The Sunday Herald back issues from November 2001:
BP Grangemouth has failed to plan for major disasters
Nov 04, 2001; ... Safety plans to avert major accidents at the BP petro-chemicalcomplex at Grangemouth have been rejected as inadequate by thegovernment's watchdog, the Health and Safety Executive. The HSE has taken legal action against the British oil giant toensure that its plans are revamped in ...
a brit and miss affair; britney spears britney (jive) HHH andrew wk i get wet (mercury) H oliver darley introducing (eastwest) HHH angie stone mahogany soul (arista) HHHH pink floyd echoes (emi) HHHH all saints all hits (london) HHHH
Nov 04, 2001; ... WHILE she's ended up going for the old eponymous trick, the thirdalbum from Britney Spears could easily have been called Adolescence,Get Thee Behind Me. The world's sexiest virgin seems desperate toput away childish things, but - despite the grown-up skitter of herrecent single I'm A ...
New York atrocity used to sell Scots holidays
Nov 04, 2001; ... Politicians have slammed Scottish tourism chiefs for a "crass"and "tasteless" internal document outlining plans to market thecountry as a haven for holidaymakers wanting to avoid terroristthreats. VisitScotland was forced to issue an embarrassing apology lastnight after it gave ...
Report says prison staff morale at all-time low
Nov 04, 2001; ... CATASTROPHIC levels of morale among staff in Scotland's jailshave led to calls for the resignation of the Scottish PrisonService's chief executive, Tony Cameron. An internal survey, commissioned by the SPS and slipped out withlittle fanfare last week, reveals that prison officers ...
THE BEST ALBUMS EVER HONEST BY DAVID KEENAN
Nov 04, 2001; ... CHARLEY PATTON SCREAMIN' AND HOLLERIN' THE BLUES (REVENANT NO. 212 7xCD) "If Imade records for my own pleasure," Bob Dylan recently told a Dutchjournalist, "I would only record Charley Patton songs." Even more so than Robert Johnson, Charley Patton was responsiblefor the ...
get fresh
Nov 04, 2001; ... Air Glasgow Barrowland THE road to true romance is rarely smooth,so let's hear it for date movies. Thanks to these mass-producedslices of emotional Dairylea, it's possible to sit next to someoneyou fancy for two hours without screwing things up by actuallytalking to them. And while ...
timeless attraction; BERLIOZ LES NUITS D'ETE (VIRGIN) HHHH POULENC PIANO CONCERTO/ORGAN CONCERTO (VIRGIN) HHH
Nov 04, 2001; ... I have spent most of the week trying to listen to other records,but again and again I have been drawn back to Hector Berlioz's songsLes Nuits D'ete, wonderfully performed by Veronique Gens and theOrchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon. Berlioz was a superlative craftsman, and in ...
american eye just out in the us
Nov 04, 2001 ... K-PAX The pitch: Let's cross ET with One Flew Over The Cuckoo'sNest and see what happens. The plot: Mental patient Prot claims to be an alien from theplanetK-PAX. His psychiatrist Dr Mark Powell initially thinks he'snuts but as strange things start to happen, begins to suspect ...
shorts who's in the news
Nov 04, 2001 ... Due to scheduling problems on the set of X-Men 2, Jennifer Lopezis set to replace X-woman Halle Berry in Ben Affleck's new movieGigli. It tells the story of a free-spirited woman sent to supervisea lowly hitman who has kidnapped the mentally slow brother of adistrict attorney. They fall ...
moviemonologue billy bob thornton on the man who wasn't there
Nov 04, 2001 ... "I play a chain-smoking barber called Ed Crane who's stuck with abanal existence and an unfaithful wife, played by Frances McDormand.It's a slow-burning film noir written and directed by Ethan and JoelCoen. Because this is a black-and-white film and I smoke a lot in it,people ...
