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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 September 9, 1999
Athletics: El Guerrouj Puts Records above Cash
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HICHAM EL GUERROUJ broke the 2,000 metres world record in a time of 4 minutes 44.79 seconds at the final IAAF Golden League meeting of the season in Berlin on Tuesday.The Moroccan cut three seconds off Noureddine Morceli's last mark from the record books,...
Boxing: Nelson Eyes Chance to Impress
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JOHNNY NELSON has been handed a surprise opportunity by the promoter Frank Warren - and the World Boxing Organisation cruiserweight champion intends to leave Las Vegas with his status enhanced in America.Nelson's last visit to the United States was a...
Bradley Declares for White House
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IF THERE had ever been such a day in Crystal City, no one could remember it. Bill Bradley, basketball star, senator and all-time favourite son was back in his hometown on the Mississippi to launch his bid for the US presidency, and - undeterred by threatening...
Burger Crusader Becomes a Hero
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THE ROBIN HOOD of Roquefort, Jose Bove, is on the march. Released from prison, the leader of the French small farmers' rebellion against Uncle Sam and Ronald McDonald plans to head a Europe-wide producer and consumer crusade against la sale bouffe (dirty...
Burmah to Cut 1,500 Jobs in Pounds 150m Restructuring
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BURMAH CASTROL, the lubricants and chemicals group, is to axe nearly 1,500 jobs as part of a restructuring programme which will cost the company pounds 150m over the next four years.A total of 450 jobs will go this year out of the workforce of 20,000...
Champion of Empire - and National Service
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RUDYARD KIPLING may have been an imperialist but he was not always a lackey of the Establishment. He emerged from the Boer War (the centenary of whose start falls next month) seething at the British army's poor performance. He railed against not just...
Clark `a Late Convert to Catholicism'
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ALAN CLARK became a Roman Catholic shortly before his death, just as his father, Lord Clark, the distinguished art historian, had done. Mr Clark's conversion followed conversations over several years with Father Michael Seed, ecumenical adviser to the...
Clark and the Press
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ALAN CLARK hated the Fourth Estate but loved the journalists employed by it. Newspapers were "sharks" and "shits", especially when they encouraged the Conservative Party to ditch his heroine, Margaret Thatcher.And yet Mr Clark enjoyed immensely the company...
Cricket: Flawless Hick Draws Level with Two Greats after Worcestershire 308 Essex 10-1
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IT WAS a flat track just waiting to be bullied and Graeme Hick duly obliged. The onlookers, already on edge because of the parlous position in which Essex find themselves - the spectre of Second Division championship cricket next season looms large -...
Cricket: Nottinghamshire Line Up Shoaib
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SHOAIB AKHTAR, the world's fastest bowler, is expected to join Nottinghamshire within the next few days, despite the threat of the county playing Second Division cricket next season.Shoaib has been linked with a move to Trent Bridge ever since he made...
Cricket: Sales' Exhibition Bridges the Division Northamptonshire 411-6 V Leicestershire
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SURPRISING AS it may seem in these times of grasping sportsmen, the pride of playing in the First Division, rather than the profit of finishing runners-up to Surrey, appeared to be the greater motivation at Wantage Road yesterday as Northamptonshire,...
Dilemmas: My Daughter Is Watching Horror Videos
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Mark is amicably divorced from his wife, but was shocked when his 14-year-old daughter told him in confidence that she'd seen lots of adult-rated horror films at friends' houses. Should he tell her mother, who would stop her seeing her friends? If he...
Earning a Wage Is Not the Only Way to Escape Poverty
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NEW LABOUR'S war against poverty received its first innovatory blast when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown joined those sultans of the sitting room, Richard and Judy, on Tuesday to discuss, on morning television, the new Working Family Tax Credit (WFTC)....
East Timor Crisis Sends Asian Markets Tumbling
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THE ESCALATING violence in East Timor sent stock and currency markets tumbling across Asia, sparking fears that the Indonesian crisis will trigger a fresh financial meltdown.Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, plunged 4 per cent against the US dollar to...
