The Sunday Herald back issues from April 2004:
Tosh backs O'Neill for nine-in-a-row
Apr 02, 2004 ... FORMER Celtic defender Tosh McKinlay believes Martin O'Neill wouldbe well on course to winning his own nine-in-a-row if it weren't forRangers' luck last season. McKinlay was part of Wim Jansen's squad which stopped Rangers' runof back-to-back title wins in 1997-98. "Celtic ...
US Masters; Alan Campbell believes PhilMickelson is finally ready to win a Major and shake off the tag of being the best golfer never to have done so
Apr 04, 2004; ... WILL Phil Mickelson, the nearly man of golf, ever have a betterchance of winning a Major? The Masters, which gets under way atAugusta National on Thursday, is shaping up to be the tournamentwhich could determine how the 33-year-old from San Diego is viewed byhistory. With ...
Scots will be out to steal former coach's Thunder; Stewart Fisher says there will be divided loyalties when Berlin open their season against the Claymores
Apr 04, 2004; ... THE Scottish Claymores' quest to get their 2004 season off to awinning start is dependent upon them showing no mercy to a dearlydeparted part of their extended coaching family. Jim Tomsula may havestarted out on his pro career as an England Monarch, but for fiveyears he has been ...
Odds are stacked against Europeans; Alan Campbell examines the challenge from this side of the Atlantic and finds it sadly lacking
Apr 04, 2004; ... PADRAIG Harrington, who finished brilliantly to claim second placein the Players Championship at Sawgrass last Sunday, will be at thesharp end of what looks to be a weak European challenge for theMasters. Before a shot has been hit, the odds are firmly stacked againstHarrington ...
England end Windies jinx; Dominic O'Reilly sees Matthew Hoggard claim hat-trick on way to series victory
Apr 04, 2004; ... A Matthew Hoggard hat-trick set up England's first series win inthe West Indies for 36 years as a close Test became an eight-wicketrout. England are 3-0 up and will travel to Antigua this week in searchof a whitewash to avenge the humiliations inflicted by the WestIndies in the ...
Snooker: King keeps up run of form
Apr 04, 2004 ... Mark King showed no ill effects from his Dublin exploits as hecoasted into the second round of the (pounds) 597,000 Daily RecordPlayers Championship in Glasgow yesterday by beating Jimmy Michie 5-2. King beat Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White and Ken Doherty to reach theIrish Masters ...
Hoggard hits with hat-trick; Dominic O'Reilly sees the West Indies blown away by a bowler making his mark
Apr 04, 2004; ... Matthew Hoggard became the 10th Englishman to take a Test hat-trick on the third day at Barbados and only rain looks like holdingup another English victory. Hoggard's fourth delivery after the morning drinks break drewRamnaresh Sarwan into driving a full ball outside off and ...
Stanislav Varga should be named Player of the Year; The Devil's advocate
Apr 04, 2004 ... GIVEN their domestic dominance and their impressive exploits inEurope you could stick a pin in any Celtic team sheet and come upwith a candidate for Scotland's player of the season. But surely no-one has a better claim than Stanislav Varga. If ever there was a player who typified ...
Now we know... Gordon couldn't see what he was talking about; Sports diary
Apr 04, 2004; ... Gordon Smith, oor ain pundit, agent, and all-round good guy, hasfollowed in the footsteps of Scotland's referees who areappropriately sponsored by a specs company. Gordon, after years of squinting at football matches, has hadlaser eye surgery and is now a new man with wonderful ...
LETTERS TO THE SPORTS EDITOR
Apr 04, 2004 ... And so it came to pass. The great high-heid yins delivered for thegood of Scottish football with their decision to let Clyde andFalkirk ground-share. As a Partick Thistle fan I am used to seeing myteam gubbed but I am an old fashioned believer in the theory that ifyou finish bottom you ...
Players in bid to halt new EU influx
Apr 04, 2004; ... PLAYERS' unions on both sides of the border have appealed to theHome Office in a bid to prevent a second wave of second-rateforeigners from infiltrating the domestic game. With the enlargement of the European Union (EU) set to proceednext month, the Sunday Herald has learned that ...
Sma' Glen can do without windy city; A beautiful mini Glen Coe is under threat from developers but there is still good walking available
Apr 04, 2004; ... I'M sitting in the shelter of a 12ft cairn. Obviously, by itsconstruction and dimensions and the fact that it tops a ratherinsignificant hill that is neither a Munro or Corbett, it is of someantiquity. A smaller, less ancient cairn lies about 20 paces away. Mist has turned the ...
