The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 1997:
Tories rage over `perverted' Guinness advert
Jan 05, 1997; ... GUINNESS, the drinks group, came under a furious attack by theConservative Party hierarchy yesterday over an advertising campaigndepicting a sado-masochistic Tory supporter hanging from a ceiling. Brian Mawhinney, the Conservative Party chairman, condemned as"contemptible" a ...
Blair dispels voters' fears on tax rises Poll shows Major has lost key battle
Jan 05, 1997; ... TONY Blair has defused tax as an election issue, according to aSunday Telegraph Gallup poll published on the eve of theConservative Party's pounds 5 million campaign attacking Labour'seconomic policy. The new opinion poll, which is a serious blow to Conservativestrategists, ...
Prince seeks peace talks in `War of the Waleses'
Jan 05, 1997; ... THE PRINCE of Wales is planning closer co-operation with Diana,Princess of Wales as part of a campaign to improve his own and themonarchy's place in the public's affections. One option under consideration is that Prince William, 14, andPrince Harry, 12, might spend next Christmas ...
Labour tried to gag pro-life MP
Jan 05, 1997; ... A LABOUR MP has publicly backed Cardinal Thomas Winning againstTony Blair by confirming that his party has attempted to silenceMPs opposed to abortion. Ronnie Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, last night denounced claimsby his own leadership that there was no pressure on Labour MPs ...
City: Perry will chair demerged Centrica British Gas chooses ex-Unilever boss for retail company
Jan 05, 1997; ... SIR Michael Perry, the former chairman of Unilever, is tipped tobecome chairman of Centrica, British Gas's retail and supplybusiness, following its demerger next month. His appointment is expected to be announced shortly since BritishGas will this week publish the documents about ...
City: Ryanair sets course for pounds 100m listing
Jan 05, 1997; ... TONY Ryan, the flamboyant Irish entrepreneur whose flotation ofGPA, the world's biggest aircraft leasing company, wasspectacularly aborted on take-off in 1992, is considering anotherattempt to join the stockmarket. Ryanair, his low-fares airline founded in 1985, is believed to ...
City: Foreign investors buy Royal Mint
Jan 05, 1997; ... A DOZEN American and Far Eastern investors have bought theformer Royal Mint building and adjacent office complex opposite theTower of London for pounds 90m. The Capital and Income Group exchanged contracts this weekendwith Hermes, the pension fund manager, for the long ...
City: Former MGM boss jumps US bail
Jan 05, 1997; ... GIANCARLO Parretti, the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film mogul,has skipped bail and fled the United States just days before beingsentenced to an anticipated 10 years in prison for perjury andtampering with evidence. The latest chapter in Parretti's rags-to-riches-to-ruin story ...
City: Branson plans pounds 1bn rolling stock order
Jan 05, 1997; ... RICHARD Branson's Virgin Group is planning to place a pounds 1bnorder for new trains if it wins the bidding for the privatisationof the West Coast Main Line. The order would be one of the largestin British history. Virgin is committed to buying pounds 250m of rolling stock forits ...
City: Lasmo plugs in to generating
Jan 05, 1997; ... LASMO, the oil exploration and production company, is planningto diversify into power generating in an effort to develop end usesfor some of its gas reserves. The board has agreed the diversification in principle and islooking at a number of potential projects. "I would be ...
City: Lloyd's blacklists MP
Jan 05, 1997; ... A CONSERVATIVE MP has been included on Lloyd's of London'sblacklist and has been excluded from the market's pounds 3.2bnsettlement scheme, it emerged this weekend. David Evennett, MP for Erith and Crayford and a former Lloyd'sunderwriting director, is one of 134 past and present ...
Children see man die saving dog
Jan 05, 1997; ... A MAN died yesterday after falling into a frozen river whiletrying to rescue a dog, and an elderly woman froze to death on herdoorstep. Tony Page, 40, never regained consciousness after being pulledfrom the River Soar near his home at Bristall, Leicestershire. His ...
`Breakthrough' for Lib Dems in pact with Labour
Jan 05, 1997; ... SENIOR Liberal Democrats claim that they have made abreakthrough in relations with Labour by agreeing a joint approachon key areas of constitutional reform. The moves follow the announcement of formal talks last yearbetween Labour frontbenchers and their Liberal ...
Nurses `may avoid Saudi death trial'
Jan 05, 1997; ... TWO British nurses held in a Saudi jail accused of murdering anAustralian colleague made false confessions in the hope that theywould be sent home, their lawyer said last night. Lucille McLauchlan, 31, and Deborah Parry, 41, said to beretracting their confessions and protesting ...
Soccer: Mamas join drive to end play on Sundays
Jan 05, 1997; ... LUCIANO Nizzola, the new president of the Italian League, wantsto bring the day on which the fixtures in his country are playedforward to a Saturday, but is experiencing some resistance. One ofthe main objections is from Totocalcio (the Italian football pool)who argue that their punters ...
City Comment: Right way ahead for British Gas
Jan 05, 1997; ... Like a juggernaut, the British Gas demerger started slowly butnow has a momentum all of its own. This week the process willbecome almost unstoppable when the group publishes all the demergerdocumentation. When it was announced I was sceptical about the demerger. Ithought BG was ...
City Comment: Target Smith's
Jan 05, 1997; ... THE WH Smith share price was unusually strong on Friday. A riseof 6 per cent for a share price that has been dawdling for much oflast year is worth paying attention to, particularly since theSmith family is said to have been selling some of its stake. Good Christmas trading must ...
City Comment: Wrong numbers
Jan 05, 1997; ... A MOBILE phone is for life, not just for Christmas. If youreceived a handset in your stocking this year, you can be sure oftwo things. One, the giver did not pay much for it, thanks to thegenerous deals around last month. Second, you soon will, once themonthly bills start ...
City: AorTech hopes to become Aim heart-throb
Jan 05, 1997; ... AORTECH, a company founded by Gordon Wright and Eddie McDaidfour years ago, is offering shares via a placing to exploit asophisticated new tilting disc mechanical heart valve. The Aim issue, being handled by the stockbroker Bell LawrieWhite, is expected to price the company at ...
City: Business steps up property purchases
Jan 05, 1997; ... BUSINESS leaders will this week reveal the new confidence in theBritish manufacturing industry which will underpin the continuingrevival of the commercial property market in 1997. A Confederation of British Industry survey is expected to showthat a third of British companies plan ...
City: Kleinwort to offer long-term analysis
Jan 05, 1997; ... DRESDNER Kleinwort Benson, the investment bank, is to tackle thecharge of short-termism levelled against City analysts by launchingthe Millennium Files, a series of reports providing investorclients with a long-term and global view on the impact of changewithin industries and ...
Who's the wimp in the woolly mittens? Gloves get the thumbs down from the soccer old guard
Jan 05, 1997; ... SIR Stanley Matthews would never have dreamed of it. Today'sfootballers, bothered by the cold weather, are wearing gloves andfans are following suit. Forty years ago, even goalkeepers shunned gloves, and playerswere regarded as soft for wearing shinpads. Now glove-wearing ...
Our boys think the cold is all over. It is now
Jan 05, 1997; ... WEARING gloves has always been something British footballexpects of foreigners, like cheating. Now that the game has become a polyglot affair - with ManchesterUnited fans, for instance, singing to the tune of the Marseillaisein Eric Cantona's honour - it is entirely appropriate ...
Soccer: Frustrated Souness hits at referee
Jan 05, 1997; ... Reading3 Southampton1 SOUTHAMPTON manager Graeme Souness laid himself open to sternFootball Association disciplinary action yesterday with ablistering attack on match referee Graham Poll after seeing histeam crash out of the FA Cup at Elm Park. Souness, who saw two of his ...
Soccer: Redknapp anger as Porfirio brilliance thwarts Wrexham
Jan 05, 1997; ... WREXHAM1 WEST HAM1 THEY painted the touchlines blue in the snow and narrowly missedthe chance to paint the town red after Wrexham came so close toadding to the success against Arsenal at the same stage five yearsago to the day.West Ham needed a replay to end that crusade at ...
Soccer: Routine win adds pace to Pearce rise
Jan 05, 1997; ... Nottm Forest3 Ipswich0 HE MAY have some way to go before he can join Brian Clough on awalk across the Trent, but Stuart Pearce has dipped his toe in themurky waters of football management without finding it toouncomfortable. His plaintive match programme admission that the ...
Soccer: Chelsea underline their pedigree
Jan 05, 1997; ... Chelsea3 West Bromwich0 TIMES have changed at Stamford Bridge, according to Ruud Gullit,in a way relevant to the FA Cup. "I don't see us losing stupidgames any more," Chelsea's manager had said before this third-roundmeeting ofunequals, in which his players were every bit ...
