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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | College failure deals new blow to fresh start policy | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/highereducation.education | The government's drive to revive failing schools received another blow last night when inspectors ordered emergency rescue measures at one of its fresh start schools. East Brighton arts and media college is the first fresh start school to be taken back into "special measures". It is looking for a permanent head followi... | 608 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | money | It wasn't my fault | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/1 | An advert for the Compensation Helpline proclaims: "If you have been injured whilst taking part in any sport, there may be a good chance that you are entitled to a substantial compensation settlement." The advert goes on to promise help in pursuing claims for accidents at work, car crashes and a range of other injuries... | 935 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | politics | Hunting ban is threat to freedom, warn Tory MPs | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/21/hunting.politicalnews | Banning hunting with hounds is a "wicked proposal" with severe civil liberties implications, the Tories claimed yesterday. As several thousand pro-hunt protesters ringed Parliament, Conservative backbenchers said a ban would be an affront to the rights of minorities. "This wicked proposal would separate liberty from ju... | 787 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Proton denies plan to sell Lotus | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/rover | Proton, the state-owned Malaysian car maker reported to be talking to MG Rover, yesterday denied reports it was planning to float its 80% owned Lotus sports car company. Rumours of a possible sale had been triggered by a £40m fundraising exercise by Group Lotus which required it to re-register as a public limited compa... | 344 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | politics | Comment, Roy Hattersley: After-dinner fees are not corruption | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/14/uk.comment | It seems that Elizabeth Filkin - the parliamentary commissioner for standards - is determined to prevent members of parliament from receiving payment for corrupt services disguised as fees for speaking engagements. For some time, Ms Filkin's habits of rooting out wrongdoing after she has read about it in the newspapers... | 962 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | CRC head discusses merger plans | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/voluntarysector.health1 | Gordon McVie, director general of the Cancer Research Campaign, discusses the possibility of a merger with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and what the implications would be How likely is a full merger? It is entirely up to the trustees. So far they have agreed to consider recommendations by a team composed of truste... | 543 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | EMU: Acting on a Wim | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/euro.eu | Few things get under Gordon Brown's skin like Wim Duisenberg. Yet Europe's most important banker managed to do it again today with his observation that the UK has satisfied the criteria for joining the euro - and is suffering economically by not being a member of the club. Only a few weeks ago Mr Duisenberg, the presid... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | world | Africa's angry old man | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/28/zimbabwe.guardianleaders | Robert Mugabe's postponement of Zimbabwe's general election until some time in May - the president was rather vague about dates - raises a question about whether the poll will take place at all. The house of assembly, dominated by Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF, was elected on April 8-9, 1995, for a five-year term. Thus, constitu... | 506 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | money | Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/sep/07/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | The cost of free access Our postbag has been liberally seasoned with laments about ntl - mostly about April's free internet offer which, as far as many eager subscribers are concerned, is a chimera. Leigh Donnison of Leighton Buzzard signed up to ntl's phone and cable TV package specifically because of the free deal. U... | 774 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Doctors' errors cost NHS £2bn a year | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/futureofthenhs.health | One in 10 people who are admitted to hospital will be damaged by medical errors which cost the health service £2bn to put right, it was acknowledged yesterday as the government unveiled ambitious proposals to transform the blame culture inside the NHS and learn from mistakes. Every year around 850,000 patients admitted... | 1,047 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/1 | Posthumous award for PC PC Nina Mackay, 25, who was stabbed to death during a police raid in Stratford, east London, in October 1997 is to receive a posthumous bravery award from the Metropolitan police. Her family will receive the award tomorrow. You bet your life! A gambler who backed himself to reach his 100th birth... | 192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | money | Bank keeps rates on hold | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/07/interestrates.business | Industry leaders and homeowners reacted with relief yesterday to the Bank of England's decision to leave borrowing costs unchanged for the fifth month in a row. The monetary policy committee's counterparts at the European central bank in Frankfurt also decided to leave interest rates untouched yesterday, despite signs ... | 591 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | New editor at Harpers & Queen | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/pressandpublishing | Harpers & Queen editor Fiona Macpherson has been made editor-in-chief, and will move across to work on a new launch within the