Blair tells US: I will broker plan for peace; Bush backs creation of a 'viable' Palestine
Nov 04, 2001; ... Tony Blair is to carve out a key role for himself as the brokerof a new Middle East peace process when he flies to Washington onWednesday, where a new American initiative for the establishment ofa Palestinian state is due to be announced. Blair spent the last week touring the ...
Labour MPs tell McLeish: make full disclosure or go
Nov 04, 2001; ... HENRY McLeish's senior colleagues are calling on him to make afull disclosure of all his office finances and to promise to payback up to (pounds) 40,000 he might have earned from private sub-lets of his constituency office in the past 14 years. An Inland Revenue investigation is ...
Revealed: Italian cloning pioneer wants to make babies in the UK
Nov 04, 2001; ... The controversial Italian doctor who intends to clone humanbeings is to ask for permission to carry out the experiment in theUK. Professor Severino Antinori is to ask the Human Fertilisation andEmbryology Authority, the body which regulates fertility treatmentin the UK, for ...
US soldiers turn on Pentagon over war tactics
Nov 04, 2001 ... THE Pentagon has been rethinking its use of ground forces insideAfghanistan in the wake of near-disaster during the October 20Special Forces assault on Taliban leader Mullah Omar's complex. The intensity and ferocity of the Taliban response "scared thecrap out of everyone" ...
British in Taliban to face treason charge
Nov 04, 2001; ... TREASON laws are to be used against British Muslims who travel toAfghanistan to fight for the Taliban, the Home Office has announced. The Home Office is also considering banning organisations such asal-Muhajiroun, the extremist Islamic group which is assisting youngBritish Muslims ...
Bin Laden attacks UN in new video
Nov 04, 2001 ... OSAMA bin Laden yesterday issued another video message designedto taunt the forces ranged against him, accusing them of"exterminating" innocent Afghan civilians, writes Bridget Morris. The al-Qaeda leader said the Afghan people were not to blame forthe September 11 attacks and he ...
Party realigns to save Trimble; Non-sectarian Alliance rebrands itself 'unionist' for one week only
Nov 04, 2001; ... Northern Ireland's liberal and non-sectarian Alliance Party hasdecided to temporarily change the designation of its assemblymembers to unionist to solve the political crisis in Ulster. After a frantic round of negotiations the party said it wasplanning to change the affiliation of ...
Labour's internal strife exposed
Nov 04, 2001; ... A former Scottish Labour employee has blown the whistle on bitterbattles inside party headquarters, in a report compiled by the Houseof Commons standards commissioner, slating former MP John Maxton forhis refusal to co-operate with inquiries into his alleged use ofpublicly-funded ...
Potter fans swoop on owls for Christmas
Nov 04, 2001 ... ANIMAL rescue groups are "concerned and dismayed" that the HarryPotter movie could spark a children's Christmas craze ... for petowls. There are already around 100,000 barn owls kept in captivity inthe UK, and owlets can be bought for as little as (pounds) 15. Julie Ross, ...
Deans back student teachers' pay claims
Nov 04, 2001; ... UNIVERSITY deans responsible for teacher training have written toEducation Minister Jack McConnell asking for a rethink on pay levelsfor mature entrants to the profession. The deans at Scotland's six teacher training establishments havesaid they are "dismayed" at the implications ...
crooning glory
Nov 04, 2001; ... "I should have done it all differently," murmurs Ian Hart, almostto himself. "I completely thought the character wrongly, and I justrealised the other day how I should have done it. I'm ashamed ofmyself." He's talking about his forthcoming role as twitchy ProfessorQuirrell in ...
He's shot, he's scored. will he win?
Nov 04, 2001; ... HERE'S a good McTrivial Pursuit question: who was the lastScottish actor to win an Oscar? You'd assume it was Sean Conneryback in 1988, finally getting the nod from the Academy for his gruffsupporting role in The Untouchables. But in 1995, Peter Capaldi -star of Local Hero and Soft Top ...
Glasgow awaits coming of cuban all saints
Nov 04, 2001 ... Filiberto Mora is picking glue off his fingers as he talks. No,he says, he and his brother Yanoski have not been making anotherlife-size vintage Chevrolet in papier-mache. Nor another giantHarley Davidson motorbike, nor a bus full of people like the one hemade for Ibrahm Ferrer. "I've ...
