food. He is Jack " The Planman" Lennox -latest in an interminable line of wisecracking, ass-busting tellymavericks to find himself up to his chin(s) in slags, blags and thesort of ...
You don't ask the lawn-mower driver how many daisies he cut, do you?
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE other day I watched a British television journalist interviewa British military commander, fresh from combat. Generally, thewhole, incessant, rolling TV War Thing has made my life resembleGroundhog Day, but I can recall this particular discourse quiteclearly. The journalist did all ...
Diary
Apr 01, 2003; ... A big turn-aff A MOTLEY crew gathered for the testimonial to Jimmy O'Rourke, theformer Hibernian player, at the Sheraton in Edinburgh on Sunday.Organisers Graeme Cadger and Kenny McLean had roped in Grant Stott,the radio and TV presenter, as MC. He recalled a recent golf outingto ...
Charmer Sheridan's plans would be ruin of Scotland
Apr 01, 2003; ... WAR - what is it good for? Or perhaps more pertinently, who is itgood for? The current conflict in Baghdad is beginning to resemble anightmare version of the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland. There isa great deal of running around in circles and a growing suspicionthat we may not be ...
Saddam cannot be running a one-man show
Apr 01, 2003; ... RICHARD Perle, the Pentagon adviser who resigned last week becauseof a conflict of interest, told us last month: "There may be pocketsof resistance, but very few Iraqis are going to fight to defendSaddam Hussein." Back in the winter he said: "I don't believe we haveto defeat Saddam's ...
Obituary Mongo Santamaria
Apr 01, 2003; ... MONGO Santamaria, who has died in Miami at the age of 85, enjoyeda long and successful career in Latin music. His recordings andconcert performances ranged from the authentic percussion music ofAfro-Cuban religious rituals through to Latin-jazz reworkings ofAmerican jazz and pop hits ....
Obituary Gaby Rado
Apr 01, 2003; ... Gaby Rado, television journalist Born: 17 January, 1955, in Budapest Died: 30 March, 2003, inSulaimaniyah, Iraq, aged 48 GABY Rado was a highly articulate and gifted journalist whobrought a definite authority to ITN's coverage of Eastern Europeanaffairs. He not only spoke ...
Obituary Daniel Taradash
Apr 01, 2003; ... Daniel Taradash, screenwriter Born: 29 January, 1913, in Louisville, Kentucky Died: 22 February,2003, in Los Angeles, California, aged 90 A highly respected, Oscar-winning screenwriter, Daniel Taradashearned a place in the history books with his skilful adaptation ofthe ...
Troubled Adaptive to go private
Apr 01, 2003; ... ADAPTIVE Venture Managers, the Livingston technology investmentfirm, plans to abandon its stock-market listing and go private aftera disastrous downturn in its key investments. Adaptive's executive chairman Robin Rae said the company's full-year bottom line had been "completely ...
RBS to back Slater bid for Austin Reed
Apr 01, 2003; ... SLATER Menswear, the Glasgow retailer, yesterday allowed theoutside world a glimpse of its famously secretive operations as itconfirmed that it is indeed the mystery bidder stalking thestruggling fashion chain Austin Reed. Paul Slater, the family-owned firm's managing ...
B&B snaps up home loans in 470m pound deal
Apr 01, 2003; ... BRADFORD & Bingley yesterday bolstered its UK mortgage portfoliosnapping up almost 4,000 home loans from a subsidiary of GeneralMotors, in a deal worth GBP 470 million. The acquisition, which is being made through its niche lending armMortgage Express, is the second deal of its ...