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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 January 17, 1996
30 More Pelican Sites Set to Take Flight
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The boom in branded restaurants will see Pelican Group start trading from another 30 sites this year, creating 700 jobs in the process. This will increase the number in its chain of Cafe Rouge, Mamma Amalfi, Rock Island Diner and Dome restaurants by...
Air Aces Test Eurofighter in a Fantasy Flight from Reality
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WILL BENNETTIn the skies over an unidentified nation yesterday, Flt Lt Sandy Gordon, of the RAF, and Lt Kevin Seymour, of the Fleet Air Arm, fought a fierce aerial battle, each twisting and turning to avoid being shot down.The honour of the Royal Navy...
Algiers Ridicules Peace Overtures
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Algeria's military-backed government came under increasing pressure yesterday to give a positive response to a peace initiative launched by opposition parties in Rome last week, with one fundamentalist leader warning that the only alternative to d ialogue...
Alliance Blocks Float Payouts to the Carpetbaggers
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JOHN WILLCOCKFinancial CorrespondentSo-called "carpetbaggers" who poured several million pounds into new accounts in the Alliance & Leicester Building Society over the last couple of days in the hope of bonus payouts when it converts to bank status will...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL : Cowboys' Spirit Not Enough to Stop 49ersamerican Football: San Francisco on Course for Super Bowl Record against the Ch Argers. Matt Tench Reports
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Deion Sanders said it would be the Super Bowl, but the game itself made a mockery of that prediction. It was much, much better than that. This season's NFC Championship game produced a struggle of such titanic proportions that the Super Bowl on S unday...
An End to the Greek Myth
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No doubt there will be plenty of Greeks saddened by yesterday's news that Andreas Papandreou has finally resigned as prime minister. After all, he has been the towering personality of Greek politics over the past 15 years, stamping the nation's psyche...
ANOTHER VIEW: Not All Newbury's Businesses Want a Bypass
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At a meeting in Newbury yesterday, a group of local businessmen voiced our opposition to the Newbury bypass, much to the astonishment of local journalists. Why do we take our present position? Because often environmental concerns are also those of business.Fundamentally,...
Anticipating the Millennium
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While the best gains in investment are likely to accrue to people with the time and dedication to seek out value in individual companies, for the vast majority that is not a viable option. If you are not a professional investor, you have to make fewer...
A Passenger's Guide to the Future
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What are the Government's proposals for the railways?The privatisation of the railways was a commitment in the 1992 manifesto and fleshed out in a White Paper published that summer.The plan implemented by the Railways Act 1993 is so complicated that...
A Ray of Hope for Sun Worshippers
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Searching out the winter sun on the ski slopes or the beaches of the Caribbean has its price. Along with a healthy-looking tan comes the unhealthy risk of skin cancer.The British are particularly susceptible - notably those who tan poorly and are of...
A Signal for Truth
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During a recent foray into Afghanistan, Rahimullah Yusufzai, the BBC's man in Peshawar, met a Muslim rebel commander nicknamed "the Wrestler". The Wrestler, it transpired, was an avid BBC listener."He told me that when he and the other commanders hit...
A Warm Body in a boxThe Late Donald Judd's Minimalism Can Seem Impersonal, Even Ascetic. Not So, Sa Ys Brydon Smith
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I first met Donald Judd in the late Sixties but I'd already seen his work in 1965. It was just so different from anything else. So much so that it took me a couple of years to really understand it. It was his retrospective at the Whitney in 1967that...
Becker Taken to the Brink by Rusedski
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TennisGreg Rusedski went close to causing the first major upset of the Australian Open before losing in five sets to Boris Becker, the fourth seed. Becker eventually won 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, but only after Rusedski had led two sets to one and was...
Berlusconi Tax Trial Opens
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ANDREW GUMBELRomeSilvio Berlusconi is a man well used to creating media circuses, but he may have doubts about the one that awaits him in Milan's Palace of Justice this morning. Before a barrage of television cameras, only some working for his Fininvest...
