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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | politics | Send me your money, says the leader of the Stuff Blair party campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/07/londonmayor.london3 | Frank Dobson yesterday called for a new blitz on London. He was, of course, mistaken. The difference between Ken Livingstone and a doodlebug is that with Ken, the time to duck is when the whining noise begins. Which it did yesterday afternoon when Ken launched his attempt to become mayor of London at a press conference... | 652 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | politics | Green belt limit lifted to boost Silicon Fen | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/28/uk.politicalnews | Ministers last night braved the wrath of the countryside lobby by signalling they are prepared to lift restrictions on building in green belts in the south and east of England. Studies to pave the way for thousands of new houses on protected land surrounding Cambridge, now the country's fastest growing area, are to beg... | 553 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Bred in the bone | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/davidshayler.richardnortontaylor2 | Lord Justice Judge delivered a ringing endorsement of press freedom - a principle, he said, which was deeply ingrained in English law. Indeed, he suggested lawyers who repeatedly referred to the European convention on human rights - incorporated in English law on October 2 by the human rights act - did not appreciate t... | 753 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | politics | Former Welsh Labour leader to quit assembly | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/07/wales.devolution | Alun Michael, the former Welsh secretary and home office minister, is to resign his seat in the Welsh assembly and stay on as an MP in a bid to pick up the threads of his Westminister political career. His decision, announced in Cardiff yesterday, comes just five weeks after his dramatic resignation as Labour leader in... | 410 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | society | Private hospitals to bail out NHS | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/oct/29/hospitals.futureofthenhs | Private hospitals, long shunned by Labour for being politically incorrect, are to be paid by the NHS to help overcrowded state hospitals during the winter crisis. The new NHS chief executive told The Observer that, in a controversial move, patients waiting for non-urgent surgery would be treated in private hospitals. L... | 738 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/28/8 | • Phone poll A Mori survey shows that 78% of "captains of industry" believe mobile technology will boost their profits. The poll, for BT Cellnet, shows 95% of Britain's top business people have access to email, 75% have it at home and 29% send and receive text messages from their mobile phones. • Delay Troubled miniatu... | 191 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Gibson named Mail sports editor | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/dailymail.pressandpublishing | Former Sunday Telegraph sports editor Colin Gibson is to take over as boss of the sports pages on the Daily Mail. His appointment ends a three-month search for a new sports editor, which involved talks with several executives on rival papers including the Mirror sports editor Des Kelly. Mr Gibson, who left the Sunday T... | 83 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-27 | us-news | State of the union address | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/27/qanda.marktran | What is the state of the union address? Every year since George Washington, the president of the United States goes before Congress to deliver a summing up of the state of the country. In an occasion full of pomp and ceremony, the president usually tells the country what his administration has achieved, glosses over it... | 797 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Gates backs bid to 'buy' yachting champions | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/theobserver2 | Bill Gates is bankrolling a multi-million-dollar bid by the United States to persuade the world sailing champions to abandon their native New Zealand and instead race under the Stars and Stripes. As well as money, the US is promising American citizenship to the New Zealand crew, holders of the prestigious America's Cup... | 447 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Unionists turn back at brink | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/northernireland.henrymcdonald | David Trimble rescued the Northern Ireland peace process from the brink of disaster yesterday. He pulled off an historic political coup by persuading the Ulster Unionist Party to return to the power-sharing Executive. A week after Trimble's attempts to get his party to back the new peace deal appeared doomed to failure... | 899 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Unita's surprise offensive deepens refugee crisis revival threatens humanitarian crisis | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/victoriabrittain | Heavy fighting has erupted in eastern Angola just as the UN warns that the humanitarian situation in the country is alarming and threatens to deteriorate into crisis. Ten days ago Unita rebels, scattered after the taking of their headquarters late last year, regrouped and launched a counter-offensive on government troo... | 904 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Drugs turf war is linked to Telford hangings | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/race.drugsandalcohol | Errol McGowan, one of two black men found hanged in mysterious circumstances in Telford, Shropshire, may have been unwittingly caught up in a turf war between rival drug gangs shortly before he died. Detectives investigating his death initially concentrated on the theory that the 34-year-old might have been the target ... | 841 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Internet bank gets Egg on its face again | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | Egg, the