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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Capital stands by Tarrant | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/broadcasting1 | Capital Radio has insisted it will stick by DJ Chris Tarrant despite bankers identifying him as a symbol of the broadcaster's problems. UBS Warburg yesterday slashed profit forecasts for the station and changed its recommendation on the stock from a "buy" to a "reduce". Analysts said Capital's audience figures were bei... | 307 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-27 | money | Expansion and price cuts cause slump in BT profits | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/28/business.personalfinancenews | BT might consider a flotation of its wholesale fixed-line business - selling services to other businesses - after yesterday reporting a 27% slump in the group's first-quarter pre-tax profit from £772 to £561m. Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive, said the company was still in discussions with telecoms watchdog Oftel an... | 700 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | politics | Labour's message will bypass media | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/07/labour.labour1997to991 | Downing Street is designing an electronic Knowledge Network to explain the government's core message to the public without going through "the distorting prism of media reporting" and to ensure that all in Whitehall "work off a common script which is instantly capable of being updated". Joe McCrea, director of the proje... | 1,146 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Bank keeps rates on hold as embattled euro sinks further | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/08/interestrates.interestrates | The Bank of England's key monetary policy committee kept interest rates on hold at 6% for the seventh month in a row yesterday, to the relief of industry and homeowners. This is the longest period that the committee has left rates unchanged since it took charge of setting monetary policy more than three years ago. Anal... | 400 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Noisy tranquillity | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | Wenlock Edge Night begins earlier in the woods. As the track worms deeper into the trees, so the shadows thicken. Puddles of light from above and below the hanging woods splash into clearings in the canopy but they become fainter. A breeze soughs through the upper branches and the sound changes depending on which trees... | 427 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-13 | money | Dresdner trio quit as third bank re-enters the fray | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/14/personalfinancenews.business | Three Dresdner bank board members resigned yesterday, the latest casualties of the embarrassing collapse in the German bank's planned merger with its rival Deutsche Bank. Their resignations came as German bank Commerzbank appeared to open the doors to talks with Dresdner. Commerzbank which held talks with Dresdner earl... | 298 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | world | White on black | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/race.uk | One wonders how Jack Nicklaus would explain Tiger Wood's success. In 1994 Nicklaus was asked why so few black people made it in golf. In response he pointed not to colour bars, the sport's socio-economic profile or the expense of taking it up professionally, but to biology. "They have different muscles that react in di... | 1,519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | business | Worries over Versailles loans worries | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/14/1 | Versailles, the collapsed trade finance group at the centre of a Serious Fraud Office enquiry, conducted deals with the son of founder Carl Cushnie totalling nearly half a million pounds, The Guardian has learned. These transactions took place through the group's controversial "MP" financing package. Separately, Versai... | 525 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | What really happened on Flight 103? | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/lockerbie.life1 | Lockerbie, Wednesday, 21 December 1988, 7.03pm Bunty Galloway had just sat down in front of the television to watch This is Your Life. Outside it was windy and cold. No one was out on the narrow street in front of her house. Many of Bunty's neighbours were also watching TV and others were wrapping gifts. It was four da... | 5,501 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Get your book into print | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/schools.theguardian5 | Have you got what it takes to be an author or an illustrator - do you think you could create a fantastic book for the Children's Laureate, Quentin Blake? If you or your class enter our competition, you could win an invitation to the Laureate's Party, which we'll be celebrating with Quentin Blake himself! Your book can ... | 201 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Escape options run out for Milosevic | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans8 | The international net around Slobodan Milosevic tightened yesterday as Russia, for so long his main ally, ruled out providing a bolthole for the indicted war criminal. The Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, in a further blow to Mr Milosevic, recognised the new government of Vojislav Kostunica. The US secretary of s... | 304 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Brussels threatens £40m grant to keep new Micra in Sunderland | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/8 | Britain's campaign to build the new Nissan Micra ran into trouble last night after the European commission began investigating the legality of a £40m government grant designed to encourage the Japanese company to choose the UK over France. Brussels disclosed that it harboured serious doubts about the "necessity and pro... | 640 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Acquittal ends student's date rape ordeal | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/geoffreygibbs | A