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DUKE from one of Spain’s wealthiest dynasties is putting up two families of Syrian refugees at the ancestral estate. The youngest son of the late Duchess of Alba, an eccentric aristocrat and Spain’s richest and most titled noble when she died last November, has described how he was doing his bit to help ease Europe’s crisis. Cayetano Martinez de Irujo y Fitz-James Stuart, the 4th Duke of Arjona and 13th Count of Salvatierra (pictured right), told Spanish broadcaster Cuatro that he felt the need to do something when he read about Salam, forced to sleep on the streets of Spain despite having a career as a urologist and being able to speak five languages.
Spanish aristocrat welcomes Syrian refugee families to live in his palace
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Cayetano Martínez said he was moved by Salam’s story of how his practice was bombed and many of the patients were killed. “I saw this headline that said ‘We would prefer to go back to dying amid bombs than to keep living in the street’ and just felt I had to do something’,” he said. Salam said he was shocked by the response to the article. “We got a call that there was someone very
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important who wanted to see us,” he told the TV channel. As a result, the duke’s family estate close to Seville has been home to two families from Syria for the past 18 months. Cayetano Martínez is one of six children of the Duchess of Alba, one of Spain’s most
loved characters and the world’s most titled aristocrat when she died last November. News of the Duke’s generosity comes as Spain - along with several other European countries - is under pressure to take more refugees.
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ORRENTIAL rain caused massive flooding, closed roads and washed away vehicles across Spain’s southern coast region claiming four lives along the way Villages and towns along Spain’s southern coast have been battling severe flooding this week after torrential rain swept across the region resulting in a number of fatalities. A 61-year-old man became the first fatality of the floods after his car was washed away in Polopos-La Mamola on Monday. Later that afternoon the body of a man aged around 50 was discovered in Albuñol in Granada when flood water receded. Continued on page 4
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POPE FRANCIS CALLS ON EUROPE’S CATHOLICS TO SHELTER REFUGEES
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OPE Francis has lent his moral authority to stem a humanitarian crisis in Europe, calling on every Catholic parish to take in one of the thousands of families coming to the region to flee conflict and poverty. “May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family,” the pope told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square after reciting the traditional noon Angelus prayer. There are approximately 120,000 parishes in Europe, according to the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The pope added that the Vatican itself would shelter two families. Francis cited Mother Teresa, the European-born nun who cared for the poorest in India, in making his appeal in remarks to pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square. It’s not enough to say “Have courage, hang in there,” he added. The pope has made migration one of the major social causes of his pontificate. Only a few months after his election in 2013, he visited the southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a major entry point for undocumented
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migrants to Europe, where he denounced rich nations’ indifference to the thousands who had died trying to cross the sea from North Africa. His latest appeal to Catholics to set an example of Christian mercy came as Germany and Austria received, via Hungary, one of the largest waves of displaced people since World War II: thousands of migrants, many of them fleeing Syria and other war-torn countries. Some 13,000 migrants had crossed Hungary’s border with Austria by Sunday afternoon. Most of them were already in Germany, which was working to distribute them across the country. The country appears to remain the destination of choice for many migrants, in particular Syrians, after it already took in thousands of new arrivals last week. “In the face of the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing death in war or hunger, and who are on the road to hope of life, the Gospel calls us, asks us to be near, the littlest and the abandoned,” the pope said. Pope Francis said taking in such families would be a “concrete gesture in preparation for the Holy Year of Mercy,” which begins Dec. 8.
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GYPTIAN billionaire Naguib Sawir (pictured right) is said he will send formal letters to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi requesting to buy an island to house the outpouring of Syrian refugees and migrants. “I am serious with my intentions I want to feel good about having done something good. Provide me with the island and I will do the rest.” Sawiris, who heads up telecommunications company Orascom Telecom Media & Technology (OTMT), is Egypt’s third richest man with a net worth of $2.9 billion. He says he has the money and resources to move this plan forward, adding that he has developed land and has experience in logistics. Sawiris originally suggested buying an island for migrants in a tweet on September 3rd which went viral. He said he hasn’t yet been in contact with the Greek or Italian governments and his letters will be his first formal gesture. Europe is struggling to cope with the number of people trying to escape war and poverty.
