The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from September 2000:
Review: `The illness is a punishment from God' In this unique interview, Muhammad Ali and his daughter Hana talk to Victoria Woodhall about his life as a father, fighter and Muslim, and why his suffering from Parkinson's disease is an atonement for his infidelity
Sep 03, 2000; ... "I am the greatest" - where is the humble man in that statement? Muhammad I considered myself the greatest because I knew I hadthe ability to go the distance. I believed in myself completely,even when the world was against me. I knew I had it in me to doanything I put my heart and ...
Review: Features: When the tables turned What drove Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, to lose pounds 13 million at cards in Las Vegas last week? Anthony Holden, a former professional poker player, gives an insider's view
Sep 03, 2000; ... Deep down, as Freud told us, the compulsive gambler wants tolose. So will Kerry Packer's private jet have borne him away fromLas Vegas feeling purged, content and fulfilled after blowing morethan pounds 13 million at the baccarat tables of the Bellagiocasino? Of course not. Kerry Packer ...
Review: Features: Adventures in a beautiful pea-green boat Time of my life
Sep 03, 2000; ... As this is holiday time, allow me to let you in on a privatefantasy which, after five years of planning and persuading, has atlast materialised: a garden boathouse. It does not stand on any lake or river, but at one end of themoat that once surrounded the medieval manor house here ...
Review: Features: England's not big enough for me She was the literary rebel who dared compare herself to Shakespeare. Now, in this exclusive interview, Jeanette Winterson reveals she wants to shake off the shackles of both her country and her past by moving abroad - and conquering cyberspace
Sep 03, 2000; ... Brightly sunlit Spitalfields Market was alive on my left asJeanette Winterson appeared on her doorstep wearing jeans and a warmsmile of welcome. We go clattering up dark wooden stairs to thefirst-floor kitchen. She is tiny, darting around her tall Shaker-style kitchen cabinets, fixing us ...
Review: Features: Thanks for writing - now push off The trouble with being famous is that your public wants a piece of you. Gyles Brandreth, who was bemused on his return from holiday to find sackfuls of fanmail and assorted begging letters, gives his 10- point guide to how to say no - politely
Sep 03, 2000; ... Oscar Wilde liked to boast that so great was his celebrity he wasobliged to engage two secretaries to cope with the demands forcopies of his signature and locks of his hair: "Within three months,one had died of writer's cramp; the other was entirely bald." I knowjust how Oscar felt ...
Review: Features: EastEnders storyline has muddled my faith Me and My God June Brown - Dot Cotton in the soap opera - talks to Mark Palmer
Sep 03, 2000; ... Even by EastEnders standards, this week's high-octane, emotion-draining action is likely to cause a stir. Homosexuality, rape,racism, schizophrenia, infidelity . . . they have all featuredprominently in the BBC's most popular soap but never before haseuthanasia become the central theme ....
Review: Features: Why is the periwinkle more than just a pretty face? In Sickness and in Health
Sep 03, 2000; ... This past week I visited an intriguing exhibition at London'sChelsea Physic Garden, which juxtaposes photographs of people andplants. There is a striking picture of the youthful head gardenerFiona Crumley standing in the shade of a silver birch, next to thedelicate pink rose-like petals ...
Review: Style: Be a Seventies superstar Make your party entrance with big hair, piles of jewellery and sexy fake fur. Add a vacant look, and you'll feel like you own the place, says Molly Gunn
Sep 03, 2000; ... There is a moment when you walk into a glitzy club on a Saturdaynight and everybody turns to check you out. This lasts a splitsecond for most party-goers. The crowd glances momentarily, looksyou up and down, then turns back to its gossip and Caprianas beforeyou have had time to take your ...
Review: The Arts: Sex, religion, guilt - the usual stuff Music
Sep 03, 2000; ... Edinburgh: Genoveva, La Clemenza di Tito, Penelope and concerts Pipped at the post by Garsington earlier this summer, Opera Northlaunched its production of Schumann's rarely performed Genoveva atthe Edinburgh Festival in the King's Theatre on Thursday. It is astrange opera, ...
