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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from March 7, 2005
Adams Urges Sinn Fein Members to Tell Truth about Killing
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SEVERAL OF the seven Sinn Fein members suspended from the party in connection with a fatal stabbing at a Belfast bar are personally known to the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, he acknowledged yesterday. Speaking during his party's ard-fheis (annual...
After 60 Years in Hiding, Wren-Babbler Is Found
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FOR NEARLY 60 years it has been the world's least-known bird - until now. The rusty-throated wren-babbler, a small stub-tailed ball of feathers the size of a mouse, has been seen only once, when a specimen was captured in the Mishmi Hills of north-east...
Alex James: The Great Escape ; `Planes Are Dope. It's Time We All Had Flying Machines. How Come We're Still Using Wheels'
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WE WERE flying around, being nosey. Tony, the flying instructor, came and met us at Enstone Aerodrome with a borrowed plane. It was all bright and crispy. The sky looked like an upside-down ocean and it was making me feel dizzy when I thought about it...
Analysis: Fanzine Scene: The Editors of the Future ; the Very Best of the World of Underground Magazines and Blog Sites Was Recognised at the Emap Fanzine Awards 2005. Ian Burrell, One of the Judges, Looks at the Best Entries
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FLY ME T0 THE MOON Overall Fanzine of the Year and winner of Sports category Cover price: pounds 1 The "official unofficial voice" of Middlesbrough FC is edited by Rob Nichols. When the Boro moved from their old ground, Ayresome Park in 1995, he bought...
ART FOR SALE: Paul Housley @ Wilkinson Gallery
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A SMALL, well-executed oil painting of some yellow flowers is entitled Tigers on Heat (2004), while a portrait of a tiger is called Two Grey Jumpers (2005). Looking for meaning or clarifying clues in the titles of Paul Housley's canvases seems pointless....
Arts: Caught in the Crossfire ; Peter Kosminsky Dissected New Labour in the Project. Now He Has Turned His Attention to the Kelly Affair in a Major New Drama
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The writer-director Peter Kosminsky has a rare talent for getting up the Establishment's nose. Ever since he made Shoot to Kill in 1990, about the Stalker inquiry, he has consistently caused controversy, with offerings such as The Project (focusing on...
Athletics: Magnificent Seven for Britain after Relay Silver
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BRITAIN'S FINAL medal tally at the European Indoor Championships here reached seven - equalling their best showing - after the concluding day witnessed disorderly scenes following a collision that ruined the home nation's chances in the men's 400 metre...
Athletics: Mayock Medal Adds Mettle to Funding Complaint
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GREAT BRITAIN'S 60 metres gold medallist, Jason Gardener, was still talking to the press in the mixed zone when the wiry, red- haired figure of John Mayock arrived, still flushed with effort from the 3,000m. "How did you get on?" Gardener asked. "Silver!"...
Bill Hagerty on the Press: ;Even with a Detailed A to Z, Piers Managed to Lose His Way
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NEVER MIND the book, what about the index? We all know that anyone who has had even a passing acquaintance with an author will turn immediately to the back for a name-check before seriously contemplating buying a copy. If this is the case with Piers...
Black Boys Should Be Taught Separately, Says Phillips
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BLACK SCHOOLBOYS should be taught separately from their white classmates to improve their academic performance, the head of Britain's race relations watchdog believes. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said it may be necessary...
Blair Pressured to Fight Child Poverty
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TONY BLAIR will come under pressure tomorrow to pledge in Labour's general election manifesto to take one million children out of poverty during a third term in office. The Labour-affiliated Fabian Society urges the Government to take firmer and faster...
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Football Memories by Brian Glanville (Robson Books, Pounds 8.99)
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A FOOTBALL reporter came into the bar in some long-forgotten hotel, looked up at the ceiling in exaggerated bafflement and said: "What the hell does pusillanimous mean?" We knew at once he must have been speaking to the only one of our number who would...