Pupils face revision chaos as SQA fouls up
Nov 04, 2001; ... Concern is mounting amongst parents that past exam papers, whichpupils need to revise for their prelim standard grade exams beforeChristmas, are not yet on sale in bookshops. The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has decided to changethe past papers' publishers , and the new ...
Bid to give new mums cheap food; Radical scheme to support young families urges home helps, extended maternity leave and 24 hour helplines
Nov 04, 2001; ... YOUNG mothers across Scotland, sick of being left holding thebaby by errant fathers, are backing a raft of radical proposals tosupport new families. A series of interviews by the country's leading think-tank,talking to young Scottish mothers on low incomes, has led to a rangeof ...
Film crew's fury at (pounds) 15,000 fee for abandoned Shetland croft
Nov 04, 2001; ... The producers of a feature- length film due to be shot inShetland are threatening to decamp to England over the "impossible"fee wanted by a crofter for the use of his land. Filming was due to begin on Devil's Gate, described as a"Hitchcockian" tale of one woman's investigation ...
northern exposure
Nov 04, 2001; ... the fine art of photography national portrait galleryedinburghuntil january 13 That this exhibition is difficult to getan immediate handle on comes as no surprise. Here, in one galleryspace, is a taster from the vast Scottish National PhotographyCollection, a richly varied archive that ...
Grangemouth safety plans rejected
Nov 04, 2001; ... Safety plans to avert major accidents at the BP petro-chemicalcomplex at Grangemouth have been rejected as inadequate by thegovernment's watchdog, the Health and Safety Executive. The HSE has taken legal action against the British oil giant toensure that its plans are revamped in ...
seasoned stories warm the heart
Nov 04, 2001; ... reviewed the COMEDY OF ERRORS ROYAL LYCEUM edinburgh A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM CITIZENS, GLASGOW BOTH UNTIL NOVEMBER 17 "A SAD tale's best for winter," asShakespeare noted in his moderately miserable late-period comedy TheWinter's Tale. This season, two of Scotland's ...
Kirk leader's war doubts
Nov 04, 2001; ... Many church members in Scotland feel a "huge sense of uneaseabout what is being done in our name in the skies over Afghanistan",according to the Convener of the Church of Scotland's most wide-ranging committee. The Rev Alan McDonald argues that nobody is clear about the goalsof ...
[ talkies ]
Nov 04, 2001 ... "The audience is the real boss. They wanna see action, they seeme. If they want to see comedy, they see Jim Carrey. If they want tosee drama, they see Tom Hanks. Much better than me. Why go see me dodrama?" Kiss Of The Dragon star Jet Li kisses ass "Being sexy is beingconfident ....
Refs to explain themselves online
Nov 04, 2001; ... SCOTTISH referees may be called on to give an explanation forcontroversial decisions on the internet. Donald McVicar, the SFA'shead of referee development, said: "We're looking closely at usingthe internet to give explanations on a weekly basis. We're part ofthe game and don't want to ...
Whistle while you work; Alan Campbell on referee Willie Young's tough line against an increasingly common way of stealing the upper hand: the dive
Nov 04, 2001; ... WHEN one of the most experienced of Scotland's referees, WillieYoung, yellow-carded four players for diving in last Saturday'smatch between Hibs and Dundee at Easter Road, he could not haveexpected to be showered in approbation. Yet, even Hibs manager AlexMcLeish, who had midfielder John ...
Swimming with the fish suppers meet the Scots Sopranos; Hard- hitting new gangster drama will draw upon Glasgow's criminal underworld for its murky inspiration
Nov 04, 2001; ... For the past 50 years, Glasgow has been as famous for itsgangsters as its shipbuilding. But for some reason, when it came totelevision, it was always the crimefighters, like Taggart and HamishMacbeth, who stole the show. All that could be about to change. Channel 4 is working ...