Review: The Arts: Martin, a mean career villain When he finally got his Green Card, writes the actor Martin Jarvis, he was all set to take on Hollywood. But they have a weird way of working out there - and you have to learn to love `no'
Sep 03, 2000; ... It all began, some years ago, with an attempt to obtain a GreenCard. This, my wife, Rosalind Ayres, and I thought, would rid us ofthe paper-mountain that always accompanied the offer of a USengagement. My American lawyer informed me I should assemble afistful of "commendatory material" ...
Review: The Arts: Here's one for the lads Cinema
Sep 03, 2000; ... Snatch Titus Miss Julie Nurse Betty Whatever Sales of Loaded may be down, but lad culture still rules. There'sno other explanation for the British faux-gangster fad thatcontinues to make film critics' lives a misery (not to mention thelives of any poor ...
Review: The Arts: Triumph of a not very nice guy Theatre
Sep 03, 2000; ... Henry V Back to Methuselah Ken Campbell's History of Comedy It would be an interesting experiment to play Shakepeare's HenryV straight - to present the king as a shining national hero, aninspired war-leader, and then let the facts speak for themselves.Those facts ...
Review: The Arts: An obsession with bodily extremes Jenny Saville is one of the most successful artists of her generation, but that doesn't stop her from revealing some awkward truths about the human body. Her latest painting is of a dead pig - `It's another female nude. It looks human,' she tells Anna Murphy
Sep 03, 2000; ... At 8.30 on Tuesday morning Jenny Saville applied the final brushstroke to her latest painting, Host, in her gallery in Tottenham,one of the less smart areas of north London. By 9.30 it was hangingin the Saatchi Gallery in St John's Wood, one of the smartest, thepaint still ...
Review: The Arts: Good old ambiguous Alan Radio
Sep 03, 2000; ... The sanctification of Alan Bennett continues apace - even thoughhe is, happily, still with us. He has reached that peak of eminenceat which every appearance is accompanied by a fanfare. Back in March, when he read his story, Father! Father! BurningBright on Radio 4, it was ...
Review: The Arts: Aussie manhood close up Television
Sep 03, 2000; ... The only time I've been to Australia I met a man in a bar whoasked me if I wanted to see his tattoo. When I said, albeit withoutmuch enthusiasm, that I wouldn't mind, he pulled down his pants toreveal a large devil throwing a shovelful of coal up his bottom-crack. "There," he ...
Review: The Arts: Everything in the garden is unnaturally lovely Art
Sep 03, 2000; ... Enclosed & Enchanted Ubu in the UK Before and After Now There is an old paradox about the garden, which goes back atleast to the Renaissance. It's natural, but it's artificial. Youplant the plants not where the seed accidentally falls, but whereyou decide they ought ...
Review: The Arts: No one is safe from the Car Man The dance company that ruffled feathers with a `gay' Swan Lake is about to cause mayhem with its version of Carmen. Lucy Cavendish talks to Will Kemp, the star of its `auto-erotic' new show
Sep 03, 2000; ... Will Kemp, blond floppy hair, green eyes, cleft chin, sweetsmile, is on stage at the Old Vic in London. He is listening verycarefully to instructions being called out by Matthew Bourne, chiefchoreographer and inspiration behind the dance company Adventures inMotion Pictures ...
Review: Books: All the way to the Lincoln bedroom Bill and Hillary Clintons' union is as much a permanent political campaign as a marriage, says Stephen Robinson
Sep 03, 2000; ... State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton by Jerry Oppenheimer HarperCollins, pounds 17.99, 312 pp pounds 15.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE STORY has been told so often you begin to think you witnessedthe ...
Review: Books: Carry on, and on, and on The producer of the Carry On films ruled with an iron rod, finds Gerald Kaufman
Sep 03, 2000; ... Mr Carry On: The Life and Work of Peter Rogers by Morris Bright and Robert Ross BBC, pounds 15.99, 256 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHEN HE WAS seven years old, Peter Rogers wet his trousers duringa service at Rochester Cathedral. In the nearly 80 ...
Review: Books: A grandfather's grim legacy Anthony Thwaite is gripped by the droll and dreadful memoirs of a professor of English
Sep 03, 2000; ... Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage Fourth Estate, pounds 15.99, 281 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 LORNA SAGE has been a notable figure on the literary-criticalscene since the early 1970s, writing bright and lively book reviewsin the usual places. She ...
