The Sunday Herald back issues from October 2008:
STOCKS FOCUS: STANDARD LIFE
Oct 05, 2008 ... STANDARD Life launched a global campaign to return some GBP184million in unclaimed shares and cash to around 200,000 people acrossthe globe This is not the first time that Standard Life has takenthis course of action. Since the Edinburgh-based companydemutualised in 2006, it ...
STOCKS FOCUS: FIRSTGROUP
Oct 05, 2008 ... THE UK's largest bus and rail services operator reportedincreases in revenues as passengers look to cut costs by leaving thecar at home. FirstGroup revealed that bus passenger revenues were up7.5per cent in the six months to September 30 with rail revenue up9.8per cent. Aberdeen-based ...
STOCKS FOCUS: BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL
Oct 05, 2008 ... SUPPORT services group Babcock International reported a strongfirst half 's trading, boosted by a strong order book. The company,which has a GBP125 million contract with the Canadian government toprovide in-service support for Victoria class submarines andrecently signed a contract worth ...
STOCKS FOCUS: MARKS & SPENCER
Oct 05, 2008 ... SIR Stuart Rose put on a brave face as Marks & Spencer revealedthat UK like-for-like sales over the 13 weeks to September 27 fellby 6.1per cent. But he wheeled in reinforcements in the form ofageing boyband Take That, who will be joining Twiggy and friends asthe faces of M&S this ...
MEDIA WATCH
Oct 05, 2008 ... THE floor at Central Quay was swimming in blood last week asTrinity Mirror axed three of its top advertising executives. In amove managing director Mark Hollinshead described as a "managementdelayering exercise", head of motors and property Danny Giblin,sponsors and inserts chief Sandra ...
The metropolitan production house with a Caledonian twist Shed Media at the vanguard of push for more Scottish-produced network programming Shed Media at the vanguard of push for more Scottish- produced network programming TELEVISION: INTERVIEW
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT is appropriate, if slightly mortifying, that my first face-to-face chat with Shed Media head Eileen Gallagher takes place in whatI'd thought were the men's toilets of frappeand-frippery merchantsFifi and Ally. Unisex toilets may discomfort this reporter, but it is this kindof ...
A steady hand in a storm MARTIN CURRIE'S JAMES FAIRWEATHER MARTIN CURRIE'S JAMES FAIRWEATHER INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK BY STEVEN VASS
Oct 05, 2008; ... JAMES Fairweather has worked in finance since the day MargaretThatcher came to power in 1979, but he believes the sector has beenchanged forever by the events of recent weeks. According to thechief investment officer of Edinburgh fund manager Martin Currie,the deregulatory days are ...
Industrial auctioneer goes online to cash in on downturn Glasgow firm ready to make the most of expected rise in bankruptcies Glasgow firm ready to make the most of expected rise in bankruptcies ECONOMIC CRISIS: WINNERS
Oct 05, 2008; ... A GLASGOW-based auction house has come up with a novel way ofpreparing for a likely boom in business from bankruptcies: it hasdrastically cut back on its live auctioneering operation to use aneBay-style online bidding system instead. With auctioneers usually busiest during tough ...
Whisky boss resigns after 'odd' remark DISTILLING: ROW
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE chairman of a successful whisky tourism marketingorganisation has resigned after making comments about a fellowdistiller in the Sunday Herald. Mark Reynier, the managing director of Islay's Bruichladdichdistillery, recently stepped down from his role as chairman of TheWhisky ...
New role for McConnell averts crucial by-election Accusations of 'blatant manipulation' from Salmond as former first minister becomes Brown's envoy to Africa
Oct 05, 2008; ... GORDON Brown has appointed former first minister, Jack McConnell,as his special envoy in Africa, provoking accusations that the movewas "blatant political manipulation" to avoid the possibility of anembarrassing by-election defeat in McConnell's Motherwell and ...
'Brown has chosen to be a hostage to the Blairites rather than leave Number 10. But Mandelson's friend? Not until hell freezes over' Westminster Editor James Cusick analyses the latest and most remarkable comeback of one of the architects of New Labour
Oct 05, 2008; ... IF it's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head,Gordon Brown's decision to bring Peter Mandelson into his cabinet isa high-risk psychological gamble. Number 10's former communicationsdirector, Alastair Campbell, once suggested to Tony Blair that hehold an "honesty" press ...
