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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 July 18, 1995
Anglo-French Discord Leaves Rifkind out in the Cold
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MICHAEL SHERIDANBrusselsMalcolm Rifkind yesterday faced his first tough test as Foreign Secretary when he found himself entangled with two key allies over a policy dispute in which the safety of British troops in Bosnia is at stake.Diplomats said Britain...
Appeal Court Quashes 'Gagging' Orders
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TIM KELSEYThe Court of Appeal yesterday overturned government gagging orders on secret documents which may show that it knew British arms were being supplied to Saddam Hussein.Lord Chief Justice Taylor told four businessmen appealing against their convictions...
ARTS: Underrated the Case for Trash TV
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When Marcus Plantin, director of the ITV Network Centre, accused BBC1 of being too commercial only a few days after the demise of The Word was announced, proponents of Trash TV began thinking about the purpose of the medium. Only for a moment, of course,...
A Symphony Is like the World: It Must Embrace Everything
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At first it's almost imperceptible, something sensed rather than heard: a dewy haze of violin harmonics, a sustained A-natural which, only after the ear has fully adjusted to it, can be heard to extend through several octaves to string basses on the...
Athletics: Jackson Decision Angers Radford
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AthleticsMIKE ROWBOTTOMBritain's main athletics administrator last night delivered an astonishing rebuke to his World Championship selectors which threatens to plunge the sport into a costly internal battle.Peter Radford, executive chairman of the British...
Banks and Societies in Dash for Insurance
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NIC CICUTTIHalf the UK's top building societies are investigating the possibility of setting up general insurance subsidiaries, according to a survey by accountancy firm KPMG. Two thirds of Britain's high street banks expect to be in the same market...
Barings Begs Questions about Bank Regulation
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The Barings report comes out today. There will be two obvious elements of interest in it: the criticism of the Bank of England as Barings' regulator; and the forensic detail as to how the actions of one person in a branch office in Singapore could bankrupt...
Barings Report Avoids Central Issue
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JOHN EISENHAMMERFinancial EditorThe Barings report published today will evade the central question of whether supervisory responsibility should be removed from the Bank of England.The long-awaited report specifically criticises the way the Bank carried...
Bath, Boules and Bastille Day
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The city of Bath is normally thought of as a Rugby Union fortress, but there were two big sporting events here in mid-July that for once punctuated the usual long gap between one rugby season and another.One was the Youth Olympics - which, I am afraid...
Beggars Banned in Test of French Tolerance
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MARY DEJEVSKYParisA sharp debate has broken out in France on a subject the French have traditionally seemed more relaxed about than the British: begging.The controversy erupted after the new mayors of several cities decided to outlaw begging in response...
Bitter Twist to Poles' Abortion Curbs
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ADRIAN BRIDGECentral Europe CorrespondentPolish police have reported an alarming surge in the numbers of new- born babies being killed and dumped by their mothers following the passage of a strict anti-abortion law.According to figures released earlier...
Bookies Take a Bashing as Bets Go on Lottery
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GREG WOODThe National Lottery will force the closure of 2,000 betting shops with the loss of more than 6,500 jobs unless the Government intervenes to assist bookmakers who are struggling to compete, according to an independent report to be published...
Casinos Seek Reform of 'Restrictive' Gaming Laws
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WILL BENNETTCasino owners demanded the liberalisation of Britain's gaming laws yesterday, claiming that the current restrictions are driving gamblers away to foreign competitors.The changes would reflect more liberal social attitudes, provide new jobs...
City Diary
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Lucy RobertsThe oft-quoted chief economist at Midland Bank, 43-year-old Roger Bootle, is to join those rare people who dabble in the City as well as the academic world. Bootle has been appointed visiting professor at Manchester Business School.With a...
Clinton Sticks to His Guns on Helicopter Plan
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President Bill Clinton met his top security advisers yesterday to discuss ways of strengthening United Nations forces in Bosnia, amid fears that congressional opposition could doom prematurely plans to use US helicopters to airlift French troops to defend...
Club Professional's Dream Ruined by 'A Triviality'
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TIM GLOVERGordon Law has never played in the Open. Last year he failed to qualify for Turnberry by one stroke but this time it was different. Law shot 66 at Lundin Links yesterday and with an aggregate of 135 he had easily realised his dream of playing...
Comment: Greenbury Had a Tax Ace Up His Sleeve
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In political terms, Sir Richard Greenbury has played an impossible hand more adroitly than anybody expected him to a few months ago, when Michael Heseltine, then President of the Board of Trade, encouraged the Confederation of British Industry to set...
