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May 11, 1962 n THE Herald reported: ''Fathers who do not attend the juvenile court when their sons appear were criticised by Sheriff Aikman-Smith yesterday at Aberdeen. 'Why is that fathers always send their wives to the juvenile court

GIVEN the circumstances you could have understood if there had been little call for an end-of-season celebration at Brockville on Saturday. In recent weeks Falkirk have gone into liquidation, leaving the manager and players uncertain about their future

THE survey work for the second year of the CPS is just getting under way and it is worth looking back and remarking on just how popular the scheme was last year, writes Bruce Philp. Indeed it could be said that it was a victim of its own success with

q Lancashire scraped their way into the Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-finals on Saturday after defeating Northamptonshire by 71 runs at Old Trafford. The Red Rose county snatched second place in Group A away from Warwickshire, who also won. Leicestershire

If striker Paul Keith's behaviour seemed a little odd at Harms-worth Park on Saturday, there was an explanation. The prolific Fraserburgh striker is a die-hard Celtic supporter, and fans took it upon themselves to keep him in touch with events at

AFTER 22 years at the helm of Grampian Holdings, executive chairman Bill Hughes appears ready to throw in the towel. His strategy of transforming the Glasgow-based mini-conglomerate into a predominantly retail company centred on Edinburgh Woollen Mills

SCOTTISH exports plunged sharply lower during the first quarter of this year as the strong pound and the economic crisis in Asia finally began to take their toll, writes Robert Powell. Until the end of last year, overseas sales had proved remarkably

Partick Thistle ...... 1 Ayr United ...... 3 THEY fought like Trojans to save their side in their darkest hour: unfortunately for Partick Thistle, they were also slain like them. There was even a touch of the Trojan horse, that most spectacular of

Pop star and actor Ian Dury is suffering from cancer of the liver, it emerged yesterday. The creator of hits such as Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and Reasons To Be Cheerful said he started feeling ''a bit iffy'' three years ago while

Hand-wringing is not an attractive option, especially in reference to the volatile Balkans, but as fighting worsens in Kosovo between the Serbian authorities and ethnic Albanian separatists there is little else that the West can do. US envoy Richard

JAKE Swift, private investigator - a guy so cool his cigarettes hit his lips already lit and smouldering. No nerdy fumbling with matches while chill winds gust down the inevitable mean street, then. But for all that he acts cooler than Aspen in high

VIRGIN Group confirmed last night that Richard Branson was considering floating his Virgin Atlantic airline on the stock market to raise funds for its further expansion. A Virgin spokesman said: ''We have talked to people about it recently,

Kilmarnock .... 1 Hibernian ........ 1 THE Edinburgh Samba Band provided the hip-shakin' pre-match entertainment for Kilmarnock's vital last game of the season, at Rugby Park, but the quality of football on parade was a far cry from the South

TELEVISION and me: it's not been the happiest of unions. Take my first TV appearance - go on, please, I'd rather forget it ever happened. For as a wee laddie, I once appeared on a BBC children's' tea-time entertainment hosted by that

WORLD sprint relay bronze medallist Doug Walker rekindled an old competitive flame when he beat Elliot Bunney for the first time over 100 metres to take the East District championship title at Meadowbank. Scotland's most prolific sprint title-winner

A NEW drug to help combat multiple sclerosis was launched in Britain today. Interferon beta-1a is the latest in a new generation of treatments for patients who suffer chronic relapses of MS. However, like drugs of this type it is expensive - about #9500

A MAN is to be charged following a major air-sea rescue operation yesterday, police in Stornoway said last night. It is understood the charge, under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, relates to endangering the safety of a vessel. Earlier, in a Mayday call

A teenager in the Highlands who died following an overdose of paracetamol may have been driven to suicide by a sinister campaign, according to his father, who has called for a fatal accident inquiry. Seventeen-year-old James Newlands, was found dead

