The Sunday Herald back issues from January 2002:
Prodigal sunrise
Jan 06, 2002; ... IN Ireland, change came dropping slow, but when it came, it camewith a vengeance. Long decades after Yeats pronounced it "allchanged, changed utterly" Ireland went from being a backward,repressive, poverty-stricken society to a post-modern, vibrant,sophisticated state. "Of course," says ...
Blair takes eye off India to slap down Straw on euro
Jan 06, 2002; ... THE Prime Minister, who is in India at a summit to discuss theserious dispute the country has with Pakistan over Kashmir, wasforced to break off his talks to slap down his foreign minister inLondon who said Britain's decision to join the euro would depend only"in part" on the ...
Browns' baby in brain scan scare
Jan 06, 2002; ... Chancellor Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah were last night at thebedside of their nine-day-old baby daughter Jennifer, following hertransfer to the neonatal unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary aftersuffering a suspected brain haemorrhage. Jennifer was born at Forth Park Maternity ...
Cherie's shock at acid attacks
Jan 06, 2002; ... CHERIE Blair is to campaign on behalf of women victims of acidattacks after meeting a Bangladeshi teenager who was targeted inDhaka. The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or iftheir family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some waybring dishonour on ...
Arise Baroness Ewing?
Jan 06, 2002; ... Winnie Ewing has ignited a debate within the Scottish NationalParty over whether it should have anything to do with the House ofLords. The party's president has given an interview in which she arguesthe case for taking part, just as the party takes part in the Houseof Commons ...
Autism figures soar in America
Jan 06, 2002; ... Bill Welsh: statistics point to an epidemic of autism The numberof children diagnosed with autism in America is continuing toincrease at a rate of more than 20% a year, according to the latestfigures published by the US Department of Health. The figures show that in the year ...
Edinburgh Hogmanay's Cuban twin
Jan 06, 2002; ... Cuba welcomed the New Year, top, as Edinburgh's revellers were ina Hispanic mood, above Photographs: Image Bank, Graham Hamilton NOT content with being the world capital of Hogmanay celebrations,the organisers of Edinburgh's festivities now plan to bring the restof the world's ...
McConnell pledges to light a fire under the Executive
Jan 06, 2002; ... First Minister Jack McConnell is to light a "bonfire ofbureaucracy" beneath the Executive in an attempt to speed up deliveryof services. After a year in which the Labour-led Executive was tainted byseveral scandals over office expenses, one of which led to theresignation of ...
Scots get 1901 census on net at last
Jan 06, 2002; ... A (pounds) 250,000 campaign will offer the history of Scottishpeople to the world this month as the 1901 census is launched on theinternet to mark Burns Night. On January 24, the eve of the bard's birthday, tourism ministerWendy Alexander will officially launch the website census ...
Parkinson's illegitimate daughter: 'I have been ignored and I hate that'
Jan 06, 2002; ... FLORA Keays, the illegitimate daughter of former Tory partychairman Cecil Parkinson, has spoken out for the first time about herfather and the legal restraints which have kept her silent for 18years. Keays spoke to a tabloid newspaper ahead of a Channel 4documentary to be shown ...
US chilled by plane crash
Jan 06, 2002; ... Eerie echoes: 15-year old boy flew into the 20th floor of bank Ina chilling visual echo of the September 11 attack on the World TradeCentre, a small private plane piloted by a teenager crashed into anoffice high-rise in Florida late on Saturday afternoon. The pilot has been ...
Predict our linguistic future with Popcorn
Jan 06, 2002; ... It's the start of another year, so how about an ego audit? Or areyou content to be a permalance (permanent freelance) with a karaokeboss (one who mouths the ideas of others)? What you need is the one and only new Dictionary Of The Future:The Words, Terms And Trends That Define The ...
Getting carried away with passes
Jan 06, 2002 ... Even allowing for drink and seasonal sentiment isn't WendyAlexander getting a bit carried away with herself (Seven Days,December 30)? Free OAP off-peak bus passes (mibbe) - fitting tributethough it may be to Donald Dewar - is hardly the kind of root-and -branch visionary radicalism Tony ...
Time for some of that vision thing, Jack
Jan 06, 2002; ... Welcome to the year of delivery. Just like last year's delivery-driven 12 months. And soon to be followed by 2003, which is near-certain to be our annus deliverus. Politics has become obsessed with delivery. This is the word withwhich politicians seek to bridge the widening gap ...
