Edition 65
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Where Euro 2012 is more than life’s worth to a dog
THE Ukraine’s mass slaughter of homeless dogs has appalled animal lovers as the former Soviet republic prepares to host Europe’s biggest international football tournament. The Courier’s resident dog psychiatrist is outraged at the horrific ‘clean-up’ - and wants those who DO care to support the campaign and petition to halt the wanton murder of man’s best friend
DYING FOR A GAME
IN three weeks’ time, a major festival of football will begin in Poland and Ukraine, who are jointly hosting the Euro 2012 tournament.
In Spain, the Spanish flag will be out in force, as will the flag of St George in England. Houses and cars will be decorated with banners and the passion of the world’s greatest game will again descend on us all. Poland and Ukraine will once again be the deciding voice have put the finishing and if he chooses not to support the touches to their stadiums Mayor a no-confidence vote in the and infrastructure and will be government would normally be welcoming the rest of Europe with open arms and smiles. expected within a month. But in Ukraine, behind However, Houliston cannot take part in a no-confidence motion – so the welcomes and smiles, the coalition would likely maintain the officials will be hiding a dark secret. its weak grip on power. You see, before all major Only councillors belonging to a political group can participate in a football tournaments the host no-confidence censure, but nation always has what you Houliston was expelled from CLR, might call a ‘spring clean' to leaving him with no group and no the major cities where the vote. There has been much matches are due to be speculation that his expulsion from played. That is natural. The Continued on Page 13 Ukrainians, though, have
Budget KO rocks Orihuela By AMANDA BLACK ORIHUELA council’s budget for 2012 lay in tatters on Monday - leaving the coalition government clinging to power and exposing the Mayor to a confidence vote. The overdue budget failed to be passed after British councillor Bob Houliston voted with opposition PP councillors against it. With 12 PP members and 12 coalition government members, Houliston held the deciding vote. The no vote means the coalition is currently forced to continue governing using the PP budget of 2011. A prolonged continuation of this
state of affairs would dash the government team’s spending aspirations as any investments not adopted during the final year of the PP government would not be allowed. Mayor Monserrate Guillén had previously declared that he would not govern using the PP 2011 budget, so the no vote could have seen the PP and Houliston force him from power along with his government team. But the Mayor and three-party coalition are not throwing in the towel just yet. Instead, Snr Guillén is to face a question of confidence linked to the budget. Houliston will
By PETER SINGH taken their clean-up operation to a sickening level. In a week where Pudsey the dog shared with us all his remarkable brilliance by winning Britain's Got Talent, in Eastern Europe the same species is treated with utter contempt. They have many neglected, abandoned and homeless dogs roaming the
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