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guardian
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2000-10-06
world
Annan wants UN to try teenagers for war crimes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/sierraleone.unitednations
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, has asked the security council to approve the prosecution of child soldiers accused of murder, mutilation and rape in Sierra Leone. But Unicef and other child-welfare groups have condemned the plan to put them in front of an international court, saying that no matter wh...
683
guardian
2,000
2000-05-06
uk-news
Moaning men push women to back of the health queue
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/robinmckie.theobserver
Men are the real moaners about their health. By contrast, women are much more stoical about their ailments. Women have known this for a long time, of course, but now female certainty about the weakness of the male of the species has been supported by scientists. British researchers have found that men are more likely t...
1,114
guardian
2,000
2000-08-20
business
Pichetsrieder favourite for top job at VW
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/21/5
Bernd Pichetsrieder, who was the chief executive of BMW when it bought Rover, is being tipped to become the next head of Volkswagen. But he faces competition from his fellow VW management board member, Martin Winterkorn . VW is run by Ferdinand Piech, who has expanded the group's brand portfolio with a series of acquis...
127
guardian
2,000
2000-11-28
uk-news
G2: A country diary
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/ruralaffairs.countrydiary
A cottage dating from Cromwell's time, on the edge of a straggling village, was once the place where the cobbler lived and worked. What used to be his workshop is now a store and woodshed. One morning recently, when the present owners lifted the latch and looked in, they were surprised by the sight of an elderly ewe wi...
382
guardian
2,000
2000-03-14
uk-news
US airport security demands anger UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/transport.freedomofinformation
John Prescott is involved in a row over US anti-terrorism plans to bring in security agents to check passengers at Heathrow and Gatwick on all transatlantic services run by British Airways and Virgin Airlines. The US government wants to force all foreign airlines to have identical security programmes to US companies fr...
585
guardian
2,000
2000-07-27
society
Blair unveils NHS plan for 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jul/27/futureofthenhs.health2
More than 20,000 extra nurses, 7,500 more consultants and 2,000 GPs are to be employed in the NHS as the cornerstone of the government's national plan for reform of the health service, the prime minister promised today. An extra 7,000 NHS beds - including 5,000 intermediate care places to look after elderly people and ...
1,330
guardian
2,000
2000-02-07
law
Case of the week: You can't sue me, I'm immune
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/law.claredyer
As human rights groups and Belgium make a last-ditch attempt this week to thwart General Pinochet's return to Chile, another torture case is re-surfacing in the courts. As it was in Pinochet's case, the issue is whether the doctrine of state immunity allows agents of the state to escape liability for acts of torture. S...
398
guardian
2,000
2000-04-28
uk-news
Death of MP splits Ulster Unionists over byelection
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/northernireland.johnmullin
Ulster Unionists were at odds last night over a forthcoming parliamentary byelection in south Antrim following the sudden death yesterday of Clifford Forsythe, 70, an opponent of the Good Friday agreement. David Trimble, the party's leader, will want see one of his south Antrim assembly members, Duncan Shipley-Dalton o...
267
guardian
2,000
2000-02-06
world
Left's anger could help Haider
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/austria.theobserver1
Riot police armed with water cannon surrounded the headquarters in central Vienna of Jörg Haider's far right Freedom Party for the second night in a row after demonstrators attempted to march on the building in protest against the party's presence in government. As Austria's trade unions threatened to launch street pro...
447
guardian
2,000
2000-11-28
society
Analysis: Political parties and tax policy
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/education.britishidentityandsociety
Today's British Social Attitudes (BSA) report complements yesterday's from the Fabian Society in what they say about our attitudes towards tax. Spending wins over tax cuts by a large margin among both Tory and Labour supporters. (The table on the right is based on an August ICM poll; people were asked about spending v ...
1,149
guardian
2,000
2000-12-14
world
Bush must keep an eye on Putin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/worlddispatch.simontisdall
When Russian jet fighters swooped down over the US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan recently, the American crew did not see them coming until it was far too late. Although the Pentagon later insisted the Russian planes had been picked up on the ship's radar, it was clear the Kitty Hawk had been caught by...