Runner hot to trot on crazy marathon mission; Charity fundraiser heads to the Sahara for 243km race over six days
Apr 04, 2004; ... Ricky Munday is, at least to those who know him, officially crazy.The evidence for that assertion is, to be fair, pretty overwhelming. On Thursday, Munday leaves for Morocco, where he will proceed torun the equivalent of five-and-a-half marathons in six days acrossthe Sahara ...
Novo's late strike brings drop closer to Firhill
Apr 04, 2004; ... Dundee 2 Partick Thistle 1 IT seemed appropriate that a scrappy goal should win this scrappygame, but its timing and manner only succeeded in adding to thedespair felt by Partick Thistle. Nacho Novo was almost on his backside when he scored the lastminute winner and the ...
Saints dampen spirits
Apr 04, 2004 ... St Mirren 0 Inverness CT 0 It may have been down to the fact thatpromotion to the Premier League now appears untenable even ifInverness Caley Thistle go on to win this season's First Divisiontitle but, for a team with such aspirations, this was a strangelylethargic performance from the ...
Onwards and upwards
Apr 04, 2004 ... Clyde 2 Queen of the South 0 Clyde boss Alan Kernaghan introducednew signing Austin McCann in a bid to freshen up a side which hadfailed to win its last three home games. However, it was the visitors who looked more like title contendersuntil the Bully Wee shrugged off early ...
A point saved
Apr 04, 2004 ... Ross County 1 Raith Rovers 1 BRITISH summer time is upon us but neither Raith Rovers nor RossCounty will have been allowed the luxury of flicking through theglossy brochures just yet. Raith have fears regarding the division's trapdoor, while County'sAlex Smith is not one to ...
Three-goal burst sinks City
Apr 04, 2004 ... Brechin City 0 Ayr United 3 Battling Ayr United kept their hopesof avoiding relegation alive with a 3-0 victory over fellowstrugglers Brechin City. The home side dominated the first half but failed to score andthree goals in the space of seven minutes in the second half saw ...
Hay stacks up double
Apr 04, 2004 ... St Johnstone 2 Falkirk 1 LUCKY Saints came from behind to keep their Championship campaignon track. Manager Billy Stark praised the efforts of striker Chris Hay whosetwo crucial goals pulled a result which seemed highly unlikely at theinterval out of the bag. The ...
Tragedy for Levein in final act
Apr 04, 2004; ... Celtic 2 Hearts 2 HAD results gone the right away Celtic could have been officiallycalled champions this weekend. Instead they will have to settle forbeing labelled unbeatable. With just three minutes left of an epic, breathless match atParkhead yesterday they were 2-0 down ...
Second division
Apr 04, 2004 ... Airdrie United 6 Berwick Rangers 0 Fair result? Berwick wereoverrun from the kick-off. They failed to adjust to the conditionsand paid the penalty. Talking point: Torrential rain left the pitch flooded early on.Berwick may well feel these conditions turned the game into ...
THIRD DIVISION
Apr 04, 2004 ... Cowdenbeath 2 Elgin City 0 Fair result? Cowdenbeath deserved thepoints as they continued their push for fourth spot with this hard-fought encounter. Talking point: Both teams struggled to produce good football aftera rain-soaked first period but the City side looked devoid of ...
Crawford ends goal drought
Apr 04, 2004; ... DUNFERMLINE 2 KILMARNOCK 1 ALL four seasons were in evidence at East End Park yesterday, andthe long range forecast for Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final isthat Dunfermline are every bit as changeable as the weather. Distinctly soggy when the driving rain was at its ...
Revenge runs hot and cold
Apr 04, 2004; ... HIBERNIAN 3 LIVINGSTON 1 DON'T mention revenge. A patched-up Hibs side overcame their first-half torpor to beat Livingston and reverse the two-goal margin bywhich they lost the CIS Cup final. A strange game; Livingston forlong periods were the better side, yet they could ...
Taylor reveals Vogts will keep his job
Apr 04, 2004; ... BERTI Vogts will not be sacked, even if Scotland lose a fourthconsecutive match in Denmark later this month. SFA chief executive David Taylor has revealed there will be no "90-minute ultimatum" put to the beleaguered manager despite yet anothergrim display against Romania last ...
SFA make sure there is plenty of cover
Apr 04, 2004; ... THE SFA will continue paying up to (pounds) 40,000 per match toprovide insurance cover for players representing Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland have decided that the cover is tooexpensive and have stopped paying insurance premiums but the SFA willcontinue to pay insurers ....
