The Sunday Herald back issues from November 2005:
Future's bright for Scots dreamer
Nov 04, 2005; ... IT has been a good week for Nick Montgomery. First, the 24-year-old midfielder was called up to the Scotland future squad for nextweek's meeting with Poland. And on Thursday, the even better news wasthat Neil Warnock, the manager who made him an ever-present inPremiership-chasing ...
Key Scots firms need 'protection' Leading economist calls for prohibition on takeovers of companies in strategic sectors
Nov 06, 2005; ... COMPANIES that are crucial to the economy of Scotland should beprotected from takeover, according to one of the UK's leadingeconomists. John Kay, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics,said he was not arguing for a "Fortress Scotland" policy. But he saidthat key ...
Standard Life gets GBP1bn Sipps sales boost
Nov 06, 2005; ... MUTUALLY-owned insurer Standard Life, which is hoping to float inJuly 2006, is expected to announce this week that it has attractedsales totalling GBP1.1 billion of Self Invested Personal Pensions(Sipps). The strong sales of the Sipps range have boosted the life andpensions ...
E. on moves closer to GBP11bn takeover of ScottishPower
Nov 06, 2005; ... GERMAN energy giant E. on has finally entered talks withScottishPower which could culminate in a takeover of the Glasgow-based utility, according to sources close to the situation. A Reuters report issued after the market had closed at 5.25pm onFriday, said the talks are still at ...
Chase is on at the Stock Exchange BACKGROUND: a record morning in the City could be the start of something much bigger, writes Ian Fraser
Nov 06, 2005; ... AS fund managers, traders, and investment bankers returned totheir desks on Monday morning, it seemed as if Christmas had comeearly. There was a bigger flow of deals in prospect than at any timesince the dotcom boom of 2000. And with the brighter prospects andhigher share prices ...
Health is wealth for nursing entrepreneur Ann Rushforth buys back 100% control of ScotNursing agency and plans future growth Ann Rushforth buys back 100% control of ScotNursing agency and plans future growth BOSS OF THE WEEK
Nov 06, 2005; ... WHEN Ann Rushforth walked through the ornate corridors ofBuckingham Palace just over a week ago to collect her MBE from thePrince of Wales, she spied fellow Scot Tom Hunter in an adjoiningroom preparing to be knighted. Rushforth is enjoying success on a far more modest scale than ...
Lufthansa to offer la carte flights
Nov 06, 2005; ... IN a market that is divided between low-cost, no-frills carriersand more traditional, national airlines, German airline Lufthansa isseeking to differentiate itself. Dieter Grotepass, the airline's head of sales for the UK andIreland, says that Lufthansa is now giving its customers ...
Tough time for ITIs with resignations and funding worries ISSUE OF THE WEEK
Nov 06, 2005; ... IT was a debate that generated more heat than light with concernsthat Scotland's attempts to identify and commercialise the nextgeneration of important technologies was seriously flawed. The news that Scotland's three Intermediate Technology Institutes(ITIs) had lost a second chief ...
Derelict land transformed for first time buyers Park Lane and Strathclyde Homes link up for GBP60m housing project pitched at Scots eyeing the property ladder
Nov 06, 2005; ... TWO of Scotland's independent property players have combinedforces to build GBP60 million worth of homes on derelict land in thewest of Scotland. Glasgow-based Park Lane and housebuilders Strathclyde Homes willundertake the 462unit scheme at Yoker on Clydesdide through a ...
Fleming launches skin-care line to revive an ageing Britain
Nov 06, 2005; ... SERIAL entrepreneur Bill Fleming has launched a new company tosource and sell skin-care products made from natural ingredients fromaround the world. It is the latest venture for the former Smiley exhaustsentrepreneur who has launched a series of successful businesses andone which ...
Artemis profit rises 143% as funds prosper
Nov 06, 2005; ... SCOTTISH fund management group Artemis has posted a 143% increasein its annual profits to GBP21.7 million In a separate development,Cornelian Asset Managers, another Edinburgh-based fund manager and aspin-out from Noble Group, said it was on track for growth followingthe appointment of ...
