The Scotsman back issues from October 2006:
Angelika was victim of 'horrific' violence, say police
Oct 02, 2006; ... ANGELIKA Kluk, the Polish student whose body was found concealedbeneath the floor of a Glasgow church, died as the result of a"horrific and very, very violent attack", police revealed yesterday. As detectives announced they are treating the 23-year-old's deathas murder, ...
S&N has No 1 ambition for Baltika
Oct 02, 2006; ... BALTIKA, the Russian beer brand jointly owned by Scottish &Newcastle, could overtake Heineken as Europe's favourite brew withinfive years. It is understood that S&N is in talks with local Russianmanagement and joint venture partner Carlsberg to gain a licence toproduce and ...
Need To Know: Morrison joins Chess Group
Oct 02, 2006; ... CHESS Group, the commercial property specialist, has appointed anew financial director as it ponders a possible expansion intoeastern Europe. Graeme Morrison joins the Aberdeen-based firm with a remit todrive the development of its Knight Real Estate, Space Solutions andModul8 ...
Britvic braced for GBP 600m takeover bid from Permira
Oct 02, 2006; ... SOFT drinks company Britvic could be the subject of a GBP 600million takeover bid as early as today. The maker of brands including Robinsons and Tango only listed onthe stock market in December, being floated by its majorshareholders, InterContinental Hotels, Whitbread and Pernod ...
Have you got a wizard idea? As National Children's Book Week gets under way, ANNA SMYTH asks how easy it is to become the next J K Rowling WRITING A BOOK FOR CHILDREN: HOW TO DO IT SELLING YOUR BOOK
Oct 02, 2006; ... IT WAS around the sixth consecutive reading that I began to tireof Bob the Builder. On holiday with my two-year-old niece, I was onentertainment duty and the little one had decided this was her bookof the week. "Again! Again!" she cheered as we reached the end. "No, it's time for ...
Happy talk
Oct 02, 2006; ... THE King of Bhutan was the first world ruler to embrace the ideathat happiness should be the main goal of a government. His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck coined the phrase "GrossNational Happiness" after coming to power in the 1970s. Thisphilosophy led him to limit foreign ...
Kilmartin banking on capital boom in office rental
Oct 02, 2006; ... KILMARTIN, the Scottish property firm, is banking on a rise indemand for top grade office space, after outlining plans for a newGBP 35 million development in Edinburgh. The group is set to begin work on the 60,000sq ft building onLeith Street, opposite the St James shopping ...
Miller calls for bottle on premium pricing
Oct 02, 2006; ... A NEW company behind one of Scotland's leading drinks brands hasthrown down the gauntlet to cut-price supermarkets and consolidatingpub groups by saying the industry should persevere with "premiumpricing". Miller Brands UK says it believes high-price products can fightoff the ...
SNP pledges GBP 10m to support new farmers Conference finds nationalists and land owners ploughing the same furrow
Oct 02, 2006; ... SCOTLAND'S big land owners and the leader of the Scottish NationalParty have touched gloves, although stopping short of high-fives, onencouragement for new entrants to farming. Alex Salmond, the SNP's leader, said a Scottish government led byhis party - an optimistic look ahead to ...
Food fight
Oct 02, 2006; ... SCOTLAND is being cited as the world's obesity capital intelevision programmes worldwide. German film company Boller and Brot is to use Scottishschoolchildren as the worst example of obesity in their own versionof Jamie Oliver's (pictured) programmes on school dinners ....
Detectives refuse to comment on how Tobin beat system
Oct 02, 2006; ... STRATHCLYDE Police last night came under mounting pressure toexplain how convicted rapist Peter Tobin was allowed to roam free. An arrest warrant had been issued for Tobin, who faces questioningover the murder of Angelika Kluk, after police were unable to findhim at his Paisley ...
'Even in church no-one can feel safe' - grief and anger of Polish community
Oct 02, 2006; ... THE Polish flag was tied to the fence under the sign that said "StPatrick's Catholic Church Welcomes You". Angelika Kluk had been made welcome here, but there was no-oneentering the church yesterday for the services listed on the board.St Patrick's is now the scene of a murder ...
PSL profits double to GBP 5.3m
Oct 02, 2006; ... PSL Energy Services, the Scottish oil services company that wasplunged into receivership less than four years ago, has seen its full-year profits more than double, sealing a remarkable turnaround in itsfortunes. The firm, which was thrown a lifeline in the shape of a GBP ...
