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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 April 2, 1999
Air Miles Devalued by Extra Charges
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BRITAIN'S FIVE million Air Miles collectors face sharp increases in the amount they must pay to redeem "free" flights.From next Friday British Airways is introducing additional charges that could add pounds 15 or more to the price of journeys made by...
Arguments for Easter: The Day When Even God Needs a Scapegoat Poor Judas. the Tendency to Lay the Blame for the Sin of the World at T He Feet of One Man Is Not Restricted to Gospel Writers. Look Around
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THE BILLY Connolly joke is well known. Thomas turns up late for the Last Supper, and is met by a very merry Peter. Peering round the door, Thomas sees that the disciples have all been tucking into takeaways and lager. "Thomas, I've got some bad news...
Arts: Theatre: A Blast from the Past SACRED HEART ROYAL COURT THEATRE LONDON
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IT MAY soon end up as a supermarket, a block of trendy offices or a set of loft apartments, but tonight - for the quartet of characters sliding into early middle age in Mick Mahoney's new play - the "up for sale" Sacred Heart Church Hall in NW3 is still...
Arts: The Rise and Rise of Big Voice Broadway? Opera? Cabaret? Soul? Audra McDonald Performs Each Style with Awesome Assurance. This Summer Sees Her British Debut - in Cabaret and at the Proms - and She Explains How She Crosses So Many Musical Borders with Ease. by Edward Seckerson
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There appear to be at least three highly talented singing actresses going by the name of Audra McDonald. Over the last five years each has scored a notable Broadway success and each in turn has scooped the stage equivalent of the movie Oscar, the coveted...
Athletics: Sports Council Responds to Walker Furore
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THE UNITED KINGDOM Sports Council has countered claims that it has mishandled the doping case of Dougie Walker, the 1998 European 200m gold medallist who was suspended on Wednesday pending a UK Athletics hearing into allegations that he used the banned...
Big Jams as UK Hotter Than Athens and Riviera
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THOUSANDS OF holidaymakers left Britain from airports and ferry terminals, leaving behind Mediterranean temperatures that made this year's April Fool's Day one of the warmest in memory.While an estimated 1.5 million Britons chose to spend Easter abroad,...
BP Cuts 2,000 Jobs in $26.8Bn Takeover of ARCO
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BP AMOCO, the British oil giant, is to shed 2,000 jobs worldwide and dispose of $3bn worth of assets following yesterday's $26.8bn (pounds 16.5bn) takeover of Atlantic Richfield of the US.The takeover, BP Amoco's second major deal in eight months, will...
Breast Cancer Delays Kill 500 Women a Year
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WOMEN WITH breast cancer who wait longer than three months from first noticing a lump to getting treatment die sooner, a worldwide review of research has found. Prompt treatment could save at least 1 in 20, and possibly 1 in 10 who dies after experiencing...
Car Now as Slow as Train and Bus
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MOTORISTS WHO try to beat the bus by driving into central London are wasting their time, according to official figures published yesterday.The journey time into the city centre by car is as slow as by public transport for the first time, a government...
Classical: A Little Rain on the Parade It May Claim to Be a Celebration of the Best of British Music since the War, but Will Nicholas Kenyon and George Benjamin's `Endless Parade' Series of Concerts Really Do Our Composers Justice? by Bayan Northcott
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No doubt planning concerts and festivals is a mixed pleasure at best, in which the satisfaction of setting up contrasts and connections, devising ideal programmes, bringing forth fresh talent, and so on, is ever-threatened by practical problems over...
Classical: Munich's Mystic Maestro Two New CD Box-Sets Celebrate the Work of Legendary Romanian Conductor Sergiu Celibidache
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SERGIU CELIBIDACHE, the Romanian-born conductor who died in 1996 at the age of 84 and who for most of his life refused to make records, is now the subject of two massive compact-disc retrospectives. And the paradoxes don't end there. Christian Gansch,...
Classical: On the Air
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NO ONE ever put up a statue to a critic, it is often said. Not unless the critic is something else as well. Surprisingly, for a series aimed at the least critical sort of listener, Sound Stories on Radio 3 this week chose five music critics. Hans Keller,...
Combat Lessons for Infant Teachers
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TEACHERS OF children as young as three are being taught restraint techniques by experts from a top-security hospital to control violent and disruptive pupils.The Association of Teachers and Lecturers, meeting in Harrogate yesterday, called for all staff...
