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Daily Mail (London)
A daily newspaper and online news service serving Britain and the United Kingdom. Stories cover news, politics, sports, and business updates of national importance. Additionally, the paper carries exhaustive celebrity news.
Articles from February 3, 1996
Adams England Blow
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Byline: ROB SHEPHERD TONY ADAMS faces a battle to be fit in time for this summer's European Championship Finals. Arsenal manager Bruce Rioch conceded last night he feared the training ground knee injury Adams sustained on Thursday is serious....
Africans Playing the Passion Game
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Byline: DAVID WALKER THE most emotional crowds in world football, sublime football skills from gifted players and some decidedly dubious pre-match diets have provided the back-drop to the African Nations Cup. The honour of being acclaimed as...
A Hard Act to Follow; (1)Weekend(2)motoring
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Byline: MATTHEW GWYTHER Actress Isla Blair and her actor husband Julian Glover test drive the Mercedes E320 Avantgarde Isla Blair found herself an instant celebrity last year because she removed her clothes on television. In the political thriller...
'Astaire Could Wear a Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.But I Danced like a Tough Street Kid'; GENIUS OF GENE KELLY, A MAN WHO WANTED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER AND SETTLED FOR HAVING THE WORLD AT HIS FEET
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Byline: DAVID LEWIN I ONCE asked Gene Kelly to describe the difference between himself and Fred Astaire, the two dancing giants of genius of our age. He said simply: `Fred's style was cool, easy, intimate, aristocratic. Mine was strong, wide-open,...
A UFO? Actually, It Was Just Our Alien Friends in the North
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Byline: MICHAEL HARVEY IT flashed past silently in seconds. Illuminated by white lights like a Christmas tree, it came shudderingly close as the British Airways Boeing 737 approached Manchester Airport. The Boeing's bewildered pilots knew they...
A Very Dubious Affair (OR THE DIARIES ALAN CLARK DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ); REVEALED: THE SHAMELESS LOVE LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE EX-TORY MINISTER TOTHE YOUNG DAUGHTER OF HIS MISTRESS
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Byline: Rebecca Hardy `DARLING Joei,' the ink-penned note began. `Thanks for your letter. It was sweet of you to take the trouble to write at such length, and fitting - as you said - that the very last letter should come from you, the beautiful...
Bid Bells Ringing at Cable; Market Report
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Byline: MICHAEL BAWS AS QUICKLY as it takes to tap out all the digits of an international phone call, shares of Cable & Wireless rang the right numbers on bid hopes from the States. The catalyst was Congress's approval on Thursday of a bill...
Bosses Act on My Freeze Plan
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Byline: PETER SCUDAMORE MY two articles in Racemail in December which suggested covers would allow racing to continue at the leading racecourses in freezing weather have prompted action by the racing authorities. Tony Goodhew, director of racecourse...
Bruised Blair Hits the Panic Button
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Byline: David Hughes TONY BLAIR was feeling the pressure yesterday as he resorted to reading the Riot Act to a rattled Shadow Cabinet. Scenting the possibility of defeat for the first time since becoming Labour leader, he demanded tighter discipline...
BSKYB KICKS-OFF WITH [Pounds sterling]100M [Pounds sterling]100M AND A 2P DIVIDEND
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Byline: RODNEY HOBSON WHILE sports fans agonise over who will end up with rights to televise matches, the City will be kicking around BSkyB's first-half figures on Tuesday. Analysts hope to be bowled a maiden interim dividend of about 2p. The...
CHRISTIE ON TRACK AS HE PAYS HIS [Pounds Sterling]6
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Byline: NEIL WILSON ATHLETICS officials still counting the cost of the absence of Olympic champions Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell from their top meetings last year could not believe their luck last night. A competitive year, which may reach...
Divorce Reality of a Wife's `Virtual Affair'
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Byline: TONY GALLAGHER A HUSBAND has filed for divorce after accusing his wife of electronic adultery on the Internet. John Goydan claims his wife Diane conducted a `virtual reality' affair, exchanging explicit messages via a computer on-line...