Murphy promises to pursue the SNP 'relentlessly' New Scottish Secretary 'approached Brown' for job in reshuffle New Scottish Secretary 'approached Brown' for job in reshuffle POLITICS: INTERVIEW
Oct 05, 2008; ... NEW Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy yesterday signalled hisdetermination to be the prime minister's enforcer north of theBorder, accusing the SNP government of suffering from an"ideological obsession" with independence which could destabilisethe country during the current global economic ...
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THE WAITING GAME PART ONE: THE RESCUE PACKAGE
Oct 05, 2008; ... The US taxpayers' dollars700 billion will not end the meltdown byitself. Only time will tell if that is enough to allow internationalbanks to start lending again. Meanwhile, in Europe, the effortsremain very much behind the scenes. Westminster Editor James Cusickreports AFTER ...
SMOKE, MIRRORS . . .AND HOW A HANDFUL OF MISSED MORTGAGE PAYMENTS STARTED THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS PART FOUR: HOW WE GOT HERE
Oct 05, 2008; ... Iain Macwhirter traces the history of financial mismanagement,fraud and complex mathematics that combined to culminate in a run on- and the collapse of - some of the world's biggest banks LAST week, something happened which I never expected to see in mylifetime. There was a ...
Revealed: the 67 Scottish roads at risk of landslide TRANSPORT: REPORT
Oct 05, 2008; ... Environment editor Rob Edwards discovers that many stretches ofScotland's roads, including key arterial routes, are suffering fromthe consequences of extreme weather LONG stretches of some of Scotland most vital road links are indanger of suddenly disappearing under mud and rocks ...
Critics fell plans for woodland eco-village Green homes withdrawn after fierce opposition Green homes withdrawn after fierce opposition ENVIRONMENT: COMMUNITY
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE Forestry Commission has withdrawn a plan to build a greencommunity in an ancient woodland in the wake of fierce oppositionfrom environmental groups and local residents. The commission's controversial application for 32 "sustainable"homes in Kilnhill Wood near Nairn was facing ...
High-speed train link derailed Cameron accused of ignoring Scotland as rail line stops south of Border Cameron accused of ignoring Scotland as rail line stops south of Border TRANSPORT: CONSERVATIVE POLICY
Oct 05, 2008; ... CONSERVATIVE plans to build a high-speed rail line no furthernorth than Leeds will wipe out their vote in Scotland and encouragenationalism, according to the Scottish transport minister. Stewart Stevenson MSP led a chorus of critics in saying that thepresentation by shadow ...
Credit crunch blamed for huge rise in shoplifting Stolen designer goods openly sold at Scotland's largest car boot sale Stolen designer goods openly sold at Scotland's largest car boot sale CRIME: RETAIL
Oct 05, 2008; ... SCOTLAND'S most notorious shoplifting gangs are blatantlyflouting the law and selling stolen designer goods at the country'sbiggest car boot sale two years after their activities were firstexposed. Some of the 10 crime clans involved in drug dealing, moneylaundering and other ...
Mountain bike group's fury over failed plans Forestry Commission accused of 'arrogance' CYCLE PATHS: EXPANSION
Oct 05, 2008; ... AMBITIOUS plans for a major mountain biking development in thecentral belt have collapsed, leaving a trail of rescinded grants,mass resignations and bitter recriminations. The Forestry Commission has been blamed for wrecking a GBP1.5million plan to extend bike paths at its Carron ...
FOUR CORNERS
Oct 05, 2008; ... TRAVELLING through Afghanistan a few years ago, I crossed Takharprovince in the north of the country. Everywhere, field after fieldof delicate pink poppies were in full bloom, their deadly sap beinglanced from the long-stemmed green bulbs by an army of farmers. Itwas but a small part of ...
Beauticians aim to pluck technology from rivals' hands Hair-removal machines at centre of row Hair-removal machines at centre of row FRANCE: SALON SERVICES
Oct 05, 2008; ... PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy may boast that France is no longer acountry of strikes and streetdemonstrations, but one group ofworkers seems intent on proving him wrong - albeit for anunconventional cause. Last week thousands of French beauticians downed tweezers in aprotest over the ...
Bringing Peter Mandelson back is selling Labour short OPINION & DEBATE OPINION & DEBATE IAIN MACWHIRTER ON THE RESHUFFLE
Oct 05, 2008; ... PETER Mandelson is to politics what the naked short-seller is tocorporate finance. Bringing back the prince of darkness was one ofthose ideas that probably sounded great late at night after a fewbeers, but should have been abandoned in the cold light of day. Whatis worrying is that there ...
