The Sunday Herald back issues from April 2007:
Darling dampens Aberdeen hopes ENERGY: RESEARCH Minister says energy institute not likely to be a large hub and plays down UK carbon capture prospects
Apr 01, 2007; ... ALISTAIR Darling, the trade and industry secretary, has dampenedhopes of a UK energy institute being based in Aberdeen. Darling, in Scotland for the Royal Bank of Scotland's oil and gasconference, said a number of notes of interest had been received fromaround Britain. Oil ...
HEALTH: TOURISM Sun, sea, nip, tuck
Apr 01, 2007; ... IN Sholto Ramsay's world, healthcare is one seamless globalmachine. Patients, regardless of origin, have the option of havingtheir dental implants in Edinburgh, their boobs done in India, andtheir hips replaced in France. The latest cancer treatment is available in days rather ...
WIND FARMS NO EFFECT ON PRICE
Apr 01, 2007 ... Wind farms have no discernable impact on house prices, accordingto a new report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors andOxford Brookes University. The study looked at transactions of residential property near windfarms at two locations in Cornwall, and found that while ...
IOMART BUYING EZEE DSL
Apr 01, 2007 ... Iomart shareholders have approved the GBP4.5 million acquisitionof a 51-per cent stake in data centre company Ezee DSL. The company, which has data colocation facilities in Glasgow,Nottingham, Leeds, Leicester and London, will be renamed EasyspaceDatacentres. The ...
DENKI GAME ON GAMESTAR
Apr 01, 2007 ... Dundee games developer Denki has launched Robotboy: Kamikazi Kidnap, the company's tenth game based upon intellectualproperty from Cartoon ...
Banking group aims to become carbon neutral by end of the year HBOS: CARBON EMISSIONS
Apr 01, 2007; ... HBOS has pledged to make itself carbon neutral by the end of 2007,becoming the first major Scottish company to take such a stance. The bank will offset its remaining UK emissions through buyingcarbon credits. However, the target does not take into account itssmall international ...
Financial Services District to receive a GBP150m boost DEVELOPMENT: GLASGOW DEVELOPMENT: GLASGOW New 'place-making' office blocks will host more than 2500 jobs
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLASGOW'S International Financial Services District is to receivea GBP150 million boost with the announcement that Gladedale Capitalplans to build three office blocks. The scheme is one of the largest office developments in the cityin the last five years and will create 389,000sqft ...
CCTV firm wins police contract SURVEILLANCE: DEAL
Apr 01, 2007; ... A GLASGOW-based technology company has signed a contract withStrathclyde police worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to enableofficers to download live or still pictures from CCTV cameras. Essential Viewing developed the software that will allow imagesfrom police control rooms to ...
ACERGY WINS BIG CONTRACT
Apr 01, 2007 ... Acergy, an engineering and construction contractor for the globaloffshore oil and gas industry, has been awarded a dollars-28 millioncontract to carry out installation work on the Shell Draugen ...
Scottish small firms are 'being left behind' in the digital race TECHNOLOGY : RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY : RESEARCH Businesses warned they risk being precluded from lucrative markets
Apr 01, 2007; ... SCOTLAND'S business community is lagging behind the rest of the UKwhen it comes to harnessing the benefits of technology, and is ingrave danger of losing out in the race into the digital age,according to new research. An exhaustive and detailed survey of Britain's small to ...
Appeal for joined-up skills policy IOD: TRAINING
Apr 01, 2007; ... ALL publicly funded training and skills bodies should beamalgamated into one organisation, according to the Institute ofDirectors Scotland (IoD Scotland). In its Holyrood manifesto, the institute calls for all governmentfunding and delivery of workforce training to be brought ...
Squaring the circles BOSS OF THE WEEK: RON CULLEY BOSS OF THE WEEK: RON CULLEY It's a difficult task but the SPT chief has a track record of success
Apr 01, 2007; ... RON Culley is no stranger to controversy. He was not long into hisjob as chief executive of the Strathclyde Partnership on Transportwhen he carried out a senior management clearout that attracted"night of the long knives" type headlines. Even before he started the job his ...
