The Scotsman back issues from May 2008:
Hunt on for world's most wanted Nazis
May 01, 2008; ... DR DEATH, if still alive, is 93. Although his exact whereaboutsare unknown, there is strong evidence to suggest that his address,which was once Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, is aroundSan Carlos de Bariloche, an Argentine ski resort whose plaza has an"Alpine design" and whose ...
Good news for Cairn
May 01, 2008 ... CAIRN Energy will be allowed to cover much of the cost of a keyIndian oil pipeline through oil revenues after the Indian governmentfinally allowed the "delivery point" for the oil to be shifted frominland Rajasthan to Salaya at the Gujarat coast, where it would berefined. The ...
Need to Know: BG profits up as it bids GBP 6bn for Origin
May 01, 2008 ... UK OIL and gas company BG Group has reported a sharp rise infirst-quarter profits as it unveiled a GBP 6.1 billion takeover bidfor Australian company Origin Energy. BG Group reported a 78 per cent increase in profits in the threemonths to 31 March to GBP 789 million, almost GBP ...
Interview: David Blanchflower: Reasons to be cheerful? Not many
May 01, 2008; ... AS AN economist who has made the study of "happiness" one of hisacademic interests, David Blanchflower's warning of the danger ofBritain plunging into recession are not likely to produce nationwidejoy and delight. In his lecture in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, Blanchflower, ...
Crunch hits the weakest as strong grow stronger
May 01, 2008; ... TOWN centres across the Central Belt risk "taking a battering" asthe credit squeeze forces retailers to cut back on new storeopenings and property developers take the axe to shopping centreschemes. Major shopping destinations such as Edinburgh and Glasgow and out-of-town malls ...
Dana profits up on production hike
May 01, 2008; ... DANA Petroleum, Scotland's second-largest independent oilcompany, continued its rise yesterday as is revealed a major jump inprofits and talked up its latest exploration prospects. Aberdeen-based Dana, which has interests around the world butproduces about 75 per cent of its oil ...
Warning over liver fluke spread
May 01, 2008; ... LIVER fluke is a wasting disease of cattle and sheep formerlyconfined to parts of the UK and Ireland where rainfall washistorically higher than in the more benevolent climate of theeastern halves of the two. However, in recent years - and it may well be a function ofglobal ...
Global fertiliser shortage looming
May 01, 2008; ... MOTORISTS and transport operators may be complaining about thecost of fuel at the pumps with prices now in the region of GBP 5 pergallon. However, those with long memories might just recall that 40years ago that same volume could be purchased for little more in thepre-decimal era than ...
As Fed cuts rate to 2 per cent, BoE fires fresh salvo at UK banks
May 01, 2008 ... THE banks behind the lending boom which came to a spectacular endlast summer are hindering the recovery of the financial system bybeing too cautious, the Bank of England warns today. Lenders are so fearful of further credit-crunch losses that thereturn of confidence to markets is ...
DNA identifies bones of last tsar's missing children
May 01, 2008; ... SCIENTISTS have confirmed that the remains of two bodies dug upin Russia last year belong to two children of Tsar Nicholas II, whowas assassinated along with his family in 1918, bringing to a closeone of the most intriguing chapters in 20th-century Russian history. Until last year, ...
Record-setting Scotsman who is on track to fly again next year
May 01, 2008; ... WEIGHING in at 25 tonnes, the massive cylinder could be mistakenfor part of a space rocket. But the 30ft-long structure is part of one of the mostrecognisable of Scotland's icons. And yesterday engineers providedan insight into work to refit the boiler of the Flying Scotsman ....
Business Gazetteer
May 01, 2008 ... I DON'T LIKE FRIDAYS Insurers make ready for guest Geldof BOB Geldof will be asking "Is that it?" (the actual title of hisspeech) when he addresses the British Insurance Brokers' Associationconference in Glasgow tomorrow. The Live 8 organiser and former Boomtown Rat challenged ...
A serve to love
May 01, 2008; ... YOU would at least expect her to be checking her mobile phone.But, as Judy Murray sits happily chatting away in Edinburgh onTuesday afternoon, there isn't the least hint she's itching tofollow the progress of her son Andy, who that moment is battlingMario Ancic to stay in the Open ...
