The Sunday Herald back issues from May 2008:
STOCKS FOCUS: CAIRN ENERGY
May 04, 2008 ... CAIRN Energy, the Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration andproduction company, saw its shares rise 4.5per cent after its Indiansubsidiary said that the Indian government had approved a scheme toship oil from Rajasthan to market via an dollars800 million(GBP404m) pipeline to the coast ...
COMPANY WATCH
May 04, 2008 ... RETAIL doom and gloom continues and the City will be taking aclose interest in the BRC's retail price index for April when it ispublished on Wednesday. The big furniture stores have beenparticularly hard hit with Land of Leather last week releasing salesfi gures that show like-for-like ...
STOCKS FOCUS: STAGECOACH
May 04, 2008 ... SHARES in Stagecoach jumped 12per cent after the Perth-basedcompany upgraded its earnings forecasts by 18per cent due to stronggrowth in its rail businesses, which include South West Trains andits Virgin Trains joint venture, and increased revenues in its busoperations. The fi ...
STOCKS FOCUS: HORNBY
May 04, 2008 ... TOYMAKER Hornby bought die-cast model maker Corgi for GBP7.5million to fuel its expansion in the hobby and collectibles market.Famous for its model trains, Hornby also owns Scalextric and Airfix, while Corgi is a long-established name in model vehicles, theCorgi Classics ...
STOCKS FOCUS: TESCO
May 04, 2008 ... TESCO was reported to be in talks to sell its online propertybusiness to a chain of estate agents less than a year afterlaunching it. The supermarket launched Tesco Property Market in Junelast year, offering a controversial GBP199 service aimed atundercutting traditional home sellers. It ...
Mystery of drop in listeners RADIO: FIGURES RADIO: FIGURES Station heads blame measurement methods and broadband for 90,000 fall in Scottish audience
May 04, 2008; ... IT'S a mystery that would drive even Sherlock Holmes todistraction - the curious affair of the missing listeners. Why havethousands of Scots apparently stopped listening to their radios? Last week's figures from audience measurement body Rajar showedthat weekly reach - the way the ...
MEDIA WATCH
May 04, 2008 ... At the Daily Record, those journalists old-fashioned enough towant to get out of the offi ce are being told to use company poolcars. Sadly, these vehicles have, we are told, seen better days. Oursource tells us that one car in particular hasn't even got wingmirrors. Surely a serious ...
Scotland's tourism industry 'hampered by lack of trained chefs' FOOD SERVICE: SKILLS SHORTAGE
May 04, 2008; ... A SHORTAGE of trained chefs is threatening the growth ofScotland's hospitality trade, a leading industry figure has claimed. Neil Thomson, chief executive of the Federation of ChefsScotland, believes the hospitality sector needs around 3000 morechefs if food service is to play its ...
Hydrogen plant proposals fail to blow away concerns over wind farm project ENERGY: NEW SOURCE ENERGY: NEW SOURCE Ayrshire scheme claims to solve turbine slowdown
May 04, 2008; ... AN AUSTRALIAN renewables start-up is hoping to defl ect localopposition to a wind farm currently under consideration by NorthAyrshire Council, by applying to build a hydrogen plant that wouldallow it to feed electricity into the grid even on calm days. In a GBP60 million project in ...
Major AAM shareholder eyes GBP1bn shares windfall INVESTORS: FLOTATION INVESTORS: FLOTATION Hedge fund group Lansdowne Partners limbering up to expand portfolio
May 04, 2008; ... A KEY shareholder in Aberdeen Asset Management is considering apublic flotation in a move designed to provide it with freshcurrency to make major acquisitions. Followers claim that a share issue would value the LansdownePartners hedge fund group at comfortably more than GBP1 ...
Turkey accused of going against Scotch spirit WHISKY: TAX WAR WHISKY: TAX WAR SWA threatens action over 'discrimination'
May 04, 2008; ... THE Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has opened a new front in itsglobal war against alleged tax discrimination, by threatening theTurkish government with referral to the World Trade Organisation. Gavin Hewitt, chief executive of the SWA, flew to Ankara lastweek to confront Turkish ...