Easy-Going Rattle on a Viennese Roll Proms 66 & 67 Royal Albert Hall / Radio 3 London
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THE VIENNA Philharmonic can sell out any London venue in which it performs, though when the orchestra was last here - in June, with Seiji Ozawa - my colleague Rob Cowan considered their playing nothing special. With Sir Simon Rattle at the helm, however,...
Education: Poor A-Levels? Try Teaching the Latest Data Show Few Recruits Are Well Qualified - but They'll Be Educating Our Children
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Imagine football's Premier League with a few non-League clubs scattered through it. That broadly is the picture which emerges from the Teacher Training Agency's (TTA's) second guide, published today. Vastly improved on last year, the current Initial...
Equestrianism: Riders Recall Lost Friends
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MANY RIDERS will be grieving for one or more lost friends when they compete in the Blenheim Petplan International Horse Trials this week. Simon Long's death - the fourth fatality at British events this year - caused much distress in the horse-box park...
Evil under the Scum Gardening May Seem like a Harmless Pastime, but Watch out. You Might Be Digging Your Own Grave
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Imagine a picturesque garden scene: what could be more comforting? An elderly lady is carefully pruning back the roses around the front door of her Somerset cottage, a wooden trug in the crook of her elbow. She hums gently to herself in the late summer...
Football: Captain Shearer Did `Absolutely Nothing'
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ALAN SHEARER was criticised for doing "absolutely nothing" against Poland last night, while Kevin Keegan, the England coach, was forced to admit that he would be happy to take the "back door" route to the European Championship finals.Jack Charlton, who...
Football: England's Fate Hangs by Thread Euro 2000: Batty Dismissal Compounds Keegan's Misery as Impotent Strikeforce Are Thwarted by Poles; Poland 0 England 0 Attendance: 14,000
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SEEING AS England's footballers struggle to last 90 minutes these days without one of them losing their head and being sent for an early exit, one can only imagine what purgatory awaits them over the next 30 days. That is how long Kevin Keegan's team,...
Football: League to Try Goal Force-Fields
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THE PREMIER LEAGUE is developing force-field technology to detect whether a football has crossed the goal line or not. Its introduction to the professional game - perhaps within two years - could put an end to footballing injustices and the "Did it,...
Football: League to Try Goal Force-Fields
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THE PREMIER LEAGUE is developing force-field technology to detect whether a football has crossed the goal-line or not. Its introduction to the professional game - perhaps within two years - could put an end to footballing injustices and the "Did it,...
Football: Leeds Worried about Ticketless Fans
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LEEDS UNITED may have been saved from the cauldron - but they do not want to find themselves in the firing line when they play their hastily rearranged Uefa Cup match against Partizan Belgrade in the Netherlands next Tuesday.Europe's governing body moved...
Football: Managers Back Uefa `Windows'
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THE LEAGUE Managers' Association has welcomed Uefa's proposal to impose two transfer windows in the English season. European football's governing body wants to standardise transfer deadlines across the continent in time for the 2000-01 season by limiting...
Football: Polish Verve Counters English Grit Euro 2000 Qualifier: Keegan's Men Unable to Establish Midfield Control in Face of Home Team's Impressive Self-Belief
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THEY ARE building a Marks and Spencer store in the shadow of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, a monument to the Stalinist era. In today's free-market world, that is probably the equivalent of parking your tanks on someone's lawn. England's footballers came...
Football: Republic Are Rescued by Staunton Malta 2 Republic of Ireland 3
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THE REPUBLIC of Ireland finished hanging on grimly to their European Championship dreams here yesterday, after Malta had produced a two-goal comeback before a Steve Staunton free-kick 18 minutes from time settled the destination of the points.Even then,...
Football: Republic Revived by Staunton Strike Malta 2 Republic of Ireland 3
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THE REPUBLIC of Ireland had to rely on a superb free-kick by Steve Staunton with 18 minutes remaining to rescue their European Championship challenge after squandering a two-goal lead against rivals Malta here yesterday.Goals in the first 20 minutes...
Football: Sullivan Is Scotland's Saviour Estonia 0 Scotland 0 Attendance: 4,500; Euro 2000 Qualifiers: Goalkeeper Steadies Brown's Men to Deny Estonia and Remain Bound for Play-Offs
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THERE WERE, to paraphrase the sardonic song which echoed around this stadium three years ago at the game that never was, two teams in Tallinn this time. And if either deserved to win it was Estonia, if only for their lung-bursting endeavour. Yet Scotland...
