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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | environment | Treeless hills send torrents into india | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/aug/07/weather.climatechange | More than 100 people have been killed and 2m left homeless by floods and landslides in north-eastern India and Bhutan during the weekend. Scientists say the extent of the flooding that has accompanied the monsoon season - which began two months ago - can be partly explained by the massive deforestation of hill areas ac... | 598 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | £19bn insurance merger could cost 4,000 UK jobs | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/1 | Insurance groups Norwich Union and CGU today confirmed plans to merge in a move which is expected to cost up to 4,000 UK jobs. The new company will be called CGNU and will be worth £19bn. The companies plan to save at least £250m a year in cost savings before tax. Job cuts are expected to be highest in Perth, CGU's cur... | 278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | money | Go to war with a workmate | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/29/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to retrieve the top-secret plans before your enemy beats you to it. It is a task requiring cunning, ingenuity and courage. You don't know who you can trust, and must be sure not to misinterpret your cryptic clues. Oh, and watch out for the masked gunmen. For most office ... | 1,301 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | How do you achieve discipline and provide children with support? | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/voluntarysector.education | Nine years ago Highfield Junior in Plymouth had troubles. Fights were common in the playground and ill-feeling would follow children indoors - disagreements erupting again as classroom punch-ups. In the corridors, displays were defaced and smashed. Meanwhile, children upset by their classmates' intimidating behaviour w... | 1,404 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | GUS finds unexpected cheer | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/11 | The catalogue shopping group Great Universal Stores has bounced back from a disastrous profit warning in December with better-than-expected Christmas sales. The GUS seasonal update was one of several trading updates from retailers yesterday which again showed Christmas was far better than most shopkeepers had dared to ... | 454 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | business | Manufacturing's facts make global sense | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/08/manufacturing.personalfinancenews | Life, it appears, is not so bad for manufacturers after all. Despite the gnashing of teeth from the Confederation of British Industry and other lobbying groups about the fearsome price being paid for the overvalued pound, the official figures tell a somewhat different story. Factory production was up by 0.4% in the lat... | 968 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Harare talks end in failure | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/zimbabwe.garyyounge1 | Talks in London aimed at resolving the Zimbabwe crisis collapsed in failure last night, when the delegation from Harare flatly refused to give a commitment to end the violence. The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, emerged empty-handed after eight hours of talks with three Zimbabwean cabinet ministers. The collapse appear... | 898 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | money | New legal advice unit is a lifeline for race victims | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/22/discriminationatwork.workandcareers | A black van driver unfairly disciplined at work has become one of the first people to benefit from the formation of a new racial discrimination legal advice unit. Kofi Asiedu was physically assaulted by his line manager at Euro Car Parts in Bellingham, south-east London, in August last year following an argument over a... | 1,202 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | business | Hitting ITV pause button | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/28/3 | With AOL and Time Warner having tipped the global media business on its ear, and then Time Warner and EMI having got together to redefine the meaning of "takeover" with the outrageously convoluted pooling of their music assets, it is easy to forget that a media battle is still being fought with real ferocity within the... | 644 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | We shall not be moved, say the royals, as Mo Mowlam's palace coup falls flat | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/monarchy.nicholaswatt | The Queen took the rare step last night of rebuking a minister of the crown when Buckingham Palace dismissed suggestions by Mo Mowlam that the royal family should move into "a good modern building". Incensed by Ms Mowlam's provocative intervention, royal sources pointed out that the Queen's lavish 18th century residenc... | 1,245 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | uk-news | Hunting ban row takes to the street | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/27/hunting.ruralaffairs | The biggest event in the fox hunting calendar went ahead amid bitter scenes yesterday as thousands of protesters turned out to jeer and heckle riders at Boxing Day meets across the country. Emotions ran high on both sides of the political divide less than a week after MPs voted heavily in favour of a second reading of ... | 1,041 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | uk-news | A Country Diary: Highlands | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | Problems with transporting poultry and other stock were highlighted for us recently by two incidents. The first came about because the last of our silkie hens, a small black one, died of old age. Although we'd resolved to run down the number of hens, ducks and geese, it seemed strange not to have silkies. We're still g... | 428 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Hall rescue a culture shock for Cornwall | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/sarahhall | It was supposed to be the answer to the cultural barrenness of Cornwall: a venue that, for the first time, would lure national orchestras and dance and theatre companies to one of Britain's poorest counties, and encourage local arts to flourish. But barely two years after its opening, the Hall for Cornwall, a £6m ventu... | 1,002 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Teenager stabbed to death lover who beat her | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/vikramdodd | A teenage woman yesterday admitted the manslaughter of her boyfriend, whose body parts were found strewn across East Sussex. Julia Adamson, 18, pleaded guilty at Lewes crown court to stabbing Robert Kavanagh, 31, through the heart with a seven inch carving knife in June last year. After the killing Mr Kavanagh's body w... | 693 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | Commuter diary: Making tracks - destination unknown | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/transport.world | "Can I renew my rail pass for another month, please?" "A month?" said the man at the ticket desk with a degree of incredulity I hadn't heard since Tony Hancock went to give blood. "Are you sure?" he asked, as if this was the most bizarre request ever made. I nodded and handed over £60 - resigned to another four weeks o... | 471 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/3 | Pardon for 1981 Pope hitman The Italian president has pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who wounded the Pope in a 1981 assassination attempt, the Ansa news agency reported yesterday. President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's office refused to comment immediately on the report. Agca shot the Pope in the abdomen in St.... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | global | I really want to know | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/feb/28/artsfeatures.petetownshend | Pete Townshend at Sadler's Wells? The ex-Who star's venue for this performance of the 30-years-in-the-making rock opera Lifehouse was, like its recent broadcast on Radio 3, no accident. Townshend now wishes his work to be measured by classical standards. Here, Who favourites were interposed between orchestral compositi... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | uk-news | IRA must stop this idiocy | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/06/northernireland.comment | You know this already, but let me repeat it. Journalists make a lot of stuff up. So great is the demand for comment and 'insider' analysis that wild hunches, tripe really, is packaged as fact, trimmed with self-importance and flung into the insatiable mouth of the news beast. So let us be honest about Northern Ireland:... | 1,705 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | Shun the student debt hangover | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/personalfinancenews.education | Ten years ago, the squeeze started on students when the Conservatives froze grants and introduced student loans. New Labour meant new costs for undergraduates - grants have now disappeared and annual fees add to the financial burden. While all parents can dream of the proud moment of their child's graduation, the post-... | 1,017 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | The age of dissent | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/gender.uk2 | The dog has reached puberty. It has raging hormones and is in love with my leg. I have replaced one teenager with another. Now that Daughter has grown up and become charming, studious and tidy, the dog is wrecking our home, up all night wanting to party and obsessed with sex. In fact, the dog is a teenager and baby all... | 401 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | money | Life with my abusive boss | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/22/workandcareers.drwork | The problem My boss is beginning to be a real problem. Not just for me either. She is constantly looking for things we have done or got wrong. She is also quite personal in her remarks, once even mocking one of my colleagues sexuality. If she were someone on the street I would have smacked her in the mouth by now. She ... | 332 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | Sportel teams up with sportsmediarights.com to create online marketplace | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/citynews.newmedia | Sportel, the TV sports programming market organiser, is developing an online marketplace with sportsmediarights.com. The two companies have signed heads of agreement to work together to develop sportsmediarights.com as an e-commerce site for transactions between sports rights buyers and sellers. Monaco-based Sportel ow... | 189 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | The Dare Game | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/29/educationalbooks5 | The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson Published by Doubleday £10.99 This sequel to The Story of Tracey Beaker is not in the same league as Wilson's The Illustrated Mum, which scooped this year's Guardian children's award. But, as always with Wilson, the prose is as feisty as her heroine, the armour-plated Tracey, a girl w... | 162 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | money | Feat of clay | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/29/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | Subtlety isn't a prized approach when it comes to revenge, hence the success of 30 staff at a brick factory in the West Midlands, whose parting gesture when they were fired is growing in legend. It wasn't the actual dismissal that provoked them. It was the way in which bosses at the Ibstock Brick Himley plant, near Dud... | 428 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | uk-news | Revellers enjoy Europe's biggest street party | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/1 | Hundreds of thousands of happy revellers were today converging on London's vibrant Notting Hill Carnival amid bright sunny spells today. About 1.5m people were expected to join in the massive street party with 7,500 Metropolitan police officers on hand as