Dear Tony: Enjoying the trip? Wish you were here
Jan 06, 2002 ... 'What lessons will the Prime Minister draw from the railwaysystems in south-east Asia on this trip?" The political editor of TheSun was really just clearing his throat when he asked, but theunderlying message of his question will not have been lost on TonyBlair or the readership at home ....
New Year follow-up
Jan 06, 2002 ... WHILE the organisers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay should becongratulated for the way they have managed - and manipulated - thecity's profile as Europe's New Year destination nonpareil, I feelthey still have some way to go in convincing the city's shopkeepersand bus drivers to make the morning ...
daysin thelife of
Jan 06, 2002 ... The Right Reverend John Miller, Moderator of the General Assemblyof the Church of Scotland, currently visiting partner churches inZimbabwe and Nigeria New Year's Eve The last day of the year, andmywife Mary and I are in Murambinda in rural Zimbabwe. Our thoughtsturn home. Soon the ...
insight into the beauty of the biog
Jan 06, 2002; ... works on paper: the craft of biography and autobiography Bymichael holroyd(little brown, (pounds) 20) ALL biography," wrote Bernard Malamud, "is ultimately fiction."This may seem an extreme conclusion but you can see where he iscoming from. Even the most convincing and colourful ...
footnotes
Jan 06, 2002 ... GREAT reference books are invariably the result of obsession. Ittakes a magnificent form of mania to compile the likes of theEncyclopaedia Britannica or the Dictionary Of National Biography. TheMaking Of Scotland: A Comprehensive Guide To The Growth of Scotland'sCities, Towns And ...
The Burning Soul
Jan 06, 2002; ... Two weeks on, Australia's bush blazes still show no sign ofabating. But, warns Billy Adams in Sydney, it is too easy to pin theblame on arsonists. Fire may be part of the nation's identity, butcomplacency and greed fan the flames REGINALD Lyttle was once a proud member of the army ...
Cheques and violins
Jan 06, 2002; ... Labelled a failure before it even began, the Celtic Connectionsfestival in Glasgow is now worth (pounds) 3 million to Scotland'seconomy. How did it change its tune? IT'S cold, it's dark, nobody's got any money after Christmas,they're still recovering from Hogmanay, travelling is a ...
No65 carol vorderman; for those we have harshly judged
Jan 06, 2002; ... TO anyone whose mathematical skills leave something to be desired -which means, I dare say, most of the population - Carol Vorderman'sturn as Countdown's sum-doer extraordinaire is as enraging as it isbaffling. With swot-like ease - and, I admit, a certain grace - sheblazes through ...
Last year this band announced they were terrorists. Then came September 11. Now they're ready to go to war but who are Slipknot actually fighting?
Jan 06, 2002; ... BEFORE September 11, Slipknot were revelling in their status asthe most outrageous band on the planet or "death metal's mutant, nine-headed spawn," as Rolling Stone called them in a cover story latelast year. Best known for their freakish masks and matching boiler suits, thenine ...
After 50 not very glorious years, it's time Elizabeth took a reign check
Jan 06, 2002; ... This year marks the queen's golden jubilee, but a quarter-centuryof royal disasters has left her subjects ill-inclined to startdancing in the streets. The Windsors need a makeover, and PrinceWilliam is the man for the job but can he deliver before time runsout? THERE is a ...
*!@**!*!@**!*!!!; Twenty-five years after The Sex Pistols swore on TV, Madonna has proved we still prefer to stay tight-lipped when it comes to the f-word
Jan 06, 2002; ... 'F***," my mother explained patiently when I first said it, "isnot a word you use in polite company." Twenty-five years later TheSex Pistols obtained overnight tabloid notoriety using the word on ateatime TV show. "What's that you said?" demanded Bill Grundy, afussy primary school ...
Fashion the Downing street way
Jan 06, 2002 ... Fashion for the Blairs doesn't come cheap. Entering the statedinner in Bangalore, left, the couple made quite an entrance. Tonyindulged his wife's taste in ethnic fashion for the first time,wearing a black (pounds) 900 "Nehru" suit in sandwashed silk. Cheriehas used this trip to ...
Don't panic... here comes tony
Jan 06, 2002; ... Like an excited backpacker, Tony Blair is on another whistle-stoptour of global trouble spots. But can his belief in Britain as a'force for good' help India and Pakistan? Westminster Editor TorcuilCrichton reports from Bangalore TONY Blair's return to work and the world stage was ...
