Broadway star lends backing to city showbiz talent with new scholarship

From our archives 5 years ago

A BROADWAY star has unveiled a new scholarship to support the next generation of musical theatre talent in Scotland. Tony Award-winning stage star Donna Mckechnie has given her name to the new scholarship fund at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). The Donna Mckechnie Musical Theatre Scholarship is designed to support musical theatre students at the Glasgowbased institution who are working towards degrees in performance, production and musical directing. Ms Mckechnie said: “I have the highest regard for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and all of the great work that it does.”

10 years ago

TREATMENT with human stem cells has allowed mice crippled by a version of multiple sclerosis (MS) to walk again after less than two weeks. Scientists admit to being astonished by the result and believe it opens up a new avenue of research in the quest for solutions to MS. Scotland has one of the highest incidences of MS in the world. Professor Tom Lane, from the University of Utah, who led the US team, recalled: “My postdoctoral fellow Dr Lu Chen came to me and said ‘the mice are walking’. I didn’t believe her.” The genetically engineered mice had a condition that mimics the symptoms of human MS.

25 years ago

TESCO and BT are helping Europe lead the way in global Internet shopping, according to a survey published today. The

London School of

Economics survey found the British giants were two of the three largest multinationals with the best e-commerce services on the Internet. The top spot in the 1999 Worldwide Web 100 survey, carried out for software company Novell, went to German airline Lufthansa. Tesco was second followed by BT, while British Airways ranked fifth overall. It found European companies, which had been considered slow to develop e-commerce, were catching up with their US rivals, with six out of the top 10 rankings claimed by firms in Europe.

50 years ago

AN early morning fishing expedition by six of Scotland’s International football squad at Largs yesterday ended in a rescue operation. The footballers set off from the shore at Largs at 6am yesterday, still jubilant at Scotland’s 2-0 defeat of Wales at Hampden the night before. In the first rowingboat sat Jimmy Johnstone and Dennis Law, while in the second boat were Billy Bremner, the team captain, Jim Holton, Eric Schaedler, and Donald Ford. However, the Johnstone-law partnership was soon in trouble when an oar was lost overboard. The other crew, unable to offer assistance, rowed back to shore and raised the alarm.

100 years ago

THE policy of placing contracts for tramway rails in the United States was debated by Glasgow Corporation yesterday, and provoked considerable controversy. The purchase which it was proposed to make was a comparatively small one, but it nevertheless involved the question of ensuring that the successful offerers complied with the provisions of the Standing Orders of the Corporation relating to trade union conditions. In the sub-committee it was decided the contract should be given to the United States Steel Products Company, whose tender was the lowest, but later this was overruled by the parent committee.