The Sunday Herald back issues from January 2005:
The lost weekend
Jan 02, 2005; ... Lazy days just lying around call for extra layers in the prettiestprints and iced sorbet shades Model: Stephanie at Model Team Scotland Make-up and hair: AinslieCurrie (07775 665 785) using Space NK Fashion assistant: DeborahKeogh Photographed at Solsgirth House by Dollar, ...
Klos is too hot to handle
Jan 02, 2005; ... Dundee United 1 1 Rangers McCracken 10 (1-0) Namouchi 88 Subs not used: Jarvie, Samuel,Dodds, Scotland, Innes, Gardiner, Kenneth. Booked: Ritchie 33. Referee: M McCurry. Bullock Wilson McCracken Ritchie Archibald Kerr Brebner McInnesRobson Grady McIntyre Klos ...
gorgeous Beauty sleep
Jan 02, 2005; ... After the hectic pace of December, it 's time to recharge andutilise the hours of sleep to heal your body and soul Feel like you're having a face lift each time you go to bed. Four or five drops ofthis protective serum neutralises skindamaging free radicals andboosts the effectiveness of ...
AN INNOCENT ABROAD?With her first book, The Bookseller Of Kabul, Norwegian writer Asne Seierstad found fame, controversy and legal action. Now, after writing about Iraq, she says being more humble helps
Jan 02, 2005; ... "M AYBE, " considers Asne Seierstad, " I have too blue eyes." The34-year-old Norwegian journalist and author of the internationalbestseller The Bookseller Of Kabul, is trying to explain why herperspective on her subjects may always be a little too Western, whyher fjord-blue irises and ...
NEW FACES, NEW CHALLENGES PEOPLE TO WATCH From digital radio to biotech, these eight faces could make headlines in 2005
Jan 02, 2005 ... Amanda Forsyth THIS will be a critical year for Amanda Forsyth, the 37-year-oldformer fund manager installed as Standard Life's first investorrelations director in May. Building an investor relations department at the embattledinsurer's Lothian Road headquarters is the easy ...
7 DAYS
Jan 02, 2005 ... TODAY THE Royal Scottish National Orchestra performs Handel'sMessiah, conducted by Roy Goodman, at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hallat 3pm. One of the world's best loved oratorios, it includes For UntoUs A Child Is Born, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth and The TrumpetShall Sound. Last month, ...
READERS VIEWS
Jan 02, 2005 ... UKf ertility groups' views ?irresponsible' FOLLOWING my commentsin the Sunday Herald (News, December 26), the Human Fertilisation andEmbryology Authority (HFEA), Britain's fertility watchdog and one ofits co-founders, Josephine Quintavalle, an anti-abortion campaignerand spokeswoman for ...
News of Campbell's coming fails to warm fans' hearts
Jan 02, 2005; ... St Mirren 1 1 Partick Thistle (0-1) Fleming 41 Subs: Russell for McGinty 73, O'Neill for Murray76, Paateleinen for Kean 81. Not used: Baird, Woods. Referee: J Underhill. Hinchcliffe McGowne Millen Broadfoot Van Zanten McCay MurrayReilly Lappin Kean McGinty ...
Most expensive MSP blasted on voting record Raffan missed 40% of votes in year
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE Liberal Democrat MSP who claimed over [pounds]40,000 intravelling expenses - the highest of any member of the Scottishparliament - has the worst voting record in his party, the SundayHerald can reveal. Keith Raffan, a representative for Mid Scotland and Fife, hasparticipated ...
WAITING [pounds]1 billion has been pledged to help the survivors of last week's tragedy, but as the aid fails to reach them their lives are threatened by disease and starvation
Jan 02, 2005; ... AS the money pouring in from a shocked world topped the [pounds]1billion mark last night, hundreds of thousands of tsunami survivorshuddled under makeshift shelters waiting for aid which still - sevendays after the largest natural disaster in living memory - cannotreach them. The ...
News flash: who cares about foreign floods as long as Jet Li's foot recovers and the stock market soars?
