The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from February 1997:
Running with the sabs, hunting with the hounds `I'm scared,' said Neal. `This is like something out of Zulu,' said Dru. `Don't panic!' shouted Norm. Would the hunt saboteurs stand their ground? Jeremy Clarke confronts thugs, the police and even shotguns as he thrills to the chase
Feb 02, 1997; ... EVERY SATURDAY throughout the hunting season, van-loads of pale,skinny vegetarians drive out from our towns and cities and attemptto hinder large, red-faced, meat-eating huntsmen and women fromgoing about their lawful business killing vermin such as hares andfoxes. Violent confrontation ...
Revealed: MoD's germ warfare tests on London
Feb 02, 1997; ... MINISTRY of Defence scientists carried out top-secret germwarfare tests in the heart of London and a dozen other places insouthern England, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. The testscontinued until at least 1977. "Simulants" of biological warfare agents - among them a strain ofE ...
Tories offer 12 fudges on currency
Feb 02, 1997; ... SENIOR Conservatives have drawn up a series of approveddeclarations hostile to a single currency, for use by Euro-scepticcandidates in personal manifestos at the election. The declarationsare designed to allow candidates to oppose the single currencywithout undermining official party ...
Adams `spoke of killing Hume'
Feb 02, 1997; ... GERRY ADAMS discussed an IRA assassination attempt on John Hume,the leader of the nationalist SDLP, as a way of silencing SinnFein's most powerful critic, a former republican terrorist hasclaimed. According to Sean O'Callaghan, a former chief of the ProvisionalIRA, Mr Adams ...
Page 3 stunner leaves mail order boss cold
Feb 02, 1997; ... TO THE mail order company in the West Country, she seemed theperfect girl next door - demure enough in lab coat and librarianspectacles to promote a range of limescale removers. How could the company's bosses know that she was about to turninto Melinda Messenger, the stunning Page ...
City: Pru and Fortis wooing Scot Am Abbey National will face strong competition in pounds 1.5bn auction for insurer
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE Prudential and Fortis, the Belgian/Dutch insurance group,are each poised to make rival bids for Scottish Amicable, themutual life insurer put on the auction block by last week's pounds1.4bn offer from Abbey National. Several companies contacted Scot Am by telephone on ...
City: London target for pounds 25bn Old Mutual expansion
Feb 02, 1997; ... OLD Mutual, South Africa's biggest insurer, is preparing a hitlist of fund management companies as part of an ambitious expansionprogramme to make London the centre of a new pounds 25bn assetmanagement operation. The company wants to buy UK-based fund management firms ahead ofthe ...
City: Villa pounds 100m float goal
Feb 02, 1997; ... DWIGHT Yorke, the Aston Villa striker whose goals have moved theMidlands side up the Premiership table, has given the club addedlustre ahead of a flotation in the spring that will give it avaluation of more than pounds 100m. Doug Ellis, the chairman, paid pounds 425,000 for his 47 ...
City: Triplex demands DTI probe
Feb 02, 1997; ... AS THE bid for steel castings group William Cook degeneratedinto one of the most vicious smear campaigns the City has seen,predator Triplex Lloyd moved yesterday to distance itself from someof the allegations. However, Bob Mitchell, finance director, confirmed that Triplexhas ...
City: Aspinall brings cash shell to Aim
Feb 02, 1997; ... DAMIAN Aspinall, the entrepreneurial son of animal lover andgambling club owner John, is testing the Alternative InvestmentMarket this week with its first pure cash shell. Dealings start onTuesday in Calidore Group, a company he set up last year to backhis deal-making hunches and those ...
City: Exchange vets Hogg dealing
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE STOCK Exchange is investigating share dealings by a directorof Hogg Robinson, the travel company which saw almost 25 per centwiped off its share price when it announced a profit warning lastTuesday. The investigation centres on a transaction by Clive Holmes,managing director ...
