The Scotsman back issues from June 2008:
We do like to be beside these seasides
Jun 02, 2008; ... A RECORD number of Scottish beaches have gained coveted Blue Flagor Seaside Award status - despite water quality problems caused byScotland's wettest summer for 30 years. Six Scottish beaches - one fewer than last year - and one marinahave gained a Blue Flag, the international ...
No need to purge Cabinet of Scots - Straw
Jun 02, 2008; ... JACK Straw, the Justice Secretary, hit back yesterday after callsfrom Labour MPs for Gordon Brown to replace the Scots in his Cabinetwith English politicians. Mr Straw, who has been named as a possible replacement for thebeleaguered Prime Minister, said there were "plenty" of ...
What kind of credit crunch personality are you, then?
Jun 02, 2008; ... WE ALL deal with a crisis in different ways, whether confrontingit straight on, running for the hills or burying our head in thesand. But psychologists claim the credit crunch has produced suchvaried reactions that they have identified six distinct economicpersonality types, ...
Climate change talks to hammer out 'son of Kyoto'
Jun 02, 2008; ... CRUCIAL climate-change talks get underway today to discuss thenext steps the international community needs to take to tackleglobal warming. Some 2,000 delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialistagencies will gather in Germany for the two-week conference, thefirst to ...
Foreign briefing
Jun 02, 2008; ... FIVE years of conflict in Iraq, five years of statistics used andmisused to represent differing accounts of how the country is eitherconvulsed with unstoppable violence or making an obstacle-strewnrecovery from years of dictatorship. Statistics are crude instruments, yet for much ...
Inside Holyrood: Vexed issue of MSPs' expenses set to tax Holyrood again
Jun 02, 2008; ... AN ISSUE that focuses the mind of almost all MSPs and causes morefurrowed brows, hand- wringing and heated arguments in corridorsthan anything else will be back on the agenda next week. Expenses. MSPs will have to decide how many, if any, of the recommendationsproduced in the ...
Salmond sets out demands for oil revenues to Brown
Jun 02, 2008; ... ALEX Salmond has taken the first formal move to try to wrestcontrol of at least some of the UK's oil revenues from the UKTreasury. The First Minister has written to Gordon Brown, the PrimeMinister, asking for a share of the estimated GBP 4 billion to GBP 5billion in extra income ...
Park victim may have been dragged to her brutal death
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE victim of the Queen's Park murder in Glasgow may have beendragged to her death shortly after parking her car just yards fromher home, police said yesterday. Moira Jones, whose partially clothed body was found last Thursdaymorning, is believed by Strathclyde Police to have ...
Who was murdered Eleni's late-night caller?
Jun 02, 2008; ... POLICE are still trying to identify the person who calledrestaurant manager Eleni Pachou on her mobile phone shortly beforeshe was stabbed to death. Detectives are anxious for the individual who called Ms Pachou,the manager of Di Maggio's pizza restaurant in the West End ...
Theatre Reviews: Imaginate Children's Theatre Festiva
Jun 02, 2008; ... IMAGINATE CHILDREN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL NEXT DOOR, TRAVERSETHEATRE ***** OLGA VOLT, LYCEUM STUDIO **** THE FLEA PIT, FESTIVALSQUARE *** HOOD IN THE WOOD, TRAVERSE THEATRE *** SOMEONE, somewhere may one day come to understand just how adultexpectations of theatre became so rigid. The ...
Scrutineer: Oh dear, mind your eye, here comes Mr Cheerful
Jun 02, 2008; ... MIKE Williams has a thing about newspaper headline writers.Listening to him last week, I formed the impression that he wouldlike to string them up, plunge them into a vat of boiling oil, fryfor an extended period, feed the charred torsos through a mincingmachine and sink the diced ...
SNP tax: 55,000 new objections: Analysis: 'Let down' by the party that wooed them a year ago
Jun 02, 2008; ... CLUTCHING champagne glasses while throwing their mortar boardsinto the air, they looked like any group of students celebratinggraduation day. But these students were massed outside the Scottish Parliament ina protest about politicians who have consistently vowed to make ...
SNP tax: 55,000 new objections
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE SNP's flagship local income tax policy suffered a new blowlast night, when it emerged it would bring tens of thousands of thepoorest students in Scotland into the local tax net for the firsttime. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, has championed local income tax(LIT) as a ...
