Supporters are aware that Mowbray's wins-to-matches ratio is already worse than that of the greatly discredited John Barnes in 1998-99; they are also cognisant of the fact that Barnes was sacked the day after a Scottish Cup defeat by Inverness Caledonian Thistle, the highland club then, like Dunfermline now, in the First Division.
If you try to drive up from Toamasina, the main port, to Antananarivo, the highland capital, you meet a roadblock at a bridge in Brickaville, where drunken soldiers, bored truck drivers and hundreds of porters congregate.
Bolivia's indigenous highland peoples chew coca to allay hunger, tiredness and the effects of living at 4,000 metres (13,000 feet).
His status as his country's first elected leader of indigenous descent, combined with a policy of funnelling the proceeds of higher taxes on the oil and gas industry to the poor majority in highland Bolivia, brought him enduring popularity.
Moreover, since both Potosí and El Alto are highland, majority-indigenous places that have backed Mr Morales in the past, he has not been able to resort to his usual tactic of dismissing the unrest as racially motivated.The marchers to La Paz are protesting a planned road from Villa Tunari, in the Cochabamba department, to San Ignacio de Moxos in the Beni department.
It suffers from breaches between Amazon and highland Indians, Catholics and Protestants, and the remaining supporters of Mr Gutiérrez and his detractors.
Half a century ago, a land reform shared out much of the highland plateau known as the Altiplano among peasant farmers, slowing the rush to the cities.
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The main trade-union federation and the highland-farmers' unions recently said they would launch their own political parties.
Families can choose from a Seashore Adventure in Pembrokeshire at FSC Fort Dale, from £165 per adult, £131 per child 21-255 august), a Highland Adventure in the Cairngorms at FSC Kindrogan, from £367 per adult, £275 per child 21-288 August), or adventure holidays in Cumbria or Devon.
"In my 25 years in the property business, I have never known a rise of that level before," says Gerald Cooper, chairman of the Highland Solicitors' Property Centre, a trade body.