COUNCILLOR David Begg (May 7) is correct in his present assessment of traffic congestion, but we cannot see the future clearly. Almost exactly 200 years ago Thomas Malthus predicted that the human race would starve itself because food production would

BRITISH Energy, which is looking for nuclear power plants in the US, may buy into Three Mile Island which suffered the United States' worst-ever nuclear accident in 1979. A British Energy source said yesterday the company was still in discussions

THERE were some intelligent, reasonable followers of Celtic who had begun to believe that the only way their team could collect the premier division flag again would be to break into Ibrox and make off with it. Now the sun has risen in the east of Glasgow

Sara Lee Classic There was more casual water than fairway in yesterday's final round of the Sara Lee Classic in Nashville, Tennessee, but Catriona Matthew was more than happy after paddling her way to a four under par 68. On eight under 208, the

Tennents Shield Berwick..........11, Selkirk.............17 Selkirk, the only team to have appeared at the Murrayfield finals in each of the three years of the event, achieved their best result to date by winning the Tennents Shield to follow their

RANGERS failed in their bid to snatch their tenth premier division title in a row from Celtic's grasp at the weekend, but they also left Tannadice, where they beat Dundee United 2-1, virtually certain that their most influential player of recent

Sarah Gaventa, communications director for City of Artchitecture and Design 1999, looks at ways of making the profession more accessible ARCHITECTURE is a notoriously difficult subject to communicate to a public audience and architects themselves are

n He's an 18-stone, 6ft 1in former rugby union back row forward and he's in the running for Landlady of the Year Award. Peter Mackenzie could well make it a hat trick for Scotland today when the winner of the AA competition is announced at

A BEACHED whale spotted by a Cal-Mac ferry crew on a tiny island is back at sea after a day-long rescue operation at the weekend by islanders on North Uist. The crew of the ferry Hebridean Isles spotted the young 15ft minke whale on Ruidh Liath in Lochmaddy

HEALTH experts last night moved quickly to allay fears that the E-coli bacterium had returned to central Scotland. The current illness being suffered by a number of Scots only appeared similar to E-coli 0157 food poisoning and was not life threatening

PARTY political advertising should be subject to the same regulations as all other advertisements, a Church of Scotland body has claimed, writes Raymond Duncan. The Kirk's church and nation committee says the democratic process is threatened when

CELTIC supporters' joyous celebrations spilled into Sunday as the party to mark the club's first league win in a decade showed no signs of abating. On the streets of Glasgow, and in pockets all over the country, feverishly happy fans crowded

ELVIS Presley will this week have a credit card launched in his memory - the Bank of Scotland Elvis Mastercard. Featuring an American Trilogy of Elvis pictures on the front, it is being launched in a joint venture between the bank and cockney Elvis merchandise

IRISH Prime Minister Bertie Ahern suffered an embarrassing snub when he was refused permission to meet the Celtic players after seeing them win the premier division title on Saturday. Mr Ahern, the first Taoiseach ever to watch Celtic play at their Glasgow

BOLLYWOOD is not the only type of cinema to have emerged from India - there is also a strong tradition of Art cinema, and one of its trend-setters is Kumar Shahani, 57, who has been a visiting film-maker at Napier University in Edinburgh over the past

NEWS of Celtic's third-minute goal against St Johnstone on Saturday spread like a virus among the 29,000 Rangers fans who had come to watch satellite pictures at Ibrox, but felt sickness coming at them from an invisible source. In a stadium where

The English hold the key to our rugby future. What a bloody awful position to be in. If I was a logical thinker, I'd still be a full-time chartered accountant, worrying about stock cut off and the like. As that's no job for a grown man, I&apos

Captain Richard Gough maintains that no Scottish team will again win nine successive championships because the financial resources of the Old Firm are now more evenly matched. Offering his congratulations to Celtic and their manager, Wim Jansen, in denying

JUST how many more half-truths and misleading statements are the Scots expected to swallow from directors (past and present) and their spin-doctors at Dounreay? The continuing catalogue of dangerous incidents which have taken place at this highly secretive