Between the Lines
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I've always been exercised about the difference between the law- abiding good man and the elemental forces inside him being suppressed by society. It interests me, the extent to which we need to censor ourselves. What is more useful, to be a contributing,...
BOOK REVIEW : Angry Summer of an Unhappy Miner
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The poetry of Idris Davies has long been thought of as representing the authentic voice of the Welsh valleys. He wrote mostly about the inter-war Depression, particularly the General Strike of 1926 and the social deprivation that spread throughou t the...
Bosnian Truce Put at Risk by Double Impasse
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The uneasy truce in Bosnia is at risk of collapse following fighting in the government-held Bihac enclave and both parties' refusal to show good faith and comply with the terms of the agreement signed on new year's eve. Although the cease-fire is holdingacross...
Bowkett Makes Pounds 6.4m Profit as Shares Return
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Alan Bowkett, chief executive of Berisford International, made a potential paper profit of pounds 6.4m - pounds 13,000 a minute - yesterday as shares soared after coming back from suspension.The Berisford shares were suspended at 228p on 19 December,...
Branson Challenges BA over Australian Routes
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Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson is to launch another attack on British Airways with calls for an investigation into BA's partnership agreement with the Australian airline, Qantas.Mr Branson's lawyers are preparing reports for the Civil Aviation Authority...
Brave Ipswich Rely on the Wright Stuff
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DERICK ALLSOPBlackburn Rovers 0 Ipswich Town 1 (after extra time)Paul Mason, one of Ipswich Town's substitutes, plundered the goal five minutes from the end of extra time which settled the issue, but this will go down in Suffolk folklore as the night...
Brokers Expelled over Use of Client Assets
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The Securities and Futures Authority, the City regulator, has expelled two brokers in unrelated cases of misappropriation of clients' assets.Stephen Ball was responsible for administration, settlement and nominee services at the former Central Stockbrokers...
Burns Has Hearts on His Mind
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Tommy Burns yesterday mapped out his first desired destination for his Celtic team, even if he cannot give the estimated time of arrival.The Parkhead chief hopes the game against Hearts today will produce a victory to mark another signpost on the road...
Cable Operators Bury Their Heads in the Sand
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Both as a business and an investment, Britain's nascent cable TV industry is proving little short of a disaster. Things may change, but right now our main cable companies are failing to deliver the penetration rates promised at the time of flotation,...
Call Thatcher, Nolan Told
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The Nolan Committee on standards in public life must look at party political funding and should call Baroness Thatcher to give evidence, Labour said yesterday as it proposed a "Governance of Britain Act" to restore confidence in public life.With the...
Care Order for Child at Risk Must Be Based on Facts
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Re H (minors); House of Lords (Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Browne- Wilkinson, Lord Mustill, Lord Lloyd of Berwick and Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead); 14 December 1995A care order under section 31(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 could be made only if, on...
Catch the Ones That Got Away
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Your production of an early Ibsen above a Camden pub was a sell- out success, you've got a handful of rave reviews, your last-night party was wild, but when you wake up the next morning, what happens? Nothing. Small-scale theatre works within a system...
Chechens Face Nightmare on Lenin Street
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Lenin Street in Grozny was probably the most dangerous place in the world yesterday, as Russian shells whooshed and thudded overhead every few seconds against a constant background of machine-gun fire.The street runs south from the presidential palace...
Chechensgive Balts Courage
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The tenacity of the Chechen resistance to the Russian army has given heart to the Baltic states, where fears of Moscow's intentions remain acute.Defence experts in all three countries have been closely watching recent developments in Chechnya to see...
Chechens Seize Ferry and Take 165 Hostage
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PHIL REEVESPervomayskoyeHUGH POPEIstanbulChechen rebels hijacked a Russian ferry in the Turkish port of Trabzon yesterday and headed out into the Black Sea with 165 hostages on board.The hijack was the latest blow for Boris Yeltsin as fighting between...
