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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 August 19, 2000
Adventurer Celebrates 7,000-Mile Pedal across Ocean with a Cold Beer in Australia
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THE BRITISH adventurer Jason Lewis finished his 7,000-mile voyage pedalling across the Pacific from America to Australia by downing a cold beer yesterday. Mr Lewis, 32, from Bridport, Dorset, and April Abril, a 42-year- old teacher, pedalled their 26ft...
`A Fifth of Universities Could Close If Fees Rise'
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TOP-UP FEES for students would lead to the closure of some universities, says a report from a leading group of higher education experts. A union leader warned yesterday that as many as one in five universities could close if the cap on tuition fees is...
Algae in Famed Kent Oyster Beds Threatens to Ruin Producers
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THE PRODUCERS of the famed oysters at Whitstable in Kent are facing financial ruin after the indefinite closure of the oyster beds because of a health scare. The crisis follows the discovery of an algae-born bug, diarrhoetic shellfish poisoning (DSP),...
Anthrax Alert Hits Factory in Yorkshire
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WORKERS AT a Yorkshire factory have been warned to look out for signs of anthrax after one of their colleagues was struck down by the rare disease. It is believed that the 35-year-old factory worker from Bradford became infected from a cut on his arm....
AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 DAYS WITH THE PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT: Globe- Trotting Arafat Takes Statehood off the Map
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HOW MANY countries do you have to visit to declare a state? Does an albatross follow Chairman Yasser Arafat to Iran, France, South Africa, China, Russia, Indonesia, Japan? There were times, after he returned this week, that one was tempted to ask whether...
ARTS: Jazz - the Wailing World of Sixties Cool - CHARLES LLOYD BRECON JAZZ FESTIVAL
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WHILE AMERICAN jazz musicians of a certain age might not yet have discovered the secret of eternal youth, they are certainly getting close. Charles Lloyd took the stage looking, if anything, younger than his 35-year-old portrait on the cover of the recent...
ARTS: Meet the Daughter of Invention ; Actor, Comedienne, Sculptress and Now Novelist, Moon Unit Zappa Is Following Her Father Frank's Example and Pushing Back Boundaries. but It's Not So Easy, She Tells Rachel Halliburton
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So your father's famous, his distinctive face with its drooping moustache stamped on the memory of anyone who tuned into the spirit of the late Sixties and Seventies. And though he's been dead for seven years, you live in a world filled with his disciples,...
ARTS: The Main Event - Classical - MacMillan Puts the Grit in Britten ; ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/ MACMILLAN USHER HALL EDINBURGH
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COMPOSERS ARE not always successful as conductors, though Pierre Boulez has had a good run for his money. Past sights of James MacMillan on the podium did not suggest that he was in the Boulez category. But his reading of Britten's A Spring Symphony...
Athletics: Jackson Left in a Quandary by Garcia Victory
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COLIN JACKSON'S Olympic ambition was knocked out of its stride here at the IAAF Golden League meeting last night as he was soundly beaten over 110m hurdles by the man whom he has identified as his leading rival in Sydney, Anier Garcia. Despite a good...
Big Brother Offers Lessons in Life as a Scouse Builder Outwits the Public School Machiavelli
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VIEWERS MIGHT not have guessed it as they watched the daily inconsequential conversations between the residents of the Big Brother house, but it turns out that all of human life is there. As several million viewers last night watched the stockbroker...
BOATS, SHIPS & SAILS: I've Got Wind in My Sails ; A Cruise Can Be More like a Prison Sentence Than a Holiday. but of Course It All Depends on Your Vessel, Your Shipmates and Your Own Horizons
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There are people who are not obvious candidates for holidays afloat, especially in a group. If you tend toward solitude - with a horror of forced participation, if your children love the beach but shriek at the prospect of swimming in the deep with octopuses...
BOATS, SHIPS & SAILS: One Length Forward, Two Lengths Back ; Christine Campbell Sets out to Explore the Unspoilt Wilderness off Vancouver Island by Kayak. but Has She Bitten off Rather More Than She Can Chew?
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IT WAS meant to be a relaxing break following a science conference - a three-day kayaking trip off the west coast of Vancouver Island, before returning to Toronto. Instead, it turned into a succession of near-disasters, albeit along some of Canada's...
