A MAN was fined #300 at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday for possessing cannabis worth 10p. Kamal Hussain, 20, of Bedford Avenue, Aberdeen, admitted possessing 0.05g of the drug at Loch Street Car Park. Defence agent David Mollison said the seized drug
MEDIA group Pearson gave strong indications yesterday that it could bid for the Simon & Schuster publishing business owned by US group Viacom. In a brief statement Pearson said it ''confirms that it is considering the opportunities arising
THE mother of a nine-year-old boy who was killed in a helicopter crash had to leave court yesterday as a home movie of the flight was played. Garry Malley died on a pleasure flight organised by TV celebrity Noel Edmonds's charity Airborne for special-needs
THE founder of drug development company Scotia Holdings has resigned as a non-executive director following a series of board meetings in which he failed to unseat his replacement as chief executive. The resignation of David Horrobin, who established
PRINTED circuit board manufacturer Viasystems yesterday announced 210 redundancies at its plants in Selkirk and Galashiels. And it is believed there could be more cuts to come for the workforce of l200. The blow to the biggest private employer in the
Three years ago the Scottish Chambers of Commerce held a conference to discuss transport problems within the country. Francis Shennan appraises the current transport infrastructure and reports on problems that face its cities Transport problems are
There were champagne celebrations for Jack Berry at Redcar yesterday. He was presented with a bottle of bubbly after landing the 1500th winner of his training career. Fittingly, it was a two-year-old who took him to the landmark, as Red Charger battled
SPECTACULAR images from Captain Scott's second, ill-fated Antarctic expedition surface at a London auction today. One shows a giant coastal belt of ice - known as an icefoot - looming over the expedition ship, Terra Nova, in 1911. A second, from
Ladbroke chief executive Peter George was in a decidedly bullish mood when he addressed the group's annual meeting yesterday. He said that during the first four months of 1998, the company ''continued to make solid progress and profit
THREE former Hearts players yesterday tipped their old club to wipe away 42 years of Scottish Cup agony on Saturday. Freddie Glidden, skipper of the great Hearts side which won the cup in 1956 after a 3-1 win over Celtic at Hampden, and former team-mates
Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration Robert Hargrove (McGraw Hill, #17.99) We had worked all night to prepare the factory for the VIP opening visitor and were awaiting his arrival eagerly, if exhausted. He got out of his car, cut the tape and
How Many Lifeboats? Scotland's IT supply community is currently poised at one of those uncomfortable commercial junctions: the first quarter's results are in. They look awfully impressive. Now everyone's wondering how long the ride will
Eight bus drivers who were made redundant by Stagecoach Western Buses earlier this year yesterday won the right to return to their jobs. The drivers were set to fight their case at an industrial tribunal. But a settlement was reached after several hours
The captain of one of Britain's smallest golf courses took on the general manager of Peter de Savary's exclusive Carnegie Club at Dornoch yesterday - claiming it cost as much for one game there as it did for annual membership of neighbouring
THE driver of Britain's first mobile cinema has been sacked after it was discovered that he had been convicted of a sex offence against a young girl. George Boyd, a father-of-two from Inverness, was dismissed after a disciplinary hearing, it was
AN economic development plan for the Midlothian area aims to create 3000 jobs in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors within the next five years. If successful, the strategy will almost quadruple Midlothian's emerging research, development
THE dark days of Campbeltown in Argyll being described as ''the end of the line and going nowhere'' are almost certainly over. Last year a new link was forged between Scotland and Northern Ireland with the launch of the ferry service
Elizabeth Buie explains the continuing conflict over disposal of the biggest oil platforms. BRENT Spar continues to haunt the Government, the oil industry, and environmental campaigners. It is now almost three years since the huge public debate over
High-speed thrills came to the River Forth yesterday, with a 40mph jet boat's maiden voyage. The boat, which is the brainchild of New Zealander Alan Ray and carries 12 passengers, will start giving 15-minute ''fun rides'' from
I HAVE enjoyed the ''Tried and Tested'' series of articles but find today's ''It's in the bag and no bones about it'' a maddening example of misdirected consumerism. All right, most of your readers can
EXCLUSIVE DIABETICS are being put at risk of developing kidney failure and other complications because of delays in setting up a clinic to help them, patients and their families claimed yesterday. The diabetes service at Paisley's Royal Alexandra
IT sounds so obvious that it's surprising it hasn't happened before. For the first time, however, the Health Education Board for Scotland is liaising with the Scottish Sports Council, local authorities, and urban planners to offer the public