Cricket: Flintoff Hits England for Six and More England 375-5 Lahore Gymkhana 238-9 England Win by 137 Runs
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ENGLAND'S BOWLERS completed yesterday's warm-up match enthusing about the explosive strokeplay of Andrew Flintoff. Opening their preparation for next week's Coca-Cola Cup tournament in Sharjah with a gentle warm- up against the local side Lahore Gymkhana,...
Cricket: Hassell Rejects Wisden Claims
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CHRIS HASSELL, the Yorkshire chief executive, has described Wisden's criticism of club cricket in the county as ill- informed. Matthew Engel, the editor of Wisden, claims in the new edition that "cricketing apartheid" has become "accepted practice" in...
Cultural Notes: Without Death, There Would Be Nothing
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TO BE modern is to turn away from death. Or so we're told by those like Philippe Aries, the eminent historian of death. In the most industrialised, urban-ised, and technologically advanced areas of the Western world, says Aries, "society has banished...
C&W Sues MCI over Internet Purchase
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CABLE & WIRELESS'S ambitions to break into the fast-growing market for Internet traffic were thrown into doubt yesterday as the telecom group filed a lawsuit against MCI Worldcom, the US telecom giant which sold part of its Internet business to C&W last...
Cycling: French Official Faces Charges
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THE LATEST round of damaging allegations connecting cycling with doping offences became public yesterday, when France's leading two officials appeared before the magistrate investigating the Tour de France drugs scandal.At a hearing in Lille the president...
Dangerous Liaisons: Why the French Still Do It in Style the Latest Sociologists' Myth Is That Frenchmen No Longer Have Mistress Es, They Only Have Affairs
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THE BUSY hive of Parisian sociologists, pollsters and trend analysts who delight in smashing national stereotypes, informing us that the French no longer drink wine, eschew the baguette, and are even thinking about giving up smoking Gitanes, ought to...
Dolly Has Three More Little Lambs
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DOLLY the cloned sheep has had not just one little lamb, but three more, following her second pregnancy.The unassisted birth was "a further demonstration" that the cloning method used to produce Dolly has not hampered her ability to breed normally and...
E-Mail Rogue Virus Is Traced to Florida FBI Close in on Source of Melis Sa Virus
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CYBERSPACE DETECTIVES trying to track the source of the Melissa virus, which overloaded tens of thousands of computers with junk e- mail earlier in the week, have narrowed their search to an Internet service provider in Orlando, Florida, many of whose...
European Times: Madrid: Launched into Literary Heaven
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I'VE BECOME addicted to the book launch. It's an art form where the people of Madrid display their best qualities: their flash metropolitan verve and their provincial intimacy, their love for grand ideas and their fluent informality.The purpose seems...
Football: Defiant Hartson Believes Welsh Can Still Qualify
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WALES MAY have experienced nothing but disappointment against the Swiss in Zurich on Wednesday night but, according to John Hartson, their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2000 are far from over.The Wimbledon striker, who has yet to score a goal in 1999,...
Football: France Guard against Russia
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ROGER LEMERRE, the France coach, was a a happy man after his side's 2-0 win over Armenia, not least because the game was ideal preparation for the next European Championship qualifier at home to Russia, as both opponents have a similar style.The world...
Football: Gillingham 2 Reading 1 - Asaba Finds Goal Touch
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CARL ASABA scored against his previous club last night but, more significantly, his goal gave Gillingham breathing space in their pursuit of a Second Division play-off berth. The Kent side move into fifth place, seven points clear of the in-form Wigan,...
Football: Hotel Owner Steps in to Save Oxford
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THE LONDON hotelier Firoz Kassam yesterday stepped in to rescue First Division Oxford United.Kassam has acquired the controlling shareholding in the club from the former chairman Robin Herd following successful negotiations with Oxford City Council over...
Football: Keegan May Be Ready to Extend Reign
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KEVIN KEEGAN last night hinted that he would consider staying on as national coach until November if England are required to take part in the European Championship qualifying play-offs.His suggestion came after England's hopes of automatic qualification...
Football: McAllister's Rough Ride Hurts Brown
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GARY McALLISTER'S international career, which has brought him 57 caps and has seen him become Scotland's outstanding player of the 1990s, hangs in the balance today as Craig Brown considers his response to the home supporters' booing of his captain during...
