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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 19, 1995
A Big Smile for the Camera
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THERE ARE easier ways to earn a living than photographing fish, and easier fish to photograph than the whale-shark (Rhinodon typicus). Unlike other members of the shark family, whale-sharks are not in the habit of attacking or eating human beings, but...
A More Flexible Way of Paying for Education
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THE most expensive single commitment parents make towards their offspring is almost certainly paying for their school or university fees.Current estimates put the average cost of seeing a child through fee- based primary and secondary schools at pounds...
A People's Game
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THE NATIONAL FRONT'S football chapter rushes from Dublin to Bruges and back to fulfil an increasingly congested fixture list; Swansea ban Cardiff from sending any supporters to their little local set-to; and Birmingham City's coach (the four-wheeled...
Aping the Way We Think?
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OUR BRAIN weighs as much as a bag of sugar, uses up a quarter of the energy we get from eating and has made us the smartest and most dominant primate on the planet. Where did our phenomenal intelligence come from and why? The question has traditionally...
A Spot of French Leave
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LA TOUR d'Argent is one of France's oldest and poshest restaurants, with three Michelin stars, an entire canteenful of red Michelin knife- and-fork symbols, and sixth-floor plate-glass windows overlooking Ntre Dame. By the time we sat down we were in...
Auto Biography
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I'M NOT sure I'd have taken the plunge and named a motor car the Charade. Maybe it's an attempt to be candid about the auto industry's pretence that it only has your best interests at heart. Still, having taken this quaint step a long time ago, Daihatsu...
A Venture to Close Equity Gap
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SOPHISTICATED investors prepared to accept greater risk now have the chance to include venture capital trusts as part of their portfolios, writes Alison Eadie.Venture capital trusts, first announced in the November 1993 Budget, are a new form of tax-efficient...
Beasant's Helping Hand
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NO GOALKEEPER has a monopoly on eccentricity, not even Bruce Grobbelaar. Indeed, you only have to look at Southampton's reserve keeper to be reminded of that.For Dave Beasant, a player forever associated with the rise of Wimbledon in the Eighties, this...
Beauty News: `Wrinkles No Longer Ugly' Shock
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ONCE, the guiding myth of cosmetic-selling was that youth was the key. To sell a moisturiser you told women it would whip the wrinkles from their faces (no, really, fine lines reduced by 40 per cent in 30 days!) and you had to sweeten the sell with a...
Beware of Greeks Bearing Messages
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SINCE its first appearance in 415 BC, Euripides' Women of Troy has spoken for every generation of mothers whose children have been consumed by war. The play is an unappeased and perpetually modern shriek of outrage. And given the nationalist carnage...
BOOKS: All Those Sermons in Stones
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"NO ideas but in things" said William Carlos Williams, and wrote little poems about red wheelbarrows and cold plums to prove it, turning his back on those hobbling about on the stilts of high culture. Polemic has always ranked high in American "redskin"...
BOOKS: Angel Delights
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ANNE ENRIGHT's prose is so densely packed with one-liners that it's tempting to quote the lot. In her striking and bizarre collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, she presented characters locked in a world they didn't understand, testing their own...
BOOKS: Back in the Bad Old Days
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IT IS dangerous for a writer to create a protagonist who is too unlikeable, but that is clearly not a warning that Joseph Connolly, whose first novel launches the Faber Originals series, chose to heed. Not only is his central character, Barry, a hopeless,...
BOOKS: Bad Boys Go Home to Mama
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INTELLIGENT writing about rock music is rare. The inky thrill of the music press's ecstatic, ever-changing enthusiasms fades after your teenage years, and dusty rock histories by "mature" critics usually stick to safely canonised genres like Blues -...
Books: Cracks in the Mirror
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ORSON WELLES spent his life confounding and clouding the idea of biography. His movies tease and deceive our notions of the knowable. "What does it matter what you say about people?," asks Marlene Dietrich at the end of Touch of Evil, as the body of...
BOOKS: Enemy of Promises
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IN his best-known book, Enemies of Promise, written in 1938 and published in his thirty-fifth year, Cyril Connolly wrote: "There is but one crime; to escape from our talent, to abort the growth which, ripening and maturing, must be the justification...
BOOKS: Hardliner - with Acid
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THERE were some very odd characters at large in US politics of the 1950s - Joe McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, John Foster Dulles, to name just a few - but it may be that the most sinister of them all was Allen Dulles, head of the CIA and brother of the better...