AN elderly driver who turned left at a level crossing and drove along the main railway line between Edinburgh and the north for more than 95 yards was yesterday ordered to see an eye specialist. Stirling Sheriff Court was told that George Sneddon, 76
GEORGE Foulkes, MP, has invited me to reply to his letter (May 6) attacking the Ayrshire GP co-operative, ADOC. His repeated allegations become more and more stringent. Could I remind him that the first line of the Ayrshire and Arran Health Board report
New Sectors John Hatfield argues that our film industry could be a major component of the economy if given the proper investment REMAKES and sequels are all the rage in the movie world so, with the British film industry breaking box office records,
BT is about to reinvent itself, and Scotland is leading the way. The changes will give BT new regional identities, and a strong national focus in Scotland. They reflect BT's recognition that it has become too centralised, too distant from employees
IT'S not easy to be hugely impressed by the record of the Scottish business community in the Home Rule debate. For years, many boardroom titans railed against reform, in the apparent hope that the popular will could be defeated by institutional
Simon Bain delivers the stories behind the news. The first thing to strike a visitor to Distillers House, the office near Murrayfield intended by Guinness to symbolise its commitment to United Distillers and Scotland, is the vibrant paintings from
A body found by workmen near a busy main road was that of a Glenrothes man who had been missing for 10 months. Police confirmed yesterday that the body had been identified as that of Robert Porter, 63, who lived at Cluny Place, Glenrothes. The body
ANOTHER stage in the break-up of merchant banking group Hambros was reached yesterday following the sale of Hambro Insurance Services. Hambros, the subject of an agreed #428m offer from South African group Investec, is selling its controlling stake in
When The Herald produced the first in-depth report on Scotland's whole transport infrastructure, the demands from Aberdeen were for a peripheral road to take traffic around the city and significant improvements to both Dee and Don river crossings
THE British manufacturing sector has moved into recession for the third time in the nineties. The one at the start of the decade was part of a world-wide downturn in economic activity, made particularly nasty in the UK because of double-digit inflation
POLICE throughout the world will have to re-think their investigative skills to cope with Internet crime, the biggest challenge facing forces in the next century, a conference in Aberdeen heard yesterday. The warning came from Mr John Hamilton, Chief
WHEN Graham Roxburgh had a medical to mark the passing of his 60th birthday a couple of years ago, the doctor suggested that with so much research going on into sickness, it would be a splendid idea to research what makes us healthy, writes Marian Pallister
Nationalism OPINION polls do not vote: people do. Even the most ardent Nationalist would, then, be unwise to dance in the streets, high as the SNP at present soars in surveys of Scots' voting intentions. Yet, last week, this paper's monthly
AN elderly man died and his wife was last night critically ill following a fire at their home in Irvine, Ayrshire, yesterday. A neighbour raised the alarm after the outbreak in a house in Livingstone Terrace. Firefighters found the couple in the living
A PIPER who once played on one of Rod Stewart's singles has been found dead. Ken MacLennan, who was in his early forties, was found near Conon House, by Conon Bridge, Easter Ross, on Sunday evening. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances
THE strength of the pound hit API hard in the first six months, but that was largely disregarded by a market more interested in the packaging label firm's potential. Pre-tax profits dropped 19% to #4.91m on turnover slightly ahead at #72m. That
May 12, 1915 n AMID widespread outrage over the torpedoing of the liner Lusitania, The Herald reported: ''Mr L G W Williamson, Seafield House, Forthill Road, Broughty Ferry, offers #52 a year during the period of service for any man earning
THE Scottish Rugby Union has sold the jerseys - for well over #1m. The famous dark blue shirt of the Scottish international team will now be supplied by Cheshire company Cotton Oxford, which will replace Hawick knitwear company Pringle as official kit
I FIND the absence of fact in your story about the Scottish Conservatives' selection in Edinburgh Pentlands extremely disconcerting (May 8). Your reporter's claim that the Scottish Tory selection procedure could be ''skewed in favour
A GROUP of food scientists who resigned to establish their own centre following the closure of the Torry food research laboratory in Aberdeen have been awarded almost #500,000 in Government cash. The money will be used to fund research into food hygiene
SO New Labour has appointed a ''dirt-digger'' on the SNP. Has New Labour already forgotten Paisley, Govan, Glasgow City Chambers, Monklands, etc, etc? Here the dirt doesn't need digging, it lies on the surface for all to see.