Complaints on New Candidate
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JOHN RENTOULPolitical CorrespondentLiz Davies, chosen by Leeds North East Labour Party as its candidate at the next election, faces a summons to the Labour National Executive to defend herself against complaints by local members about her selection.A...
Conditional Reprieve for the 'Last-Chance Saloon' Cleaned Up Its Act
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If, as David Mellor warned in January 1991, the press was "drinking in the last-chance saloon", then it appears that newspaper editors have been enjoying the world's longest after- hours lock-in.The former cabinet minister's famous warning followed the...
Congress Could Scupper Plans for Helicopter Airlift Plan
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RUPERT CORNWELLWashingtonPresident Bill Clinton and his top security advisers yesterday discussed ways of strengthening UN forces in Bosnia - amid continuing disagreement among Britain, the US and France, and fears that Congressional opposition is already...
Consuming; Classic Romance
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My magnificent sevenI might have bought a Bugatti or a Maserati, or that classic Mercedes rescued from a barn that went for a quarter of a million in the Eighties boom. I didn't, and it is just as well. The rule of thumb "the higher they go the further...
Cover Story; Je Regrette a Thing or Two, Perhaps
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Elegant. The word clings to the figure of Douglas Hurd like a good suit. There he always is, as familiar as an umbrella or a Doric column - slim, the ice-cream curl of snowy hair, the phlegmy voice, the demeanour of mild impatience with the world's refusal...
Dean 'Took Advantage of Confused Woman'
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There is a terrible intimacy about the trial of Brandon Jackson, and a grinding, mechanistic cruelty which is made worse by the apparent informality of the proceedings. Either the dean and his family, or his accuser, Verity Freestone will end with their...
Dean Went on 'Mission of Seduction'
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ANDREW BROWNReligious Affairs CorrespondentThe Dean of Lincoln, the Very Rev Brandon Jackson, jogged through the streets of his city with a wine bottle on a mission to seduce one of his former vergers, a court heard yesterday.Dean Jackson, 60, is on...
Dear Selina Scott
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So, you're obnoxious, boring and unattractive. It's not me who says so, it's Donald Trump, and he doesn't stop there. He says you have "little talent", ask "foolish" questions, are "uptight and insecure" and are - wait for it - "very sleazy".When you...
Demerger Talk Primes Thorn for Statement
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JOHN SHEPHERDSpeculation that Thorn EMI would announce demerger plans at Friday's annual shareholders meeting continued to rise yesterday, driving the share price up another 19p to pounds 13.77 - just 14p short of the all-time high.Thorn is comprised...
Details Sought from TV Bidders
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MATHEW HORSMANThe Independent Television Commission has asked applicants for the new Channel 5 licence to provide "clarifications" of their bids on issues ranging from ownership structure to programming details.The requests give a flavour of the initial...
Diary RUTH PICARDIE
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It has been a turbulent month for glossy magazine editors. Last week, Marcelle d'Argy Smith announced she was leaving Cosmopolitan to spend more time arranging her flat. Now, as all people with their fingers on the pulse of youth culture will be shocked...
Drinks All Round in Saloon
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David Mellor's memorable warning about the press drinking in "the Last Chance Saloon" was given an extensive reworking in the Commons yesterday as Virginia Bottomley set new standards in unpopular announcements - even for her.In her first appearance...
Everton to Sign Short for Pounds 2.7m
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FootballEverton's lack of success in the transfer market since carrying off the FA Cup in May should end today with the completion, finally, of Craig Short's purchase from Derby in a deal worth pounds 2.7m - providing he can agree personal terms with...
Express Newspapers to Axe Up to 80 Jobs
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MATHEW HORSMANExpress Newspapers is to make about 40 editorial staff redundant, and may lay off as many as 40 production and support staff. The publisher of the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Star is to send out letters detailing the layoffs...
Fangio: All-Time Great and Gentleman
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No driver is better positioned to assess the legacy of the late Juan-Manuel Fangio than Stirling Moss, who raced as his team-mate at Mercedes- Benz in 1955 and was one of the few men with sufficient depths of ability to challenge the Argentinian maestro...
Fangio Dies at 84 after Long Illness
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DERICK ALLSOPJuan-Manuel Fangio, one of the greatest sportsmen, let alone racing drivers, of all time, has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 84. He was admitted to Buenos Aires Hospital a few days ago with pneumonia.The son of poor Italian immigrants...