internet bank, has apologised to a saver after his account was wrongly credited with more than £300,000 of phantom cash. Simon Bunn, 32, opened his account just over a month ago. He was keen to save £20 a month into it and filled in a direct debit form so that this amount would be regularly transferred from hi... | 843 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | Up, up and, er ... | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | You've got a good job, you're doing well, you're climbing the career ladder as fast as you can. But have you ever stopped to think what will happen when you reach the top rung? Is it possible to be too successful, too young? The prime minister touches on this very issue this week in an interview in the Blairs' favourit... | 1,423 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | politics | Yesterday | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.parliament | Bad day Stephen Byers. The trade and industry secretary was caught out wearing a South African-made two piece suit while announcing aid to the textile industry. Review of day Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, revealed what he called a value for money review of lodgings used by judges, which last year cost nearly £5m. T... | 159 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | Watchdog rolls out new railway map | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/4 | A new railway map providing more passenger-friendly franchise areas was proposed by industry chiefs yesterday. The plans envisage Wales and its border regions being run by a single company and the establishment of a huge franchise covering the entire of the north of England. The 25 existing passenger train franchises w... | 518 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Drug smuggler paid penalty with grandson's life | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/tonythompson.theobserver | A Colombian grandmother who smuggled more than half a kilo of cocaine into Britain is hoping to be granted a retrial following the brutal murder of her five-year-old grandson. Lucella Torres Susunaga, 51, was arrested with her Dutch boyfriend, Piet Poell, on 22 April last year. She had agreed to make the trip only afte... | 906 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Briton murdered in China | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/2 | Police in China were yesterday investigating the murder of a British woman found stabbed to death while backpacking. The Foreign Office said Shirine Harburn's body was found on Paomao mountain in the province of Sichuan. A spokesman said: "The Chinese police are investigating. Reports state she was stabbed 12 times wit... | 311 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | world | Ollie: Another fine mess you've gotten me into, Saddam | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/27/iraq.theobserver | Saddam Hussein lured stars of British stage and screen to Iraq to make an epic propaganda film. But events took a farcical turn even before they landed in decrepit Baghdad. Oliver Reed, John Barron (C.J. in The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin ) and a number of other top British actors accepted roles in the film, The G... | 932 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | Neighbours fear that, after Chechnya, they are next | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/chechnya.georgia | More than 10,000ft up in the forbidding, snowbound Caucasus mountains where southern Chechnya presses against Georgia, a high-risk confrontation is being played out between Russian paratroopers, Georgian border guards, and Chechen guerrillas. For the several thousand Chechen guerrillas involved, it's a fight for sheer ... | 1,224 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | money | Fast and loose | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/29/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | Karen Meador, John Howitt and Graham Cooper wouldn't claim to be revolutionaries. Karen runs a one-woman professional coaching agency from her Brighton home. John is an internet programmer who works in London during the week and returns to his family home in Nottingham at weekends. Graham was made redundant from a majo... | 1,441 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Growth is good for the poor | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/guardiansocietysupplement3 | The protesters against the world trade talks in Seattle last December and against the World Bank and IMF in April succeeded in getting their main argument widely accepted: namely, that global free trade is widening the gap between rich and poor both within countries and between them. There is overwhelming statistical e... | 1,708 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | Court to rule in metric weights row | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/5 | A fruit and vegetable market trader is to be prosecuted for selling his goods in pounds and ounces, Sunderland city council said yesterday. The council said Steven Thoburn was refusing to convert to EU-approved metric measures and sell his goods in kilos and grams. The legal wrangle flared in July when police and local... | 192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | technology | $2.9bn for online ad firms | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/21/efinance.business | Engage Technologies, a US company which collects profiles of internet users, announced the purchase of two online advertising companies yesterday in a combined bid that was worth $2.9bn (£1.8bn) by mid-morning. The acquisition of Adsmart and Flycast from CMGI, the internet investment group that owns a majority of Engag... | 506 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Top health power player answers only to Blair | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/health.healthandwellbeing | It is a sign of the political times that the single most powerful individual in health, ministers aside, is Downing Street policy adviser Robert Hill: not a health professional or a civil servant, but a "special adviser" accountable only to his