• In the run up to the game, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) - the police officers union - called for a ban on Old Firm games in Glasgow, saying they led to too much violence.

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  • If France could block the club's expansion, that might then let it push for a tighter Union of 15, still centred on the old Franco-German alliance.

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  • In the case of Delphi, GM spun off its parts business but made the new company take the old, high cost union contracts--a recipe for disaster.

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  • Second, he could reassert himself in foreign policy, marrying his new zeal for economic integration in Europe with his old wariness of political union.

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  • As Baroness Thatcher, she continued to attack old enemies for a while, such as the European Union, and to exert a sometimes-divisive influence within the Conservative Party.

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  • As Baroness Thatcher, she continued to attack old enemies for a while, such as the European Union, and to exert a sometimes divisive influence within the Conservative Party.

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  • The move was partly orchestrated by Falcons coach Alan Tait, a former Leeds Rhinos and Newcastle player himself, and the 43-year-old believes Williams has all the attributes needed for the union game.

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  • And the strategy of Mr Barzani and his old rival, Jalal Talabani, who leads the Patriotic Union for Kurdistan, is to remain at the heart of the action, in the Iraqi capital.

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  • The 27-year-old Fa'asavalu played for Samoa in the 2003 rugby union World Cup but pledged his allegiance to Britain after qualifying through residency.

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  • If you are old enough to remember, when Ronald Reagan gave his first State of the Union, The Gipper, the old actor, stood up and appeared to speak for almost an hour, or so I recall.

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  • People of all ages came out, fathers carrying toddlers on their shoulders for a better view, old folk sitting on deck-chairs and waving Union Flags.

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  • Both the French government, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, and the European Commission's transport directorate are pressing for strict laws to exclude old ships from European ports.

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