Tahzib driving for best motor deals on the web INTERNET: CAR SALES
Apr 01, 2007; ... SEAN Tahzib, a Scot who helped drive the success of America'snumber one vehicle website CarsDirect. com, has returned from Americato spearhead the launch of Smartycars. com, a web-based car businessaimed at the Scottish market. Tahzib, who grew up in Glasgow but spent the last 20 ...
Mensah outlines vision for intelligent drama BROADCASTING: STRATEGY BROADCASTING: STRATEGY BBC drama chief unveils GBP1.5m scheme . . . and a less 'soapy' future
Apr 01, 2007; ... YOU might have thought that the woman in charge of drama at BBCScotland would be the person to tell you what to watch, but AnneMensah is having none of it. "I am the wrong person to ask, " she insists. "I watch them all.It's just like with my top 10 of music. I can't single out ...
Scotland set for national commercial station . . . from Norway RADIO: OFFSHORE
Apr 01, 2007; ... SCOTLAND could have its first national commercial radio station in40 years thanks to a forgotten radio tower on a remote Norwegianisland. In a move that recalls the days of offshore pirate stations RadioLuxembourg and the original Radio Scotland, the NorwegianBroadcasting ...
Edinburgh glossy to launch in Glasgow PUBLISHING: NEWMAGAZINE
Apr 01, 2007; ... EDINBURGH lifestyle magazine i-on is to launch a Glasgow editionand has appointed the former features editor of the Sunday Mail to beits editor. Susie Cormack, who left the red-top paper at the end of 2005 toset up a celebrity agency, will launch i-on Glasgow on May 27. Likethe ...
Bridge issue something of an impasse MEDIAWATCH
Apr 01, 2007 ... SOME people are never happy. It seems that BBC Scotland staff arenot content with the traffic flow over the squinty bridge across theClyde which seems to have been designed with the sole intention oftaking people from the West End (say Queen Margaret Drive) to PacificQuay (yes, the BBC's ...
THE BATTLE FOR YOUR DESKTOP FOCUS FOCUS Ever since Google conquered the internet, people have been trying to work out where the company will go next. Its satellite mapping service raised fears it was bidding for world domination but it's not the Earth Google's after . . . it's your office
Apr 01, 2007; ... IMAGINE you could take your whole office with you wherever youwent and access it whenever you want. And imagine that you are asmall business owner who can do that and not pay anything for it. After years of speculation, rumour and many false starts, the muchvaunted vision of a ...
Birmingham's junior market is one worth watching STOCK EXCHANGES
Apr 01, 2007 ... THE idea of regional stock exchanges in Britain is one thatapparently will not die. The long-defunct Birmingham Stock Exchange is going to be rebornthis summer through an online trading facility called Investbx. The aim of the venture is to give those companies that are ...
The chemist shouldn't sell out without a fight ALLIANCE BOOTS
Apr 01, 2007 ... THE one thing that stands out in the latest private equity grabfor Alliance Boots is the relative lack of any defence plan by thecompany's board of directors. With the board agreeing on Friday to open up the books to thebidding consortium backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and ...
BUSINESS DIARY: POLEDANCING, KEDGEREE AND DUREX - A FEW OF THE BENEFITS OF NETWORKING
Apr 01, 2007 ... THE NAKED LUNCH Given that this is a family newspaper, the Diarywas most intrigued to be invited last week to a press launch at theoldest strip club in Soho. It had sounded so innocent in the invitation. The event was tolaunch Clickcard, a "revolutionary online payment system" ...
SCANDAL MONGER:ENRON REARS AGAIN
Apr 01, 2007; ... JUST when you thought the Enron Affair had breathed its raspinglast breath comes another American court case. . . and funnily enoughit is the lawyers who are in the dock more than five years after theenergy giant collapsed. Jordan Mintz, who was general counsel for Enron's global ...
