The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 1998:
The country we love Thousands have gathered today to support the countryside. What makes us so emotional about it?
Mar 01, 1998; ... THERE WILL be, I devoutly hope, between a quarter and half a million countryside supportersgathering in Hyde Park today. They will be a richly varied lot, interms of age, occupation and class. But they will be, for all theirdisparities, united in a single, powerfully ...
Features: Table Talk Dinner Party guest Tim Dowling digests the week's news
Mar 01, 1998; ... Countryside march THE Countryside March forces London Dinner Party-goers to feedand water their rough-edged country relatives for the second timein seven months. If the mood around dinner tables last July wasuneasy, the atmosphere at this weekend's soirees is distinctlyhostile ....
Features: Cream and punishment Interview Noel Godin, the man who staged the custard-pie attack on Bill Gates, explains the method in his madness - and reveals who else he is planning to entarter
Mar 01, 1998; ... " WATCH this bit carefully," says Noel Godin, fast-forwarding thevideo to the right place. "Bill Gates is walking towards thegovernment building, slowly, slowly, his security guards all aroundhim. Meanwhile, 30 pie-throwers, who have been standing in groupsof three, suddenly come ...
Features: The Mormons, the movie-maker and sex Me and My God Neil LaBute talks to Frances Welch
Mar 01, 1998; ... NEIL LABUTE is the writer and director of the controversial newfilm In the Company of Men, a study of misogyny which has had womenpunching men after screenings in America. The film features themental torture of a deaf girl by two men. LaBute, a Mormon sincecollege, sees no contradiction ...
Features: Ready to rock around the clock? Quentin Letts and Sarah Graham get to grips with the `24-hour society'
Mar 01, 1998; ... A CONFERENCE hosted by the Confederation of British Industry andBritish Telecom met in London last week to discuss "the 24-hoursociety". They hailed this as "a social revolution that will changethe way we work, rest, play. . . and shop". Their research revealedthat only a quarter of the ...
Style: Night Fever London Fashion Week provides the perfect excuse to parade like a peacock - particularly after dark. Julia Robson joined the flamboyant fun-seekers for the non-stop party
Mar 01, 1998; ... IT IS SHOWTIME in the city that - during fashion week, at least- never sleeps. Paris, Milan or New York may well be where themighty dollar rules and clothing, rather than fashion, is takenseriously, but London remains the "happening" capital; whereactivity off the catwalk is just as ...
Features: Two men, four sledges, 500 miles of ice Sebastien Berger and Andrew Gilligan met two Royal Marines on their unsupported walk to the North Pole
Mar 01, 1998; ... AT MINUS 30.F and in a 10 mph breeze it takes less than 30seconds for exposed flesh to start to freeze. First a patch of skinturns white, like candle wax, then it blisters and finally it turnsblack as the tissues die from frostbite. In Resolute Bay, a minuscule community of 350 ...
Now I remember, says Diana bodyguard
Mar 01, 1998; ... TREVOR Rees Jones, the bodyguard who survived the crash thatkilled Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, last night saidthat he had remembered more after help from a psychiatrist. The announcement that he was seeking a new meeting with HerveStephan, the judge investigating the ...
Sacked `dissident' major accuses officer of assault
Mar 01, 1998; ... A CLAIM that Eric Joyce, the "dissident" major sacked by theArmy, was assaulted by a superior officer is being investigated byRoyal Air Force police. Last night the Ministry of Defence confirmed that Major Joyce,dismissed on Friday, "made a formal complaint of assault against ...
We want our own MPs, say the marchers Countryside campaigners plan to field election candidates in vulnerable Labour seats
Mar 01, 1998; ... COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are preparing to field candidates inWestminster and European elections in a move that will provide afresh focus for anger with the Government, and capitalise on theexpected success of today's march in London. They plan to put up candidates to fight Labour ...
Esther Rantzen branded `unfair' by TV watchdog
Mar 01, 1998; ... AN EDITION of The Rantzen Report, the BBC documentary seriespresented by Esther Rantzen, has been condemned by the televisionwatchdog the Broadcasting Standards Commission as "inaccurate,misleading and unfair". The programme, which was broadcast in 1996 and made ...
Cricket: England hopes turn to dust Scyld Berry sees the West Indies prosper on a crumbling pitch in Georgetown, Guyana
Mar 01, 1998; ... ENGLAND have been trapped on a metaphorical minefield which isdisintegrating before their eyes into dark grey dirt. They startthe third day battling to avoid the follow on at 87 for six and thebest they can hope for is that umpire Venkat will fly in and callthis match off as ...