Reviews: ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Oct 02, 2006; ... ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA **** USHER HALL, EDINBURGH THERE'S a transformation occurring with the Royal ScottishNational Orchestra. And most of it is undoubtedly to do with thepalpable sense of leadership coming from the baton and fierypersonality of Stephane Deneve, ...
My top ten books for teenagers and children
Oct 02, 2006; ... NICOLA Morgan is the author of Fleshmarket, the chair of theSociety of Authors in Scotland and founder of the online ChildLiteracy Centre. 1The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber: "Gothic, gruesome, andwritten with the wit of the master wordsmith. If you saw my copy,you'd believe ...
Safety neglected 12 years after crash
Oct 02, 2006; ... SCHOOL transport safety continues to be neglected more than adecade after a Lanarkshire schoolboy was killed in a coach crash. Francis Scorgie, 15, from Carnwath, died after being thrownthrough a window of his school bus that collided ...
Battle of bards as English seek Shakespeare Day to rival Burns revelry
Oct 02, 2006; ... "PRAISING what is lost, makes the remembrance dear," declaredWilliam Shakespeare - but it may be a Scot who eventually helpsEngland's best-known bard have a national day named in his honour. John Reid, widely tipped to be planning a bid to become primeminister, has given his ...
Scotland's small firms most confident in UK
Oct 02, 2006; ... SMALL businesses north of the Border are more confident than theirEnglish or Welsh counterparts, with almost nine in ten Scottishentrepreneurs expecting their companies' performance to improve orremain the same in the year ahead. Publishing its latest small business confidence ...
New claims give sensational twist to 'sex, lies and videotape' libel case that will not go away
Oct 02, 2006; ... THE Tommy Sheridan trial has proved to be one of the mostsensational defamation trials in Scotland and the latest allegationsof "sex, lies and videotape" only add to that. Mr Sheridan brought the case against the News of the World overallegations he was a swinger, a man who ...
Battle looms on 'Sheridan confession'
Oct 02, 2006; ... A SECRET videotape that appears to show Tommy Sheridan admittingto the scandal at the heart of his defamation case against the Newsof the World is set to be used in court to try to overturn thedecision against the paper. Mr Sheridan went to court after the News of the World ...
I will not be pushed into policy pledges says Cameron
Oct 02, 2006; ... DAVID Cameron set out yesterday to portray himself as a strongleader who will drag the Conservatives to the political centreground, warning right-wingers: "I will not be pushed around." Setting out what he called a philosophy of social responsibilityas he opened the Tory ...
Weekend Review: A dramatic decline for the worse
Oct 02, 2006; ... The Good Housekeeping Guide, Saturday, BBC1 Cracker, Sunday, STV I've never actually seen the film *Dumb & Dumber, but the titlecould happily be applied to two dramas which promised so much, butdelivered so little, this weekend. Let's start with the BBC'soffering, the last ...
Powerhouse of creativity in a Stirlingshire garden Working from her garden shed, Sally Beamish is as busy as always as she contemplates life at 50
Oct 02, 2006; ... NORMALLY I wouldn't dwell on a woman's age, but throughout thisyear, it's been difficult to ignore the fact that Sally Beamish is50. There have been birthday tributes in Scotland, where the London-born composer has lived and worked for over 15 years. This year'sCheltenham Festival ...
Business - The Week Ahead International growth set to take Tesco half- year profits past GBP 1bn
Oct 02, 2006; ... TESCO is the headline FTSE 100 player announcing results thisweek, its interims coming out tomorrow, with City consensus estimatessuggesting it will break the GBP 1 billion half-year profits barrier. In the first half of 2005, Tesco's pre-tax profits climbed 18 percent to GBP 908 ...
Leader: Cameron is not to be ignored
Oct 02, 2006; ... IT HAS become fashionable to deride David Cameron, the Toryleader, as a lightweight political figure with no discerniblepolicies. Yet we should remember there was also a time, in the early1990s, when Tony Blair himself was dismissed contemptuously as Bambi,and look what happened to him ....
Ivanauskas praise for Beslija as Bosnian begins to show true worth
Oct 02, 2006; ... HEARTS are three points behind Celtic and four ahead of Rangers,as they were before all three teams played yesterday. They have,however, improved their goal difference compared to both members ofthe Old Firm, and for that they have in large part Mirsad Beslija tothank. The ...
