Made angry hive Q- now for paper merger

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I have a very angry hive with bees bouncing off my bee suit and hard to see due to the cluster on my face hood.
I have followed advice on here and moved the BB so bees the flying bees fly back to the original site.
I have shaken the bees out and hopefully got rid of the Q. I have been back in 7 dats later and removed all the QC’s.
Now hopelessly queenless.
I plan to bring another hive to the apiary and merge using the newspaper method.
Anything I should do differently as they are so aggressive?
 
Checked today, now 14 days sine removing the Q & no QC’s.
I wasn’t sure I had shaken the Q out hence not replaced immediately.
So it’s a really angry hive and Q- for 14 days plus, so should it work (adding a mated Q with brood) using newspaper method?
Much difference if merging hive with Q is above or below angry bees. My inclination is above to allow the flying bees time to acclimatise to new hive.
 
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