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MBE For ScottishPower Regional Manager
30 December 1997
Gordon Christie, General Manager of ScottishPowers Southern Region, which takes in the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway, will be hoping for some peace and quiet to celebrate his MBE with family in Dumfries.
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Power Upgrade For Carstairs
29 December 1997
ScottishPower is investing £85,000 to improve the quality of electricity supplies in the Carstairs area.
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Fife Rallies To Help Young Romanian Aids Victims
17 December 1997
Abandoned orphans in a remote Romanian clinic, many of them with AIDS, will have a happier Christmas this year thanks to the generosity of Fifers.
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Power Partnership A Boost For Business In North West England
17 November 1997
Plans by Glasgow-based company ScottishPower to build a small generating station in Blackburn will provide North West businesses with access to cheaper electricity.
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Global Acclaim For ScottishPower Director
13 November 1997
Professor Alan Richardson, Managing Director of ScottishPower's Power Systems business, has been honoured on the world stage for his contribution to the electricity supply industry.
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ScottishPower 1997 - 98 Interim Results Statement
5 November 1997
ScottishPower 1997 - 98 Interim Results
1 April to 30 September 1997
Positioned For Growth
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ScottishPower Completes £90m Southern Water Divestment
4 November 1997
ScottishPower has sold the last Southern Water business in its divestment programme to raise a total of £90m -- £20m more than the original target set for the disposals.
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ScottishPower Cuts Business Bills By Almost 6%
3 November 1997
Small business customers will save an average of £75 a year on their electricity bills under new ScottishPower tariffs which came into effect from 1 November 1997.
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New Power Station Proposed For Shoreham Harbour
27 October 1997
South Coast Power, a joint venture between ScottishPower and SEEBOARD (a subsidiary of Central and South West Corporation of the U.S.), is finalising proposals for a new Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station at Shoreham harbour in Sussex. CSW International Inc will represent CSWs interest in the project.
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ScottishPower Beats Southern Water Divestment Target
27 October 1997
ScottishPower has sold Southern Waters Topmark vehicle leasing business for £42m, with the result that the total amount realised from its ambitious divestment programme announced last year easily beats the £70m target.
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ScottishPower Sponsors STUC Centenary Play
27 October 1997
ScottishPower is to sponsor a specially commissioned school play as part of the Scottish Trade Union Congres centenary celebrations. The play, entitled "Worksong", uses music, songs and comedy to provide an account of the past 100 years of trade unionism and the TAG Theatre Company will tour Scottish secondary schools with it later this year.
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ScottishPower Wins Environment Awards For Sub-Station
18 October 1997
A ScottishPower sub-station in the heart of Edinburgh, recently transformed into an "industrial work of art", has won three prestigious environmental awards - including an international award from the US Illumination Engineering Society.
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Scottish Power's Multi - Utility Infrastructure At Hyundai Opened
17 October 1997
The infrastructure for ScottishPower to supply Hyundai's Dunfermline plant with gas, electricity, telecomms and cable was formerly inaugurated on Friday 17 October by the Chancellor of Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
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ScottishPower Response To OFFER's Proposals On Supply Price Restraints & The Scottish Trading Arrangements
16 October 1997
The company notes that the proposals are designed to ensure that all customers have access to the benefits full competition will bring to the electricity marketplace.
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ScottishPower Welcomes Interconnector Decision
13 October 1997
ScottishPower is pleased that the Secretary of State has approved its application for a new power line in South Ayrshire without the need for undergrounding. The line is an essential part of the project to link Northern Irelands electricity network to the GB system.
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ScottishPower's Gas Success Creates 100 Jobs
10 October 1997
ScottishPowers successful entry into the new domestic gas market has created more than 100 permanent new jobs at the company's Customer Call Centre in Glasgow.
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ScottishPower Appoints New Deputy Finance Director
6 October 1997
ScottishPower has appointed David Nish its new Deputy Finance Director. David, 37, joins the Company from international accountants Price Waterhouse where he was a Partner in their Glasgow office, specialising in complex audit assignments and special investigations.
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Partnership To Open Doors For Lanarkshire School Leavers
2 October 1997
ScottishPower and Lanarkshire Careers Service have joined forces to open the doors to opportunity for local young people.
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ScottishPower Improves Payment Network For Powercard Customers
27 September 1997
ScottishPower customers are set to benefit from major improvements to the company's Powercard Payment Network.
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ScottishPower Unveils New Generation Of Windfarms
24 September 1997
Glasgow-based utility ScottishPower today (Thursday) officially opened the doors to one of the most advanced windfarms in the world.
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Miraculous Escape For Squeak The Cat
22 September 1997
"Squeak" the young tom used up all of his nine lives when he became stuck at the top of an electricity pole at his owner's house in Roscobie, near Dunfermline.
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Giant Electricity Transformer To Improve Supplies In Ayrshire
12 September 1997
ScottishPower is asking for the co-operation of motorists and householders this weekend as it moves a giant electricity transformer 20 miles by public road from storage in Paisley to a new site, an electricity substation two miles south of Kilmarnock.
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ScottishPower In Pole Position For Electricity Trials
15 August 1997
Manweb, part of the ScottishPower group, is planning to take part in the first trials in England and Wales in October for the competitive electricity market which is due to start from April next year.
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ScottishPower Invests £137m On Environment
6 August 1997
The ScottishPower group last year spent some £137 million on projects specifically designed to improve the environment. The company's total capital expenditure for the same period was £459 million.
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ScottishPower Annual General Meeting 23 July 1997 - Extracts From The Chairmans Statement
23 July 1997
In his address to the shareholders, Murray Stuart, Chairman, said: