The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from August 1997:
Did you know you were paying for this? A Labour MP plans to present a bill to ban foxhunting . . . so why is his own Government subsidising it? Adam Nicolson unearths the greatest secret in bloodsports
Aug 03, 1997; ... WHAT you see on this page is, at the moment anyway, huntingfunded by the taxpayer. Half the costs of maintaining these houndsand this huntsman, an annual bill running to about pounds 22,000,are met by a grant from the Scottish Office. There are two otherfox-packs in Scotland as well as ...
Songs of Praise seeks a singing parrot
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE BBC is looking for a parrot that sings hymns to take part ina special edition for pets of its popular Sunday programme Songs ofPraise. Efforts to find a theologically-literate parrot have so farfailed. Researchers combed the archives of such televisionprogrammes as That's ...
Labour offers the Queen a reprieve for Britannia
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE Government is poised to approve a "timeshare" plan to savethe Royal Yacht Britannia for a new generation - but the Queen willhave to pay to use her. The move gives Britannia the chance of an 11th-hour reprieve: sheis scheduled for decommissioning at the end of this year after ...
BP Minister tried to alter takeover law
Aug 03, 1997; ... LORD SIMON, the embattled Trade Minister, dispatched a seniorcivil servant to plead with Labour MEPs not to vote for a newEuropean law on takeovers that would affect British companiesincluding BP - the oil giant he chaired until joining theGovernment. The move was seized on by ...
Robin Cook leaves his wife for Commons aide
Aug 03, 1997; ... ROBIN Cook, the Foreign Secretary, last night confirmed that hewas leaving his wife to live with a political aide. Mr Cook, 51, and his wife Margaret, a consultant haematologist,who has remained in Scotland while he pursued his political careerin London, have been married for 28 ...
Soccer: Why Liverpool will win the title Gary Lineker joins the Sunday Telegraph team and focuses on the sides with the best chance of carrying off the championship
Aug 03, 1997; ... AFTER a good deal of soul-searching I have decided that mymodest investment on this season's Premiership will be placed onLiverpool, though it promises to be the most openly contestedchampionship for several years. Soul-searching, indeed, is what some of the Liverpool playersneed ...
City: Horlick poaches at Morgan
Aug 03, 1997; ... NICOLA Horlick, the high flying fund manager who quit sospectacularly from Morgan Grenfell last year and is now setting upher own operation at Societe Generale, has started poachingexecutives from her old firm. This week SocGen is expected toannounce that a key Morgan Grenfell executive ...
City: BT in internet and video deal
Aug 03, 1997; ... BT is poised to announce a ground-breaking alliance with Fujitsuof Japan and Alcatel of France that will revolutionise itstraditional phone network and allow it to carry video and internetservices on enhanced telephone lines. The company has been negotiating with the two equipment ...
City: Harvard goes on trust spree
Aug 03, 1997; ... HARVARD University, America's premier seat of learning and oneof the world's richest colleges, has mounted a stockmarket raid onthe beleaguered investment trust sector, amassing a pounds 70mstake following a summer spending spree. The college has targeted a series of investment ...
City: Iverson calls in US help
Aug 03, 1997; ... ANN IVERSON, the embattled chief executive at Laura Ashley, hascalled in strategic consultants in a bid to restore focus at thegroup. She has hired the Parthenon Group, a US based company, toconcentrate on improving the group's supply chain. The move has been precipitated by a ...
City: Germans to cool pound
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE Bundesbank may this week help to dampen down the soaringpound by signalling that it intends to raise German interest ratesin the near future. Economists believe that the German central bank will carry outits warning to move its key repo rate from a fixed 3 per cent to ...
City: Evans and Mail link for radio bid
Aug 03, 1997; ... CHRIS Evans, enfant terrible of the broadcasting world, hasjoined forces with DMG Radio, the commercial radio company owned bythe Daily Mail and General Trust, to bid for a North West ofEngland regional radio licence due to be awarded by the RadioAuthority later this year. Evans' ...
City: Smurfit plans US shake-up Morgan Stanley poised to raise $700m from sale of J S Corporation stake
Aug 03, 1997; ... JEFFERSON Smurfit, the Irish paper and packaging group, islooking at plans for a shake-up of its US operations which areexpected to result in major disposals and the departure of MorganStanley as a key investor. Smurfit and its advisers have been working on a strategic reviewof ...
