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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Snowdonia | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/guardianreview.books7 | We came up to the broad, marshy floor of Cwm Eigiau the other day, just as the clouds were breaking to let sunbeams dance across the heathery shoulders of what is, in my opinion, a sombre hollow. Part of the trouble is that for a large part of the day the light is contre jour as you go up towards the crags - you are lo... | 535 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | world | Black Sea benefits as economies slip into the red | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/28/owenbowcott | The Black Sea, polluted for decades by fertilisers and pesticides, is beginning to stage a limited ecological recovery, surprising scientists by its resilience. The improvements - solely due to the widespread economic depression in former communist states bordering the sea and along the Danube river - could, however, b... | 622 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Section 28 helps bullies, study shows | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/johncarvel.michaelwhite | Section 28, the controversial legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality, has encouraged the spread of homophobic bullying, according to independent research published today. The study came as the government faces a crushing defeat over repeal of the clause in the Lords tonight with up to 40 rebel Labour peers ... | 760 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | business | Oasis in search of fertile ground | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/06/shopping | If the stock market was a desert yesterday, Oasis hoped it would provide some respite. The women's clothing chain announced that after a 15% drop in pre-tax sales for the year to January the first seven weeks of the new year's trading showed like-for-like sales up 5%. "We are pleased to be back on track," finance direc... | 452 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | technology | Gates set for deal on Windows | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/mar/28/microsoft.business | Microsoft, the world's largest software company, is understood to have offered a significant concession in its landmark legal battle with the US government by opening up its Windows computer code. The move would allow rivals to develop products that can be used with Microsoft Windows, the software used on more than 90%... | 532 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | G2: Alix Sharkey on body art | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/gender.uk2 | Leonard Selby, the protagonist of Christopher Nolan's superb new film Memento, is an alienated individual with no short-term memory who sets out to avenge his wife's murder. In order to keep a record of clues he would otherwise forget, Lenny has "the facts" tattooed on his chest, arms and legs. His body becomes a walki... | 965 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Car bombs rock Madrid | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/spain.marktran1 | Two car bombings shook the centre of Madrid today, killing a Spanish army officer in an apparent resumption of terror attacks by the Basque separatist group ETA after it ended its ceasefire in early December. "There have been two explosions and there is one victim killed and a girl slightly injured," a police spokesman... | 674 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | Cork farmers attack supermarket 'lies' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/johnvidal | Leading British supermarkets and wine retailers have been accused of "black propaganda" which could threaten the livelihoods of farmers involved in the cork industry. The accusations by Portuguese politicians, academics and environmentalists follow the change by many leading wine retailers to plastic corks. Marks and S... | 349 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | uk-news | Passnotes | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/14/dome.features11 | Age: 50. Appearance: Expensively coiffed Italian opposition politician. Job: "Regenerator," so he says. Explain? "Saviour" might be more appropriate. Now I really am lost. So, some might say, are the great minds behind the Millennium Dome - and that is where property developer Bourne comes in. After Nomura pulled out i... | 428 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/2 | Gunmen kill 2 before giving up Gunmen in Malaysia who raided army depots before killing two hostages surrendered yesterday after a five-day stand-off. The whereabouts of a third hostage is unknown. The gunmen, believed to be members of a martial arts cult, seized three hostages after stealing a large cache of weapons o... | 200 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | uk-news | Tony Blair's full speech | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/07/tonyblair | Today's conference is an important initiative. Not just because it is government, business and employees coming together in partnership to look at a key economic issue. But because of what we're here to look at - the new, knowledge-based economy, and its importance to Britain's future. I strongly believe that the knowl... | 2,319 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | Time travel | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/28/highereducation.historybooks | Generations of English students have only known Shakespeare through the Arden editions and Jane Austen via Penguin Classics. And that's precisely the way it's likely to stay if literary manuscripts continue to migrate eastwards into the archives of US university libraries. At a recent lecture to the Royal Society of Au... | 1,357 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Cup anthem puts Belles on their toes | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/martinwainwright | The musically primitive world of the football chant discovered descants, harmonies and counterpoint yesterday with the launching of Britain's first women's cup final song. Violins, organ and choir accompany 25 sopranos and contraltos in the specially