Farepak Takes a Gamble
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Supplying Christmas hampers has been a lucrative little niche for Farepak. Profits have grown steadily through the recession and beyond, with 1990's pounds 2.91m rising impressively to pounds 7.11m in the year to April, 17 per cent up on the previous...
FEEDBACK; True Gripes; Charity Shops
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"Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. . ."Oh yes it is. A quick tour round the local charity shops and St Paul wouldn't have been quite so fulsome in his praises. What are charity shops...
Fish Destroyed by Acid Spillage
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NICHOLAS SCHOONEnvironment CorrespondentFish were partially dissolved yesterday after strong acid leaked from a chemical plant into a small stream.More than 19 tons of hydrochloric acid leaked from a 25ft (8m) tall tank at a chemicals blending firm's...
Flower Power Blossoms on a Council Estate
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If Cyril Jenkins is guilty of anything, it is of planting too many flowers. During two weeks' remand in Swansea and Cardiff prisons, awaiting sentence for possessing 44 grammes of cannabis, the 53-year-old former miner got word from fellow inmates that...
Former Champions Plugged in Fate's Bunker
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They are still in demand although you would not put your mortgage on either of them hitting a fairway. Seve Ballesteros played in an exhibition match against Paul Azinger over the Old Course yesterday and Ian Baker- Finch completed a three-ball with...
Gloves Are off and the Punching Is Hard
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PATRICIA WYNN DAVIESPolitical Correspondent"On the matter of drugs, I don't know the answer." That was Chris Davies, the Liberal Democrats' Littleborough and Saddleworth by-election candidate, digging himself into another hole last Friday night, according...
GOING OUT: How to Put on a Carnival
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Well-established festivities such as the Rio Mardi Gras, Notting Hill Carnival, and Gay Pride offer the chance to participate in massive events which effectively create temporary communities. Part of their appeal is the inevitability of an annual occurrence,...
Grants 'Rigged to Boost Tory Vote'
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A Tory council leader wrote "thank you" letters to government policy advisers and ministers expressing gratitude for grants which helped the party win the 1994 borough elections.Bob Blackman, leader of Tory-controlled Brent council, in north London,...
GREENBURY REPORT: Money Talks: The Chairmen and Chief Executives of the Privatised Utilities Respond to the Report's Recommendations
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JOHN BAKERChairman, National PowerAged 57. Recently stepped down as chief executive.Salary: pounds 484,300 (as chief executive) pounds 180,000 (as chairman)"We believe that our remuneration practices are broadly in line with the report. We will be reviewing...
Has Greenbury Tamed the Fat Cats?
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When the American Indian tribes realised their civilisation was dying they would dance away their remaining years in a ritual stomp. This ghost dance symbolised their inward turning and their crumbling hold on social reality. Reading the report of the...
Has Greenbury Tamed the Fat Cats?
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Greater accountability and transparency about the relationship between directors' rewards and performance can only be to the good. This is the key recommendation of the Greenbury committee and it should be seen not as an imposition on boards but an opportunity...
Hopes of Japanese Rate Cut Boost Dollar
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DIANE COYLEEconomics CorrespondentThe dollar touched a four-month high against the yen yesterday, as financial markets focused on the prospect of more Japanese interest rate cuts.Trading on the foreign exchanges was quiet in advance of Fed Chairman Alan...
How to Beat the Rail Strike
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Never again, they say. Each time there is a rail strike, thousands of commuters look to the new world of teleworking, setting up at home with all the technological paraphernalia of modern office life - the computer, modem and fax - and kissing goodbye...
Indurain Riding Straight into the Record Books
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Miguel Indurain stands head and shoulders above the Tour de France pack. The man from the Navarre farmlands feels close to home: the Spanish border is within cycling distance and he is six days from a record five wins in a row when the Tour resumes today.After...
It Breaks My Heart to See Some Place Open and You Know It's Somebody's Dream and You Know They Haven't Got a Hope in Hell of Lasting out the Year
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Have you noticed when you go into a betting shop that all the pens in there are these stumpy, quarter-sized little midget Biros? Why is that, do you think? Maybe they get a lot of jockeys going into betting shops and they can't get their tiny little...
Ivory Towers
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Holy Derrida, Batman! We've been deconstructed.How many, I wonder, of the throngs now queueing to see Batman Forever have bothered to read The Many Lives of the Batman, a 213-page book - with no pictures - edited by Roberta E Pearson and William Uricchio....
