The Sunday Herald back issues from June 2002:
Scottish Institute for Enterprise entrusts patent fund to Murgitroyd
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE Scottish Institute for Enterprise has selected Murgitroyd &Company to manage its new (pounds) 200,000 student patent fund. One of Europe's largest patent attorneys, Murgitroyd will managethe inaugural patent fund which is expected to help more than 100science, engineering and ...
Future smells sweet for Merchant Retail Group
Jun 02, 2002; ... MERCHANT Retail Group, which owns The Perfume Shop chain, plans toopen up to 10 stores in the Eurozone by the end of this year, markingthe company's first move into continental Europe where chiefexecutive Philip Newton sees scope to establish up to 1000 outlets. The company, which ...
Britannic Money up for sale
Jun 02, 2002; ... BRITANNIC Money, the loss-making mortgage lending arm of BritannicAssurance, is for sale. It emerged last week that the mortgage arm, which triggered off a(pounds) 44 million write-off in last year's report and accounts, wasbeing "touted" round. "We have had a number of ...
Docuserve ready for business boom
Jun 02, 2002; ... DOCUSERVE, the Edinburgh-based digital printing and documentmanagement company, is expecting 100% growth over the next two yearsin a (pounds) 500 million market. The firm, which is in discussions for next venture capital roundfunding, has launched a new division, Docuserve ...
Standard Life in warning over savings shake-up
Jun 02, 2002; ... EDINBURGH-based Standard Life, Europe's largest mutual company,has raised concerns with the Financial Services Authority about plansto bridge the UK's yawning savings gap. The government and the FSA are proposing to shake up the retailinvestment industry by stopping ...
Wood Group backers see 25 times return
Jun 02, 2002; ... LONG-TERM Scottish investors in Wood Group are celebrating stellarreturns on their investments in the company which will be officiallyadmitted to the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with some making25 times their original stake from the most successful Scottish floatfor a decade ....
Cool Crombie reaps his reward; While many around them have lost their heads, Kenny Kemp finds the head of Standard Life Investments happy with his portfolios' progress
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE wood-panelled stairways and deep-blue carpets of Number OneGeorge Street in Edinburgh give off a wonderful impression of calm.But this sumptuously remodelled Georgian building hides a hive ofactivity. Standard Life Investments owns around 2.4% of the entire UKstock market and chief ...
David Sands warns of shifting markets
Jun 02, 2002; ... ONE of Scotland's most successful independent grocers will thisweek warn almost 400 wholesalers and suppliers that they must"recognise the changing face of convenience retailing" and shareinformation if the sector is to thrive and prosper in the future. David Sands, an ...
Software Graham set to go global
Jun 02, 2002 ... GRAHAM Technology, the Glasgow software specialist, has launched aglobal marketing campaign to target Siebel customers and convert themto using its own customer ...
Bidecom joins up with Goodex AG for joint venture
Jun 02, 2002 ... BIDECOM Solutions, the Edinburgh-based e-procurement and internetresearch company, has agreed a joint venture with Goodex AG ofGermany. Bidecom is already Scotland's leading provider of suppliersourcing and reverse auction management services to purchasingdepartments in medium ...
Neil MacDonald is SEL chairman
Jun 02, 2002 ... SCOTTISH Enterprise Lanarkshire has announced the appointment ofnew chairman Neil MacDonald, following the departure of David Ennisafter almost two years at the company's helm. MacDonald, a successful figure in the business world, joins chiefexecutive Liz Connolly in helping to ...
Organic route for Dowcarter
Jun 02, 2002 ... DOWCARTER, the digital marketing communications company, has beenappointed by Unilever Bestfoods UK to develop the website for its GoOrganic pasta sauce and soup brand. The website will launch on June 5 at www.goorganic.co.uk ....
Plenty more boos, precious few cheers
Jun 02, 2002 ... THE booing that greeted Deutsche Telekom boss Ron Sommer lastweek, as he tried to explain to shareholders why he and his fellowboard members enjoyed a 90% hike in remuneration packages when thecompany doubled its losses and saw its share price cut in half, wasentirely predictable ....
'It's the right time for Standard Life to up its stake in Vodafone'
Jun 02, 2002; ... STANDARD Life Investment's UK head of equities David Cumming hasdefended his stance in becoming a top five shareholder in Vodafone,the troubled telecoms company, at a time when it was known it waslikely to post record losses running into billions of pounds. Last week Cumming, who ...
