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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | A day in the life of Linda Mullholland | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | Britain's lenders spend, at a conservative estimate, tens of millions persuading people to borrow. But Britain's money advice centres have just a tiny percentage of that sum to deal with the ravages of problem debt: relationship break-ups, bad health, homelessness or suicide. This week the government hauled in banks, c... | 1,752 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Lloyds ups stakes in the plastic card game | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | The row over cash machine charges turned into a high-stakes poker game this week, with Lloyds TSB attempting to up the ante by announcing a 50p charge on non-customers for using its machines - half the £1 Barclays proposal. And for those excluded from mainstream banking and other financial services, there was also some... | 971 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Web master: Start-up claims to cut through clutter | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/internetnews.business | A new start-up hopes to cash in on the bewildering amount of information on the web by pointing users at sites "relevant" to the ones they are viewing. Connextra, a technology company that raised £5m in second round funding in April, yesterday introduced Sidewize, a software tool that automatically links users to websi... | 269 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Funds 'must alter mindset' | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/15/business.personalfinancenews1 | Bolstering investment in venture capital, a central aim of the government in boosting productivity, would require a radical change in the "mindset" of pension fund managers, according to industry research published today. Merrill Lynch Mercury, the country's biggest pension fund manager, believes greater support for ve... | 563 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | business | Speculation grows over Telewest takeover | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/07/1 | Telewest faces further stock market turbulence today amid takeover speculation prompted by last week's frosty reception of its interim profits figures. The rumours about the future ownership of the cable television and telephony group were so intense over the weekend that one potential bidder, Callahan Associates, was ... | 485 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Are you sure you want flexibility? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/loans.personalfinancenews1 | Flexible mortgages are becoming commonplace as even the big lenders which said they could not cope with them have finally succumbed to the trend. A number of banks such as Bank of Scotland and Legal & General offer flexible mortgages with chequebooks, allowing home buyers to "borrow back" amounts in accounts which are ... | 896 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | TV shows panned for third world coverage | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/juliahartleybrewer | A study of television coverage of the poorest nations, which cost the government £168,000, criticises Blue Peter, Newsround and the Holiday show for their "inadequate" coverage of development issues. Clare Short, international development secretary, ordered the study, which took 18 months, in a project to raise awarene... | 506 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | politics | Gordon's coup de theatre | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/06/labour.labour1997to992 | Young people are four times more likely to recognise the video-game character Super Mario than Gordon Brown, according to a survey published early last week. The wedding changed all that. A master of stealth, in nuptials as in taxation, Brown eclipsed showbusiness knot-tiers - Brad Pitt, Patsy Palmer - in a ceremony sh... | 1,739 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Movers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/efinance.internet6 | Computacenter saw nearly 36% wiped off its market cap as it fell 225p to 417.5p after the group issued a full year profits warning, which it blamed on the slower than expected post-millennium recovery in European markets . Brokers were unhappy with the IT reseller - which only weeks ago made soothing noises on current ... | 196 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Victim of Russia's ugly war | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/mondaymediasection.chechnya | For the Russian authorities, Radio Liberty war correspondent Andrei Babitsky was an irritant they could do without. And so they removed him - in accordance with the old Stalinist dictum: "No person, no problem." Except that in Babitsky's case, the problem refused to disappear along with the person. Instead, the irritan... | 2,447 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | money | Sixty seconds in: Interactive television | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/jobsadvice.careers2 | When I took this job I wasn't sure how long the software would interest me, but the fact that we are working on a project using the very latest technology has meant it's been a fascinating 10 months. Put simply, I am responsible for creating the system that lets viewers of Sky Television's interactive shopping channel ... | 482 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Ferry disaster: what the Greek papers say | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/chrisalden | The Greek media has reacted with a barrage of questions amid mounting speculation as to the causes of yesterday's shipwreck, in which at least 65 people died when a packed ferry collided with a clearly visible rock outcrop. "After the tragedy, will there be catharsis?" asks national daily Kathimerini. Like many papers,... | 452 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | money | Working mothers warning | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/07/workandcareers.uknews | Controversy over working mothers will be fuelled by research suggesting