The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from September 1997:
Goodbye England's rose: a nation says farewell Everywhere the sound of silence, broken only by stifled sobs
Sep 07, 1997; ... EVEN in the morning, when they were waking up in the doorwaysand on the hard pavements of Westminster, they were quiet. Theystood quietly for hours along the route the gun-carriage would take. When it passed, and they saw the children walking behind theirmother's coffin, the intake ...
City: Pawnbrokers replace banks
Sep 07, 1997; ... PAWNBROKERS are stepping in to fill the gap left by departingbanks in Britain's financially deprived areas. This week Albermarle & Bond, Britain's only quoted pawnbroker,will report a 50 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to more thanpounds 1.4m and analysts say as much as 20 per ...
City: Heathrow HQ for SmithKline
Sep 07, 1997; ... SMITHKLINE Beecham, the pounds 31 bn Anglo-Americanpharmaceuticals group, is poised to sign one of the biggestproperty deals in years with an agreement for a huge Europeanheadquarters near London's Heathrow Airport. The company is in advanced negotiations with the owners ...
City: P & O poised to launch Bovis float
Sep 07, 1997; ... LORD Sterling, chairman of P&O, is set to press the button forthe planned stockmarket flotation of the group's Bovis Homeshousebuilding subsidiary. He has appointed Hambros Bank as adviser for the flotation whichis expected to value the business at pounds 250m. Trading in ...
City: Grant to be Bank of Scotland governor
Sep 07, 1997; ... SIR Alastair Grant, chairman of Scottish & Newcastle, willsucceed Sir Bruce Pattullo as governor of the Bank of Scotland. Theannouncement will come with the bank's interim results on October 1unless there is a Stock Exchange announcement beforehand. Grant will become one of the ...
City: Economy feels `Diana effect'
Sep 07, 1997; ... MOURNING for Diana, Princess of Wales, has brought the highestsales of flowers on record, with unprecedented special airlifts toBritain from around the world. Economists now warn there could be a"Diana Effect" on the economy. So depressed has the mood throughout Britain become that ...
City: Holmes Place gets fit for listing
Sep 07, 1997; ... HOLMES Place, the London health and fitness business whosebiggest club in London's Barbican Centre is frequented by theCity's finest, is coming to the stockmarket via a placing that willgive it a market value of about pounds 70m and raise pounds 15m ofnew money. Celebrating the ...
City: Tuckey under fire at MEPC Institutions furious over `second choice' deal
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE board of MEPC is under fierce pressure after whatinstitutions regard as one of the most bizarre weeks in thecompany's recent history. At the beginning of the week, it was announced James Tuckey, MEPCchief executive, was holding merger talks with Burford, theentrepreneurial ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Public sets the tone of emotional farewell
Sep 07, 1997; ... DIANA, Princess of Wales was laid to rest yesterday. More than amillion people thronged the streets of London to pay their respectswhile an estimated 2.5 billion - half the world's population -followed her funeral on television and radio. Vast crowds watched silently while the two ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Broadside by Earl draws applause from Princes
Sep 07, 1997; ... EARL SPENCER drew gasps of surprise from the Royal Family with atribute to Diana, Princess of Wales which warned them not tosuffocate her two sons in duty and tradition. In an unexpectedly candid and at times angry address, he pledgedto protect Prince William and Prince Harry from ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Barmby left out in the cold Steve Curry looks at why the Everton man's international career has come to a halt
Sep 07, 1997; ... REMEMBER Nick Barmby? He was the little will-o'-the-wisp whoscored England's first goal in the World Cup qualifying competitionin Kishinev, Moldova, just a year and six days ago. When England meet Moldova again at Wembley on Wednesday, Barmbywill be training with Everton and ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: United pair rested and ready Beckham and Neville fresh to face Moldova Colin Malam finds the England coach learning from experience in the run-up to Wednesday's World Cup qualifier
Sep 07, 1997; ... GLENN HODDLE has welcomed Manchester United manager AlexFerguson's sparing use of David Beckham and Gary Neville thisseason. Far from being perturbed by how little football the twoUnited youngsters have played in advance of Wednesday's World Cupqualifier against Moldova at Wembley, the ...
