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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | politics | Straw braced for benefit cut revolt | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/21/politicalnews.observerpolitics | Prominent Labour peers are likely to join Tories and Liberal Democrats tomorrow to crush government plans to slash benefits for people who breach community punishments. Among the rebels will be Labour's Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. This latest rebellion, the most serious since the Lords overturned the Government's plans... | 391 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | technology | £25m cybercop squad to tackle internet crime | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/14/hacking.news | The growing tide of internet crime, including hacking, porn rackets, extortion and fraud, is to be tackled by a squad of "cybercops" set up in a £25m initiative announced by the home secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday. The unit will be headed by 80 officers recruited from the police, customs service, national crime squad... | 376 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Concorde may be prone to fires, report claimed | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/concorde.world2 | A fuel-tank fire triggered by catastrophic engine failure could have caused the crash of the Air France Concorde this week and TWA flight 800, which went down over the Atlantic in 1996, American fire specialists suggested last night. A report by Blazetech of Cambridge, Massachusetts, written nearly 25 years ago specifi... | 526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | global | Reasons to be cheerful | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/07/artsfeatures | This was not so much a concert, or even a tribute show, as an extended musical wake. Many of those on stage and in the audience had attended Ian Dury's funeral earlier in the day, and the mood was one of grief mixed with celebration of his remarkable life and unique contribution to British pop. It was a party in the ol... | 545 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | business | Grade plans to merge film studios | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/14/filmnews.film | Michael Grade, former chief executive of Channel 4, is trying to merge Pinewood and Shepperton film studios - a move welcomed by the industry that is struggling to attract Hollywood blockbusters. Mr Grade, chairman of Pinewood, is in talks on the merger to create a single company worth more than £130m. The talks are ex... | 414 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | money | Loan plans won't cure chronic ills | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/08/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | Poorly paid public sector workers remain sceptical of government proposals aimed at helping them get on to the first rung of the property ladder in expensive areas like the south-east of England. John Prescott's Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) announced its housing green paper on Wednesd... | 722 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Rifles destroyed 'to foil Bloody Sunday inquiry' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/bloodysunday.northernireland | The army began to destroy rifles used on Bloody Sunday just three days before Tony Blair announced a fresh inquiry, it emerged last night. Families of the 14 victims said the revelation indicated that senior figures in the military were intent on frustrating the work of Lord Saville of Newdigate's forthcoming inquiry. ... | 473 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | Hidden talents | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jan/21/artsfeatures1 | Championed by Terry Wogan and loosely filed under Nashville, Beth Nielsen Chapman has been quietly growing into one of America's most successful singer-songwriters. In Britain, her brand of literate songwriting is about as fashionable as Greek tragedy performed in the original language, but the audience who filled Ding... | 441 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | A new killer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/foodanddrink | The families of victims call it human BSE, rather than its scientific name of variant CJD. Those who watched the first young people die from the horrific new disease were always convinced their loved ones had effectively been poisoned by eating infected beef. Ten were dead - Stephen Churchill the first in May 1995 - be... | 380 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Bloody Sunday inquiry: army's secret plan | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/bloodysunday.northernireland1 | Twenty eight years on, the families of 14 unarmed catholics shot dead by the army in Derry in one of Northern Ireland's darkest days gathered for the start proper of what will prove to be the biggest judicial inquiry in United Kingdom history: Lord Saville of Newdigate's fresh probe into the tragic events of Bloody Sun... | 726 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | business | Poor need penicillin before Pentiums | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/28/internetnews.business | At the dawn of the third industrial revolution in the north, based on knowledge, millions of people in the south are still waiting for the benefits of the second - electricity, motor and air transport, the telephone. Yet the latest wheeze among policymakers in developed countries is to alleviate poverty in developing c... | 1,338 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | politics | My cultural life | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/07/shaunwoodward | From an early age I was fascinated by the arts - at college I was taught by Raymond Williams and Lisa Jardine, who both had a profound influence on me. Theatre and opera are my first two loves and I've retained an active interest, being on the board of directors at the the ENO and the RSC. Political life makes it hard ... | 521 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | politics | Archer inquiry with CPS | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/14/uk.archer | The novelist-peer Lord Archer yesterday returned to Britain to face the decision of the crown prosecution service on whether he should be prosecuted for perjury or conspiracy over his £500,000 Daily Star libel win in 1987. The CPS last night confirmed that it had received the results of the nine-month Scotland Yard inq... | 675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | 'Bullies rule' at youth prison | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/prisonsandprobation.society | The treatment of prisoners at a young offenders' institution in Dorset is condemned as "wholly unacceptable" in a report by the chief inspector of prisons published today. As a result of his inspection of Portland young offenders' institution, Sir David Ramsbotham expresses serious concerns about the level of assaults ... | 610 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | Chic and cheerful | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing1 | The battle for editors of women's glossies now will not be how to put on new readers, but how to maintain existing ones. While last week's circulation figures revealed the significant fact that OK! has finally overtaken its arch rival Hello! with a quite remarkable year-on-year increase in sales of 37.7% (what are they... | 2,020 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | business | Monday briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/07/6 | Observer Fears are growing in top financial circles of a further slump in hi-tech shares, which may prompt a global stock market crash. Investors in the US appear to have lost patience with growth funds that rely on dot.com stocks and could sell heavily over the next month. Singer & Freidlander, the merchant bank, ... | 1,125 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | money | Desktop icons: The printer | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/14/officehours.workandcareers | Ostensibly there to improve the life of the worker - no more typewritten notes, blotted-out errors or complaints of carriage return elbow - the printer, in reality, fails to live up to its billing as a labour-saving device. True, it can produce 100 copies of a memo before you summon the energy to leave your chair. Fanc... | 389 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | politics | Comment: Hugo Young on Tony Blair | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/21/labour.labour1997to991 | A s a political leader, Tony Blair hasn't had a hard time. He barely knows the fire. His rise to the top of the Labour party was the most effortless in its history. When he got there, he had to fight for reform and take one spectacular risk. But once the abolition of clause four was on the table, he found a party whose... | 1,489 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | Face to Faith: A two-minute guide to God | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2000/oct/28/facetofaith.religion | The brief is for two minutes at the outside: and it must be topical. I make the half-hour drive to the local radio studio, arriving at 6.35 in the morning. My slot is at 6.45 and, passing through the empty city centre, I feel sure that this Topical Thought, which I am happy to do, remains in the schedule purely as a so... | 968 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Treasury loses out on billions from cloning of Dolly | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/davidhencke | The treasury has lost out on a share of billions of pounds that is expected to follow the commercial exploitation by British and American scientists of the cloning of Dolly the sheep. The patent for the scientific breakthrough that could have brought long-term cash for the public purse was handed to a private company a... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Out of the Maze | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/northernireland.johnmullin | Just after 8am today, the rusting, rickety turnstile out of the Maze prison and into the visitors' car park will begin to clatter. It will fall silent only after midday, when the last of 76 men will leave jail to rejoin the world outside. It is the culmination of the early release scheme of the Good Friday agreement, t... | 1,298 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | If I got uptight about lateness Id have a stroke | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/14/transport.world1 | Jacqui Mott, 40, is a secretary at a firm of surveyors in London. She commutes to Euston from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. She says she is tired of excuses. Mainly we hear about signal problems or that they are waiting for a guard whose train has been delayed arriving. Most people are usually good humoured about i... | 542 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Britain may arm civil war fighters | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/sierraleone | Britain is considering a request from the President of Sierra Leone to provide its armed forces with ammunition needed to fight the rebel Revolutionary United Front. To do so would be a dangerous new escalation of British involvement in the country's bloody civil war. The request, made by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah t... | 571 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | uk-news | Condon cure for Met job crisis | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/07/nickhopkins | The Metropolitan police should consider offering short-term contracts to potential recruits, including graduates, to help the force tackle its recruitment crisis, the outgoing commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, said yesterday. In his last full interview before retiring at the end of the month, Sir Paul said the force shoul... | 371 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | uk-news | Tyson to enter Britain | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/13/simonjeffery1 | Boxer Mike Tyson will be allowed to enter the country, the home office announced early this evening. Home secretary Jack Straw said he was using special powers to instruct immigration officers to allow the convicted rapist