The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 1997:
THE DEAD CERT In this life, one thing is for sure - death. But if you pass away in Milford, Michigan, another thing is certain - Thomas Lynch, the only undertaker in town, will take care of you. But don't worry, he knows what he's doing . . .
Mar 02, 1997; ... EVERY year I bury a couple of hundred of my townspeople. Anothertwo or three dozen I take to the crematorium to be burned. I sellcaskets, burial vaults and urns for the ashes. I have a sideline inheadstones and monuments. I do flowers on commission. Apart from the tangibles, I sell ...
Princess Diana wins record royal libel damages
Mar 02, 1997; ... DIANA, Princess of Wales is to receive pounds 75,000 in libeldamages from the Express on Sunday after the paper admitted it washoaxed into claiming that she would profit by more than pounds 1million from the charity auction of her evening gowns. It is understood that the Princess, ...
BBC wants Labour win, say Tories
Mar 02, 1997; ... BRIAN Mawhinney, the Conservative Party chairman, was last nightwaiting for the BBC to respond to his demand for an urgent meetingto discuss his allegations of anti-Tory bias. Mr Mawhinney's move came as the Conservatives' communicationsdirector, Charles Lewington, launched a ...
Season ticket holders reap Tube share bonus
Mar 02, 1997; ... SEASON TICKET holders on the London Underground are to beoffered cheap shares as part of the Government's privatisation plan. The offer is believed to reflect anxiety in the Tory highcommand, shared by the Prime Minister, that there has been littlepublic enthusiasm for the sell-off ...
Now the Chief Rabbi says it: Blair's the man
Mar 02, 1997; ... TONY Blair has been endorsed by the leader of Britain's Jewishcommunity as the politician best placed to save the nation fromsocial and moral crisis. Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, told The Sunday Telegraphthat the Labour leader, a practising Christian, had taken up themoral ...
City: US bank will suspend rogue trader SFA and Bank of England launch joint probe into missing pounds 50m at NatWest Markets
Mar 02, 1997; ... THE derivatives trader blamed for a pounds 50m hole in theoptions trading book at the investment banking arm of NationalWestminster Bank is expected to be suspended by his new employerstomorrow morning. Bear Stearns, the US securities firm which hired KyriacousPapouis last ...
City: Hamleys pact with Burton
Mar 02, 1997; ... HAMLEYS, the toy shop company, has signed a key strategicalliance with Burton Group, the owner of Debenhams departmentstores. The deal will enable Hamleys to open its House of Toysconcessions in more than 51 Debenhams stores, a development thatcould add as much as pounds 15m to ...
City: Merrill plans pounds 160m City headquarters
Mar 02, 1997; ... MERRILL Lynch, the US investment bank, is preparing to spendmore than pounds 160m on a vast new head office on the site of theold Post Office headquarters in the City of London. Merrill has rejected overtures from the developers of CanaryWharf in London's Docklands in favour of the ...
City: Ronson moves into high street
Mar 02, 1997; ... GERALD Ronson, the property magnate, is planning a move into thehigh street. He is considering building a chain of up to 250convenience stores over the next five years, based on the Snax 24concept in his service stations. Ronson, chief executive of Heron International, told The ...
City: Babcock set for pounds 50m disposals
Mar 02, 1997; ... BABCOCK International, the engineering group, is planning amajor reorganisation, including a series of disposals and jointventures. The moves are expected to allow the group to quit large-scale contracting, which has caused it to suffer a series of lossesand provisions in the ...
City: Church hit for pounds 1m by Pace price collapse
Mar 02, 1997; ... THE Church of England has lost more than pounds 1m backing PaceMicro Technology, the digital television wonder stock whose sharescrashed last week. The Church Commissioners, who manage the assets of the Church ofEngland, lost half the value of their holding in the digitalset-top ...
City: Next - privatising Dolly
Mar 02, 1997; ... DOLLY, the cloned sheep, could become the mascot of aprivatisation drive, following the withdrawal of government fundingfrom the team that replicated the animal. Sir Brian Richards,chairman of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh whose scientistsdeveloped the technology, is in talks with ...
Labour to block child-law loophole
Mar 02, 1997; ... LABOUR will scrap an ancient law under which children escapepunishment by being too young to know right from wrong. Jack Straw, the shadow Home Secretary, is to commit a Labourgovernment to the abolition of the doli incapax principle foroffenders under the age of 14. A senior ...
