Caterer & Hotelkeeper articles from March 2002

Caterer & Hotelkeeper archives from March 2002

On the move.(personnel changes in hospitality industry)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... NATALIE VINE has been appointed personal assistant to the executive head chef at Norwich City Football Club. She joins from Blunsdon House hotel in Swindon, where she was guest relations manager. GORDON McKINNON has been appointed...

Events.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... March 8-13 March Internorga Hamburg Exhibition Centre, Hamburg, Germany. Tel: 00 49 40 35 69 24 68 12-13 March THE BOURNEMOUTH HOTEL & CATERING EXHIBITION Bournemouth International Centre. Tel: 01425 485043...

Metro back on track.(Heidi Flett, restaurant chef)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Heidi Flett postponed her return to her native Australia to help revive the fortunes of London's Metro. Fiona Sims went to see how she was doing TUCKED away in a basement in London's Basil Street, Metro has had its ups and downs - or...

The answers on a Plato.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 7, 2002... IN BRITISH academic circles, there has been a resurgence of interest in Greek philosophy, particularly the work of the Big Three - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. What most concerns modern-day thinkers is the Athenian debate about human values...

Talk through the changes.(National Training Organization training to be undertaken by Sector Skills Councils)(Brief Article)(Column)
March 7, 2002... The momentum behind industry training initiatives must not slow as the NTOs are replaced by SSCs, says Peter Taylor CONSIDERING the very diverse nature of the hospitality industry, we can congratulate ourselves on the way in which employers...

Enforcing health and safety legislation.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Hillary Ross of Berwin Leighton Paisner examines the implications of the new enforcement policy statement issued by the Health & Safety Commission The law Under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, companies are...

Changing clubrooms.(private members clubs)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... The BBC has run members-only clubs for the past 80 years. Jane Baker tunes in to one of London's best-kept secrets and discovers that changes are under way to ensure members eat in rather than go elsewhere for food THINK BBC, and private...

Source of information.(British regional food and drink guides)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Two new guides to British regional food and drink will be launched at Food and Drink Expo, being held at Birmingham NEC on 18 March. Aimed at chefs, restaurateurs and anyone wanting to source speciality produce from around the UK, the 2002...

It's only natural.(ecotourism)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Ecotourism - visiting a place without disrupting its natural or traditional way of life - is likely to be the next big thing. Tessa Fox looks at how it is being managed in some other parts of the world, and gets a few hints on how to apply it...

Marriott denies jobs were promised to ex-WTC staff.(World Trade Center hotel staff promised jobs)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Workers laid off after the Marriott hotel at the World Trade Center (WTC) was destroyed are accusing the company of not upholding a promise to find them new jobs elsewhere, a guarantee which the company denies was ever made. Former...

Tips for the chop?(tips, service charges and minimum wage)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Our recent feature "Tipping the Scales" (Caterer, 21 February, page 23) - on the issue of tips, service charges and the minimum wage - clearly touched on a subject you feel strongly about, one that had our postbag overflowing with comment....

Macdonald makes Vital difference.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Macdonald Hotels has launched a brand name for its growing leisure club business, which is expected to contribute ?6m in turnover this year. The Vital Health, Fitness and Beauty identity was unveiled at the Crutherland House hotel near...

Business again at 41.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Red Carnation Hotels has reopened its five-star London townhouse, 41, which it closed last year because of the fall in the numbers of US visitors. The 20-bedroom townhouse reopened on Monday this week. It had closed in November for...

Unions extend protest over Jakarta sackings.(Indonesian hotel operator Shangri-La)(North American and Australian hotel unions)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Hotel unions in North America and Australia have held protests outside the offices of hotel operator Shangri-La and Indonesian government missions about the plight of nearly 600 staff they claim were illegally sacked by the five-star Shangri-La...

Union wins as T&G gathers Momentum.(Transport and General Workers Union)(Momentum Services)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... The Transport & General Workers' Union (T&G) has won recognition at Momentum Services, the firm which looks after on-board catering and passenger services on Eurostar trains. Momentum is 49%-owned by the Compass Group. It was formed in...

Residence sales set to close.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Receiver KPMG hopes to complete the sale of the four-star One Devonshire Gardens hotel in Glasgow by the end of this month, along with the Paris and Edinburgh Residence hotels. The three properties were owned by Residence International, which...

Wanted: one knight in shining armour.(UK restaurant business)(Brief Article)(Column)
March 7, 2002... I must have sat down and tried to write this diary six times. Things can change in the blink of an eye in this trade. The deli counter is now up and running, and although it has been a slow start, things are looking good. After a staff...

