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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | media | John Willis to stay at Granada | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/07/broadcasting | Granada Media is expected to announce later today that John Willis, former United Productions chief executive, is staying with the company to run its production business in the south of England. But Granada is also set to confirm that Mr Willis' colleague, Malcolm Wall, the former chief executive of United Broadcasting... | 119 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Literacy website | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools19 | Our children do not have what you would call severe special education needs, but for example reading difficulties. We've used ICT to provide such children with motivation in literacy by setting up a magazine website between Finland, Portugal, Holland and the UK. We wanted to make the curriculum more accessible to those... | 257 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | One year on... | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime10 | Claire Gorham, TV broadcaster The significant thing is Jack Straw calling a public inquiry in the first place. It's the first time anyone has taken the issue seriously. He has really disproved himself since, but I will always respect and admire him for doing that at least. It needed a change of government. The Tories d... | 1,906 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | House hit by falling BA plane part | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/4 | A 25lb metal seal fell from a London to Glasgow British Airways passenger plane, smashing the door of a house, an accident report revealed yesterday. Three days later, a 3 sq ft panel fell from another BA aircraft, the air accidents investigation branch said. In the first incident, the crew of the Boeing 757 had been "... | 290 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | uk-news | Top cops give lie to 'plodding' TV image | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/07/sarahhall | They are widely portrayed on television as stuffed shirt bureaucrats, more preoccupied with their budgets, procedure and their golf handicaps than maverick members of their force. But, in reality, police superintendents bear little resemblance to plodding dinosaurs who short-sightedly badger the likes of detective offi... | 288 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | business | Robinson spots tasty earner | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/15/9 | The days of the traditional staff canteen look to be numbered. Workers increasingly have a choice of in-house coffee bars, light meal counters or restaurants, offering a variety of branded foods and drinks. The reason, as with so many changes, is globalisation. As businesses develop internationally, they can cut costs ... | 570 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Press Gazette round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/tradepressrounduppressgazette.pressandpublishing | Associated Newspapers believes its rival in the Metro wars, the Swedish Modern Times Group, is close to conceding defeat and bowing out. Press Gazette reports that Modern Times Group has failed to break even in Newcastle, and does not consider the city the ideal place for a free morning paper. ITV head of current affai... | 231 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | money | Moving on up: An ABC guide to using the right names at work | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/14/jobsadvice.careers5 | A. Hey you It's flattering when someone you've met briefly remembers your name, mortifying when the individual you thought you'd made an impression on gets it wrong. Names and the way they are used can make you feel great or small. In most situations you don't even think about how you use people's names, you just do. B... | 302 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | politics | Young 'losing faith in NHS' says minister | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.nhs | Labour party members were told yesterday to support ministers' plans for radical reform of the National Health Service or watch its popularity sink beyond redemption. In a stark warning of the high political stakes in play, Alan Milburn, the health secretary, said the alternative to his modernisation strategy was a Con... | 619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | politics | Cook fends off rights criticism | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/21/politicalnews.politics2 | The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, defended his ethical foreign policy yesterday in the face of criticism that he was soft on human rights abuses in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. The accusations followed the publication yesterday of the Foreign Office's annual report, detailing its record in dealing with human rights... | 168 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | politics | Blairs sue nanny, agent and paper for £15,000 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/07/labour.labour1997to992 | Cherie Blair is suing a former nanny, Rosalind Mark, her former literary agent Jonathan Harris, and the Mail on Sunday for £15,000, Downing Street said last night. Meanwhile Ms Mark issued a statement saying her book was meant to illustrate life in an "extraordinary household environment". Extracts from the book were p... | 937 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | SoftBank tries to rebuild | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/personalfinancenews.business | The world's biggest dot.com investment company, SoftBank, yesterday went on the offensive against the recent savaging of its share price which has destroyed its president's chances of becoming the world's richest man. The Japanese group's chief financial officer, Yoshitaka Kitao, declared that SoftBank's stock was "too... | 675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | world | Moscow hails capture of Chechen warlord | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/chechnya.ameliagentleman | One of the most notorious rebel Chechen field commanders has been captured by Russia's secret police and imprisoned in Moscow, giving a much needed propaganda boost to the army's campaign in the separatist region. The triumphant announcement of Salman Raduyev's imprisonment comes at a convenient time for the Kremlin, t... | 743 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-27 | world | Sontag pleads poetic licence in using uncredited 'scraps of history' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/28/books.booksnews | A debate between history and literature has opened in New York over Susan Sontag's acclaimed new novel In America, published here next week. Sontag is accused by amateur historian Ellen Lee of failing to credit sources. Sontag's historical fiction is about a Polish actress, Maryna Zalezowska, who ventures from Poland t... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Drama and comedy stars at TV 'Oscars' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/mattwells | The dramatisation of the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence last night won a top award at the TV industry Oscars. The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, which was accused by some critics of presenting the crime in a sensational way, won best single drama at the Baftas. Producer Mark Redhead, with his colleague, Pau... | 683 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | global | Come rain or shine | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/22/weekend7.weekend2 | It's a wet Wednesday lunchtime when Rosie Sykes, Kitchen Doctor, arrives at Anna Waddell's family home in Holloway, north London. The plan is - or at least it was until the heavens opened - to help 18-year-old Anna prepare a farewell picnic for her brothers, sisters and their respective broods. Anna is unfazed by the d... | 3,028 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | The 15 most powerful people in health | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/health.healthandwellbeing1 | 1. Robert Hill Number 10 policy unit adviser on health 10 Downing Street "We don't release information about Number 10 staff." The government is not required to tell us anything about the most powerful individual in the NHS. What we know is that he is a former theology student, one-time binman, National Union of Public... | 1,555 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Business: Chorion's web of mystery | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/books.booksnews | Chorion, the former owner of the Trocadero, is seeking to generate new revenue from its rights to the works of crime writer Agatha Christie by using the world wide web. It has licensed Penguin, her American publisher, to make the text of 10 of her books available for downloading from the internet. John Conlan, Chorion'... | 366 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Online searches can net you the best package | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney8 | Searching online for a mortgage has two advantages over tramping down the high street or using the telephone - speed and interactivity. Within a few minutes of logging on to a site the interactive calculators on the pages of banks, building societies and personal finance websites can give you an idea of how much you ca... | 493 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | business | Business debate, Bryan Gould: Why the currency straitjacket won't fit all | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/14/emu.theeuro | Europe has been the most important fault line in British politics in my political lifetime. The debate over the euro seems sure to deliver further seismic shocks and threatens again to redraw the political dividing line. Little wonder, then, that both the prime minister and chancellor are trying - Canute-like - to dela... | 859 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Halifax offers mortgage decision in one minute | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/15/business.personalfinancenews | Halifax will start offering more than 10,000 mortgage brokers and millions of potential homebuyers an online decision for a home loan within 60 seconds today. The former building society, which sold a record £17.8bn of mortgages last year, will also enable customers to track the progress of mortgage applications on the... | 227 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Five different lives with one thing in common: they are over | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/israel | These are the statistics. As of midday yesterday, the slaughter now engulfing Israel and the Palestinians had left 111 dead and so many wounded that the hospitals have lost count - perhaps more than 3,000. For the outside world, the slaughter has just one face: Mohammed al-Direh, the 12-year-old boy who died three week... | 2,155 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Business in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/14/6 | Warning of fraud surge The government faces the prospect of a surge in economic crime unless it moves rapidly to make tackling fraud a priority for Britains police forces, George Staple, the chairman of the fraud advisory panel said yesterday. He said individual police forces should be mandated to produce anti-fraud... | 216 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | technology | The pursuit of paranoia | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/14/efinance.internet | Computers crash every day. Servers go down. Bandwiths get congested and networks clog. The IT world is as prone to breakdown and gridlock as our transport systems. But something unusual is happening. Since early February there have been a series of strikes on high-profile e-commerce and e-news targets:Yahoo!, Amazon,Bu... | 904 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Scottish councils receive funding boost | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/localgovernment1 | The Scottish executive has announced record grant levels for local authorities, boosting the amount