National Magazine Company's Affluent magazines group in the new year. Harpers has also recruited Lucy Yeomans, deputy editor of Tatler, who will step into Macpherson's shoes. Currently on garde... | 188 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Rich and poor on Olympics' not so level playing field | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/sydney.sport | At just over five feet and weighing a little over seven stone, Paula Barila Bolopa, a swimmer from the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in west Africa, counts herself as one of the most fortunate athletes gathered in Sydney for the Olympic Games. Standing at six feet nine inches and weighing almost 16 stone, Alonzo Mourni... | 967 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | Mad about the boy | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/usa.cuba | There is something offensive about the way the case of Elian Gonzalez, the six-year-old Cuban refugee found clinging to a tyre off Florida last November, has been turned into an American legal and political football. Elian's mother and six other Cubans were drowned after their boat capsized. But when the US authorities... | 501 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/3 | Father denies loyalist link The father of one of the teenagers whose stabbed bodies were found outside the predominantly loyalist town of Tandragee, Co Armagh, said last night that his son was "in the wrong place at the wrong time". There had been rumours that David McIlwain,18, and Andrew Robb, 19, might have been vic... | 572 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Slovak leader held | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/9 | Vladimir Meciar, the controversial former prime minister of Slovakia, was arrested yesterday and charged with abuse of power and fraud during his period in office in the 1990s. Police commandos surrounded his villa at Trencianske Teplice in central Slovakia just after dawn. After reading the fraud charges over a loudha... | 717 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | world | More die of Aids than war in Africa says Kofi Annan | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/unitednations | More people have died of Aids in the past year in Africa than in all the wars on the continent, the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said yesterday in London. This extraordinary statistic includes wars in Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. "Aids is a major... | 496 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | Britain's guilt on Iraq bombing | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/iraq.uk | The Bishop of Coventry yesterday said that Britain had to accept responsibility for the death and deformity of children in Iraq as a result of allied bombing during and since the Gulf war. Preaching a sermon in German in Dresden at a ceremony to mark the 55th anniversary of the bombing of the city in the second world w... | 259 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Farmer killed as Mugabe speaks of war | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/zimbabwe.chrismcgreal | "War veterans" in Zimbabwe murdered an elderly white farmer hours before President Robert Mugabe told the leadership of his ruling party that the people are at war with white landowners. Henry Elsworth, 70, a former MP, is the sixth farmer to have been murdered since the government sent armed veterans to seize white-ow... | 1,403 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | British oil worker endures 239th day as hostage in Colombia | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/jamiewilson2 | Alistair Taylor was driving along the road between the city of Yopal and Moricha Morichal in Colombia's oil-rich Casanare region when the kidnap gang struck. Three yellow taxis surrounded the Scottish oil worker's four-wheel drive and forced it to a standstill. Firing warning shots into the air, the gang bundled him in... | 336 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Towards a learning age | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/schools.theguardian1 | The Chief Inspector, Chris Woodhead, took issue with me personally over my insistence that learning to learn is the key skill of the 21st century. Learning to learn, he asserted, is not a skill, involves nothing more complex than some basic study skills and is certainly not new. On the same day last week, the Campaign ... | 557 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | A brave new world | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/furthereducation.theguardian3 | In 1962, I was, mercifully, asked to leave my Jesuit boarding school, where I had been incarcerated for what seemed like a lifetime, beaten regularly, and force-fed snobbery, religious bigotry and the sort of ravioli that puts you off pasta for life. That's how I found myself in further education, at the City of Westmi... | 672 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | Human rights test for fertility rules | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/sarahboseley.lucyward | Human rights legislation which comes into force this autumn will lead to a spate of legal challenges by single women, older women, gay men and others who believe existing fertility rules have denied them the right to have a family, the chair of the human fertilisation and embryology authority has predicted. Home office... | 1,115 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | world | Everton fans top racist 'league of shame' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/07/race.world | Racial abuse aimed at black or foreign players at football grounds is still rife, according to university researchers who carried out a survey of 33,000 fans. Fans from Everton, Rangers and Celtic topped the league table for making the largest number of racist comments heard, the survey found. Arsenal, Charlton Athleti... | 770 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | Postman Pat: the most trusted government agent | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/ruralaffairs.guardiancolumnists | The government has discovered how much people love the Post Office. Warm