City: `I've made 110 millionaires'
Feb 02, 1997; ... JON Moulton, the 46-year-old financier in the vanguard ofBritain's pounds 2bn venture capital boom, has personally createdmore than 100 millionaires - compared with the Lottery's 310. The flamboyant dealer, who is striking out on his own, saidyesterday: "I have created 110 ...
City: George raises rates pressure
Feb 02, 1997; ... FOR the third time in three months Eddie George, Bank of Englandgovernor, will urge the chancellor to raise interest rates - andfor the third time Kenneth Clarke is set to defy him. If the chancellor keeps rates at their current level there is nowa strong chance he can get away ...
Major gives Heseltine key role in election `Acceptable face' of the Tory party will face TV cameras
Feb 02, 1997; ... MICHAEL Heseltine has been drafted in to Conservativeheadquarters to be the "acceptable face" of the Tory Party duringthe election campaign. The Deputy Prime Minister has been handed the high-profile roleby John Major at the urging of Conservative strategists, amid agrowing ...
Deselected Gardiner to fight his Reigate seat
Feb 02, 1997; ... SIR George Gardiner has announced he will stand as a "genuineConservative" in Reigate against the official Tory candidate,following last week's decision by his local party to deselect him. The veteran Euro-sceptic said the verdict was a "stab in theback" by "272 stuffed shirts" in ...
How Tories aim to stop Euro-sceptics rocking boat Central Office has given candidates a number of ways to present the party stance on the single currency. Here are seven of the options
Feb 02, 1997 ... THESE are seven of the 12 declarations on the single currencyfor use in the manifestos of Tory candidates: Like the Prime Minister, (candidate's name) is highly scepticalof the single currency, and that is why ( ... ...) made no commitmentto go ahead with it, ( ... ...) also fully ...
Tube sell-off spells defeat for Major
Feb 02, 1997; ... PLANS to privatise London Underground have run into trouble withthe Cabinet being warned that it could be the "final nail" in theTories' electoral coffin, writes Tom Baldwin. The proposal is lined up as one of the most radical policies forthe party's manifesto. But ministers were ...
Teachers protest at pension plans
Feb 02, 1997 ... MORE than 1,000 teachers and lecturers marched in Londonyesterday to protest against proposed changes in ...
Hunger striker ill
Feb 02, 1997 ... ONE of the 14 asylum seekers on hunger strike at RochesterPrison, Kent, was admitted ...
HIV nurse sues
Feb 02, 1997 ... A NURSE who caught the HIV virus, which causes Aids, after ...
Woman dies in fire
Feb 02, 1997 ... A NEWLY married woman in her twenties was killed in a house fireat Wingate, Co ...
School for scandal
Feb 02, 1997 ... SCORES of telephone calls to sex lines around the world havebeen ...
Paedophile vigil
Feb 02, 1997 ... PARENTS held a vigil outside a hostel in Stirling to try ...
Ulster arrests
Feb 02, 1997 ... SEVERAL people were arrested in east Belfast after a man wasfound bleeding to death in an ...
Hoarder's tragic end
Feb 02, 1997 ... A MAN in his 60s, whose house in Handsworth, Birmingham, was socluttered he ...
MP death threats
Feb 02, 1997 ... POLICE are investigating death threats sent to ...
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Feb 02, 1997 ... OUR article about Roberto Devorik which appeared in The SundayTelegraph Magazine of Jan 12, 1997, we incorrectly stated that ...
Features: Uday's shotgun wedding Table Talk The week's news - as digested at a dinner party near you
Feb 02, 1997; ... Uday Weds Guests can't help noticing that it's been a big week for SaddamHussein and family, Baghdad's very own Beverly Hillbillies.DP-goers offer congratulations and condolences in equal measures asbullet-ridden psychopath Uday Hussein marries a 16-year-oldrelative in the same ...
Soccer: Fulham's non-stop coaching session
Feb 02, 1997; ... FIFTY Fulham supporters, mistaken in the belief that they wereon a coach taking them to an away fixture against Colchester, weretaken to Cambridge against their will. Lifelong fan Ian Bishoptakes up the story. "We were heading up the M11 and my wife said,`we're going the wrong way'. All ...
