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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 18, 2003
Album Sales Hit All-Time High - but Profits Slide
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THE RECORD industry was enjoying some rare but welcome good news today as figures showed album sales had reached an all-time high. Despite the relentless advance of CD burners and MP3 downloaders, between June 2002 and June 2003, 228.3 million albums...
A-Level Pupils `Too Tired' to Show Ability
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SIXTH FORMERS who are taking AS-level exams this summer may have been too tired to do themselves justice because of government changes to the way the exams were sat, the official report into the grading of this year's papers concludes. Mike Tomlinson,...
A-Level Pupils `Too Tired' to Show Ability
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SIXTHFORMERS taking AS-level exams this summer may have been too tired to do themselves justice because of government changes to the way the exams were sat, the official report into the grading of this year's papers concludes. Mike Tomlinson, the former...
Annual Cost of Film Piracy Put at Pounds 400m and Rising as More Copies Are Seized
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FILM PIRACY in Britain allegedly increased by 80 per cent last year, costing the movie industry pounds 400m in lost sales. The pirates' stranglehold was demonstrated when fake DVDs of the second Tomb Raider movie The Cradle Of Life were discovered on...
ARTS REVIEWS: Classical - Proms 27 & 28
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Royal Albert Hall London/Radio 3 oooo9 Gyorgy Ligeti was 80 this year, and though his rate of output has been slow for 25 years now, his international stature as a composer has, if anything, increased during that time. One of the reasons for this is...
ARTS REVIEWS: Dance - Breaking the Rules: That's Entertainment ; CULLBERG BALLET the Playhouse Oooo9 AWARD-WINNING EUROPEAN DANCE Dance Base Ooo99 ...Dinburgh
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This festival programme by the Cullberg Ballet marks a changeover in the Swedish company's history: one work by its former director and long-time choreographer Mats Ek, and one by Johan Inger, the incoming director who, although Swedish, has spent most...
Arts Reviews: THEATRE - THREE SISTERS National Theatre: Lyttelton London Oooo9
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More than once during Katie Mitchell's production of Three Sisters one feels she has dealt with her concern about conveying the passage of years by playing the drama in real time. The evening lasts three-and-a- half hours, during which time actors take...
ARTS REVIEWS: Theatre - Top doG/underdog Royal Court London Ooo99
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In a room no respectable ghost would dream of haunting, a young black man, fingers trembling, practises the scam card-game of three card monte. Before a wall of filthy, peeling paper and the shadow of something that looks like a dead animal, Booth prattles...
Athletics: Lewis Wins Race to Be Fit for Paris Heptathlon
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THE OLYMPIC heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis confirmed yesterday that she will compete at the World Championships, which begin in Paris next Saturday. The positive news, which followed the withdrawal of the 10,000 metres favourite Paula Radcliffe...
ATHLETICS: QUESTIONNAIRE - Jo Fenn British 800m Runner
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Your preparations for the World Championships in Paris, which start on Saturday, have been hampered by injury. How optimistic are you of a good performance? It's strange, but I feel very confident despite having missed 12 weeks with a stress fracture....
Athletis: Lewis Wins Race to Be Fit for Paris Heptathlon
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DENISE LEWIS, the Olympic heptathlon gold medallist, confirmed yesterday that she will compete at the World Championships, which begin in Paris on Saturday. The positive news, which followed the withdrawal of the 10,000 metres favourite Paula Radcliffe...
Available Now - More Than 200 Ways in Which to Offend Your Patient
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WHEN A doctor says he is going digging for worms in the yummy scrummy mummy, his fellow medics will know exactly what he is about to do. To the attractive young female patient awaiting an operation to remove her troublesome varicose veins, such a description...
BAT to Join Pounds 2bn Battle for Turkish State Cigarette Maker
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BRITISH AMERICAN Tobacco is preparing to enter the pounds 2bn- plus bid battle for Turkey's state-owned cigarette manufacturer. The deal would follow last month's EUR2.3bn (pounds 1.4bn) acquisition of Italy's state-owned ETI and a smaller purchase of...
Blunkett Told Not to `Overuse' Prisons as Suicides Soar
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THE GOVERNMENT'S prisons chief warned David Blunkett against the "overuse" of jail yesterday when he blamed record suicide levels on Britain's soaring numbers of inmates. In another challenge to the Home Secretary, Phil Wheatley, the director general...
