Catalonia Independence still a Worry!




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Summary: Spain on Monday ordered North Korea's ambassador to leave the country by September 30th in protest over Pyongyang's nuclear tests, which it has criticised as "a serious threat to peace". Spanish police on Monday seized more than 100,000 posters promoting a planned independence referendum in Catalonia, while prosecutors summoned mayors who have agreed to help hold the disputed vote. Spain's Guardia Civil on Wednesday searched several headquarters in Barcelona of Catalonia's regional government, a Catalan government spokesman said. The Guardia Civil on Wednesday arrested the Catalan vice president's right-hand man, police and Catalonia's regional government said. Alex Green, a firefighter from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was found with a bleed to the brain and fractures to his eye sockets in the streets of Magaluff.The 26-year-old also had a broken cheek bone, nose and a collapsed lung when he was discovered on the street. He had travelled to the party resort with a group of 25 friends and family members but he was found just six hours later with severe injuries. Chet Sandhu, from Hartlepool, was arrested at gunpoint in Alicante Airport by Spanish police in November 1999. Chet - real name Gurchettan Sandhu - masterminded a steroid-smuggling operation with a market value of more than half a million dollars. Now in a new book Chet chronicles his life and time inside the notorious Spanish prison Fontcalent, famed for its tough conditions and high-profile inmates. Spain is the European country that has lost more money in the bailout of large economies, 4.3% of GDP....more than Germany, the United Kingdom or Italy, according to the European Commission. ........ 48,000 million not recoverable In Syria a Reaper drone operated by pilots 2,000 miles away at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, unleashes its deadly arsenal – obliterating a sniper keeping watch on a roof nearby. As the terrified crowds scatter in panic, the IS fighters are unable to stage their barbaric killing. The UK is still trying to clarify what happened with the Parsons Green rail bomb. The Syrian refugee arrested over the Parsons Green bombing appeared to enjoy smoking weed and drinking vodka as part of his 'very westernised' life. Yahya Faroukh, 21, was being quizzed in a south London police station after he was arrested on Saturday night outside Aladdin's Fried Chicken in Hounslow where he worked. On his Instagram he wrote about 'smoking weed every day' and posted an image saying: 'For better life you need to have weed, vodka and drugs.' Craig Dawick, 25,of Rochdale has been jailed for life for murdering his eight-month-old son Leyton for crying too much. He left him injuries that looked like he was in a car crash.........Meanwhile, John Robinson, 23, has been jailed after fracturing his seven-week-old daughter's skull and leaving her 'looking dead'. He has always denied responsibility but was jailed for one year. Omega Mwaikambo, 43, claims he did 'nothing wrong' after posting pictures of a loosely covered corpse hours after the Grenfell blaze struck the block of flats in Kensington in June.The 43-year-old was jailed for three months for his offences and is now out Claire Walton says the video of her daughter being attacked outside Blessed Edward Jones high school in Rhyl, North Wales, shows just how savage youth violence has become. Dawn French has done us a favour: with refreshing force. In an amiable interview at the weekend she was reflecting — as a comedy creator will do — on the absurdities of modern life when she landed, with sudden anger, on the ladette thing.She had been watching reality shows about 'young lasses out on the lash in Ibiza', not only helplessly drunk but having reckless sex with all and sundry.'I am shocked at how they behave,' French said.