The Guardian 1990-93
Between 1990 and 1993 I wrote regularly as a Scottish correspondent for The Guardian, covering a wide range of stories. Here, copies of 136 articles as I filed them are available to download as Word documents. Just click on the headlines.
26 March 1990: Welsh town contaminated by Sellafield after flood
01 April 1990: Report on nodding duck device withdrawn
01 April 1990: Third of Scots drink water poisoned by lead
05 April 1990: Cessna crashes in Campsie hills
09 April 1990: Sellafield contamination spreads inland
27 April 1990: Cold war games in East Anglia
06 May 1990: Fishermen find explosives in the Clyde
15 May 1990: Row over plan for Dounreay nuclear dump
28 May 1990: Under the sea to Skye
04 June 1990: AIDS 'lies' over straight sex
07 June 1990: High-level n-waste 'destined for Dounreay and Sellafield'
12 June 1990: Radiation risk for bridge workers
19 June 1990: Radiation from mobiles could cause cancer
26 June 1990: 'Fiasco' over fish farms
25 July 1990: Dounreay bidding to be centre for bombs-grade uranium
29 July 1990: Mixed reaction to national park plan for Scotland
08 August 1990: Freak wave fear for nuclear sites
09 August 1990: Nature council split 'will not benefit wildlife'
10 August 1990: Getting fou as a puggie at the Festival
16 August 1990: E-radiation linked to breast cancer in men
04 September 1990: National park plan for Scotland published
03 October 1990: London air pollution to breach safety limits
07 October 1990: Lighting up the Forth rail bridge after 100 years
11 October 1990: How much plutonium gets in the gonads?
16 October 1990: Shetland seabirds starving to death
19 October 1990: Hundreds of oil tankers ignoring safety route
24 October 1990: The fight for national parks in Scotland
31 October 1990: Radioactive hotspots on Merseyside
02 November 1990: Drug companies accused of bribery and corruption
08 November 1990: Row over Highland forestry grant
10 December 1990: Legal action over Highland forest
12 December 1990: Faulty trains 'should be withdrawn'
12 December 1990: Six fishermen feared drowned off Shetland
13 December 1990: Report on e-radiation risks suppressed
10 January 1991: Dockers boycott uranium shipment
11 January 1991: Uranium cargo ordered back to Germany
13 January 1991: 6,000 protest against Gulf war
20 January 1991: Dounreay bids for German fuel
03 February 1991: Scots Labour challenge on Gulf war
11 February 1991: Nuclear flask from India contaminated
19 February 1991: Shellfish contaminated with cadmium
07 March 1991: No marine insurance for nuclear accidents
10 March 1991: Call for ban on nuclear shipments
12 March 1991: National parks rejected for Scotland
13 March 1991: World bid put at risk by Cairngorm failure
17 March 1991: Trident warheads delayed by two years
21 March 1991: Cancer risk from Dounreay beaches
21 March 1991: Child cancer victim to sue Dounreay
26 March 1991: Dounreay cancer victim goes to court
27 March 1991: Ancient Cairngorm forest being eaten to death
10 April 1991: New radiation limits 'help industry'
16 April 1991: £10m needed to buy the heart of the Cairngorms
28 April 1991: Rent row mars mountain sale
30 April 1991: 6,000 holes in Caithness, Scotland
05 May 1991: Soviet ship to test UK waters for radiation
9 May 1991: Row over mountain sale deepens
13 May 1991: Three arrested at Faslane protest
15 May 1991: Hundreds of radiation hotspots in Fife bay
16 May 1991: Prize boat could be the death of you
06 June 1991: Mountain deal doomed
09 June 1991: Thousands of health jobs at risk
11 June 1991: Paying the Faroese not to catch salmon
09 July 1991: Setback for Dounreay uranium plan
10 July 1991: E-radiation could cause road accident
17 July 1991: Plutonium in 'inadequate' air containers
18 July 1991: Plutonium transport plans 'in chaos'
21 July 1991: Row over doctored health report
28 July 1991: 'Sell-out' on junior doctors overtime
05 August 1991: Cancers grow around the crackling pylon
07 August 1991: Explosions rock oil rig
12 August 1991: Files on Orkney child care go missing