Bridge
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Today's hand, from the qualifying rounds of the Teams at the first Open European Championships, had an element of bluff and double-bluff about it. When the Women's teams of England and Austria faced each other, the inimitable Maria Erhart, for so many...
Britons Consider Suing Saudi Arabia over Jail Treatment
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A GROUP of Britons jailed for alleged involvement in a car- bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia will meet lawyers this week to discuss taking legal action against the Arab state. The bombings led to the death of Christopher Rodway in November 2000 in the...
Bush Blamed for Chaos Which Led to Blackouts
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THE BUSH administration rushed to defend itself yesterday from accusations that reluctance to upset its friends in the energy industry was to blame for the regulatory chaos leading to last week's massive power blackout across the north-eastern United...
BUSINESS PROFILE: STEPHEN HILL - `Slasher Hill' Tries His Luck at the eBay of the Sporting World ; the Ex-Pearson Executive Stephen Hill Is Unsentimental about His Lost Opportunities as He Picks Up the Reins at Betfair
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IF EVERYTHING had gone according to plan, by now Stephen Hill's biggest worry would be whether or not anyone was taking any notice of this Friday's stock tip from Investors Chronicle. As it is, the 42-year- old Mr Hill, who until 12 months ago was running...
Catholic Church Denies Bishops Were Ordered to Cover Up Sex Abuse Claims
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THE ROMAN Catholic Church has strongly denied that a Latin document sent to all bishops 40 years ago imposed a secret code for dealing with sexual abuse by priests that stopped victims seeking redress outside the Church. According to the document, priests...
Chess
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After the end of the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen on 25 July a number of the players moved on to Malmo just across the bridge in Sweden, where, as I've detailed here previously, Luke McShane won splendidly with 7.5/9. There was also another tournament...
CLASSICAL: A Swedish Nightingale ; It's Just Three Years since She Left Stockholm's Opera College, but Already Miah Persson Is Making a Brilliant Impact on the World Stage. as the Soprano Tells MARTIN ANDERSON, It Could Easily Have Been So Different
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Miah Persson, the soprano soloist in last Friday night's Prom performance of Brahms's German Requiem, is only three years out of the Opera College in Stockholm, and her career is already showing a vertiginous rate of ascent. In the late 1990s, while...
CLASSICAL CONCERT: Wordy but Beautiful ; PROMS 30: BBC SO/ DAVIS Royal Albert Hall London/Radio 3 Oooo9
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As the temperature soared, come 7.30pm, there they all were in the Royal Albert Hall: Dame Felicity Lott, tremulous in boudoir gown, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC SO poised in white tuxedos, the ranks of the Trinity Boys' Choir, Cantate Youth Choir and...
CLASSICAL: THE COMPACT COLLECTION ; Rob Cowan on the Best CD Releases
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The first four bars of Sir Simon Rattle's new Berlin Fidelio (EMI 5 57555 2, two discs oooo9) tell all: a bold forte opening that broadens at its peak, a carefully calculated pause, then horns that truly enter "quietly but sweetly". You sense immediately...
Coal Miner Billiton Poised to Launch Bid for Drax
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BHP BILLITON, the Anglo-Australian mining giant, is likely to put in a last-minute bid this week for Drax, the UK's biggest power station. The company is a major coal producer and Drax, which is in Yorkshire, is Europe's largest coal-fired power plant....
COVER STORY: Woman of Mystery ; A Combination of Fierce Intelligence and Tender Grandmotherliness, Less Is Known about Britain's Foremost Crime Writer Than Her Fictional Creation, Detective Adam Dalgleish. but as BRIAN VINER Discovers, the Clues to the Real PD James Are in the Merest Twitch of Her Forbidding Eyebrows
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He stepped out of Holland Park Underground station to find the latest manifestation of this unusually oppressive London summer: warm, scything rain. Cursing himself for leaving his umbrella behind, he checked his watch. It was 10.52am. The elderly crime...
Cricket: Anderson Rediscovers His Poise and Rescues His Test Career ; THIRD TEST - Vaughan's Young Fast Bowlers Finally Gain the Upper Hand on a Gripping Day of Changing Fortunes Which Sees 14 Wickets Fall
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IF IT should happen that England win the third Test against South Africa here today at what, to estimate roughly, would be the third attempt in the course of the last four days, there will surely be as much relief as celebration. This, after all, is...
