The Sunday Herald back issues from June 2008:
STOCKS FOCUS: JOHN WOOD GROUP
Jun 01, 2008; ... DESPITE announcing a new dollars2.75 million contract to upgradetwo gas turbine generators in the United Arab Emirates earlier inthe week, international energy services company John Wood ...
STOCKS FOCUS: FIRST GROUP
Jun 01, 2008; ... TRANSPORT firm FirstGroup was counting the cost of high fuelprices and its large amount of debt this week. Earlier in the week,financial services firm JP Morgan lowered its rating on the bus andrail operator to "neutral" from ...
STOCKS FOCUS: BRITISH AIRWAYS
Jun 01, 2008; ... BUSINESS class airline Silverjet may have suspended operations,but British Airways soared last week. A fall in the price of oil hashelped lift BA up the FTSE 100. The airline - which has justincreased its fuel surcharges again - is now up ...
STOCKS FOCUS: STANDARD LIFE
Jun 01, 2008; ... INSURANCE company Standard Life's repositioning of its UKbusiness model has paid dividends. As a result of the change, saleshave grown and performance has improved. The group this weeklaunched a new five-year bond that guarantees the ...
Getting a share of the RBS action
Jun 01, 2008 ... HUNDREDS of thousands of small investors in Royal Bank ofScotland (RBS) have only a few days to decide whether to take up thebank's rights issue. The Sunday Herald outlines the options. What is a rights issue? It is a way for a company to raise money by issuing extra ...
Annuity rates rise in wake of credit crunch
Jun 01, 2008 ... PEOPLE who are close to retirement are the surprising gainersfrom the credit crunch as annuity rates have surged to their highestlevels for five years. Most people buy an annuity with the bulk of their pension fundwhen they retire. The annuity pays a guaranteed income for ...
MEDIA WATCH
Jun 01, 2008 ... RADIO Scotland presenter Graham Stewart, who takes over the 9am-10am news discussion slot on the station tomorrow, gave Mediawatchthe rundown on the toughening-up process the 32year-old presenterhas gone through before getting his BBC gig. Formerly an afternoonpresenter on Edinburgh's ...
BBC's Scottish promises fail to convince second time around
Jun 01, 2008 ... SERIOUS questions have been raised about the BBC Trust's formalpromise to make more programmes outside London. Last week the trust, the corporation's management body, issued astatement saying they now expect the BBC to make 50per cent of itsprogrammes outside London by 2016, ...
Search giant becomes the evil enemy to net's little guys Hippy- ethos corporation accused of abusing its position by stifling innovation from start-ups Hippy-ethos corporation accused of abusing its position by stifling innovation from start-ups INTERNET: COMPETITION
Jun 01, 2008; ... WITH its hippy-dippy informal corporate motto of "don't be evil",Google has become a corporate juggernaut, dominating the UK's searchmarket with a 74per cent share. Yet despite enjoying the public's affection, with billions ofusers every day, the search giant is winning fewer ...
Inside job satisfaction LENA WILSON INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK BY COLIN DONALD
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHERE quango meets civil service meets political administrationis a foggy area, hard for outsiders to penetrate. Scottish publicsector Kremlinologists are having a speculative field day with thesurprise appointment of Lena Wilson - already Scottish Enterprise'schief operating officer - ...
Aberdeen's GBP750m energy corridor plan PLANNING: INITIATIVE
Jun 01, 2008; ... A DRAFT masterplan for a "global energy technology corridor"stretching from Bridge of Don in Aberdeen to Peterhead will beunveiled this week at an economic summit. Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum - the public-privatepartnership between local businesses and civic authorities ...
HIGHLAND GRADUATES
Jun 01, 2008 ... A GOVERNMENT training scheme to encourage women in Scottishindustry to become managers has produced its fi rst graduates in theHighland area. Women And Work entrants Jennifer Graham of ...
JOHN CLARK HITS TOP GEAR
Jun 01, 2008 ... EAST of Scotland car dealers the John Clark Motor Group hasannounced record turnover of GBP258 million for 2007 with ...
RYANAIR ADDS NEW ROUTES
Jun 01, 2008 ... BUDGET airline Ryanair are adding Malaga, Faro and Tenerife tothe holiday destinations ...