Soccer: Burnley almost stem the Liverpool tide
Jan 05, 1997; ... Liverpool1 Burnley0 WATCHING Liverpool is like standing on the edge of a clifflooking out to sea. The water ebbs and flows, the surf frothsprettily, but you are in no danger of getting wet. Yesterday, RoyEvans' side either strolled or fizzed, but the torrent of goalsthat really ...
City: IoD's mouthpiece to the masses City Profile - After 20 years at Nationwide, Tim Melville-Ross is reforming the Institute of Directors, giving its members and their views a higher public profile
Jan 05, 1997; ... Last Wednesday, Tim Melville-Ross, director general of theInstitute of Directors, wrote a trenchant article against theprospect of a single European currency and the social chapter.Nothing new there, you may think - the IoD has long sided with theanti-Federalists. But the newspaper he ...
Soccer: Arsenal denied by French resistance
Jan 05, 1997; ... ARSENAL1 SUNDERLAND1 SUNDERLAND'S Lionel Perez enjoyed his first taste of the FA Cup alot more than his French compatriots ranged against him. He deniedArsenal victory with a display of goalkeeping brilliance that meansArsene Wenger will have to take his tired and depleted ...
Soccer: Bohinen strike is tough on Port Vale
Jan 05, 1997; ... Blackburn1 Port Vale0 BLACKBURN ROVERS spared themselves another Cup embarrassment,Lars Bohinen summoning an emphatic strike from amorass of mediocrity which again threatened to engulf theaspirations of Ewood Park.The explosion of relief at the end was testament to the ...
Soccer: Wednesday highlight gulf in class
Jan 05, 1997; ... Sheffield Wednesday7 Grimsby1 THIS was Sheffield Wednesday's biggest FA Cup win since they beatBournemouth 7-0 at Dean Court in 1932. Last season Grimsby reachedthe fifth round, beating Wednesday manager David Pleat's old Lutonclub 7-1, and West Ham 3-0, but yesterday the prospect ...
Soccer: Ravanelli stirs old memories
Jan 05, 1997; ... Middlesbrough6 Chester0 MIDDLESBROUGH'S foreign imports took a decisive step towardserasing the doubts and controversy that have hovered over them atthis famous old club. Names like Fenton, Mannion and Hardwick fill supporters withpride but, despite such stalwarts, it is a ...
Soccer: Sodje's errors end Stevenage run
Jan 05, 1997; ... Stevenage0 Birmingham2 STEVENAGE Borough's hopes of performing another FA Cupgiantkilling act were ended by two elementary errors at St Andrewsyesterday.The champions of the Vauxhall Conference proved a match for theirFirst Division opponents for much of the first half in a ...
Soccer: Wilkinson given direct approach Colin Malam questions the stylistic influence of the FA's no-nonsense new technical guru
Jan 05, 1997; ... HOWARD WILKINSON will be unveiled tomorrow as the FootballAssociation's long-awaited technical director. But any relief atthe FA's success in finally filling this extremely important posthas to be tempered by an uneasy feeling that the governing body ofEnglish football, no strangers to ...
Soccer: Portsmouth tame Wolves as history repeats itself
Jan 05, 1997; ... WOLVES' poor record at Molineux continued yesterday as they werebeaten 2-1 by Portsmouth. Wolves, who were beaten 4-1 by Pompey in the 1939 FA Cup final,went into the game with the second worst home record in DivisionOne and soon fell behind when Republic of Ireland ...
City: Monitor the markets when seeking growth Taking Stock - the diary of a private investor
Jan 05, 1997; ... Identifying growth is a central issue. Some people say that agood entrepreneur can make a success of any business, but I placefirst priority on a company being well-positioned in appropriatemarkets. Many examples among recovery and growth situationsillustrate this principle - it is far ...
City: Home truths on housing Agenda
Jan 05, 1997; ... Are rising house prices a good thing or a bad thing? I ask,because ministers have taken to citing rising house prices as afurther encouraging economic signal, lifting the "feel-good" factorand household confidence. It would be stretching matters to suggest that this is a ...
City: Kangaroo cats Agenda
Jan 05, 1997; ... I WAS unfortunately not able to attend the recent annualconference of the Kangaroo Group in Berlin. This is the influentialall-party group of European politicians committed to the singlemarket and the single currency. But its newsletter is essential reading, and an article ...