City: Ofwat seeks to plug BBC leak
Mar 01, 1998; ... OFWAT, the water industry watchdog, is preparing for a legalbattle with the BBC to force it to return secret information on thewater companies. The information was "leaked" accidentally by Ofwat to the BBC andothers, including government departments, on a CD Rom computerdisc ....
City: Owens clinches BTR packaging
Mar 01, 1998; ... BTR, the struggling engineering conglomerate, is set to sell itspackaging operations to Owens Illinois, the American glasspackaging manufacturer, in a move expected to bring in up to pounds1bn. An announcement could come as early as Thursday when BTRpublishes its year end ...
City: United at centre of new `fat cat' row
Mar 01, 1998; ... UNITED Utilities has paid pounds 3m in a performance-basedpackage to Derek Lewis, its facilities management supremo who runsits key customer billing operation. The revelation, confirmed bythe group this weekend, is certain to reignite the controversy over"fat cats" in the utilities ...
City: Glass's Guide on road to flotation
Mar 01, 1998; ... GLASS'S Guide, the bible of the second hand car market, istipped to join the stockmarket. Glass's Information Services, whichpublishes Britain's biggest guide to secondhand car prices, ispondering a listing that would value the business at about pounds150m. The group's management ...
City: Vickers' late bid for battle taxi
Mar 01, 1998; ... VICKERS has launched a last-ditch attempt to wrench a pounds 3bnto pounds 4bn contract for the next generation of "battlefieldtaxis" from a rival bidder, Eurokonsortium, which includesBritain's GKN. Vickers has called on the National Audit Office and the House ofCommons defence ...
City: Franco-German pact hands Euro bank to Duisenberg
Mar 01, 1998; ... FRANCE is set to give Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch central bankgovernor, a clear run for the European Central Bank presidencyunder a covert compromise deal agreed with Germany this weekend. According to the German weekly news magazine Focus, due outtomorrow, the deal will give ...
City: SB plans pounds 1bn research bond Drugs giant prepares defences as Glaxo ponders hostile bid
Mar 01, 1998; ... SMITHKLINE Beecham, the drugs group that broke off its pounds110bn merger talks with Glaxo Wellcome last week, is working onproposals for a ground-breaking bond, worth up to pounds 1bn, tofund its research and development costs and reduce its need for amerger. The group is ...
Tory U-turn on funding for parties
Mar 01, 1998; ... WILLIAM Hague wants political parties to receive millions ofpounds in funds from the taxpayer in a policy shift thateffectively ditches long-standing Tory opposition to state funding. The move, which will be portrayed by opponents as a sign ofincreasing Tory desperation in raising ...
Palace doubts on Diana coin
Mar 01, 1998; ... SENIOR aides to the Queen are understood to be unhappy withplans to issue a coin bearing the head of Diana, Princess of Walesas a tribute to her memory. Courtiers said the Queen had not been informed of the plan for apounds 5 coin - which would be legal tender as well as ...
Union attack on plan for `superteachers'
Mar 01, 1998; ... A NEW breed of "superteachers" will be better paid than manyheads under plans to be unveiled by the Government tomorrow. In a move denounced as "divisive" by teacher unions, ministersare creating the new category to tempt more graduates into theprofession and retain the best senior ...
Soccer: Fjortoft gives Barnsley hope
Mar 01, 1998; ... Barnsley2 Wimbledon1 SUDDENLY there is light at the end of the Barnsley tunnel threedays after the captivating performance against Manchester United inthe FA Cup. Now it is Wimbledon's turn to ponder the consequences,mainly financial, of losing Premier League status. Two ...
Soccer: Derby pile on agony for Atkinson
Mar 01, 1998; ... Derby3 Sheffield Wed0 DEAN Sturridge, the Derby striker, escaped from an eight-carpile-up on Friday night shaken but not hurt. Sheffield Wednesdayemerged from an 11-player pile-up at Pride Park shaken, hurt andembarrassed. "They murdered us," said Ron Atkinson, the ...
Soccer: Everton miss absent friend
Mar 01, 1998; ... Everton0 Newcastle0 IT IS on days like this when Everton have to count the cost ofhaving a striker as formidable but as prone to suspension as DuncanFerguson. Five days earlier their talismanic Scot had come close toleading his side to a double over Liverpool in a ...
Soccer: Southampton stand firm without Palmer
Mar 01, 1998; ... Leeds0 Southampton1 THE likelihood that Carlton Palmer would run into trouble on hisfirst return toElland Road proved a much safer prediction than those forecastsof wild weather greeting Southampton on their journey north. Forall that, David Hirst's second-half goal ensured ...