Briefing Board
May 01, 2008 ... PEOPLE SOUTH Ayrshire Council has appointed Harry Garland as itsdirector of social work, housing and health. Garland is currentlythe director of community social services with Orkney Council. NEWS APPLICATIONS for Scottish Community Food and Health grants arenow ...
Room in space for noughties' answer to shoulder pads
May 01, 2008; ... The only role little green men play in my life these days ishelping me cross the road. News that Blake's 7 is coming back to TVreminded me it wasn't always so. To me, in 2008, science fiction is a world men have created forthemselves. It's a shed, in silver. A spaceship is just a ...
Coe asks Scots critics to rise above Olympic cash row for sake of sport
May 01, 2008; ... LORD Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, yesterday said theorganisers of both the Commonwealth and Olympic Games should riseabove squabbling over funding and work together to create a greatsporting legacy. In an interview with The Scotsman yesterday, Lord Coe rubbishedthe ...
Scottish firms cashing in on the games
May 01, 2008; ... MORE than 200 Scottish companies have applied for contractslinked to the Olympic Games. Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London Olympic GamesOrganising Committee, revealed the figure yesterday as he said allparts of the UK would benefit from the event. Construction ...
Code to curb stores 'could lead to higher prices'
May 01, 2008; ... SUPERMARKETS have warned that moves to curb their dominance couldlead to higher prices for consumers. The Competition Commission yesterday unveiled a planning shake-up to boost competition in the GBP 95 billion grocery market. The culmination of a two-year inquiry into the ...
MacAskill gives police blessing to end random stop-and-search row
May 01, 2008 ... KENNY MacAskill, the justice secretary, has signalled an end tohis row with British Transport Police over their use of random stop-and-search powers following last year's terrorist attack on Glasgowairport. Following a meeting yesterday with David McCall, the ...
Horrific murder spree that ended on the gallows
May 01, 2008; ... PETER Manuel was 31 when he was executed on seven counts ofmurder in 1958. But he was suspected of at least eight otherkillings in his adopted Scotland. Born in the United States, Manuel arrived in Britain at the ageof six when his family first settled in England. He had ...
So just how dirty is your qwerty?
May 01, 2008; ... COMPUTER keyboards can be dirtier than the average toilet seatand are home to millions of bacteria, which can lead to diarrhoeaand vomiting, according to new research. The "dirty qwerty's" were home to a host of bugs, including Ecoli and staphylococcus aureus, which can cause skin ...
Tories warn of GBP 100m black hole in plans for local tax
May 01, 2008; ... A FRESH attack on plans to introduce a local income tax (LIT)claims finance secretary John Swinney will have to plug a GBP 100million black hole in the Scottish budget if the SNP goes ahead. The attack by the Scottish Conservatives came after HM Revenuesand Customs revised its ...
Parents would prefer socialising classes to 'trendy' nursery yoga
May 01, 2008; ... YOGA and dancing classes at nurseries are little more thangimmicks, according to three-quarters of parents - who would prefertheir children to learn social skills and discipline. A study, by the childcare website Whereforcare.co.uk, suggeststhat many feel activities touted as ...
A Shed load of new orders for TV group
May 01, 2008 ... THE expansion policy of the production company behind televisionshows Rock Rivals and Waterloo Road appears to be bearing fruit. Shed Media, which is headed by Scots chief executive EileenGallagher, yesterday said the Wall to Wall production house, whichit bought for GBP 20.4 ...
HRG issues warning as profits up 15 per cent
May 01, 2008 ... HOME Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Homebase, lifted itsannual profits 15 per cent in the year to 1 March, taking the stingout of a warning on squeezed consumer spending. HRG's shares closed up 9 per cent as the group unveiled a profitof GBP 433 million - slightly ahead of ...
Almost back to normal at pumps
May 01, 2008; ... THE number of petrol stations operating as normal in Scotland hasreached its highest level since the climax of last week's panic-buying prompted by the Grangemouth refinery strike. The return to normality came as First Minister Alex Salmondpraised the reaction of the Scottish ...