Boxing: Woods to Weigh Up US Options as World Champion
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SHORTLY after midnight on Friday Clinton Woods acquired a million- dollar future when he stopped the American Rico Hoye to win the International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight title at a steelworks near Rotherham. Woods, who was having his fourth...
BP to Float Pounds 4.2bn Arm in New York
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BP HAS hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to advise it on a flotation of parts of its petrochemicals business with a book value of $8bn (pounds 4.2bn) in New York this year. The oil giant indicated yesterday it might appoint other investment banks...
Bridge
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TODAY'S HAND is from the Macallan World Invitation Pairs Tournament of some years back - a wonderful spectator event that used to be held annually in London, but which sadly is no more. The lesson to be learnt here is: always keep up your guard, even...
Brown Makes Full Employment a Manifesto Priority
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GORDON BROWN has pledged to "hold fast" to Labour's goal of full employment, with an election manifesto that will "move further and faster" towards creating jobs for all. In a foretaste of his budget later this month, the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Buffett Sorry for His $1.6Bn Winning Bet against Dollar
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WARREN BUFFETT, the US investment guru, warned that the dollar was set for a fresh slump as he revealed that Berkshire Hathaway, the company he chairs, made $1.6bn (pounds 830m) after predicting its drop in the final four months of last year. In his...
Businesses Unite to Fight `Premature' Interest Rates Rise
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BRITAIN'S LEADING business organisations are intensifying their campaign against a rise in interest rates this week, saying a move would be "premature" and could trigger a collapse in consumer confidence. Warnings from manufacturing, business and retail...
Can Blunkett Still Hope to Return to the Cabinet? ; It's a Gotterdammerung of Spin, in Which Both Sides Are Engulfed by Forces Whipped Up by Themselves
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Speak to those close to Tony Blair and they will all tell you the same thing. Come 6 May, when Mr Blair appoints his new Cabinet, there will be one name returning to the front bench: David Blunkett.Given the Prime Minister's continuing public support...
Captain Marvel Still Shooting for the Stars on His Mission to Join the Managerial Greats ; BRIAN VINER Interviews Bryan ROBSON
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Before yesterday's West Midlands derby between bottom-placed West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham City, that doom-monger William Hill was offering odds of 25-1 against the Baggies being in the Premiership next season. A 2-0 win lifted Albion off the bottom,...
Censor Swearing Footballers, Union Says
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ANDY WOOD spent yesterday morning watching football on television with his two young sons as he does every week before taking his them for a kick-about in the local park. But if Martin Ward, the deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association...
Champion of Funk Soul Brothers ; Craig Charles Is on a Mission to Remind 6music Listeners That Music Didn't Start with Elvis
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Craig Charles, poet, actor, cult radio presenter, and icon to science-fiction nerds the world over, turned to walk out of a London newsagent buoyed by the lift of public recognition. He had forgotten his wallet at home but the shopkeeper had been persuaded...
Chess
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White to play and mate in 2 THE SOLUTION to this, the regular competition problem set on the first Monday of each month, should be sent to Jim Grevatt of the British Chess Problem Society at Lazybed, Headley Fields, Headley, Hants GU35 8PS, to arrive...
Church Where Shakespeare Is Buried Faces Battle to Fund Pounds 2.5m Repair Bill
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`Good friend for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here! Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones.' While perhaps not one of Shakespeare's most famous passages, these were the words he is believed to have...
Classical: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Alsop Lighthouse Poole Ooo99
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THERE ARE those - or at least there is one - who would dismiss almost all our regional symphony orchestras as eking out a feeble existence in a "marshland of orchestral mediocrity". Such phrases might make attention- grabbing copy, but those who bother...
Classical: Halle Tippett Celebration Bridgewater Hall Manchester Ooooo
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IT WAS with the music of Michael Tippett, his oratorio The Mask of Time, that Mark Elder chose to announce himself at his first Halle appearance after being named music director in 2000. Five years on, with the conductor's relationship with the orchestra...