Champions League
Nov 04, 2001 ... Group A BY the kind of remarkable, random quirk of fate that even Uefacouldn't dream up, Group A of the second stage of the ChampionsLeague has actually succeeded in assembling a quartet of teams whoare champions of their native leagues. The best sides in the German, ...
Sunday preview
Nov 04, 2001 ... Arsenal v Charlton AFTER another unconvincing away performance in midweek, Arsenalreturn to Highbury expecting a typically robust London derby. Homeform has typically been less of a problem for the Gunners thisseason, but on this occasion Arsene Wenger also has severe ...
Security fear as Dounreay ships nuclear waste
Nov 04, 2001; ... Enough plutonium to make 100 atomic bombs is about to be shippedfrom Dounreay to Germany, despite heightened fears of terroristattacks because of the war in Afghanistan. The revelation comes in the wake of a stark warning of themounting dangers of nuclear terrorism from the United ...
Government may ditch nuclear energy option
Nov 04, 2001 ... The government's review of energy policy, which has been widelytrailered as backing new nuclear power stations, might end uprejecting them. Despite being chaired by the pro-nuclear Energy Minister, BrianWilson, a majority of the advisory group set up by the CabinetOffice favour ...
In the court of the clone king; The Vatican compares him to Hitler, critics mock his claim to have cloned monkeys and even Severino Antinori himself admits he can be economical with the truth. But he might just become the first doctor to clone a human being. He gives his first major interview about his work to Health Editor Sarah- Kate Templeton in Italy
Nov 04, 2001; ... The enlarged photographs adorning the walls of Professor SeverinoAntinori's Rome clinic look like they have been taken from anItalian family album. The famous doctor sits smiling in the middlelike a proud grandfather. Round about him, parents stand holding new-born babies while older ...
Henry's darkest hour; So what happened to the money the First Minister received by sub-letting his office? What exactly did Digby Brown get for their rent? Who were the other tenants? Political Editor Douglas Fraser looks for answers McLeish won't give
Nov 04, 2001; ... It won't be a vote of confidence, but it might as well be. NextThursday morning, Henry McLeish will go to the Scottish Parliamentand will have to give the speech of his life. Why? Because he wassubsidising his office stationery bill by being more entrepreneurialthan the rules allowed ....
He's no liar or thief ... so why don't we trust the First Minister?; Analysis: Who turned a few accusations into a major crisis for Henry McLeish? He managed it all by himself. By Iain Macwhirter
Nov 04, 2001; ... Oh no. Here we go again. Another week; another crisis. There is aweary, groundhog day inevitability about this week's parliamentarydebate on Henrygate, officegate, Digbygate or whatever it's beingcalled today. The more Henry McLeish tries to answer the questionabout his use of his ...
READY TO GO; TACTICS: All the signs suggest the US has switched its support from Pakistan to the Northern Alliance.
Nov 04, 2001; ... The news that Tommy Franks was in town in Tashkent was the firstsign of a sea-change in US tactics; the second was the sight of B-52 Stratofortress bombers, veterans of the Vietnam War, flying at30,000 feet and dropping their payloads of 1000 lb bombs on theTaliban lines north of Kabul ....
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE; Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf is holding his country together ... but for how long?
Nov 04, 2001; ... CAN there be a leader anywhere in the world under more pressurethan Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, the military dictator whohas become democracy's bulwark in the front line of the war againstterror? The latest signs of a man with his political back to thewall came only yesterday ....
Light at the end of road to Damascus; diplomacy: It looked as if Tony Blair had a bad week ... but was there method in the madness?
Nov 04, 2001; ... In the immediate aftermath of events it is sometimes difficult todistinguish success from failure. On the face of it Tony Blair hashad the worst week since the terrorist attacks on America six weeksago. On television we saw him humiliated in Syria, politely rebuffedin Saudi ...