Chelsea Counting on Current Form
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FootballMark Hughes has been told to turn his back on confrontation when Chelsea travel to St James' Park to meet Newcastle in tonight's FA Cup replay.However, Glenn Hoddle, the Chelsea manager, believes that Chelsea's current form, rather than the possible...
Chernomyrdin Warns of Threat to Democracy
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Moscow - The Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, yesterday told the nation in a television address that the conflict in Chechnya had put in jeopardy Russia's progress towards democracy and called for immediate peace talks to end what he c alled...
Children in Care `Denied Basic Rights'
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GLENDA COOPERChildren in residential care have been denied "basic human rights" and have had their allegations of abuse dismissed, according to a leading children's charity. A report, So Who Are We Meant To Trust Now? - Responding to Abuse in Care, for...
China Puts the Blinkers on News
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TERESA POOLEPekingChina yesterday said it was taking control of the dissemination of all foreign economic news within the country. The regulations appear to permit it to censor and delay such news and allows it to punish providers of foreign economic...
Clarke's Tough Inflation Target `Is Risky'
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Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, may have set too tight a target for future inflation risking "loss of credibility" if it is not met, the cross-party Treasury and Civil Service Committee warned yesterday.In an assessment of the Budget, the committee said...
Classical Young Artist Series / Park Lane Group Purcell Room, London
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The two primly dressed young ladies, late of the St Petersburg Conservatory, may not look like the Labeques, but in style and technique these two pianists are as hot as two nuclear rods. Their all-too-short recital cropped up in the middle of the Park...
Cognac Sales Headache for Remy Cointreau
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NIGEL COPERemy Cointreau, the French drinks group, reported a fall in operating profits yesterday as a result of lower sales of its Remy Martin brand of cognac and the effects of currency fluctuations. The company also announced plans to reduce its Fr8.8bn...
Cole Leaves It Late to Sink Sunderland
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FootballSunderland 1 Manchester United 2Andy Cole dragged Manchester United back from possible FA Cup ignominy last night when he scored a goal after 89 minutes of this third-round replay on his first visit back to the North-east since his pounds 7m...
Comedy's Debt to the Wide Boys
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Up on the stage of the Whitehall Theatre, Tommy Tit and Billy Bottom, a newly forged double-act, were hacking through their audition piece: an Abbott and Costello sketch so old you could smell the formaldehyde. Tommy, or possibly Billy, wore a co medy...
Complaints to Solicitors Hit `Wall' of Red Tape
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STEPHEN WARDLegal Affairs CorrespondentPeople who complain about poor work by solicitors face a wall of delays, unhelpfulness and bureaucracy, a survey by the Law Society reveals today.Solicitors themselves often ignore grievances completely, and the...
Confusion surroundsMiddlesex Sevens
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Rugby LeagueDAVE HADFIELDRugby League's participation in the Middlesex Sevens is under threat because of the Rugby Football Union's backlash against professionalism.The League had been due to decide this week which of its clubs, probably Wigan or St...
Cork Accepts He Must Alter His One-Day Ways
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CricketEngland's management are trying to get another Derbyshire pace man to change the way he bowls - but this time there will be no controversy.As the Devon Malcolm revelations rumbled on in Great Britain, Dominic Cork admitted in Durban yesterday...
Crisis Grows over Intensive Care Beds for Children
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LIZ HUNTHealth EditorThe Government was facing a new health crisis last night, following reports of a nationwide shortage of intensive care beds for children, some suffering from meningitis.Children with the life- threatening infection have been turned...
Dawn of a New Era in Road Accidents
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How is this new daylight arrangement going to work?Well, for a start, evening road accidents will be transferred to the morning.You mean, the accidents which would normally take place in the grim, grey evenings will now take place in the grim, grey mornings?Yes.Will...
Dear Mothers-to-Be
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Let me tell you a story about pregnancy, childbirth and choices for women in these modern times. When I say "story", I don't mean that what follows is fiction; sadly, it's the real-life, everyday story of mothers across the country who wanted a h ome...