into the country to take part in a bout at the end of the month. He said: "In the special circums... | 509 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Pressure on Cook to spell out UK role | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/sierraleone3 | The arrival of a naval amphibious taskforce off the west African coast yesterday pointed to further British military involvement in Sierra Leone, despite adamant ministerial denials of "mission creep". The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, who said that the expertise shown by the British troops in Sierra Leone had "reinfo... | 624 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | uk-news | Everest scramble to find body of pioneer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/07/paulkelso | A scramble to recover the body of Everest pioneer Sandy Irvine, the mountaineer who died alongside George Mallory in 1924, is expected when the Himalayan climbing season begins next month. A leading climber warned yesterday that it could lead to a race as record numbers for a single season attempt to conquer Everest th... | 916 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | world | Intellectuals and artists warn of a mass exodus | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/austria.kateconnolly | Leading Austrian artists and intellectuals joined the thousands who took to the streets of Vienna to demonstrate against the entry of the far Right into government, saying their voice is in danger of being stifled. Many of the cultural elite are threatening to abandon the country because they say life for an artist und... | 627 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | money | House prices begin to slide | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/08/business.personalfinancenews | Average house prices in Britain are at a standstill for the first time in five years and have begun sliding in London, Scotland and Yorkshire, the Halifax said yesterday. London, which led the country into a boom, is now leading the way out with a 2.4% fall in house prices over the past three months. The average price ... | 890 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | How can I rid myself of this millstone? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/21/observercashsection | DIANE MACFARLANE Age 33 Lives in Rochester Occupation Civil servant Earns £19,600 Mortgage £36,000 Debts £2,000 on credit cards, £4,000 personal loan Savings £1,000 in instant access account Pension Occupational scheme Aims To solve mortgage problems and clear debts Diane feels she is part of a forgotten problem. Ten y... | 1,311 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Computer to police EU driving offences | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/davidhencke.robevans | Drivers who commit traffic offences anywhere on holiday in Europe may find themselves taken off the road under proposals to give foreign police instant computer access to United Kingdom driving licence records. A European computer system, developed by the Dutch and at present confined to tracing stolen vehicles, is soo... | 644 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Bomb victim families ready for court fight | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/northernireland.henrymcdonald1 | The families of the victims of the Omagh bomb have spent a year trying to raise £2 million to launch a civil case against the terrorists responsible. Ahead of a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson tomorrow, The Observer can reveal that relatives of the 29 men, women and children killed in the atroci... | 548 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | business | Blair 'must put the political case for euro' | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/27/emu.politics | Tony Blair is coming under fierce pressure to talk up the political case for the euro or risk undermining the Yes campaign. The Government and the Labour Party have been warned that mixed messages from the pro-single currency camp in the Danish referendum campaign - widely seen as a dry run for a vote in Britain - dama... | 606 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | At this price? TeleWork | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/10 | Life is looking up for Ian Lenegan, who styles himself as "a simple northern guy" but is worth £130m following the successful flotation of TeleWork, his business software company. TeleWork has attracted a price tag of £262m after a placing of shares in the business was more than seven times oversubscribed. The business... | 460 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | How can I pass on what I've inherited? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.theobserver4 | Rosemary Ison trained as a childrenswear designer and now works part-time in her local community mental health team. Her husband Jeremy, 52, is a teacher. They have never had money to spare and have never been able to afford Tessas, Peps or Isas. Until now. She says: 'Our joint income just pays for the basics and perha... | 1,137 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Ruling puts arrests in question | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/balkans | Judges in the Hague yesterday ordered international forces who picked up indicted war criminals from inside the former Yugoslavia to reveal details of their operations. The decision by the international criminal court covers the alleged use of Serbian bounty-hunters to seize suspects inside Serbia and deliver them into... | 220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | Stocks and shares in the earth's vanishing treasures | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/2 | Minke whale Acording to the latest figures, there are 240,000 minke in the Antarctic, and unknown numbers elsewhere. Japan and Norway, which have kept the trade alive by "scientific" catches, say that some minke and grey whale populations are so big that controlled commerical whaling should be resumed. They want contro... | 472 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | Comment: After the revolution | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/serbia.comment | The west seems incapable of thinking of more than one Balkan thing at a time. But in the Balkans, it is the interconnection of things which matters. By thinking only of Croatia in 1992, we blew up Bosnia. When we ended the Bosnia war at Dayton, we forgot about Kosovo. And now there is a real danger that in the rush of ... | 1,621 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Magazine distribution row | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/pressandpublishing2 | The Periodical Publishers Association today outlined proposals for a solution to the ongoing dispute between publishers and retailers over magazine distribution. The proposals, called Blueprint, have been drawn up by the PPA in response to moves by Tesco to push all magazine distribution through a national network oper... | 276 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | Reuters seeks to scrap share-option curbs | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/2 | It needed somebody with both clout and a clean record to say it: directives on the granting of company share options are so out-dated and parochial they risk damaging the standing of UK plc in the new-fangled global economy. So says Reuters, one of our few truly "international" companies which now seems ready to take o... | 959 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | business | Video Networks set to announce £100m private deal | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/28/2 | Video Networks, the video- on-demand company that had been tipped for a £1bn stock market flotation, is close to securing its next set of financing through a private placing instead. The company, which is currently running a commercial pilot of its service in 2,000 homes in west London, is expected to announce a £100m-... | 495 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Brixton prison first to be privatised | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/prisonsandprobation.justice | Brixton prison is to become the first state run jail to be privatised, it was decided yesterday by the prisons minister, Paul Boateng, and the prison service's director general, Martin Narey. The decision will be formally announced to the Commons early next week. The south London prison, which opened in 1821, will be o... | 594 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | News in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/4 | £10m 'thank you' for hospital Staff at Cromer & District hospital in Norfolk have been stunned by a £10m "thank you" bequest from the sister of a former patient. The gift from Sagle Bernstein, who died in May aged 82, is said to be an acknowledgement of the care her sister Muriel Thoms received before dying at the ... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | money | Politics taken out of statistics | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/08/business.personalfinancenews2 | Ministers are to cede control over sensitive political statistics relating to health, education and crime to an independent auditor in an attempt to overcome public mistrust of official figures. After a decade in which the reputation of government statisticians has been tarnished by political manipulation of unemployme... | 520 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | politics | Rebel MP backtracks on deal | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/21/uk.scotlanddevolution | The rebel MP, Dennis Canavan, yesterday announced he had withdrawn his application to rejoin Labour, leaving the party facing the prospect of an embarrassing byelection in his Westminster seat. Although he was expelled from Labour in 1999 for standing as an independent in the Scottish parliamentary elections, Mr Canava... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Orangemen failed to expel sex offender | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/14/northernireland.henrymcdonald2 | The Orange Order failed to expel a convicted sex offender who became the first person in Northern Ireland banned from loitering near schools. James McGivern, 57, of Lime Grove in Lurgan, appeared in court last Monday where he was ordered to avoid schools, parks, playgrounds and teenage discos after complaints from pare... | 308 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | money | Virus warning: forward to everyone you know | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/14/workandcareers | There is a new virus going around, called "work". If you receive any sort of "work" at all, whether via email, internet or simply handed to you by a colleague...DO NOT OPEN IT. Work has been circulating around our building for months and those who have been tempted to open "work" or even look at "work" have found that ... | 252 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | Britain donates £2.2m aid as Mozambique flood waters rise | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/2 | The British government today announced a £500,000 aid package for Mozambique as the country's water department warned that the flooding which has left thousands of people stranded would get worse in the next few days. With the Limpopo river continuing to rise, just five helicopters continued to try to save as many peop... | 728 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | global | Fertility laws | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/qanda.marktran | Why is fertility in the news? The human fertilisation and embryology authority (HFEA) is bracing itself for legal challenges from single women, older women and gay men who believe existing fertility rules in the UK have denied them the right to have children. Ruth Deech, the head of the HFEA, told the Guardian that Eur... | 834 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | business | Oftel to look at internet access pricing | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/oct/07/internetnews.business | The cost of accessing the internet is to come under scrutiny in an inquiry by telecommunications regulator Oftel. The investigation, which will lead to a consultation paper in December, will establish whether the watchdog needs to intervene further to bring down the price of web access. The