Books in Brief
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8 Troutstream by Gerald Lynch, 4th Estate pounds l4.99.Gripping madness, snobbery and Elvis-impersonators (or "Elvii") stalk the streets of Troutstream, Ontario, a town that was originally designed by a graduate student at the University of Ottawa as...
Books: Paperbacks
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! What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, Penguin pounds 5.99. Coe has contrived a novel which contains several of the finest British genres gleefully jostling for room. The main plot is that of conspiracy thriller: seedy writer mysteriously hired by rich...
Books: The Art of Criticism: 11 Familiarity
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In the first place, as he {Chaucer} is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks...
BOOKS: Tragedy of an Elizabethan Psycho
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The Arden Shakespeares, with their drippy-hippy covers, spurred generations of students to tutorial one-upmanship, furnished actors with tantalising variants on well-worn speeches and turned directors into enthusiastic texual scholars. Now the series...
BOOKS: Two Line Headline to Go in Here
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Skinned Alive is a collection of eight short stories. The first ("Pyrography") and the last ("Watermarked") are new; the rest were written between 1986 and 1992. Of these, "An Oracle" and "Palace Days" were first published in The Darker Proof: Stories...
Books: What the Arden Means to Me
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David Thacker, director: The Arden Shakespeare is at the centre of scholarly and performance practice in the work I do. I might work from my own typed copy of the script, but I cross-refer to the Arden all the time. Particularly useful for me is the...
Boot Camp Report Hidden
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THE Government has suppressed a Whitehall study which rejects as pointless the Home Secretary's plan to get tough with criminals by bringing American-style boot camps to Britain.After a fact-finding mission to the United States in May 1994, three senior...
Bourne to Be Mild
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ACTORS AND directors often stop Matthew Bourne in the corridor to say, "Don't I know you from somewhere?" Anyone else would be flattered. Anyone else would assume they knew him as the man who landed one of the most lucrative jobs in dance, choreographing...
Boys Need Men to Teach Them to Be Really Silly
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A FRIEND of mine has decided that his vocation in life is to be a primary school teacher, and after working in a primary school for the last year on a voluntary basis, has enrolled in teacher training college for this September. Since he is male, this...
Breast Cancer: Where Fashion Comes In
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KATE MOSS'S hair is tousled, her legs are bare. Wearing nothing but a thin T-shirt that barely scrapes her thigh, she straddles a stool. For a change, she is not using her gamine frame and indolent pout to flog $5,000 dresses; she is advertising . ....
British Gas in Secrecy Row over Poisoned Sites
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CEDRIC BROWN, chief executive of British Gas, has provoked a new row by refusing to release details of 350 former gas works which may be contaminated by cancer-causing chemicals. In a letter to Frank Dobson, Labour's environment spokesman, Mr Brown said...
BSG Strapped in to Motor Ahead
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MEMO to Richard Marton, chief executive of BSG, the Bristol Street motor dealer, and Britax seat belts group: persuade the powers-that-be to transfer your share price listing from the lowly Engineering Vehicles sector to the higher-rated Distributors...
Building Societies Shift to Short-Term Fix
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SAVERS looking for a safe haven for their cash are being tempted by a range of building society funds where the interest paid is fixed over a period of time.Unlike nine months ago, however, when the most popular savings schemes tended to be five-year,...
Building Society Savers Are the Last to Know
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TOMORROW the Halifax and Leeds building societies begin an attempt to get their enormous merger-cum-flotation approved by the High Court. The case will be horribly arcane, turning on the interpretation of a single clause of the 1986 Building Societies...
Canada Enjoys Moral Glow over `Illegal' Trawler Arrest
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AS IF sending a "Keep Out" message to man, nature has this weekend laid a frigid seal on the waters off Newfoundland. Where just three days ago the disgraced Spanish trawler, the Estai, was steaming out of harbour here into a heavy Atlantic chop for...
Can Algeria Find Peace before It Falls to Pieces?
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ONLY HOURS after Islamist gunmen had staged their first serious bomb attack on an Algerian police patrol near the village of Chaibia, a young military officer in Algiers angrily pondered the guerrilla war in which he was now engaged. "A classical war...
Cancer Town on the Edge of Extinction Town Ing Claims Town Lives Comes to Town Ath Poison Is Killing off a Town
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POLLUTION is killing the entire population of a town on what used to be the shores of Russia's dying Aral Sea, a startling health survey has found.Nearly three-quarters of the people of Muynak, which stands at the southern end of the sea, show signs...
CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT : Canada Goose ... Pedalling Gordon ... Red and Proud
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THE Captain was stirred considerably by the Canadian-Spanish fishing hostilities last week. For one thing, generations of Moonlights have been taught to be extremely wary of Spaniards at sea. For another, one instinctively sides against anything Sir...
Cautionary Tale Emerges from Mexico
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BAD though you may have thought the recession in Britain to have been, spare a thought for Mexico. Its thriving economy has come close to collapse, its currency has fallen through the floor, its stock market has nosedived and whole swaths of industry...
Charities Face Up to Risks of Banking on Cash Deposits
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WHEN Barings Bank went belly-up in spectacular fashion last month, pounds 12m of annual income to the Baring Foundation went with it, and millions held in cash and investments by other charities hung in the balance.In the last week, three merchant banks...
Chess
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Last week, Cambridge equalised the scores in the century-old Varsity chess match series. Colonel Polhill reminisces.IT WAS a rare pleasure to drop in at the RAC in Pall Mall a couple of weeks ago and see Cambridge thrashing Oxford. Memories flooded back...
Cinema's Cultural Revolution
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INDIAN FILMS are being used by the MGM / Cannon chain as an opportunity to increase its cinema audiences, in a defensive strategy against the threat of out-of-town multiplex centres. The group has also launched a price-cutting war that has upset the...
City-Bashing Author Strikes a Chord
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IF A BOOK about political economy goes to the top of the non-fiction hardback bestseller list, it must be telling people something they want to hear. When its author finds himself dubbed by a newspaper "the most dangerous man in Britain", it must be...
Close to the Edge with Odette
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THIS, if our guidebook was to be believed, was a journey fit only for the "strictly intrepid". We were heading towards the High Atlas mountains, travelling from north to south, cedar forest to desert, on the rough road used by goods lorries to supply...
Clubs Face Bottom Line
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THE RESOLVE of the International Board partially to dismantle amateurism brick by brick rather than with gelignite, was to provoke derision and outrage. One parliamentarian, a well known opponent of rugby union and its administration, even went so far...
Country Life
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EVER SINCE Bernhard Langer chipped a ball from halfway up an oak tree in probably the most extraordinary shot in modern golf, I've been surprised that golfers haven't taken to the woods in droves. "Wild golf" would provide every kind of challenge tired...
Cries & Whispers
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4 ANOTHER big name can be added to the list of People Who Come Out Of The Stephen Fry Affair With Little Credit. It already in- cluded Simon Gray (concerned father-figure turned vindictive burbler) and Michael Coveney (the one critic who dipped his pen...
Cruise Lines Leave the Doldrums
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ON 30 March, 450 travel agents from Thomas Cook shops around the country will descend on Southampton to be shown the delights of a new luxury liner, the Oriana.Thomas Cook has insisted that at least one representative from each of its shops attend -...
Daily Bread
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I HAVE my breakfast at about 8 o'clock. Yesterday this consisted of two golden delicious apples, an orange and four tomatoes; I like a big breakfast. I don't drink anything during the day such as tea or water as I find I get all the fluid I need from...
Dance of the Veils on Fees
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PICTURE the scene. You are one of the 7.5 million holders of a personal pension, or are among the millions who have taken out an endowment policy to help pay off a mortgage.That nice, friendly insurance salesman comes round to your house. He tells you...
Divorce Formula Sought for Clean Break on Pension
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SHARPSHOOTING peers have caused chaos to the Government's proposed Pensions Bill as it wends its way through the House of Lords.Their amendment last week, whereby more than 45,000 war widows who have been bereaved or divorced from their second husbands...
Dragon Flexes Its Muscles in Islands Dispute
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IT IS hard not to see the Spratlys as a bit of a joke - when you can see them at all. Many of the 100 or more shoals, islets and reefs in the South China Sea disappear at high tide. Even their name, taken from a 19th-century British whaling captain,...
English Paper over the Cracks
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THE Arsenal supporters had really enjoyed the match, said it was the best they had seen for years. Paris St Germain 2 Barcelona 1 was indeed an example of the heights of passion and technique to which European football can rise.The Gooners outside the...
Eubank Loses Crown
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WHEN the strutting had to stop, Chris Eubank proved equal to the moment. Just as Muhammad Ali accepted his first loss with grace and dignity when Joe Frazier beat him in 1971, so Eubank showed class as his 10-year unbeaten record was smashed by the unsung...