In the Pink: Barber lands top job at FT after four-year wait NEWSPAPERS: Editorial switch fuels speculation of sell-off plans by Pearson
Nov 06, 2005; ... IT has been a long time coming for Lionel Barber, but last week hefinally became the editor of the Financial Times. Barber, who started out his journalistic career as a trainee atThe Scotsman, had missed out on the top job in 2001. At that time, Andrew Gowers was appointed over ...
Is there a third way for managing takeovers?
Nov 06, 2005 ... THE bidding frenzy that has hit the stock market over the pastweek has sparked anew questions over whether our markets should becompletely open or whether there should be some level of protectionagainst takeover by foreign companies. Until now much of the debate has moved between ...
Shine light on voting
Nov 06, 2005 ... EVER wondered why, when proxy votes are counted out at a company'sannual general meeting, around 98% of investors tend to vote with theboard, even though the vast majority of smaller shareholders in theauditorium are voting against? The situation tends to arise because most ...
Global scrutiny is no picnic for piece-makers to the peacekeepers SCANDAL MONGER
Nov 06, 2005; ... AS blows to your corporate reputation go it doesn't come muchworse than being held up before the world's media over allegedlycorrupt dealings with the United Nations, in a report led by aglobally respected former central banker. In such cases it is best to clean house and fast ....
Brown may yet be hoisted on his own prudent petard BALANCING ACT BALANCING ACT ALF YOUNG says the Chancellor's dilemma over tax policy is of his own making
Nov 06, 2005; ... INTIMATIONS this past week of Tony Blair's political mortalityhave reawakened speculation about how soon we will witness the long-talked-about Gordon Brown succession. For some, like former Mirror editor Piers Morgan, it's a simplequestion of whether the Chancellor has the steel to ...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Nov 06, 2005; ... AS a short-haired, polo-neck, Levi 501s and Doc Martin-wearing,Ben-Elton-on-SaturdayNight-Live-watching, irritatingly right-onstudent of the Eighties, obviously it gives me great pain to share mycolumn with that old witch Maggie Thatcher, but no one depicts theEvil One with more gleeful ...
'I talk to the cakes and will them to be wonderful. It sounds insane but it helps' THIS LIFE THIS LIFE GLASGOW-BASED LINSEY YOUNG RUNS HER OWN BUSINESS, BAKING LOVED-UP CAKES WITH BAGS OF PERSONALITY WHICH VERY OCCASIONALLY CROSS OVER TO THE DARK SIDE. . .
Nov 06, 2005; ... "I BAKE in the evenings and deliver cakes in the mornings. I'm upearly and make my first delivery by about 8am. All the baking getsdone between 6pm and midnight in the kitchen of my Glasgow flat.Baking is therapeutic and relaxing. I always talk to the cakes andwill them to be wonderful ....
HIS NIBS As Britain's most prominent political cartoonist since the Sixties, Gerald Scarfe has covered everything from Vietnam to 9/11 as well as working with Pink Floyd and Disney. But the roots of his art go back to a childhood blighted by chronic asthma and a resulting fascination with the human body. Peter Ross tries to get under his skin
Nov 06, 2005; ... WHAT better moment for talking to Gerald Scarfe than a gloweringlyshowery Hallowe'en? As a satirical cartoonist he has spent almostfive decades pouring invective upon the great and the not-so-good,portraying them as demonic grotesques, corpulent, decadent beasts,often naked, their noses ...
Blair slams 'woeful complacency' of terror bill rebel MPs
Nov 06, 2005; ... TONY Blair is prepared to see his government defeated in theCommons for the first time rather than seek a compromise deal overnew anti-terrorism legislation. In a dramatic gesture indicating almost open warfare with rebelsin his party, the Prime Minister attacked his critics in a ...
THE TREATMENT
Nov 06, 2005; ... Most things we crave are not good for us: nicotine, chocolatecake, that bloke on the sports desk, you know how it goes. But thereis one thing our bodies seem to love which is also beneficial -warmth. The Greeks were the first to discover this. The physicianParmenides apparently declared: ...
UK Tories shun Scottish party over civil war Visit by leadership contenders now in doubt
Nov 06, 2005; ... THE UK Conservatives last night distanced themselves from thecivil war threatening to destroy the Scottish Tories following DavidMcLetchie's resignation. Francis Maude, the UK chairman, said Scottish infighting was"clearly not helpful" to the party's ambition of seizing power ...