BOATS, SHIPS & SAILS: Plain Sailing - THE PERFECT WAY TO BOND YOUR FRACTIOUS FAMILY
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THERE'S SOMETHING about being on a boat that conjures up half- forgotten sensations - the pleasure of being carried along on the wind or the sense that it's just you and the elements. On the Norfolk Broads, however, the only thing that is likely to overwhelm...
BOOK: Big Macs Deliver a Feast of Fiction - No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod Jonathan Cape, Pounds 15.99, 262pp ; Angus Calder Relishes a Clan's Epic Journey from the Highlands to Canada and Beyond
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AN UNUSUAL feature of Alistair Macleod's exceptional novel is that so many important characters go without Christian names. Even the narrator is referred to by his family pet name, gille beag ruadh ("little redhead"), though we learn that he is Alexander....
BOOKS: A Week in Books - Saving Tongues as Well as Tigers
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AUGUST ALWAYS brings a torrent of new writing from Scotland and the Scottish diaspora. At the Edinburgh Book Festival, meanwhile, a showcase for national literature runs through next week, with home- grown talent stretching from Jackie Kay to Irvine...
Books: Bestsellers
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A few weeks back, we wondered if the second venture from the tiny Sort of Books could match the bestselling zest of the firm's debut, Driving over Lemons. A qualified `yes': in its more specialised area of popular science, Robert Kunzig's dip into the...
BOOKS: Changes in the Frame as the Kin Turn Kinky - Two Kinds of Wonderful by Isla Dewar Review, Pounds 9.99, 343pp ; Carol Birch Can Predict the Punch-Lines in a Cartoon-Like Family Comedy. but She'd Rather Draw Her Own Conclusions
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ALL FAMILIES are unhappy. If not, they are either terminally boring or deluding themselves. Such is the ethos of this bitter little comedy from the popular Scottish writer, Isla Dewar. The only solution is dissolution or a leap into the wild blue yonder,...
BOOKS: Cover Stories
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PAUL MCCARTNEY, a closet painter for 17 years, is putting the finishing touches to a book of Paintings, due from Little, Brown this autumn. Dedicated to his late wife, Linda, whose friend Willem de Koonig encouraged McCartney to paint, it will coincide...
BOOKS: Fun, Feeling and Fantasy at the Culture Club - Look to Windward by Iain M Banks Orbit, Pounds 16.99, 358pp ; Armed with His Middle Initial, the Cult Novelist Boldly Goes to the Heart of the Science-Fiction Galaxy. by Kim Newman
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THE NOVELIST Iain Banks began his sub-career in science fiction as "Iain M Banks" with Consider Phlebas, a 1987 space opera that surprised followers of his resolutely unconventional work. For it tackled not the challenging fringes of the SF genre (then...
BOOKS: History Goes Overboard - Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 14.99, 416p ; It's a Rip-Roaring Read, but This Salty Tale of England's First American Adventures Leaves David Goldblatt Feeling Queasy
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LIKE GILES Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg, which was really a popular history of the spice trade, Big Chief Elizabeth is really a popular history of the early attempts to plant an English colony on the mainland of what is now the United States. If his titles...
BOOKS: Masters of Gallantry and Gore - the Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith Picador, Pounds 16.99, 520pp ; Stevenson, Buchan, Flashman - Scottish Writers Perfected the Swashbuckling Yarn. Yet the Form Needs Fact as Well as Fancy, Argues Christopher Harvie
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Mr Anthony Lammas, whose long legs had been covering ground at the rate of five miles an hour, slackened his pace, for he felt the need of ordering a mind which for some hours had been dancing widdershins. For one thing the night had darkened, since...
Books: Paperbacks
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Closure by Sarah Harris HarperCollins, pounds 5.99, 419pp A FORMER producer on Newsnight, Sarah Harris published a first novel, Wasting Time, about the pitfalls of a media career. Everyone read it to see if she would give us the low-down on Paxo. Her...
BOOKS: Satanism and Indoor Golf - A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 20, 508pp ; Notorious Occultist Aleister Crowley Revelled in His Tabloid Reputation for Bizarre Sex-Magic and `Vile Practices'. beneath the Demonic Mask, However, Was the Beast Just a Bored and Boring Dilettante? by Robert Irwin
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Young Wife's Story of Crowley's Abbey. Scenes of Horror. Drugs, Magic, and Vile Practices. Girl's Ordeal. Saved by the Consul." So ran a headline in the Sunday Express in 1923, as it denounced the occultist Aleister Crowley's experimental Thelemic community...