Television: Last Night's Review: Giving kids reason to be afraid of the dark
Jun 02, 2008; ... Doctor Who, Saturday, BBC1 Alison Watt - A Painter's Eye,Friday, BBC2 EVERY sensible person agrees that the most important news storyof the year so far was the recent announcement that Steven Moffat isto replace Russell T Davies as the man in charge of Doctor Who. Mostfans and ...
Poor health forces Bradford & Bingley chief executive to step down
Jun 02, 2008; ... BRADFORD & Bingley's chief executive has stepped down less than amonth after the embattled mortgage bank stunned investors with anemergency GBP 300 million rights issue. In a statement yesterday, the bank said that the 47-year-old'spoor health had forced him to resign. It said: ...
Iraq may ease oil pressure
Jun 02, 2008 ... CRUDE oil prices could be set to ease further from last month'srecord highs after Iraq raised oil output and exports to theirhighest levels since the 2003. Oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said in an interviewyesterday that for the first ...
Bank set to keep rates on hold
Jun 02, 2008 ... THE Bank of England is expected to leave interest rates unchangedat 5 per cent for another month, as it opts to keep tabs oninflation rather than induce a spending driven economic recovery. Last week Nationwide reported that house prices had ...
Pringle poaches Chanel chief
Jun 02, 2008 ... PRINGLE of Scotland, the loss-making fashion brand, has poachedits new chief executive from luxury goods company Chanel. Mary-Adair Macaire, the former marketing director for Chanel, willreplace Douglas Fang, who will ...
Board works to ensure producers are not fleeced
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE commodity markets have kept the speculators and financialcommentators busy in recent months. Some clever individuals haveundoubtedly made fortunes dipping in and out of futures in wheat,rice, metals and of course - oil. The true price of all these has amajor impact on the fortunes of ...
Electronics keeps output sparking
Jun 02, 2008; ... LEAN engineering practice is seeing Scottish manufacturingcompanies through tough times, according to industry support groupScottish Engineering. In its quarterly review, orders are up marginally and outputshave recovered in the three months to June, although the good newsdoes ...
Monday Interview: Wayne Hemingway : Wayne's world is more beautiful by design
Jun 02, 2008; ... IN THE Lancashire mill town of Blackburn, people take pride inspeaking plainly. Wayne Hemingway, a designer raised in the north ofEngland's former cotton belt before making his fortune in retail,has made a career of it. It started when he came back from a year-long holiday with ...
A slice of life: Castle course poses sternest of tests
Jun 02, 2008; ... WITH that uncanny sense of timing given only to a selected few, Ifound myself in a car park at St Andrews last Wednesday on a darkand dreary morning, trying to detect any faltering in the teemingrain which would enable me to make a dash to the Links Clubhousewhere I could prepare myself ...
Bullish Allan prepared to play David to C&W's Goliath
Jun 02, 2008; ... BILL Allan, the head of Scottish telecommunications company Thus,still has not spoken publicly about the approach for the company hehas headed for the past decade - but if a battle does begin, he isunlikely to go quietly. A staunch defender of the company that was spun out ...
The Hot Ticket: Gone Baby Gone: A proper thriller that's been worth the wait
Jun 02, 2008; ... THERE is such a thing as bad publicity. Gone Baby Gone wassupposed to be out in the UK a whole year ago, but was postponed inthe wake of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. In some ways this wasa quite peculiar decision. Yes, the film features the abduction of ayoung girl, and yes, the ...
Book Review: Terror and Consent
Jun 02, 2008; ... TERROR AND CONSENT: THE WARS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY BY PHILIPBOBBITT/ALLEN LANE, GBP 25 Review by Robert Fox WE ARE now at the beginning of the Wars on Terror, and they areset to last longer than any conflict of modern history, longer thanthe Long War that opened in 1914 in Sarajevo ...
Leader: Degrees of unfairness in local income tax
Jun 02, 2008; ... LONDON Labour was always going to take potshots at the SNP'slocal income tax (LIT) plans at every opportunity. Yet there is agrowing sense, irrespective of the brickbats coming from Westminsterand questions raised about the very legality of the tax, that theNationalist administration in ...
