A platform created against plans to build a test track circuit for high speed trains in Antequera will be in Málaga City on May 19, distributing locally-grown produce to the public.
The platform considers that, despite the thousands of jobs which will be created by the project, the damage it will cause to what is the most fertile district of Málaga province will be irreversible.
La Opinión de Málaga reports that more many local businesses, associations and environmental organisations are against the project.
The 80 km testing track will consist of three loops, with 55 kms of the circuit to be used to test trains up to a speed of 520 kms and hour. There will also be smaller circuits for the testing of metro and tram trains.
plans to build a test track circuit for high speed trains in Antequera
Posted May 13, 2011
Almería youngster who was the victim of a robbery when he was assaulted by three youths on a street in the city centre last weekend has had the stolen items returned after using the Internet to identify his three assailants.
Posted May 13, 2011
An Almería youngster who was the victim of a robbery when he was assaulted by three youths on a street in the city centre last weekend has had the stolen items returned after using the Internet to identify his three assailants.
El Mundo newspaper reports that the 14 year old knew his attackers by sight, but had no idea of their names or where they lived.
He trawled social network sites on the Net until he managed to identify two of the thieves and passed the information onto police.
All three have now been arrested and police have recovered and returned the 14 year old’s stolen gold jewellery.
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A tramp has walked into a shop in Arona, Tenerife and decapitated the shop assistant.
Posted May 13, 2011
The Councillor for Safety from Arona Town Hall, Manuel Reverón, has said that witnesses report that the man cut off the head of the Chinese female assistant, and walked out of the shop at 1025am on Friday in Avenida Juan Carlos I, with her head in his hand.
Lawyer hits out over arrest in Spain
Posted February 17, 2011
The 55-year-old was held in a mansion in Palma, the capital of the island of Majorca, on Monday. In a statement, Mr di Stefano said he had been freed by the Spanish Supreme Court and the charges against him were “spurious”. Mr di Stefano is wanted by detectives at City of London Police in connection with a fraud inquiry dating back several years.
A source close to the investigation said a warrant was issued last month after a review of paperwork connected to the case.
He said yesterday that the charges were a result of a recent indictment he had served against former prime minister Tony Blair claiming the Iraq war was illegal.
Mr di Stefano is a colourful businessman and legal advocate who has made his name by picking up some of the most high-profile cases of the last decade. He was one of several non-Arab lawyers who acted as consultants to the team which defended deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and others in his regime. Earlier this month it emerged he had agreed to represent American serial killer Charles Manson, who is challenging his conviction."
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Spain will not overturn death sentence of poet Miguel Hernandez
Posted February 17, 2011
Spain will not overturn death sentence of poet Miguel Hernandez 
- Monsters and Critics: "Spain's Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to revise the death sentence handed to Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), one of the country's greatest 20th-century poets.Hernandez fought in Spain's 1936-39 civil war on the side of the leftist republicans against General Francisco Franco. After Franco won the war, 'people's poet' Hernandez was sentenced to death on charges including his 'left-wing' poetry."
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Libya not immune to winds of change
Posted February 16, 2011
Libya
not immune to winds of change: "The violent clashes reported from Benghazi, on Libya's north-east coast, could well be a foretaste of what is to follow.Opponents of the regime are calling for major protests this Thursday, spreading the word by internet.
Libya has had protests before, successfully quashed by the powerful security forces. But those were before the leaders of both Libya's neighbours - Tunisia to the west, Egypt to the east - were driven from power.
There has been much speculation among young, educated Arabs, that the days of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime are numbered.
He himself has been in power for 42 years, making him the Arab world's longest-serving ruler, just ahead of Oman's Sultan Qaboos.
Officially, he does not rule Libya, it is government by committee, with the country adopting various titles like The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
In practice, it is effectively a police state where political parties are banned and dissent is crushed."
"Devil's advocate", he has made his name defending some of the most hated criminals in recent years.
Posted February 16, 2011
Giovanni di Stefano, who is from Italy, is wanted by London detectives in connection with a lengthy inquiry and was arrested on Majorca on Monday.
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The 55-year-old said in a statement the charges against him – which relate to fraud, theft and money laundering - were "spurious".
He claimed they were revenge for a recent indictment he served against Tony Blair arguing that the Iraq war was illegal.
