The Scotsman back issues from November 2008:
what to buy now ... cardigans
Nov 01, 2008; ... WHEN it comes to fashion, we don't want to be too practicallyminded, but a cardigan is an essential winter investment and it canbe slightly annoying when chunkier knits mean you can't fit themcomfortably under a coat. So, taking a lead from Alexa Chung(right), ...
children'S ACTIVITIES
Nov 01, 2008 ... Find out about the folklore and mythology surrounding trees on awalk in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, today, 2pm. Free. n Tel: 0131-552 7171 or visit www.rbge.org.uk Pop goes the easel The after-school art club at Out of the Blue Drill Hall inEdinburgh this ...
Best Buys: Big into smalls
Nov 01, 2008 ... Baressensuals IS HOLDING a special event on Thursday, 7pm-9:30pm, to show off its new ranges of lingerie. The twist is thatthe party will be hosted by butlers in the buff. So, if you can keepyour eyes on the stock, they'll give Best Buys readers 10 per centoff, that night and for the ...
my life in clothes
Nov 01, 2008; ... dress sense What was your favourite childhood outfit? I loved wearing little dresses with matching berets. What were you wearing when you met your present partner? Nothing. Only joking - jeans. What did you wear to get married? I would wear a ...
Late deals
Nov 01, 2008 ... Channel croissant Three nights in Paris cost from GBP 145pp. The price includesaccommodation at the three-star Hotel des Arts on a bed-and-breakfast basis and return flights from Glasgow, departing on 23November. Call 0845 070 2530 or visit www.thomascook.com Milan ...
this week we're mad about ... gloves: Digital age
Nov 01, 2008; ... WOOLY gloves won't do our outfits justice this winter. Instead,we've gone all ladylike in butter-soft leather and fitted fabrics inrich, jewel-like shades, as seen on the Biba catwalk (right). Weadore these Topshop golfing numbers with the frivolous addition of apolka-dot pattern. If ...
Five of the best ... LAMPSLight fantastic
Nov 01, 2008; ... It's that depressing time of year when the clocks have gone backand the nights start drawing in. Hence we're investing in one ofthese gorgeous lamps from the autumn/winter home ranges on the highstreet. We love this sparkly light from Pagazzi's glamorouscollection even more than Laura ...
Growth industry
Nov 01, 2008; ... ONE of the most miserable aspects of the credit crunch is thethreat many people are facing, that they'll lose their jobs. Butonce in a while a redundancy can be an opportunity to plant freshideas - as former Deutsche Bank employee, Josie Inwood, has found.She was let go from the ...
Shot from the heart
Nov 01, 2008; ... IN THE FINAL MOMENTS BEFORE I SHOOT him, the stag stands tall,roaring a warning cry to other beasts to keep away from him and hisharem of hinds. His head thrown back, he looks strong and proud, andhis deep bellows echo eerily through the Angus glen, just as thelight is beginning to fail ....
The long way up
Nov 01, 2008; ... IF you're familiar with Touching the Void, the bestselling bookby mountaineer Joe Simpson, you might recognise adventurer SimonYates as the man who "cut the rope". The mountaineering classic,along with its more recent docu-drama adaptation, reveals how Yatescame to the decision to cut ...
Market leaders
Nov 01, 2008; ... ALONG with beer and BMWs, Christmas markets are becoming one ofGermany's most successful exports. One estimate says they are nowworth a 458 million to the German economy. Certainly, thanks to thearmy of enthusiastic young people who arrive in Edinburgh andGlasgow every Advent, the good ...
wit's end
Nov 01, 2008; ... Autumn leaves me with a grin, and an urge to get my walking shoeson OH, I DO LOVE A BLUS- tery day. I know they're not much fun ifyou're at sea or if stuff's blown to smithereens in your gairdin.But, oh, the excitement of it all! Autumnal gales are special, as there's magic ...
Less is muir
Nov 01, 2008; ... THESE days, when you see a fashion designer taking a bow at theend of their show, they're almost always wearing oodles of safeblack, teamed with a pair of well-worn jeans. In contrast, the latefashion designer Jean Muir (1928-1995) always cut a larger-than-life figure - round eyes ...
