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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-27 | money | MFI plans 1,500 new jobs in expansion programme | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/28/business.personalfinancenews3 | MFI, Britain's biggest bathroom and kitchen retailer, is to create 1,500 jobs as part of a three-year, £100m programme of new store openings and refurbishments. The group has brought in Conran Design to help develop a new look for its stores but says the move is in response to increasing customer sophistication and is ... | 416 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | He only wanted to end his wife's pain. He ended up in court, at 84 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/paulkelso | Raymond and May Bouldstridge would have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in a fortnight. Instead, Mr Bouldstridge, 84, will spend Thursday June 22 alone, contemplating not only the death of his wife, but the failed mercy killing that led to his conviction for her attempted murder. Yesterday Mr Bouldstridge,... | 952 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | global | A moonlit pogo with Eastbourne's finest | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/21/artsfeatures1 | Bolshie piano and guitar riffs, big hair and a liberal dose of charm are Toploader's characteristics. The British five-piece offer a raucously chipper antidote to indie miserabilism and, as they swagger onstage to a rapturous reception, it's evident that they're loved for it. Few other contemporary rockers, aside from ... | 450 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | society | Chance chat over dinner led Blair to order u-turn on private beds | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jul/28/futureofthenhs.politics | When Tony Blair took Cherie for dinner at the fashionable River Cafe restaurant in west London earlier this year, it was coincidence that a Daily Express associate editor, Stephen Pollard, was eating with his girlfriend at a table nearby. On the way out, the prime minister called the other couple over for coffee, and t... | 717 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | world | Israel agog over lovelorn US spy with false beard | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/israel | A US navy intelligence officer, who included classified material in love letters to his Israeli paramour, is believed to be on the run in Israel, using a stick-on beard as a disguise. US authorities launched a search for Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremiah Mattysse on August 8, when he failed to return to his base in San Anton... | 803 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | us-news | Leader: The court is in contempt of the electorate | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa1 | The fix is in, Al Gore is out and it is a bad day for American democracy. In the end, the supreme court was decisive. The majority's ruling was transparently political. Questions of timeframe and standards in Florida's recounts could have been resolved with goodwill and impartiality. Both were lacking. By its action, t... | 866 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | politics | Andrew Rawnsley - Peter and Gordon fall out of harmony | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/21/labour.euro | In the run up to the last election, Peter Mandelson convened a meeting of New Labour's spinners to discuss how they would deal with a variety of nightmare scenarios during the campaign. For the purposes of this electoral war-gaming, an imaginative and well-informed mind mocked up some black headlines they might confron... | 1,461 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | I wrote that | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing3 | Sub: Paul Hickson. Publication: The Sun, Wednesday, February 9. Occasion: Celtic suffer most embarrassing defeat, losing third-round cup tie 3-1 to First Division Inverness Caledonian Thistle, just five years out of the Highland League. Headline: Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious "The headline came long be... | 369 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | November 6 ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/overnights | The News at Nine is turning out to be ITV's Noah's Ark, scooping up viewers as the waters rise. The network scored yet again with another ad hoc 9pm news special last night. The Trevor McDonald-fronted bulletin pulled in a bumper audience as people tuned in to catch up after another night of storms and flooding. It is ... | 536 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | uk-news | Outstanding progress in surprising places | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/07/schools.educationnews | Outstanding performances in surprising places illuminate the government's performance tables for primary schools in England, published in the Guardian today. The most dramatic year-on-year improvement in test scores was at Cleeve primary in the notorious Bransholme district of Hull, the biggest council estate in Europe... | 833 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-20 | global | Hanna Schygulla | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/21/artsfeatures3 | Though best known for her acting work in the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla has also pursued a theatrical career for more than 30 years. Fassbinder casts a long shadow here too, since he and Schygulla were co-founders of the Antitheatre in Munich in 1968, and subsequently collaborated on numerous s... | 398 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Parents charged over girls' deaths on rail line | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/keithperry | The parents of a child killed alongside her friend as they played on a railway line have been charged with manslaughter through gross negligence. The charges were brought by British Transport police after an investigation into the death of Sophie George, seven, on July 29 at Ynyslas, near Borth, Mid Wales. Sophie's fri... | 449 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Fighting erupts in