Lord Hanson
Aug 03, 1997 ... IN last week's Sunday Telegraph Magazine we reported that LordHanson had told a deputation of Native Americans to "belt up"during last year's meeting of Hanson shareholders. Lord Hanson asksus ...
Clubs lose subsidy of pounds 67,000
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE Government is funding 31 foxhunting clubs, which kill 3,500foxes each year. Three keep hounds; the rest use guns and traps,writes Olga Craig. The clubs, all Scottish, were first given State grants in 1970under Harold Wilson's Labour government. They were set up in ...
Home Office preparing to bring back Biggs
Aug 03, 1997; ... EXTRADITION papers for the return of Ronnie Biggs, the fugitiveGreat Train Robber, will be served on the Brazilian authoritiesnext month, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Home Office officials say a hitch to the finalising of along-awaited Anglo-Brazilian extradition treaty is ...
Country anger at Forestry hunt ban
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE FORESTRY Commission angered hunting enthusiasts and farmersyesterday by enforcing a ban on using its property while itconducts a "major policy review". On the first day of the fox hunting season, the Commissionrefused to renew licences on its land while it decides whether ...
Hague accuses PM of threat to democracy
Aug 03, 1997; ... WILLIAM HAGUE has launched a blisteringly personal attack onTony Blair's first 100 days in power, inveighing against the Labourleadership's "petulance, sanctimoniousness and self-righteousness",saying the Government represents a threat to British democracy. The Tory leader, ...
Cricket: Smith silence could say everything Gloucs v Pakistan A
Aug 03, 1997; ... THINGS were strangely quiet here - except when the Pakistaniswere appealing, which was all too frequently - but the realdeafening silence concerned Mike Smith. Naturally quietly spoken,Smith is usually forthcoming in his polite way but yesterday theGloucestershire fast bowler was not ...
Cricket: Australians unsettled by word and deed Somerset v Australians
Aug 03, 1997; ... A ROBUST day's cricket at Taunton ended with honours even andthe crowd somewhat nonplussed. Drama enough occurred on the field,with Andrew Caddick troubling every batsman, Brendon Julian smitingsixes into a nearby car park and Somerset fighting back with boldbatting in the ...
Cricket: Conferences smack of compromise Peter Roebuck fears the MacLaurin blueprint will fail to force counties to confront crucial weaknesses
Aug 03, 1997; ... AN UNHOLY alliance between the counties and greying figures atLord's appears certain to block the creation of divisions inEnglish professional cricket. Instead it seems likely, when LordMacLaurin presents his blueprint for the future of the game onTuesday, to produce a mishmash, with the ...
Features: Whoppers, white lies and shades of grey Time of My Life
Aug 03, 1997; ... WHEN I was at Oxford we were told the story of a student who waseager to end his university career with a first-class degree, butwas too lazy to work. So he hired a burglar to steal from theoffices of the Oxford University Press proofs of the examinationpapers by which he was to be ...
Features: Smoking out the dissenters Table Talk
Aug 03, 1997; ... Uxbridge By-election Dinner Party-goers breathe a sigh of relief as the curtain comesdown on the Labour Government's honeymoon period, following thefirst Tory by-election victory in eight years. Dinner parties this weekend play host to the initial inklings ofdissent when ...
City: FANS of Land Rover ...
Aug 03, 1997 ... FANS of Land Rover and its constituents such as Range Rover,Discovery and Defender will soon be able to wear branded clothingas they sit in their four-wheel drives. The Collection Group, abranded fashion merchandiser which was ...
City: Virtual venture
Aug 03, 1997 ... McCARTHY Corporation, the technology and leisure investmentvehicle, has teamed up with Cable & Wireless and ICL to create apounds 100m sales a year internet business. The company, Virtual Internet Provider, will allow famousretailers and consumer product ...
City: Metric buyout
Aug 03, 1997 ... METRIC, a parking meter and bus ticketing company, has just rungup its biggest fare so far thanks to a pounds 17m management buyoutbacked by HSBC Private ...
City: New town boom
Aug 03, 1997 ... COMMISSION for the New Towns, the government agency responsiblefor land sales in 19 English new towns, will this week announce itsbest financial figures for five years. Capital receipts in the ...