commissioned anthem in D Minor for Doncaster Belles, who take on Croy... | 199 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | media | Titanic sinks as ITV wins Christmas Day ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/27/overnights.uknews | The BBC paid a fortune for the right to show the blockbuster film Titanic but saw its hopes of beating ITV in the Christmas night ratings war sunk. According to early figures, 12.2m people watched the final moments of the three-hour epic, though it averaged 9.9m, making it only the sixth most popular programme of the d... | 497 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | business | Somebody loves Arcadia | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/21/highstreetretailers | Say it quietly but someone has turned positive on Arcadia, owner of high street chains Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Top Shop and Miss Selfridge. The momentous event happened yesterday when the highly rated retail team at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney advised their fee-paying clients to "buy" Arcadia stock. For a while seas... | 902 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | No march, no talks, says Orangemen's leader | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/northernireland | The leader of the Portadown Orangemen today ruled out talks with nationalists unless the loyalists are allowed to march down the Garvaghy Road. The Portadown district master, Harold Gracey, said there would be no future talks with local residents through the South African mediator, Brian Currin, if there was no parade ... | 839 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Business as usual | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/internetipos.internet1 | In the event, it was nothing much out of the ordinary. After months of hype and anticipation, in the face of warning after warning that this could be the one to prick the so-called dot.com bubble, share trading in the online retailer Lastminute.com finally kicked off this morning. The stock market did not crash. Stockb... | 553 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | VIP prisoners speak out against French jail conditions | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/paulwebster | France's best known prisoners, including former ministers, top businessmen and senior civil servants, have condemned inhuman conditions in French jails, where 124 detainees committed suicide last year. A petition to the justice ministry printed in Le Nouvel Observateur yesterday, led by Loik le Floch-Prigent, former he... | 540 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Charity managers lose appeal to clear names | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/charities.voluntarysector | The charity managers known as the Cambridge Two, jailed for allowing drugs to be peddled at a Cambridge hostel for the homeless where they worked, today lost their appeal to clear their names. Ruth Wyner and John Brock, who worked for the Wintercomfort charity, immediately warned that the decision leaves the threat of ... | 888 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Campaign round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/tradepressroundupcampaign.advertising | Leo Burnett chief executive Nick Brien is leaving the agency to join Starcon MediaVest in the US. HHCL & Partners has hired Jay Pond-Jones as its fifth creative director. UBS has hired Grey to handle the launch of a major new investment product. Jay Bingle, the worldwide chairman and chief executive of Impiric, is ... | 163 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Bookham shares sale raises £100m | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/2 | Bookham Technology yesterday raised almost £100m from the sale of a block of new shares although the total placing was cut by 23% because of market conditions. The business, which found itself in the FTSE 100 just two months after its flotation, announced plans to place 18.5m shares at the beginning of September. Cisco... | 259 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | Angry factory workers root out fear, favours and fat cats | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/balkans2 | Two dozen workers were sitting at a long table in their factory's conference room, discussing their strike demands. Tension hung in the air as pervasively as the smoke of hundreds of cigarettes. A senior official had drawn a gun on a group of workers elsewhere in the administration building a few hours earlier. Upstair... | 1,377 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | The net addict | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/07/weekend7.weekend2 | 'I'm getting married, dear,' my mother announced. 'Paul's a retired policeman. I'm sure you'll like him.' This was bound to happen: being dropped by her young Spanish lover has triggered a conservative revival in her, and Daily Mail readers are always vulnerable to the appeal of marriage, but still ... 'Have you divorc... | 412 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | world | Money matters | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/worlddispatch.comment | August brings clear skies and a blazing sun to Quito. The thin Andean air carries the scent of woodsmoke, incense - and a whiff of teargas. But outside the battered congress building, few passersby look twice at yet another stand-off between demonstrators and riot police. In a country that has seen six presidents in fi... | 861 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | politics | Roar, Leo, roar | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/21/leaders.tonyblair | Welcome, Leo! We had feared you might be born a few hours earlier and give the Saturday papers the fun of reporting your arrival and speculating on the coming upheavals to the lives of your illustrious parents. But your timing was perfect (and we like your name). Babies change things. Their uncompromising demands usual... | 272 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | politics | Last points of order as time called on late night sittings | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/06/Whitehall.uk | Late