Colombia drug zone | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/martinhodgson | More than 50 government soldiers and police officers were killed this week in heavy fighting with leftwing rebels in the jungles of north-west Colombia, military sources said yesterday. Among the dead were 22 troops on board a helicopter gunship which crashed after coming under fire. The US-made Blackhawk helicopter cr... | 378 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | global | G2: Interview with the Royle Family's Barbara | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/21/features11.g23 | On Saturday night, Sue Johnston sat at a table with her Royle Family co-stars and rehearsed a state of grace for the moment when she would lose out in the best TV actress category at the British Comedy Awards. A rumour had gone round that all winners were tipped off before the ceremony in a bid to stop them drinking th... | 1,849 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Amnesty backs BMA attack on secret tests | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/pinochet.chile1 | Amnesty International today welcomed the British Medical Association's criticisms of the secret medical tests which led Jack Straw to rule that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was not fit to stand trial. The chairman of the British Medical Association's medical ethics committee, Michael Wilks, said the results... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | Passing the buck at Arcadia | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/2 | Arcadia's plight, so chief executive John Hoerner would have us believe, is everyone's fault but its own. He blames everything from the amount of new out of-town retail space to savage discounting and the inability of male shoppers to buy clothes without advice from their womenfolk for his group's slide into the red. T... | 1,001 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | Violence threatens Israeli-Palestinian community | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/israel1 | Atop a tract of beautiful rural land, only 30 miles from Jerusalem, Jewish and Arab families are trying hard to demonstrate the possibility of coexistence. The serene hilltop village of Neve Shalom, with its bougainvillea-covered homes, is the result of an experiment by Father Bruno Hussar, an Egyptian Jew who converte... | 876 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | money | Airtours casts off from luxury cruising | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/29/business.personalfinancenews | Holiday group Airtours yesterday announced plans to pull out of the luxury cruise sector by disposing of its 50% stake in Italy's Costa Crociere to one of its own shareholders, Carnival Corp. Airtours, under financial pressure after problems with its German and North American operations, booked itself a handsome profit... | 397 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Serbs hope election commission will crack | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/balkans | Serbian opposition representatives were rebuffed yesterday when they tried to see the ballot records on which federal election commission officials based their claim that Vojislav Kostunica failed to win enough votes for a first-round victory over President Slobodan Milosevic in Sunday's poll. "As I had expected, they ... | 1,021 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/2 | Hindley back in hospital Moors murderer Myra Hindley was last night admitted to hospital for more tests over a potentially fatal brain condition. Hindley, 57, was driven from Highpoint prison near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where she is serving a life sentence, to Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge. It is the third tim... | 394 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Banks veto plan to save post offices | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.business | The Government's promise to protect rural post offices was in tatters last night after Britain's leading banks refused to back government plans for a universal bank. In a letter to ministers obtained by the Guardian, the banks complained that ministers' plans for a post office-based universal bank would carry the stigm... | 827 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | Protesters and police clash at EU summit | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/eu.politics | Riot police fought pitched battles with anti-capitalism protesters today as the opening of the EU summit in Nice descended into mayhem. Teargas grenades were used on protesters and acrid clouds of the gas hung outside the conference centre in the south of France as the 15 heads of state and government prepared to meet ... | 1,003 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Asylum law could face human rights challenge | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/policy.asylum | Every country in Europe has been affected by the dramatic increase in refugees and asylum seekers. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent economic turmoil, together with the hundreds of thousands of households displaced by the Balkan conflicts has placed unprecedented pressure on receiving countries. Socia... | 811 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | £100,000 bill in noise case | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/sarahhall | A businessman who had the tranquillity of his country retreat shattered by the roar of planes circling overhead was yesterday faced with a legal bill for £100,000. Graham Farley had successfully sued a local surveyor who told him the peacefulness of his £420,000 home at Blackboys, East Sussex, was unlikely to be affect... | 312 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | business | Mayflower's rocky path | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/07/2 | John Harvey, the mysterious Barbados-based investor, has been at it again. He has acquired another 2.5m shares in Mayflower, the underperforming bus and truck maker - taking his holding to just over 5%. Since he first revealed his interest in Mayflower last week its shares have