Windfall for Spanish Village




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Summary: 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