night sittings of the House of Commons, which fequently force MPs to remain at Westminster until the early hours, are to be consigned to the past as part of the most radical shake-up of parliament in more than 20 years to be unveiled today. In a move which will delight modernisers, but dismay traditionalists who l... | 763 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Anger at supreme court verdict | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa6 | The future of the supreme court, highest judicial body in the US, was thrown into the spotlight yesterday after it issued an early-morning majority ruling that caused uproar among Democrats and prompted the condemnation of some of its own judges. Judge John Stevens, the main dissenter on the nine-member panel, issued a... | 1,492 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Brown rebuke to euro zealots | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/emu.theeuro | Gordon Brown will tomorrow deliver a dressing down to cabinet critics of the government's policy on the euro with a warning that they risk a repeat of Britain's long history of economic failure if they persist in their campaign to fast-track UK entry into the single currency. The chancellor will use one of his biggest ... | 900 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | money | More pain before gain? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/14/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney3 | This week's sharp falls in technology shares has strong echoes of the past; seven years ago the biggest investment fashion was not technology but emerging markets, but being a dedicated follower of fashion can cost your pocket dear. All of the major investment houses launched emerging markets funds in the early to mid-... | 838 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Hijacked aircraft lands at London Stansted airport | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/3 | A hijacked Afghan aircraft with 150 people on board landed at Stansted airport today. Essex Police said the aircraft touched down just after 2am after a flight from Moscow across western Europe. At Stansted, the aircraft came to rest at a secluded spot on a runway on the north side of the airport, about half a mile fro... | 509 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | politics | No one can be simultaneously free yet live in fear | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/13/labour.labour1997to996 | This morning I want to talk about crime, liberty and liberalism and the links between them. I want to argue that our commitments to modernising and strengthening individual liberty and to bearing down hard on crime and disorder are not contradictory but rather are complementary parts of an ambitious overall package of ... | 3,420 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | Supply line: Situation across the country | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/oil.business8 | What it takes to keep Britain moving • There are 13,500 filling stations nationwide, supplying approximately 100,000 litres of petrol to motorists every day • According to Shell UK, a typical filling station comprises four 45,000-litre tanks containing premium unleaded, unleaded, four star and diesel fuel • A motorway ... | 924 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | education | John Sutherland on lousy university league tables | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/aug/14/highereducation.researchassessmentexercise | If you have friends who work in the university world, chances are they have been acting rather strangely over the last few months. Looking abstracted; muttering angrily to themselves; tearing out their hair. Another RAE - research assessment exercise - is coming up. The scheme came into existence a decade ago. What hap... | 934 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | uk-news | Courts fight shy of 'three strikes' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/27/ukcrime.justice | The courts have yet to use their powers to imprison a persistent burglar under the home secretary's controversial "three strikes and you're out" mandatory sentence. Home Office figures demonstrate that the courts have failed to embrace a range of law and order initiatives introduced over the past 18 months. The police ... | 668 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | Hockney lays into 'philistine' ministers | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/maevkennedy1 | David Hockney yesterday launched a savage attack on the country's cultural health, accusing the government of being "a load of philistines - a lot more philistine than the last lot". The artist's remarks, in an interview in next month's Tatler magazine, swell a chorus of disapproval over a dumbed-down Britain, launched... | 499 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | society | Protesters hand over 'paedophile list' | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/14/childprotection | Protesters in Portsmouth have handed police a list of alleged paedophiles they want to be removed from a housing estate and called a halt to unofficial demonstrations. Hampshire police have agreed to show the list of about 20 names to social services, and Portsmouth city council said it would give safe accommodation to... | 514 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | global | From Russia with bravura | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/22/artsfeatures6 | With Diaghilev at the South Bank and Covent Garden, the imminent arrival of the Kirov, Mikhail Pletnev's Tchaikovsky marathon and Channel 4 turning Anna Karenina into a porn show, it seems that Slavonicism rules OK. Buried in all this, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yakov Kreizberg have been indulging in a two-part ser... | 362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | More women delay starting their families | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/johncarvel | The changing face of family life over the past quarter century is revealed in figures today from the office for national statistics showing a sharp increase in the number of women in England and Wales