Football: Patmore the Pride of England's Semi-Pros NON-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
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A FIRST-HALF goal from Warren Patmore, the burly Yeovil Town striker, earned England's semi-professional international team a 1- 1 draw with the Netherlands in Tuesday's friendly in Genemuiden.The result, which followed last month's 4-1 win over Italy...
Football: Poland Facing the Threat of Euro 2000 Expulsion
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POLAND HAVE been ordered by Fifa, football's world governing body, to resolve a dispute between the country's sports ministry and football association within the next week.If England's Euro 2000 qualifying group rivals fail to settle the long- running...
Football: Villa's InterToto Option
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ASTON VILLA may apply to take part in the InterToto Cup after Uefa's decision to award a European spot to the FA Cup semi- finalists, Newcastle.Villa, who go into action today against West Ham, are 10 points adrift of the fourth spot which is needed...
For a Christian, This Is a Just War in a Fallen, Sinful World It Is Sometimes a Stern Duty to Use Military Force to Protect the Defenceless
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THE REMARKABLE French thinker Simone Weil once wrote: "All the criminal violence of the Roman Empire ran up against Christ and in him became pure suffering... The false God changes suffering into violence, the true God changes violence into suffering."In...
Ford to Slash 680 UK Jobs as Sales Drop
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FORD YESTERDAY announced it was to shed 680 jobs, and management sources revealed that short-time working at its biggest plant would continue for at least another three months.The cutback in the company's workforce is part of a drive for higher productivity....
French Girls Smoke More Than Boys
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FOR ONCE, here is a social survey you can confirm with your own eyes. French teenage girls are taking up smoking in larger numbers than ever before, to the point where more girls aged 12 to 17 smoke than do their brothers or boyfriends.Almost one in...
Friday Book: A Place for Belief in Miracles LOURDES: BODY AND SPIRIT IN THE SECULAR AGE BY RUTH HARRIS, ALLEN LANE/ THE PENGUIN PRESS, Pounds 25
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JEAN-PIERRE BeLY, a 69-year-old former intensive care nurse from Angouleme, was recently proclaimed as the first unexplained cure at Lourdes in almost a decade. According to the Shrine, Mr Bely visited the Sanctuary in October 1987 and, shortly after...
Fridge-Freezers for Jesus If a Man Strikes You, You Should Turn the Other Cheek, Says the Bible. but If Your Assailant Is One of the Athletic Evangelists Known as the Power Team, It Might Be Better to Run Away. They're Spiritual, but They Are Also Large
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James Henderson is the largest man I have ever met. He is 6ft 5in and weighs 390lb, but those statistics cannot do justice to his extreme ginormousness. He is a fridge-freezer with skin. He is so big, in fact, that I cannot speak. The man has just flown...
Golf: Duval Takes a Grip in the Rain
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DAVID DUVAL'S preparations for next week's US Masters went awry yesterday. It was not so much the early morning fog which delayed play in the first round of the BellSouth Classic for two hours, more that once visibility had been regained the saturated...
Golf: Faldo Finds His Swing at Last
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EUPHORIC MAY be a slight exaggeration but Nick Faldo was certainly a happy chappy. "I shall go and have a tuna sandwich to celebrate," he confirmed. And to what can this joyousness be attributed? The first round of the BellSouth Classic represented the...
Here's Hoping There's No Nasty Surprises in Store Prices Are a Bit High but Given a Decent Summer and Autumn, They Should Be Okay
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THE LONG Easter weekend break gives a pause for thought about share prices. We are engaged in a European war. The economic indicators for Britain are still fairly weak. The recovery in continental Europe remains patchy. Elsewhere in the world the East...
Hockey: Giles Shines in England Rout
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CALUM GILES, the specialist corner-striker written off by many following the introduction of the no-substitute rule after the award of a penalty corner, continued his remarkable goal scoring run with a hat- trick as England beat South Africa 6-0.England...
Hotelier Rescues Oxford
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THE LONDON hotelier Firoz Kassam yesterday stepped in to rescue Oxford United. Kassam has acquired the controlling shareholding in the First Division club from the former chairman, Robin Herd, following successful negotiations with Oxford City Council...
Hunt for the Secret of Immortality
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CHANGES THAT occur with ageing are numerous and include increased risk of cancer, poorer wound healing, a less effective immune system and an increasing interest in why and how we age. There is no shortage of theories; they range from assuming there...