Jan 02, 2005; ... IT surely was a disastrous festive season. On Corrie (the streetin Lancashire telly-land, not the picturesque hamlet on Arran) therewas the prospect of a baby perishing in a burning car. In Holby City,a petrol tanker crashed into a hospital with death and destructionlingering on from ...
star is born It 's only January and already Imelda Staunton has given what may be the year 's best performance. Can the actress who once voiced a bossy chicken really win an Oscar? She tells Peter Ross about her upbringing, her mother 's recent death, and playing an abortionist in Vera Drake
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE DAY before I was due to interview Imelda Staunton, her mother,Bridie, died unexpectedly. All press was cancelled. By the time I meet her some 20 dayslater, she has been named Best Actress at six different film awardceremonies, and been nominated for two more, including a ...
7 Soundbites
Jan 02, 2005 ... "Generations to come will thank us for this, however hard it mayseem now." Jack McConnell reassures critics of his controversial smoking ban "There was a lot more naked stuff they didn't show. I was nude fora good couple of days while being filmed." Leo DiCaprio: his ...
Greater freedom of information, radio consolidation . . . and more free papers?MEDIA
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, which came intoeffect yesterday, could open the floodgates to a new era ofinvestigative journalism. Anyone can now ask to see any informationheld by a public body, including everything from services contractsto minutes of meetings through ...
Place your bets Alan Campbell selects his 10 top sporting wagers for the year ahead
Jan 02, 2005; ... FOOTBALL Dundee United to win the CIS Cup 18/1 Totesport OK,United are having a terrible season, but with Celtic alreadyeliminated, 18/1 against any Premierleague club in the last four isway too high. The Tannadice club play Rangers in the semi-final, and by thencould have ...
Little & Large Size no longer matters in the Edinburgh derby as John Robertson pins his hopes on silky soccer to claw back Tony Mowbray s nine-point advantage, discovers Alan Campbell
Jan 02, 2005; ... NOT for several seasons has an Edinburgh derby captured theimagination of so many outwith the constituencies of Gorgie andLeith. Indeed, today's encounter could signal a sea-change in thefortunes of Hearts and Hibs. Put simply, a win for the home side at Easter Road would ...
Storm trooper attacks wet and windy day Strathyre hill offers some protection from the elements and good views CAMERON MCNEISH PEAK PRACTICE
Jan 02, 2005; ... WHOEVER wrote the old song Bonnie Strathyre obviously caught thevillage on a better day than I did. A grey gloom hung over the strathand sweeps of rain battered in on the wind. The rain-lashed streetswere distinctly lacking in festive cheer - only a twinkling Christmastree gave any hint ...
Heads up as Tod takes two
Jan 02, 2005; ... Dunfermline 3 1 Dundee Tod 12, 54, McNally 28 Barrett 39 Subs: Hunt for Mehmet 28,Dempsey for Darren Young 74, Butler for Ross 80. Not used: Langfield, Campbell, Bradley, C Wilson. Booked: Skerla 12. Referee: K Toner. Stillie Labonte Skerla S Wilson ...
Window pain Fifa s insistence on strict transfer windows is meeting with opposition. After Bosman and Bosman 2, don t rule out further changes to an unsatisfactory system, says Michael Grant
Jan 02, 2005; ... NINE years ago there was the landmark Bosman ruling and, in 2001,there came the less-heralded sequel known as Bosman 2. Fifa'stinkering with football's transfer system continues. There will be further amendments introduced in 2005 to the way inwhich players are traded: Bosman ...
KLOS SHAVE Rangers goalkeeper claims the credit for last-gasp equaliser in 1-1 draw with Dundee UnitedBuffel at Ibrox for contract talks within days
Jan 02, 2005; ... THOMAS BUFFEL and his representatives are set to travel to Glasgowinthe next few days to attempt to agree the terms of his proposedtransfer to Rangers. The Ibrox club's financial director, Martin Bain, spoke with the23-year-old Belgian international playmaker's agents yesterday, ...