Why we need more big beasts KEN SYMON ON BUILDING BIG HITTERS
Apr 01, 2007; ... IT is a familiar observation when you look at Scotland's businessbase that it has too few companies of scale. And while 90-plus -per cent of businesses in Scotland are smallbusinesses, it is the big companies that are the heavy hitters in theeconomy. I am often reminded of ...
FIRST WORDS
Apr 01, 2007; ... OVER the years, I've tried many diets. I can tell you at 1000paces how many WeightWatchers' points there are in any given cheesepiece (lots). I can recount the evils of saturated fat (many). I knowhow many lengths of the pool can earn you an extra custard cream(it's not worth ...
Gordon Brown has been courting the younger vote . . . but shouldn't we just put kids in charge? FIRST WORDS
Apr 01, 2007; ... GORDON Brown's efforts to come over as a very modern sort of chaphave been less than convincing. He assured a constituency of 10-yearolds on Five that he owned an iPod and knew how to work it. This is supposed to be set him apart from that other fellow Blairwho has an iPod but has ...
Lights, candles, action!, The Edinburgh International Festival turns 60 this year and its new director is celebrating by presenting a home- grown Hollywood star. Jonathan Mills talks to Barry Didcock about the challenges of keeping things fresh after six decades
Apr 01, 2007; ... ALL suitors bring gifts and Jonathan Mills is no exception. Inplace of chocolates and flowers, however, the newest director of theEdinburgh International Festival (EIF) has chosen to woo his intended(that's us, his audience) with something far more exciting. Stepforward Alan ...
When the songsmith hired the ex-Smith ROCK ROCK THE BIG CD
Apr 01, 2007; ... MODEST MOUSE WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVEN SANK (EPIC) 4/5 WHEN a band loses a guitarist, it's often the catalyst for eithermeltdown or a radical rethink. Modest Mouse who have lost andregained so many band members since their formation in America'srural ...
ROCK CDs
Apr 01, 2007; ... KINGS OF LEON BECAUSE OF THE TIMES (HANDMEDOWN) 4/5 YODELLING, as Gwen Stefani can attest, rarely endears a performerto his or her audience. It's something Kings Of Leon discovered withtheir second album, 2004's Aha Shake Heartbreak, in which the threehirsute ...
Not-so-merrie old England
Apr 01, 2007; ... DECENCY AND DISORDER: THE AGE OF CANT BY BEN WILSON (FABER, GBP25) IN the third decade of the 19th century, something very oddhappened. England totally lost its sense of humour and becameinsufferably pompous and correct. The old Hogarthian England of casual ...
Behind every conquistador is a great woman
Apr 01, 2007; ... INES OF MY SOUL BY ISABEL ALLENDE (FOURTH ESTATE, GBP17.99) GIVEN Isabel Allende's Chilean nationality and her preoccupationwith doughty women, it's strange that she hasn't before turned herattention to Ines Suarez. Departing Spain in the 1530s for the New World in ...
BOOK NOW: TRIPTYCH
Apr 01, 2007 ... SOUL queen Nicole Willis has performed and recorded with CurtisMayfield, The Brand New Heavies, Deee-Lite, The The, Jimi Tenor andLeftfield across an outstanding 20-year career, while her recent solowork has ...
7 THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO THIS WEEK
Apr 01, 2007 ... 1 FRESH from learning her way round an organ on the BBC's Play ItAgain, Crystal Palace FC fan Jo Brand, below, arrives in Scotland fortwo nights of stand-up in Perth and Glenrothes. In recent years,Brand has mellowed somewhat from the radical firebrand she once was,appearing as a ...
ELECTION PITCH Jack McConnell pledges GBP100m to upgrade football facilities if Labour retain Executive power in Holyrood elections.By Stephen Penman and Michael Grant
Apr 01, 2007; ... JACK McConnell is prepared to commit to a GBP100 millioninvestment in football facilities in Scotland if Labour win theHolyrood elections on the 3rd of May. The first minister is ready to put in place a 10-year plan whichwill effectively amount to a complete renewal of Scotland's ...