Debenham's Profits Collapse
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TOM STEVENSONCity EditorThe moribund property market claimed another victim yesterday as Debenham Tewson & Chinnocks announced a slump in profits for the six months to October and slashed its dividend from 1.5p a share to just 0.6p.Debenham's shares,...
Delia Smith's Gift Is for Taking Cookery to the Masses. but Isshe Doing Enough for Those Who Can't Afford Pecorino Cheese or Pancetta? Louise Levene Has a Plan
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It has sold 1.6 million copies and counting. Delia Smith's latest publishing phenomenon goes from strength to strength. Her beaming face garnishes the cover of the Radio Times every week and her recipes have even found their way on to The Archers. Pancetta...
Diary
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Daniel gets real (again)There's acting, there's method acting and there's Daniel Day-Lewis. Having chained himself to a wall to prepare for the part of one of the Guildford Four and run around with no clothes on to read himself into The Last of the Mohicans,...
Did This War Have to happen?Nik Gowing Examines Whether the West Can Help Prevent Conflicts Such as Chechny A
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The awful inevitability of Chechnya's defeat at the hands of the Russian army comes at a moment when prevention and pre-emption are the buzzwords of diplomacy. Potential regional conflicts must be identified, tackled at root, then snuffed out bef ore...
Dismay as Economic Reformer Quits
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JONATHAN LYNNReuterMoscow - Russia's top reformer, First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, resigned yesterday, making clear he had lost President Boris Yeltsin's trust."The President's evaluation of my personal work has become known to me in recent...
Doctors Demand New Security from Attack
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COLIN BROWNChief Political CorrespondentDoctors' leaders who are due to meet ministers tomorrow to demand better security in surgeries are also pressing police chiefs to agree that they should be allowed to examine violent patients in police stations...
Drowned Crew `Left to Sink or Swim' Trawler Crew `Sent to Their Deaths'
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A six-strong novice crew were "sent to their deaths" by two men who ran their unseaworthy trawler, a court was told yesterday. The steel-hulled scalloper Pescado was unstable when it sailed from Falmouth, Cornwall, on 25 February 1991 without a qualified...
Duma Attacks Yeltsin over Rescue Fiasco
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HELEN WOMACKMoscowCommunists and liberal reformers alike heaped criticism on President Boris Yeltsin yesterday for his handling of Russia's latest hostage crisis when the newly-elected State Duma met for the first time.Underlining the pressure on Mr...
Du Plessis in as Springboks Coach
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RUGBY UNION : Louis Luyt finally had his way yesterday when Jannie Engelbrecht was sacked as manager of the Springboks team barely four months before South Africa hosts the World Cup. It is only six weeks since the end of the successful tour of Wales,...
Editor Denies Slur on Singapore Judiciary
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SINGAPORE - An editor International Herald Tribune testified in a contempt case yesterday that an article criticising unnamed Asian judiciaries did not refer to Singapore.Michael Richardson, the paper's Asia editor, said the reference to a "compliant...
England Bring Ince Back into the Fold
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PHIL SHAWTerry Venables yesterday restored Paul Ince to his first squad of this European Championship year, but still found no place for Matthew Le Tissier.The 25-man party which will assemble for a "get-together" at Bisham Abbey from next Sunday until...
Five Go Mad on National Service
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In rugby union it is World Cup year and that makes it extra special. But in rugby union every year is Five Nations year and that makes every year special. The Five Nations' Championship - even though for much of its time there were only four - is the...
France's Cup Legion Recruits Arenice
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If there is one thing the French like better than trumpeting their gastronomic qualities it is putting one over the English. Thus in a land where the most likely place to find a horse is on the end of your fork there is a special place reserved f or...
Fraser Axes Three Stores
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House of Fraser, the department store group, is to close three stores in the North of England with the loss of 250 jobs .The Binns stores in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and Bridlington, Humberside, and the Rackhams store in Bradford will close at the...
