Catalans drive to Scotland to back 'yes'

A group of Catalan firefighters arrived in Glasgow yesterday to lend their support to a "Yes" vote in Scotland's independence referendum in a convoy. "We live in a dictatorship and we want to vote like in Scotland," Pep Pladeveya from Gerona in northeast Spain told AFP in the square. Hundreds of thousands of Catalans fired up by Scotland's referendum rallied last week in Barcelona's streets in red and yellow shirts, forming a giant "V" to demand a vote.