Scot fighting extradition to Italy is back in jail
May 01, 2008; ... A SCOTTISH woman was back behind bars last night, as appealjudges considered whether she should be extradited to Italy to servejail sentences for arranging an armed robbery and counterfeiting. Dorothy Fasola, 58, who is also a suspect in a GBP 15 millionjewellery raid in Japan, ...
First UK annual fall in house prices for 12 years
May 01, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S house prices have suffered their first annual drop for12 years as the market continues to be hit by the fallout from thecredit crunch, according to Britain's biggest building society. The average cost of a home dropped for the sixth month in a rowduring April, according ...
Pernod sales hit by strength of the euro
May 01, 2008; ... PERNOD Ricard, Scotland's second-biggest whisky company withbrands including Ballantine's and Chivas Regal, reported a 1 percent dip in headline Q3 sales yesterday, as it said it could sellsome non-core vodka brands following its acquisition of Vin & Sprit. The group, which is also ...
Polling day puts party fortunes up in air
May 01, 2008; ... THE political make-up of Reading Borough Council would usuallyhave little bearing on those outside Berkshire. But as Gordon Brown faces his first electoral test since takingover as Prime Minister, huge losses in today's local polls inEngland and Wales could go a long way to ...
Dramatic council changes will be few
May 01, 2008; ... DESPITE the fact that more than 150 councils are holdingelections, few dramatic changes in control are predicted either bythe parties or the pollsters. This is because in most cases only a third of seats are up forgrabs, making it difficult for voters to force through a change ...
Music Review: Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani
May 01, 2008; ... ENRICO RAVA & STEFANO BOLLANI, QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH ***** THE sumptuous and prolonged golden note on which they ended theirthird encore expressed something of the sublime aspect of thisextraordinary Italian trumpet and piano duo's playing, even if itdid not show the witty and at ...
Trump puts himself at head of drive for GBP 1bn golf resort
May 01, 2008; ... DONALD Trump is to personally lead his business empire's bid topersuade the Scottish Government to back his controversial plans toturn an environmentally sensitive stretch of coastline into a GBP 1billion golf resort. The Trump Organisation yesterday confirmed the tycoon would ...
Scots Stocks: Indian summer comes early for Cairn as pipeline gets green light
May 01, 2008 ... CAIRN Energy was one of the FTSE-100's biggest risers after theIndian government approved a plan for it to recover the costs of akey oil pipeline from oil revenues. Shares closed up 4.5 per cent at3,134p. Dana, Scotland's second-largest oil company, also continued itsrise as it ...
Scrutineer: Not quite home base yet
May 01, 2008; ... HRG 264p +21.2p STAN LIFE 250.5p +2.75p PERHAPS unsurprisingly good annual trading results from HomeRetail Group yesterday provided some welcome relief for itslacklustre shares. A major part of the business is showroom catalogue businessArgos, and ...
SMEs are going green to stay in the black
May 01, 2008; ... PRINCE Charles will today challenge Scottish businesses tomeasure their carbon footprints and reduce their energy consumption -to save the environment and money. The Royal challenge will be laid down to representatives from 100Scottish businesses meeting to discuss further ways in ...
News in Brief: Passenger held over 'gun claim'
May 01, 2008 ... A 25-YEAR-OLD man aboard a flight ready to leave EdinburghAirport for Sharm el Sheikh, in Egypt, was arrested ...
Standard Life unveils surprise Q1 sales surge
May 01, 2008; ... A JUMP in bond sales to wealthy investors helped Standard Lifereport first-quarter sales almost 10 per cent ahead of marketexpectations. The Edinburgh-based insurance giant was expected to record amarginal fall in new business in the three months to 31 March, butyesterday posted ...
What's On Today: The Top Ten
May 01, 2008 ... 1 THEATRE That Night Follows Day Victoria, the theatre companythat brought us Aalst, presents a show for adults, performed bychildren. Tramway, Glasgow, 8pm, 0845 330 3501 2 MUSIC RSNO An unmissable concert as Stephane Deneve and NicolaBenedetti team up for Szymanowski's Violin ...