Fresh Channel 5 Bid Evidence
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MATHEW HORSMANMedia EditorThe row over the controversial Channel 5 auction last night threatened to intensify, as fresh evidence came to light of possible irregularities in the award of Britain's last terrestrial television licence.On the eve of this...
Granada Raids Forte Shares
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MATHEW HORSMANGranada yesterday bet almost pounds 400m that it would win the acrimonious battle for Forte, the hotels group. Around mid-morning it waded into the stock market snapping up 9.2 per cent of its prey.The manoeuvre was seen by analysts as...
Greater Demand Lifts Eurocamp Profit to Pounds 8.65m
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Eurocamp, the self-drive camping specialist, is recovering and poised to benefit from the expected sharp increase in holiday traffic stemming from the now fully operational Channel Tunnel.Profits before tax for the year to October rose from a depressed...
Great Satirical Admen Never Die, They Just Peter Out
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Tributes were pouring in over the weekend after the sudden departure of Maurice "Pete" Saatchi, the man who is often described as the father of satirical English advertising."There was nobody quite like him." "There were lots of people a bit like him,...
`Gridlock' in Secure Beds Adds to Crisis on Wards
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NICHOLAS TIMMINSPublic Policy EditorHealth managers claim that "gridlock" in the secure beds designed to take the most disturbed and potentially violent offenders has contributed to the dangerous pressures on acute psychiatric wards.It is one of six...
`Guardian' Article Was `Anti-Tory Scandal-Mongering'
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An article in the Guardian newspaper about the Conservative Party's handling of donations from the fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir constituted "a piece of sensational, anti-Conservative scandal-mongering", a High Court jury was told yesterday.The story, written...
Her Channel's Definitely Not for Brenda in Leicester
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"UK Living is a challenging political concept," says its programme director, Lis Howell. "Young women think `I don't need it'; older women `I don't want it' - but we live in a non-equal society and much TV patronises women. UK Living might have i ts...
Here Are Some Star Cooks Who Made It Earlier
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FANNY CRADOCKBegan her TV series in 1953, when post-war austerity still lingered and the British palate was desperate for something a little more elaborate, preferably in a Mornay sauce. Her husband, the rather docile Johnny, was a useful asset, partnering...
High Blood Pressure: Is Your Doctor on the Case?
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Deborah Hart discovered she had high blood pressure, four years ago during a routine check-up. A GP took one reading and said it should be regularly monitored - but he did not tell her how serious high blood pressure can be or offer any advice ab out...
Hopes Receding for Survival of Lotus
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MOTOR RACING : Attempts to salvage Lotus, once the world's premier Grand Prix team, could be called off today. Another, and perhaps final, announcement on the marque's prospects is due from the office of David Hunt, the businessman who has tried to put...
Hot! New! Sizzling!
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Browsers in the Peking wholesale book market are spoilt for choice. Here in Chinese translation is the Marquis de Sade, and next to it The Generation of Lecherous Women. For the ambitious cadre there is that perennial best-seller, Skills of being a government...
How to Make a Memorable Home Video
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Home video has a bad name. The very words bring to mind interminable evenings watching footage of the neighbours on holiday in Marbella, or at their daughter's wedding. It is invariably shot with a technique unique to home video: Wobble-O-Vision. And,...
Idiots and Insults, Ad nauseamMaurice Isn't the Only One to Have Had a Bad Time at Saatchi's, Writes Lynne Wa Llis
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The difficulties at The World's Favourite Advertising Agency fail to induce any sympathy in me. I worked there in the mid-Eighties, as a secretary, then an account executive and finally in the media department, buying television and radio airtime and...
If Children Accuse, Can There Be Justice?
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When the Bishop Auckland child abuse case was thrown out last week at Newcastle Crown Court, the Crown revealed the existence of a crisis: the prosecutor said it should not be inferred that the accusers - children alleging sadistic sexual abuse - were...