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WRONG SIGNAL Some European countries have taken a hard line on migration and are refusing to accept any more refugees. They argue that welcoming them would send the wrong signal to people smugglers. Meanwhile, countries on the European Union’s external border such as Greece, Italy, and Hungary, are facing an influx of thousands. Sawiris said there’s a limit to how many people Europe can take in. He said there’s nothing either government can lose from accepting his proposal, which he believes will be reviewed by Greek and Italian leaders in the coming weeks. He has not yet identified an island. “The big-
ger the island the more people it can take,” Sawiris said. Western and Gulf countries aren’t doing enough to solve the humanitarian crisis, he added, for fear of letting in ISIS terrorists and because of their own domestic economic problems. This is why he’s suggesting a solution “to start from scratch.” He said he is willing to pay for an island and for safe boats to carry the migrants and refugees. He’ll also create a temporary port and marina, as well as provide food and temporary power. He said he will develop an infrastructure to house the migrants and hire the new
citizens as construction workers or farmers, creating a small city and community. The island will either remain in the domain of the country he buys it from or be an independent entity, which he said he’d name Aylan, after Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year old Syrian boy whose drowned body was washed up on a Turkish beach. The toddler’s photograph spurred Sawiris to tweet his proposal. “My conscience has been awakened by the picture of this child being taken in the sea,” Sawiris said. “God put the image of this child in front of us for a reason. He could have been swallowed by the ocean.”
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erman chancellor Angela Merkel said the Schengen zone, which allows people to move across 26 European countries without the need for passports checks, could not continue unless all nations take in a share of immigrants stating that the lack of passport checks within Europe was not helping the issue. Mrs Merkel said: “If we don’t arrive at a fair distribution then the issue of Schengen will arise - we do not want that. We stand before a huge national challenge. It will be a central challenge not only for days or months but for a long period of time.”
RESPONSIBILITY Germany is set to receive 800,000 asylum seekers during 2015, quadruple the amount in the year previous. Mrs Merkel said tackling the crisis was imperative for Europe’s future and urged other countries to take in more migrants to keep the union strong. She added: “Europe as a whole must move and its states must share the responsibility for refugees seeking asylum. Universal civil rights so far have been closely linked with Europe and its history - it was one of the founding motives of the European
COULD THE EU SCRAP FREE MOVEMENT IN WAKE OF MIGRANT CRISIS? EUROPEAN bosses are threatening to scrap free movement within its nations and bring back border controls as the migrant crisis deepens across the continent following the mass flow of refugees coming from Africa and the Middle East all summer Union. If Europe fails on the question of refugees, this close connection with universal civil rights will be destroyed and it won’t be
the Europe we want.” But some Schengen countries disagree and are already implementing their own meas-
THE LIST: 1. Ceuta & Melilla in north Africa 2. Greece - Turkey 3. Bulgaria – Turkey 4. France - Britain 5. Hungary - Serbia 6. Ukraine - Russia 7. Estonia – Russia Each number on the graphic represents a fence either built or being constructed in order to shore up borders.
ures to stop the onslaught of migrants. In recent years countries such as Bulgaria and Greece have attempted to stop migrants making it into the European Union from Turkey with the aid of giant fences, the Bulgarian government recently announced plans to extend its fence by 90 miles. In Africa, meanwhile, Morocco has built a 15-foot wall topped with razor wire on its border with Spanish enclave Melilla to halt waves off people trying to make it to Europe more recently Austria brought in new checks at its border with Hungary, which itself is building a steel fence to stop an influx of immigrants arriving from Serbia. Austria’s increased checks, which it denied violated the Schengen Agreement, had caused 15 miles of queues across Hungary. Konrad Kogler, director general for public security in Austria, said: “These are not border controls. It is about ensuring that people are safe, that they are not dying, on the one hand, and about traffic security, on the other.”