CRICKET: Anderson Rescues His Test Career
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IF IT should happen that England win the Third Test against South Africa here today at what, to estimate roughly, would be the third attempt in the course of the last four days, there will surely be as much relief as celebration. This, after all, is...
CRICKET: Front Foot and Strong Mind Essential to Winning Pitch Battle
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A CAREFUL analysis of all 10 of England's second innings wickets makes it look as if none of them were the direct result of the pitch. The bounce had been growing increasingly uneven as the match wore on. Some balls have kept desperately low and a few...
Cricket: Kirtley and Anderson Put Victory in England's Grasp
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ENGLAND RETURN this morning with a fine chance to square the five- match series against South Africa after wresting back the initiative in the third Test yesterday. Michael Vaughan's team, who had scored 445 in their first innings, were bowled out for...
Cricket: Kirtley and Anderson Put Victory in England's Grasp
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ENGLAND RETURN this morning with a fine chance to square the five- match series against South Africa after wresting back the initiative in the third Test yesterday. Michael Vaughan's team, who had scored 445 in their first innings, were bowled out for...
Cricket: Kirtley Turns Tide Back in Favour of England ; England 445 and 118 South Africa 362 and 63-5
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THE PITCH at Trent Bridge may not be up to scratch but, with help from the players of England and South Africa, it has produced four days of intense and intriguing Test cricket. At the end of a day when the fortunes of this crucial game swung quickly...
CRICKET: Kirtley Turns Tide Back in Favour of England ; England 445 and 118 South Africa 362 and 63-5; THIRD TEST Vaughan's Young Fast Bowlers Finally Gain the Upper Hand on a Gripping Day of Changing Fortunes Which Sees 14 Wickets Fall
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THE PITCH at Trent Bridge may not be up to scratch but, with help from the players of England and South Africa, it has produced four days of intense and intriguing Test cricket. At the end of a day when the fortunes of this crucial game swung quickly...
CRICKET: Ramprakash's Onslaught Puts Surrey Back on Top ; Surrey 298-5 Glamorgan 240 Surrey Win by 58 Runs
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SURREY RECLAIMED the leadership of the First Division National League with a devastating all-round display that saw off third- placed Glamorgan with more than five overs to spare in the splendid surrounds of Croydon's premier school yesterday. It was...
CRICKET: Smith Has the Class and Character to Revive England ; Early Test Success Can Be Illusory but the Kent Batsman Already Looks the Part
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ED SMITH'S imposing arrival on the Test match stage towards the end of last week was considerably more important for England's cricket than Phil Tufnell's pre-season triumph in the southern Queensland jungle (pace Michael Soper, the former chairman of...
Cricket: Unpredictable Pitch Undermines Batsmen's Confidence
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A CAREFUL analysis of all 10 of England's second-innings wickets makes it look as if none of them were the direct result of the pitch. The bounce had been growing increasingly uneven as the match wore on. Some balls have kept desperately low and a few...
DAYS LIKE THESE: 18 August 1838
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George Borrow, in his third year of selling Bibles in Spain, records in his journal: "I reached Abades at nightfall, and found Lopez, with two peasants whom he had engaged, in the house of the surgeon of the place, where I also took up my residence....
Dear Voter, Please Don't Bother to Write to Your MP ; with Few Exceptions, Mechanical Ministers Sign Letters Produced by Machine, an Insult to the Electors
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For many years the Government has fretted about political apathy, and rightly so. Why then is it so determined to insult the people who are most interested in politics? How governments respond to individual electors is a key test, not only of its commitment...
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2003: An Old Dictator Obscured by Glowing Praise ; COMMANDANTE Oliver Stone Film Festival Oo999
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IN THE final minutes of Commandante, Fidel Castro clasps Oliver Stone in a big, manly hug. And he has a lot to hug him for: this documentary, in which Stone follows Castro around a series of clearly stage-managed events in the old dictator's personal...
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2003: Festival Diary
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IRVINE WELSH was a no-show at last week's "Who's Culture Is It Anyway?" debate, organised by the Socialist MSP Colin Fox. Welsh was billed to discuss the role of the Festival with a panel that included Rebel Inc founder Kevin Williamson, impresario Richard...