Classical Music: Banker with a Baton ; Martin Smith Has Been Attacked for the Way He Runs ENO. but His Critics Are in for a Shock, Because Now He's Going to Be a Conductor. Michael Church Hears Why
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When English National Opera presents Bernstein's On the Town to the critics on Thursday, one person who will not be present is the ENO's chairman Martin Smith - and some critics will applaud that fact. For this larger-than-life former banker, who does...
COVER STORY: Murder without Motive ; He Had No Enemies, No Links to Criminal Gangs, No Crazed Stalker, Yet Tom Brown Was Stabbed on His Doorstep - One of a Handful of People Killed at Random in Britain Each Year. Terry Kirby Reveals How the Trail Went Cold, and Why Police Remain Baffled
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It still haunts Richard Bridges, as one of those casual things that you can say to people that only achieve their poignancy later on. When his friend Tom Brown was about to leave Richard's flat, after the pair had spent the evening together, drinking...
Deutsche Borse Pulls out of Pounds 1.3bn London Stock Exchange Bid
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DEUTSCHE BoRSE, the operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, yesterday abruptly ended its pounds 1.3bn bid for the London Stock Exchange. The company withdrew its conditional offer and announced that it would make "a significant distribution of funds"...
Eddington Plans a Summer Departure from British Airways
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ROD EDDINGTON, the chief executive of British Airways, will leave the airline towards the end of the summer to return to Australia and focus on his non-executive jobs. Sources said Mr Eddington, 55, was likely to leave BA in late summer or early autumn,...
First Night: Electric Meets Acoustic on an Evening of Eclectic Acts ; World Music Awards the Sage, Gateshead
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THAT THE 2005 World Music Awards were held at the newly opened Sage is apt in a year that has seen broadening horizons for music that has long outlived its label. This is simply international music, sometimes heavily electrified, other times acoustic...
Football: Beckham Doubtful for Real's Trip to Juventus ; SPAIN
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DAVID BECKHAM'S participation in Real Madrid's Champ-ions' League tie against Juventus on Wednesday is in serious doubt after a back injury forced the England captain to be substituted in Valencia on Saturday. Beckham admitted afterwards that he had...
Football: Caution Is the Watchword as Bartlett Fails to Stir the Senses ; Fulham 0 Charlton Athletic 0
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THE WAY to a first-ever Uefa Cup campaign seemed a little closer and a little easier for Charlton at kick-off than at any time this season. Middlesbrough had just lost at Aston Villa which meant a win for the Addicks would take them into joint sixth...
Football: Dowie Forces United to Focus on Europe ; Crystal Palace 0 Manchester United 0
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MANCHESTER UNITED travel to Milan this morning hoping that the fortune which eluded them at Selhurst Park on Saturday will manifest in the San Siro tomorrow evening. Credit is due to Crystal Palace for a disciplined and resolute rearguard action but...
Football: Everton Snookered by Stead's Big Break ; Everton 0 Blackburn Rovers 1
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NICE PITCH, shame about the football. The reverse has been true for most of this season at Goodison Park, but the best Everton performance yesterday came from Bob Lennon, the head groundsman, whose workforce ripped up a mudheap and replaced it inside...
Football: Henry Leads Arsenal Warm-Up for Bayern ; Arsenal 3 Portsmouth 0
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A THIERRY Henry hat-trick, taking his goal tally for the season to 26, and a second successive clean-sheet, encouraged Arsenal ahead of the task they face against Bayern Munich on Wednesday, but the defensive uncertainty that plagued them in the first...
Football: Horsfield Epitomises Albion's Appetite for Survival Dogfight ; West Bromwich Albion 2 Birmingham City 0
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A WILLINGNESS to chase lost causes is a prerequisite for clubs threatened by relegation - and West Bromwich Albion clambered off the bottom of the Premiership by taking the injunction literally at The Hawthorns yesterday. In a victory which finally tarnished...