City: Daewoo deal
Sep 07, 1997 ... LEYLAND Daf Vans, the Birmingham motor van manufacturer, is intalks with Daewoo, the Korean conglomerate, to pursue a jointventure on product development. Last year LDV spent pounds 30m onProject Bulldog, updating its Pilot and Convoy ...
City: Energis contract
Sep 07, 1997 ... ENERGIS, the telecoms subsidiary of the National Grid beinglined up for flotation, has won a multi-million pound contract fromthe BBC to carry its national and regional digital programmingafter the switch to digital technology next ...
City: Rossiyskiy bond
Sep 07, 1997 ... ROSSIYSKIY Kredit will become Russia's first private bank to tapLondon's capital markets when it announces a pounds 316m eurobondissue next week led by Credit Agricole Indosuez. The eurobonds willhave a London listing and the bank is seeking capital to expand itsactivities, including its ...
City: Genting pulls out
Sep 07, 1997 ... GENTING, the Malaysian gambling group, has unexpectedly backedout of the bidding for William Hill. The Malaysians were one ofonly two trade bidders to buy the bookmaking chain that is now theonly remaining ...
City:
Sep 07, 1997 ... INTEGRATED Dental Holdings, which comprises 24 dental practicesand eight laboratories making dentures, crowns and bridges, is setto float on the Alternative Investment Market next month. Flotationwill value it at between pounds 12m and pounds 15m and will raisepounds 2m of new money to ...
City: MTL staff to gain pounds 20,000 from float
Sep 07, 1997; ... MTL, the privatised bus and rail operator, is set for a New Yearflotation. Some 2,000 staff, who helped buy out the company fiveyears ago, stand to make up to pounds 20,000 each when MTL makesits stockmarket debut. The Merseyside-based company, which is expected to be valued ...
City: Merrill links with Scottish
Sep 07, 1997; ... MERRILL Lynch, the US broking giant, will this week announce ajoint venture with Scottish Equitable to catapult its fundmanagement operation into the United Kingdom private client market. A new investment scheme will be unveiled by Merrill Lynch givingUK-based investors access to ...
City: State threat to better transport
Sep 07, 1997; ... BRITAIN's competition rules could wreck the government's plansfor an integrated transport system, according to Transport 2000,the influential environmental lobby group. A report by the organisation, to be published this week, willcall for a radical overhaul of the system so that ...
City Comment: The wisdom of Harry on SuperSib
Sep 07, 1997; ... I caught sight of him immediately in the wall-to-wall mirrorswhich bedevil what used to be my favourite hostelry. Old Harry,silver-haired elder statesman of the City parish and long myreverenced fount of wisdom, was in his usual seat. My heart leapedeven if he looked a trifle ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Formal black dress is her shroud
Sep 07, 1997; ... DIANA, Princess of Wales was buried in a formal long-sleeved,black dress that she bought only weeks before her death - but neverwore. Alongside her body was a rosary given to the Princess of Wales byher friend Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died on Friday night. The treasured ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Italy tuning up for real thing Alyson Rudd expects Cesare Maldini's side to send out an ominous warning against Georgia
Sep 07, 1997; ... IT may sound perverse, but Glenn Hoddle might well prefer Italyto cruise through their Group Two qualifier against Georgia onWednesday than hear, while on the touchline at Wembley, of adazzling display by Georgi Kinkladze which turns the top of thetable on its head. Italy perform ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Two remaining qualifiers look `made for Wrighty' If Wright takes a chance or two against Moldova he will surely be invited to travel on to the big occasion in Rome in October
Sep 07, 1997; ... TOWARDS the end of last season, Ian Wright tried to give upinternational football. It was probably the only half-hearted thinghe has ever done and Glenn Hoddle's reaction - "the boss told menot to be silly" - closed the subject. What sound advice it proved. Wright proceeded to ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: FA ask Sky to think of the fans Colin Malam on the chances of the crunch Group Two tie being beamed live on ITV
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE Football Association want the whole country to see the WorldCup qualifying match between Italy and England in Rome on Oct 11,and have appealed to Sky Television to forego their exclusive liverights. The match will probably decide which of the teams wins Group Twoand goes ...
