The Scotsman back issues from March 2007:
Troubled Airbus to cut 10,000 jobs in bid to end superjumbo crisis
Mar 01, 2007; ... AIRBUS is cutting 10,000 jobs over four years at its 16 Europeansites - including 1,600 in the UK - and plans to sell or findpartners for six factories in an attempt to end a financial crisissparked by delays in the A380 superjumbo. It is hoped the plan, known as Power8, will cut ...
SNP to trust in 'Brand Salmond' as tactic to win more votes
Mar 01, 2007; ... SNP managers believe they will get more votes by marketing AlexSalmond as their brand identity, rather than the Scottish NationalParty, it emerged yesterday. It is understood that the SNP wants to use the term "Alex Salmondfor First Minister" or "Alex Salmond (Leader - Scottish ...
Brown fears forum's power to damage party
Mar 01, 2007; ... GORDON Brown has expressed fears that a policy debate triggered byformer Cabinet colleagues could impact negatively on the party aheadof the Scottish elections. Charles Clarke, the ex-home secretary, and Alan Milburn, theBlairite former health secretary, launched a website at ...
Laughter and hope for brave 'charcoal' girl
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHE once lay "like burnt charcoal", silent and on the brink ofdeath. The life of Shamiam Arif was almost destroyed in a house firein remote Kashmir, yet after ten operations in Britain paid for bythe generosity of Scots, the little girl is heading home. Yesterday the child's ...
Craig Group turnover soars 20 per cent to break GBP 100 million mark
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE Craig Group, the Aberdeen-based global shipping and energyservices company, has reported a substantial increase in profits asthe firm topped GBP 100 million turnover for the first time in its 73-year history. The company's turnover increased last year by almost 20 per centto ...
Mothers 'bear the heaviest burden' of prejudice in workplace
Mar 01, 2007; ... WOMEN with young children suffer the worst discrimination at work,with "intolerable levels" of inequality in British society, a reportclaimed yesterday. The equalities review, ordered by Prime Minister Tony Blair paintsa stark picture of the UK workforce in the 21st century, ...
CAP reform 'health check' shaping up to be more radical than thought
Mar 01, 2007; ... PRELIMINARY discussions began in Brussels yesterday to determinehow the Common Agricultural Policy should evolve between next yearand 2013. The last reforms in 2003, labelled a mid-term review by FranzFischler, the agricultural commissioner at the time, proved to be themost ...
Exports and specialisms mean beef prospects 'remain positive'
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE North-east of Scotland is the very heartland of beefproduction. Producers have taken some hard knocks over the past decade, butthe outlook is now much more encouraging, provided that farmers adopta sound business strategy. That was the clear message yesterday fromDavid ...
Doubts over Scotland as Trident base
Mar 01, 2007; ... MOVES towards Scottish independence would call into question thedecision to base the UK's nuclear weapons arsenal north of theBorder, a leading think-tank has said. A report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) - whichhas close ties to the Ministry of Defence - was ...
Scots Italian who changed British eating habits dies at age of 98
Mar 01, 2007; ... LORD Forte, the Italian-born entrepreneur who opened his firstmilk bar during the Depression and went on to build a multi-billionpound hotel and restaurant empire, died in his sleep yesterday. Hewas 98. At its peak, the Forte business owned some of the finest hotels inthe world, ...
Business Gazetteer
Mar 01, 2007; ... WHAT A CARD Baseball's Mona Lisa sells for GBP 1.2m THE Mona Lisa of baseball cards has sold for a record dollars 2.35million (GBP 1.2m). The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is consideredthe most valuable baseball card in existence, according to SCPAuctions, the new minority owners ...
Alastair Mackenzie: Laird in the city: Another Mackenzie ... another capital view
Mar 01, 2007; ... EDINBURGH is bathed in a cosy light, and a soft rain, in HallamFoe. This new film, directed by David Mackenzie (Alastair Mackenzie'sbrother) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival thismonth and is due for release later in the year, and, were it not forthe decidedly risque ...
Analysis: Changing type for an industry facing evolution
Mar 01, 2007; ... GEORGE Pryde remembers how, as a 17-year-old printing apprentice,a client, the Life Association of Scotland, was told it would bethree months before they could see a proof copy of the life tables ofwhich they had requested a print run. "Now it would be three hours," says the ...