Restaurant Review Korean choices make life more interesting
Nov 01, 2008; ... Kokuryo is Glasgow's, and as far as I can ascertain, Scotland's,only Korean restaurant and it inspires debate. Checking out foodiewebsites before my visit, I see that its cuisine has ignited abattle between the types of gap-year bores and worldlier-than-thoutravellers who revel in ...
my seven secrets of survival
Nov 01, 2008; ... 1Most definitely do not live the dream. There are greatexpectations on us all to run marathons, attend the latest PTAmeeting, buy organic food and balance all this with work and familylife. Don't clutter your life with too many goals. I am veryrealistic about what I can achieve in a very ...
Website of the week
Nov 01, 2008; ... www.lastnightsclothes.wordpress.com Here we have an ingenious blog masterfully combining two of ourall-time favourite things: fashion and sex. The premise is simple:1. Put on your clothes. 2. Find someone to take them off with. 3.Write to the blog mistress about it, telling not ...
what matters to me
Nov 01, 2008; ... Comedian and musician What's the best bit on your personality CV? Harry Enfield once introduced me as "Britain's favourite childishdrunk". It's true, I am quite a bonhomous drinker. And the worst? I think I disappoint because I'm not as funny in person ....
Drugs baron who bought a Porsche in jail faces cash inquiry
Nov 01, 2008; ... A CONVICTED criminal who bought a GBP 48,000 Porsche while he wasin prison, became the first person in Scotland to be served with afinancial reporting order (FRO). Donald Birrell, will have to account for all his income andexpenditure over GBP 500 for the next seven and a half ...
As losses rise, Blacks puts faith in growing sales
Nov 01, 2008 ... MILLETS owner Blacks Leisure has brushed aside wider half-yearlosses and highlighted a pick-up in trading as it pushes ahead withits turnaround plans, writes Scott Reid. The group, which also trades under the Blacks, Freespirit, Mambo,Animal and O'Neill brands, reported a pre-tax ...
'Accident prone' BT's global chief Barrault quits
Nov 01, 2008; ... FRANCOIS Barrault quit as head of BT's global services businessyesterday after the telecoms group issued a shock profits warningwhich sent shares tumbling to their lowest level in more than 20years. Blaming eroding margins and failure to drive savings, BT said theperformance of ...
Tobacconists may vanish in puff of smoke
Nov 01, 2008; ... IN a small, tidy shop on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the walls areladen with exotic names. Cohiba, Diplomaticos and Romeo y Julietasit neatly on the shelves. Chris Kilpatrick reaches up to the top shelf and carefully bringsdown a Montecristo No 4, the best-selling cigar in the world ....
Daughter is arrested over body found in stream
Nov 01, 2008; ... THE daughter of a women whose body was found in a stream a weekafter she went missing with her grandson was arrested over her deathyesterday. A murder hunt was launched after Anne Brown's remains werediscovered in Ayrshire last Friday. Strathclyde police said a 21-year-old ...
Forth Ports' GBP 100m credit set to be renewed
Nov 01, 2008; ... FORTH Ports looks set to renew a GBP 100 million credit facilityafter its chief executive yesterday said the firm was in talks witha number of banks. Charles Hammond said the facility, which is due to expire nextJune, was one of several held by the Edinburgh-based ports ...
Cardenden marks end of Brown's journey of redemption
Nov 01, 2008; ... WITH its peeling paint, cracked wash basins and stained Anaglyptawallpaper, the Bowhill War Memorial Hall in Cardenden is not themost likely of venues for political redemption. But it was here,just before midday yesterday, that Gordon Brown completed aremarkable transition. Just ...
Music: Al Green
Nov 01, 2008; ... Al Green *** CLYDE AUDITORIUM, GLASGOW THERE are certain conventions at an Al Green gig, which will beadhered to no matter what part of the globe is receiving his sermonof love and happiness. He will hand out red roses indiscriminately to the sea ofgrasping hands before ...
Watchdog warning on HBOS takeover
Nov 01, 2008; ... THE takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB should go ahead, thegovernment said last night - despite an official report thatindicated the deal could be bad for consumers and businesses. An investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) outlines alarge number of concerns and says the ...
Education, education education - but not for junior finances
Nov 01, 2008; ... ONE theme stood head and shoulders above others whenrepresentatives from various interest groups spent an afternoontogether this week discussing the issues thrown up by the financialcrisis. The topics were varied but they all concerned how we gotinto this mess. How did the personal debt ...