that young children looked after by other people may be more prone to bad behaviour. Children who spend long days away from their mother, particularly in the first year of life, are more likely to develop problem behaviour, such as hitting and diso... | 390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | ITV romps to ratings victory | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/tvratings.broadcasting | ITV eased to another comfortable peaktime ratings victory last night, even though the National Football Awards got comprehensively mugged by Channel 4's Big Brother and Ally McBeal. Britain's favourite button had a 36.1% share of peaktime viewing (6pm-10.30pm), easily outpacing BBC1, which notched up 26%, according to ... | 270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | Sierra Leone guerrillas capture 11 British soldiers | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/27/sierraleone | Eleven British soldiers were being held hostage and threatened with death last night by heavily-armed guerillas at an unknown location in the jungles of Sierra Leone. The men, from the First Royal Irish Regiment, were captured on Friday while travelling in three Land Rovers along a key strategic road close to their bas... | 627 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | world | War on want hampered by 'crazy' conflict | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/06/ethiopia.comment | As America and Europe step up relief efforts to avert a new famine in Ethiopia, the country's foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin, said he had warned international donors back in December that a food crisis was imminent. "I'm afraid to say this is Africa, and the situation in Africa always gets a response from Europe or th... | 689 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Sir Robin Day dies, aged 76 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/2 | Sir Robin Day, the broadcaster best known for his many years on BBC1's Question Time and Panorama has died at the age of 76. "Sir Robin died here last night. He had been in for a few days for an investigation into a cardiac condition," Michael Stroud, chief executive of the Wellington Hospital in St John's Wood, London... | 277 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | environment | At odds, two princes and a princess | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/07/gm.food | Prince Charles, May 17 "Opposition to the development of Frankenstein foods is wrongly dismissed as a sign of weakness or even a wish to halt progress. If literally nothing is held sacred what is there to prevent us treating our entire world as some great laboratory of life with potentially disastrous long-term consequ... | 365 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | US lifts food embargo on Cuba | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/cuba.julianborger | The US Congress yesterday agreed to lift the food embargo on Cuba in a decision acknowledging that the 40-year blockade had done nothing to weaken Fidel Castro, and that sanctions in general have failed as a foreign policy tool. The agreement also eases food and medicine sanctions against North Korea, Sudan, Libya and ... | 541 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | The rise of the Maharaja Mac | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/globalisation.lukeharding | It is lunchtime at Ansal Plaza, Delhi's newest shopping centre. Inside the groundfloor branch of McDonald's, Ashish and Jasmeet are busy behind the counter doling out seven rupee (10p) ice-cream cones to a group of Indian schoolboys. The restaurant is half-empty or half-full, depending, of course, on your view of globa... | 1,434 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | The remaking of Serbia | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans.guardianleaders | After the revolution, the real work begins. Having bombed and blasted Serbia during the Kosovo war, impoverished it with economic sanctions and isolated and divided it by all available means, western governments now bear a heavy responsibility in helping its people put their country back together again. Having succoure... | 745 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | Review: Dave Douglas | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/07/artsfeatures6 | Trumpet player Dave Douglas is a phenomenon - not so much part of a new wave as an entire movement by himself. You could programme a long weekend festival with all his different bands (eight at the last count) and multifarious collaborations and there would still be plenty left unheard by Monday evening. Music tumbles ... | 542 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | Business: At this price? National Grid | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/utilities | Shares in National Grid sparked into life yesterday as regulator Ofgem surprised the market by producing a "best case" decision on a new price regime for the monopoly electricity carrier. National Grid shares have been held back by the uncertainty over its future pricing but rose 5.5% and ended the day up 30p at 585p. ... | 411 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | How Dyke won a political coup | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/14/bbc.uknews | Driving from central London to the jumble of buildings that make up the headquarters of the BBC in White City, you might be forgiven for missing a smart hotel nestling in the tree-lined streets of Holland Park. It's called the Halcyon and its not overly catchy slogan is, 'Peaceful, private, elegant'. Private is the ope... | 1,344 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Man with rare tropical fever critically ill in isolation hospital | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/sarahboseley | A British man was fighting for his life yesterday in a sealed tent in the high security unit of a London hospital after contracting the highly infectious tropical disease Lassa fever. The virus is extremely rare in Britain, with only 12 cases imported into Europe and North America since 1970. Extreme precautions have t... | 589 