Bunning to run student group.(Rachel Bunning)(Surrey University, England)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Rachel Bunning, account director at hospitality recruitment specialist Chess Partnership, has been elected chairperson at the Surrey International Graduate Network for the School of Management Studies (Signet). She takes over the one-year...

Stains bids to make his mark at Foliage.(Chris Stains)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Former Oak Room sous chef Chris Stains has emerged as the front runner to take over as head chef at the one-Michelin-starred Foliage restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel. Stains, who worked with head chef Paul Rhodes at...

Catering staff up for grabs.(City of Bristol College, England)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... The head chef of a fine-dining restaurant in Bristol is inviting rival restaurateurs to sample his wares and "poach" his staff. Adrian Kirkmaa is, in fact, seeking job opportunities for catering students of the City of Bristol College. ...

in brief.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Neat enquiries Administrator Casson Beckman and Partner has been contacted by half-a-dozen people interested in buying the Neat restaurant, which occupies one floor of London's Oxo Tower Wharf. As yet, it has received no firm offers. ...

Table talk.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Anyone wanting a toastie, take a long fork DINERS were evacuated from a restaurant in Dublin's Temple Bar area last week following a chimney fire in the building. The fire was noticed shortly after 1pm, when Gallagher's Boxty House was...

Worldwide; briefing.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Target Toulouse Hotel company Six Continents is to build a i46m (?28.2m), four-star, 183-bedroom Inter-Continental hotel in Toulouse, France. Work starts next year and should be completed in 2005. Rock on The Rank Group, which...

Thai offers in-flight food to groundlings.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Thai Airways International is to develop a chain of restaurants across Europe by the end of the year as part of a plan to use employees it is forbidden to shed. Evaluation studies are being carried out for London, Paris and Frankfurt, and...

Hilton International profits plunge 18%.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... Profit at UK-based Hilton International's hotels fell by almost 18% in the 12 months to 31 December. Excluding a ?33.9m profit from Scandic Hotels, which Hilton bought in June 2001, profit fell by 17.4% to ?221m. The company cited difficult...

stockwatch.(stock prices for selected hotel groups, United Kingdom)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... The share price for Thistle Hotels, which on Monday confirmed it was in talks about "a possible material transaction", soared by nearly 14% (16p) to 133p last week. The announcement was made in the company's annual results for the year...

Taruschio rises from the ashes at Phoenix.(Franco Taruschio appointed consultant for Phoenix restaurant, London, England)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Franco Taruschio, the chef and former owner of the Walnut Tree in Abergavenny, Wales, has returned to the kitchen barely a year after retiring, because he was "very bored". Last week, he started a new role as a consultant at the 90-seat...

Radfords win three-year battle to register Blue as trademark.(Andrew and Lisa Radford's Blue Bar Cafe, Edinburgh, Scotland)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Independent Edinburgh restaurateurs Andrew and Lisa Radford have won a three-year, ?5,000 battle to register the name Blue as a trademark. The couple, who also own the Atrium restaurant, opened their Blue Bar Caf? in 1997. When they...

Thistle to sell hotels after difficult year.(Thistle Hotels PLC)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... Thistle Hotels, London's biggest hotel group, is in talks to sell some of its hotels after pre-tax profit fell by 28% during 2001. Chairman David Newbiggin said the group had been exploring opportunities to sell some hotels and was now in...

Balmoral hotel brings kitchens up to scratch.(Rocco Forte Hotels' Balmoral property)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... The general manager of Rocco Forte Hotels' luxury Edinburgh property, the Balmoral, said on Monday that it had completed 99.5% of the improvements to its kitchens ordered by environmental health officers (EHOs). The hotel was given a...

Medirest wins Paris hospital contracts.(for food service, France)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... Medirest, part of contract catering giant Compass, has won a multi-million-pound contract to provide catering for six hospitals and administrative sites in Paris. The three-year contract with Paris Assistance Publique, the authority that...

New scandal for McDonald's.(Starzen, meat supplier to McDonald's in Japan, deliberately mislabelled beef and pork)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... McDonald's in Japan could be hit by a scandal involving one of its meat suppliers, Starzen, food industry analysts have warned. Starzen has admitted that it deliberately mislabelled 4.5 tonnes of beef and 18.6 tonnes of pork between April...

Drinks news.(new products, cocktail recipes, etc. United Kingdom)
March 7, 2002... Glass of Gellewza Malta has a thriving wine industry. Didn't know that? You're not the only one. Caterer's wine correspondent is yet to sample one, but for all those restaurants out there trying to find the Next Big Thing, it might be...

openings.(new hotels and restaurants, United Kingdom and France)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... Moving beyond Park Plaza Hotels Europe opens its fourth hotel in the UK, and the first outside London, this April. The 178-bedroom Park Plaza Nottingham is housed in an 11-storey former British Telecom office block and was refurbished at a...