Embattled BBC must hit back against predators
Nov 01, 2008; ... IT'S late on Thursday evening, and, as usual, I'm listening toBBC radio. I hear a report - calm, measured, literate yet urgent -from Goma in Congo, epicentre of the current horrific refugeecrisis. I hear a lyrical description of Berlin's old Tempelhofairport, that terrific art-deco ...
Leader: Mandelson's OFT brush-off raises huge questions
Nov 01, 2008 ... THE report of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on the takeover ofHBOS by Lloyds TSB is categorical that there are serious negativeimplications for competition should the deal go through. In normalcircumstances the matter would now go to the Competition Commission,which would either veto ...
Taxing questions are positive for reluctant landlords
Nov 01, 2008; ... HOUSE sellers forced by the housing market crisis to let outtheir property could reap the rewards over the long term, a taxexpert has claimed. The growth of the reluctant landlord has been a feature of theshrinking housing market in recent months as home movers unable tosecure a ...
Oil & Gas
Nov 01, 2008 ... OIL fell nearly dollars 2 yesterday amid weak demand and theglobal economic crisis. US crude was changing hands at dollars 64.14 a barrel. It is downby around 35 per cent for October, its steepest monthly decline todate as demand in the United States and other big consumer ...
Jail for men caught at cannabis 'factory'
Nov 01, 2008; ... TWO men who were caught at a lucrative cannabis "factory" after ahuge delivery of compost arrived at a north-east village were eachjailed for two years yesterday. Fang Zheng, 43, from China, and Chaun Yap, 26, from Malaysia, whowere in the country illegally, admitted being ...
Numbers of unemployed teachers at three-year high
Nov 01, 2008; ... UNEMPLOYED teacher numbers have hit a three-year high, accordingto new statistics. The sharpest rise was over the last year, when the figure rose bymore than 50 per cent. Since 2005, the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowancehas soared from 155 in 2005 to 400 ....
Anger over Fraser bid to overturn conviction
Nov 01, 2008; ... A NEW attempt by Nat Fraser to overturn his conviction forarranging the murder of his estranged wife was condemned by herfamily yesterday. Fraser is serving a minimum of 25 years for hiring a killer tostrangle Arlene Fraser at their home in New Elgin, Moray. He has already ...
New school exams will be delayed by a year
Nov 01, 2008; ... NEW exams for schoolchildren will be delayed by a year, afterteachers said they would not be ready in time, it emerged yesterday. Replacement qualifications for the Standard grade will now beintroduced in 2014. The original plan had been for the first pupils to take ...
Good news for borrowers with a healthy deposit
Nov 01, 2008; ... MORTGAGE rates continue to fall as the UK's biggest lendersrevive competition for low-risk business. Nationwide cuts the cost of some fixed rate deals by up to 0.49per cent today, following in the footsteps of Abbey, yesterday, andAlliance & Leicester on Thursday, which both ...
RBS puts sale of Mentor arm on hold
Nov 01, 2008; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland has confirmed it is not to sell its RBSMentor arm following a strategic review of its businesses. It was reported earlier this year that RBS had appointedPriceWaterhouseCoopers to carry out the review, which analystswidely expected would lead to a sale of ...
Royal London's caution tinged with confidence
Nov 01, 2008; ... SCOTTISH Life owner Royal London has hailed a 14 per cent rise innew business as a "very good" result against a backdrop of"challenging" market conditions. The group, which ranks as the largest mutual life and pensionscompany in the UK, said it remained cautious but was confident ...
Go west, young man, if you want a dairy
Nov 01, 2008; ... MOST cows in the UK inhabit the western half of the country. Asit turns out, the rainier climate on the Atlantic side of Britainprovides a more amenable environment for the bovine than the dryer,albeit more populated east. Robert Wiseman, the chief executive of one of Britain's ...
Environment at risk as economy worries take centre stage
Nov 01, 2008; ... DISTRACTIONS about the current economic crisis could be puttingScotland's natural world at risk, and the country's futureprosperity, according to the head of an influential governmentorganisation. Andrew Thin, chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage, describedScotland's natural ...
Opera: La Traviata
Nov 01, 2008; ... SCOTTISH OPERA: LA TRAVIATA **** THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW THE spectre of death looms large, but subtly, over DavidMcVicar's new deep-veined production of Verdi's La Traviata forScottish opera. The heavy, luscious black drapes of Tanya McCallin'sdesigns cast deliciously ...