A court heard yesterday of concerns over a trade between Scotland and Germany in the eggs and chicks of protected and endangered birds. The sheriff at Dumfries was told that, as a result, there had been an increasing tendency for raids on nests in Dumfries
DAN Wright, the man who fronted the rescue of Glasgow's Albion auto components plant before leaving the business abruptly nearly two years ago, was yesterday appointed managing director of support services group Semple Cochrane. Semple's deputy
MINISTERS in the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were sent briefing papers detailing Sandline International's interests in Sierra Leone on several occasions before they were alerted to the Customs and Excise inquiry into an illegal arms
From an all-round stakeholder perspective, Simon Bain looks at BT's performance and its plans in Scotland The New Audit The Royal Society of Arts inquiry into ''Tomorrow's Com-pany'' was the 1995 vision of 25 Blue Chip company
A 19-YEAR-OLD man was accused yesterday of murdering and robbing Glasgow prostitute Margo Lafferty. Mr Brian Donnelly, of Garscaden Road, Old Drumchapel, Glasgow, appeared in private at the city sheriff court. He is charged with assaulting Miss Lafferty
MR Thomas L Inglis expresses his disbelief at the proposed banning of the use of calculators in Standard Grade maths exams (May 6). Twenty-five years ago when I was a young maths teacher our department fought a losing battle to keep calculators out of
Butcher John Barr wanted to be legally approved as a wholesale food producer a year before his cooked meats were blamed as the major source of a deadly food poisoning outbreak. If his business had been registered, there would have been a system for his
the interview Anne Simpson meets Lord Macfarlane and finds that his success has been fired by diverse, and sometimes tragic, sources of inspiration Even as a child Norman Macfarlane was good with money. Not that he had access to wads of it - the family
IT SEEMS ludicrous 48 hours after their finest triumph for a decade that Celtic fans have to worry yet again that like Oliver Hardy, the club has managed to get them into another fine mess. Yet the truth is that the single most important contributor
There is concern on Tayside that devolution to Edinburgh will bring a new form of centralisation. The area already sees large transport projects to its south taking a big percentage of public spending. For that reason it is not worried by the fact that
A NEW chapter in the history of Scottish coal mining has been marked with the signing of deals worth almost #450m to supply two of Scotland's main electricity producers. Mining (Scotland) Ltd, the consortium which took over British Coal's Scottish
Tory former Minister Alan Clark last night urged MPs not to turn media magnate Rupert Murdoch into their latest ''villain'' - because with patience he might disappear like other great press barons of the past. The Kensington and Chelsea
THE global motor industry re-alignment continues with news that Germany's Daimler-Benz, merging with Chrysler of the US, is in the early stage of negotiations with Nissan over commercial vehicle operations. Meanwhile, speculation is rife that BMW
IN your report on the rejection of the teachers' pay offer more emphasis could have been laid on the fact that the 2.7% offer means a reduction in real terms in the salaries of all members of the teaching profession. Teachers should be made fully
THOMSON Travel shares proved a hit with small investors and institutions alike and they soared to a premium when dealings began. The price in the offer for sale was set at 170p, the top of the indicative range. The shares hit 215p during the day but
A major survey of Ayrshire's bathing water quality is to go ahead despite the failure of a local council to give financial backing. West of Scotland Water has announced that the second phase of an investigation into why the water quality on parts
DIATRIBES about the emotion of nationalism, and its dangers, ignore the chasm between what is short-term and what is long-term, namely the emotion of caring for Scotland. New Labour probably won the recent General Election resoundingly in Scotland because
Former pupils of The Park School who followed careers in science, dentistry, and medicine will remember with affection Miss Mabel Scott, who has died at the age of 89. For this lady introduced them to science in the school in Lynedoch Street. She joined
Congratulations to ScotRail, if only for avoiding the temptation to crow about the punctuality and reliability of its train services in the first year of privatisation. Those who gloat and get carried away with themselves in such circumstances risk the
THE Scottish Secretary yesterday employed a new style of quiet diplomacy to wage the war on the SNP which will mark the next 12 months of hostilities running up to the elections to Holyrood. The new stance, the quiet boast of achievement wrapped around