boss, prime minister Tony Blair. Mr Hill's writ runs large over health poli... | 797 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | global | No: 1660 | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jun/21/features11.g2 | Age: Venerable. Can you be a little more precise? Born around 672; died 735. Occupation: Monk, historian, seer who illuminated the Dark Ages. Motto: Where there's a quill, there's a way. Appearance: Not on a plinth. Should he be? His admirers reckon so: 20,000 have signed a petition calling for his statue to be erected... | 462 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Endowments 'still mis-sold on a huge scale' | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/mortgages.endowments | Endowment mortgages are still being mis-sold on a massive scale, a TV documentary will reveal tomorrow. Two thirds of companies in this business are mis-selling the products, according to the BBC's Panorama. Its makers say a senior figure at the Financial Services Authority told them the regulator thinks only a third a... | 362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | politics | They said, he said | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/07/london.londonmayor1 | His finest hour... 'I bear in mind the words of Winston Churchill that in victory there should be magnanimity...' Ken Livingstone And magnanimity in defeat...? 'The people of London have made their verdict clear and it's my responsibility to make sure it works for London.' Tony Blair I've got a lovely bunch of candidat... | 344 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | global | What's Eddie Grundy done to deserve this? | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/07/artsfeatures2 | And, lo, it came to pass on Sunday that Clarrie Grundy was bent in prayer in Ambridge's parish church, begging God to put an end to the misery heaped on her family. Last night we heard God's answer. A plague of locusts rampaging through the Grange Farm kitchen wouldn't have surprised these poor tenant farmers after wha... | 1,323 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | money | House work | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/08/workandcareers.madeleinebunting2 | "I love the House of Commons - after 14 years I still get a real buzz out of working here," says Lucy Watson. Working from an office in the shadow of Westminster Abbey, Watson, 32, is the pension unit manager of the House of Commons finance and administration department, responsible for administering payments to almost... | 932 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | world | Sidelines | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/28/gender.uk | It's not as though one leaps upon any excuse for instant gratification in this cruel and fickle world, but Sidelines would like to lodge a formal complaint about the latest development in cheer-your-life paraphernalia: karma beads. Spurred into purchasing one of the dainty wee bangles through a sorry desperation to fit... | 477 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | 'Am I guilty of racial prejudice? We all are' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime3 | Am I a racist? I jolly well shouldn't be. Look at my life. House in some Islington media gulch. Kiddies romping around in the minimalist basement. A couple of snowball-head Aryans and then one with fairly olive skin and one in between. They are the produce, within the space of four generations, of India, Turkey, France... | 1,270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | politics | Cash-strapped Tories abandon hard sell | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/06/thatcher.uk | The Conservative Party is to abandon its trademark negative poster campaigns at the next election, as a cash crisis forces it to slash its campaign spending. Conservative chairman Michael Ancram believes the massive spending on posters was ineffective in the 1997 election partly because the billboard campaign was too c... | 372 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | @large | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness17 | Struck dumb You book a big-name speaker nine months in advance. You book them a hotel room, the limo, the plane tickets, everything they need. But the one thing you don't plan for is that the big name's dotcom company goes belly up just before the event. Organisers of Internet World in the US were delighted when they c... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Moral stand | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/highereducation.theguardian1 | Paul Davies completed his masters degree in business and administration at Cambridge University last summer but has yet to graduate. His outstanding debt of £14.50 for a kitchen charge at Selwyn College, which he refused to pay after learning of its investments in arms companies, means that under the university rules h... | 1,071 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | technology | Online bank goes live - but by phone only | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/29/business.personalfinancenews | Halifax's much-hyped telephone and internet bank Intelligent Finance promises to open this morning, more than two months later than planned. IF, which has bought the rights to Fatboy Slim's hit Right Here, Right Now for advertising purposes, claims to be able to save each household taking out its products £500 a year. ... | 258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | world | Europe des patries | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/eu.tonyblair | The problem with Tony Blair's speech in Warsaw was its location. If you lead a country seized with scepticism, you do not travel to a non-member country with - however strong the geopolitical and democratic cases for Polish entry - much painful ground to cover before it can join the EU. As a result Mr Blair shortchange... | 499 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | South Africa told HIV drug will save babies | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/sarahboseley | The South African government must allow pregnant women to be given drugs that