Barclay's eastern promise
Nov 01, 2008; ... COMPANY1 178.9p -26.4p LLOYDS TSB says it is cheaper to raise its new capital from thegovernment. Stricken Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS do not reallyhave a choice but to go to the government. But Barclays still maintains that it prefers the ...
Scots Stocks: Melrose misses out as oil firms rise on talk of price squeeze in 2009
Nov 01, 2008 ... CRUDE oil prices are falling, but analysts warned yesterday thatthis means they will rise sharply next year. Credit Suisse claimed that major oil producers were nowmothballing projects, increasing the chances that supply will dropsharply next year. That could lead to a ...
Call for a ban on Scotland's seal slaughter as population falls
Nov 01, 2008; ... ANIMAL welfare groups have called for the Scottish Government touse new marine laws to put a stop to the killing of seals. Some environment organisations estimate that thousands of sealsare killed each year by the fishing industry in an attempt toprotect stocks of fish ....
Mind Games: Andy Murray may have lost yesterday, but he puts much of his recent tremendous form down to his 'lucky' match shirt, which he has worn since his US Open victory over Rafael Nadal. This kind of superstition is rife in sport and can border on the obsessive, finds Fiona MacGregor
Nov 01, 2008; ... FINGERS crossed that, by the time you read this, Andy Murray willhave recovered from his defeat at the hands of David Nalbandian inthe Paris Masters quarter-finals yesterday. Of course, even if we cross our toes too it will have absolutelyno effect on poor Andy's mood ....
Couple's charity drive could lead to cure for disease that killed daughter
Nov 01, 2008; ... IT BEGAN with jumble sales, coffee mornings, and long stints inthe rain selling raffle tickets at the local garden centre. But the humble fundraising drive embarked on by Neil and AngelaDickson in the 12 years since the death of their daughter Samanthahas helped finance a "major ...
Policyholders are paying the penalty
Nov 01, 2008; ... INVESTORS face steep penalties for cashing their with-profitspolices in early after providers moved to stem outflows. Standard Life this week joined the ranks of insurance companiesto slash bonus payments on with-profits policies and increasecharges for those who surrender their ...
Internet: Pop back in time
Nov 01, 2008; ... WELL, IT WAS THE 1980S http://uk.youtube.com/watch?vRETRO-FREAKSof a fragile nature might want to turn their heads away, as thisclip takes a touchstone of 1980s pop culture and shows it for thepap it really was. Yes, A-ha's Take On Me video was as ubiquitous asshoulder pads in the heady ...
Too beautiful for words
Nov 01, 2008; ... THE INTERPRETER IS FUMBLING and the sound system shaky, but thepainter Gerhard Richter's press conference is facing another hurdle:the artist himself. It's early autumn at London's SerpentineGallery. Confronted by the British art press, already struggling tomake out his words, Richter - ...
Television: The Great Bores
Nov 01, 2008; ... My Family At War Monday - Wednesday BBC1, 11:20pm; 11:35pm;10:45pm Timewatch: The Last Day of World War One Saturday, BBC2:8.15pm Michael Portillo: Death of a School Friend Friday, BBC2, 9pm WHAT BETTER WAY TO COMMEMorate the appalling human tragedy of theFirst World War than with ...
King of the road
Nov 01, 2008; ... FOR MOST MUSICIANS, LIFE ON the road mostly consists ofmonotonous motorway journeys, with only a Ginsters pasty and alukewarm lager to look forward to at the end of it. James Apollo hashad a considerably more eventful time of it, in more than a decadeof adventures all around the United ...
Book Worm
Nov 01, 2008 ... CYBER SAUCE MILLS & Boon is to move strongly into e-book romance, as itprepares to make dozens of cheek-flushing new titles available asdigital downloads every month, Bloomberg news reports. The publisher is making all its titles available as e-books,except for special ...
Radio
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Late Mr Shakespeare Today, Radio 4, 2:30pm AfternoonReadings: Jura: Writers in Residence Mon-Fri, Radio 4, 3:30pm Fowlisand Folk Thursday, Radio Scotland, 8pm AS the Great Fire of London spreads inexorably out from PuddingLane, an old man, living in a garret over a brothel, ...