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | global | Immaculate emptiness | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/15/artsfeatures2 | It has become a convention to tackle a cycle of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets chronologically, so that his increasing command of the form and the way in which he appropriated it to his personal, expressive ends is traced step by step. That is the approach the Emerson Quartet is taking in its survey, shared between ... | 369 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Feed banned in Britain dumped on Third World | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/bse.focus | Britain offloaded tens of thousands of tons of potentially BSE-infected cattle feed on the Third World after deciding it was too dangerous to give to herds in the UK. The meal and bonemeal was exported after March 1988, when the Government realised that feed made from slaughtered animals was the probable cause of the B... | 856 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | Directory enquiries faces overhaul | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/citynews1 | Telephone networks' directory enquiries are the latest telecoms services to receive a radical overhaul from the Oftel industry watchdog. The regulator will consult consumers, telecoms companies and consumer groups in the shake-up, which will result in a range of new services and the replacement of the 192 number. Oftel... | 273 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | money | Brown pledges £50m to help small firms | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/07/personalfinancenews.business | Gordon Brown yesterday unveiled plans to spend over £50m to improve the online services provided by government to small businesses. During a visit to the north east, the chancellor underlined his commitment to create the best environment for electronic commerce by pledging £32m to the inland revenue and customs & excis... | 667 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | environment | Duke challenges sceptics over GM food | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/07/gm.food1 | The Duke of Edinburgh has intervened in the GM debate to bolster supporters of the new biotechnology against doubters such as his son, the Prince of Wales. In a blunt challenge to sceptics, he said that "foreign pests" such as the grey squirrel had done far more damage to the environment than genetically modified crops... | 872 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | Rates relief for industry | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/interestrates | Manufacturers and homeowners sighed with relief yesterday as the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee voted to leave borrowing costs on hold, adding weight to Gordon Brown's claim that the Budget does not add significantly to inflationary pressures. But with domestic demand still growing strongly, most Cit... | 319 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Nurses urge access for families | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/davidbrindle | Relatives should have the opportunity to be present when efforts are being made to resuscitate their loved ones, nurses said yesterday as they called for guidelines on the issue. Television hospital dramas like Casualty and ER had created an expectation that family members would be allowed to witness resuscitation atte... | 632 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | us-news | No time limit on supreme court deliberations | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa6 | There is no schedule for the Florida supreme courtÍs potentially crucial announcement on whether or not to keep the manual recounts going in the contested US election, an official insisted today. It had been anticipated that there might be a ruling soon, which could effectively decide the fate of the US presidential de... | 860 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | global | Pop review: Fastball | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/14/artsfeatures1 | Texas group Fastball play middle-of-the-road, melodic pop-rock. They can play it fast, they can play it slow and they can play it somewhere in between. They can play it well enough to be nominated twice for Grammys. And, in Manchester, they played it in a small venue to an audience of fewer than 50. A durable three-pie... | 475 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-13 | uk-news | Exams head quits as crisis deepens | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/13/education.educationnews | The head of the organisation at the centre of the exam results fiasco quit yesterday as the storm of protest which has engulfed the Scottish Executive over its handling of the affair threatened to topple more senior figures. Amid mounting anger from schools, parents and pupils over the chaos which has cast doubt on the... | 732 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | global | The net addict | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/21/weekend7.weekend5 | Call me a trailblazer, but everybody's doing it. We've already read about Bienvenida Buck's site and now that lode-star of practical achievers, Anna Nicole Smith, has one, too. The main attraction, the shop, is still being stocked, however, so you can't buy any memorabilia yet. My brief encounter with Igor proved the d... | 432 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | technology | Slater Jnr sells to rival net fund | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/oct/21/efinance.business1 | Internet Indirect, the internet investment group, is to be taken over by its larger rival Newmedia Spark in a deal which values the company at £80m. The group was set up by Mark Slater, 30-year-old son of the colourful seventies financier Jim Slater. He launched Internet Indirect to invest in small start-up companies d... | 469 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Hit or miss trial for son of Star Wars | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/richardnortontaylor.julianborger | It has a record of dismal failure. Fifty Nobel laureates have called it a waste