`I Had Two Mad Children to Deal With' Disruptive Behaviour in the Classroom Is on the Rise - and Starting Eve R Earlier. Many Teachers Are Throwing in the Towel
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WHEN JOE was upset, he threw chairs around the classroom. "He would just go up to children and punch them in the stomach," recalls his teacher. Paul was nearby. "He would never sit down. He would rip up other children's work. He would run off whenever...
Independent Pursuits: Bridge
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"IF I had got the diamonds right, I would have made 12 tricks!" claimed South after going down in 3 no-trumps on this deal. "Um!" responded his partner. It was one of the most expressive "Ums" that I have ever heard, expressing mild interest and agreement...
Independent Pursuits: Chess
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ALTHOUGH THE the first international tournament in London in 1851 was a knockout, this format was fairly soon supplanted by all-play- alls and later Swisses, and came back into favour only a decade or so ago, fuelled by a press demand for clear-cut results...
Indian Babies Sold to West for Adoption
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THE DETACHED house in a rich suburb of the steamy south-eastern Indian city of Hyderabad appeared anything but extraordinary. But, if the police are correct, the neat home on East Maradpully street is the headquarters of a gang that has made thousands...
Jazz Albums Round-Up: Legend of the Softie School by Phil Johnson
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A COMMON-SENSE dictum of jazz discourse decrees that tenor saxophone players fall into one of two schools. Either they are hard- edged followers of Coleman Hawkins, or softie lyricists in the tradition of Lester Young. According to this immutable law,...
Jazz: Any Which Way You Can Kyle Eastwood Got a Good Start in Jazz - His Dad's an Aficionado of No Small Fame. but That's Where the Family Ties End. Eastwood Jr Really Can Play Bass
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Having a famous father might ensure celebrity by proxy, but for a serious jazz musician it's not necessarily an advantage. When the bassist Kyle Eastwood - son of Clint - first played London eight years ago with a semi-pro Californian jazz-fusion group,...
Leading Article: Ground Troops Are Now the Only Deterrent Left
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THE CAPTURE of three American soldiers will give further ammunition to those who believe that the entire mission against Milosevic is a foolhardy enterprise. In reality, the mission is not foolhardy, but over-cautious.Slobodan Milosevic has, unsurprisingly,...
Leading Article: Ireland Cannot Live in This Limbo Land for Much Longer
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A FEW days ago Gerry Adams said this: "I am convinced that we are going to get a democratic peace settlement and that's why I say to David Trimble: `But why not now? Why put it off?' This is the time for moving forward, for seizing the moment and moving...
Market Report: Blue Chips End April Fool's Day on a Dull Note
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BLUE CHIPS hit a record high but ended April Fool's day on a humourless note. After surging 103.8 points to a new 6,399.1 trading peak, Footsie ran out of enthusiasm and failed even to achieve a closing record. The final calculation was up 34.7 at 6,330,...
Monitor: British Press Comment on the News That Rover's Longbridge Plan T Has Been Saved All the News of the World
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AT LONG last Mr Stephen Byers, the Trade Secretary, has seen sense and put Rover workers, BMW and, indeed, the whole of the West Midlands out of their agony. There has been too much uncertainty for too long. It has sapped the morale of Rover's workers...
Music: Coming in, Loud and Clear Wilco's New Album Summerteeth Is Set to Push Them into the Big Time. Wh Y Are They So Damned Cynical, Then? Perhaps It's Because They've Been Here Before
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Wilco mainstays Jeff Tweedy (twinkly, weatherbeaten) and Jay Bennett (burly, dreadlocked) are savouring a momentary pause between engagements. A beleaguered two-man colony of battered denim amid the lurid primary colours of a London radio station foyer,...
Music: Goodbye Gangsta, Bonjour Derrida DJ Spooky Knows His Post-Structuralists. as Any Hip-Hop Producer Should
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THE TERM "intelligent" drum'n'bass has always been a nebulous one. It was first dreamt up in order to separate the teeth-rattling chaos of early jungle from the more textured breakbeats of Goldie or LTJ Bukem. Ironically enough, it was this so-called...
Music: Live SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE LONDON
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SUMMERTEETH, THE third, instalment in Wilco's quest to distil the early 1970s moment when American rock's explosive prime was replaced by pretty pop melodies is being justifiably lauded. Their melodic gift is now matched by singer Jeff Tweedy's new facility...