A source close to the City of London Police inquiry, which dates back several years, said a warrant for his arrest was issued in January after a review of the case.
Detectives are keen to have him brought back to the UK for questioning.
Spanish reports said he fell ill during his arrest and was admitted to hospital for surgery.
Di Stefano was one of several non-Arab lawyers who helped defend deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
He has also represented serial killer Harold Shipman, Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and killer Jeremy Bamber.:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.
Dubbed the
The 55-year-old said in a statement the charges against him – which relate to fraud, theft and money laundering - were "spurious".
He claimed they were revenge for a recent indictment he served against Tony Blair arguing that the Iraq war was illegal.
A source close to the City of London Police inquiry, which dates back several years, said a warrant for his arrest was issued in January after a review of the case.
Detectives are keen to have him brought back to the UK for questioning.
Spanish reports said he fell ill during his arrest and was admitted to hospital for surgery.
Di Stefano was one of several non-Arab lawyers who helped defend deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Spanish politicians under fire for backing Contador
Posted February 16, 2011
Spanish politicians under fire for backing Contador: "The head of cycling's governing body UCI has criticised Spanish politicians for supporting Alberto Contador in his battle against a doping ban.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was one of several politicians to publically back Contador's appeal.
'It's up to sport to police itself and sport should be allowed to do that,' UCI president Pat McQuaid said.
'I don't think [the process] should be interfered with by politicians when they don't know the full facts.'
Three-time Tour de France champion Contador tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol during the race in 2010.
The Spaniard protested his innocence, claiming contaminated meat was responsible for his failed test."
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Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was one of several politicians to publically back Contador's appeal.
'It's up to sport to police itself and sport should be allowed to do that,' UCI president Pat McQuaid said.
'I don't think [the process] should be interfered with by politicians when they don't know the full facts.'
Three-time Tour de France champion Contador tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol during the race in 2010.
The Spaniard protested his innocence, claiming contaminated meat was responsible for his failed test."
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Spanish court releases Saddam Hussein lawyer
Posted February 16, 2011
Spanish court releases Saddam Hussein lawyer : "Spain's National Court has ordered the release of an Italian lawyer who was part of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's defence team, judicial sources said Wednesday.
Giovanni Di Stefano, 55, was held on Monday in Palma de Majorca. A British court accuses him of 18 crimes including embezzlement and fraud.
Di Stefano presented himself as a lawyer in Britain, without having been authorized to exercise as such, embezzling clients between 2004 and 2009, the British court said.
Spain's National Court ordered Di Stefano's release for health reasons while he was waiting to be operated at a Palma hospital. He was due to be extradited to Britain later on."
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Giovanni Di Stefano, 55, was held on Monday in Palma de Majorca. A British court accuses him of 18 crimes including embezzlement and fraud.
Di Stefano presented himself as a lawyer in Britain, without having been authorized to exercise as such, embezzling clients between 2004 and 2009, the British court said.
Spain's National Court ordered Di Stefano's release for health reasons while he was waiting to be operated at a Palma hospital. He was due to be extradited to Britain later on."
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Sir Fred Goodwin wasn’t sharing any of the pain as he lorded it on a five-star shooting trip this week, paid for by the boss of Spanish bank giants Santander.
Posted February 14, 2011
He is reviled as the world’s worst banker for his disastrous role in bringing the British economy to its knees.
But disgraced Sir Fred Goodwin wasn’t sharing any of the pain as he lorded it on a five-star shooting trip this week, paid for by the boss of Spanish bank giants Santander.
And joining Goodwin, 52, on the jaunt to shoot partridge and drink the finest wine at a medieval Spanish estate was none other than his long-standing crony, Sir Jackie Stewart
.
Ex-Royal Bank of Scotland boss Goodwin hired former racing driver Sir Jackie, his boyhood hero, to be a £4million “global ambassador” for the bank.
When RBS hit the rocks, Sir Jackie caused outrage by initially demanding that Goodwin’s replacements honoured the deal and carried on paying him, even though the bank had to axe 20,000 staff. As a tax exile partly-based in Switzerland Sir Jackie, 71, doesn’t pay UK tax when he works overseas for RBS, despite the bank being kept afloat by £20billion of taxpayers’ cash.