The vision thing is what we need, Darling
Jun 02, 2002 ... WE hope that the new Transport Secretary takes time to consult hisold Labour comrade, Mark Lazarowicz. When Alistair Darling wasserving on the now-defunct Lothian Regional Council, Lazarowicz wasan established Edinburgh councillor, across the street at the CityChambers, and later a ...
FSB voice concerns over BIDs
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE Scottish Executive's plans to introduce "Business ImprovementDistricts" along US lines would add up to an additional layer oftaxation and represent dubious value for money, say leading businessfigures. BIDs - which involve tapping the private sector to help financeinner city ...
Flowering of a golden Thistle; He almost died of a heart attack, but now Willie McLucas is back and ready to take the gold market by storm, as Kenny Kemp finds out
Jun 02, 2002; ... WILLIE McLucas has no objections to being called a gold digger.Because digging for gold is exactly what he does. This immenselycolourful Scot, a former stockbroker, was a major player in theAustralian mining boom in the 1980s: "I even suggested Weir Pumpsshould buy Warman years before ...
So do Japan's numbers add up, or is it just an own goal?
Jun 02, 2002; ... AS the World Cup finally opened in South Korea and Japan onFriday, Senegal's opening victory over reigning champions Francewasn't the only surprise sprung by an African nation, intent onoverturning all our cosy preconceptions about global pecking orders. Moody's, one of the ...
Vitrolife to sell sole Scottish facility
Jun 02, 2002; ... VITROLIFE, the Swedish biomedical company, is to sell itsEdinburgh manufacturing plant to the French ophthalmology firmIoltech. The sale of the 30-strong facility based at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University is expected to be completed by the beginning of July. The move ...
Scottish beaches worst in Europe
Jun 02, 2002; ... Despite (pounds) 3.5 billion pounds of public investment in sewagetreatment, Scotland's beaches are still by far the most polluted inEurope. If the country were a separate member of the European Union,it would be facing certain prosecution for breaking environmentallaw. A new ...
Cash from chaos: how Britain arms both sides; Neil Mackay asks what kind of ethical foreign policy it is that speaks the words of peace while selling the weapons of war
Jun 02, 2002; ... QUESTION: when is a warmonger not a warmonger? Answer: when he'sTony Blair. The Prime Minister is perhaps the only man on earth whocould visit both India and Pakistan in January this year and talkpeace publicly while privately discussing how to offload fighter-bombers on the Indian air ...
Butler reveals how he suffered in Edwardian Country House
Jun 02, 2002; ... WHAT the butler saw in the hit TV series The Edwardian CountryHouse was very different to what viewers got a glimpse of, it wasrevealed yesterday. Consultant architect Hugh Edgar took the butler's role in thereality television show, which finished its six-part run on Channel ...
Green Goddesses 'travel at 20mph, need a police escort and topple over'; Army's antiquated strike-cover fire trucks risk lives and are unsafe
Jun 02, 2002; ... MEMBERS of the public will "unquestionably die" if the imminentnational strike by Britain's firefighters takes place because of thedire state of the military's back-up fire engines, the GreenGoddesses. The most senior firefighters in Scotland, England and NorthernIreland have ...
Mission accomplished
Jun 02, 2002; ... Clockwise, from above: the Queen addresses the Scottish parliamentin Aberdeen; genuine royal delight on the Scottish jubilee tour; theQueen accompanied by pursebearer First Minister Jack McConnell inEdinburgh; delighted crowds greet her arrival in George Square,Glasgow Photographs: Jeff ...
Countdown to the first nuclear war?; Musharraf may insist it is unthinkable but the prospect of nuclear conflict looms over India and Pakistan. As British nationals flee, can anything ease the crisis?
Jun 02, 2002; ... Tension between India and Pakistan has its roots in decades ofhostility. Anger in India has been rising since an attack on Delhi'sparliament building in December last year, in which Kashmirimilitants killed 14, and two other attacks that have killed nearly70. More than a million troops ...
Fourcorners
Jun 02, 2002 ... I was a toddler during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. In thesepost-cold war times, little did I think the world would ever face anuclear showdown like that again. It won't happen, sense willprevail, seems to be the response of most people to the currentbrinkmanship being played out ...
Poverty, crime, drug addiction, violence why is cinema so obsessed with Scotland's dark side?