Does This Children's Social Worker Who Was Plotting to Murder Her Husband Deserve Her Job Back?
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Byline: LUKE HARDING ONE fine summer day, social worker Lynda Barnes got up and decided to have her troublesome ex-husband murdered. After ten stormy years of marriage, she felt that something had to be done about Rodney, whom she had divorced...
Don't Tie Our Hands; Wimbledon Demand the Right to Try Sky
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Byline: MIKE DICKSON THE LATEST sporting body to express disquiet at the prospect of not being allowed to freely negotiate its own television contract is The All England Club, whose Wimbledon championships have been covered by the BBC since 1937....
Excellent Evans; Anfield Lessons Provide Perfect Platform to Lead England
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Byline: JEFF POWELL NOBODY in his right mind would dream of giving the England job to a man who played only 11 first-team games in 10 years as a professional footballer and who can walk unrecognised almost everywhere except in the city which has...
Fair Weather Fronds; How Professional Gardener Sam Youd Maintains the Winter Beauty of TattoPark's Fernery
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Byline: Diana Hutchinson Sam Youd wanted to be a professional gardener from the age of eight. His school tried to persuade him there was more money in engineering, but he knew he would never be happy indoors. At 49, he has now climbed to the...
Fergie's Freebies and Just Deserters; on Saturday
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Byline: jack tinker HER Royal Serenity, Madame La Duchesse (`Just call me Madame') Fergiana never fails to inspire her adoring public, does she? Whether or not she managed to beg (according to her), borrow (as is alleged) or even steal that one...
Firebombers' Burning Hatred for Ashdown; AS AVENGERS WRECK LIB-DEM LEADER'S CAR, FEARS GROW FOR HIS SAFETY
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Byline: DAVID WILLIAMS;JON UNGOED-THOMAS;STEVEN MORRIS SPECIAL Branch detectives are investigating a vendetta of hate against Paddy Ashdown. Details of the campaign of threats and abuse against the Liberal Democrat leader and his wife Jane emerged...
Flat Caps out . . . Luvvies in; the Diary
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Byline: ALAN FRASER LEST there be any doubt where Superleague is coming from - and trying to head to - may I refer you to an advertisment is this week's edition of The Stage. Halifax Rugby League Football Club are looking for two matchday comperes...
Flexible Approach Appeals to Telfer
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Byline: DAVID FACEY SCOTLAND will be prepared for a physical onslaught as well as an exhibition of traditional French flair when both sides put their Championship and Grand Slam hopes on the line at Murrayfield today. Jim Telfer warned his team...
Formula 1 Family Car
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THE expertise which drives Britain's Formula 1 racing success is to be harnessed by manufacturers to build family saloon cars. It follows a new initiative by motor manufacturers and ministers to capitalise on Britain's massive success in motor sport...
FOURTH FORM CRAZY ON LSD; `It Could Have Led to Tragedy'
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Byline: JAMES GOLDEN HORRIFIED teachers uncovered a playground drugs market after almost an entire class began behaving strangely. Police believe more than 20 teenagers, mostly girls aged 14 and 15, were involved in the LSD ring. The mind-altering...
Free Wine and a Night in a Pig Pen
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Byline: SOPHIE CAMPBELL WE BRITISH have a funny relationship with Calais. We regularly plunder it for food and drink and shamelessly use it as a gateway to Paris or the Alps. But rarely do we take the trouble to explore the town or its environs.So...
Fury as Hanson Axes 2,300 Jobs
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Byline: JASON BURT A POLITICAL row broke out last night after the giant Hanson group axed 2,300 high street jobs. The closure of 200 Powerhouse stores comes only two months after the conglomerate took them over. Angry Labour employment spokesman...
Gold May Glitter Butit Remains a Gamble
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Byline: ANDREW ALEXANDER WITH gold up another $3.75 per ounce to $414.5 the price of the metal continues its almost relentless upward march since the end of October. It has risen by nearly $20 an ounce in January alone. No one is quite sure why...