of money that will jeopardise world peace. The White House privately hopes it will not work. But the US national missile defence project (NMD) is proceeding at full steam. In a test late tonight, the Pentagon will make its third attempt to ... | 1,706 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Analysis | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/thatcher.conservativeparty | It was a telling moment at yesterday's annual meeting of Britain's bosses in Birmingham, when a leading Tory politician was slapped down by Digby Jones, the CBI director-general, as he denounced the network of government-sponsored regional development agencies. The politician in question was the shadow environment spok... | 679 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | The best medicine | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | If Jim Brathwaite has anyone to thank for his big break it has to be former US president Ronald Reagan. Mr Brathwaite had just been offered a top job in a multi-national American drugs company when Reaganomics was launched. "America suddenly became for the Americans and the company just couldn't get me a work permit," ... | 882 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | The latest news in marketing and PR | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/marketingandpr3 | Hill and Knowlton has emerged as the PR agency behind the £900m hostile takeover bid by Swedish company OM Group for the London Stock Exchange. Golin/Harris Ludgate has appointed Jane Hurley, head of corporate communications and investor relations at Logica, as head of its technology team. Hurley is the latest in a lon... | 215 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Asteroid trackers plan to avert Armageddon | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/theobserver.uknews1 | One did for the dinosaurs. Another flattened a large part of Siberia 90 years ago. And one day Britain - not to mention Europe and the rest of the world - may suffer a similar fate. Armageddon - triggered by an asteroid hurtling into our planet - is a genuine risk. Now some scientists are pressing the European Space Ag... | 806 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Murdoch's makeover fails to convince | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/newscorporation.broadcasting | It is rare for anyone to feel sorry for Rupert Murdoch. His master company, News Corporation, was created out of a parochial chain of Australian newspapers inherited from his father and now lays legitimate claim to being one of the world's dominant media enterprises. Yet despite the huge increase in the value of public... | 1,438 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | money | Consumer: Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/sep/21/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | Toeing the line We've done our best to spare you but all the while the pile has been mounting and now there's no getting away from it: the bugbear that burdens you all most is your mobile phone. If you're not trapped in a punitive contract your funds are being siphoned off into unknown pockets, your statements are regi... | 1,504 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | global | Arts: Vic Reeves laughing at art | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/28/artsfeatures3 | My introduction to art was winning a Weetabix drawing competition: I did a picture of a combine harvester. My sister used to read Jackie magazine in those days, so next I drew a picture of Mark Bolan for them and won a prize. By the time I'd done my O-levels and gone to the Sir John Cass art school in London, I was doi... | 787 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-27 | business | WorldCom-Sprint merger near collapse after US goes to law | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/28/personalfinancenews.business | The £76bn merger of telephone groups WorldCom and Sprint was on the verge of collapse after global regulators yesterday said they would block the deal. The US department of justice said it would file a lawsuit to block the merger of long distance operator Sprint with its bigger rival. US attorney general Janet Reno sai... | 586 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | us-news | How does America choose the next president? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/07/uselections2000.usa9 | Who gets to vote? All US citizens aged over 18 have the right to vote - although this is qualified by a range of conditions, including, in some states, the long-term loss of voting rights by anyone sent to prison (a clause which has disqualified many poor, black citizens in the southern states). Most states allow voter... | 822 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | business | BMW revives plan to invest in Hungary | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/28/rover | German car maker BMW has reopened talks about investing in Hungary - days after announcing it was ditching its planned £1.7bn investment in Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham. Gyorgy Matolcsy, Hungary's economic minister, yesterday confirmed the approach and said he and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, w... | 329 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Two die in holiday fair tragedies | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/jamiewilson.nikkiknewstub | Two people were killed in separate Bank Holiday fairground accidents yesterday. A girl of 13 died in Cornwall and a woman of 28 died and two men were seriously injured in west London. The girl who died was hurled from a ride called Top Spin - into which people were individually strapped - operating at a travelling fair... | 412 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Chinook death crash pilots still take the rap | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.derekbrown | Defence minister John Spellar has rejected calls for a new independent inquiry into the 1994 crash of an RAF Chinook helicopter which wiped out a significant part of the Northern Ireland intelligence establishment. Flight ZD576 was carrying 25 senior security staff from