Expert Help Is at Hand for Students ; the UCAS Clearing System Is Designed to Assist Those Seeking a Place at University or College, Says ANTHONY McCLARAN
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Seeking a place at university or college is one of life's most exciting and important decisions. Apart from laying foundations for future employment and learning, higher education is also where lifelong friendships can be forged, future partners met...
FILM: A Hairy Tale of Violence in Brazil ; What Causes a Man to Turn into a Violent Assassin after a Visit to the Hairdressers?
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In these heady days of Alice band-sporting football stars, it's safe to say that those who wield the clippers and comb have the power to change lives. This is certainly the case in The Man of the Year, a new ultra-violent, hyper-stylised film from Brazil....
Football: Campbell Ban May Be More Than One Game ; Arsenal 2 Everton 1
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DISPLAYING A wry smile rather than the expected frown, Arsene Wenger wanted to make it perfectly clear that he had no complaints about the red card shown to Sol Campbell by Mark Halsey, the same referee who dismissed the Arsenal centre-back for elbowing...
Football: Disputed Penalty Sparks City Stroll ; Charlton Athletic 0 Manchester City 3
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IT MAY be the new season but this was a case of the same old Charlton. The Addicks finished last season on a woeful run of form, losing eight and drawing one of their last 10 games, and this poor performance yesterday meant the Londoners carried on exactly...
FOOTBALL: Do TV Cash Transfusions Drain the Game's Lifeblood?
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ALTHOUGH WE ageing hackers want to enjoy our summer sports for a little longer, the remorseless television bandwagon has already been hitched to football and will not be uncoupled until after the European Championship Finals next July. As another season...
Football: Emerton and Tugay Shine to Make Light of Duff Departure ; Blackburn Rovers 5 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1
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WITH THE best part of a pounds 22.5m transfer fund still burning a hole in his pocket, Graeme Souness has not finished embellishing the squad that finished sixth in the Premiership last season, despite the evidence of significant development revealed...
Football: Faye's Combative Style Gives Portsmouth Hope for Future ; Portsmouth 2 Aston Villa 1
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WALKING INTO Fratton Park one can almost smell the Brylcreem, Bovril and embrocation. In this era of out-of-town stadiums the location is a throwback, amid narrow streets and yards topped with razor wire. The dilapidated main stand, with its cramped...
FOOTBALL: GERMANY - Neuville Leads Leverkusen Rout
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TWO GOALS from Germany striker Oliver Neuville helped Bayer Leverkusen to a 4-0 victory over Hanover 96 that kept them at the top of the Bundesliga. The Brazilian forward Franca and midfielder Daniel Bierofka also struck for the 2002 Champions' League...
Football: Hard Work Will Be the Key for Coleman ; Fulham 3 Middlesbrough 2
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MOHAMED AL FAYED'S vainglorious boast about turning Fulham into the "Manchester United of the South" was officially buried before this game. Ambitions have been re-scaled. Chris Coleman, Fulham's impressive young manager, put it more bluntly. "We need...
Football: Leeds Frustrated by Shearer's Late Strike ; PREMIERSHIP Newcastle Centre-Forward Adds to Remarkable Goal Record While Wenger's Side Overcome Dismissal of England Centre-Back: Leeds United 2 Newcastle United 2
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ALAN SHEARER maintained his remarkable scoring vendetta against Leeds and the Yorkshire club preserved an unbeaten record on the opening day since Newcastle thumped them 5-2 in 1989. Yet there was no question of both sides being equally satisfied with...
Football: McCarthy Relives Free-Fall as Sunderland near Record Low ; FIRST DIVISION Black Cats Suffer 17th Successive League Defeat as Reading Show Impressive Early Form and Ince Secures Crewe's Success; Sunderland 0 Millwall 1
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MICK McCARTHY has been this way before. His previous spell in club management finished with his team in free-fall. In December of 1995 his Millwall side went to Roker Park as leaders of the First Division. They lost 6-0 and slumped to 22nd place, and...
Football: O'Connor Breaks Hearts with Late Strike ; Hibernian 1 Heart of Midlothian 0
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GARRY O'CONNOR saved up a punchline for Heart of Midlothian yesterday that eclipsed any other seen in Edinburgh at Festival time, when he struck the winner in injury time that gave Hibernian their first derby win in almost two years. The striker did...