Chinese walls: why Scots must rethink eastern moves EXPERT SAYS RISING COSTS HAVE CHANGED LANDSCAPE FOR BUSINESS IN CHINA
May 04, 2008; ... BUSINESSES should rethink their China strategies in the light ofpre-Olympic moves by Beijing to allay s ocial unrest, one ofScotland's leading advisers on business in China has warned. In an article for the Sunday Herald, Philip Carmichael, who sitson the international advisory ...
MP voices Labour unrest over Brown POLITICS: ELECTIONS
May 04, 2008; ... GOVERNMENT ministers and Labour backbenchers have already begunprivate discussions about a potential challenge to Gordon Brown'sleadership of the Labour Party, according to the Manchester MPGraham Stringer. With less than three weeks until the May 22 by-election in theCrewe and ...
BBC LEAVES SCOTS 'POORLY INFORMED' Major report finds network news creates 'skewed perspective'
May 04, 2008 ... Failure to cover events outside England Little coverage of Scottish ...
Study reignites debate over Scottish Six NEWS: DEVOLUTION NEWS: DEVOLUTION 'Substantial research' to reveal BBC network news leaves audiences outside England poorly informed
May 04, 2008; ... SCOTTISH TV audiences are poorly informed and have a skewedperspective on events in their own country because of a failure bythe national BBC news programmes to provide coverage of eventsoutside England. The verdict, a key finding of a major report commissioned by theBBC Trust, ...
Surge of interest on Madeleine's anniversary SEARCH: ONE YEAR ON SEARCH: ONE YEAR ON 1000 messages a day now left on charity website
May 04, 2008; ... THE publicity drive to mark the first anniversary of MadeleineMcCann's disappearance has created an upsurge of interest in thewebsite launched to help find her. The four-year-old's parents Gerry and Kate McCann gave a major TVinterview and the media gorged on every last detail of ...
Scotland's new counter-terrorism chief: neo-Nazis as much of a threat as al-Qaeda POLICING: WARNING POLICING: WARNING Dangers of growing racism highlighted
May 04, 2008; ... SCOTLAND'S new terror tsar has warned that the threat from right-wing extremism is as damaging to community relations as the menaceposed by al-Qaeda. In an exclusive interview on his first day as the Association ofChief Police Officers in Scotland's counter terrorism ...
Audit shows rise in bullying at Holyrood PARLIAMENT: WORKPLACE RELATIONS PARLIAMENT: WORKPLACE RELATIONS 'Dignity at work' training mandatory for all staff
May 04, 2008; ... ALL Scottish Parliament staff will have to undergo "dignity atwork" training after figures revealed a rise in bullying. More than 12per cent of Holyrood employees have complained ofbullying or harassment, according to a new equalities report. This is in spite of parliament ...
Experts in Scotland for World Asthma Day
May 04, 2008 ... HEALTH professionals will this week gather to discuss the latestresearch into respiratory disease at a major conference to markWorld Asthma Day. The Breathe Freely event, to be held on Tuesday at GlasgowUniversity, will look at issues such as whether asthma can betreated without ...
Leukaemia and nuclear power: what's the secret? A REQUEST TO PUBLISH CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA FIGURES HAS MUSHROOMED INTO A LANDMARK COURT CASE
May 04, 2008; ... THE UK government has made an 11th-hour intervention in the long-running dispute between the Scottish NHS and anti-nuclearcampaigners over the release of childhood leukaemia figures. Justice secretary Jack Straw's department was given leave tointervene earlier this month when the ...
'Children who live near nuclear plants are at higher risk from cancer' THREE STUDIES REIGNITE THE DEBATE ABOUT THE SAFETY OF INSTALLATIONS
May 04, 2008; ... CHILDREN living near nuclear plants run a higher risk of gettingcancer, according to three major new studies by scientists fromGermany and the US. The studies have reignited the debate over whether radiationleaking from nuclear power and weapons sites increases the incidenceof ...
MAN KILLED IN HIGH-RISE FIGHT
May 04, 2008 ... Police launched a murder inquiry after the death of a man inTownhead, Glasgow in the early hours of yesterday morning. A disturbance involving about 10 people took place in a fl at onthe ...
