The Scotsman back issues from July 2008:
How this car could help to save the planet
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE Nissan X-Trail FCV pulls smoothly away from the lights in theport area of Yokohama, easily leaving other vehicles standing.Inside the vehicle, it's as quiet as a monastery's library, no noisycombustion going on under the bonnet. To the rest of the drivers on the busy Japanese ...
Scots boot campers set to rival the Dragon's Den
Jul 01, 2008; ... A THICK-necked sergeant will not be screaming commands to do 40push ups. Instead, recruits to a "boot camp" being held in Glasgowthis week will be pushing themselves to come up with ideas formaking money and setting up businesses. Some 50 Scottish university students are taking ...
Ardana calls in the administrators
Jul 01, 2008; ... ARDANA, the Edinburgh pharmaceutical firm, has given up its raceto find cash and placed itself in administration. The company, which focuses on treatments for human reproductiveconditions, effectively raised the "for sale" sign in February,calling for interested parties to buy it ...
Scots troops defiant in the face of death in the desert: Emma Cowing reports from Afghanistan on a sad loss for Scots soldiers
Jul 01, 2008; ... AS THE hot desert sun sank across Camp Bastion last night, twoScottish soldiers stopped to pay their respects to one of their own. Lance-Corporal James Johnson, 31, of B Company, 5th Battalion theRoyal Regiment of Scotland, who was killed on Saturday by a minewhile on patrol in the ...
Home town to host festival honouring 'the father of philanthopy': Scot who crossed the Atlantic and took railroad route from rags to riches
Jul 01, 2008 ... ANDREW Carnegie, the son of a Fife weaver, went on to become asteel tycoon in the United States and then one of the world's mostcelebrated philanthropists. His life story is one of the most famous rags-to-riches tales inthe history of the US. Born in Dunfermline on 25 ...
Home town to host festival honouring 'the father of philanthropy'
Jul 01, 2008; ... HE WAS Scotland's most famous philanthropist, who used hismillions to fund libraries, education, science and the arts. Now a new festival inspired by the life and legacy of AndrewCarnegie is to be launched in his home town. Dozens of events are to be held throughout ...
One is cutting one's carbon footprint ... Prince Charles reduces household's emissions - partly by converting his Aston Martin to run on wine
Jul 01, 2008; ... FOR years he has expounded on the importance of saving theenvironment - while at the same time being attacked for driving agas-guzzling Aston Martin. But now new accounts have revealed that Prince Charles hasanswered his critics in style by converting his beloved 1970 VolanteDB6 ...
Tasty figures Restaurant group puts soaring profits on the menu
Jul 01, 2008 ... Pre-tax profits at Clapham House, the restaurant group thatincludes Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), jumped by 30 per cent to GBP4.7 million, it was announced ...
Scots MPs may lose right to vote on English bills
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE Conservatives' long-awaited response to the discrepancybetween English and Scottish MPs' voting rights will be laid baretoday, when Kenneth Clarke, the former chancellor, launches hisDemocracy Taskforce report. Mr Clarke is to propose stripping Scots MPs of the right to ...
Music Review: New York Dolls
Jul 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK DOLLS, THE GARAGE, GLASGOW **** REMARKABLY, for a band who released a couple of albums 35 yearsago, split up, watched various founding members succumb to drugsoverdoses and terminal illnesses and are now down to only twooriginal, somewhat wrinkled members, the New York ...
Doctors' leader hits out at 'inhumane' NHS care rules
Jul 01, 2008; ... DENYING patients free treatment because they choose to pay fordrugs not available on the NHS is inhumane, the leader of Scotland'sdoctors says. Dr Peter Terry, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA)in Scotland, said many terminally ill patients were looking ...
EBay ordered to pay GBP 31m damages over fake goods sold on its website
Jul 01, 2008; ... ONLINE auction house EBay has been ordered to pay GBP 31 millionin damages for selling fakes over the web, in a ruling that couldhave important implications for internet businesses worldwide. A French commercial court yesterday ordered EBay to pay LVMH MotHennessy Louis Vuitton, ...
It's harder to bring home bacon as production falls
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE world is an increasingly hungry place and, as The Scotsmanpointed out yesterday, at least one billion people on the planet areexperiencing varying degrees of food poverty. The timescale for resolving that dire problem is limited, but theleaders of the four UK farming unions ...