City: C&W's great communicator Dick Brown is a charming, straight talking, single-minded American whose credo is `Work hard, Aim high'. He has lifted Cable & Wireless out of the doldrums since he took over as chief executive
Sep 07, 1997; ... When Dick Brown addresses the latest batch of brainy Cable &Wireless graduate trainees in his husky Ohio accent, he tells them:"I know you are bright, but being bright does not make youeffective. Being bright does not change a business - action changesa business." This is more ...
FEATURES: Did Britain rob the Jews? Millions of pounds deposited by Jews in British bank accounts during the Second World War subsequently disappeared. Where did it go? asks Alasdair Palmer
Sep 07, 1997; ... ON MONDAY, the Holocaust Education Trust will release itsinvestigation into the thousands of bank accounts set up byEurope's Jews and seized by the British Government during theSecond World War. Those accounts contained millions of pounds. TheGovernment returned less than pounds 1 ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Bergkamp seals Dutch ticket
Sep 07, 1997; ... ARSENAL'S Dennis Bergkamp scored in Holland's 3-1 defeat ofBelgium in Rotterdam last night to all but guarantee their ticketto the World Cup finals. The Dutch gave England's hopes of automatic qualification asubstantial boost into the bargain as the defeat of George Leekensteam ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Farry the fall guy in bitter dispute over Scotland game Roddy Forsyth reveals the truth behind the decision to postpone the World Cup qualifier against Belarus
Sep 07, 1997; ... SHORTLY after five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, in aPortakabin on the south side of Glasgow, four men abruptly stoppedtheir conversation and looked at the ceiling in alarm. It was aninvoluntary reaction to the throbbing racket of a helicopterhovering overhead. "My God," said one of ...
SOCCER WORLD CUP: Ireland's hopes are raised by Keane double
Sep 07, 1997; ... Iceland2 Rep of Ireland4 THIS was a match which encapsulated the Republic of Ireland'sentire World Cup campaign to date. Up one moment, down the nextthen back up again as they achieved a victory largely thanks to anunlikely match winner in Roy Keane which keeps their French ...
FEATURES: I like having the fear of God put into me Me and My God Deniece Williams talks to Frances Welch
Sep 07, 1997; ... IN 1977, the year that punk rock triumphed in the charts, Freeby Deniece Williams was a British Number One record in a quitedifferent style. Over a gentle soul backing-track, the young singertold of her passionate need to be free, while her astonishingfour-octave voice soared and swooped ...
City: Pass "Go" and pay up
Sep 07, 1997; ... It was the night before our rights issue to raise the pounds toexchange into the Vietnamese dongs to build the Hanoi factory tomake the branded sportswear to pass to the global wholesalers tosell to the European importers to stock the Arndale Centres tofleece the British ...
City: Windfalls come to earth ECONOMIC AGENDA
Sep 07, 1997; ... Windfall gains - those money-scented, euphoria-inducing zephyrsthat breezed through our finances this summer - may now be blowingthemselves out. They lifted us, like Richard Branson's balloon,thrillingly heavenward, promising a journey to the stars. But the distance travelled was, ...
City: Where we win
Sep 07, 1997; ... IS there any longer a British idea in economics? Is there even a"British economy"? What is that we do or provide or represent thatis unique to us or that is different to what can be foundelsewhere? Global trade and capital flows make a mockery of economicnationalism, and even ...
