ISSUE NO. 1368
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22 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2011
For sale: The Good, Bad and Ugly cortijo THE owners of the house used during the making of the 1966 Spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ in Nijar, are willing to sell it. The company Agricola La Mision SL, who own the Cortijo del Fraile and the 400 hectares which surround it, has said that it is ‘fed up’ and wants to reach an agreement with Nijar Town Hall and the Junta de Andalucia as soon as possible. Both institutions want the ‘cortijo’ to become public heritage so that it can be repaired and restored. Currently, a collapsed wall threatens to bring down the entire building. Cortijo del Fraile was the true-life setting of
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PHOTO: Ventura Carmona.
By Jennifer Leighfield
NEWS EXTRA
MOJACAR Positiva Se Mueve and the local PSOE have presented a joint motion to create profiles for the town on Twitter, Facebook, Tuenti and Google, and want plenary meetings to be broadcast on the internet.
Hospital road WORK has begun on the second access route to the Torrecardenas Hospital Complex in Almeria. When work on the Children’s Hospital begins, this entrance will be used as the main one will be blocked by machinery.
Cortijo del Fraile is in disrepair. Inset: Clint Eastwood. the crime of passion murder on which Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca based his play ‘Blood Wedding’, published in 1932. The building was
classified as an Asset of Cultural Interest in February and a local cultural group has taken measures to attempt to protect it. The company has said
Helicopter crash kills 3 A HELICOPTER crashed in Granada, killing the three occupants. The Infoca helicopter, a Bell 412, had taken off from Palma del Rio in Cordoba and crashed as it was heading to Alhama de Almeria to replace another craft.
This was the second such crash in less than 24 hours in Andalucia. The other helicopter crashed in the middle of a narrow street in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz, injuring the three occupants.
that although the property may be worth up to €4m, it understands that all administrations are having financial difficulties and that the amount of money it receives is the least of its priorities as it prefers to be rid of the property so that it can be properly maintained. Nijar Town Hall has suggested giving the company other land which may interest them, or allowing the ‘cortijo’ to be run as a restaurant or rural hotel.
Work tragedy A 32-YEAR-OLD man died on an industrial estate in Partaloa when a forklift truck he was servicing fell on him.
High voltage A 15-YEAR-OLD boy remains in hospital in Berja after suffering an electric shock when he accidently touched a high tension cable while playing in the street.
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