City: Reuters writ
Aug 03, 1997 ... REUTERS, the information company, says it will "aggressivelydefend" itself against a writ from BSkyB, the satellite televisionbusiness, issued last week in the High Court. The two companieshave ...
City: Wolves offers stake for pounds 10m
Aug 03, 1997; ... SIR JACK Hayward, the multi-millionaire president ofWolverhampton Wanderers, the First Division Nationwide Leaguesoccer club that failed to gain promotion last season, is lookingto sell a controlling stake for an estimated pounds 10m. Hayward, who is a tax exile based in the ...
City: Topland heads for market
Aug 03, 1997; ... TOPLAND Group, an investment vehicle for a wealthy Israelifamily, is heading for the stockmarket next year after a spendingspree that has made it one of Britain's fastest growing propertycompanies. London-based Topland, run by brothers Sol and Eddie Zakay, ispoised to complete ...
City: BA woos staff with bonus bonanza
Aug 03, 1997; ... BRITISH Airways is poised to announce a bumper pounds 94mprofit-sharing payout to staff this week as it seeks to rebuild themanagement-staff relationship which broke down over last month'sthree-day cabin crew strike. In addition, BA will this week start buying shares for ...
City: Petra cries foul over bear raid
Aug 03, 1997; ... ADONIS Pouroulis, chief executive of Aim high-flier PetraDiamonds, has lodged a formal complaint with the Stock Exchangeover reports of a bear raid on his shares by Simon Cawkwell, thestockmarket short seller known as Evil Knievil. The share plunge last week could jeopardise a ...
City: Jarvis boosted by new orders
Aug 03, 1997; ... JARVIS, the rail maintenance and construction group, is poisedto announce a series of key contracts with Railtrack in alast-minute effort to rescue its pounds 62m rights issue. Jarvis Facilities, the group's rail subsidiary, is believed tohave signed three new orders with ...
City Comment: Breathing space for Energy Group
Aug 03, 1997; ... I raised a small cheer last Friday when I heard thatPacifiCorp's pounds 3.6bn bid for the Energy Group had beenreferred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Not because Ithought it was a good decision - Margaret Beckett's diodes haveobviously fused - but because it means that the ...
City Comment: Quest for value
Aug 03, 1997; ... TERRY Smith is a financial alchemist. While other City analystswhile away their time debating pointless profit forecasts, Smith,the author of Accounting For Growth and shameless courtier ofcontroversy, is one of the few who actually tries to work out howthe market values ...
Prince protects plants with security spray
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE Prince of Wales's passion for his plants has reached newheights. Following his controversial admission that he talks tothem, he is now anxious about their security. The Prince is planning to protect his pots, ornaments and gardenfurniture at Highgrove from theft with a spray ...
Chiantishire intoxicated by return of the Blairs
Aug 03, 1997; ... TONY BLAIR will this morning be able to throw open the shuttersof his Tuscan villa, feast his eyes an intoxicating view ofsunflowers, rolling hills and blue skies - and forget aboutUxbridge. The Prime Minister and his family arrived yesterday for theirsecond summer holiday at the ...
Alcopops `aimed at bored housewives' Teenagers were not targeted, says drinks firm
Aug 03, 1997; ... ALCOPOP drinks were invented not to ensnare the young but tocater for "bored housewives" who wanted to get surreptitiouslydrunk during the day, manufacturers have told MPs. The makers of Jammin' told a Government inquiry that the firm'spurpose was to inject "fun" into the lives of ...
Cricket: Lehmann likely to stay
Aug 03, 1997; ... Yorks v Northants YORKSHIRE'S vulnerability in a quirky contest againstNorthamptonshire has given extra edge to the county's overseasplayer dilemma. The decision on whether Darren Lehmann should be retained orwhether Michael Bevan, his fellow Australian left-hander, should ...
Cricket: Kent's nerves settled
Aug 03, 1997; ... Worcs v Kent KENT'S current batting frailties brought them within touchingdistance of the follow on, duly avoided with eight wickets down,but their positive approach should help them when a target is settomorrow. Worcestershire, with two games in hand on the leading pack, ...
Cricket: Dogged Sutcliffe keeps champions in hunt
Aug 03, 1997; ... Essex v Leics IAIN Sutcliffe yesterday underlined why he is a contender forEngland A selection this winter. His chanceless 130 in 5 1/2 hours,together with Neil Johnson's equally gritty 214-ball 91,underpinned Leicestershire's impressively bloody-minded resistanceagainst an Essex ...
