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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 December 31, 1998
After 18 Hours on a Trolley, They Sent Me Home with Some Pills
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Byline: JENNY HOPE A FRAIL old man was left for 18 hours on a hospital trolley then sent home in the middle of the night with a packet of antibiotics. When Alfred Gandey, 89, was taken to Peterborough District Hospital with a chest infection,...
A Picture of Strife; Millionaire Racehorse Owner and Estranged Wife in Legal Battle over Wedding Photos
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Byline: LESLEY ROBERTS IT WAS the perfect setting for a wedding, sunshine and an idyllic Caribbean island where memories of a wonderful day would be treasured forever by the bride and her new husband. Like all newlyweds, photographs of the lavish...
A Plane to Myself; Holiday Jet's Only Passenger Enjoys a Highlife Flight
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Byline: JIM STANTON WHEN Steve Fullerton's holiday flight was called, he expected the usual throng of hundreds of passengers bustling towards the boarding area. Instead, only one person in the airport departure lounge responded himself. ...
A Prize for Peacemaker; Major Is Honoured for His Push towards an Ulster Agreement
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Byline: BILL MOULAND JOHN MAJOR is honoured today by his old political adversary Tony Blair. Mr Major is made a Companion of Honour in Mr Blair's second 'People's' New Year Honours list. The award, for the former Tory Prime Minister's work...
At 26 I Learned the Truth
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Byline: SALLY ANN LASSON AT SOME point in the not too distant future I am supposed to be 40, yet I am not concerned about the onset of a midlife crisis. I had one when I was 26. One night I went to a party and realised I wasn't the youngest person...
Beauty Resolutions
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Byline: JENNIFER BADEN HOWARD EASY to make but so difficult to keep, the New Year's resolutions least likely to be abandoned before the last piece of tinsel is taken down are those which get fast results. FEMAIL consulted the skincare, haircare...
BORDER INCIDENT THAT MADE McGRATH TURN UGLY
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Byline: MIKE DICKSON WHEN Glenn McGrath strolled out into the long shadows of the Melbourne Cricket Ground as Australia's last batting hope on Tuesday, he did not find himself among friends. Indeed, one English fieldsman came out with the welcoming...
Boy, 13, Quizzed over Bike Death
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Byline: CHRIS BROOKE A BOY of 13 has been questioned by police over the death of a pensioner who stepped into the path of his bicycle. The 86-year-old man was waiting for a bus in a pedes-trianised zone when he was hit by the boy, who was riding...
Buried Alive on Death Mountain; 16 Hours under the Snow, Then Rescuers Arrived
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Byline: WAYNE FRANCIS;TIM KNOWLES A VENTURE Scout and his girlfriend buried alive for 16 hours in an avalanche were last night grieving four close friends - two of them childhood sweethearts - who perished in the tragedy. Steven Newton, 24, and...
Busman's Return Ticket to Lottery Success; I'LL KEEP WORKING, SAYS DRIVER WHO SCOOPED TWO BIG PRIZES IN 1998
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A BUS driver is thanking his lucky stars - and his lucky numbers - after winning thousands on the National Lottery for the second time in five months. Derek Moore, who shared [pounds sterling]881,786 with workmates in August, has scooped a further...
Buybacks and Bids Keep Shares in the Sunshine
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Byline: GEOFF FOSTER THERE was never a dull moment in 1998! The great bull market rampaged on and on before suffering a shakeout on the scale of the bond-inspired crash of 1994 and the Gulf War of 1990. The volatile Footsie crashed more than...
Cap Superb Shields - Paton
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Byline: KENNETH STEPHEN DUNFERMLINE manager Bert Paton last night urged Scotland coach Craig Brown to pick fullback Greg Shields for the Euro 2000 qualifiers. Paton, whose side drew 1-1 with St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park on Tuesday, said Brown...
Cathedral Accused of Cover-Up over the Canon's 'Affair'
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Byline: WAYNE FRANCIS A CATHEDRAL was last night struggling to deal with its second sex scandal in a year. Canon John Schofield, 51, faces the sack after allegedly having an affair with a member of the congregation at Guildford Cathedral. ...
Diane's Blood's Darling
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Byline: STEPHEN OLDFIELD THESE are the first pictures of Diane Blood's son - the baby British law tried to ban. Last night, as she cradled him, she said: 'He's wonderful, just wonderful.' Liam was born one month premature two months ago almost four...