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UROPE’S refugee crisis has become a popular cause for Spain’s left-wing leaders, who are channelling public sentiment to pressure the government into a more generous stance. Despite lingering hardship from Spain’s economic crisis, many families have offered to receive refugees in their homes, and cities like Madrid are putting forward millions of euros to help. City halls, charities and impromptu Facebook groups are marshalling offers of aid and urging the government to open Spain up to refugees who are risking their lives to reach Europe from trouble spots such as Syria. “I am proud of the expressions and initiatives of solidarity by so many Spanish people in response to these tragedies,” wrote Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, responding to an open letter from Barcelona mayor Ada Colau. Accused by the left of dragging its feet as Europe faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II, the government on Tuesday agreed to take in however many the European Commission demands - a figure likely to be around 15,000.The apparent change in policy comes after months of action by city councils and concerned citizens, many organised by groups linked to Spain’s antiausterity “Indignado” movement. On August 29th, Colau called for the establishment of a “network of cities of refuge to give a home to thousands of civilians fleeing from war”. Since then, more than 100 cities have taken up the call, among them Madrid, Valencia and Zaragoza, the mayor said: “While states look for excuses, the cities
have got organised.” In Madrid, a huge white banner reading “Refugees welcome” was hung outside city hall this week, and Mayor Manuela Carmena has pledged €10 million ($11 million) to receive migrants in the city. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker will on Wednesday unveil a plan for urgently resettling 120,000 migrants across EU member states, with Germany likely to take in more than 31,000, France some 24,000, and Spain almost 15,000, a source told AFP. Until Tuesday, Rajoy’s conservative government, which is to contest a general election in December, insisted it would only take in 2,739 refugees this year.In response, more than 245,000 people signed a petition on the website change.org calling on the Spanish government to “immediately open the doors to refugees”. In an apparent U-turn, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria on Tuesday said that “Spain will accept the number of refugees that the European Union asks us to take”. With a population of nearly 47 million, Spain accounts for 9.1 percent of the EU’s population, but last year it took in less than one percent of the bloc’s asylum applications, UN figures showed. In all, it granted refugee status to just 384 people. Monica Oltra Jarque, deputy leader of the Valencia region and a member of the left-wing party Compromis, said there was room in Spain for plenty more. “If each Spanish town took just one family, we could host 20,000 families,” she said.
Hungary has been criticised for its fence but its government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said his country was protecting external EU borders, not just its own. He said: “If we do not succeed in restoring order and legality here, illegal migration including that of refugees, who are truly in need of protection - will become completely unmanageable.” He said the checks had been agreed by Germany and Hungary. Rather than stem immigration, Ukraine’s plans for a 1,200 mile fence with Russia has come in a bid to stop aggression from Vladimir Putin in the ongoing conflict between the nations and attempts by Moscow to back and support Ukraine rebels. Eastern bloc neighbour Estonia also wants to build a 70 mile barrier with Russia. Closer to home, Britain has pumped £7million into building a fence around the Channel Tunnel to protect the UK from being overrun with migrants in Calais. However, many migrants still manage to get to the UK by being smuggled in or sneaking into trucks. Europe’s leaders are set to meet on September 14 to look at ways of tackling the ongoing migrant crisis. Breaking up the Schengen Agreement would require major constitutional change and could pave the way for EU reforms which in turn would be a boost for David Cameron who this week continues his discussions with EU nations about bringing in more concessions for the UK.
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HEN Princess Elizabeth was born to the Duke and Duchess of York, she was third in line to the throne. Her father was the younger brother of David, the Prince of Wales, and it was assumed that the heir to the throne would eventually have children himself, and “Lilibet”, as she was known, would not accede. No one had any idea then that she would go on to become the most enduring Queen in British history. Yesterday, September 9th saw Queen Elizabeth II or to quote her title in full: “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith” make history and become the longest ever reigning monarch in British history breaking Queen
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VICTIMS On Tuesday morning a third victim was discovered washed up on a beach in Castell de Ferro, on the coast south of Granada. The man in his sixties was thought to have been carried down to the beach by flood water. On Wednesday another victim was discovered washed up at the mouth of a river on nearby beach between Castell and Calahonda- The area had experienced 80 litres of rainfall per meter in just 40 minutes. More than 300 emergency calls were made across Malaga, Almeria and Jaén provinces on Monday afternoon alone when the first rains hit. Spain’s Civil Protection service had issued weather alerts for Valencia, Alicante, Granada and Almería along Spain’s south-eastern and southern coastline. One of the worst affected areas is the town of Adra, in Almería on Spain’s south-eastern coast. Spain’s national weather agency, Aemet, on Monday put much of south-eastern Spain at risk from storms, while there is an “important risk” in several areas along the countries southern coast, such as Malaga. Roads were closed around Malaga airport, which was one of the worst affected areas with several international flights diverted from Malaga to Seville due to the heavy rain.
