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State papers: Newly-released files show how the signatories to the Belfast Agreement came to view it as the least worst option
EXCLUSIVE: 'Flabbergasted' locals who spoke to MailOnline today said the plan would have used the Hebridean community to keep the problem separated from the rest of the UK.
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British government came under pressure from Sinn Féin in 2000 to give immunity to republicans who were ‘on the run’ for offences from before the Belfast Agreement
SCOTLAND has nearly 900 islands although just 94 are inhabited, with 89 of those offshore.
The much more serious matter of the peace process in Northern Ireland was also part of the agenda.