Blair plans Cabinet `boardroom'
Mar 02, 1997; ... TONY Blair is planning to create an inner Cabinet of no morethan 10 of his most trusted supporters which would run a Labourgovernment as a "board of directors". The move, which is being kept under wraps until after the generalelection, is designed to nullify the influence of ...
In-crowd hail their new dawn Jenny McCartney gets a futuristic glimpse of the Blairites in power
Mar 02, 1997; ... INTO London's Peacock Theatre flowed the intellectual cream ofthe Labour Party, along with a sprinkling of Liberals. They werethere for "Passing the Torch" - the largest-ever conference on "thefuture of the Centre Left". Buoyed by Labour's decisive Wirral South victory, ...
Tories' toothless lion gets the sack
Mar 02, 1997; ... TORY strategists are to abandon their most recent advertisingcampaign, which featured a lion shedding a blood-red tear, in thewake of the Tories' Wirral South by-election disaster. The move comes amid growing tension in the Tory campaign highcommand about the party's failure to ...
Features: Did he jump or was he plugged? Ronald Opus tried to kill himself, but was shot dead in the process. Was it murder or suicide? Joseph Gallivan follows a bizarre chain of events
Mar 02, 1997; ... AT THE 1994 annual awards dinner given by the AmericanAssociation for Forensic Science, Dr Don Harper Mills, theassociation's president, astounded his audience in San Diego withthe legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story: On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner of ...
Soccer: Bassett adding spice to Forest
Mar 02, 1997; ... NEW Nottingham Forest general manager Dave Bassett has insistedthat he has not been appointed to "select the team, {organise} thecoaching or decide the tactics" or replace caretaker manager StuartPearce in the day-to-day running of the team. He will, however,still move his belongings ...
Features: A moral tale for our governors Time Of My Life
Mar 02, 1997; ... THIS IS a true story which my father told me in the middle ofthe Second World War. I repeat it now because it can no longer belibellous, and although more than 50 years old, it is stillrelevant to the methods by which we are, or ought to be, governed. One preliminary reminder ...
City Comment: Friday night is clanger night
Mar 02, 1997; ... The Friday night drop is one of those great City traditions. Inthe old days Sunday journalists like me used to be heartilythankful for it. Some well-meaning City type would squirrel a plainbrown envelope into our back pocket; it would contain astoundingnews of a bid due to land next ...
City Comment: Cathcart tries harder
Mar 02, 1997; ... WITH all this going on in the Square Mile, I see why so manybusinessmen hate it there. For them the City is a place you visitto be insulted by institutional shareholders, rooked by greedyinvestment bankers, misreported by the financial press andmisunderstood by analysts. So I was ...
City: Another Kleinwort trust under pressure
Mar 02, 1997; ... WALL Street arbitrage traders have taken a 7.3 per cent stake inKleinwort Benson's pounds 300m Overseas Investment Trust andanalysts are preparing for a hostile bid or a break-up. The stake has been built by Princeton-based Sierra Trading, whichis known for its ...
City: BAe presses for European defence link
Mar 02, 1997; ... EUROPE's leading defence companies must agree to combine thisyear or "they will die on the vine", according to Sir RichardEvans, chief executive of British Aerospace. He is pressing for the creation of a single company by BAe,Aerospatiale and Dassault of France and Germany's ...
City: BSkyB to split pounds 500m order
Mar 02, 1997; ... SATELLITE broadcaster BSkyB is set to press the button ondigital television this week when it places its long-awaited orderfor about a million set-top boxes worth about pounds 500m. BSkyB is likely to split its order between four suppliers,according to a company insider. These are ...
City: Nat Power to invest $500m in two plants
Mar 02, 1997; ... NATIONAL Power, Britain's largest electricity generator, isworking on plans to invest up to $500m building two power stationsin America. The move would step up the group's expansion overseasand dramatically increase its presence in the US power market. Sources close to National ...
City: Clarke comes to Bank's aid
Mar 02, 1997; ... KENNETH Clarke, the chancellor long portrayed as the scourge ofEddie George, Bank of England governor, will come to the defence ofthe Old Lady tomorrow with an attack on Labour plans for Bankreform. Clarke's friendly embrace will be a strange sensation for George,who might ...
City: Road Chef target
Mar 02, 1997 ... ROAD Chef, the privately owned motorway service station group,is being targeted by a number of bidders who failed in the auctionfor Welcome Break, which Granada sold last month. At least one isthought to be considering an offer of up to pounds 150m for thebusiness. Road Chef owns ...
City: Prestbury aim
Mar 02, 1997 ... MIKE EDELSON, the vice-chairman of Manchester United footballclub and the man who brought Sheffield United to the market throughits reverse takeover of Conrad, is at it again. He is heading ...
