Catalonia will decide in 2014 if it wants independence according to Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira, the vice-president of the Generalitat (Catalan Govt.) and leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (a leftist Catalan party). Carod-Rovira told the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia that an independent Catalonia would be much easier to achieve than a federal Spain. He said: "Catalonia has never been a priority for Spain, while on the other hand Spain has always been a priority for Catalonia. Spain only wants us to pay taxes... and that's it."

Summarised translation from El País, 27 Aug. 2007

Scots got a wee bit o an airin on Radio 4. The story is cried Just Like the Famous Five scrieved bi Anne Donovan. That's Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dug, nae Smith, Johnstone, Turnbull, Reilly an Ormond. That wis a bit o a let doon fir me tae be honest but a suppose ye cannae hae athin. It's nae a bad story hooevir.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/afternoon_reading_wed