BLOODY NOSE FOR LEADERS MATCH OF THE DAY
Apr 01, 2007; ... Dundee United 1 Celtic 1 Daly 90 Nakamura 48 HAVE Celtic forgotten to get the invites printed, struggled tofind a caterer, or not been given permission to have all their palsround? Whatever the reason, the championship-winning party they have beenpromising ...
Air turns blue as Dargo delivers
Apr 01, 2007; ... Rangers 1 Inverness CT 1 Adam 14 Dargo 81 FOR the first time since Walter Smith returned to Ibrox, the soundof boos could be heard echoing around this famous old stadium asRangers fans expressed their frustration at an insipid performancemore akin to the sort ...
McDonald's parting gifts wreck Dunfermline's hopes leaving them sunk on the bottom
Apr 01, 2007; ... Motherwell 2 Dunfermline 0 McDonald 51 PEN, 63 CELTIC met Motherwell's valuation of Scott McDonald in midweek butyesterday it was Dunfermline who were left counting the cost. The little Australian shrugged off any doubts that his GBP700,000deal to join the ...
Collins warns Brown suitors
Apr 01, 2007; ... JOHN Collins last night insisted that any clubs interested insigning Scott Brown will have to wait until the summer. Rangers, Celtic and Bolton Wanderers have been linked with theGBP3m-rated youngster who made his first start for Scotland in themidweek defeat to Italy, but the Hibs ...
Smith lines up Galaxy trip
Apr 01, 2007 ... RANGERS have arranged a friendly against David Beckham's new clubLA Galaxy, for May 23. The friendly, on the same night as the Champions League final,will take place at the Los Angeles side's Home Depot Center ground. Beckham will not be involved in the match, as he is ...
Locos and Vale steam ahead
Apr 01, 2007 ... HUNTLY and Buckie Thistle both lost ground in the Highland Leaguetitle race after a thrilling 2-2 draw at Christie Park Their sharedspoils allowed Deveronvale and Inverurie Locos to break free from thefour-way tie at the summit and open up a joint two-point lead. Bookies' ...
Visitors escape with unmerited redemption
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kilmarnock 1 Aberdeen 2 Naismith 85 PEN Fowler 58 OG, Anderson 68 THE international weekend gave both of these sides longer thanthey would have liked to reflect on crushing defeats in their lastmatches. Last night there was the solace of three points ...
Promotion almost sealed
Apr 01, 2007 ... Gretna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2McMenamin 34, Grady 69 Partick Thistle. . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 GRETNA have always been known as the fairytale team due to theirrapid rise through the ranks, which was strengthened after lastyear's Scottish ...
Title challenge founders
Apr 01, 2007 ... St Johnstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Scotland 30 Livingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Dorrans 69,81 ST JOHNSTONE'S faint First Division championship hopes were allbut extinguished after a second half capitulation against Livingstonat McDairmid Park, ...
THIRD DIVISION
Apr 01, 2007 ... THE top five teams all won as the race for the end-of-season play-off spots appears set to go down to the wire. Berwick Rangers made itsix wins in seven games with a 3-0 victory at East Stirlingshire. Berwick never looked in danger of dropping any points after KevinHaynes fired ...
SECOND DIVISION
Apr 01, 2007 ... MORTON produced a fine performance against Cowdenbeath atCappielow to stay on course for the title with the visitors failingto produce any of the form that led to their six-goal win overStranraer last time out. Jamie Stevenson scored the opener for the home side from thepenalty ...
Spot-on Dobbie
Apr 01, 2007 ... Clyde. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..0 Queen of the South. . . . .1 Dobbie 69 PEN AN inspired goalkeeping display from Jamie MacDonald helped Queensto another three points in their battle to beat the drop. The result may have been cruel on ...