Blinis in the blood.(chef Martin Blunos' Blinis restaurant's recipes and menus, Bath, England)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Martin Blunos's parents emigrated from Latvia in the former USSR, so the two-Michelin-starred chef probably has a genetic advantage when it comes to making the Russian yeasted pancakes, blinis. He's even named his new restaurant after them....

Charlie Trotter moves a step closer to his UK debut.
March 7, 2002... HE calls it "the London Project". The USA's most famous chef, Charlie Trotter, is opening a restaurant in London. But then the industry has heard this all before - there's been talk of a Trotter London outpost since 1999. When the US press...

New day for Sharrow Bay.
March 7, 2002... Sharrow Bay country house hotel on Ullswater in the Lake District reopened last week but, for the first time in 53 years, it was without guiding spirits Francis Coulson and Brian Sack. Louise Bozec was there for the opening night WHEN...

Rub of the Greene.(Greene King plans more acquisitions)
March 7, 2002... Last September, Greene King bought Old English Inns and now it is hungry for more takeovers, as Ben Walker found out on a visit to its Bury St Edmunds HQ BREWER and pub owner Greene King is set to continue its recent buying spree, hot on...

Letters.
March 7, 2002... Please send letters to: The Editor, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS. They may be faxed on 020 8652 8973 or e-mailed to forbes.mutch@rbi.co.uk. The opinions expressed on this page are not necessarily...

What's new.
March 7, 2002... Bob Gledhill rounds up the latest food and equipment products Nachos?Get stuffed New stuffed nachos from Discovery Foods consist of a mini nacho cracker stuffed with one of three fillings - Fajita Chicken, Jalapeno Cheese or Taco Beef....

The new life of Brian.(Brian Turner )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Celebrity chef Brian Turner has put his name to the new restaurant at the NEC in a venture that is proving to be a fresh start for everyone involved. Janet Harmer reports THE recent opening of the restaurant at the new Crowne Plaza...

Mezzanine on a new level.(Mezzanine Group posts six-month sales increase)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2002... Mezzanine Group, the owner and operator of Smollensky's restaurants and London club Attica, recorded a 16.3% increase in turnover in the six months to 2 December 2001. It rose to ?5.7m, up from ?4.9m for the same period a year earlier. The...

Numbers up at Wetherspoon.(JD Wetherspoon)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 7, 2002... Pub company JD Wetherspoon saw turnover and pre-tax profit increase by more than 20% in the six months to 27 January. Turnover rose by 26% to ?285.2m, up from ?227m for the same period last year, while pre-tax profit increased by 22% to...

Events.
March 14, 2002... March 17 March Crisis Management in travel conference ICC, Berlin. Tel: 01202 752578 17-20 March FOOD AND DRINK EXPO NEC, Birmingham. Tel: 01293 613400 www.foodanddrinkexpo.co.uk 17-20 March ...

Cry God for Harry, England and who?
March 14, 2002... Home rule for England may be too ironic a concept for some, but home marketing is another matter, says Stuart Harrison IT'S almost 30 years since we celebrated English cooking with the colourful and highly media-friendly launch of "A Taste...

England, I did not know what love I bore thee.(effects of foot and mouth disease on English countryside)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... OUT one day in the Lake District, the poet William Wordsworth was wandering lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills when, all at once, he saw a crowd... Not last year, he didn't. Crowds were pretty scarce in Borrowdale...

Royalty passing.
March 14, 2002... Former Claridge's general manager Ron Jones and his wife, Eve, spend five months of the year travelling the globe as guest speakers. Before Christmas they embarked on a trip to the other side of the world. This is part four of their story ...

Shopping for chefs.
March 14, 2002... To an employer, freelance chefs may be a necessary evil; to a chef, going freelance may be the most liberating, and lucrative, decision he or she could make. Janet Harmer looks at both sides IN AN ideal world, head chefs would prefer to run...

Roux reflections.
March 14, 2002... After 30 years in charge at the Waterside Inn, Michel Roux takes the time to reflect with Gaby Huddart on a life spent doing exactly what he wanted THIS year marks the 30th anniversary of the Waterside Inn at Bray in Berkshire, which began...

Beer exchange.(Ghislaine Arabian's beer restaurant)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Beer unites London publican Mark Dorber and Paris Michelin-starred chef Ghislaine Arabian. Fiona Sims joined them at a recent meeting EVER since Mark Dorber saw Caterer's article on Ghislaine Arabian (5 April 2001), he's been dying to meet...