PARIS RIOTS SPARK UNREST ACROSS FRANCE French rioters offer a price for calm
Nov 06, 2005; ... FRENCH rioters last night called for the scalp of the Frenchinterior minister as the price for ending 10 nights of disturbances. As France's prime minister summoned key ministers to a crisismeeting to determine a political response to the riots that havespread from Paris to other ...
Greens aim to make rainbow coalition Members approve plans for a pan- left pact of Greens, LibDems and Labour at party conference
Nov 06, 2005; ... THE Scottish Greens yesterday paved the way for a rainbowcoalition government after the 2007 Holyrood election. Delegates voted at the party's conference for a motion that couldsee Green MSPs form a pan-left pact with Labour and the LiberalDemocrats in less than two ...
Young Scots revealed as least Eurosceptic people in the UK
Nov 06, 2005; ... SCOTS are slowly falling under the spell of Europe, with youngpeople in particular more open to matters continental than any othersocial group in the UK. New analysis to be presented tomorrow at Hansard Scotland's annualconference by Professor David McCrone of Edinburgh University ...
Dalgety Bay awash with radioactive military waste - but the MoD refuses to clean it up
Nov 06, 2005; ... ONE of Scotland's most popular coastal resorts, used by thousandsof families every year, is badly contaminated with radioactive wastedumped by an old military base, the Sunday Herald can reveal. But in a move which has frustrated the Scottish EnvironmentProtection Agency (Sepa), ...
Inspirational son begins his long voyage home
Nov 06, 2005; ... GLASGOW'S Govan area ground to a halt yesterday morning amidremarkable scenes of grieving for one of its most inspirational sons,Colin Macleod, founder and guiding spirit of the Galgael Trust, whichbrought hope and spiritual awakening to so many in the community. Police held up the ...
Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge Glasgow allowed Home Office opt out
Nov 06, 2005; ... WOMEN discovered during raids on brothels in Glasgow to have beentrafficked into the sex trade, are to be offered 30 days "safe haven"in the city, even though the move contradicts current Home Officepolicy. Specialist teams including social workers, interpreters andhousing ...
Craig Armstrong joins National Theatre line up
Nov 06, 2005; ... THE A-list of Scotland's performing world has been signed up towave the banner for the new National Theatre of Scotland. Craig Armstrong, the international award-winning composer, hasjust joined a panel of artistic associates, the cream of Scotland'swriting and performing talent ...
Women doctors less likely to reach consultant level than men Inequality despite more females in medicine
Nov 06, 2005; ... FEMALE doctors in Scotland are less likely than men to be awardedsenior posts in the NHS, despite an increasing number of womenentering the medical profession. A study, published by the British Medical Journal, has revealedthat while 14.2% of male doctors were promoted to the ...
Dentists failing to act over abuse of children Study blames poor training
Nov 06, 2005; ... DENTISTS in Scotland are failing to report suspected cases ofchild abuse because of a lack of training and guidance on what actionto take. Many of the signs of physical abuse can be detected in the form oftrauma to the face, teeth and mouth. New research involving almost400 ...
Sir Timothy Clifford hands vital backing to proposed Scottish photography centre Outgoing NGS boss to lobby First Minister over support for exhibition and Royal High School location
Nov 06, 2005; ... PLANS for a Scottish National Photography Centre (SNPC) havereceived a major boost after National Galleries boss Sir TimothyClifford said he believes the institution's photography collectionshould be transferred to the proposed new centre. In an introduction to his final exhibition ...
Passengers relive terror as pirates attack liner GBP400-a-day cruise ship re-routes after repelling grenade assault off notorious East African coast
Nov 06, 2005; ... PASSENGERS and crew on a luxury cruise liner which came underattack from pirates yesterday told how they watched helplessly asgrenades were fired at them. Hundreds of tourists - including 18 from the UK - were on boardthe Seabourn Spirit when the incident took place 100 miles ...
