The Sunday Herald back issues from February 2006:
East-west divide has had its day, and SE must recognise this SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE
Feb 05, 2006 ... FIRST Minister Jack McConnell apparently had some highlysupportive words for Scottish Enterprise (SE) and its currentleadership at the International Advisory Board meeting last week. Those words will have been music to the ears of chief executiveJack Perry, chief operating officer ...
BURN, HOLLYWOOD BURN FUTURE OF MOVIES: DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION With Hollywood's finest directors now exploring the possibilities of cutting out the middlemen are direct sales to the home the way of the future? Iain S Bruce reports
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE bigger they are, the harder they fall. For close to a century,the entertainment industry has provided a legion of capitalists witha sharp eye for the path to riches but now the writing is on the wallfor an entire generation of middlemen, merchandisers and marketeers. With ...
With rivals faltering, Thus puts faith in ring of fibre TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Feb 05, 2006 ... IT looked like a good week for Thus, but all things are relative.Certainly, the Glasgow plc's main rival Cable & Wireless seemed tospiral into trouble with a profits warning and a company carve-up.And it did make two much-needed acquisitions at prices analystslargely approved ...
Longannet adds spice to energy mix ALF YOUNG ON FUTURE OF POWER
Feb 05, 2006; ... SCOTTISH Power performed a significant U-turn on Friday. It hasnow decided to spend the pounds-170 million it will take to clean upits Longannet coal-fired station on the Forth, under the terms of theEU's large combustion plant directive. Previously it had balked at the cost of ...
SCANDAL MONGER: IN THE DOCK
Feb 05, 2006; ... DID they lie about losses? Were there repeated blights on thecompany's apparently rosy figures that were known about and sweptunder the carpet? Those were the key questions in the first week of the trial offormer Enron bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. According tothe ...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Feb 05, 2006; ... HAVE you ever seen Rob Roy's sporran? I have. It's a bit of scabbywee thing, a bit like the man himself really. There's no way RRMacGlooked like Liam Neeson, is there? Or had a wife who starred in ThePostman Always Rings Twice. Anyway, I was one of the lucky peopleinvited to Gleneagles ...
Danish embassy in Damascus torched as 'anti-Muslim' cartoon crisis grows
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE clash between freedom of speech and the values of Islamintensified dramatically yesterday, with the Danish embassy inDamascus being set alight by furious Syrians and the oil-producinggiant Iran threatening trade sanctions against countries whosenewspapers have published cartoons ...
Scottish Labour cronyism row as ex-aide handed second contract POLITICS: NEPOTISM CLAIM POLITICS: NEPOTISM CLAIM First Minister's former adviser awarded consultancy work while no other agencies allowed to bid
Feb 05, 2006; ... A FORMER aide to Jack McConnell was last night caught up in afresh cronyism row after it emerged that her firm has been handedanother public sector contract. Jeane Freeman, who resigned as an adviser to the First Ministerlast May, has been hired by Scottish Enterprise (SE) Glasgow ...
Toxic Scotland: 7600 hectares of land are contaminated ENVIRONMENT: CLEAN-UP ENVIRONMENT: CLEAN-UP Authorities call on Executive for extra cash to rid sites of industrial blight
Feb 05, 2006; ... LARGE areas of Scotland remain contaminated with industrial toxicwaste because government clean-up efforts have been deprived of cash. A new survey by the Scottish Executive reveals that at least 171sites across the country have been poisoned by chemical residues fromcoalmining and ...
Inspector hits out at Polmont JAILS: OVERCROWDING
Feb 05, 2006; ... SCOTLAND'S chief inspector of prisons has attacked overcrowdinglevels in Polmont, blaming record levels of violence in the jail onits expanding population. In what will be seen as a criticism of the Scottish Executive'sfailure to tackle overcrowding, Dr Andrew McLellan says the ...
Gays 'more prone to run up card debt'
Feb 05, 2006; ... GAY men and lesbians appear to be running up bigger credit cardbills than heterosexuals, new research has found. The study of 18,000 gay and lesbians and 4000 straight people inthe UK found that the average debt for a gay man is pounds-2145,while "straight" people owe an average of ...
Baby sign language 'could hinder speech' PARENTING: COMMUNICATION PARENTING: COMMUNICATION Huge growth in signing classes
Feb 05, 2006; ... SCOTS parents are flocking to classes which teach their babies to"talk" through sign language, despite some experts fearing thepractice could hinder the development of speech. Baby signing courses have sprung up across Scotland after thecraze crossed from America to the ...