GBP 5.7bn HBOS profit 'helps drive economy'
Mar 01, 2007; ... HBOS posted a 19 per cent jump in annual pre-tax profits to GBP5.7 billion yesterday, as chief executive Andy Hornby hit back atcritics of the industry's profit levels. Hornby, unveiling a full-year dividend up 15 per cent to 41.4p -via a 27.9p final - and a GBP 550m payout in ...
'Something rotten' as council chief quits with GBP 300,000 in public money
Mar 01, 2007; ... A SENIOR local government official is to be paid more than GBP100,000 in taxpayers' money on top of a GBP 200,000 retirementpackage after convincing councillors to make him redundant. John Lindsay, the chief executive of East Lothian, persuaded hiscouncil to abolish his department ...
The Spike
Mar 01, 2007; ... A balanced lunch CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown is set to be guestspeaker at the next press fund lunch in Glasgow, likely date 6 April.If Brown can spare himself from leadership contest worries, he willhowever have a tough act to follow. One memorable speaker a few yearsago was Alastair ...
Who is having the last laugh? Stephen McGinty talks to the Glaswegian who is helping Craig Ferguson win over US TV audiences
Mar 01, 2007; ... PEDESTRIANS on the sidewalks of West Hollywood are advised totread with caution. For each morning, around 9.30am, a flame-hairedScotsman astride a mountain bike mounts the pavement outside thefamily home, then speeds to the television studios of CBS, a briskten-minute pedal away. "That's ...
Sky's not the limit for Virgin over pricing war
Mar 01, 2007; ... FOR a row involving The Simpsons, it certainly has a larger-than-life cartoon knockabout quality. Virgin Media claims it is beingfaced with extortionate rates for Sky's basic channels including SkyOne - home to shows such as The Simpsons, Lost and 24 - and was lastnight threatening to ...
Scots house prices on the up
Mar 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH house-price growth is set to remain higher than in therest of the UK, but at a substantially reduced rate, according toNationwide. The building society is forecasting prices in Scotland to grow atabout 9 per cent, which would still be stronger than the UK market ....
How growing this humble veg has turned into a hot political potato (but it is organic)
Mar 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH farmers now produce enough organic food to meet 70 percent of the nation's demand. New statistics released yesterday highlight a substantial increasefrom the estimated 35 per cent level five years ago. But organic campaigners and environmentalists claimed that ...
'Lucky escape' of RAF jets in 20ft near miss
Mar 01, 2007; ... TWO RAF supersonic jets came within just 20ft of colliding head onin the skies over Loch Rannoch in Perthshire, it was revealedyesterday. The jets - one a Harrier from RAF Kinloss and the other a TornadoGR4 from RAF Lossiemouth - were closing on each other at a combinedspeed of ...
Licence threat in car phone blitz
Mar 01, 2007; ... TWO motorists face losing their licences after being among 113people in Scotland who were caught using hand-held mobile phonesbehind the wheel on the first day of tougher penalties. Drivers spotted on Tuesday included a man passing a policemotorcycle base in Glasgow. The ...
Village celebrates as tourist-magnet castle leased to community
Mar 01, 2007; ... IT IS one of Scotland's most historic castles with one of thecountry's most prestigious addresses - boasting the Queen's home atBalmoral on Royal Deeside as its nearest neighbour. Yesterday, residents of the village of Braemar were celebratingafter securing the lease of imposing ...
HBOS staff to receive GBP 7,500 bonus each
Mar 01, 2007; ... EMPLOYEES at HBOS are set to receive GBP 7,500 each in bonusesafter the Edinburgh-based bank announced a 19 per cent rise in annualpre-tax profits. About 17,300 Scottish staff will be among the workers receiving atotal of GBP 130 million in shares and bonuses as part of a ...
'High-risk' stalker says: I am no danger to women
Mar 01, 2007; ... CONVICTED stalker Robert Basterfield who police wanted banned frombeing alone with women for 30 years yesterday denied he was a danger. John Vine, chief constable of Tayside Police, has applied for asexual offences protection order against him. At Perth Sheriff Court ...
