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Spain looks to protect its social and industrial past, with new laws guarantee ing the safety of key buildings...
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...While a series of exciting new architectural trends are making waves in Spanish interior design
STYLISH: Hip new wine shop wows visitors, while this spacious interior of a new development in La Reserva is tempting world’s wealthiest investors
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HE Costa del Sol and Barcelona are driving up demand in Spanish property. Data from Spain’s Instituto Nacional ca shows that, on an annualised basis, de Estadistihouse prices grew 6.8% in the second quarter of 2018 with new-build price tags rising 5.7% (see report page IV). However some areas are clearly picking slack than others, with Catalunya rising up more of the It comes as the country is continuing impressive economic 3.7% while Galicia growth by just 0.7%. after being among the worst hit countries by the 2008 crisis. The data is the latest confirmation of a trend of strong In 2017, demand for Spanish property. the total number of home sales in Spain increased 14.6% to 464,423 units from the previous year, according to
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the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Analysts suggest a good portion of (INE). is being driven by foreigners buyingthe recovery in housing homes on the Costa del Sol and in cities like Barcelona. And despite Brexit, the largest number of foreign homebuyers are British, followed by the French, Germans, Belgians, Italians and Swedes. The outlook for Spain’s housing with house sales expected to rise bymarket remains upbeat, to reach about 550,000 transactions between 10% and 15% this year, according to TINSA, the country’s official valuation and surveying body.
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POLICE in Gibraltar have seized £1.35 million worth of cannabis, following a dangerous high-speed chase at night. Four drug traffickers led the Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP), HM Customs and Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) on a wild goose chase off Europa Point. The men sped around the Rock’s southernmost tip in their inflatable boat, powered by three Yamaha 350 HP outboard engines. Eventually they dumped a total of nine bales of cannabis resin, with a street value of £1.35 million, into the sea.
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Gibxit: Almost set as Spain and UK ‘reach deal’ SPAIN will not block any final Brexit deal over Gibraltar’s future, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has confirmed. It means that Gibraltar will be able to leave the EU in March next year alongside the UK, with no drastic changes. “Gibraltar will no longer be a problem in arriving at a Brexit deal,” said Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez at an EU leaders summit last week. “If we reach an agreement (soon), great. If not, it doesn’t matter because we’ve got time to reach one,” he added, after discussions with UK leader Theresa
May. While Chief Minister Fabian Picardo was a bit more cautious he said he was ‘optimistic’ a deal would be reached, he confirmed there was still some fine tuning. After flying to London to discuss key issues like the tobacco trade and citizens’ rights, he said: “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” He spent a few days in London for Gibraltar Day - a celebration of business and political links with the UK. He also appeared in front of The House of Lords EU Committee to give evidence over the final details of Brexit.
He answered questions on his cooperation with Andalucia’s government and the Campo de Gibraltar region in order to serve the interests of cross-border workers and the communities on either side. In the UK’s overall Brexit negotiations with the EU, a hard border in Ireland is thought to be the principal remaining sticking point. Theresa May confirmed this week that the Brexit withdrawal deal was ‘95% done’. It comes despite a protest of more than 500,000 people in London demanding a second referendum, attended by many expats from Spain.
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Taxi company leaves disabled pensioner in a rainstorm outside restaurant for two hours A GIBRALTAR taxi company left a 93-year-old disabled woman screaming in agony for two hours while thunderstorms raged on Sunday. Mariola Summerfield MBE, who has no legs and needs to take tranquilizers, was left freezing in her wheelchair by the driver who refused three times to pick up her up. It came as some of the heavi-
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ter Gail, 45, told the Olive Press. “We had used the service before,” said Gail, who called the Gibraltar Taxi Association, specifically requesting wheelchair access 15 minutes prior to leaving the restaurant. Gail explained that the first time the ‘rude’ driver pulled up, he told her grandmother: ‘I’m not here for you’. After a second and third time being refused by the driver, the Summerfields were angry and Gail’s father, John, 65, began shouting abuse at the driver, running after the car, which sped off into the rain
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Migrant surge MORE than 45,000 migrants have arrived in Spain this year, more than the past three years combined.
Thefts up REPORTS of theft have risen by 22% in Barcelona, the highest since 1986. Most other major cities have seen a decrease.
Ryanair row A BRITISH man who was filmed racially abusing a woman on a Ryanair flight from Spain has been identified by Essex police and will be investigated by Spanish authorities.