Lennon seeks final season in Spain
Apr 04, 2004; ... NEIL Lennon wants to spend a season in Spain before bringing thecurtain down on his career. The Celtic midfielder will be 33 in Juneand is under contract at Parkhead until the end of next season. Having become an enthusiastic follower of La Liga on television,though, Lennon is ...
Broch victory sets up Clach semi-final
Apr 04, 2004 ... Fraserburgh cruised into the semi-final of the Fosters HighlandLeague Cup after a convincing 4-1 victory at Inverurie. The Broch hit a brace in either half with Neil Main and new boyIan Murray netting for the Black and Whites, while Andy Low pulledone back for Locos. After ...
Bush - the inside story
Apr 04, 2004; ... Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror by richard aclarke (hamish hamilton, (pounds) 16.99) THIS is a very scary book. In the aftermath of 9/11, RichardClarke was the US's crisis manager, a man who had served sevenpresidents and worked within the White House for ...
Britain dissected
Apr 04, 2004; ... who runs this place? the anatomy of britain in the 21st century byanthony sampson(john murray, (pounds) 20) Anthony Sampson firstdissected the anatomy of Britain in 1962. His book of the same namebecame an instant best-seller. It identified the networks ofoverlapping power and influence ...
The nightmare is over for the BBC
Apr 04, 2004 ... As daylight broke over Broadcasting House on Friday morning, JamesNaughtie made a good fist of trying to conceal the Beeb's collectivedelight when he announced on the Today programme that Michael Gradehad been appointed chairman and, in effect, guardian-godfather of thecorporation. It ...
The single most important issue now facing Britain
Apr 04, 2004 ... It is a card that none of our main political parties wants to beseen as playing. Each tip-toes round it, either pretending it is athing of the past or a scare of the future, evoked only by extremistright-wing organisations. The card is race - and last week in theCommons at Prime ...
Readers'views
Apr 04, 2004 ... Tragedy in the classical sense Among much sensible reporting aboutStrathclyde University's decision not to train classics teachers nextsession, after my retirement as the university's sole remainingclassics teacher, much ignorance, distortion and confusion hasemerged. Hostility ...
Hypocrisy Bordering On The Ludicrous; Iain Macwhirter reluctantly accepts that the sun's immigrant song hashit the right notes
Apr 04, 2004; ... It's always hard to face up to your own prejudices - especiallywhen they are about immigration. I've had to address some of my ownprejudices this week - not against immigrants themselves but againstright-wingers who victimise them. Sometimes, even The Sun gets itright. Normally ...
Lingerbay: a stonewall case for listening to the islanders; Muriel Gray claims landmark decision proves need to provide aid for Harris
Apr 04, 2004; ... The historian and ex-Crofting Commission chief Jim Hunter isalways worth listening to. At a recent conference examining theincreasingly well-targeted regenerative powers of the NationalHeritage Lottery Fund, Hunter gave a moving speech about why theHighland spirit, not just the land, had ...
MSPs talk up Scotland for language unit base
Apr 04, 2004; ... Catalans, Welsh, Basques and Scots could soon all be competing toattract a new European body that will protect minority languages. A European Minority Languages Agency looks likely to be set up toencourage minority tongues such as Gaelic, Breton and perhaps Scotsto flourish ....
(pounds) 300m air routes boost
Apr 04, 2004; ... Direct air routes to Scotland backed by the Scottish Executive's(pounds) 6.8 million route development fund have delivered (pounds)300m in value to the Scottish economy, writes Ken Symon. Jim Wallace, the enterprise minister, outlined the economicbenefit figure ahead of the launch ...
Edinburgh Crystal cuts Caithness deal
Apr 04, 2004; ... THE Edinburgh Crystal Glass Company has acquired rival businessCaithness Glass for an undisclosed sum from receivers Deloitte. The deal, first revealed by the Sunday Herald last week, will seea significant number of Caithness Glass's 112 remaining employees,who are based in Perth ...
Bioscience guru in plan to unlock global millions; 'Biocatalyst village' to nurture Scottish university spin-outs and harness cash from US and Europe
Apr 04, 2004; ... THE leading American entrepreneur who founded the world's thirdlargest bioscience company Genzyme is set to create a "biocatalystvillage" in Scotland with the aim of starting eight companies beforethe end of 2005. Multi-millionaire Sheridan Snyder plans to use his ...
Salmond attacks Treasury over 'plot' to force mutuals out of business
Apr 04, 2004; ... ALEX Salmond, the SNP's leader at Westminster, has launched afurious tirade at the Treasury and regulators for "setting out todestroy the entire mutual sector". The outburst came after Royal London, the mutually owned insurerthat owns Scottish Life, claimed to him in private ...