Football: Sullivan Is Scots' Saviour Estonia 0 Scotland 0
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THERE WERE, to paraphrase the sardonic song which echoed around this stadium three years ago at the game that never was, two teams in Tallinn this time. And if either deserved to win, it was Estonia, if only for their lung-bursting endeavour. Yet Scotland...
Football: Toshack Keeps Faith in Anelka
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THE REAL MADRID coach John Toshack has come out in full support of his troubled striker Nicolas Anelka, saying the French international is ready and willing to prove his talent to a sceptical Spanish public.The pounds 23m signing from Arsenal, who has...
Football: Welsh Hopes Shattered by Tomasson
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A REMARKABLE fightback by Denmark in Naples last night put paid to Wales' hopes of reaching the European Championship finals.A penalty by Martin Jorgensen and goals from Morten Wieghorst and Jon Dahl Tomasson enabled the Danes to come from 2-0 down to...
Football: Zidane Refreshes France
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FRANCE CAME from behind to secure a precious 3-2 victory against Armenia in Yerevan last night to give themselves a chance of qualifying for next summer's European Championship.The world champions, below-par throughout, looked as if they would struggle...
Football: Ziege Hits Three for Germany Germany 4 Northern Ireland 0
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THESE ARE tricky times for Lawrie McMenemy and his Northern Ireland team. After Turkey's Arif Erdem put three past them in just four minutes at Windsor Park on Saturday, it took Middlesbrough's Christian Ziege just a little longer as he struck a first-half...
French Vote for `Ideal' Woman as a Symbol of the Republic
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HOW SHOULD Marianne, the earnest young woman who symbolises the French Republic, appear in the 21st century? Should she look like a pop- singer or a game-show host? An actress or a television journalist?The 36,000 mayors of France will vote in the next...
Frontline: DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: Proud City of the Kurds Is Now in Ruins
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YILDIZ CELIK watched as two Turkish helicopter gunships passed low overhead, the fight against the Kurdish rebels that has made her a refugee in her own country in its last throes. But for Ms Celik and the people of Diyarbakir, the suffering is not over...
Games: Chess
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THE 49TH Paignton Congress is under way at Oldway Mansion in Paignton and will continue till Saturday. Though entries are slightly up overall, the Premier itself is somewhat weaker than usual; the most notable absentee is Keith Arkell, who has taken...
Games: Poker
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THE TOURNAMENT of Champions, held at the Orleans casino in Las Vegas, attracted an entry of 664 players. It was won by David Chiu, 38, whose prize was $214,543 plus a Lincoln Continental. All nine players at the final table won a new car. The inspiration...
Get Back on the Straight and Narrow Back Pain? When It Comes to the Crunch, the Solution Could Be a Few Gentle Prods
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I FOUND spinal touch therapy by accident. Too much computer work had left my back feeling as if someone had stabbed a red-hot poker under my shoulder blades, and driving, in particular, was agony. My GP couldn't help, apart from advising painkillers,...
Golf: Sandelin Jilts His Caddie
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THE RYDER CUP is only two weeks away and everything else, including the return of the British Masters to the Duke's Course here after five years, is overshadowed. Were it not for his involvement in the transatlantic contest in Boston, Jarmo Sandelin...
Gore the Bore Sinks in Polls
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"CLINTON FATIGUE" is putting a drag on Vice-President Al Gore's campaign for the presidency, according to an opinion poll for The Washington Post and ABC News.More than half of those questioned were "just plain tired" of President Bill Clinton, even...
Greek Quake Death Toll Rises Past 60
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SPIROS HAD been travelling all night from Thessaloniki and was shaking with anticipation. Would his girlfriend, Bigi, be alive? Was she one of those already brought out dead? Or was she still entombed beneath tons of fallen concrete?It was dawn yesterday...
Greens Sell Drugs Books on Website
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THE GREEN Party's liberal drugs policies came under strong attack from the Government last night after news emerged that it was selling cannabis-growing guides and Ecstasy-testing kits on the Internet.As the party's annual conference opens in Southport...