1,178
guardian
2,000
2000-09-28
uk-news
Money worries add to parents' pressure
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/raekhaprasad
When her daughter was four months old, Jane Andrews resumed work, leaving home at 6.30am and returning at 9pm five days a week. As a deck hand for the port of London authority, she was entitled to maternity leave of nine months but could afford to take only the 16 weeks for which she received pay. "It was horrible goin...
874
guardian
2,000
2000-06-07
world
Fiji penalised by foreign ministers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/fiji.johnaglionby
Commonwealth foreign ministers punished Fiji yesterday with a partial suspension from the organisation as the hostage standoff after the seizure of the ethnic Indian prime minister moved towards the end of its third week. It also decided to send an urgent mission to the islands to press for a timetable for a return to ...
583
guardian
2,000
2000-01-14
business
His instincts are right
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/emu.theeuro
"This is the fight back," the foreign secretary told our diplomatic editor a week ago. Reliant Robin promised to tramp the boards for six months selling the euro to Britain. The same day, the trade and industry secretary, Stephen Byers, sounded his call to arms: euro membership was a stimulant to foreign investment; de...
760
guardian
2,000
2000-12-27
world
Comment: Catholic heir to throne might still be unacceptable
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/27/religion.monarchy
"Establishment" has cropped up more than once in the Guardian's Republican campaign; and generally (including in pieces by people who should have known better), the argument has centred upon the Church of England. But "establishment" is primarily about the state, about government and about the principles and visions up...
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guardian
2,000
2000-09-28
global
Review: Philharmonia/Sanderling
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/29/artsfeatures2
Shostakovich's 15th Symphony is, for many, one of the composer's most perplexing works. Written when he was seriously ill, it was his last statement in the genre - and, far from taking the form of a self-conscious Mahlerian farewell, it's characterised by an enigmatic inscrutability. In some respects, it pre-empts post...
581
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2,000
2000-09-14
business
Blair warns on sweat shop labour
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/12
Rich western countries must help developing nations get rid of "sweat shop" conditions if they want them to embrace global free trade Tony Blair warned yesterday. Trade sanctions against countries using child labour or polluting the environment are often counterproductive, according to a cabinet office report launched ...
296
guardian
2,000
2000-02-21
world
Milan fashion shows begin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/jesscartnermorleyonfashion.expertopinions
Milan fashion week, which began this weekend, is often seen as a sensible contrast to the antics of London's maverick designers. But Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of the Dolce & Gabbana house are two designers who consistently do their best to inject some teen spirit into fashion's biggest financial capital - ...
412
guardian
2,000
2000-04-21
money
Tokyo backs plans to set up Asian IMF
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/business.personalfinancenews
Japan is backing a plan by Asian governments to set up a multibillion-dollar emergency fund to defend their currencies from speculative attacks of the kind which triggered the global financial crisis in 1997. A Japanese newspaper reported yesterday that Tokyo has thrown its weight behind the fund, which was approved in...
396
guardian
2,000
2000-11-21
us-news
US elections: High politics and low farce
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa5
As in a saintly vision, Donato Dalrymple appeared, as he seems to whenever television cameras are gathered together. The odd thing was that even many hardcore correspondents failed to recognise him at first. He looked familiar, but then the place was crawling with familiar looking people, so Dalrymple looked as though ...
878
guardian
2,000
2000-07-14
uk-news
Liverpool drink ban to beat crime
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/helencarter
Police in Liverpool have been given powers to seize glasses and opened bottles of alcohol in a measure aimed at reducing street crime. The bylaw, introduced yesterday, is the first of its kind in England and Wales. It goes further than the alcohol-free zones introduced in other cities such as Belfast and Coventry. Poli...
312
guardian
2,000
2000-10-28
money
Property: Eco-friendly homes
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver3
Energy efficiency is no longer the preserve of the worthy environmentalists or the well-off who design their own eco-friendly houses. Some of Britain's most expensive properties have long had solar panels, water recycling and more fuel-efficient versions of air-conditioning - but at a cost. Now a new generation of buil...
1,190
guardian
2,000
2000-06-28
society
RD Laing: The rise and fall of a radical psychiatrist
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement3
Childhood Born in 1927 in Glasgow of Presbyterian parents. His mother regularly burnt his toys while his father and grandfather engaged in what biographer Daniel Burston called "brutal scenes in the parlour". By age 15, Laing was reading Voltaire, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Career After medical school and the army, he ...
419
guardian
2,000
2000-12-14
media
Egg is leading independent online bank
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/newmedia.citynews
Prudential-owned Egg has cemented itself as the UK's largest independent online bank by revealing it has more than 1.33m customers. In a trading statement published this morning, Egg said it was meeting targets and continuing to add customers. Egg said it had signed up 141,000 customers from the beginning of October to...
283
guardian
2,000
2000-07-21
world
Not a crumb from G7 table
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/22/debtrelief.development
The world's seven richest industrialised nations yesterday failed to agree any new proposals to breathe life into their flagging plans to relieve the third world's debt burden. Despite efforts by Tony Blair to persuade his fellow G7 leaders to do more to respond to campaigners around the globe calling for a fairer deal...
759
guardian
2,000
2000-11-14
world
View from Paris: Why French politicians keep mum on Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/eu.politics1
France, in case anyone had forgotten, currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union. And next month, in Nice, a summit will be held which should, in theory and among other things, agree the major institutional changes needed to enlarge the EU to up to 30 members. So it comes as something of a ...
920
guardian
2,000
2000-09-21
uk-news
Trident protesters may face retrial after non-verdict
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/angeliquechrisafis
Two protesters who swam 150 metres in wetsuits to a Trident submarine and smashed testing equipment with a lump hammer could face a retrial for criminal damage, after a jury at Manchester crown court failed to reach a verdict yesterday and was discharged. Rachel Wenham, 28, from Leeds, and Rosie James, 25, from London,...
411
guardian
2,000
2000-09-14
global
Hot topics on the hit list
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/14/guardianweekly.guardianweekly11
There isn't a professor on the planet who doesn't know the feeling of lecturing a roomful of bored, listless students. Some of those professors, hoping to pump oxygen into the room, pepper their lectures with hip cultural references. They urge their students to see the parallels between the lives they are studying and ...
1,055
guardian
2,000
2000-05-21
world
Son sues mum for his upkeep
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/theobserver2
A mother's love lasts for ever - and so does her duty to maintain her children in the style to which they are accustomed, even if they are grown up. But a divorced mother of three, ordered by the Spanish courts to pay for the upkeep of an adult son, has launched a crusade to change a curious law which requires parents ...
548
guardian
2,000
2000-11-14
education
Tales to inspire children
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/14/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers
I Have a Dream by Neil Tonge (Hodder Wayland, £8.50, 7-11 years) presents a chance encounter between a little boy and Martin Luther King. The illustrated narrative concentrates on the motivation behind his commitment to racial equality, and on the famous Montgomery bus boycott that triggered reform in the USA. This was...
711
guardian
2,000
2000-07-14
world
France goes the extra mile for the metre
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/paulwebster
A 375-mile long red and white tablecloth is ready to be unfurled. Fridges the length of France are stuffed with cold chicken and chilled wine. Four million people have received personal invitations. Now only the weather can spoil a unique event - the July 14 Incredible Picnic. Part of the millennium festivities, the pi...
573
guardian
2,000
2000-12-14
politics
Macpherson: what did Hague say when the report was launched?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/14/conservatives.uk
William Hague: Does the Prime Minister agree that every decent person in the country, regardless of politics, will wish to show sympathy and support for the family of Stephen Lawrence, and will feel shame and disgust that his murderers have not been brought to justice? Does he also agree that, if some good is to come o...
495
guardian
2,000
2000-04-14
world
The show is now over when Fat Lucy sings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/14/martinkettle1
When does a conqueror decide to stop conquering and live on his memories? It is a problem that Alexander the Great and Napoleon never solved until others forced it on them, and now it confronts the mighty Luciano Pavarotti too. From the moment that he made the operatic world sit up more than 30 years ago, Pavarotti has...
763
guardian
2,000
2000-06-07
politics
How 'Bonkers' launched the battle for Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.oxbridgeandelitism
William Hague's populist attacks on the "liberal elite" carry an uncanny echo of criticism of the same group by a maverick rightwinger nicknamed Bonkers. The Conservative leader has read The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens, a very conservative columnist on the very New Labour Daily Express, and has discussed it ...
