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The Ibex 35, based in Madrid, closed August with a drop of 8.24% on JulySpain’s stock exchange suffers worst month in three years.........Dream Costa del Sol villa sale falls through after Natwest suspects British couple of money-laundering 151 people drowned in Spain over the summer and 271 have drowned since the start of the year .....a shortage of spaces and threat of fines make parking by the beach 'mission impossible' . In the uK the migrant problems rumble on .....Chaotic scenes and 16 hour delays hit London-bound Eurostar services overnight as desperate migrants climbed on to the roof of an 186mph train and attempted to break into train carriages. The Home Secretary is waking up..'EU migrants should be banned from UK unless they have a job lined up' Drunk' female arrested after 'punching easyJet flight attendant' .. The shocking incident caused the pilot of flight EZY3043 from Stansted to the holiday island of Ibiza to divert to Barcelona, where the woman was removed from the plane. Model glassed and BIT bar manager in a drunken rampage ..... Melika Gabidon, pictured, who calls herself 'Crazy Fairy' attacked duty boss Stephanie Miller, 27, after her underage friend was refused drinks at a Wetherspoons in Manchester. Mechanic whose victim lost baby after he rammed her car avoids jail ....Kevin O'Connor, 29, drove his Skoda Fabia into a Vauxhall Corsa, which was carrying pregnant Kayleigh Watt, 19, five times at speeds in excess of 60mph in a road rage attack in Stirling. Mayor's disgraced son spared jail for drug dealing .... Christopher Backhouse, 25, had been fit and healthy until he started experimenting with legal highs and became addicted to drugs that he also sold, York Crown Court heard. Angelina Jolie 'quit Princess Diana mine-clearing charity in row over trustees paying themselves up to £500 a day'.... Actress said to have felt 'uncomfortable' after two Halo Trust trustees paid themselves more than £120,000 for a review into the charity

Something will have to change in Spain as seven people have now been killed in the running season this year. Four were killed this weekend. 14 Jihadist recruiters have been arrested in Madrid and various Moroccan cities. Fewer Russians and more Americans are visiting Spain. Gibraltar is furious as Guardia Civil allegedly shot across the bows of Gibraltarian's boat. British police sent to Magaluff to stop drunken behaviour is telling friends she was sozzled herself! In the UK Investigators have begun the grim task of identifying the dead in Shoreham, West Sussex, after a plane crashed onto the local roads. It is still not known if the toll will rise beyond the 11 so far believed to have died. Cameron's pledges are in tatters as Net immigration soars to record high of 330,000. Britain’s leading FTSE 100 index opened up 1.7 per cent on Tuesday morning, as investors in London appeared to shrug off further dramatic falls in Asia overnight. Only Cyprus, Ireland, Malta, Austria and France keep a database of those who have been convicted of sex crimes. Slovakian Eduard Peticky moved to the UK just days after being released from jail. Clubber who smashed a wine glass over a City worker’s head after a drink was spilled on her at a London bar is spared jail.......and........ How English are jailed over licence fee but Scots aren't . Offenders in Scotland pay just £75 and those in Northern Ireland an average of £80. The discrepancies have sparked fresh concerns about the unfairness of the television licence. ....Rower who blacked up to pilot his boat The Golliwogger in river festival denies racism saying 'Down in Cornwall it's a bit different' .......

Tensions were heightened after Spanish security forces entered Gibraltar's waters while chasing suspected drugs smugglers....British police have joined a small contingent of foreign police helping monitor behaviour in Mallorca. There are calls for tighter safety controls after another bungee jumper has died........ Special ‘beach police’ will patrol the sands in Torrox, Costa Del Sol, issuing 'land-grabbing' guests with £21 fines if they leave belongings unattended for long periods of time Tony Blair wades into the Labour leadership campaign in the UK saying he wants those who hate him to unite behind another candidate because of the ‘mortal danger we are in’ if the Left-wing MP Corbyn wins leadership............. Stores in airports across Britain continued to ask travellers for their boarding passes – and failed to cut prices, despite Treasury ministers pleading for an end to the rip-off Drunk thug who glassed dancer in the face leaving her scarred for life walks free from court after judge says attack is 'not a serious GBH and HE was provoked '....... Meanwhile, magistrate Bob Hutchinson claims public safety is being put at risk by curbs on the ability of JPs to lock defendants up on remand if they have a history of witness intimidation......and the public is told to e-mail pictures of crime scenes to the police. Consultant Basil Fozard, 59, left his role as a medical director at Bournemouth Hospital, Dorset, in June but returned to the same role with a £17,000 pay increase only last month

