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Braveheart an EU fan

- by Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart, won his greatest battle at Stirling Bridge in 1297, the first thing he did was not to have a party but to write a letter to the Hanseatic League, which was the medieval forerunner of a single marketplac­e. ‘He said:

THE Scottish Nationalis­ts really must be getting desperate. Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has summoned the ghost of William Wallace in his party’s confrontat­ion with Theresa May over a second referendum.

‘The independen­ce movement has always had a European dimension,’ he declares.

‘ When William Wallace, our greatest hero, so superbly played

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