Scots Socialists give up on first past the post HOLYROOD 2007: ELECTION RETHINK HOLYROOD 2007: ELECTION RETHINK SSP set to focus on list system to aid SNP cause
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE Scottish Socialist Party are set to avoid fielding first-pastthe-post candidates at next year's Holyrood election. Partychiefs have drawn up plans to focus exclusively on the regional voteoffered to electors in Scottish parliament polls. They could also back SNP candidates as a ...
Prime Minister refuses to meet mother of Iraq war victim POLITICS: RENEWED ANGER POLITICS: RENEWED ANGER Blair defends MoD's decision to deny pension to family of Gordon Gentle
Feb 05, 2006; ... TONY Blair has declined to meet the mother of a teenage soldierkilled during the Iraq war, provoking an angry reaction andcondemnation from other politicians. Blair's refusal came in a letter to Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon died in a roadside explosion in Basra in ...
Revealed: McConnell's 'flawed' youth crime policy will create more criminals JUSTICE SYSTEM: YOUTH OFFENDING JUSTICE SYSTEM: YOUTH OFFENDING Police and hearing system under fire as study concludes that 'permanent suspects' more likely to commit serious offences
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE Scottish Executive's highprofile drive against youth offendingis doomed to fail and will actually increase the number of teenagetearaways on the streets, claim researchers. The Sunday Herald can reveal the findings from an EdinburghUniversity study which claims that at every ...
Judicial shake-up would let best lawyers become judges COURTS: REFORM PLANS
Feb 05, 2006; ... RADICAL plans for a shake-up of Scottish courts - including givingall lawyers the chance to become judges - are to be unveiled byministers. The proposals, to be announced this week in a consultation paperdesigned to strengthen the justiciary's independence, include plansfor the ...
UK's secret nuclear sites exposed online TERROR: WEB FEARS TERROR: WEB FEARS Google satellite pictures could aid terrorists
Feb 05, 2006; ... DOWNLOADING satellite images of top-secret nuclear weapons sitesusing a new piece of Google software could breach the government'sstrict anti-terrorism laws, experts claim. Over the past few months high-resolution aerial photographs oflarge areas of the Earth's surface have become ...
Rethink urged over pounds-1 flight levy TRAVEL: FLIGHT PROTECTION
Feb 05, 2006; ... AN influential Westminster committee has called on the governmentto reconsider a pounds-1 levy on overseas flights to protecttravellers when airlines go bust. A Commons transport committee report published yesterday saidmillions of holidaymakers travel without financial protection ...
ALAN TAYLOR'S DIARY
Feb 05, 2006; ... Can Oaten make it three in a row? A WARM welcome back to public life to Mark Oaten, pictured, afteran unscheduled stopover in the political wilderness. Mr Oaten, youmay recall, fancied himself to succeed Champagne Charlie as leader ofthe LibDems but, alas, came unstuck when it was ...
Revealed: why anorexics hide their illness EATING DISORDERS: UNIQUE STUDY EATING DISORDERS: UNIQUE STUDY Lives at risk as sufferers admit concealing condition amid concern over lack of specialist services
Feb 05, 2006; ... YOUNG people suffering from eating disorders are waiting monthsbefore seeking treatment and feel unable to tell anyone about theirproblem. In the first survey of its kind hundreds of young men and womenwere quizzed about their experiences of having illnesses such asanorexia and ...
Blair faces legal test on Trident . . . from wife's legal firm DEFENCE: NUCLEAR DETERRENT DEFENCE: NUCLEAR DETERRENT Matrix Chambers: it's illegal to renew submarine system
Feb 05, 2006; ... REPLACING Trident would fall foul of the UK's internationalobligations on disarmament, according to colleagues working forCherie Blair's law firm. The judgement, delivered by legal practice Matrix Chambers, saysrenewing Britain's nuclear deterrent would be a "material breach" ...
Labour 'flying blind' ahead of vital votes as backbench MPs defy whip WESTMINSTER: A SCRIPTED REVOLT WESTMINSTER: A SCRIPTED REVOLT As Hilary Armstrong loses control of party, the Prime Minister enters a dangerous world in which rebels exercise power and The West Wing aids Tory tactics
Feb 05, 2006; ... HILARY Armstrong's embattled whips' office has warned DowningStreet it could face going into next month's crucial Commons vote oneducation reforms "flying blind" and unable to accurately estimatethe size of Labour's backbench support. Last week's double Commons defeat during the ...