can prevent them from passing HIV to their babies, the chairman of the international Aids conference in Durban declared yesterday. Hoosen Coovadia, an eminent South African paediatrician, said the results of trials in his country into the eff... | 931 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | world | The Vatican's war over England | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/07/religion.uk | A power struggle between men of God promises a great spectacle. When the Princes of the Church roll up their purple sleeves and wrestle one another for top dog slot, we sit up in the knowledge that this won't be a friendly, William Hague and Seb Coe tussle but an almighty row. Blood may not be spilled, or Episcopal rob... | 1,236 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/1 | Krenz jailed for border killings East Germany's last communist leader, Egon Krenz, 62, arrived at a minimum-security prison in west Berlin yesterday to begin a six-and-a-half-year sentence for his political role in the shootings of people trying to flee to the west. Krenz, who reported to jail the day after Germany's h... | 409 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | business | It's the deal of Mackay's career | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/15/10 | Less than a year after relinquishing the chief executive's position to become executive chairman, Francis Mackay appears to have pulled off the deal of his career. During his eight years as chief executive, he built Compass into a major FTSE 100 company through a series of big acquisitions which at one point caused anx... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-20 | technology | St Michael looks for Web salvation | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/20/efinance.shopping | Troubled Marks & Spencer is to expand its e-commerce arm in a bid to restore its fortunes. It will sell nearly half of its products online by the end of the year. The high street retailer, which is predicted to make around profits of £500 million this year, compared with a peak of more than £1 billion, plans to offer 3... | 358 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | business | Stockwatch | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness7 | One lucky beneficiary of a bid for Sports Internet, the online news and betting firm, could be sportswear outfit Hay & Robertson, one of our favourite shares of last year. H&R, if you remember, sold a 49 per cent stake in Sports e-tail, its own Internet commerce division, to Sports Internet earlier this year for £6 mil... | 803 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Four horses killed at National meeting | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/chrishawkins | Four horses were killed in the space of two hours on the opening day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree yesterday, prompting animal rights campaigners to renew their calls for new safety rules. One horse, Rossell Island, was killed on the course that will be used for Saturday's big race, during a multiple pile-up... | 181 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Hirst generation missing from Turner prize 2000 shortlist | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/turnerprize.art | This year's Turner prize shortlist was announced today, signalling an end to the domination of the UK art world by the so-called Young British Artists typified by Damien Hirst. Art traditionalists will be comforted by today's nominations, with two painters included on the four-strong shortlist. The only British-born no... | 558 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/8 | Man held over hospital killing A 33-year-old male nurse was last night being questioned by detectives after a health worker was stabbed to death in front of patients on a hospital ward. Lee Field, a 34-year-old care assistant of Mottingham, south-east London, died after being attacked on the orthopaedic ward of Bromley... | 446 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | global | Arts: The ICA's Aernout Mik exhibition | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/nov/28/artsfeatures4 | There's a screen at the end of a corridor built through one of the ICA's upper galleries. On it, a couple of girls are hanging around in a room filled with a pop band's gear, a foldaway bed, and a coffeepot on a stove. They wander in and out of frame, in and out of focus. Bored, they bounce a volleyball around, and occ... | 1,886 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | UK cities bid for Europe's cultural crown | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/vanessathorpe.theobserver | Milton Keynes and Bradford may not top every tourist's list of international attractions, but these two low-key British conurbations are to battle it out for the title of the European Capital of Culture. The honour, awarded annually by the European Commission, has previously been held by Paris, Venice, Athens, Glasgow ... | 1,167 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Is it right to put the media on trial? No | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing1 | I call on the editors to defy the subpoenas served on them by the Human Rights Commission en bloc. By appearing before the HRC, they will give credence to a discredited organisation that has failed to carry out its mandate effectively since its inception in 1995. These subpoenas are a gross violation of freedom of expr... | 303 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Safety ideas 'left out of Paddington signals' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/ladbrokegrove.transport | Safety precautions which could have prevented or lessened the impact of the Paddington train crash were not built into the development of the track outside the mainline station, the public inquiry into the accident was told yesterday. At one point in a risk assessment of Paddington signalling arrangements, managers use... | 336 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | money | Help: I have opinions too, you know! | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/14/jobsadvice.careers6 | If your boss