Final Bosnian pullout for British troops
Mar 01, 2007; ... REMAINING British troops in Bosnia are to be withdrawn, more thana decade after the Balkan conflicts began, ministers will announcetoday. Some 630 British soldiers, most of them from the Welsh Guards, arein Bosnia carrying out policing and reconstruction work as part of ...
Reform of emergency services 'has made little difference'
Mar 01, 2007; ... A MAJOR shake-up of Scotland's fire and rescue services hasbrought "no clear pattern of improvement", with the number of fires,road accidents and other incidents rising, according to watchdogs. Reform of the service has concentrated on prevention through workin the community and ...
Row over Elton's Highland festival clash
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE organisers of an annual island music festival have beenangered by what they see as "artificial" competition this year from aone-off gig by Elton John which is being staged as part of theHighland Year of Culture. The superstar singer has been booked to play at the ...
Ferry firm to answer fish cargo complaints
Mar 01, 2007; ... TAVISH Scott, Scotland's transport minister, will next week meetsenior management of the Northern Isles ferry service, followingfishing industry complaints about huge financial losses caused bydelays in delivery of fresh fish from Shetland. Fish merchants claim to have lost tens ...
Reliance pair suspended for 'waving lager' at prisoners
Mar 01, 2007; ... TWO members of staff from the security firm Reliance have beenbanned from working in courts after "provoking" prisoners by carryingcrates of lager past their cells. The Scottish Prison Service has banned the officers from carryingout prisoner escorts after an inspector spotted ...
Scrutineer: Good news, bad news is the story of HBOS
Mar 01, 2007; ... HBOS must be feeling a sense of dej-vu. This time last year thebanking major unveiled a 17 per cent jump in pre-tax profits to GBP4.8 billion. Its shares fell 4 per cent. At that time it was largely believed to be profit-taking followinga strong run in the stock since a previous ...
Europe stocks slide further
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE Chinese stock market and Wall Street partly reboundedyesterday from Tuesday's worldwide slump, but Europe's bourses sawfurther falls. The Shanghai Composite index closed up nearly 4 per cent,recovering more than a third of losses suffered on Tuesday, when itposted its ...
Passengers face chaos as GBP 48,000 signal workers vote to go on strike
Mar 01, 2007; ... THOUSANDS of rail passengers face a threatened three days ofdisruption in Scotland next week, after signal workers announced astrike over working hours. The staff, who earn an average of GBP 48,000 a year, plan to walkout for 48 hours from noon next Wednesday to noon next Friday ....
Boardroom coup as SMG abandons UTV merger
Mar 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH Media Group, the company that owns Scotland's two mainITV franchises and Virgin Radio, last night stunned the City as itabandoned its proposed merger with UTV and instead unveiled wholesalechange in the boardroom, with a new chief executive and chairman. The dramatic ...
News in brief: Kerb-crawlers now face losing cars
Mar 01, 2007; ... KERB-CRAWLERS will have their cars confiscated under new lawspassed yesterday to crack down on street prostitution. For the firsttime, ...
News in brief: Party bar disabled man in poll fight
Mar 01, 2007; ... A MAN who had a double knee replacement has been told by the UKIndependence Party that he will not be selected as a candidate bythem to ...
Review: Strangers, Babies
Mar 01, 2007; ... THEATRE STRANGERS, BABIES, TRAVERSE, EDINBURGH *** NO MATTER how grim the subject, it is characteristic of great artof any kind that it produces a certain whoosh of exhilaration, asense that the white heat of creative energy is beginning to shiftand crack our conventional ways of ...
Blair defends private equity as 'huge gains' are attacked
Mar 01, 2007; ... LABOUR leadership hopeful Michael Meacher and the Prime Minister,Tony Blair, have clashed over the role in the UK of private equityfirms, as leaders in the industry met in Germany for their annualconference. At Prime Minister's Questions yesterday, Meacher said the firmswere ...
Online shopping brings bags of grief
Mar 01, 2007; ... A WOMAN who received just one Brussels sprout from Sainsbury's onChristmas Eve rather than the kilo she ordered is one of thousands ofshoppers disappointed by internet grocery delivery services,according to a study by Britain's leading consumer organisation The report by Which? ...