City: De La Rue growth
Mar 02, 1997 ... DE LA RUE, the banknote printer, is expanding the internationalnetwork of its cash systems division. The group is expected toannounce soon that it is opening nine new offices in eastern Europeand Asia. The process has already begun with the opening of ...
Genius, 9, discovers sub-atomic particle
Mar 02, 1997; ... A BOY aged nine from a poor suburb of Delhi has worked out thetheoretical existence of a new sub-atomic particle. Tathagat Avtar Tulsi, hailed as a prodigy on a par with thegreatest mathematical geniuses, is also said to be able to predictearthquakes from statistical ...
Pupil is `tattooed' with Muslim symbol
Mar 02, 1997; ... THE Christian parents of a seven-year-old boy are demanding anapology from his school after teachers "tattooed" his hand withIslamic symbols during a Muslim festival in class. Sharon and David Tombs, of Small Heath, Birmingham, claim theirson Steven was encouraged by teachers at St ...
Antiques beat stocks and houses
Mar 02, 1997; ... THE soaring price of antiques have made them the best investmentof the last 30 years - outperforming both houses and the stockmarket. Last year some 18th and 19th-century pieces leapt more than 40per cent in value, a dramatic recovery after a six-year slump. The Antique ...
Soccer: United on song for Europe Leaders have `bit between their teeth'
Mar 02, 1997; ... MANCHESTER UTD3 COVENTRY1 MANCHESTER United limbered up for Wednesday's European Cupquarter-final first leg against Porto by demolishing Coventry andputting more pressure on Liverpool. This comfortable victory notonly bolsters United's confidence, but gives them a four-point ...
Soccer: Chelsea's 10 men punished by Ward
Mar 02, 1997; ... Derby 3 Chelsea 2 DERBY will miss their intimate, if ugly corrugated iron-cladstadium. Midweek they came from two goals down to win their FA Cupfifth-round tie against Coventry. Yesterday, they fell behind twiceto Chelsea but not for a minute did their heads drop or ...
Soccer: Le Tissier rubs salt in wounds as Newcastle problems mount
Mar 02, 1997; ... Newcastle0 Southampton1 THERE is no Alan Shearer complex at Newcastle, insists KennyDalglish. Fair enough; they were hardly relegation material beforehe arrived at his home-town club. But the hat-trick hero of theirprevious home match, a 4-3 victory over Leicester, was ...
Soccer: Arsenal a class above Everton
Mar 02, 1997; ... Everton0 Arsenal2 EUROPE still beckons for Arsene Wenger's ensemble, even if thegrander stage of the Champions' League proves beyond them. The sublime talents ofDennis Bergkamp, an intuitive cameo performance by Ian Wright andthe disciplined support of a bunch of understudies ...
Soccer: Elliott double lifts Leicester spirits
Mar 02, 1997; ... Wimbledon1 Leicester3 LEICESTER City, seemingly everyone's tip for relegation lastsummer, are now so far up the Premiership table they almost havenose bleeds."I think we are 10th now and that's unbelievable," said managerMartin O'Neill after this staggering but ...
Soccer: Cruel blow for struggling West Ham
Mar 02, 1997; ... Leeds1 West Ham0 SURVIVAL is becoming an increasingly tough target for West Ham. A14th defeat of an uncertain season was bad enough in itself. The further bad news is that the Hammers will be without MichaelHughes, who faces a suspension after his dismissal in the 77thminute ...
Features: Why it's good to be a nice mother Family Life
Mar 02, 1997; ... LAST WEEK Freya had a little friend named Maud to stay thenight. I went about my work as usual, carrying trays ofroom-service food up to the bedroom; putting bean-bags behind bothgirls' backs to facilitate their making friendship bracelets fromthe finest silk in my sewing basket; setting ...
Features: We are all minorities now Interview Crime, adultery, spiritual poverty . . . post-Thatcherite social disorder afflicts us all, says Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, in his new critique of modern life
Mar 02, 1997; ... "I HEARD the Queen say lochaim," says the Chief Rabbi, "and shesaid it very well." It is not every week that you hear Her Majestyutter the Jewish greeting - but then it has been no ordinary weekfor Dr Jonathan Sacks. As religious leader of Britain's Jewishcommunity - or at least a large ...