is unusual within the organisation, don't allow yourself to be riled. Treat his comments as a joke, tug your forelock and take your inspirations to someone senior to him. Never waste good ideas on people who don't have the wit to appreciate them. Be aware that those who appear to ignore you are capable of ... | 272 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | Boy on baby murder charge in court | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/3 | A 12-year-old boy was today remanded to local authority secure accommodation charged with murdering his six-month-old brother, following his appearance at Bristol's youth court. The child, who cannot be named, sat beside a social worker during a 20-minute hearing. He whispered "yes" four times to confirm his name, date... | 330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | How to enter | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing | There are 13 Guardian Student Media Awards: Newspaper of the Year; Magazine of the Year; Reporter of the Year; Feature Writer of the Year; Photographer of the Year; Publication Designer of the Year; Website of the Year; Critic of the Year; Shoestring Award (for "creative triumph over financial adversity"); Diversity aw... | 158 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | uk-news | Toxic algae leads to ban on oysters | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/06/foodanddrink | The Whitstable Royal Native oyster was off the menu yesterday after a complete ban on removing the shellfish from the Thames Estuary. The oyster ban was imposed on the Whitstable fishing industry - one of the largest in the country- after shellfish tested positive for toxic algae. The algae, DSP - diuretic shellfish po... | 518 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | politics | Hague's tax offensive | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/14/thatcher.uk | It is a sign of how far the Tories have sunk that the party's spinners have been forced to expend enormous amounts of energy over the past 24 hours promoting William Hague's speech in favour of tax cuts. Such a speech by a Tory leader a decade ago would barely have attracted attention from voters who regarded the Torie... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | world | Dial M for murder | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/28/gender.uk1 | The first call got me out of bed. It was midnight, I was reading and my female housemate was out. There was silence at the other end and I hung up. The phone rang again, and again. Until, by the tenth call, I no longer said hello but just lifted the receiver and listened to the silence. I dialled 1471 and was told the ... | 1,314 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | environment | GM 'pollution' unstoppable says Meacher | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/14/gm.food | The environment minister, Michael Meacher, yesterday conceded that there was no way of preventing GM crops contaminating conventionally grown neighbours in an admission that will increase the government's difficulties in trying to prove it can manage the introduction of the new technology. Ministers have ordered a revi... | 617 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Italian resort towns hit by green slime | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/rorycarroll | Miles of sticky slime is washing up on to Italy's Adriatic coast in an epidemic that is revolting tourists, threatening fishermen and baffling scientists. The green sludge, known as mucilage, has been sighted on beaches from Trieste in the north-east to Pescara in central Italy. Tourist authorities in the town of Grado... | 470 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | technology | Student rejects blame for website attacks | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/14/hacking.security1 | A 20-year-old German high school student yesterday claimed that he was the hacker who developed a computer program which last week shut down several of the world's largest commercial websites. But he denied personally carrying out the attacks. "I am not involved in attacks on US websites or in any other form of crimina... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Don't label me, please | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/race.uk | Ten years ago, amid the furore generated by the publication of the Satanic Verses, an election in the Brookhouse ward of Blackburn sent a warning ripple through the Labour party. The Tory candidate, Abdul Bhika, overturned a huge Labour majority to capture the seat. It appeared a remarkable achievement - the first reco... | 1,084 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | money | Best car and home insurance | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/14/consumerfinance.consumerfinanceawards | The 2,500 employees at Churchill, the UK's second biggest direct insurer, will be pleased, but maybe not altogether surprised, to win the award for best customer service in the car and home insurance category. "We are genuinely passionate about customer service here. It has always been the highest thing on our agenda,"... | 798 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | Colleges are gearing up to fight for their financial autonomy | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/furthereducation.theguardian | Colleges are consulting lawyers over plans to strip them of the right to appoint their own auditors. Government is proposing that colleges should lose powers to select and brief accountants in the wake of the recent debacle at Halton college, which overclaimed £14m. College managements have reacted angrily to what they... | 643 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Panama Canal surrenders its past | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/1 | The industrial past tends to relinquish its secrets in small, often nugatory, fragments, but last month a Panama Canal salvage crew raised a complete French steam engine, together with 15 wagons. Staggered by the magnitude of their find, officials of the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) have parked the