Postman Pat responses flooded the focus groups. It is the one arm of government people clasp to their hearts, evoking images of village shops with roses round the door where apple-cheeked postmistresses dispense postal orders and sealing wax along... | 1,388 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Grid considers $4bn US bid | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/utilities | National Grid, the British electricity group, is understood to be considering a takeover bid for GPU in a deal which could value the US power company at more than $4bn. The group has considered bidding for several US companies as part of its strategy of expanding international assets and increasing its presence in the ... | 553 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | politics | As you spin, so shall you reap | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/14/labour.politicalnews | The people are disgruntled with their Government, but not half as annoyed as the Prime Minister is with the people. An irritable buzz has crept into the discourse between leader and nation. Tony Blair frowns at us with frustration. Why doesn't Britain get it? Why does he have to explain his project to us yet again? Why... | 1,552 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | media | My media: Sada | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/07/mondaymediasection | Newspapers: I would be lying if I said I didn't despise the tabloids. I bought them this week and I will never, ever buy one again. Magazines: I have never really bought into that glossy ethos. The National Geographic and Time I like. And Inventory, a cultural, semi-academic but tongue-in-cheek journal started by some ... | 463 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | business | Airtours man can join rival - in 2002 | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/07/16 | Airtours, Britain's biggest package tour operator, was last night attempting to thwart Thomson Travel's move to poach a senior executive by keeping him to two years' notice. The resignation of Peter Rothwell, head of UK operations, was announced yesterday morning. The 41-year-old had agreed to become Thomson's chief op... | 264 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | Focus | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/2 | Investment trusts are a relic of the old school tie in the City, with boards of directors drawn from the great and the good. Rock the boat they don't. All the more remarkable, then, that two investment trusts worth nearly £400m yesterday served notice on Jupiter Asset Management that they may fire it from managing thei... | 407 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | money | Exchange merger vote to be delayed | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/28/business.personalfinancenews | The London Stock Exchange will delay next month's vote on its controversial merger with Deutsche Börse, its German rival, amid accusations that it is keeping key information from its shareholders. Facing one of the bleakest periods in its 200-year history, the exchange is this week expected to receive a hostile takeove... | 892 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | society | Kate Figes comments on child protection | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/14/childprotection2 | Sarah Payne's murder will have triggered alarm bells in homes up and down the country. Once again we are reminded of the need to keep our children close, constantly in view, for the loss of a child is every parent's ultimate nightmare. Few of us can imagine the pain of loss with which Sarah's parents and brothers and s... | 2,189 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Pinochet wins further £500,000 costs battle | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/pinochet.chile | General Augusto Pinochet yesterday won a final order for the British taxpayer to pay another £500,000 of his legal costs, at the end of a saga which has cost the public purse millions of pounds. Two judges at the high court in London ordered that all the former Chilean dictator's legal costs for the extradition hearing... | 545 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | technology | Atlantic deal buys growth | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/apr/28/efinance.business | Scotland's Atlantic Telecom yesterday transformed the size and geographical spread of its customer base by agreeing a £520m all-share takeover of First Telecom, Europe's largest reseller of telecommunications. The deal gives Atlantic access to First Telecom's valuable contracts to roll out broadband services in Europe ... | 323 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | If you ask me...about extra provision for special needs | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/schools.theguardian2 | Susan Rees, adviser, Advisory Centre for Education Find out how the school organises the help that is specified in the statement. A timetable of help might be useful, and a list of targets it is working towards, which should be included in an individual education plan (IEP). Targets should be measurable so that they ca... | 831 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | us-news | Analysis: can America develop a third major party? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/uselections2000.usa | Al Gore, now installed as Democratic candidate for the US presidency, has more to worry about than just George W Bush. There is also a potential threat from a third-party candidate. Not from the Reform party, founded by Ross Perot but now hopelessly split, with two rival factions claiming its candidacy, but from Ralph ... | 1,145 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | 'I'm no martyr. No one told me I'd land in jail' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/theobserver.uknews | Ruth Wyner, a frail woman with huge dark circles under her eyes, has lost a stone in two months. Across the table in the visiting room she looks gaunt and sickly, and punctuates her conversation with a hacking cough. She is speaking publicly for the first time since she was jailed last December. Her jailmates at High P... | 1,038 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | ETA: a chronology | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/spain | 1959: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), or Basque Homeland and Freedom, founded by opponents of conservative leadership of Basque Nationalist Party exiled during dictatorship of Francisco Franco. ETA vows to fight for Basque self-determination. 