talented computer student who dropped out of university suffering from anxiety after being accused of raping a woman he met at a freshers' disco four years ago walked free from court yesterday when a jury rejected the charge against him. Punching the air in celebration, Ashley Pittman, 22, said he felt as though his ... | 707 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | Ministers accused in Hungary's £220m oil rip-off | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/1 | Nine years after the first oil-stained banknotes reached the coffers of mafia-style gangs in Hungary, the investigation into the country's biggest corruption scandal is proceeding at a snail's pace. According to the most far-reaching - some say far-fetched - allegations made by Zsolt Nogradi, a former member of the "oi... | 849 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | technology | New Media Diary | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/28/mondaymediasection.newmedia | * Scarlet pimpernel Andy Mitchell, UK boss of AltaVista, came back tanned and relaxed from his holiday last Monday only to find various factions of the press baying for his blood. Taking it all in his stride, he blamed everything on BT, expecting the lynch mob to join in. Only things didn't work out as expected, and in... | 597 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | business | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/07/9 | Southampton stake raised Phillips & Drew investment chief Tony Dye has increased his personal holding in Southampton Leisure, the owner of Southampton football club, to more than 2%. Mr Dye told citywire.co.uk that his shareholding is the result of a long-standing friendship with Southampton chairman Rupert Lowe. H... | 388 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | science | From Bleadon Man to digital man | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/28/uknews | In a demonstration of the power of human genetic research, the Queen yesterday met the relatives of the Unknown Soldier of Vietnam and the descendants of Jesse James. She did so as she opened the Wellcome Wing of the Science Museum in London, designed to display up-to-the minute science. The £50m wing tells the story o... | 561 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | world | War strategy ridiculed | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/21/balkans1 | Britain's second most senior defence minister during the Kosovo conflict has made a scathing attack on the conduct of the war, the inadequacy of British intelligence and the role of President Jacques Chirac of France in endangering the safety of his own pilots. During the war, Lord Gilbert was defence minister of state... | 563 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/1 | Blockade leads to border chaos Queues of trucks formed on Serbia's border with Montenegro yesterday after Serb police imposed a blockade on the flow of goods between the two Yugoslav republics. Montenegro's pro-west government said the blockade was designed to destabilise it. Meanwhile, a TV station said five men in po... | 258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | money | Banks sound ATM retreat | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/29/business.personalfinancenews | HSBC and NatWest are to scrap all charges for withdrawing money from cash machines, reviving the furore over Barclays' plan to charge as much as £1 for using its network. The move by the two big clearing banks, which are expected to make announcements about the decisions next week, will pile further pressure on Barclay... | 704 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Spy Blake loses book royalties | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/books.booksnews | George Blake, the Soviet spy, yesterday failed in his attempt to recover £90,000 in royalties from his autobiography, No Other Choice, when the law lords ruled that he could not be allowed to profit "by doing the very thing he had promised not to do". Delivering the judgment, Lord Nicholls said Blake should be deprived... | 296 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Three-day deadline for Boo shutdown | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/22/personalfinancenews.efinance | Boo.com, the failed internet sports clothing retailer, will be closed if a purchaser for the business has not been found by Wednesday. A spokesman for the liquidators, KPMG, said talks with a handful of potential buyers took place yesterday at Boo's head office in Carnaby Street, London. He said the liquidators wanted ... | 648 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Mr Straw sees the light | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/race.world | It should never have taken so long. But at last, ministers have agreed that indirect discrimination - one of the most widespread forms of institutional racism - should be banned from all public as well as private services. Unbelievably, almost until the moment when the race relations (amendment) bill arrived in the Lor... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Arms seizure raises fears of dissident attacks | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/northernireland | Arms and ammunition seized in Northern Ireland last night were connected to dissident republicans opposed to the Good Friday agreement, it is now believed. One man was arrested by the RUC after a security operation on the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland last night, in which detonators, ammunition, a submachine gun and ... | 304 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | TV banking pioneers who have never looked back. | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney6 | Stephen Hinchliffe and his wife Patricia were among the first people in the UK to switch on to digital TV banking.. They signed up to HSBC's service right at the beginning, and haven't looked back. HSBC's TV banking facility is available to Sky Digital subscribers via the Open home shopping channel. Mr Hinchliffe, 53, ... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Biology | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/schools.news | Herman the Worm **** Aimed at: everyone A delightfully (or appallingly, depending on your viewpoint) anthropomorphic website dedicated to the anatomy, habitat and behaviour of worms. Notes for teachers explain how to set up a worm bin and organise a project at KS2 level. There are no photos, but plenty of links to them... | 531 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | No votes inch ahead in Denmark's euro poll | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/emu.theeuro1 | Danes voting in today's referendum on the single currency appear to be voting narrowly against joining the euro, though the final result is too close to call. Latest exit polls indicate a vote of 51.5-48.5 against membership in what was reported to be a day of brisk attendance at voting stations. An earlier exit poll b... | 755 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Webwatch | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.theobserver7 | The pace of development in internet banking is picking up rapidly. Halifax has launched Intelligent Finance (IF), which promises a radical approach to money management as well the latest technology. IF, headed by Jim Spowart, who took Direct Line into the savings market and Standard Life into mortgages, is applying for... | 738 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | New media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/newmedia.mondaymediasection2 | Yet more turbulence in the murky world of unmetered internet access. CallNet0800, technically the first ISP to launch a "no catch" unmetered service in the UK, has become the latest ISP to pull the plug. Around 250,000 CallNet0800 punters had been enjoying free internet calls for a whopping nine months, until someone r... | 610 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | science | The equations of fear | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/28/technology1 | The hazards of clubbing - dehydration, toxic drugs, stupendous beer prices and abysmal chat-up lines - are well known. But when the disco boom hit in the 1970s, a far greater danger appeared. In 1970, the Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Lauren-Du-Pont, France, furnished with the latest plastic inflammable furnishing, ended in... | 1,162 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Afghan warrior goes to ground in suburbia | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/stevenmorris | A notorious war lord accused of murder and torture when he controlled a vital trade route in Afghanistan has surfaced in a suburb of south London. Police and Home Office officials have launched an investigation into Commander Zardad, who is living in a rented house in Mitcham under an assumed name, after a report on BB... | 1,064 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Wealth and efficiency | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/ukeconomy.observerbusiness | A curious poster has appeared outside Number 11 Downing Street, which reads: 'UK productivity, lost or stolen in the mid-Sixties; multibillion pound reward on offer for its safe return.' Okay, it doesn't actually exist... yet, but the Chancellor could be forgiven for resorting to such desperate measures following this ... | 1,479 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | global | No: 1593 Clive James | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/14/features11.g22 | Name: Clive Vivian Leopold James. Age: 60. Appearance: "Lightbulb features, squat, toad-like shoulders and a bull neck," according to one vitriolic critic (he has many). A curious mix of egghead and couch potato. Description: Wit, intellectual, poet, lyricist, novelist, memoirist, critic, TV presenter, linguist, essayi... | 472 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Leader: Labour has poor crime policy | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/labour.labour1997to99 | Downing Street described yesterday's Queen's Speech as a demonstration of a Labour government "gaining momentum in its fourth year, not losing it". William Hague saw it as a cut-and-run exercise, a bundle of cosmetic measures covering up the complete failure of the government in the run up to a spring election. Yesterd... | 722 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | society | What's next in the tobacco case | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/14/smoking3 | • Post-trial motions: Industry is expected to challenge the $145bn punitive verdict as excessive. It will renew mistrial motions deferred by the judge during trial and will ask the judge to apply Florida's four-year statute of limitations to void smoker Frank Amodeo's $5.8m compensatory award. • Appeal bond: Once the j... | 167 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Help: Should I keep My B & B shares? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/demutualisation.observercashsection | Bradford & Bingley building society is due to complete its conversion to a bank in December, distributing windfalls just in time for Christmas. The most recent estimate by its stockbrokers values the windfalls at between £647 and £815. Last week a financial bookmaker opened a 'grey' market in B&B shares, predic... | 448 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | technology | Letsbuyit revives flotation plan | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jun/21/efinance.business | Letsbuyit.com, the London-based online retailer, is to make a second attempt at listing on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt. Stock market volatility forced the company to pull its planned flotation a fortnight ago but yesterday executives said that the mini-recovery in the value of technology stocks had persuaded it to try... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | us-news | Cheney dug the grave for star wars but didn't bury it | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/28/uselections2000.usa1 | Whether or not he emerges this autumn only a heartbeat away from the American presidency, Dick Cheney will always be remembered for one withering phrase. The man who has just been picked as George W Bush's running mate was the grave-digger of Ronald Reagan's star wars project. He announced in March 1989 that he did not... | 1,302 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Shareholders blast stock exchange chief | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/7 | The chairman of the London Stock Exchange today faced a barrage of criticism from shareholders over the failed merger with Germany's Deutsche Borse. At the group's annual meeting, shareholders expressed their anger with the recent decisions made by the board. They voted by a show of hands against re-electing chief exec... | 462 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Whites try to forestall farm seizures | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum | Facing continuing threats of violence and land seizures, Zimbabwe's beleaguered white farmers yesterday offered 600 farms for sale to President Robert Mugabe's government for redistribution to poor blacks. The government is expected to confiscate hundreds of white-owned farms in the next few weeks to fulfil promises ma... | 697 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | Readers' letters | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement7 | Street facades Your article on community participation in local government in Brazil (Streets Ahead, June 21) made heartening reading. However, we have a cautionary tale where consultation has been used as a rhetorical cloak to disguise old fashioned "council knows best" attitudes. There has been concerted public oppos... | 1,077 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Africans say UN must pay for genocide | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/victoriabrittain | The Organisation of African Unity is demanding payment of "significant reparations" to Rwanda by the countries that failed to prevent the genocide of 1994, when 800,000 people are believed to have died. A special report released today for the July 10-12 opening of this year's annual OAU summit parallels the requested r... | 804 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | global | Head to head with Cosa Nostra | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/14/features11.g2 | Halfway up a mountain, the village of San Giuseppe Jato is humming with new sewing machines. Each week a truck delivers rolls of cloth to a group of women in grey smocks. They distribute the rolls and return to their machines. The truck loads up with small cardboard boxes and trundles back into the valley. It is from t... | 2,291 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | money | Lunch, but not as we know it | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/08/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | Why move from your desk at lunchtime when you have so much work to do? If you are lucky your thoughtful employer may decide to subscribe to a service being tried out in the UK by catering and support services company Sodexho which will allow you to order your lunch online and have it delivered to your desk. Forget the ... | 1,192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Section 28 left out | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/1 | William Hague was quick to spot holes in the government's legislative programme where promised bills on sensitive issues like adoption law and vaccine damage compensation have still not materialised. The running controversy over repeal of section 28, the local government law which prevents the "promotion" of homosexual... | 355 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | French to hold mobile beauty contest | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/efinance.internet1 | The French government is likely to reap £12.9bn from the sale of four third-generation mobile telephone licences after announcing yesterday that it would conduct the sale through a beauty parade - but that successful applicants would have to pay a hefty entrance fee. The government set the entry fee for each licence at... | 670 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Film festival lights up an old flame | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/15/filmnews.film | Champagne corks are popping and audiences flocking to a little-known spa town in western Bohemia this week for one of the summer's hottest events on central Europe's social calendar. A decade ago Karlovy Vary was a down-at-heel town suffering from neglect after 40 years of Czechoslovak communism. It has now returned to... | 1,034 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | money | Building societies still offer mortgages facing ban | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/08/business.personalfinancenews4 | Building societies with more than half a million mortgage customers between them are continuing to offer products banned under laws about to come into force, an investigation by the Guardian shows. Among the mortgages which remain in their product range are those that offer lower borrowing rates for customers who buy i... | 554 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | politics | Kennedy offers a haven for the discontented | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/21/libdems2000.liberaldemocrats | Not the best speech in the world, but enough to see him to the end of a successful party gathering: that seemed to be the verdict of delegates on Charles Kennedy's closing address to this year's Liberal Democrat conference. They liked his delivery: measured, sometimes passionate, and rarely overblown. They also warmed ... | 485 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-13 | global | Review: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/14/artsfeatures3 | BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste Royal Albert Hall, London **** Christian Lindberg's determination to establish the trombone as a credible solo instrument has already produced more than 70 specially commissioned concertos from different composers. On Friday he appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms for the... | 647 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Out in the cold | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/fundraising.guardiansocietysupplement | You give money to