Spain is still the focus after the death of the British singing star and TV presenter Cilla Black. The water shortage is now becoming ever more serious in Spain and Catalonia is making a major play for independence. A Spanish woman who threw her newborn baby out of a window has been sentenced to four years in jail after a court found her guilty of attempted murder Animal-lovers who want to take a holiday with their favourite furry pals are protesting against Spain's railway limits on pet size, petitioning to bring all kinds of dogs on board, big or small. ...in the UK The former Prime Minister, EdwardHeath, is being investigated and is known to have spent time with Savile and his friend Peter Jaconelli, pictured together, who between them abused dozens of children in Scarborough...... ...The charity Kids Company, whose headquarters are in south London, closed yesterday amid allegations of financial mismanagement and a row over government funding. A report, called Supply and Desire: Sexuality and the Sex Industry in the 21st Century, was conducted by sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim and states that prostitution could 'help to reduce sexual crime rates'.... ...meanwhile, a Belgian United Nations goodwill ambassador for sexual health, has hit the headlines over her campaign for pupils to sit a GCSE in sex education - which would include an exam in 'sexual pleasure', according to the Sunday Express...... .....andComputer glitch has left 644 cases of child sexual abuse unreported Finnish schools want children to focus on what they write rather than how they write it and want too stop teaching joined up handwriting. Although there have been objections from grandparents, there has been surprisingly little reaction over the move.

Spain has raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 to boost protection of minors and bring the country in line with its European Union neighbours. Spanish law had previously allowed boys and girls to marry at 14 with permission from a judge. A British woman has been killed whilst bungee jumping in Spain. Kleyo De Abreu, 23, from London, died at around 3pm yesterday in Lanjaron, Granada, according to Spanish police. Her aunt witnessed the tragedy. It is believed she smashed into an ancient Roman bridge crossing high above the River Tablate whilst attempting her second jump of the day. .............. Three Spanish journalists missing in Syria, press federation says Jose Manuel Lopez, Antonio Pampliega and Angel Sastre entered Syria nearly two weeks ago and there has been no news since July 12 ............. Thousands are flocking to the seaside resort of Benidorm, on Spain's east coast, as families seek value-for-money holidays after the mass shooting in Tunisia in June. Farmers blocked the A1 motorway, a key artery between Paris and northern France, with around 500 tractors and threatened to extend the protest to other regions today Roger Giese, 40, fled the US eight years ago just as he was about to stand trial charged with sexually abusing a 13 year-old boy from 1998 until 2002. It has emerged he now lives in Broughton, Hampshire....now trying to claim immunity from prison by Human Rights Issues..... Paedophile jailed after he asked for child sex to be legalised...... Phillip Kirk's revolting actions also included researching child murder and local schools and girl guide groups in his home city of York, within weeks of being released from jail for other offences. Buckingham Palace has launched a hunt to discover how leaked footage of the Queen being taught how to do a Nazi salute in the gardens at Balmoral ended up in the hands of The Sun The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said the issue of politicians' salaries could no longer be 'ducked' and it is pushing ahead with the increase from £67,060 to £74,000

Spanish women are protesting against a culture of sexual assault at San Fermin's annual bullfighting festival, after a British teen was reportedly raped. Verónica Landa says it's time the world heard the truth about Pamplona......... A 44-year-old man from France has been killed by a bull during festivities in the town of Pedreguer, on Spain’s east coast. The unnamed man, who was identified by authorities as O.L., was attending the festivities with some friends. He was gored by the bull at around 1am on Tuesday, “causing serious injuries” and doctors were unable to prevent him from dying almost immediately, Pedreguer town hall said in a statement........... ROBOTS are set to become Spain’s newest weapon in the battle for education. However, there is nothing to fear, as Dash and Dot, the resident robots of a growing number of Spanish classrooms, are designed purely to teach. Sir Michael Wilshaw said he was dismayed by behaviour in some schools and called for 'grammar school ethos' in every comprehensive, with teachers banned for calling pupils 'mate' The con artists are pulling a fast one on foreigners by slashing a car's tyre, pointing it out as a ‘blown out tyre’ and then having their cohorts arrive to tow the car to a nearby garage that is in on the ruse. BBC claims to be slashing staff but increased payouts to top stars.... Some 29 celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig, have put their names to an open letter to the Prime Minister in which they argue that the BBC is ‘the envy of the world’