Nanny Murder Children to Fly Back to UK
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TWO BRITISH children have been taken into state custody in the United States after their father was charged with the murder of their nanny.Their mother, from Wiltshire, was last night arranging for the children to fly to England from Connecticut, where...
Nazi's Hired Killer Who Lay Low for 50 Years War Crimes Trial: How a Former Ticket Collector Hid a Murderous Past Un Til Russians Chose to Expose Him
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IN THE small block of council flats where he lived in south London he was known simply as Tony. No one really knew much about him or his past, or even where he was from. Some people referred to him as "the German". All they knew for certain was that...
Northern Ireland: Blair Confident as Ulster Talks Adjourn
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SINN FEIN and the IRA were told yesterday by the British and Irish governments that an act of republican disarmament will be necessary to secure entry into Northern Ireland's new government.That message emerged from intensive negotiations at Hillsborough...
Northern Ireland: Deal Crowns Ulster's Year of Progress
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THE OUTLINE of a decommissioning agreement that em-erged yesterday was just the latest in a series of hugely important developments which mean that the past 12 months have been among the most eventful in Northern Ireland's history.The past year has encompassed...
Northern Ireland: Declaration Will Force IRA's Hand
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THE DECLARATION represents an apparently simple yet highly subtle attempt to square the circle between the republican and Unionist stances on arms decommissioning. It clearly offers a way out of the weapons quagmire that has slowed progress for so long.Yet...
Northern Ireland: `This Deal Will Split Unionist Movement'
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IN THE staunch Unionist heartland of Comber nine miles south- east of Belfast is a grand war memorial to Major General Robert Rollo Gillespie."One shot more for the honour of Down," said the town's favourite son as he fell in battle at Kalunga in 1814....
Northern Ireland: `This Is Our True Opportunity for a New Beginning'
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The following is the edited text of the declaration delivered by the two prime ministers at Hillsborough Castle yesterday:"It is now one year since the Good Friday Agreement was concluded. Last May it was emphatically endorsed by the people, North and...
Obituary: Charles Gerhardt
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CHARLES GERHARDT would often remark that recording had nothing to do with reality, it was the art of illusion. He was a master illusionist within the record industry, a producer of extraordinary ability and energy, who was probably the most prolific...
Obituary: Judge Krateros Ioannou
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KRATEROS IOANNOU became a Judge of the European Court of Justice in 1997 and had served for only 18 months before his sudden death following an operation in New York. But he had, in that short time, made his mark as a judge of deep learning, real independence...
Obituary: Michel Crepeau
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ON THE afternoon of 23 March, Michel Crepeau rose to his feet in the French National Assembly and put a question to the Minister for Economic Affairs. All the other deputies waited expectantly. Crepeau was famous for his questions. With his nasal but...
Obituary: Mighty Joe Young
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ALTHOUGH HE had not played much guitar for over 10 years - he played on only two tunes on his last album, Mighty Man (1997), and they were recorded before surgery on a pinched nerve in 1986 left his hands virtually powerless - Mighty Joe Young was still...
Obituary: O. M. Roberts
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O. M. ROBERTS was the last survivor of a crucial event in the history of Welsh nationalism, the burning of buildings at an RAF base near Caernarvon in 1936. His part in it remained shrouded in secrecy for decades.The attack was intended to register...
Obituary: Roland Hunt
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ROLAND HUNT was appointed as High Commissioner to Uganda in 1965. There, involuntarily but inevitably, he became involved in the power struggle between the new President, Milton Obote, and the Kabaka of Buganda, "King Freddie", who appealed to him for...
Outlook: Ashcroft Lesson in Acquiring by Mirrors
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WITH TWO botched profit warnings under its belt, the board of Corporate Services Group is clearly not up to much, which is why the three main shareholders have lost patience and requisitioned an emergency meeting to get rid of the chairman, commercial...
Outlook: BP Amoco ARCO
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SIZE ISN'T everything, insisted the diminutive Sir John Browne yesterday as he duly unveiled the deal that turns BP Amoco into the world's biggest oil producer outside of Opec. But he will have to work harder than last time to persuade the world that...
Outlook: Cable & Wireless
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CAN IT really only be four months since Dick Brown walked out of Cable & Wireless? At the time, the general view was that the Texan's two-year tenure as chief executive had been a success. Now the picture looks rather different. A 23-page lawsuit, filed...
