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LAST week, as loyalist road-blocks were bringing the North to a standstill, John Major said "as far as I am concerned Northern…

LAST week, as loyalist road-blocks were bringing the North to a standstill, John Major said "as far as I am concerned Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, just like Surrey." Belfast's Irish News wouldn't take this lying down and their reporter Michael Hanlon rang up the British Prime Minister's brother, who actually lives in Surrey. Terry Major-Ball says it is not just like Surrey at all. The only marching, he said, was, by the annual Salvation Army parade "and there's never any "bother with that".

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