Conference C FREUCHIE'S David Cowan may have been forced to operate at half-pace against Clydesdale on Saturday, but still he fired a full-scale reminder of his seam bowling talents in the direction of the Scotland selectors. Despite being hampered

NEARLY one in 10 adults is risking pregnancy or catching a sexually transmitted disease (STD) by having unprotected sex, a survey to mark National Condom Week reveals. Researchers say that 22% of 18 to 20-year-olds and up to 15% of 16 and 17-year-olds

Dundee United .......... 1 Rangers .......... 2 THEY refused to go home, sang their songs, and insisted: ''We shall not be moved.'' They had, of course, been moved, shifted from that perch of triumphalism on which they have reigned

Dublin THE Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, plans to develop political, trade and cultural links between Ireland and Scotland, he told The Herald in an exclusive interview during his visit to Glasgow on Saturday. Mr Ahern said that the provision in

MIM, without a national title for over three years, could be about to end their barren run. They won through to the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup on Saturday by producing the upset of the day at Cramond where they beat Grange 7-6 on penalties following

THE Scottish National Party has reaffirmed its commitment to a referendum on independence if it wins power in the Scottish Parliament, but to be held during the first fixed four-year term of the Parliament, not during the first year. SNP leaders have

ANDY Murray, in his article on Wigtown the book town (May 8), states that ''a witch was once famously tied to a stake in Wigtown Bay and drowned''. The facts of the matter are that two women were executed by drowning in 1685 because

IT'S a sight the thousands of fans who packed Celtic Park on Saturday will never forget - the moment their heroes broke Rangers' domination of the Scottish League championship. They will also remember it as perhaps the longest day. From the

HE was a slim and energetic fellow with long brown hair accompanied by a matching goatee. A native of the Bronx, he had grown up to hate the accents of girls from Queens. He had spent two years living in a tent on a solitary mountain in Arkansas, accompanied

FARMER'S DIARY BEFORE I get on to Mossie's new conservation area I must bring you up to date with the Farmer's crazy scheme to get back into beef production. It is announced that there are now a dozen horrendously expensive steers grazing

Halberds at the ready: the annual Kirkin' of the Council was held yesterday in Glasgow Cathedral. The ceremony was the final kirkin' of the present council before the local elections in May next year.

The EU-approved British passport, which replaced the traditional dark blue passport in 1992, is to be redesigned following complaints from immigration officers that it is too vulnerable to fraudsters. The photograph and personal data are to be moved

A FAMILY were yesterday grieving the death of a ''perfectly fit and healthy'' father on a hillside. James MacKillop, 36, of Brierie Hills, Houston, Renfrewshire, collapsed and later died of a suspected heart attack while walking with

EXCLUSIVE A SENIOR civil servant has astonished Whitehall by blocking plans to transfer millionaire Treasury Minister Geoffrey Robinson to the Department of Trade and Industry in the upcoming reshuffle. Michael Scholar, the DTI's Permanent Secretary

Glasgow Hawks.....36, Kelso.....................14 Rugby folks smiling - some mistake surely? Yet they were, all 23,354 of them, as they buried a disappointing season of strife and sorrow while celebrating a Tennents Velvet Cup final at Murrayfield

France Bill Knox takes Mrs Knox, with leg in plaster, to the city of light and examines the hospitality to hopalongs It is Sunday afternoon. I'm watching the Antiques Roadshow, sighing at the way we bin junk which are other people's antiques

RECENT reports to come out of Argentina suggest their national side, beaten finalists in the last World Cup in 1994, is in decline, but the quality of their hockey over the weekend when beating Scotland 5-1 and 3-1 at Cramond in Edinburgh tells a different

A YOUNG Celtic supporter died and four of his friends were injured in a fire just hours after they watched their team win the Premier League title. Firefighters found the body of 22-year-old Diarmuid O'Leary, from Ballybough, Dublin, lying in a