But the continuing fall-out from RBS’s collapse appeared the last thing on their minds as Goodwin and Sir Jackie jetted out business class to Madrid on Tuesday, taking with them two 20-bore Beretta shotguns.
At the airport they were met by a limousine sent by Santander chief Emilio Botin, who helped fund Goodwin’s disastrous £49billion takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007.
The deal, the biggest in banking history, was blamed directly for the collapse of RBS a year later.
After a night at Madrid’s five-star Villa Magna Hotel, the two Scots were driven 30 miles by limousine to La Flamenca, a vast country estate near the town of Aranjuez. The 2,500-acre grounds are owned by Manuel Falco Anchorena, the Duke of Fernan Nunez, who is said to have the finest partridge shooting in Spain.
Goodwin, dubbed Fred the Shred for his ruthless cost-cutting while in charge of RBS, and Sir Jackie were driven past the Duke’s palace up a three-mile track to Casa del Monte, an imposing hunting lodge.
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But disgraced Sir Fred Goodwin wasn’t sharing any of the pain as he lorded it on a five-star shooting trip this week, paid for by the boss of Spanish bank giants Santander.
And joining Goodwin, 52, on the jaunt to shoot partridge and drink the finest wine at a medieval Spanish estate was none other than his long-standing crony, Sir Jackie Stewart.Ex-Royal Bank of Scotland boss Goodwin hired former racing driver Sir Jackie, his boyhood hero, to be a £4million “global ambassador” for the bank.
When RBS hit the rocks, Sir Jackie caused outrage by initially demanding that Goodwin’s replacements honoured the deal and carried on paying him, even though the bank had to axe 20,000 staff. As a tax exile partly-based in Switzerland Sir Jackie, 71, doesn’t pay UK tax when he works overseas for RBS, despite the bank being kept afloat by £20billion of taxpayers’ cash.
But the continuing fall-out from RBS’s collapse appeared the last thing on their minds as Goodwin and Sir Jackie jetted out business class to Madrid on Tuesday, taking with them two 20-bore Beretta shotguns.
At the airport they were met by a limousine sent by Santander chief Emilio Botin, who helped fund Goodwin’s disastrous £49billion takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007.
The deal, the biggest in banking history, was blamed directly for the collapse of RBS a year later.
After a night at Madrid’s five-star Villa Magna Hotel, the two Scots were driven 30 miles by limousine to La Flamenca, a vast country estate near the town of Aranjuez. The 2,500-acre grounds are owned by Manuel Falco Anchorena, the Duke of Fernan Nunez, who is said to have the finest partridge shooting in Spain.
Goodwin, dubbed Fred the Shred for his ruthless cost-cutting while in charge of RBS, and Sir Jackie were driven past the Duke’s palace up a three-mile track to Casa del Monte, an imposing hunting lodge.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/13/disgraced-banker-sir-fred-goodwin-goes-on-luxury-shooting-trip-to-spain-115875-22918797/#ixzz1DvZx7P9G
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- plans to build a test track circuit for high speed trains in Antequera
- Almería youngster who was the victim of a robbery when he was assaulted by three youths on a street in the city centre last weekend has had the stolen items returned after using the Internet to identify his three assailants.
- A tramp has walked into a shop in Arona, Tenerife and decapitated the shop assistant.
- Lawyer hits out over arrest in Spain
- Spain will not overturn death sentence of poet Miguel Hernandez
- Libya not immune to winds of change
- "Devil's advocate", he has made his name defending some of the most hated criminals in recent years.
- Spanish politicians under fire for backing Contador
- Spanish court releases Saddam Hussein lawyer
- Sir Fred Goodwin wasn’t sharing any of the pain as he lorded it on a five-star shooting trip this week, paid for by the boss of Spanish bank giants Santander.
- Prostitution racket busted in Spain
- Movie on post war Spain big winner of Goya cinema awards
- Spanish resort to advance plans for 450-room resort - News - JamaicaObserver.com
- Pilot flew as captain on a few occasions
- 13 arrests in 11 million Euro IVA/VAT fraud in Spain
- Spanish cities take action as pollution levels soar
- Michael Dermot McArdle is wanted in Spain to serve the twoyear sentence for the manslaughter of his wife Kelly Anne Corcoran.
- Student dies after silicone buttuck implant operation
- The Briton taking polo back to China
- Jet2.com adds 70,000 more seats to Spain and Portugal