Football: Phillips' Dramatic Entrance Puts Limited Leicester in the Shade ; Leicester City 2 Southampton 2
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MICKY ADAMS' hopes of Premiership survival, ballooning when Leicester were 2-0 ahead at 3.15pm on Saturday, had started deflating two hours later. His body language said so. "I'm fairly upbeat," he said in a tone that was not. "In an ideal world, I would...
FOOTBALL: PRESS WATCH - Ayala Keeps Manchester United and Liverpool Guessing as Chelsea Step Up the Chase for Cisse, Makelele and Smertin
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THE RACE to sign the Valencia defender Roberto Ayala continues, with confusion surrounding whether Liverpool or Manchester United head the chase for the Argentinian. According to the Sunday Express, Ayala is close to signing for Liverpool after agents...
Football: Ronaldo May Prove to Be Ferguson's Master Stroke ; Manchester United 4 Bolton Wanderers 0; PREMIERSHIP Old Trafford Thrills to Portugal's Wing Magician as Senegalese Midfielder Inspires Opening-Day Victory for Redknapp's Men
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IF MACHIAVELLI had been a football manager he would surely have chosen to be Sir Alex Ferguson on this tumultuous day. Consider the scenario crafted by the old schemer; months of intrigue and confusion, including charges that with the sale of David Beckham...
Football: Royle Rues Lack of Finishing Touch ; Crewe Alexandra 1 Ipswich Town 0
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JOE ROYLE, Ipswich Town's straight-talking manager, had a predictably terse reply to the question about whether worry was setting in at his side's early form. His retort was inappropriate for pages such as these, yet the comparison with last season is...
Football: Russian Revolution Conquers the Reds ; Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2 - Out-of-Favour Hasselbaink Comes off Bench to Hit Winner after 87 Minutes as Abramovich Sees Early Return on Pounds 75m Investment
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CHELSEA'S RUSSIAN revolution dawned with the storming of one of English football's great winter palaces. Since Stalin was conducting show trials in the Soviet Union, Chelsea had won only one league match at Anfield and the way a team supposedly made...
Football: Sidwell Persists to Flatten Forest ; Reading 3 Nottingham Forest 0
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WITH THIS season still in its infancy, it is too early to take this result as clear-cut evidence that Reading will not need to use the play-off route out of Division One, which undid them three months ago. Likewise, Nottingham Forest should not be seen...
Football: Southgate and Upson Pay the Price for Defensive Unease
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GARETH SOUTHGATE'S long England career, and Matthew Upson's fledgling one, have been cast into doubt after Sven Goran Eriksson dropped both players from his England squad. The pair had been central-defensive partners at the Riverside Stadium for England's...
Football: The Independent Premiership Index
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THE INDEPENDENT Premiership Index provides a unique analysis of every player's performance in every top-flight English game. After each Premiership match our reporters give every player who has been on the pitch for a least 15 minutes and all referees...
Former Intelligence Officer Wanted His Objections to Dossier Known
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WHEN A former intelligence official read the Foreign Affairs Select Committee's final report on the Government's Iraq dossier five weeks ago, he couldn't believe his eyes. Once Britain's most senior expert working on weapons of mass destruction, the...
Germany Is the West Ham of the World's Economic League ; the ECB's Hair-Shirt Approach Has Forced Firms to Sell Assets. It's like Joe Cole Being Sold to Chelsea
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REMEMBER THE days when West Ham United were a footballing force to be reckoned with? Not too long ago, they were up there with the best: eighth in the Premiership at the end of the 1997-98 season, fifth in the following season and a creditable ninth...
Golf: Another Major Let-Down as Woods Joins the Also-Rans ; Beleaguered World No 1 Finishes near the Back of the USPGA Championship Field as Leaders Try to Emulate Curtis
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SHAUN MICHEEL and Chad Campbell shared the lead going into the final round of the 85th USPGA Championship at Oak Hill yesterday. Tiger Woods had wrapped up his major season long before the unlikely pairing got to the first tee. Woods was playing with...