Outlook: Economy
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HE METAPHORICAL temperature of the economy is rising with the thermometer. Spring is opening shoppers' wallets and even sending a glimmer of sunlight through the dark clouds lowering over manufacturing. In short, the improvement in pundits' level of...
Pandora
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SUNDAY MARKS Nato's 50th anniversary (and we'll skip cracks about the day being a real bomb and going with a bang, if you don't mind) Nato's big five-oh seems a good time to remind readers that Rule 5 of the organisation's articles of association states...
Pensioner Gets Life for Murdering Jews
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A LIMPING, white-haired pensioner yesterday become the first person to be convicted in Britain of war crimes committed during the Second World War. In an historic decision, an Old Bailey jury found Anthony Sawoniuk, 78, guilty of murdering 18 Jews while...
Pianist `Faked Death to See His Obituary'
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WHEN LAST Sunday a report from the Austrian Press Agency (APA) announced the unexpected death of Friedrich Gulda, the world of classical music seemed to have lost one of its most talented and eclectic exponents.Fellow heavyweights of the music world...
Podium: A Humanist at Work, a Bully at Home from a Talk by the Professor of Jewish History at Southampton Universit Y to the South Place Ethical Society
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TO THE politically aware in the 1940s and 1950s, the name of Arthur Koestler brought to mind a fighter for freedom. Today, he is almost forgotten. When he is recalled it is for his notorious private life. Yet this does an injustice to a heroic figure...
Pop: A Very Big Noise in the Country Dolly Parton's Back with a New Album. How Does She Stay Hungry for Succ Ess? Melvyn Bragg Spoke to the C&W Legend
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Melvyn Bragg: Let's start with this new album which I enjoyed a great deal, Hungry Again - did that describe you or the album?Dolly Parton: Well it described me. I feel a great need to be part of what is happening in the "new country" and I was hungry...
Pop: Live; Lesson One: The Love Song NICK CAVE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL LONDON
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THE UNMASKING of Nick Cave has been a long and gradual process. He first landed on these shores almost two decades ago as the bloodied and deranged front man with The Birthday Party. Transformed thereafter into a solo artist drawn to biblical lust and...
Pop: This Week's Album Releases
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armand van helden2Future4U"ARE YOU afraid of the boogie monster?" enquires a croaky-voiced inquisitor on a 2Future4U track called, with admirable directness, "The Boogie Monster". The answer, of course, is no: this particular boogie monster is just about...
Racing: Giant Striding towards Fairyhouse
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CELTIC GIANT was reintroduced into the Irish Grand National betting by William Hill yesterday after the nine-year-old was given the go-ahead to run in Monday's marathon at Fairyhouse.The latest report from the track convinced his trainer, Len Lungo,...
Racing: Summit Reaches for New Pinnacle Greg Wood Talks to a Jockey Who Can Make Grand National History with la St Year's Hero of Aintree
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YOU COULD argue for hours about the best jockey never to have won a Grand National, and in Liverpool's bars a week tonight, people with nothing better to do probably will. They will chew over names like Francome, O'Neill and Scudamore, all great champions...
Read All about It - Queen Mother Extradited to Spain! as a Last Resort, the US Will Fly Low over Serbian Ski Resorts and Knoc K Down Their Cable-Cars
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HOW WELL do you follow the news? Ten minutes after you have switched off the latest news, how much of it can you remember? Do you know where Kosovo is? Is your memory for trivial news voracious? If you went on the News Quiz, would you get the questions...
Rowing: Fair Start for the Boat Race
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THE BOAT RACE crews, with little over 24 hours to go, have cut their training to the minimum with the few remaining sessions devoted to precision work and practice race starts. They go from the stake boats moored in the stream with the unfamiliar sensation...
Rugby League: Bradford Bulls 18 Leeds Rhinos 14 - Hungry Bradford Take Revenge
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IT WILL not, in itself, make up for failing to reach Wembley, but Bradford opened a handy four-point lead over Leeds in Super League with a well-earned victory on the rebound at Odsal last night.Although the Bradford coach, Matthew Elliott, discouraged...
RUGBY LEAGUE: Return of Betts Cheers Wigan
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AS CLUBS go back to the good old, bad old days of a double programme of Bank Holiday fixtures, it is Wigan, who stage Central Park's last ever Good Friday derby against St Helens today, who have the reinforcements grouping on the horizon.Games on either...
