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"The fact is, in a world that is ever more interconnected, to disconnect yourself, either Scotland from the UK or Britain from Europe, is just not sensible because many of the challenges we face are the challenges you are going to have to face together, you are going to have to get solutions together, " he said.
In Britain, the UK Independence Party, which wants Britain to leave the EU, won three seats at the last election to the European Parliament in 1999, and is expected to have gained seats this time (official results are due on Sunday).
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None of these problems is unique to the UK. But Britain happens to be the first Western nation to host the Games since the credit crunch, so it is we who are also the first to be tested.
The campaign is run by Energy UK on behalf of Britain's six major gas and electricity companies, in partnership with the Dominic Rodgers Trust.
Lord McNally, the UK minister responsible for Britain's Crown Dependencies, said he hoped the decision would be revisited when he was in the island last month.
Muriel said that in the face of Northern Alliance opposition to British troops and what is being seen as limited U.S. support for UK ground forces, Britain appeared to be back-tracking on sending its forces.
Others will accuse of him of leaving Britain's future in Europe open to question - and that could unsettle potential investors in the UK. Some will say that Britain faces years of argument and debate before the issue is settled.
The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU, said it was "obvious" the UK's existing arrangements inside the EU were not working but that Mr Cameron was not proposing an alternative.
John Collard, nurse consultant and clinical director of Allergy UK, said people in Britain were also going overboard in their reaction to allergies.
Thousands of overseas students may have been allowed to stay in Britain illegally because UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff failed to check out tip-offs about them, a report has revealed.
In Britain, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) drew Eurosceptic voters from the main opposition Conservative Party to take 17% of the vote, entitling it to 12 seats in the parliament.
In accounts filed with Companies House, Stemcor revealed that despite generating about one third of its revenues in Britain, its UK tax contribution made up only 2.7pc of the tax the company paid globally.
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The figures come on the same day the Chief Inspector of Borders John Vine warned that thousands of overseas students may have been allowed to stay in Britain illegally because UK Border Agency staff failed to check out tip-offs about them - a backlog of 153, 000 had built up at one point, he said.
The torch for the London Olympics toured the UK extensively but was brought to Britain straight from Athens.
And the burners are just about to be ignited under that debate in Britain, as the UK government prepares a new strategy on gas.
Germany and France have warned UK Prime Minister David Cameron that Britain cannot pick and choose EU membership terms after he pledged a referendum.
Dominic MacAskill, head of local government for Unison in Wales, said councils should oppose public spending cuts imposed by the UK government and "challenge austerity Britain".
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These are the two best known and longest running monthly snapshots of the UK property market, provided by Britain's two biggest mortgage lenders, the Nationwide and Halifax.
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU, said Mr Cameron should "make his mind up" about how to deal with the eurozone crisis.
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that Britain will be writing to the US, on behalf the EU, to clarify the reports of secret prisons, which were reportedly set up after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
It will only underline the key political question for Britain: does the UK want to stay in the EU but in the outer circle, does it want to free itself from the EU's embrace or will it select to join a more integrated Europe?
And although both Spain and France have smaller deficits than the UK, they will have to borrow comparable amounts to the UK in total - more than Britain in the case of France (according to Bloomberg data) - because so much of Spain's and France's debt is short-term, and needs repaying next year.
Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain during her time as UK prime minister, a Chester Conservative MP has said.
The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen.
The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU and came second to the Conservatives at this year's European elections, is hoping to win votes off the party at the next election.
It is designed to stop jobs leaving UK shores for places like Canada after Britain has slipped from the third biggest games maker to sixth and the number of people working in the industry has fallen by 10 percent.
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills says Britain's ageing population means we can expect to see a huge rise in the number of people working in the care industry in the future, and that the retail, catering and financial industries are also likely to pick up again, employing more people.
The new legislation being prepared in Britain will convince people that the UK is no longer a "soft touch".
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