NDDP BOOST FOR GLASGOW
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE Glasgow offi ce of employment and training solutions providerA4E has won a GBP1.6 million contract from the government's New DealFor Disabled People (NDDP). Around 900 people on ...
SLUMP HITS MOTOR DEALERS
Jun 01, 2008 ... PROFITS in the franchised motor retail sector are down to early1990s recession levels, according to ...
Commuters left waiting for Glasgow link to Edinburgh Park Anger building at Transport Scotland's "inaction" Anger building at Transport Scotland's "inaction" TRAINS: CONNECTING
Jun 01, 2008; ... FIVE years after the construction of a GBP4.3 million EdinburghPark station on the capital's western outskirts, business leadersare stepping up attacks on the Scottish government and its transportarm, Transport Scotland, for failing to allow direct trains fromGlasgow to stop ...
Parents arrested after two children killed
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE parents of two young children stabbed to death in their homein a quiet street in a suburb of London are now under arrest andbeing questioned by police. A five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl suffered horrificstab wounds at 111 Park Lane in Carshalton near Croydon in ...
Goldsmith attack on terror plans adds to Brown's woes Former attorney general's comments bolster rebel MPs ahead of vote
Jun 01, 2008; ... GORDON Brown's controversial plans to hold terrorism suspects for42 days without charge were attacked last night by the formerattorney general, Lord Goldsmith, who claimed that if the vote iswon by the government in the Commons in a fortnight, the new lawwill threaten Britain's ...
Scotland's hidden sexual epidemic 30,000 young males are infected with a disease that could leave them and their partners infertile . . . and they don't know
Jun 01, 2008; ... SCOTLAND is facing an infertility "time bomb" following a rise incases of the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia among youngmen that are being undiagnosed and untreated. Experts have warned up to 30,000 men under 25 could be carryingthe infection. The majority - around 70per ...
Artist, author . . .actor. Surprise new role for Alasdair Gray Celebrated Scots polymath puts down pen and brush to play aristocrat in a short film about the love life of Sir Edwin Landseer, the Victorian painter of Monarch Of The Glen
Jun 01, 2008; ... HE is famous for painting church murals and writing one of themost celebrated post-modern novels. Now Alasdair Gray has added another string to his creative bowafter revealing details of his acting role in a new Scottish film. Gray told the Sunday Herald that he had spent the ...
Two children die and a third fights for life after knife attack Tamil parents arrested
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE parents of two children stabbed to death at a house in southLondon were last night under arrest and being questioned by police.A fi ve-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl were found withserious stab wounds at 111 Park Lane in the Carshalton area on theoutskirts of London on Friday ...
Glasgow police probe murder of two women Detectives reassure public after two killings happen within 24 hours
Jun 01, 2008; ... ELENI Pachou shows off the "beautiful, sparkling" smile that madeher many friends and saw her rapidly promoted to trainee manageressof a pizza restaurant. The 25-year-old from Greece beamed with happiness as she showedoff , for a photograph taken by a friend which summed up her ...
Police tell of 'horrific crime' that left Eleni dead Detectives reassure Glasgow public after two murders within 24 hours
Jun 01, 2008; ... ELENI Pachou shows off the "beautiful, sparkling" smile that madeher many friends and saw her rapidly promoted to trainee manageressof a pizza restaurant. The 25-year-old from Greece beamed with happiness as she showedoff , for a photograph taken by a friend which summed up her ...
Body found in bin
Jun 01, 2008 ... Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after thediscovery of a body in a bin store at a block of flats inNorthampton. The suspects, aged 20 and 40, were detained after a ...
Shopkeeper shot
Jun 01, 2008 ... A major police hunt was under way last night for a gunman whoshot dead a popular shopkeeper in Liverpool. Police said there was no obvious motive for killing Abdul Saeed,a father of six. Police were called to Carol's ...
Taxi driver stabbed
Jun 01, 2008 ... A taxi driver was stabbed during a robbery in east Belfastyesterday morning. The victim was in his taxi parked at Sandown Park South when aman approached the driver-side door and grabbed cash from him. When the driver got out of his vehicle to try to get his moneyback, he was ...