Battle stations
Jan 06, 2002; ... The BBC beat ITV in the fight for Christmas viewers and is inchingahead in the ratings war, but are there dangers in its success? ArtsCorrespondent Juliette Garside reports THE BBC's bosses obviously didn't pay much heed to ITV director ofprogrammes David Liddiment when he spoke ...
He's been labelled a Tartan Taliban but is there ANY evidence James McLintock had joined bin Laden?
Jan 06, 2002; ... WAZIRISTAN is a bleak and arid region of north-west Pakistan, itssemi-lawless mountain villages dominated by feuding tribalchieftains. How and why Dundee-born, Duke of Edinburgh Award-winningJames McLintock came to be arrested there by Pakistani border guardsremains a mystery more than a ...
Egging Britain on
Jan 06, 2002; ... Now that the 12 eurozone countries have successfully adopted thenew currency, everyone wants to know what the UK will do. By DouglasFraser, Political Editor Greeted with a stereotypical French shrug,Teutonic thoroughness, Italian disorganisation and long queues and anip of Irish whiskey ...
THE EURO IN Ireland
Jan 06, 2002; ... Nowhere has currency been more closely linked to nationalsovereignty than in the Republic of Ireland. After the civil war inthe 1920s a committee was established under the chairmanship of WBYeats to mint a coinage fit for a country newly independent for theUK. So, you'd think ...
Killer sponge eats through all sealife
Jan 06, 2002; ... A mystery marine animal that has invaded Whangamata Harbour on theCoromandel Peninsula could threaten New Zealand's aquacultureindustry. The parasitic sponge-like animal, which kills all other sealifewhen it embeds itself on a surface, was found growing on theWhangamata wharf by ...
News of the World
Jan 06, 2002 ... A resident of the village of Vesely, in the Rostov region ofRussia, has built an entire house with bottles. Unemployed Alexander Afanasyev calculated the necessary amount ofbottles and has already strengthened the walls of the house that heinherited from his parents ....
Zambian leader issues death threat to critics
Jan 06, 2002; ... LEVY MWANAWASA, the 53-year-old lawyer whom millions of angryZambians have labelled "Comrade Cabbage", has threatened his criticswith death if they try to unseat him as head of state or continue toinsult him. The new president of Zambia has taken a leaf out of the ...
Rank lack of dignity in the honours list
Jan 06, 2002; ... ANOTHER New Year Honours list; another cruel snub to your diarist.Not even a measly MBE. What in the name of Nora Batty does one haveto do to be given a gong? I buy The Big Issue regularly. I suffer insilence while the Trooping The Colour's on the telly. I have beenknown to lend a ...
Betrayal casts doubt over Trainspotting 2; Why Ewan can't forgive former friend's 'lies and deceit'
Jan 06, 2002; ... Trainspotting fans hoping for a sequel made by the original castand crew look set to be disappointed. The film's star, Ewan McGregor,has revealed that his relationship with Trainspotting director DannyBoyle remains as frosty as ever. The two fell out in 1999 when McGregor was ...
New memorial to Iolaire disaster
Jan 06, 2002; ... It was dark and cold and the seas were running high when thesailors returning from war spotted the lights of Stornoway. A hero's welcome awaited these survivors of the Great War who weretravelling home on board the HM Yacht Iolaire that night of December31, 1918. It was going to ...
Bad boy Shane to open Celtic folk fest
Jan 06, 2002; ... LOCK up your booze cupboard. Shane MacGowan, that man of manywords but few teeth, and a drinker of heroic proportions, is comingback to Glasgow. In a late addition to the Celtic Connections line-up, he will openthe festival at the Fruitmarket Gallery on January 17. Colin ...
Doctors urge end to animal transplant ban
Jan 06, 2002; ... Scots surgeons want to see 'unofficial' moratorium liftedfollowing birth of genetically engineered pigs The Department ofHealth is under renewed pressure this weekend to allow humans to betreated with animal tissue, following the birth last week of fivepiglets genetically engineered ...
He dared and lost. Now, after 60 years, this SAS hero's tale can be told
Jan 06, 2002; ... Jimmy Storie is thought to be one of only five surviving foundingmembers of the SAS, whose first raid involved stealing a set of easychairs. Below left: in his early commando days in the desert Storiewas famous for adopting elements of local dress, even the fez Mainphotograph: Karen ...