Jackson's Actions Highlight Problem
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The posters around Birmingham's Alexander Stadium at the weekend promised "world class athletics". The British supporter standing at the stadium bar on Saturday afternoon was sceptical.Dressed in a T-shirt from the 1991 European Cup in Frankfurt, one...
Kashmiris Will Kill Hostages 'Any Time Now'
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TIM McGIRK, New Delhi and MUKHTAR AHMED SrinagarKashmiri rebels threatened to start killing their five Western hostages, including two Britons, at "any time from now", after a breakdown in talks with Indian authorities yesterday.In a communique released...
Kevin 'Sought Big Investor to Bail out Group'
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JOHN WILLCOCKFinancial CorrespondentKevin Maxwell believed his dead father's empire would be saved by a "serious and prominent white knight" from Israel with pounds 400m to invest, it was claimed yesterday.The mysterious investor was said to be "absolutely...
Labour Opposes One Reform of Question Time
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Tony Blair, the Labour leader, has rejected changes to the format of Prime Minister's Questions proposed by a powerful Commons committee. The Procedure Committee recommended in a report yesterday that the Leader of the Opposition should have to give...
Labour Pledges Public Access to 'Superhighway'
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CHARLES ARTHURTechnology CorrespondentThe Labour Party has attacked the Government for failing to promote the benefits of the information society and pledged to make the private sector link every school, hospital, public library and health centre to...
Larder's Rush Job for England
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The Keighley Cougars coach, Phil Larder, is setting out on an 11-week dash to get England ready for the centenary World Cup in October.As the most capable and experienced coach available, Larder was the obvious choice for such a pressurised and compressed...
Less Crime in the Thirties
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From Mrs Pat O'ConnorSir: I write in reply to the question as to why was there not more crime when the working class was deeply deprived in the Thirties (letter, 13 July)? In the distant past, I grew up in a "village" within a city. Times were hard,...
Lies, Damned Lies and Chinese Statistics
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First come lies, damned lies, and statistics. And then, in the brave new world of "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", one reaches the challenging domain of "Chinese statistics".Fiddling the figures has become an irresistible temptation in China....
Life Goes on, but All the People Are Different
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Nyanza - Other than some empty shops and broken windows, there is little to indicate the cataclysmic events that overtook this southern Rwandan town just over a year ago. Commerce is again thriving behind the freshly-painted store fronts, and in the...
LIFE: She Had Nearly Killed Me, but I Didn't Want to Be the One to Put Her on Trial
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It had been a good night. Five pints of lager, a curry, a taxi home. Half-way back we rounded a sharp bend and found ourselves on collision course with another vehicle on our side of the road.I had just enough time to swear before it smashed into the...
Lyell Dismisses Calls for SFO Chief to Go
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JOHN RENTOULPolitical CorrespondentSir Nicholas Lyell, the Attorney General, yesterday brushed aside calls in the Commons for the resignation of the director of the Serious Fraud Office. And he refused Labour demands for an independent inquiry into the...
MEDIA: But It's All in the Game
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It's a messy business, sport. Multi-million-pound transfer deals, cash payments and big audience draws. And that's even before you get to the players. Sport today is dominated as much by TV rights deals as it is by the grace and gifts of its participants.Witness...
MEDIA: Psst! So You Want a Guaranteed Ratings Hit? Just Call Us
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Recipe for television success. Take one household name. Add a proven programme format. Blend in a popular idea. Commission research to prove viewers will watch. Serve up your programme proposal. Garnish with an audience guarantee. Easy.So easy, indeed,...
MEDIA: Stateside
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Quentin Tarantino movie-maker, Quentin Tarantino union-buster. Yes, the king of deadpan gore has angered the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) by shooting his new movie with a non- union crew. Tarantino is a fierce opponent...
MEDIA: Why It Pays to Advertise
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Two weeks ago, Charlotte Smith made pounds 15,700 for her company, the publishing house EMAP. Not bad for a week's work. Nor for a 21-year- old only three weeks into her first job since graduating with a 2:2 in social policy. "I had to work very hard...
Merrill May Press Ahead with Offer
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DAVID HELLIERand JOHN EISENHAMMERMerrill Lynch, the US investment bank, is seriously contemplating pressing ahead with a pounds 500m takeover bid for Smith New Court, the stockbroker, even without the prior approval of NM Rothschild, Smith's largest...
Middle Ranks Hit Hardest
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SIMON PINCOMBEThe Chancellor's decision to withdraw income tax relief from discretionary share option schemes was yesterday condemned as irrelevant in curbing executive greed, but a significant blow to wider employee share ownership."This is going to...