ST MIRREN put the future on show and it worked. Because of their youth, some of the squad were playing for next century. Captained by 19-year-old Hugh Murray, their ages fell to the school exam level of Burton O'Brien at 16. Tony Fitzpatrick, the

Because the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats were long-time associates in the quest for a Scottish Parliament it was assumed that they would also work together on a coalition basis within the new Parliament. Well, it is dangerous to assume anything

Celtic ...................... 2 St Johnstone ........... 0 THE years spent in the wilderness without a premier division championship victory are over for Celtic. Their decade of despair ended with this two-goal victory over St Johnstone. Now the tension

ANDY Wightman's letter (April 30) on the Scottish Landowners' Federation's response to the Land Reform Policy Group's consultation paper is clearly based on what he has read in the press, or wishes to read, and not our complete submission

A WOMAN whose son was born badly brain damaged after she ate undercooked food at a summer barbecue 11 years ago, is helping to launch a campaign to make parents more aware of the dangers. Mrs Sheila Yarrow had no idea when she ate a burger she could

Scottish Industry and Education Minister Brian Wilson explains the significance of the Cadence initiative. THE San Jose Sharks versus Dallas Stars ice hockey play-off, I was assured, was ''the hottest ticket in America'' last week

UST as you should never judge a book by its covers, so too you should not confuse the post-war romance of the film 84 Charing Cross Road with the harsh reality of the second hand book trade in the late nineties. It is such a charming movie that most

POLLOK continue to lead the Reebok premier division following their 2-1 win over Petershill. Goals from substitute John Paisley and John Morrison gave them a two-goal cushion but Petershill got a late consolation when Alan Grainger netted from 25 yards

ANY move to sell off Edinburgh's historic city chambers building for luxury flats should be made a local election issue or be put to a referendum, it was suggested yesterday, writes Jim Robertson. Vacating the Royal Mile address and moving into

TOURISM leaders from the Glasgow area will this week launch a new business drive in Europe by selling the attractions of Glasgow as UK City of Architecture and Design 1999. The chief executive of Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley Tourist Board, Mr Eddie

n Elizabeth Taylor joins the impressive list of grade-A celebs lending their voices to The Simpsons today. With all the problems and disasters that have befallen the 66-year-old star over the last few years in particular, it's a wonder that she&

IT may be worth considering the reality and effects of an angling free-for-all which Andy Scott is keen to encourage (May 6). A superficial examination of the shore of many Scottish lochs will reveal copious quantities of litter and, more seriously,

YOU published a photograph of me on Pages 12-13 of The Herald Magazine (May 9). It is not a very good likeness as it was taken 45 years ago! However, it is me. An amazing coincidence is that you also printed my name on Page 8 of the paper itself on the

Perth-based Tayforth came within a whisker of picking up a first major trophy in their 25- year existence when they ran cup holders Caberfeidh all the way in the Balliemore Cup final at Kingussie. Cabers, who had won the intermediate championship

Voluntary Service Overseas Ann Donald previews the seven days ahead ON May 15, 1958, eight pimply teen-agers took one small step for themselves and one huge step for voluntary mankind. This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Voluntary Service Overseas

IT'S always a shame when a worthwhile event is thinly attended. It was doubly so yesterday for the launch of a short season of classic silent movies with live music, written and conducted by Carl Davis. In family terms, there was much more than

EVERY newspaper must evolve, finding fresh ways to meet the expectations of established readers, devising the editorial sparks which will ignite the interest of new generations. At a time when Scotland is poised to enter a challenging constitutional

Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 2 THEY ran on to the field, arms waving and yelling their little heads off in glee. It was all over, hallelujah. It appeared totally immaterial to those in claret and amber that their team had just been stuffed by Aberdeen. It

HAVING left school at 14, with a working knowledge of the English language, I have always appreciated the fact that the teachers at our village school were so diligent in despatching us to the wider world with at least the basics of what would come to

THE discovery of a woman's body on a busy dual carriageway near the Forth Road Bridge was last night being investigated by police. The woman, who has not yet been named by Lothian and Borders Police, was found lying at the side of the A90 Edinburgh-Forth