A Six Million Dollar Man-style bionic eye, developed using space technology, could save the sight of thousands; Sci-fi eye brings hope to the blind
Jan 06, 2002; ... BIONIC eyes that can repair the vision of people with retinaldamage will be given to human patients for the first time later thisyear, as technology developed in space turns fiction into reality. In the 1970s, television's Six Million Dollar Man was given bioniceyes that could act ...
'Turf war' fears over child brain surgery plan
Jan 06, 2002; ... Hospitals in the north of Scotland will no longer carry outroutine child brain surgery if proposals being considered by thegovernment are approved. An expert report commissioned by the Scottish Executive recommendsthat all routine paediatric brain surgery should be carried out ...
[ The most powerful voice in British railways last night vowed that he will not shrink from "banging some heads together"... ]
Jan 06, 2002; ... The most powerful voice in British railways last night vowed thathe will not shrink from "banging some heads together" to sort out thechaos blighting the country's rail network. As passengers face major disruption tomorrow when they return towork after the Christmas break, the ...
[ Finding a solution to the Kashmir confrontation is not unlike trying to cut the Gordian knot with a blunt knife ]
Jan 06, 2002; ... Finding a solution to the Kashmir confrontation is not unliketrying to cut the Gordian knot with a blunt knife. The disinterestedtheorists, optimists to a man, will argue that, given the rightcircumstances, all of which should combine at the same time, it ispossible that the effort will ...
Parties siphon off (pounds) 1.5m public cash
Jan 13, 2002; ... NEARLY (pounds) 1.5 million of taxpayers' money earmarked for MSPconstituency work has instead been siphoned off by party leaders topay for their political support teams. The SNP leadership alonebenefits by about (pounds) 175,000 through this scheme. As with the office expenses ...
(pounds) 23m hole forces elderly care delay
Jan 13, 2002; ... The launch of the Scottish Executive's flagship policy of freepersonal care for the elderly is to be postponed until summer, in astatement by Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm scheduled forWednesday. He is also expected to announce on Tuesday that the (pounds) 23million which ...
Prince Harry sent to drugs clinic
Jan 13, 2002; ... Prince Harry was sent to a drugs rehabilitation clinic after headmitted smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, it emerged lastnight. His father, the Prince of Wales, is believed to have sent his sonto visit Featherstone Lodge Rehabilitation Centre in south London,said reports in ...
Doctors warn private care will wreck NHS
Jan 13, 2002; ... SENIOR NHS consultants have warned the government that the futureof the service is at risk if it continues to make greater use ofprivate hospitals. In a report to the Commons Select Committee Inquiry into the Roleof the Private Sector in the NHS, the NHS Consultants ...
Revealed: the face of Omagh IRA bomber; IRA gunman Patrick Blair planned atrocity
Jan 13, 2002; ... Patrick Joseph Blair, a senior IRA gunman and bomb-maker, is theman behind the Omagh bombing which claimed the lives of 29 people inAugust 1999. He has taken part in a series of republican terroristoperations in which at least 42 people were murdered. During more than 18 months of ...
Outspoken prisons watchdog sacked
Jan 13, 2002; ... THE Scottish inspector of prisons has been effectively sacked amidrumours he was too outspoken in his criticism of the ScottishExecutive's criminal justice system and its plans for the penalsystem. The respected prisons watchdog will not be reappointed after histerm of office ...
Blair applauds Kashmir militants ban
Jan 13, 2002; ... TONY Blair last night applauded Pakistan President PervezMusharraf's condemnation of terrorist groups in his country whichcould bring it and India back from the brink of war. In a televised national address, General Musharraf banned twoKashmiri extremist groups linked to the ...
Labour MSPs facing loyalty test to avoid deselection
Jan 13, 2002; ... LABOUR MSPs have been threatened with deselection this month in afurious protest from the party grassroots about their collusion withopposition parties at Holyrood. A broad range of trade unions secured backing yesterday for astrongly worded warning from the party's Scottish ...
Allied Domecq heads list to buy Diageo's Malibu
Jan 06, 2002; ... PAUL Walsh, the chief executive of Diageo, will this week applyhis mind to the (pounds) 500 million sale of Malibu, the coconut-flavoured rum which they must sell by June 21 to appease US trust-busters. Analysts believe that Malibu - which is distilled by Diageo'sUnited ...