of central funding for council services north of the border to around £6.5bn over the next three years. The rise promises to increase the total funding Scotland's councils receive for running services such as education a... | 352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | business | Car-sharing trend takes off | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/28/9 | Another Monday, another mega motor merger. Last week it was General Motors and Fiat with news of the huge industrial alliance. Yesterday it was the turn of DaimlerChrysler, announcing that it is taking effective control of Japan's Mitsubishi Motors through a 34% holding. Almost as an aperitif to the much anticipated ma... | 1,191 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | Clear victory for Gordon Brown's City mission | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/11 | The European Union's wrangle over the withholding tax always looked as if it would be one of those rows that go on forever. To be sure the deal yesterday, scuppering an EU-wide savings tax and introducing an information sharing agreement to crack down on tax dodging instead, was soured by Austria's dubious determinatio... | 730 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | technology | Breaking up ain't so hard to do | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jun/14/microsoft.comment | Included free with Windows 2000 will be a computerised edition of the game Monopoly. In this version, Microsoft already owns every property from Old Kent Road to Mayfair and you just go round and round giving the company lots of money. You try to tell yourself it is not fixed, but when Bill Gates wins second prize in a... | 963 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | uk-news | Glastonbury festival organiser faces prosecution over safety | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/14/jeevanvasagar1 | Glastonbury festival's organiser Michael Eavis is facing prosecution for allegedly letting twice the permitted number of revellers into this year's event. Police believe an estimated 100,000 fans jumped the fence or otherwise avoided paying, vastly swelling crowds and jeopardising public safety. Mendip district council... | 404 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Newborn baby found dead at derelict pub | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/davidward | Police hope today to interview a teenage mother whose new-born baby was found dead in sub-zero temperatures at a derelict pub in Derbyshire. A spokeswoman said the 16-year-old girl, from Newhall, near Swadlincote, south-east Derbyshire, was taken by her parents to Queen's hospital in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in ... | 274 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | business | ICL warns of more jobs to go | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/internetnews.business1 | ICL, the Fujitsu-owned e-business services group which four months ago pulled its long-planned flotation and fired most of its senior management, yesterday warned that more jobs are likely to be lost as the company is restructured. Since August people in more than 100 senior roles have left the company and 650 other st... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | law | Mystery over the Shipman tapes | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/law.theguardian | I was surprised to hear, on radio and television (and now on the internet), a tape of the police's questioning of Fred (as he's known, not Harold) Shipman. Surprised because, as I understand the law, the police own the copyright to their questions, but the interviewee has the legal control of his answers. When Fred Wes... | 1,041 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | business | Tata Tea pays £271m for Tetley | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/28/2 | Tetley, famous for its TV adverts featuring the Tetley tea folk, has been swallowed up by Tata Tea, the world's largest integrated tea company. The Indian company has paid £271m for the privately held Tetley, which makes Britain's most popular tea and the second largest global tea brand. The deal concluded after months... | 485 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Racetrack vets told to hide work | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/8 | Vets at racetracks were yesterday warned to be extra vigilant about shielding spectators from their work after horrified racegoers watched a veterinary surgeon saw the leg off a dead horse. The Jockey Club said it had launched an investigation after one of its vets, Keith Mason, began sawing up colt Midyan Blue in a ho... | 253 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Billions wasted on ticket to nowhere | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness9 | Concorde is grounded, the railways have slowed to a crawl because of safety fears and the roads are gridlocked. Suddenly Britain is going backwards. It came as enough of a shock to rich air passengers and British and French patriotic pride this summer that a piece of burst tyre could put the supersonic queen of the ski... | 1,892 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Ulterior motives behind born-again Kenmania | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/londonmayor.mondaymediasection | The years pass, the pariah politician changes his act a little and the media discover he is their kind of man after all. Step forward Ken Livingstone, Red Ken of memories past, erstwhile danger to democracy, scourge of the Tory party, emperor of loony leftism and favoured target of newspapers left and right. Suddenly t... | 1,007 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | money | Simple plea ignored by government | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/08/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney4 | The government has been attacked by Opas, the pensions advisory service for being "unable or unwilling to simplify the pensions system". While the government and pensions industry exhort us to save more for retirement, Opas chief executive Malcolm McLean "strongly