inquiry will also examine th... | 353 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Camelot cuts its profits | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/jamiedoward.theobserver | Camelot, the National Lottery operator, will tomorrow take the extraordinary step of slashing its profit margin by half in a desperate attempt to retain the lucrative licence to run the game. Bids to run the lottery must be submitted by noon on Tuesday. Camelot, which last year made pre-tax profits of more than £70 mil... | 765 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Garda killers 'eligible for release' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/northernireland.johnmullin | The row over the refusal of Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, to free four IRA police killers under the Good Friday agreement intensified yesterday when a confidential Irish government memo revealed that they were eligible for release after all. Lawyers for the four men, jailed in January last year for the June 1... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | politics | Politics: Liberal Democrats conference | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/21/uk.libdems20002 | An A level student spoke of her "disgust" at the inadequate funding of her 1,700-pupil comprehensive school at the conference yesterday, saying ithad just one computer with internet access and out-of-date text books. Jane Mabbut, from Milton Keynes, said she was also wary of pursuing a career as a teacher because of po... | 210 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Waitresses' war on heels | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/duncancampbell | The cocktail waitresses of the Nevada casinos are finally putting their feet down. Tired of dressing up in skimpy costumes and the highest of heels, they have formed an organisation to campaign for more sensible footwear. The Kiss My Foot Coalition has already persuaded casinos in Reno to allow them to lower their heel... | 349 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | South African editors face jail threat | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/chrismcgreal | Two prominent editors have received summonses from the South African human rights commission ordering them to answer accusations of racism or face prison terms. Critics have said the commission's approach is similar to apartheid-era tactics aimed at silencing coverage critical of the government. The editors of the Mail... | 340 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Noye guilty of M25 'road rage' murder | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/marktran1 | Kenneth Noye was today jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering Stephen Cameron during a road rage fight four years ago on the M25 Swanley interchange in Kent. The jury took more than eight hours to reach its 11-1 majority verdict. In returning their decision, the eight women and four men rejected Noye's a... | 1,051 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Joan Smith on kitchen politics | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/gender.uk2 | Here we go again. As if the baby pictures weren't enough, we have been offered another insight into the domestic arrangements of the Blair household, this time in a speech in Brighton by the prime minister's wife, Cherie Booth. Her family, she told a fringe meeting on Monday night, frequently debates women's issues at ... | 858 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | business | Seal snag | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/07/14 | The launch of Monotub Industries' revolutionary new washing machine has been delayed until February, because the company has had trouble getting hold of seals to prevent water leaking out writes Andrew Clark . The widely hyped Titan washing machine has been tipped to be as influential in Britain's households as the Dys... | 373 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | Broker buttresses Wickes defence | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/5 | Wickes, the DIY group which is the subject of a hostile 375p-a-share bid from privately owned rival Focus Do It All, received support in its campaign to stay independent yesterday. The broker Collins Stewart attacked the FDIA proposal as "opportunism, not realism". Wickes is the number three player in the huge and grow... | 440 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Blair aide joins Shandwick | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/marketingandpr | Shandwick Public Affairs has poached a senior member of Tony Blair's press office to be its new director of media relations. David Peel will join Shandwick this autumn to advise the company's blue-chip clients on media relations and crisis management. Colin Byrne, chief executive of Shandwick Public Affairs, said: "The... | 216 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Much ado about Hamlet | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/furthereducation.theguardian4 | It was ironic that the coach trip to see a production of Hamlet should end up the way it did. I don't mean that it ended up with bodies all over the place, fighting, procrastination and outbreaks of insanity. Actually, come to think about it, I do mean it in that way. Encouraging my access students to fill up the empty... | 648 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | science | Mars Lander may have hit crater | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jan/07/spaceexploration | The ill-fated Mars Polar Lander, last heard from on December 3, 1999 as it started a descent to the surface of the Red Planet, may be lying crippled in a huge crater, the chief mission scientist said on Thursday. But Richard Zurek, the Mars Polar Lander Project Scientist, said the crater theory was just one of several ... | 983 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | Day of mourning at refuge in Vienna mourn hopes | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/austria.kateconnolly | A black flag hangs from a window of Integrationshaus (Intergration House) in Leopoldstadt, in Vienna. It marks the harmful effect that Austria's new far right