Identical twins Andrew and Michael Remes have combined their skills to create a pioneering biomedical company. Andrew, a bio-engineer, and brother Michael, a computer consultant, formed Remes Biomedical three years ago to use advanced computer techniques

A man wanted for questioning about a parcel bomb attack on a Dundee couple may have posted more packages to other targets before fleeing Britain, police said last night. After carrying out extensive checks on passenger flight lists, police now say Iranian-born

Mary Brennan previews a series which owes as much to the club as the studio DEEP in the darkness, something strange is stirring . . . Is it human? Is it a bird? See for yourself when Metacorpus Animated Body Appendages appear at the Arches as part of

Conference A HILLHEAD experienced a chastening baptismal weekend, losing both their matches by substantial margins. On Saturday, they were given a whipping by neighbours GHK, who bowled them out for a miserable 45, but they retrieved some of their

IN the best traditions of such ceremonies, Adam Roxburgh could not be there to receive The Herald Player of the Year when he was announced as the winner at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Saturday. Typical of the thoroughbred Borderer

It might have been the morning after the league championship victory but there was no let-up in the fans' celebrations, writes Ron MacKenna, and no hiding their joy. THE sight of two bedraggled Celtic supporters sitting in the sun outside Parkhead

One day our prince will come, and maybe many more besides. Colin Howie tells Cameron Simpson why Scotland is the ideal destination for Arab tourists. THE sun is on full setting. In the baking furnace below it has burnished streets and buildings, transforming

I ATTENDED the seminar on land reform which you organised in Edinburgh. One of the speakers, a commercial lawyer, made a plea for freedom of contract without legislative interference. A few minutes earlier he had complained about having to pay several

Care in the community. An odd phrase and one that, for most of us, now holds very specific conotations. But in Robert Holman's Bad Weather, though the phrase is never uttered, care in the community takes on quite another meaning - the care that

The contrasting fortunes of football were thrown into sharp relief in the passageway between the two dressing rooms at the end of this 90 minutes. That reflected the hopes of these clubs as they went their separate ways. Morton manager Billy Stark drew

Tennents Bowl, Perthshire......................10, Carnoustie......................8 Carnoustie FP, the rising stars of the lower national league divisions, came desperately close to producing an upset in the first of the three Tennents finals at Murrayfield

A decision will be taken today on whether operations can restart at a hospital after more than 40 theatre staff were hit by an eye infection. The incident led to the cancellation of dozens of non-urgent operations at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary

SNP leaders yesterday claimed to have fresh evidence of a pro-Union understanding developing between Labour and the right, despite Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar's assertion that he would never do a deal with the Tories. They cited a meeting last

An 18-year-old youth's passion for golf has really paid off - his businesswoman mother has bought him a golf course, reportedly for several million pounds. Aaron Howard wants to dedicate his life to the game and hopes to become a professional golfer

THE Scottish Office land reform policy group will not be short of suggestions when it sits down to consider the responses to its consultation paper. More than 300 individuals and organisations have made submissions which will now be sifted and distilled

Face to face Sir Stewart Sutherland, principal of Edinburgh University, explains his vision of the future of education There was a moment in his younger life when Stewart Sutherland considered going for the Church. ''But under the tutelage

THE manager of the Knoydart Estate, who claims to be owed more than #30,000 in back wages, has been sacked by the new owners of the estate - two of whom are currently being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office and the Department of Trade and Industry

Actor Robbie Coltrane's picture of a lorry, left, done while he was at Glasgow School of Art, took its place alongside the work of comedian John Sessions, right, at a charity auction in Stirling Castle at the weekend. Around 200 miniature works

Scottish expatriates in the United States have established a charity to commemorate the Highland Clearances and support from American descendants of cleared families is rolling in. The Highland Clearances Memorial Fund aims to establish a scholarship

