The Scotsman back issues from July 2007:
Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: Wimbledon women serving up a feast that justifies hike in wages
Jul 02, 2007; ... WOMEN: a seething mass of vulnerability, temperamentaluncertainty, mood-swings and unpredictability. Calm down dears, thisevaluation is solely in the context of the Wimbledon championshipswhere the women's competition is thoroughly absorbing, by conspicuouscontrast with what seems like ...
Dispatch Box
Jul 02, 2007; ... BASHIR AHMAD made his maiden speech as an MSP last Wednesday,during a debate on the annual Tartan Day celebrations, which hesuggested should be extended well beyond their transatlanticconnections: "We should turn east, not just west, and ensure thatTartan Day, or something like it, is ...
How my scepticism on global warming took a real battering
Jul 02, 2007; ... GOOD riddance to flaming June and welcome to what we hope mightjust be a more pleasant July. I have to admit to a degree ofscepticism on global warming, but those doubts are now increasinglyin reverse gear. April was just about as wonderful as anyone,especially farmers, could wish, then ...
Opinion Focus: How American psyche helps explain Iraq
Jul 02, 2007; ... TOWARDS the end of his brief, elegant memoirs - Captain Professor -Sir Michael Howard, doyen of military historians, observes how sad itis to see the United States, a country for which he feels bothaffection and gratitude, now "regarded with hatred by half the worldand mistrust by most ...
Business Gazetteer
Jul 02, 2007; ... FINLAND STATION TO RITZ CARLTON HOTEL Is Lenin spinning in hismausoleum? WHAT would Lenin have said? For evidence of Russia's journey fromCommunism to capitalism look no further than the Ritz Carlton, RedSquare, the dollars 1,000-a-night luxury hotel on the site of an oldSoviet ...
Scots legal firm expands into financial services
Jul 02, 2007; ... EDINBURGH law firm Gillespie Macandrew has launched a financialservices division to boost its private client service. The 150-strong firm has created Gillespie Macandrew FinancialServices to broaden its offering into specialist mortgage advice andpensions, while complementing the ...
Scotland remains defiant as full extent of plot unfolds
Jul 02, 2007; ... AS THE green Jeep Cherokee swept through the roundabout at GlasgowAirport and approached the terminal building, its two occupantssteeled themselves for an apocalypse. The driver was dressed in a blue boiler suit with black plasticbags tied around his feet. His partner, in the ...
Homeowner 'horrified' at tenant's possible link to plot
Jul 02, 2007; ... UNTIL yesterday, the most trouble Myra Mills has been caused byone of her tenants at 6 Neuk Crescent was a complaint about a soiledcarpet that needed replaced. Now, she finds herself an innocent party at the centre of analleged terrorist cell operating from her house. "Of ...
Hopes for male Pill hit by lack of cash
Jul 02, 2007; ... PLANS to launch a male contraceptive pill have been hit by a lackof cash from drugs companies. Researchers at Edinburgh University have been among those carryingout tests of a hormonal treatment to stop sperm production, allowingmen to take more responsibility for birth control ....
Brown to swap 'sofa' rule for collective government
Jul 02, 2007; ... GORDON Brown is to shed some of his powers of patronage as PrimeMinister, as he moves to enshrine the concept of collectivegovernment in contrast to Tony Blair's "sofa" rule. A statement to the Commons on the future constitution, originallydue today but delayed until later this ...
Kirsty's Pick of the Week: March of the penguins for world rock gigs
Jul 02, 2007; ... SATURDAY AL GORE IT IS a make or break day for the most famous loser/winner in a USelection as his Live Earth concert roles out across the globe. The 24-hour event, which, if all goes well, will be the biggest concert inhistory, is spread across nine cities, with: Madonna, ...
Scots' share of UK cash faces threat of cutback
Jul 02, 2007; ... SCOTLAND'S generous share of UK government cash could be underthreat, it emerged last night. It is understood the Treasury is looking to "iron out"discrepancies between the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. Scotland currently receives about GBP 1,500 more per head ...
Curran linked to bid for Labour leadership
Jul 02, 2007; ... MARGARET Curran, a Labour MSP and former Cabinet minister, emergedyesterday as a potential leadership contender in the battle toreplace Jack McConnell. Ms Curran, the former communities minister and Labour chief whip,set out her ideas for the renewal of the Scottish Labour Party ...