In Any Language Money's the Word
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It's late on a Friday afternoon. A City lawyer suddenly receives instructions to fly to Colombia to negotiate a mineral rights contract. His senior partner tells him the deal is vital because the new client is a multinational company rumoured to be...
Indian MPs Face Graft Trial
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TIM MCGIRKNew DelhiSeven senior Indian opposition politicians were charged with corruption yesterday for allegedly taking pay-offs from a money-changing racket. Investigators also want to prosecute three cabinet ministers and have asked the President,...
Inflation Test about to Begin
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The great inflation test is about to begin. For three or four years inflation in Britain has consistently been lower than the consensus had forecast. But that was the easy part. Experience the unpleasant surprise of the longest (though not the de epest)...
Inquiry into Abuse Claims at Care Home Run by Christians
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JOHN ARLIDGE andPATRICIA WYNN DAVIESThe Scottish Office is to issue tough new guidelines for the inspection of residential care homes in Scotland. And it is to launch an urgent investigation of registration procedures in the wake of a fresh scandal involving...
Inside Parliament:Low-Speed Legislation Ahead
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The Bill to allow construction of a high-speed rail link from London to the Channel tunnel was given a Second Reading yesterday. But it will still take at least seven years to confound President Mitterrand's elegant jibe about Euro-trains ambling throughKent...
Ipswich Prove Awkward for Blackburn
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FootballDERICK ALLSOPBlackburn Rovers 0 Ipswich Town 0 (score at 90 min)An FA Cup third-round replay that neither side appeared capable of winning made its haphazard way into extra time, doubtless buoying Walsall's confidence for the next round.Given...
Is the Party over for Maggie's Kids?
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Sam Small will have to find something else to do on the first weekend in February. In the past, as an active member of the party, Mr Small might have taken himself off to the Young Conservatives' annual conference, there to have a chin wag and to socialise...
It's Naked. Very Naked Indeed
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"You're doing what?" yelped Jeff Nutall, when I rang about the theatre group he founded. "You're going on the road with the People Show . . . voluntarily?"He then gleefully detailed 28 years' worth of rifts, mythical misbehaviour and personality meltdowns:...
I Withdrew to the Smoking Room Where We Must Sit around a Plastic Urn Full of Butt Ends as If Worshipping Them
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Bridget Jones's diaryFriday 12 January 9st 3 (vg). Alcohol units 3 (vg). Cigarettes 32 (vv bad). Calories 1,800 (g). Instants 4 (fair).Am going to change life: stop smoking entirely and form functional relationship with adult man: poss. former boyfriend...
Jump in Factory Gate Prices Gives Warning
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Higher duties on tobacco and petrol announced in the Budget at the end of November led to a big increase in prices charged by manufacturers last month. Yet prices at the factory gate also rose after excluding the Budget effects, warning of higher retail...
Lawmakers to Take Up the Attack
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Rugby UnionSTEVE BALERugby union's international lawmakers will decisively shift the balance from defence towards attack if they adopt a proposal at this month's Inter- national Board annual meeting in London to keep all 16 forwards bound into a scrummage...
LEADING ARTICLE : Care Endangering the Community
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The killing of Georgina Robinson was a landmark in the history of care in the community. This was not just another preventable death on the streets perpetrated by a patient who had slipped through the net. Ms Robinson, an occupational therapist, was...
LEADING ARTICLE : Clouds over Felipe's Reign in Spain
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Felipe Gonzalez has served Spain well since becoming prime minister in 1982. He took office only seven years after the return of democracy, and only one year after a gang of foolish military officers attempted a coup in Madrid. Mr Gonzalez proved that...
LEADING ARTICLE : Getting Back on the Rails
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Whose side are you on, Prescott's or Mawhinney's? Are you enthralled by the prospect of the snazzy carriages and chaotic ticketing of privatisation, or really keen on a return to the good old days of huge subsidies and slack management? As a frie nd...