NHS strikes publishing deal in bid to thwart diabetes epidemic HEALTH: EDUCATIONAL BOOKS
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE NHS has teamed up with a major publishing company for thefirst time to produce a book which it hopes will help tackle the UK'sgrowing diabetes epidemic. Specialists from a hospital trust in London have written a guidefor diabetes patients which outlines how changes in ...
Coal bosses to make 'clean, green' fuel ENERGY: POLLUTION
Feb 05, 2006; ... COAL bosses will tomorrow launch a fight-back for the industrywith a campaign promoting new technology that makes the fuel "cleanand green". Speakers from the industry will argue at a UK conference, beingheld tomorrow in Edinburgh, that coal still has a role to play inBritain's ...
FOUR CORNERS SCOTLAND'S MOST IN-DEPTH FOREIGN NEWS COVERAGE
Feb 05, 2006; ... EGYPT While the al-Salaam Boccaccio 98 was sinking in the Red Sea onThursday night, hundreds of relatives had already begun arriving atthe Egyptian port of Safaga, ready to welcome their loved ones backfrom holidays and working trips to Saudi Arabia. Days later those same ...
Why this paper decided not to publish cartoons of Muhammed FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Feb 05, 2006 ... THIS newspaper's commitment to freedom of speech is unshakeableand unequivocal. We stand alongside George Orwell in believing thatif liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people whatthey do not necessarily want to hear. Given this premise, and indeed the responsibility ...
Want freedom of speech? You may not like what you are going to hear IAIN MACWHIRTER ON BLAIR'S DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF THE LORDS . . . AND THE RISK OF MORE FAILURE IN DUNFERMLINE IAIN MACWHIRTER ON BLAIR'S DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF THE LORDS . . . AND THE RISK OF MORE FAILURE IN DUNFERMLINE POWERPLAY
Feb 05, 2006; ... I NEVER thought I would find myself agreeing with Nick Griffin ofthe British National Party, but he should never have been prosecutedfor what he said about Islam. The trial has been a massive propagandavictory for the BNP; it has turned Griffin into the people's fascist,the acceptable ...
'If this was Big Brother, Brown would be evicted' HOLYROOD COMMENTARY
Feb 05, 2006; ... YOU could be forgiven for thinking there is an election on. LastThursday, Dunfermline shoppers could hardly move for politicalcelebrities. Party leaders past, present and future littered thewalkways: Charles Kennedy, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and AlexSalmond. But what were they ...
READERS' VIEWS
Feb 05, 2006 ... Sexuality and lies still matter in the UK DAVE Stewart is correct when he stated in last week's edition(Readers' Views, January 29) that politicians should be judged bytheir political ability rather than any sexual peccadilloes theymight have. The problem, however, in recent ...
HOW TO EXTINGUISH ISLAM'S ANGER NO CARTOONS, NO PICTURES, NO CRITICISM. WELL, TWO OUT OF THREE ISN'T BAD . . .
Feb 05, 2006; ... ACROSS Europe cartoonists' pens are drying in inkwells whileDanish flags, conveniently to hand when the camera crews arrive, areburned for public consumption across the Middle East. Gaza has seensome of the biggest demonstrations in a decade and in Indonesia, thelargest Muslim nation, ...
POWER STRUGGLE IN THE KINGDOM BY-ELECTION: CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES BY- ELECTION: CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES As the political big guns land on Dunfermline, Fife has become a stage where some more far-reaching battles are being played out. By Scottish Political Editor Paul Hutcheon
Feb 05, 2006; ... A24-YEAR-OLD schoolteacher who lives in Dunfermline, Jennifer hasnever had so much contact with politicians. In the past fortnight shehas received leaflets from all the major parties, taken phone callsfrom campaign teams and watched the media follow candidates down theHigh ...
IRAQ: MORE DEATHS, MORE QUESTIONS . . . As British military deaths in Iraq pass 100, new claims have emerged that Blair and Bush decided to go to war two months before telling the world. James Cusick investigates
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE meeting on January 31, 2003 was supposed to take place at CampDavid but winter snow forced a rethink by the White House. TonyBlair's specially chartered plane was met at Andrews Air Force Baseand the British Prime Minister was flown instead to Washington forhis meeting with George ...
