The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from August 2000:
News: FOCUS: VIGILANCE AND VIGILANTES ; `When you get upset you look for something that will make you feel nice. Some people have a drink - what has made me feel good is doing things to children...' ...and what upset this paedophile was the prospect of being `named and shamed'. As Andrew Alderson reports, the mob violence initiated by the News of the World's infamous list of names has ensured that the paper's campaign backfired
Aug 06, 2000; ... James Harris is not the sort of person that any parent wouldchoose as a neighbour. By his own admission, he has repeatedlysexually abused young boys and concedes that there is no guaranteethat he will not do so again. As a paedophile - arguably the most feared and loathed people ...
Review: Features: Is this the real yeti? The mountaineer Reinhold Messner first glimpsed the `abominable snowman' in Tibet's forests. It was terrifying - 7ft tall and amazingly agile. Since then, says his climbing companion Stephen Venables, Messner has spent 14 years hunting it down
Aug 06, 2000; ... When Reinhold Messner, the world's most famous mountaineerstaggered into his Lhasa hotel in July 1986 after a long, exhaustingand illegal journey through Tibet, he mentioned nothing of thedangerous mountain terrain or of his narrow escapes from the Chinesemilitary. He simply blurted out ...
Review: Features: Social hell and high water He had never been on a yacht before, and the snobbery he encountered at Cowes Week left him cold, but Jeremy Clarke soon warmed to the thrill of a force-seven gale
Aug 06, 2000; ... Like John Bunyan's path of righteousness, one gains admittance tothe Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes by a little wicket gate. All themen going in were elderly and wore white peaked caps, navy blazersand white "ducks". Without stopping to admire the roses, theydisappeared up the gravel ...
Review: What Betty should have said Time of My Life
Aug 06, 2000; ... Here are some thoughts to ponder during the long parliamentaryrecess. I start with Betty Boothroyd's farewell address to the Houseof Commons. You will remember that she counselled MPs to toleratetheir long hours of work, even at the expense of their domesticfelicities, and ministers to ...
Review: Features: Son of a preacher man Interview Franklin Graham, the son of the evangelist Billy Graham, was once a hell-raiser, expelled from college and more interested in motorbikes than going to church. Yet this week the prodigal takes on his father's mantle
Aug 06, 2000; ... On Franklin Graham's 22nd birthday, his father decided to takehis wayward son in hand. "Franklin," said Billy Graham, the world's most famousevangelical. "Your mother and I love you very much." "Thank you, I appreciate it," replied their son in an offhandmanner. "We ...
Review: Features: The Colonel, his grouse and High Tartary As the Glorious Twelfth of August approaches, Duff Hart-Davis celebrates the life of his godfather, Peter Fleming, whose 2,000-acre estate was never big enough to satisfy his passion for shooting
Aug 06, 2000; ... For my godfather Peter Fleming, the Glorious Twelfth of Augustwas by far the best day of the year. Invariably it found himtramping the heather after grouse, either with his friends, theKeswicks, in Dumfriesshire, or at Black Mount, his family's hugedeer forest in Argyllshire. Shooting ...
Review: Features: `We had pendulums and aura goggles' Me and My God Frances Welch talks to the actor Linus Roache
Aug 06, 2000; ... Linus Roache's voice takes on a benevolent buoyancy as hediscusses his spirituality. His speech abounds with contemporaryjargon: "Andrew's teachings are about making people selfless, lessself-centred and ego-ic. If you can be selfless you cease being partof the problem and start being ...
Review: Style: Jungle fever Watch out for bamboo skirts, wooden halter-tops and seed earrings - tribal trappings are making an impact. Hilary Alexander goes native in Rio de Janeiro
Aug 06, 2000; ... Forget the supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Brazil first made its markon European fashion about 500 years ago. Admittedly, it was with amodel who, although long-limbed and sought-after, was distinctlymore sedentary than the Cariocas who have recently invaded thecatwalks of Europe and North ...
