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

* New foot and mouth epidemic threatens as virus will remain
hidden in sheep 10/06/01 B 4 1>3 Photograph, graph
* As Britain begins to recover from the foot and mouth crisis,
now is the time to take advantage of some great deals - see
Travel 08/07/01
* The Earl of Swinton's family has been reinstated in Swinton
Park which is now a hotel and opened at the peak of the foot and
mouth crisis - see Travel 08/07/01
* RSPCA says that the foot-and-mouth epidemic is set to
reignite after the Government's failure to carry out tests on nine
million sheep 22/07/01 B 2 2>7
* Compensation fiasco sparks fears that the disease is being
spread deliberately 05/08/01 B 11 1>8 Photographs
* Lord Haskins, appointed to head a Government review of rural
economics hit by foot and mouth, has counted criticisms of his
antagonism to small and organic farmers - see Farms & Farming
12/08/01
* Small businesses in rural communities are being destroyed in
the aftermath of the foot and mouth epidemic - see Tourism
12/08/01
* Almost a thousand farmers are being compensated twice for
livestock culled in the battle against foot and mouth disease
26/08/01 B
* Foot and mouth will continue into next year - and scientists
admit that last week we were 'a whisker' away from a new
epidemic in Northumberland 02/09/01 B 10 1>7 Photographs
* Foot and mouth disease was carried to Britain from the Sahara,
claim scientists 09/09/01 B 7 1>5 Photograph
* Rural businesses seek billions in compensation from the
Government after havoc caused by disease outbreak 14/10/01 B
10 1>8 Photograph, cartoon
* Across the country, small businesses hit by the foot and mouth
epidemic are enjoying a sales bonanza and consumers are
fuelling a Christmas spending - see Retail Industry 23/12/01
FOOT, MICHAEL
* Euan Ferguson meets… Michael Foot, former Labour leader,
who at 87 is being honoured by The Tribune 04/03/01 B 20 1>5
Photographs
FOREIGN OFFICE
* Travel guide to the Foreign Office - see Travel 04/02/01
* The new Libyan ambassador to Britain has ordered home two
of his diplomats after the cultural attaché struck a leading
opponent of Colonel Gadaffi, Ashur al Shamis, on the head in a
London University 01/04/01 B 2 4>6
* Surjit Athwal's brothers believe she died on a trip to India but
are angry at the Foreign Office's 'lack of concern' - see Missing
Persons 22/07/01
* The Foreign Office came under fire from human rights lawyers
and the four Britons jailed and beaten by Italian police during the
riots at the G8 summit meeting in Genoa 29/07/01 B 2 2>5
Photograph
* A senior Libyan official accused of involvement in the
Lockerbie bombing and branded 'the master of terror' has been
welcomed by the Foreign Office - see Terrorism 07/10/01
FORSYTH, BRUCE
* Interview with celebrity Bruce Forsyth 21/10/01 R 3 1>5
Photographs
FORTUNIO
* See Music: Classical 08/07/01
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* See Book Reviews - McAllister, Nicola 08/07/01
FOX HUNTING
* A master could claim to be exercising his foxhounds if hunting
is banned 14/01/01 B 5 2>6 Photograph, cartoon
* More than 70 Labour peers are set to vote against an outright
ban on fox hunting 11/03/01 B 2 4>7
* The pro-hunting lobby is to offer a 'historic compromise' on
the tougher regulations of fox hunting in an effort to head off a
total ban 25/03/01 B 4 1>8 Photographs
FOX, KERRY
* Interview with actress Kerry Fox who stars in the controversial
film Intimacy 01/07/01 R 9 1>4 Photograph
FRANTI, MICHAEL
* Rapper Michael Franti has convictions, but not the kind people
expect in rap - see Music: Pop 22/04/01
FRANZEN, JONATHAN
* When Oprah Winfrey chose Jonathan Franzen's critically
acclaimed book The Corrections, as her book club's selection for
October, the author had misgivings… - see Books 28/10/01
* Interview with writer Jonathan Franzen who spent four years
writing in the dark, wearing earplugs and a blindfold, in his quest
to produce the perfect novel 11/11/01 R 3 1>7 Photograph
FRAUD
* The feverish, rumour-fuelled world of internet bulletin boards
has taken a sinister turn, sparking a police fraud squad inquiry -
see Business & Industry 14/01/01
* A group of senior staff at Coutts & Co., the Queen's personal
bankers, masterminded complex frauds which cost the bank
more than £100m - see Financial Institutions 11/02/01
* The Serious Fraud Office is planning a second major
prosecution in the 'bribes-for-loans' scandal that led to the jailing
of Sheffield businessman Stephen Hinchliffe 25/02/01 N 1 1>7
* The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is set to risk another Maxwellstyle
humiliation by going ahead with prosecutions in the Peter
Young fraud case 15/04/01 N 2 2>4 Photograph
* An Iraqi-born British billionaire has been helped by Foreign
Office Minister Keith Vaz in his attempts to avoid extradition
27/05/01 B 1>2 2>6 Photographs
* Police chiefs and business leaders are hastily reshaping a
flagship anti-fraud initiative that has failed to produce a single
prosecution 10/06/01 N 2 1>4
FREELY, MAUREEN
* Columnist 17/06/01 B 27 1>4 Photograph
FREUD, SIR CLEMENT
* Interview with Sir Clement Freud on the publication of his
autobiography, Freud Ego 14/10/01 R 3 1>6 Photographs
FRIENDS, VOTERS, COUNTRYMEN
* See Book Reviews - Buckley, Will 21/10/01
FRITSCH, KATHARINE
* See Art 09/09/01
FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT
* See Music: Classical 06/05/01
FROST, SIR DAVID
* Interview with Sir David Frost, celebrity TV presenter
01/07/01 R 3 1>5 Photographs