High-Risk Sex Offender Goes on Run
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A CONVICTED sex offender described by police as an "ultra-high risk" to children was on the run last night after being allowed to travel on a train alone.Michael Wilson, 38, who is on the sex offenders register and has been banned from talking to anyone...
Hospital Absolved on Heart Deaths
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THE UK'S leading specialist heart hospital was cleared yesterday of allegations that it was causing the deaths of too many children and discriminating against some patients.An independent review of the Royal Brompton Hospital in London concluded that...
Hughes `Fell for Scam by Turkish Two'
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SIMON HUGHES, the Liberal Democrat MP who challenged for his party's leadership, was "putty in the hands" of two illegal immigrants who conned him into fighting for their British residency, a court heard yesterday.Mr Hughes had appealed for witnesses...
Hughes `Putty in Hands of Conmen'
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By Andrew BuncombeSIMON HUGHES, the Liberal Democrat MP who challenged for his party's leadership, was "putty in the hands" of two illegal immigrants who conned him into fighting for their British residency, a murder trial was told yesterday.Mr Hughes...
Indonesia on a Knife-Edge President Habibie Close to Resigning UN Staff in East Timor Plead for Help Thousands Flee as Dili Burns
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THE UNITED Nations was engaged in a desperate last-minute effort to protect its besieged staff in East Timor last night amid fears that personnel will be murdered by Indonesian soldiers and militiamen before they can flee to Australia.Staff appealed...
Industry and Union Leaders Slate Rate Rise
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MANUFACTURING employment has plunged through the psychological 4 million mark, it emerged yesterday as industry and union leaders unanimously condemned the Bank of England's surprise decision to hike interest rates.They warned the quarter-point rise...
Irvine to Help Firm Linked to Friend
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THE LORD CHANCELLOR is to use a trip to China to open the office of a law firm in which his friend and personal adviser, Garry Hart, was a partner.The proposed trip next week has rekindled the controversy over Lord Irvine of Lairg's appointment of Mr...
`It Is Hell Here. I Want to Cry out to Everyone'
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AS ACRID smoke from burning houses in Dili drifted towards the UN compound, it was left to a weeping UN official to announce that the international monitoring mission in East Timor would finally capitulate to Indonesian military pressure and pull out.Unamet's...
`I Was Assaulted by a Surgeon'
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I HAD my tonsils and adenoids out when I was four. It was the 1950s and, like millions of children, I was put to the knife in what is now recognised to have been a surgical assault on an unprecedented scale.The swollen, angry looking organs at the back...
Leading Article: Political Mavericks Are the False Idols of Our Celebrity Era
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ALAN CLARK's sudden death has prompted a rush of tributes to the "maverick" in politics. This untamed beast, we are told, enlivens the political scene, adding an enticing frisson of unpredictability to the domesticated herd of loyal voting fodder that...
Letter: Timor Warning
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Sir: I find much of the reaction to the East Timor situation highly alarming. This is not because the condemnation of Indonesia's armed forces and the militias they created is in any way unwarranted, but because it illustrates the hypocrisy and short-sightedness...
Life for Clematis Clippings Killer
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AN ELDERLY allotment holder who shot and killed a fellow gardener in a dispute over the disposal of garden clippings was jailed for life yesterday.Sandor Bata, 73, had bickered with his allotment neighbour, Mick Willson, 62, for months over their gardening...
Liffe Offers Locals Pounds 25,000 Cash Payouts to Quit Pits
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FREELANCE TRADERS on Liffe, the London futures exchange, are being taken aside and offered pounds 25,000 cash handouts by Liffe as an inducement to quit the open outcry pits and move on to computer trading.The offer is meant to go some way towards defraying...
Loans Shock as Bank Raises Rate to 5.25%
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THE BANK of England sprang an unexpected rise in interest rates on home-buyers and businesses yesterday, the first for 15 months. The Monetary Policy Committee announced a quarter-point increase to 5.25 per cent, to a chorus of criticism from industry.Prompted...
Market Report: FTSE Falls as Trader Pushes Wrong Button
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THE BLUE-chip heavyweight Vodafone Airtouch performed a demolition job on the FTSE 100 yesterday with a roguish trade of gigantic proportions.The mistaken deal - caused by a typing error by a trader believed to work for US investment bank Lehman Brothers...