Here Lies Who? A Grave Row Splits Two Families; IN A QUIET CHURCHYARD, BURIALS THAT TURNED INTO A TANGLED PLOT
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FOR years, Ted Sears took flowers to the churchyard where his beloved parents were buried. The Walter family also visited the riverside plot to remember their dearly departed. But neither realised they were making poignant pilgrimages to tend...
How a Victorian Farm Girl's Secret Shame Was Uncovered; THE MAIL REVEALES THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE DISCOVERY OF A HEART-RENDING LETTER HIDDEN 130 YEARS AGO
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Byline: JANE KELLY MANOR Farm House looks like a story book picture. Built mainly in the time of Charles II, with one gable too old to easily date, it is set in 160 acres near the village of Duntisbourne Rouse on the edge of the Cotswolds. There...
How Do You Bringup Two Teenage Girls When You're Worth [Pounds Sterling]3billion?
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Byline: DIANA HUTCHINSON THEY are the two richest young girls in the country. Lady Tamara and Lady Edwina Grosvenor are just 16 and 14. As daughters of the Duke of Westminster, who owns the best bits of London, Cheshire, Lancashire and sundry other...
How Good Are Family Weekends?
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Byline: CATHY WOOD;MARTIN SYMINGTON TAKE your family away for a night at one of the big hotel chains during the week and it can cost you a small fortune. But once the businessmen have packed their bags and gone home for the weekend, it's a different...
I'm in Orbit, Who Mixed Says Rocket Man Sugar and Space; OTTERBURN, WE HAVE LIFT-OFF . . . A STIRRING SUCCESS AT LAST FOR THE TOOTHPASTE TESTER TURNED AMATEUR ASTRO-ENGINEER
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Byline: NICK HOPKINS THE home-made rocket soared to 1,900ft - but its creator was over the moon. Steve Bennett proudly watched his sugar-powered Starchaser 2 climb into the grey Northumberland skies yesterday and cried: `Highest rocket ever launched...
In Full Glory, the Stolen Treasures from the Kents; REWARD FOR RETURN OF RAIDERS' ROYAL HAUL
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THE Duke and Duchess of Kent offered a `substantial reward' yesterday for the return of treasured possessions snatched in a [pounds sterling]55,000 raid on their country home. They released an inventory of the 22 heirlooms, said to be of `great...
I Want to Be like My Dad. That's Why I'm a Chauvinist; Body Image
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Byline: lester middlehurst WHEN I look in the mirror I see someone who is not in bad nick for his age. At school I saw myself as the poetic type - consumptive, thin and kind of passionate - which is nothing like the way I am now. I think I probably...
Jockey Drug Inquiry; Salter Becomes the Second Rider to Fail Stewards' Routine Test
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Byline: MARCUS TOWNEND DARREN SALTER, a 23-year-old conditional jockey based in the west country, faces the Jockey Club's Disciplinary Committee on Monday after becoming the second rider to fail a drugs test in Britain. Traces of cannabis were...
Lazy,hazy Days in the Land of St Francis
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Byline: GILES MILTON THE CHOICE was agonising: should we spend the evening in our rented farmhouse, light a barbecue and drink chilled Orvieto as the sun sank into the Italian hills, or make the ten-minute drive into Assisi, find a small family-run...
Mad, Bad and Politically Correct
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NOBODY should be in the least surprised if any day now Lynda Barnes wins substantial compensation for losing her job as a social worker with Avon County Council. In this age of political correctness, even trying to have a husband murdered is not necessarily...
Marsha's Hunt for Her Past
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Byline: VAL HENNESSY REPOSSESSING ERNESTINE by Marsha Hunt (HarperCollins, [pounds sterling]15.99) THE FACT that she had a brief affair with Mick Jagger in the Sixties hangs like an albatross round Marsha Hunt's neck. As far as she is concerned,...
Murder Most Fowl as Horace's Goose Is Cooked by Gamekeeper; SHOTGUN MAN TAKES FLIGHT FROM FURY AFTER KILLING VILLAGE'S FEATHERED FRIEND
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HORACE the goose was so endearing that a whole village took him under its wing. Kind to children, ever ready to accompany old ladies on a waddle across the green, he rapidly became the most popular resident of Wark, Northumberland. For four years,...
