North Poles Stewart Fisher Reports On One Country's Growing Export Business to Scotland

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QUESTION: What do Bonnie Prince Charlie and Scottish domestic football have in common, aside from the fact that Scottish players these days also seem to encounter serious difficulties attempting to progress any further than Derby? Answer: Both are at least partially Polish.

As the son of James Edward Stewart and Maria Clementina Sobieska the granddaughter of the King of Poland the young pretender who led the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century certainly was. But with no fewer than six high-profile Polish goalkeepers currently at Scottish sides, and certain clubs reaching out to ingratiate themselves to an ever increasing immigrant population, Scottish football also seems to have developed its own attraction to the Poles.

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North Poles Stewart Fisher Reports On One Country's Growing Export Business to Scotland

According to the latest edition of the Home Office's Accession Monitoring Report which tracks the arrival of workers from the eight "accession" countries more than 65,000 National Insurance numbers have been issued to migrants to Scotland from such countries since the EU's eastward expansion in 2004. With people bo...

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