a charity appeal that says "your gift will make a big and immediate difference". You imagine an African child being fed, an old person's cataract being removed or potable water reaching a village. You don't expect your money to be spent on the cost of the mail shot. Twenty-two charities are this week ... | 1,309 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | Feedback | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/onlinesupplement | Motor safety Jack Schofield's article (My Other Car is a Computer, Online, December 7) ignores one key area: what impact will telematic developments have on safety, not just for the car occupant but for those outside the vehicle? We already know that 3,500 people are killed on our roads every year: 25% of these are ped... | 1,209 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | money | National treasure | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/personalfinancenews4 | We may nip in to get stamps or buy a lottery ticket, but the local post office also doubles up as a branch of the state-owned bank, National Savings. The savings institution has found it hard to compete on interest rates alone, but thanks to its government backing, it offers a wide range of secure, tax-free investments... | 636 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | money | Scottish Widows admits security breach | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/22/business.personalfinancenews4 | Insurance group Scottish Widows yesterday apologised for a security blunder in which at least two policyholders were wrongly sent other people's confidential banking details, including account numbers and password information. The incident, the latest in a string of security lapses involving leading companies, came as ... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | Now, if you've just joined us... | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/15/newmedia4 | In the past few months, the BBC's national radio networks have each appointed web managers for the first time, aware they've got some catching up to do. Radios 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live are preparing improved and better resourced sites and even Radio 4 will get its chance to relaunch with conviction in October. With a beefed-... | 1,330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | politics | Labour ponders how to deal with Livingstone | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/14/londonmayor.uk | Tony Blair and Ken Livingstone are engaged in an elaborate game of bluff over what each of them will do if the former GLC leader is restored to power in the capital on May 4. Blair the democrat admits that he got it wrong in Wales. He will engage constructively with whoever London elects, even the renegade leftwinger w... | 939 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | world | Death lurks in the fields | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/balkans | The US is refusing to allow American troops to remove the thousands of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by Nato planes on Kosovo last year. As the snows melt and the first planting season since the Nato air strikes approaches, Albanian and international officials fear that the death toll from bomb casualties will rise ... | 878 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | Reformed chamber presented as 'radical evolution' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/constitution.uk | The Wakeham commission's blueprint for the reformed House of Lords sets out the case for what it argues is "radical evolutionary change which will contribute to better government for all". Its 216-page report, A House for the Future, contains 132 recommendations that the commission claimed to be "persuasive and intelle... | 2,554 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | business | Fuel protesters demand Blair meeting | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/14/oil | Fuel protesters today demanded to meet the prime minister, Tony Blair, as the first of their lorries arrived in London. Around 50 lorries which had assembled at Thurrock Services, Essex, this morning were the first to arrive in the capital. They were stopped by police and parked on the A40 Westway in west London. After... | 883 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Faulty track 'triggered Paddington disaster' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/14/ladbrokegrove.transport | Dramatic new evidence that faulty track could have caused the Paddington rail crash - by tripping a driver's warning system into falsely indicating a green signal - will be presented to the disaster inquiry, The Observer has learnt. Official tests on the warning system showed that, when jolted sharply with a force simi... | 636 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Burmese beat up jailed Briton | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/johnaglionby | A British democracy campaigner serving a 17-year sentence in Burma has been beaten for demanding an end to his solitary confinement, his father and embassy staff in Rangoon said yesterday. The government has described the attack on James Mawdsley, 27, as "outrageous" and summoned the Burmese ambassador in London to com... | 342 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Arkan's gang has stolen Turners held by Serb gang | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/jasonburke.theobserver | The two Turner masterpieces stolen from the collection of the Tate Gallery while on loan to a gallery in Germany are in the possession of Serbian gangsters connected to Balkan war criminals, investigators believe. The two paintings, worth £12 million each, were stolen from the Schirn Kunsthalle, a gallery in Frankfurt,... | 997 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | Budget 'will encourage internet start-ups' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/markbrown2 | E-commerce was one of the first areas the chancellor turned to as he outlined policies to reward enterprise and entrepreneurship. Mr Brown said he wanted to make Britain the best environment in the world for e-commerce, catching up with the US in the shortest possible time. To encourage one million small companies to g... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | world | Michele Hanson: The age of dissent | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/gender.uk1 | I have had a headache for weeks. At 3am, if you have a roasting, splitting headache, it is hard not to think "tumour" or "brain haemorrhage". "It's a stiff neck," said the doctor. "Have a massage." I did and my headache vanished. I told Rosemary the good news but she was horrified. "It has gone because your mother got ... | 424 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | world | "Now is the time and today is the day" | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/07/unitednations | The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, opened the biggest-ever gathering of world leaders yesterday with a claim that their actions will be revered by future generations. "Now is the time and today is the day," he said. Assembled before him were presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens from more than 150 countries.... | 1,320 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | money | How to ... take direct action and get the job you want | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/jobsadvice.careers1 | Does direct action work or do you risk becoming a nuisance? There are times when cutting out the middle man has more effect than going through the proper channels - job hunting online is one of those occasions, but only if you approach it intelligently. The message from employers who encourage speculative applications ... | 1,103 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | No headline | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/1 | Austrian anger at nuclear plant Austrian protesters blocked all 15 border crossings into the Czech Republic yesterday, in a fifth day of demonstrations against an atomic plant that Austrians fear is unsafe. Around 6,000 opponents of the Temelin plant, about 30 miles from the border, gathered at the Wullowitz crossing i... | 438 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | environment | From gung-ho to acceptance of 'legitimate concerns' | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/feb/28/gm.food | Tony Blair came into office gung-ho about genetic engineering and the great benefits it would bring. His premiership was marked from the start by his wish to be close to big business and partnership with the bio-tech companies was part of this. Genetically modified soya was already on supermarket shelves in many prepar... | 772 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Boy found safe in cult forest hide-out | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/jeevanvasagar.stephenbates | Bobby Kelly, the missing teenager who ran away to join a nomadic cult called the Jesus Christians, was found safe and well yesterday living in a tent in a forest with two members of the group. The 16-year-old, who was made a ward of court after his disappearance a month ago, was yesterday discussing his future with law... | 534 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Hitchens quits Express | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/pressandpublishing.dailyexpress1 | The Express's rightwing columnist, Peter Hitchens, has quit the paper after 24 years to go to work for the Mail on Sunday as a commentator and essay writer. Mr Hitchens, one of the circle of Express staff to collect a £40,000 bonus from Lord Hollick, was unwilling to give away too much detail, but told MediaGuardian.co... | 242 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Praise to the Lords | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime11 | For most of the 90s, on the rare occasions when race was debated in the House of Lords, a little ritual would be played out afterwards. Lord Desai, the long-serving Labour peer, would be sitting in the bar, draining his post-debate tomato juice, when one of the white peers would approach him. In a confiding murmur, the... | 1,552 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Business: Music legends ready to rock the net | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/business | Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, and rock star Dave Stewart are in talks with United Pan-European Communications, Europe's largest cable television business, about setting up a series of broadband genre and artist specific music channels. Mr Stewart said yesterday that discussions were taking place ... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | India urged to save tiger after 'record' poaching | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/lukeharding | An environmental group accused the Indian government yesterday of failing to protect the dwindling tiger population, which it said was hurtling towards extinction on the subcontinent. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which has offices in London and Washington, said that at least 100 tigers in India had bee... | 374 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Keeping the colonial ties alive | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/zimbabwe.garyyounge | At the Harare club there is plenty of wealth but no money. Cash, according to the mores of this exclusive establishment in Zimbabwe's capital, does not exchange hands between gentlemen. If you want a gin and tonic in the early evening or beef roulade for lunch, you sign for it and it goes on your bill. This is the wate... | 782 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | Debate on parliament | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/14/houseofcommons.uk | The power of parliament has been so seriously eroded that MPs are unable to hold the government to account, William Hague warned yesterday. In a highly personalised attack on Tony Blair , Mr Hague said: "You have created a government of secret briefings and leaks and gimmicks and gossip, in which power rests with unele... | 526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | From Greece to Corsica, wildfires take hold | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/3 | A state of emergency