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

BIG ISSUE, THE
* The magazine for the homeless, The Big Issue, has plans to
become a financial institution as well 15/04/01 N 1 4>6
Photograph
BIG SKY
* See Book Reviews - Guttridge, Peter 04/02/01
BIGGS, RONNIE
* A private plane is expected to leave Rio de Janeiro today to
bring Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs home after 35 years on
the run 06/05/01 B 3 1>4 Photographs
BIGOTRY
* Cara Henderson leads a battle against bigotry that has reached
the Scottish Parliament - see Scotland 06/05/01
BILIMORIA, KARAN
* Profile on Karan Bilimoria, managing director of Cobra Beer
18/02/01 N 7 1>8 Photograph
BIN LADEN, OSAMA
* Barclays Bank in London is among several British financial
institutions being investigated by intelligence services as
potential fund channels for Osama bin Laden 16/09/01 X 4 5>6
* Profiles on Osama Bin Laden 16/09/01 X 8>9 1>6
Photographs
* Charity had links with Bin laden - see Terrorism 23/09/01
* Terror 'made fortune' for Bin Laden 23/09/01 X 1, 3 7
* US investigators trying to seize Osama bin Laden's assets are
examining the relationship between London-based banks and
Sudanese AIShamal Islamic Bank - see International Affairs:
The Terrorism Crisis 30/09/01
* Osama bin Laden is hiding in the mountains in Afghanistan, a
son of his has claimed - see Terrorism 14/10/01
* The Government is to demand that broadcasters consider
censoring video messages from Osama bin Laden - see
Terrorism 14/10/01
* An investigation into the life of Osama bin Laden - see
Terrorism 28/10/01
* Britain dismisses bin Laden's most recent broadcast as
'desperate fantasy' 04/11/01
* A backroom row is brewing at Time magazine in New York
over whether Osama bin Laden should grace its cover as 'Person
of the Year', in its Christmas special 02/12/01 B 21 1>8
Photograph
BINGHAM, ROBERT
* On the eve of the publication of Robert Bingham's novel,
Amelia Hill unravels the curse of the 'Kentucky Kennedys'
01/07/01 M 20>24 1>4 Photographs
BIRCH, THORA
* With films such as The Smokers and the forthcoming The
Hole, Thora Birch has cornered the Hollywood market in angstridden
teenagers 15/04/01 M 20>22 1>3 Photographs
BIRT, LORD
* Lord Birt, the former BBC boss named as Tony Blair's 'crime
tsar' in a blaze of publicity, has been quietly pensioned off amid
mounting criticism 08/04/01 B 2 2>3
BIRTH CONTROL
* Sir Richard Branson is backing the plans of The Red Cross to
market its own branded condoms in Africa - see Red Cross, The
09/12/01
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BIRTWHISTLE, BRIGADIER ALEX
* Euan Ferguson meets… Brigadier Alex Birtwhistle, the soldier
in charge of the foot and mouth crisis in Cumbria 08/04/01 B 17
1>5 Photographs
BITTERROOT
* See Book Reviews - Guttridge, Peter 16/09/01
BJORK
* Interview with Bjork, Ireland's queen of pop 22/07/01 M
10>13 1>4 Photographs
* Bjork in conversation with Sir David Attenborough 22/07/01
M 14 1>4 Photographs
* See Music: Pop 02/09/01
BLACK HOUSE
* See Book Reviews - McAllister, Nicola 07/10/01
BLACKBIRD SINGING: POEMS AND LYRICS
* See Book Reviews - Kinsella, John 18/03/01
BLACKPOOL
* The town of Blackpool is buzzing this weekend with the
prospect that it may be allowed to open a string of Las Vegasstyle
casinos 15/07/01 N 5 4>6 Photograph
BLAIR EFFECT, THE
* See Book Reviews - Preston, Peter 22/04/01
BLAIR, CHERIE
* Cherie Blair's visit to a hospital yesterday was in danger of
backfiring after a consultant paediatrician criticised the health
service 27/05/01 B 12 5>6 Photograph
* A controversial Channel 4 documentary is to show how the
Prime Minister's wife has emerged from the shadow of her
husband to become one of the most influential figures in the
legal profession 30/09/01 B 9 1>6 Photographs
BLAIR, LEO
* Downing Street hints that 19-month-old Leo Blair has been
given the controversial triple vaccine 23/12/01 B 1 1>3
BLAIR, TONY
* Tony Blair is to paint an apocalyptic vision of a world being
ravaged by global warming in a speech aimed at facing down
critics who say that he does not take green issues seriously - see
Politics 04/03/01
* Tony Blair is to put his religious beliefs at the centre of the
general election campaign and call for a new style of ethical
politics where the church is the bedrock - see Politics 18/03/01
* 'Prime Minister Tony Blair' - see Book Reviews - Preston,
Peter 22/04/01
* The first official portrait of the PM is unveiled this week
28/10/01 B 12 1>6 Photographs
* Observer readers have voted for Prime Minister Tony Blair
and round-the-world yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur - Man and
Woman of the Year 30/12/01
BLAIR, TONY & CHERIE
* Tony & Cherie Blair on a working holiday with the President
of Brazil and his wife 05/08/01 B 27 1>2 Photograph
* Downing Street hints that 19-month-old Leo Blair has been
given the controversial triple vaccine - see Blair, Leo 23/12/01
* For the Blair's, privacy is paramount, and they lashed out at
demands that they should reveal whether their son received the
triple vaccine 23/12/01 B 13 1>5 Photographs