Comedians rally as backlash set to split Fringe The Stand refuses to acknowledge new event The Stand refuses to acknowledge new event FESTIVAL: PROGRAMME
Jun 01, 2008; ... AS an art form, comedy relies heavily on irony. Fitting then,that when the Edinburgh Fringe Festival programme is launched onThursday the biggest single producer of comedy will be a localcomedy club that exists independent of the Edinburgh ComedyFestival, a new event within the Fringe ...
Poetic injustice? Fears that Robert Burns has been sidelined in celebrations for his own 250th birthday
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHEN a firmament of Scottish stars raise their drams and addressthe haggis in Alloway on January 25 next year, it will mark thestart of Homecoming Scotland 2009, the offi - cial year-longcelebration of the nation's greatest exports: whisky, golf, ideas,heritage and Robert ...
OUR OIL . . . BUT WHO PROFITS? WHILE WE WATCH PRICES AT THE PUMPS SOAR THE TREASURY, THE OIL COMPANIES AND MASSIVE HEDGE FUNDS WATCH THE MONEY POUR IN
Jun 01, 2008; ... TWO new oilfields should be a cause for celebration. West Don andDon South West will together add an extra 50,000 barrels of oil aday coming ashore in Scotland when the development begins producingearly next year. The new fl ow will add to the 2.8 million barrelsper day that was achieved ...
Anti-poverty charity hit by credit-crunch surge
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE credit crunch has led to an anti-poverty charity in Scotlandbeing unable to cope with demands on its services. Elizabeth Finn Care, a grant-giving charity dedicated to helpingpeople living in poverty which was founded 111 years ago, claims thenumber of applications it receives ...
Leading Scots poet tried to destroy his early work
Jun 01, 2008 ... ONE of Scotland's most popular 20th-century poets tried todestroy his early work to save his career, it has been claimed. Alford-born Charles Murray (18641941) was a key figure in agrowth of poetry in Scots and became Scotland's most popular poet inthe first half of the past ...
GBP6.1m package to combat discrimination unveiled
Jun 01, 2008 ... COMMUNITIES minister Stewart Maxwell today announced GBP6.1million extra funding to tackle discrimination and promote equality. The money, to be spent over the next three years, will go towardsinitiatives working with women's groups, disabled people and thelesbian, gay, bisexual ...
Annabel Goldie calls for debate on child abuse
Jun 01, 2008 ... TORY leader Annabel Goldie will tonight highlight links betweenchild neglect and drug abuse. She will paint a bleak picture of parents more concerned abouttheir next fix than feeding their own children. Ms Goldie will sound the warning in a speech to the PakistanWelfare Trust ...
Muslim leader's protest at police 'spy tactics' Shooting party accused of 'behaving like terrorists' Shooting party accused of 'behaving like terrorists' INTELLIGENCE: COMMUNITY FEARS
Jun 01, 2008; ... STRATHCLYDE Police are facing accusations that it operates acovert intelligence monitoring unit which is infringing the rightsof Muslims, after the force launched an investigation into claimsthat a group of Asians on a clay pigeon shoot had behaved "liketerrorists". Osama Saeed, ...
ADAM'S GEM OPENS DOORS
Jun 01, 2008 ... Dumfries House, one of Robert Adam's masterpieces, will open itsdoors to the public on June 6 for the first time since it was ...
PEAK TIME LITTER BLITZ
Jun 01, 2008 ... Hundreds of volunteers are expected to descend on ski resorts,Nevis Range and Cairngorm Mountain, today to ...
POLICE HUNT ATTACKERS
Jun 01, 2008 ... Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted inGallowgate, Glasgow. On Friday night a 38year-old man ...
MISSING MAN'S BODY FOUND
Jun 01, 2008 ... The body of a missing German has been found. The remains of Kai Philip Thieroff ...
VANDALS HIT HOSPITAL
Jun 01, 2008 ... More than 100 windows have been broken at a city hospital in aspate of incidents spanning almost a week The cost of the damage atAberdeen's ...
DEAD CLIMBER IS NAMED
Jun 01, 2008 ... A man who fell 80ft to his death in a climbing accident has beennamed. Neil Wyllie, 34, was one of two walkers who had been climbing inthe ...
