What makes Mr Blair prone to accidents in Scotland is that politics north of the border divides not just on the usual left-right lines, but also over the constitutional issue, between those who want to keep Britain together and those who do not.

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But when Gordon talks about a Border Service, he's left out one rather key element - the police.

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The 10 EU monitors left the terminal and waited at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing for calm to be restored, he said.

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But the left-handed batsman remained in charge for 80 Tests - only Australian Allan Border (93) has been in charge for more - and his win ratio of 35% was only bettered for New Zealand by Howarth's 36.66%.

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Tension rose in Macedonia , where a fragile coalition government embraces representatives of the country's Slav Macedonian majority and ethnic-Albanian minority, after fights between ethnic-Albanian nationalist guerrillas and security forces left several dead and sparked an exodus from some villages near the border with Kosovo.

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