Television Review: Once more unto the breach, dear friends
May 01, 2008; ... The A to Z of Gladiators, Sky One Dan Cruickshank's Adventuresin Architecture, BBC2 HAS IT really been eight years since Gladiators last yompedacross our screens? Time flies when you couldn't give a monkey's. Atthe behest of precisely no-one, the show returns to our screens ...
Whisky exports hit GBP 90 a second
May 01, 2008; ... ALREADY Scotland's number one export, Scotch whisky cemented itsadvantage over its imitators yesterday, with new trade figures whichshow that overseas sales of the spirit reached record highs lastyear, earning the UK GBP 90 a second. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said that ...
Prince's visit to troops in Afghanistan dismissed as PR exercise
May 01, 2008; ... IT WAS hailed as the conclusion to his training with the RAF, butBritish troops yesterday criticised Prince William's secret flyingvisit to Afghanistan as nothing more than an expensive public-relations exercise. Soldiers, along with commentators and anti-war ...
Changing Room Chat
May 01, 2008 ... A Catalonian catastrophe FANS of teams like Gretna (close to oblivion) Berwick Rangers(just conceded 101 goals in a season) and Forfar (somehow contrivedto finish below East Stirling) could be forgiven for thinking theyhad problems. However, apparently a genuine footballing ...
Monty returns with point to prove
May 01, 2008; ... AFTER a honeymoon in Venice with new wife Gaynor, ColinMontgomerie returns to work at the Spanish Open in Seville todaysearching for signs of form and encouragement in his twin quests tomake progress in the world rankings and contend for a place inEurope's Ryder Cup team. While ...
Leader: Tackling under-age drinking is a formidable task
May 01, 2008 ... IT WILL come as a shock to most people that children as young aseight are being treated for alcohol abuse in hospitals. According toa study by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, in one six-week period633 children, including 15 under the age of 12, were taken tocasualty units after ...
Brown must ease tax pressure on oil firms to ensure supplies
May 01, 2008; ... WHILE everyone was fuming about the big, first-quarter profitsposted by Shell and BP this week, the real story got lost. Shellactually pumped 6 per cent less crude year on year (though you haveto dig deep into the company report to discover that fact). In fact,Shell's output of petroleum ...
Opinion: What's your best before?
May 01, 2008; ... ANOTHER WEEK, another statistic about the housing market. The financial advice website Fool.co.uk has helpfully calculatedyour home's best-before date. This is the precise time in the lastfew years that the property's price reached a level to which it islikely to fall back this ...
Lights, camera and bid
May 01, 2008; ... Hot on the heels of naming Edinburgh the best place to live inthe UK, Channel 4's Location, Location, Location has been in townfilming for the programme this week. Phil Spencer, who co-presents the property-search series withKirstie Allsop, visited four homes in the capital on ...
Best buy
May 01, 2008 ... 11 East Saltoun Farm, East Saltoun Some properties just lend themselves to a certain type of buyer. This three-bedroom steading conversion in the lovely East Lothianconservation village is perfect for young families who suddenly findtheir city existence just doesn't work with ...
'We are facing the meltdown of society'
May 01, 2008; ... IN THE beds of the emergency departments where he has worked formore than 20 years, Dr Bill Morrison has seen primary schoolchildren unconscious through alcohol, caked in their own waste andbearing wounds from falling as their legs gave way. Year on year, he has seen more and more ...
Everything comes up roses for Mrs Mac
May 01, 2008; ... A PAINTED panel by the wife of the architect and designer CharlesRennie Mackintosh yesterday set a world auction record for aScottish work of art. The White Rose and the Red Rose, painted in 1902 by MargaretMacdonald Mackintosh, sold for GBP 1,700,500 in London yesterday.Bought ...
Smith keeps faith with Rangers' away goal strategy as Uefa Cup final glory beckons
May 01, 2008; ... AFTER nine months of hard labour which has taken his team toeight different countries, Walter Smith knows the rebirth ofRangers' credibility faces perhaps its most complicated evening yetin Tuscany tonight. In their 18th match of a remarkable European campaign, whichbegan in the ...