Cricket: Sussex resolve ended by substitute Ostler
Aug 03, 1997; ... Warwicks v Sussex SUSSEX avoided their third successive innings defeat by the skinof their clenched teeth here yesterday but still handedWarwickshire something of a psychological boost before the countiesmeet again on this ground in the semi-finals of the NatWest Trophyon ...
Cricket: Lewis steers Durham home
Aug 03, 1997; ... Durham v Derbyshire THERE was no dancing in the streets when Durham signed Jon Lewisduring the winter, but the members would willingly grant him thefreedom of the county following his second match-winning centuryyesterday. Like Nick Knight before him, 27-year-old Lewis had to ...
Cricket: ICC look to TV for catches evidence Cricket Focus
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE International Cricket Council will continue to rely ontelevision pictures for third umpire adjudications despite theextension of the system to include rulings on catches. The ICC announced a new deal this week with National Grid toextend their sponsorship of the international ...
Cricket: James keeps Glamorgan on right track Britannic Championship Leaders pin their title hopes on Waqar while Derbyshire fall to novice opener's 160
Aug 03, 1997; ... Glamorgan v Notts A DAY at the cricket in Colwyn Bay summed up the difficultiesfacing not only the England selectors but also the master-plannerswho will be revealing the future shape of English cricket onTuesday. Here was county cricket at its amiable best and ...
Features: I'm not bad, Mum. Just misunderstood Family Life
Aug 03, 1997; ... LAST week in Ireland Posy, my three-year-old daughter, ranthrough the airport security cordon - she was not trying to avoidthe routine body search, she just had not realised that it was derigueur. She thought that the men trying to catch her were playinga game. "Come back for a ...
Features: 100 days of Labour Happy ever after? Henry Porter on Tony Blair's long honeymoon with the public
Aug 03, 1997; ... WHEN the Uxbridge result came in on Thursday night Tony Blairmust have doubted the wisdom of breaking the convention that PartyLeaders do not campaign during by-elections. It was the firstrejection of the Prime Minister in what otherwise has been aglorious summer for his Government and ...
City: All change at the Troc City Profile - Nigel Wray has become the latest victim of the curse of the Trocadero, the Piccadilly landmark that has sunk many a businessman's career. But he is determined to beat the jinx
Aug 03, 1997; ... Has the curse of the Trocadero caught up with Nigel Wray, thesports fan who has built a pounds 60m fortune on shrewd investmentsand a series of reverse takovers? That has been the question oninvestors' lips as shares in Trocadero, the company that propertygroup Burford spun off two years ...
Race for Gucci horse bargains
Aug 03, 1997; ... THOUSANDS turned up at the auction of the late Paolo Gucci'sprize-winning Arab horses yesterday. The sale of the 60 horses, some with rare bloodlines, importedfrom Poland, Russia, Egypt and Spain, was expected to realise morethan pounds 250,000. In fact, the horses raised pounds ...
Drink-drive limit `will be cut to a pint by Christmas'
Aug 03, 1997; ... TRANSPORT ministers are preparing to cut the drink-drivinglimit. Motorists will effectively be able to drink only theequivalent of one pint of beer and police are to be given morepowers to breathalyse motorists. Ministers hope to reduce the permissible amount of alcohol in ...
Cricket: When `Under the Southern Cross' means over the moon Ian Chappell reveals the unlikely origins and motivational qualities provided by Australia's victory song
Aug 03, 1997; ... FOR me the ditty Under the Southern Cross had its origins in anIndian restaurant in Manchester called The Khazi. It was there in1963 that I heard it recited by former New South Wales state squadmember Raymond Patrick Hogan, who by that stage of his career wasplaying in the leagues of ...
Cricket: England lose the plot in bond market
Aug 03, 1997; ... BONDING is bad for you. Not a conclusion but a reaffirmation. Itis pretty obvious to all but the England and Wales Cricket Boardthat in a game of separate skills and individualself-determination, a Test match can never be a corporate comfortzone. It is every man for himself at ...