MBA: And Baby Came to School Too Some Business Schools Can Very Supportive to Women Balancing Study and Family Responsibilities, as Francis Beckett Discovered
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Can you study for your MBA and look after small children as well? Yes, say those who have done it - but you need to be twice as organised as your fellow students, and twice as good at time management.It probably helps to choose an institution which has...
MBA: Chile Reception from UK Firms MBA Students from Strathclyde Targeted Chile to Boost British Exports, but They Encountered Little Interest from British Industry
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Exploring new markets in Chile for British exporters proved a tough - and in some ways disappointing - challenge for a team of MBA students from Scotland's Strathclyde Graduate Business School.Each year for the past 10 years the school's director has...
MBA: `I Got What Anyone Wants, a Job That I'm Happy In'
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Barbara Burford (right), 54, runs a national programme for strategic human resources at the NHS Executive. Two years ago she completed a part- time MBA at Durham University Business School."I had been working as an NHS professional for a long time, starting...
MBA: It's Back to Business at Oxford the New Said Business School Has Had a Rocky Start. but Its Acting Director Is Confident That the Future Will Be Bright
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As a press release, it was a masterpiece. The first director of Oxford University's two-year-old Said Business School was "to step down from his post after seeing through the foundation and establishment of the school." You would never know that Professor...
MBA: Student of the Year Award
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FOUR STUDENTS have been chosen as finalists for the Student of the Year Award run by The Independent and the Association of MBAs. This is the second year this prestigious award has been given, and business schools are again being asked to nominate their...
MBA: Study Abroad - If You Want a Global Career Studying for an MBA Abroad Can Increase Your Chances of Finding Work with International Firms; Because You Learn to Adapt to the Social and Business Cultures of Other Countries
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With 116 business schools in Britain offering MBA programmes, some among the best in the world, why should someone take an MBA overseas? The main reason is that trade is increasingly global, many organisations are multinational, and an increasing proportion...
MBA: `The Most Rewarding Year of My Life'
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"BEING A mature student and a mother makes you very focused," says Gill Hall (pictured above), one of four MBA students nationally to be nominated for the Association of MBAs Student of the Year award."You manage your time very efficiently. I always...
Medical Research Hit by 60 Frauds
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MORE THAN 60 cases of scientific fraud have been detected in the past two years - putting patients at risk and under- mining public confidence in research, doctors reported yesterday.The cases were found among research papers submitted to a dozen medical...
Micro-Subs May Soon Tour Body to Kill Bugs
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THE PROSPECT of miniature robots being let loose inside the body to perform minor surgery has come a step closer with the invention of prototype "molecular motors".Microscopic engines, powered by chemical fuel or light, could be used to drive the propellers...
Minister `Terrorised by Convict'
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HARRIET HARMAN MP "freaked out" when she was contacted by a psychiatrist who had treated a violent and disturbed man who said he had dreams about killing the former minister.John Masterson, who is suing the Metropolitan Police for wrongful imprisonment...
Monitor; All the News of the World: International Comment on Escalating Militia Violence in East Timor
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THE DECLARATION of martial law must be suspected as intended more to gain time than resolve the crisis. Australia should end this dangerous period of uncertainty. It should declare its intention to move troops into East Timor if Indonesia doesn't restore...
Mystery of Mutant Toadflax Solved at Last
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A BOTANICAL mystery that nearly inspired a theory of evolution more than a century before Charles Darwin came up with the idea has been solved by biologists.The toadflax plant, Linaria vulgaris, normally produces asymmetrical flowers, but occasionally...
Nothing to Fear from Y2K but Ourselves News Analysis: Mass Hysteria in the Run-Up to the Millennium Could Wreak More Damage in the Financial Markets Than the Bug Itself
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THE WORLD could end today - in theory at least. Today is the ninth day, of the ninth month of the 99th year of the century - the "default day" used by programmers designing their computer systems over the years.At one stage this date was thought to pose...
Obituary: Brigadier William Anderson
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WILLIAM ANDERSON'S wartime career as a sapper was cut short when he was captured outside Dunkirk in May 1940. He was already the holder of a Military Cross and an MBE. A fluent German speaker, he was suspected of organising several escape tunnels from...