Tesco poised to buy out RBS stake in finance joint venture for GBP 1bn
Jun 02, 2008; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland is set to sell off its 50 per cent stakein Tesco Personal Finance to the supermarket giant in a dealbelieved to be worth up to GBP 1 billion. It is understood that Tesco has agreed to buy up the bank's halfof the joint venture, which was set up between the ...
What next?
Jun 02, 2008 ... THE troubles of Europe's airlines fleet are expected to beexplained in full colour across the Irish Sea this week, as budgetairline Ryanair reveals full year results. Dublin-based Ryanair isexpected to announce plans to ground many of its 160-plane fleet -perhaps 20 - and slash earnings ...
The Week Ahead: Life continues apace as Sir Ken leaves Morrisons in rude health
Jun 02, 2008; ... MORRISONS will this week update the City on the progress ofstealing market share from its rivals as it begins life without itseponymous leader. In March, Sir Ken Morrison rounded off 55 years at the firm afterannouncing a 66 per cent hike in annual profits to GBP 612 millionfor ...
No need to purge Cabinet of Scots - Straw
Jun 02, 2008; ... JACK Straw, the Justice Secretary, hit back yesterday after callsfrom Labour MPs for Gordon Brown to replace the Scots in his Cabinetwith English politicians. Mr Straw, who has been named as a possible replacement for thebeleaguered Prime Minister, said there were "plenty" of ...
Murder victim may have been dragged into park from her own doorstep
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE victim of the Queen's Park murder in Glasgow may have beendragged to her death shortly after parking her car just yards fromher home, police said yesterday. Moira Jones, whose partially clothed body was found last Thursdaymorning, is believed by Strathclyde Police to have ...
SNP tax: 55,000 new objections: Analysis: Promise of free education turns to mockery on the campus as SNP fails to deliver
Jun 02, 2008; ... CLUTCHING champagne glasses while throwing their mortar boardsinto the air, they looked like any group of students celebratinggraduation day. But instead of standing outside the graduation hall, with parentsproudly taking photographs, these students were massed outside ...
SNP tax: 55,000 new objections
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE SNP's flagship local income tax policy suffered a new blowlast night, when it emerged it would bring tens of thousands of thepoorest students in Scotland into the local tax net for the firsttime. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, has championed local income tax(LIT) as a ...
Singularly the weirdest Fringe show ever?
Jun 02, 2008; ... THE lights will dim and the most controversial comedian of hisgeneration will walk on to the stage to the applause of ... onesolitary member of the audience who has paid GBP 7,349 (GBP 7,348concessions) for the only ticket for the "one night only" show atthe Edinburgh Fringe. That is if ...
Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: You may love Spain but your wallet's safer with Italy this month
Jun 02, 2008; ... FOR the last 12 years there has been an intrinsic comedy value inchecking the bookies' odds before a major international footballtournament. The reason was the degree to which the patriotic (stilla polite word for "stupid") pound swayed the markets. England fanswould back their boys with ...
Single-minded USA cruise to Curtis Cup
Jun 02, 2008; ... THEY had hoped to roar like lionesses, but Great Britain andIreland were more like wounded prey on the Old Course yesterday asthey lost to the United States in the Curtis Cup for the sixthsuccessive time and by the heaviest margin of defeat on home turffor nearly 30 years ....
Surgery forces Watson to miss Open chance
Jun 02, 2008; ... ALTHOUGH it was some measure of consolation for the four Scotscompeting at St Andrews that they turned out to be Great Britain andIreland's main source of points in the 35th Curtis Cup match againstthe Americans, it couldn't disguise the sense of disappointment atlosing 13-7 ....
Can you match Nicklaus's Dream 18?
Jun 02, 2008; ... IN THE beginning, golf came from the sea. All of the remarkablecourses which make up the modern rota on the Open championship begantheir existence when the last Ice Age ended around 11,000 years ago.Thanks to an earlier outbreak of global warming, the melted glaciersleft behind those ...
Sand in Scone fails to stop the slip-ups
Jun 02, 2008; ... RAIN and sand hardly sounds the perfect mix, but Perth used oneto combat the other yesterday to ensure a five-figure crowd didn'tmiss out on any of the action at Scone Palace. The opening hurdle event passed off without mishap as GrandNational winning trainer Gordon Elliott led ...