Victoria’s record who reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes, taking into account 63 years, 15 leap days, additional months and days and the precise timings of her accession and death. When her beloved father George VI died on February 6th 1952, Princess Elizabeth ascended to the throne and at the tender age of just 21 made the people of the Commonwealth of Nations a solemn promise. ‘I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we belong.” None who heard her words could have known she would go on to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
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N the year that Queen Elizabeth II makes history as the longest serving monarch in British History, it is also very poignant that we also mark the 75th anniversary of the ‘lightning war’ commonly known as the Blitz, the Nazi Germany’s eight-month wartime bombing campaign against Britain. Beginning in the autumn of 1940, German Luftwaffe pilots bombed London for 57 consecutive nights. It began on Sept. 7, when 348 German bombers and 617 Messerschmitt fighters appeared in the clear skies above the British capital and began to pound the area with explosives.
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In the months that followed, great numbers of aghast Londoners fled to the countryside. But many more stayed put, through air raids that flattened great swaths of the city and killed 20,000 residents. When the bomb shelters filled up, tens of thousands of Londoners filed into Underground stations, where they slept, packed like sardines, on the concrete platforms. In total around 43,000 people were killed and countless evacuated but in typical British fashion, the attitude at the time was very much ‘business as usual’. London was flattened but today the city stands proud.
From the top: A stricken London bus, heroic firemen tackling a blasted building, Londoners taking refuge in the Elephant & Castle Underground Station and the Queen Mother visiting bomb victims in the East End
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Giant ‘Superhenge’ ritual arena that dwarfs Stonehenge has been discovered
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IDDEN remains of an extraordinary Neolithic monument have been found buried beneath the ground - a mile from Stonehenge. More than 4,500 years ago, at least 90 huge stone monoliths lined an impressive “arena” that may have been used for religious rites or solstice rituals. Now lying on their sides covered by three feet of earth, the monuments have remained undiscovered until archaeologists from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute equipped with ground-penetrating radar probed the area around the famous stone circle on Salisbury Plain.
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EARTHWORK The stones, some measuring nearly 15ft, were placed along the south-eastern edge of what later became the Durrington Walls “superhenge” - a circular enclosure ringed by a ditch and bank that at nearly a mile across is the largest earthwork of its kind in the UK. Experts believe the stones, which may have been thought to have magical properties, were not originally part of the Henge but were deliberately toppled before being incorporated into it. Professor Vince Gaffney, from the University of Bradford, one of the archaeologists leading the project, said: “We’re looking at one of the largest stone monuments in Europe and it has been under our noses for something like 4,000 years. Professor Gaffney also believes the stones may have been planted by the same people who built Stonehenge, but is sceptical about a direct link between the two monuments.
They were placed along a steep slope, or scarp, cut into a natural dry valley to form a C-shaped feature. Part of Durrington Walls is aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, which may be significant. The discovery at Durrington Walls was unveiled at the British Science Festival, taking place this week at the University of Bradford. At the same event last year, the international team revealed a host of previously unknown archaeological features that had been hidden in the landscape around Stonehenge. They included a 108ft long burial mound containing a massive wooden building whose timber foundations lay under the soil.
The ongoing survey is using a suite of technologies to peer below the ground, including penetrating radar, electromagnetic induction, magnetometry, electrical resistance mapping, and lasers. Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust archaeologist for the Avebury and Stonehenge World Heritage Site, said: “The Stonehenge landscape has been studied by antiquaries and archaeologists for centuries. “But the work of the Hidden Landscapes team is revealing previously unsuspected twists in its age-old tale. “The presence of what appear to be stones, surrounding the site of one of the largest Neolithic settlements in Europe adds a whole new chapter to the Stonehenge story.”