Ruthless Hearts focus on domestic challenge Four-goal haul against luckless United eases pain of Euro exit and keeps Tynecastle side ticking over in SPL
Oct 02, 2006; ... Hearts 4 Dundee United 0 SO THAT'S the crisis officially over, then. Hearts have now playedfive games since the low point that was the 2-0 home defeat by SpartaPrague, and in those games they have scored 12 goals and concededone. The most important fixture of the quartet was the ...
Entrapment by mobile phone now available via website
Oct 02, 2006; ... A NEW internet service has been launched which allows subscribersto send a text message that appears to come from someone else'smobile phone. The service, launched 18 months ago, has been used primarily bysuspicious spouses to entrap their partner into revealing aninfidelity, ...
Healthy fayre at Scots restaurants? Fat chance, reckon half of diners
Oct 02, 2006; ... RESTAURANTS are contributing to Scotland's dreadful diet byfailing to provide healthy options even when diners want them, a newreport claims. Nutritionists last night condemned restaurateurs after a studyrevealed almost half of diners have wanted to choose somethinghealthy to ...
Key questions
Oct 02, 2006; ... * Why was Peter Tobin not apprehended by police last year, whenthey knew his background, true identity and address? * How actively were police searching for Tobin once an arrestwarrant was active? * Why did no-one realise Tobin's ...
Detectives refuse to comment on how Tobin beat system
Oct 02, 2006; ... STRATHCLYDE Police last night came under mounting pressure toexplain how convicted rapist Peter Tobin was allowed to roam free. An arrest warrant had been issued for Tobin, who faces questioningover the murder of Angelika Kluk, after police were unable to findhim at his Paisley ...
Girl, 11, sues council in seatbelt row
Oct 02, 2006; ... A SCHOOLGIRL facing a 50-mile round-trip on a school bus withoutseatbelts is suing her local council in a landmark legal challengethat could force every local authority in Britain to improve roadsafety. The legal action, the first of its kind in the UK, will see 11-year-old ...
Top historian makes U-turn to support independence
Oct 02, 2006; ... ONE of Scotland's leading historians has come out in favour ofindependence after years of supporting the Union. Michael Fry made the remarkable U-turn after writing a book aboutthe 1707 union between Scotland and England. The former Tory candidate for Westminster and Holyrood ...
Injury may rule Anderson out of Scotland squad
Oct 02, 2006; ... RUSSELL Anderson seems certain to withdraw from the Scotland squadfor the forthcoming Euro 2008 qualifiers as a result of aggravating ahip injury during Aberdeen's 1-0 defeat by Rangers at Ibrox. The central defender was forced to leave the field in the 56thminute - he was ...
Sebo intervenes to bail out stuttering Rangers Substitute's late goal salvages unlikely win for Ibrox side
Oct 02, 2006; ... Rangers 1 Aberdeen 0 ABERDEEN wil have spent most of the 150-mile journey home lastnight tormenting themselves more painfully than Rangers had managedfor most of the 90 minutes of their collision at Ibrox earlier in theday. Jimmy Calderwood's players would have had good ...
I will not be pushed into tax-cut pledge - Cameron
Oct 02, 2006; ... DAVID Cameron set out yesterday to portray himself as a strongleader who will drag the Conservatives to the political centre-ground, warning right-wingers: "I will not be pushed around." Setting out what he called a philosophy of social responsibilityas he opened the Tory ...
Obituary: Bernie Alderson
Oct 02, 2006; ... BERNIE ALDERSON Hotelier, publican Born: 5 May, 1939, in Darlington. Died: 19 September, 2006, inTarbolton, Ayrshire, aged 67. WHAT endeared Bernie Alderson to the press (in the days before thegentlemen of the press figured under the "media" umbrella) was thatthrough the ...
Carefree, holiday golf nothing but a myth as misery prevails
Oct 02, 2006; ... THE Ryder Cup has undergone a remarkable change since I was a lad.It is difficult to believe that there are people walking the streetstoday who probably can't remember when American golfers only had toturn up and the cup was as good as theirs. Of course, the format inthe post-war years ...
Strachan hands the plaudits to Hughes
Oct 02, 2006; ... GORDON Strachan, the Celtic manager, was grateful to leave Falkirkwith three points yesterday as he admitted all the plaudits belongedto the home side. As he savoured the victory which kept his team three points clearat the top of the SPL going into the international break, ...