LEADING ARTICLE: One Nation Tories in Search of a Home
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On Thursday night the great She-Elephant stopped for a brief moment to trumpet her defiance at the rest of the world. This week some minor Tories, like outraged gnats, have taken to the wing, buzzing with shrill indignation at all the noise.One of these...
LEADING ARTICLE: When Lawyers Let Us Down
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Imagine it: you've finally managed to sell your house. After months of waiting, the deal has been done and contracts have been exchanged. All those anxious months of waiting are over. The escape from negative equity is nigh. Then you find that the solicitor...
Left and Liberals Round on Yeltsin
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HELEN WOMACKMoscowCommunists and liberal reformers alike heaped criticism on President Boris Yeltsin yesterday for his handling of Russia's latest hostage crisis when the newly-elected State Duma met for the first time.Comments from the Communist leader,...
Lenders Meet Lilley on Home Support
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Mortgage lenders are meeting Peter Lilley, the social security Secretary today in an attempt to overturn Budget proposals which would cut social security support for home owners.The lenders will warn Mr Lilley that if the Government procedes with its...
LETTER : Andrew Lees Was a Local Hero
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From Mr Nick Mayhew Sir: Your generous coverage of Andrew Lees's tragic death and his concerns in Madagascar has been very welcome. His obituary (9 January) by Richard D. North was, I thought, particularly evocative of much that was so special about...
LETTER : Council Finds Way to Save Druridge Bay
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From Mr C. J. Offord Sir: With reference to the article by David Nicholson-Lord about sand extraction at Druridge Bay, Northumberland ("Beautiful beach carted away for building sand", 3 January), Northumberland County Council is the mineral planning...
Lindi and Her Excellent Slaves
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I first met Lindi St Clair, aka Miss Whiplash, prostitute and dominatrix to members of both Houses and the judiciary to boot - or so she claims - in the waiting-room of Greenwich Magistrates' Court.She is a pretty woman with a large presence and there...
Lloyds Offers Couple a Way out of Ruin
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STEVE BOGGANand MARK LISTERA couple who won pounds 77,500 damages from Lloyds Bank have been offered a chance to avoid being bankrupted in a pounds 150,000 counter-claim by the bank's lawyers.Richard Spindler and Julia Verity made legal history last...
Lloyds Offers Couple Escape Route
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STEVE BOGGANand MARK LISTERA couple who won pounds 77,500 damages from Lloyds Bank have been offered a chance to avoid being bankrupted in a pounds 150,000 counter-claim being pursued by lawyers for the bank.Richard Spindler and Julia Verity made legal...
Lloyd Webber Drops Curtain on Dunaway Row
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It would have been the court case that could have inspired a musical: the ageing film star scorned by the powerful producer in her bid to play the role of the ageing film star scorned by the powerful producer.Faye Dunaway and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber...
MARKET REPORT : Rebound in Prices Fuels Fresh Optimism
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Shares stretched to their highest this year, prompting hopeful speculation that confidence is at last returning to the stock market.Once again, US influences loomed large. New York's strength since Friday's unexpected fall in retail prices has created...
MICROBE OF THE MONTH : Bacterial Secrets of the Deep Blue Sea
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Near the surface of the sea a few miles off the shore of Kinko Bay on the coast of Japan, American and Japanese scientists have found a bacterium that is capable of producing a potent and hitherto unknown antibiotic.The discovery is as welcome as it...
Mind Who You Call Primitive
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West Papua has been much in the news this week, because of the kidnapping of a group of Europeans. If you believe the media coverage, the kidnappers are "primitive","stone-age" tribesmen, who only recently gave up "head-hunting". There is in the use...
Minister Carpeted as Tories Close Ranks over Thatcher
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DONALD MACINTYREPolitical EditorAlistair Burt, a social security minister, has been officially "reprimanded" by government whips for writing a letter to a newspaper attacking "breathtaking" remarks in Baroness Thatcher's controversial lecture last week.The...