Doctors' [Pounds Sterling]700 Pay Day
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Byline: CATRIONA ROSS DOCTORS will earn [pounds sterling]700 for working during tonight's huge Hogmanay party in Edinburgh. Extra staff are being drafted in to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as the Accident and Emergency department braces itself for...
Ephraim Hardcastle
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Byline: EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE TORY leader William Hague and wife Ffion, without aides or staff, are snow-biking and cross-country skiing from a chalet resort in Montana and won't be back until Monday. A Hague friend tells me: 'They enjoy being totally...
France in Power Grab
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Byline: DAVID NORRIS BRITAIN is heading for a clash with Brussels over French plans to buy and effectively renationalise parts of our electricity industry. Energy Minister John Battle is deeply concerned over a bid by France's state-owned power...
Furbies in Hospital Ban after Safety Alert over Signals
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Byline: RACHEL BLACKBURN THEY were a Christmas hit with children because of their cute and cuddly appearance. But Furbies could pose a health safety risk, it was revealed yesterday. There are fears that signals emitted by the interactive toys...
Gough Rises out of Ashes as the Hero Who Stays Cool under Fire
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Byline: BOB WILLIS ANY time that Dean Headley returns to the MCG he will have the pleasure of seeing his name etched alongside the greats on the ornate board that commemorates those who have been made Man of the Match in Tests at this famous arena....
Great Milllennium Debate (Part2)
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Byline: ALLAN MASSIE NEAR the beginning of the Prime Minister's favourite novel, Ivanhoe, there is a conversation between two English peasants. One asks why the animals they tend - swine, ox, sheep - go by different names - pork, beef, mutton -...
Gregory Shows No Mercy
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Byline: RAY MATTS JOHN GREGORY is determined to use all of Aston Villa's big guns in a bid to blow Hull's minnows out of the FA Cup. Gregory says he will not leave anything to chance in the ultimate top v bottom third-round clash between his...
Have Our Allies Gone Bananas?
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Byline: ANTHONY ARMSTRONG KNITWEAR workers in the Borders and other parts of Scotland may be forgiven if they question the apparently selective nature of our special relationship with the United States. Within days of gratefully accepting British...
Hegarty Is Just Happy to Do It the Hard Way
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Byline: ROGER HANNAH IF Paul Hegarty is overlooked when Stewart Milne and his cohorts in the Pittodrie boardroom finally make a decision on Alex Miller's successor, there will always be a job for him in the diplomatic corps. Momentum is fast...
Hogmanay Alert as Festive Drink Drive Toll Rises
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Byline: KATRINA TWEEDIE THE number of drink drivers went up 5 per cent compared with last year, it was revealed yesterday. Over the week 180 were caught over the limit and the week before also saw a rise with 215 drivers caught compared with...
How Dan Became a New Man
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Byline: GRAHAM HUNTER CHELSEA'S goalless draw against Manchester United will have done nothing to make Gianluca Vialli change his tune. 'We haven't achieved anything yet. We haven't won anything at all,' is his constant refrain. By that, Vialli...
How Death Stalks the Mountains in Winter
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GIVEN the right conditions - and the right precautions - it is possible to survive for around 30 hours covered by the snow of an avalanche. Most of those who are die in such incidents are killed by head injuries as they are swept downhill or are...
How Elegant Fiona Belies Her 'Angry Young Woman' Screen Image
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Byline: JANETTE HARKESS I keep playing the misfit but that's London casting for you. They think 'she's Scottish, so she must be feisty' ACTRESS Fiona Bell's talent is making angry young women leap to life on screen, stage and television. From...
I Adored after Eight Sandwiches
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Byline: NATALIE CLARKE HER favourite snack was a generous layer of After Eight mints mashed into a roll smothered with butter. But as a milestone birthday approached, Gilliam Graham decided she did not want to be fat and 40. It didn't leave...
I Began to Look like My Granny
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Byline: PAT BOOTH WHEN I was 47, my husband said: 'You are beginning to look a little bit like your mother.' He wasn't being unkind he adored my mother and she had been so pretty once. Yet the words hit me hard. I remember my mother as being...
I'm Only Half the Woman I Used to Be and It Feels Fantastic; HOW GILLIAN SLIMMED FROM 20 STONE TO TEN STONE IN LESS THAN A YEAR
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Byline: NATALIE CLARKE AS HER fortieth birthday loomed, Gillian Graham contemplated yet another decade of despair. For 30 years she had struggled against the battle of the bulge, and it seemed inevitable she would be fat at 40. At 20 stone, she...