it reaches its climax with a colourful parade of floats, costume... | 476 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | International news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/1 | Bombs kill 12 Twelve people were killed in explosions across India yesterday, according to police and local news agencies. A state minister was among 11 killed in a vehicle explosion in Assam and one man died in a bombing in northern India. Eight people were injured by a bomb in New Delhi. Agencies, New Delhi Winds hit... | 154 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-27 | global | The Russians spent decades getting hold of pictures like these. Now anyone can order them on the net | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/27/features11.g22 | Walkers who explore the spectacular south-west coast trail a few kilometres north of Bude stumble across an unexpected view: from the path kept open for the public by the National Trust, a forest of satellite dishes and strange mushroom-like structures can be seen rising up from the fields. A quick look at the Ordnance... | 1,555 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | Gore struggles to emerge from Clinton shadow | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/uselections2000.usa | Democrats begin their convention in the entertainment capital of the world today amid renewed signs that Senator Joe Lieberman, a persistent Hollywood critic, holds the key to the party's dream of holding on to the White House after the stormy Clinton-Gore years. An NBC opinion poll published yesterday shows that Al Go... | 890 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Unemployed disabled people get a helping hand | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/workandcareers.jobsandmoney | More than 120 companies from the north-west of England congregated in Manchester this week for the Workability Forum for Business as part of a national drive to raise awareness of unemployment amongst disabled people. The Forum, organised by Leonard Cheshire and Microsoft UK, is one of a series of events around the UK ... | 379 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | technology | Games reviews | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/21/onlinesupplement7 | Nice try, but it's the wrong sort of tackle Rugby 2001 Windows 95/98 £34.99 The Creative Assembly/EA Rugby games are rare, and this is the best since Codemasters published Rage's Jonah Lomu Rugby for Sony's PlayStation in April 1997. Unfortunately, it isn't quite as much fun, partly because a PC keyboard is less suitab... | 1,048 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | business | Genie stays in its bottle | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness3 | Faisal Islam 'Just say no' would be an appropriate description of the Government's attitude to currency market intervention. Tempting as a weaker pound would be for Labour heartlands, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair refuse to give the economy its fix. The Prime Minister recently told the BBC that artificially lowering the ... | 2,225 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | money | Best unit trust/OEIC | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/14/consumerfinanceawards.consumerfinance6 | The winner of the unit trust/OEICs category, Jupiter Unit Trust Managers, a division of Jupiter Asset Management, is the type of group that gives active management a good name. Not only has it turned £100 invested in its funds into an average of £361 over the past five years, it has also achieved better returns than it... | 766 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | The office gossip | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/22/workandcareers.officehours1 | "Delegation is all about trust," says Monica Ross, head of buying for the womenswear and accessories departments at London department store Selfridges. "If you're relying on a team of people, you have to believe in them 150%, otherwise the whole system will collapse. I have 37 staff reporting to me, made up of buyers, ... | 655 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | politics | Labour's withering grass roots | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/14/labour.labour1997to99 | Labour's grassroots activists have delivered a devastating snub to the party leadership by voting with their feet to stay away from the party conference in Brighton in the autumn. Today's Guardian reveals that more than 200 constituency parties have failed to nominate representatives for conference, traditionally the h... | 731 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Pace Micro back in business | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/broadcasting | Pace Micro, which makes set-top boxes for Britain's major digital and satellite TV channels, is back in business after overcoming a components drought. Chairman Michael Bett told shareholders at the annual general meeting that product shipments are back on track after a memory chips shortage slowed production, forcing ... | 209 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Farewell, Faroes. Now it's just you and all those fish now | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/barbaragunnell.theobserver | It has been a long time coming but, after more than 600 years, the Faroe islanders are finally shaking off the imperial yoke. The 18 islands, which lie to the north-west of Scotland, halfway between Iceland and Norway, are attempting to negotiate their independence from Denmark, under whose not-so-brutish regime they h... | 495 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/8 | Civilians killed Iraq said yesterday that US and British warplanes enforcing the no-fly zones had killed 295 people and injured 860 since December 1998. An air force spokesman told a weekly briefing that most of the casualties were civilians. Iraq does not recognise the no-fly zones set up after the 1991 Gulf war to pr... | 216 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | It's location, location, location | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/internetnews.onlinesupplement4 | Many people, and I'm one of them, think location-based