AFTER the music stops at the Glastonbury Festival, thousands of abandoned pairs of Wellington boots can be found littering the fields of Worthy Farm. In the past many of the wellies have ended up buried in landfill sites. But since 2013 these leftover wellies have been donated to charities around the world. This year team member Liz Clegg had the idea of donating them to the migrants in Calais. “The boots were meticulously sized, paired and quality controlled by a group of volunteers and Liz recently transported more than 500 pairs to Calais, along with 2,000 unused rain ponchos and some first aid kits,” said a festival spokesman. Liz distributed them (and offered some first aid training) alongside Association Salam, a French charity which organises the distribution of food and clothing to the migrants. Earlier this month, the festival announced that it had been able to give £2m to charities in 2014. The largest recipients were Oxfam and Greenpeace (£500,000 each) and WaterAid (£250,000), with nearly 100 other organisations, many of them local, receiving money as well.
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UK NEWS n Elizabeth II has a way to go, however, before she overtakes the record of the world’s longest serving monarch. King Sobhuza II ruled Swaziland for an incredible 82 years from 10.12.1899 to 21.08.1982 n Over the course of her reign, she has given regular Tuesday-evening audiences to 12 British Prime Ministers: Winston Churchill, 1951–55; Sir Anthony Eden, 1955–57; Harold Macmillan, 1957–63; Sir Alec DouglasHome, 1963–64; Harold Wilson, 1964–70 and 1974–76; Edward Heath, 1970–74; James Callaghan, 1976–79; Margaret Thatcher, 1979–90; John Major, 1990–97; Tony Blair, 1997–2007; Gordon Brown, 2007–2010; and David Cameron, 2010-present. There have been 12 U.S. Presidents during her reign. n In 2005, she claimed ownership of 88 cygnets (young swans) on the River Thames. They are looked after by a swan marker. The first royal swan keeper was appointed around the 12th century. n Technically, the Queen still owns the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters around the U.K as detailed in a statute from 1324, during the reign of King Edward II. n The Queen joined Facebook in November 2010, with a page called the British Monarchy, which features royal news, photos, videos and speeches. However, it is not possible to poke the royal family. She joined Twitter in July 2009, with teams at Buckingham Palace tweeting daily updates. None of the royals themselves tweet. The page follows only one other Twitter account: Clarence House, the royal home of the Prince of Wales.
Some right Royal facts To celebrate this momentous achievement, here are some fascinating facts about the life and reign of Her Majesty n The Queen is the only person in Britain who can drive without a license or number plate on her state car.
n She once demoted a footman for giving her corgis whiskey. n She takes a keen interest in horses and racing. Her first pony, a Shetland called Peggy, was given to her by her grandfather King George V when she was 4 years old. Elizabeth continues to ride at Sandringham, Balmoral and Windsor. The Queen also takes interest in horse breeding. Horses bred at the royal studs over the past 200 years have won virtually every major race in Britain. Elizabeth has about 25 horses in training each season. n Her racing colours consist of a purple body with gold braiding, scarlet sleeves and a black velvet cap with gold fringe.
n Her real birthday is April 21, but it is celebrated officially in June. n There have been six Roman Catholic Popes during the Queen’s reign (Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI).
n During her reign, the Queen has received many unusual gifts, including a variety of live animals. The more unusual ones have been placed in the care of the London Zoo — among them jaguars and sloths from Brazil and two black beavers from Canada. There have also been gifts of pineapples, eggs, a box of snail shells, a grove of maple trees and 15 lb. (7 kg) of prawns.
n She has made a Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth every year of her reign except 1969, when a repeat of the film Royal Family was shown and a written message from the Queen issued.
n For her wedding she collected clothing coupons for her wedding dress, true to the spirit of post-war austerity. Her wedding ring was made from a nugget of Welsh gold that came from the Clogau St. David’s mine near Dolgellau. Her official wedding cake was made by McVitie and Price Ltd., using ingredients given as a wedding gift by Australian Girl Guides. n The Queen has an extensive collection of jewellery, most of which are crown jewels, some inherited and some gifts, including the largest pink diamond in the world. Some of her well-known pieces include a brooch of diamonds forming a spray of wattle that was presented by the Australian government in 1954 and a necklace of large square-cut aquamarines and diamonds with earrings, given as a gift in her coronation year by the ambassador of Brazil, which Elizabeth wore on her French state visit in 2004.