government could have on relations between Austrian citizens and foreign residents. "One of our biggest fears is that anti-foreigner feeling will now become soci... | 373 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | 'You see huge figures - I am going to come out of school thousands of dollars in debt' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/highereducation.education | When Alice Love chose her university she thought about the course and the college. But she also thought about the cost. In high school in Rochester, New York state, she took four course credits to help ensure she could complete the university part of her degree in three years rather than four. And then she turned down ... | 525 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Future fighter pilots to wage war from home | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/nickpatonwalsh.theobserver | Fighter pilots have long been the romantic action men of any air force. Now a new generation of combat planes threatens to turn them into desk-bound ground staff. A new fighter jet, being considered by Britain and the United States as the future of air defence, will operate by remote control, allowing the 'pilot' to op... | 935 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Time for hi-tech to hit the road? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | Any tips? inquired a fresh-faced new investor on an internet bulletin board this week. Within seconds came the reply from a trader bombed out by this week's dot.com collapse. "Er... get out as soon as possible." The love affair with hi-tech investment is over. Despite furious spinning by the tech fund groups, repeatedl... | 1,337 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | technology | It's time for sex, says the internet | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/21/internetnews.uknews | Mobile phone text messages saying "It's time to get into bed" and "I'm ready and waiting" may not be from a passionate partner but from an internet service alerting couples as to when they are most likely to conceive. The service, launched today by motherandbaby.co.uk, will tell women "It's time to get to bed - the nex... | 270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | business | A home from home for the reclusive empire builders | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/21/5 | If it's lunchtime and the Barclay brothers are in town you'll probably find them having a quiet drink at their usual table in the bar of the Hotel de Paris. David and Frederick, the super-rich and reclusive twins, are creatures of habit according to regular drinkers. Smartly suited and with slicked-back hair they talk ... | 249 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Gay couple fights to be 'a family' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/2 | A homosexual couple yesterday launched a high court battle for the right to live in Britain as "a family". They challenged a Home Office refusal to allow "L", a Brazilian citizen who cannot be named for legal reasons, to enter Britain as an unmarried partner of "M", a British and Irish citizen. Stephanie Harrison, for ... | 264 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Police inquiry into spying on officers | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/angeliquechrisafis | A police superintendent is under investigation by his force after deploying an undercover surveillance team to monitor his officers. Steve Westcott, deputy head of the Bury division of Greater Manchester police, last month ordered two officers, members of a dedicated surveillance unit, to track constables and record th... | 208 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Museum reunites fragments of a war-torn masterpiece | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/maevkennedy | An exhibition at Leicester city museum is reassembling the fragments of an artist's life and work shattered by the rise of Nazism. The name of Johannes Matthaeus Koelz is scarcely remembered now, but in the 1920s he was regarded as one of the most brilliant German artists of his generation. Koelz, who won the Iron Cros... | 867 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | global | Pass notes: Guy Ritchie | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/aug/28/features11.g2 | I know that boat race. Pardon? His physiognomy is familiar to me. That'll be because he's Madonna's better half and the director of one of Britain's most successful films ever. Carry On Cleo? No. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Aha. Pretty boys with guns. MTV aesthetic. Bollock-squeezing footballer. That's the one... | 459 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Thousands of schools face debt crisis | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/educationnews.education | Thousands of run-down schools are facing crippling debt because their budgets are too low to cover the spiralling costs of education. New figures from the Department for Education reveal that 2,470 schools - more than 10 per cent of the schools in England and Wales - were in deficit last year. Senior education sources ... | 602 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | Easdaq uses its time-zone edge | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/nasdaq.stockmarkets | Easdaq, the pan-European stock exchange, is to steal a march on New York's Nasdaq index by allowing traders to buy and sell shares in 10 of its American rival's best-known companies before the US market opens. Investors will be able to buy and sell shares in companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com six hours b... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | world | The Joy of Sex | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/28/netnotes | 1. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, has died aged 80. 2. The sex manual is what he became famous for, despite his extensive writings on pacifism. 