Features: History from the horse's mouth Time of My Life
Feb 02, 1997; ... WHEN THE first volume of Lord Anglesey's magnum opus waspublished in 1973, a reviewer wrote: "If you think it funny that aMarquess should sit down in his remote island to write the historyof the British Cavalry in four volumes" (it turned out to beeight), "you'd better wipe that smile ...
City Comment: The contrary wisdom of Old Harry
Feb 02, 1997; ... When I popped into the City tavern I once used to frequent I wasnot surprised to find it quite tastelessly modernised. But I waspleasantly surprised to find Old Harry there. He is an elderstatesman of the Square Mile and I have always, perhaps somewhatchildishly, reverenced his lateral ...
City: Storehouse and Asda deny talks rumours
Feb 02, 1997 ... ASDA, the supermarket group, has been holding secret talks withStorehouse, the ailing retailer which includes the BhS andMothercare chains, according to City sources. But they believe thetalks have "gone cool," writes Richard Rivlin. Both companies deny the talks. Alan Leighton, ...
City: Top broker issues challenge to Lloyd's
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE head of Britain's biggest insurance broker, Sedgwick, hasissued a most unwelcome challenge to Lloyd's of London over theinsurance market's treatment of individual Names who provide mostof its pounds 10.3bn underwriting capacity. Sax Riley, chief executive of the pounds 718m ...
City: Kingfisher launches retail parks fund
Feb 02, 1997; ... CHARTWELL Land, the property arm of retailing giant Kingfisher,is launching a pounds 250m investment fund focusing on Britain'sbooming retail warehousing market. The new venture, the first ofits kind in Britain, will invest in large edge-of-town retail parkswith a value of more than ...
City: Panther stalks Exmoor
Feb 02, 1997; ... PROPERTY investor Andrew Perloff will tomorrow discover if theaudacious bid by his Panther Securities group to wrest control ofthe pounds 18m Exmoor Dual investment trust has succeeded. Shareholders will vote at a special meeting on a motion to ditchthree existing directors of the ...
City: Hilton bid boosts Ladbroke
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE audacious $6.4bn takeover bid for the ITT Sheraton chainlaunched by Hilton Hotels Corporation of the US could benefitLadbroke's profits by more than pounds 12m a year. The surprise bid for one of the world's premier hotel brands wasannounced only two weeks after Steven ...
City: Sepia surplus
Feb 02, 1997 ... IN LAST week's Sunday Telegraph, under the headline "Engineers'scheme buckles" we suggested that the Structural EngineersProfessional Indemnity Arrangement (Sepia) had collapsed with adeficit of pounds 40m because of negligence claims and unstablefinancial foundations, and that French ...
City: Peacock banking
Feb 02, 1997 ... SECURE Trust Group is planning to relaunch its private bank,Arbuthnot Latham, as the bank for the new rich. The ...
City: Advanced float
Feb 02, 1997 ... SECURITY communications specialist, Advanced Technology (UK),aims to woo Ofex punters this week with its "heartbeat" wire-freealarm system, the ATL Monitor. Peter Hibbitt, founder and ...
City: Pru office sale
Feb 02, 1997 ... PRUDENTIAL has raised pounds 96m from the sale of two Cityoffice blocks to German investor Despa. The buildings at 2/6 ...
City: In the Pink
Feb 02, 1997 ... THOMAS PINK, the Jermyn Street shirtmaker which has 15 UKstores, has spent pounds 1.4m on its first overseas store in NewYork's Madison ...
Designer food aims to `cure' diseases
Feb 02, 1997; ... READY-MADE meals designed to combat specific conditions such asheart disease and high blood pressure could soon be on supermarketshelves in Britain. The nutritionally rich foods, endorsed by medical experts, havebeen developed in the laboratory over the past five ...
Buttoned-up Japanese add splash of colour to the city
Feb 02, 1997; ... A SILENT revolution is under way in the City. Japanesesalarymen, so long dressed in uniform white shirts, have begun towear colours their forebears would have blanched at. The trend, also marked in the financial districts of Tokyo,reveals a new individuality that has surprised ...
