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| | Weekly Mailing List Archives - 26th January 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Very different company in the afternoon when I sped through to Edinburgh to meet with Sir Peter Ricketts, UK Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service (“he was very nice”, I said to Calum; “of course he was”, says the bold boy, “he is heid diplomat, after all!”; yeh, right enough). |
 | | It’s interesting, the way that different UK departments deal with us here in Scotland’s Parliament: Although they deal with ‘reserved matters’ I’ve always found the International Development Department and the Foreign Office very approachable whilst the Home Office, in relation to Immigration and Asylum issues, is extremely unhelpful. |
 | | When Robert Houston reached Canada he settled first at Montreal, and later moved to Aldborough, where in 1829 he married Nancy Campbell, who was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, in 1806, three years later than her husband, who was born April 6, 1803. |
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