risen steadily, but yesterday they closed... | 180 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | global | Strictly speaking | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/07/artsfeatures2 | We complain about British theatre. But we forget we have a lot to be grateful for. Meeting Andrew Bovell, co-writer of Strictly Ballroom and author of Speaking in Tongues, which comes to Hampstead Theatre this week, I felt cheered by his affirmation of faith. He arrived on his first visit to Britain from Australia a mo... | 729 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | £7m from Millionaire contenders | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/broadcasting.comment | Callers to the premium rate phone lines for Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? have swelled the prize fund by more than £7m since the show started. In the show's first seven series (the current one is the eighth) more than 20m aspirants have called. Producers of the show say contestants are chosen at random. Gross revenue ... | 392 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Farr joins shortlist for top JWT job | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/marketingandpr.advertising | Sue Farr, former marketing chief at the BBC, is in the running for the prestigious job of chief executive of advertising agency J Walter Thompson. A senior executive at JWT confirmed that Ms Farr has been in discussions with the agency and is on the shortlist of candidates for the post. Other names in the frame include... | 408 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | Berlin's maestros out of tune in race row | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/theobserver1 | It began as just another row about funding for the arts, but accusations of anti-Semitism and character assassination have turned the drama over Berlin's opera houses into a bitter battle of political ideologies, cultural visions and musical egos. The outcome will determine the future of opera in the German capital and... | 918 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | society | Patients 'as happy to see nurse as GP' | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/apr/14/futureofthenhs.health1 | Patients with minor illnesses are just as happy to see a nurse as a GP, and are more satisfied with the consultation they get, according to new research. The study is one of four in the British Medical Journal that suggest nurses, whether taking consultations or giving advice on a telephone helpline outside surgery hou... | 634 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | money | Pound too strong for monetary union, says CBI | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/28/personalfinancenews.emu | Sterling would need to fall substantially from its 11-year-high on the foreign exchanges for hard-pressed manufacturers to cope with life inside monetary union, the Confederation of British Industry said yesterday. Despite supporting membership of monetary union in principle, the employers' organisation warned that it ... | 399 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | Dot.com adviser cuts staff | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/newmedia.business1 | An e-business consultancy singled out by the CBI last year as Britain's most promising young business yesterday laid off a quarter of its staff. Rubus, which advises firms on how to make the most of commercial opportunities presented by technologies such as mobile phones and interactive television, said 70 staff would ... | 287 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Spice island raid claims 114 lives | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/indonesia.johnaglionby | Hundreds of militant Muslims fighting a holy war on the Indonesian spice islands killed more than 100 people and destroyed most of a Christian village on Monday morning, it was reported yesterday. An army spokesman in the Molucca islands said 114 people were killed and 70 injured in the dawn raid on Duma, on Halmahera.... | 625 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | Capital enters Border battle | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/7 | Capital Radio yesterday entered the contest for control of Border Television with an agreed £146m offer for the company. The bid pulled the rug from under Scottish Radio Holdings which had hoped to win the recommendation of Border directors by increasing its own offer from £114m to £141m earlier this week. The Scottish... | 436 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Football clubs told to cut prices | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/football.nicholaswatt | A crackdown on premier league "fat cats" was promised yesterday when the government announced that a new Independent Football Commission would put pressure on clubs to cut the price of season tickets and stop endlessly changing strips. Clubs that refuse to abide by the rules would be named in the commission's annual re... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | world | UN calls on Serbs to release Britons | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/06/balkans.unitednations | The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, yesterday called for two British police officers held by the Yugoslav army on spying charges to be 'released at the earliest opportunity'. A spokesman for Annan said that he was 'very concerned' by the detention of John Yore, 31, and Adrian Prangnell, 41, both of whom w... | 284 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-27 | money | Tricks of the trade | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/28/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | Tom Lawson, 30 head of development funding When I worked for a charity, I was invited to lunch by a couple of parliamentary lobbyists. They took me to a swish restaurant and we didn't talk business until the last seven minutes of a three-hour lunch. I told them what I wanted, they said yes and the deal was done. It was... | 646 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | politics | Prime Minister Hague? I think not | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/06/thatcher.politicalnews | Thanks to New Labour's policy of freedom of information, we are now well-acquainted with the advice his closest advisers have been giving the Prime Minister. What's been missing this summer of spin and season of leaks is frank and confidential advice to the Leader of the Opposition. As luck would have it, as I was empt... | 1,536 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | money | Make self-assessment less taxing | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/dec/28/personalfinancenews1 | Did you take a break from the festivities at Christmas to fill in your tax return? This was the advice given by a number of tax experts including PricewaterhouseCoopers. "I would urge people to use this time wisely to ensure their affairs are in order to ensure penalties and surcharges are not incurred," said William C... | 786 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | British trucker 'left to rot' in Balkan prison | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/tracymcveigh.theobserver | He shares a cramped, squalid cell with 10 other inmates. The toilet is blocked. There is no running water. He does not speak the language and is painfully thin. His family fear for his sanity. Richard Hudson, a lorry driver from Derbyshire, is the forgotten man of the Balkans conflict. He was jailed for a crime his sup... | 1,133 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Luton Airport takes on RPM3 for relaunch campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/advertising.marketingandpr2 | Luton Airport, immortalised by Lorraine Chase in the 70s Campari ads, has hired a new advertising agency. In a final bid to ditch its 70s image, the airport is launching a London-wide press and outdoor campaign with RPM3 to relaunch the brand. "Luton Airport is a new place," said Marcus Balmforth, the company's commerc... | 240 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | technology | Judge to rule today on Microsoft | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jun/07/microsoft.business | The US judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust case will release his final ruling at 4.30pm (EDT - 9.30pm BST) this evening. It is widely expected to include an order to break up Bill Gates's company. US district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in April that Microsoft had broken antitrust laws. He is now believed ... | 239 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | world | Iran's leader stamps on freedom | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/07/iran | The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered the reformist parliament yesterday to abandon its promise to expand freedom of speech and revive the banned progressive press. It was seen as a step toward re-asserting clerical rule over participatory democracy. Ayatollah Khamenei's action runs counter to the... | 913 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | politics | Taking the struggle out of family life | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/28/uk.labourconference2 | Women at a crowded fringe meeting at the Labour conference this week were reassured to hear Cherie Booth say that she frequently discusses the balance between work and home life at the Downing Street kitchen table with her husband and teenage children. What was less reassuring was how much of a "constant struggle" she ... | 1,093 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | politics | Leader: The issues in the pre-budget report | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/07/labour.oil | The pressure is piling on. Tomorrow Gordon Brown will give a pre-Budget report which will be seen as both a response to the fuel protests of September and a groundlaying exercise for the next election. He has to offer a package which somehow neutralises the arguments of the petrol blockaders and makes sense to everyone... | 752 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Tap on car window saves man buried in snow for 16 days | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/michaelellison | A 29-year-old US air force deserter was rescued after spending 16 days buried in his snow-covered sports car in a remote forest. "Here is this poor little guy sitting with his hand frosted up like a little claw, wearing nothing but a T-shirt," said June Bloom, who dug Thomas Wade Truett out of the snow in the Deschutes... | 553 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | Village in zany league of its own | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/1 | Residents of a Hovis-advert town in the Pennine foothills will be glued to their television screens tonight to see how the sleepy reality of their community has been transformed into a macabre stranger-hating village from hell. Some may fear the worst after seeing the first series of BBC2's League of Gentlemen, which w... | 834 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Woman 'frozen' in lake brought back to life | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/colinblackstock1 | A young doctor who was clinically dead for three hours was brought back to life after she became trapped under ice and her body temperature dropped to a record low of 13.7C. Anna Bagenholm, 29, a trainee surgeon, was skiing off-piste, near Narvik, in northern Norway, when she fell through a frozen river and became trap... | 297 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Woman wins £345,000 for 'cancer' hell | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/paulkelso.simonbowers | A former nurse who underwent a series of devastating operations after being wrongly diagnosed with breast cancer was awarded £345,222 in damages yesterday at the high court in London. East London and the City health authority admitted liability for the misdiagnosis at the Royal London hospital that led Jennifer Cormack... | 891 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | money | Testing times | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/22/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I recently took part in an induction programme for a new company but I, and several others, failed to reach