believes the complexity of pensions rules and regulatio... | 538 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Cashpoints | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.theobserver12 | Save on holiday cash If shopping for foreign currency is a more serious issue for you than a last-minute dash to the bank on the way to the airport, a pre-holiday season survey by financial database Moneyfacts could help you. It found that commission varies from 0.25 per cent at Northern Ireland's First Trust Bank to 2... | 509 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Literacy on the web | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/schools.news2 | Surfing with the Bard www.ulen.com/shakespeare/ Star rating *** Aimed at: teachers and pupils As sexy as Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, this US site is genuinely enthusiastic and should be particularly useful for students tackling their first play - not so much for the amount of content but the inspiring "can-do" att... | 640 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | Xmas TV shows | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/itv.broadcasting1 | A modern day version of A Christmas Carol, with Ross Kemp as council estate loan shark Eddie Scrooge, will take centre stage in ITV's festive schedule. ITV's line-up for Christmas 2000 also features Simon Nye's all-star TV adaptation of Aladdin, featuring Martin Clunes, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Merton and Patsy Kensit. A... | 510 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | global | The BA-KLM merger | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/qanda.marktran | What's in it for BA and KLM? BA loses money in Europe, partly because its base at Heathrow is too congested. KLM's Schiphol base, on the other hand, has been developed specifically to handle transfer passengers. If they combine, BA would handle the expensive direct flights to and from London, while KLM would handle the... | 780 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | society | Watchdog warns of lottery delay to 2002 | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/oct/07/lottery.uknews | Downing Street faced fresh embarrassment last night when the national lottery regulator warned that the new service could be delayed until 2002, jeopardising millions of pounds earmarked for good causes. Less than 24 hours after the arts minister, Alan Howarth, insisted that the new operator would be in place by next S... | 683 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Neutron Jack, worldbeater | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness15 | We all saw the pictures. The deep eye sockets. The streamline features. The gleaming cranium, radiating energy in the glare of his own NBC television lights. We heard the shoot-from-the-hip lingo as he explained how he just snapped together that $45 billion deal between his turbine to twin-tub combine General Electric ... | 2,728 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | politics | Beith flies home after 'crushing blow' of son's death | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.politicalnews1 | The Liberal Democrat deputy leader, Alan Beith, last night described as a "crushing blow" the sudden death of his son, Christopher, 23. Mr Beith flew home from a parliamentary visit to Germany after learning that Christopher had been found dead at the family home in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, on Monday. Mr Bei... | 278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | global | Eating out: Simpsons | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/21/weekend7.weekend3 | There's doesn't seem to be much to Kenilworth. There's the castle, of course, but that's upstaged by the grander one in Warwick, a little way up the road. For the rest, there's a rather nondescript rabble of buildings lined up facing each other on either side of the A46, and that's about it. I could be wrong - there ar... | 936 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | business | Monday briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/28/4 | Sunday Times Adult magazine publisher Richard Desmond is planning a £500m flotation of his Northern & Shell and Portland Investments businesses. Mr Desmond, an advertising salesman turned entrepreneur, is in talks with advisers about his plans, which also include online media operations. The government is believed ... | 1,193 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | business | Labour launches battle for EU | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/07/emu.theeuro | The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, yesterday launched a six-month government campaign to swing British public opinion behind the European Union. After two and a half years of dithering, the government is finally to take on the euro-sceptic press by aggressively making a positive case for the European Union. "This is th... | 838 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | politics | Ministers offer minimum wage link to earnings | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/07/uk.politicalnews | The Labour leadership is to pledge to link the minimum wage with average earnings in a bid to fend off union hostility at this weekend's Labour national policy forum. The party hierarchy will make the promise as well as committing itself to making the low pay commission a permanent body. At present, the minimum wage ca... | 655 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Currency lessons from the Republic | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/8 | Ireland should act as a salutary lesson to those who are gung-ho for Britain to join the single currency. Whereas Britain's annual inflation rate - after eight years of steady growth - is 2.0% on the government's preferred measures, Ireland's is 5.2% and rising. Measured on the same Europe-wide basis, Britain's cost of... | 983 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | global | What a joke | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/20/notquitenews | Not amused The citizens of Sunderland were not laughing this week after a nationwide survey found them to be the most unfunny people in Britain (and that includes such notorious humour backspots as Godalming, Telford and Cheadle Hulme). The survey took the form of a competition held in 77 branches of Yates Wine Lodge t... | 1,097 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | How Aitken cleaned up in jail | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/jamiewilson | Jonathan Aitken yesterday drew on his intimate knowledge of the prison system when he chaired a conference on penal reform, telling delegates about the 90p bonus he earned for keeping the cleanest toilets in the jail. The disgraced former cabinet minister, who served seven months of an 18-month sentence for perjury and... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | politics | Smith defied advice on dome payout | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/14/uk.dome | Chris Smith, the culture secretary, and eight members of the millennium commission ordered a senior civil servant to pay £76m to keep the dome afloat after he had told them it was a waste of public money, the national audit office investigation into the £1bn fiasco will reveal next month. The damning report will say th... | 546 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | BBC licence fee up by £3 | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/bbc1 | Culture secretary Chris Smith today announced a £3 rise in the BBC licence fee but shelved plans for a "digital supplement" on the annual charge. The corporation had been hoping for a £700m cash injection each year between now and 2006 to fund its expanding digital services. But the government will instead allow £200m ... | 383 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | Sticking point | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/guardiansocietysupplement6 | Two years is not long to change public policy. But it is the time within which the Better Government for Older People programme has operated - a period of political activity whose intensity has been unprecedented for local authorities and non-governmental organisations. The programme is a key part of the modernising go... | 1,024 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | Jihad called then bombers attack | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/israel1 | Television footage of Israeli attack helicopters bombing the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday prompted fierce reaction yesterday across the Muslim world, with crowds from Egypt to Afghanistan calling for a holy war to revenge their Palestinian brothers. About 10,000 worshippers poured on to the streets after Friday praye... | 712 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | technology | The idealist generation finds its 90s self: going for easy millions | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/14/efinance.internet | I woke up feeling intensely guilty. When I was young, I used to go into a dark box at church and confess all kinds of guilt: about talking back to my parents, about unkindnesses, about impure thoughts. But now I feel guilty about just one thing: not being a millionaire. On the glowing boxes of my adulthood, the TV and ... | 869 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Children's home in sex abuse inquiry | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/socialcare | Detectives are investigating allegations that dozens of children might have been sexually abused at a home for young people with learning difficulties. The abuse was claimed to have taken place "several years ago" at Betts Way children's home in Bromley, Kent, Scotland Yard said last night. It is understood that child ... | 654 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | 'Blighted life' of student cleared of rape | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/4 | A Cambridge University rugby union blue said yesterday his future had been blighted, despite him being cleared of raping and indecently assaulting a 28-year-old teacher. N.B, 24, found not guilty on both charges at Cambridge crown court, said he would have to live with the trauma of the case for years. Jason Coulter, h... | 302 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | global | No: 1620 | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/21/features11.g2 | Age: 833. Catchphrase: "I am the punishment of God!" Ancestry: His line of descent is traced back, by Mongol believers, to the mythical union of a grey wolf and a white doe. Offspring: Kublai Khan, founder of the Chinese Yuan dynasty. And Chaka Khan? You're getting confused. All these Khans... His real name was Temujin... | 413 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | technology | BBC in pay-to-view internet plan | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/27/business.bbc | The BBC is examining plans to build an internet portal to stream its films and programmes down telecom lines on a pay-per-view basis. The move would represent one of the most ambitious attempts by the corporation to develop its commercial operations since the Government charged it with finding new sources of income at ... | 297 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | global | Footing the bill | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/aug/21/features11.g21 | Whenever we dwindling aficionados of the music hall get together, we play the "bill matter game". Who was the "Cheekie Chappie"? Who was "The Thief of Bad Gags"? Bill matter was the name for the descriptive copyline under the name of each "turn" on the playbills that adorned the boards advertising the week's attraction... | 1,301 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Police stop Straw's car for speeding | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/21/rebeccaallison | Jack Straw, the home secretary, was pulled over by police as his official government car travelled at "high speed" down a motorway, it emerged yesterday. Traffic officers stopped the car on the M5 as Mr Straw was being driven by a special branch officer to Labour's national policy forum in Exeter. Scotland Yard