Football: `Irresistible' Bellamy Gives Celtic Initiative in Title Duel ; Hibernian 1 Celtic 3
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CELTIC ISSUED a declaration of intent yesterday that they do not intend giving up their Scottish Premier League title by sweeping Hibernian aside at Easter Road to regain the psychological edge in the duel with Rangers. Martin O'Neill's side took advantage...
Football: Listless Gerrard Doing Little to Boost Liverpool's Battle against Bad Luck ; Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 0
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REPORTS THAT Liverpool's manager, Rafael Benitez, has given Steven Gerrard a private peek at his summer shopping list in a last desperate attempt to keep him at the club fit neatly into the mythology of celebrity football. First you make your reputation,...
Football: Mourinho Set to Risk Robben in Barcelona Showdown
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JOSE MOURINHO could gamble on his inspirational Dutch winger Arjen Robben in tomorrow's crucial Champions' League match against Barcelona and, in the meantime, the Chelsea coach has struck the first blow in the psychological build-up to the game. Mourinho...
Football: Mourinho's Work Underlined by Progress of Cole ; Norwich City 1 Chelsea 3
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AFTER ONE year in this country, Jose Mourinho will be able to measure his contribution to English football in many different ways: by the Premiership title it now seems inevitable that he will win, by his redefinition of the art of the press conference...
Football: Pirlo Keeps Milan's Noses Ahead ; ITALY
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MILAN AND Juventus kept their lead over the chasing pack at the top of Serie A at the weekend, as both recorded 2-1 wins away from home on Saturday. The two clubs, with Milan ahead on goal difference, now have 60 points, 13 clear of their nearest challengers,...
Football: Redknapp's Recruits Rising to Challenge ; Southampton 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0
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THE KEY passage of play that hinted why Southampton might yet avoid relegation came in the dying minutes, when, with Saints nervously nursing a 1-0 lead, Peter Crouch broke free in the opposition half. Last month, against Everton, with his side leading...
Football: Robinson Strike Does Little to Quell Wise Speculation ; Millwall 1 Leeds United 1
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DENNIS WISE has had his future at Millwall brought into question this week but after seeing his young side earn a draw, the Lions player- manager claimed he was not bothered if his tenure in south London was coming to a premature close. With Wise's friend...
Football: Wigan's Row with Police Has Worrying Implications ; Wigan Athletic 1 Ipswich Town 0
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DAVE WHELAN entered the Wigan Athletic press room brandishing a paper with such purpose he could have been Neville Chamberlain returning from Munich. There was no sense of relief, however, nor proclamations of peace in our time. Instead, we were talking...
Get Rid of Your Junk and Save the World - without Leaving Home ; Forget Trying to Sell Your Old Stuff on eBay. Just Join the Freecycle Network and Give It Away, Says Ciar Byrne
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EBay is so yesterday. For the environmentally minded consumer wishing to part with unwanted goods, freecycling is the next big thing. Nearly a million people worldwide have already joined the grassroots online movement, whose members recycle objects...
Girls Just Wanna Bake Cakes ; Easy Living Magazine Is Pitched at Women Who Love Life - and Cooking. Ciar Byrne Meets Its Editor
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There are certain perks to launching a magazine. All those flowers for one - the day after the launch party for Easy Living, its editor Susie Forbes's office is brimming with vases of roses and lilies. Receiving a telephone call from her mother in North...
GLOBAL WARMING: Bush Accused of `Fiddling While World Burns' by Ignoring Climate Change
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ONE OF Britain's most eminent scientists has attacked President Bush for acting like a latter-day Nero who fiddles while the world burns because of global warming. Lord May of Oxford, the president of the Royal Society and former chief scientific adviser...
Global Warming: May's Attack Shows Anguish of Scientists over Kyoto Protocol ; ANALYSIS
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FOR A president of Britain's Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy, to openly and angrily attack a President of the United States is virtually unprecedented. But Lord May's broadside against President Bush reflects the growing anguish...
Golf: Els' Eagle Claws Title from Jimenez
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A WEEK that began with Ernie Els sitting in economy class ended yesterday with one of the most dramatic victories of his career. The 35-year-old South African's 58th professional win came when he sank a curling 18-foot eagle putt on the 547-yard final...