Golf: Micheel Continues Series of First-Time Major Winners ; Journeyman from Memphis Produces Stroke of Genius to See off Campbell Challenge While Woods Is Wayward Again
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A STROKE of a sheer brilliance sealed victory for Shaun Micheel in the 85th USPGA Championship. It left the 34-year-old from Memphis with the easiest of tap-ins from two inches on the 18th green at Oak Hill as another obscure player claimed his first...
HEALTH CHECK: `If You Believe the Ratings, Hospital Wards Are Drenched in Balsamic Vinegar Dressings and Parmesan Shavings'
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You have 300 million meals to serve every year in 1,200 different buildings and only pounds 2 to spend per person each day doing it. Next to the feat that is hospital catering, the miracle of the loaves and fishes pales in comparison. But if the Government...
House Prices in London's Most Expensive Areas Fall 17 per Cent
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HOMEOWNERS IN the wealthiest parts of London have seen as much as pounds 100,000 wiped off their value of their property over the past year, a survey shows today. The value of the average home in Westminster has tumbled from pounds 611,265 in August...
Hundreds of Trains Scrapped `to Boost Services'
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NEARLY 500 trains a week are to be scrapped when the winter timetables are introduced, the Strategic Rail Authority confirmed yesterday. The services to go from 28 September are mainly in London and the South- east, Birmingham, Liverpool and Wales. A...
Intelligence Officer's `Unease' at Straw's Iraq Claims
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A SENIOR intelligence officer who wanted to inform Parliament of his concerns about the Government's Iraq dossier was told by his superior at the Ministry of Defence not to take the matter further, Hutton inquiry documents show. An explosive letter,...
Leading Article: America and Britain Must Face the Growing Cost of Occupying Iraq
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THE EVENTS of this past weekend should have convinced even the most inveterate optimist that the reconstruction of Iraq will take much longer and cost much more than the United States and Britain, as the occupying powers, had budgeted. Two huge fires,...
Leading Article: A Shameful Episode in the History of the Catholic Church
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THERE WILL be those in the Roman Catholic Church whose instinct may be to be dismissive of the revelation that a secret Vatican document in 1962 told bishops throughout the world to deal in strictest secrecy with any allegations of sexual abuse by priests....
LIFE FAMILIES: `I'll Be Home at Teatime.' ; Gone Are the Summers When Children Roamed Outdoors in Search of Fun and Adventure, Says ROGER DOBSON. Nowadays We Prefer Them to Stay Inside the Garden Gate - Because It's Safer and They Won't Annoy the Neighbours
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Remember those childhood adventures? That den in the woods, the secret tunnel by the old factory, the bike rides along the canal towpath? Chances are that if you were born 30 or more years ago, you will have some memories of the delights, and horrors,...
Life Families: Staying Afloat
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Clara is packing a suitcase for our fortnight in Italy. The usual holiday essentials - shorts, sunhat, feather boa, and a dozen diamante necklaces. If Cosmo asked Tallulah Bankhead to design a capsule wardrobe, it would look something like this. "We...
LIFE HEALTH: A QUESTION OF HEALTH - Will I Ever Be Able to Dance Again? and How Many Calories Are There in a Bottle of Wine?
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STRUCK NUMB Several years ago, I went to my GP complaining of pains in my feet. He diagnosed Morton's neuroma, and got me to a surgeon with great speed. The operation was apparently a common one, and was a success, but the after-effects are a total disaster....
LIFE HEALTH: Dr Fred Saved My Life ; Nonna Jones Thought Her Hot Flushes Were Late Symptoms of Menopause. but the Independent's Doctor Advised Her to Talk to Her GP - Who Found a 15cm Carcinoid Tumour
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Nonna Jones used to joke about her hot flushes. She had already been through the menopause and had never suffered from them then. But, 18 months ago, she started experiencing them once or twice a day for no apparent reason. She noticed they could be...
LIFE HEALTH: Trust Me, I'm a Researcher ; Hardly a Week Goes by without Another New Health Scare. and, as the Recent Linking of HRT and Breast Cancer Demonstrated, Widespread Panic Can Be the Result. Not Even Our Doctors Are Immune to the Uncertainty, Says DR MARGARET McCARTNEY
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If you ever get fed up with the endless exhortations in the media to eat more of something one week, followed by a warning to eat less of it the next, you are not alone. As a GP, I flick through my pile of health journals for a couple of hours each week....