India can enforce no smoke, but there's a dangerous chance of fire REALPOLITIK TREVOR ROYLE
Oct 05, 2008; ... AS any visitor to India knows only too well, it's a land ofstartling contrasts in which all the senses are assailed, usually inunison. So no-one should be surprised that in the week that Indiaoutlawed smoking in public, it also entered into a deal with the USto permit the import of ...
Cop a load of this! UNDERCURRENT JAMES CUSICK
Oct 05, 2008; ... THERE isn't supposed to be a Tory mayor of London, just likethere isn't supposed to be an SNP administration in Holyrood. Listento the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and her aggrieved tone on howBoris Johnson choreographed the departure of the head of theMetropolitan Police, Sir Ian ...
CARS FOR THE PEOPLE sundaybriefing
Oct 05, 2008 ... The Ford Model T, the world's first mass-market car, celebratedits 100th birthday last month, and this week sees both the MorrisMinor and the Citron 2CV celebrate their 60th anniversaries. We takea look at how these, and other, iconic vehicles brought motoring tothe masses. Ford ...
Toast of the teenagers McCHATTER IAIN MACWHIRTER
Oct 05, 2008; ... WE all know that Alex Salmond is a miracle worker, but last weekhe surpassed even himself. He managed to get students up earlyenough to go to nine o'clock lectures. Admittedly, they were up atthe crack to lobby parliament against banning alcohol sales to under-21-yearolds, but at least ...
Duvet know it's crisis time? TOM SHIELDS ON FEELING THE PINCH
Oct 05, 2008; ... EXPERTS at the Buffer Institute have been studying methods ofsurviving the New Great Depression. The main recommendation is: hidebehind the sofa. If anyone in the room turns on a news bulletin oreven begins to talk about economic downturn, close your eyes, putyour hands over your ears, ...
Don't sugar-coat it . . . parents cause child obesity ROXANNE SOROOSHIAN ON CEREAL OFFENDERS
Oct 05, 2008; ... THEY are a sinister bunch, Tony, Rik, Coco, Loopy, Pete andPardner: a veritable band of cereal killers. Or so you might be ledto believe after the results emerged last week of a survey intoadvertising. Which? have compiled a league table of cartoon baddies afterresearch found ...
A necessary gamble, but risk is high: sundayherald sundayherald EDITORIAL
Oct 05, 2008 ... NECESSITY, according to Mark Twain, is the mother of takingchances. That better puts into perspective Gordon Brown's "gamble"of the last few days when he chose to bring back Peter Mandelsonfrom Brussels, give him a key role in his Cabinet, and bury thehatchet that has divided the pair ...
MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE
Oct 05, 2008 ... We don't need race advice from Bradford I AM surprised that a professor from Bradford University, TomGallagher, should be wasting his time criticising the SNP's Muslimpolicies (Sunday Herald, September 28). Surely he would be betterengaged striving to heal the rift between the ...
Scots 'will not host Euro 2012'
Oct 05, 2008; ... SCOTLAND is unlikely to be offered the opportunity to host Euro2012 in the event of Poland and Ukraine being stripped of thechampionships. That's the view of SFA chief executive Gordon Smith,who believes Uefa will turn to one of the "Big Five" Europeannations instead. "I get that ...
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Oct 05, 2008; ... Celtic 4 Nakamura 25, Samaras 37, McDonald 75, McGeady 84Hamilton 0 CELTIC did not need Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to sweep HamiltonAcademical aside, but they have bigger fish to fry soon and it seemsthey will have to do so without him. The Dutchman limped off just two ...
Old boys keep a hold on hosts
Oct 05, 2008; ... Hearts 1 Kingston 35 Kilmarnock 2 Taouil 19, Bryson 82 KILMARNOCK pair Jim Jefferies and Billy Brown are still warmlythought of in the Tynecastle area for masterminding the club'sScottish Cup win 10 years ago, but much more of this and they won'tbe invited back. The duo have ...
THERE'S MORE TO COME FALKIRK FALKIRK Mrs Arfield might need a bigger mantlepiece as son Scott's latest award is sure to be followed by many others, writes Stewart Fisher
Oct 05, 2008; ... PEACE, it appears, has broken out again in the Arfield household. Scott Arfield made the mistake of rashly dedicating his firsteverSPL Young Player of the Month Award to his grandmother, only to havehis mother Angela pull rank and claim it for the parental home, sorest assured ...