services (LBS) will be central to the future mobile proposition and essential to mobile commerce. The magnitude of the LBS revolution that's about to hit is impossible to understate. As Michael Specter recently put it in The New Yorker: "Our children may never full... | 885 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness12 | Pantomime time It's the gig everyone in the wacky world of Theatreland is just dying to get. At this time of year thesps up and down the land are anxiously phoning their agents and tearfully asking: 'Any news from Classic FM?' But now the agonising wait is over. The narrator of this year's musical panto - Sleeping Beau... | 689 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Teachers can appeal over bonus | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/education.schools | Teachers who have their applications for £2,000 performance-related pay rises rejected will be entitled to appeal, the government conceded yesterday. But the introduction of the rises - delayed by a high court defeat in July for the education secretary, David Blunkett - will proceed substantially as before after a repo... | 758 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | £1bn lift for health, schools | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/uk.politicalnews3 | The chancellor will announce an emergency cash injection for schools and hospitals in today's Budget after Tony Blair backed demands from spending ministers for extra investment to reassure sceptical voters that Labour can deliver improvements in key public services. With official figures out yesterday showing the Trea... | 884 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | Leader: Populism doesn't rule | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/britishidentity.guardianleaders | Every year Roger Jowell and his colleagues at the National Centre for Social Research produce a fascinating snapshot of our beliefs. Over time (today's is the 17th in the British Social Attitudes series) the pictures become a movie of contemporary mores. Yet it turns out to be more art house than Hollywood action: it i... | 476 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Channel 4 abandons E4 venture talks with BSkyB | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/channel4.broadcasting | Channel 4 is understood to have shelved discussions with BSkyB that could have led to the satellite business taking a stake in its new pay-television channel, E4. The broadcaster has set a launch date for E4 of mid-January, and is close to agreeing deals with cable companies NTL and Telewest to secure distribution as p... | 462 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Crackdown on black economy | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/politics.politicalnews | Persistent benefit fraudsters will lose their right to state support, as part of a crackdown on the black economy in a social security fraud bill. The government will withdraw or reduce benefits for anyone convicted twice of committing a benefit offence over the previous three years. The department of social security s... | 311 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | BSE 'to die out in seven years' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/foodanddrink | The BSE epidemic in Britain is expected to die out by the year 2007, according to an independent assessment of the spread of the disease by Swiss scientists. Their predictions support the government's assertion of a steadily decreasing trend, assuming that a ban on feeding the most risky parts of cattle or sheep back t... | 519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | society | MPs demand NHS reins in consultants | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jul/07/futureofthenhs.health | An outright ban on NHS consultants increasing their income through private work was proposed yesterday by the Commons health select committee as the long-term answer to unfairness in the health service. The report, pushed through by Labour MPs against opposition from the Conservatives, raised suspicions that some consu... | 735 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | world | 309 die as fire sweeps through disco in China | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/27/china | A fire in a department store in central China on Christmas Day killed at least 309 people, most of them Christmas revellers trapped in a crowded disco on the building's fourth floor, officials said yesterday. The fire, in the centre of the Luoyang, began during the evening in the basement of the Dongdu Commercial build... | 738 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | business | Business: £450m for City pair | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/21/4 | Two fund managers virtually unknown outside the United States are to be paid more than $640m (£450m) to keep the pair at the City firm Old Mutual, which bought their business last month. In one of the largest retention packages ever seen in the City, Harold Baxter and Gary Pilgrim stand to share at least that sum over ... | 652 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Key Lockerbie witness in second contempt row | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/lockerbie.stuartmillar | A key prosecution witness at the centre of a contempt of court row at the Lockerbie trial has published an astonishing second attack on the Crown's case, less than a week after a newspaper was heavily criticised in court for its coverage of his earlier claims. In a move which risks provoking the wrath of judges, Edwin ... | 841 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | Leading internet publishers sign up to Sidewize navigation tool | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/newmedia1 | GuardianUnlimited, the Times Online and FT.com are among 39 of the leading internet publishers to have signed up to Sidewize, a new 'browser companion' tool that makes it easier to navigate the web. The product is being launched today by Connextra, a technology company focused on information-based software. David King ... | 333 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | business | Trade debate diverted via Seattle | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/07/5 | For 40 years after the second world war, trade was left to the experts. It was all about tariffs, quota restrictions and export subsidies. When negotiators finally completed years of monastic endeavour, they produced documents of Proustian length only those initiated into the arcane language of trade could comprehend. ... | 1,531 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | science | Evidence found of Noah's ark flood victims | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/14/internationalnews.archaeology | Marine archaeologists have found the first evidence of a people who perished in a great flood of the Black Sea that has been linked with the story of Noah's ark. Using robot underwater vehicles more than 300ft below the sea's surface, they have begun to map a rolling landscape, fed by meandering streams and marked with... | 967 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | society | Naked Chef eyed as NHS food tsar | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/21/futureofthenhs.health | BBC2's Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, is to be approached by the government to work his magic on hospital food. A Department of Health spokeswoman said yesterday it aimed to appoint one or more celebrity chefs to an NHS taskforce "as soon as possible" to meet plans to draw up tastier menus by 2001. The department has yet to... | 215 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | science | Is it a bird? Is it a plane? | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/14/technology2 | This 21st century is not what it was cracked up to be. It is not that I actually wanted to live in a gleaming glass skyscraper attended by robot butlers, and I never liked the idea of food pills or silver lamé jumpsuits anyway. What bothers me is the lack of jet packs. We should all have one by now, a device you can st... | 1,299 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | world | Bush sticks to his guns as faithful glimpse salvation | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/06/uselections2000.usa | A week at the Philadelphia revels yields only two terse conclusions. That the Republicans, out of office and out of sorts, truly believe their presidential time has come again. And that the new messiah, George Walker Bush, is free to fudge and mudge to his heart's content - as long as he delivers. The rest is hoop-la. ... | 1,184 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | society | Leader: Consultants and care must be tackled | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/28/futureofthenhs.health | The health secretary is back from holidays. A month has passed since the government's national plan for the NHS was published. Given the frenetic activity in the four months leading up to the launch, it would be understandable if Alan Milburn felt he could afford to relax. He cannot. Momentum must be maintained if the ... | 713 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | money | UK fund managers 'must adapt or die' | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/21/personalfinancenews.efinance | Britain's fund management industry is at risk of losing out to American and European mainland rivals unless it adapts to changing market needs, the Fund Managers' Association warned yesterday. In a hard-hitting report UK investment houses are urged to change their structure and the type of people they employ to cope wi... | 225 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Bosses' sale hits Bookham | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/3 | Shares in fibre optics company Bookham fell sharply yesterday after it emerged that 16 senior executives are to sell shares in the company five months after it floated. Founder and chief executive Andrew Rickman stands to reap £50m as part of a £730m sale. Other sellers include Giorgio Anania, senior vice president, an... | 358 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | Bradbury, great novelist, great critic, dies at 68 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/books.education | Sir Malcolm Bradbury, one of the most prolific and influential novelists, critics and academics of his generation, died unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 68. He had been unwell for some months with breathing difficulties but his illness had not been regarded as serious. News of his death - less than a year after he ... | 646 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | £3m award for car crash child | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/7 | Toni Wilson, 14, was yesterday awarded £3m in compensation for being left severely disabled in a car crash caused by a Dutch motorist driving on the wrong side of the road. She was four-and-a-half-months old and a back seat passenger in her aunt's car when it and a Mercedes driven by Marcus Visschers collided in 1986. ... | 341 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | 100 Russian crew trapped on stricken nuclear submarine | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/russia | A Russian nuclear submarine was today trapped on the bottom of the Barents sea with more than 100 crew members aboard. A spokesman for the Russian navy said that the Oscar-class submarine had "malfunctioned" while on operations in the Barents Sea. The vessel was not carrying any nuclear weapons and there was no immedia... | 484 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Press Gazette round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/tradepressrounduppressgazette.pressandpublishing | Don Hale, editor of the Matlock Mercury, has been told to accept a plan to introduce a centralised sub-editing pool at the paper or leave in January. Future publishing has canned its £2m investment in Project Click, its long-awaited rival to VNU's Computeractive. But the demise of the magazine is not thought to have af... | 141 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Granada in Arsenal deal | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/city.broadcasting | Granada Media's move to buy a stake in Arsenal is a £47m bet on the way people consume media changing fundamentally. The