WAITING [pounds]1 billion has been pledged to help the survivors of last week's tragedy, but as the aid fails to reach them their lives are threatened by disease and starvation
Jan 02, 2005; ... AS the money pouring in from a shocked world topped the [pounds]1billion mark last night, hundreds of thousands of tsunami survivorshuddled under makeshift shelters waiting for aid which still - sevendays after the largest natural disaster in living memory - cannotreach them. The ...
Threat to health chiefs who ration cardiac treatment
Jan 02, 2005; ... HEALTH minister Andy Kerr has warned that he will "intervenepersonally" if Greater Glasgow Health Board continues to refuse itspatients life-saving heart treatment. Kerr has been outraged at the decision by NHS chiefs in the citynot to pay for drugdelivering stents, a thin wire ...
Just out in the US cinemas
Jan 02, 2005 ... Meet the fockers The plot: In this sequel to the comedy hit, we get to meet GregFocker's folks. Who's involved: All the talent from the original - Ben Stiller,Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson - return,plus there's Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman as ...
NO ROOM AT THE INN. BAA Alan Taylor s diary
Jan 02, 2005; ... A GUID New Year to yin an' a', and especially to DuncanJohnstonSmith, a licensed victualler. Mr Johnston-Smith has thehonour to manage the Sheep Heid Inn, which boasts that it is theoldest howf in Scotland if not the universe. Situated in the lea of Arthur's Seat in bijou ...
Scots companies advised to seek growth through acquisitions
Jan 02, 2005; ... SCOTTISH companies should be looking for takeover targets on thefast-growing Alternative Investment Market (Aim) in 2005, accordingto a leading business adviser. Alec Carstairs, head of mergers and acquisitions in Scotland foraccountants Ernst & Young, said there are a number of ...
DISEASE FROM FLOOD WATERS COULD BE THE BIGGEST KILLER
Jan 02, 2005; ... AFTER the deluge comes the threat of disease. With the death tollfrom the tsunami still rising, those who survived the initialonslaught now find themselves at immediate risk from the after-effects of the flooding. The World Health Organisation estimates that around five ...
FLASHBACK GRAHAM ROBERTS DONS THE GOALIE GLOVES IN OLD FIRM TIE, 1988
Jan 02, 2005 ... The date: January 2, 1988 The place: Celtic Park, Glasgow Thestory: Graham Roberts flings his full frame at the goalbound ball,unable to prevent Frank McAvennie's header from Paul McStay'spinpoint free-kick navigating an unerring route to his top corner.The end result was the slightly ...
The Martin O'Neill experience Managerial twists and turns may prove a factor at Celtic Park today but Stilian Petrov insists he and his team-mates are back to their defensive best, hears Natasha Woods
Jan 02, 2005; ... HAVING developed and honed his management skills during a longapprenticeship at such unfashionable outposts as ShepshedCharterhouse, Grantham and Wycombe you might think Martin O'Neillwould have a rather sceptical view of Richard Gough's occupation ofthe visitors' dug-out at Celtic Park ...
Four corners Foreign Editor David Pratt introduces the week s world news
Jan 02, 2005; ... UNLIKEthose in some professions, journalists are not normallyperceived to be superstitious.But sometimes an almost sixth sensekicks in as the world news agenda seems to go unnaturally quiet orpredictable for an overly long period of time. It was during such alull the Christmas before ...
Rallying: McRae eyes date in Dakar
Jan 02, 2005 ... TWO weeks today Colin McRae has an appointment in Dakar. However,before the 36year-old from Lanark breaks open the cans of beer hismechanics are taking to the Senegalese capital, the former worldrally champion will have crossed five countries and almost 6,000miles racing his Nissan ...
Rebuilding the premier leagueMore teams, fewer teams, play-offs, splits f revolution is in the air but pleasing everybody is a mission impossible, says Michael Grant
Jan 02, 2005; ... ITwould be misleading to imagine that Campbell Ogilvie, thedirector-secretary of Rangers, spends his every waking hour hunchedover a drawing board in an attempt to dream up ever-more imaginativeformats to change the face of league football. The perception isunderstandable, though, given ...
