ISSUE NO. 1443
28 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2013
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Balearic fish to reel in Greenpeace ENVIRONMENTAL campaigning group Greenpeace has chosen to come to Mallorca. The ship Arctic Sunrise will be spending three months here in a campaign to observe and protect the fish in the waters off the island. They will especially look at the conservation of fish only found in the waters of the Balearics. The crew of 31, of 12 nationalities, will arrive from their respective countries at Palma Airport this week. They will be conducting their observations from small boats already on board the Arctic Sunrise. The ship has recently participated in a campaign against prospecting by oil companies in the Arctic. The Arctic Sunrise started its life at sea as a sealhunting vessel.
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gangs, accused of six burglaries at homes in the Sa Pobla area. On January 10, the Guardia Civil stopped two men who were acting suspiciously after reports of a burglary at a home and a plumbing store. The first man was arrested whilst the second man ran away. The first man appeared
Broken promise
MALLORCA’S current government will not honour a verbal agreement made by the previous administration to pay €150,000 to the producers of German drama Cloud Atlas, filmed partially on Mallorca in 2011.
Dino park SINEU COUNCIL has given the green light to the creation of a dinosaur theme park on a defunct paint-balling site.
IRONIC: Greenpeace ship was originally a seal hunter.
5 arrested for string of burglaries GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested five people belonging to two separate
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in court and was remanded in custody. Police later arrested his accomplice who was due in court on Saturday. The other three men are part of the second group and were arrested early on Saturday morning as part of the ongoing investigation into thefts from homes in the municipality. All of the suspects are
of Moroccan origin, according to police sources. The first two men are 28 years old. In the second group two are aged 20 and one 17. Allegedly they would sit watching houses between 9pm and 11pm before forcing an entry. So far police have recovered a plasma TV and €720 in cash.
Look east
THE Balearic Government met with Russian tour operators in Palma to explore ways to increase the flow of Russian tourists to the islands.
Eviction despair CALVIA saw another suicide as a 68-yearold man whose home was being repossesed suffocated himself with a plastic bag.