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guardian
2,000
2000-08-21
uk-news
The David Shayler case
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/qanda
Why is David Shayler in the news? David Shayler, 34, is a renegade MI5 officer who has spoken out against the way the British secret services are run. He claims they are unaccountable and inefficient. This morning, he returned to Britain from France and was arrested at Dover port immediately after his arrival at 11am. ...
491
guardian
2,000
2000-04-07
world
Dyke pledges to double ethnic minority staff in top BBC jobs
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/race.world
The BBC's new director-general, Greg Dyke, today pledged to double the number of BBC management staff from ethnic minorities. Mr Dyke, who was speaking at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media Awards, co-sponsored by Guardian Unlimited, said that the BBC "could do better" in its portrayal of eth...
365
guardian
2,000
2000-02-28
global
Don't call me an inventor
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/28/features11.g22
Now, bins. Kitchen bins. There's some secret stuff going on at James Dyson's factory HQ in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. More revolutionary products in design on the tail (or the hose) of his mould-breaking bagless, see-through Dual Cyclone vacuum. So hush-hush that those involved have to sign a secrecy clause, have to promis...
2,158
guardian
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2000-12-07
global
Explainer: the EU summit in Nice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/qanda.derekbrown
Why and where are the EU leaders meeting? They always meet twice a year, at the end of each presidency, which rotates among member states in alphabetical order. Since July 1 France has been the president-nation, and in the EU tradition of gracious, not to say lavish, hospitality, it is hosting this summit on the Medite...
761
guardian
2,000
2000-01-21
uk-news
Study disproves fluoridation risk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/sarahboseley
Adding fluoride to drinking water would not lead to more hip fractures as its opponents have argued, according to research published in this week's Lancet. The study is a blow to those who have fought against universal fluoridation of the water supply to gain an improvement in dental health, particularly in children. O...
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guardian
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2000-01-21
business
Artprice makes bourse debut
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/21/personalfinancenews.business
This morning Artprice.com will make its debut on France's Nouveau Marché. Nothing too earth-shattering about that, you might think, but in fact Artprice is the first dot.com to hit the Paris market. "We have online brokers, we have software houses, we have companies specialising in internet technology but until now we ...
751
guardian
2,000
2000-11-28
politics
Comment: Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/28/labour.labour1997to99
Back in mid-September, the Anglo-American right believed it was winning hearts and votes. George W Bush was 10 points ahead in many polls, and Gallup said William Hague had eased into a five-point lead. The Labour party was plunged into the alarm that is far more habitual to its nature than arrogance. Excitable rightis...
1,479
guardian
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2000-11-07
business
Loop levy points to £10 a month bill
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/internetnews.business3
Consumers could pay as little as £10 a month for new high-bandwidth services made available by the break-up of British Telecom's monopoly of the local telephone network. The first indication of what it will cost the public to acquire high-speed internet connection was given yesterday when the telecoms regulator Oftel a...
496
guardian
2,000
2000-07-21
business
Biotech start-up Vernalis set for first drug launch
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/22/11
Vernalis, one of Britain's biotechnology pioneers, yesterday won approval to sell its first product, a pill providing 24-hour relief from migraines. Medical authorities in France gave the green light for the company to launch the drug, called Migard, later this year. This will trigger automatic approval in other Europe...
394
guardian
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2000-12-07
technology
Start here... How to dress Windows
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/onlinesupplement6
One of the nice things about Microsoft Windows is that you can sit down and use almost any PC anywhere. That's the theory. But Windows is so easy to tweak that most of us customise it so much that when we sit down at someone else's PC, it looks wrong. Why aren't the icons we need handy? Why are some utilities? And why ...
1,053
guardian
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2000-04-07
world
Young radicals show a clenched fist to Milosevic's state machine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/1
Along the walls of the Plateau, a student area just off the main pedestrian street in the heart of Belgrade, three young men with a bucket of glue, a paint-roller, and a pile of posters are moving rapidly along a wall. On each poster is a clenched fist, the word Otpor, which means Resistance, and the slogan "Because I ...
