The Scotsman back issues from August 2007:
Warhol show soups up the Scottish summer
Aug 01, 2007; ... COW head wallpaper, multi-coloured Marilyns, doubled Elvis andCampbell's Soup cans: the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)unveiled its headline summer exhibition yesterday, spanning popartist Andy Warhol's career from the late 1950s to his death in 1986. Andy Warhol: A ...
Art review: Andy Warhol: A brash and colourful version of death that is much more than just wallpaper
Aug 01, 2007; ... ANDY WARHOL: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE **** ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY AN EARLY retrospective of Andy Warhol's work at the Modern ArtMuseum of Stockholm put the cow wallpaper on the outside of thebuilding. The National Galleries of Scotland has settled for plywoodcans of Campbell's Soup ...
Have you met the Bodens?
Aug 01, 2007; ... THEIR natural habitats are the farmer's market, the school gate orthe local branch of Waitrose. They move in family packs, often rathernoisily in a 4x4 with a big slobbery Labrador called "Molly" or"Willow" in the back. The female tends to her young, while the malebrings home the ...
Music: Raise a glass of sauvignon blanc to this most sophisticated and debonair of folk festivals MUSIC
Aug 01, 2007; ... CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL **** CHERRY HINTON HALL GROUNDS WHERE other festivals are characterised by a sea of mud, booze andtasteless noodles on which hordes of eager young pups conspire to beswept away, the Cambridge Folk Festival is marked instead by itsthoroughly civilised sea of ...
Crime agency poised to seize GBP 10m worth of Mr Bigs' illicit wealth
Aug 01, 2007; ... DETECTIVES are on the trail of more than GBP 10 million worth ofluxury houses, cars, bank accounts and other assets hoarded by crimebosses. The head of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA)has revealed a massive increase in the scale of investigation intothe ...
Payback Time For Swindlers
Aug 01, 2007; ... COMPUTER company director Michael Voudouri, from Bridge of Allannear Stirling, was ordered to hand over more than GBP 1 million,including his mansion, in November 2006 after pocketing three timesthat amount in a VAT scam. Voudouri bought computer chips from abroad, purchasing them ...
Not quite perfect smile as rise in NHS dentists offset by fall in adults able to access treatment
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE number of dentists working in the health service in Scotlandincreased last year, but the number of adults able to access NHStreatment is still falling, figures showed yesterday. As of March this year, 2,474 NHS dentists were working in Scotland- up 7.5 per cent from 2,301 in ...
The Diary by Alba
Aug 01, 2007; ... A huge kebab but no margarine YESTERDAY, Alba was most dismayed to report that the bonnie bankswere called Lock (sic) Lomond at a high-profile event on its shores.Today, happier news: in a chirpy press release from DADA publicrelations, Alba is told that the world's biggest kebab ...
The Laws That Now Divide Britain
Aug 01, 2007; ... THESE are some of the laws which now differ on each side of theBorder. TAIL-DOCKING Tail-docking is outlawed in Scotland, but it is legal to takepregnant dogs south of the Border to have puppies docked there. TUITION FEES Although English students have to ...
Breeders slip the leash and take dogs south for tail-docking
Aug 01, 2007; ... DOG-BREEDERS are evading Scottish laws by sending their animalssouth of the Border to have their tails docked. The traditional practice of cutting puppies' tails was outlawed inScotland this year. But a loophole in the law means breeders can take pregnant bitchesto England, ...
When to use no-frills is a no-brainer
Aug 01, 2007; ... ILIKE to travel. I do so a lot, particularly within Europe -sometimes for a weekend, sometimes for a full-on fortnight. Over thepast year, I have graced Krakow, Lisbon, London, Belfast, Paris,Berlin, Riga and Barcelona with my presence, and each time I've flownwith a low-cost, no-frills ...
Banker branded a golf cheat fails to clear his name
Aug 01, 2007; ... A SENIOR bank official who was branded a golf cheat after anopponent accused him of twice misplacing his ball has failed to clearhis name through the courts. Lindsay Smith claimed that Nairn Golf Club had breached the rulesof natural justice when he was suspended for a year at a ...
What price happiness? Just GBP 29 a day, apparently
Aug 01, 2007; ... MONEY can't buy you love but it can buy you happiness, with astudy putting the price of contentment at GBP 29 a day. The survey of more than 1,000 bank customers found just under GBP30 is the sum needed by the average British adult to pursue all theirinterests in their social and ...