Live the Brideshead Dream - Go to Newcastle ; It's More Fun at the Redbrick Universities, Lounging on Soft Lawns, Motoring through Beautiful Scenery
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My hearty congratulations to Candice Clarke. The lucky 18-year- old from Essex has been turned down by Trinity, College, Cambridge, despite having five top-grade A-levels. Like everyone who gets rejected by Oxford or Cambridge, she was wounded at first...
Man Shot Dead in Front of Children by Real IRA `Punishment Squad'
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A MAN was murdered in front of some of his six children by two Real IRA men yesterday after a row with dissident republicans flared out of control. Daniel McGurk, 35, was shot three times in an apparent "punishment shooting gone wrong" at his home in...
MPs Intervene in Call Centre Jobs Exodus ; Commons to Investigate Loss of Employment to Asian Rivals amid Wider Disappointment with IT Industry
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MPS ARE to launch a wide-ranging inquiry into the loss of thousands of call centre and IT jobs from the UK to countries such as India. Martin O'Neill, chairman of the Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee, said it would be part of a wider inquiry...
Number 10 Cannot Have Known That Dr Kelly Would Commit Suicide ; after the Gilligan Report, Dr Kelly Expected to Come under Scrutiny. There Was Nothing in His Past to Suggest He Would Crack
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After the first few days, it is impossible to tell where the Hutton Inquiry is going and equally impossible to doubt that it will get there. There is an aesthetic pleasure in the way that first- rate lawyers operate. James Dingemans' cross-examinations...
Obituary: Idi Amin ; Jovial but Brutal Tyrant Known as the `Butcher of Uganda'
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IDI AMIN presided over one of the bloodiest regimes in African history as military dictator of Uganda from 1971 until 1979, and became known as the "Butcher of Uganda". Quick-witted, intelligent and not without a sense of humour - albeit oft-times perverse...
Obituary: Robin Thompson ; Former British Lions Captain
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ROBIN THOMPSON was a shock choice for the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa, but he and his team went on to be heralded as one of the greatest ever seen there and only a desperate fightback in the final test gave South Africa a share of the series...
Obituary: Sarah Clackson ; Coptologist
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THE DEATH of Sarah Clackson at the age of just 37 is a blow for Coptology and the study of early Christian Egypt when, as Coptic, the Greek script was adopted to write the Egyptian language. An elegance of appearance unusual among academics combined...
Pandora in America
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Dallas cops in comic caper VJesus Castillo was working as a shop assistant at Keith's Comics bookstore in Dallas in 1999 when a customer asked him for a title from the Adults Only section. Jesus obliged, the customer paid for his book (a forgettable...
RACING: Sulamani Steals the Million as Stevens Takes a Tumble
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THE 21st running of the Arlington Million will be remembered for many more reasons than providing Godolphin's 100th top-level winner. It was a race that embodied most of the elements that make racing such an enduring fascination: drama, danger, uncertainty,...
Row over Sweets Turns Sour as French Village Endures Bread Strike
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NO DOUGH in Stephane Pelas's bakery will ever rise as much as his fury at the Leconte family next door. Not so much as a brioche has emerged from the ovens of Sivry-sur-Meuse's only boulangerie since last Monday, when M. Pelas went on an indefinite strike....
RUGBY LEAGUE: Widnes Rely on O'Neill to Hold off Inspired Rooney ; Widnes 30 Wakefield 28
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WIDNES CLAWED their way up into sixth place in the battle for the play-offs, but they were pushed all the way by a side with nothing to play for but inspired by 24 points from Jamie Rooney. Rooney's haul, including a hat-trick of tries, underlined his...
RUGBY UNION: Wood Thrives in a Bruising Comeback ; Ireland 35 Wales 12
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KEITH WOOD, playing his first Test since a World Cup qualifier in Siberia 11 months ago, did whatever was necessary here to complete his latest and last comeback. Out of contract with Harlequins and unattached, the World Cup in Australia will be his...
Sabotage Threatens Iraq's Economy ; Two Fires Burn on Main Oil Pipeline as Baghdad Water Supply Bombed
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SABOTAGE LEFT two fires burning out of control on the main pipeline exporting Iraqi oil to Turkey yesterday and the main pipe supplying water to Baghdad was bombed, flooding a motorway and leaving the city of five million without water. And, last night,...