has been declared on the Greek island of Corfu as wildfires continue to burn throughout the Balkans and many Mediterranean regions. Blazes in the island's central mountainous region follow major outbreaks on mainland Greece. However, a Foreign Office spokesman says the holiday island is safe for Br... | 249 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | world | Rich Brazilians look down on crime and traffic. | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/07/alexbellos | Every morning the man leaves his gated community by helicopter. He is not alone: the sky is full of helicopters taking the rich to work above an endless sprawl of high-rise blocks and streets jammed with traffic. This vision of helicopters being used like cars above the chaos of unplanned urban growth is already a real... | 661 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | world | Gleaming dome belies a dark reality for Germany's Jews | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/worlddispatch.johnhooper | To my mind the loveliest structure in Berlin is not the Brandenburg Gate, nor even the artfully remodelled Reichstag, but the ravishingly exotic gold-and-black dome of the synagogue on Oranienburgerstrasse. Many visitors, I imagine, see it as a symbol of defiance: a shining beacon to tell the world that even here, in t... | 757 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | Loyalists warned over violence | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/northernireland.davidhencke | Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, last night called for an RUC report into the spate of incidents in loyalist areas of Belfast. His intervention came after Adam Ingram, the Northern Ireland security minister, met the RUC deputy chief constable, Colin Cramphorn, and senior security advisers to discuss the... | 615 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | uk-news | Rights campaign tainted by sex abuse case | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/14/northernireland.henrymcdonald | The jailing of Vincent McKenna on 31 accounts of sexual abuse against his daughter marks the end of his one-man campaign against former comrades in the Provisional IRA. McKenna, a former low-ranking member of the Provisionals' East Tyrone Brigade, was the Northern Ireland Human Rights Bureau, one of the groups highligh... | 877 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Dome given new £53m subsidy as bank buys site for amusement park | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/dome.fiachragibbons | The Millennium Dome was effectively given another £53m hand-out by the government last night when it was revealed that more than half the proceeds of its sale to a Japanese bank will go towards offsetting its debts. The troubled attraction, which has already been bailed out twice by the Millennium Commission, has been ... | 1,205 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | environment | Ministers 'ignored flood warnings' | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/dec/21/weather.climatechange1 | The floods which ravaged Britain this autumn could partly be blamed on the Ministry of Agriculture, a cross-party group of MPs ruled yesterday, because of its failure to impose rules on farmers to prevent flooding. A Commons environment select committee report issued a "grave condemnation" of ministers for failing to i... | 593 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | EC ban on transfer fees threatens small clubs | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/football.deniscampbell | They are some of the most famous names in English football, evoking memories of an era when fans all wore flat caps, players earned just a few shillings and television coverage was black and white, not digital interactive. But now a host of clubs synonymous with the game's 'golden era', such as Blackpool, Stoke City an... | 790 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | technology | New media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/07/mondaymediasection.newmedia | * Channel 4's Big Brother (made by Bazal Productions which is part-owned by the Guardian Media Group) has already become a victim of its own success. The website (www.channel4.com/bigbrother), launched last month, has been dogged by technical problems. First there were rumours of a hacker at large - Intel suspected a m... | 561 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | technology | e is for exaggeration | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/07/efinance.shopping | It was billed as Britain's first e-Christmas, but it looks likely to have been the last for many hopeful cyber-retailers. For, although the volume of retail sales in December hit the highest levels since April 1997 and the most popular internet shopping sites captured their first significant slice of that trade, many w... | 1,018 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | The Cat's whiskers on lower charges | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/21/columnists.guardiancolumnists | The imminent arrival of child number four is one of the few bright spots on the horizon for the Prime Minister. All about him there are difficulties, but he can take encouragement from the Government's work on the investment industry. The Government has not got everything right in this area, but its efforts to drive do... | 294 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | world | Haider threatens anti-EU revolt | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/austria.theobserver | The decision by Austria's European Union partners to freeze bilateral relations with Vienna was in danger of backfiring yesterday as Austrian opinion moved behind far-right leader Jörg Haider's threat to veto all EU decisions until the isolation ends. Although the Foreign Ministry in Vienna insisted that Haider's threa... | 1,494 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | business | GM moves into mobile phone arena | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/21/2 | General Motors, the world's largest car manufacturer, is planning to launch a mobile phone service in Britain within the next few months. The