3. Published in 1972, at the tail end of the sexual revolution, it capitalised on the apparent need of many people to hear from an expert that fornication was fun. 4. ... | 353 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | QC says ousted lawyers' leader was victimised | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/claredyer | The row between the Law Society and Kamlesh Bahl, its former vice-president, escalated yesterday when she released a legal opinion from Cherie Booth QC accusing the society of breaching Ms Bahl's right to a fair hearing and victimising her in handling complaints of bullying made against her. The saga has taken a new an... | 624 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Rural white paper: main points | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/communities.localgovernment | The government's rural white paper is intended to be a blueprint for the rejuvenation of the countryside. Here are its main proposals. • A 50% rate cut for village shops, pubs and garages which offer a benefit to the community • Giving local councils discretion to end the 50% council tax discounts for second homes, wit... | 221 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | uk-news | Cyclists left standing by firms' cars | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/07/paulbrown | Walking or cycling to work may be good for your health and the environment, but it does nothing for your self image or status in the office, according to research. Even if people were near enough for it to be feasible to walk, they would rather show off the company car. Cycling exposed the rider to the elements and to ... | 288 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | global | The theatrical hits and misses of 2000 | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/dec/27/artsfeatures1 | It was a year of theatrical extremes, of long days and short nights. Marathons proliferated. After seeing Peter Stein's 18-hour Faust in Hanover, the Peter Hall-John Barton Tantalus in Denver and Michael Boyd's Henry VI trilogy in Stratford, I thought of claiming overtime. Against that, there were numerous short, inter... | 2,209 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | politics | 'Racist' doctors accused by MPs | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/20/uk.race | Doctors assessing patients for disability benefits are open to charges of institutional racism, according to a damning report from MPs. The Commons social security committee yesterday raised a string of concerns over the treatment of benefit claimants, including "cultural insensitivity" on the part of some doctors and ... | 187 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Crisis-hit Mugabe has luck of the draw | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/zimbabwe | The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has won Z$100,000 (about £1,600) in a promotional draw carried out by a local bank for its clients, the institution said yesterday. Zimbabwe Banking Corporation said Mr Mugabe's name had emerged from the promotional draw on Wednesday out of thousands of qualifying account holde... | 188 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Trust me? | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/dailymail.pressandpublishing | The story behind the Daily Mail's two-page feature on the mysterious death of film star Natalie Wood in 1981 raises the kind of ethical questions which journalists too rarely ask themselves. Is a journalist ever off-duty? Are the roles of private citizen and journalist compatible? If years pass, can anyone remember wha... | 1,450 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | The big move | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers | They say that moving house is one of the most stressful activities you can undertake in your life (along with getting married and using public transport). And yet many of us subject ourselves to it at regular intervals. So it's important to spare a thought for any younger members of the family, for whom this may be a w... | 764 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | BA in merger talks KLM announcement today | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/personalfinancenews.britishairwaysbusiness | British Airways and the Dutch airline KLM are expected to confirm today that they are to proceed with merger talks. Industry sources last night said that an announcement was imminent and could be made in the next 24 hours. They said that BA had already appointed investment bankers to advise it in talks on what amounts ... | 458 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | money | It's all down to me | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/08/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | 'My workload is relentless - that's not an unfair description. I have peaks and troughs, but there's no such thing as a clear desk at the end of the day. I am a PA to the chairman of an investment trust, who also has philanthropic, artistic and community commitments outside his main corporate job. It's all work: whethe... | 707 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | MI5 sent file on Lennon to help US investigation | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/richardnortontaylor.johnezard | MI5 sent a file on John Lennon to the FBI after advisers to President Nixon ordered an investigation into the former Beatle, it was revealed yesterday. The Nixon administration wanted ammunition to deport Lennon, who moved to the US in the early 1970s and campaigned against the Vietnam war The MI5 file is believed to c... | 700 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Democrats divided on how long to fight | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa | The Democrats were divided yesterday over how much further Al Gore should pursue his post-election struggle for the White House, as analysts predicted that a Gore presidency could inflict more damage on the party than a graceful surrender. Meanwhile, Republicans closed ranks behind George W Bush, and threatened to figh... | 814 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | GMG Endemol takes 50% stake in Victoria Real | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/efinance.internet | GMG Endemol Entertainment, one of Britain's largest independent television production groups, yesterday acquired a 50% stake in Victoria Real which produces