n Elizabeth has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign, starting with Susan, who was a present for her 18th birthday in 1944. A good proportion of these have been direct descendants from Susan. Elizabeth currently has five corgis: Emma, Linnet, Monty, Holly and Willow. n Elizabeth introduced a new breed of dog known as the dorgi when one of her corgis was mated with a dachshund named Pipkin that belonged to Princess Margaret. Elizabeth currently has four dorgis: Cider, Berry, Candy and Vulcan. As well as corgis and dorgis, the Queen also breeds and trains Labradors and cocker spaniels at Sandringham House. A special Sandringham strain of black Labrador was founded in 1911.
n She is supposedly the only British monarch in history properly trained to change a spark plug & tyre, as she undertook a car-maintenance course during World War II.
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‘I’ll give you €5,000 if you give my son a job’, says desperate father
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ESPITE its strengthening economy, Spain retains one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and one pensioner has taken drastic measures to get his son a job. The pensioner, a retired lawyer who has chosen to remain anonymous, posted a 25-word advert in regional newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón at the end of August offering €5,000 ($5,620) to any company that would employ his son. The ad read: “Pensioner offers €5,000 to a firm that will employ his unemployed son who is qualified, responsible, and hardworking and has a good professional record.”
DESPERATE “My son is desperate,” the man told El Heraldo de Aragón, “as a father I cannot watch him in pain and stand by and do nothing,” he added. “Perhaps publishing this kind of advert seems improper but over time I have lost any shame,” he said. The pensioner, originally from Huesca in north-eastern Spain, said his son, who has a five-year-old child, had had a series of tem-
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porary contracts, the last of which expired in September last year has since struggled to find work had not consulted his son before placing the ad and advised that when his son found out “he was very angry with me and was afraid that someone in Zaragoza would realise who he was. He said it was shameful. But after a long chat he told me I was the best father in the world.” The story is just one example of the situation in which many Spaniards have found themselves since the beginning of the crisis, which saw the country’s unemployment levels soar. The latest figures released by Spain’s employment ministry show the current unemploy-
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ment level is at 22.4 percent, the second highest in the European Union after Greece equating to about five million people out of work. With figures for September expected to add to the woe because of the 333,107 people whose temporary contracts – mainly in the tourism and other service sectors – expired on the last day of August. T The pensioner is keen to point out that he was not offering the €5,000 as some kind of bribe but more as an “economic partnership” to help his son “form his own business in the future or join an existing one”. He said he has to date received around 20 calls from interested companies however “What surprised me was that the majority did not even mention the money, which is obviously the most striking part of the advert,” he said
Ex-Madrid premiers to lose golden retirement package THE regional government of Madrid, headed by Cristina Cifuentes (pictured below) of the Popular Party (PP), has approved a bill aiming to eliminate the lifetime €5,500-a-month
salaries given to its former premiers. 11 ex-premiers, nine with ties to the PP and two to the Socialists – who meet around once a week at headquarters on the capital’s main Gran Vía thoroughfare, where they issue reports, now stand to lose their gross salary of €8,500 a month, or €5,500 net in a move that will save the regional coffers €2.3 million, mostly in personnel expenses. There are 28 government workers in total on the roll which include personal assistants and drivers. The regional premier said a new Legal Advisory Committee will now perform the work currently undertaken by the ex-premiers via the government’s legal department.