Riches 'Not Important'
Aug 01, 2007; ... WHO wants to be a millionaire? Not Britons, who seem to covethappiness over money, according to a new report. Just one in seven people thinks getting rich is "very important",with four in ten happy with their financial lot, saying being rich is"not at all important" or "not really ...
Stroke, heart attack and hip surgery survival up, but regional factor stays
Aug 01, 2007; ... SURVIVAL rates after heart attacks, strokes and hip operations areimproving in Scotland - but wide variations remain across thecountry, new figures show. In some cases, you are 25 per cent more likely to survive after astroke in one area compared to another, figures published by ...
Executive to investigate falling rate of smear test uptake
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE falling rates of women having cervical smears is to beinvestigated by the Scottish Executive. Figures revealed that the percentage of women taking part in thecervical cancer screening programme is continuing to drop. As of 31 March this year, 76.5 per cent of eligible ...
Salmond uses Muslim meeting to call for unity against terror
Aug 01, 2007; ... ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, met Muslim leaders yesterday andurged Scotland's communities to unite to tackle the threats ofterrorism, racism and sectarianism. The Bute House reception was part of the Scottish Executive's OneScotland campaign to promote cross-cultural ...
Paying the price of summer flooding
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE price of a pint of milk is to rise by 3p, in the firstevidence of the impact devastating floods south of the Border arehaving on shopping bills. The cost of sandwiches and Scotch pies arealso set to increase, with Britain's biggest baker admittingadditional costs linked to the ...
Train seat belts could 'increase death toll'
Aug 01, 2007; ... FITTING car-style seatbelts in trains would increase passengerinjuries and deaths in crashes, research by the main UK rail safetybody has concluded. But installing laminated windows would significantly improve theprotection of passengers in an accident, the Rail Safety ...
MacAskill seeks Scots solution to law reform
Aug 01, 2007; ... MINISTERS insisted yesterday they would not be pushed intointroducing full competition into Scotland's law services, despite acall by the UK's competition watchdog to lift restrictions. The Office of Fair Trading has recommended current rules on howlegal services are provided be ...
Parties bid to stop loss of one of Scotland's seven MEPs
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE number of Scottish members of the European parliament shouldbe cut from seven to six, the independent Electoral Commission hasrecommended. Scotland's main political parties have called on Westminster toreject the cut, part of a reduction in the number of UK MEPs from 78to 72 ...
Fishermen of Scotland take lead in protecting cod stocks
Aug 01, 2007; ... VAST areas of Scotland's fishing grounds are to be closed to thecountry's trawlers in a groundbreaking voluntary scheme to protectcod stocks, it was revealed yesterday. The three-month pilot scheme will involve 225-square-mile blocksof the North Sea and west coast waters being ...
Drink-drivers in denial as arrests increase
Aug 01, 2007; ... HUNDREDS of people are continuing to drink and drive in the beliefthey will not be caught, police said yesterday as they revealed asharp increase in offenders in the latest Scotland-wide crackdown. A total of 178 motorists were arrested for drink-driving or beingunfit through ...
Girl raped as youth freed early from offenders' institution
Aug 01, 2007; ... A YOUTH attacked and raped a teenager three weeks after he wasreleased early from a young offenders' institution. The High Court in Glasgow yesterday heard that James Campbelllaunched the attack on his 17-year-old victim as she slept in anAirdrie homeless unit. Kath Harper, ...
Bill aimed at creating an independent Scotland due in fortnight
Aug 01, 2007; ... ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, will publish his bill onScottish independence as the last major act of his first 100 days inoffice, it emerged yesterday. The First Minister presented his draft bill to the ScottishCabinet yesterday. It will be amended and re-drafted over ...
A spoonful of porridge keeps the cholestrol under control
Aug 01, 2007; ... FOR hundreds of years it has been a staple of the Scots diet withgenerations reared on its health-giving properties. But the humble bowl of porridge was endorsed as a health food froman unusual source yesterday - the UK's advertising standardswatchdog. The ASA, the body ...
Scottish fishermen take lead to protect fragile cod stocks
Aug 01, 2007; ... VAST swathes of Scotland's fishing grounds are to be closed to thecountry's trawlers in a groundbreaking voluntary scheme to protectfragile cod stocks, it was revealed yesterday. The three-month pilot scheme will involve 225-square-mile blocksof the North Sea and west coast waters ...