European Bank in Nuclear Split
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THE troubled European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is facing a fresh embarrassment, this time over allegations of French "bias" in plans to fund a nuclear power station in Slovakia.The row has flared up after an Englishman heading a valuation...
Euthanasia: The Video Diary
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THERE is a Jewish saying that kept some concentration camp inmates from taking their own lives. You have to wait and see how the story turns out, it insists: even a horror story. Terminal illness is not Dachau but, enduring a daily dose of degradation...
EXHIBITIONS: Backwards at Going Forwards
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THE FUNCTION of the Institute of Contemporary Arts is to represent new, experimental work; and visitors are currently invited to consider the state of the avant-garde by looking at Luc Tuymans' paintings and an installation by Abigail Lane. Doesn't it...
Fact: `There Are No Bungs in Football. I Deal with Most Clubs and Have Never Been Offered One'
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"THERE are no bungs in football," said Eric Hall, lighting a huge Havana cigar. "With my so-called reputation, I would be the one they approached. I deal with most clubs, most managers, and I've never been asked for a bung or offered one. A fact."This...
Festival Encore Is Chronic Relief
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THERE were many things at Prestbury Park on Friday that you would expect to find at Cheltenham during Festival Week: mud, Guinness, burgers and shamrocks, for instance. But the red noses on sale for Comic Relief Day were unprecedented, as was another...
FIRST-HAND : `I've Had Enough ... I Want to Die with Dignity'
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MY condition deteriorated gradually. I started walking with a stick, then I moved on to a Zimmer frame. Then it reached the stage where I needed a wheelchair, but my wife hated it. She used to cover it with coats, because she couldn't bear to see it....
Food, Sex and Fun? It Must Be Belgian
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BELGIUM is no longer ridiculous. Its culture is mounting a small invasion of central London, and other parts of the British Isles will not be far behind. Belgian chic has arrived and is about to displace the country's old reputation as a place so dull...
For Swinging Sixties
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MOTHER'S 60THBIRTHDAY PARTY MENUORIENTAL PLATTER FROMSUPERMARKET DELIPOACHED DRESSED SALMONCORONATION CHICKENCOLD MEATS PLATTERSELECTION OF SALADSRASPBERRY VACHERINMANGO AND ORANGECHEESECAKESELECTION OF CHEESESBIRTHDAY CAKEDRINKSRED AND WHITE WINEPINK...
Fresh Threat to the Rule of King
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RIDDICK BOWE'S shambolic though sometimes entertaining press conference after his defeat of Herbie Hide in Las Vegas last weekend was dominated by much ritual bad-mouthing between the new World Boxing Organisation champion and his first challenger, Jorge...
Fund Managers in War of Fees
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SAVERS tempted into investing their cash in unit and investment trusts for the first time face a bewildering variety of charging structures from fund management companies.Over the past 18 months, a price war has broken out among providers of unit and...
Funds See Future in Pensions
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PENSIONS are already a hot political issue, and they are likely to command even more attention as the elderly population rises over the next two decades.Meanwhile, the Government has made it clear it is not going to foot the entire pensions bill and...
Fungus and the Bogeymen
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A STRANGER at the Tuesday afternoon truffle market in Lalbenque, deep in the heartland of south-west France, will find the streets deathly quiet. Past the padlocked storefronts of boulangeries and charcuteries, two rows of low wooden benches will stretch...
Goalkeepers' Gear and a Penalty Kick
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IT'S tough in the sports-kit arena, once a global profit gusher. More brands have entered the trainer market, the constant flow of innovation is getting hard to sustain (what else can you do to a trainer?); and there's a major move away from trainers...
Grapevine
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THE AUSTRIANS used to send us their plonk, sweetened up to please the Liebfraumilch drinkers. Then came the antifreeze scandal, and we stopped buying any Austrian wines at all. Now, 10 years later, the Austrian wines that have crept into Britain are...
Green Jean - Can She Drag the Kennedys out of the Mud?
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JEAN KENNEDY SMITH, the late President Kennedy's youngest sister, last week emerged as a leading player in the Northern Ireland peace process. Honoured in New York as "Irish American of the Year" on the very day President Clinton greeted Gerry Adams,...
Grey for the Eyes, Gold for the Ears
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MASOCHISM, incest, necrophilia, a young woman kissing the severed head of a good man: no wonder the "moral stench" of Richard Strauss's Salome shocked audiences at the opera's first appearances in the early 1900s, forcing the sensor to step in. Our modern...