confirm... | 200 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | science | French claim gene therapy breakthrough | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/apr/28/genetics.uknews1 | French scientists claim today to have successfully delivered "gene therapy" to two infants condemned to a life sealed off from all others. The babies, aged 8 and 11 months, were born with a rare condition called human severe combined immunodeficiency (Scid) XI. Such children are forced to live in a sterile "bubble" - b... | 390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | 'Real' employers | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/28/furthereducation.theguardian3 | Once again I find myself wondering why so many people put so much effort and energy into insoluble problems. The problem this time is that old chestnut about getting more employers involved in shaping the post-16 education system. For me this is one that can't be solved so let's accept it and move on. I'm also minded t... | 776 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Homework blues | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/schools.theguardian7 | Homework is a constant battle between me and my son, a year 10 student facing lots of GCSE coursework. I have offered to help, but how much help should I give him? He wants to go to college to study for his A levels in the future - I'm worried he won't even pass his GCSEs at this rate. Alwyn Morgan is a trainer and edu... | 857 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Terrorist case collapses after three years | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/richardnortontaylor | An unprecedented three-year terrorist case dramatically collapsed yesterday when an MI5 informant refused to appear in court after evidence which senior ministers tried to suppress revealed that Algerian government forces were involved in atrocities against innocent civilians. In a case that has implications for the te... | 1,234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | world | Leader: Slobodan on the slide | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/21/balkans.guardianleaders | Elections in Serbia this weekend are expected to consolidate the grip of reformers who led the charge to eject Slobodan Milosevic from the Yugoslav presidency last October. Despite talk of a comeback by the deposed war criminal and his sickening recent assertion that his "conscience is clear", his Socialist party seems... | 497 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | money | Hell for leather | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/07/observercashsection.theobserver9 | Sofa, so bad for buyer who lost £500 I paid a £500 deposit for a suite of furniture from World of Leather; but the company ceased trading in March, taking my money with it. I also paid £50 for a five-year warranty with Pinnacle Insurance, but when I claimed a refund, Pinnacle said it had no information about my policy ... | 1,186 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | business | Xerox takes the axe to jobs | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/14/7 | Xerox, the photocopying group, succumbed to investor pressure yesterday and announced a drastic restructuring after a series of profits warnings. Shares in the company fell 9% to $10.25, a 52-week low, in spite of a rally on Wall Street, after Xerox contradicted speculation that it was on the verge of filing for bankru... | 433 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/28/7 | BP Amoco in Alaska move BP Amoco is planning to ring fence Atlantic Richfield's Alaskan Prudhoe Bay assets, after a legal challenge from ExxonMobil, in an attempt to get its acquisition of Arco approved by the US federal trade commission. On Friday, ExxonMobil issued a legal challenge to try to stop BP Amoco selling Ar... | 474 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/3 | Gatwick casts e-net for thefts Police in Sussex are turning to email in their war against crime in a pioneering scheme being tested at Gatwick. From spring, victims will be able to report incidents, in particular minor offences such as theft, via the Gatwick online database (Gold) and police will download details on to... | 534 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/5 | Small firms not ready for euro About 600,000 British small firms with trading links to the European Union have made no preparations for working in the euro even though the currency will be in circulation in 14 months, the Treasury said yesterday. The Treasury's fourth report on euro preparation found that only 28% of s... | 514 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Leader: Free speech v privacy | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/bulger.guardianleaders | Four newspaper groups have joined forces in the high court this week to resist a further infringement of free speech. The Guardian declined to join them. We yield to no one in our commitment to campaign for a more open society. Few newspapers in democratic countries face the extended legal tentacles that curb British m... | 494 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | Second sight | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/internetnews.onlinesupplement3 | While I yield to no one in my admiration of Bill Gates, I totally disagree with his recent assertions about the Third World. He believes that the PC is the last thing that the developing world needs; the priority is for drugs and food. I beg to differ, unpopular though that view might be. The affluent West has been dol... | 1,334 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Sir Alec Guinness dies | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/5 | Sir Alec Guinness, the actor, died on Saturday night at the age of 86, it was announced late last night. The star of numerous Ealing comedies and Star Wars passed away at the King Edward VII Hospital in Midhurst, West Sussex, a hospital spokesman said. He had been taken ill at his home in the village of Steep Marsh, ne... | 307 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Metal makeover | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/efinance.internet1 | The world famous dealing ring at the London Metal Exchange, above, could disappear under sweeping proposals to modernise its trading systems, chairman Lord Bagri said yesterday. Yesterday's blueprint for change at the LME lays down that the screen trading platform, to be operated in parallel with the ring, ought to hav... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Police hold genocide suspect | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/chrismcgreal.mattwells | A former Rwandan army chief implicated in the slaughter of more than 100,000 people, who has been living in south London for almost two years, will appear in court today in the latest practical test of Britain's commitment to prosecuting international war criminals. Tharcisse Muvunyi, 46, was arrested at the weekend by... | 854 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | Philippine rebels free five hostages | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/philippines | Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines yesterday freed five of the 12 western hostages they have been holding for months, reportedly in exchange for $1m (£670,000) for each captive. The Abu Sayyaf rebels said the remaining prisoners, including a Malaysian and 12 Filipinos, would be released by next Friday. Howe... | 614 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | Technical knockouts | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jan/21/artsfeatures | There are pianists who move, sway, grimace, even sing along as they play - enchanting for some listeners, irritating for others. Stephen Hough is quite different. His body barely moves, his face hardly even twitches. All the action seems to come from the fingers and the forearms. The surprise is in the power of the sou... | 362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | business | BlackStar | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/06/efinance.shopping | It is what advisers might call a "brave decision," which roughly translated means it appears a damn fool idea or, at the very least, a risky one. Undeterred by the tumble in internet shares, British online video retailer BlackStar.co.uk unveiled plans yesterday to float on the London stock market. The company, which se... | 410 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Fiji military sets sights on coup plotters | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/fiji.theobserver | Fiji was in a state of emergency last night as the authorities contemplated the use of force to end a coup mounted by a failed businessman in protest at the island's political domination by ethnic Indians. Yesterday Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was beaten and threatened with death by George Speight, who with nine a... | 590 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | Canada's Chretien wins again despite `bitter' east-west divide | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/4 | The results of Monday's Canadian general election have proved a personal triumph for the prime minister, Jean Chretien, whose Liberal Party has been re-elected with an enhanced majority. The win is Mr Chretien's third victory in a row and comes in the wake of criticism over his decision to call an election less than th... | 357 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | world | From Senate to school board - America goes to the polls | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/07/uselections2000.usa3 | Americans do not just vote for a president today. They also elect a new House of Representatives, one third of the Senate, eleven state governors, and thousands of local council, school board and other posts in hundreds of towns, counties and states. In addition, voters in 39 states must decide on more than 180 state-w... | 714 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Custody for boy, 14, with 73 offences | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/3 | A boy aged 14 who twice broke an anti-social behaviour order was ordered yesterday to serve six months in a secure unit. Magistrates at Nottingham youth court had made an order allowing Decland Madigan to be identified in media reports, saying it was in the public interest to name him in an "exceptional case". Madigan ... | 365 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Chief constable attacks jail system | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/justice | A senior police officer last night strongly criticised the prison service for freeing a double killer who later murdered a teenage prostitute. In a savage attack on the role of the prison authorities, the West Midlands chief constable, Edward Crew, called for an urgent review after Paul Brumfitt was released after serv... | 283 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | technology | AOL circles BertelsmannNet stake | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/06/efinance.internet | America Online, the US Internet giant, is negotiating to buy German media combine Bertelsmann's 50 per cent stake in AOL Europe, the Internet service provider which has 2.8 million customers across nine countries. Sources in Germany said the talks were understood to have been going on for several days. Analysts believe... | 418 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | politics | While Donald's away... | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/28/scotlanddevolution.devolution | Devolved government within the United Kingdom is a work in progress. All judgments are interim. All events, even such accidents as the discovery of Donald Dewar's heart problem, have the potential to teach both the citizens of Wales and Scotland and the rest of us something about the range and staying power of the new ... | 483 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | politics | Peers inflict social security defeats | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/28/politicalnews.politics1 | The government's plans to withhold social security benefits from people who breach a community service order for a second time suffered a sharp rebuke from the Lords last night when peers insisted that courts must decide such issues, not officials. Peers were angry that claimants who might simply be "20 minutes late" f... | 352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Row over hit film leads to FBI sting | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/filmnews.film | The former husband and the former boyfriend of the woman on whom the hit film Erin Brockovich was based have been arrested for trying to extort more than $300,000 (£190,400) from her. They had allegedly threatened to make false claims to the American tabloids that Ms Brockovich, played by Julia Roberts in the film, had... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | Put that pain where it belongs | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/15/features.jobsmoney2 | Is your utility company turning a deaf ear to your complaints? Here we list the standard ways to make a complaint, plus less conventional ways to hit back if you are persistently ignored. Conventional • Try Ofgem, the office of gas and electricity markets, at www.ofgem.gov.uk or 0800 888777. It will guide you to either... | 339 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | money | £200,000 for reference refusal | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/28/workandcareers.uknews | A woman whose former employer refused her a reference was yesterday awarded nearly £200,000 in compensation. Belinda Coote, 38, left her job as manager of an east London bowling centre run by Granada Hospitality Ltd in 1993 after receiving a settlement of £11,000 following a sexual discrimination complaint against the ... | 738 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Matalan records 31% jump in sales | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/15/5 | Matalan, the out-of-town fashion and homeware chain, has continued its blitz on the British clothing market - posting a 31% jump in comparable sales. The figures are before Matalan's summer sale to start later this month, which is expected to push its growth even higher. In the 19 weeks to July 8, like-for-like sales g... | 542 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | US election: Seven key players who have waited for this moment | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa8 | Dick Cheney The vice-president elect was the first President Bush's defence secretary. He is another Texan oilman who sees the world through an oilman's eyes, with an inherent tendency to equate US interests with those of American big business. He was put on the ticket to compensate Bush Jr's inexperience in foreign af... | 875 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | technology | The week on the net | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/28/internetnews | Things on the web are definitely not what they used to be: tighter restrictions are starting to bite, with more court cases and further legal restrictions pending against alleged transgressors of the new e-commerce hierarchy. Last week, Napster (the MP3 music download site) was dragged into further litigation with the ... | 538 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | environment | Downing Street acts after landfill tax dodge revealed | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/apr/07/politics.waste | Downing Street has intervened to review the country's waste policy following the Guardian's disclosure of abuses of the £1bn landfill tax and of widespread illegal dumping across Britain, it emerged last night. John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, was due to announce government plans for the future of waste dispos... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Tube cashes in on movie magic | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/filmnews.transport | While London commuters may begrudge paying £3.90 for a day's travel on the underground, Hollywood directors are queuing to pay £200 an hour to turn the Tube into a film set. Last year, London Underground received over 200 filming requests and provided the backdrop for scenes from this year's hit, Billy Elliot. Previous... | 377 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | environment | Southern Europe swelters in African heat | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/jul/07/weather.climatechange | A freak heat blast from the Sahara subjected south-eastern Europe to sweltering temperatures yesterday with countries from Greece to Romania reporting heat-related deaths as the thermometer broke century-old records climbing to 45C (113F). In a rare show of unanimity, governments across the baking Balkans advised peopl... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | global | Cruising at new heights | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/14/features11.g22 | Staggering news. A man called Martin Langham, who used to be a British Caledonian trolley dolly - cabin crew for those who live in a camp-free world - is starting a "gay-friendly" airline called Freedom Airways. It's going to fly out of Manchester, which is very homosexual in these post-industrial days when warehouses ... | 977 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Ask Jack, Sept 14 | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/askjack.onlinesupplement | PC speed I am working on a scientific project where speed and storage are the limiting factors, and am waiting to update my PC until something sufficiently attractive comes at a reasonable price. But all the Ram seems to be 100MHz only, so having a 700MHz processor doesn't seem to offer anything over my present PC. Am ... | 1,184 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Quotes of the day | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/gender.uk1 | "I quite like the idea of feeling dirty, cheap and used but, like a good prostitute, I prefer to work for my money" The irrepressible (ahem) Denise Van Outen on why she won't sell her wedding photos to a glossy mag, Sun "She looked uncomfortable. Her picture did not make for an exciting cover" A spokesperson for Harper... | 381 |
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