Post-election honeymoon for SNP as poll puts it seven up on Labour
Jul 02, 2007; ... THE SNP entered the summer recess yesterday, celebrating a newopinion poll that showed the Nationalists had increased their leadover Labour in Scotland. The boost came as the increasingly bitter relationship between thetwo main parties disintegrated still further when Alex ...
Scrutineer: How the days of wine and roses may be over for the big guns in the City
Jul 02, 2007; ... THE latest survey of Britain's apparently imperious financialservices sector, the UK's golden boy, has given out a double-edgedmessage. On the one hand, the onwards march has gone on with the thirdconsecutive quarter of strong growth in the sector, which ranges frombanks and ...
SDI leads bid to sell Scots finance to Japan
Jul 02, 2007; ... SCOTTISH financial bosses will seek to capture billions of yen'sworth of Japanese pensions business on an unprecedented financialservices trade mission to Tokyo later this week. Lena Wilson, head of operations at Scottish Enterprise, willrepresent Scottish Development ...
England joins rest of UK in 'momentous' public-place smoking ban
Jul 02, 2007; ... BRITAIN'S pubs and work places became officially "smoke free" at6am yesterday after England followed Scotland and the rest of the UKin snuffing out cigarettes in most indoor places. Smokers will now have to light up at home or outdoors in a movethat campaigners hailed as the ...
UK placed on 'critical' alert amid fears of new strikes
Jul 02, 2007; ... BRITAIN was on its highest level of alert last night as thesecurity services braced themselves for possible further attacks. The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), a division of MI5,elevated the alert to "critical", its maximum level, on Saturdaynight - five hours after the ...
2,800 die over six months in Afghanistan
Jul 03, 2007; ... AT LEAST 2,800 people have died in insurgency-related violence inAfghanistan in the first six months of the year, according to a newstudy. Among the dead were at least 593 civilians - 314 killed byinternational or Afghan forces, and 279 by insurgents - and 1,900Taleban fighters ....
Heroism and tragedy in heat of battle
Jul 03, 2007; ... A CORPORAL in the New Zealand SAS who braved enemy fire to carry abadly wounded colleague to safety across an Afghan battlefield hasbeen awarded the Victoria Cross. Cpl Bill Apiata, 35, became the first New Zealander to win themedal since the Second World War. Meanwhile, a ...
Scots troops fired blind on comrades
Jul 03, 2007; ... A BLACK Watch commander whose crew killed two army colleagues toldan inquest yesterday that he did not inform his men about a change totheir firing boundaries, because he did not think it necessary. Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay MacDuff, the commander of the BlackWatch, 3rd Battalion ...
Frontline troops left stretched
Jul 03, 2007; ... AN EXODUS of armed forces personnel is leaving frontline troopsstretched and risking their ability to meet key operations in Iraqand Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has been warned. Retention and recruitment of troops has reached a ten-year low,with short-term cuts in ...
Need To Know: Chivas investment
Jul 03, 2007; ... CHIVAS Brothers, the Scotch whisky and premium gin business ofPernod Ricard, has announced a GBP 4.75 million investment in two ofits bottling operations at Paisley and Dumbarton as part of itsongoing investment programme. The new investment will increasecapacity and improve efficiency ...
Need To Know: Tunnel shares slide
Jul 03, 2007; ... NEWLY issued shares in Channel tunnel rail operator GroupeEurotunnel (GET) have fallen by more than 40 per cent on their firstday of trading in Paris. Existing Eurotunnel shares were swapped forshares in the newly created Groupe Eurotunnel after the firm agreed adeal with ...
Airport defences could be toughened following terrorist attack
Jul 03, 2007; ... EXTRA shielding for airport terminals may be required followingSaturday's attack, Scotland's leading police chief admittedyesterday. Colin McKerracher, the president of the Association of ChiefPolice Officers in Scotland, said that such buildings may requireadditional ...
The rages of spin: Peter Capaldi: Rise to the strop
Jul 03, 2007; ... HE MAY be concerned about being typecast as an angry man in asuit, but Peter Capaldi has certainly proved his versatility in rolesranging from a fictional Songs of Praise producer in The Vicar ofDibley to a transvestite in Prime Suspect. Born in 1958 into a cafe-running Italian ...