Review: The Arts: The Trojans whip up a storm Music
Aug 06, 2000; ... Salzburg Festival The Proms: Robin Holloway's new Symphony Salzburg Festival's theme this year is Troy, hence performancesof Idomeneo, The Trojans and even La belle Helene. The city itselfis littered with 150 life-size gaudy models of cows, part of atourist and dairy-board ...
Review: The Arts: What a double act, darling Alan Ayckbourn's new plays synchronise the same cast in two theatres. Timing is a nightmare - and just try running between the Olivier and Lyttelton in high heels, says the actress Jane Asher
Aug 06, 2000; ... Week 1, Monday June 12 First day's rehearsal of a unique project:two plays by Alan Ayckbourn performed simultaneously by one cast intwo theatres. The usual feeling of nervousness at meeting the restof the company and reading through the plays for the first time. Itfeels very like the ...
Review: The Arts: A very model of a modern revival Theatre
Aug 06, 2000; ... The Pirates of Penzance Pageant Moving On The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park is having a glorious summer- or as glorious as the weather will permit. Its two Shakespeareproductions, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing,have been triumphs, standard ...
Review: The Arts: Sensation, awe and unease Art
Aug 06, 2000; ... Bacon in Dublin It is lucky that Francis Bacon's South Kensington studio, wherehe worked for the last 30 years of his life, did not end up in theTate, because it would have looked like just another example ofinstallation art. Instead it has been shipped piecemeal forpreservation ...
Review: The Arts: A new eye on the Royal Family John Wonnacott was not the obvious choice of artist to paint the Royal Family. But his new work, celebrating the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, reinvents the grand state portrait, says Charles Saumarez Smith, director of the National Portrait Gallery
Aug 06, 2000; ... On Friday morning at 10 o'clock, John Wonnacott's portrait of theRoyal Family went on display on the ground floor of the NationalPortrait Gallery as a way of celebrating the Queen Mother's 100thbirthday, showing her not as an individual - although it is good asa likeness - but more as a ...
Review: The Arts: Apply handbrake, engage first gear and chase cars Cinema
Aug 06, 2000; ... Gone in 60 Seconds The Road to El Dorado La Veuve de Saint-Pierre The Colour of Paradise Angelina Jolie is so squishy-lipped she could be attached to thewindscreen by suction in lieu of a nodding dog Some films run on pure adrenaline. The best ...
Review: The Arts: Rhyming couple Dance
Aug 06, 2000; ... Romeo and Juliet Swan Lake Giselle Circus Oz After their triumphant Covent Garden season in June we werehappily anticipating fresh marvels from the Kirov when they returnedto the Royal Opera House with Romeo and Juliet on Monday. AlthoughIgor Zelensky and ...
Review: The Arts: Grandmother, confessor, friend Radio
Aug 06, 2000; ... The Vicar of Bray, it will be remembered, had one firm rule. "Andthis is the law, I will maintain/ until my dying day, Sir,/ Thatwhatsoever King shall reign,/ I will be the Vicar of Bray, Sir!" "Various suggestions have been made as to who this vicar was,"says The Oxford Companion ...
Review: The Arts: It's one toff after another Television
Aug 06, 2000; ... Good documentaries are not unusual on television - though nothinglike as common as they once were. But great documentaries don't comealong that often. The Man Who Bought Mustique (Thursday, Channel 4),was not only the most brilliant thing I've seen in ages, it was alsoone of the ...
Review: Books: The Literary Life
Aug 06, 2000; ... THE SOCIETY of Authors has announced its latest round of awards.The amounts range from pounds 375 to pounds 3,000 - although how theformer sum will enable Netta Goldsmith to complete her criticalstudy of Alexander Pope is anybody's guess. Those receiving rathermore loot include David ...
Review: Books: A love that presses all the right keys Rose Tremain is charmed by the tale of an American who fell for Paris and a baby grand
Aug 06, 2000; ... The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T. E. Carhart Chatto & Windus, pounds 15.99, 242 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 T. E. CARHART is an American in Paris. In this quirky and tenderbook about the rediscovery of his childhood passion for music lies ...