Greg Dyke on Broadcasting: Despite the Spin, the BBC's Direction Will Be Unchanged
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FOR THOSE, like me, who are strong supporters of the BBC and believe it is an important force for good in British society, the Secretary of State Tessa Jowell did a pretty effective job with her Green Paper on the future of the BBC. On the most important...
Guilty Pleasures: No 16 Matthew Wright on Fishing Programmes
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I ONLY got satellite TV about 18 months ago, but that turned me from a going-out, fun-loving guy into a dullard vegetable with very little to talk about other than fishing programmes. I usually get up about five in the morning which means that I do on...
`He Didn't Think You Had to Spend 10 Years Covering Village Fetes before Getting a Break' ; MY MENTOR: ADAM BOULTON ON LESLIE STONE
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WHEN I came back to London after university in 1981, my father insisted I was going to be unemployed for the rest of my life, and told me to sign on at the dole centre. But by the time I arranged my first interview, Leslie had hired me on a temporary...
I Knew I Was Right ; the BBC Must Face Competition to Justify Its Future Public Funding, Says David Elstein
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It has been an interesting year. Twelve months ago, I and my colleagues on the Broadcasting Policy Group published a far- reaching report, Beyond The Charter, on the future of the BBC. It created something of an outcry and was widely attacked as being...
Inside Story: Dumb? TV Never Had It So Good
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Once again television is being accused of dumbing down as the BBC is warned away from chasing ratings. TV's Double D words have become a catch-all explanation of society's ills. This is the argument of the the past-it and the narrow minded. Do these...
Is Lebanon Walking into Another Nightmare? ; Fear of Power Vacuum as Syria Prepares to End 29-Year Occupation
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LEBANON CONFRONTS a nightmare today. As the Syrian army begins its withdrawal from the country this morning, after mounting pressure from President George Bush - whose anger at the Syrians has been provoked by the insurgency against American troops in...
Italian Journalist Shot in Iraq Fears She Was US Target
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THE RETURN to Italy of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena from captivity in Iraq was meant to be another triumph for Silvio Berlusconi's chequebook foreign policy - a timely boost for his ruling coalition as it faces regional elections in less than a month....
It's Never over until the Final Whistle
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Today we have three more tales for our times. Once upon a time, there was a very large veteran rugby player called Andy Chicklade who had often played for his country, and had even scored a few tries. He had featured in adverts. He had appeared on humorous...
It Will Be Harder to Dislodge the IRA from Belfast Than the Syrians from the Bekaa Valley ; Gerry Adams Has Gone through Worse Than This before, and He Thinks That He Has the Measure of Tony Blair
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Suddenly, optimism seems to be triumphing over intransigence. In both Beirut and Belfast, popular protests have thrown oppressive regimes on the defensive. Bashir Assad is struggling to retain control of Lebanon; Gerry Adams, of the Catholic areas of...
I Wanna Sell You a Tory ; Will Having Lord Saatchi as Chairman Improve Conservative Chances in May, Asks Alex Benady
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When it comes to fighting a general election, the prevailing wisdom in adland is that the publicity generated by a campaign is as important as the campaign itself. By that token Labour, in the early stages at least, has left the Conservatives for dead....
Law Report: Case Summaries: 7 March 2005
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THE FOLLOWING notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports: False imprisonment ID and others v Home Office ([2005] EWCA Civ 38); CA (Brooke, Thomas, Jacob LJJ) 27 Jan 2005 WHERE THE claimants, who were asylum-seekers,...
LEADING ARTICLE: Gordon Brown Is Set for a Good Budget before the Election. but What about Afterwards?
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IT WAS hardly surprising that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, should use his speech to Labour's Scottish Party Conference yesterday to spin next week's Budget. Predictably enough, Mr Brown informed his audience that "the Budget will lock...