Professional fowl.(investigation and prosecution details)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Are kitchens abreast of recent revelations about chicken? Is truly safe poultry just an unhatched idea? Amanda Marcus bangs the drumstick to find out POULTRY is Britain's most popular animal protein by far. We now eat almost twice as much...

Drinks news.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Cape of sweet hope Looking for an alternative to Sauternes? Well, Vin de Constance is back in town. The naturally sweet wine from South African estate Klein Constantia can now be sold legally in the UK after EU regulations forbidding the...

Writing employee references.(management technique and theory)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Stephanie Slanickova, a solicitor specialising in employment and resourcing at City law firm Tarlo Lyons, examines the implications of writing employee references The law There is no specific statutory or common law obligation to...

Just another day in the south Gulf desert.(Hotel Dubai Creek )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 14, 2002... THE Hotel Dubai Creek is now really starting to pick up speed. Since late January it has run at 80-100% occupancy, so every outlet is extremely busy. My typical day runs as follows. I start work at 6.30am. One of the European chefs...

Leaner QMHawaits recovery.(Queens Moat Houses profit data)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Pre-tax profit at Queens Moat Houses fell from more than ?25m to less than ?5m last year, the group announced last week. Angela Frewin found out how chief executive Andrew Coppel handled the bad news Most chief executives would be dismayed...

Union leader claims assault by hotel staff.(Andrzej Jakubiak's attack claims and details)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... A Polish workers' union is claiming that a campaign of intimidation of its members at the Warsaw Marriott has led to the hotel union chairman being treated in hospital for a broken nose after being beaten by hotel security staff. But...

Conference's personnel touch.(Caterer & Hotelkeeper Chef Conference)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... This year's Caterer & Hotelkeeper Chef Conference, in association with British Meat, will not be a passive affair, as delegates will be kept on their toes in interactive workshops tackling personnel issues. The 400 delegates at the event,...

London delay for Heathcote.(Paul Heathcote's new restaurant)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Paul Heathcote will not be opening his first restaurant in London this month as he had hoped. Heathcote, who has five restaurants in the North of England, has bought a site in the capital. He wanted to open it this month, but this is not...

Rudnitsky to head Cendant hotel group.(Steven Rudnitsky )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Steven Rudnitsky has been named as the next chairman and chief executive officer of the hotel group of New Jersey-based franchisor Cendant Corporation, whose nine lodging brands include Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada and Travelodge. A...

Faces & places.
March 14, 2002... Feast of Burden Television chef Ross Burden tasted Nyonya cooking when he went to Ma'jong, London's first restaurant to specialise in this style of cuisine. Burden, of Ready, Steady, Cook fame, enjoyed a variety of Oriental dishes...

Hazards of hiring after WTCattack.(hotel employee recruitment)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Hotels recruiting staff since 11 September have had to be doubly careful to avoid taking on second-rate staff, according to an international hotel chain. Last year, Park Plaza Hotels Europe opened two London hotels, on 18 September and 1...

in brief.(hotel and restaurant industry news briefs)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Market yourself There is still time to send in entries for the 2002 Cateys for the best group and the best independent marketing campaigns. The closing date for entries is 28 March. Further details or entry forms available from Sarah...

On the move.
March 14, 2002... Maritime Hotel Management has appointed ALAN AINSWORTH operations manager for hotel services on the Topaz, based at the firm's Cyprus office. He was operations manager for contract caterer Ligabue Mediterranean, based in Switzerland. ...

Leeds and Nottingham Park Plazas will be conversions from BToffices.(hotel planning and development)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Two former BT office blocks in Nottingham and Leeds are being converted into hotels by Park Plaza Europe. The Nottingham building, which will reopen as a hotel in May following a ?15m renovation, is not universally loved. Mike Peart,...

Affirmative auction.
March 14, 2002... Who says chefs are self-centred? Certainly not the people at London's Hammersmith Hospital who received more than ?200,000 towards a new leukaemia treatment centre thanks to the efforts of 20 of the country's top chefs. Amanda Afiya and Joanna...

Win a Web site worth ?1,000.(web site design services)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... In an age when marketing means more than a glossy brochure and the occasional mail-shot to existing customers, it is important to have a good Web site. These days, customers are able to search the World Wide Web (www) for accommodation,...

Worldwide; briefing.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 14, 2002... Barcelona launches Spanish hotel group NH Hoteles has opened a new hotel in Barcelona and plans to open a second in the city in 2003, at a total cost of i13.8m (?8.5m). The three-star, 78-bedroom NH Cornell? is already open, while the...