Soccer: Collymore makes a point
Mar 01, 1998; ... ASTON VILLA2 LIVERPOOL1 REVENGE was indeed sweet for Stan Collymore. Persecuted andvilified in various vitriolic exchanges during his short stay atAnfield, he exacted the right kind of retribution at Villa Parkyesterday, where deeds said so much more than words.His two ...
Soccer: Palace sink to bottom of Premiership
Mar 01, 1998; ... Crystal Palace0 Coventry3 THE image of a new dawn at Selhurst Park gave way to one of asinking ship as Crystal Palace suffered yet another home defeat and dropped tothe bottom of the Premiership.Coventry's victory was a club-record seventh insuccession and was even more ...
Features: Vive la difference As male bastions such as the MCC come under fire, Ross Clark finds out how women-only institutions get away with it - and why that's a good thing
Mar 01, 1998; ... THE world of the all-male bastion is looking just a little moreinsecure this week after the MCC voted narrowly in favour ofadmitting women. Although the motion will not be acted upon,because it did not achieve the required two-thirds majority,members pressing for liberalisation have ...
City: Business Brief
Mar 01, 1998 ... ASDA, Britain's third largest supermarket chain, is set toinvest more than pounds 80m on a push into London with plans toopen four new stores in the next 12 months. It is close to winningplanning permission on sites in Wembley, Wealdstone, Leyton GoodsYard and will re-build its existing ...
City: INTERNATIONAL Management Group, the global sports ...
Mar 01, 1998 ... INTERNATIONAL Management Group, the global sports marketingcompany headed by Mark McCormack (seen above with Justine Oliver,an IMG model), is close to announcing plans to launch a pounds 150mfund to invest in sports clubs and related businesses on a globalbasis, writes Richard ...
City: Hutchison buys Harwich docks
Mar 01, 1998; ... HUTCHISON Whampoa, the ports to property investment combineowned by Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong-based billionaire, has made twosignificant acquisitions in Britain worth a total of more thanpounds 200m. The group, which handles more than 10 per cent of globalcontainer traffic, has ...
City: Thames lands army contract
Mar 01, 1998; ... THAMES Water has won a ground-breaking pounds 20m deal to supplywater to the army. It is taking over management of water and sewageservices for Ministry of Defence Tidworth army base on theHampshire/Wiltshire borders. The contract is the first of its kind to be let by the MoD ...
City: BICC forced to cut final dividend
Mar 01, 1998; ... BICC, the cables to electrical equipment group, is expected tounveil a dividend cut and profits towards the lower end of Cityexpectations on Wednesday. ABN Amro, the house broker, says a dividend cut to 8p from lastyear's 12.5p is justified. "The group is now moving in the ...
City: Granada plans major Meridien expansion
Mar 01, 1998; ... MERIDIEN Hotels, part of the Granada empire, is set to announceexpansion plans that will lead to 25 new hotels being built overthe next two years. New hotels that epitomise French style, food and service, will bebuilt in Mexico, Bombay, Nepal, South Africa and Kuala Lumpur ...
City: BT finds a clear line into Hull
Mar 01, 1998; ... OFTEL is preparing to allow BT into its last no-go area inBritain after almost a century. The telecoms watchdog is poised toallow BT to offer telephone services in Hull, ending the virtualmonopoly held by the city council. The proposal, expected to be announced tomorrow, will erase ...
Stars walk out over claims of witch-hunt at top actors' charity
Mar 01, 1998; ... A BACKSTAGE drama has convulsed the British theatre's foremostcharity. Stars are scrapping furiously as allegations of"witch-hunts" and the use of private detectives fly within theexecutive council of the Actors' Benevolent Fund. Actress Penelope Keith, OBE, the charity's ...
Murdoch can't have it both ways - Patten The ex-governor of Hong Kong spoke in detail for the first time yesterday of the row over his book. James Hardy reports
Mar 01, 1998; ... CHRIS Patten accused Rupert Murdoch of double standardsyesterday as the dispute over the former Hong Kong governor's bookbecame increasingly bitter. In his first detailed interview since commencing legal actionagainst HarperCollins, the Murdoch-owned publishers, for droppinghis ...
Soccer: Rosler rekindles City's survival hopes
Mar 01, 1998; ... Manchester City1 West Bromwich0 WHETHER Joe Royle can save Manchester City from relegationremains to be seen but his appointment12 days ago has certainly brought some life into Uwe Rosler,City's talentedbut temperamental centre-forward.After scoring just four goals all ...