Ruffe justice for alien invaders
Jul 01, 2008; ... NEW laws could see anglers and landowners who put alien fishspecies into lochs and rivers fined up to GBP 1,000. The Scottish Government legislation aims to provide greaterprotection to our native freshwater fish life. Species such as pike, carp, roach, bream, tench and rudd ...
Cheeses win First Milk a slice of the action
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE livestock results tend to hit the headlines at each RoyalHighland Show, but the awards made to food companies can often havefar greater financial significance in the longer term. That certainly is the view of First Milk, the largest dairyfarmer co-operative in the UK with ...
Forth Ports and SSE in green power move
Jul 01, 2008; ... TWO of Scotland's biggest listed companies have formed a jointventure to develop a series of renewable energy projects across theUK including biomass power generators in Leith. Ports-to-property group Forth Ports and power giant Scottish &Southern Energy (SSE) will invest tens of ...
Glen Group snaps up Colloquium
Jul 01, 2008 ... GLEN Group, the comeback venture of Scots telecoms entrepreneurGraham Duncan, has swallowed a Paisley-based telco for GBP 100,000,writes Scott Reid. Colloquium provides voice and data products to more than 300small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is also one ofScotland's ...
As bills spiral, Scots are told: 'You've never had it so good': Analysis: Benefits for public services
Jul 01, 2008; ... WHEN Harold Macmillan, the then Tory Prime Minister, remarked in1957 that "most of our people have never had it so good", he wasreferring to the post-war prosperity that was unseen in hislifetime. Des Browne, the Scottish Secretary, chose to adapt the phrase toexplain what he ...
As bills spiral, Scots are told: 'You've never had it so good'
Jul 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND's most senior UK cabinet minister has come under attackafter claiming that Scots have "never had it so good" under morethan a decade of Labour rule at Westminster. Des Browne, the Scottish Secretary, was accused of being "out oftouch" with ordinary people at a time of ...
Inside The Exam Hall: Pressure on SQA to wean out hi-tech cheats
Jul 01, 2008; ... IT IS an anxious time for teenagers as they try to enjoy theschool holidays while awaiting their exam results. Their future hangs in the balance, but some will be biting theirnails more than others. Some will only find out next month whether their exams have beenvoided for ...
'Children at risk' from bank's Visa card
Jul 01, 2008; ... CHILDREN as young as 11 are being given debit cards which allowthem to buy goods such as cigarettes and Viagra over the internet,without their parents' permission. The high street bank Lloyds TSB, which sends out the Visa cardsto youngsters, last night came under fire from ...
Family fight to stop road that would go through their farm
Jul 01, 2008; ... THEY have fought the road builders since moving into theirfarmhouse 41 years ago and are preparing to do battle again. William and Christina Barrie are taking what could be a laststand against completion of the Edinburgh-Glasgow motorway link,which threatens to flatten their home ....
House prices set to fall 20 per cent as mortgages plummet
Jul 01, 2008; ... HOUSE prices could fall more sharply than previously expectedafter mortgage approvals slumped to a record low. The Bank of England revealed yesterday that just 42,000 mortgageswere approved for purchase in May, 28 per cent down on April and 64per cent down on the corresponding ...
An Open Letter To: Gordon Smith, Chief Executive, SFA: After Spain's triumph in the European Championships, a nation asks, 'Why can't we be like that?'
Jul 01, 2008; ... Dear Gordon, I HOPE you enjoyed watching Spain thrash Germany 1-0 in the Euro2008 final on Sunday night - I know I did. I was particularlyimpressed, as I'm sure you were, by the sheer technical brillianceof the Spaniards: their flawless control; their incisive runninginto space; ...
Wind farms 'repay lost in 3 years'
Jul 01, 2008; ... IT TAKES just three years for a wind farm to pay back the carbondioxide released from peat land damaged during construction,according to a new report. There have been concerns that draining peat land to build windfarms causes irreversible damage, releasing huge quantities of ...