LEADING ARTICLE: The Red Card to Bad Language on the Pitch
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MARTIN WARD, the deputy leader of the Secondary Heads Association, is so upset about the bad behaviour of professional footballers that he thinks matches should be shown on TV only after 9pm because of the bad example the players set to children. It...
Letter:Abbey Habit
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Dear Mark Wnek: I was interested in your comments on Abbey's new logo (Shabby Abbey Design, Feb 21). Astonished, in fact, that no one had commented similarly before. Changes of name and logo, which happen with tedious frequency these days, are mostly...
LETTER: We All Have a Responsibility to Protect Our Democracy
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Sir: The Government needs to consider what might happen, beyond innocent people and communities losing their civil rights, when they take the power of political arrest and punishment. What will it do when the News of the World demands to know who has...
Loft Living Adds Value to Modern Furniture ; as Life Becomes More Complicated, It's Easier to See the Point of Minimalism - and Prices Are Rising Accordingly
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IT'S A mod, mod world. According to new research from the Zurich- AMR Art & Antiques Index, we're desperate to possess artefacts that have as little to do with the distant past as possible. That mint- condition Regency armoire that you spotted in Diss...
Mark Wnek on Advertising: US Advertising Industry Finds Its Very Own Martha Stewart
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WHILE US advertising industry buzzes over Shonagate - the conviction of Ogilvy NY account director Shona Seifert for falsifying timesheets (the forms where hours worked on a particular account are noted so they may be billed to clients) on the Drug-...
Matthew Norman's Media Diary ; Daddy Says That If He Doesn't Get an Interview Soon I'm Going to Have to Let You Go
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With Martin Bashir facing a possible contempt charge for refusing to answer questions in the Michael Jackson trial, this seems the moment to consider how he came to make the documentary that led directly to the Jackson prosecution. Several years ago,...
Motor Racing: Season Up and Running in Style as Fisichella Enjoys Walk in the Park
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THERE WERE times when the opening race of the 2005 Formula One season was more akin to the London to Brighton veteran car run, with car following car and nobody overtaking anyone. But perhaps we have been spoiled in recent years by the flat-out-between-pit-stops...
Motor Racing: Stoddart Confronts Mosley as Infighting Turns Ugly
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THE MINARDI owner Paul Stoddart has called for the resignation of Max Mosley, president of the FIA, the world governing body, in the wake of their row at the Australian Grand Prix. Stoddart was angered by apparent threats made by Mosley about the race's...
`Murder Music' Silenced by a Tough Operator ; Media Strategist Acts as Bridge between Gay Rights Group and Reggae Industry
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Glen Yearwood emerged from the studios of BBC Radio 4's Today programme last November feeling a bit battered and bruised. The London-based marketer had taken part in what he calls a "tete-a- tete" with gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, a formidable...
My Life in Media: Stevie Spring
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Stevie Spring, 47, is the chief executive of Clear Channel, the UK's largest outdoor advertising company. After working as a butcher, teaching sport and managing the family hair salon, she graduated in law and has spent most of her career as a brand...
Needed: A New Manhattan Project ; the More One Knows, the More One Is Likely to Conclude That Global Warming Is Not a Threat the World Will Master
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Two ominous trends are now becoming visible on the issue of climate change which should lead a reasonable and informed person to an ominous conclusion: this problem, potentially the gravest human society has ever faced, is simply not going to be solved....
Obituary: Beverly Dennis ; Blacklisted Actress
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THE 1950s saw the publication of a small paperback called Red Channels: the report of Communist influence in radio and television, price one dollar. The book was nothing more than a frequently misspelled list of over 100 names of show-business people,...
OBITUARY: Martin Denny ; Musician of Birdcalls and Frog Croaks Known as the `Father of Exotica'
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KNOWN AS the "Father of Exotica", Martin Denny successfully created a sound world that encompassed jazz and Latin American rhythms, the music of Asia, Africa and the South Pacific and, characteristically, birdcalls and croaking frogs. It was a fusion...