Books: Spoken Word
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Fasting, Feasting Read by Paul Bhattacharjee & Sudha Bhuchar BBC, 2hrs 15mins, pounds 8.99 "WHAT IS plenty, what is not?" Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting is a fascinating story of the sharply contrasted lives of the children of a conventional Indian...
Boxing: Hamed's Sting Gives Vegas Kid Butterflies ; Britain's World Featherweight Champion Promises a Fight to Remember on His Way to a Showdown with Barrera
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SOMETHING EMBARRASSING happened to Augie "Las Vegas Kid" Sanchez as he walked with his young wife, Dawn, to a first meeting with Naseem Hamed before tonight's World Boxing Organisation featherweight title fight here. They were going through the casino...
Boxing: King One Step Ahead of Chasing FBI Pack
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THE Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have failed again in its exhaustive, and hugely expensive, effort to bring down the boxing empire of Don King. That, certainly, is how the decision of a jury in New Jersey to acquit the International Boxing...
Brown Pledges Help for Pig Farmers after `Worst Two Years in a Century'
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THE GOVERNMENT faced having to spend millions in compensation to the pig industry yesterday, after the Agriculture Minister Nick Brown vowed not to turn his back on farmers bound by the swine fever restrictions. Mr Brown said the Government and farmers...
Children: What to Do This Weekend in London
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Coin Street Festival: Indian Summer Bernie Spain Gardens, Upper Ground, South Bank, SE1 (020-7401 2255) tomorrow, 2pm-7pm, free The kids can have a go at the Asian sport of Kabaddi (a sort of tactical game of tag) tomorrow afternoon. Royal Rangoli artists...
Church `Mice' Aim to Oust Their New Progressive Priest
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ON MATTERS of religion, like much else, the plain-talking people of Wetherby in West Yorkshire are not too fond of fancy packaging. It is a local characteristic that the Rev Philip Evans, an evangelising new vicar in the town, mighthave taken rather...
COMMENT: Listening to a Potboiler beside the Cruel Sea
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EVERYONE BUT me went for a ride in the boat. I don't pretend to be nautical. Besides, I've been round the island many times and while it would be gratifying to show off my knowledge of the local flora and fauna to our guests and casually pass-off Gaelic...
COMMENT: Paul Vallely's Notebook - Turbulence by the Lakeside
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There are two sides to every story. So let's start with the obvious one. At least it seemed obvious as I set out, one afternoon this week, to climb Gummer's How, the summit overlooking the southern bay of Lake Windermere. The sun was hot but a strong...
COMMENT: The Democrats Are Fielding the Holy Trinity of Politics
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WE HAVE all heard of America's Religious Right. Now look out for the Religious Left. Just as the Republican Party turned somersaults to hold what looked like a Democratic Convention in Philadelphia by celebrating America's diversity, with black, Hispanic...
COMMENT: Weekly Muse
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Is the world or is it me? Shortly after half past four On Tuesday afternoon this week A man came knocking at the door. "Hello." he said. "I'm British Gas." Yes, I expect you are, I thought. I settled down to hear his pitch And prayed that he might keep...
COMMENT: What Is the Point of Nine Grade `a's at A-Level?
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I CAN'T remember my A-levels. I can remember their contents - God, slogging through Madame Bovary and Much Ado About Nothing and Monteverdi's madrigals - and I can remember what grades I got. But actually going into the exam room, the summer of 1983,...