WINEHOUSE'S BOND BREAK
May 04, 2008 ... Amy Winehouse is not ready to work, her producer Mark Ronsonsaid, after the pair failed to fi nish recording the theme to thelatest James Bond film. "I'm not sure she's ready to work on music yet, " he said ....
SNP breaks grants pledge to artists and writers CULTURE: POLICY CULTURE: POLICY Review ordered to find alternative funding avenues for creative community
May 04, 2008; ... THE Scottish government has moved away from its flagship culturepolicy of Irish-style tax breaks for artists and writers. Ministers have been told their plan to give artists a GBP2000grant based on income tax liability is bureaucratic and open tofraud. They have instead ...
Law change will put spouses in the dock LEGISLATION: LOOPHOLE LEGISLATION: LOOPHOLE Bid to make partners give evidence against each other
May 04, 2008; ... HUSBANDS and wives will no longer be able to refuse to giveevidence against each other in court, under a change to the lawplanned by the Scottish government. Ministers will confirm they will repeal the legislation on so-called "spousal compellability" in a move that is intended ...
1 in 10 compost bins 'contaminated' and dumped RECYCLING: FIGURES
May 04, 2008; ... ONE in 10 of the wheelie bins collected for composting ends updumped on landfill sites because it is contaminated with the wrongkind of waste. The latest figures from the Scottish Environment ProtectionAgency (Sepa) show nearly 33,000 tonnes of waste collected forcomposting by ...
Parents ask Sturgeon to meeting over school row
May 04, 2008 ... PARENTS at a secondary school have invited deputy first ministerNicola Sturgeon, right, to face them as a row over educationintensified. The Parent Council of Gleniffer High School, Paisley, wants todiscuss cuts to the education budget after it was claimed a pupilwas unable to ...
Salmond out to block Blair from EU presidency EUROPE: LEADERSHIP ROW EUROPE: LEADERSHIP ROW Former premier 'should be disqualified over Iraq'
May 04, 2008; ... FIRST Minister Alex Salmond wants Tony Blair to be blocked frombecoming the first president of the European Union.The SNP leadersays the former prime minister should be "disqualified" from thepost because of his staunch support for the Iraq war. He also said he hoped Scotland would ...
DOWN & OUT As the Tories celebrate, Labour hits panic stations. Can Gordon Brown rally the party or is he truly a lame duck?
May 04, 2008; ... LABOUR'S 350-strong parliamentary party will return to theCommons tomorrow, but it won't be their usual Monday morning. Amidthe serial calls for unity that have inevitably followed the party'smassacre in last week's local elections in England and Wales, andthe ipping-point victory of ...
Getting it in the neck UNDERCURRENT JAMES CUSICK
May 04, 2008; ... THE next time you come across a hospital consultant, or even yourGP, check out their tie. This isn't a suggestion based on the recentclaimed hike in physicians' salaries and the improved chancesthey'll be wearing an expensive Armani or Turnbull & Asser's finest. No, the more academically ...
FOUR CORNERS
May 04, 2008; ... IT was a message sure to do little to enhance any US presidentialhopeful in the eyes of the Islamic world. Asked last week in atelevision interview what she would do as president if Iran attackedIsrael, candidate for Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton pulledno punches. "If I'm ...
Rage against the greed McCHATTER
May 04, 2008; ... ON Thursday I had to suppress the kind of paroxysms of vengefulrage and desire to mete out evels of physical violence that Ihaven't felt since I was about 15 The path to potential homicideopened up when I bumped into a couple of pals I hadn't seen for agesin a bar in the centre of ...
Commercial breakdowns . . . the art of the complaint TOM SHIELDS ON ADVERTISING
May 04, 2008; ... COMPLAINING about advertisements has never been more popular. TheAdvertising Standards Authority (ASA) dealt with 14,080 cases in2007, nearly 10per cent up on the previous year. There seem to be alot of worried people out there. Perhaps a spot of reassurance is inorder. The most ...