14 August 1991: New hopes for mountain sale
18 August 1991: Anger over plan to privatise Scottish water
08 September 1991: Drug companies reprimanded for junkets
10 September 1991: The escalating war over fish farming
22 September 1991: Drug company caught out
22 September 1991: UK 'lost a nuclear bomb in the Falklands'
05 October 1991: Sellafield MP 'could lost seat' over n-waste
16 October 1991: Government faces new challenge from junior doctors
29 October 1991: Dounreay bids for wind farm
30 October 1991: Scottish nature conservation facing crisis
15 November 1991: Move to bring more unskilled workers into NHS
08 December 1991: Oil workers have high death rates
15 January 1992: Killing deer with clear consciences
24 January 1992: Dounreay 'breaking nuclear waste safety rules'
26 January 1992: Drug company under investigation over Halcion allegations
09 February 1992: Hole in the ozone layer could worsen AIDS and cause cancers
10 February 1992: 3,000 radioactive rods from Germany for Dounreay
17 February 1992: Call for compulsory purchase powers to save Scottish environment
17 February 1992: Coal stations taxed for carbon 'still cheaper than nuclear'
09 March 1992: Confusion over high-level nuclear waste at Sellafield
10 March 1992: Moving mountains to make superquarries
24 March 1992: Cold kills 60,000 people every winter
24 March 1992: First fox found in Western Isles
08 April 1992: Plan to return plutonium to South Korea
29 May 1992: Voluntary bid to buy Cairngorms fails
03 June 1992: Annapurna Base Camp: one of the world's highest slums
16 June 1992: The pylon wars provoked by privatisation
17 June 1992: Dounreay flouts US N-bomb control
25 June 1992: Working on ways to kill whales with kindness
28 June 1992: UK clinging to option of dumping n-waste at sea
12 July 1992: Row over royal bid for £300,000 to help save forest
18 July 1992: Big pay-out for nuclear cancer workers
30 July 1992: 20 kg of uranium lost at Dounreay due to flaws
06 August 1992: Grouse hit by by badly run moors
11 August 1992: Edinburgh festival goers risk toxic fumes
29 September 1992: Officials under pressure to curb geese, say leaked papers
20 October 1992: The killing coal fields of Columbia
20 October 1992: Sweden to assume that power lines cause childhood cancer
03 November 1992: Fish farmer facing prosecution over illegal chemical
03 November 1992: Clue on radiowave link to Dounreay cancers
10 November 1992: SNH to oppose superquarries
10 November 1992: Health risks of open cast coal dismissed
10 November 1992: Compulsory powers needed to save peat bogs
10 November 1992: Japan relaxes safety rules for plutonium shipment
15 November 1992: Storm over privatising North Sea oil information
17 November 1992: Plan for reactors to make Mars habitable
24 November 1992: Forestry Commission bid to become environmentally friendly
24 November 1992: Queen's £60,000 deer fence under fire
27 November 1992: Argument over n-waste store at Torness
04 December 1992: Plan for 18 miles of roads in Scottish wild mountain area
10 December 1992: Secret bid to kill story on the privatisation of oil data
30 December 1992: US doubts over nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield
29 January 1993: Government inaction puts basking shark at risk
01 February 1993: Turds mounting in the wilderness
07 March 1993: Risk of plutonium leaks at Dounreay
26 April 1993: Tory MPs warn about rail privatisation
03 June 1993: Protestors try and stop work on Skye Bridge
10 June 1993: Superquarry threat to national parks
28 June 1993: Amira's war: a girl's view of conflict in Bosnia (also available here)
01 August 1993: Uranium contaminates firing ranges in breach of safety limits
19 August 1993: Millions at risk from nuclear submarine accident
22 August 1993: Parents of cancer victim to sue power company
20 September 1993: Dounreay n-waste shaft 'could explode'
08 November 1993: The big bang missed by Mighty Atom
06 December 1993: North Sea government failing to meet pollution targets
