The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* The Colony Room 28/10/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* Lisa 'left eye' lopes 04/11/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* Teenage kicks 11/11/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* Louis Walsh 18/11/01 M 4 1>2 Photograph
* Taboo 25/11/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* Essential Latin 02/12/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* The Christmas No. 1 09/12/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
* Pantos 16/12/01 M 5 1>2 Photograph
LONDON
* The past is oozing to the surface as drills demolish City blocks
of the 1970s - see Architecture 18/02/01
* A year after London's big wheel threw open its pods to the
public 18/02/01 M 28>31 1>4 Photographs
* Police were called to the scene of an explosion that ripped
through a Post Office sorting office in London 15/04/01 B 2 3
* The former South African president Nelson Mandela yesterday
opened a new £10m annex at Southwark Cathedral in London -
see Mandela, Nelson 29/04/01
* London's fall from grace… how the capital of cool lost its
allure 29/04/01 B 8>9 1>8 Photographs
* The ultra-conservative Corporation of London is to force
developers to build affordable homes in East London boroughs if
they want ambitious skyscraper plans to get off the ground
13/05/01 N 1 1>3
* The Corporation of London is planning a dramatic expansion
of the Square Mile to cope with huge demands from
international banks and to maintain the City's place as Europe's
top financial centre 03/06/01 N 1 1>7
* A new book makes a shocking claim about London's air: it is
actually the cleanest it has been since the Middle Ages - see
Pollution 10/06/01
* London's great Victorian power stations are slowly running out
of steam, but a series of daring new developments is firing up the
lives of Battersea, Bankside and Lots Road - see Interiors
17/06/01
* A row is brewing over London's skyline, at stake is the future
of some of the highrise residential and commercial towers
planned for the capital - see Property 24/06/01
* If developers destroy London's Spitalfields Market, then every
inner-city site in the country will also come under threat - see
Architecture 15/07/01
* Two Real IRA terrorist cells are operating in London and are
intent on launching further attacks in the wake of last week's
Ealing bombing - see Ireland 05/08/01
* For his debut film, South West Nine, director Richard Parry
wanted to capture the authentic face of Brixton, south London,
so he took to casting straight off its streets - see Parry, Richard
30/09/01
* The most important planning inquiry since Heathrow Terminal
Five will take place in London which will shape forever the
skyline of many UK cities - see Town Planning 21/10/01
* An attempt to create a new London village is marred by bad
design and execution - see Architecture 28/10/01
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
* The London Stock Exchange has found a new headquarters in
the controversial Paternoster Square development 08/04/01 N 1
4>6 Illustration
* The London Stock Exchange looks set to be odds-on favourite
to win the auction for the Liffe derivatives market - see Financial
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Institutions 28/10/01
* Interview with Clara Furse, the first woman chief executive of
the London Stock Exchange - see Furse, Clara 11/11/01
LONDON UNDERGROUND
* Two of Britain's aristocratic families, the Guinnesses and the
Waughs, are launching a system for dispensing short stories on
the London Underground - see Books 07/01/01
* Tony Blair steps in as Tube privatisation fears escalate
07/01/01 N 1 1>3 Photograph
* The chief of one of the consortiums bidding to run the London
Underground has threatened the Government with legal action if
substantial changes are made to the financing of the Public-
Private Partnership 04/02/01 N 1 5>7
* Last-ditch talks aimed at reaching a deal on how to fund and
run London's Underground are deadlocked just days before the
deadline 25/02/01 N 1 2>7
* The European Investment Bank is ready to lend up to £5bn to
help rescue a publicly controlled London Tube 04/03/01 N 1
1>7
* Could public private partnership ever keep the Tube's head
above water? 04/03/01 N 3 1>4
* How the privatisation of the Underground came off the rails
04/03/01 N 3 1>8 Photographs
* Tube deal rests on safety issues 11/03/01 N 2 7
* Up to £13bn is to be spent upgrading London's Underground
system after an historic agreement on ownership was thrashed
out 18/03/01 B 16 6>8
* Talks about the future of the London Underground collapsed
yesterday 25/03/01 B 5 6>8
* London Underground was accused of 'jumping the gun' on the
hotly disputed public-private partnership scheme for financing
the Tube by putting out contracts to tender before a final
decision is made 22/04/01 N 2 2>4
* Tony Blair overruled the Treasury to strike a deal over the
future of the London Tube amid fear than an ongoing row would
cost Labour seats in the capital 06/05/01 B 11 8
* Transport Secretary Stephen Byers will try to salvage the
public-private partnership plan for the London Tube in last-ditch
talks with London Transport chairman Bob Kiley 01/07/01 N 1
4>5 Photograph
* It's 140 years old and more than three million journeys are
made on it every day 19/08/01 M 32>35 1>3 Photographs
* It's no surprise that the government kept a report on the Tube
from the light of day, writes Will Hutton - see Public/Private
Sector 26/08/01
* Who picks up the tab if public-private partnerships go wrong?
- see Public/Private Sector 28/10/01
* The viability of the proposed £13bn public-private partnership
for the London Underground is in doubt as bankers get cold feet
11/11/01 N 2 4>8 Photograph
LONDON, MAYOR OF
* One year on, London's Mayor is as popular as ever, but the
champagne is far from flowing 29/04/01 B 9 6>8 Photograph
LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY
* See Book Reviews - Perry, Jane 12/08/01
LOPEZ, JENNIFER
* Donatella Versace hosted the wedding reception of Jennifer
Lopez and Cris Judd last week 07/10/01 R 2 1>5 Photograph
LOSING IT