Spain’s Supreme Court has rejected a libel case brought by Ryanair against a consumer association that described the budget airline as “the lowest of the low” which “swindled and mocked its passengers”. Spain's roads are getting more dangerous, new data shows, with the number of road deaths in January up 42 per cent on last year. Virginia Pérez Buendía, the last in a long line of flour makers from the small town of Valverde de Júcar, in the province of Cuenca, has left her fortune to the young people of the town, so that they can all complete their studies. Former Tesco boss Philip Clarke has enjoyed a bumper day as the struggling supermarket handed out £1.22million in pay to the man who left the company in considerably worse shape than he found it. The pay had been suspended amid last September's accounting scandal, when Tesco admitted that it had overstated its profits by around £250million - just two months after Clarke had resigned. Tesco has also paid Clarke's finance chief Laurie McIlwee £970,880 under the separation agreement. McIlwee resigned in April last year, while Clarke was ousted in July. One in nine UK victims of murder or manslaughter are killed by a thug out on bail who could have been behind bars, shocking figures revealed last night. A worker at a halal abattoir in Thirsk, North Yorkshire has been sacked and three others suspended after being filmed carrying out ‘horrifying abuse’ on sheep. Alcoholics and junkies are getting almost half a billion pounds a year in sickness benefits, despite repeated attempts by Ministers to crack down on Britain’s benefits culture Child aged FOUR investigated by police for rape: Experts blame internet porn for the 800 under-tens who have sexually assaulted other children

On Monday, an F-16 fighter jet manned by two Greek pilots crashed on takeoff, hitting the hangar where other aircraft were awaiting their turn to take part in a Nato exercise. Ten military personnel died on impact: the two Greek captains and eight Frenchmen – three captains, one lieutenant and four non-commissioned officers. Charity soccer matches organized under the name of Argentinean star Lionel Messi in four countries in 2012 and 2013 raked in hundreds of thousands of euros that were later stashed away in secret bank accounts in Curaçao and Hong Kong, according to a Civil Guard investigation. Pope Francis granted a private audience to a transgender Spaniard in the Vatican on January 24 after the latter wrote asking him for support, a regional newspaper from Extremadura reported. A former docker has claimed that workers were paid to dip their cranes as Winston Churchill's coffin passed along the River Thames to his funeral at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Peter Rolfe, 64, who has fathered 26 children with 15 mothers, said his previous three-bedroom home on the Isle of Wight was a 'prison' and the council had a 'duty' to give him a bigger house. Police hand out more than 400 cautions for sex with under-13s. Some cautions may be to avoid children giving evidence but campaigners were outraged, with Tory MP Philip Davies saying paedophiles were being spared the 'full force of the law'. Married school caretaker tried to order 12-year-old girl for £100 an hour from notorious paedophile by text but is spared jail. Father-of-three Joseph Hart contacted paedophile Darren Leggett via a website when police intercepted their text messages and raided Hart's home in Horwich, Bolton. Rugby bosses in Yorkshire have introduced 'Silent Sundays' to discourage aggressive behaviour from parents on the sidelines after referees increasingly became the targets of 'verbal abuse'

Spain wants to see the Schengen treaty modified to allow border controls to be restored to limit the movements of Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, a report said on Sunday. Joblessness fell in Spain by over a quarter of a million in 2014, a record in the struggling eurozone economy Schoolbook authors have been told not to write about sausages or pigs for fear of causing offence. Guidance from leading educational publisher the Oxford University Press prohibits authors from including anything that could be perceived as pork-related in their books. The 'lenient' suspended sentence handed to a teacher convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil at school and at home cannot be reviewed because of a legal loophole, it was revealed today. The UK government promised the 2012 Olympic Games would ‘inspire a generation’ to become more active, but pupils spend less time in sport and PE classes now than they did four years ago. A notorious police killer has received more than £250,000 in legal aid, helping him to launch a string of ‘absurd’ human rights cases from jail. David Bieber, 48, used part of the taxpayer-funded sum to sue the prison service on four occasions – even claiming that he should be moved to a more comfortable cell. Just when you thought the world of football couldn’t sink any lower, the head of the players’ union, Gordon Taylor, compares the story of convicted rapist Ched Evans to the Hillsborough tragedy.