Brown misses the point about why parents opt for private education
Jul 03, 2007; ... SCOTLAND is in the process of a social change so profound but sounobtrusive that its full effects may not be felt for years. As house prices and mortgages have risen, more and more familieshave entered the child-care trap: both parents go out to work to earnenough money to pay the ...
The Diary
Jul 03, 2007; ... It's never too late to learn POLICEMEN may be getting younger but students, it seems, aregetting rather longer in the tooth. A 71-year-old, who is partial to a bit of Goth and heavy metalmusic, is the latest advocate of lifelong learning at the Universityof St Andrews ....
Milk producers across UKdemand a level playing field
Jul 03, 2007; ... IT WILL come as a surprise to many, even in the agriculturalsector following years of discontent, that the UK is now approachinga deficit of GBP 1 billion each year in dairy products. Thousands ofdairy farmers have given up what they believed to be an unequalstruggle to stay in business ...
Suffolk breeders forge NZ link
Jul 03, 2007; ... THE Suffolk Sheep Society has stepped up its quest to improve theprofitability of UK and Irish producers by embracing genetictechnology that will provide commercial breeders with valuableselection data. Speaking at the Royal Show, the society's commercialdirector Robyn Hulme, announced a ...
Top QC cleared over 'sectarian' jokes
Jul 03, 2007; ... ONE of Scotland's leading criminal lawyers was cleared yesterdayof offending Catholics by telling jokes at a Rangers' supportersclub. Donald Findlay, QC, a noted after-dinner speaker, had faced adisciplinary tribunal after allegations that his quips about the Popeand a nun had ...
Morrison boosts Galliford Try profit
Jul 03, 2007; ... GALLIFORD Try, the housing and construction group, issued abullish trading update yesterday, boosted by a full year from itsScottish arm, Morrison Construction, which it bought last year. The company said profits for the year to 30 June would be"significantly above market ...
Business Gazetteer
Jul 03, 2007; ... VIOLENCE PAYS Post-election price of machetes slashed THE price of machetes has halved in parts of Nigeria since the endof general elections in April because demand from thugs sponsored bypoliticians has subsided, the state-owned News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reported. NAN ...
Muslims condemn 'this evil'
Jul 02, 2007; ... MUSLIM and Asian community leaders yesterday condemned the attackon Glasgow Airport, saying all Scots must stand together to fightterrorism. About 100 people, including religious leaders and communityelders, gathered at Glasgow's Central Mosque, joined by Alex Salmond,the First ...
Men held over airport terror attack 'were not Scots'
Jul 02, 2007; ... A COMBINATION of luck and incompetence prevented a terroristattack on Glasgow Airport "on the scale of Lockerbie", according to asecurity expert. As Alex Salmond pledged a swift return to "business as usual"following the ramming of a Jeep carrying gas cylinders and petrolinto ...
Terror attack sparks tourism action
Jul 02, 2007; ... TOURISM leaders in Scotland are to meet next week to conduct anurgent assessment of the impact of Saturday's al-Qaeda-style attackon Glasgow airport. As the car bomb assault on the terminal is the first in Scotland,with the potential to affect the volatile and security ...
A conga-line of frustration as thousands queue to fly
Jul 02, 2007; ... IT WAS the check-in queue from hell. A line of thousands offorlorn-looking passengers snaked nearly half a mile round GlasgowAirport yesterday as the security clampdown caused near chaos. Would-be travellers, many of them holidaymakers, arrived to findthey had to trundle their ...
Television Review: Less mad, more like an embarassing dad
Jul 02, 2007; ... Jekyll, Saturday, BBC1 The Seven Ages of Rock, Saturday, BBC1 A MODERN-day adaptation of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde aimed at aprime-time audience on a Saturday night was always going to be adifficult trick to pull off. And unfortunately, judging by the latestepisode of ...
Readers' Ombudsman: Taking the bull by the horns over matador's return
Jul 02, 2007; ... IT IS a subject that inspired one of the 20th century's best-known writers to pen what is regarded as a classic. The same subjectfor an article in the foreign pages of The Scotsman attracted manycomplaints. In Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway talked about the ...