mud-caked locomotive... | 835 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Japanese PM saved by rebel climbdown | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/jonathanwatts | A possible last-minute backroom deal with party rebels yesterday seems to have saved the Japanese prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, from the greatest threat to his seven-month premiership. After the retreat from a potentially damaging split, the Liberal Democratic party (LDP) and its coalition allies easily defeated a no-c... | 778 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Blair is sidelined by Chirac and Schröder | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/theobserver3 | The vast eighteenth-century hunting lodge at Rambouillet outside Paris has an inauspicious record as a venue for high-level, international diplomacy. It was here, the official summer residence of the French President, that a doomed accord was hammered out with a view to preventing last year's war over Kosovo. Marie-Ant... | 802 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Guinness to return to TV screens with four new ads | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/advertising2 | Guinness is making its return to TV this month with four new commercials telling punters to "live life to the power of Guinness". The latest campaign, from HHCL & Partners, is a million miles from the surfers film that secured the honour of "best TV ad of all time" earlier this year with its "Good things come to those ... | 319 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | world | Preserving northern Australia's ecosystem | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/worlddispatch.comment1 | Quicksilver Reef Cruises' state-of-the-art catamaran speeds out from Queensland's virgin rainforests to a small floating platform anchored on the outer reaches of the Great Barrier Reef, 30 miles off the coast of Australia. Every day, 300 tourists take the boat, savouring this unique meeting of two world heritage areas... | 1,049 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | technology | Brussels to scupper £80bn deal | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jun/22/efinance.business | Speculation that the European commission will block the £80bn mega-merger between MCI Worldcom and Sprint reached fever pitch yesterday ahead of a meeting of competition law experts in Brussels today, which is expected to reject the deal. The EC is known to have serious reservations about the tie-up and is adamant that... | 585 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | media | US blamed for peacekeeping failures | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/28/mondaymediasection.internationalnews | Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, has said the US government's lack of leadership and desire to avoid the loss of American lives is to blame for the failure of peacekeeping operations around the world. In an interview with Time magazine before next week's UN millennium conference, Mr Annan stops short of directly c... | 270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | business | Arnault's internet sidekick steps down | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/14/10 | The executive in charge of French billionaire Bernard Arnault's internet investment strategy has been replaced following a change in strategy and a reshuffle. Chahram Becharat, widely regarded as one of Europe's most powerful dot.com venture capitalists, is stepping down as managing director of high-profile internet in... | 610 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Equality in US universities | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/gender.uk1 | If it were possible to take the blood pressure of every American high schooler today, they would record numbers guaranteed to keep every ambulance in the country in overdrive. Think Richter scale. Think heart failure on a grand scale. Today is the day SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Tests) results are mailed out to thousands ... | 871 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | media | Roy Greenslade: Why is the Sun in the shade? | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/07/newsoftheworld.mirror | • The nexus between the News of the World and the Mirror in their campaign for Sarah's Law - a public register of convicted paedophiles - was unprecedented. No Mirror title has ever got so close to a Murdoch paper before. Though the Mirror stopped short of supporting the NoW's "naming and shaming" exercise, editor Pier... | 951 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Team tactics | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/schools.theguardian6 | I used to associate talk about successful strategies with the likes of managers of football teams and captains of industry. But then the education world wised up to the idea that there might be something in it for schools where resources are limited but ambitions to improve standards and quality are great. Governors ha... | 675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | politics | Hugo Young: The Europe question | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/28/tonyblair.uk | Two weeks ago, Tony Blair sat down with a roomful of advisers for the first crack at another speech. The petrol pumps were drying, the poll figures collapsing and the subject was Europe. There could hardly have been a worse conjunction. But next Friday in Warsaw the work will be unveiled, preceded by another awkward ev... | 1,387 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | Letters: Let the train take the strain - if you can afford it | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/aug/21/guardianletters | In the 1960s a prime cause of disaffection in Derry was the foolish decision to close the railway connecting the city with Omagh and Portadown. Recent announcements (Another age of the train? August 18) of largesse towards public transport may have given the impression that New Labour has at last shaken off the Treasur... | 571 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | business | The twisted logic of