Fable bodied; Born in England to Pakistani parents, and now working as a GP in Glasgow, Suhayl Saadi is not your typical Scottish novelist. But, as Alan Taylor reports, his debut novel certainly takes the pulse of the city
Apr 04, 2004; ... SUHAYL Saadi never set out to become a writer; what he reallywanted to be was a musician. With that aim in mind, he tried doggedlyto learn several instruments, none of them successfully. "I wasn'tmediocre," he cackles. "I was crap." Now he had no alternative but tobecome a writer since ...
French dressing; The Auld Alliance is alive and well in the lifestyle of Sonia Rykiel designer April Crichton. Eva Arrighi meets the fashion creator who splits her time between Glasgow and Paris
Apr 04, 2004; ... APRIL Crichton greets us at the door of her light-filled apartmentin Glasgow's west end. Her raven hair is tied back in a looseponytail; she's wearing a bold strawberry print T-shirt and knee-length denim skirt with deep front pockets, both pieces from thespring/summer collection she ...
BUSINESS DIARY; A few morsels from the great and not so good
Apr 04, 2004 ... Green's wise words Philip Green, the retail entrepreneur, who ownsabout 15% of the British high street and is worth a measly (pounds) 2billion or thereabouts, was in good form at a speaking engagement inGlasgow last week. Speaking ruefully of his unsuccessful takeover of the ...
History tells us we shouldn't let Standard slip
Apr 04, 2004 ... In the 1880s there were an astonishing 30 insurance companies inEdinburgh's George Street. Today there is but a solitary survivor -Standard Life, which has its investments office at number one, inwhat was once the mutual assurer's headquarters. All the others have merged, been ...
Planning system needs fixed, not a tinkering
Apr 04, 2004 ... The Scottish Executive is sitting on a big opportunity. It haspledged that it will put economic growth at the top of the agenda.But it can blow that promise wide open and much of our economicperformance with it. How? If it does go ahead with an ill-thought outthird-party right of appeal ...
Scots business tax: just how low can you get?; Alf Young; on using taxation to retain HQs
Apr 04, 2004; ... WHEN the Scottish National Party embraced low rates of corporatetaxation as their preferred method of competing in the world and re-energising the Scottish economy, they were consciously positioningthemselves as an avowedly pro-market political party. They have, like any party of ...
Sinking of the Mayflower raises yet more questions
Apr 04, 2004; ... A gem of corporate arrogance and obfuscation emerged last week inthe sorry saga of the wilting of Mayflower. The company's 2002 annual report made a point of insisting thatcompliance with the Higgs report on corporate governance "couldimpose an excessive burden and cost on the ...
Zurich; The affluent Swiss city really has a heart of gold and the chocolate is good too
Apr 04, 2004; ... ZURICH has a lot to answer for. Albert Einstein met his first wifethere while bunking off from nuclear physics lessons at the localpolytechnic; James Joyce banged out the first draft of Ulysses in thecity; it was the birthplace of Dadaism's artistic daftness; evenLenin spent the months ...
Future looks healthy for Ardana
Apr 04, 2004 ... Ardana Bioscience has received UK regulatory approval for itsandrogen replacement therapy, paving the way for its first productlaunch and taking it a step closer to a stock exchange listing. The official documentation for the licence should be completed byits US creator Columbia ...
Call for tax breaks to end oil-deal deadlock
Apr 04, 2004; ... LEADING figures in the North Sea oil industry are calling onEuropean governments to provide financial incentives toinfrastructure owners in order to free up access for new operatorsand to help break a deal-making deadlock in the province. The call for action to ensure better ...
Coming up this week
Apr 04, 2004 ... The Standard Life annual meeting will be held on Tuesday afternoonat the Edinburgh ...
Executive urged to throw Scotland The Brand lifeline by giving it role
Apr 04, 2004; ... Scotland The Brand could still be salvaged if the ScottishExecutive decides it could have a role in the planned national"Promoting Scotland" strategy. Nick Kuenssberg, the body's chairman said: "If there wasreassurance that Scotland The Brand would be an integral part of thisand ...
First word
Apr 04, 2004; ... I Can remember Glasgow before the M8; and when you pre-datemotorways, you know you're in trouble. What else? Buchanan Streetwhen you could drive on it, when Buchanan Galleries was just a muddycar park with one cobbled street and a wee island of a pub in themiddle. I remember going to ...