EXCLUSIVE THE State Hospital at Carstairs has been given until the end of July to comply with the law and set in place a system for reporting dangerous incidents, including assaults on staff, to the Health and Safety Executive. The hospital houses some
The diplomatic twists and turns on the fatwa have proved as complex as the plot of a Salman Rushdie novel, finds Margaret Vaughan ONE Valentine's Day morning, a man in a baggy tweed jacket went out to do a television interview and never went home
EDINBURGH City Council's ruling Labour group last night launched its own investigation into the case of Councillor David Brown, who was found last week to have seriously breached the code of conduct for councillors. It agreed that chief whip Councillor
A CAMPAIGN to end the culture of short-term contracts in higher education was launched yesterday by major unions in the sector, writes . Calling on Government and universities and colleges to end casualisation, they claim it leads to insecurity and misery
RUSSELL Horn is mistaken (Letters, May 9). The Scottish Liberal Democrats have given a full response to recent opinion polls. It is, quite simply, that we will be happy to work with any party in the Scottish Parliament that agrees with our priorities
ALMOST a year after the islanders took control, members of the Commons Scottish Select Committee yesterday visited Eigg, an island community which has carved out a new future for itself. However the committee's thoughts were also with a community
HEARTS midfielder Steve Fulton talked last night of how he wanted to earn a Scottish Cup medal with the Tynecastle club on Saturday rather than be handed one, as he was by Celtic as an 18-year-old. Fulton was on the bench when the Parkhead club defeated
THE Knockshinnoch Lagoons at New Cumnock are not the most scenic or striking landscapes among Scotland's wildlife reserves. Being in Ayrshire, they are all too often shrouded in sheets of rain and mist. The 320-acre reserve boasts a proliferation
n Dear Mr Chris Evans, in the world of light entertainment a hot air balloon may have the same inflated dome and lifting force, but you can fly so much higher. It was disgraceful that last month your Virgin radio station was fined #2000 by broadcasting
MANUFACTURING output has fallen for the second successive quarter, albeit by just a decimal point in the opening three months of this year, while the retail sector benefited from a late Easter and producer prices remained muted. The latest figures for
EAST LONDON: A man whose mauled body was found in a cage shared by two Bengal tigers had been killed by the animals, an autopsy in South Africa determined yesterday. It is believed that the man, whose identity remained a mystery, had climbed a 12ft fence
CELTIC head coach Wim Jansen ended months of speculation yesterday when he confirmed he was quitting just one year into his three-year contract, and 48 hours after steering the club to its first league championship in a decade. The Dutchman's resignation
Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of Glasgow Development Agency, considers how New Deal and Employment Zone status will affect the city's employment problems THE Government's much-heralded flagship employment programme aimed at radically reducing
SCOTLAND internationalist Andy Nicol last night feared that his Scotland tour jinx had struck again. He looks certain to miss the trip to Fiji and Australia after tearing a hamstring just seconds from the end of Bath's 20-15 defeat by Newcastle
TWO teams of students at Glasgow University have been awarded #3000 each by the BP Conservation Programme to fund research projects to Bolivia and Pemba Island in Tanzania. An eight-strong team led by Allan Mee, 38, with Dan Gates, 22, Chris Cutts, 26
MARY: I look at people's eyes. They tell you a lot MARY says the jellies make her forget faces so she can't remember her first time. She was 16 and got the money she needed to feed her heroin and Temazepam habit down with the other girls in
MAIDEN results from Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), the cable television and telephony arm of Cable & Wireless, show a big rise in profits as a result of higher revenue and lower costs. The group was created from the merger between Mercury, Nynex
The UK textile industry is one of the areas of the economy most vulnerable to the ravages of the pound. Scotland's only significant publicly quoted textile group, the world leader in cashmere Dawson International, warned through its chairman Derek
One of the most complex subjects in business motoring, whether for an individual or for a company with a fleet of cars, is how the financing of the cars should be arranged. In recent years many different financial plans have been created; by the major
THE fact that Tracey is a prostitute, pregnant, and only 17 years old is not unique. In fact it is a shockingly familiar tale from the shadowy and often violent world of Scotland's prostitutes where girls as young as 14 are sell sexual favours.
