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Facilitating a rosy future
I HAVE seen the future of Scottish football and its name is Middlesbrough FC. Eternal denizens of the mid-to-bottom range of the Premiership and below, Middlesbrough attract too many sniffy remarks from those who view the world through scarlet-tinted glasses. Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool they ain't, but in several respects Middlesbrough could teach their English peers and all of Scottish football, even the Old Firm, a huge lesson. For Middlesbrough might just have the best football academy in the UK and one of the best in Europe. Don't take my word for it. Ask Scotland's sports minister Rhona Brankin; Roger Mitchell, chief executive of the Scottish Premier League; Peter Donald of the Scottish Football League; Tony Higgins of the Scottish Professional Footballers Association; and the others who make up the Scottish Football Taskforce whose first priority is to establish football academies across Scotland.
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Being a housewife isn't 'giving up' - it's 'doing a Zoe'
SO the artist formerly known as Ms Zoe Ball plans to swap her Jim Beam-fuelled fast-lane lifestyle for a frilly pinny and domestic tranquillity. The newly married Radio One DJ and Queen Ladette, who is 28, is giving up her TV and radio work because she wants to spend more time as \"Mrs Zoe Cook\" and she and her husband Norman - otherwise known as pop star Fatboy Slim - hope to hear the patter of tiny trainers. But for many of our mothers and grandmothers stopping work after the honeymoon was the norm. In the Thirties, my own mother worked for a Perthshire distillers which refused to employ married women. She couldn't keep her job and was expected to keep house instead. Women were welcomed into the workforce during the Second World War but afterwards the jobs went back to the boys and married women went back to the kitchen.
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The two Jacks
IN 1989, JACK NICHOLSON took on a role that was to make an important shift in his screen career. Though perhaps too playful ever to be Oscar material, his performance as the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman secured the 52-year- old some lasting mainstream popular- ity; it made him a reputed $50 million...
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