Soccer: Gascoigne anguish is headache for Hoddle Football Focus
Mar 01, 1998; ... GLENN HODDLE could well be a worried man. Paul Gascoigne limpedout of Rangers' clash with Hearts at Ibrox, adding fresh doubt tofears that the midfielder could miss this summer's World Cup. After suffering an ankle injury against Kilmarnock on Tuesday,Gascoigne had appeared ...
Soccer: Adebola gives Wolves the runaround Nationwide League New striker lifts Birmingham spirits as Maine men ease relegation worries
Mar 01, 1998; ... Wolves1 Birmingham3 MAKE a note of the name - Bamberdele Adebola. He isNigerian-born, a 22-year-old graduate of the renowned CreweAlexandria academy and the Birmingham manager Trevor Francis paidpounds 1 million for him a couple of weeks ago to strengthen histeam's attempt to ...
Soccer: Three-goal Sutton proves his England credentials
Mar 01, 1998; ... Blackburn5 Leicester3 CHRIS SUTTON led Blackburn Rovers' spectacular, if ultimatelyanxious, climb up to second place in the Premiership with aperformance which may encourage diplomatic moves for hisreinstatement with England. The striker who refused to play for the national B ...
Soccer: United kill off Chelsea hopes
Mar 01, 1998; ... CHELSEA0 MANCHESTER UTD1 THERE was no spectacular show from Manchester United this time. Aworkmanlike production, enhanced by the first goal of PhilNeville's senior career, sufficed to killoff any lingering hopes of thePremiership title Chelsea may have harboured.The best ...
Features: Can't stop messing about in moats Time of My Life
Mar 01, 1998; ... CONSIDER for a couple of minutes the moat as an architecturalphenomenon. It may be a strange thing to consider, when itspresent-day irrelevance might seem to make it unworthy of anyconsideration at all. My excuse is that our moat has just beendrained for the first time in living memory, ...
City: Living for disasters City Profile - `Hurricane' Bob Scott has spent 40 years in the insurance business to become chief executive of CGU, the group formed by last week's pounds 15bn merger between General Accident and Commercial Union
Mar 01, 1998; ... Ask the average business leader about the defining moment of hiscareer and you generally get an average reply - the day he floatedthe company, the biggest deal, the knighthood or a sacking. Ask BobScott and he talks about natural disasters. He conjures up a hazardous world of ...
City Comment: The merger that won't go away
Mar 01, 1998; ... The Glaxo SmithKline affair may be many things, but it isn'tover. It is certainly a fiasco. It is never appealing to witness abrawl between the heads of two of Britain's largest companies. BothSir Richard Sykes, Glaxo Wellcome's chairman, and Jan Leschly,SmithKline Beecham's chief ...
City Comment: Courtaulds' demise
Mar 01, 1998; ... I TOLD you two weeks ago the jungle drums were beating atCourtaulds. The share price had fallen relentlessly and arestructuring was on the cards. I thought the group would step backfrom a radical demerger, but I was wrong. Courtaulds is nowpreparing to demerge itself into ...
City Comment: Replumbing Caradon
Mar 01, 1998; ... THE next industrial company ripe for a shake-up is Caradon, thebuilding products group. I have a feeling that Jurgen Hintz, thechief executive designate, who will shortly take his place next toPeter Jansen, chairman, is planning some radical moves. Caradon is a classic acquisition ...
City: A nifty handling movement Tales from the boardroom
Mar 01, 1998; ... It was only natural - given that I was among the 500 MostRecognised Welshmen of 1997 (according to a poll conducted by theBrecon Bugle) - that I would be contacted by the powers-that-betrying to build the stadium-that-hopefully-will. I refer to the new Welsh Rugby Football Union ...
City: No more pensions plunder Economic Agenda
Mar 01, 1998; ... Geoffrey Robinson, the Paymaster-General, may not need to worryabout his pnsion. But he did a gross disservice to millions insuggesting that pounds 50,000 was a comfortable lump sum forsavers, above which tax incentives should be withdrawn. In the context of pensions, this is ...
City: Farewell to the middle class Economic Agenda
Mar 01, 1998; ... How quickly the middle class of Britain is disappearing underNew Labour. After the Budget on March 17, the "People's Britain"will be less an expanding, classless centre bracketed by extremesof rich and poor than one in which the extremes are barely keptapart by a collapsing ...
City: Euro? Nein! Economic Agenda
Mar 01, 1998; ... FIDDLED Maastricht criteria may fool the politicians intothinking the euro will fly. But a different picture will emergewhen the Bundesbank pronounces soon after the European Commission'sassessment due on March 25. Stand by for fireworks. The Bundesbank is divided into three camps: ...