TRIAL OF STRENGTH SCOTLAND SCOTLAND Despite their height and muscle, Scotland should be able to put Norway to the sword, writes Michael Grant
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT is quite a trip from East Anglia to South Africa and it hastaken a quarter of a century for George Burley and Age Hareide toapproach the end of it. At Hampden on Saturday the managers ofScotland and Norway will battle for three precious points on the wayto the next World Cup finals ....
PORTUGUESE MAN OF AWE
Oct 05, 2008; ... Pedro Mendes may not be the new messiah, but after just sevengames he has gained thousands of disciples. The good news forRangers, and their fans, is that there is plenty more to come, findsMichael Grant PEDRO Mendes has an eye for a smart designer shirt, and the pairof jeans ...
Come off the ledge, it's just a bad year ON THE SPOT MICHAEL GRANT
Oct 05, 2008; ... AVOID the Irish. Don't answer the phone if any Georgians call.Tell any Latvian pals you're too busy to see them. Ignore the Icelandics. They'll only be on to rub our noses in it,the whole lot of them. They'll only be trying to kick us when we'redown. Down among them, the tiddlers ...
FELLOW SUFFERERS IN EXILE The Hampden visitors share a long absence from major finals with their hosts thanks to a dearth of native talent. Stewart Fisher reports
Oct 05, 2008; ... SINCE the arrival of the earliest Viking invaders back in 795ADthere has been no shortage of connections between Norway andScotland, with an extended absence from major football tournamentsan unwanted addition to the list. Norway's last qualification forany major finals came in the ...
ZENIT CUP WIN WAS FAIR, INSISTS SMITH Amid bribery claims to the contrary in the media, Alan Campbell reports on the Rangers manager's belief that Russians lifted Uefa trophy on merit
Oct 05, 2008; ... WALTER Smith has reiterated that Zenit St Petersburg won lastseason's Uefa Cup on merit, and not because of alleged corruptdealings by third parties. The Rangers manager was reacting to reports that Russian "mafiafigures" had attempted to fix Zenit's semi-final against ...
Scots do utmost to spoil party MAGNERS LEAGUE MAGNERS LEAGUE Heineken Cup champions are far from convincing but get off to a winning start at new stadium, reports Alasdair Reid
Oct 05, 2008; ... Munster 25 Tries - Stringer, Murphy, Howlett. Penalties - O'Gara (2). Conversions - O'Gara (2). Glasgow 17 Try - O'Hare. Penalties - Gregor (4). MUNSTER fans have developed a powerful sense of history in recentseasons, but their ...
SCOTS TRUST TO PLUCK HEINEKEN CUP HEINEKEN CUP Robinson and Lineen's men must overcome real quality to progress, says Alasdair Reid
Oct 05, 2008; ... TEN years have passed since Bath captain Andy Nicol held theHeineken Cup aloft after his side's epic final victory againstBrive. The images of those moments retain a potency that makes ithard to believe they were captured a decade ago, but so much elseabout European club rugby in 1998 ...
PROJECT PHIL TO BE PUT TO THE TEST EDINBURGH EDINBURGH With a Scotland berth at stake, stand-off is working hard to kick off campaign with a victory, finds
Oct 05, 2008; ... LIKE London buses and Tory sex scandals, stand-offs rarely arriveon their own. The history of rugby is strewn with examples of 10sturning up in twos, its script demanding that one should be amercurial visionary, the other should be a stalwart of pragmatismand dependability, that there ...
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR YOUNG SCOTS YOUTH GAMES Athletes set off on long road to glory with trip to India. Alan Campbell reports
Oct 05, 2008; ... SEVERAL of the athletes who are expected to represent Scotland atthe 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will get a taste of thefuture when they fly out to Pune, in India, on Friday. They willcompete in the Youth Games, to which all 71 Commonwealth countrieshave been invited for the first ...
Harrington shows his grit ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP Irishman stays in touch at wet and windy Carnoustie, reports Alan Campbell
Oct 05, 2008; ... ON a day when his colleagues felt like heading straight to thebar for a stiffener, Padraig Harrington settled for a cappucino withone sugar and a sprinkle of chocolate. No Irish coffee for the winner of the last two Majors. The conditions at Carnoustie were dismal, and when ...