North Sea production slump casts doubt on government figures OIL: DEMAND EXCEEDING SUPPLY
Feb 05, 2006; ... A MARKED downturn in North Sea oil production means that the UKwill become a net importer of oil at least three years earlier thanthe government anticipates, according to new figures from the RoyalBank of Scotland. Even the contribution from the Buzzard field - which will ...
Eye on the prize FLOTATION: OPTOS ROADSHOW
Feb 05, 2006; ... STEPHANE Sallmard's life, by his own admission, has become a bitof a blur lately. The 56-year-old chief executive of Optos has, forthe first time, entered the blinkered world of the pre-flotationroadshow. And the opening date is fast-approaching. Shares in the Scottisheye-care ...
Will acquisitions connect Thus to a future free from predators? DEAL OF THE WEEK: TELECOMS TAKEOVERS
Feb 05, 2006; ... THUS, a company that has always struggled to convince the marketthat it can survive as an independent firm, looked more secure inthat role this weekend. A combination of pounds-70 million worth of acquisitions and areorganisation at chief rival Cable & Wireless has convinced ...
Royal Bank ready to take on rivals in bid to become UK's second mortgage lender BANKING: LOANS SHAKE-UP
Feb 05, 2006; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) is mounting an aggressive push intothe mortgage market in a bid to double its UK share and see off newentrants Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. In a strategic U-turn, RBS aims to leapfrog Lloyds TSB, Abbey,Nationwide and Northern Rock to become the ...
'Forestry could fuel Britain in future' BIOMASS: HEATING
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE forestry industry could provide 10-per cent of Scotland'sheating needs by 2020, according to a report to be published thisweek. The Scottish Executive should make between pounds-10 millionand pounds-15m available to fund a capital grants scheme to pay forexpensive wood-burning ...
Small screen set to get smaller . . . and mobile TELECOMMUNICATION: THE NEXT GENERATION TELECOMMUNICATION: THE NEXT GENERATION Network operators are clamouring over each other to claw back their investment in 3G technology. Could TV on the move be the answer?
Feb 05, 2006; ... AS Vodafone and Sky Mobile began charging customers for mobilephone television last week, the industry was gearing up to plan thenext generation of mobile technology at a conference in Barcelona. The move by Sky/Vodafone ends three months of customers being ableto access 25 free ...
Much more than just a Mickey Mouse Frenchman BOSS OF THE WEEK: PY GERBEAU BOSS OF THE WEEK: PY GERBEAU After EuroDisney and the Millennium Dome, PY Gerbeau aims to bring real snow to Scotland . . .
Feb 05, 2006; ... PY Gerbeau, the Paris-born fast-talking company fixer, hasmastered the tricky art of tossing insults at an audience and leavingthem crying out for more. Diminutive, irreverent, energetic and with a haircut resemblingSonic The Hedgehog's, there is more than a touch of the showman ...
Talk 107 trusts gift of the gab to silence doubters SPEECH RADIO: LAUNCH SPEECH RADIO: LAUNCH With only two weeks until it goes on air, Scotland's latest commercial station must overcome scepticism to turn a profit
Feb 05, 2006; ... IT will be like the lovechild of talkSPORT and Radio Scotland,says Peter Gillespie of his new radio station Talk 107. The managing director is a likeable and convincing Aberdonian, butthis converted printing unit at Edinburgh's South Gyle IndustrialEstate seems an unlikely place ...
Enterprise committee looks at aid for troubled media sector NEWSPAPERS: REDUNDANCIES
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE Scottish parliament's enterprise and culture committee is tolook at a raft of possible measures to help the creative industries. Alex Neil, SNP MSP, committee convener, said it would consideradvocating measures that could include investment "sweeteners" forforeign companies or ...
Express under fire over boycott PRESS AWARDS: BIAS CLAIMS
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE head of the Scottish Daily Newspaper Society has accused TheScottish Express of being of little relevance after it again decidedto stay away from the Scottish Press Awards. The Express has refused to enter in recent years, claiming biasagainst London-based titles. It also ...
Blessed are the neds who listen to the word of the Lord, for they are pure gaun tae hivven, by the way
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE Church of England is to unleash a squad of itinerant vicars topreach the word among hoodies in shopping malls, rappers in nightclubs, and other sections of the community hitherto uncatered for byorganised religion. Among the alternative church schemes alreadyestablished under this ...