Jun 02, 2002; ... Sweet 16, a film by Ken Loach, is a frank portrayal of Scotland,filmed in Greenock and Port Glasgow. Its writer Paul Laverty scoopedthe prize for best script at Cannes last month. Despite criticalapproval for the film, it has raised questions over Scotland's on-screen image, with critics ...
More than footballs spinning at Korea's World Cup
Jun 02, 2002; ... The old fans' line says that football is not a matter of life anddeath, it's more important than that. For the South Korean co-hostsof the 2002 World Cup, selling Korea matters far more than football.Dignity, restraint and good relations with rival Japan are not beingallowed to stand in ...
World Digest
Jun 02, 2002 ... MOSCOW: An independent Russian TV channel which closed in January,triggering concerns about media freedoms in Russia, went back on airunder the eye of Yevgeny Primakov, a former prime minister with closeKremlin connections. TVS, formerly TV6, returned with roughly thesame team of liberal ...
Darling moves over; The new transport secretary, Alistair Darling tells Political Editor Douglas Fraser how he'll tackle 'Britain's worst job'
Jun 02, 2002; ... Edinburgh advocate Alistair Darling stepped into the troubledtransport department last week as Stephen Byers finally exited.Though much of transport is devolved to the Scottish Executive,"Britain's worst job" means his decisions will still impact on hisScottish constituents as ...
What's next for the parliament ... a cross-party consultation on bins?
Jun 02, 2002; ... Jack McConnell's new legislative programme gets tough on hedgesbut, asks Iain Macwhirter, isn't he supposed to be running thecountry? The Queen came to the aid of the Scottish parliament last week -and it's just as well someone did, because it was not a good week forthe new ...
Mafia molls buried by the mob
Jun 02, 2002; ... An eerie, high-pitched hymn, sung by a woman, broke the silencebefore the funeral cortge appeared on the orchard-lined mountain roadabout 40km northeast of Naples. A small army of heavily armed policewho had been waiting patiently in the afternoon sun moved intoposition to guide the ...
News of the world
Jun 02, 2002 ... An Indian man who spent 23 years single-handedly carving a 200ftpath through solid rock says he's still waiting for officials to makeit into a proper road. The track saves local people a 60km journeyaround a mountain range to reach the village of Atri in Bihar state.Dasarath Majhi, a ...
Pro-lifers film in abortion clinics
Jun 02, 2002; ... MILITANT pro-life groups have been secretly filming insideabortion clinics in Scotland and are to release the undercoverfootage in order to "name and shame" the medical staff who workthere. The UK Life League, formerly known as Precious Life, also plans toset up live webcams, ...
Britain upgrades India's Jaguar jets for nuclear use; Nuclear conflict 'unthinkable' but exodus begins
Jun 02, 2002; ... Despite an assurance from Pakistan's military leader GeneralPervez Musharraf that a nuclear war with India is "unthinkable",thousands of British, US and other Western nationals yesterday beganleaving India and Pakistan. With one million troops now massed and ready for war on the ...
Parents queue to sue over bullying
Jun 02, 2002; ... SCOTTISH schools face a "nightmare scenario" as parents and pupilsturn to the law to settle disputes over school exclusions, bullying,children with problems over their special needs, or disputed examresults. A Sunday Herald survey has revealed that almost half of Scottishlocal ...
Swinney: I'll push out anyone who's in my way
Jun 02, 2002; ... John Swinney yesterday began his fightback against party criticsand his political opponents, with a blunt warning to "push anyone outthe way" who threatened his preparations for next year's election. After one of his worst weeks since becoming SNP leader inSeptember 2000 he faced ...
UN condemns Britain's paranoia over refugees
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Home Office today became embroiled in a row with the UnitedNations over the scale of the asylum problem, after the UN releasedfigures showing applications had dropped by almost half across Europeover the last decade. The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said a number ...
It doesn't pay to rail a gael
Jun 02, 2002; ... I FEAR I have unwittingly put the wind up the Gaels after lastweek's item about a prize-winning columnist who also happens to be asheep farmer. For some reason a few prickly Gaels thought I was beinggratuitously insulting. Moi! Or should that be "mi", as they say inStornoway? In ...
'Everyone should have Monday and Tuesday off'
Jun 02, 2002; ... Britain began four days of royal revelry yesterday, marking theQueen's 50 years on the throne with a long weekend of music, pomp andstreet parties. Buckingham Palace hosted the first of two massive outdoor musicevents yesterday, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing to ...
