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Spread This News BBC Members of a self-styled African tribe have been evicted from their camp on council-owned land in the Scottish Borders. The three people, who call themselves the Kingdom of Kubala ...

Members of a self-styled African tribe have been evicted from their camp on council-owned land in the Scottish Borders.

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