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Spain’s economy The Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew in May 2017 by 1.9% year-on-year, seven tenths less than in April See Page 4
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Cartagena migrant tragedy
Five bodies of migrants believed to have originated from sub-Saharan Africa have been found off the coast of Cartagena. The gruesome discovery was made by a merchant ship, the Baltic Wave, who then called the coastguard. They were then ordered to remain in the area until the rescuers arrived, but the operation ended up as one of recovery. Being that the raft containing the victims was at least 70 miles out to sea, it took some two-and-a-half hours for the emergency services to reach the scene where they found the bodies in an already decomposed state, making initial assessments as to how long they’d been floating at sea impossible. Rather than remove the five deceased from the vessel, the coastguard preferred instead to tow the sailing boat back to the port of Cartegena where they arrived back in the early hours of Saturday morning at Santa Lucia Pier. Many thousands of sub-Saharan migrants attempt the highly dangerous crossing to Europe every year on barelyseaworthy and overcrowded crafts, and many do not make it to dry land. Another five have now suffered this fate...
London Inferno It will no doubt be some time before the truth is out there about not only what initially started one of the biggest fires seen in the UK for decades. See Page 3