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| | Comment is free: Our friends in the north |
 | | The great Henrik Ibsen wanted to be of Scots descent, and the North Berwick-born William Archer, Colin's cousin and Bernard Shaw's friend, was his first great champion in the Anglophone world. |
 | | This was, in the emergency of the second world war, to become a close bond, particularly with the Shetland islands, and the "Shetland Bus" - the little fishing boats that carried agents to the fjords. |
 | | Forward to 1964: in the negotiations on dividing the subsea resources of the North Sea, the UK government lost interest in hard bargaining, and allowed the Norwegians to extend their zone to the point of equidistance, rather than ending it at the 600-metre-deep Trench, which was far closer to Norway. |
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