... Double-speak VENTS in Europe are embarrassing the British Government in a manner that will force it to come clean over the single European currency. Labour and its allies in big business would have us believe that scrapping the pound for the euro is a ...

... Speak hour TELEVISION'S teletent service on Skye is improving, notes Sheep Throat, with fewer literal mistakes although the content still taxes what passes for: his intellect. Two recent example: “Talking buys stops for blind” - we suspect that it's the ...

... So Tay speak LAST week’s Dundonian dialect phrases from the maternity unit at Ninewells Hospital spurred Isobel Robertson of Banfllj.lt Dundee, to write with two more she remembers from the 19505. “Eh’m be’ur” (I have had my baby) and “thon’s a nurse whit ...

... Who is speaking for Britain? CURIOUSER and curiouser, as Alice said, and with each day that passes the Sandline affair seems to resemble goings-on in Wonderland rather than the real world. No-one disputes that a proper end was achieved, with the fall ...

... Industry to speak with one voice A NEW business alliance to promote electronic commerce in the UK has been formed l:iy five big buisiness associations banding together in a fresh initiative. The Alliance for Electronic Business will lobby government and ...

... Gestures that can speak volumes ‘movements of Ravel’s String:Quartet . inF, in which Van Manen creates very specific movement: strands foreach - couple.:The first-pair’s skittering feet skim the floor, the second'are more - formal-and elegant; the'third: ...

... a haddock, so to speak lutely everything. “Shame on you Leighton!” it railed at the dgoal keeper the following day, for doing exactly as it had demanded 24 hours earlier. It got better. The Record Hotline, as usual, treated us to the thoughts of some ...

... Voters’ choice of plays speaks volumes by many as one of the great plays of the century, failed to make the top 20, as did the Kirriemuir-born J M Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. ~ Professor Jan McDonald, of the University of Glasgow’s department of ...

... THE SCOTSMAN Gold, myrrh and speaking sense MY SCHOOLDAYS - Tom Pow Where did you go to | £ The Royal High School of-, Edinburgh, primary and - . . .secondary. It was a grant‘ aided boys' school at the .- time.Therewasan - . intelligence test to enter ...

... Workers should be allowed to speak freely Sir, - Since there are so many concerns about the management of the Dounreay nuclear site, and the safety aspects concerned with it, we feel that before undertaking any major clean-up or decommissioning programme ...

... Actress speaks out at capital premier THE Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, above, last night accused the independent prosecutor investigating Bill Clinton of conducting a witch hunt against the president, writes David Jack:.- Speaking at the UK ...

... ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION oS SOOTLAND. -it [ Thyne Scholatshlp 2t The Scottish National ‘Committee of - the - English- Speaking Union invite outstanding people in Scotland at the formative stage of their career, who can demonstrate achievement in their chosen ...