Storm over Cape Wrath
May 01, 2008; ... THE Ministry of Defence wants to extend bombing exercises innorth-west Scotland - on a site where the Scottish Government hopesto extend environmental protection, The Scotsman has learned. The area of contention is near Cape Wrath, where the MoD hasextended its ownership of land ...
Did authorities ignore medical evidence to ensure notorious serial killer hanged?
May 01, 2008; ... PETER Manuel was Scotland's most notorious serial killer - a massmurderer whose horrific killing spree transfixed the nation half acentury ago. Convicted of seven counts of murder at the High Court in Glasgow,including those of a family of three in Lanarkshire, Manuel ...
Scotsman Exclusive: 'Focus on terror heroes is distraction from real threat'
May 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND is running the risk of complacency about the threat ofterrorism and the prospect of new generations of suicide bombersbeing reared in its communities, an expert warned yesterday. Professor Paul Wilkinson, of St Andrews University, told TheScotsman much more work was ...
Transport police end random searches following controversy
May 01, 2008 ... KENNY MacAskill, the justice secretary, has signalled an end tohis row with British Transport Police over their use of random stop-and-search powers following last year's terrorist attack on Glasgowairport. Following a meeting yesterday with David McCall, the ...
First UK annual fall in house prices for 12 years
May 01, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S house prices have suffered their first annual drop for12 years as the market continues to be hit by the fallout from thecredit crunch, according to the UK's biggest building society. The average cost of a home dropped for the sixth consecutivemonth during April, ...
Arrest quotas 'mean police will pursue soft targets like drivers'
May 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND'S rank-and-file police officers should be assessedagainst a range of "performance indicators" including number ofarrests, claims a watchdog. The call, in a report published today by HM Inspectorate ofConstabulary for Scotland, has raised fears that constables ...
Polling day puts party fortunes up in air
May 01, 2008; ... THE political make-up of Reading Borough Council would usuallyhave little bearing on those outside Berkshire. But as Gordon Brown faces his first electoral test since takingover as Prime Minister, huge losses in today's local polls inEngland and Wales might go a long way to ...
Night-time Edinburgh flights face diversions for runway work
May 01, 2008; ... WORK to resurface a runway means passengers on night flights intoEdinburgh this summer may be diverted to other airports in badweather, officials admitted yesterday. A secondary runway being used for overnight flights during anupgrade of the main runway does not have equipment to ...
Theatre loses vital funding to experimental art
May 01, 2008; ... SEVERAL Scottish theatre companies could be forced to close afterthe Scottish Arts Council rolled out a major shift in funding forarts organisations. The SAC announced GBP 7 million worth of funding grants forexperimental music and art, disabled companies, and newer dance ...
Storm over Cape Wrath
May 01, 2008; ... THE Ministry of Defence wants to extend bombing exercises innorth-west Scotland - on a site where the Scottish Government hopesto extend environmental protection, The Scotsman has learned. The area of contention is around Cape Wrath, where the MoD hasextended its ownership of land ...
Coe asks Scots critics to rise above Olympic cash row for sake of sport
May 01, 2008; ... LORD Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, yesterday said theorganisers of the Commonwealth and Olympic Games should rise abovesquabbling over funding and work together to create a great sportinglegacy. In an interview with The Scotsman yesterday, Lord Coe rubbishedthe ...
Supermarket code 'could raise prices'
May 01, 2008; ... SUPERMARKETS have warned that moves to curb their dominance couldlead to higher prices for consumers. The Competition Commission yesterday unveiled a planning shake-up to boost competition in the GBP 95 billion grocery market. The culmination of a two-year inquiry into the ...
Scot fighting extradition to Italy is back in jail
May 01, 2008; ... A SCOTTISH woman was back behind bars last night, as appeal courtjudges considered whether she should be extradited to Italy to servejail sentences for arranging an armed robbery and counterfeiting. Dorothy Fasola, 58, who is also a suspect in a GBP 15 millionjewellery raid in ...