http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-53035,00.html

09:20 MONDAY DECEMBER 18 2000

British troops sent to Kosovo border

British peacekepeers serving with Kosovo's Nato-led
peacekeeping force have been sent to reinforce security on the
province's tense frontier with southern Serbia, a Nato spokesman
said.

About 150 troops from the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment had
been sent to the boundary, to an area south of where American
and Russian troops exchanged fire yesterday with unknown
attackers, Major Tim Pierce said.

"The deployment is not in response to the violence at the
weekend, but is obviously as a result of the events in the Presevo
valley area," he said.

The British troops have been put at the disposal of the US brigade
trying to seal the frontier to ethnic Albanian insurgents, who have
been transporting arms and men into the valley.