Review: Books: The curse of ultra-democracy Noel Malcolm weighs up George Walden's assault on contemporary politics and culture
Sep 03, 2000; ... The New Elites: Making a Career in the Masses by George Walden Allen Lane, pounds 18.99, 210 pp pounds 16.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHAT DO the following have in common: New Labour, Oasis, DamienHirst, the Dome, Tracey Emin's bed, focus groups, Big Brother, ...
Review: Books: Paperbacks
Sep 03, 2000; ... Mao by Philip Short Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 12.99 CHAIRMAN MAO began his political career as an idealistic studentand ended it as a feared and fierce despot who had taken the livesof more of his subjects than any other leader in human history haddone - Hitler and ...
Review: Books: Revised Editions Which authors, or books, do not enjoy the standing they deserve? Continuing our series on underrated reputations, Douglas Hurd nominates Lord Macaulay
Sep 03, 2000; ... A FORMIDABLE man, most people would agree, but they don't readhim. He wrote too much for our pernickety taste - essays, history,speeches, poems - and the weight of his opinions can be crushing. "Iwish I was as sure about anything as Tom Macaulay is abouteverything". Certainly that was ...
Review: Books: A Romantic little supper A dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Charles Lamb makes for a lively story, finds Jonathan Bate
Sep 03, 2000; ... The Immortal Dinner by Penelope Hughes-Hallet Viking, pounds 15.99, 336 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN A LETTER filled with the enthusiasm of youth and art, JohnKeats announced that there were three things to rejoice at in theworld around him: ...
Review: Books: The blind faith of fanatics Richard Overy on a compelling history of Nazism that draws an unfashionable analogy with religious manias of the past
Sep 03, 2000; ... The Third Reich: a New History by Michael Burleigh Macmillan, pounds 25, 965 pp pounds 21 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHEN IN the spring of 1946 the former commandant of Auschwitz,Rudolf Hoess, was asked by the prison psychiatrist why he became aNazi and an ...
Review: Books: Kings, queens and plain folk Andrew Roberts is entertained by these royal biographer's memoirs
Sep 03, 2000; ... Royal Subjects: A Biographer's Encounters by Theo Aronson Sidgwick & Jackson, pounds 12.99, 212 pp pounds 10.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THEO ARONSON is the South African author of 20 books on royalmatters, several of which - including The Royal Family at ...
Review: Books: Paperback best-sellers
Sep 03, 2000; ... Non-fiction 1 If Only, Geri Halliwell (Bantam, pounds 5.99). 7,108. 2 Managing My Life, Alex Ferguson (Coronet, pounds 7.99). 5,378. 3 Angela's Ashes, (Film tie-in edition), Frank McCourt (Flamingo,pounds 6.99). 3,988. 4 Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Giles Milton (Hodder, ...
Review: Books: The printer's tale
Sep 03, 2000; ... The Justification of Johann Gutenberg by Blake Morrison Chatto & Windus, pounds 14.99, 259 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 BLAKE MORRISON is a poet, a best-selling memoirist (And When DidYou Last See Your Father?) and the author of As If, a study of ...
Review: Books: Lovers upstaged
Sep 03, 2000; ... Don Giovanni by Amanda Prantera Bloomsbury, pounds 14.99, 241 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS WITTY social comedy describes one summer in Umbria, whereLord Henry Thirsk, handsome but not young, a writer but notsuccessful, is living with his ...
Review: Books: Alas, an also-ran Dick Francis is not on top form, finds Charles Spencer
Sep 03, 2000; ... Shattered by Dick Francis Michael Joseph, pounds 16.99, 272 pp pounds 14.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE QUEEN MOTHER has always been a great fan of Dick Francis, andthe former champion jockey, now in his 80th year himself, had longvowed that he would produce a ...
Review: Books: Fear of going mad
Sep 03, 2000; ... Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey Doubleday, pounds 15.99, 381 pp pounds 14.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT HAS TO be said that I find any book whose first two words are"She dreamed", and whose subject is hereditary madness, the reverseof enticing. So I had to force ...
