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London rejects demand for fresh Scottish referendum
By EUobserver
The UK government rejected on Thursday the demands of Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to hold a new independence referendum in 2020, Reuters writes. "A second independence referendum next year would be a damaging distraction," Britain's government said in a statement, adding that it would undermine the result of the last vote five years ago when 55 percent of Scots chose to remain in the UK.