In a report entitled Overcoming Barriers, Ofsted said: ‘In the local authorities and schools visited, almost all Roma pupils arriving from Eastern Europe were new to speaking English. ‘Where newly-arrived Roma pupils have had little prior experience of formal education, schools and local authorities reported that initially they had difficulty in engaging the pupils to adhere to school routines and meet expectations for good behaviour.’ German company Playmobil dismissed claims their games aimed at 4-10 year olds glorify crime. They said their toys are acceptable, because children need to be taught about 'baddies'. Toys R Us, Argos and Amazon have all stocked the sets. Elsewhere, Hatred' is a violent computer game that tells the story of a lone wolf gunman who 'hates the world' and acts out his fantasy of brutally murdering the public and police because 'no life is worth saving'. A couple were ordered to delete a video of their child performing in a nativity play by her school because of concerns about the online safety of pupils. Douglas Holmes said his four-year-old daughter Emmi-Rai had played the role of innkeeper in her nativity play at Ynysboeth Primary School in Abercynon. A drunken thug repeatedly kicked and jumped on a man's head as he lay cowering in the road. Liam Sewell cried in the dock as he watched CCTV footage of him, drunk and bare-chested, repeatedly stamping on the head of Kenneth Burton in a street in Hull.After kicking and jumping on his head, the 21-year-old even ran away from his victim as he lay in the street only to return and stamp on his head again.The judge described the attack as 'chilling' and said it was astonishing that Mr Burton, who was left lying motionless in the road, did not suffer damage to his brain or die. Prisoners in a new 'superjail' will have a choice of Christmas dinners costing taxpayers more than the food given to patients at nearby hospitals. Inmates at the £150million HMP Grampian, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, will be tucking into chicken Balmoral and chocolate gateau on Christmas Day at a cost of £2.47 per prisoner. Patients in NHS Grampian hospitals have just 89p spent on them for a two-course meal on average - although it does rise to £2.17 on December 25. Time is nearly up for computers. When the clock strikes 14 minutes and seven seconds past three on the morning of Tuesday 19 January 2038 UTC, a bug is expected to hit the web. Any computer, program, server or gadget running a 32-bit system could then fail, on a global scale, unless they are patched and upgraded in advance.This is known as the Year 2038 Problem, and is a theory that was recently proved when Psy's Gangnam Style exceeded two billion views on YouTube.

There's a constant theme to the news here in Spain. It's corruption, separation and development without planning permission. Even the Telegraph leads with the question of what happens to Barcelona FC if Catalonia votes for independence. This comes in the aftermath of 1.1 million Catalans voting for separation in an unofficial poll. However, on the lighter side it has been Fiestas in Benidorm. In the UK a man is described as wicked beyond belief: This was a monster who savagely battered to death a toddler he was babysitting who has been verbally attacked by the judge who jailed him for at least 22 years. Meanwhile, a footballer who had been convicted of rape has been allowed back into his former club. The stakes are now getting higher as an Olympic champion has become involved in this case. It's about how women are treated. Almost 100,000 people have joined the campaign to keep self-styled dating guru Julien Blanc out of the UK. Blanc, 25, advises men to treat women with chilling disrespect and contempt. Have some judges really lost the plot? The question is asked as a mother who slashed her four-month-old son’s feet with razor blade is spared jail and continues to look after child because judge thinks attack was HER 'cry for help' If the answer is to make the jails softer then look at this headline. Killers and rapists on run from open prison: 76 have walked out and vanished, yet officials will not identify 25 of them The Tower of London’s 2014 poppy installation is more than just a tribute to each one of the 888,246 British and colonial troops who died in the Great War.According to the Mail online It’s become a monument to the way the British view themselves: dutiful, patient, original, compassionate and mindful of the past without being rooted in it.