My Life with Two Women; in an Extraordinary Interview, BBC Man Mark Tully Tells for the First Time How He Divides His Life between a Wife in London and a Mistress Delhi - and the High Price Both Women Have Paid for This Bizarre Menage a Trois
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Byline: DINA RABINOVITCH Each of the bedrooms on the ground floor of Mark Tully's Belsize Park house in north London has a single long, low bed at its centre. Almost like divans, the beds are swathed in beautiful bedding, and the tall windows are...
No More Miss Nice
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Byline: Jane Alexander ARE YOU too nice for your own good? Do you meekly mutter `yes' when inside you're yearning to shout `no'? Do your family and friends walk all over you while you bravely grin and bear it? Always being `nice' may make for...
No Sign of Agreement in Rioch's Contract Dispute
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Byline: ROB SHEPHERD BRUCE RIOCH initiated a champagne celebration at Arsenal's training ground yesterday morning, but it had nothing to do with him formally signing a contract as manager. The bubbly was for long-serving tea lady Shirley's 60th...
One More Excuse for Parents to Opt Out
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Byline: SIMON HEFFER YOU WOULD think that since most MPs have children they would have a proper understanding of the need for parents to exercise responsibility for the upbringing of the young. And, in one part of the current debate about improving...
Price War Slashes Costs of Taking French Leave
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Byline: NICK TREND PARISGOERS have never had it so good. Fares to the French capital tumbled this week following news that CityZap, a new London-to-Paris coach service, is to offer [pounds sterling]25 return tickets. Eurostar's response was to...
Revival Trail; Anfield Mission Means Spurs and Francis Must Find the Old Cup Spirit
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Byline: JOHN BURTON GERRY FRANCIS must invoke the same fighting spirit at Anfield today that inspired Tottenham to last season's classic FA Cup quarter-final victory there if they are not to see their Premiership title rivals disappear into the...
Shearer Staying Put; Talking Point
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Byline: BRIAN SCOVELL WHO is the most durable player in the Premiership? Surprise, surprise, it is one who regularly is more kicked and shoved than anyone else, Blackburn and England striker Alan Shearer. He has just logged up 101 consecutive...
Sinister Side of a Country Idyll
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Byline: STEVEN MORRIS ON THE surface, it is a pleasant West Country market town. Scratch that surface and a much more sinister side is revealed. Local police insist Yeovil suffers the same problems as any other town of a similar size - especially...
Six Years for [Pounds Sterling]3m Body-Snatch Conman
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Byline: DAVID WILLIAMS A NIGERIAN immigrant flew home to buy a body for his scheme to swindle British insurance companies out of [pounds sterling]3.3million, a court heard. John Folagbade had taken out 12 policies on the life of an old school...
Still So Stirring, That's the Long and Short of It
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Byline: JACK TINKER The Long And The Short and the Tall by Willis Hall: The Albery A FORTNIGHT ago this young, self-supporting company, most just out of drama school, expected to open their revival of Willis Hall's potent, award-winning anti-war...
The Club Where the Sixties Started to Swing; When the Saddle Room Became Britain's First Discotheque, It Instantly Took off as the Favoured Haunt of Royalty and Stars. Thirty-Five Years on ANNE DE COURCY Reflects on the Venue That Changed the Face of Britain's Nightlife for Ever
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Byline: ANNE DE COURCY When Helene Cordet, the Greek-born blonde who featured in recent rumours about the Duke of Edinburgh, opened the Saddle Room in London's Mayfair in 1961, she could hardly have guessed she was about to change the face of British...
The Half-Price War; after Market Mauling by Rivals, Sainsbury Bosses Throw Down Another Checkout Challenge with Goods Slashed by Up to 50pc
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Byline: JASON BURT SAINSBURY is stepping up the supermarket price war with cuts of up to 50 per cent on more than 200 items from tomorrow. The promotion, called February Bonus, is the chain's second salvo at its rivals this year, following a...