competency in certain areas. My company now says it is compulsory for me to sit an external exam and they have changed my terms and conditions of employment to include this. Nothing in my original con... | 374 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | politics | Blair's spokesman drops anonymity | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/14/labour.labour1997to99 | The Downing St press secretary, Alastair Campbell, finally agreed yesterday to media demands that he should be identifiable by name when speaking on behalf of the prime minister. Faced with complaints from press, radio and TV reporters about his unilateral decision to cooperate with Michael Cockerell for a BBC TV docum... | 634 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | Profile: Vladimir Putin | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/russia.iantraynor3 | Age: 47 Current position: Acting president of Russia Born in St Petersburg in 1952, Mr Putin joined the KGB's foreign intelligence directorate after graduating from Leningrad state university with a law degree in 1975. He spent - officially, at least - most of his KGB career stationed in East Germany monitoring politic... | 669 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Crossroads confirms star line-up for TV comeback | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/broadcasting2 | Actress Jane Rossington, who spoke the opening line in Crossroads 36 years ago, is set to return to the ITV soap as Jill Harvey. Joining her in the new Crossroads line-up are former Coronation Street actress Sherrie Hewson, who plays receptionist Virginia Raven. "To have been part of a programme which made television h... | 254 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | money | Desktop icons No 33: The telephone | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/21/officehours2 | 'Hello, hello ... are you there? Am I connected to the party with whom I am engaged?" Suddenly, telephone manners are back in fashion. As realisation spreads that leaving the message facility on all day is considered the act of an ill-mannered prat, the new office super-courtesy is actually to answer the phone when it ... | 463 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | money | Bookshops turn over a new leaf | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/22/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | A few days before the launch of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the children's book buyer at the Palmers Green Bookshop in North London, Frances Crawley, was able to tell me that the fourth J.K. Rowling book would be sold at £12.99, two pounds less than the recommended price of £14.99. At Waterstone's Piccadilly, ... | 1,914 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | Sir Ernie hands on 'our people' to new steward | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/7 | Sir Ernest Harrison yesterday headed for the race-course and Highbury, home of his beloved Arsenal, after bringing to a close nearly half a century of brilliant stewardship of Racal - and leaving with a personal fortune of about £25m, writes David Gow. Sir Ernest, known as Ernie to all and sundry, sipped a glass of whi... | 339 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | The 15 most powerful people in the voluntary sector | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/charitymanagement.voluntarysector | 1. Stuart Etherington Chief executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) NCVO Described as "the sector' s politician and tactician". Etherington has ensured that the NCVO is at the heart of recent sector developments such as the Compact and Getting Britain Giving Campaign. 2. Michael Brophy Chief exec... | 789 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | Business: Bid talk moves Invensys | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/ftse.stockmarkets | Troubled controls and automation group Invensys topped the FTSE 100 performance charts yesterday as traders reacted excitedly to news that US group General Electric has a 3.02% stake in the company. Invensys shares ended 9.5p, or 6.48%, higher at 156p, on the hope that GE might use the stake a base for a takeover offer... | 198 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | MP3.com fined £171m | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/newmedia.internet1 | MP3.com faces a crippling $250m (£171m) bill after a US judge yesterday ruled against the music download website in the case brought by Seagram's Universal Music Group. The verdict could be extremely damaging to the future of the business, with experts warning that it could effectively be a death sentence. The companyÕ... | 280 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | politics | Leader: Stephen Byers should be pragmatic and proud | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/07/labour.labour1997to99 | Trade secretary Stephen Byers has not exactly set the Thames on fire with his summer series of speeches about government's relationship with industry. That is partly because he is still a political juvenile, forever consulting the script (Tony's book of Third Way apophthegms) before opening his mouth. It is also that M... | 710 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | global | The Stephen Lawrence case | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/21/qanda | Why is Stephen Lawrence back in the news? His mother, Doreen, is to appear on BBC1's Crimewatch UK programme (tonight at 9.35pm) to make a fresh appeal for information on his murder. Does the programme itself have anything new to say? It will show a computerised reconstruction of the killing in Eltham, south London, on... | 490 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/efinance.internet1 | • Flat fee: Internet service provider AOL Europe is to introduce a flat rate for internet users in Germany and Britain - its two most important European markets, AOL confirmed yesterday. In Germany, a new flat rate of DM78 (£25) per month is to be introduced, though a price for Britain has yet to be decided. • Acquisit... | 201 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | uk-news | Shayler charged