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- Publishing News: Long lead time leaves Lindsay in magazine -- After extending her stay at luxury rehab facility Promises, Lindsay Lohan "seems committed to finally getting clean." |
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- Publishing News: Bennett, Simonoff fill director positions -- Tina Bennett and Eric Simonoff have been upped to directors of top Gotham lit agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates. |
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- Publishing News: 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' back in business -- Film shingle and comicbook publisher Dark Horse announced it will bring back the classic properties "Creepy" and "Eerie." Dark Horse will publish both catalog material and new titles; it will mine the properties for film and TV development and control some merchandising rights. |
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- Publishing News: Boycott aimed to highlight threat of megastores -- Malaysia's biggest book chains ended a Harry Potter book sales boycott Tuesday that aimed to highlight how their business is threatened by grocery megastores that slash book prices. |
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- Publishing News: Final 'Harry Potter' book breaks previous record -- In a rare instance of the printed word grabbing the spotlight over movies and videogames, youthful buyers snapped up 8.3 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in its first 24 hours of release in the U.S. this weekend. |
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- Publishing News: Midnight madness strikes 'Harry' fans -- A Variety correspondent sacificed his Friday night to spend it with a host of Muggles at one of the larger release parties for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Here's his report from the frontlines. |
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- Publishing News: Newsapers phasing out veteran critics -- In the 1980s, TV critics such as Howard Rosenberg and Tom Shales won Pulitzer Prizes for their efforts. Two decades later, many smallscreen reviewers consider it a victory just to have a job. |
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- Publishing News: Agreement is for original $5 billion offer price -- Rupert Murdoch appeared closer than ever Monday night to landing Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. News Corp. looked poised to buy the company after the DJ board agreed to a deal in principle for about $60 per share, or $5 billion, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's website. |
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- Publishing News: Magazine's directors ready for closeups -- This summer, production begins in Los Angeles on Glamour magazine's third series of Reel Moments, three short films directed by Hollywood insiders. |
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- Publishing News: Book to be released in May -- Brit novelist Sebastian Faulks has been commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to pen "Devil May Care," a new James Bond book to mark the centenary of Fleming's birth next year. |
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- Publishing News: Program tied to release of anchor's book -- Tom Brokaw is returning to the airwaves with a look back at a seminal period in U.S. history. The news personality, who garnered strong ratings with his NBC special "The Greatest Generation," is collaborating with the History Channel on a spec about the year 1968. |
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- Chesterfield News | Chesterfield Accountants | Chesterfield Restaurants | Chesterfield Garage Services | Chesterfield Business |
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- The British army's military operation in Northern Ireland draws to a close after 38 years. |
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- Price: $39.00; Rating: 4. |
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- Price: $39.99; Rating: 3. |
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Amazon (Jul 31 2007 23:54 GMT) - Price: $66.37; Rating: 3. |
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- THE price of a pint of milk is to rise by 3p, in the first evidence of the impact devastating floods south of the Border are having on shopping bills. |
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- SURVIVAL rates after heart attacks, strokes and hip operations are improving in Scotland - but wide variations remain across the country, new figures show. |
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- IT IS the most important day of your life, and probably the most expensive. But with the average cost of tying the knot in the UK rising to £20,000, many couples are choosing to cut their costs and marry abroad. |
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- LARGE stretches of Scotland's upland wilderness are in such poor condition that flooding risks are increasing, the quality of the country's drinking water is being compromised and local wildlife is being threatened. |
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- Death, celebrity and advertising: Edinburgh's summer celebration of the pop artist's career covers all the angles, writes TIM CORNWELL. |
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- DOG-BREEDERS are evading Scottish laws by sending their animals south of the Border to have their tails docked. |
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- ZIMBABWE'S inflation rate could hit 100,000 per cent by the end of the year, the International Monetary Fund predicted yesterday. |
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- GORDON Brown last night celebrated a diplomatic triumph, with the United Nations agreeing to deploy a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Sudan's embattled region of Darfur. |
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- FOR hundreds of years it has been a staple of the Scots diet with generations reared on its health-giving properties. |
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- DETECTIVES are on the trail of more than £10 million worth of luxury houses, cars, bank accounts and other assets hoarded by crime bosses. |
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- THE farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chilli pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled with... |
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- MONEY can't buy you love but it can buy you happiness, with a study putting the price of contentment at £29 a day. |
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- HE IS the famously abrasive tycoon whose TV catchphrase "You're fired!" has entered the national consciousness. |
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- UNIVERSITIES have been accused of "social engineering" with the inclusion of a new question on their application forms asking potential students if their parents had a higher education. |
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- A MAN died playing cricket with his son as they were pelted with sticks and stones by a mob of youngsters, a court heard yesterday. |
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- A SENIOR bank official who was branded a golf cheat after an opponent accused him of twice misplacing his ball has failed to clear his name through the courts. |
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- CAMBODIA'S genocide tribunal charged the former chief of a Khmer Rouge torture camp with crimes against humanity yesterday in the court's first indictment against a senior member of the communist group believed to be responsible for the deaths of 1.7... |
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- CONDOLEEZZA Rice, the United States' secretary of state, and Robert Gates, the defence secretary, joined forces in the Middle East yesterday to push Arab allies to do more to stabilise Iraq and counter the rise of Iran. |
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- HUNDREDS of people are continuing to drink and drive in the belief they will not be caught, police said yesterday as they revealed a sharp increase in offenders in the latest Scotland-wide crackdown. |
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- SCOTLAND'S biggest-ever Highland games is to be staged in Edinburgh as part of a year of events aimed at attracting people from around the world to visit Scotland or come here to live. |
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- MINISTERS insisted yesterday they would not be pushed into introducing full competition into Scotland's law services, despite a call by the UK's competition watchdog to lift restrictions. |
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- A STUDENT was yesterday found guilty of setting two bull terrier dogs on a group of schoolchildren. |
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- A YOUTH attacked and raped a teenager three weeks after he was released early from a young offenders' institution. |
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- A HEADTEACHER was convicted yesterday over the death of a three-year-old pupil who banged his head in a playground tumble - in a case that is expected to have "profound implications" for the profession. |
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- THE Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was jailed for six years yesterday for acquiring guns from gangsters involved in India's worst bombings, ending an epic trial that transfixed the country with tales of terror and revenge. |
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- A SPECIAL forces commando killed in a gunbattle with the Taleban was last night described as "impossible to replace". |
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- THE vast majority of people who leap to their deaths from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge are local residents, according to a study that challenges the notion that the span draws jumpers from around the globe. |
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- ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, met Muslim leaders yesterday and urged Scotland's communities to unite to tackle the threats of terrorism, racism and sectarianism. |
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- IRAN has unveiled the world's largest hand-woven carpet, a masterpiece nearly large enough to cover a football pitch. |
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- THE number of Scottish members of the European parliament should be cut from seven to six, the independent Electoral Commission has recommended. |
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- THE number of dentists working in the health service in Scotland increased last year, but the number of adults able to access NHS treatment is still falling, figures showed yesterday. |
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- VAST areas of Scotland's fishing grounds are to be closed to the country's trawlers in a groundbreaking voluntary scheme to protect cod stocks, it was revealed yesterday. |
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