Soccer: Cantona calms nerves as United maintain lead
Feb 02, 1997; ... Manchester Utd2 Southampton1 ALEX FERGUSON complains his Manchester United team insist ondoing things the hard way and, true to character, they toiled deepinto the second half before completing their second recovery infour days and maintaining their position at the head of ...
Soccer: Collymore brings relief to Liverpool
Feb 02, 1997; ... DERBY0 LIVERPOOL1 THIS was the sort of match Liverpool have to win to diminish thesuspicion that, in terms of character, they are unworthy ofassociation with the Anfield tradition. Coincidentally, of course,such assignments may be taken as a gauge of their ability to ...
Soccer: Milosevic goal hides Villa rise and fall
Feb 02, 1997; ... Aston Villa1 Sunderland0 REMEMBER the AstonVilla side of last year which finished fourth in the Premiership,won the League Cup and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup?Remember it fondly. This season's version is but a pale shadow.Victory over Sunderland, courtesy of a ...
Soccer: Tottenham cut down by Chelsea's Italian styling
Feb 02, 1997; ... Tottenham1 Chelsea2 LET nobody question Ruud Gullit's judgment in shopping Italian.If it's style you want then Chelsea have the Latins who supply it,their football as immaculate as their wardrobe.Indeed Roberto Di Matteo, who looks as if he could comfortablyplay in an ...
Soccer: Graham keeps it tight to frustrate Arsenal
Feb 02, 1997; ... Leeds0 Arsenal0 THEY had warned us that attending Leeds matches these days isonly marginally more entertaining than watching paint dry. And, onthe evidence of this turgid excuse for a game, they were absolutelycorrect.Those planning to watch the FA Cup fourth-round tie ...
Soccer: Wednesday draw a blank once again
Feb 02, 1997; ... Sheff Wednesday0 Coventry0 STATISTICS are sending a clear message to David Pleat. Wednesdayhave now drawn 10 of their last 15 Premiership games and four ofthem have been goalless.Some staunch defending by Coventry, especially by debutant GaryBreen, the new arrival from ...
Features: My nice girls fall prey to the Spice Girls Family Life
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE subject of birthday presents came up while I was chattingwith a London friend, the mother of a nine-year-old. "What did Lily get for her birthday?" I asked. "Lily has a one-track mind at the moment. She is interested inone thing and one thing only and that's nail ...
Features: King of the glossies Interview Manic handshaking and a party every day have taken Nicholas Coleridge, 39, to the top of a magazine empire. But is there life beyond Vanity Fair?
Feb 02, 1997; ... BY AN extraordinary coincidence, the woman who serves the tea inthe boardroom at Conde Nast Publications Limited is the long lostmother of the firm's managing director, Nicholas Coleridge. Stillmore astonishingly, the truth of this coincidence dawned upon themanaging director on the day ...
City: Wallace will be stretched by cable City Profile - Tomorrow Graham Wallace becomes head of the UK's biggest cable company. The role will test his skill as he grooms the newly merged group for a pounds 5bn flotation
Feb 02, 1997; ... Graham Wallace woke up nervous today in his Highbury, London,home. Not, as you make reasonably think, because tomorrow morninghe starts his biggest job yet as chief executive of Cable andWireless Communications, the pounds 5bn cable and telephone groupset to float on the London and ...
Portillo rallies Wirral to defend its realm
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE CUPS tinkled on their saucers, the imitation log fire glowedin the grate and the Conservative ladies of Wirral South pattedtheir hair in rapt expectation. Michael Portillo, the DefenceSecretary, had come to tea, and now, fortified by a Bourbonbiscuit, he was ready to address his ...
Ashdown accused of pact with Blair on key seats
Feb 02, 1997; ... TORY strategists are compiling a dossier which the partybelieves will show that the Liberal Democrats are stepping asidefor Labour in some of the latter's key target seats. They are also investigating allegations that Labour is returningthe favour by deliberately down-grading its ...
