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THE Tartan Army are being warned not to lift their kilts when they go to see Scotland play Georgia, as it could lead to trouble.
The British ambassador in Georgia, Denis Keefe, warned fans about the dangers in the ex-Soviet country ahead of the Euro 2008 match next Wednesday. Violent crime against Westerners is common in [...]

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A flight from the Dominican Republic was quarantined for 90 minutes after landing at Glasgow Airport.
A total of 27 holidaymakers on the MyTravel service complained of sickness and diarrhoea.
The plane, which landed at 0500 BST, was met by doctors and consultants from Health Protection Scotland. Passengers were let away at 0630 BST after checks.
Sick passengers [...]

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Dozens of passengers refused to take a flight from Spain to Scotland after fuel spilled from their plane before take-off.
The Flyglobespan aircraft was preparing to leave Alicante for Aberdeen when 43 of the 140 people on board decided not to take the flight.
They became concerned after fuel overflowed from the plane’s wing.
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THE president of the SFA could be forced out of a top FIFA job after being accused of making racist remarks about poorer nations.
John McBeth faces being axed as vice president of world football’s governing body - the role he is due to take up this week.
And one influential FIFA critic wants to send him [...]

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The last rig in the Cromarty Firth has left to begin its long journey to an oil drilling site off India’s coast.
High oil prices and a world shortage of platforms have resulted in all of the Highland firth’s mothballed rigs being returned to working order.
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A father whose son died on holiday in Cuba has demanded to know why his body was returned with his lungs, kidney and part of his brain missing.
Andrew Redfern, 37, from the Wirral, Merseyside, died after slipping and hitting his face on a marble floor in a hotel lobby in Havana in August.
When [...]

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A marine killed in a suicide bombing while serving in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence.
Gary Wright, 22, from Blanefield in Stirlingshire, died following the attack on a military convoy in Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province.
Marine Wright, who served with Arbroath-based 45 Commando, was airlifted to hospital but later died [...]

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Scottish oil workers are due to arrive back in the UK after being held hostage for nearly three weeks in Nigeria.
Paul Smith, Graeme Buchan, George Mclean and Sandy Cruden had been seized, along with three other men, by 18 armed militants.
Mr Smith’s wife Paula had feared the worst after earlier reports claimed he [...]

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JERUSALEM (EJP)— The Church of Scotland hotel is to seek compensation from the Israeli government for loss of revenue after a hotel it owns in Tiberias, northern Israel, was forced to closed for a month during the recent war with Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The Scots Hotel, recently named “Boutique of the Year” in Israel, suffered [...]

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A Canadian who organised an international cocaine smuggling operation in Edinburgh has been jailed for nine years and seven months.
Paul Fitzgerald, 32, travelling on a false passport, had the drug sent from Bolivia in the drawers of toy furniture, a court heard on Friday.
Police seized cocaine with a street value of £60,000 [...]

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[Did we not hear this from Phoney Blair about Iraq and their 45 mins chemical weapons attack? You would they would not unlease a even greater lie than the 45 mins rubbish. Even I know that it takes a lot of logistics to fire a missle as you do not just press a [...]

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VIENNA, Austria - Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust — a crime in the country where Hitler was born.
Irving, who pleaded guilty and then insisted during his one-day trial that he now acknowledged the Nazis’ World [...]

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Orkney’s historical links with Canada are to be strengthened with a major event on the island.
Preparations are under way for the Orkney Homecoming 2007.
Organisers hope it will be even more successful than the original event in 1999 when around 250 Canadians went to Orkney to learn about their roots.
The Orkney Homecoming 2007 [...]

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[The reason why I am publishing this story is that the mad war mongers are trying to get us into a war with Iran, a war that will be 10 x more deadly that the current war in Iraq, this will lead to our Soldiers being in the firing line. Do not fall for [...]

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A British soldier has been killed in Iraq after coming under small arms fire, the Ministry of Defence said.
The incident happened in Maysan Province at 0840 GMT on Monday, the ministry said.
The soldier was from the 7th Armoured Brigade, serving with the 1st Battalion The Highlanders.
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[So this has nothing to do with freeing up troops (American) to invade Iran later this year?-ed]
The number of UK troops in Afghanistan will peak at 5,700, defence secretary John Reid has told MPs.
The majority will be sent to the south, to the volatile Helmand area, which Mr Reid admitted was a “more [...]

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JERUSALEM—Ending a strict, six-millennia prohibition of the consumption of cloven-hoofed beasts, the World Rabbinical Council announced Tuesday that Jews worldwide may “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.”
“The Jewish people have always had the utmost reverence for the laws of God, as handed down from Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Jacob. [...]

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[Is this where our tax money ends up?-ed]
Manila, 16 Jan. (AKI9 - European Union funds are set to help the Islamic Sharia judicial system operating in the mostly Muslim Mindanao autononomous region of the southern Philippines, where separatist groups have waged war since the 1970s. Part of the money, according to a report from the [...]

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