Don't jet mad, just get bags of insurance before flying
Jul 02, 2007; ... THOUSANDS of British Airways passengers face another week ofdisruption, amid crippling delays and chronic staffing shortages atEdinburgh and Heathrow airports. Cancellations and late departures, coupled with a lack of baggage-handlers, have caused an estimated backlog of up to ...
'Effectively bomb proof building' may be upgraded
Jul 02, 2007; ... THE passenger terminal targeted by terrorists on Saturday is"effectively bomb proof", but airport sources admitted yesterday thatfurther upgrades may be required. It is understood the Glasgow Airport building was designed towithstand such an attack without the need for the ...
Men held over airport terror attack 'were not Scots'
Jul 02, 2007; ... A COMBINATION of luck and incompetence prevented a terroristattack on Glasgow Airport "on the scale of Lockerbie", according to asecurity expert. As Alex Salmond pledged a swift return to "business as usual"following the ramming of a Jeep carrying gas cylinders and petrolinto ...
Golan Knight looks to lead charge in Spindrifter Stakes
Jul 02, 2007; ... AS TALENTED as the field for today's Spindrifter Stakes havealready shown themselves to be, they still have a long way to gobefore they get anywhere near the achievements of the remarkable two-year-old in whose honour the race is named. The six runners all go into the GBP 10,000 ...
Men held voer airport terror attack 'were not Scots'
Jul 02, 2007; ... A COMBINATION of luck and incompetence prevented a terroristattack on Glasgow Airport "on the scale of Lockerbie", according to asecurity expert. As Alex Salmond pledged a swift return to "business as usual"after a Jeep carrying gas cylinders and petrol rammed into a ...
Men held over airport terror attack 'were not Scots'
Jul 02, 2007; ... A COMBINATION of luck and incompetence prevented a terroristattack on Glasgow Airport "on the scale of Lockerbie", according to asecurity expert. As Alex Salmond pledged a swift return to "business as usual"after a Jeep carrying gas cylinders and petrol rammed into a ...
Power of the brand fires up big breakfast
Jul 02, 2007; ... A FRUIT drink called Coolpis, a toffee bar called Plopp and aGerman toilet paper called Happy End - all comical and absolutelytrue examples of how a brand can not only backfire, but reducepotential customers to gales of laughter. Last Wednesday, these light-hearted examples of how ...
The citizen consumer is still king, especially in the Saga generation
Jul 02, 2007; ... WHAT is the future of brands in a sophisticated market whereconsumers have an unprecedented degree of media literacy and makeever more informed choices about what they buy? That question was posed at The Scotsman business breakfast by JPAnderson of RSTO. What would future markets ...
Young Scots pay for mistakes
Jul 02, 2007; ... Japan Under-20 3: Morishima (43), Umesaki (57), Aoyama ScotlandUnder-20 1: Campbell (82) INDIVIDUAL errors cost Scotland dear in Canada last night as theyopened up their FIFA Under-20 World Cup campaign with a disappointing3-1 defeat to Japan. Tommy Wilson's charges were ...
Jankovic keen to lower mother's stress levels
Jul 02, 2007; ... JELENA Jankovic has been given an extra reason for wanting to winher matches quickly and convincingly - preserving her mother'shealth. The No 3 seed from Serbia explained yesterday that her lastmatch, a tight three-setter against the Czech player Lucie Safarova,had been too much for her ...
Federer the last man that needs a fourth-round walkover
Jul 02, 2007; ... MOST players would welcome a bye midway through a Grand Slamtournament, being confident that reducing their workload by a matchcould give them an advantage over their opponents. Roger Federer, onthe other hand, has to be ambivalent about being given today offfollowing the withdrawal ...
Wimbledon wash-out to cost GBP 1m in refunds
Jul 02, 2007; ... WIMBLEDON organisers face having to pay out refunds of up to GBP 1million after rain ruined play at the weekend, with spectators onlyable to catch one hour of action. The first week of the tournament was badly disrupted by rain, andthe forecast is for more of the same today, ...
The Monday Interview: Keeping the faith
Jul 02, 2007; ... IS THE SNP press machine employing a new policy of softening upjournalists by force-feeding them, I wonder, contemplating the platepiled with plump, yellow Pakistani mangoes Bashir Ahmad has justbrought to the table, having cleared away the wreckage of thedelectable chicken and beef ...