OBITUARY: The Right Rev Lord Sheppard of Liverpool ; England Cricket Captain Who Became Bishop of Liverpool
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DAVID SHEPPARD, the England cricket captain in 1954, was ordained in 1955 to the evangelical church of St Mary's in Islington, north London. He then spent 18 years in the East End followed by 22 years devoted to Liverpool. He experienced remarkable "conversions":...
OBITUARY: Tommy Vance ; Disc-Jockey Given to `TV on the Radio'
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THE DISC-JOCKEY Tommy Vance presented numerous shows, but he will be best remembered for Radio 1's Friday Rock Show. His signature music was "Take It Off the Top" by Dixie Dreggs and then he would say in his gravelly voice, "Hi, this is TV on the radio...
O'Reilly Poised to Net Pounds 56m from Takeover of Zinc Miner ARCON
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SIR ANTHONY O'Reilly, the chief executive of Independent News & Media, the owner of The Independent, will receive EUR80m (pounds 56m) in cash and shares from a proposed takeover of a mining company in which he is the principal shareholder. Lundin Mining...
Outcry Grows over US Use of `Rendition' in Terror Cases
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THE CIA has transferred an estimated 100 and 150 terrorist suspects to foreign countries for questioning - and, it is widely alleged, torture - since rules governing the American policy of "rendition" were relaxed immediately after the September 2001...
Pandora in America
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Law may be named after al-Qa'ida `whistle-blower' Good news. It's a year since The Independent told the story of whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who detailed evidence proving intelligence officials knew before 9/11 that al- Qa'ida...
Parental Power Is Anathema to Good Schooling ; I Am Always Grateful That My Teachers Were Brave Enough to Instil Ideas Inimical to Our Parents
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It was a well-behaved class, attentive, no fidgeting, no giggles at all when I addressed the Secondary Heads' Association conference on Saturday. Unlike the day before when the Education Secretary Ruth Kelly instructed the delegates on the basics of...
Parents Accused of Undermining Schools
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THE GOVERNMENT is being urged to do more to crack down on feckless parents who undermine discipline in schools and abandon its drive to boost parent power in the approach to a general election. Martin Ward, deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads...
Pilati Reflects Heritage but Adds His Signature to YSL
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COLLAR, CUFFS and a cinched waist were on the checklist for designer Stefano Pilati as he sent out his second collection for Yves Saint Laurent, perhaps the most Parisian of all fashion brands. This graphic silhouette began with an opening sequence of...
Pop: Nick Cave the Sage Gateshead Oooo9
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"YOU SHOUT 'em, we'll play 'em!" Although "showman" is not a word one would normally use to describe Nick Cave, as the unusually relaxed singer mocks the North-east accent, banters with the crowd, and even invites them to choose the set, he is pure value-for-money...
POSTCARDS FROM PERALIYA ; This Is South Asia's Ground Zero, Where the World's Media Pointed Its Cameras after the Tsunami Hit. Stephen Khan Reports on a Project That Has Put Sri Lankan Children on the Other Side of the Lens
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JUST THREE carriages are left now. The other five have gone, along with the engine, towed away by Sri Lankan Railways. But still, the people come. They come to see three battered, brown rusty cars left in Peraliya. For this is south Asia's Ground Zero....
Public Sector Growth Is Fuelling a Pay Boom ; the UK Has Seen Persistently Strong Real Wage Growth. Indeed, It Has Accelerated in Recent Quarters
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IF THERE'S been a dominant global labour market theme in recent years, it's the mobility of factors of production. Capital hunts out cheaper sources of labour. And labour hunts out higher wages. From the perspective of rich Western countries, there are...
Racing: Harchibald Slides from Champion Pinnacle
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RIGHT NOW is the time of the year the National Hunt training fraternity is at its jumpiest. Do not make a loud noise in their company, or burst a crisp packet behind their back, for, at the moment, there are no good days to be in charge of a Cheltenham...