Ministers Shrink from Press Curbs
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PATRICIA WYNN DAVIESPolitical CorrespondentThe Government yesterday stepped back from imposing statutory curbs on press abuses of privacy in favour of calls for the industry to set up its own compensation scheme and toughen its code of practice.Virginia...
More Gloom over Housing Market
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DIANE COYLEEconomics CorrespondentMore gloom settled over the housing market last month, according to two surveys published yesterday. But a third survey reported that consumers were feeling more confident about personal finances than at any time in...
Motor Racing: Hill Called a 'Prat' by Frank Williams
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Motor RacingDERICK ALLSOPDamon Hill's uneasy relationship with his own team is likely to be put under further strain, following the revelation that his boss, Frank Williams, apologised to the Benetton-Renault team following Hill's collision with Michael...
MPs Attack Whitehall Handling of Complaints
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NICHOLAS TIMMINSPublic Policy EditorGovernment departments and agencies were condemned by MPs yesterday for encouraging people to complain but then failing either to handle the complaints efficiently or pay proper compensation.The Employment Service...
Net Gains Are Hard to Predict
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If surfing the Net or getting wired means nothing to you, a huge cultural phenomenon is passing you by. You are almost certainly not a shareholder in Unipalm, provider of access to the Internet, the worldwide network of computers, and one of the country's...
Nigeria Warns Oil Firms after British Criticism
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KARL MAIERLagosNigeria warned British Petroleum and Shell yesterday that Britain's criticism of military rule and its human rights record could jeopardise the oil companies' operations.The warning came as the fate of 40 alleged coup plotters and Nigeria's...
Obituaries: Juan Manuel Fangio
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Only truly great sportsmen are revered as much when competing as they are in retirement, and in Juan Manuel Fangio's case his charisma accorded him a godlike status. His name became a synonym for speed.Arguably the greatest racing driver of them all,...
Obituaries: Sir Stephen Spender
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The commanding figure of Sir Stephen Spender, leaning like a tall crane above a city skyline, has been so familiar a sight at literary gatherings around the world that its absence from now on will add considerably to the insecurity and friendlessness...
Opera: EAST AND WEST: The Almeida, London
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The programme for Ian McQueen's East and West (the second of this year's Almeida Opera commissions) quotes from an article published in the Independent last month, in which Bhikhu Parekh wrote of "a remarkable refusal by British society to take a critical...
Paper Giants Combine in $6.8Bn Deal
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DAVID USBORNENew YorkPersonal paper products giant Kimberly-Clark fuelled this year's US mergers rush with its announcement yesterday of its acquisition of rival Scott Paper in a stock-swap agreement worth $6.8bn.The widely-anticipated deal, which the...
Payment Rules Put Accent on Disclosure Is Key to Top Pay Code
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The Greenbury CodeThe remuneration code has been aimed at large companies, but the principles apply equally to smaller ones. Listed companies should include a statement about their compliance in their annual reports and areas of non-compliance should...
Putting a Price on Thorn's Head
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Whispers of a break-up of Thorn EMI into its constituent parts have fuelled the company's share price all year and, with the annual meeting on Friday concluding two days of strategic navel-gazing, the rumour mill has been busier than ever.The shares,...
Racing Set to Pay Cost of Lottery's Success Successposes
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The phrase "a licence to print money" is said to have been coined by Jack Banks, an on-course bookie, to describe betting shops when the off-course betting industry was legalised in 1961. It was heard again just over 30 years later when the National...
Refugees Tell of Women Singled out for Rape
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SNJEZANA VUKICAssociated PressTuzla - A further 4,000 refugees from the Muslim enclave of Srebrencia, which fell to the Serbs last week, arrived in the Tuzla area yesterday, including a contingent of about 1,000 soldiers, many barefoot, bleeding or bandaged....
Review: Music: TONY BENNETT ; Royal Festival Hall
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He hardly stopped smiling all night. But Tony Bennett has plenty to feel happy about. The singer's singer is enjoying an Indian summer that is bringing him bigger audiences and more record sales than he's had for 30 years, and almost everyone in the...
Rifkind Appeals to US after Bosnia Deadlock
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SARAH HELMBrusselsAfter European foreign ministers failed again yesterday to produce a plan of action for Bosnia, Malcolm Rifkind, the Foreign Secretary, flies to Washington today to ask whether the US is willing to reinforce the UN peace-keeping forces.The...