I Said She Was Ill but They Wouldn't Listen; MOTHER ACCUSES DOCTORS OVER MENINGITIS BABY SENT HOME FROM HOSPITAL
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Byline: JENNY HOPE A MOTHER told yesterday how her baby died with meningitis after being sent home from a hospital. Sarah Burns claimed she was told there was nothing to worry about. But the condition of her nine-month-old daughter Lauren...
Island Dreamer in Antiques Dodge
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THE owner of a Scottish island was jailed for 21 months yesterday for an elaborate [pounds sterling]128,000 tax fraud. Richard Gannon, 48, asked for VAT rebates after falsely claiming to have exported antiques abroad. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard...
I Still Think Our Son Will Breeze Back In
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Byline: CHRIS MAGUIRE IN the face of unfathomable loss, they clutch at any comfort that they can. Yesterday the parents of the young climbers killed in the Scottish avalanche were clinging to the thought that their children had died doing something...
It Wasn't Bravado I Was the Best and I Said So; the Glory Years May Be Behind Him but If You Are Thinking of Darts,you Think about Eric Bristow
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Byline: IVAN SPECK ERIC BRISTOW was out shopping for a birthday card yesterday, a couple of miles from the Essex nightclub hosting the PDC World Professional Darts Championship. A few well-wishers shook his hand, others crowded around for his...
It Was Time to Stop Wearing Jeans
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Byline: HENRY PORTER THE morning of my 45th birthday, I shot from my bed and went to examine myself in the bathroom mirror. I was disturbed to see a chunkier frame than of late and a receding hairline, because I go about assuming I look exactly...
Jumbo Fotsie Up 747 Points on the Year
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Byline: GEOFF FOSTER The Footsie failed memorable year above of the March Footsie contract dragged the mar-during a quiet, shortened institutional investors back seat ahead of the of the euro on New business was wafer thin. of small deals brought...
Kidd Makes a Value Judgment at Rovers to Stem Wage Spiral
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Byline: MARTIN LIPTON BRIAN KIDD proved that Jack Walker's spending well has not run dry as he welcomed his second major Blackburn signing yesterday but he promised he would not allow pay demands at Ewood Park to spiral out of control. The [pounds...
Labour's Granny State; Outrage at Plan to Pay the Parents of Teenage Mothers to Look after Their Babies
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Byline: GABY HINSLIFF THE parents of teenage mothers could be paid to help care for their grandchildren under plans being considered by the Government. The suggestion provoked uproar yesterday among Conservatives and family campaigners, who fear...
Legacy of Hate
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Disputed wills are the source of unlimited bitterness. When Sandra Miller's father left all his [pounds sterling]196,000 estate to her son, she took the boy to court. It was a move that was to destroy her family . . . SANDRA MILLER and her 23-year-old...
Life in Jail for the Killer Ex-Wife and Her [Pounds Sterling]500 Hitman; JURY TOLD HOW PLOT ENDED IN BRUTAL MURDER OF PREGNANT LOVE RIVAL
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Byline: IAN SHARP;DAVID AILLISTER A MOTHER consumed by hatred of her ex-husband's pregnant new wife was jailed for life yesterday with a hit-man she hired to kill her. Gurmit Bassi, 33, and Christopher Jones, 25, were found guilty of stabbing...
Mandelson Is Accused of Trying to Undermine His Fellow Ministers
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Byline: JOHN DEANS PETER Mandelson was accused yesterday of setting out to undermine the careers of other Ministers while a member of the Government. Frank Field claimed the former Trade Secretary briefed journalists against Culture Secretary...
Men Behaving Sadly
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Byline: PETER PATERSON A WONDERFUL display of bravura acting, a good meaty story, and - after an often bumpy ride a happyish kind of ending, made last night's A Rather English Marriage the highlight, for me, of this otherwise disappointing Christmas...
Money Isn't Everything
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Byline: MARTIN LIPTON NEWCASTLE'S under-fire board proved their commitment to Ruud Gullit's vision yesterday as Didier Domi was unveiled as the latest addition at St James' Park. Gullit, perhaps offering hostages to fortune, compared the 20-year-old...