Zsa Zsa's outrage . . .and other secrets they didn't want out
Jan 02, 2005; ... HOLLYWOOD icon Zsa Zsa Gabor sparked outrage among London's artlovers in the fifties when she was photographed half-straddling asculpture in the Tate Gallery, government papers disclosed yesterday. The movie legend put her leg up on the waist-high artwork The Fakefor a spread in ...
Lava 's rock With an African climate, a European atmosphere, an artistic heritage and volcanoes all around, Lanzarote will surprise those who think it lacks class as a resort destination
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE tour rep is a dying breed, according to recent news reports. British holidaymakers are becoming increasingly independent:booking flight-only deals, securing accommodation on the internet andmaking their own entertainment once they arrive. The package-holidaycompanies are ...
So long, farewell... Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Jan 02, 2005; ... LAST WEEK AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET BBC1, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 9PMAPPROPRIATELY, the last ever Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was all aboutgoodbyes. After successfully resurrecting the franchise back in 2000,creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais had decided to finally laytheir brickie comedy/drama ...
Edinburgh reclaims its spot as best place to party Record Hogmanay turn-out
Jan 02, 2005; ... SCOTLAND'S capital city has restored its reputation as the bestplace in the world to bring in the New Year, according to festivalorganisers. After high winds and atrocious weather forced the cancellation offireworks and performances last year, many predicted that touristswould be ...
The Devil's Advocate
Jan 02, 2005 ... Many sporting bodies are too embroiled in their own self-importance to deal with tragedies in a dignified manner IN one of themost heartening gestures of the festive season, the ICC granted thatSri Lanka wouldn't be subject to the usual fines and otherprohibitive measures if they decided ...
Nothing to do with us? The message of the tsunami is that we really are our brother's keeper
Jan 02, 2005; ... AND so a new year opens on a world changed beyond comprehension.Almost overnight, coastlines have been obliterated, islands have beenswallowed whole and the earth itself has shifted on its axis. So muchfor geography; the human costs of the tsunami disaster areincalculable, as the death ...
Bowls: Muir loses national team place
Jan 02, 2005 ... AFTER 21 years of international duty, Prestwick's Jim Muir hasbeen dropped from the Scottish indoor national team for the homeinternational series at Belfast in March. Also missing is WestLothian's Graeme Archer. Muir's place at third in the rink skipped by Alex Marshall hasbeen ...
Gough looks forward to renewing old acquaintances Livingston The former Rangers captain enjoyed success at Parkhead.Now he hopes to repeat the feat as a boss, finds Natasha Woods
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE last time Richard Gough pitted himself against Chris Sutton itwas no contest. The Livingston manager was then an ageing centre-half, coming to the end of an illustrious playing career, whileSutton's goalscoring prowess had just earned him a Pounds10 millionmove to Chelsea. "I ...
SECOND DIVISION
Jan 02, 2005 ... Arbroath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 ForfarAthletic. . . . . . . . . . .2 Fair result? Despite a slow start, where they conceded six cornersin the first 12 minutes, Forfar went on to control this game thanksto some swift counter-attacking football and plenty of hard ...
McNaughton ready for Scotland call
Jan 02, 2005 ... ABERDEEN defender Kevin McNaughton has revealed that he is lookingto establish himself in Walter Smith's plans. The 22-year-old has been revitalised after an injuryplagued fewseasons and problems with his confidence after being tagged "nervous"by Berti Vogts. "What happened ...
something for the weekend The Lodge on Loch Lomond, Luss
Jan 02, 2005; ... Why? You should see Loch Lomond in winter. Splashing about in the water may be off the agenda but there 'sloads to do: play golf, climb Ben Lomond, explore, beach yourself atLomond Shores or just relax. Postcard potential The lodge hotel is tucked in at the back ...