and released | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/davidshayler1 | Former M15 agent David Shayler was tonight released on police bail after being charged with two offences relating to disclosure in contravention of the Official Secrets Act. Mr Shayler, 34, who was arrested at Dover port immediately on arrival in Britain this morning, was taken to Charing Cross police station for quest... | 442 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | uk-news | Imber residents mourn village requisitioned in 1943 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/21/audreygillan | It is no longer on the map, its parish status was withdrawn years ago and you can only take the road there on certain dates. The village of Imber in Wiltshire is all but a spectre of rural life. For on December 17, 1943, its tenants were evicted for D-Day manoeuvres - the few hundred residents were told they had to mak... | 1,428 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | Washington leaves world in limbo | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/worlddispatch.simontisdall | The policy-making vacuum in Washington - as eight years of the Clinton administration draw to a close and Capitol Hill awaits the arrival of a new Congress - is having a profound, often negative impact on a range of key international issues and disputes. The lengthy transition between governments is always problematic.... | 1,134 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | business | Bid for drinks arm of Seagram | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/07/5 | Some members of the founding Bronfman family are understood to be putting final touches to a multi-billion dollar bid for the drinks arm of Seagram, the media business to be merged with Vivendi of France. Charles Bronfman, co-chairman of Seagram, is preparing a bid for the drinks division, which includes brands such as... | 557 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Accounting for very little | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/workandcareers.business | Why are the stock market valuations of dotcoms so volatile? Why do so many acquisitions fail to live up to financial expectations? Why do managers notoriously spend more time debating the paint-job on the bike shed than the training of their employees? The answer to these questions lies in part in one of the most surpr... | 1,105 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | Police defend investigation of Telford deaths | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/race.world | Detectives yesterday dismissed claims by a forensic expert that they had failed to examine properly the scene where a black man was found hanged in Telford, Shropshire. Detective Superintendent Mel Shore, of West Mercia police, told a news conference that officers had taken advice on forensic issues from both their own... | 628 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Off cuts | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/guardiansocietysupplement8 | How does it feel to be in your twenties and single? Those in this condition at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they are now statistically normal. But does this mean they are more inclined to regard their singleness as a positive way of living, or does singleness remain a provisional state that will readily ... | 503 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | money | Dancer's safety net | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/28/observercashsection.theobserver14 | deborahbull Extracted: 21:12 Status: NONE Dancer's safety net DEBORAH Bull, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, knew what she wanted at the age of 11. Some may call her dedicated, others ambitious; she claims she is now merely 'focused'. Surely someone with such rigid discipline is equally severe with her finances?... | 735 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | science | Rocket man plans solo flight | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/aug/14/spaceexploration.uknews | Steve Bennett shook a sheaf of yellow ignition wires out of a bag on to a pitted wooden lab bench. They cost about a pound each. In less than 18 months, he will literally bet his life that DIY warehouse components like this can do what only government billions have done before: send a man - namely, himself - shooting s... | 890 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Mind-control drug threat for children | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/anthonybrowne.theobserver | More than three-quarters of a million children could be given drugs to control their behaviour - against their wishes and those of their parents. The spectre is raised by legislation planned by the Government to give more powers to psychiatrists. Mental health workers are warning that the new legislation is being drawn... | 745 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | uk-news | Tinker, tailor, cossetted spy | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/davidhencke | The secret and dirty world of spies has made a rare outing following the surprise missile attack on the MI6 headquarters. The highly expensive MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross has always been a subject of mystery, intrigue, double dealing and certainly an extravagent waste of public money. The huge headquarters - whi... | 401 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | media | TV show calls in the voyeurs | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/jul/15/uknews | Armed with just one suitcase each and shorn of the luxuries of modern living, 10 volunteers were sealed off from the world yesterday to take part in a voyeuristic game show that will either be the most talked-about piece of television this year, or simply a turkey. The participants in Big Brother, one of whom will be e... | 681 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | politics | No more excuses, says Hague, as Tories set Romsey poll date for May 4 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/07/uk.thatcher | The Conservatives yesterday combined the launch of their effort to humiliate Labour in next