Formby misinterpretation hits the wrong note ROXANNE SOROOSHIAN ON THE UKULELE
May 04, 2008; ... ONE of my favourite words is ukulele. So it is with a note ofdisappointment that I learn that a ukulele can be used as anoffensive weapon. You see, there is a war being waged. The Borders, not unfamiliar with battles through the centuries,is the backdrop for a feud of musical ...
THE WEEK ROUNDING UP ALL THE NEWS
May 04, 2008 ... MONDAY Actor Kris Marshall was recovering from head injuries after beinghit by a car. The 35-yearold former My Family star was on a nightout in Bristol when the accident happened. The trial of a manaccused of stalking film star Uma Thurman, main picture, began inNew York. Extra ...
Will Bush see peace as his legacy? REALPOLITIK
May 04, 2008; ... AFTER being forced to return Calais to the French in 1558, MaryTudor claimed that the name of the Channel port would be found lyingin her heart. One wonders if the same thing could said aboutPresident George W Bush with regard to Palestine. Before US Secretary of State Condoleezza ...
ONLINE FEEDBACK
May 04, 2008 ... THE STRIKE BY WORKERS AT THE GRANGEMOUTH REFINERY OVER PENSIONPLANS SPARKED LENGTHY DEBATES AMONG SUNDAYHERALD.COM READERS It looks as if it is the union who is holding the company toransom as opposed to the company shortchanging their currentemployees. The union would appear ...
MAIL
May 04, 2008 ... Economic engine running on empty I NOTED with interest the US government has started to delivertax rebates to consumers as part of a plan worth the equivalent ofGBP75.4 billion to revive the battered US economy. Some 117 million households are set to benefit from the ...
Labour denial will only lead to a lengthy period in opposition sundayherald EDITORIAL
May 04, 2008 ... IN 1979, when the rest of the United Kingdom began its lengthylove affair with Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherite politics,Scotland maintained its loyalty to a fading party that looked moreand more unelectable. In 1994, when Tony Blair effectively disbandedthe Labour Party and created New ...
Alan Taylor's Diary
May 04, 2008; ... ACCORDING to another Sunday rag, plans to revive the island ofRum have been "frustrated" because the government refused to giveGBP4.5 million to build a hostel and a "green" educational centrealongside the red elephant that is Kinloch Castle. This seems to meto be a smart bit of ...
Two boys found dead in parked car DEATHS: CHILDREN
May 04, 2008; ... TWO children have been found dead in a car parked at a beautyspot to the north of Glasgow. A man was taken from the scene to ahospital in the city. The bodies of the two-year-old and six-year-old boys were foundlate yesterday afternoon. Strathclyde Police say they are treatingthe ...
Labour MP voices party unrest over Brown's leadership POLITICS: ELECTIONS
May 04, 2008; ... GOVERNMENT ministers and Labour backbenchers have already begunprivate discussions about a potential challenge to Prime MinisterGordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party, according to theManchester MP Graham Stringer. With less than three weeks until the May 22 by-election in ...
HIT AND KISS SCOTT McDONALD GRABS HIS 30TH OF THE SEASON AS CELTIC BEAT MOTHERWELL 2-1 TO STAY IN THE TITLE HUNT.
May 04, 2008 ... ALL YESTERDAY'S ...
Easton reveals Accies' SPL belief
May 04, 2008; ... SFL young player of the month Brian Easton has revealed that ittook just two games of the season to convince some of the HamiltonAccies squad that promotion could become a reality. The 20-year-old left back, a key part of Billy Reid's FirstDivision winning squad, recalled a 2-0 win ...
Naka hails Lennon
May 04, 2008; ... SHUNSUKE Nakamura has praised the impact of returning Celticcoach Neil Lennon and admitted his departure from the club lastsummer left a leadership void that was too vast for anyone to fill. Nakamura and Lennon may not exactly be anyone's idea of kindredspirits, but the Japanese ...
Scots women on fire
May 04, 2008 ... SCOTLAND'S women's team took another step closer to a potentialplay-off slot for the Uefa Finals in Finland in 2009 with anemphatic 4-1 victory over Portugal at the Municipal Stadium of Povoado Varzim yesterday. Jennifer Beattie got the Scotland ladies off to an early start ...