Cornish Residents See Red after Council Tells Them to Tone Down Colourful Houses
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A COUNCIL which told homeowners to repaint their brightly coloured houses in a more sedate colour or face the threat of prison yesterday backed down and said it would review the policy. The Georgian houses around Regent Square in Penzance are a brightly...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: A Place to Heal Body and Soul ; for over 300 Years, the Physic Garden Has Flourished in Chelsea, and Now Illustrators Are Recording Every One of Its 6,000 Species. by Sally Ballard
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Surrounded by a high brick wall, tucked away in the heart of London's Chelsea, lie four acres of secret garden. Stretches of green lawn dappled by the shade of mature trees, pathways which bisect beds abundantly stocked with summer flowers. This is Chelsea...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: Border Crossings
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"I WONDER if you can help me resolve a problem," writes Frank Campbell of Southampton. "I have two Passiflora quadrangularis (pictured right) grown from Thompson & Morgan seeds and now some three years old. They are in 15-inch pots in a conservatory...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: Country Matters - Softly, Softly, Catch-Ee Foxy
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As our neighbour finished combining a field of barley at the top of the hill the other evening, he was outraged to see five foxes go streaming out of the last little strip and make off in formation across country to the east. No doubt they were the cubs...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: Herbs NO 31: GINGER
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WITHOUT GLANCING at the dictionary, I'd guess that "zing", meaning lively, energetic, or hot, comes from zingiber, the official name for ginger. This herb gets a credit from Shakespeare in Twelfth Night for its burning, stimulating qualities. Will a...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: Subtle Lighting? Go for the Right Bulbs ; If You Want Your Borders Blooming in the Spring (and Don't Want to Buy Plants off the Shelf), Now's the Time to Put Your Hand in Your Pocket
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Instant gardening has its own delights; a couple of deep, saturated purple heliotropes snatched in flower from the garden centre are the best things in the front border at the moment. But spring gardening requires anticipation. Three months' worth of...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: The Fruits of My Imagination ; Dreaming of Home-Grown Strawberries and Raspberries? It's Time to Grow Up and Get a Fruit-Cage. by Ursula Buchan
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I DON'T know at what point in your life you first realised that you were fully grown up but, for me, the moment came when I finally acquired a fruit-cage. Despite already possessing a "with-profits" pension plan (whatever that may be), a John Lewis account...
COUNTRY & GARDEN: Walks on the Wild Side - NO 8: GALLOWAY HILLS, DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY
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In a series of walks with literary associations, Christina Hardyment sets off in pursuit of Richard Hannay, the hero of `The Thirty-Nine Steps' VISITORS TO the Edinburgh Festival may like to escape from it in pursuit of the still unspoilt settings of...
Cricket: England Win Built on Vaughan `Home' Runs - West Indies 172 & 61 England 272 England Win by Innings and 39 Runs ; FOURTH TEST Gough and Caddick's Final Flourish Routs West Indies for 61 after Yorkshire Batsman's 76 Lays Solid Foundations
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IT IS unthinkable that the West Indies' proud 31-year record of not losing a series to England may almost be at an end, but the possibility has never been greater following their two-day innings defeat here yesterday. With one Test at The Oval left to...
Cricket: Gough and Caddick Destroy West Indies as England Secure Victory in Two Days ; History in 146 Minutes
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West Indies begin their second innings, 100 runs behind England West Indies 3-1 Adrian Griffith b Gough 0 Griffith faces his first ball of the innings and pushes forward loosely outside off stump, but Gough's delivery seams back in between bat and pad...
Cricket: Lack of Characteris Cause of Failure
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THIS ROUT was the result of an ineptitude that has repeatedly overcome West Indies cricket in recent years and led to the embarrassment of heavy defeats in 10 consecutive Tests overseas prior to the current series. None has been more humiliating. The...
Cricket: Masters Inspires Revival ; Lancashire 236 and 110-7 Kent 155
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WERE THIS remarkable game to go the full distance, it would finish at around the same time tomorrow evening as Manchester United's opening Premiership fixture against Newcastle. Perhaps fear of traffic jams, then, was the explanation for the way wickets...
Cricket: West Indies Run Ragged by Batsmen on Full Alert
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ENGLAND'S REMARKABLE innings and 39-run victory on this second day at Headingley was based on some extremely clever thinking in the dressing- room. From the first ball the running between the wickets was transformed and before an hour had gone by the...
Days like These
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24 August 1849 THOMAS MACAULAY, the historian, visiting Killarney, writes in his diary: "A busy day. I found that I must either forego the finest part of the sight or mount a pony. Ponies are not much in my way. However, I was ashamed to flinch, and...
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Gore Shifts to Left as Clinton Written out of the Script ; in His Showpiece Speech Vice President Pokes Fun at Himself and Pledges `Better, Fairer, More Prosperous America'
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IT WAS off to the state of Wisconsin and a Mississippi riverboat for Vice-President Al Gore yesterday, as he and his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, sought to capitalise on the momentum from the Democrats' national convention and take their electoral...