Belfast to Scotland when it slammed into a hill o... | 473 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Clashes in Chile | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/chile.pinochet | Security was tight around a Santiago court yesterday as lawyers seeking to lift General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity from prosecution prepared to present their opening arguments. If they are successful, the hearing would pave the way for a prosecution on human rights charges. A day earlier proceedings had ... | 654 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | uk-news | Enthusiasts recreate 1666 London disaster | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/stevenmorris | For the best part of two years, the team of eccentric volunteers had laboured to create a perfect replica of a famous corner of 17th century London. Yesterday 100 square metres of smouldering ash was all that remained after the structure was torched in an extravagant re-enactment of the Great Fire of London. An estimat... | 430 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | technology | Sex and travel to join the dots in net renaming change | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/06/internetnews.theobserver1 | It's enough to drive you dotty. Next month the organisation which controls website names is likely to approve a new set of addresses - so the day is coming when you can click goodbye to .com, .org and many other familiar internet suffixes. In their place will come more specific formulations, such as .shop (for an onlin... | 589 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Partnership scheme for modernising services | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/health | Money from banks and pension funds will be used to modernise GP surgeries, particularly in the run-down inner cities, under a public private partnership established by a NHS and Social Care Bill to be published later this month. Ministers expect this first private finance initiative in primary health care to generate £... | 787 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Head denies slapping 'unruly' boy | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/education.schools | Staff at a south Wales school were left in a "state of shock" after a headteacher admitted hitting a 10-year-old boy, Abergavenny magistrates heard yesterday. Marjorie Evans, 56, is said to have told colleagues the unruly pupil "wouldn't be doing that again" after slapping him across the face. She denies common assault... | 393 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Keep up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/newmedia1 | Allen Weiner www.forbes.com According to data from Nielsen/NetRatings, the new breed of continuous, multimedia news outlets - ZDNet, MSNBC and CNet - all had larger audiences in December than the largest online newspaper, USA Today. In order to survive online, the mentality needs to be far more 24-hour-a-day news radio... | 505 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Sambrook email | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/1 | "The coverage of the Social Affairs reorganisation in this morning's papers is, as I hope you all realise, substantially wrong and misguided. We are actively seeking to redress errors and to put the record straight with the press on the reasons for the changes. "Just to remind you, the review of the Social Affairs unit... | 224 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | business | Bookham feels Nokia effect | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/07/ftse.stockmarkets | Before beginning, a quick review of the performance of those stocks promoted to the FTSE 100 yesterday. Rolls-Royce fell 17p to 197p, AB Foods lost 16p to 481.25p, Safeway shed 12p to 306p, Smiths Group was off 4p at 815p, while Autonomy rose 314p to £31. Further proof that stocks promoted to blue-chip index tend to un... | 900 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Rafsanjani inquiry puts Belgium in fear of fatwa | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/iran | Belgium has incurred Iranian fury after the launch of a criminal investigation into Iran's ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. The move has powerful echoes of the Pinochet saga. Officials in Brussels confirmed last night that the same judge who sought to have the former Chilean dictator tried was investigating charges tha... | 665 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Surf through the wave of cyber-crime | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.scamsandfraud | How ironic that Bill Gates, the person most associated with the personal computer, should reportedly have had his credit card details stolen by a teenage hacker. If it can happen to the world's greatest geek, what hope for the rest of us? And the havoc created by the Love Bug virus provides a further reminder of the fa... | 943 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | Guide to the new power house | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/lordreform.constitution2 | Composition The commission resisted calls for a fully-elected chamber, arguing that would destabilise the power balance between Lords and Commons. Commissioners insisted the mainly-appointed option would not create a house of cronies, because of the independence of the appointments commission. Change would come increme... | 398 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Harry Potter | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/07/netnotes | 1. If this weekend you encounter hordes of crazed kids escorted by hysterical parents battling it out at bookshops all over town, you will have found the latest manifestation of Pottermania. 