The Apprentice? Sir Alan Sugar to work for someone else after selling his GBP 125m empire
Aug 01, 2007; ... HE IS the famously abrasive tycoon whose TV catchphrase "You'refired!" has entered the national consciousness. But Sir Alan Sugar, the star of BBC 1's The Apprentice, was lastnight in the unlikely position of working for someone else afterselling his Amstrad empire to satellite ...
Television Review: Yes you can fight, but I'd win at Scrabble
Aug 01, 2007; ... Last Man Standing, BBC3 You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous, BBC1 SOMETIMES a programme comes along featuring characters so farremoved from your own frame of reference, not to mention your entirepersonal worldview, that you can't help but be drawn in by the sheeralien nature of what ...
Last frontier now threatened by neglect
Aug 01, 2007; ... LARGE stretches of Scotland's upland wilderness are in such poorcondition that flooding risks are increasing, the quality of thecountry's drinking water is being compromised and local wildlife isbeing threatened. RSPB Scotland says the deterioration has reached the point where ...
Scotch sector toasts dollars 250m Dewar's boost
Aug 01, 2007; ... BACARDI has become the latest drinks giant to pump a fortune intothe Scotch whisky industry, promising to invest at least dollars 250million (GBP 123m) into Dewar's over the next decade. The world's largest privately-owned drinks company, Bacardi saidthe two-part project would ...
Between The Lines: Asian tigers must earn their stripes by helping to curb inflation fears
Aug 01, 2007; ... IWAS on holiday last week so missed the latest round of turbulenceon world equity markets. My colleague Bill Jamieson used his columnhere on Monday to explain that the current bout of summer jitters onthe markets belies the underlying strength of the global industrialeconomy - world GDP ...
Broker Snaps
Aug 01, 2007; ... OMG 60p +2p Broker says BUY THE AIM-listed technology company was ahead yesterday afterEvolution Securities repeated its "buy" recommendation and slapped atarget price of 80p on its shares. The broker said, following on from last week's ...
Beazley Group
Aug 01, 2007; ... Beazley Group 165p +10.25p Broker says BUY SHARES in Beazley Group rose yesterday after ABN Amro put an "add"recommendation on the company and increased its target price to 175pfrom 160p. The broker ...
Buccleuch Estates set for 'exciting' future as turnover soars to GBP 44.7m
Aug 01, 2007; ... BUCCLEUCH Estates, the Borders-based property-and-estates businessled by the Duke of Buccleuch, has seen turnover soar to GBP 44.7million in the year to October 2006, up from GBP 28.2m in 2005. However, the company reported a pre-tax loss of GBP 1.1m against aprofit the previous ...
Managers in Scotland win praise for carbon cuts New business practices now 'making a difference' Commercial and public sectors reduce emissions by up to 193,000 tonnes as initial curiosity about ways to combat climate change is transformed into decisive action, reports Carbon Trust
Aug 01, 2007; ... CARBON emissions from the Scottish public and private sectors arebeing "considerably reduced" as organisations adopt the "green"business message, according to figures from the government-fundedCarbon Trust. The organisation has calculated that, in 2005-6, its carbonmanagement ...
Murdoch closes in on Wall Street Journal
Aug 01, 2007; ... RUPERT Murdoch last night appeared to be on the brink of owningthe Wall Street Journal as his GBP 2.6 billion bid for the Dow Jonesgroup headed towards completion. Victory for the media tycoon in the months-long tussle hasrevolved around convincing the Bancroft family, which ...
Mortgage exit fees axed before deadline
Aug 01, 2007; ... SEVERAL of the country's biggest mortgage lenders have scrapedtheir exit fees in time for the Financial Service Authority's (FSA)deadline. The regulator gave lenders until midnight yesterday to set outtheir position on fees for new customers. It had already called on ...
Glen steps out to beef up London trade
Aug 01, 2007; ... GLEN, the iconic talisman of the Scottish red meat industry, ismuch in evidence this week in London as the industry promotion bodyQuality Meat Scotland launches its latest beef advertising campaign. Aimed at capturing a greater share of the lucrative London market,the new adverts ...