Islanders bid to get Trump on board for castle plan
Jul 01, 2008; ... OFFICIALS in the Western Isles want Donald Trump to becomeinvolved in a multimillion-pound project. Representatives of Western Isles Council and the Stornoway Trustyesterday met George Sorial, from the Trump Organisation, about aplan to develop the landmark Lews Castle in ...
Extra cash to boost children's interest in science
Jul 01, 2008; ... SCIENCE centres will receive a GBP 250,000 boost this year toimprove the interest and ability of children in the subject. The funding is to help inspire youngsters to choose key subjectsof benefit to the economy, such as physics and engineering. Last month, the Scottish ...
Contract to build GBP 3.8bn carriers signed at last
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE eagerly awaited signing of a contract for the building of twoaircraft super-carriers will take place today, securing thousands ofjobs in the shipbuilding industry in Scotland. The announcement will come as a relief for workers at BAESystems' Govan and Scotstoun yards, which ...
Nine held in ID card demo
Jul 01, 2008 ... NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following ademonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences,were made at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel. The North Bridge hotel was the venue for a ...
Car sales fear sparks dealer to cut jobs
Jul 01, 2008; ... ONE of Britain's biggest motor dealership groups has cut 500 jobsamid warnings of a sharp downturn in used and new car markets. Pendragon, owner of the Evans Halshaw and Stratstone chains, saidit had shed the staff from its 15,700-strong workforce to cope withthe tough climate, ...
Online lawyers' sales surge 24 per cent
Jul 01, 2008; ... SALES at PSM Direct, the internet-based Scottish law firm, haverisen by 24 per cent in the first quarter, compared with the sameperiod last year. The firm, which today changes its name to Your Conveyancer, usesonline systems to speed up the selling of houses. In the first ...
Q&A: Emily Eavis
Jul 01, 2008 ... Dairy farmer Michael Eavis founded the Glastonbury Festival in1970, and his daughter Emily has taken a growing role in running theevent. The festival sold 177,000 tickets this year, with hip hopstar Jay-Z as a controversial headline act. Should other festivals follow Glastonbury's ...
Birds and the bees starting to think? They'll be giving us a slap rather than a tickle
Jul 01, 2008; ... CREATURES: can't live with them; can't live without them. I'm nottalking just about animals. Animals get all the publicity, eventhough many are antisocial and dim. No, it's the birds and the beesI want to talk to you about today. When I say "the birds and thebees", I don't mean, you ...
Ramco prepares for Iraq move
Jul 01, 2008; ... RAMCO Energy, the Aberdeen-based oil exploration company,revealed it was back in the black as it reiterated its plans toadvance into Iraq. The firm reported 2007 profits of GBP 500,000 - boosted by a GBP3.8 million gain from the sale of part of the company's stake inLansdowne ...
Child deaths on Scottish roads fall to lowest level since records began
Jul 01, 2008; ... CHILD deaths on Scotland's roads have fallen to their lowestlevel since records began more than half a century ago. Nine children were killed last year, two fewer than the previouslow in 2005. The provisional figures, which will be finalised in the autumn,also showed that ...
Man in court over Jersey child abuse
Jul 01, 2008 ... THE case against a man charged with sexually assaulting boys at aformer children's home on Jersey was adjourned for a monthyesterday. Michael ...
Bodice beautiful
Jul 01, 2008; ... YOU may love your Botox, fillers and breast enhancements. You mayeven have been persuaded by liposuction, knee-lifts and buttockaugmentation. But when it comes to sculpting the waist, 21st-century medical intervention has so far failed to match theachievements of the traditional corset ....
Smoking, obesity linked to time off
Jul 01, 2008 ... SMOKERS and obese people are the most likely to take time offwork, their colleagues claimed yesterday. They topped a table of workers who take more than ...
Fashion Moment: Naomi flashes her undies
Jul 01, 2008; ... A TRULY good friend is someone who will hold your hair back whenyou're upchucking the morning after the over-indulgent night before,listen to your man troubles over a tub of Ben & Jerry's and, whenshe sees you sporting a sheer dress that reveals the big, frumpypants you're wearing ...
Model behaviour
Jul 01, 2008; ... IT'S like a real-life fairy tale, but with one key element absent- the happy ending. On Saturday, just four days before her 21stbirthday, Kazakhstani model Ruslana Korshunova jumped from her ninth-floor apartment in Manhattan's financial district. At 2:30pm on a hot and humid ...