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Spain continues Young girl dies as weekend horror rally crash death to be a world leader in toll RISES to seven transplants and now carries T out 6% of the worldwide number
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N 2014 a total of 118,127 solid organ transplants were performed in the world, representing a 3% increase over the previous year with 4,360 performed in Spain alone, according to the World Transplant Registry. In the past 5 years, the total number of transplants around the world has increased by 13.5% (2010-2014), with an average annual growth rate of 2.7%. The World Transplant Registry which is managed by the National Transplant Organisation (NTO) & the World Health Organisation considers that of the 118,117 transplants carried out last year ‘only’ represents 12% of those in need of a transplant. Of these donations Europe donated 17% of this 6% was donated by Spain. In the last five years alone the number of worldwide transplants has increased by 13.5% (20102014) with an average annual growth of 2.7% according to the data collected from 112 countries and published in the official publication if the European Council Transplants Commission (Transplant Newsletter 2015). Director of the NTO, Rafael Metesanz, stated that Spain continues to lead the field in organ transplantation. 2014 saw record figures and this year we expect to see figures rise to between 38 and 40 donors per million people, which would mean an extra 300 transplant operations. Already this year donation figures are 10% higher. Spain has the highest rate of donations, with 36 donors per million people (pmp) thanks to the 1,682 recorded in 2014, well above the European average (19.6) and the US (26.6). In fact, despite representing only 0.7% of the world population, Spain carried out 17% of organ donations across Europe and 6% in the world. In total 2,678 kidney transplants, 1,068 liver, 265 heart, 262 lung, 81 pancreas and intestine 6 were made. In Europe the figures on organ donation and transplantation are stable compared to the previous year. In 2014, the rate of donation of the 28 countries that form the European Union increased slightly to 19.6 donors per million people, with a total of 10,033 donations (9,637 in 2013). Meanwhile, the total number of transplants increased by 2.3%, with a total of 31,881, slightly higher than the previous year at 31,165 in 2013.
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HE girl, 11 has died in hospital following the weekend’s rally tragedy in bringing the death toll to seven. The youngster, named locally as Uxia, aged 11 had been in a critical condition with severe head injuries since the Saturday’s crash in the small town of Carral, in Galicia, in the north west of the country. Sadly she died in intensive care at 10.30pm on Monday evening bring the total number of deaths to seven in what has been described as Spain’s worst rally accident. Another fatality Ana Cayazzo a heavily pregnant woman who was due to give birth and her partner Miguel Caridad, both in their 20s, died instantly when TRAGIC: The car careered into a group of around 20 fans in Spain they were struck by one of the race another child – are said to be in a “serious” condition in hoscars as it lost control on a bend. Miguel had recently posted pital while five more remain in hospital. Ten others have been photos on his Facebook page showing him tenderly touchreleased from hospital following treatment. ing his girlfriend’s bump.Miguel, a keen motor racing fan, is The crash happened just before 8pm on Saturday when drivunderstood to have persuaded her to watch the rally a short er Sergio Tabeayo Sande lost control of his Peugeot 206 XS on drive from their home. a bend and smashed into a crowd of around 20 spectators. TREATMENT The competition was suspended immediately after. Carral mayor Jose Luis Fernandez Mourino said the driver was “absoSix people including a girl of 13 were killed instantly while 16 lutely devastated”, adding: “What he wants to do is disappear.” others were injured. Three of the dead were named as MarThe driver and his co-pilot, named as Luis Miguel Prado Santos, cos Prego, Sandra Maria Ares and her 13-year-old daughter were unhurt but are being counselled by experts. They are exAroa, another pregnant woman was reportedly among the pected to be interviewed by investigators later this week. dead but has not be named. Two more people – an adult and
ITALIAN WOMAN SUES OVER NUDIST BEACH SNAP
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N Italian woman has opened a civil lawsuit against dozens of naturist websites which used a naked photo of her as promotional material. Stefania, a 38-year-old commercial artist from Vicenza in northern Italy, was photographed while spending the day at a nudist resort while on holiday in the Canary Islands in August 2013, Il Giornale di Vicenzareported. But she was unaware that she had been snapped naked and was horrified when a male friend recently sent her a link to an image he found on a nudist website. “When I saw that photo I nearly died,” she said, “It’s one thing deciding to spend the day with no clothes on at a nudist beach but it’s another when everybody can see you as naked as the day you were born.” After seeing the photo, Stefania called the offending website to have the image taken down, but it was already too late – by now the photo was being used by dozens of different naturist websites to promote nudism. She has now opened a civil lawsuit in Spain against the websites, which she believes have damaged her image and invaded her privacy. None of the websites were named in the news report. But the publication of Stefania’s image could prove costly for them - in total, she is asking for nearly €500,000 in damages. A legal expert has stated that the success of the lawsuit would depend on how EU privacy laws are interpreted. “Nudist beaches are public spaces, but she will argue that she went there with the right to and expectation of privacy,” the expert said.
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