City: Energy's powerhouse City Profile - John Devaney survived rheumatic fever in his youth to become the ebullient head of The Energy Group which demerged from Hanson and joined the Footsie last week
Mar 02, 1997; ... John Devaney is used to vilification. In 1992, when the burlyLancastrian arrived at Eastern Electricity fresh from working forVictor Rice in the United States, he was startled to find he wascast as a "fat cat" along with every other utility's chiefexecutive. Then when in 1995, he ...
Sad beginning for all-night superstores Jo Knowsley and Sebastien Berger meet the people who turn up to shop in the middle of the night
Mar 02, 1997; ... IT WAS 3.30am and the car park outside Tesco in Brent Cross,north London, was almost empty. Two amateur astronomers gazed atthe sky. "You can see Comet Hale-Bopp, rising in the east in themorning sky," said Trevor. "Look. You can see its tail clearlythrough these ...
Life-sentence guardsmen to be freed soon
Mar 02, 1997; ... TWO soldiers jailed for shooting dead a Belfast teenager whileon a tour of duty in 1992 are expected to be freed within weeksafter a hard-fought campaign by retired generals. The former Scots Guardsmen, Jim Fisher, a Gulf war veteran, 28,and Mark Wright, 23 have spent the past ...
Soccer: FIFA turn down proposal to give referees TV help Matthew Hannah hears the world governing body resist moves to eliminate human error from game
Mar 02, 1997; ... FIFA have decided not to use television replays to helpreferees. At their annual meeting in Belfast yesterday theInternational Board, soccer's rule-making body, rejected a proposalfor an experiment by a French television company. The TV company offered to put 20 cameras in a ...
Soccer: Forest muster strength for new regime
Mar 02, 1997; ... TOTTENHAM0 NOTTM FOREST1 THE NEW regime at Nottingham Forest could not have wished for abetter start - even if the part-owner and former Tottenham chairmanIrving Scholar was not at White Hart Lane to relish it. HoweverDave Bassett, his new general manager, was and the man who ...
Soccer: Gallacher conjures moment of magic
Mar 02, 1997; ... Blackburn1 Sunderland0 BLACKBURN added three more points in their campaign to ensure RoyHodgson inheritsa Premiership club when he arrives from Italy during the summerbut he would have been more impressed by the result than theperformance.Neither side looked capable of ...
Soccer: Boro's spirit level uneven
Mar 02, 1997; ... Sheffield Wed3 Middlesbrough1 CRISIS? What crisis? A very substantial one for Middlesbroughafter they slumped to their ninth away defeat of the season,leaving them five points adrift at the foot of the Premiership.Their Jekyll and Hyde season has been highlighted perfectly ...
Soccer: Fenwick's men foiled by Fjortoft
Mar 02, 1997; ... Portsmouth1 Sheffield Utd1 NORWEGIAN international Jan Aage Fjortoft brought Portsmouth'sseven-match winning streak to an end with his fifth goal in fivematches for Sheffield United. Ruud Gullit's Chelsea are the visitors to Fratton Park in nextweekend's FA Cup quarter-final, ...
Soccer: O'Neill accepts Reed as referee ROUND-UP
Mar 02, 1997; ... LEICESTER City's manager Martin O'Neill has given his fullbacking to the appointment of Mike Reed to referee his side'sPremiership match at Chelsea next month. The Stamford Bridge fixture, on April 19, is a re-match of thecontroversial midweek FA Cup encounter between the two ...
Soccer: ALYSON RUDD'S GUIDE TO TODAY'S BIG MATCH
Mar 02, 1997; ... ASTON VILLA v LIVERPOOL (Villa Park. Sky Sports 1, 3pm. Kick-off 4pm) ASTON VILLAStrengths - Ugo Ehiogu and Alan Wright should arguably be afixture in the England side. They are consistent, inventive andeffective.Weaknesses - Villa rely heavily on Dwight Yorke for ...
Features: The outlook for Dolly is far from jolly In Sickness and Health
Mar 02, 1997; ... THERE is an inescapable impression that the momentum of geneticresearch is now unstoppable. To quote Sir Walter Bodmer, "one ofBritain's most distinguished geneticists", in this paper last week:"There simply is no other field of medical research which hasanything like the same promise ....
Features: The trouble with syndromes Dr Theodore Dalrymple casts doubt on Gulf war illness and wonders if we will ever again be allowed to send men into battle
Mar 02, 1997; ... THE LATE Michael Shepherd, Professor of Psychiatry at theMaudsley Hospital, London, told me that he had once tried to getthe World Health Assembly to pass the resolution that "War is badfor health". The delegates immediately began to ask him (as he knewthey would) which war he was ...