City: Pick a partner at the growth stock ball Taking Stock - The diary of a private investor
Mar 01, 1998; ... Among stocks being marked up sharply last week, just look howhot the investment community's love affair with "growth" conceptshas become. The climate of low inflation and interest rates is seducingpeople to pay handsome prices for projected growth, withinformation technology and ...
The Countryside March: Meacher vows to march - and listen
Mar 01, 1998; ... MICHAEL Meacher, the environment minister, pledged last night togo to the Countryside March and listen to "the genuine grievances"of country people. Mr Meacher spoke to The Sunday Telegraph from Gloucester, wherehe was attending a country wedding. "I recognise that there are ...
The Countryside March: Hague denies Tories are hijacking rally
Mar 01, 1998; ... THE Tory leader William Hague yesterday denied that theConservatives were attempting to "hijack" today's CountrysideMarch, when up to 250,000 people are expected to converge oncentral London. Mr Hague, who will be accompanied by more than a dozen of hisshadow cabinet collegues on ...
The Countryside March: Labour to back down on green top milk
Mar 01, 1998; ... THE Government is to retreat from a proposed ban on the sale ofunpasteurised "green top" milk in the face of widespread objectionsfrom consumers and the farming industry. Agriculture ministers have told Labour MPs that the milk willcontinue to be allowed for private consumption, ...
The Countryside March: Brown is warned of a rural backlash over fuel tax rise
Mar 01, 1998; ... LABOUR backbenchers are warning Gordon Brown to abandon plans toraise petrol duty by almost 10 per cent in this month's Budget orrisk further eroding the party's support in the countryside. MPs representing rural and semi-rural areas are demanding ameeting with the Chancellor this ...
The Countryside March: Anti-hunt MPs to be opposed by Straw
Mar 01, 1998; ... JACK STRAW, the Home Secretary, is seeking ways to frustratefurther backbench efforts to legislate against foxhunting if thecurrent Private Member's Bill is killed off by the House of Commonsthis month. The move comes amid renewed fears that Labour MPs are determinedto push ...
Soccer: Gregory seeks right-hand man for the job Colin Malam on the new Aston Villa manager's search for an assistant both willing and able
Mar 01, 1998; ... NEW Aston Villa manager John Gregory intends to appoint adirector of football within the next fortnight. He has someone inmind and will begin sorting the matter out on his return from thefirst, away leg of Villa's UEFA Cup quarter-final against Atletico Madrid on ...
Soccer: Ferguson can rule Europe for years
Mar 01, 1998; ... THIRTY years after Matt Busby's Manchester United became thefirst English champions of Europe, I believe Alex Ferguson's teamhave at least an even chance of winning the title back. It willcertainly be no anniversary waltz, for they will have to be attheir sharpest from the moment the ...
City: Flawed formula The much vaunted pounds 110bn merger between Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham has dissolved in acrimony. Neil Bennett reveals why
Mar 01, 1998; ... The deal of the decade lies in ruins. Just a week ago theproposed pounds 110bn pharmaceutical merger of Glaxo Wellcome andSmithKline Beecham, which would have created the world's secondlargest company, was wreathed in superlatives. Now it has collapsedin bitterness and ...
When players aren't gentlemen
Mar 01, 1998; ... THERE have been several unsavoury incidents in first-classcricket which would certainly have resulted in the use of red oryellow cards if they had been adopted, writes Tim Reid. In May 1992, the Pakistan captain Javed Miandad was involved in aslanging match with England's Ian ...
Cricketers face the umpire's red card
Mar 01, 1998; ... CRICKET umpires are demanding the right to send off players whomisbehave or "commit fouls". The Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers, whose 8,000members include the first-class umpires' panel, is to demandgreater powers when it meets at Lord's before the season ...
Soccer: Campbell looks for the positive Steve Curry on the defender's battle to preserve both Tottenham's status and his own reputation
Mar 01, 1998; ... SOL CAMPBELL admits it is tough. How do you live with thespectre of relegation while trying to ensure your World Cup placeis not jeopardised? The two somehow do not fit together. Campbell and his Tottenham colleagues have 11 games to dispel thefears and the meeting with Bolton ...
Soccer: Paradise for touts will mean hell on the streets
Mar 01, 1998; ... OF ONE thing we may be sure: when England kick off their WorldCup campaign against Tunisia in Marseille on June 15, the crowdwill not overwhelmingly comprise jolly men with accordions,matelots in striped sweaters and heavily subsidised small farmers.In other words, the idea that the bulk ...