AS A life-long Rangers supporter I was obviously disappointed at the results over the weekend. However, not as much as I would have expected since we have in essence known for about two months that we were not going to win the league - we have not played
Scottish football fans buying unofficial World Cup tickets from London-based agencies could be jailed or face a #50,000 fine. The warning comes after fears that desperate members of the Tartan Army have turned to small companies in England. A Government
A Scottish Parliament will of course have its greatest impact on Edinburgh but it will both add to factors turning attention in that direction and draw in others. The focus of trade has turned sharply towards Europe with the promise of tending even more
THE gulf between academic inspiration and business innovation in Scotland is infamously wide and only haphazardly bridged, with most scholars still preferring to publish rather than produce commercially-successful products. Industry and academia in this
Diary The scene is the Bothwell Bridge Hotel on Saturday night in sunniest south Lanarkshire where a very nice foreign person visiting (quite temporarily) these parts is trying to get a table for a quiet dinner with his wife. But there is no chance.
A RATHER wry smile has been playing about the lips of complementary therapists and health lobbyists such as Geoffrey Cannon since the outcry in the orthodox health world about the dangers of doctors overdosing patients on antibiotics and the presence
PEACE campaigners yesterday launched a petition aimed at forcing the removal of nuclear weapons from Scotland. The Declaration of Faslane was drawn up by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and is backed by the SNP, whose leader Alex Salmond said that
YOUR recent report that thousands of Scots who are part-time students in higher education may no longer have to pay tuition fees is welcome news. However, if we consider the implications of all of New Labour's changes to student funding, a disturbing
ROSS Cooper - dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the recently founded Curve Foundation - is smiling. It's been a hard slog, setting up the company, bringing together the right mix of people. But he's managed it. He has recruited
EUROPEAN Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler yesterday raised hopes of early approval of a date-based export scheme for British beef which, according to English NFU president Ben Gill, could see a resumption of exports by the autumn. Fischler was
ACCORDING to the East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire councils, the proposed Glasgow Southern Orbital road will be an all-purpose dual carriageway starting at the M77 south of Malletsheugh and ending 9.3km later in open countryside at the A726 at
POLICE were last night trying to establish the events leading up to the death of an Edinburgh woman, whose body was found on the southbound carriageway of the A90, between the Forth road bridge and the capital early on Sunday morning. She was found by
THE VIEW FROM THE GROUND by Martha Gellhorn Granta, #8.99 MARTHA GELLHORN was one of the endangered species of journalism: a woman who imbued her writing with a simple eloquence, biting intelligence, and deep humanity. Despite her status as one of the
The Celtic players still refuse to explain the significance of the ''Smell the Glove'' slogan on their post-match T-shirts. Thus we have had to embark on a mission similar to that chap in the film Citizen Kane who had to find out
THE last and just about the only time writer Daniel Boyle set foot in a theatre he left during the interval. He can't remember the name of the play but it was showing at the Edinburgh Festival and it had won a barrowload of awards. ''It
aHAVING your picture taken for the paper is an ordeal most playwrights see as an embarrassing chore. Not so Sharman Macdonald. When she arrives at the Tron Theatre, bags in hand, straight off the train from London, only to be met by The Herald photographer
SHARES of Cable & Wireless Communications have done well since its formation a little more than a year ago, having risen by some 70%, as the market anticipated the cost savings and the benefits of additional products. The cost-cutting is coming through
THE prospect of a takeover battle for Courtaulds loomed large in the City yesterday. The chemicals company said it had received a preliminary approach from a third party - ''a group large enough to be credible'' - that might lead
Portugal The man who guided Celtic to their first premier division title in a decade, the Dutchman Wim Jansen, has decided to leave the club and gave his reasons for so doing. He also revealed that within two to three weeks of taking over at Celtic Park
SPORTS Minister Tony Banks said yesterday he hoped to see a return of the annual full international fixture between Scotland and England . His comments came before he kicked off a match between Scottish and English MPs at West Ham's Upton Park
Sierra Leone WHO owns Sandline, the company which has brought Robin Cook low while propping up General Kabbah? The man who runs it, Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer, claims that he has no idea. He just goes quietly about his arms-and-advice business, never