Falkirk's fine resistance proves futile as Celtic cement place at the top Lethargic league leaders outplayed, but late McGeady goal steals the win
Oct 02, 2006; ... Falkirk 0 Celtic 1 IT WASN'T a performance worthy of champions, but it was the kindof performance which wins championships. Celtic cemented their lead at the top of the Bank of ScotlandPremierleague yesterday with a slender and fortunate victory over aFalkirk side who will ...
Hibs fail to learn from mistakes
Oct 02, 2006; ... St Mirren 1 Hibernian 0 WE'RE all guilty of choosing the wrong option at some stage. When, just as an example, you're stuck bumper-to-bumper in a three-mile traffic jam on the M8, it's too late to wish you'd heeded theearlier overhead warning signs and plotted a different ...
Toppling the Gallic Goliath may not be beyond Smith's squad
Oct 02, 2006; ... SCOTTISH optimism is like some rare mineral resource. Most of thetime it is hidden in dark seams deep underground covered with crustylayers of realism and bitter experience. When the drill bit bitesthough it gushes exuberantly, extravagantly. OK, enough with thefossil fuel metaphors; ...
Below-par Currie are still too good
Oct 02, 2006; ... Currie 16 Ayr 11 THE regular visitors to Malleny Park probably did not believetheir team could play as sluggishly as they did against Melrose twoweeks ago, and remain unbeaten atop Division One. They were, in fact, poorer on Saturday, yet saw off anotherchallenger, ...
Review: TEENAGE FANCLUB
Oct 02, 2006; ... TEENAGE FANCLUB **** BARROWLAND, GLASGOW TEENAGE Fanclub's second album, the impishly-titledBandwagonesque, is pretty laid back for a modern classic. TheBellshill foursome had laid the groundwork, influencing the likes ofNirvana, with A Catholic Education, but Bandwagonesque ...
Police wait to question man over killing
Oct 03, 2006; ... DETECTIVES are still waiting to question a man wanted inconnection with the death of Angelika Kluk. A murder inquiry was sparked on Friday night following thediscovery of the 23-year-old Polish student's body in a Glasgowchurch. Peter Tobin, who worked as a handyman at the ...
Osprey deal sparks AWG auction
Oct 03, 2006; ... AN AUCTION loomed for British water business AWG yesterday as itrevealed it had received new bid approaches despite the company'sagreement of a GBP 2.2 billion offer from the Osprey investmentgroup. The utility also includes Edinburgh-based AWG Property, one ofScotland's leading ...
Between the lines: Why the output gap may have the MPC jumping at an inflation shadow
Oct 03, 2006; ... ANOTHER week, another crop of upbeat surveys on the economy - justwhen we feared it was slowing. Hard on the heels of a buoyant smallbusiness confidence survey from Bank of Scotland comes firmer thanexpected Purchasing Managers Index data on UK manufacturing from theChartered Institute ...
Scotland 'must maintain high pay for bosses'
Oct 03, 2006; ... NEW figures suggesting that directors' pay in the UK had surged by28 per cent last year were defended by Scottish business leadersyesterday, who said that a backlash against top pay would beespecially damaging to Scotland's corporate landscape. David Watt, director of the ...
Slow boat to a split
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE division of CalMac into separate operating and asset-owningfirms marks the latest milestone in a long journey since ministersbowed to pressure from Brussels and agreed to put the ferry routesout to tender six years ago. The Scottish Executive won a concession to tender the 26 ...
CalMac II berths at Port Glasgow
Oct 03, 2006; ... BIDDING for Caledonian MacBrayne's main ferry routes is expectedto be launched within weeks, after ministers announced that the state-controlled firm that will own its vessels and terminals will be basedin Port Glasgow. The company will be called Caledonian Maritime Assets and ...
Review: Self Contained
Oct 03, 2006; ... Theatre, SELF CONTAINED, THE ARCHES, GLASGOW *** SOMEWHERE in the farthest reaches of the Arches complex, a groupof four actors are mooching about in a devastated landscape of emptyunlabelled food-cans and discarded toys; they seem like slowlystarving characters gathered in some ...
Visual Art Reviews: Callum Innes: Norman Ackroyd: Angus McEwan: Anna Barriball: Perpetua Pope: Less is more when it comes to gimmicky innovation
Oct 03, 2006; ... Visual Art: CALLUM INNES, FRUITMARKET GALLERY, EDINBURGH ***** NORMAN ACKROYD, BOURNE FINE ART, EDINBURGH **** ANGUS MCEWAN, OPEN EYE, EDINBURGH **** ANNA BARRIBALL, INGLEBY GALLERY, EDINBURGH *** PERPETUA POPE, SCOTTISH GALLERY, EDINBURGH **** THIS year is ...