Soccer: FA go to war as UEFA back Germany Steve Curry says `cosy stitch-up' could ruin England hopes of staging World Cup finals in 2006
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE Football Association responded with Churchillian defianceyesterday after the executive committee of UEFA decided to backGermany rather than England to stage the 2006 World Cup finals. In a powerfully-worded statement they suggested that UEFA, thegoverning body of European ...
Soccer: Everton take the pressure off Royle
Feb 02, 1997; ... EVERTON2 NOTTM FOREST0 FEAR has been a motivating factor for several teams down theyears, notably past teams of Nottingham Forest - although StuartPearce's clenched fist seemed to have little effect yesterday.For Everton it was the threat of a personal place in the ...
Soccer: Redknapp runs out of options
Feb 02, 1997; ... Blackburn2 West Ham1 WHEN RUUD Gullit found his side trailing 2-0 at halftime againstLiverpool, he brought on Mark Hughes. Harry Redknapp, findinghimself in a similar predicament, took off one of only two strikersin his squad and brought on a defender, Rio Ferdinand. The club ...
Soccer: Weary Wimbledon are off the pace
Feb 02, 1997; ... Wimbledon1 Middlesbrough1 JOE KINNEAR watched his Wimbledon men drag their leg-weary bodiesoff the Selhurst Park pitch last evening and admitted: "It's a bitlike flogging dead horses at times." In fact, if there had been such a thing as a society preventingcruelty to ...
Soccer: Newcastle debts top pounds 45 million
Feb 02, 1997; ... NEWCASTLE United's annual report has revealed the club are morethan pounds 45 million in debt after losing pounds 23.3 million inthe 12 months that ended with the signing of Alan Shearer. Only a few weeks remain before the club are due to float on theStock Exchange, though the ...
ALYSON RUDD'S GUIDE TO TODAY'S BIG MATCH
Feb 02, 1997; ... NEWCASTLE v LEICESTER CITY (St James' Park. Sky Sports 3pm. Kick-off 4pm) NEWCASTLE UNITEDStrengths - Big is almost always best in football terms and forKenny Dalglish to be able to bring on Faustino Asprilla to turnaround Wednesday's match against Everton must make managers ...
Features: A growing interest in big ears In Sickness and Health
Feb 02, 1997; ... I AM always bemused by the discrepancy between what scientistsclaim to know and how little, in truth, they do. Thus, taking theircue from Mr Darwin, they have no difficulty in asserting thatsomehow or other, millions of years ago a primitive shrew-likemammal evolved variously into a bat, ...
Features: Why Diana is wrong Agonising over landmines does more harm than good, says ordnance expert Paul Jefferson, who himself was blinded and crippled in a minefield. We should be clearing them, not wasting money seeking a ban that will never work
Feb 02, 1997; ... THE PRINCESS of Wales stepped into an Angolan minefield clearedby workers from the HALO trust and, with that battle-cry of theunthinking sentimentalist - "Someone's got to do something" -launched a propaganda feast which has, in the main, been swallowedwhole by the British media. And, it ...
City: Who pays the price of over-ambition? Taking Stock - The Diary of a Private Investor
Feb 02, 1997 ... Stockmarket history repeats itself in short order: there willalways be chief executives with a libido for acquisitions,non-executive directors who cannot control such urges, and gullibleinvestors who pick up the tab. Premier Farnell's price collapse, triggered by ...
City: Eight-day week revealed Economic Agenda
Feb 02, 1997; ... Human life is the mainspring of economic activity. That beingso, the latest edition of Social Trends must hearten all at theTreasury. In Britain we are not just active, but living, it seems,a 26-hour day, extending frontiers of work, productivity, serviceactivity and ...
City: Invisible hands Economic Agenda
Feb 02, 1997; ... ONE of the most marked trends in recent years has been the swingaway from direct to indirect taxation, largely because indirect taxis so much less visible. Indirect taxes include value added tax, customs duties andvehicle excise duty. In 1994-95, households on average paid ...