Grimes joins Newcastle
Jun 02, 2008; ... STUART Grimes has joined the Scots heading back to Newcastleafter signing a one-year deal to become the Falcons' assistantforwards coach. It was confirmed earlier this week that Alan Tait, the currentScotland defence coach, would return to Kingston Park afterScotland's tour to ...
Murray to miss tour
Jun 02, 2008; ... SCOTT Murray has not been released for Scotland by his Frenchclub Montauban, leaving Frank Hadden's touring squad short of secondrow experience. Scotland's most capped player had hoped to be released if histeam beat league leaders Clermont Auvergne on Saturday night. Theydid so, ...
Chloride positively independent
Jun 03, 2008; ... POWER supply protection company Chloride Group yesterday posted a54 per cent rise in annual profit and a 33 per cent rise in thedividend as it stressed it was focused on an independent future. The group declared an underlying profit of GBP 33.3 million, anda total dividend of 4p ...
It's healthy, but is the M-plan diet a heritage icon?
Jun 03, 2008; ... IT CONJURES up delightful images of olive oil-soaked tomatoes andfish, consumed outside traditional whitewashed buildings under clearblue skies. The "Mediterranean diet", promoted by television chefs such asRick Stein, has been revered by northern European doctors as ...
Police target 200 children in 'Bebo' swoop
Jun 03, 2008; ... POLICE have swooped on the homes of nearly 200 childrenidentified on internet sites such as Bebo, glorifying gang violence,drinking and taking drugs. Central Scotland Police trawled Bebo and other social networkingsites over several weeks during Operation Pincer, which the ...
Faithbook, the new networking site to counter extremism
Jun 03, 2008 ... THE increasing power of social networking sites is to beharnessed in an attempt to combat extremism and improve relationsbetween the major faiths. Faithbook, a social networking facility for people of differentfaiths, goes live on Facebook today with discussion boards, ...
Between The Lines: Lack of appetite could land banks in a rights mess
Jun 03, 2008; ... YESTERDAY'S implosion of mortgage lender Bradford & Bingleytriggered more than a renewed sell-off in other banks. It immediately dragged down the pound on fears that tumblingconfidence and the worsening slump in the housing sector may yetdrag the UK economy into a full-blown ...
'Don't panic' plea from worried Scottish giants after B&B crisis
Jun 03, 2008; ... Bradford & Bingley's shock losses and rights issue rethink helpedto wipe GBP 4bn off UK bank shares ROYAL Bank of Scotland and HBOS issued what amounted to "don'tpanic" pleas over their GBP 12 billion and GBP 4bn respective rightsissues yesterday following the crisis which ...
Legendary rock 'n' roll star Bo Diddley dies at 79
Jun 03, 2008; ... ROCK 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, who banged out hit songspowered by a relentless beat that influenced rockers from BuddyHolly to U2, died yesterday at his home in Florida. He was 79. His distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm andinnovative guitar effects inspired ...
Revealed: the Scottish surgeon who ensured voice of freedom would not be silenced
Jun 03, 2008; ... HE MARSHALLED the English language then marched it off to war.But when Winston Churchill arrived in Scotland to rally the nation,he was struck down by a throat infection and only saved from acroaking silence by the swift intervention of a Scots surgeon. Hours before the prime ...
Inside The School Gate: Teachers have no idea of the threat within
Jun 03, 2008; ... ATTACKING another pupil or even a teacher will often, quiterightly, find a child excluded from the school. But what happens next has caused some alarm among the teachingprofession. Security has been tightened up at the school gates to preventdangers from outwith school ...
Outsatnding In Their Field
Jun 03, 2008 ... Rachael Heyhoe-Flint England's most famous female cricketer captained the country'swomen's cricket team from 1966 to 1978 and was unbeaten in six Testseries. She captained England when they won the inaugural Women'sCricket World Cup in 1973 and over her career scored three ...
Dana shares lifted as Scottish firm unveils Egyptian gas find
Jun 03, 2008; ... OIL and gas explorer Dana Petroleum has made a "significant" gasdiscovery in the sea off Egypt. The announcement boosted Dana'sshare price by 3 per cent yesterday. The well, in the Mediterranean, is Aberdeen-headquartered Dana'sfirst gas find off Egypt, where it already has major ...