High-Rise or Hovel - It's All Hot Property Bombay Becomes World's Hottest Property
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FOR SALE: a one-room shanty in Bombay's Mahim Creek slum. No electricity, no running water, no view, except of children splashing in an open sewer. Price: pounds 11,000, with a few old tyres heaved on to the roof for ballast, to keep the hut from flying...
Hi-Tech Star Regains Allure
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SIGNS are mounting that a long, dull period is over for a former glamour stock, Renishaw, as the global capital goods spending cycle heads higher. A combination of rising profits and a re-rating of the shares could produce significant capital gains for...
Home Secrets of Britain's Super-Rich on Sale for Pounds 81
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The home addresses of Britain's richest and most famous people have been published in a directory of multi-millionaires on sale to the general public. Some of those included have expressed anger at what they say is a blatant disregard for their privacy...
Hot Line to Less Troubled Waters
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HERE'S a great way to amuse yourself at the expense of your work- mates, for less than the price of a gin and tonic. First, go to a fishing tackle shop and ask for a 25-metre spool of the lightest monofilament line on sale. It won't be very strong; in...
How to Make a Flop
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THE STATE of BBC1's new drama series Crown Prosecutor is comparable to one of the urban crimes with which it purports to deal. The brick has been heaved through the plate-glass window, recriminatory sirens are wailing on all sides and every culprit is...
How We Met
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JOHN COLE: We met at a party for a Guardian colleague in 1967, when Roy was a junior minister. I had no opinion of him - you don't form opinions of politicians until you meet them. Roy is a formidable politician - who I should like to have seen leading...
Ideal Homes
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LOCATION: Cornwall, or beautiful Dor-set. Anyhow, only in the south-west, for climatic reasons. Both Dorset and Cornwall are beautiful in different ways. Also historically interesting, with ruined castles, old churches, country houses - just what I like.ESSENTIAL...
If It's St Patrick's Night, It Must Be Pure Genius
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THEY MAY be Simple Minds, but they're not stupid. They know that the best place to start a European tour is in Dublin on St Patrick's Night, where they have plenty of pure genius on their side. And so, at the Dublin Point on Friday, the atmosphere, even...
Investors Shun Lloyd's Trusts
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AFTER well-publicised dbuts, investors seem to have lost their taste for Lloyd's of London investment trusts.Hailed as saviours of the ailing London insurance market when they were first launched, they are now under fire from investors and analysts.Shares...
IRA Has Enough Semtex for 15 Years
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THE IRA has enough Semtex to build 2,000 bombs like the one that devastated the Baltic Exchange in April 1992, according to intelligence sources.Decommissioning the IRA's arsenal - the largest of any terrorist organisation in Europe - will involve operations...
Irish Hold Whip Hand
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THE IRISH had a pretty successful week at the Cheltenham Festival, and their good fortune remained with them when they crossed the Severn to enjoy the fringe theatre at the Arms Park.Whatever the euphoric travellers thought of the play, and there weren't...
Japanese Spur Suppliers in Two-Speed UK
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BRITAIN is in the throes of the most significant industrial resurgence since the Second World War. Our talent for innovation is being harnessed to new standards of efficiency introduced by Asian manufacturers using this country as a springboard into...
Jordan Returns Today
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Michael Jordan will return to the Chicago Bulls line-up for today's game against the Indianapolis Pacers. The long-anticipated return would end a self-imposed exile from basketball for Jordan, the most spectacular player of his time. He retired from...
Konno Aims to Keep Faith
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SHIGGY KONNO, Japan's rugby supremo and one of the game's greatest personalities, is in no doubt about the direction rugby should be taking. This urbane man is a bastion of amateur principles and Corinthian ideals, and is totally against the concept...
Labour Fumes at Tory Benefactor's Tax Ploy
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GRAHAM KIRKHAM, the Yorkshire businessman who loaned pounds 4m to the cash-strapped Conservative Party, avoided more than pounds 500,000 in tax by paying himself pounds 5.5m in works of art and antiques.Disclosure of the furniture tycoon's tax dodge...
Labour's Bloodhound Tracks the City Fat Cats
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UNMASKED! The tormentor of British Gas chief Cedric Brown and his fellow "fat cats" in the privatised utilities is a 27-year-old economist who has just finished reading I, Claudius and, not surprisingly, hates John Major's government.Nick Vaughan, born...