Whitehall secrecy 'could lead to another BSE crisis'
Nov 06, 2005; ... A LEADING expert on vCJD has warned that a major public healthscandal like the BSE crisis could happen again because governmentofficials are still failing to heed advice from scientists. Dr Stephen Dealler, who was one of the first experts to raise thealarm over the risk to humans ...
Scottish farms still contaminated by Chernobyl fallout
Nov 06, 2005; ... NEARLY 20 years after the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine explodedand showered Europe with radioactivity, farms in Scotland are stillpaying the price. Eleven farms covering 11,300 hectares in Ayrshire and the centralbelt are still so contaminated by the accident that their sheep ...
Drink-driving message failing in 'obstinate' Highland areas
Nov 06, 2005; ... RUARAIDH Potts was a popular 18-year-old with a cheeky smile. Returning from a party at a friend's caravan late one night, theLand Rover in which he was travelling hit a stone dyke, went into aspin and flipped onto its roof a few hundred yards from his house inDrumnadrochit, by ...
4 CORNERS Deputy Foreign Editor Jenifer Johnston introduces the week's world news
Nov 06, 2005; ... Today's elections in the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan will beclosely scrutinised across the world. Although promised a free, fairand democratic election, Andrew Osborn finds that several oppositionleaders are now either in jail or facing charges against the state,which just happens ...
THE END OF THE WORLD AS BLAIR KNOWS IT Resignation is in the air, as another Tony Blair loyalist falls by the wayside and rebel forces muster to stage a coup . . . but will the PM take the hint?
Nov 06, 2005; ... TONY Blair will tomorrow do what he has always done when he senseshis authority is waning. In a defiant show of strength - that will bepresented as routinely ordinary - the Prime Minister's car, completewith police motorcycle outriders, and a squad of advisers will leaveDowning Street, ...
HOW NOW MAD COW ? Rules over the sale of beef from older cattle will be relaxed from tomorrow. But many believe a vCJD epidemic is still a real threat, discovers Health Correspondent Judith Duffy
Nov 06, 2005; ... LIKE many proud parents, Don Simms has vivid memories of his son's18th birthday: but for entirely different reasons than most. "It wasthe last time I had a decent conversation with him, " he recounts. His son Jonathan, now 21, is one of six people in the UK who isliving with the ...
A TALE OF TWO CITIES For 10 days Parisian suburbs have been aflame as racial tensions triggered riots on the streets. Torcuil Crichton in Paris asks if the French nation can withstand the challenge from the disaffected
Nov 06, 2005; ... IT takes only six stops on a suburban train to travel from theromantic heart of Paris and emerge in something more akin to the fallof ancient Rome. By daylight Aulnay-sousBois, a northeastern suburbof the great city, presents an orderly face to the world. The Hotel de Ville, the ...
THE KNOWLEDGE A DEFINITIVE A TO Z OF THE TAXIGATE AFFAIR A DEFINITIVE A TO Z OF THE TAXIGATE AFFAIR Forget the conspiracy theories . . .David McLetchie's demise was of his own making, writes Scottish Political Editor Paul Hutcheon
Nov 06, 2005; ... IT all started over a glass of house red in January 2003. I hadbumped into David McLetchie at Whighams in Edinburgh's west end,where we drank wine and chatted about the latest issue of theSpectator magazine. At around 10pm, I watched as the Tory leaderjumped into the back of a black ...
As Monteith resigns, has Scottish Conservatism become suicidal? HOLYROOD COMMENTARY The Tories seem to have a acquired a death wish, writes Iain Macwhirter
Nov 06, 2005; ... WE'RE used to politicians briefing newspapers, but newspapersbriefing against politicians is something else. New ground was broken last week by the outing of Tory MSP BrianMonteith over his alleged involvement in the downfall of ScottishTory leader David ...
Brown must grasp control before Blair becomes a lame duck Labour leadership
Nov 06, 2005 ... IN 1996, less than a year before he entered Downing Street, TonyBlair promised Britain would renew its democracy; he talked about aparty renewed, a country reborn, justice for all. In place ofprejudice, there would be tolerance and respect. The Prime Ministermust barely recognise those ...
A victory for accountability Taxigate
Nov 06, 2005 ... OUR nine-month investigation into David McLetchie's expenses,which was blocked by the parliament and obstructed by the Toryleader's evasive answers, could be interpreted as an old-fashionedvictory for the press. However, there was much more at stake than the Edinburgh ...