Asda to pay extra GBP 400 a tonne for First Milk cheese
Aug 01, 2007; ... DAIRY farmers had some better news yesterday when Asda, thesupermarket giant, announced that, from today, it will pay First Milkan additional GBP 400 per tonne for cheese supplied by the farmer-owned business. The current wholesale price for both mild and mature cheese is inthe ...
HMV confirms Fopp buy plan
Aug 01, 2007; ... HMV confirmed yesterday that it plans to buy the Fopp brand andrevive six of its stores, including one each in Glasgow and Edinburghand its London's Covent Garden outlet. The price of the deal has notbeen disclosed. The deal comes on the day HMV also sold its Japan business for ...
Britain needs a strong US - and Brown knows it His problem with Bush is not anti-Americanism, it is political tribalism
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE first instructions to Sir Christopher Meyer from DowningStreet upon being appointed Ambassador to Washington were clear: "Getup the arse of the White House and stay there." What a difference tenyears makes. Today, it seems, Gordon Brown has opted for colonicirrigation. There ...
Leader: Postcode bias in NHS figures
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE latest NHS statistics on key patient outcomes in Scotland makefor mixed reading. Looked at across several years, the figures showdefinite improvement in the survival rate from heart attacks, strokesand from major operations such as hip surgery. This is obviously tobe welcomed ....
CLAIMS CUT INSURANCE PROFITS IN HALF
Aug 01, 2007; ... LLOYDS TSB's general insurance arm was blown off course by thestormy weather, with profits being halved by nearly 50 per cent dueto a GBP 57 million increase in weather-related claims. Of this, GBP 45m related to the severe flooding in the UK in June,mainly in Yorkshire. A similar ...
Widows returns further GBP 600m to Lloyds
Aug 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH Widows repatriated a further GBP 600 million to LloydsTSB in the first six months of this year, bringing the total amountreturned by the life assurer to its parent since 2005 to GBP 2.3billion. The disclosure came as Lloyds also announced yesterday that it hassold its ...
Going private pays off as Macdonald checks in 37 per cent rise
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE best operating conditions in more than a decade have helpedpower a 37 per cent operating profits jump at Macdonald Hotels,Scotland's biggest private hotels company. Donald Macdonald, founder executive chairman of the group,announced yesterday that operating profits for the ...
High street catches summer chill
Aug 01, 2007; ... RETAIL sales growth barely inched up in July with the bad weatherand higher borrowing costs dampening the mood of the UK'sshopkeepers. CBI figures showed sentiment on the high street was decidedlydownbeat, with retailers saying this month's volumes fell sharplyshort of the ...
ROYAL ON THE UP
Aug 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH Life owner Royal London has announced an 8 per cent risein total new life and pensions business in the six months to June, toGBP 137.3 million from GBP 127.1m based on the industry APE standardof annual premiums plus 10 per cent of single premiums. New business at ...
RUMOUR OF THE DAY: Banks cleared on overdraft action
Aug 01, 2007; ... BANCO Santander Central Hispano's UK bank, Abbey, is not one ofthe two lenders facing enforcement action from the Financial ServicesAuthority over its handling of customer complaints about overdraftcharges, sources familiar with the matter said. Yesterday, sources said Lloyds TSB ...
SCOTS STOCKS: St James's Place shares shine after news of interim profits soaring 58 per cent
Aug 01, 2007; ... SHARES in wealth manager St James's Place, which is 60 per centowned by HBOS, were among the high risers yesterday after the groupannounced a 58 per cent rise in first-half pre-tax profits to GBP133.6 million. First-half new business to the end of June rose 33 per cent to ...
The Scotsman Scrutineer: Black horse sets the pace
Aug 01, 2007; ... Lloyds TSB 558p +23.5p LLOYDS TSB, the bank of the black horse, has shown the rest of thefield a neat turn of foot. Its results yesterday - with surprisepackage - may well be the best news the bank has produced for themarket in the past three or four years. There ...
RBS among the winners as European markets rebound
Aug 01, 2007; ... SHARES in Royal Bank of Scotland were among the biggest gainersyesterday as markets across Europe rebounded after heavy losses seenlast week. London's FTSE 100 index bounced back 154 points or 2.48 per centto 6,360.10, helped especially by surging banking stocks. RBSincreased by ...