Two arrests after Sylla abuse
Nov 04, 2001; ... TWO St Johnstone supporters were arrested during yesterday's SPLmatch with Celtic after an alleged racial incident involving MomoSylla. The fans have been charged with breach of the peace and willappear in court on Monday. A report has been sent to the ProcuratorFiscal ....
Grand Larsson; Controversial injury-time winner puts O'Neill's men 10 points clear
Nov 04, 2001; ... St Johnstone 1 Celtic 2 Subs: Djebaili for Parker 17, MacDonaldfor Connelly 81. Not used: Cuthbert, Jones, McBride. Referee: D McDonald. Subs: Lambert for Petta 81, Maloney for Thompson 64, Not used:Kharine, Sylla, Crainey. Booked: Petta 58, Petrov 61, ...
On the march with allah's army; Jihad: Al-Muhajiroun say they have helped up to a thousand British muslims join the Taliban. Are they telling the truth?
Nov 04, 2001; ... A CITY centre McDonald's is an odd place to meet a soldier ofAllah - it's a bit like catching up with Gerry Adams at the localOrange Hall. Irfan Rasool doesn't seem to see the irony. "I onlyboycott Israeli goods," he says. "I eat here regularly." Rasool is the official Scottish ...
How Britain made its own holy warriors; London eye: Not all bin Laden's friends look like fanatics. Laddish, integrated UK Muslims are sure this war is on Islam.
Nov 04, 2001; ... We are travelling east, under a full moon, to a land where peopleare searching their hearts and minds over war and peace. By the timethe moon wanes and Ramadan begins, some of the young men we aresearching for might be under a different night sky and underbombardment from American ...
Sifting the rubble of political unity; New York: The strain is beginning to show as the bravest clash with the finest over the rubble at ground zero.
Nov 04, 2001; ... Just before 11am today the vanguard of 30,000 runners, joggersand fun runners will stream across the spectacular Verrazano Bridgeinto Brooklyn heading for Manhattan 15 miles later. The New YorkMarathon will be underway with the winner reaching The Tavern In TheGreen in Central Park just ...
LA reclaims smog city crown; Move over, Houston: Los Angeles is back on top of the air pollution charts and its bay is clanking with heavy metals. Ros Davidson reports from a city choking on its own dirt
Nov 04, 2001; ... IN the land of Mickey Mouse, smog is once again king. For twoyears Los Angeles has been relegated to second place in the contestto be America's smoggiest city. But it now looks as if Tinseltownwill topple Houston on November 30 to regain its embarrassingranking as the worst place to ...
McLeish and his support cast exit stage left
Nov 04, 2001; ... LAST Thursday night's Question Time from Glasgow was one of thoseexcruciating occasions when one would have given anything to beother than Scottish. At first, I consoled myself with the thoughtthat at least the embarrassment was contained to a local audience.But even that small comfort ...
Fans blow ill wind at the faint hearted
Nov 04, 2001; ... Hearts 1 Livingston 3 Subs: Wales for Fuller 68, Weir for Adam82, Davidson for Simmons 85. Not used: McKenzie, McCann. Booked: Maybury 39, Webster 80. Referee: K Toner. Subs: Quino for Aurellio 79, Lowndes for Fernandez 85, Caputo forWilson 90. Not ...
Williamson makes sure he has final word in dull encounter
Nov 04, 2001; ... Kilmarnock 0 Hibernian 0 THE blank scoreline says more than wordscan about this eagerly anticipated encounter that failed to live upto its pre-match billing. Some of the 7,460 crowd offered politeapplause at full-time but most were probably quite relieved to seean end to it. In ...
Raise the red card
Nov 04, 2001; ... Dundee 1 Dundee United 1 Subs: Milne for Caballero 17, Romano forGarrido 54, Smith for Milne 63. Not used: Speroni, Artero. Booked: Rae 2, Fan 45, Sara 56, Carranza 71. Sent off: Fan 63. Referee: S Dougal. Subs: Paterson for McIntyre 71, Easton for ...