Lady Thatcher Springs Eternal
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IS THERE no escape? Her political rule may long be over, and Spitting Image may be facing the chop, but the image of Lady Thatcher is undergoing a new popularity - among collectors of memorabilia.Thatcher kitsch, mass produced in the eighties and discarded...
LEADER : More Gaffes, More Truth
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HERE IS how Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer, could have committed an even bigger gaffe last week. He could have said: "The economy is improving but the `feel-good factor', in the old sense, will never return. Not before the election, not...
LEADER : Pick Up the Phone, It's Good to Talk
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BRRNNNGGG! "Excuse me, sir, but do you have a Mr Don Major available on that number?" . . . "No, I'm sorry, I think there must be something in the nature of an error taking place. We have no one of that name here, I'm afraid. There is, though, I perhaps...
LISTER at Large
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Othello, tragic victim of the PC brigadeAFTER the National Theatre's announcement of a radical piece of gender-bending casting - Fiona Shaw as Richard II - I decided to ask both our national companies what plans they had for a Shakespeare play whose...
Long-Stay Patients Ejected by Hospital `Lost Will to Live' When Ejected From
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THREE mentally ill women died soon after being forced under the Government's Care in the Community programme to leave the long-stay hospital where they had spent most of their lives, and their former nurses believe their deaths were due to the trauma...
Lucas Looks beyond Its Parts
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A HUGE weight of expectation is hanging over tomorrow's interim results from Lucas Industries, the auto and aerospace components group that nowadays prefers to call itself a provider of "advanced technology systems".The shares have jumped from 172p to...
Magic Morris Dancing
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WHAT makes Mark Morris the most talked-about dancer today? Not the body beautiful, that's for sure; not high jumps, dazzling technique or even a suggestion of suggestiveness. What Mark Morris does is child's play, and therein lies his genius.The g-word...
Mansell Alliance Fit for Controversy
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IN 1990 Gerhard Berger's seat in his McLaren was frequently as comfortable as an electric chair, yet he said nothing and soldiered on. Nigel Mansell's altogether different reaction to the cramped confines of his new McLaren may be an index of their...
Marie Stopes, Birth-Control Pioneer and Bad Poet
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TINKLING out of the past came a woman's voice. Higher pitched and slightly more authoritative than the Queen's, but with imperious precision and imperial vowels, it spoke of coining "a clean new word for the modern relation between evolved man and woman...
Masters Brave the Big Heat
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IT WAS a week when the body screamed out more than the fans. Unlike the players, they mainly stayed at home, sensibly avoiding the humidity and ricocheting balls at the World Masters Cricket Cup in Bombay. Satellite TV is Asia's largest growth industry...
Mistake Gives Modahl Hope
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DIANE MODAHL'S appeal against a four-year ban imposed when she was found guilty of using the performance-enhancing drug, testosterone, is to be heard by the British Athletic Federation early next month, by which time the International Amateur Athletic...
MoD to Sell off Homes within 12 Months
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NATWEST MARKETS hopes to have privatised the Ministry of Defence's residential property portfolio of some 70,000 homes by early next year.Details of the proposed scheme emerged after a parliamentary answer last week. In the meantime, management of the...
Molyneaux's Cheeky Challenger Faces Return to Obscurity
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LAST week Lee Reynolds contemplated his prospects and glumly concluded: "My political future is over." Given that it is generally the fate of stalking horses to be booted out of the stable, he is probably correct.Mr Reynolds was the darkest of dark horses:...
Moment of Truth for Crdit Lyonnais
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THE full horror of Franois Mitterrand's financial legacy to the French taxpayer finally became clear on Friday when Edmond Alphandry, the French finance minister, revealed that the state-owned Crdit Lyonnais had lost around pounds 1.5bn in 1994, nearly...
More Currency Mayhem Will Put ERM to the Test
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THE MAYHEM in foreign exchange markets is expected to continue this week, after a tumultuous close last week for European currencies.Analysts believe that without co-ordinated government action, investors will continue to flee to the safe havens of the...
Mortal Sin That Strikes at the Heart
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I WELL recall that early summer evening many years ago. We were playing away in a vital game. There was an unusual atmosphere on the coach trip up the motorway. Nerves, for this was the moment of truth. But there was another factor: a rumour that something...
MP in Attack on Coopers
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AUSTIN MITCHELL, the Labour MP, has accused one of Britain's biggest accountancy firms, Coopers & Lybrand, of "playing ducks and drakes with the partnership rules in their efforts to take on lucrative government business".Mr Mitchell made the accusation...