Saudi Arabia Says Britons Were Not Tortured in Prison
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SAUDI ARABIA rejected allegations yesterday that a group of Britons who were jailed for alleged involvement in a car bombing campaign were tortured during imprisonment. The Britons were convicted of carrying out a spate of car bombings that led to the...
SHARES: THE WEEK AHEAD - Will Sorrell Declare Bath Time's over at WPP?
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IT IS almost 18 months since Sir Martin Sorrell came up with the idea that the advertising downturn would be "bath-shaped" with "deep corrugations" along the bottom. Sir Martin's latest words of wisdom on Friday will carry the usual weight since, as...
Sport: BOOK OF THE WEEK - on Being John McEnroe by Tim Adams (Yellow Jersey Press, Pounds 10)
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AN OLD friend had a preference for biography over autobiography. He reasoned that the author of an autobiography would tell you what he had for breakfast but neglect to mention that his flies were undone. Although John McEnroe, with the assistance of...
SPORT ON THE INTERNET: Athletics Sites Get on Their Marks for the World Championships in Paris
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IF YOUR gut reaction is that Britain are likely to be in for a torrid time at the athletics World Championships,which start in Paris on Saturday, you're probably best off not looking at the analysis in BBCi Athletics. The effects of injury and uncertain...
Study the Appliance of Science ; New Courses Are Rooted in the Real World, Which Makes Scientists Extremely Employable, Says CAITLIN DAVIES
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If you thought science was too hard, too boring and wouldn't get you a good job, think again. University science courses are becoming easier to get onto, broader and more imaginative, and lead to many a high-flying career. Not only do science students...
Sweet Temptation ; the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Has Become an American Obsession, with Even Diet-Conscious Celebrities Seen Scoffing Them. as Britain's First Franchise Gets Ready to Open, ANDREW BUNCOMBE Takes a Bite (in the Interests of Science)
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We have opted for a dozen, and they are sitting in the cardboard box in front of us, three lines of four, each an individual and each with its own enticing name. There is the "chocolate-iced creme- filled", a yeast- raised doughnut shell, hand-filled...
SWIMMING: Cooke Caps Stunning Sequence of Records
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THE NUMBER of British records set at the National Short Course Championships here swelled to 14 yesterday as Rebecca Cooke added her third of the competition to bring an end to a hectic summer for the country's elite swimmers. Cooke's record of 4min...
Tennis: Roddick Battles Back from Losing Opening Set to Take Title
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ANDY RODDICK rallied after losing the first set to beat Mardy Fish, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, and win the Cincinnati Masters in Mason, Ohio yesterday. Roddick had not lost a set all week. After dropping the first set against Fish, the seventh seeed survived two...
Tennis: Roddick Exploits Net Cords to Renew Friendly Rivalry in Final
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ANDY RODDICK moved to the brink of his third title in four tournaments with a 7-6, 6-4 victory over Max Mirnyi, of Belarus, in the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Masters Series. The other finalist Mardy Fish, ranked 41 in the world and seeking his first...
Texting Blamed for Summer Movie Flops
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IN HOLLYWOOD, 2003 is rapidly becoming known as the year of the failed blockbuster, and the industry now thinks it knows why. No, the executives are not blaming such bombs as The Hulk, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle or Gigli on poor quality, lack of...
THE BIG QUESTION: Have You Ever Felt like Spitting at Someone?
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London Underground staff have been issued with DNA kits to catch people who spit at them. RICHARD GOODACRE Sommelier and hospitality manager at the University of York I haven't. It's a disgusting habit. Sportsmen often set a bad example. We've got it...
THE MONDAY BOOK: A Bright Star in Canada's Literary Galaxy ; the Romantic Barbara Gowdy Flamingo, Pounds 15.99
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WHO OR what is a romantic? In this beautifully-written novel, deeply felt but worked out with precision-steel technique, the romantic is Louise, constantly pondering two people she has loved and lost. The wondering creates her own identity, but in the...
THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: MIKE TODD - A Man with a Vision: To Drive Guns from Manchester's Streets
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MIKE TODD is doing a good impression of a drunk. He sways from side to side before clutching an imaginary figure around the waist and saying in a slurred voice: "I love you man". He stops, looks up and adds: "I know you, you're the new Chief Constable...