Review: Books: Cherry Vanilla is not so sweet Christopher Tayler on an accomplished first novel by a writer barely out of his teens
Sep 03, 2000; ... Sarah by J. T. LeRoy Bloomsbury, pounds 6.99, 166 pp pounds 6.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 CHERRY VANILLA is a 12-year-old boy with beautiful blond curlsand an overweening ambition to become a famous truck-stopprostitute, or "lot-lizard". His mother Sarah, a ...
Review: House & Home: The time is ripe to buy an orchard Fruit trees may no longer be viable for farmers, but the romance of orchards lingers on. Many are being sold off - so purchase now, says Caroline McGhie
Sep 03, 2000; ... Mark Johnson could be described as an endangered species. Whilefarmers all around him in the Kentish landscape are grubbing outtheir orchards and turning to arable crops, he has just bought asmall fruit farm and plans to expand it. He spends his days being apoliceman, but in the evenings ...
Review: House & Home: Haunted by some mean spirits The misers who once owned Burlton Hall would be delighted to see how much it's selling for, says Ross Clark
Sep 03, 2000; ... You don't stay wealthy by giving all your money away, as JohnMytton of Halston Hall found. He was the eccentric Shropshire squire who used to ride about the countryside throwing wads ofbanknotes into hedges - and who died in a debtors' prison, aged 37,in 1834. A few miles ...
Review: House & Home: Cool cats on a hot tub roof Mark Whiting was 23, `a bit flash' and in search of a new kind of penthouse flat. Caroline McGhie discovers how he converted a warehouse space into a sought-after film location
Sep 03, 2000; ... Little do you know what lies above you when you walk the streetsof London. While the anonymous hordes of workers, shoppers andtourists scuff and scurry along the city's dirty pavements, up thereamid the chimneys, people are creating their own fantasy worlds. Mark Whiting's rooftop ...
Review: House & Home: Aquatic Aussies, clashing colours and unwanted dogs Diary of an Estate Agent
Sep 03, 2000; ... MONDAY Set off at crack of sparrows to meet lady landlord who, with hersister, has seven properties to let, ranging from two-bed flats (pounds 625pcm) to three-bed houses ( pounds 800pcm) within a five-minute bus ride of the city centre. More people are realising thefinancial ...
Review: House & Home: Ask Jeff . . .
Sep 03, 2000; ... My roof felt is torn How can I repair small tears to internal roofing felt? Theoutside tiles appear to be sound and are not leaking. F S, by e-mail Jeff replies If the roof is not leaking, then there is no need torepair the felt. Sarking felt is a fairly recent ...
Review: House & Home: Don't be soft-soaped over hard water On the level Softeners should be calibrated to cope with precise hardness. This is rarely done
Sep 03, 2000; ... If you live in a hard-water area - that is, anywhere south of aline from the Humber to the Severn - then you will be used toregular mailshots and calls from salesmen advising you that you needa water-softener. Installed and operated properly, water-softeners can be useful.Soft ...
Review: Education: It's child's play to be trilingual Children brought up to speak two or more languages find it easier to develop other skills too, says Miranda Ingram, mother of these young polyglots
Sep 03, 2000; ... Russian, English and Welsh are perhaps not a common combinationof native languages. But since my children have a Russian father,spent their early years in a Moscow kindergarten and have now beenwhisked to rural Wales, where their education is entirely in Welsh,six-year-old Vita and ...
City: Jessops focuses on pounds 100m float
Sep 03, 2000; ... JESSOPS, the retail photography business, is to float on theLondon Stock Exchange. The listing, which will be announced thisweek, is expected to value the company at more than pounds 100m. Jessops, which was conceived in a Leicester chemist shop in 1884,has for decades been a Mecca ...
City: Breare to launch pounds 518m W&D bid
Sep 03, 2000; ... ROBERT Breare, the leisure entrepreneur, will this week launch a550p-a-share hostile bid for Wolverhampton & Dudley, the regionalbrewer and pub company, valuing the business at pounds 518m. An offer will be made in the next few days although Breare isexpected to announce joint ...