Finding ways round euro woes
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE euro exchange rate at which single farm payments will be madefor 2006 is 67.77p, as set by the European Central Bank on thecrucial day of Friday, 29 September. That is down on last year's set rate of 68.19p and well down onthe 71p forecast by some analysts earlier this year ....
How 15m pheasants help keep 58,000 Scots in work
Oct 03, 2006; ... OPEN season on pheasants began on 1 October. Over the next fourmonths, about 15 million, most hand reared, will be shot in the UK. Not everyone's idea of fun, but an integral part of shooting's GBP1.6 billion contribution to the economy, not least as provider of theequivalent of ...
Focus: Don't be absurd - 'England's wars' are our wars, too
Oct 03, 2006; ... LAST week, a letter appeared in this newspaper from a lady whodescribed herself as "a long-term SNP member and activist". Threesentences interested me. "The particular area of concern for theScottish electorate," she wrote, "is foreign affairs and defence. Thestrongest protests in ...
Airport's rail link on track as BAA lifts objection
Oct 03, 2006; ... BAA Scotland, the last major objector to building a rail link toGlasgow Airport, has withdrawn its opposition to the GBP 210 millionscheme. It has also been revealed that the company, which operates theairport, will help to fund a linkway between the new rail halt andthe main ...
Good news for Romanov and Co - football clubs finally make profit
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE 12 Scottish Premierleague football clubs have collectivelymade a profit for the first time in ten years. An audit undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) credits clubsfor stepping back from the edge of financial disaster and bringingyears of soaring costs under control by ...
US online gaming ban sends shares into freefall
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE online gaming industry was plunged into chaos yesterday andbillions of pounds slashed from share values after the US Congresspassed legislation at the weekend to ban internet gaming there. America is the biggest source of revenue for online gambling eventhough the industry's ...
'LaBute should make a film about a matriarchy and have done with it - it doesn't fit'
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE remake of the cult film The Wicker Man seems only to have hadthe effect of bolstering the reputation of the original. While Neil LaBute's version, starring Nicholas Cage, has beenpanned by critics, the 1973 classic is more popular than ever and adirector's cut DVD has recently ...
Markets cheer dollars 15bn bid for Harrah's
Oct 03, 2006; ... HARRAH'S Entertainment, the world's biggest casino operator,yesterday revealed it had received a dollars 15 billion (GBP 8bn)buyout offer from private equity firms Apollo Management and TexasPacific Group. The proposed deal - valued at dollars 81 cash per share, a 22 percent ...
Don't stop the music, pleads Tunstall
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE singer KT Tunstall has leapt to the defence of a small bar inSt Andrews where her songs were celebrated long before she became ahousehold name. Aikman's bar and bistro, in the heart of the singer's home town,has called a halt to rock bands playing there after a noise ...
'Glasgow and Edinburgh- I love them equally!'
Oct 03, 2006; ... THE job advert, Laura Gordon recalls, "jumped out of the paper" ather. Quickly, excitement gave way to apprehension - could she do it? As head of technology and media at Boyd's, she was a successfuland award-winning lawyer. Did she really want to throw herselfbetween the warring ...
Three on trial for abduction and race murder of Scots schoolboy
Oct 03, 2006; ... THREE men went on trial yesterday accused of the raciallyaggravated abduction and murder of a Glasgow schoolboy. The case opened with jurors being warned they would be showndisturbing photographs of the semi-naked body of Kriss Donald, 15,who was allegedly set on fire at a ...
Knifeman in security breach at No 10
Oct 03, 2006; ... A MAN armed with a knife came within yards of the garden of 10Downing Street after scaling a 6ft fence. Scotland Yard is holding the unnamed man after he jumped into thesecure zone next to the Prime Minister's residence and was wrestledto the ground by a protection officer ....
Review: Petrified Paradise
Oct 03, 2006; ... Theatre, PETRIFIED PARADISE, THE ARCHES, GLASGOW **** AS THE annual Arches Live! festival of new theatre sweeps towardsits conclusion, it's heartening to see new young Glasgow company AMoment's Peace launch a direct attack on one of the mostcontroversial subjects in Scottish ...