City: The rapid rise and fall of Action Man Tales From The Boardroom
Jan 05, 1997; ... They say that New Year is the time to adopt new resolutions. Forour chairman, it is usually the time to push new resolutionsthrough the board, often in the teeth of bitter opposition. And, inthe case of the board resolution appointing me as the new chiefexecutive, the word was not ...
Revealed: Svengalis who change minds of ministers
Jan 05, 1997; ... A LEADING Tory guru was behind Stephen Dorrell's change of heartover Europe, the Health Secretary revealed yesterday. Mr Dorrell admitted that Danny Finkelstein, the head of theConservative Research Department and former director of the SocialMarket Foundation, had helped him form ...
pounds 140m fines ahead in DIY tax chaos
Jan 05, 1997; ... THE Inland Revenue is expecting to levy fines of at least pounds140 million on hundreds of thousands of small businesses andself-employed people next year amid growing fears that the newself-assessment system is on the brink of chaos. Michael Jack, the Treasury Minister, has said ...
Spanish seamen given National Insurance cards
Jan 05, 1997; ... SPANISH fishermen are obtaining British National Insurancenumbers in West Country ports, raising fears that they couldexploit the social security system by claiming benefits. Ministers are investigating the Spaniards' registrations amidconcern from MPs and outrage among British ...
Soccer: Patient Little backing his own market values
Jan 05, 1997; ... A MERE seven years ago, Brian Little recalls, he was manager ofDarlington and arguing with players about pounds 5-a-week payrises. "Now we don't talk in fives and tens. We add three noughtsand go from there. Which is crazy. But this is Aston Villa and wehave to compete in the market ...
Soccer: Robson reacts to alarm with lack of angst Face To Face Brough Scott talks to Bryan Robson
Jan 05, 1997; ... AFTER five minutes, he was on one knee holding his back as the sciatica bit. After 15, he was trying to marshal his troops afterDennis Bergkamp's deadly volley had struck. By half-time, he wasleading them off, two goals behind, and the Arsenal crowd werechanting "Boro's going ...
Soccer: Forest urged to accept bid
Jan 05, 1997; ... NOTTINGHAM Forest were warned by one of their highest profileshareholders last night that failure to accept a takeover bid forthe club tomorrow night could have disastrous consequences. The man issuing the warning was the club's long-serving generalmanager, Alan Hill, whose contact ...
Soccer: Lee returning to his roots Alyson Rudd previews today's other games and predicts a warm welcome at the Valley
Jan 05, 1997; ... CHARLTON v NEWCASTLE ROBERT Lee returns to the Valley for the first time since hispounds 750,000 transfer in 1992. There have been suggestions thatthis gives the Charlton supporters the opportunity to jeer theEngland midfielder but as Lee turned out for the Addicks as boy andman ...
City: Dial FM for money The licence for London's final commercial radio station will be awarded soon. It should be highly lucrative for the winner. Amanda Hall looks at the contenders
Jan 05, 1997; ... These are nailbiting times for the radio industry. The fortunesof 25 consortia are riding on a decision to be made next week bySir Peter Gittings, chairman of the Radio Authority, and the sixmembers of his panel who have to select the winner of London'sfinal FM commercial radio ...
City: The record breakers Britain is top of the pop music charts and heading for a bumper year, writes Richard Newton
Jan 05, 1997; ... The record industry is singing. Last year it broke all recordsfor sales and turnover despite a relatively lacklustre releaseschedule. Not bad for a business that gloomy pundits wrote offfollowing the advent of video a decade ago. Today's CDs and tapesalso have to compete against games ...
Hospitals `stretched to breaking point'
Jan 05, 1997; ... DOCTORS have given a warning that hospitals are at breakingpoint after a week in which beds ran out, patients had to betransferred miles for treatment and accident and emergency unitsbecame log-jammed. One doctor described his accident and emergency unit last week aslike a Second ...
Man in death fall injures driver
Jan 05, 1997 ... A MAN who plunged to his death from a footbridge over the A38 inStaffordshire injured a passing driver as he smashed through ...
School to close
Jan 05, 1997 ... HOWELL'S School in Denbigh, a 137-year-old independent schoolfor girls, is to close in July with the ...