Obituary: Lew Schwarz
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IF THE name of Lew Schwarz, comedy writer to the television trade, does not ring a familiar bell, switch your set over to Granada Plus. Within one week you will see Bernard Bresslaw as the oversized Private Popeye Popplewell ("Well, I only arsked!"),...
Obituary: M. L. Jaisimha
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NOT ONLY was M. L. Jaisimha one of India's old-style cricketers, good-looking and charming, but he was also one of the most stylish batsmen with an indolent grace that was both flamboyant and dashing . He played for India through the Sixties, when cricket...
Obituary: Professor John Holloway
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IN HIS later years John Holloway, poet, critic and teacher, said that his poetry was what meant most to him. The salience of this remark can be recognised only by recall of his 14 formidably intelligent critical books, not to mention his record of tireless...
Obituary: Tony Isaacs
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TONY ISAACS was a fine film-maker of an older school who, over many years of skilled and committed endeavour, mainly for BBC2, produced or caused to be produced a stream of vivid programmes which told us things we needed to know. No one ever watched...
Oh! What a Colourful War We've Seen It All before, Many, Many Times, in Black-and-White. You Might Think There Was Nothing More to Show of the Second World War. but Now over 400 Hours of Colour Footage Has Surfaced, and Is about to Be Screened on TV
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Martin Bormann, or what was left of him, was secretly buried at sea last month - another belated footnote to the Second World War. The Soviet archives have long since given up their secrets to Western war historians, and now, thanks to Channel 4's Sex...
One-Third of Trainees Never Work as Teachers
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HUGE GAPS between the best and worst teacher training institutions are revealed in government performance tables published today.While some can pick and choose their students, others are scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill courses. Recruitment...
Outlook: Legal & General
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WHEN IT comes to business and stock markets, there's no such thing as certainty, but even so NatWest can probably begin to count on at least one thing; the chances of a counter offer emerging to its pounds 10.7bn takeover bid for Legal & General look...
Outlook: RJB Mining
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SO MUCH for Tony Blair's curiously Old Labour attempt to save what is left of the British coal industry. Things seem to be getting just darker and darker for RJB Mining, notwithstanding the gas moratorium and the former Paymaster General's attempt to...
Outlook: Why the Bank Has Done Us a Favour
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IT IS always nice to be in with the crowd, but in the end it is also better to be out on a limb and right than to follow consensus slavishly. The Bank of England yesterday did a very unpopular thing and raised interest rates, prompting almost universal...
Pandora
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RUPERT MURDOCH has put his foot in it again. William Shawcross, his tame biographer, reports the meglamaniac old mogul as describing the Dalai Lama as "a very political old monk shuffling round in Gucci shoes". Beeeeg mistake to tastelessly dismiss the...
Perils of a Uniquely Unethical Sporting Age
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JOHN MCENROE'S suspicion that injuries causing eight withdrawals from the US Open can be traced to widespread use of the legal muscle- builder, creatine, is serious enough to justify further investigation by the sporting authorities.Probably no sooner...
Podium: John Stevens: The Deep Roots of Police Corruption from a Speech by the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to a Conference at the London School of Economics
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CLEARLY, THE events of the last 18 months have left the Met somewhat battered and bruised. But the Met is a can-do organisation. We have a clear agenda for change brought about by such factors as the new Mayor and the Metropolitan Police Authority, the...
Police Chief Charged with Sex Assaults
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ONE OF Britain's most senior police officers was charged yesterday with indecently assaulting two women working at his force.Ian Beckett, 52, the Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey, was charged with four sexual assaults on civilian staff last year while...
Police in Move to Deter 999 Time Wasters
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SCOTLAND YARD is considering setting up an alternative number to the 999 emergency call - possibly 333 - to help to reduce the 1.5 million people who every year clog up the system with non-urgent inquiries.The Metropolitan Police's 999 system costs pounds...
Portillo Now Prepares to Claim His Inheritance
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HE'S SWABBED the floors of a hospital, presented daytime TV shows, even proved trains in Spain are mainly all the same.Like a joy-rider serving a community service order, Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has spent the past two years desperately trying...