LETTERS
Oct 05, 2008 ... I WAS as disappointed as anyone else to see Celtic beaten in theChampions League on Wednesday and Motherwell's Uefa Cup campaignfizzle out before it had even started. October has only just startedand Gordon Strachan's side are the only Scottish team left inEuropean competition, while the ...
A PIECE OF MY MIND LEON JACKSON SINGER
Oct 05, 2008; ... I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT WHEN I won The X Factor - I wasshellshocked. I never thought in a million years it would be me. At everystage, right from the start, you always prepare yourself for a "no",but you keep that element of hope in your mind. I was saying "Leon! Leon! Leon!" ...
SODS LAW IS LIVING OFF THE LAND REALLY THE WAY TO SAVE MONEY AND THE PLANET . . . OR IS IT JUST A ROMANTIC DREAM? IS LIVING OFF THE LAND REALLY THE WAY TO SAVE MONEY AND THE PLANET . . . OR IS IT JUST A ROMANTIC DREAM? BY VICKY ALLAN
Oct 05, 2008; ... BACK in the 1970s of Tom and Barbara, The Good Life was somethingof a hippie joke. Though John Seymour's classic book Self Sufficiency had been published in 1970, the environmental movement wasstill nascent and "grow your own" was a furrow few people wanted toplough. Then as now, ...
BIGGER BROTHERS LONG WRITTEN OFF AS 1990 S LEFTOVERS WHOSE CONTRACTS OUTLASTED THEIR TALENTS, OASIS HAVE SWAGGERED BACK WITH A SURPRISINGLY POWERFUL NEW ALBUM
Oct 05, 2008; ... SO is this the start of a much bigger, baggier Oasis? After justa few listens to their new album Dig Out Your Soul, it soundsremarkably like it - and that comes as a genuine surprise. NoelGallagher describes track two, The Turning, as The Stone Roses meetsThe Stooges (which is pretty ...
PUMAJAW CD REVIEWS
Oct 05, 2008; ... PUMAJAW Curiosity Box (Pinnacle) 4 stars NOT to say Pumajaw are haunting but, with the headphones on, Icouldn't help looking behind me, half-expecting my dead auntie to befrothing at the mouth and reaching for the back of my chair. Anglo-Scottish folk duo Pinkie ...
JEREMY WARMSLEY CD REVIEWS
Oct 05, 2008; ... JEREMY WARMSLEY 3 stars JEREMY Warmsley is half-French and half-English, but there islittle Gallic about his second album. How We Became is English folk-pop with a dash of Morrissey, a drop of Thom Yorke and a dollop ofelectronica. Every tune sticks in the brain, not least ...
MT. WILSON REPEATER CD REVIEWS
Oct 05, 2008; ... MT. WILSON REPEATER Mt. Wilson Repeater (Chemikal Underground) 3 stars IF you took all the sunshine that failed to materialise inScotland this year and put it in a jar and shook it until it turnedinto a very pretty, but a little bit sad, summer's day sunset thenyou'd ...
Migrant masquerade
Oct 05, 2008 ... CHERRY BLOSSOM Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh until October 11 2 stars CHERRY Blossom, Catherine Grosvenor's new play for the Traverseand Polish company Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz, reminds us that we haveseen in recent years the biggest movement of people in worldhistory, ...
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DVDs NO.28 YUGOSLAVIA UNDERGROUND
Oct 05, 2008; ... NO.28 YUGOSLAVIA UNDERGROUND Director: Emir Kusturica (Artificial Eye, 1995) THE wars that ripped up the Balkan region during the 1990s werethe result of decades, indeed centuries, of deepseated ethnictensions. In the light of the atrocities that occurred acrossSerbia, ...
TODAY I'M WEARING. . .Tara Blackmore, junior art director at creative ad agency Story
Oct 05, 2008; ... This black top is actually a bodysuit from H&M. I like the factit's got a retro feel. I like a bit of old-school style. I always carry an old vintage Fendi saddlebag that used to belongto my mum. It's black leather and it just gets softer with age. I'malso never without a watch. I ...
WILD WEEKEND WOODLAND SPLENDOUR . . . AND 1200-YEAR-OLD RUINS WOODLAND SPLENDOUR . . . AND 1200-YEAR-OLD RUINS ALLEAN WOODS, PERTHSHIRE BY CAMERON McNEISH
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT is well known that pine and birch woods once covered much ofthe Scottish Highlands. Less than 1per cent of this natural woodlandremains and man's not entirely to blame - a wetter climate (who saysclimate change is new? ) and peat formation have played their partas much as burning, ...
