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| 19:45 UK time, Wednesday, 18 July 2007
Remember the tensions that we reported on Monday around the preparation for the British Irish Council. There were squabbles over who should do what and where at the rehearsal on Sunday. One insider had described two feisty Scottish women insisting that Alex Salmon was going to be in the front row, not the second row, for the family protrait. I met one Stormont insider up at Stormont today who insisted I had underplayed the tensions and the notion there were only two feisty Scots in the mix. "It was more like 20 mothers in law at a wedding," he recalled.
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This all sounds a bit fishy....I think you're codding Martina (check your spelling of the Scottish First Minister;)).
This all sounds a bit fishy....I think you're codding Martina (check your spelling of the Scottish First Minister;)).
There's something fishy about your spelling of Alex Salmond's name.....