Leitch's side slip
Apr 01, 2007 ... Hamilton Acas. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Wilson 11 Ross County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 A SOLITARY goal by Marvyn Wilson proved enough to give HamiltonAccies the result they wanted but it was one that Ross County didn'tneed. In fact Scott Leitch's side might ...
GOODWILL HUNTING SCOTLAND SCOTLAND Michael Grant finds Alex McLeish eager to focus on the positives despite signs of momentum stalling
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE public flaying of Steve McClaren was the topic of conversationin one of the Hampden meeting rooms as the door opened and AlexMcLeish came in to join the company. The pair have only 11 games of international management betweenthem, yet McLeish's sympathy was instinctive as he ...
Park life SFA SFA Michael Grant asks David Taylor if all those years of being kicked around were worth it
Apr 01, 2007; ... ON Friday night it became official: we don't have David Taylor tokick around any more. Taylor stepped down as the SFA's chiefexecutive and had a joint leaving party with a junior member of staffwho was also departing to work elsewhere. The joke that did the rounds inside the ...
Last man standing HIBERNIAN HIBERNIAN His friends may have sought pastures new but Steven Whittaker is happy to stay in Leith. Stewart Fisher reports
Apr 01, 2007; ... STEVEN Whittaker's experience at Hibs must feel a bit like beinginvited to attend a great party but staying on to tidy up afterwardswhile everyone else gets their jackets and leaves. While his contemporaries Ian Murray, Derek Riordan, GarryO'Connor, Gary Caldwell and Kevin Thomson ...
TIME TO COME TOGETHER HEARTS HEARTS Hearts players have to learn to speak to each other, coach Stephen Frail tells Natasha Woods
Apr 01, 2007; ... GIVEN the season is moving into its final stages, it might seemstrange to hear a coach describing the necessity for and merits ofrecent team building sessions. But this isn't an April Fool. It is just the latest turn of events at Tynecastle. Today, Hearts will make the short ...
SIDWELL RIPE FOR BORDER RAID TRANSFER TALK TRANSFER TALK Reading full-back Graeme Murty believes his team-mate could be tempted by a move to Celtic. Michael Grant reports
Apr 01, 2007; ... WHAT is it about a talented, red-haired midfielder that couldpossibly appeal to Gordon Strachan? If the Celtic manager decides totake in this afternoon's Tottenham versus Reading match the manwearing number four in the blue-and-white hoops will be among thecompelling reasons for doing ...
DALGLISH HAPPY TO BE WHERE NOBODY KNOWS HIS NAME HOUSTON DYNAMOS HOUSTON DYNAMOS Being compared to his father is no longer a problem for Paul, writes Stewart Fisher
Apr 01, 2007; ... PAUL Dalglish is less concerned these days with the business ofavoiding yellow and red cards and more concerned with making sure hegets his own green card. The 30-year-old with the famous father leftHibs for Houston Dynamo last August and has been delighted to findthat his family name ...
ELVIS TRIBUTE BY WEBSTER RANGERS
Apr 01, 2007; ... ANDY Webster last night paid tribute to his Celtic defensivecounterpart Steven Pressley for helping him through his year fromhell. Having played just four matches in the last 12 months due to acontractual wrangle with Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov and a medialligament injury ...
ROUND-UP
Apr 01, 2007 ... IN a decade of existence, the Glasgow rugby team has reached oneEuropean knockout game, writes Lewis Stuart . And that match istoday. So no wonder the team is pushing away all distractions andconcentrating on nothing but the game that Alastair Kellock, theteam's captain, describes as the ...
BREAK FOR THE BORDERS While SRU chief executive Gordon McKie believes the governing body did everything they could to save the Netherdale-based side from extinction, Alasdair Reid insists past mistakes made it inevitable and the club's demise calls into question the very future of professional rugby in Scotland
Apr 01, 2007; ... GORDON McKIE drops a thick sheaf of papers on the table as hesettles into his chair in the Murrayfield hospitality suite. "Itcomes with the territory, " mutters the SRU chief executive as helooks down at the daunting mound of cuttings, reports, charts andanalyses before him. Territory, ...