month's local elections with a less confident decision to stage the Romsey byelection on the same day. William Hague went to the racecourse in Liberal Democrat controlled Windsor to urge voters in 152 council areas to "send a me... | 339 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | Review: House | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/07/artsfeatures1 | Somewhere between the writing and the blankly anti-naturalist performance style here, a very peculiar, urban alienation is fetched up by writer-director Richard Maxwell, the emerging darling of the New York scene who earned a commendation at the Obie awards last year for this skilful piece, directed for the New York Ci... | 462 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | politics | Will Hutton: Our secretive style of government | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/29/labour.labour1997to991 | If nothing else, the British could always pride themselves on their system of government. Here was and is the repository of informed but representative parliamentary debate, holding the executive branch of government to account like no other. Its democratic legitimacy was doubly assured by the benediction of monarch an... | 2,002 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | politics | Leading lights in line for London's cabinet | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/07/londonmayor.politicalnews | Nicky Gavron Nicky Gavron, a senior Labour local authority figure, has been a Haringey councillor since 1986. She is also a millionaire, having once been married to a printing tycoon . Described as a 'quango queen' who sits on a multitude of public bodies - including the London Planning Advisory Committee, which she he... | 400 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | money | Rising to the top | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/15/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I have been offered a job as an editorial assistant on a website which, in the interview, I was told would pay £18-20,000. Then when they offered me the job they said I would be starting on £18,000. Should I still negotiate for something higher? The solution Yes, of course! Having said that, to have a good ... | 375 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | politics | Mr Blair needs to calm it | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/07/labour.labour1997to992 | Just when Tony Blair must have thought his luck could get no worse, it promptly did. While working late into the night on a speech aimed at boosting his beleaguered premiership, and with his wife away on a short break, Mr Blair got the kind of phone call every parent dreads. We discuss that below, hoping that Tony Blai... | 768 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | Net Investor | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/6 | The risk of choosing individual internet stocks in which to park your cash should, in theory, be spread by taking a stake in an investment fund. The rewards have, in some cases, been spectacular. The latest arrival is Net Investor which plans to raise £50m through the placing of 25m shares at £2 each. Dealing in the sh... | 375 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Why Ulster should be independent | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/northernireland.comment | Yet another week of crisis looms for Northern Ireland, with no certainty that David Trimble can persuade his party to accept the latest deal. Behind this lies a truth as curious as it is unnoticed. If its implication are worked out logically, it leads to the one outcome no one as yet publicly advocates...an independent... | 1,267 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | business | Time for Japan to stock up | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/14/officehours2 | Japan is once again sliding back into recession yet the Nikkei stock market index is soaring. Either investors in the equity market are blind to the macroeconomic indicators or they know something the rest of us do not. Which is it? In normal circumstances, most sane investors would be running for cover. Economists at ... | 559 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | us-news | Hillary holds her own on The Late Show | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/13/uselections2000.usa | Hillary Clinton was on the electoral trail again last night with an appearance on one of the US's most popular television chat shows. Mrs Clinton was the guest of David Letterman's late show in New York, the state she hopes will vote her into the US senate. The chat show host has been a harsh critic of Mrs Clinton's, s... | 585 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | 'Target banks' call on drug money | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade | Banks, bureaux de change and travel agencies that act as money-laundering fronts for the drugs trade should be targeted by police forces around the world, Keith Hellawell, Britain's anti-drugs coordinator, said yesterday. Speaking at a conference, Drugs: an international dialogue, Mr Hellawell said that the collusion o... | 395 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | Coming out to play? | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/features11.g28 | I seem to have lost my gym membership card. Which is a shame, as its video lending service, though a bit limited, was quite handy for wet Saturday afternoons. Since last August, when fate conspired to keep me and the Stairmaster apart (the concept of fate is most handy at this time of year, as a blanket excuse for your... | 490 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | politics | Ministers agree voucher review | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/28/uk.immigration | The government last night agreed to an immediate and wide-ranging review of its controversial voucher scheme for asylum seekers and the scrapping of the "no-change" rule on voucher use to head off a conference defeat today. Transport and General Workers' Union leader Bill Morris, who has made the campaign against vouch... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | global | No: 1566 Teddy St Aubyn | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/28/features11.g21 | Age: 40. Would like to be known as: Godfather to Earl Spencer's youngest child, Louis; a novelist. Is known as: Jerry Hall's latest squeeze. Jerry and a toff? That's not very rock'n'roll. Like, hello? She does have a mind, you know. Teddy was the perfect accessory for Tuesday night's Whitbread Award ceremony, which Jer... | 423 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | Extract: David Hare's Via Dolorosa | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/28/israelandthepalestinians.books | Via Dolorosa is a monologue, ideally to be performed by its author. As the audience arrive, the author is at the side of the stage. When they are all in he begins to speak. People always say that in the west we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in countries where nobody believes in anything ... | 2,743 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Beijing chides US for blocking Israeli radar deal | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/johngittings | The US defence secretary found his visit to China turning slightly precarious yesterday when his hosts took the American administration to task for Israel's cancelling the sale of spy-plane equipment to Beijing. Though William Cohen arrived on Wednesday to an honour guard in Tiananmen Square and smiles from his Chinese... | 563 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | Games Workshop | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/13 | As any of you with young children will know, Pokemon is an all-encompassing obsession. Think Top Trumps, think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, think Playstation. Roll them all into one, and you will have something approaching the power of Pokemon. Shorthand for Pocket Monsters, the craze encompasses playing cards, a tele... | 398 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Mind games | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/schools.theguardian | You could be forgiven for confusing the low-slung, pale brick exterior of West Grove primary in Southgate, north London with a leisure centre. Come to think of it, you could be forgiven for confusing the interior with a leisure centre, too. The classrooms are bright and airy, and the children are busy organising themse... | 1,243 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Whose identity is it anyway? | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime16 | These things, as always, come like a bullet out of a blue sky. I was sitting having dinner in Edinburgh with three friends. Three good friends who I've known for years. My memory is a little vague on some of the details but I remember we'd been having a rumbustuous argument about, well, I'm sure it was something import... | 1,074 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Net undercuts UK car sellers | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/sarahryle.theobserver | A revolutionary new scheme is being launched this week to enable people to buy cars at cheap European prices without leaving their homes. The Internet service will coincide with the British release of W-registration cars on Wednesday. Prospective buyers will be able to have the model they want - identical to those boug... | 783 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | A gentlemen's agreement for the prince | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/monarchy.comment | For the past five years Prince William has enjoyed shelter from the unrelenting gaze of the red-tops by a rather old-fashioned gentlemen's agreement; Fleet Street editors would not print the sort of intrusive pictures and stories that plagued his mother and in return the Palace would provide suitable access to the youn... | 455 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | business | Rhodia close to clinching A&W deal | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/28/2 | Speciality chemicals group Rhodia is expecting to tie up its €1.2bn (£750m) acquisition of phosphates-maker Albright & Wilson within the next few weeks. The deal has been held up by negotiations over regulatory clearance in the US, and Rhodia's chairman and chief executive, Jean-Pierre Tirouflet, acknowledged yesterday... | 318 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/7 | • Results Telephone company WorldCom, fast expanding in data services and fresh from a collapsed merger with Sprint, said yesterday that its second-quarter profits rose 47% and that it might create separate companies or tracking stocks for its voice telephone operations. Profits, excluding one-off items, rose to $1.33b... | 145 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | Israel shifts to live bullets | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/israelandthepalestinians.unitednations | Israeli troops are making increasing use of live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, according to an internal United Nations report obtained by the Guardian. Live fire now exceeds rubber-coated steel bullets, it says, and this has driven up casualties during the past two months of communal conflict in Israel and... | 806 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Diary | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/mondaymediasection | * As William Hague desperately tried to keep the interest of the assembled hacks at the What the Papers Say awards on Friday - a notoriously difficult job - the restless audience was actually much more fascinated by the gossip sweeping the tables. Associated Newspapers, it appears, has made an approach to the deputy ed... | 405 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | us-news | Timeline | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa | December 12 The US supreme court rules for Mr Bush, halting recounts of disputed Florida presidential ballots ordered by the Florida supreme court, after concluding in a 7-2 vote that the decision violates the US constitution's protections of due process and equal protection under the law. But the supreme court splits ... | 1,920 |
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