Scotland on Sunday 1000th issue
Scotland on Sunday 1000th issue
The magic number
THE number 1,000 is represented by M in Roman numerals (or K in job ads), and is derived from the Greek thurias, meaning a multitude, and Sanskrit tawás, meaning strong or force.
Words of wisdom
ALTHOUGH journalism has its own argot that seeps into everyday talk - punchy verbs like scoop, spike, splash and spoil - it's the words about journalism itself that tell us most about how it is perceived.
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A Golgotha of infants
MARCH 1996: DUNBLANE
Confessions of a Scotland on Sunday veteran
TAKE a look at these two group photos on the right. The black-and-white one was taken the night the very first Scotland on Sunday rolled off the presses in August 1988, and it shows the original team of journalists. The colour one shows the SoS staff as it is today. Taken 19 years apart, the two photos have just one thing in common: me.
The battleground
I KNOW, I know - it becomes wearisome having to watch this political farce that has been running for so long at the Palace of Westminster. The current set has been designed entirely by economists, which means, of course, that it looks nothing like any place where human beings could actually live.
Welcome to my world
FORMER Scotland on Sunday journalist Peter Jinks, 37, left Scotland in 2000 and now lives in Sicily. Hallam Foe, his first novel, was adapted into the award-winning film, which premièred at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. He is currently working on a horror screenplay set in Rome.
A breed apart
NOVEMBER 2000: IAN WILMUT & DOLLY
A little old-fashioned but that's all right
MAY 1993: ROD STEWART
An end to my world
DECEMBER 1988: LOCKERBIE
Getting wrecked in Shetland
JANUARY 1993: THE BRAER DISASTER
In the heat of the night
OCTOBER 1993: LIFE IN A GLASGOW BROTHEL
More than a game
NOVEMBER 1989: THE NATIONAL SPORT
Nothing to grouse about
AUGUST 1997: THE JOY OF GROUSE
Scotland finds its voice
JULY 1999: OPENING OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Taking on Brechin City
FEBRUARY 1990: BRECHIN
True colours
DECEMBER 2005: ELSIE DOIG, ORANGEWOMAN
Scotland on Sunday Sightsavers campaign
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHIL WILKINSON AND ROBERT PERRY
Archives: August 7, 1988
The Government is to step up its radical reform plans for Scottish education by presenting a Bill next year to allow state schools to opt out of local authority control.
Thank you 1,000 times
ON AUGUST 7, 1988, the very first issue of Scotland on Sunday hit the newsstands, its arrival accompanied by an advertising campaign with this slogan: "Scots have always had minds of their own. Now they have a Sunday newspaper to match." It was a shameless attempt at flattery. This, the campaign seemed to say, is exactly the kind of newspaper that intelligent, thoughtful people like your good self should be buying - so why not give it a go?
Twenty-twenty visions of Scotland in the future
Read more entries from the essay competition at the Visions of Scotland page.
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