Welsh's four women and a wedding
Mar 01, 2007; ... IT IS a scene that could only have come from the pen ofEdinburgh's most controversial writer. In the dining room of his Leith home, a young professional bemoansthe kind of grimy Scottish fiction that portrays Scotland as acesspit, before a startled guest returns from the toilet ...
Television Review: Self-regarding tosh will be the death of satire
Mar 01, 2007; ... Confessions of a Diary Secretary, ITV Freezing, BBC4 I DIDN'T much like Confessions of a Diary Secretary, mostlybecause, while John Prescott and Tracey Temple may well be thecharmless prats this portrayed them as, this kind of cheap sniggeringactually ends up almost making you ...
Corporate woes push FTSE to another fall of more than 100 points
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHARES in London plunged deeper into negative territory yesterday,closing down more than 100 points for the second day in a row. The benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped nearly 2 per cent as it shed114.6 points to close at 6,171.5 despite positive investor sentimentin the US, with the ...
Anger over India's refusal to open its markets to Scotch whisky
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE Scotch whisky industry is demanding that the EU launch WorldTrade Organisation dispute proceedings after the Indian government'srefusal to reduce its punitive import duties. The country was under intense international pressure to reformtheir system, which subjects all imported ...
Jessops shares crash after dire profit warning
Mar 01, 2007; ... HIGH street photography retailer Jessops warned that its full-year profit would be less than half the figure previously predicted,as the decline in the digital camera market continues. The company cut profit expectations for the year to the end ofSeptember by more than GBP 10 ...
Introducing - the Jack McConnell roadshow
Mar 01, 2007; ... HUGO Chavez, the eccentric, left-wing president of Venezuela, haspioneered a new style of direct politics by hosting a weekly, four-hour television and radio show. The programme is called AloPresidente, and has been aired every Sunday since 1999. Chavez has now added a daily ...
Leader: A council pay-off well spent?
Mar 01, 2007; ... JOHN Lindsay is the soon-to-retire chief executive of East LothianCouncil. He is an accountant by profession and previously served inother Scottish local authorities as a specialist in finance. One ofMr Lindsay's last responsibilities before retiring in July is tofacilitate an external ...
The sci-fi prophet who could see the problems coming our way
Mar 01, 2007; ... ON THE morning of 3 February, 1974, God zapped Philip K Dick witha beam of pink light fired from a necklace worn by the delivery womanfrom the local chemist. She had arrived to deliver painkillers forthe author's toothache, but left having unwittingly put him incontact with an ...
Mountain high Turn up the heat
Mar 01, 2007; ... Cyprus is the fourth most popular destination with overseashomebuyers from Britain and the demand is opening up more options forthose after a Mediterranean home. The hilltop village of LeptosEstates Vikla Village was awarded the title of Best CyprusDevelopment in the International Homes ...
Unique Selling Point
Mar 01, 2007; ... HERE IS ANOTHER TOWNHOUSE WITH an added extra at the bottom of thegarden. For 13 Inverleith Terrace is a beautiful home overlooking theBotanic Gardens, with a separate artist's studio to the back of thehouse. The main building is over four levels, although the basement couldmake ...
Back to basics
Mar 01, 2007; ... 23 MELVILLE STREET, EDINBURGH TOWNHOUSE conversions from office space back to residential useare becoming frequent in Edinburgh - you can understand the reasoningin an age of digital communication. A city-centre position for acompany is expensive if it is not entirely necessary ....
M&S refuses to rule out Sainsbury bid, raising prospect of auction
Mar 01, 2007; ... MARKS & Spencer last night refused to rule itself out of making abid for J Sainsbury, admitting it had been considering a "possiblecombination" with the supermarket giant. M&S said in a statement issued after the stock market closed thatit could still consider an offer, or become ...
Airbus to cut 10,000 jobs in bid to end A380 crisis
Mar 01, 2007; ... AIRBUS is cutting 10,000 jobs over four years at its 16 Europeansites - including 1,600 in the UK - and plans to sell or findpartners for six factories in an attempt to end a financial crisissparked by delays to the A380 superjumbo. It is hoped the plan, known as Power8, will cut ...