delaying having children until their thirties, or not having them at all. Conception rates for women aged 20-24 fell by... | 928 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | society | Mobs and monsters | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/14/childprotection.garyyounge | The Beehive on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth is friendlier than it looks. Described by one local as "rough as arseholes" the landlord prefers to refer to it as a family pub. There are goats, rabbits and birds in the back for children to look at and at the bar a strange face attracts more conversation these days t... | 1,524 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Matthews crowd violence | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/deniscampbell.theobserver1 | The day that football had set aside to mourn one of its most sportsmanlike heroes was blighted by an ugly outbreak of violence involving brawling fans of Stoke City, the team forever linked with Sir Stanley Matthews. The game between Wigan Athletic and Stoke, hometown team of Matthews, who died last week, was held up f... | 200 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | 'The biggest part of me died that day, and what is left behind is very different' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/northernireland.johnmullin1 | It was a victory of sorts. Stanley McCombe was delighted when coroner John Leckey last Friday handed over to relatives of the 29 Omagh dead the evidence to be presented at his inquiry. Except he felt sick when he read the pathologist's report on his wife. Mr McCombe, 52, had celebrated his silver wedding anniversary to... | 737 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | science | The great genes sale | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jan/21/genetics.ethicsofscience | Your leader on gene patenting (January 18) almost reaches the heart of the matter. Yet corporate and legal mumbo-jumbo still obscure the issue. A horrifying wrong is being done and neither the public, nor most politicians, have yet understood it. Our very genes are being made the subject of private property, the subjec... | 285 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | media | BBC films moment of death | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/21/mondaymediasection.bbc | First there was wicket-cam, then there was player-cam, now natural history producers have muscled in on the technological advances available to sports, and created eagle-cam, wolf-cam and cheetah-cam. The BBC's natural history unit has borrowed the techniques of television sport to harness miniaturised cameras to some ... | 802 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | us-news | McCain battles to salvage credibility | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/uselections2000.usa3 | John McCain goes into Super Tuesday today - the biggest test of presidential viability so far - needing to find a plausible definition of creditable defeat. The Arizona senator is behind George W Bush in all three key states - California, Ohio and New York - and only in the last of these can he hope for much support fr... | 635 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | science | Atlantis returns to the International Space Station | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/07/spaceexploration | Atlantis returns to the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time in four months on Nasa's third Shuttle flight of the year to complete outfitting of the first home in space for the first crew of the rapidly expanding facility. Five American astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts are set to launch on the STS... | 1,551 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Councils liable for teachers failing to educate adequately, Lords rules | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/education.schools | Law lords ruled yesterday that councils could be held responsible for the failure of their teachers to provide adequate education, in a judgment that may open the floodgates for similar claims. The House of Lords re-awarded £45,650 damages to Pamela Phelps, 26 for the west London borough of Hillingdon's failure to diag... | 751 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | environment | U-turn by Blair on GM food | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/feb/28/gm.food1 | Tony Blair yesterday embarked on the biggest u-turn of his premiership when he admitted for the first time that genetically modified foods could pose a health risk. In a move which was welcomed by environmentalists, Mr Blair said he understood the "legitimate public concern" which he had dismissed as over-reaction only... | 861 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | global | Intimate moves | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/29/artsfeatures5 | Royal Ballet New Works*** Linbury Studio Theatre, London Given the title of the Royal's New Works season, it may sound perverse to find the dancers more interesting than the choreography. But the intimate scale of the Linbury puts us in rare and revealing proximity with the performers (as if we were watching in a studi... | 523 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | money | The office zodiac | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/28/workandcareers1 | Marketing: You are ambitious yet stupid. You chose a marketing degree to avoid having to study in college, concentrating instead on drinking and socializing which is pretty much what your job responsibilities are now. Least compatible with sales. Sales: Laziest of all signs, often referred to as "marketing without a de... | 593 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Halifax keeps on tracking | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | The Halifax this week fired the latest shot in the mortgage price war by unveiling a range of base rate tracker home loans it hopes will bring in many more customers and help it hang on to existing ones. Britain's biggest mortgage lender certainly can't be accused of doing things by halves - all told, there are now no ... | 636 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | Time