915
guardian
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2000-05-21
business
Media diary
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/theobserver.observerbusiness6
Sparrows or just tits? Moved by the plight of the small feathered friends that regularly commit suicide by smashing into his office window, bird-like Independent editor Simon Kelner has launched a campaign to Save a Sparrow. Kelner is, we hear, keen to participate personally in this marvellous campaign by keeping a num...
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2000-07-07
business
Falling Egg faces uncertain future
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/1
Four weeks into life as a publicly quoted company and Egg, the internet-cum-telephone bank, is being fried. Its shares, eagerly bought last month by customers, employees and institutional investors, fell even further past the 160p offer price yesterday. Investment banks Deutsche Bank and Nomura triggered the latest rou...
504
guardian
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2000-09-07
politics
A home of their own
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/07/liberaldemocrats.comment
A political party's distinctiveness lies in some combination of positive policy and not being the other lot. The fate of third parties is to have two other lots from whom to distinguish themselves. Yesterday the Liberal Democrats affirmed that the greater distance is between themselves and the Tories. On the big issues...
389
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2000-02-21
uk-news
How Labour failed the Lawrence test
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime2
"We taught Macpherson and Macpherson taught the world," was the way a black activist who had given evidence to the Stephen Lawrence inquiry greeted its findings. For her, it was not just the report's conclusions that mattered - ordinary black people, who had borne the brunt of institutional racism knew all about it - b...
2,057
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2000-04-21
world
Russia sends mixed signals on nuclear weapons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/russia.marktran
Russia today sent mixed messages on nuclear weapons as its state parliament ratified the comprehensive test ban treaty while its national security council adopted a new more aggressive strategy. The new military doctrine adopted by Russia's top security officials is intended to replace a 1993 version. In one of its key...
640
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2000-08-28
uk-news
Report calls for six-term school year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/education.schools
Teachers' fears about losing their biggest perk - the long summer holiday - will resurface this week when an influential local authority commission recommends introduction of a six-term academic year. In a package of changes to the traditional school calendar, a commission set up by the Local Government Association wil...
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2000-09-14
media
Newspaper distributors ask government for petrol supplies
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/pressandpublishing3
Newspaper distributors are continuing to lobby the government for preferential treatment in the petrol shortage, amid fears that a let-up in the crisis has come too late. Steve Oram, director of the Newspaper Publishers Association, said that renewed optimism following the ending of the lorry drivers' blockade could be...
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2000-01-21
business
On message
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/efinance.internet
• Donor : The founder of Netscape Communications , James Barksdale, and his wife, Sally, is giving $100m to help Mississippi children learn to read. Mr Barksdale now runs Barksdale Group, an investment firm. • Buyer : Lexis-Nexis Europe, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier , says it is to buy the business information product...
195
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2000-11-28
media
Channel 4 winter arts line-up 'a bit thin'
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/channel4.communicationsact
A senior Channel 4 executive admitted today that its winter schedule was 'a bit thin' in serious arts and culture programmes. Janey Walker, managing editor of commissioning, conceded that the broadcaster's new season of programmes didn't include enough serious arts programmes. But she insisted that the broadcaster stil...
335
guardian
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2000-07-21
uk-news
Leniency plea for Straw's driver
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/alantravis
The Police Federation yesterday called for leniency in dealing with the special branch officer who was caught speeding while driving the home secretary, Jack Straw, to a Labour party engagement. The police have not decided whether to charge the unnamed officer, who was caught driving at 103mph on the M5 earlier this mo...
390
guardian
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2000-04-14
uk-news
Noye's defence
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/marktran
Kenneth Noye said he left home on Sunday May 19 1996 to drive to a pub in Chislehurst, Kent, to have a drink with friends. On the way, he saw a red Rascal van but said he did not remember "cutting up" the vehicle, as the prosecution claimed. He thought he recognised the driver, Danielle Cable, as a woman he met in a ni...
489
guardian
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2000-04-28
business
BMW's statement on the breakdown of talks with Alchemy
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/rover3
BMW and Alchemy have terminated their negotiations. No agreement was reached on the sale of Rover Car Operations to Alchemy. The negotiating partners were finally unable to come to an understanding with respect to certain conditions of contract. BMW Group will now pursue alternative routes to bring to an end its involv...
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