NO-ONE'S TITLE YET
May 04, 2008; ... Motherwell 1 Porter 60 Celtic 2 McDonald 62, Samaras 79 CELTIC have an eightpoint lead at the top of the championship,Rangers have four games in hand, and everyone has a growing list ofgrievances and conspiracy theories worthy of a separate league tableof their own. Another ...
Last-minute steal saves Paisley side
May 04, 2008; ... St Mirren 1 Haining 90 Kilmarnock 0 LEAGUE goals by St Mirren are such a scarce commodity these daysthat each one is something to be treasured indeed. The Paisleyside's goals for tally - which now stands at 26 - is still thefewest of any side in Scottish senior football, and ...
THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS COMMENT COMMENT Walter Smith's cautious approach against more illustrious opponents is not without precedent, and works, says Stewart Fisher
May 04, 2008; ... BOBBY WILLIAMSON has been called many things in his time, but itis fair to say he has not always been universally acknowledged as afootballing visionary and prophet. It was back in 2001 that the then Kilmarnock manager famouslydeclared that "if supporters want entertainment they ...
On the brink of history RANGERS RANGERS Accusations of cautious, dull play are simply sour grapes. Lacking in more expansive players, Walter Smith has created a highly effective defence that works, says Michael Grant
May 04, 2008; ... RANGERS soaked up everything Fiorentina could throw at them onThursday evening only for another bombardment to begin withinseconds of Nacho Novo's decisive kick in the penalty shoot-out. The hours after the match were spent in boisterous celebration,in breathless media interviews ...
A new lease of life Since his return to Ibrox 16 months ago, Walter Smith has been invigorated by the consistency, success and positive energy at the club, says
May 04, 2008; ... WHEN Walter Smith spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson on the phone onWednesday morning he couldn't help thinking the managerial doyensounded a little rough. The previous night Ferguson had reached thesecond European Cup final of his career and it didn't take a geniusto work out he had been up ...
Cuellar lifts another award SCOTTISH FOOTBALL WRITERS' PLAYER OF THE YEAR
May 04, 2008; ... CARLOS Cuellar was named as Scotland's Player Of The Year lastnight and described as being as important to Rangers as BrianLaudrup was. The Spanish defender won the Scottish Football Writers'Association award for the consistency and quality of hisperformances during a remarkable ...
In GOD he trusts RAITH ROVERS RAITH ROVERS He may have finally succumbed to the operating table, but Stewart Fisher finds Marvin Andrews' faith is undiminished
May 04, 2008; ... MARVIN ANDREWS brushes aside apparent contradictions in his worldview as effortlessly as if they were errant strikers who have madethe mistake of wandering into his path as he prepares to contest ahigh ball. In an upstairs room in the quaint little church at whichhe has become an ...
GOING FOR THE JUGULAR HIBERNIAN HIBERNIAN Midfielder Filipe Morais insists the Easter Road side will go for an all-out attacking system today as they chase their own dream of a Uefa Cup spot, Alan Campbell reports
May 04, 2008; ... PORTUGUESE midfi elder Filipe Morais has promised that his sidewill attempt to go for the jugular when Hibs meet Rangers in today'stelevised game at Easter Road. While the focus has all been onWalter Smith and his over-achieving players, Hibs badly need to winto keep their own faltering ...
'Aberdeen have no qualms about putting on John Hewitt He really has a nose for goal' INTERVIEW
May 04, 2008; ... JOHN HEWITT is perched on the edge of the armchair in his livingroom, asking me to imagine that his front window is the goalmouth inthe Ullevi Stadium and Mark McGhee has just crossed the ball throughthe door from somewhere in the hall. He is wearing slippers and thefamily's dog is ...
WINNERS AT THE PASSING IT ON GAME SCOTLAND UNDER-17S SCOTLAND UNDER- 17S Stewart Fisher reports on the way the children of top internationalists seem to have the necessary skills in their genes
May 04, 2008; ... PERHAPS participating in Uefa's youth tournaments becomes lessdaunting when you have already literally taken your baby steps ininternational football. Barcelona's Bojan Krcic - voted player of this tournament lasttime around - Cesc Fabregas and Wayne Rooney have all made ...