DESIGN & SHOPPING: Just Another Trick on the Wall ; It Might Be Garish, but That Novelty Wallpaper Your Kids Insisted on Having in Their Rooms Could Have Investment Potential. by Lesley Jackson
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Ever since anonymous white Anaglypta displaced the vibrant printed wallcoverings of old, wallpaper has become something of a second-class citizen in the world of home furnishings. Unfashionable and unloved. However, with the launch of the Wallpaper*...
Diageo Links with Pernod in Race to Buy Seagram Assets
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DIAGEO, THE world's biggest spirits company, yesterday said it had chosen France's Pernod Ricard as its partner in the race to acquire the drinks assets being sold as a result of the $34bn (pounds 22.67bn) merger between Canada's Seagram and Vivendi...
England Reach for the Sky as West Indies Are Down and Out
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AMID SCENES of near delirium at Headingley yesterday, England took an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the Test series against the West Indies. The win, by an innings and 39 runs, was completed in under two days, an act of brevity not achieved by England since...
Faith & Reason: The Truth `Big Brother' Tells Us about Ourselves
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A WEEK ago today, I was standing on a cliff-top watching the sun sinking from a cloudless sky into a placid sea. It was disconcerting suddenly to remember that the whole exquisite effect was an illusion. The sun was not really going down. The sky only...
Film: Video Reviews
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The End of the Affair (18) Columbia Tristar, rental & retail HHHH Set in London during the Blitz, Neil Jordan's film is told by Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes), a novelist who embarks on an affair with Sarah (Julianne Moore), wife of Stephen Rea's civil...
Food and Drink: The Truffler
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A BODY blow for Geordie gourmets. Chef Terry Laybourne, leading light in the north-east's eating out scene has closed his Michelin- starred restaurant at 21 Queen Street in Newcastle after 12 years. That means there's no longer a single Michelin star...
FOOD & DRINK: Down the Offie: A Brave New World ; Another Trusty Off-Licence Name Has Bitten the Dust, with the Sale of Fuller, Smith & Turner to Unwins. but Don't Fret, You'll Still Be Able to Pick Up a Bottle of Caballo Loco No 4 on Your Way Home. by Anthony Rose
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SO FAREWELL then, Fuller Smith & Turner, sic transit glorious offie. By the end of the month, the last of Fuller's 60-odd off- licence shop- fronts will have been replaced by the green and yellow Unwins sign. Another familiar off-licence name will have...
FOOD & DRINK: EATING OUT - Prepare to Board! ; Somerset House Is a Bastion of Englishness. So You'd Expect the Admiralty to Be as English as Plum Duff. Not So. It Embraces, of All Things, French Cuisine
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In the six or so weeks that Somerset House has been open to all for bread and cuisine de terroir, every other member of the restaurant reviewing rabble has been and reported back. I used to imagine I'd be first to storm the barricades, so shame on me...
FOOD & DRINK: Feast Your Eyes, Thrill Your Palate ; Hamburger on Hirst? Risotto and Rego? or Degas with Doughnuts? Caroline Stacey Gives a Guided Tour of Where to Eat - and Savour Art
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Cafe Bagatelle The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1 (020 7563 9505) Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm, Sun 12-4.30pm. UPPER CRUST out-of-towners struggle to make themselves audible in the swimming pool-like din of Rick Mather's glassed-over pink- walled...
FOOD & DRINK: The A to Ziba of Organic Living for the Inner City ; A New Organic Market Has Finally Come to Fruition in Liverpool. by Sybil Kapoor
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HE MAY look more like a young country squire with a penchant for scarlet socks, but Martin Ainscough has set himself the task of transforming the food culture of one of the most depleted of inner cities, Liverpool. Number Seven Deli, a cafe, deli and...
Food: Gently Does It ; Don't Just Whip It Up, Says Simon Hopkinson, in the First of a Two- Part Series on the Virtues of `Careful Cooking'
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As someone who truly enjoys to dwell over cooking something nice, I wish to stress that not all satisfactory meals emerge simply by chucking, smashing, squashing, shoving, pushing, banging, tearing and generally ripping food apart; it can also require...