Corbett-land | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/14/transportintheuk1 | 'Due to this being a Sunday service on a clapped out line, the 14.08 from London Waterloo to Portsmouth will remain at platform 3, Woking, for a further 12 minutes, so that we can meet the new timetable which has been introduced to take into account likely engineering works on this route, which are not happening today ... | 933 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | politics | A win, win, win and win again with Prescott | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/21/politicalnews.politics1 | The prime minister is in Japan, where a train driver once commited seppuku - self-disembowelment - after bringing in the emperor's train two minutes late. Tragically, this measure is not available to John Prescott, who made a statement on transport yesterday. The only delay that would gladden the hearts of all rail use... | 774 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Fruits of the doom | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/3 | Soft fruit worth millions of pounds is being left to rot in the fields because of the booming economy, the National Farmers' Union said yesterday. Low unemployment across the country has led to a shortage of seasonal fruit pickers and the NFU is being forced to appeal to find workers. Thousands of tonnes of strawberrie... | 215 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | Vivendi boss quashes speculation over future of Canal Plus head | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/citynews.broadcasting | Jean-Marie Messier, chairman of French media giant Vivendi, has rubbished speculation that the head of its Canal Plus subsidiary is on his way out. Mr Messier described French press reports that Pierre Lescure would be removed as chairman of the pay-TV channel at a board meeting this week as a "joke" and "total disinfo... | 270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | society | Round-up of the year's environmental events | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/27/guardiansocietysupplement1 | It started with the popping of millions of natural champagne corks, and ended with an RSPB warning that sales of plastic corks were rising so fast that the world's cork forests would be uneconomic and in danger of being cut down within 15 years, with terrible consequences. In between, there was record rainfall, record ... | 1,835 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Official: Joggers can do it for miles longer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/anthonybrowne.theobserver | Forget candle-lit dinners, lacy lingerie, oysters and that little blue pill Viagra. If your desire is flagging, then put on your jogging shoes - and start training for a marathon. Older men whose libido is wilting can develop the sex drive of a man half their age by taking regular and intensive exercise, scientists hav... | 488 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Cherie gives Blair paternity leave hint | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/tonyblair.politics | Cherie Booth dropped a broad hint last night that she would like her husband, Tony Blair, to take a break from running the country and spend some time with her and their baby after it is born in May. She told lawyers and academics at King's College, London: "I am pleased to report that in 1998 the prime minister of Fin... | 706 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Energis expansion results in huge losses | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/newmedia.citynews | Energis, the company which forms the backbone of the UK's internet network, has more than doubled its losses after expanding its UK and European operations. The company has sunk money into buying equipment in readiness for local loop unbundling in the UK, which will send voice and data signals down telephone lines at g... | 216 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | uk-news | Mixed Catholic reaction to the call for change | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/07/monarchy | Spokesman for the Most Rev Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster: "Changing the Act of Settlement would raise wider constitutional issues that would need careful thought and wide consultation." John Wilkins, editor of The Tablet: "The Guardian is quite right as regards Catholics. There is a clear infringeme... | 291 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | us-news | US elections prove a TV turn-off | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/21/uselections2000.usa | For years, the central axiom of modern campaigning has been that elections are won and lost on television. So, it must say something about the state of American politics that fewer people than ever are expected to watch this summer's two party conventions on television than ever before. It is also ironic that America's... | 936 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | Key markets | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/stockmarkets | Close Change 52 wk high 52 wk low Yield FTSE 100 6567.8 +80.30 6930.20 5770.20 FTSE 250 6838.9 +62.30 6776.60 4829.10 FTSE All-Share 3153.25 +36.95 3242.06 2654.62 FTSE AIM 2917.3 -7.60 2924.90 801.50 FTSE Eurotop 300 1646.66 +14.55 1632.11 1164.86 na DJ Euro Stx 50 5464.43 +14.21 5464.43 3325.56 na S&P 500 1391.28 -17... | 331 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Stellar names support new Paradigm | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/efinance.internet1 | A cast of international financiers, including currency trader Joe Lewis, media mogul Kerry Packer's son James, former Warner Brothers chairman Terry Semel and Autonomy chief executive Dr Mike Lynch yesterday turned their hand to internet investment. They lead a list of entrepreneurs, financiers and technology experts w... | 264 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Army to test women for combat roles | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/jasonburke.theobserver | Women are to train for combat roles in the Army alongside male soldiers in a controversial move that breaks