1968: ETA carries out first planned killing: victim is Meliton Manzanas, chief o... | 616 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Gore's thoughts turn to the campaign of 2004 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa4 | Democrats reacted with anger to Al Gore's defeat last night, with some senior officials barely able to conceal their bitterness at an election they claimed had been fixed. "There was a campaign of voter suppression in Florida which has left very bitter feelings," a senior aide to President Bill Clinton said. "Gore won ... | 918 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Competitive spirit turns Italian fare-dodgers into ticket fiends | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/worlddispatch.rorycarroll | Anoraks, pens, tablecloths and picnic sets may not seem reasons to change your way of life, but then you're not Roman. Where others see trinkets, Romans see the holy grail: something for nothing. It is an irresistible promise which is persuading thousands to abandon a venerable tradition as much part of the city as sco... | 621 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | business | Big Tobacco in the balance | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness1 | A week tomorrow, 12 jurors in Florida will meet to decide whether, and by how much, they should punish the tobacco industry. The case, which is expected to last for up to two months, is already being hailed as a landmark. The anti-smoking lobby says it marks the beginning of the end for the industry. The tobacco compan... | 2,061 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | uk-news | Poet paid Lottery money for free verse | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/books.booksnews | Tom Paulin, the poet and television pundit, is to be awarded £75,000 of Lottery money in the biggest act of state patronage for poetry since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The 51-year-old Oxford don will be one of the first recipients of a three-year fellowship from Nesta, the newly created National Endowment for Scie... | 667 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | politics | Key Players: The oil men at No 10 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/14/uk.oil1 | Tony Blair's crisis talks around the cabinet table yesterday were with nine of the men who really run Britain. The prime minister read the riot act to representatives of six oil giants and a tanker fleet operator to urge them to get supplies out of refineries and onto forecourts - fast. BP, which operates 1,600 petrol ... | 220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | media | Vodafone buys Eircell for £2.8bn | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/21/citynews | Vodafone has rounded off its Christmas shopping spree with a £2.8bn acquisition of Irish rival Eircell. The deal comes just days after the world's largest mobile phone company splashed out £1.5bn on a 15% stake in Japan Telecom. Ireland's mobile market is the third-fastest growing in western Europe, with Eircell's mark... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | uk-news | Now rich schools are slipping too | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/06/schools.news | Complacent teachers are failing many children in middle-class schools, despite apparently good exam results. The hidden crisis in the 'leafy suburbs' will be revealed later this week in the annual report from Chris Woodhead, Chief Inspector of Schools. Growing concern about 'coasting schools' in affluent areas has led ... | 739 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Thousands of mothers tell gun lobby: enough is enough | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/usgunviolence.usa | Hundreds of thousands of American mothers descended on Washington and about 60 other US cities yesterday to voice their support for stricter gun laws, making one of the country's biggest demonstrations for many years. The Million Mom March was focused on the capital, where a huge crowd of women, along with large number... | 620 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | money | Bank of Scotland will play joint venture card | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/14/personalfinancenews.business | Bank of Scotland plans to unveil three large joint ventures before the month's end that directors claim will help boost its case in the four-month, three-way battle for NatWest. Gavin Masterton, BoS finance director, refused to give details of the joint venture partners yesterday but indicated they were of a similar ma... | 504 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | MPs' fury at passport farce | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/davidhencke1 | Jack Straw last night admitted the government had made "mistakes" over what MPs dubbed as last summer's "farce and fiasco" over the long delays in issuing hundreds of thousands of passports, which ruined many holidays. A damning report from MPs today slates the passport agency for "flawed implementation" of a new compu... | 455 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | education | Why foreign training is failing Russia's teachers | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/21/tefl1 | A British university recently completed a joint teacher-training project in my home city of Tambov in central Russia. British colleagues and local professionals ran training workshops, organised study trips to Britain, wrote and published teachersÍ training packs, produced videos and set up a website. With so much acco... | 886 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | Entrepreneurial trio launch tech investment fund | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/johncassy | Three of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs this morning