TIMELESS CLASSIC LIVING SPACE LIVING SPACE A WRECK OF AN APARTMENT HAS BEEN TASTEFULLY TRANSFORMED INTO AN ELEGANT HOME
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE sun streams in through the cupola of the Victorian buildingthat houses Mairead Moodie and Simon Cook's casually cool, doubleupper Edinburgh apartment. The natural light floods in through thewindows in the entrance, allowing the original mahogany staircase tobe appreciated in all its ...
WORLD ON THE BRINK Bush calls for joint global action on economic meltdown Bush calls for joint global action on economic meltdown Brown says British spirit can lead the way to pull through Brown says British spirit can lead the way to pull through Germany: markets must serve the people, not ruin them
Oct 12, 2008; ... THE world's financial systems are on the "brink of systemicmeltdown, " the head of the International Monetary Fund warned inWashington last night. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that despite efforts to restoreconfidence in global banking and stock markets, the rich nations ofthe ...
Call to end judges' 'old-boys' network'
Oct 12, 2008; ... FIRST Minister Alex Salmond is under pressure to overhaul thejudiciary by appointing female and ethnic minority judges as a wayof dismantling one of Scotland's last "old boy's networks". The bench, which has three vacancies, has been described as fullof "Edinburgh snobs" following ...
Male, white, middle-class, privately-educated, Edinburgh resident, New Club member IS IT TIME TO CHANGE THE FACE OF THE SCOTTISH JUDICIARY?
Oct 12, 2008; ... IT is not often the heads of government and the courts cometogether in the same room in Scotland. The separation of politicaland judicial power, one of the mainstays of the nation's democracy,means the first minister and lord president are rarely in eachother's company However, in the ...
Trouble brewing over Iceland money Holyrood and Westminster battle looming over financial relief available to bail out councils who have lost money Holyrood and Westminster battle looming over financial relief available to bail out councils who have lost money POLITICS: DISPUTE
Oct 12, 2008; ... RELATIONS between the Scottish and UK governments are set to hita new low this week, as the two sides fight over how to helpScottish councils with millions frozen in failed Icelandic banks. At a crunch meeting on Wednesday, Westminster will insist anyloss will ultimately fall to ...
Back to the drawing board . . . 25 rewrites for SNP's crucial referendum question Freedom of information probe hints at civil service unease Freedom of information probe hints at civil service unease UK: CONSTITUTION
Oct 12, 2008; ... THE SNP's flagship plan for an independence referendum wentthrough more than two dozen separate versions and is still a work-in-progress, ministers have admitted. Although only four pages long, the referendum chapter thatappeared last August as part of Alex Salmond's National ...
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AN EIGHT-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN AN EIGHT-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN PART ONE: THE GLOBAL RESPONSE BY JAMES CUSICK
Oct 12, 2008; ... GORDON Brown has demanded the "boldest" united global action totackle last week's plunge in stock markets around the world asfailing banking systems threatened to turn the credit crisis into re-run of the Great Depression. A "global problem" said the prime minister, "requires a ...
How many billions in a quadrillion? Figure it out
Oct 12, 2008; ... FIFTY billion here, 50 billion there, and pretty soon you'retalking serious money. Except that you aren't any more. Fiftybillion has become a trivial sum in the new post-bubble world. If itdoesn't have at least 11 noughts at the end of it, people's eyesglaze over in ...
The councils caught up in the Iceland crisis . . .what it means to you PART THREE BY STEVEN VASS AND MHAIRI MACLEOD
Oct 12, 2008; ... WITH eight Scottish councils forced to admit parts of theirbudgets were at risk from the collapses of Iceland's top three bankslast week, they entered the weekend in recriminations about who wasto blame and how it would affect their budgets. Pat Watters, thepresident of local authorities ...
GIVING IT LALDY AT LIDL AND ALDI PART FOUR BY TOM SHIELDS
Oct 12, 2008; ... ANALYSIS of the demographics of food shopping in recent timesshows a growing trend towards consumers hoosing discount stores atthe expense of the more expensive premium outlets. In other words, customers are turning their backs on M&S to giveit laldy at Lidl and Aldi. As budgets ...