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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair talks to service personnel covering for striking firefighters during a visit Friday November 29, 2002, to a Territorial Army base in Darlington. The Fire Brigades Union and the local government employers are expected to hold informal talks later Friday on the last full day of the firefighters' eight day strike in support of their 40% pay claim. See PA story INDUSTRY Fire. PA photo: John Giles.