City: WSJ and Diana
Sep 07, 1997; ... My admiration for the The Wall Street Journal, already strong,soared last week with its dignified and restrained coverage of thedeath of Diana, Princess of Wales. No massive headlines or dramaticphotographs intruded on its front page. Instead, an unadornedfactual story ran down the left ...
City: Enjoy the sunshine, squalls are coming TAKING STOCK
Sep 07, 1997; ... Enjoy any balmy September days while you can - I sense there maybe cooler financial news ahead. Expectations drive markets, so whatmust we contend with? With accelerating US consumer activity, the US Federal Reservemay need to consider a further quarter point rise in ...
Rugby Union: Why the clubs have been giving us all indigestion Rugby union Emphasis on physical fitness masks poor technique Paul Ackford says that the leading players' tiredness cannot excuse so much sub-standard play this season
Sep 07, 1997; ... GARBAGE. The rugby offered up so far this season has beengarbage. That's not just my opinion. That's the verdict of many ofthe leading Premiership coaches and referees. With virtually allthe top clubs employing full-time professionals, able to trainduring the day, we thought we were in ...
SPORT: Athens' success leaves London daunting task Owen Slot on why 2008 will come too soon for Britain and any other hopes of Olympic glory from Europe
Sep 07, 1997; ... AS ATHENS celebrated the successful bid for the 2004 OlympicGames on Friday night, and the defeated parties shed tears atLausanne's Palais de Beaulieu, it became clear that theInternational Olympic Committee's decision would have seriousramifications for British sport. It is very ...
MOTOR RACING: Hill ready to put faith in the path of Arrows Motor racing World champion looks forward with confidence despite unpromising prospects for Monza James Mossop believes the experts may be surprised by a plan to stay with the TWR team
Sep 07, 1997; ... WATCHING Damon Hill bobbing and ducking the pit lane questionsbefore weaving away on his scooter was a reminder of the oldfootball expression about the manager's indecision being final. Something is preventing him from admitting that he will beplaying for the same team next season, ...
FEATURES: Last orders for Jeffrey Bernard The notorious writer and soak died on Thursday. Keith Waterhouse, who turned his life into a hit play, remembers a difficult friend
Sep 07, 1997; ... JEFFREY BERNARD wrote his own obituary. Over the pastfive-and-a-half years it has been recited nightly from stages inthe West End and up and down the country, in Australia, Italy,Scandinavia, Ireland, even in Buffalo, New York, by the likes ofPeter O'Toole, Tom Conti, James Bolam, Dennis ...
City: Farewell to the hostile bidder? With the stockmarket riding high, friendly, no-premium mergers are in vogue but others argue a new breed of raider is lurking. Richard Newton and Richard Rivlin report
Sep 07, 1997; ... The hostile takeover is dead; the epitaph is already beingcarved on the tombstone. Yet it barely seems credible that theassault on fat, inefficient companies and their managements - thatbasic Darwinian instrument of capitalism - should be a thing of thepast. After all, it is the ...
Cricket: Kent head field going into last lap Peter Roebuck on the timely return to form of top-order batsmen which has given Steve Marsh's side the edge as the county championship contenders are whittled down to four
Sep 07, 1997; ... IT IS going to be a fight to the finish in the penultimatechampionship conducted along the old lines. Next year it will bestill more tense as teams strive to earn a place among the highflyers. After the 1998 season, it seems now, the counties will beput into divisions, depending upon ...
Cricket: England balance global priorities Hollioake faces double tour call Scyld Berry on the problems facing the Test selectors as they prepare to pick three tour parties tomorrow
Sep 07, 1997; ... NO other country could whistle up 40 cricketers of such talentand first-class experience as England's selectors can tomorrow.Which is just as well, because England have to send a party of 14to Sharjah in December, another of 16 to the West Indies, and athird of 15 on the `A' tour to ...
City: PSIT takeover puts Tuckey on the spot Friday's pounds 247m deal was not the one the City was expecting Doug Morrison explains why
Sep 07, 1997; ... MEPC, Britain's third largest property company, assumed theunlikely role of dealmaker last week with the pounds 247m agreedtakeover of PSIT, just days after it called a halt to merger talkswith Burford. Any property takeover is a cause for celebration in a sectorcrying out for ...