2. Unless you've been keeping company with evil master Lord Voldemort for the last six months, you'll know that the mayhem has be... | 478 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | Hearts broken as love's martyr spurned | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/rorycarroll | The Italian town whose bishop Valentine was martyred in 273AD has discovered that its shrine is no protection from the politics of heartbreak. Dozens rather than thousands of tourists turned up in Terni for Saturday's official opening of a month of celebrations for the patron saint of lovers. And only a handful of outs... | 720 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Writing was on the wall for the Macbeth of Yugoslavia | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans2 | When Slobodan Milosevic departs the stage, he will bring down the curtain on 55 years of European communism enthroned. Stalin's ghost fades over Belgrade, its ultimate haunt. The longest rearguard action in recent politics is almost over. Unless he hides cyanide capsules about his person, Mr Milosevic has probably spru... | 745 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | On the menu | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/features11.g22 | Or bstilla or pastilla or pstilla... We get it, but what is it? A legendary Moroccan dish which, according to some reports, originated in Andalucia. I'm still not much the wiser. Think of a pie made from layers of pastry thinner than a butterfly's wing, stuffed with shredded pigeon or, less correctly, chicken, chopped ... | 114 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | International news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/2 | Solana faces court action Institutional warfare broke out in Brussels yesterday after it emerged the European parliament is taking the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, to court for blocking public access to documents about security and defence. In an unusual move, the majority of political parties ... | 1,404 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | Budget calculated to boost flagging Labour support | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/markbrown1 | Chancellor Gordon Brown today attempted to boost flagging support in Labour's traditional heartlands when he announced significant cash injections for health and education. Delivering his fourth budget statement Mr Brown said an extra £2bn was to be spent on education and £1bn on schools. As part of a total £4bn additi... | 1,196 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | money | Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/sep/14/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | Not so super highway Our future, we know, lies on the cyber highway. In the meantime, pioneers have been reporting jarring potholes along this glorious new route. Small wonder, if the internet booking process resembles that encountered by John Lees when he tried to reserve a room at a Welcome Break travel lodge. He arr... | 964 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Softbank buys 80% Nippon Credit stake | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/efinance.internet4 | Masayoshi Son, the president of the internet group Softbank, bounced back yesterday from a series of recent setbacks by clinching the purchase of one of Japan's most prestigious financial institutions. After months of delays and several breakdowns in negotiations the government gave a Softbank-led consortium permission... | 259 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | WPP confirms merger talks | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/wpp | WPP, the advertising group, yesterday confirmed weeks of merger speculation by admitting it was negotiating a possible "agreement" with its American rival, Young & Rubicam. A combination of the two companies would create the world's largest advertising corporation, with revenues of up to £3.2bn. However, hopes of a dea... | 578 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | uk-news | 6,000 steel jobs in Wales under threat | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/anthonybrowne.olivermorgan | More than 6,000 jobs in the Welsh steel industry are set to follow Rover as the latest victims of the crisis in manufacturing. The flagship steel plant at Llanwern in South Wales, which employs 3,000 people, is threatened with imminent closure, while the future of a strip mill at Port Talbot, which employs 3,200 people... | 283 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | education | Mix teachers well before serving | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/21/tefl2 | How up on phonology are you? When I first trained to be a TEFL teacher some 15 years ago I didn't have a clue what it involved, and I wasn't alone. None of us on our certificate training course really had much of a grasp of grammar, let alone phonological features because, as native speakers of English, we had had litt... | 1,111 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Sidelines | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/gender.uk1 | Germaine Greer wrote in her latest polemic: "It's time to get angry again." But did the need ever go away? Women in cities across the UK were asked whether they agreed with statements made by Greer in her book The Whole Woman. According to the survey, working mothers in their 30s and 40s feel more than any other group ... | 412 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | business | Net losses and gross gains | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/28/8 | In the black Ginger whinger Chris Evans was quids in after selling Ginger Media Group to Scottish Media Group. He got £75m when Ginger was sold for £225m - and SMG became the proud owner of shows that sounded good but bombed - like Red Alert and Lock, Stock and ... Thirty three-year-old Stelios Haji-Ioannou turned the ... | 2,023 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | November 21 ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/overnights | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? won the ratings battle with the last ever One Foot in the Grave last night. But it wasn't the comprehensive defeat that everyone expected, with a gap of just 3.2m between ITV's Chris Tarrant quiz show and Victor Meldrew's demise on BBC1. An average audience of 13.9m watched Camilla Parker... | 399 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | High pollen count 'is heart killer' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/sarahboseley | Days with a high pollen count may increase deaths for heart and lung diseases by as much as 5% to 10%, as well as spell misery for hay fever sufferers. Researchers in the Netherlands found "a strong association between the day-to-day variation in pollen concentrations and that of deaths due to cardiovascular disease, c... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Amid the filth, the first sign of disease | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/mozambique.chrismcgreal | A United Nations strategy of withholding aid from flood-stricken towns and villages in Mozambique, in an attempt to pressure residents to move to refugee camps, has left thousands of people desperate for clean drinking water and food, and at risk from disease. The UN fears that, with more heavy rains forecast in the ne... | 1,468 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | media | In memory of the Murdoch of old | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/14/bskyb.newscorporation | It took a while for Rupert Murdoch to warm to Jean-Marie Messier, the Frenchman who runs Vivendi. Talks between the two about combining their pay television operations ended acrimoniously. Mr Murdoch was not happy when Mr Messier parked his tanks on News Corp's lawn by buying up 20% of BSkyB. More recently, relations b... | 959 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Inferno shuts Jakarta stock exchange | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/indonesia.johnaglionby | A big car bomb exploded yesterday afternoon in the underground car park of Indonesia's main stock exchange, packed at the time with drivers waiting to take their bosses home. At least 15 people were killed and more than 30 injured. It was the latest in a series of explosions in Jakarta. Nobody has claimed responsibilit... | 696 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Egg man's stamp ruled unlawful | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/8 | A poultry farmer yesterday lost a battle against Brussels bureaucracy when the high court outlawed his practice of labelling his eggs with a "laid between" date. Martin Pitt, 66, a producer of free range eggs now retired, persuaded magistrates nearly two years ago that he should use carton stickers showing a three day ... | 277 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | money | Goldman sinks on new share sale | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/07/business.personalfinancenews1 | Wall Street yesterday reacted nervously to the announcement that Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, is preparing the largest ever secondary offering in the United States when rising interest rates have helped to create a lacklustre stock market. Shares in the bank fell 5% to $91 3/8 yesterday morning after it announce... | 509 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Can a system which allows the winner to lose go unreformed? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa3 | These are the questions that will keep Al Gore up at night - tonight and maybe for the rest of his life. What if he had fought his campaign just a tad differently, sending Bill Clinton to fight for his home state of Arkansas, whose 11 electoral college votes alone would have been enough to make Gore president? What if ... | 1,927 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | politics | The gloves come off | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/28/londonmayor.uk | He knew it would get dirty, but even he must have been stunned by yesterday's Sunday Telegraph. "Revealed: Livingstone's African love child," screamed the masthead, offering full details on page 3. Inside he will have discovered that the Livingstone the paper had in mind was Dr David, the explorer, rather than Mr Ken, ... | 519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Bloody Sunday inquiry seeks 'simple truth' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/bloodysunday.northernireland | Counsel to the Bloody Sunday inquiry yesterday started with what is expected to prove the longest opening address in United Kingdom legal history, vowing to uncover the truth "pure and simple" about one of the most notorious episodes of the troubles. Christopher Clarke QC, beginning the oral hearings, promised his team... | 1,143 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | Rift opens between rail regulators | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/1 | The rail industry's two top regulators are involved in a bitter row for supremacy, which is embarrassing John Prescott - the man who hand-picked them, it emerged last night. The confrontation between the rail regulator, Tom Winsor, and the chairman of the shadow strategic rail authority, Sir Alastair Morton, was descri... | 479 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | uk-news | Asylum debate 'stokes racial tension' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/14/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Britain today admitted that the tone of the country's recent asylum debate could encourage racial prejudice. The acknowledgement came as the government was criticised by rights groups at a UN meeting in Geneva to discuss racial discrimination. Britain "remains attractive to migrants precisely because it is seen as a to... | 513 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | money | Rates move turns up heat on lenders | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/08/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney | A full-scale home loans price war is set to break out after banking giant HSBC upstaged new-fangled rivals by slashing its standard variable mortgage rate by almost one percentage point - a move that will cut monthly bills for thousands of borrowers by an average of £600 a year. HSBC (formerly known as Midland) this we... | 1,106 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Dot.com dodges give Latin lovers a network of alibis | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/internetnews.internationalnews | His women friends were cheating on their husbands but needed plausible excuses, so Raul Tello came up with a hi-tech solution: an internet site