Review: Books: History: the director's cut Elizabeth, Ralegh, action, adventure, costumes - John Adamson on a book that thinks it's a film
Aug 06, 2000; ... Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Wonthe New World by Giles Milton Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 14.99, 416 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT CAN ONLY be a matter of time before Hollywood gets its handson this book. Elizabethan ...
Review: Books: Come on, cry like a man Anthony Clare is better at analysing men than at prescribing ways to improve them, says Anthony Daniels
Aug 06, 2000; ... On Men: Masculinity in Crisis by Anthony Clare Chatto & Windus, pounds 17.99, 262 pp pounds 15.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 WOMEN'S LIBERATION and the sexual revolution have not maderelations between the sexes any easier. The hope that changes in thelegal ...
Review: Books:
Aug 06, 2000; ... Paperback best-sellers Non-fiction 1 If Only, Geri Halliwell (Bantam, pounds 5.99). 9,037. 2 Angela's Ashes (Film tie-in edition), Frank McCourt (Flamingo,pounds 6.99). 5,340. 3 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of Childhood, Frank McCourt (Flamingo,pounds 7.99) ....
Review: Books: Did we really get the joke? The point of the satire boom of the Sixties was laughs rather than cultural change, says Griff Rhys Jones
Aug 06, 2000; ... That Was Satire That Was by Humphrey Carpenter Victor Gollancz, pounds 20, 378 pp pounds 18 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 John Wells claimed the whole thing was really a series of student in-jokes Satire is dogged ...
Review: Books: He grabbed the bull by the horns Caroline Moorehead on a man who probed the roots of Greek civilisation
Aug 06, 2000; ... Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray Jonathan Cape, pounds 20, 373 pp pounds 18 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 OF ALL THE great suspected archaeological sites on the eve of the20th century, Knossos on Crete ...
Review: Books: It is best kept private Chris Woodhead enjoys this guide to reading as an all-consuming but ultimately selfish pleasure
Aug 06, 2000; ... How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom Fourth Estate, pounds 15.99, 283 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 "SIMPLE FICTIONS ", Frank Kermode once wrote, "are the opium ofthe people." It is a politically incorrect observation in theserelativist and ...
Review: Books: The scroll truth?
Aug 06, 2000; ... The Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer Little, Brown, pounds 15.99, 345 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THOUGH NOT quite a roman-a-clef, Simon Mawer's new novel appearsto take its inspiration quite explicitly from the work of my friendand co-author, the ...
Review: Books: Fiction A plot before dying
Aug 06, 2000; ... Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man by Joseph Heller Scribner, pounds 12.99, 233 pp pounds 10.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 JOSEPH HELLER never made it to the Millennium. He died inDecember 1999, aged 76, after a life of striking symmetry. For 38years, he was ...
Review: Books: Revised Editions Which authors, or books, do not enjoy the standing they deserve? Continuing our series on underrated reputations, the biographer Victoria Glendinning nominates Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing
Aug 06, 2000; ... THE GRASS is Singing was Doris Lessing's first novel, publishedin 1950 and set in Southern Rhodesia. Half a century on, it retainsall its potency. Mary, a cheery city girl hitting 30 and wanting a husband,marries a farmer and goes to live with him in his tacky iron-roofedhouse in ...
Review: Books: Paperbacks
Aug 06, 2000; ... The Journey of Martin Nadaud by Gillian Tindall Pimlico, pounds 10 IN 1830, when he was only 14, Nadaud had to tramp hundreds ofmiles to Paris to find work. He became a stone mason, arevolutionary, and a Member of Parliament, but after the 1848revolution he ...
Review: Books: More sinned against than sinning Michael Kennedy on a scrupulous study of eight composers who had brushes with the Nazis
Aug 06, 2000; ... Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits by Michael H. Kater Oxford, pounds 22.50, 399 pp pounds 20.50 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THREE YEARS AGO the Canadian historian Michael Kater publishedone of the most thorough and fair-minded investigations into musicand ...