Eat your art out.
March 14, 2002... The House for an Art Lover in Glasgow is a finely tuned fusion of art, education and catering. As Jessica Gunn discovers, it's a profitable combination Charles Rennie Mackintosh may now be Glasgow's most celebrated architect and designer,...

Personal ads.
March 14, 2002... Lonely hearts HAffable, fit and generous hotel owner, 61, loves dogs, walking, skiing, Champagne. Seeks lady who is passionate about food and drink (and life!) I currently live in a beautiful country home - family grown up. Would you like...

Table talk.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Too plastered to run? Michel Roux Jnr, chef-owner of London restaurant Le Gavroche, is, he said, "feeling a bit of a twit" after a fall on a skiing holiday in Mirabel two weeks ago in which he broke his left leg. He's finding it hard...

Cumbria's comeback.
March 14, 2002... Cumbria lost an estimated ?230m in tourist revenue because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic last year. Now it is open for business again, and Helen Adkins found an air of cautious optimism for the coming season IT'S just over a year since the...

stockwatch.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 14, 2002... Jurys Doyle's recent tour of US investors appears to have met with a positive response as its share price bounced up by 12.39% to end last week on 612.5p, a sum approaching its 52-week high of 650p and well clear of its lowest point of 367.5p....

London hotels on road to recovery.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 14, 2002... Although London hotels suffered a dreadful 2001, the market will recover this year, consultant PKF said in a report published last week. According to PKF's London Trends 2002 survey, 2001 was always going to be a tough year for the hotel...

Coffee Primo debut at Corley.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Welcome Break has opened the first of a planned chain of speciality coffee bars called Coffee Primo at its Corley Services motorway service station on the M6 near Coventry. The bar sells a range of coffees and other hot drinks along with...

MD Crawford moves on after Heritage deal.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Guy Crawford has resigned as managing director hotels at Scotland-based group Macdonald Hotels. The company said his departure followed the successful integration of the Heritage chain into Macdonald, and that Crawford was leaving to...

Watson's plans for Scotland under fire.(Mike Watson)(tourism in Scotland)
March 14, 2002... The plans of Scottish tourism minister Mike Watson to revive the country's tourism business were dismissed as "thin soup" by critics this week. For the first time since his appointment as tourism minister last December, Watson set out his...

Hoteliers on Asian rich list are worth combined ?991m.(Asian Xpress Rich List 2002 )
March 14, 2002... Twenty of the 275 people listed in the Asian Xpress Rich List 2002 made their money in the hotel and leisure sector and are worth a combined ?991m. And the top five Asian hoteliers in the list, published last week as a supplement to the...

Williams stands down at Chez G?rard.(David Williams )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Restaurant chain Groupe Chez G?rard last Friday announced the resignation of David Williams as director and chief executive, and the return of co-founder Neville Abraham to the driving seat. Williams, who had been chief executive of Thorn...

Ladenis to open restaurants after beating cancer.(Nico Ladenis)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Nico Ladenis, London's former three-Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur, has publicly admitted for the first time that he was fighting prostate cancer when he gave up his stars and retired three years ago. Ladenis, 68, said his illness...

Robuchon leads way with French chef TV.(Joel Robuchon )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Award-winning chef Joel Robuchon is to launch France's first gastronomic television channel this month. Gourmet TV will be broadcast 24 hours a day on France's satellite and cable channels from 20 March. Robuchon, who had three...

in brief.(restaurant and hotel industry news briefs)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 14, 2002... school to reopen The Scottish Chefs Cookery School, which closed more than two years ago, is to reopen in a new building in Glasgow. The original school, in the city's Pollokshields area, shut in October 1999 after a fire. The following...

Thistle in ?600m sell-off deal.(Thistle Hotels sells to Orb group)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... Thistle Hotels has struck a ?600m deal to sell 37 hotels across the UK to a venture capital firm while retaining the management contracts for 30 years. It has sold all its regional hotels, except the Thistle Heathrow and the Thistle...

Hospital hits back at newspaper findings.(investigation allegation denied by hospital)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... A hospital accused of serving cold, inedible meals and flouting health and safety rules has hit back following a report in a Sunday newspaper. A reporter from the Sunday Mirror went undercover as a kitchen porter at Newham General Hospital...

Roux applauds six scholarship finalists.(2002 Roux Scholarship)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2002... The six finalists for the 2002 Roux Scholarship have been announced, following two regional semi-finals held last week in Birmingham and London. They are Darin Campbell of Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perthshire; Andr?...