HOPE FOR FISHERMEN
Jun 01, 2008 ... Fishing industry leaders say they are confi dent a package ofcompensation woud help with rising ...
Sectarian hatred finds its way on to Facebook INTERNET: OFFENCE
Jun 01, 2008; ... CALLS to regulate the social networking site Facebook have beenstepped up after it was flooded with sectarian messages. The site, which has been accessed by 110 million people worldwidesince its launch in 2004, allows friends to talk and play games witheach other and is especially ...
MSPs forced to sell homes under new rules Holyrood bosses scrap expenses claim scheme Holyrood bosses scrap expenses claim scheme POLITICS: ALLOWANCES
Jun 01, 2008; ... AROUND 30 MSPs will have to sell their taxpayerfunded Edinburghhomes if they want to make future expenses claims for staying in thecapital. Holyrood bosses have ruled that the abolition of the discreditedmortgage interest scheme should be accompanied by MSPs disposing oftheir ...
Tory chairman perseveres with false credentials 'Professor' Fulton approves bogus title for recent books POLITICS: EXAGGERATED CV
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE Scottish Tories' new chairman has been hit by furtherrevelations about his inflated CV after it emerged he sent outbiographies that falsely claimed he was a professor. A spokesman for the Conservatives previously said Andrew Fulton,who briefly held a post at Glasgow University ...
New incinerator plans put waste targets in jeopardy Fears grow that they will create a demand for refuse ENVIRONMENT: CONTROVERSY
Jun 01, 2008; ... PLANS to build eight major waste incinerators across Scotland arethreatening to bust the Scottish government's limit on wasteburning,according to a new survey. Waste companies are proposing to boost Scotland's incinerationcapacity 12-fold, to more than a million tonnes a year. Huge ...
Fears over S&M clause in rape bill JUSTICE: CHANGE
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE Scottish government faces mounting pressure to close aloophole in its forthcoming rape bill which could see a rapistcleared if he proved his victim consented to sado-masochistic sex(S&M). SNP MSP Nigel Don has written to the justice secretary, KennyMacAskill, urging him ...
FIRE ENGINE IN ROAD CRASH
Jun 01, 2008 ... A fire appliance answering an emergency call was involved in acrash with two cars yesterday. The accident happened at the ...
BEN NEVIS CHALLENGERS
Jun 01, 2008 ... A group of intrepid disabled people yesterday conquered Britain'shighest peak. Eight wheelchair users each led a team of nondisabled people inthe Ben ...
Revealed: SNP plan to cut GBP12m from student support Government will make savings by moving loan eligibility threshholds Government will make savings by moving loan eligibility threshholds EDUCATION: FINANCE
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE Scottish government is planning to restrict access to studentloans through an accounting trick associated with Gordon Brown. Education Minister Fiona Hyslop is planning to cut GBP12 millionfrom the student support budget by means of "fiscal drag", a methodof restricting ...
Anger as police ban placards branding Scientology a cult FREE SPEECH: PROTEST
Jun 01, 2008; ... POLICE have been accused of "trampling on basic rights" afterordering protesters to take down banners accusing Scientology ofbeing a cult. Officers banned the placards during a demonstration against theself-styled church in Glasgow city centre last weekend. Civilliberties ...
Midwife study uncovers baby boom . . . on TV Research revealed as Glasgow holds major conference Research revealed as Glasgow holds major conference TELEVISION: BIRTHS
Jun 01, 2008; ... FALLING birth rates may be a cause for concern in many countries,but new research has revealed a baby boom is happening - on ourtelevision screens. The first study carried out on the subject since the early 1990shas found a dramatic increase in the number of real births ...
FOUR CORNERS
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHILE in Iraq over the past few weeks it didn't surprise me tofind that not many US servicemen and women were inclined to voteDemocrat in the forthcoming presidential election. For most of them,John McCain was their man. McCain's record as a former navy pilot during the Vietnam ...
GBP500,000 push to make us walk to health Website launch for national promotion Website launch for national promotion WELLBEING: ADVICE
Jun 01, 2008; ... SWAPPING chips for mushy peas and leaving the office at lunchtimefor a walk in the park is the latest advice in the battle to improveScotland's notoriously poor health record. A new GBP500,000 campaign will be launched by the Scottishgovernment today aimed at helping people lead ...