Canadians may be wooed back to Scotland READERS' VIEWS
Nov 06, 2005 ... NO questioning Lesley Riddoch's points regarding housing costs inScotland (Comment, October 30). But, a couple points she made needclarification. One, Canadians do not en masse have access to jobs in the USAwithout green cards. The North American Free Trade Agreement hasprovision ...
Tony Blair, a leader lost to Labour POWERPLAY POWERPLAY IAIN MACWHIRTER reckons that the Prime Minister, faced with internal revolt, a Cabinet in crisis and another Blunkett resignation, should do the honourable thing and cross the floor to a party that would love him: the Tories
Nov 06, 2005; ... ORDER! Order! Personal statement from the Prime Minister: "Mr Speaker, when I became Prime Minister, I promised to govern inthe interests of the whole country and not just one party. I meantwhat I said. Today, I find I can no longer reconcile the interests ofgood government with ...
DODOS TURN ON HYENAS alan taylor's diary
Nov 06, 2005; ... MICHTY me! What in the name of the wee man has come over myvenerable chum, Sir Merriman Linklater? Scriving like a banshee inThe Times, he bewailed the downfall of McLutchie-at-Straws, erstwhileleader of the Tartan Dodos, who he regards as a decent cove torn toshreds by the "hyenas" of ...
NEWS 101
Nov 06, 2005 ... After September's natural disasters it was hoped October would becalmer. Not so. Mother Nature continued to batter the Gulf of Mexico and unleasheddevastation in South Asia. Here's the breakdown on that tragedy plus info on growing fearsabout bird flu, Iran and a re-energised ...
NEWS 101
Nov 06, 2005 ... After September's natural disasters it was hoped October would becalmer. Not so. Mother Nature continued to batter the Gulf of Mexico and unleasheddevastation in South Asia. Here's the breakdown on that tragedy plus info on growing fearsabout bird flu, Iran and a re-energised ...
THE ULTIMATE GIFT OF LIFE THANKS TO GEORGE BEST, ORGAN DONATION IS NEWS AGAIN, BUT SHOULD WE ALL BE FORCED TO CARRY THE CARD? THANKS TO GEORGE BEST, ORGAN DONATION IS NEWS AGAIN, BUT SHOULD WE ALL BE FORCED TO CARRY THE CARD? You're the boss
Nov 06, 2005 ... George Best's determination to drink despite being given a newliver has angered many people. If you had the power, what would yourule on organ donation? Murat Akyol, consultant transplant surgeon, Edinburgh I've been involved in transplants for 20 years. The biggestproblem ...
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY Senay Boztas meets the teens so determined to get their message across, they made their own movies
Nov 06, 2005; ... HOW do you make people from Toronto to Tayside listen to youropinions on the world? You don't have to call in Michael Moore oraudition for Big Brother. One group of Scottish students didn't justget their political protests covered on television - they did thefilming ...
JOINING THE GOLD RUSH OLYMPIC HOPEFUL OFF TO FLYING START DESPITE HORRIFIC INJURY
Nov 06, 2005 ... Next year, the 20th Winter Olympics will be held in the Italiancity of Turin. The British team isn't officially announced untilJanuary, but already the contenders for places are jostling forposition. fresh caught up with several wannabe Olympians as theystart a winter that will hopefully ...
Ben's in a spin over life-long dream to make it to Turin
Nov 06, 2005 ... BEN KILNER Sport: Snowboarder Olympic discipline: Half pipe GOING to to the Olympics is one of my biggest ambitions.That and becoming a pro-boarder. I started snowboarding when I was nine. One winter day the wholefamily was cut off from work because of bad snow conditions. The ...
COOL AS ICE SINEAD AND JOHN KERR
Nov 06, 2005 ... Sport: Ice skating Olympic discipline: Ice dance What do the Olympics mean to you? Sinead: It's one of those things that from when you are a kid, youalways have in your head. If you're an athlete, your top dream is toget to the Olympic games. So to be actually going, is a ...