Football: Bisham Abbey Spooks out England's Footballers
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AS THE Olympics approach - it's going to be gruelling, but I think I've done enough training to get through it - the main warm- up programme has been the compelling Video Diary series about Steve Redgrave and his fours crew, an account of the honest...
Football: Blackburn Braced for the Post-Walker Era ; There Is Uncertainty over Rovers' Financial Future after the Death of the Club's Benefactor. by Richard Slater
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JACK WALKER carved the stuff of fantasy into reality for supporters of Blackburn Rovers, but the implications for the club following his death on Thursday night at the age of 70, after a brief struggle against cancer, are huge. In the darker days of...
Football: Chelsea's Early Chance to Be Capital Kings
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GONE ARE the days when English clubs eased themselves into a new season with a gentle public practice match between Possibles and Probables. In the past week, there have been brawls in testimonial matches, the champions' captain has been sent off at...
Football: Collins Sinks the Blues ; Birmingham City 1 Fulham 3
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JEAN TIGANA may be more au fait with sun-soaked days in St Tropez than rain-lashed nights at St Andrew's, but Fulham's new French manager began his tour of First Division venues with a second successive victory. Birmingham, who reached the play-offs...
Football: McAllister Aims to Uphold Great Scot Tradition ; PREMIERSHIP: Veteran Midfielder Wants to Revive Anfield Glory Days of Dalglish, Hansen, Souness, St John and Shankly
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AT ONE of Gary McAllister's previous clubs, a senior professional would arrive for training on a winter's day and delegate an apprentice to warm a toilet seat for him. Pulling together rather than pulling rank is the modus operandi at Liverpool, who...
Football: O'Leary Signs Six-Year Deal
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THE LEEDS United manager, David O'Leary, yesterday accepted a lucrative new six-year deal with the club and is now determined to repay such faith with silverware. O'Leary, who will sign the improved contract this weekend, is now poised to become the...
Football: Sentiment Prevails as City Strive for Success ; Promoted Manchester City Intend Making Their Premiership Stay a Long One. by Tim Rich
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IT HAS taken more than 170 games, four managers, countless players and the kind of raw heartache and reversal of fortune not usually found outside a Victorian melodrama but Manchester City are back. Their return to the Premiership this afternoon is,...
Football: Six Young Englishmen with Something to Prove
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RIO FERDINAND (West Ham United) Age: 21. International status: Nine full caps Joe Cole will attract more attention at Upton Park but it is Ferdinand who faces the more critical season. The belief that he had had a successful European Championship simply...
Football: United's Hegemony Threatens the Game ; T PREMIERSHIP Old Trafford's Dominance and Only Four Other Realistic Title Contenders Contrasts Poorly with Other European Leagues
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SUCH IS the level of hype surrounding the Premiership the few surviving members of Channel 4's Big Brother house could, by 4.50 this afternoon, be the only people in the country unaware that it is back. Whether that is a blessing or a curse for the incarcerated...
Football: Weekend Guide to the Premiership
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Charlton v Man City Last season: 0-1 CHARLTON'S FINNISH forward, Jonatan Johansson, missed his country's international in midweek with a hamstring problem but Alan Curbishley is without several strikers and may play him. Martin Pringle, Clive Mendonca,...
Friend Jailed over Pounds 32m Theft from Football Boss
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ALLAN LEONARD had rather unusual names for his racehorses - Exit to Rio, Creative Account, Mock Trial and No Extradition. "Looking back, perhaps we should have seen the signs," sighs Richard Thompson. But no one did, and Leonard, a trusted friend and...
GMC Suspends `Flying Doctor' after Complaints by 70 Patients
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A PLASTIC surgeon accused of maiming scores of patients was suspended from the medical register yesterday while complaints against him are investigated. David Herbert, 62, nicknamed the "flying doctor" because of his speed in the operating theatre, is...
Golf: Slow Torture for Els as Woods Forges On
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IT WAS Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach, when Tiger Woods was only halfway towards his record-smashing 15-stroke victory in the US Open, who observed that the wind died as Woods walked on to the first tee, just as it always did for Ben Hogan. That fortune...
Golf: Woods Breaks Away from Main Rivals
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IT WAS Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach, when Tiger Woods was only halfway towards his record-smashing 15-stroke victory in the US Open, who observed that the wind died as Woods walked onto the first tee, just as it always did for Ben Hogan. That fortune...