Review: Safe haven
Aug 06, 2000 ... FROM THE AGE of five, Philip Goddard spent most summers at hisparent's holiday home in Thorpeness. He remembers it as "one bigplayground", and wanted his three young children to enjoy the samehappy memories. Since renting is "absolutely impossible in August" (unlike ...
Review: A slice of Never Never Land Once known as `the home of Peter Pan', Thorpeness is charming a new generation. Lesley Gillilan house- hunts in this quaint holiday village
Aug 06, 2000; ... When the Edwardian barrister and playwright Glencairn StuartOgilvie dreamed up Thorpeness in 1908, he envisaged a "paradise forchildren" spread over 6,000 acres of his family's Suffolk coastestate. In contemporary marketing speak, it would probably have beenreferred to as a "mixed-use ...
Review: House & Home: Pigs had the run of the place Changing Values Built as a 15th-century monastic cell, this seven-bedroom home served as a pigsty before its fortunes turned, discovers Ross Clark
Aug 06, 2000; ... Talk about getting the short straw. When Elizabeth Hill ofWhitchurch in Buckinghamshire died in 1758, she left a dozen apronsand "half a dozen of my finest York handkerchiefs" to her kinswomanAnn Hodgkins. Her son-in-law Thomas Hill scooped the jackpot,inheriting her handsome stone ...
Review: House & Home: Sorry, the pounds 2m doesn't buy you a porter with manners Diary of an Estate Agent
Aug 06, 2000 ... Belinda Randall, Russell Simpson, Chelsea, SW3 MONDAY Tour four-bed family flats (up to pounds 2 million) inKensington, with the American wife of the managing director of aninternational bank. She is charming but I am embarrassed by therudeness of the porter ...
Review: Letter to the House & Home: Pay by cash or cheque - but get an invoice Ask Jeff . . .
Aug 06, 2000; ... I have recently had a lot of building jobs done. Each timematerials were needed, the builder asked me to make out a cheque tothe suppliers. When all the jobs were done, he asked if I would payhis bill (the labour) in cash. This is obviously to avoid tax, or hemay even be bankrupt and ...
Review: Letter to the House & Home: Showers without damp Ask Jeff . . .
Aug 06, 2000; ... I was planning to arrange for a shower cubicle to be installed(professionally) in a corner of my bathroom, the internal walls ofwhich are constructed of plasterboard on timber studding. Thus, twoof the cubicle sides would be of plasterboard (suitably tiled) andtwo of glass (side and ...
Review: Letter to the House & Home: A cure for cracks? Ask Jeff . . .
Aug 06, 2000; ... My 1976 house is well built, but suffers from cracks in theplasterboard ceilings. Your column on plasterboard (July 16) doesnot suggest a remedy. I have tried many types of fillers without asuccessful permanent cure. Apart from rejointing with scrim or"Artexing", do you have any ...
Review: Letter to the House & Home: Tank noises Ask Jeff . . .
Aug 06, 2000; ... I live in the top flat of a three-storey 1970s purpose-builtblock. Recently the cold water tank in the loft, which feeds allthree flats, has started making a dreadful noise when refilling. Ihave called in a local plumber but he has been unable to find asolution. Can you suggest any ...
Review: House & Home: My beef about John Cleese's old fridge On the level
Aug 06, 2000; ... I have had John Cleese's old fridge in my garage for a few yearsnow, and it never struck me as particularly interesting. The rubberdoor seals are perished and that funny glass half-shelf at thebottom that covers the salad drawer is missing. As second-handfridge-freezers go, it's nothing ...
City: Reed eyes US publisher
Aug 06, 2000; ... REED Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch media group, is considering a $6bnbid for Harcourt General, the US educational and technical publisherwhich put itself up for sale in June. The group is thought to be looking at the business and talking toGoldman Sachs, which has been appointed to ...
City: Bestfoods' boss lands $9.5m payoff
Aug 06, 2000; ... DICK Shoemate, chairman, president and chief executive ofBestfoods, the American food company famous for Hellmann'sMayonnaise and Skippy peanut butter, is set to receive a $9.5m (pounds 6.6m) payoff from Unilever, which is buying the company, oneof the biggest severance packages ever ...