Thus reticent on takeover bid but increased offer signals C&W success
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Thus board have refused to back bid from C&W but it now lookslikely to succeed THUS, the Glasgow telecoms group, grudgingly moved towards atakeover yesterday after industry giant Cable & Wireless upped itsoffer to 180p-a-share, or some GBP 329 million, and bought a ...
What's On Today
Jul 01, 2008 ... 1 THEATRE: EXCHANGE YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL Now in its thirdyear, this festival, organised by the National Theatre of Scotland,brings together youth theatres from across Scotland and gives them achance to create and perform new pieces under the eye of stageveterans. This week, audiences ...
What I Know About Women: Ryan Watson
Jul 01, 2008 ... THE most influential woman in my life? It's probably acombination of three at the moment - obviously my mum and, since Icame to Scotland, the lady who is now my wife, Lisa - and we justhad a little girl, Isabella, about eight weeks ago. My mum wasalways very supportive, a great taxi ...
Saved from Vikings - and bound for home
Jul 01, 2008; ... FIFTY years ago Douglas Coutts was working as a schoolboyvolunteer on a dig on Shetland when he unearthed what was hailed asthe single most important archaeological discovery in Scotland formore than a century. As he scraped away the earth inside the foundations of a ...
Trinity Mirror profit warning hits shares
Jul 01, 2008 ... SHARES in newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror tumbled 28 per centyesterday as it warned the City over its full-year profits. The group, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Daily Record andSunday Mail, said operating profits were set to come in around 10per cent lower than market ...
Television Review: A lesson in insight from young Jess
Jul 01, 2008; ... Jess: My New Face, BBC3 Inside America's Toughest Jail, Sky One WHAT a difference perspective makes. If Jess: My New Face hadbeen called The Girl With The Weird Head, Help I Look Strange, orone of those other shock titles that BBC3 is supposedly going tophase out (according to ...
Favourite Kerr 'yet to decide on Scottish Labour leadership bid'
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE race to succeed Wendy Alexander as Scottish Labour leadertook a fresh twist last night when it emerged that the earlyfavourite has not decided if he will contest the election and two ofthe others were considering combining on a joint ticket. The Scotsman understands that Andy ...
Leader: It may not feel it, but we've never had it so good
Jul 01, 2008 ... IN JULY 1957, the then Tory prime minister, Harold Macmillan,uttered a phrase that summed up the emerging post-war affluence:"Let us be frank about it - most of our people have never had it sogood." Macmillan was correct. Twenty years of depression, war andausterity had given way to full ...
Battle of Glasgow East could be a bloody affair After Wendy Alexander's forced resignation, passions are running high between Labour and the SNP
Jul 01, 2008; ... GLASGOW East could hardly be more Labour if every house waspainted pillar-box red. Going round with a Labour candidate in lastyear's election campaign, I heard a similar message at every door."I'm going to vote Labour - my father would turn in his grave if Ididn't," was the answer from ...
Between The Lines: Savings recovery is the silver lining as sales totter Bill Jamieson
Jul 01, 2008; ... HERE is a puzzle of our times. Last Saturday I spent the morningfighting through crowds at Ikea (full car park) and nearbySainsbury. I saw no compelling signs of a consumer downturn. Indeed,the quietest part of Ikea was the returns department, where I satand read the gloomiest FT in ...
Scots Stocks: Contract win lifts Vianet shares despite increase in losses in 2007
Jul 01, 2008 ... VIANET shares climbed yesterday despite the Aim-listed minnowreporting widening losses, after it revealed a new contract withGlaxoSmithKline supporting its Lucozade and Ribena drinks. Aim-listed Vianet, which provides mobile data-connectivity services,reported a pre-tax loss of GBP 185 ...
FTSE rises but real story is 13 per cent drop in first half of '08
Jul 01, 2008; ... LONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 5,625.9 +96.0 BRITAIN'S leading share index ended 1.7 per cent higheryesterday, with oil stocks gaining on a record high crude price. The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed 96 points higher at 5,625.9,but finished the first half of the year nearly 13 per ...