KPMG predicts increase in flotations on the stock market
Apr 04, 2004 ... A swelling pipeline of companies is intending to float on thestock market this year, according to KPMG. Susan Walker, of KPMGcorporate finance, said: "The second quarter promises to be busierthan the first, although only quality companies priced realisticallyare likely to find an ...
SBS holds its own against big boys
Apr 04, 2004; ... THE Scottish Building Society is a relative minnow in today'srapidly consolidating financial services market but the annualresults released this week show the mutual to be holding its own in ahighly-competitive mortgage market. The Edinburgh-based mortgage lender boosted its book ...
Shareholders approve Vis purchase
Apr 04, 2004 ... Shareholders in California publisher Bam! Entertainment haveapproved the acquisition of the Scottish computer games developer VisEntertainment. At a special meeting last week, 79% of votingstockholders said they were in favour of the terms, while 19%abstained. The news means ...
Deals of the week
Apr 04, 2004 ... under (pounds) 500 Singapore, flights from Edinburgh and Glasgow,(pounds) 475 return. Departures until June 30, must book by April 9.City Tour also available from (pounds) 11. Call 0870 234 9912,www.airlinenetwork.co.uk under (pounds) 500 A week in Sardinia, B&Bat Hotel La Playa, ...
Spiralling heights; From a concrete slab atop a sandstone villa built in 1865, a stunning penthouse has been created, complete with a roof terrace and vast expanses of glazing to really let in the light
Apr 04, 2004; ... Ayton House, a beautiful sandstone villa built in 1865 inGlasgow's leafy Dowanhill, is a building with a fascinating history.It has evolved over the years into an intriguing hybrid of differenttypes of architecture. Originally built in the style of an Italianvilla, a Baronial extension ...
Bingo halls slam 'unfair' advantage for casinos
Apr 04, 2004; ... Planned legislation to deregulate Britain's gambling industrycould lead to a major shake-up in the bingo sector, as operatorsstruggle to compete against "unfair" advantages given to casinooperators. According to Peter Perrins, managing director of Inverness-basedCarlton Clubs, ...
Investment bank chief on a high with PFI : Private Finance deals will be the unexpected offshoot of the Holyroood fiasco, predicts one upbeat practioner
Apr 04, 2004; ... JO Elliot, chief executive of Quayle Munro, is on a roll rightnow. The boutique investment bank - which Elliot has led since 1999 -has made advising on Private Finance Initiative schemes its corebusiness, and the pipeline of such deals is accelerating asgovernment enthusiasm for this ...
Tartan TV negotiates deal to reach 100 million households across America
Apr 04, 2004; ... Tartan TV, the independent production house that makes programmespromoting Scotland abroad is this week negotiating a deal that willtake its output to millions of US households. Robert Sproul-Cran, Tartan TV's managing director, flew to NewYork last week ahead of the Tartan Day ...
How the wheels fell off Standard Life; As Sandy Crombie and his fellow directors face up to the company's agm this week, Financial Editor Ian Fraser investigates the options open to the beleaguered mutual as the for-sale sign goes up
Apr 04, 2004; ... SANDY Crombie looked haggard, his face tired and drawn as heprepared for his last meeting on Wednesday. It was the worst day ofhis less than three months as chief executive of Standard Life as heannounced the business is to end its 79-year-old mutual status. But the mauling ...
What's the secret to managing cool customers? Chilled chips : Andrew Chandler served his time at BT before starting his refrigeration monitoring company. He tells Arthur MacMillan why swapping phones for freezers wasn't a big career switch
Apr 04, 2004; ... AS a BT engineer, Andrew Chandler was often asked to fix faultytelephones, but many were confused by his "I can't help" response. Asa refrigeration specialist, Chandler's job was to ensure that thenetwork of valves, gaskets and gauges that make up a telephoneexchange box did not ...
The Empire strikes back; Kicking off an 18-page special on the maverick talents who make Glasgow one of the world's most creative cities, Leon McDermott charts the transformation from post- industrial wasteland to cultural powerhouse exporting bands, books, films, fashion and art to an astounded world
Apr 04, 2004; ... BACK in the early Eighties, the idea that Glasgow could be acreatively vibrant city was a joke. Industry was dead, the Clydeflanked by lines of dilapidated warehouses and abandoned cranes. Howcould art flourish here? Changes were afoot, however. The opening, in1983, of the Burrell ...
Radio show gives insight into the world of Scotland's entrepreneurs
Apr 04, 2004; ... What is it that drives entrepreneurs, and what more can be done toencourage a spirit of enterprise in Scotland? These are two of the key questions at the heart of a new radioseries to be broadcast each weekday night this week on BBC RadioScotland. Through the experiences of ...