regained - and with profit | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/21/observercashsection.theobserver5 | Forget the euro - people in South-east London are trading in a completely new currency. For the past few months, residents in the Catford area have been able to earn and spend 'time', building up credit balances (or overdrafts) in the 'time bank' held at the neighbourhood health centre. The idea comes from America, whe... | 505 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | education | Mentors are encouraging pupils in danger of exclusion to reach their full potential | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/21/highereducation.socialcare | At nine o'clock each Monday morning for the past year, Aliesher Burrell from Handsworth Wood Girls' School in Birmingham has been meeting up with Partab Hirani at her school. Hirani, an art and technology student at Birmingham University, is Aliesher's mentor. "We sit and talk about how I'm getting on at school, home, ... | 1,473 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | world | Mugabe's army hands out guns | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum1 | State-sponsored violence against Zimbabwe's opposition has reached the proportions of a war, with beatings and killings spreading to cities and remote rural areas. Supporters of President Robert Mugabe have killed more than 18 supporters of the new opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since 1 April. A furthe... | 882 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Death of Sir Alec Guinness | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/filmnews | Actors and film-makers today paid tribute to Sir Alec Guinness, the British double Oscar winner who died at the age of 86 in hospital on Saturday. Sir Alec, one of a generation of actors that included Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson, had reportedly suffered a long illness. He was taken t... | 530 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Killer drug threat from mafia gangs | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/tonythompson.theobserver | Law enforcement officials across Europe are bracing themselves for a massive assault on the drug market by the Russian mafia. The collapse of traditional cocaine cartels in Colombia, combined with a crackdown on domestic drug production in their homeland, has led the Russian gangs to expand their international operatio... | 512 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | politics | Mrs Blair's Diary | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/14/tonyblair.uk | Monday: Not sure how well these Indian neck-massages are working. The idea, as all the papers have been busy pointing out, in pieces generally headlined 'Share the wonder of this gentle Indian magic' and sandwiched between two pages headlined 'Hague strikes right note with Send Back Dirty Wogs call' - anyway, the idea ... | 595 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | business | Business: Equant boost for France Telecom | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/21/10 | France Telecom yesterday sought to bolster its international ambitions with a complex multi-billion euros cash, shares and assets transaction that will give it a controlling stake in network service provider Equant. The French telecoms group is to buy out Equant's leading shareholder, the SITA Foundation, in exchange f... | 268 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Pensions: Ensuring the future | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/personalfinancenews.observercashsection3 | You can't put a price on happiness,of course, but, according to the NatWest pensions index, you can give a figure for what it takes to be financially content in retirement. On average, pensioners questioned for the NatWest survey said that they found life easy with a yearly before-tax income of £10,000 - although retir... | 934 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | Los Angeles muralists look beyond the brick wall | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/duncancampbell | New techniques are revolutionising the art of creating murals in the world's mural capital, Los Angeles. Now muralists are hoping to persuade city authorities to hand over a percentage of public wall space in a celebration of the art. It was in Los Angeles that the leading Mexican muralist David Alvaro Siqueiros create... | 973 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | politics | How the Tories' spending plans add up | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/07/uk.thatcher | After an interval of eight years, the great ideological divide between Labour and the Tories returned with a vengeance this week - taxation and spending. The election in 1992 was all about Labour's £1,100 tax bombshell; this time it will be about the Conservatives' £600 a head spending cut. Eight months before the earl... | 1,282 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | Row over topless cancer posters | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/duncancampbell | There are posters of near-naked Girls! Girls! Girls! informing tired businessmen of downtown nightclubs, and there are posters promising sexually explicit films. But it is another batch of posters with topless women that have so offended public decency that they have been removed from view round San Francisco: these on... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Comedian's son jailed for shooting | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/1 | The unemployed son of comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown was jailed for 10 years yesterday for the attempted murder of Trevor Finn, a passerby he wrongly believed was part of a gang trying to extort money from him. At a retrial at Teesside crown court, the jury heard how Martin Reilly, 27, of Billingham, believed he was being... | 292 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | money | Put your affairs in the hands of the experts | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | Taxguard, a firm of tax experts, which this week published a survey of accountancy charges, says that 42% of people they questioned think they pay too much for their accountant, and almost half say they do not understand how their accountant calculates their bill. In spite of this, the value of having an expert's assis... | 965 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Fed breathes a sigh of relief | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/28/useconomy.interestrates | Yesterday's third-quarter US GDP figures must come as a relief to the policymakers at the Federal Reserve. With a tight labour market and an annualised second-quarter figure of 5.6% the Fed was under pressure. Some argued its chairman Alan Greenspan was losing the touch that has elevated him to near legendary status. O... | 956 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | money | Big players wait on the Fed | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/22/business.personalfinancenews | Although there is an almost universal expectation that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues will leave US rates on hold this evening, market professionals were taking no chances yesterday. In a lacklustre session, values of the leading shares ended little changed as institutional investors headed ... | 800 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Diamonds not for ever | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/sierraleone.guardianleaders | Diamonds are hugely valuable but very small. They can be hidden and smuggled with far greater ease than drugs, guns or oil, and once they are cut, their origin is impossible to discern; all of which goes to make them the war lord's best friend. The entire national diamond output of Sierra Leone can be fitted into one s... | 664 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | US halts Turkey charges | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/1 | Turkey yesterday praised the US Congress for abandoning a resolution accusing Turks of genocide against Armenians 85 years ago, saying it removed a major threat to Turkish-US relations. "Friendship wins, hatred loses," the mass-selling Turkish daily Hurriyet said in a banner headline. "Clinton applies the brakes on gen... | 231 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | money | Net closes on the chatroom gossips | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/personalfinancenews2 | This week it has emerged that a small UK-listed company claiming to be the victim of bulletin board market manipulation is taking legal action against the chat room user who posted the rumours. This news will send shivers down the spines of all web sites, ISPs and bulletin board operators, who are nervous in the extrem... | 926 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | politics | Andrew Rawnsley: Blair's policy on the environment | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/29/labour.labour1997to99 | On Thursday night, I was having a drink with Euan Blair. Since you're wondering, I was on the red wine; Euan sunk lemonades. He struck me as intelligent, poised - certainly much less gauche than I remember being at 16 - and charmingly undefensive, especially given that he was in conversation with the author of a book t... | 1,547 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Rebel chief planned British diamond scam | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/14/sierraleone1 | Foday Sankoh, the brutal rebel leader in Sierra Leone, was planning to tempt at least two London-based diamond companies to play key roles in his vast illegal gem-dealing network, documents released by the west African state's government have revealed. The documents, seized from Sankoh's ransacked home in the capital, ... | 579 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Sierra Leone: More British troops | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/sierraleone.unitednations | Britain is planning to send a naval task force and 500 troops to Sierra Leone to help shore up the beleaguered United Nations peacekeeping mission in the war-torn country, it emerged yesterday. The helicopter carrier HMS Ocean will return to the region accompanied by two other warships and support vessels as well as so... | 581 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Punch ruled guilty of contempt over Shayler article | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/davidshayler.richardnortontaylor | A high court judge yesterday found Punch magazine guilty of contempt for publishing an article by the former MI5 officer David Shayler about the IRA's bombing campaign, although he found no evidence it had damaged national security. Mr Justice Silber said the article breached a 1997 injunction barring newspapers from p... | 487 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | Close profits from private investors | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/5 | Small investors' new found appetite for buying e-related shares shows little sign of being satisfied, Close Brothers, one the last independent merchant banks, said yesterday as it reported a 126% rise in profits. The sparkling rise in interim pre-tax profits to £75.2m was largely due the performance of its Winterflood ... | 340 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | environment | Stopping the cheats | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/nov/14/activists.climatechange | The international climate negotiations resume in the Hague from 13th -24th November and governments will have to take decisions on crucial issues. How these issues are decided will determine whether the Kyoto Protocol becomes a first step towards climate protection or a 'Cheat's Charter' that will allow industrialised ... | 927 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Leader: Milosevic on the ropes | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/balkans.guardianleaders | The Milosevic era is truly over and in the next few months Serbia's evil genius may well be put on trial in his own country. Less than four months ago such a scenario would have seemed absurd, but the pace of recent change has outstripped all expectations, not least those of the former strongman who precipitated his ow... | 499 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Third of