City: City analysts - the stampede of the herd Taking Stock - The Diary Of A Private Investor
Mar 02, 1997; ... A triumph of modern financial mythology is efficient markets.Stockmarkets, so the theory goes, rapidly discount information andthere is no point trying to pick individual stocks. Best to use atracker fund which invests in the Footsie or mid-250 index; pounds3.4bn has already been ...
City: Why not sell the Bank? Economic Agenda
Mar 02, 1997; ... Two quite different futures lie in store for the Bank ofEngland, neither of them benign. One is the unsatisfactorytinkering towards "operational autonomy" spelt out by Gordon Brown,the shadow chancellor, last week. His reforms stop short of full independence but clutter the ...
City: Helsinki doubts Economic Agenda
Mar 02, 1997; ... AN arctic wind cuts through the streets and banks of snow arepiled on the corners of the city squares. But of all the Nordiccapitals, Helsinki is as warm as it gets for the European Union. Elsewhere the Baltic is blowing cold on convergence. In Denmark,dissatisfied voters are ...
City: In the 10 per cent club Tales From The Boardroom
Mar 02, 1997; ... When the Chairman told me that our Remuneration Committee -comprising Augustus himself, Anthea Brodick and Sir TostigStamford, was recommending I take a pay cut, I was annoyed. Then Andrew, the Director of Planning, gave me some cleveradvice. Remember, he said, our corporation's ...
Features: `At the end, he could not walk or talk' Last week, John Lanchester revealed how the Government ignored links between BSE and CJD. Here, he tells the story of a victim
Mar 02, 1997; ... MAURICE Callaghan, the youngest of six children, was brought upin West Belfast and graduated from Queen's University in 1988 witha degree in mechanical engineering. In 1991, he married ClareMcKee, and the next year he went back to Queen's to work as energymanager in the estates ...
Victim's money may go to niece who killed her
Mar 02, 1997; ... A WOMAN who killed her aunt to get her hands on a legacy thatwould keep her secret lover in luxury could still benefit from theaunt's will, despite laws to prevent people profiting from theircrimes. Susan May, 51, was given a life sentence four years ago after acourt heard that ...
Legion club bars woman veteran
Mar 02, 1997; ... A BRITISH Legion club where nearly half the members have neverserved in the forces has refused to admit an Air Force veteran -because she is a woman. Beryl Legan, 69, who spent 22 years in uniform, has complained tothe British Legion headquarters about the bar on women at the ...
Labour to order local vote on overspending
Mar 02, 1997; ... LABOUR is planning to order local authorities to stage amini-referendum whenever they propose council-tax increases aboveexisting capping limits. The leadership believes the scheme would prevent Left-wingcouncils from breaking public-spending limits and reviving Labour'simage as ...
Teaboy label haunts Edward
Mar 02, 1997; ... PRINCE Edward yesterday complained that he has been unable toshake off his image as chief tea-maker to the newly-ennobled AndrewLloyd Webber. Despite running his own television production company, headmitted that he has problems getting people to take his ideasseriously. A ...
Soccer: England looking to reclaim their triple crown Colin Malam looks at three-pronged attack which will provide Premiership litmus test
Mar 02, 1997; ... FOR the first time in 12 years English football hasrepresentatives in the quarter-finals of each of the three majorEuropean club competitions. Not since 1985, when the Heysel Stadium disaster changed theconfiguration of European football completely, has it happened. Inthat ...
Soccer: Ferguson out to prove that home is sweet Steve Curry talks to a manager who hopes United will have a spring in their step now winter has gone
Mar 02, 1997; ... MANCHESTER United's propensity for forgetting their lines inEuropean games at the `Theatre of Dreams' this season is less of aconcern now for their manager, Alex Ferguson, than it was in theChampions League before Christmas. Home defeats by Juventus and Fenerbahce left United ...
Soccer: Solskjaer shows he can talk a good game
Mar 02, 1997; ... IT COMES as no surprise to hear that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, uponwhom the importance of being earnest is not lost, believes he hasplenty to learn from those around him at Manchester United. Yet whois first on the list that tumbles from his lips, ahead of EricCantona, even, and Ryan Giggs? ...
Soccer: CLIVE WHITE'S GUIDE TO THIS WEEK'S OTHER BIG EUROPEAN TIES
Mar 02, 1997; ... Brann Bergen v Liverpool Cup-Winners' Cup, qtr-final LIVERPOOL have enjoyed a gentle stroll through to thequarter-finals of the Cup-Winners' Cup, as can sometimes happen in the weakest of the threeEuropean competitions. And on the face of it, Brann Bergen don'tseem to ...