Rover Jobs Axe Could Fall Only Two Weeks before Election Day
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MORE THAN 2,000 politically sensitive manufacturing jobs could be axed at the car maker Rover just two weeks before the general election, it emerged yesterday. The redundancies would follow final agreement of the joint venture with Shanghai Automobile...
Rugby League: Rea Refuses to Blame London Loss on Cash Crisis ; Bradford Bulls 48 London Broncos 22
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LONDON ENDED an eventful week well beaten by Bradford's most convincing performance of the season so far. Having run in their Super League record score last weekend, gone into liquidation in midweek and almost been expelled from the competition on Friday,...
Rugby Union: Cohen Injury Has England Searching for New Winger ; Northern Hemisphere 19 Southern Hemisphere 54
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THE BOTTOM line of the housekeeping from the well received Rugby Aid match depended on your point of view: global or parochial. The news closest to home was of a fractured cheekbone sustained by Ben Cohen which ruled the England wing out of a possible...
Rugby Union: Exeter Prepared for Court Scrum If Premiership Place Is Turned Down ; Exeter 41 Otley 15
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EXETER'S SIX-TRY annihilation of Otley perfectly mirrored their determination and ambition off the field as they prepare for higher things. The mauling of the forwards, a team of huskies well mushed by the scrum- half, Haydn Thomas, produced four of...
Rugby Union: Powergen Cup: Leeds Glimpse Glory with Doherty's Destructive Pace ; Leeds 15 London Irish 6
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DAVID DOHERTY rescued this fractured Powergen semi-final at a sparsely attended Headingley yesterday, to ensure that Leeds will make their first Twickenham appearance, next month. When Leeds come to look back over the rubble of their disappointing season,...
Rugby Union: Powergen Cup: Williams' Extra Effort Sends Bath to Final ; Gloucester 19 Bath 24 Aet; Score at 80 Mins 19-19
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THERE ARE defeats, there are cup semi-final defeats and - most damaging of all to the Kingsholm soul - there are cup semi-final defeats against bloody Bath in bloody extra time. Gloucester last found themselves in this supremely diabolical circle of...
Russia Faces Loss of Another Ally after Moldovan Election
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MOLDOVA, EUROPE'S poorest country, went to the polls yesterday in an election that is likely to see yet another former Soviet republic turn its back on the Kremlin in favour of European integration. Although Moldova has little realistic chance of joining...
Small Talk: Victory Is Sweet for Software Firm Sopheon
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SHARES IN Sopheon are expected to soar today. The group has secured a major contract win from the sweets and soft drinks giant Cadbury Schweppes, the biggest to date for its Accolade software product, and will this morning unveil it to the City. Under...
Stevens Says 200 `Bin Ladens' Loose in UK
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SIR JOHN STEVENS, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, stepped into the political row over the terror Bill yesterday with a warning that 200 "Osama bin Laden-trained terrorists" were "walking Britain's streets". Sir John, who was given a peerage...
Stevens Says There Are 200 `Bin Ladens' Loose in Britain
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JOHN STEVENS, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was at the centre of a political row yesterday after he warned that 200 "Osama Bin Laden-trained terrorists" are "walking Britain's streets". Sir John, who five weeks ago was given a peerage...
Teach Black Boys Separately, Says Phillips
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BLACK BOYS should be taught separately from their white classmates to improve their performance at school, according to the head of Britain's race relations watchdog. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said it may be necessary...
Tennis: New Boys Show Heart and Soul to Prove There Is Life after Henman
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TIM WHO? Joking aside, Britain's Davis Cup team could hardly have made a more encouraging start to life without Tim Henman, the linchpin from Oxfordshire. Having completed a 3-2 win against Israel here yesterday, Britain have six months to prepare for...
Theatre: Houses of Pain and Pleasure ; A Doll's House West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds Oooo9 Sweet William Viaduct Theatre Halifax Ooo99
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THE DEATH-DEFYING tarantella that Nora dances as if her life depends upon it does not occur until near the end of the second act of Ibsen's A Doll's House. But such is the spirit and vigour with which the engaging actress Tanya Moodie approaches her...