Scrutineer: Thus endeth the lesson
Jul 01, 2008; ... Thus Group 177p +31.75p Brad & Bingley 64.5p +1.25p WITH hindsight, it was clear from the time Cable & Wirelessapproached Thus about buying it, that the game was almost certainlyup for the Scottish company, and in particular chief executive, BillAllan ....
Stirling rolls out the tartan carpet in style
Jul 01, 2008; ... STIRLING Castle had surely never seen such meticulous war paintor outlandish battle garb in its 600-year history: on Sundayevening, the great and the good of Scottish fashion gathered for thethird annual Scottish Fashion Awards. The tartan carpet was rolled out, the pipers were ...
Man due in court over weapons find
Jul 01, 2008 ... A 29-YEAR-OLD man, who has not been named, is to appear atGlasgow Sheriff court today in connection with the discovery of astash of weapons in a ...
EBay ordered to pay GBP 31m damages over fake goods
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE internet auction house eBay has been ordered to pay GBP 31million in damages for selling fakes over the internet, in a rulingthat could have important implications for online businessesworldwide. A French commercial court yesterday ordered eBay to pay LVMH MotHennessy Louis ...
EBay ordered to pay GBP 31m damages over fake goods: Bargains galore ... but are they the genuine article?
Jul 01, 2008; ... IT IS the ultimate global marketplace, raking in billions ofpounds and attracting thousands of new users every day. And in thegloomy economic climate eBay is the perfect place to pick up adesigner must-have at a fraction of the designer's price tag. First on my shopping list was a ...
Smith's mind back on Europe as Rangers enter Champions League qualifying draw
Jul 01, 2008; ... LESS than seven weeks after the final whistle blew on theirrecord-breaking European run last season, Rangers will today turntheir attention to the assignment which will make or break theirhopes of further extended involvement in continental competition in2008/09. The draws for ...
Wimbledon embraces lion-hearted Murray
Jul 01, 2008; ... AT TWO sets down, and with his opponent serving for the match,Andy Murray was staring defeat in the face. But the Scot's survival instinct kicked in and with anastonishing comeback he beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet to claim aWimbledon quarter-final spot. And with his ...
Scots troops saddened but defiant in face of death in the desert: Emma Cowing reports from Afghanistan on a keenly felt loss
Jul 01, 2008; ... AS THE hot desert sun sank across Camp Bastion last night, twoScottish soldiers stopped to pay their respects to one of their own. Lance-Corporal James Johnson, 31, of B Company, 5th Battalion theRoyal Regiment of Scotland, who was killed on Saturday by a minewhile on patrol in the ...
Historic kirk set to be sold off as GBP 2.3m revamp plan collapses
Jul 01, 2008; ... ONE of the most historic buildings in Edinburgh's World HeritageSite may be sold off after long-awaited refurbishment plans fellthrough. The Scotsman has learned city council leaders are considering themove for the Tron Kirk after failing to get a revamp - firstannounced almost ...
Wimbledon embraces lion-hearted Murray
Jul 01, 2008; ... AT TWO sets down, and with his opponent serving for the match,Andy Murray was staring defeat in the face. But the Scot's survival instinct kicked in and with one of thegreatest Wimbledon comebacks he beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet toclaim a quarter-final spot. And with his ...
Jobs blow as Pringle decides to shut Scottish knitwear plant
Jul 01, 2008; ... PRINGLE, the luxury knitwear firm, is to close its manufacturingplant in the Scottish Borders after almost 200 years, with the lossof 80 jobs. The woollen jumpers favoured by generations of golfers, as wellas celebrities such as Madonna and Scarlett Johannson, are nowexpected to ...
Shot of shots the turning point as Scot wins over Centre Court
Jul 01, 2008; ... WARNED for use of a swear word while on the way to a defeat inthree swift sets. That was the ignominious way Andy Murray hadthreatened to end his third Wimbledon campaign. With the kind ofwhimper his new Border terrier puppy might produce when ordered outinto the night. But ...
Murray savours his 'best moment'
Jul 01, 2008; ... ANDY Murray pulled off the most remarkable comeback of his careerlast night to reach the quarter-final of a grand slam for the firsttime. Apparently down and out against Richard Gasquet when theFrenchman served for the match at two sets up and 5-4 ahead in thethird, Murray first inched ...