PLAYING TO THE GALLERIES She's become one of the most powerful figures in Scotland's cultural life . . . without the help of her First Minister husband. Now, Bridget McConnell's vision of a transformed Glasgow is nearing reality
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE story of modern Glasgow is a tale of two cities which rarelyoverlap. The first could be written by the author of No Mean City, acelebrant of misery. This is the city in which 80 kids under the ageof 12 may be hooked on heroin, in which a teenager dies every weekendfrom stab wounds, ...
TAKING POLITICIANS AT THEIR WORDS Political language may seem like waffle, but in fact it uses carefully chosen phrases in a bid to persuade us by stealth. Welcome to Unspeak
Feb 05, 2006; ... AS George Orwell knew . . . and Winston Smith, his most famousliterary creation, found out . . . language can be every bit asuseful a weapon as bombs and bullets. In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the lethal lexicon is Newspeak, defined in modern dictionariesas "a propagandistic language ...
Convivial pursuits ROCK & POP CDS
Feb 05, 2006; ... BELLE AND SEBASTIAN THE LIFE PURSUIT (ROUGH TRADE) 4/5 THERE aren't many bands who would write a song with a romanticdenouement - complete with fluttering harmonies - which revolvesaround a midge. Even fewer would precede this countryside seductionwith a couplet ...
What Katie did next
Feb 05, 2006; ... JORDAN: A WHOLE NEW WORLD BY KATIE PRICE (CENTURY, pounds-16.99) THERE are two sides to Katie Price. And if you're deeply engrossedin this second autobiographical volume while sitting on a train, theperson opposite will get the chance to ogle both simultaneously. Onthe ...
Powerful account of Iraq war lacks target
Feb 05, 2006; ... THE ASSASSIN'S GATE BY GEORGE PACKER (FABER, pounds-14.99) WHY did the Iraq war happen? How did an apparently sane and maturecountry like the US persuade itself that it could pitch up in theMiddle East and impose, almost overnight, a new democratic order byforce of ...
GREEN PARTY
Feb 05, 2006; ... Rangers 0 Hibernian 3 UNFAMILIAR ribbons will be tied to this season's Tennent'sScottish Cup. The tournament's seemingly limitless capacity for dramaresulted in Hearts and Hibs emerging to eclipse the Old Firm lastnight and continue a twin attempt to bring the old trophy back ...
Sproule's one-man wrecking mission rolls on TENNENT'S SCOTTISH CUP
Feb 05, 2006; ... Rangers 0 - 3 Hibernian O'Connor 49, Sproule 58, Killen 77 IF you can't join them, beat them. By the time Derek Riordan cameoff the substitutes' bench after more than an hour yesterday Hibs hadsent Rangers into the sort of tailspin which ensured he would not bethe story of ...
Dream is more real than ever for Rix
Feb 05, 2006; ... Hearts 3 - 0 Aberdeen Pospisil 20, Elliot 34, Pressley 45 PEN THE shock result from Ibrox had left the delicious prospect of aHibs-Hearts Tennent's Scottish Cup final wafting in front of thecapital's football fans prior to kick-off at Tynecastle, and it tookonly 45 minutes ...
FOR RICHER. . . HEARTS HEARTS Alan Campbell reports on the flurry of activity in the transfer market which has given boss Graham Rix a squad to rival the Old Firm
Feb 05, 2006; ... LATE in December, the Situations Vacant noticeboard at Tynecastleintimated that applications were being invited for a number ofpositions. If that was common knowledge, nobody outside VladimirRomanov's inner circle could have guessed an entire side was about tobe recruited. The ...
FOR POORER RANGERS RANGERS Natasha Woods hears Alex McLeish insist that a startling lack of transfer activity need not mean the end of his club's ambitions
Feb 05, 2006; ... IF Alex McLeish is tempted to look towards Tynecastle with enviouseyes, he is doing well to hide it. But then he does not believe amonth of relative inactivity in the transfer market has left Rangersill-equipped to chase down Hearts and a place in the ChampionsLeague. Indeed, the ...
MEET THE OLD BHOY CELTIC: THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE CELTIC: THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE Is Dion Dublin's age an issue at Parkhead? He's just glad he can still walk, finds Michael Grant
Feb 05, 2006; ... SIR Alex Ferguson only watched Dion Dublin out of courtesy. "I haddifficulty imagining that we were talking about a man who could makean impact with Manchester United, " Ferguson recalled of the time hewas sent a videotape by Cambridge United manager John Beck andencouraged to consider ...