Ireland celebrates, England expects and the 96-hour party hits its stride
Jun 02, 2002; ... GLOOM and acrimony had surrounded Irish preparations for the WorldCup, but they were replaced with jubilation and pride yesterday asfans celebrated their side's hard-fought 1-1 draw with Cameroon. The bitter internal tensions which culminated in an early flightback to Manchester ...
minister who will not be moved
Jun 02, 2002 ... ALISTAIR Darling, right, has warned his Labour colleagues that hestill expects to be nominated as a candidate in Edinburgh at the nextgeneral election, despite his seat facing the axe in boundarychanges. Scotland is to have 13 fewer Westminster seats, and CentralEdinburgh - ...
Workers prepare for a four-week skive
Jun 02, 2002 ... AS if a 96-hour holiday weekend wasn't enough, the English couldbe looking at a four-week skive as employers make arrangements tocope with an outbreak of World Cup fever. Insurance firm The Prudential has given its 6500 employees timeoff to watch as many games as they like as long ...
Why homesick astronauts limit space missions
Jun 02, 2002; ... ASTRONAUTS who take part in deep space travel might encounterpsychological problems and loneliness which could provide a biggerbarrier than technology to future missions, according to a Frenchexpert. At a major symposium on the future of human spaceflight inStrasbourg this week, ...
New law to stop divorcing parents turning children against each other; Scottish parliament to amend Family Law Bill after a 13-year- old hires an advocate in fight to see her sisters
Jun 02, 2002; ... Megan and her father. Their case has highlighted the effects ofPAS AT first Megan seems like any other 13-year-old girl from a middle-class home. She's pretty, but a little conscious of the braces on herteeth, has a taste for tracksuits and trainers and tends to look abit peeved ...
Sex war over Parental Alienation Syndrome
Jun 02, 2002 ... THE American psychiatrist who first diagnosed Parental AlienationSyndrome has found himself in the middle of a gender war in Scotlandbetween the men's lobby and feminists over his research into thedisorder. Dr Richard Gardner, a professor of child psychiatry at ...
Tourists break free at top of mountain
Jun 02, 2002; ... It's not exactly Alcatraz, but some of the rules are the same.When you ride the new funicular railway up to the restaurant near thetop of Cairn Gorm, you are banned from walking out on to the mountainin order to protect its fragile environment. But, like all good prisons, the ...
Home delivery future for prescription medicines
Jun 02, 2002; ... In five years' time, patients will no longer need to visit thechemist to collect prescriptions as medicines will be sent directlyto their home, according to a pharmaceutical industry leader. Dr Trevor Jones, director-general of the Association of theBritish Pharmaceutical ...
Eggs clause could crack key Executive justice bill
Jun 02, 2002; ... Legislation to ban the smacking of children, to toughen penaltiesfor wildlife crime and to bring older youth offenders into theChildren's Panel system is at risk from coalition pressures betweenLabour and Liberal Democrats. The complex Criminal Justice Bill, being steered through ...
Tourist hotspots 'forced' to go it alone; As the new season kicks off, the industry is in disarray with many tourist board offices still closed
Jun 02, 2002; ... "That's pretty hopeless in the middle of the season," complainedthe elderly lady in the pink jacket as she peered into the darkenedtourist information office. At 3.45pm last Thursday the touristoffice in the once-proud Highland resort of Strathpeffer was closed."C'mon Winnie," she said ...
It's official: women are better liars
Jun 02, 2002; ... When it comes to telling the truth, a woman liar may be harder tospot than a man, new research reveals. Women's way with words cangive them the edge over tongue-tied men at concealing falsehoods. Scientists at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh havebeen counting the ...
Artist battles for Lockerbie witness box
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Lockerbie trial's artist-in-residence Nathan Coley, picturedat home in Dundee, plans to make the witness box the centrepiece ofan exhibition Photograph: Stewart Attwood The witness box from theLockerbie trial is at the centre of an extraordinary wrangle overplans to make it the ...
Family meals: a recipe for feeling good
Jun 02, 2002; ... Families gathered around the dinner table, chatting about theday's events over a wholesome, home-cooked meal, are to feature in anew health campaign promoting the emotional benefits of eating withothers. The new campaign by the Health Education Board for Scotland (Hebs)will ...
