<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4bf4187c-1fd1-45d3-8bee-e9d6ca8851a1/D762103E-5D49-4017-8D2B-858509B60E2C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=AkbPyVuU27j9nsT4PTIy1KOek3QF/*http://www.reuters.com"><IMG height="27" border="0" width="94" alt="Reuters" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/reuters_logo_94.png" /></A> </DIV> Tiny Shetland island declares independence </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence"><P> LONDON (Reuters) - The owner of a tiny island in off <SPAN id="lw_1214080951_0" class="yshortcuts">Scotland</SPAN> declared its independence from the <SPAN id="lw_1214080951_1" class="yshortcuts">United Kingdom</SPAN> on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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