The 10 books we really can't live without: Reading: a gift for everyone
Mar 01, 2007; ... Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice tops a poll of ten of the bookswe can't live without to mark World Book Day today. David Robinsongives his guide to the titles but says, right, that too many peoplecan't read. Reading: a gift for everyone 'WHAT really knocks me out," says ...
Sport Obituary: Ephraim 'Jock' Dodds
Mar 01, 2007; ... EPHRAIM 'JOCK' DODDS Scottish professional footballer Born: 7 September, 1915, in Grangemouth. Died: 23 February, 2007, in Blackpool, aged 91. WHILE he never played in an official international match forScotland or for a Scottish club side, Ephraim Dodds was one of ...
GBP 2m return to Umbro stable nets Hearts biggest ever kit sponsorship deal
Mar 01, 2007; ... A MORE straightforward day at Tynecastle Park yesterday saw Heartsannounce a new shirt sponsorship deal with Umbro which is expected tonet the club GBP 2 million over two years. The announcement reunites Hearts with Umbro, the firm whichproduced the club's strips between 1975 and ...
Track maintenance trial scrapped after faults soar
Mar 01, 2007; ... NETWORK Rail has scrapped a trial of new track-maintenance methodsin Scotland after it contributed to a major increase in pointsfailures. Rail regulators have asked for an explanation for why such faultssoared by nearly 20 per cent in the last nine months. Network Rail has ...
Pensioner treated in hospital cupboard
Mar 01, 2007; ... AN 86-YEAR-OLD man received treatment in a hospital cupboardbecause of a shortage of space in an accident and emergency unit, itemerged yesterday. Andy Kerr, the health minister, last night promised to investigatethe incident at Wishaw General Hospital in Lanarkshire. John ...
News in brief: UKIP ban for man with disability
Mar 01, 2007; ... A MAN with a double knee replacement was told by the UKIndependence Party that he will not be selected to ...
Online shopping? Bags of grief
Mar 01, 2007; ... A WOMAN who received just one brussels sprout from Sainsbury's onChristmas Eve rather than the kilo she ordered is one of thousands ofshoppers disappointed by internet grocery-delivery services,according to a study by Britain's leading consumer organisation. The report by Which? ...
The university challenge: Student funding regime a 'fig leaf' to cover issue of rising numbers at university
Mar 01, 2007; ... A LEADING academic last night accused politicians of "ducking theissue" on the future of university funding. Professor John Field, an expert on higher education, said themassive expansion in student numbers in the past five decades had notbeen matched by an increase in funding for ...
Scotland hoists Saints into last four
Mar 01, 2007; ... ST JOHNSTONE continued their remarkable rampage through thereputations of their supposed superiors last night as they claimed aplace in the semi-finals of the Tennent's Scottish Cup for the firsttime in eight years. Goals from Peter MacDonald and Jason Scotland earned the ...
Brown fears forum's power to damage party
Mar 01, 2007; ... GORDON Brown has expressed fears that a policy debate triggered byformer Cabinet colleagues could affect the party negatively ahead ofthe Scottish elections. Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, and Alan Milburn, theBlairite former health secretary, launched a website at ...
Hepatitis sweat warning for rugby players
Mar 01, 2007; ... RUGBY players could be at risk of contracting hepatitis B throughsweat, researchers said yesterday. A study has found that the infection, which can lead to liverdamage, cancer and even death, may be passed on in sweat as well asblood. Experts writing in the British Journal ...
How growing this humble veg has turned into a hot political potato... organic, of course
Mar 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH farmers now produce enough organic food to meet 70 percent of the nation's demand. New statistics released yesterday highlight a substantial increasefrom the estimated 35 per cent level five years ago. But organic campaigners and environmentalists claimed that ...
Tourists' GBP 700,000 unpaid parking fines
Mar 01, 2007; ... TOURISTS parking their cars illegally in Edinburgh have escapedpaying GBP 700,000 worth of fines which cannot be enforced becausethe owners do not live in Britain. A loophole in the law has forced the city council to write offthousands of parking fines issued to foreign-registered ...