'It's incredible that the couple even got as far as becoming engaged...'
Jul 02, 2007; ... THE death in 1916 of Picasso's second great love, MarcelleHumbert, plunged the artist into a period of profound despair.Suddenly, Paris seemed strange and empty. There was a war on, andmost of his friends were away fighting or, like Georges Braque andGuillaume Apollinaire, recovering ...
Leader: Reality strikes at Scotland
Jul 02, 2007; ... ON SATURDAY 30 June, 2007, Scotland finally joined the real world.For too long, we believed that this country was immune from the sortof callous terrorist acts against civilians that other nationssuffer. That illusion was shattered forever at precisely 3:15pm onSaturday at ...
Property prices in west heading up
Jul 03, 2007; ... HOUSE price inflation in west central Scotland is showing no signof slowdown, much like the "more desirable" areas on the other sideof the country, despite four increases in interest rates since lastAugust and the prospect of more to come. According to the latest GSPC quarterly ...
The 'granny nannies' denied a retirement
Jul 03, 2007; ... WHEN Dave Wood retired as a civil servant more than a decade ago,he imagined his twilight years would give him freedom to pursue newinterests. But today, ten years on, Mr Wood and his wife Isobel are playing arole now increasingly familiar to thousands of pensioners - nanniesto ...
Barclaycard goes green with Breathe
Jul 03, 2007; ... BARCLAYCARD has launched what it said is the UK's first creditcard to tackle climate change and promote "greener" spending. Barclaycard Breathe will donate 50 per cent of its profits tocarbon reduction projects around the world. And it offers cardholders lower rates and ...
Pound surges as weak output data keeps odds firmly on rates rise
Jul 03, 2007; ... THE latest economic data has added to the likelihood of a rise ininterest rates later this week, despite fresh evidence that fourincreases in borrowing costs since last August are starting to weakenconsumer demand. Output across retailing and wholesaling tumbled by 1.6 per cent ...
John Martin sells BMW dealership to Vardy
Jul 03, 2007; ... ONE of Edinburgh's biggest motor dealerships, Dunedin BMW andMini, has been sold for an undisclosed amount in a sale and leasebackdeal by John Martin Group to Peter Vardy Limited. The site of the dealership, which covers five acres on SeafieldRoad, will be retained by JM Group, ...
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jul 03, 2007; ... A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM ** BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASGOW DANK and dirty ground, Shakespeare called it, that famous forestfloor outside Athens where the story of A Midsummmer Night's Dreamunfolds, and there was certainly plenty of that around, as thisyear's Bard In The Botanics season ...
The Nats: Independent Scots 'safer'
Jul 03, 2007; ... SCOTLAND would be safer from terrorist attacks if it wasindependent, an SNP MSP said last night. Bill Wilson, a left-wing MSP, said he believed foreign policiespursued by the Labour government in Westminster were largelyresponsible for the wave of terrorist incidents across the ...
Royal family set for new baby: Pregnant pause gets longer
Jul 03, 2007; ... WITH the number of women postponing having children to pursuetheir careers on the rise, the boundaries of when they can have achild are being pushed ever further. In July last year, Dr Patricia Rashbrook became Britain's oldestmother when she gave birth to her son Jude at the age ...
Cameron picks a younger team
Jul 03, 2007; ... DAVID Cameron has reshuffled his shadow Cabinet to inject freshblood in response to Gordon Brown's young line-up. Mirroring the new prime minister's inclusion of outsiders , MrCameron appointed Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, the former Whitehallsecurity chief and diplomat, as his ...
Farming plants seeds of career for youths
Jul 03, 2007; ... FOR more than a generation, the children of Scotland's farmershave been turning their backs on the land and deserting theagricultural industry in their droves. Lured by the bright lights of the big cities they have left thecountryside a place where the age of the average farmer is ...
Photo-Me boardroom bows to shareholder pressure
Jul 03, 2007; ... PHOTO-ME international gave into shareholder pressure for aboardroom clear-out after threats from an activist shareholder, butinsisted it would continue with breakup plans. Principle Capital, which has a 10 per cent stake in the strugglingphoto booth company, has threatened to ...