imminent arrival of broadband is expected to allow everything from TV and radio programmes, to high speed internet access and computer games, to be piped through a consumer's television, PC screen, o... | 548 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | global | Covent Garden's opera for the hard-of-hearing | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/22/artsfeatures | In its revival of Francesca Zambello's production of Britten's Billy Budd, the Royal Opera House has assembled a world-class trio of singers in the opera's three main roles. The relationships between Simon Keenlyside's press-ganged sailor Billy Budd, Kim Begley's Captain Vere, and Eric Halfvarson's master-at-arms Clagg... | 648 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | us-news | Leader: Gore for President | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/29/leaders.uselections2000 | In a one billion-dollar campaign for the most powerful job on the planet, it is frightening that America is being offered a choice between two flawed scions of self-perpetuating political dynasties. The rules of this fight, as Robert Reich explains on these pages, have meant that both George Bush and Al Gore have assid... | 473 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | Racism inquiry calls FT editor | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/chrismcgreal | South Africa's human rights commission is attempting to subpoena the editor of the Financial Times to answer accusations of racism at hearings in Johannesburg next month. If Richard Lambert refuses to comply, he could face a six-month prison sentence were he to visit South Africa. Mr Lambert is the first editor of a fo... | 469 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | politics | Good day, bad day | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/28/uk.politicalnews2 | Good day Red squirrels. Agriculture minister Elliot Morley told the Commons about a small group of "super squirrels" which could help boost the threatened species. He said they could provide a valuable "gene pool" for other groups struggling to survive nationwide. Bad day Local government minister Hilary Armstrong was ... | 134 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | politics | Who's afraid of Michael Portillo? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/06/politicalnews.uk | In politics - as in comedy, marketing and sex - timing is everything. At the time that he was ejected from parliament by the voters of Enfield Southgate, everyone assumed (and huge numbers were delighted) that it was a disastrous, potentially fatal slither down the greasy pole for Michael Portillo. 'Portillo's on the d... | 1,565 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Why Mugabe owes a debt to rural voters | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/zimbabwe.jonathansteele | It was the rural vote which saved Robert Mugabe's face in Zimbabwe's hotly contested elections, and even Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, accepted that yesterday. "The result was a true reflection of rural people's views. We didn't have access to them, and the work we did there before the reign of terror was i... | 1,072 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | Movers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/10 | London stocks were in fine, albeit volatile, form once again, with the FTSE 100 closing 80.3 points higher at 6567.8. In the last-minute jostling before the Footsie goes through its quarterly revamp on Wednesday, Vodafone Airtouch turned a stellar performance yesterday. The newly merged telecom company was the day's bu... | 514 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Gallaher steps up Russian assault | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/16 | Gallaher, the manufacturer of Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes, yesterday outlined plans for an assault on the Russian market, after suffering a renewed squeeze in profits due to higher taxes in Britain. The group paid £264m last month for Liggett-Ducat, a tobacco manufacturer just outside Moscow. Gallaher this ... | 367 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | With all potential damages I thee endow | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver4 | Many couples may have shuddered when they heard this month about the sad case of widow Sadie Dalziel, whose damages following the death of her husband were reduced by £100,000 in a court case because he had been cheating on her. Jason Dalziel died in 1996, at the age of 26, when his motorbike collided with a car. His w... | 1,224 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Small businesses: Do you dare dive out of 9 to 5? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/personalfinancenews.observercashsection | The other day I was in a restaurant, eavesdropping on a couple having a leisurely, mid-week lunch. The woman's mobile phone rang. Her spoon was halfway to her mouth as she said: 'Yes, you can make tea and coffee in your room. Yes, they're all en-suite. Fifty pounds deposit usually, a cheque's fine'. After the call she ... | 1,059 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Israel turns away former Cat Stevens | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/israel | The 1970s pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977 after his brother brought him a Koran from Jerusalem, has been denied entry to Israel, a government spokesman confirmed yesterday, accusing him of supporting the Islamist movement Hamas. The British musician, who changed his name to Yusuf ... | 353 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | money | Centrica to take on banks | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/sep/08/business.personalfinancenews1 | Centrica, the ever-expanding energy, home and roadside services group, is preparing to offer home loans, life insurance and other banking services, Roy Gardner, the chief executive, said yesterday. Announcing a hefty rise in pre-tax profits for the first half from £286m to £401m, Mr Gardner said the group could decide ... | 561 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Body found after two years | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/3 | The remains of a pensioner reported missing more than two years ago have been found in his garage, police said yesterday. The body of Walter Bellman, who was 82, was not found despite police searching his home in Brighton in January 1998. A police spokeswoman said officers at the time had searched another garage nearby... | 301 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | world | World in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/28/theobserver1 | Inspectors arrive with troops to catch Pakistan's tax evaders A campaign by Pakistan to assess unpaid tax prompted many shops to shut their doors in protest when tax officers arrived accompanied by soldiers. Tax evasion is a way of life in Pakistan. Italian journalists on strike Italian journalists staged the first of ... | 377 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | Pru plans to cash in its nest Egg | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/personalfinancenews.money | The Prudential insurance group will this week seek to release some of the value of its successful internet bank, Egg, by confirming plans to float parts of the business. The likely flotation, which could value Egg at £4.5bn, comes as research from Datamonitor predicts the number of people in Europe who are banking on-l... | 409 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | business | Bank makes boring seem beautiful | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/interestrates | Two cheers for the MPC - so far Don't you just love dull - at least when it comes to monetary policy. Yesterday the Bank of England's monetary policy committee left interest rates on hold, for the fifth month in a row. The decision barely raised a flicker in the financial markets. Little wonder. Yesterday's outcome can... | 944 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Rosbif to run French food bible | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/jonhenley | The Michelin Red Guide, the eagerly awaited and widely debated French foodies' bible, is to be run by a Brit. Announcing a change which is bound to provoke uproar in Gallic culinary circles, the tyre company said yesterday that Derek Brown, who is currently in charge of its travel business in Asia, will take over as di... | 292 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | BT wakes up to chance of making hyper-profit | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/efinance.internet4 | British Telecom confirmed yesterday that it is pressing ahead with plans to exploit a patent it holds for one of the main building blocks of the world wide web, and land potentially huge bills at the doors of US internet companies. The company has sent letters to US internet service providers telling them of its claim ... | 796 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Who towers over the West Midlands? | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/rover.theobserver1 | As the man said, history is first tragedy, then farce. Although Marx never explained what came after farce, seasoned Rover watchers, looking on dismayed from the sidelines, could be forgiven for feeling history is most definitely cyclical. BMW's decision to walk away from Rover earlier this year represented a new low f... | 843 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | world | The latest must-have from Milan: Pucci cushions | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/jesscartnermorleyonfashion.expertopinions | Pucci should take heart from the disappearance of hundreds of cushions from the benches lining its catwalk yesterday: when almost no one in the fashion industry can resist swiping one of your swirly patterned cushions, your swirly pattern must be seriously fashionable. As the audience spilled out on to the street after... | 482 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | law | Peers revolt may scupper jury bill | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/14/jurytrials.law | Rebel peers were heading for a major clash with Jack Straw about plans to scrap the right to jury trial for some defendants, despite the home secretary's claims that their wrecking tactics were "profoundly undemocratic". The new Labour peer and leading barrister, Baroness Kennedy, heads a cross-party coalition which ye... | 619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | society | Leader: Adoption is no easy option | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/27/adoptionandfostering.guardianleaders | The prime minister said last week that he wanted to see a large expansion in the number of children being adopted, 40% more by 2005. Such children are mostly in care. They number some 60,000 and of them 65% are placed with foster families; more than 6,000 are in residential homes. Such care is no longer as institutiona... | 746 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Sutcliffe joins Future | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/futurepublishing.pressandpublishing | Andy Sutcliffe, who co-founded magazine publisher Cabal, has been appointed group publisher of Future Network's music, sport and entertainment titles. He will be responsible for a string of magazines including Total Football and Total Film. Mr Sutcliffe, the reluctant star of Trouble Between the Covers, a BBC documenta... | 233 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Far Right invades anti-Europe party | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/foodanddrink.expertopinions | A sudden move to the far right by the UK Independence Party, which won three seats at last year's European elections, has raised fears that extreme racists are gaining a power base in a mainstream party. The far-right British National Party has even proposed a merger with the UKIP. In the most recent edition of the BNP... | 724 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | Buyer to build sports saloon under MG name | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/rover.uknews | The venture capital firm set to take over Rover will build a sports saloon based on the award winning 75 model and sell it under the MG name. Alchemy, which is buying the bulk of Rover from BMW, is due to flesh out