Standard Life seals GBP 65m shopping centre deal
Aug 01, 2007; ... STANDARD Life has sold a Lanarkshire shopping centre in a GBP 65.6million deal as it continues to focus on larger retail assets. The Regency Centre in Hamilton has been bought by an unnamedNorthern Irish client of Belfast-based property consultant BTWShiells. In 1999, ...
SMALL BUT BEAUTIFUL: Solid demand keeps Elementis recovery on track
Aug 01, 2007; ... CHROMIUM producer Elementis continued its recovery with gooddemand in all of its markets in the first six months of the year. Profits rose from GBP 14.4 million to GBP 19.6m in the half -yearto June on sales of GBP 198m, down from GBP 211m. Those figures included its global ...
Magners owner suffers summer profits hiccup
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE runaway success of Magners cider appears to have ground to ahalt because of the poor summer weather. The brand's owner, C&C, yesterday said it that expects half-yearoperating profits to fall by around 35 per cent due to the cold andwet. "Trading performance deteriorated ...
'Inherited' pot helps lift payouts at Standard Life
Aug 01, 2007; ... STANDARD Life with-profits policyholders are being rewarded with apay-out from its "inherited estate" pot for the first time. In April, the Edinburgh giant said only policyholders - not othershareholders - would benefit from these surplus assets, and it livedup to its promise ...
Oil hits record dollars 78.21 a barrel
Aug 01, 2007; ... CRUDE oil futures rose to a record yesterday, smashing theprevious high by more than dollars 1 a barrel on expectations of afall in US inventories in a key weekly inventory report and asconcerns about a potential demand slump eased. Hedge funds and other speculators were the main ...
Taylor Wimpey tempers strong results with warning on cooling UK market
Aug 01, 2007; ... TAYLOR Wimpey, Britain's largest housebuilder, has warned of acooling UK market as it devalued its US land bank in the firstresults since merger. However, the shares rose strongly as it announced a surprise GBP750 million share buyback and a rise in expected cost-savings fromthe ...
Tesco plans to get its teeth into dental cover
Aug 01, 2007; ... IN ITS latest drive to shake-up the financial services market,Tesco is to start offering dental insurance cover. This move follows its launch of health insurance in January andonce again it has teamed up with AXA PPP Healthcare. It is launching two products - one for NHS ...
Investors shrug off economic fears as London roars back
Aug 01, 2007; ... LONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 6,360.1 +154 THE London market staged a rally yesterday as investors shruggedoff recent economic concerns to pick up bargains following the recentheavy losses. Strong corporate results from Lloyds TSB and Taylor Wimpey helpedboost the banking and ...
Business Gazetteer
Aug 01, 2007; ... TONS OF SOIL Lochhead ploughs fertile land IT MAY be the least glamorous collection ever assembled, but itwould cost GBP 10 million to re-assemble, in the unlikely event of itbeing stolen. We refer to the National Soil Archive of Scotland atthe Macaulay Institute in ...
For richer, not poorer, more couples say 'I do' to an overseas wedding
Aug 01, 2007; ... IT IS the most important day of your life, and probably the mostexpensive. But with the average cost of tying the knot in the UKrising to GBP 20,000, many couples are choosing to cut their costsand marry abroad, fuelling a niche market for wedding organisers inScotland. The move ...
Cameron hits back at critic who 'asked for a peerage'
Aug 01, 2007; ... DAVID Cameron was embroiled in a fresh row with a Conservativesupporter after the Tory leader revealed he had turned him down for apeerage. Ali Miraj, a Tory councillor, had accused Mr Cameron of being tooreliant on PR and gimmickry. The Tory leader had retaliated by ...
Spencer can show his art in Sussex Stakes Coolmore recruit tipped at Glorious Goodwood
Aug 01, 2007; ... GODOLPHIN have never been slow to get the cheque book out whenthey spy an equine talent they covet but as a rule, buying otherpeople's horses is not a pastime racing's second great superpower,Coolmore, indulge in too often. By and large, the boys from Ballydoyle prefer to rear ...
McConnell leads by example as Scots retain Celtic Cup
Aug 01, 2007; ... SCOTLAND retained the Celtic Cup last night, and in moreconvincing fashion than the final margin of victory suggested. Thehosts took the trophy with 37 points to Ireland's 30 and Wales's 17,although the result was not ensured until the last event in whichLynsey Sharp anchored the home ...