with centuries of British military tradition. In tests later this year, females will team up with men in a series of trials aimed at establishing how they fare in the so-called 'teeth' arms of the services - thos... | 569 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | technology | T-Online may make Freeserve bid | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/may/29/efinance.business | Shares in Freeserve, Britain's leading internet service provider (ISP), are likely to regain lost ground tomorrow amid speculation that Germany's T-Online is preparing a bid for the business. T-Online, the ISP spun off from Deutsche Telekom last month, is reported to be preparing a £6bn offer. It hopes to pre-empt any ... | 422 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | business: Airtours | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/9 | Executives at Airtours, Britain's largest tour operator, are feeling bullish. Yesterday the company announced it had acquired 50% of Hotetur Club, a 19-strong hotels group based in Majorca. This move, according to Airtours chairman David Crossland, furthers the company's strategy of expanding its "long term access to q... | 406 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Nuba face destruction | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/theobserver | In a few weeks, barring miracles, the children will begin to die - if not from hunger, then from disease. The skin on their upper arms is already falling into folds as hunger kicks in and the pounds begin to melt away. Most families are living in the open, without clothes, blankets or clean water. The mud hut that call... | 1,836 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | CRS vote supports co-op merger | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/7 | Graham Melmoth, chief executive of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, looks set to win his battle to push through a merger with Co-operative Retail Services, following a near unanimous vote in favour of the deal by members of the retail organisation. More than 95% of delegates attending a CRS meeting on Saturday backe... | 587 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-13 | world | Nick Paton Walsh reports from the blazing inferno of Payette National Forest in Idaho | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/13/theobserver3 | The dirt road that runs along the top of Rabbit Creek in the Payette National Forest, Idaho, is mired in smoke and licked by flames when Michael Dier steps out from the trees. An imposing 6ft 4in, Dier is breathless, his overgrown beard singed and mottled with soot, the tattoo on his forearm almost hidden by grime. 'Th... | 1,490 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | us-news | Bush places his bet on tax cuts | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/07/uselections2000.usa1 | George W Bush placed his plan for an across-the-board income tax cut at the centre of intensified efforts yesterday to stop John McCain from winning an upset victory in the key New Hampshire presidential primary, now less than four weeks away. The rivals for the Republican party's nomination as its presidential candida... | 310 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Improved housing will cut crime | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/societyhousing.comment | "I was on the streets fending for myself from the age of nine. When I came out of prison after nine years inside, I was literally on the streets. I felt like the whole world was against me, like society wanted me to go back inside." These words of a 34-year-old resident of a housing project run by the National Associat... | 998 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Men wax up to gain more pulling power | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/sarahryle.theobserver | Men are tearing their hair out to attract the opposite sex, according to high street retailers and beauty salons. Women have said it for years: back hair is seldom appealing, but men expect their partners to put up with it. The fairer sex spends millions of pounds a year on keeping legs smooth, bikini lines neat and un... | 676 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Couple jailed for neglect of five children | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/2 | A couple who were acquitted last year of murdering three infants were jailed yesterday for wilfully neglecting five of their children, in what has been called the worst child abuse case Sussex has seen. The mother, 26, and father, 38, who cannot be named for legal reasons, from Brighton, East Sussex, were described by ... | 818 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | ITN Bosnia reporters win libel damages | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/7 | Two ITN reporters accused of faking footage of a Serb-run camp in the Bosnian war were today awarded £300,000 in a libel action against LM magazine. The magazine, formerly Living Marxism, claimed that Penny Marshall and Ian Williams misrepresented a headline-grabbing image of an emaciated Muslim, Fikret Alic, at the Se... | 470 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | California faces power struggle | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/duncancampbell | The lights are going out all over California. Well not yet, but they soon could because power is close to running out. While the hardship involved in the newly declared emergency simply requiring people not to turn on the Christmas lights, and to lower their thermostats, any power emergency in resource-rich California ... | 259 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | Lifers get chance of sentence reviews | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/alantravis | The hopes of more than 3,000 prisoners sentenced to life, including 26 of Britain's most notorious killers who have been told they will never be released, were raised yesterday after the new lord chief justice signalled they would probably be able to launch fresh challenges against their sentences from this autumn. Lor... | 827 |
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