sick days not due to ill health | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/1 | More than a third of days taken off work through illness have nothing to do with ill health, a survey published today shows. The average worker takes three sick days off a year when they are perfectly healthy, at a cost of over £4bn to industry, according to the study by the Institute of Personnel and Development. It f... | 496 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | technology | Murdoch's Music Choice in £50m brand building fundraiser | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/28/business.media | Rupert Murdoch's Music Choice Europe yesterday announced it had raised £50m through a share placing which will value the business at almost £200m. The company broadcasts audio services over digital television platforms, including Sky Digital in Britain and Stream in Italy, and is aiming to further develop online and mo... | 266 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Lord chancellor's 'flawed' dual role | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/claredyer | A government-funded report yesterday backed calls for the post of lord chancellor to be scrapped because of a conflict between his roles as politician and head of the judiciary. The report by Diana Woodhouse of Oxford Brookes University, which was funded by the economic and social research council, said the "high polit... | 520 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Health: Are our wards dangerous places? | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/health.lifeandhealth | The story of hospital acquired infections is one of shirked responsibility amongst people who are rarely identifiable and who are never brought to task. First of all, let me put my hands up: as a junior doctor in a busy London hospital, I should probably be washing my hands at least 50 times a day, not just after I see... | 1,352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Caution for head over forgery | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/6 | A headmistress was given a formal caution by police in Gloucestershire after she forged a signature on a reference which disparaged her former secretary, it emerged last night. Janice McBride, head of St Mary's Primary School in Broadway, Worcestershire, admitted she forged the signature of a school governor. Mrs McBri... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | technology | If e-friendly is as e-friendly does, who's a right e-jit? | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/may/07/onlinesecurity.efinance | Six years ago, someone (identity unknown) opened an Internet account with Prodigy, a US Internet services provider, in the name of 'Alexander Lunney'. Having registered, this person then posted vulgar messages on bulletin boards and sent a threatening e-mail message to another individual. The recipient was not amused a... | 793 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | global | Uefa | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/may/15/features11.g2 | Age: 42. Description: The European football competition where the winners are the losers. Come again? The Uefa cup has traditionally been for teams that haven't won anything else. So it's not the European Cup? No. The European Cup doesn't really exist any more, after evolving into the Champions League in 1992. It's the... | 426 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Houses and cars to get fuel efficiency ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/paulbrown | All new cars and houses will soon come with labels telling the purchaser how fuel efficient they are, so buyers can check on the costs they face and how much environmental damage they are doing. Cars already have to be labelled for fuel consumption and soon will have an assessment of carbon dioxide emissions, but in fu... | 181 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | politics | Autumn bill planned to curb arms trade | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/28/ethicalforeignpolicy.politicalnews | The government is to clamp down on British arms traffickers and brokers as part of far-reaching reforms aimed at cleaning up the murkiest parts of the weapons trade. In the biggest change to the arms trade envisaged by any government since the second world war, a bill is to be introduced in the Queen's speech in the au... | 994 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | EU scheme to fund repatriation of failed asylum seekers | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Thousands of failed asylum seekers in Britain will be encouraged to return home voluntarily under a new EU funded programme now being considered by home office ministers. The introduction of such voluntary return programmes has been designed by the European commission to aid EU states who have difficulty enforcing expu... | 556 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | business | Allders puts furniture in town centres | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/28/5 | Allders, the department store group, is inaugurating a chain of town centre home furnishing shops which it hopes to expand across the country. The first three will open, in premises bought last month from C&A, early next year in York, Guildford and Kingston. It will then look to take over stores from rivals in othe... | 413 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | A legacy of division | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/zimbabwe.guardianleaders | Zimbabwe today enters what is likely to be the most hectic and dangerous period in the country's history as an independent state. The election shows the country divided as never before - between two parties and political movements of equal weight, and between the urban areas, which voted strongly for the opposition Mov... | 706 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | The Middle East: In search of a new map | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/israel.guardianleaders | Is there now a threat to the regional order in the Middle East? It is a question that has naturally been raised as the violence in Israel and the territories continues, especially