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SUSPECT BAILED
32-year-old British man has been bailed by a Benidorm judge in connection with the death of a newlywed Scottish woman who fell to her death from an apartment in Benidorm. Kirsty Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, who married her partner Adam in September last year, was part of a group of more than 30 women who had travelled to the resort for a hen weekend. It is understood she left the Costa Blanca apartment she has been sharing with friends on Saturday morning, possibly to ask for medicine from another friend.
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Mrs Maxwell is believed to have entered a room where five British men were staying, which was on the floor above the room being used by the hen party. She fell from the tenth floor balcony of the Apartmentos Payma afterwards. Reports have suggested that the National Police are working on the theory she may have been trying to escape from the room. The 32 year-old British man arrested in connection with the incident has been allowed to leave Spain, and it was reported that he had a history of sexual assault in England.
THREE FOR CORVERA
hree bidders, including French and Argentinian companies, have emerged in the contest to run Murcia’s much-delayed Corvera International Airport. The deadline for companies expressing an interest in the 25-year-franchise passed on Tuesday, with the current operators of San Javier and Alicante-Elche, AENA, in the frame. AENA, run most of the country’s airports and have been joined by French company Edeis(who already run Castellón airport in the northern part of the Valencian region), and Corporación América., which is owned by Argentinian billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian. Five years ago 84-year-old Eurnekian wanted to buy
Corvera airport when relations between the Murcia government and previous management company, Aeromur, started to sour. A number of other companies, including the Manchester Airports group that run Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands, and Bournemouth airports, were said to have expressed an interest last year, with a Manchester group representative visiting Corvera last spring. After Tuesday’s first deadline, a 10-day period kicked in for the three bidders to provide extra details to their submissions, ahead of the next stage lasting 60 days where the regional government will get more information about the plans being put forward by AENA, Edies,
and Corporación América. After the 60 days, Murcia’s development minister, Pedro Rivera, said that it would be up to the regional government to analyse the franchise bids “as quickly as possible, but without undue haste in making the final award. The final process of awarding a Corvera contract
though cannot be completed without a ruling from an independent contractual tribunal that is hearing a complaint from AENA about the framing of the original tender document that they say is not strict enough. There’s also the still on-going legal action againbst the Murcia government from sacked operator Aeromur.
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