City: What price devolution? With the referendum due next Thursday, Bill Jamieson investigates if a tax-raising Scottish parliament makes economic sense
Sep 07, 1997; ... By late Thursday evening Scotland may have decreed a newdispensation by voting "Yes" for a new parliament and "Yes" forgiving it tax varying powers. But with only three days left for campaigning, a ringingendorsement is by no means certain, and no endorsement may be givenfor ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Diamonds, pearls and black, black, black
Sep 07, 1997; ... NON-CEREMONIAL Day Dress or Lounge Suit, said the LordChamberlain's office, so there were no dazzlingAdmiral-of-the-Fleet uniforms or swords or scrambled egg for themen of the Royal Family, and the Prince of Wales wore a blue suit. Otherwise it was black, black, black, for an ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Red-eyed Elton John gives the hardest performance of his life
Sep 07, 1997; ... ELTON JOHN gave what he said was the hardest performance of hislife yesterday when he played his specially rewritten version ofthe pop classic Candle in the Wind to the congregation inWestminster Abbey - and the world. The flamboyant singer, a close friend of Diana, Princess ...
RACING: Patriarch pick in St Leger
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE Daniel Wildenstein-owned and Andre Fabre-trained VerticalSpeed was yesterday added as a supplementary entry to nextSaturday's Pertemps St Leger field at a cost of pounds 18,000. With Peintre Celebre, winner of both the French Derby and GrandPrix de Saint-Cloud, already in the ...
GOLF: Montgomerie and Faldo find their form Derek Lawrenson discovers that Britain's top two golfers will not be partners in Valderrama
Sep 07, 1997; ... IF ANYONE was in any doubt as to what a joyless exercise it wasplaying in the European Masters yesterday, then Colin Montgomeriequickly dispelled them. The Scot had just had back-to-back eagles to play himself intocontention. As he stood on the 18th tee waiting to drive, at ...
GOLF: Martin the victim as committee lose honour Derek Lawrenson despairs at the Spaniard's treatment and asks if others would have suffered similarly
Sep 07, 1997; ... AT Crans-sur-Sierre last week they sat and tried to defend theindefensible; in a game that is supposed to be all about honour,they tried to explain away what is arguably the single mostdishonourable act that has ever been perpetrated upon a golfer. Let us not mince words here: ...
The Arts: The silent Queen's rebellion Cinema
Sep 07, 1997; ... Mrs Brown Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery L'Appartement Night Falls on Manhattan IN a week in which the new Bette Midler movie That Old Feeling,was yanked from the schedules because one of the main characters isa paparazzo, one can't help feeling that other film ...
The Arts: Hero who betrayed his roots `Roots', Alex Haley's blockbuster about the slave trade, is bogus and has fooled a generation of Afro-Americans, reveals James Kent
Sep 07, 1997; ... TWENTY years ago male factory workers in Essex complained to TheSun that their eyes stung because they'd been crying too much. Inthat May of 1976, shops ran short of Kleenex, not because of someEuropean football defeat or Lulu's moving Eurovision song. Theprevious evening, millions had ...
City: Choking to death By 2025 there will be 10m extra cars on the road - unless we overhaul the nation's public transport policy. Mary Fagan anticipates a Royal Commission report on pollution, likely to be hard-hitting
Sep 07, 1997; ... Times are tough in booming Britain for those who care about theenvironment. Cars abound because of their convenience and the airof affluence they lend. Yet many drivers are increasingly worriedabout pollution and the health of their children - even thosedrivers who are not are irritated ...
THE FUNERAL OF DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES: Privacy at last for Diana, lady of the lake ALTHORP
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE most famous woman in the world was buried yesterday incomplete privacy. Diana, Princess of Wales went to her finalresting place on an island set in a lake in the grounds of herchildhood home, Althorp Park, in the total seclusion on which herbrother, Earl Spencer, had ...