PICTURE OF THE WEEK CHOSEN BY ELAINE LIVINGSTONE, SUNDAY HERALD PICTURE EDITOR
Jun 01, 2008; ... A picture by Glasgowborn photographer Harry Benson shows RobertKennedy marching up Fifth Avenue in New York's St Patrick's Dayparade as he announced his candidacy for the US presidency in 1968. Benson has been an eyewitness to some of the most defi ningmoments of the past ...
Israel parties alone on its 60th birthday as the world tires of its arrogance REALPOLITIK
Jun 01, 2008; ... MAY was meant to be a month of elebration in Israel. A time forconcerts, fi reworks and fly-pasts to commemorate 60 years since itsfoundation as a state in 1948. But Israel's party has not all goneaccording to plan. First, last week at the Hay literary festival in Wales, former ...
Hillary is now Republicans' greatest hope IAN BELL ON THE US DEMOCRAT RIVALRY IAN BELL ON THE US DEMOCRAT RIVALRY COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
Jun 01, 2008; ... YOU could, as many have done, describe the nominating processamong America's Democrats as a historic decision involving race,gender and popular participation. You could also savour JonStewart's comparison with a long, fl at and endless Bataan deathmarch. You could as easily say that it's ...
Prescott far from brave UNDERCURRENT
Jun 01, 2008; ... THERE is a thin dividing line between bravery and the actions ofwhat many in Whitehall would simply call a "devious mind". Braverymakes a politician speak their mind, even if the consequences arepersonally dire: demotion, deselection. Bravery is when you mean what you say, as rare ...
Alan Taylor's Diary
Jun 01, 2008; ... AN exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallerycelebrates Samuel Smiles from Haddington, whose most famous book,Self-Help, was a Thatcherite bible. Mr Smiles decries Lord Byron,who said what he earned with his brains he would spend "on mybollocks". As every schoolkid knows, his ...
THE WEEK ROUNDING UP ALL THE NEWS
Jun 01, 2008 ... MONDAY The new Indiana Jones fi lm more than recouped its budget afterestimated global box office sales of dollars311 million in just five days. The bodies of two men were found in the hold of a shipdocked at Ayr harbour. A passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport ...
It's a cold call from No 10 McCHATTER IAIN MACWHIRTER
Jun 01, 2008; ... 'BRRING, brring. Hello, my name's Gordon and I'd like to tell youabout an exciting new way to make money. Let me take a moment of your time to make you better off. Yes, Ican put real money in your pocket with my amazing new GBP2.7 billionfiscal stimulus. Are you a basic rate tax ...
Yes, you can put the foot down . . . on retrosexuality ROXANNE SOROOSHIAN ON JEREMY CLARKSON
Jun 01, 2008; ... JEREMY Clarkson, that nice man of Top Gear fame, has been gettingit in the neck this past week; full throttle, I'm pleased to note. The BBC is facing calls to sack the presenter after he bummedabout driving at 186mph on a public road. Clarkson, 48, told anaudience at a literary ...
The difficulties of picking a path between extremes TOM SHIELDS ON A DIFFICULT DEBATE
Jun 01, 2008; ... THERE is little middle ground in the abortion debate, re-ignitedby the latest statistics that show a record number of 13,703terminations in Scotland last year. But, like many people, I find myself in a no man's land: appalledby the concept of abortion but unqualified as a male to ...
Fuel crisis a final opportunity for Brown EDITORIAL
Jun 01, 2008 ... The price of fuel in the UK is determined by two government taxesthat, combined, make Britain one of the most expensive places in theworld to fill up a car or lorry. On top of the fuel duty added to the global price of the oilitself, the Treasury adds VAT, a total bill that in ...
MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE
Jun 01, 2008 ... Economy damaged by Darling's actions BROWN'S tame puppet at the Treasury, Alistair Darling, venturesnorth to warn us that a local income tax would be "massivelydamaging" to the Scottish financial sector and the whole Scottisheconomy. Why? Because it seems that a few ...