A FEW GOOD MENUS
Jan 02, 2005 ... . . . IN ST ANDREWS With Nicola Filshie, Beauty in Beauty And The Beast at the ByreTheatre Nahm-Jim Thai Restaurant 11 Crails Lane 01334 474000 THIS is a really, really lovely Thai place. I went recently withthe rest of the cast and we were all over-awed by the food ...
UNITED IN THEIR FAILINGS A single body co-ordinating all aid agencies will ensure a more effective response to disasters
Jan 02, 2005; ... BRITAIN is to take the lead in establishing a new internationalhumanitarian aid fund, which will allow the United Nations to co-ordinate the work of international agencies when dealing with naturaldisasters. Responding to calls from Jan Egeland, head of the UN's Office forthe ...
The key issues in the New Year GENERAL ELECTION
Jan 02, 2005; ... AS you enter a year in which there is going to be a generalelection there are always questions about the outcome and how it willeffect business. But this time the questions are very different. There are few observers who predict anything other than a victoryfor Labour. The ...
Bootroom 101: Gary Neville
Jan 02, 2005 ... WHILE the Bootroom has no problem with fans concocting conspiracytheories to explain the shortcomings of their sides, we expectplayers, with their empirical knowledge of the game's machinations,to offer a more sober perspective. Which is why we were surprised by Gary Neville ...
'Loonies' brave the cold for charity
Jan 02, 2005; ... HUNDREDS of people began the new year yesterday by bravingScotland's icy waters to raise cash for charity. Around 260 hardy fundraisers donned everything from a pink fairyoutfit to skimpy thongs in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, as theyswam under the famous Forth Bridge in the ...
Getting used to life without Boumsong Rangers
Jan 02, 2005; ... JEAN-ALAIN BOUMSONG will be with Rangers for the rest of themonth. The official Rangers calendar features 12 players throughoutthe year and guess who is the star who will be on supporters' wallsthroughout January? A final slap in the face for a club alreadyfinding it hard to go into 2005 ...
THIRD DIVISION
Jan 02, 2005 ... Cowdenbeath . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 East Fife . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .1 Fair result? Both teams were guilty of passing up guilt-edgedopportunities, with Darren Gribben for Cowdenbeath and Gary Kelly forthe visitors the main culprits. They huffed and puffed ...
MSPs agree to give day's pay to disaster appeal
Jan 02, 2005; ... HISTORIC rivalries were put to one side last night as MSPs inScotland's two largest political parties agreed to donate a day's payto the victims of the tsunami disaster. The scheme, which was agreed by the Scottish National Party andLabour Party groups in the Scottish parliament, ...
Ann exception Amidst the rising conformity of the New Town, painter Sir Henry Raeburn designed one of Edinburgh 's finest Georgian terraces, each home a work of art, revelling in its graceful features and independent spirit
Jan 02, 2005; ... ANN Street has a certain look that makes it one of the mostoutstanding Georgian terraces in Edinburgh. Strong classic andassertive, it exudes the confident independence of the New Townspirit, yet it has a more feminine quality than other similarterraces, with softer, more relaxed ...
First word
Jan 02, 2005; ... HAPPY New Year. I hope you are shunning all notions of detoxingand becoming a better person/ giving up smoking/chocolate/bad men allin the one week. It s too too much, so give yourself a break andpractise the long-forgotten and much overlooked skill of acceptance.So you ate and drank too ...
Playing it safe and sound
Jan 02, 2005; ... NIKI KING QUEEN S HALL, EDINBURGH 3/5 THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in crossover femaleartists, the kind of singers who have emerged from the fertile middleground between classic songwriting and adultapproved pop. Blame NorahJones, if you must, but a more fitting ...
CREDIT CRUNCH
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE consumer boom, which has seen Britons go on an unprecedenteddebt-fuelled spending spree backed by a buoyant housing market, hasplayed a vital role in shoring up the UK economy during the last fewturbulent years. But whether the tills keep ringing in 2005 is goingto be dependent on ...