BALTACHA THE BRAVE IF YOU THOUGHT ANDY MURRAY WAS THE ONLY SCOT BATTING AT THE TOP, THINK AGAIN
Nov 06, 2005 ... THESE are heady days for Scottish tennis. Andy Murray may begrabbing all the headlines, but did you know that the top Britishwoman is also Scottish? The Ukraine might be the land of ElenaBaltacha's birth, but it's Scotland she calls home. As she gears upfor Scotland verses England in the ...
Tennyson and Bront loved his poetry. So why is the Earl of Rochester remembered only as a drunken lech? BARRY DIDCOCK ON THE SLOW REHABILITATION OF A 17 TH CENTURY RAKE AND LIBERTINE
Nov 06, 2005; ... HIS lyrics were peppered with obscenities and satirised peers andrivals alike. He scandalised polite society by partying hard withactresses and prostitutes and yet he has won many fans, among themfeminist critic Germaine Greer. He was implicated in at least onemurder, was an early ...
Bringing Vettriano to book . . .and Picasso, Rubens, Botticelli BUFFER ZONE
Nov 06, 2005; ... ONE of the more notable exercises in Scottish journalism of latehas been the Daily Record's ongoing pursuit of Jack Vettriano,pictured. Scotland's most successful artist (in terms of income) wasexposed, to use tabloid language, for copying images from a GBP16.99reference manual to create ...
What Kate finally did next ROCK & POP CDS
Nov 06, 2005; ... KATE BUSH AERIAL (EMI) 4/5 MOST people - and this goes for garret-dwelling artists as much asit does for those of us with less stellar callings in this life -live in a world where the logical and the rational sit in stonefacedopposition to the emotional; feelings ...
Fighting for a rebel's cause INTERVIEW INTERVIEW It has taken Hector MacMillan 40 years to bring the story of Thomas Muir - a seditious Scot banished to Botany Bay - to print
Nov 06, 2005; ... HISTORY has not been kind to Thomas Muir. There is no mention ofhim, for instance, in the Oxford Companion To Scottish History.Elsewhere, he is remembered - if he is remembered at all - for histrial in 1793, a travesty of justice "made infamous", noted TomDevine in The Scottish Nation, ...
Spraying for a better world
Nov 06, 2005; ... WALL AND PIECE BY BANKSY (CENTURY, GBP20) THOUGH the book is made up almost entirely of pictures, there area few telling anecdotes in Wall And Piece, a wide-ranging compilationof work by Banksy, the mysterious Bristolian who could rightly claimto be Britain's ...
History from the front line
Nov 06, 2005; ... THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION: THE CONQUEST OF THE MIDDLE EAST BY ROBERT FISK (FOURTH ESTATE, GBP25) ROBERT Fisk has been in the thick of it for so long that hiscritics tend to think they know exactly where he's coming from, andwhat he's going to say before he says ...
The accidental sovereign
Nov 06, 2005; ... ELIZABETH: THE QUEEN MOTHER BY HUGO VICKERS (HUTCHINSON, GBP20) ACCORDING to Hugo Vickers, the life of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,Duchess of York, would not have been worth retelling had it not beenfor the abdication in 1936 of her brother-in-law. The judgement may ...
Countdown hit by its own great vowel shift REVIEW
Nov 06, 2005; ... LAST WEEK COUNTDOWN MONDAY-FRIDAY, CHANNEL 4, 3.30PM HOW do you replace an institution? If you're Channel 4, you tryhiring another institution. After the untimely death of lovable dim-bulb teddy bear RichardWhiteley earlier this year, Countdown went into ...
FOREWORD
Nov 06, 2005; ... LIKE a clucking gaggle of elderly ladies, the world's pressgathered at the recent premier of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fireto ruffle the hair of the stars and cackle: "My, haven't you grown!" For Daniel Radcliffe et al, it must have been like every familyChristmas rolled into ...
What a catch! Though spectacular, there's more to Sydney than a bridge, a harbour and an opera house
Nov 06, 2005; ... BOY, has Sydney changed since Iwas there last, in 1990. And it waspretty fabulous then, but in a lower-profile sort of a way. These days, post-Olympics, it's a burgeoning, ultra-sophisticatedcentre-of-the-universe metropolis with crazy property prices thatwould make Londoners baulk ...