It's not cricket, but it sure is lucrative
Nov 01, 2008; ... Stanford Super Series, Sky Sports 1, today from 8.30pm. IT IS not every day that we see a sport die, so we really shouldtake the opportunity when it presents itself this evening. In theidyllic surroundings of Antigua, during the first proper match ofthe Stanford Super Series, ...
Lucky escape for Scots as plane stops feet from sea
Nov 01, 2008; ... PASSENGERS and crew on a holiday flight from Scotland had a luckyescape when their plane overshot a runway and stopped yards from thesea at a Canary Islands airport. The Thomas Cook-chartered aircraft came to rest at the edge of asurfaced run-off area at Arrecife in Lanzarote ....
Ross pulls out as compere of British Comedy Awards in bid to cool BBC row
Nov 01, 2008; ... PRESENTER Jonathan Ross ducked out of hosting the British ComedyAwards yesterday, passing up a GBP 100,000 fee for a show with a TVaudience of 10 million. His move was seen as an attempt to calm the furore over theobscene phone calls to the elderly actor Andrew Sachs, after ...
Overseas bank lines up to bid for HBOS
Nov 01, 2008; ... AFOREIGN bank is interested in buying HBOS and has approached theUK government on how to proceed, The Scotsman has learned. It hasreceived assurances from the Treasury that any bid would be treatedequally to the one on the table from Lloyds TSB. The unnamed firm is acting through ...
Saturday Interview: Appleby admits learning from downfall of Harrison can help him stay at the top British champion happy living quiet life
Nov 01, 2008; ... THREE years ago this week, Scott Harrison was preparing to stepinto a boxing ring for what, almost certainly, will now be in therecord books as the last fight of his career. Among those willing him to victory and a sixth successful defenceof the WBO featherweight title that ...
Tynecastle cauldron brings Brown to boil Celtic midfielder says red- hot Gorgie reception always inspires him
Nov 01, 2008; ... GORDON Strachan yesterday presented an argument which sought toillustrate that Aiden McGeady's absence from the team earlier thisseason had not been noteworthy, since it happened to almost everyoneat Celtic at one time or another. The manager went on to list thosewho have been invited to ...
Strachan absolves Kilmarnock of intent to harm Nakamura
Nov 01, 2008; ... GORDON Strachan yesterday cleared Kilmarnock players of anyintent to harm Shunsuke Nakamura in midweek, and admitted he expectsmore of the same tomorrow at Tynecastle. There are few better judges of a bad tackle than the playerfamously pole-axed by an agricultural challenge in the ...
Laszlo fears players may be 'too motivated' in bid to make amends
Nov 01, 2008; ... AFTER a poor run of results, the last thing many teams would wantis a game against Celtic. Csaba Laszlo, however, thinks his Heartsplayers may be looking forward to tomorrow's game too much. With only one win in their last six matches, Hearts are justinside the top six - indeed, ...
Tony the thinker has plenty to learn Portsmouth's new manager must connect with his squad
Nov 01, 2008; ... ENGLAND'S training camp for the European Championships of 2000was in the leafy Belgian spa town helpfully called Spa. In anunimpressive tournament under the imminent emotional wreck that wasKevin Keegan high spots were in short supply. One was the unlimitedsupply of excellent Cote d'Or ...
Ex-husband leaves bus tycoon share of will despite bitter divorce
Nov 01, 2008; ... THEIR bitter feud cost him his marriage, his business and,ultimately, a huge stake in the GBP 1.27 billion Stagecoach empire. Robin Gloag, who died in a car crash last December, fell out withhis co-founders - his then wife Ann and her brother, Brian Souter -in 1983 after they ...
Murray insists Hibs can make it a November to remember
Nov 01, 2008; ... AFTER playing Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen in their lastfour games, Hibernian are looking forward to a less onerous run offixtures. Their six games scheduled for November include anothermatch against Aberdeen and a trip to Dundee United, but they alsoplay St Mirren, Inverness ...
Boy from Broomhouse became a champion of the turf in Australia Sixth anniversary of York's injury
Nov 01, 2008; ... Brian York WITH almost 2,000 winners to his name, few Scottish jockeys haveenjoyed a fraction of the success Brian York has, yet only the mostknowledgeable racing student is likely to have even heard of him. If, however, he has slipped under the radar in his native ...