attempt to add an internet fortune to those they have already made in property, media and computer games. Eidos's chief executive, Charles Cornwall, former Carlton managing director Mike Luckwell and property developer John Beckwith are investing £9m of their... | 400 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | Drug deaths up 25% | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/drugsandalcohol.gerardseenan | The number of drug deaths in Scotland rose by almost a quarter last year despite high profile attempts to tackle the problem. The latest figures, published by the Scottish executive today, reveal that 340 people died from drugs in 1999, compared with 276 in 1998. Most worrying for the executive is the number of young v... | 461 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | Battle for the box | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/15/newmedia | Ever since the information started leaking out that Open, the Sky-owned interactive shopping TV channel, was actually proving a success, it has been hard to avoid Interactive television, iTV, or idTV. Not a week passes without some new announcement: first Granada Media Group, followed by cable comapny NTL, announced th... | 1,718 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Wilson to be appointed editor of Scotland on Sunday | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/pressandpublishing4 | Andrew Neil is preparing to appoint a second Englishwoman as editor of one of his Scottish newspapers. Margot Wilson, currently director of magazines at Scotsman Publications, is expected to be unveiled as editor of Scotland on Sunday, stablemate to the Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News. Her appointment follows the h... | 149 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | business | At this price? Cantab | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/21/11 | As a former Swindon Town footballer, Cantab Pharmaceuticals chief executive Jurek Sikorski is used to staring oblivion in the face. This week's events at the biotechnology company may have given him a sense of déjà vu. The failure of the firm's leading product, a vaccine for genital warts, caused a 67% slump in Cantab'... | 406 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | Serbs resist K-For arms hunt | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/balkans | Serbs threw stones and bricks yesterday at Nato-led troops starting an extensive house-to-house search for weapons in the divided town of Mitrovice in northern Kosovo. The sweep was conducted by about 2,500 soldiers from several countries, and came two weeks after 10 ethnic Albanians were killed at night by Serbian gan... | 993 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Pre-teen girls are slaves to a thin image | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/tracymcveigh.theobserver1 | They are confident, ambitious and don't care about sex or boys. But Britain's schoolgirls are still slaves to the culture of thin. Startling new statistics show that a fifth of girls from 11 to 17 are on a diet. One in seven 11-year-olds and one in three 16-year-olds are trying to lose weight. The findings of one of th... | 1,042 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Chinese find writing from 4,800 years ago | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/china | Archaeologists in east China have confirmed that inscriptions on 4,800-year-old pottery are the earliest Chinese writing ever discovered. The inscriptions were found on decorated pottery wine vessels unearthed in Juxian, a county in Shandong province once inhabited by the Taihao, a tribe that worshipped gods of wine an... | 195 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | politics | Maxwell: The man who would be PM - and the new Marx | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/14/freedomofinformation.uk | Robert Maxwell wanted to become prime minister and write a landmark philosophy book which would have the same enduring influence as the works of Karl Marx, his FBI file reveals. Maxwell confided his ambitions to an associate, who quickly reported back to the FBI that he appeared to be "sincere and nuts". Over drinks in... | 374 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Straw pulls plug on counselling for wife-beaters | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/sarahryle.martinbright | There is no cure for men who beat their wives or partners, according to new Home Office research. The shock findings have led to a complete rethink of the way domestic violence is dealt with by the criminal justice system. As a result, Home Secretary Jack Straw will remove funding from therapy sessions designed to trea... | 600 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Safety doubts could shut N-plant for good | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/paulbrown | One of the oldest nuclear plants in the country may have to shut permanently because it was not built properly in the first place and is unsafe. The 35-year-old Hinkley Point A magnox station in Somerset has been shut down for months after checks through old papers found that some of the parts of the steel pressure ves... | 596 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | technology | Why broadcasters need quality TV websites | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/21/media.newmedia | Ask anyone to name a decent TV show website - one that actually adds value to the related programme - and you'd be hard pressed to get anything other than a furrowed brow. The dearth of decent TV show websites is not entirely down to lack of imagination. It has a lot to do with the constraints of narrowband connections... | 1,648 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Welcome to SocietyGuardian.co.uk | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/societybriefing1 | The new site for everyone who works in the public and voluntary sector launches today at http://www.SocietyGuardian.co.uk Get breaking news and informed comment. Keep abreast of policy and legislation. Access 100s of jobs and courses. Find expert advice, share opinions and talks about the issues that matter. We name th... | 99 