Hands Up If You Think the West Indies Are a Soft Touch
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ENGLAND'S cricketers moved a step closer to ending more than 30 years of hurt at Headingley yesterday when they completed one of the most memorable Test victories in recent years. The West Indies, who have not lost a series against England since 1969,...
Homoeopathic Remedies Really Do Work, Doctors Told , British Research Reveals
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ALLERGY SUFFERERS treated with homoeopathy have improved conditions, research published yesterday in the British Medical Journal has found. Doctors, who are often dismissive of using homoeopathy, should be more aware of its healing powers, the researchers...
Hostels in Prisons to House Sex Offenders
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A NETWORK of hostels to house released prisoners in the grounds of jails is being planned because of public hysteria over paedophiles. Local communities across Britain are blocking planning permission for new hostels amid fears that children will be...
How Do I Look: Yes, I Wore a Kaftan ; Nigel Planer Really Did Once Dress like His `Young Ones' Alter- Ego. Nowadays He Goes for Something a Little More Sophisticated, but Insists He Doesn't Care about Image. Then Again, What Wouldn't He Do If Hollywood Came Knocking
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I like my hands and the length of my arms, and my voice. I dislike my jowls, I'd like to have a more masculine cut-and-thrust jawline, instead of hanging jowls. I'd be nervous about having plastic surgery. I just don't trust that the result would be...
Hutchison Blames Licence Costs for Surprise Withdrawal from E- Plus
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THE SKY-ROCKETING cost of obtaining third-generation mobile phone licences was being blamed yesterday for Hutchison Whampoa's abrupt abandonment of its partnership with German operator E-Plus. The surprise move, which came just hours after E-Plus agreed...
INDEPENDENT PURSUITS: Bridge
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I WAS disappointed to read that Card Play Made Easy 4 - Timing and Communications by Ron Klinger and Andrew Kambites (pounds 6.99. Gollancz - Master Bridge Series) is to be the final book in this series. Hopefully the authors and publishers will reconsider,...
INDEPENDENT PURSUITS: Chess
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TWENTY-TWO-year-old Giovanni Vescovi won the Brazilian battle of the generations against Henrique Mecking at the "Centro Empresarial" in Sao Paulo on Wednesday: with the fine victory below for a final score of 3.5 - 2.5. As explained on Wednesday, Mecking,...
In Foreign Parts: Sweden's Lesson for Its African Soulmate
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IT IS a journey I make at least once a year - straight up the 18th parallel from South Africa, where I work, to Sweden, where I grew up. Travelling just the other day from winter in the "rainbow nation" to summer in the "people's home" took me once again...
Leading Article: Mr Gore Is Boring, Worthy, Wooden - and the Best Candidate for the Job
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AL GORE would make a good British politician. He is no practitioner of sincerity television, no wobbler of the bottom lip, no feeler of your pain. As he admitted to the Democratic convention on Thursday night, he knows that he is not the most exciting...
Leading Article: Patients Have a Right to Choose Unscientific Treatments
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THE PRINCIPLE behind homeopathy is of course nonsense on stilts. More than that, it is nonsense on floating stilts. The idea that a medicine can be effective after it has been diluted so much that no molecules of it remain, only what alternative practitioners...
Leaked Memo Warns of Safety Concerns over Tube Sell-Off
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A LEAKED memo from rail watchdogs revealed "growing concern" about the preparations for the part-privatisation of the Underground yesterday, reigniting the row between London Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Government over its plan to sell off the system....
Let Your Savings Do the Talking ; Switching from One Telecoms Supplier to Another Is an Easy Way to Cut Your Phone Bill. So Why Don't More of Us Do It? by Paul Gosling
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The ending of British Telecom's phone monopoly has brought enormous benefits to consumers. Prices have fallen and service standards risen. Yet a surprising number of people have failed to take full advantage of the open market. "Our research shows that...
Luck Runs out for Lottery Winners as Factory Closure Hits Welsh Village
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THE WORKFORCE of a small factory near a Welsh mining village entered last week in a euphoric mood, their thoughts dominated by the pounds 4.4m lottery jackpot at their disposal. But that same close-knit community was left riven yesterday as their luck...