its plans for the UK car maker in a statement next week. In an interview with the Guardian, Jon Moulton, ... | 523 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | media | BBC under fire for teen bias after DJ is axed | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/28/bbc.uknews | His radio show went out long after most people were in bed, and played obscure tracks from distant countries by bands few had heard of. But his abrupt removal from Radio One, slipped out in a press release last week, has prompted a storm of criticism from across the music world, and provoked soul-searching within the B... | 1,241 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | money | The office gossip | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/29/workandcareers.madeleinebunting2 | 'Thursday evening is always the best night of the week," says Katie Nesling, a picture researcher at Eaglemoss Publications, a company that specialises in producing "partworks", or serialised magazines. "The picture meeting on Thursday afternoon is the deadline for each issue - by then I must have a choice of photos fo... | 629 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Building a better future | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/6 | To use a tired, old phrase, things can only get better for Heywood Williams, the building materials group that saw its share price slide last week after the company warned that full-year profits are unlikely to meet expectations. With margins in its core UK windows and doors arm under pressure and management seemingly ... | 184 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | Cancer charities consider merger | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/charities.charitymanagement | The two biggest cancer charities in Britain, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign, are considering a merger which would make them by far the largest fund-raising body in the United Kingdom. The organisations, already the third and fourth highest fund-raisers in the country after Oxfam and ... | 745 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | Fox Kids Europe beefs up online team | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/newmedia | Fox Kids Europe has shored up its new online and interactive division with a number of high profile appointments. Five new managerial appointments have been made as part of Fox's strategy to build a strong interactive playground for kids across Europe. The European online division now numbers 30 staff. Maurice Van Sabb... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Wild nights dry up as Madrid's killjoys call halt to late drinking | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/theobserver1 | It is three o'clock on a Friday morning and the narrow streets around the Plaza Santa Ana are teeming with people looking for a good time. Shutters are going up around an old and gorgeously tiled bar, but down the street the energetic are queuing to get in to another drinking den. It's just a normal night in Madrid, wh... | 742 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | technology | Geo goes for growth in video streaming | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/07/efinance.business2 | Geo Interactive Media says it will consider selling some parts of the company over the next two years to focus on its growth business of video streaming - the technology which sends video signals to PCs and mobile phones. The company said yesterday it was also looking at a trade sale of 6% of its stock to a strategic p... | 458 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | technology | Will this Flametree flower? | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/may/28/efinance.business1 | It's Tuesday morning and things seem to be going relatively smoothly in the offices of the fledgling dotcom company Flametree. All right, the builders over the road from the company's offices in London's Victoria had banjaxed the offices' computer and phone systems a few days earlier - temporarily rendering the busines... | 1,649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-13 | uk-news | I'll get nasty Nick, swears Big Brother's Caroline | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/13/vanessathorpe.theobserver | Nasty Nick's nemesis is at hand. Caroline, the latest competitor to be evicted from the Big Brother house, has vowed to take revenge on manipulative 'betrayer' as soon as he leaves, writes Vanessa Thorpe. Caroline O'Shea, speaking after her exit from the Channel 4 show, vowed to 'knock his block off'. O'Shea, 37, had b... | 223 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | French strike dries up cash flow | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/jonhenley | With thousands of cash dispensers shut and many shops accepting only cheque or credit card payments, France began running out of ready money yesterday as a national strike by armoured van guards entered its sixth day. Talks between union leaders and employers broke down on Saturday night after the country's two leading... | 607 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | science | Protocol on gene research at risk as firm demands exclusive rights | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/mar/07/medicalresearch.genetics | Secret talks between the private and public bodies racing to decipher the human genetic code collapsed yesterday when the US company involved insisted on delaying the release of important information for commercial reasons. Celera, the US genetics company, and the Human Genome Project, a publicly funded multinational r... | 699 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | world | Pinochet ordered to face his nemesis | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/21/chile.pinochet | Chile's supreme court ruled yesterday that a warrant issued for the arrest of the country's ageing former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, was invalid because he had not been questioned prior to the order. However, the court ordered that General Pinochet face interrogation within 20 days by the investigating judge, Juan Guz... | 661 |
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