City: Abbey wins pounds 2bn Scottish Provident
Sep 03, 2000; ... ABBEY National, the high-street mortgage bank, is to pay pounds2bn to take over Scottish Provident, the Edinburgh-based mutual lifeinsurer. The board of Scottish Provident met on Friday to approve theAbbey offer. Final details of the deal were being hammered out thisweekend by ...
City: Bacardi is favourite to win Absolut distribution
Sep 03, 2000; ... BACARDI has emerged as favourite to win the lucrativedistribution rights to Absolut vodka, the premium spirit brand ownedby Vin & Sprit, the Swedish state-owned drinks group. Bacardi is said to have appointed NM Rothschild to handlenegotiations with V&S, which until recently was ...
City: Euronext lines up funds for LSE counter bid
Sep 03, 2000; ... EURONEXT, the company being formed by the merger of the Paris,Amsterdam and Brussels stock exchanges, is understood to be in talkswith a series of French banks to help finance a bid of more thanpounds 900m for the London Stock Exchange. Euronext is believed to have held detailed ...
City: Vivendi targets pounds 1.7bn Scoot French multi-media giant poised to take control of high profile online directory group
Sep 03, 2000; ... VIVENDI is in talks to acquire Scoot.com in a deal that wouldvalue the online directory service at about pounds 1.7bn. Vivendi, which already owns 22.4 per cent of Scoot, is expectedto make either a full offer for the shares it does not own or toinject one or more of its own ...
City: Family Finance: High street savers feel the pinch Save at a local branch and you could get a derisory rate of interest. Emma Simon asks why some accounts can pay less than 2 per cent
Sep 03, 2000; ... Are you being paid a dud rate on your savings? New researchreveals that some of the biggest names on the high street are payingrock-bottom rates to customers who use their local branch. Abbey National, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Woolwich, Alliance &Leicester, and Bristol & West ...
City: Airlines to show live TV
Sep 03, 2000; ... THE BBC and Trans World International are to supply livetelevision news and sport to airline passengers around the worldthrough a deal with Inmarsat, the satellite communications group. Inmarsat, which is expected to float on the stock market earlynext year, already provides many ...
City: P&O moves into Shellhaven
Sep 03, 2000; ... P&O is poised to confirm within days that it is entering into aventure with Shell, the Anglo Dutch oil giant, to redevelop themassive Shellhaven oil refinery site at Stanford le Hope on theEssex bank of the River Thames which, according to analysts, couldbe worth pounds 750m when ...
City: Zeus sets sights on pounds 150m flotation
Sep 03, 2000; ... ZEUS Technology, a Cambridge internet software business lauded byTony Blair, is being groomed for a float that will value thebusiness at up to pounds 150m. The group has appointed UBS Warburg as a financial adviser toprepare it for a float at the end of this year or early in 2001 ....
City: MoneyGuru plans pounds 20m debut
Sep 03, 2000; ... MONEYGURU, the financial website, will this week announce plansto float with a value of up to pounds 20m. The company, headed by Charles Fowler, a former chairman of AIBGovett, intends to float on Aim in November. From this week it plansto offer a special allocation of shares in ...
City: MoneyeXtra ponders sale or break up
Sep 03, 2000; ... MONEYEXTRA, the online provider of financial data and personalfinance websites formerly known as eXchange Holdings, has called ininvestment bankers to advise on a sale or break up of the business. The company is understood to have instructed UBS Warburg toconduct a wide-ranging ...
City: Camelot demands lottery papers
Sep 03, 2000; ... CAMELOT has demanded that the National Lottery Commission handover all correspondence, including e-mails and internal memos,relating to its decision to enter exclusive negotiations over thenext lottery licence with The People's Lottery, led by Sir RichardBranson. Camelot, which ...
City: Family Finance: Will you pass the new tax test? Self- assessment tax forms are supposed to be simple. Tell that to the 9m people preparing to spend hours sweating over 29 pages of taxing questions. Ross Clark reports
Sep 03, 2000; ... For GCSE students, exam agony is now over. But for Britain's 9mself-assessment taxpayers, it is only just beginning. The estimatedone in two yet to fill in the tax returns for the year 1999-2000have a surprise in store for them when they return home from holiday- a 29-page maths exam ...