since it has been accompanied not only by demonstrations across the Arab world but by the attack on the USS Cole and the bombing of the Brit... | 683 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-06 | society | Blair orders shake-up of failing NHS | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jan/06/futureofthenhs.health4 | Health ministers have ordered a rapid acceleration of the NHS modernisation programme after Tony Blair admitted sharing public frustration at the lack of tangible results in the first 30 months of Labour's administration. Officials have been told to give priority to a shake-up of arrangements for out-of-hours cover for... | 744 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Foreign tongues spread the English word | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/martinbright.theobserver | The accented English of fluent foreigners such as Latino singer Ricky Martin or actress Juliette Binoche is usurping British and American English as the dominant form of the language. This week the Government will announce that the number of people with English as a second language has overtaken the number who speak it... | 327 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | money | Pru joins Equitable's predators | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/28/business.personalfinancenews | The Prudential is among a number of insurers considering making a bid for the troubled Equitable Life - a mutual which has 600,000 members who could qualify for a windfall payout if a takeover were to succeed. Prudential is understood to have asked American investment bank Morgan Stanley to advise on the possibility of... | 454 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Bin Laden link to Frankfurt terror suspects | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/2 | German authorities were today questioning four suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. Weapons and explosives were seized during a search of two Frankfurt apartments, federal prosecutors announced today. The four suspects were arrested on Tuesday suspected of belonging to a criminal organisation, arms and ex... | 319 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | uk-news | Judge asks for help in finding boys | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/4 | A high court judge has appealed to the public to help find two boys who were snatched while playing in the street. Mrs Justice Hogg, a family division judge, said she was "gravely concerned" about the safety of Joe Lillington, nine, and his brother Louis, eight. The boys had been living with their aunt in Bow, east Lon... | 203 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | Scots rights move for gays | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/gerardseenan | Homosexual relationships could be given the same legal status as marriage in Scotland under legislation which is already being condemned by family values campaigners. Scottish ministers are coming under pressure from a parliamentary committee to amend forthcoming legislation with a clause which would, for the first tim... | 316 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | money | No friend in court | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/personalfinancenews1 | An attempt by a taxpayer to use the Human Rights Act to show they had been refused a fair hearing in a dispute with the Inland Revenue failed in the High Court this week. The European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into UK law on October 2 with the aim of guaranteeing basic rights, including the right to a... | 868 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | 'IRA arms' trial ends in confusion | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.michaelellison | A case once said to threaten the Ulster peace process ended in confusion last night as three men were convicted of buying weapons in the United States and sending them to Ireland, but not to arm the IRA. The court at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, heard that Conor Claxton,27, from West Belfast, Martin Mullan, a 30-year-old ... | 295 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | money | Get the most for your sterling | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney3 | The beleaguered Euro has been picking up against the pound recently, but holidaymakers need not despair - you will still get more for your sterling than you did last summer. In Turkey you could, in theory, get 42% more for your money because the lira has crashed since last summer. In practice, price inflation will canc... | 329 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | society | Welcome to today's briefing from SocietyGuardian.co.uk | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/21/societybriefing | Latest News We report on the controversial anti-flu drug, Relenza, which is to be made available on the NHS to people at 'high risk' of complications from the illness. Find out more here Sir Jeremy Beecham writes on what community leadership means to the Local Government Association. Find out more here Straw rolls out ... | 147 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Going flat out in the search for buildings insurance | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney | Spending just a couple of hours shopping around for buildings insurance can save you hundreds of pounds. But a survey this week by Jobs & Money found extensive cherry picking by direct insurance providers and refusals to cover properties outside the norm. I live in a maisonette, part of a terraced south London hous... | 1,261 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | uk-news | High noon for IRA's hardliners | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/06/northernireland.theobserver | Last Thursday afternoon four of the Irish government's senior negotiators overseeing Northern Ireland policy anxiously awaited a call from Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. They included Martin Manserg, one of Dublin's key advisers on the North since the beginning of the peace process, and Dermot Gallagher from Dublin's Dep... | 3,058 |
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