Corky bobs up again
Jan 05, 1997 ... CORKY, the 11-year-old tabby cat who fled a burning carfollowing a crash on the A1 near Doncaster, South Yorks, ...
Ambulance crash
Jan 05, 1997 ... TWO paramedics and two passengers were hurt when their ...
Apology: John Hume MP
Jan 05, 1997 ... IN last week's issue we incorrectly stated that John Hume, theSDLP leader, did not condemn the recent shooting at the RoyalChildren's Hospital in Belfast. We ...
Admirers remember the hero of the lake
Jan 05, 1997; ... PEOPLE came from miles around to salute Donald Campbell, whodied 30 years ago yesterday trying to break his own speed record onwater, writes Esther Leach. His nephew, Donald Wales, stepped on to the jetty at ConistonWater and placed flowers of blue and green, Campbell's ...
Soccer: How Spurs' Sugar years turned sour Colin Malam looks at the underlying reasons for discontentment among disgruntled supporters at Tottenham
Jan 05, 1997; ... ALAN SUGAR and Gerry Francis might not agree, but it is nice toknow that even in an organisation as determinedly modern andforward-looking as the Premier League, tradition still counts forsomething. That is why a growing number of Tottenham fans will goto Old Trafford today willing Spurs ...
Soccer: Keeping faith with Schmeichel Steve Curry on Manchester United's inspirational goalkeeper, back on song after a dip in form looked likely to threaten his side's Premiership challenge
Jan 05, 1997; ... WHEN the seasonal queues at the Manchester United superstoresubsided and the 1996 tallies were made on the sales of replicashirts, Peter Schmeichel goalkeeping jerseys came a creditablethird behind Eric The Idol and the best seller, David Beckham, thenew kid on the block. Most ...
City: Burnfield boost for Fairey Market Miscellany
Jan 05, 1997; ... ANALYSTS believe Fairey Group's final offer for engineeringrival Burnfield will be earnings enhancing even after increasingthe price by pounds 6.7m to pounds 57.7m. Fairey's proviso thatBurnfield withdraw from its proposed acquisition of private groupLDS now looks increasingly academic, ...
Admiralty Arch to be London's showcase
Jan 05, 1997; ... IT WAS BUILT as a memorial to Queen Victoria and has housedBritain's naval chiefs. Now Admiralty Arch is to become a new focalpoint for Londoners as a centre of tourism, business and the arts. Under a new plan to be unveiled tomorrow, the Arch will becomethe headquarters of a ...
Spy sub finds blue whales off Britain
Jan 05, 1997; ... A BILLION-DOLLAR American submarine detection system hasdiscovered that there are many more whales off the coast of Britainthan previously thought - including rare blue whales, the world'slargest mammals. The United States navy's top-secret Sound Surveillance Systemonce tracked ...
Family Finance: Resolve to make real savings Liz Dolan warns that the temptation to switch to a `better' investment can result in your losing money
Jan 05, 1997; ... The New Year is when the nation hurls itself into an orgy ofself-improvement. We throw out our cigarettes, lock the drinkscabinet, sign up at the gym and generally resolve to improve ourlives. The same urge applies just as strongly to personal finances. But,there is a strong ...
Family Finance: Clean the wallpaper with stale bread Paul Slade looks at some of the more zany suggestions for making domestic economies
Jan 05, 1997; ... "In 1974 Bramber Parish Council decided to go without streetlighting for three days as a saving. Afterwards, the parishtreasurer was pleased to announce that, as a result, electricity tothe value of pounds 11.59 had been saved. He added, however, that there was an pounds 18.48 bill ...
Sport Active: How Mozart helped me to get fit for life Julie Welch recalls the day she decided to stop munching and start exercising
Jan 05, 1997; ... IN the opening pages of the novel Fried Green Tomatoes At TheWhistle Stop Cafe, an inmate of the Rose Terrace Nursing Homeremarks wistfully that she "cain't tell you when it was I got to beso old. It just sorta slipped up on me". Well, six years ago I hadno idea how I got to be such a ...
Sport Active: Facing up to your vital statistics Claire Middleton has a fitness test and finds the experience is not as intimidating as she imagined
Jan 05, 1997; ... THE last time you were in a gym you were probably there at thebehest of your PE teacher and wearing big blue knickers or thoseblack slip-on plimsolls from Woolworths. It is the feeling ofintimidation which has kept you out since: the machines look toocomplicated, the people using them ...