concept has grown out of the US group's increasing involvement with telematics in its vehicles. But the new service will go beyond car buyers. It will also be aimed at the genera... | 624 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Corrs join EU anti-piracy campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/14/13 | Irish pop band the Corrs yesterday joined synthesiser maestro Jean-Michel Jarre in a high profile campaign against music piracy on the internet, aiming to alter a new European directive on the issue. The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (Ifpi) estimates that there are at least 25m illegal music files... | 410 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Picking the right package | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney7 | Finding the perfect home is one of most difficult tasks many of us will ever have to face. But even if we are living in our dream residence, many of us want to remortgage to a better deal. And choosing the right package - and the best way of repaying - is also fraught with difficulties. A wrong decision could prove fin... | 579 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | UPI star escapes Moon's orbit | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/theobserver.observerbusiness5 | She was the undisputed doyenne of the White House press corps, a no-nonsense inquisitor eight US Presidents came to fear. Helen Thomas, now nearing 80, was poised to tackle a ninth - until the worldwide wire service with which her name had become synonymous was taken over by the Rev Sun Myong Moon's Unification Church.... | 1,465 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | politics | See the Lib Dem approach: compliant, abject, half-baked | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/14/freedomofinformation.politicalnews | No measure on the progressive agenda has a longer pedigree than freedom of information. Labour has been committed to it for at least 20 years, the Liberal Democrats for longer. The Blair government, though once its trumpeter, has taken three-and-a-half years to bring it to the brink of law, a point which will be reache... | 1,403 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | Poll reveals crucial role of grandparents in childcare | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/socialcare.uknews | More than a third of grandparents spend the equivalent of three days a week caring for their grandchildren, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. Of all the grandparents questioned, 36% said that on average they spent more than 21 hours a week looking after their grandchildren; more than a quarter said they... | 594 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | business | Labour evades euro pledge | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/28/emu.politics | The government sought to defuse the euro as a pre-election political issue yesterday when it outlined a compromise on the timing of a monetary union referendum designed to unite the cabinet behind a common line. On the day when a plunge in the single currency meant it closed in the City worth less than a US dollar for ... | 647 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | business | Prisoners prepare with fake euros | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/28/emu.theeuro | It may not be the first test release of the single currency, but it is probably the most tightly controlled. This week inmates of a Cordoba jail are receiving their allowances in euros. However, the economic experiment does not offer much temptation to jailed robbers or fraudsters since the currency replacing the peset... | 386 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | uk-news | 'Death on the Nile' poisoner jailed for life | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/07/5 | An industrial chemist was jailed for life today after being found guilty of poisoning his wealthy solicitor girlfriend with cyanide while they enjoyed a luxury holiday in Egypt. John Allan, 48, of Birkenhead, Wirral, killed 43-year-old Cheryl Lewis with a dose of cyanide in an attempt to inherit her £400,000 fortune. H... | 669 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | global | Birtwistle's challenge | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/07/artsfeatures5 | Harrison Birtwistle's Antiphonies is one of the most challenging of recent works for piano and orchestra - for musicians and listeners. Never content to accept musical forms at face value, Birtwistle's approach to the interplay between soloist and orchestra results in a complete rethinking of the one-versus-all relatio... | 515 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | What went wrong with Aura magazine | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing | For years there had been talk of "the gap in the women's magazine market". Everyone over 40 or so (think Jerry Hall, Helen Mirren, Mo Mowlam, Michelle Pfeiffer) still interested in sex, life, fashion, beauty and intelligent reading matter, thought magazines ignored us. But last May, amidst a fanfare of publicity master... | 3,425 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Mental health proposals flawed, says ex-psychiatric patient | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/socialcare.mentalhealth1 | Relationships between patients and professionals could deteriorate as a direct result of the mental health white paper, believes clinical psychologist Rufus May. "There's already an 'us and them' attitude," he said. "Compulsory treatments will only increase that." Mr May was diagnosed as schizophrenic at the age of 18 ... | 437 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | The widow, the legacy and a Porsche | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/mattwells | Near the end of a lifetime devoted to the care of others, Lily Morris looked back over her career and decided to make a final gesture of the generosity that characterised her life. But pledging a share of her substantial legacy to Great Ormond Street children's hospital, where she had worked as a nurse, has led to a hi... | 1,223 |
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