Melrose cruise over the line SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC CUP FINAL
May 04, 2008; ... Melrose 31 Heriot's 24 IT was hardly the prettiest moment of the day, but the fight thatbroke out late in the second half between Melrose prop RichardHiggins and Heriot's lock Garrett Noonan spoke volumes about thisScottish Hydro Electric Cup final as a whole. With Noonan ...
HERE'S TO YOU, MISTER ROBINSON EDINBURGH EDINBURGH The former England coach went through hell in the Twickenham hot seat but has rekindled his love of coaching in Edinburgh, writes Alasdair Reid
May 04, 2008; ... THE water has been flowing under the bridge for almost 18 monthsnow, but the images of those days seem as fresh and as cruel asyesterday. There was the one that showed him with his face half-covered byhis hands, barely daring to look at the calamities unfolding beforehim. Then ...
PLAYERS IS PLATFORM FOR EUROPE RYDER CUP RYDER CUP The English and Swedes are to the fore and likely to give their chances of selection for Valhalla a major boost at Sawgrass, reports Alan Campbell
May 04, 2008; ... THE Players Championship, which gets under way at Sawgrass onThursday, may not be the fifth Major that the Americans crack it upto be, but it does provide a significant opportunity for Europeanplayers to boost their Ryder Cup prospects. Increasingly, Nick Faldo's side for the match ...
Gwladys all over for France ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT SCOTTISH OPEN ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT SCOTTISH OPEN Alan Campbell watches Frenchwoman Nocera win her sixth European title at Loch Lomond effortlessly while Scots contenders are happy to make top 10
May 04, 2008; ... GWLADYS Nocera of France notched her sixth Ladies European Tourwin in 24 months as she led from the front to capture the AberdeenAsset Management Scottish Open yesterday. Starting the third andfinal round at the Carrick on Loch Lomond a shot clear of the field,Nocera was never ...
LETTERS
May 04, 2008 ... I AM sure I am not alone in being surprised at last week's letterof the week, in which Mr McKay claimed not one fan in a hundredcould name last season's winners of the Uefa Cup. Readers will surely remember that the final was a memorable one,at Hampden Park, in which Seville beat ...
IF THIS WERE A MOVIE . . .
May 04, 2008 ... PLOT Hoping to cash in on the Grand Theft Auto craze, the Scottish film industry comes up with its own low-budget movie version. Set onthe mean streets of Arbroath, the story follows boy racer Jimmy ashe tears along the high street in his granny's Nissan Micra.Meanwhile, an ...
Once upon a time there was an ex-Spice Girl called Geri Halliwell. She was very rich and famous. But then she decided to quit the singing business and instead write books about a tomboy named Ugenia Lavender. This is her story. . . INTERVIEW
May 04, 2008; ... IT'S 10 years next month since Geri Halliwell sensationally quitThe Spice Girls in the middle of a world tour but when I remind herof this she just says "Is it?" and "Wow" and "How ironic". She wasinterested enough in the 1990s pop phenomenon to become Ginger Spiceagain for last year's ...
WHY WE'RE LOSING THE WAR ON AIDS THE BIG IDEA WHILE MEDICINE HAS RENDERED THE VIRUS 'INVISIBLE' IN THE WEST, EPIDEMIOLOGIST ELIZABETH PISANI BELIEVES SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT HAS HARMED THE GLOBAL BATTLE AGAINST HIV
May 04, 2008; ... THERE was a time, in the early 1980s, when every weekend broughtanother funeral for New York's gay community. Back then, ElizabethPisani was a gapyear student working for an advertising company inthe city, and this was her first encounter with the disease in whichshe would later ...
EXPANDING FRONTIERS AT THE RSA THE ARTS: VISUAL ART THE ARTS: VISUAL ART THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY IS REWRITING THE RULES FOR ITS LATEST ANNUAL SHOW
May 04, 2008; ... IN 1998 the Macclesfield-born, Glasgowbased artist David Shrigleypublished a book of his absurdist cartoons called Why We Got TheSack From The Museum, the title a sort of two-fingered salute to theart establishment. Writing in the introduction, the author Will Selflikened Shrigley's ...