Magazine Readers Shun Their Homes for Gardens
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THE BRITISH love affair with home makeovers appears to have run out of steam, if the latest magazine circulation figures are anything to go by. Instead of marbling and MDF, householders are turning to wisteria and water features. Six-monthly figures...
Market Report: Investors Make a Dash for Phone Equipment Makers
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THE MARKET was picking the real winners from the German mobile phone auction yesterday, and it was the equipment makers, not the operators, that were attracting interest. With the operators of third- generation, internet-linked mobile networks now decided...
Meanwhile, BBC Castaways Grapple with Racist and Anti-Gay Prejudice
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THEY MAY be hundreds of miles from urban life but the volunteers for the BBC programme Castaway 2000 are still finding themselves grappling with issues of racism and homophobia. The next series of the programme will show the Taransay islanders discussing...
Monitor: Waiting for a Miracle ; All the News of the World; the Kursk Human Embryo Cloning A-Level Results Big Brother Norman Mailer
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THE KURSK International press comment on the fate of the Russian nuclear submarine `Kursk' which sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea after an explosion The Globe and Mail Canada RUSSIA DROPPED its inhibition on asking for international help, and rescuers...
Motoring: I'll Have a Car with My Coffee ; the Walk-In Cyber Showroom Is Here. and the Only Thing Missing from the Experience Is Cars
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Car showrooms haven't changed much in the last 100 years - some plate glass, a potted plant or two and sundry products parked provocatively around the showroom. How 20th century. Instead, welcome to the 21st century car showroom, a place so post-modern...
Motoring: Road Test: Who Wants to Go to IKEA in a Kia? ; It's a Vital Question, and One That the Kia Carens Has to Answer If It's to Compete in the Mini-MPV Wars
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There is no stopping these things. You're about to discover yet another new MPV, and there are still the facelifted Galaxy/Sharan/ Alhambra, the Toyota Previa, Hyundai's Trajet and Daewoo's Tacuma to report upon. Don't worry, I'll be leaving respectful...
Motoring: What Do You Mean. `Build Quality'? ; the Column That Explains Complicated Car Stuff
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SOME CARS have it. Others clearly do not. Some car magazines will say that the panel gaps are tight and even and the paint is glossy, so the car has good build quality, assessment completed. But, clearly, it's not really that simple. A car could be assembled...
Motoring: Wheels on Fire ; Porsche? Pah. Ferrari? Phooey. Nothing Can Begin to Compare with the Sheer Stomach-Churning Thrill of the Formula One Experience, Says Michael Booth
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"Please God, don't let me stall. If you can hear me now, please let me pull away smoothly." Not the most high-minded mantra, but as I recline, strapped down like a psychiatric patient, preparing to be catapulted from the pit lane in a real-life Formula...
My Week: Sophie Ellis-Bextor Vocalist on `If This Ain't Love', Which Is Vying with Victoria Beckham for the No1 Spot
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Sunday I'm taking it easy at my Dad's cottage in Sussex. We're celebrating the birthday of my twin brother and sister, who have just turned two, and we've organised a big party with about 70 guests and an entertainer, who blows enormous balloons and...
Nasty Nick: Disgraced, Exposed and on the Verge of a Fortune
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DISGRACED, EXPOSED, humiliated and on the verge of a small fortune, the Big Brother outcast Nick Bateman emerged blinking and nervous into his first press conference yesterday. The range of questions showed how the manipulative 33-year-old stockbroker...
OBITUARY: David Blee
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DAVID BLEE was one of the most talented operational officers ever to serve in the CIA. But he will be remembered above all as the man who resurrected the agency's Soviet division in the 1970s after the havoc wreaked by the legendary, no less brilliant...
OBITUARY: Gilbert Parkhouse
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GILBERT PARKHOUSE, the former Glamorgan and England batsman, played with supreme elegance. He made seven Test appearances for England between 1950 and 1959 after launching his Glamorgan career in 1948, and was one of the greatest Glamorgan players ever...
OBITUARY: Jack Walker
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THE SIGN in Jack Walker's office summed up the man. "Rule One: I am always right," it read. "Rule Two: When I am wrong refer to Rule One." The infuriating thing about the self-made millionaire was that he was hardly ever wrong. Be it business or football...