Boss hails Toon network
Nov 04, 2001; ... Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0 Subs: Bernard for Robert 83. Not used: Acuna, Harper, Lualua, Distin. Referee: C Wilkes. Subs: Taylor for Hendrie 59, Dublin for Angel 59. Not used:Enckelman, Barry, Balaban. Booked: Delaney 19, Kachloul 34, Alpay 44 ....
Second Division
Nov 04, 2001 ... Alloa Athletic 5 1 Cowdenbeath ALLOA stormed back to the top of the league when they broke a sixmatch run without a victory. In the 27th minute Hutchison flicked on a Fisher corner from thefront post to take the lead. However the league's top scorer KeithWright had ...
Third Division
Nov 04, 2001 ... Albion Rovers 1 Brechin City 2 ROVERS were quick to go on theattack, a splendid low drive by striker Iain Diack being pushedround the post by visiting keeper Mark Cairns. It was the 11thminute before Brechin threatened with a Kevin Bain free-kick whichwas held by keeper Scott Shearer ....
Chairmen back NEC stadium bid
Nov 04, 2001 ... TWO of England's leading chairmen joined forces yesterday to callon their FA to back proposals to build a new (pounds) 350 millionnational stadium at the NEC in Birmingham and bury any thoughts ofpersisting with the troubled redevelopment of Wembley. Doug Ellis and Freddy Shepherd ...
James' Diamond day
Nov 04, 2001 ... AIRDRIE will today sign defender Kevin James, on loan fromHearts, until the end of the season. The former Scotland U21 starwants to stay with Airdrie after being told he does not feature inTynecastle manager Craig Levein's present plans. After helping the Diamonds fight back for a ...
Albion aim to succeed where Juve failed; Michael Grant discovers the part-timers have a dream: to bring Celtic back to earth with a bump
Nov 04, 2001 ... CIS Cup: Stirling Albion Many qualities have been displayed byMartin O'Neill's Celtic over the past 15 months, but Tuesday nightwill reveal whether the side is also capable of showing mercy. Ateam who can defeat Juventus are palpably capable of inflictinghorrendous damage on the ...
Referee no-show delays kick-off
Nov 04, 2001 ... An administrative blunder by the Scottish League led to the non-appearance of referee Kenny Clark at yesterdays First Division gamebetween Raith Rovers and Ayr United. Raith club secretary Eric Drysdale confirmed that Clark hadcontacted the league offices in midweek to advise of ...
Reasons to be Cheerful; Michael Grant argues that there are plenty of positives to be taken from Celtic's Champions League adventure - not least the form of Chris Sutton
Nov 04, 2001; ... WHEN a 100-year-old man passes away it is hardly worth spending alot of time analysing the cause of death. Celtic are entitled tofeel that their Champions League campaign - they had a good innings,and kept themselves alive longer than anyone expected - was nottreated with quite the same ...
It's A question of confidence; Natasha Woods sees a sense of steely determination begin to envelop Ibrox after a shaky start to the season
Nov 04, 2001; ... APART from Christian Nerlinger's foot injury, which continues tobaffle doctors in both Govan and Germany, these are relativelyuntroubled times at Ibrox as consistency of selection andperformance encourages the belief that Celtic can still be caughtand overtaken. In the absence ...
It's A question of confidence; Michael Grant finds that Ebbe Skovdahl's young Aberdeen side are beginning to reward the fans for their patience
Nov 04, 2001; ... BEFORE he could harvest a crop of talented young players, EbbeSkovdahl had some weeding out to do. There was a publican in thecity who knew Aberdeen's starting 11 the night before each game andoften posted it on the internet. It was being leaked to him by oneof his bar's regulars - a ...
Walk down Love Street can lead to greater things for Wreh; Stewart Fisher says the Liberian internationalist aims to regain fitness and regular first-team place
Nov 04, 2001; ... First Division: St Mirren IT is usually a good idea for those pondering a difficult careermove to talk it over with a more experienced member of the family.When the idea was first hatched - by the unlikely duo of JohnFashanu and Frank McAvennie - of former Arsenal striker and ...