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | environment | Confronting the perils of global warming in a vanishing landscape | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/nov/14/globalwarming.climatechange1 | The town of Rosetta is spread along the last stretch of the Nile's journey from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean. Its muddy waters have supported along the way millions living on its densely populated banks and have fed the intricate web of irrigation channels which has made the desert bloom for thousands of ye... | 1,306 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Park bench, own postcode, to share. Would suit rough sleeper | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/raekhaprasad | Light, airy and centrally located, it has the making of a des res. However, the lack of a few essential features in this residence - namely walls and a roof - would present even the most tenacious of estate agents with a challenge. Welcome to Park Bench, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8QD - the official address of six ro... | 430 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Ex-MI5 chief to get memoirs go-ahead | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/books.booksnews | Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, is to be given the go-ahead to publish her memoirs, the subject of a bitter row among senior security and intelligence officers. In a series of meetings with her successor, Sir Stephen Lander, she is understood to have agreed to drop references to a number of MI5 operations, notabl... | 332 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Letter leads to nuclear stash | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/northkorea1 | A mildly radioactive letter sent to the Japanese prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, led police to a warehouse full of a material associated with the extraction of uranium yesterday. The discovery of 15 tons of monazite came after an anonymous tip-off that dangerous radioactive material was being smuggled from Japan to North... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | law | Jury duty: it's aptly named | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/14/jurytrials.law | Tony Blair and I were called up for jury service on the same week. He, being prime minister and perhaps because of the imminent arrival of Baby Leo, managed to be excused. I did not. Not that I wasn't encouraged to wriggle out of it. The instant reaction from colleagues and friends was that it was a bit of a joke. The ... | 1,025 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Shares will not always be safe as houses | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | As Clement Atlee cleared away the last vestiges of post-war rationing and austerity in 1950 few could have guessed that Britain stood on the brink of a stock market bonanza, or that government bonds, safe as houses during the deflationary 20s and 30s, would turn out to be an investment disaster. An investment of £100 i... | 1,080 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | business | Hornby on takeover track | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/28/shopping.toys | British toymaker Hornby yesterday announced that the 99-year-old company, which is best known for its model trains, is up for sale. Discussions are under way with a number of potential buyers, but their identities were being kept secret last night. Hornby, which also makes Scalextric car racing sets and developed both ... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | business | Floods and fuel costs hurt Hanson | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/21/8 | Hanson, the building materials group, yesterday issued a profits warning on the back of rising fuel costs, heavy rain and softer demand in the US. The price of oil will add £40m to Hanson costs this year, the company said, and help push pre-tax profits before exceptionals below the 1999 figure of £314.3m. Shares fell 1... | 228 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Joining up government key to regeneration list | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/regeneration.communities1 | This list powerfully reflects the orthodoxy of the moment, which has it that successful regeneration is all about joining up local services. Moira Wallace makes it to the top because of the role her Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) has played in forging this attitude to regeneration work. But the SEU's approach requires a w... | 327 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | politics | Tories accused of racism in row over foreign doctors' English | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/28/conservatives.uk | John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, yesterday accused the Conservatives of stirring up "fear and prejudice" after the party claimed patient safety was being put at risk by overseas doctors with a poor grasp of English . In a provocative intervention, the shadow health secretary, Liam Fox , pledged to introduce to... | 462 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | politics | Leader: Whatever happened to conservatism? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/14/conservatives.thatcher | Once, Conservatives could generally be relied upon to be just that, conservative. If you wanted a defence, say, of flummery or anachronism you sent for a Tory; they would turn up the relevant page in Burke and the ancien regime would be saved. But Maggie Thatcher put a stop to all that. The word "constitution" rarely p... | 407 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Lawrence report hit Met morale - government | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/ukcrime.lawrence | The Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence did have an impact on morale in the Metropolitan police force, Home Office minister Charles Clarke said today. The Home Office was publishing the latest figures on the numbers of police in forces across England and Wales today. While numbers have stabilised in m... | 681 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | politics | Enduring love | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/07/features11.g2 | "Her house," says Michael Foot, standing alone in a sitting room in Hampstead. "Her garden." He is leaning against the door jamb, the weight of his body seemingly held in one gripped hand. He says this in a curt, matter-of-fact way. He nods his head towards the bay window, but he doesn't look through it. "Her garden. N... | 2,323 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | Hamilton fails to raise cash for promised libel appeal | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/hamiltonvalfayed.mattwells | Neil Hamilton finally conceded defeat in his legal battle with Mohamed Al Fayed last night when he announced that he would not appeal against the "cash for questions" libel trial verdict which branded him corrupt. Claiming that the case had left him penniless, Mr Hamilton said he could not afford a fresh court action. ... | 412 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | media | Advisers who'll never say 'boo' to a dot.com | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/21/newmedia.mondaymediasection | A model and a former poetry critic raise £80 million to start an online retail company which purveys only 'urban sportswear'. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. The designer can of worms that is boo.com is only just beginning to emerge. And my guess is that we will see a dribble of increasingly ear-bleeding testimon... | 897 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | Gore stakes all on final push | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/uselections2000.usa4 | Al Gore threw everything into a legal, political and public relations offensive yesterday to keep his White House hopes from crumbling in the face of George W Bush's claims of victory in the US presidential contest after election officials in Florida declared him the winner in the decisive state. As the Texas governor ... | 799 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | Police foil dome diamond raid | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/dome | Detectives today foiled “the world’s biggest robbery” when they stopped a daring raid on £350m of diamonds on show at the Millennium Dome in London. Four people were arrested in the vault of the dome’s money zone. Two more were arrested “in and around” the river Thames, where the robbers had a powerboat waiting to spee... | 477 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | money | Commerzbank rushes to fill Jupiter void | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/29/business.personalfinancenews | Commerzbank was last night putting together a hastily arranged executive committee to run Jupiter, one of Britain's most successful fund management companies, after the sudden departure of a number of top executives. In an attempt to prevent the loss of crucial fund management business, the German bank is thought to ha... | 612 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | Republicanism grows in the old empire | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/monarchy.uk | Two Caribbean countries, Barbados and Jamaica, are leading the drive to abolish the Queen as head of state. Constitutional reviews are taking place in both countries. Feelings run strongest in Barbados, where there is embarrassment that the Queen is still head of state long after many of the country's neighbours have b... | 485 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | politics | What is the secret of your success, Comrade Hague? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/14/thatcher.politicalnews | I popped down to No 4 Millbank, the building that is the real centre of our national debate now few people pay attention to the House of Commons. It's where the BBC, ITN, Sky and local broadcasting stations have their Westminster offices. Even when the chamber is deserted you can still find a clutch of senior politicia... | 817 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Latest new media news | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/newmedia2 | The backlash on BT's monopolising ISP practises has started with a vengeance. The Free Internet Group (TFIG) is leading the accusations, saying that it's receiving 250 calls a week from annoyed users that can never get a dial tone, for which it is blaming BT's failure to allocate enough lines to free numbers. Oftel is ... | 189 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | environment | Flood: Alerts remain as clean-up bill nears £2bn | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/oct/14/weather.climatechange2 | The bill for the floods which have devastated homes and businesses in southern England is likely to run into hundreds of millions of pounds, making it one of the most costly natural disasters ever to hit Britain. Severe flood warnings yesterday remained in force on 13 rivers in Kent and East Sussex. Paratroopers and Gu... | 607 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | world | Maxwell - the 'red' the feds failed to nail | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/freedomofinformation.uk | At 6pm on April 6 1954, Robert Maxwell strode into the Plaza, a luxury hotel off Central Park in New York, on one of his frenetic business trips. A dashing young man, 6ft tall, he oozed the image of one forever shuttling between countries on his way to fame and fortune. The Daily Express had recently pronounced him "on... | 988 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Comprehensively thrashed | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/parents.comment | When the chairman of the governors of Ripon grammar school peered through his glasses at the sheet of paper coughing from the fax machine he quickly realised that the opponents of comprehensive education had not merely won, but won very big indeed. The Yes camp - for change - had mustered 747 votes. The No campaign, or... | 1,039 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | society | Relenza receives limited approval | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/21/health3 | The controversial anti-flu drug Relenza will be made available on the NHS on a strictly limited basis this winter after a health service advisory body overturned its own ban on the drug issued last autumn. The decision by the National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness (Nice) is bound by tight prescribing guidelines ... | 760 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Beastly pursuits | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/furthereducation.theguardian2 | You can always tell if it's been a slow news day in the south-west by the number of column inches devoted to the Beast of Bodmin. Over the years, there have been countless sightings of this legendary cat, but despite the odd, sometimes very odd, photograph and the occasional pawprint, there is no hard evidence of its e... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | society | Camelot wins reprieve over lottery bid | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/sep/21/lottery | Camelot today won its high court battle to be allowed to bid for the next lottery licence. Mr Justice Richards ruled the lottery commission's decision to negotiate only with Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson was unlawful and should be quashed. Mr Justice Richards said: "The commission, while intending to be fair, has dec... | 529 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/efinance.internet1 | • Fusion Up to £40m, mainly in shares, is the price Magic Moments has put on its intended purchase of Webfusion. MM is also raising £2.5m in a placing and said sales in the first quarter were up 340% from 1999. • Unity A new website for the UK government which provides a "one-stop shop" of public information is being d... | 154 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | money | Budget expected to hold capital gains tax surprises | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/28/capitalgainstax.personalfinancenews | Gordon Brown's commitment to enterprise will be underscored by radical changes to the capital gains tax regime in next month's Budget, which could go beyond plans already floated. The chancellor believes the move could unleash a wave of venture capital to help small business, especially dot.com firms, realise their pot... | 414 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | global | No: 1615 | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/14/features11.g2 | Age: Born 22 years ago, killed off at the age of three. Appearance: Characterised by 70s superflicks, rayon costumes with triangular appliqué motifs and wobbly bacofoil scenery. Status: Deeply silly space series about seven freedom fighters resisting an evil federation that has seized control of earth and its colonies,... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | High street bail-out saves Labour's universal bank | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/21/ruralaffairs.uknews | The government and Britain's banking sector ended months of wrangling yesterday when the big high street clearers finally agreed to help finance Labour's plan for a post office-based universal bank. Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary, said that six banks - Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWe... | 574 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | National Trust rejects move to end ban on stag hunting | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/ruralaffairs.hunting | The National Trust is to keep its ban on stag hunting despite a concerted attempt by scientists, financed by the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, to say it was not cruel. The 52-member National Trust council yesterday decidede to back the original findings by Patrick Bateson, the provost of King's College, Cambridge, ... | 328 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | business | Rail plans to revive axed Beeching lines | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/28/transportintheuk.theobserver | Rail is set to win more than £2 billion a year extra in state funding for the next decade to expand the network and reverse the Beeching line closures of the Sixties. Track and stations that have been disused since as long ago as 1962 are likely to be revived to carry freight and commuter services. This will create ext... | 536 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Hooligans' pictures published | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/footballviolence.football | A rogues' gallery of suspected football hooligans was published by police yesterday as part of a campaign to drive offenders out of the game. The 29 high-resolution stills of Leeds United supporters - all men - were copied from hundreds of hours of security video and police photographs taken at the home leg of the club... | 258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | world | Peruvian president accepts run-off vote | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/14/ewenmacaskill | Peru's president, Alberto Fujimori, bowed to international pressure yesterday, accepting that he will have to fight a second round of the presidential election against the opposition candidate, Alejandro Toledo. After widespread allegations of vote-rigging, there were fears that Mr Fujimori would be declared the outrig... | 384 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | 'This tragedy will haunt the UN...' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/balkans.unitednations | This statement was issued by Kofi Annan on July 11 2000, the fifth anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica: The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations. This day commemorates a massacre on a scale unprecedented in Europe since the second world war - a massacre of people who had been led... | 292 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | business | Corus: No UK plant is safe | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/manufacturing.ford | The jobs of 3,000 workers at steelmaker Corus's flagship Llanwern plant in south Wales are threatened this weekend by the deepening crisis in British manufacturing. There is a 'very real threat' of it closing, said one union leader. And the company, formed from British Steel and the Dutch firm Hoogovens, warned Trade a... | 560 |
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