Printer and publisher The Stationery Office Group is expected to float on the stock market, it emerged yesterday. The company, which was created two years ago from the privatisation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), is likely to take the
DUNDEE-based Bett Brothers emphasised its ambitions to expand its housebuilding and inns businesses yesterday, as it announced a 35% jump in interim pre-tax profits to #1.5m. Both divisions contributed to the rise in profits for the six months to February
DAVID Steele's report on the reprimanded solicitor (May 7) illustrates the application of an extremely weak form of Law Society self-regulation. A comparison in many other professions would result in a suspension from practice or duty, but again
PROSTITUTES in Glasgow are being prosecuted in far greater numbers than those working in other parts of Scotland, despite an apparently dramatic drop in the number of people being taken to court for soliciting. Figures obtained by The Herald show Glasgow
Bank of Scotland is piloting what it calls ''an exciting initiative set to radically alter working patterns'', by encouraging as many as possible of its 16,000 employees to work from home. The ''homeworking'' pilot
Parkhead, CELTIC managing director Fergus McCann last night admitted that he would have dismissed Wim Jansen if the head coach had not resigned in Portugal earlier in the day. He acknowledged the coach's contribution to the best season Celtic have
Scotland's largest city is to launch a new push to complete its motorway network with even wider support than before. For there are two main transport concerns for Glasgow which threaten to compound each other. One is the effect of the Scottish
LEADING swimming commentator Hamilton Bland was sacked by the Amateur Swimming Association yesterday, after he was found to have brought the sport into disrepute. The decision was taken by the ASA's management committee after an inquiry into allegations
THE number of cot deaths in Scotland rose 16% last year, reversing a long-standing downward trend, according to figures released yesterday. Deaths peaked at 142 in 1989, and were already in freefall before campaigns by broadcaster Anne Diamond and the
RAIL regulators yesterday called on train companies to improve services ''dramatically'' after the publication of disappointing punctuality and reliability figures, which revealed that two companies operating in Scotland provide among
NO industry is more global than electronics, and the currency factor intensifies the relentless competition Scottish plants face from overseas rivals - sometimes within the same transnational company. Prestwick Holdings, the Ayrshire-based printed circuit
Geraldine Abrahams meets a people-based management group. Management buyouts can be a scary business, especially when the partners in question, all 130 of them, are based all over the world. Hay Management Consultants' American origins may go some
AMONG Northern Ireland's many impenetrable contradictions, none is more stark than the paradox of Gerry Adams as conciliator and Ian Paisley, man of God, only at ease with himself when gunmen pursue their deadly business. The prospect of peace has
PEACE broke out yesterday in the battle between life office Scottish Widows and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (MSF). The rift between the pair - caused by the life office's decision to impose a pay settlement without consulting MSF
One potential difficulty which not everybody who signs a contract hire or leasing agreement considers is what will happen if for some reason they are unable to keep up the payments. Some people may adopt the attitude that ''it's not likely
Planners yesterday gave the go-ahead for a futuristic luxury lodge to be built in one of the loneliest spots in the Highlands. The #3m lodge will be erected on the Corrour Estate, on the edge of Rannoch Moor, Lochaber. Members of Highland Council&apos
CELTIC faced the first rumblings of a player revolt last night as the news of Wim Jansen's departure surprised the first-team squad in their Estoril hotel. Paul Lambert admitted: ''I will be speaking to my wife when I go home because I
JAPANESE securities house Sumitomo Corporation has agreed to pay the UK financial markets regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), #5m to compensate for alleged damage to British markets following unauthorised trades by Sumitomo's former
Brigadier Cornelius Joseph Tobin CBE; born October 28, 1910, died April 21, 1998 THE seeds of the brusque, efficient approach that ''Joe'' Tobin had to life were sown in the Lake District, where he had several fights a week with
SUNDAY night's concert from the Scottish Bach Consort was dominated by the music of Antonio Vivaldi. Programming four works by one composer risks losing the audience's attention, but this selection of violin concerti for one, two, three, or