Row over Man's Body Laid to Rest
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Two women who fought over the right to cremate the body of the man they both loved settled the case yesterday after a judge appealed for common sense. The legal aid bill is estimated in the region of pounds 10,000.David Brinson, 42, a private investigator...
Rugby League: Lomu 'To Sign for Leeds' Claim
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Rugby LeagueDAVE HADFIELDJonah Lomu, the All Black winger who shot to stardom in the rugby union World Cup, will join the Leeds rugby league side, a leading New Zealand newspaper claimed today.The New Zealand Herald said the deal, believed to be worth...
Science; Molecule of the Month: Oxalic Acid
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Cooks in this year's Master Chef, the BBC's popular competition which ended this month, surprised judges by choosing rhubarb as an ingredient. Rarely used today, this food was once very popular and famed for its laxative properties. Rhubarb works because...
Science: Technoquest
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Q. How do safety matches work?A. When you strike a safety match phosphorus sesquisulphide in the rough "striking" strip reacts with potassium chlorate in the head to give an initial spark. This sets off a solid state reaction in the match head that raises...
Science: Time to Take the Bull by the Horns
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T urn to any guide book and it is clear enough where one can find Africa's wildlife. It is in the great national parks such as the Masai Mara in Kenya or the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania. These are the remaining shards of Africa's wilderness, where...
Serbs' Obsession with Ethnic Cleansing
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From Mr John DohenySir: The fall of Srebrenica could have been averted had the West's strategic thinkers taken a few lessons in psychology. The Serb obsession with "ethnic cleansing" has its origin in what can best be described as a purification compulsion....
Site Unseen; Exeter Maritime Museum
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Kolek, opepe and sambuk are not the kind of words which you expect to find in any respectable family newspaper. In fact, however, they are not exotic new designer drugs but rather the various sailing vessels to be seen moored in the unexotic city of...
Sobriety at the Saloon
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The most rowdy drinkers in the Last Chance Saloon may be tempted today to raise their glasses and drink the health of Virginia Bottomley, the new Heritage Secretary. After all, her recommendations for how the press might be expected to clean up its act...
Stores Group Warns on Profits
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NIGEL COPEFashion chain French Connection became the latest in a string of stores groups to warn of lower-than-expected profits.Shares fell 23 per cent to 223p when it said problems in the UK and the US would mean profits of only pounds 1m for the six...
Television: Review
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Woks, should you be thinking of writing a sitcom, appear to have made it on to one of those unofficial lists of funny objects. Time was when an errant boyfriend would have been brained with a saucepan and the great British audience, uncorrupted by cosmopolitan...
Tennis: Seles Signs Up for the US Open
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TennisJOHN ROBERTSMonica Seles has confirmed her intention of making a comeback by applying for entry for the United States Open, which starts on 28 August. The former world No 1's name was on the list of entries well before yesterday's deadline.The...
Theatre: SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL; Chichester Festival Theatre
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There's a mildly disconcerting moment at the start of Richard Cottrell's production of School for Scandal when a smartly dressed woman in early middle age wanders on to the stage, looking a bit lost, and you experience a flicker of uncertainty - is this...
The Fast Women in Netball's Hard World
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There will be blood on the floor at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena this week. Not because another world championship boxing title is up for grabs at the Midlands venue, and not because the Gladiators have returned for another series. For the next...
The Odd Couple on Honeymoon in the Sun
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The Sun's coverage yesterday of Tony Blair's speech to the Murdoch conference in Australia was very nearly as interesting as the speech itself.Not only was it given handsome four-column treatment across page two, but in a long and thoughtful editorial,...
The Price of Strife: Pounds 16m a Day
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There is little doubt that the strikes by British Rail drivers will hit business much harder than last year's industrial action by signal workers. While BR managed to provide an increasing number of services on most major routes last year, employers...
The Wages of Transparency
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We all want to know what everyone else is paid, but we don't want to tell anyone what we get. When we hear about big incomes, we're either admir different firms, in different industries only produce arbitrariness: "fairness" in these matters is a dangerous...
'Three Strikes' Murder Trial Gets under Way
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EDWARD HELMORELos AngelesAmerican trial watchers will this week be offered another notorious case to add to their collections along with those of OJ Simpson and Susan Smith, the mother accused of killing her two young sons.Jury selection is under way...
Ticket to a Tragedy
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ANOTHER VIEWFor the second time in four days, Britain's railways are likely to be at a virtual standstill today. That means infuriating disruption for millions. For the industry, I believe it is tragic.Particularly, that is, because the railways can...