The Honeypot; Proof That While EU Partners Slam Door, Illegal Immigrants Continue to Pour into Britain
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Byline: ANDREW SPARROW BRITAIN is the only country in Europe where the number of asylum applications is still rising, a report revealed yesterday. While the rest of the continent has turned the tide of would-be immigrants with tough sanctions,...
The Loneliest Boy in Hollywood; Once Macaulay Culkin Was the Golden Boy of the Movie World. Today, He'sthe Sad, Mixed-Up Adolescent at the Centre of a Cynical Custody Battle. but the Story of Little Mac Is Much More Than Another Saga of Stardom Gone Sour; It's the Story F What Happens to a Happy Family When Fame and Greed Take Over
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Byline: DANIEL JEFFREYS In cash terms, Macaulay Culkin is the greatest child star ever. His movies have earned over $1 billion worldwide. At 15 he has $50 million in the bank, the fruits of nine movies including Home Alone and Home Alone II. Yet...
The Queen Orders a Hunt for the Killer Fox That Struck in Palace Gardens
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STAFF at Buckingham Palace have been ordered to hunt down a fox after the Queen's seven flamingos were killed. The bodies of six of the birds, which lived in a hut on an ornamental lake in the 40-acre private gardens, were found mutilated. The...
The Radio Presenter; (1)Weekend(2)a Question of Sex
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Byline: LESTER MIDDLEHURST Radio and television presenter Peter Curran hosts Channel 4's Wired World and is a regular guest interviewer on Radio 4's Midweek programme. Peter, 34, has been married to his wife Natalie, who works for a film finance...
The Sky's the Limit; Murdoch Boost to Grab the Big TV Events
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Byline: DAVID HUGHES A NEW row over televised sport erupted yesterday when the Government's consultation paper on the issue came down heavily on the side of Rupert Murdoch. Save our Sports campaigners, who want to keep major sports events freely...
Underwood Has It All to Play for; Veteran Rory Sets Sights on Plenty More Tries a ND an England Resurgence
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Byline: PETER JACKSON RORY UNDERWOOD touches down on another historic run at Twickenham today with a revealing declaration about his England future. Those who would have him believe he does not really have one will be surprised to learn that...
Victims Watch as Store Slasher Gets Life 10 Times
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A KNIFEMAN who went berserk in a department store, slashing terrified women, was yesterday given ten life sentences. Schizophrenic David Morgan wounded 17 shoppers and female security guards in his rampage through Rackham's in Birmingham on December...
Was This an Evil Man? A NEW TV PROFILE LEADER. COULD OF SIR OSWALD MOSLEY HAS OUTRAGED HE HAVBEEN BRITAIN'S HITLER? HERE JEWISH GROUPS WHO SAY IT WHITEWASHES THE FASCIST HISSON AND A LEADING HISTORIAN DEBATE THE QUESTION
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Byline: NICHOLAS MOSLEY;NORMAN STONE LEADERS of the British Jewish community have expressed outrage that Michael Grade, chief executive of Channel 4, has commissioned a sympathetic re-assessment of the notorious British fascist leader Oswald Mosley....
Will Young Guns Grow for It? after Nearly 200 Years, the Royal Horticultural Society Has Dropped Itsstaid Image and Is Turning over a New Leaf
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Byline: ALAN TITCHMARSH In the same way that motorists join the AA or the RAC, keen gardeners join the RHS - the Royal Horticultural Society. It's not that the RHS offers a horticultural breakdown service (they won't turn up if your lawnmower conks...
Window Dressing
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Byline: Alan Titchmarsh IT'S ALL very well bringing tender plants indoors in September and October to protect them from frost but, after four months or so, there is a danger they can take over your house. By now your window sills probably resemble...
Your're Only as Old as You Look
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Sir ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, Composer, April 14, 1948 THE diminutive composer continues to dominate London's West End with his hit musicals. His successes include Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sunset Boulevard. Cats, which critics...
Zola, the French Dickens Who Died for Truth
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Byline: Christopher Hudson ZOLA: A LIFE by Frederick Brown (Macmillan, [pounds sterling]25) HOW Emile Zola would have relished it! All his life he kept his nation at loggerheads - the establishment hating and the populace loving his great series...