Winter of discontent Alasdair Reid finds yet more evidence that those in charge at the SRU are not up to the job
Jan 02, 2005; ... AS an illustration of the calamitous shortcomings of thoseresponsible for running Scottish rugby at the moment, there couldscarcely have been a starker or more alarming example than lastweek's announcement from Murrayfield of the agenda for the SRU'scritical special general meeting this ...
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE FROM BLAIR ON HOLIDAY
Jan 02, 2005; ... SINCE tsunami began hitting the shores of the surroundingcountries of the Indian Ocean last week, both Downing Street inLondon and the White House in Washington have been in an apology andexcuse mode. Downing Street has spent days defending Prime Minister TonyBlair's decision to ...
Rediscovered: Jules Verne s lost Scotland Caledonian connections are restored in a new translation of a forgotten novel
Jan 02, 2005; ... FRENCH author Jules Verne is usually more associated with journeysto the centre of the Earth and 80-day voyages around the world thanwith Scotland. But now a Scottish publisher is printing a "lost" Scottish novel,inspired by Verne's Scots heritage and travels, which ...
McCulloch stars as Wigan go top
Jan 02, 2005 ... SCOTLAND international Lee McCulloch sent Wigan back to the top ofthe Coca Cola Championship, scoring the opener in their 2-0 win overSheffield United. The former Motherwell forward scored in the seventh minute, beforeNathan Ellington added a late second. Rivals Sunderland ...
Reality dawns on Bush and Blair
Jan 02, 2005; ... TONY Blair and George Bush finally acknowledged yesterday whatmost people already knew and felt about the devastation around theIndian Ocean. The Prime Minister called it a "global catastrophe". The US President called it an "epic disaster". Although denied by their close ...
Brew's the man Inverness Caley Thistle s new manager reveals the secrets of his success to Natasha Woods
Jan 02, 2005; ... TOMORROW afternoon, while contractors begin to install undersoilheating at the Caledonian Stadium, Craig Brewster will make his finaltrip to Pittodrie as manager of the "home" side. The new year promises much for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, notleast an end to their nomadic ...
Bookends
Jan 02, 2005 ... AFTER celebrating the 25th anniversary of the magazine Granta, itseditor, Ian Jack, received a letter from an unusual source: HerMajesty's Prison in Maidstone, Kent. His correspondent was none otherthan Jonathan King, the Simon Cowell of the 1960s, who is doing aspot of porridge for ...
7 Things you need to know about...the WI
Jan 02, 2005 ... 1Not generally reckoned to be the world's most powerful lobbyingorganisation, the Women's Institute has nevertheless persuaded theBBC to make cuts to its award-winning comedy series, Little Britain. 2The Women's Institute was concerned that sketches involving thecharacters Judy and ...
Hartley driven by derby abuse Hearts
Jan 02, 2005; ... FEW players are anticipating today's derby at Easter Road morekeenly than Paul Hartley. Not only is the Hearts midfielder enjoying the best season of hiscareer, he is positively relishing the hostile reception which awaitshim as a former Hibs player. This will be one of the ...
2005: the year of the lost opposition POWERPLAYIAIN MACWHIRTERsays now that New Labour have replaced the Tories as the party of power . . . and robbed them of their hardline policies . . . this is the year for the Liberal Democrats to exploit their opinion poll ratings at the ballot box
Jan 02, 2005; ... ATa Christmas bash late last year an intriguing politicalencounter took place. Two prominent Liberal Democrat politiciansapproached the leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond.Would he be interested entering a coalition with the LibDems and, ifso, what would be his terms? ...
Fir Park feelgood factor for McDonald Motherwell
Jan 02, 2005; ... SCOTT McDONALD has no complaints about spending Christmas Day inLanarkshire rather than on a beach in Australia. This time last year the 21-year-old former Southampton trainee wasfinally settling on his future at Fir Park, after a period on trialat Dundee United, a short-term deal ...