ROWING: Eights can add to tally
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE Great Britain team, in one of their best world championshipsever, have further medal hopes in the second day's finals with boththe men's and women's eights well in the reckoning. The women's eight will be in particularly good heart withyesterday's winning coxless four in the ...
ROWING: Redgrave and Pinsent inspire British bonanza Rowing Olympic winners enjoy success in a different event as Britons secure a record medal haul at the world championships in France Owen Slot looks at the simple explanation for a change of fortunes that earned rich rewards
Sep 07, 1997; ... BUSINESS AS usual. Whatever boat you put Steve Redgrave andMatthew Pinsent in, it seems they will deliver the same devastatingresults. No one could come near them as a pair and, as they showedin the world championships at Aiguebelette, France, yesterday, noone can come near them as part ...
TENNIS: Hingis has an edge in clash of the teens
Sep 07, 1997; ... FIRST there was Tiger Woods and the Masters; now there is VenusWilliams and the US Open. Victory this afternoon for Williams inthe women's singles final would be as significant for tennis asWoods' win at Augusta was for golf. The black teenager from the public courts of Los Angeles ...
TENNIS: Rusedski books place in final Swede beaten as birthday boy emulates Perry Ronald Atkin sees Britain's new No 1 move to within one match of the US Open singles title
Sep 07, 1997; ... FIGHTING off overnight illness which had threatened his chancesof even playing, Greg Rusedski marched into British tennis annalsby defeating Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman last night to reach the finalof the US Open, the first to do so at this event since Fred Perryin 1936, 61 years ...
The Arts: A tale of blood, panache and pride Kenneth Rose previews an exhibition celebrating the Queen's 50 years as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Lancers
Sep 07, 1997; ... THE Queen will be the guest of the Duke of Rutland at BelvoirCastle in Leicestershire later this year for an exhibition (alreadyopen to the public) celebrating her 50 years as Colonel-in-Chief ofthe Queen's Royal Lancers. To be more precise, Her Majesty, asPrincess Elizabeth, was ...
City: US debut for Scottish Power MARKET MISCELLANY
Sep 07, 1997; ... SCOTTISH POWER is due to list its shares on the New York StockExchange tomorrow and will mark its US trading debut with a kiltedbagpiper playing on the floor of the exchange. While such anticsare clearly part of a slick marketing ploy, the listing will makethe company more accessible to ...
The Arts: Puccini's loveliest heroine Opera
Sep 07, 1997; ... Madam Butterfly AFTER the sophistications of Salzburg and Edinburgh, it may seema big leap to open-air opera at Civit Hills near Macclesfield, butthere is sometimes as much pleasure to be had from events where onesenses a corporate spirit of excitement derived from ...
The Arts: Scarborough Unfair Bob Dylan and Paul Simon are in Martin Carthy's debt. So why is he not better known? asks Charlotte Greig
Sep 07, 1997; ... THIRTY-five years ago Martin Carthy was running a small club inLondon's West End when a young American with a guitar walked in. "Iasked him if he wanted to sing, and he said, `Maybe. Ask me in aminute.' After I'd played with my band I looked at him and henodded. He came up and sang one ...
The Arts: A kind of reluctant decency Harrison Ford's new film `Airforce One' shows the actor to be at the peak of his powers. David Thomas meets him
Sep 07, 1997; ... HARRISON Ford makes around $20 million per film, plus some 15per cent of the studio's take. Every time he steps in front of acamera, he wins a rollover lottery jackpot. And he has no problemwith that. "I wasn't the one who started it," he says, in the deep,hushed tones of a man who knows ...
Taking wing
Sep 07, 1997 ... AN IRISH grandmother terrified of flying conquered her fear tojoin mourners in London. Margaret Dunn, of ...
QE2 joins mourning
Sep 07, 1997 ... PASSENGERS and crew in the middle of a six-day transatlanticcruise on board the ...