City: James Hunt's brother chases Prost team
Aug 06, 2000; ... DAVID Hunt, the brother of James Hunt, the late motor racingworld champion, has launched a bid to acquire the Prost Formula Oneracing team. Hunt is believed to have linked with Candover Investments, theprivate equity house, to bid for the team, which has seen itsdrivers Jean ...
City: Bronfman family to bid for Seagram
Aug 06, 2000; ... THE uncle of Edgar Bronfman Jr, president of Seagram, ispreparing a $7bn bid for the drinks business being sold by the mediagroup in an effort to keep it in family ownership. Charles Bronfman, co-chairman on the Seagram board, and othermembers of the family are said to have hired ...
City: Media deal drives Northern Racing towards pounds 150m float
Aug 06, 2000; ... STAN Clarke, the Midlands based property tycoon, is planning tofloat Northern Racing, his racecourse business which includesBrighton, Uttoxeter and Newcastle, plus a one third stake inChepstow, for up to pounds 150m in anticipation of a new pounds 408mmedia rights deal being negotiated ...
City: Telewest faces pounds 6bn approach US equity firm Callahan offers to buy cable operator to complete European network
Aug 06, 2000; ... CALLAHAN Associates, a US private equity firm that specialises inthe telecoms industry, has approached Telewest's directors andproposed an offer for the cable television and telecoms group worthup to pounds 6bn. Callahan, which already owns Spain's largest cable operator, ONO,as ...
City: Family Finance: Surf the net for travel cover Internet sites are slashing the price of insurance and buying from them is quick and simple, says Robert Watts
Aug 06, 2000; ... If the only surfing you plan to do for your holiday involves wildwaves and a good sense of balance, think again. In the last sixmonths, television, radio, newspapers and public transport have beenawash with advertisements for websites offering cheap travelinsurance in ...
City: BENJY'S...
Aug 06, 2000; ... BENJY'S, the chain of 34 London sandwich shops, is to be boughtby Ian Rickwood (above), the former European sales and marketingdirector of PepsiCo, for about pounds 25m, writes Damian Reece. Thedeal is being funded by a combination of equity backing from ECIVentures and debt from BHF ...
City: Business Brief:
Aug 06, 2000 ... IDN, a telecommunications broker and consultant for small andmedium sized businesses, is planning to float on Aim later thismonth. The company has appointed Seymour Pierce, the stockbrokers, tohandle the float. IDN is ...
City: Business Brief:
Aug 06, 2000 ... DUKE Street Capital, the venture capitalist, is investing pounds15m in Wastepack Group, a pioneering waste management business basedin the UK. Duke Street will take a ...
City: Business Brief:
Aug 06, 2000 ... THE Health Clinic, which offers specialist eye care services, ispressing ahead with expansion plans and launching new services justa month after it floated on the London Stock Exchange. Cash raisedfrom the flotation is being used to fund a rapid growth schedule.New clinics are set to ...
City: Business Brief:
Aug 06, 2000 ... A FORMER Standard Chartered investment banker has set up acompany that offers a full IT support service to small and medium-sized companies, that cannot afford to man their own help desks andhave been let down by the support offered by the main ...
City: Monument `no' to SE merger
Aug 06, 2000; ... THE City campaign to block the merger of the Stock Exchange andthe Deutsche Borse received another boost this weekend when MonumentDerivatives, one of the Square Mile's leading futures and optionsdealers, said it would vote against the merger. Martin Burton, Monument's founder and ...
City: Reliance gets pounds 150m sales tag
Aug 06, 2000; ... RELIANCE National Insurance, the British-based international armof the troubled American insurance company Reliance Group Holdings,is understood to have been put up for sale with a price tag of up topounds 150m. The move is the latest attempt by Reliance Group Holdings, ...