THE FOUNDATION HOW IT WORKS
Apr 01, 2007 ... THE Scottish Institute of Sport Foundation describes itself as anindependent business-led partnership attempting to drive a culture ofwinning programme. It views sport as the catalyst for producing morewinners in all walks of Scottish life. Specifically, it wants to help facilitate ...
ONES TO WATCH
Apr 01, 2007; ... Angel Cabrera (Argentina) Either very good or bad at AugustaNational with two missed cuts in the last five years but also two top-10 finishes and a 15th. His distance gives him an advantage on the extended course. David Howell (England) In and out of form this year, but ...
Trailing Tiger THE MASTERS THE MASTERS The world No 1 is the man to catch with the defending champion Phil Mickelson the player most likely to lead the chase, believes Alan Campbell
Apr 01, 2007; ... IT already has the feel of a Tiger Woods benefit, althoughdefending champion Phil Mickelson and the usual suspects will beg todiffer. It's April, it's US Masters week, and Tiger is chasing his13th Major. The number is unlucky for some, and this is the kind of straw hisfellow ...
LETTERS
Apr 01, 2007 ... IT was interesting to read the early reaction of one of yourreaders in last week's Sunday Herald with respect to the Scottishcricket team's performance in St Kitts. I was also there with my son and while agreeing that theperformance against the Dutch was, to say the least, ...
PRODUCING THE GOODS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE System means Dutch club punches above its weight. By Stewart Fisher
Apr 01, 2007; ... PHILIPS Sport Verenigeng of Eindhoven, incorporate the name of aDutch electrical goods company into their very existence, so it isperhaps fitting that the club should have become the site of one ofEuropean football's most formidable production lines. Assuming they can maintain the ...
FALKLANDS MEMORIES Never officially a war, the Falklands conflict has long been sidelined in the national consciousness. In this eight- page special, five Britons caught up in events reflect on what happened . . . and an Argentine conscript recounts his story of survival and reconciliation
Apr 01, 2007; ... TWENTY-FIVE years ago tomorrow, General Leopoldo Galtieri orderedhis forces to seize the Malvinas Islands. Then head of Argentina'smilitary government and the country's de facto president, he referredto this manoeuvre as a legitimate "reoccupation" of sovereignterritory. The United ...
New poll shows another jump in nationalist support: SNP : 51 SEATS LABOUR: SEATS 44
Apr 01, 2007; ... SCOTTISH Labour's grip on power seemed to be slipping away lastnight after another opinion poll confirmed the SNP was on course fora historic victory in the Holyrood election. The new TNS System 3 snapshot, which was conducted for ScottishTelevision, gave the Nationalists a ...
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Apr 01, 2007 ... THIS week the Sunday Herald publishes the final instalment of ourtwo-part Exam Guide, in which we have enlisted the help of topteachers to give students handy tips and pointers on how to getthrough their exams. To support the guide we have created a brilliantpodcast, which will give you ...
IVF patients being 'badly let down' by Executive FERTILITY: WAITING TIMES FERTILITY: WAITING TIMES Review recommends raising age limit to 40
Apr 01, 2007; ... CAMPAIGNERS have criticised the Scottish Executive's failure totackle "unacceptable" waiting times for fertility treatment followinga major review of NHS services in Scotland. Two years ago, ministers pledged to address the massive variationin assisted conception services provided ...
MSP uses public subsidy on third property POLITICS: EXPENSES POLITICS: EXPENSES LibDem Mike Rumbles sets new allowance record
Apr 01, 2007; ... A LIBERAL Democrat MSP has sparked outrage after becoming thefirst Holyrood politician to use a publicly funded mortgage scheme tohelp buy three separate properties. Mike Rumbles, the member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine,made gains of nearly GBP40,000 following the sale of ...