Rugby Union: All Black Power Proves Too Much for Irish Boys
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IRELAND'S ATTEMPT to retain their World Junior Championship title ended in a 21-15 defeat to New Zealand at the Brewery Field, Bridgend, last night.The Kiwis, taking part in the 32-nation tournament for the first time, clinched a place in Sunday's final...
Rugby Union: Fresh Hope for Tortured Richmond
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THE BANK of England sports ground seems an ironic choice of training venue given the financial straits in which Richmond found themselves a month or so ago - circumstances grave enough to force the club to go into administration and cut back their staffing...
Rugby Union: Sweeney's Injury-Time Kick Puts Wales Through
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WALES ARE through to the final of the World Junior Championship, despite drawing 10-10 with South Africa in a thrilling semi-final at Bridgend last night.With the two sides deadlocked at the end of ordinary time the fact that both sides had each scored...
Rugby Union: Vickery Return Lifts Gloucester
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DAVE SIMS and his Gloucester colleagues were more than a little surprised to see their beloved Kingsholm homestead advertised for sale on the Internet yesterday - a bold Cherry and White prankster managed to sucker the lot of them by placing an April...
Sailing: America's Cup Low on Spirit of Britain Lack of Corporate Interest Has Scuppered UK Hopes of Entering the World 'S Greatest Yacht Race Next Year
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THE THREADBARE coat of optimism worn by the Spirit of Britain America's Cup syndicate is looking increasingly like an emperor's illusion as time runs out on a dream to see the UK's return to the millennium party that will be New Zealand's defence early...
Sawoniuk Betrayed by Letter Intercepted by the KGB
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ANTHONY SAWONIUK was traced almost by chance, when a letter he wrote to his half-brother in 1951 was intercepted by the KGB. But it would be 35 years later before he came to the attention of the British authorities.Sawoniuk wrote the letter to Nikolai...
Science: Stars and Planets: April
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ON 24 APRIL, Mars reaches its closest point to the Earth this year. You can't miss seeing it in the sky - it shines brightly all night, an orange-red, untwinkling point of light. Mars is red because it literally is rusty. Particles of iron in its now-dry...
Science: The Day of the Aphids Can a Laboratory in York Halt the March of the Tiny Pests That Cause Po Unds 100m Worth of Damage Every Year?
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Angela Douglas is not like the rest of us. When she examines the underside of the leaves of her broad beans and discovers a teeming population of tiny aphids, she does not look aghast and instinctively reach for the insecticide gun. On the contrary,...
Share Prices Catch Holiday Spirit as Economy Perks Up
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FRESH SIGNS that the economy is improving after a sluggish winter brought the holiday spirit to share prices yesterday. The FTSE 100 index surged to a new record of 6,399.1 during the day, although it ended up just 34.7 points at 6,330.There was also...
`Smeared' Anwar Awaits His Fate
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THE TRIAL of Anwar Ibrahim ended yesterday, amid general expectations that the Malay-sian opposition leader will be convicted of corruption and sent to prison.At the end of five months of frequently sensational testimony, there is a feeling, even among...
Snooker: Prison Life Puts Reynolds on Right Track
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DEAN REYNOLDS ground out a hard-fought 10-5 victory over Joe Johnson in Telford last night to keep alive his dream of returning to the Crucible Theatre. Reynolds was engaged for eight hours, 13 minutes before slotting the pink into a distant baulk pocket...
Special Offer: Half-Price Hotel Breaks
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The Independent/Independent on Sunday have joined forces with Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts to offer readers a fabulous weekend promotion. Numerous hotels in the UK and Europe are participating, offering four and five star accommodation from as...
Starr's Lewinsky Inquiry Cost $6M
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AMERICANS MAY now be looking on their President as commander- in- chief rather than entertainer-in-chief, but they have been presented with two vivid flashbacks to "that woman".From the General Accounting Office, which audits public spending, came preliminary...
Straw Sex and Drug Policies `Ignored'
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PROBATION OFFICERS have attacked a series of measures introduced by Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, saying they are unpopular, inappropriate and largely ignored by the courts.Schemes to tackle sex offenders, drug-related offenders and unruly children,...
Sushi Boom Makes Work for Ex-Miners
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SOME FORMER miners in the Midlands facing a jobless future after their pit closed have turned their hands to making sushi. The Japanese delicacy is increasingly fashionable in the UK and a factory has opened on the site of a disused colliery near Worksop.There,...