interactive content for digital TV and the internet. The acquisition builds on a collaboration between the two groups on Big Brother, which will be screened on Cha... | 163 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | media | BBC1 chief appointed director of sport | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/uknews | The BBC ended weeks of speculation by naming the BBC1 controller, Peter Salmon, as its director of sport yesterday, paving the way for the first woman to take charge of its main channel. Mr Salmon, 44, who has endured much criticism in his three-year tenure, will take up the new post in November. Lorraine Heggessey, th... | 754 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | House prices have peaked - Halifax | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/personalfinancenews.business1 | Housing price rises have passed their peak, according to Britain's biggest mortgage lender, which said yesterday that property prices fell 0.4% in May - the third monthly decline in four months. The data from the Halifax reveals that the average home fell in value by £365 to £84,290 last month. This caused the annual r... | 418 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Refuse service will help Lundy to clean up its act | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/7 | It is one of Britain's most precious isles, an area of outstanding beauty and with wildlife to match. But Lundy Island only had one way to get rid of the tons of rubbish it generated every year - lob it into the sea. Now the island, which rises steeply out of the Bristol Channel 23 miles west of Ilfracombe, Devon, is f... | 317 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | environment | Government welcomes nuclear chief's resignation | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/feb/28/energy.nuclearindustry | The government today welcomed the resignation of John Taylor, the chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), after damning criticism of safety lapses at the Sellafield reprocessing plant. The trade and industry secretary, Stephen Byers, said: "I welcome John Taylor's decision to resign. In the circumstances it wa... | 416 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-27 | money | Posters and T-shirts lead the way to victory | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/28/demutualisation.business | Standard Life's staff turned up for work yesterday in T-shirts proclaiming "keep Standard Life mutual", while shopkeepers in the Scottish capital posted stickers on their windows with similar messages. While the people of Edinburgh may have been keen to show their concern about the impact of the insurance group losing ... | 362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-27 | society | Housing benefit system 'in meltdown' | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jul/27/housingpolicy.uknews | The £12bn housing benefit system was "in meltdown" last night after a storm of criticism from MPs, housing association chiefs and the local government ombudsman who disclosed that he was deluged with complaints from aggrieved claimants. The Commons social services committee told the Department for Social Security it mu... | 588 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | To each one a plan | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools18 | We have children coming here with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, or learning difficulties - and it takes about three weeks for them to become "normal". That's because we operate what we call the "boundary-less classroom". This means inclusion, which ICT can make a reality. We don't differentiate childre... | 292 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | £4bn boost for pre-election tax giveaway | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/7 | Whitehall underspending and buoyant tax revenues have boosted the Treasury's coffers by an extra £4bn in the financial year just ended, leaving the chancellor plenty of room for pre-election tax cuts, official figures showed yesterday. Spending outstripped revenues by £1.4bn in March, the last month of the financial ye... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Agenda benders | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/guardiansocietysupplement7 | The call by the NHS Confederation for the health service to "take over" local authority social care services has been loudly echoed by the government since its health summit last week. It has spoken of a "single organisation" providing services for elderly and disabled people, modelled perhaps on the Northern Ireland e... | 801 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | money | The low down: Out-qualified bosses | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/21/officehours3 | Last week saw the launch of DeskDemon.com, an internet portal devised as a one-stop shop for services and information that secretaries need on- and off-line. The site's research indicates that 75% of secretaries use the internet on a daily basis, but it also reveals how highly qualified secretaries tend to be these day... | 377 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | politics | A lesson in self-help from the class of 2000 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/28/politicalnews.politics | Yesterday MPs had their monthly treat, with questions about the House of Commons, and thus their own lives. It turns out that they want to do less work, less often, at a time more convenient to themselves. Basically, they feel the place should be run like a school, only with less discipline. Geraint Davies of Croydon w... | 800 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | business | Microsoft to sell news site | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/21/efinance.media | Microsoft and NBC, the American network television channel, are in talks to spin off MSNBC, their cable joint venture which provides an online news service. An MSNBC spokeswoman said yesterday that the idea for an initial public offering of the company had "been under discussion for quite a while". If the IPO goes ahea... | 641 |
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