Cricket: Why Atherton must remain at the helm Scyld Berry feels a change at the top now would take England back to square one
Aug 03, 1997; ... FOUR years ago this week Mike Atherton became England's captain,without adequate preparation for the job, following the resignationof Graham Gooch. The cycle now threatens to repeat itself, astight-lipped introversion and tetchiness consume a leader underintensifying strain. But this ...
Features: Tomorrow never comes The future still doesn't work, despite 30 years of `Tomorrow's World'. Robert Matthews on all the brave new gizmos that have died a death
Aug 03, 1997; ... MENTION Tomorrow's World, and many will think of craggy RaymondBaxter perched on a high stool, James Burke extolling the virtuesof living on Mars, and live demos of gadgets that always seemed togo wrong. On Wednesday, BBC1 begins a short series celebrating a third of acentury of ...
City: Converted to a convertible Tales from the Boardroom
Aug 03, 1997; ... It was crisis time - again. Our plan to build a brand new, newbrand sports equipment manufacturing plant outside Saigon wassinking into the Vietnamese paddy fields. We could find the products, the workers, the obligatory localpartner and the regulatory approvals. We just couldn't ...
City: EMU's BAFFLING showdown Economic Agenda
Aug 03, 1997; ... In the markets it is the silly season before October crashes.But August has its way of making history, particularly in Europe,and not always benign. The August threat this year - or promise, depending on your view- is of a breakdown in Franco-German relations over the ...
Features: Adam, Eve and the joy of married sex Me and My God Anthony Green talks to Frances Welch
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE artist Anthony Green, RA, has been a fervent believer in Godall his life. Green believes his work to be bound up with prayer.He is currently engaged in a depiction of the resurrection, whichhe expects to take three years. "Rodin depicted Hell. I'mconstructing 10ft-high gates to ...
City: Trade in cars Economic Agenda
Aug 03, 1997; ... DIRE warnings have been sounded on the effect of sterling'sstrength on Britain's visible trade, stirring memories of old-stylebalance of payments crises. While a widening trade deficit is now almost certain, two pointsstand out. First is the evident resilience of export growth ...
City: Scotland's tax Economic Agenda
Aug 03, 1997; ... DETAILS will be eagerly awaited of how a Scottish assembly wouldadminister a higher rate of income tax, assuming the referendumproduces a "Yes, Yes" vote. With the bulk of income tax collected by employers through thePAYE system, a double "yes" opens the prospect of both Scottish ...
City: Tricky timing Economic Agenda
Aug 03, 1997; ... I DO NOT envy the Monetary Policy Committee its interest ratejudgements in the coming months. A rise of 0.25 per cent to 7 percent looks likely on Thursday but how much tighter should policybecome? Timing is critical, for the simultaneous three-way hit of anexport slowdown, tight ...
City: Bank mystery Economic Agenda
Aug 03, 1997; ... WHATEVER lay behind Gavyn Davies' phantom run as Bank of Englandgovernor? Barely two months ago Goldman Sach's top economist inLondon was widely tipped as Eddie George's successor but turned outinstead to be the equivalent of NatWest's mummified pigmy - put insafe custody and forgotten ...
City: How to make a buck by bucking the trend Taking Stock - The Diary Of A Private Investor
Aug 03, 1997; ... Exceptional investment returns are often the result ofunconventional actions. Yet who really dares to buck a trend? Beinga contrarian sounds fine in principle but risking your moneyagainst the prevailing City view can test the most steely of nerves! Take manufacturing stocks and ...
Body found in sea as police hunt teacher
Aug 03, 1997; ... POLICE hunting the missing music teacher facing childpornography charges were last night attempting to identify a man'sbody recovered from the sea. Adrian Stark, 33, the head of music at the pounds 8,000-a-year StJohn's School, at Leatherhead, Surrey, has not been seen ...
Harrow School teacher is charged with theft
Aug 03, 1997; ... A TEACHER at Harrow School, alma mater of Sir Winston Churchill,has been charged by police with theft and forgery involving tens ofthousands of pounds collected from parents for a school trip. Peter Jackson, who taught geography at the north London publicschool, has been charged ...
Rescuer says will to live is the secret of survival
Aug 03, 1997; ... THE SHEER will to survive was probably what kept Stuart Diveralive, a leading British mountain rescue expert said yesterday. "Thankfully Mr Diver didn't sustain any major injuries, but hisbiggest enemy while he was entombed will have been his terror ofhaving been abandoned," said ...