Summary: Terry Whitehead joins Neil and Vince for this edition of our weekly podcast.Madrid is currently drawing up contingency plans for its relationship with Britain. Citizens. Spain counts on the largest community of British residents in the EU around 300,000, and a high number of Spaniards living in the UK (116,000). Aviation. Air traffic is a much more complex issue. Beyond the general uncertainty related to a key area for tourism, Spain is faced with the specific problem of Iberia – the former flag carrier is part of the British group IAG, which also includes British Airways........ Trade. The government already has an estimate as to how much it will have to increase its customs resources should there be a hard Brexit. ............... Fishing. In this area, Spain considers the work already done by the EC to have significantly reduced the adverse effects for the Spanish fishermen who are operating in the United Kingdom (there are around 80 boats who fish in British waters). Gibraltar. The issue related to Brexit that has consumed the most diplomatic efforts is the one that the government considers to be the best covered. The Spanish government believes that, even if the general Withdrawal Agreement were to be rejected – the document contains a specific protocol on Gibraltar – the bilateral arrangements that Madrid and London have signed up to relating to the British Overseas Territory would remain in force.............. SPAIN’S Maritime Rescue Service has reportedly saved 549 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea this weekend. ......... The European Union’s border agency revealed on Friday that 57,000 illegal immigrants reached Spain last year, double the figure for 2017. Citizens of Morocco accounted for 19% of the 28,572 undocumented migrant arrivals in 2017, while Algerians represented 17%, according to Interior Ministry FOUR men have been arrested on suspicion of videotaping the assault of a young women who was allegedly drugged and raped on New Year’s Eve........ ....... The Guardia Civil suspects there may have been ‘similar aggressions on at least two other occasions and with different girls’, and believe ‘more cases will arise’ in the course of the investigation........The Town Council of Callosa d’En Sarria, where the alleged offence took place, has expressed its ‘strongest condemnation and rejection of the alleged collective sexual aggression suffered by a 19-year-old girl in the town’.... FOUR people were injured and two-hundred evacuated from the Poseidon Playa Hotel in Benidorm, after a 17th floor fire took place on Saturday 5.The incident occurred at approximately 14:30pm after, for unknown reasons, a fire started in of the busiest hotels in Alicante’s Benidorm (Spain). In the UK ...Shocking new footage reveals how far-right protesters screamed abuse in the face of Anna Soubry as MPs urged the police to take action. A selfie video recorded by activist James Goddard shows the group of men crowding around Ms Soubry and blocking her path as she walks alone to the Commons. Did anyone see any protests against the gay tea-time kiss enjoyed by a minister of the cloth in Coronation St? Jeremy Clarkson has launched a bitter tirade against the BBC, claiming it’s now so politically correct men don’t stand a chance of getting top jobs. A Reddit user has shared the extraordinary response he received from a woman he took out after he refused to pay for her dinner despite her lobster and wine costing six times more than his.