Portillo Speaks of Gay Experiences `in Past'
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THE FORMER defence secretary Michael Portillo last night spoke of having had "homosexual experiences". He is the most senior Conservative to make such a statement.Mr Portillo, being lined up by the Tory right as a successor to the late Alan Clark's vacant...
Pounds 1.4m Award for Family of CJD Victim
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THE RELATIVES of a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon who died from CJD accepted pounds 1.4m damages in the High Court yesterday as a settlement to their compensation claim. Neil Kreibich, who was treated with contaminated human growth hormone as a youngster,...
Pounds 350,000 Deal Exposes the Murky World of Chequebook Journalism
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JAMES HEWITT, a former lover of Diana, Princess of Wales, was said by friends yesterday to be still hopeful of finding a newspaper to serialise his memoirs after the collapse of a pounds 600,000 deal with the Mail on Sunday.However, given the opprobrium...
Racing: Astonished Shocks the Bookmakers Doncaster St Leger Meeting: Handicapper with Ramsden Connection Turns Big Sprint into Procession on First Day
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IT FELT like a scene from Dickens in the winners' enclosure here yesterday, as the Ghost Of Gambles Past swept in from Chantilly in the shape of a young chestnut gelding called Astonished.There was no hint of it on the racecard, but as everyone on Town...
Racing: Celeric Can Stay on Rails
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LIKE THOMAS, Percy and Bertie before him, Double Trigger received the ultimate accolade yesterday. They named a train after him. While Double Trigger, the Great North Eastern train engine, will now ply its trade up and down the east coast, Double Trigger,...
REFORMING THE RUC: Can Patten at Last Bring Change to an Immovable Force?
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AS YESTERDAY'S comments by some Unionist MPs demonstrated, the Patten report on policing will be received in some quarters not in thoughtful contemplation but with an attempt to create a political firestorm.Many Unionists, and many members of the Royal...
REFORMING THE RUC: Ulster's Police: A Century as Unionism's Armed Wing
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CONSTABULARIES IN Ireland have often had unhappy histories. The RUC is no exception. It came into being when Northern Ireland was born in 1922, one of its primary functions being the preservation of the state.It therefore stood little chance of developing...
RJB Warns Pit May Close after Pounds 133m Loss
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RJB MINING, Britain's biggest coal producer, yesterday reported a pounds 133m loss for the first half of the year and warned that it may be forced to close down one of the pits at its giant Selby complex in Yorkshire.The plunge into heavy losses followed...
Rock Promoter Goldsmith Invades the West End
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THE ROCK promoter Harvey Goldsmith is moving into the West End of London to try tomake theatre "more exciting and glamorous".Goldsmith is being particularly bold with his first West End production. He is taking over one of Britain's biggest theatres,...
RUC `Should Be Cut by 5,000 Officers'
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THE PATTEN report will recommend this morning that the Royal Ulster Constabulary be renamed the Northern Ireland Police Service, and will make scores of proposals designed to change the face of policing for the new millennium.Billed as a new beginning,...
Rugby League: Fixture Trial Is Halted by Elite
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SUPER LEAGUE has ditched midweek fixtures for next season after its ill-advised experiment with them this year, with 28 matches rather than this season's 30 scheduled and no midweek games to be held apart from re-arranged ties involving the Challenge...
Rugby Union: Rodber and Greening Add to Woodward Worries
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CLIVE WOODWARD is confident that his red rose squad for next month's World Cup is the fittest ever pieced together by an England coach - or rather, he would be if his players were not dropping like injured flies.Aside from a lingering concern over the...
Rugby Union: Ryan Prepares to Bare His Teeth the Fearsome Reputation of Bristol's New Player-Coach Is Poised to Wake a Sleeping Giant
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DEAN RYAN, the big bad wolf of the Allied Dunbar Premiership, splits popular rugby union opinion neatly down the middle. Those who see the former England No 8 merely as a hard, ruthless son of a gun who spends his Saturday afternoons treading a very...
Saddam's Brother `Defects' to UAE
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IRAQ DENIED a claim yesterday that Barzan al-Tikriti, the powerful half-brother of the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, had defected to the United Arab Emirates.The London-based Iraqi National Accord opposition group said earlier that it has unconfirmed...