The Scotsman Debates: Planning system 'will be like banana republic' if Trump gets go-ahead
Jun 03, 2008; ... SCOTLAND risks having a planning system like that of a "bananarepublic" if Donald Trump's application for a golf resort gets thego-ahead, it was claimed last night. The warning came from Martin Ford, the councillor deposed as anAberdeenshire committee chairman for using his ...
'Banana republic' warning if Trump gets go-ahead
Jun 03, 2008; ... SCOTLAND risks having a planning system like that a "bananarepublic" if Donald Trump's application for a golf resort gets thego-ahead, it was claimed last night. The warning came from Martin Ford, the councillor deposed as anAberdeenshire committee chairman for using his casting ...
Why this woman's story shames Scotland
Jun 03, 2008; ... HUMAN RIGHTS campaigners and churches last night demanded theclosure of Dungavel Removal Centre - Scotland's "Guantanamo" -saying the imprisonment of vulnerable women and children behind awire fence was unacceptable in 21st-century Scotland. They also said it was time the Scottish ...
Banks targeted after price-fixing allegation
Jun 03, 2008; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Barclays have been raided bygovernment officials investigating allegations of price-fixinginvolving the cost of commercial loans. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) confirmed it had launched aprobe into "alleged anti-competitive conduct" by the two ...
Suckler penalties row reaches court
Jun 03, 2008; ... FOR decades the problem with the European food industry was oneof excessive production, exemplified by mountains of beef andbutter, and lakes of wine that had no discernible market - all whilethe taxpayer funded the Common Agricultural Policy to the tune ofGBP 30 billion a year ....
Scotsman Exclusive: Scots' love affair with franchises paying off
Jun 03, 2008; ... FRANCHISED businesses in Scotland grew last year at more thantreble the rate of the Scottish economy, according to figurespublished today. Scottish franchising grew by 7.1 per cent while Scotland's grossdomestic product (GDP) rose by 2.2 per cent, research by the ...
Business Gazetteer
Jun 03, 2008 ... CREST OF A WAVE Sail of the century for a Scottish business IT WOULD be a unique entry on any company's advertising accounts. John Mackay is setting sail for a life on the ocean wave and islooking for a Scottish business to sponsor his boat. Mackay, a former chef and ...
Music Review: Perth Festival Finale
Jun 03, 2008; ... PERTH FESTIVAL FINALE, PERTH CONCERT HALL *** HOW often do you find the likes of violinist Tasmin Little,pianist Peter Donohoe, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and sopranoLesley Garrett on the same concert billing, and with the RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra to boot? Well, that was the ...
Manufacturing levels point to 'stagflation'
Jun 03, 2008; ... ALMOST three years of growth in the UK manufacturing industryended last month, following further falls in new orders and jobcuts. The closely watched construction purchasing managers' index fromthe Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (Cips) revealedthat the PMI index ...
All patients to be tested for MRSA in bid to beat superbug
Jun 03, 2008; ... ALL patients admitted to hospital for routine operations are tobe tested for MRSA as part of a pilot programme aimed at destroyingthe superbug. Three health boards will take part in the GBP 5.2 million, year-long Scottish Government scheme, which could benefit almost amillion ...
'Night, night' to a murdered daughter
Jun 03, 2008; ... THE grieving family of Moira Jones, the businesswoman sexuallyassaulted and murdered in Glasgow's Queen's Park, yesterday made apilgrimage to the locked park gates to lay flowers and wish her"Night, night". While dozens of police officers continued a fingertip search ofthe ...
An Open Letter To: Sir Cameron
Jun 03, 2008; ... Musicals impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh was reported to havesaid that would-be Nancy, Jodie Preger, was 'too big' to performeight times a week in the West End show Dear Sir Cameron, FOOD, glorious food, eh? Hot sausage and mustard. Not if you'redishing up. It'd be more ...
Muslim in call centre abuse wins GBP 20,000
Jun 03, 2008; ... A MUSLIM worker at a call centre based at the home of RangersFootball Club in Glasgow has been awarded more than GBP 20,000 forracial and religious discrimination, after colleagues abused him forcomplaining about how they treated Irish and ethnic-minoritycallers. James Lipka, ...