TENANT farmers, bankers, and agricultural consultants are at odds with land agents over increased rents. There are signs some land agents are still attempting to secure increased rents at the three-year break in traditional leases. Their view is that
EVERY parent's worst nightmare came true for Andrew and Alex Watson one night in December, 1993, when they lost their first child, Callum. He was a robust 15-month-old and they had followed all the medical advice. ''Every day of
Just when you thought that club rugby was about to be consigned to the back burner for the summer, I can reveal that the Glasgow Hawks have been approached by players who want to play for them next year instead of in Europe for the new Scottish Super
SOMETIMES words come back to haunt people. On June 4 last year Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, following a meeting in London with the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said that force night have to be used as a last resort to end the coup in Sierra Leone
Some of society's most unfortunate and dangerous people are housed and helped in the State Hospital at Carstairs. Working in such a system is not easy but, if the best efforts are to be made for the patients and if the staff at Carstairs are to
THERE were audible sighs of relief from boardrooms last week as the pound slipped towards the 2.90 Deutchmark level. If your product or service is exportable, the strength of sterling in recent months has been a growing frustration, knocking disturbing
PEOPLE who believe there is an ''inevitable and remorseless conflict'' between development and the environment came under fire yesterday in Edinburgh, writes Raymond Duncan. Magnus Magnusson, chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage,
Margaret Jane Hope-Johnstone, Dowager Countess of Annandale and Hartfell; born November 18, 1910, died May 5, 1998 TO say that the mother of the 11th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell was a woman of many parts would be no exaggeration, given that she drove
Labour launched a blistering attack on the SNP's anti-nuclear policy yesterday when Scottish Industry Minister Brian Wilson accused the Nationalists of being hypocrites spreading scare stories about Dounreay while denigrating the role of the plant
Alice Faye, actress; born May 5, 1912, died May 9, 1998 legendary film actress Alice Faye died at the Eisenhower Medical Centre, Palm Springs, California, on Saturday. She had been suffering from stomach cancer for three months. Her daughters, Phyllis
Tiger Woods returned to the No.1 position in the world rankings yesterday and, ominously for his rivals, did so without even remotely being at his best. Fighting a pull-hook throughout the final round - he even missed a green with a pitching wedge because
Tony Armstrong makes the Celtic connection in the Highlands where the sweet sound of success proves to be hand-made A man who can't play a note of music may not seem the ideal candidate to produce innovative musical instruments which are earning
If your answer to the question about car financing - do you want to own the car at the end of the period? - is no, then the two plans designed for you are generally called something like operating lease and finance lease. If you are not sure at the start
THE long-awaited annual general meeting of Glasgow's ruling Labour Group is set to go ahead on June 8, but the posts of leader and depute leader will not be up for challenge, writes John MacCalman, Municipal Correspondent. It was on the instruction
World No.1 Annika Sorenstam has confirmed that she will play her first tournament in Scotland at the McDonald's WPGA Championship at Gleneagles from August 6-9. ''I've heard good things about the event,'' she said. &apos
Tom Elliot, farmer and rugby internationalist; born April 6, 1926, died May 3, 1998 TOM Elliot was one of the great Scottish rugby internationalists of the post-war era. A mere 14 caps did small justice to his reputation as one of the strong men of
A CENTRE that aims to diversify the Scottish textile industry into producing special materials which could be used to make artificial human organs is to be established. The Scottish Centre for Biomedical Materials will be set up within the Scottish College
THE daughter of millionaire singer Sydney Devine has admitted to being a benefits cheat. The case could be an embarrassment to the cult country and western star, who is enjoying a new wave of popularity after more than 40 years in showbusiness. His 34
AMATEUR Pat Faulkner was banned for 14 days at Redcar yesterday after falling foul of the whip guidelines on Smart Guest, who finished eleventh. He was adjudged to have broken the whip rules on four counts and stewards' secretary Patrick Hibbert-Foy
Newcastle...............20 Bath........................15 Newcastle are just a point away from lifting the Allied Dunbar Premiership after holding off a determined challenge from Bath in a tension-filled encounter in front of 11,000 fans at Gateshead
Bob Mellish, politician; born March 3, 1913, died May 9, 1998 Lord Mellish, a former Government chief whip, was a tough-talking Londoner, patriotic and loyal to Labour's traditions, with a deep contempt for those he described as the '&apos