Fear of private schools backlash hits charity reform
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE Scottish Executive has been accused of "running scared" ofcharity law reform for fear of upsetting private schools and localauthorities who stand to lose their charitable status. Anger is growing in Scottish charities and voluntaryorganisations, many of which claim ministers ...
National Trust unveils (pounds) 4m mansion revamp
Jun 02, 2002; ... The first visitors were allowed into a major historic attractionyesterday after a (pounds) 4 million restoration project lasting fiveyears. Newhailes, an 18th-century mansion in Musselburgh, East Lothian,was opened to the public for the first time. The National Trust for ...
Parliament GM adviser 'should resign'
Jun 02, 2002; ... Environment minister Ross Finnie's senior adviser on GM cropsafety faces calls to resign after being accused of overlooking majorflaws in a study by GM company Aventis. The revelation is bound to put more pressure on Finnie, who hasbeen battling mounting opposition to GM crop ...
re-Examination of history delivers Parcel of books for the modern nation
Jun 02, 2002; ... Scottish history: the power of the past edited by edward j cowanand richard j finlay(edinburgh university press, (pounds) 16.99) thelate medieval scottish parliament by roland tanner(tuckwell press,(pounds) 20) scotland and europe (vol 1) by david ditchburn(tuckwellpress, (pounds) 16.99) ...
Kings again; Camanachd Cup: Kingussie's 3-2 victory makes it six in a row; Alan Campbell says the boys from the Badenoch just had too much experience in their ageing ranks to allow their young rivals a shot at glory
Jun 02, 2002; ... THIS may be the weekend when Brenda celebrates her golden jubilee,but King George V was on the throne when Inveraray last won theCamanachd Cup in 1930. Yesterday, at the Bught Park in Inverness, ayoung side from the Argyll town attempted to bridge the 72-year gapbut, despite the ...
Franchitti puts his faith in Lola
Jun 02, 2002 ... seven days after making his race debut in the all-American classicIndianapolis 500, Bathgate's Dario Franchitti returns to CART FedExChampionship duty determined to increase his two-point lead in thetitle race. The 29-year-old Scot lines up for the start of the Milwaukee Milein ...
4X proves refreshing change on the peaks; Stewart Fisher reports on the four-cross event's first appearance in Scotland
Jun 02, 2002; ... THERE were competing attractions aplenty on Jubilee weekend, butthousands of people couldn't give a 4X for anything other thanmountain biking yesterday. This afternoon, the Nevis Range above Fort William plays host tothe first ever World Cup downhill competition to take place ...
Round-up
Jun 02, 2002 ... In marked contrast to the challenging conditions at the ScottishSeries, East Lothian Yacht Club's regatta had to put up with shifty,calm conditions. An assembled fleet of 36 Toppers enjoyed three races on thewesterly sailing area, while all other participants on the easterlyarea ...
realfood; Attack of the cones; Mission: to find the best ice-cream in Scotland. Foot-soldier: a young Irishman with a penchant for 99s. Result: a fiercely contested battle resulting in a little whip of white cloud churned in heaven by angels
Jun 02, 2002; ... When people talk about humanity's greatest achievements, they tendto reel off useful inventions like the wheel, vaccination androckets. The miracle of ice-cream is always overlooked: that momentwhen mankind held burning-cold ice in one hand and the teat of a cowin the other and shouted: ...
First word
Jun 02, 2002; ... IT'S turned out to be a bit of a scary week. A week when we wonyet more awards. Just waiting to hear your paper's name being readout is a heart-stopping moment. Watching Peter Ross struggle back toour table overladen with trophies decked out in his little penguinsuit like a proud winner ...
Unlovely jubbly
Jun 02, 2002; ... 24Tonight, BBC2, 10pm Ally mcbeal Wednesday, Channel 4,11.05pmIt's starvation rations as royalty and football hog theschedules, but the secret-state thriller 24 provides some gravy -pity there's no meat on Ally McBeal ... HEY, it's the jubilee! Celebrating 50 years of the Queen ...
Homage to a Scot hater; Imperfectly formed by the arrogance and prejudices of his public schoolboy background, George Orwell nevertheless became one of the last century's greatest advocates of freedom and intellectual honesty with a commonplace belief in the importance of every individual
Jun 02, 2002; ... WHEN he was a schoolboy at an insufferable snob establishment onthe south coast of England, George Orwell developed a strong aversionto all things Scottish. The richer pupils at this place were oftenthe sons of lairds, or of parents who owned the rights to shoot andfish in Scotland, and ...