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18 - 24 january 2013
Spain faces pension crisis SPAIN HAS used its Social Security Reserve Fund to buy government bonds raising fears that it may not be able to guarantee future pension payments. p6
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Fire and brimstone THREATENING LEAFLETS preaching hell and damnation are being left for British people living in a quiet Costa Blanca resort.
Steve Hughes who advises friends and clients to switch to a company that provides solutions for the expat community. p13
Let’s get physical Look good and feel good by starting a regime at the modern, light and airy gyms at either Fitness Corpore La Estacion – the commercial centre at Benidorm’s Bus Station – or the club at the Finestrat industrial estate. p39
by Jack Troughton
Pep, Frankie, Harry and Paul
Frankie Dettori is currently appearing on the current version of Celebrity Big Brother p63
Issue 692
Young at heart
Dorothy, who has chalked up 27 years service at the the charity Caritas, celebrated her 90th birthday last weekend. Read the full story on page 7.
Residents of Javea have been upset by the flood of “creepy” leaflets pushed under business doors or left on car windscreens. The mostly handwritten pieces of printed paper – written in block capitals with some grammatical errors – began appearing before Christmas prompting fears a fanatic was at work. And the message rants at “You Brits” for being “diabolical hypocrites” who will go “straight to hell” and whose “pet beliefs won’t do you much good when you beg for a drop of water in those unquenching flames.” The leafleting is believed to be the work of a single man – and some pieces of paper have been found pushed inside a free English newspaper. Christine Betterton-Jones said she believed she had spotted the man – he was middle-aged with short cropped hair and “looked British” – leaving the paper on cars in the Arenal area. “I do find them a bit creepy and certainly people on their own might be frightened in some way – he must be driven somehow to be doing this,” she said. And hairdresser Brenda Taylor told RTN: It is not very nice and makes me feel uncomfortable. I know some people have laughed at it but I don’t, I have got quite cross. “They are just not very nice and are vaguely threatening. I think it should be stopped because it is upsetting and quite creepy.” Brenda said finding the messages made her wonder if she was being watched. “You don’t know if he is following when you leave work and I would be very nervous if I lived on my own.” Continued on page 5