In Tenerife...A woman stuck in her car during flash-flooding was saved as huge waste containers narrowly avoid crushing her car and the Spanish nursing assistant, Teresa Romero, 44, who became the first person to be infected with Ebola outside west Africa is now clear of all traces of the virus nearly two weeks after she was hospitalized. Incredibly, the UK Home Office has lost track of 760 of the 4,200 foreign criminals who had been freed back on to UK streets by the end of March 2014 pending their removal. It includes 58 ‘high harm’ individuals, a category that includes rapists, killers and drug dealers. In the UK Dog breeder Stephen Potts, who nearly died after being savaged by his own pets, has been arrested after the animals went on another violent rampage.. Boy racer, Paul Reddan, who killed his girlfriend while driving at 'ludicrous' speeds is jailed for six years. Is this really enough? UK GPs will be paid £55 for every patient diagnosed with dementia under a controversial scheme to boost detection. Clever children are being held back at school and leading miserable lives due to accusations of being geeks a UK charity warned. Raheem Sterling partied in a London nightclub until 3am - the day after he was ‘too tired’ to play for England in their Euro 2016 qualifier in Estonia. An Italian miner was permitted to be off sick for 35 years after claiming he was claustrophobic. Coal miner Carlo Cani started work in 1980 and retired early, drawing a pension despite hardly ever putting in a day's work over a 35-year career.

The weather is hot again in Spain after spells of rain. E-bola continues to dominate with another plane evacuated in Madrid. Artur Mas insists on a referendum for Catalonia despite an announcement hours earlier it would not go ahead. As footballer Ched Evans finishes his jail sentence for rape early.......we are told more than 35 women report being raped every day in the UK. More bizarre happenings in the UK as a mum to be loses her baby after a mugging at a bus stop and a callous thug killed his friend's grandmother to steal her pension. Research claims losing weight slowly does not reduce your regin weight and we're told it takes 4 miles to run off the effects of a bottle of coca cola. 40% of 5 year olds lack the basic skills necessary to start school. A former electrician, 60, gets a job in Cornwall after 547 failed applications.

Would you want a gas drilling platform near you if it had caused 500 earthquakes in your area? Also, be careful of the laws in other countries as Morocco has sentenced a British tourist to four months in prison for 'homosexual acts. Mother-of-nine who claimed £38,000 benefits has TWINS – adding £1,400. Cheryl Prudham, from Gravesend, Kent, has given birth to her 10th and 11th children, allowing her to claim an extra £1,400 on top of her £38,000-a-year benefits Benefits cheat did not declare she was married in £17,000 scam. Julie Matthews, 48, from Wombwell, near Barnsley, was given a suspended sentence after falsely claiming £17,541 in benefits. She did not say she was married because her husband was gay. Benefits cheat claimed £55K and spent it on parties, cars and holidays bdul Murshid, 46, claimed £700 a month in housing benefit he was not entitled to while working at a Welcome Break service station in north London. Women devote well over the equivalent of a working day each week to household chores – double the amount undertaken by men, according to a survey by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Britain sending £600k abroad EVERY week. The most recent figures show that 20,400 families received payments for a total of 34,268 children, setting back taxpayers £31million a year – or some £600,000 every week The women who insist they can't make ends meet on £100,000 a year. The new social statum - 'squeezed upper middle' - refers to high-earning couples who struggle to achieve their aristocratic aspirations after paying expensive school fees and hefty mortgages.

Catalan president Artur Mas signed a decree on Saturday calling for a November 9 ballot as a non-binding consultation on independence for the region of about 7.5 million people in northeastern Spain. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy denounced the vote as unconstitutional and said yesterday that his government had filed a lawsuit to block it. For the first time since the financial crisis, official figures show Italian and Spanish manufacturing output on the rise, while German and French production is shrinking - a complete reversal of the long-term trend. Messi is to stand trial for tax evasion. ............ FOLLOWING A picture of a naked man tied to a post in a Benidorm bar appearing on the front page of a national Spanish newspaper last weekend, the Town....is looking at decency byelaws..... Heartbreaking images of families in Birmingham is just one of 100 that were taken by photographer Nick Hedges in Britain's slums in the 1960s and 1970s. A survey for gig sales outlet Ticketmaster examined 'unacceptable' jokes and found that while topics like disability, race and death were off-limits, others were up for debate A middle aged woman has been found posting internet messages because she wrongly believes that Kate and Gerry McCann had some involvement in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in Portugal in 2007. At Luton Crown Court, 38-year-old James Ogley, the vicar of Saint Francis Church in Luton, pleaded guilty to seven charges of publishing obscene material in the form of chat logs. Six offences relate to material posted online in June 2012 and one to a publication in November 2012. Ogley, who had been suspended from his post since his arrest, was jailed for two years.