City: Newsagents threatened by retail giants
Aug 06, 2000; ... UP TO 12,000 newsagents are threatened with closure and newspaperand magazine companies could lose annual sales of up to pounds 150mif Tesco goes ahead with plans, to set up a joint distribution dealwith WH Smith. The long-awaited report, by Professor Paul Dobson of ...
City: Arriva bids pounds 1.8bn for Pennine route
Aug 06, 2000; ... ARRIVA, the transport group, will tomorrow submit a pounds 1.8bnbid for the Transpennine Express railway franchise to the ShadowStrategic Rail Authority. The higher-than-expected bid includesplans for new and re-opened routes across the Pennines, newdestinations including Glasgow, ...
City: Family Finance: Barclays accused of `underhand' switch Emma Simon reports on how customers were moved into more expenseive offshore accounts without permission
Aug 06, 2000; ... Barclays, the blunder-prone bank that hit the headlines yet againlast week when the security system for its online banking arm brokedown, has been accused by a Sunday Telegraph reader of trying toimpose "underhand charges" that would have left him out of pocket bypounds 90 a ...
City: Delancey buyout plan
Aug 06, 2000; ... DELANCEY Estates, run by James Ritblat, is poised to announce apounds 35m management buyout (MBO) of its consultancy businesses. Senior executives in the agency businesses have been working onplans to take control of their companies since Milner, their parentcompany, was acquired ...
City: Fusion heads for pounds 50m float
Aug 06, 2000; ... FUSION, an Australian oil and gas explorer, is to list on Aim,valuing the company at up to pounds 50m. The flotation in London,the first in the sector in two years, is intended to raise aroundpounds 15m for Fusion and pave the way for acquisitions later on. Fusion operates mainly ...
City: M&S suppliers fight demand to cut price
Aug 06, 2000; ... DEWHIRST and Coats Viyella, two of Marks & Spencer's largestclothing suppliers, are taking an unprecedented stand against thetroubled retailer by refusing to accept its demand to cut prices onclothes already ordered for the autumn season. Industry executives believe Courtaulds ...
City: Telstar launches pounds 20m share sale
Aug 06, 2000; ... TELSTAR, the record company famous for TV-advertised albumcompilations, has put a 25 per cent stake in the business up forsale and is planning to raise pounds 20m to support a big signingand development programme for new artists to its labels, whichinclude Wildstar, a joint venture with ...
City: Fashion chains snap up C&A properties
Aug 06, 2000; ... C&A has found tenants for almost all its stores just a few weeksafter prompting a crisis of confidence in retailing when itannounced it was closing in Britain. Its decision in June to call time on 75 years as a stalwart ofthe UK high street brought a wave of apocalyptic predictions ...
City: City Editor's Comment: Seagram's sale of the century
Aug 06, 2000; ... Get ready for the next great corporate bunfight. Now that thefuture of ITV has been settled with United News & Media's top-priced capitulation and Granada Media's victory roll, investmentbankers on both sides of the pond are girding themselves for thedrinks binge of the century - the ...
City: City Editor's Comment: Letting the gene out of the bottle
Aug 06, 2000; ... TOMORROW Nycomed Amersham will announce the Nasdaq flotation ofits gene machine business, Amersham Phamracia Biotech, a move werevealed three weeks ago. It is a bold step for a company accustomed for bold steps. Untilrecently APB, which builds many of the gene sequencing machines, ...
City: Family Finance: Mortgage lenders chase the ex-spouses Sara McConnell says that building societies and banks are bending their own code of practice in attempts to recoup bad debts
Aug 06, 2000; ... Couples who split up after their homes were repossessed are beingpursued separately by mortgage lenders for payment of huge shortfalldebts. Debt advisers report growing numbers of cases where lenders areturning to ex- wives, husbands and partners after failing to extractpayment ...
City: BUSINESS COMMENT: The highs and lows of our love affair with booze
Aug 06, 2000; ... I have always said to myself that on moral grounds I would notget involved in either the tobacco or arms trade. I have evenresisted the pornography industry. But vice is a vast business andso I am heavily into the booze trade: yet I still have misgivings. While alcohol gives ...