'My Wife Cried out Bless Me as She Was Shot Dead'
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Byline: PETER ALLEN THE touring holiday was meant to be history and culture mingled with a little adventure. But, starting on a lonely road in Yemen it turned into a nightmare. Here, compiled from the British survivors' graphic accounts, is the...
O'leary Relishes Date with Talbot's Bunch of Diamond
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Byline: KEN LAWRENCE DAVID O'LEARY turned on the charm last night to ensure that Leeds' FA Cup clash with Rushden and Diamonds does not descend into the sort of slanging match which soured Newcastle's tie with Stevenage last season. Stevenage...
Out of Control and off Message
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THE Prime Minister is away on holiday. The Master of the Project, Peter Mandelson, is licking his wounds in the political wilderness. Suddenly the whole New Labour construct is looking about as solid as a soap bubble. For Old Labour, in the aggressive...
Prescott Champions OldLabour Values as Left Marches Again; WITH THE PREMIER AWAY, HIS DEPUTY POINTS ANOTHER WAY
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Byline: JOHN DEANS JOHN PRESCOTT has created a powerful alliance with Gordon Brown in an attempt to put almost-forgotten Old Labour values back on the Government's agenda. With the arch-moderniser Peter Mandelson out of the way and Tony Blair...
Schmeichal Papers over the Cracks
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Byline: GRAHAM HUNTER IT WAS as if the calendar had been turned back at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday when Peter Schmeichel once again presented an impassable barrier. Although a fair percentage of the chances Chelsea manufactured in the goalless...
ScHOLAR HITS BACK
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Byline: RAY MATTS DAVE BASSETT is not being forced by the Nottingham Forest board to sell popular England midfielder Steve Stone to help the club escape relegation. The belief that the manager has to offload the Forest stalwart for a multimillion...
Sorry,pal; Beckham and Leboeuf Come to Their Senses and End a Year Long Feud after Latest Stamford Bridge Clash
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Byline: NIGEL CLARKE DAVID BECKHAM and Frank Leboeuf have called off their spiteful feud that has been simmering for nearly a year. Manchester United and the Frenchman hands and embraced tunnel after the 0-0 at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night...
Stark Reality Confronts Small Fry Left without a Place at the Top Table; Greenock's Finest Need to Be Thrown Line by SPL Elite
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Byline: PETER JARDINE BARELY 30 miles separate Cappielow and Parkhead but sometimes to Billy Stark the distance must feel like 20,000 leagues. They are not quite fielding Captain Nemo at the Tail o' the Bank just yet but Morton can reasonably...
Star Wars
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DERBY manager Jim Smith has ordered his strikers Paulo Wanchope and Dean Sturridge to patch up their differences. No-nonsense Smith sat them both down and told them bluntly to stop playing their personal game of star wars. Sturridge has been...
Surgery Ban as Equipment Found 'Dirty'
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Byline: ED JOHNSON ROUTINE operations have been cancelled at four Scottish hospitals after health chiefs discovered surgical equipment had allegedly not been sterilised to a proper standard, it emerged last night. Managers at Lanarkshire Health...
Susie Helped Me So Much to Conquer My Anorexia ...and Gave Me Some Emotional Stability. Fame Wrecked Our Marriage but That Has Only Made Me Work Even Harder
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Byline: JEREMY HODGES RORY BREMNER strides into the room with outstretched hand and a genuine desire to be liked. No sooner have we introduced ourselves than he spots a couple sitting nearby with their young daughter and goes over to shake their...
Teachers 'Spend [Pounds Sterling]5m of Their Own Cash on Books'; 'LITERACY HOUR' COST SOMESTAFF[pounds Sterling]100
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TEACHERS have been forced to spend up to [pounds sterling]5million of their own money to buy books and materials for the new 'literacy hour' in primary schools, it was claimed yesterday. Half of the country's primary teachers dipped into their pockets...
The Day I Realised I Was Old and Finally Understood That It Didn't Matter
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Byline: CHERRI GILHAM ANOTHER year gone - and another wrinkle appears. New Year is when we gaze in the mirror, contemplating what another 12 months of living life to the full has done to us. And whose list of resolutions doesn't include some method...
The Space Balloon; Crew Will Soar 25 Miles into Stratosphere on Round-World Bid
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Byline: RICHARD SHEARS THEY are boldly going where no balloonists have gone before - to the very edge of outer space. Wearing Russian cosmonaut suits and jammed into a pressurised capsule, three men are due to take off from the Australian outback...