that provides all the excuses for a four-star affair. As a web page designer Mr Tello had all the tools to provide an anonymous communications network that would allow for Arge... | 620 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Railtrack blames driver at Paddington inquiry | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/ladbrokegrove.transport | Railtrack has laid most of the blame for last October's Paddington rail crash on Thames Trains driver Michael Hodder in today's closing submissions to the inquiry into the disaster. The company said the infrastructure of the rail network in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London was not at fault. Instead, it blamed err... | 773 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | global | When everybody loses but the lawyers | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/07/features11.g2 | Eight years ago Lord Aldington complained that Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who hadn't paid a penny of the £1.5m libel damages he had been awarded three years before, was living the same lifestyle he had enjoyed before the action. A Volvo estate car was parked in the drive of Tolstoy's £300,000 Jacobean farmhouse, while Aldi... | 1,263 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Milosevic admits defeat | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans9 | The most hated man in Europe, Slobodan Milosevic, finally threw in the towel last night and congratulated Vojislav Kostunica on his victory in the September 24 Yugoslav presidential election. But the ousted dictator showed he still has deluded hopes of a political career. Speaking on television after a meeting earlier ... | 976 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | politics | Ex-English Heritage chief bailed out king | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/28/uk.politicalnews1 | Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the former head of English Heritage, was accused yesterday by David Rendel, Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury and a member of the Commons public accounts committee, of running an "old pals network" after it was revealed that he had bailed out his friend King Constantine of Greece by paying his £5,000... | 502 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | global | Pass notes: Kirsty Gallacher | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/28/features11.g2 | Looks like a classy bird: That's none other than Miss Kirsty Gallacher, top television sports presenter. And where can I find this TV temptress? Well, on Skysports.com TV on Sky Digital, for starters. And frolicking around in her scanties on the glossy, wipe-clean pages of this month's edition of the quality men's maga... | 405 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | Pantomime | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jan/07/artsfeatures4 | Snow White Snow Whites seem pretty thin on the ground this year, so there won't be the rash of annual newspaper articles about a national shortage of dwarves. This is one of the many Cadbury pantos nationwide, so expect chocolates thrown from the stage and a completely slick operation with big sets and high production ... | 293 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Wireless auction to raise £2bn for Treasury | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/media3 | The government yesterday named the 12 bidders lining up for the auction of fixed wireless spectrum which will provide another avenue for broadband access to the home or office. The auction is expected to raise around another £2bn for government coffers, after the £22bn windfall generated by the award of licences for th... | 559 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Study to 'rule out' BSE link to milk | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/bse.foodanddrink | The government has ordered an inquiry into whether there is a link between BSE and milk and dairy products. The research, announced by Nick Brown, the minister of agriculture, follows assurances that dairy products are safe from causing variant CJD, the human form of BSE. The food standards agency has asked scientists ... | 517 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | business | Unilever finally clears EU hurdle | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/28/unilever | Anglo-Dutch consumer products group, Unilever, received long-awaited European Union approval yesterday for the launch of its cholesterol-lowering margarine, Becel pro activ. The EU standing committee for foodstuffs gave the go-ahead months after Finnish rival Raisio beat Unilever to market with a similar product, Benec... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Phone mast protest grows | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/mobilephones.paulbrown | A national campaign was launched yesterday to bring together 100 local groups seeking planning controls over mobile telephone masts so that health effects can be taken into account. British planning law over mobile phone masts is the most lax in Europe, with nothing to prevent 20,000 planned new masts being built in re... | 238 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | No run of the mill appointment | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement11 | For years, Gordon Lishman's career has been influenced by two powerful women. One is his former boss, whose job as director general of Age Concern England he takes over on Saturday: the newly-ennobled Baroness Sally Greengross. The other is his mother, Florence, the role model for much of his thinking about elderly peo... | 1,036 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Widdecombe's lesson in cream and punishment | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Ann Widdecombe, the shadow home secretary, got an object lesson in cream and punishment yesterday, when she was hit in the face by a custard pie. Protesters angered by the Conservatives' hardline stance on asylum seekers staged the attack on Miss Widdecombe at a book signing in Oxford. Police charged a man and a woman ... | 650 |
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