City: Giller eyes pounds 1bn PowerGen deal
Sep 03, 2000; ... INTERNATIONAL Power, part of the soon-to-be demerged NationalPower, has emerged as a bidder for the overseas assets of PowerGen,which are valued at up to pounds 1bn. International Power is said tobe one of only a few suitors willing to buy the PowerGen assets as ajob ...
City: BAA ditches McArthur Glen stake sale
Sep 03, 2000; ... BAA has abandoned attempts to sell all or part of its stake inBAA McArthur Glen, its joint venture factory outlet developer. Theairports operator will instead raise around pounds 100m throughsales of the venture's completed developments. BAA has agreed to stick with the joint ...
City: City Comment: The right outcome for London
Sep 03, 2000; ... Victory! Just a week ago the London Stock Exchange was insistingthat the vote on its increasingly unpopular merger with DeutscheBorse would go ahead as planned on September 14, having rejected abid from OM Gruppen, the company that runs the Swedish stockmarket.Within days the Viking ...
City: City Comment: Jungle book
Sep 03, 2000; ... JOHN Peace, the chief executive of Great Universal Stores,reckons that the dotcoms of the retail sector are at last comingback to the real world. He should know. GUS last week snapped upJungle.com, e-tailer of computers, games and music, for pounds 37m.That is a far cry from the pounds ...
City: Family Finance: Top tips to ease form-filling hassle Emma Simon explains how to get organised and assemble the information you need to send back your tax form in good order
Sep 03, 2000; ... It all sounds so simple: file your tax return by September 30 andthe Inland Revenue will work out all those nasty calculations foryou. As Ross Clark explains opposite, these sums can otherwise behorribly complex, even for those with fairly straightforwardfinancial affairs. So, ...
City: A daily diet of hard work
Sep 03, 2000; ... I made the rash decision to work on the floor at Belgo Centraalthis week, and it has been an eye-opening experience. In case youdon't know, Belgo Centraal is the enormous, flagship restaurant inthe Belgo chain of which I am chairman, and I have been waitingtables, working in the kitchen, ...
City: Watch your step in dangerous territory Taking Stock - the diary of a Private Investor
Sep 03, 2000; ... I am addicted to mountain scrambling: an eye for a thrilling wayup unexplored terrain. Go for firm rock, avoid the gnarly bits andscree. Before long, you gain an intuitive sense of what to avoid. It is the same with company statements. Some you can grip well,others are downright ...
City: How to spend our windfall Economic Agenda
Sep 03, 2000; ... T he pounds 22bn the Government received from the sale of thethird generation telecoms licences and the prospect of a an extrapounds 50bn as further parts of the spectrum become available whenanalogue TV is phased out suggest a healthy outlook for publicfinances. In fact the ...
City: Rates ratchet Economic Agenda
Sep 03, 2000; ... THE Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee meets again thisweek to set interest rates. The previous meeting was the closestever, with five members voting to keep rates steady and four votingfor a quarter point rise. Moreover, at least two of the five were inthe Augustinian position ...
City: Family Finance: Nurses fuel long-term care controversy Lobby groups are furious at plans for an arbitrary shift in the rules on charging for nursing care, writes Liz Dolan
Sep 03, 2000; ... The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) last week cast further doubton the viability of controversial Government plans to alter thestate funding system for people in residential and nursing homes. The Government announced in July that although it was nowprepared to deliver free nursing ...
City: Walsh shows his fighting spirit Diageo's new chief executive is preparing a $9bn takeover bid for the Seagram drinks business. In an interview with Damian Reece, he explains why
Sep 03, 2000; ... Paul Walsh is this weekend at home in West Sussex pondering hisfirst move as the new chief executive of Diageo, the pounds 20bnBritish drinks company that owns Smirnoff vodka, Baileys, Gordon'sgin, Johnnie Walker scotch and Guinness among many other top brands. Friday was Walsh's ...
City: Family Finance: Should you trust this home loan plan? In the wake of the endowment mortgage debacle, investment trusts are being suggested as an alternative, says Justin Harper
Sep 03, 2000; ... The investment trust industry is using the bad publicitysurrounding the sale of endowments to pay off mortgages as a chanceto plug its own products. Annabel Brodie-Smith, PR manager at the Association of InvestmentTrust Companies (AITC), says: "People should be looking ...