ROBIN Cook pinned his political future to the arms-to-Africa affair yesterday, promising he will resign if the inquiry into Britain's links with international mercenaries proves he misled Parliament. The Foreign Secretary denied reports that the

Stranraer's remarkable run of 14 wins in 16 games brought them the unexpected bonus of their second championship in four years as well as a place in the first division. A crowd of 1649 were at Broadwood to see them beat Clyde 1-0 and book their

THE celebrations were huge at Alloa, a little nervous at Arbroath, and non-existent at Dingwall, where just under 2000 fans saw Ross County miss out on promotion yet again. That outcome was expected, as County needed an unlikely Queen's Park victory

Marian Pallister reports on a pilot car-sharing scheme in Leeds, which aims to reduce the problem of urban congestion. IF you are not a morning person, or if stressful days in the workplace leave you a little raw and edgy on the journey home, then

Two winning tickets shared the National Lottery jackpot of #8,485,804. The winning numbers were: 2, 9, 25, 26, 35, and 40. The bonus number was 47. Camelot said 26 winners who correctly chose five numbers and the bonus ball would get #100,423 each.

Scotland's cemeteries are spurning material glories in favour of spiritual reticence, writes . Almost 50 English graveyards have been nominated for the first ever Cemetery of the Year Award. Yet only one Scots burial place - Colmonell cemetery in

THE vitriol directed at both Dounreay and Scottish Minister Brian Wilson (No, we do not trust them, Letters, May 6), goes a giant step too far with the accusation of their spinning ''a yarn about treating the big C''. As someone with

Celtic coach Wim Jansen revealed in Estoril last night that he will give his decision on whether he stays with the Parkhead club or not before the week ends. The speculation over Jansen's future has grown enormously in the build-up to the championship

(* denotes championship best performance) WEST MEN. Seniors. 100 metres: B Doyle (Cumbernauld) 10.95secs (wind: +0.19 metres per second). 200m: I McGurk (Kirkintilloch Olympians) 21.99 (-0.7). 400m: A Mitchell (Kilbarchan) 48.69. 800m: G Graham (Motherwell

COURTESY of the Goethe Institute as part of its programme of events to celebrate Brecht's centenary, this was the sole Scottish performance by one of the most authoritative interpreters of his songs. Hagen, mother of punkrocker Nina, was a member

GREAT job, this. Saturday afternoon I'm watching Big Bird prance around the Edinburgh Playhouse stage in Sesame Street Live. Saturday evening I'm up to my thighs in water, wading through the middle of a river towards the so-called Devil&apos

Cape Town THE South African tour by the Irish and Welsh rugby teams will now go ahead after threats of international sports sanctions were lifted last night. The tours by the Irish squad, due to arrive on May 23, and Wales in June, will continue as planned

Conference B Shocktroops Stoneywood-Dyce justified Poloc skipper Keith Sheridan's pre-match concerns with a comprehensive victory at Shawholm. Sheridan had expressed fears about the visit of a side who just 12 months ago were playing in the less

Our Parliament The problem, as all of the rest of us know, is that politicians are so bloody insular. They only really talk to others of their own kind; they only really listen to people from their own machine. People who have passed some kind of loyalty

SURGEONS are attempting to save part of a man's nose after it was bitten off by a woman in Eyemouth. The incident is understood to have occurred during a domestic dispute at a house in the town. The man who has not been named was taken to Berwick

Raith Rovers ...... 2 Hamilton ........... 1 THE end of another marathon season, and one with mixed emotions for the managers of Raith Rovers and Hamilton Academical. A season which promised so much for Jimmy Nicholl's men ended with a rare victory

THE strong pound might be putting the squeeze on Scottish firms' profits, but new research shows our captains of industry are still managing to scrape together a decent living. Indeed, directors and managers north of the Border are the best-paid

Hearts ........ 2 Dunfermline .. 0 HEARTS veterans Dave McPherson and John Robertson last night turned their attention to the cup final against Rangers and talked of the lift their club would receive from their performance against Dunfermline. From Robertson