QUALMS AND THE MAN This week an RAF serviceman will face a court martial for refusing to fight in Iraq. He joins hundreds of fellow objectors who believe that the war is illegal, and whose loyalty has been called into question
Feb 12, 2006; ... WARFARE is a filthy business and those who choose to fight expectto get their hands dirtied. It comes with the uniform, and all overthe world armies spend huge amounts of money training their people toaccept the bottom line of the soldier's creed . . .namely, that therewill come a time ...
BLAIR NECESSITY
Feb 12, 2006; ... Last Sunday's win over France suggested Scottish rugby could begreat again. For scrum-half Mike Blair, his superb form made victoryespecially sweet. Last Sunday's win over France suggested Scottishrugby could be great again. For scrum-half Mike Blair, his superbform made victory ...
FAITH, PRIDE & AN ELGIN MARVEL MIRACLE MAN MIRACLE MAN Brian Irvine has the strength to turn his new club around, says Stewart Fisher
Feb 05, 2006; ... BRIAN IRVINE knows all about challenges. It is now more than 10years since the former Scotland defender was ushered into a ward ofan Aberdeen hospital to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, onlyfor a combination of his devout Christian faith, alternative medicineand sheer ...
BOSS HOGG SCOTLAND v FRANCE SCOTLAND v FRANCE Alasdair Reid hears the forward is ready to exploit any French weaknesses
Feb 05, 2006; ... THERE was an improbably languid air about Ally Hogg as he strolledthrough Murrayfield Stadium's cavernous President's Suite lastThursday. Granted, his 6ft 3in stature, not to mention a physiquethat suggested he had forgotten to remove the coat hanger from histracksuit top that morning, ...
STENSON QUICK TO FULFIL PROPHECY Betting guru's tips are already paying off, finds Alan Campbell
Feb 05, 2006; ... TO one man at least, the announcement of Henrik Stenson asEuropean Tour golfer of the month for January was early confirmationof the stellar year he had predicted for the Swede. As far as KeithElliott is concerned, Stenson is a live contender to win this year'sOrder of Merit. "I ...
SABRE-RATTLING Former fencer is determined to stand and deliver for Scotland, reports Natasha Woods
Feb 05, 2006; ... WHEN you learn Julia Bracewell was once a highflying corporatelawyer and an Olympic fencer, certain preconceptions tend to springto mind. But substitute potato and petite for any thoughts of power andprivilege and you get a better idea about the youngest - and firstfemale - head ...
LETTERS
Feb 05, 2006 ... I HAVE long found your paper's sports coverage to be the best inthe country and so it was with great disappointment that I read LewisStuart's ludicrous piece of writing on Wales' Grand Slam "Fluke" of2005 last week. In this day and age when international rugby can, at times, be ...
FOWLER LIVES THE DREAM JAMIE THOMSON SPORT DIARY
Feb 05, 2006; ... THERE is a dream - well, a delusion really - that men of a certainage still carry with them while all their other hopes and aspirationshave been shattered thanks to the brutal realities of everyday life.The dream is they will finally get discovered and become aprofessional football ...
COMMONWEALTH GAMES Q&A
Feb 05, 2006; ... Name: Hayley Haining Age: 33 Event: Marathon Aussie aim: My aim is to enjoy myself because I never thought I'dget back to this level after all the injuries I've had. My coachalways says make every race a memorable experience and I do tend todo that . . . whether it ...
WIZARD CASTS SPELL ON SLEEPOVER PEAK PRACTICE: BEINN AN EOIN AND BAOSBHEINN PEAK PRACTICE: BEINN AN EOIN AND BAOSBHEINN Cameron McNeish relishes the sound of silence during a night under canvas
Feb 05, 2006; ... HAVE you listened to absolute silence? Inside my tent it was soquiet it was almost eerie. Winter's icy grip had silenced the hill burns and the waterfalls,the usual background symphonies that accompany any camping trip tothe mountains and the loudest thing I could discern, indeed ...
STILL A GAME OF EMPTY PROMISE THE LAST WORD THE LAST WORD ALASDAIR REID ON THE SRU'S NEED TO ENGAGE FANS
Feb 05, 2006; ... IF the empty seats at Murrayfield today are not quite soalarmingly apparent as some commentators had predicted, the urge tocelebrate rugby's restoration to the heart of Scottish life should bemeasured against an item of news that filtered through from Francelast week. In brief, ...