The Spirit of Adventure That Inspires Greatness. AS TRAGEDY ON THE SEA, THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE YEMEN STRIKES BOLD BRITONS
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Byline: JAN MORRIS PRAISE be to God for the adventurous! Whenever there are snows on our Welsh mountains, and I stand in the lane and look up at them (fragrance of wood smoke from our chimney behind me), they tug at my heart. They make me think...
Top Banker 'S Snub to French Could Spoil the Euro Party
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BRUSSELS: Europe's most powerful banker yesterday cast a shadow over the launch of the euro by delivering a humiliating snub to the French. In one of the biggest steps towards European unity, 11 nations will today sweep aside centuries of tradition...
Tornado Is the Target in Iraqi Air Attack Shootout with Saddam
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Byline: JOHN DEANS AN RAF Tornado jet was attacked over Iraq yesterday as a new Anglo-American showdown loomed with Saddam Hussein. Eight ground-launched missiles were fired at the aircraft as it patrol-lled the no-fly zone in the south of the...
Vultures Move In
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Byline: NIALL AITCHESON THE World Cup is still the best part of a year away but already vultures are circling over Scotland's struggling super-teams. Big-spending English and French clubs, sensing easy pickings when SRU contracts expire after...
Wait for It . . . the New Year Now Arriving Will Be One Second Late
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Byline: DAVID DERBYSHIRE IF New Year's Eve parties seem to drag a little, blame the scientists. For this year, the world's timekeepers have ruled that the last minute of 1998 will be 61 seconds long. The leap second - which will be marked...
Warne to Unleash His Bionic Repertoire
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Byline: MIKE DICKSON SHANE WARNE is looking at his long awaited first encounter with England on this tour as the rebirth of his international career after a hiatus caused by that much-debated shoulder operation. The Australian selectors yesterday...
Warning Modelling Seroiously Damages Your Sainity and Self Respect
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Byline: CLAIRE ROBERTS MODELLING attracted me because ever since I was a child, I had liked being the centre of attention. The money was a great draw. But, more than anything, I really liked the idea of travelling. I was spotted by an agent...
Welcome Back Mr Nice Guy
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Byline: PETER SCUDAMORE ADRIAN MAGUIRE, who has literally risked his life to become one of the most respected jump jockeys of the modern era, yesterday finally walked away from a battle even somebody of his acclaimed courage could not win. For...
We Must Pay Our Nurses More, Says New Dame of the Wards
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Byline: JENNY HOPE A NURSE who has been created one of only three Dames in the New Year Honours called for more pay for Britain's nurses last night. Pauline Fielding, 53, is in charge of nursing at Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and one of...
Where Have All the Sparrows Gone? AS NUMBERS OF SUBURBIA'S MOST ENDEARING SYMBOL DECLINE .
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Byline: JUNE SOUTHWORTH THERE was a time when the sparrow was as much part of British life as the privet hedge, red pillar boxes and the morning milkman. Every town woke to the dawn chorus of this nondescript little bird. It was the defining symbol...
Why Freedom to Climb All Year Round Is a Right Worth Fighting for; after the Nevis Range Claims Four Young Lives in an Avalanche, a Climbing Expert Argues against Limiting Access to Hills in Winter
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Byline: CAMERON MCNEISH FOUR young lives lost on Aonach Mor is an enormous tragedy. Had a category three avalanche warning made the climbers believe their trip was untenable or had force nine gales put them off, or if they had even been in a different...
Why I Hate New Year's Eve
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Byline: MARKUS BERKMANN toNIGHT'S the night!'. . . words that send a chill through the stoniest heart. For tonight is New Year's Eve, the party night of the year. For millions of us who dread this night over every other, tomorrow cannot come...
Wonder Wallace; Late Effort Sends Ibrox Men Clear
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Byline: ROGER HANNAH RANGERS powered ahead at the top of the Scottish Premier League last night thanks to a last-gasp 2-1 victory over Dundee United at Tan-nadice provided by the prolific Rod Wallace. Some superb build-up play involving substitutes...
X- Files Riddle of a Whine That Goes to Women's Heads
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Byline: KATE HURRY IT is a phenomenon that could be straight out of the X-Files. A strange humming noise is heard all over town - but only by women. The mystery that sounds more like a case for television's sci-fi agents Scully and Mulder is...