Heading off the rails again
Jan 06, 2002; ... As fears grow that Britain's rail system is on the verge of strikechaos, the most powerful voice in railways has appealed to unions toput passenger interests first and vowed that he will not shrink from"banging some heads together" to sort out the disastrous situation ....
British Taliban held in US Cuban prison
Jan 13, 2002; ... A British national is among those being held prisoner by the US atGuantanamo naval base in Cuba, after being airlifted out ofAfghanistan for questioning. The man, who has not been named, is one of 20 al-Qaeda prisonerstransferred from Afghanistan to the remote US base on Friday ....
Minister to settle ballet dispute
Jan 13, 2002; ... The row over Scottish Ballet may move towards resolution nextweek, with culture minister Lord Mike Watson due to speak at aparliamentary meeting on its future. He is to attend a meeting of the influential education, cultureand sport committee on Tuesday, to respond to its ...
CBI warns Executive of (pounds) 2.5bn rail bill
Jan 13, 2002; ... More than 2000 stations throughout Britain will be refurbished by2004 in a desperate attempt by government to turn the country'sailing railways around ahead of a general election. The stationrefurbishment, announced in the national rail strategy to bepublished tomorrow, forms part of the ...
Rhodes? He'll have had his chips; Celebrity chef is frozen out of Edinburgh after his McDonald's alternative proves a failure with critics and punters alike
Jan 13, 2002; ... Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes's Edinburgh restaurant, which wasrepeatedly ribbed for using frozen chips, is to close next month. Rhodes & Co opened in place of the old children's department atJenners, the luxury Edinburgh store, in September 1999. Within weeksthe restaurant had been ...
US brewery plan adds froth to Gigha hopes
Jan 13, 2002; ... An American entrepreneur wants to build a brewery on the Scottishisland of Gigha, which was bought by its inhabitants 10 weeks ago for(pounds) 4 million. It is the first sign of outside investment in the 3400-acreisland, the subject of the biggest-ever community buyout in ...
They're fashionable, stylish and practical, yet most men won't be seen dead in them and a new exhibition looks unlikely to change that; So what's the problem with men in skirts?
Jan 13, 2002 ... The fashionistas would have us believe they are a basic in anyman's wardrobe, the elite of the world's designers rarely create acollection without them, and icons of cinema, sport and music arehappy to be photographed wearing them. So why won't the rest of theworld's men wear skirts? ...
The Father's Bond; Last week Gordon Brown buried his baby daughter and fellow fathers across the country witnessed his grief, lost for words. John Burnside, himself a new dad, attempts to articulate the complex and often bewildering emotions that paternity brings
Jan 13, 2002; ... THE death last week of Gordon and Sarah Brown's baby daughterJennifer was a doubly cruel blow. Because Gordon Brown had been ahigh-profile expectant father, his joy and pride at the delivery ofhis first child had to be witnessed - by the cameras, by us - nomatter how obvious it seems ...
The old boys back in town; It's been a long time since it was worth getting excited about a Bentley 80 years, in fact. So can a sexy makeover turn the fogey's favourite into the car of the moment? Pip pip! says Trevor Royle
Jan 13, 2002; ... BEHOLD him as he crosses St James's for here is an endangeredspecies. His hat, James Lock's finest, is pulled down against thewind; he wears a bespoke Huntsman suit with shiny elbows and buttonedcuffs; the tie is vaguely regimental and his shirt is plain, not oneof those damned Jermyn ...
redemption; for those we have harshly judged
Jan 13, 2002; ... Nowadays not only do we have fast food, we have fast chefs. Takethe artist formerly known as Delia Smith - not only has she shortenedcooking times, she's taken a Madonna/Kylie approach to her image andis to be known henceforth simply as Delia. This is to coincide withthe decision to ...
Glimmer of hope remains for Thin's to stay in business
Jan 13, 2002; ... EDINBURGH-based booksellers James Thin has left its creditors outof pocket to the tune of (pounds) 5 million following the appointmentof administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers by the Court of Session lastThursday. Iain Bennet of PwC believes that by the time the beleaguered ...
Property hawks to pounce on half share in New Edinburgh Park
Jan 13, 2002; ... A QUEUE of high-profile Scottish investors is likely to swoop inthe coming weeks if Edinburgh's council decides to dispose of itshalf share in the successful New Edinburgh Park. David Murray, Tom Hunter, Brian Souter and Anne Gloag are amongtycoons expected to be in the frame, but ...