A JUDGE has been forced to reopen an investigation into missing expat Lisa Brown, after controversially shelving the case earlier this year. Javier Garcia Ramila is probing Scot Lisa’s ex-boyfriend again, after three appeal court judges in Cadiz ordered him to reopen the case. The San Roque judge must once again locate and look into charging prime
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suspect, Simon Corner, 36, after experts discovered new information via a mobile phone. It comes after police recovered Brit Corner’s phone from the harbour in Copenhagen, where he was arrested in 2016. Mother-of-one Brown, 35, went missing in November 2015, after a heated argument with Corner, who the Olive
Press revealed was a yacht skipper who made regular trips to Morocco. He was arrested in April after a year on the run, but was released from police custody after Ramila ruled the court had ‘serious doubts’ he was guilty. A £100,000 reward is still available for anyone who can provide information into Lisa’s whereabouts.
Grinch caged British party planner who stole funds for Christmas party sentenced on the Rock
High price SPAIN will still sell €1.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia following the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite several European powers condemning the assassination.
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A BRITISH party planner has been sentenced after squandering more than £11,000 meant for a Christmas party. Emily Brown, 36, was handed 18 weeks in prison suspended for six months and ordered to repay £11,520 to the company GVC. Brown, who pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, stole the
money which was meant for a Christmas party and hotel accommodation at the Sunborn in 2014. The fraudster fled the Rock with the cash and evaded justice until she was arrested on her return early last year. The case was investigated by the Fraud Squad of the Economic Crime Unit, at the RGP.
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AN Andalucia restaurant is sounding the alarm on two socalled ‘dine and dashers’. Gaspar Rodriguez Briz, from Huelva’s Casa Gaspar, shared a picture of the two men on social media after they allegedly ate a large meal during lunch time before doing a runner.
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“Beware of these two characters,” he said, “they ran out without paying today.” He added: “They waited until no one was around and made a run for it.” Have you seen or do you know this pair? Email newsdesk@theolivepress.es
Detective Sergeant Cavallo Soane of the Fraud Squad said: “We are pleased with the outcome as the victim in this case, GVC, has been awarded compensation by the court.
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“The defendant had left the jurisdiction and the case was left pending but as soon as she returned to Gibraltar she was arrested and later charged. This case underlines the nature of police work and the perseverance that is required to achieve a successful outcome to an investigation.” Carl Ramagge appeared for the Crown and Simon Diable for the defendant. Puisne Judge Mr Justice Butler presided over proceedings.
That twerked! A GANG leader who taunted police in a video ‘twerking’ with hookers, has handed himself him. Francisco Tejon, head of the Los Castañas clan, based in the Campo de Gibraltar, walked into the police station in La Linea. It comes two years after an arrest warrant was issued for Tejon, aka Isco, in late 2016. Dubbed Spain’s most wanted drug dealer, he is believed to have earned more than €30 million after building up his hashish smuggling empire, primarily from Morocco into Europe. Tejón, 39, made headlines after appearing in a music video by the Cuban-born reggaeton singer Clase A.
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Tens of millions in damage, dozens homeless and hundreds of vehicles destroyed in heaviest rain in Spain’s history THIS weekend's record flash floods have caused at least €32 million in damage around Malaga alone. Over 5,200 claims are expected around the province, according to the Insurance Compensation Consortium. Many thousands more are expected to come in from homeowners in Sevilla, Cordoba and Cadiz, which
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also saw heavy rainfall. In dramatic scenes, dozens of people had to be rescued by helicopters and fire crews from cars and homes in danger of being submerged. In one incident 20 children had to be rescued from on top of a bus, while another 66 people were rescued from a different bus nearby. One entire area of Estepona, Forest Hills, was cut off completely when its only entrance road was swept away when the Rio Padron burst its banks. Dozens of homes and businesses in the area, including the tennis club, had TRAGIC: Truck of killed fireman
DEVASTATED: Family console each other among wreckage only just been getting over a previous flood a fortnight ago, which caused millions in damage. The nearby port of Estepona was completely submerged under water, while nearby Casares Marina was also flooded for the second time in two years. One of the worst affected areas was the the town of Campillos, which suffered 317 litres per square metre fell in just 12 hours.
Cultural catastrophe in Ronda THEY are, without a doubt, the most shocking images of the weekend. A video shot by a tourist showed the moment an ancient wall and a row of trees collapsed beside Ronda’s historic Roman bridge. In dramatic scenes, firstly the 50-year-old Cypress trees fall into the Guadalevin river, before a wall of the 13th century Arabic Baths collapsed leaving the ancient site swamped with water. Several archeologists are still on the scene assessing the damages. The access for wheelchair users was completely destroyed, as were the gardens. But the greatest loss has been three pools of the tannery - once used to dye fabrics and skins - which dates back to the 18th century. The heavy rain led to dozens of horses and five people needing to be rescued from an equestrian centre behind the historic site. Meanwhile another wall collapsed by a school in another part of Ronda, and leading to the cancellation of classes on Monday. In the nearby Guadiaro valley police helicopters were called in to rescue trapped householders including one
British woman in Cortes de la Frontera. A popular expat-owned hotel on the outskirts of Ronda, Molino del Puente, made an urgent call out to volunteers to help their clean-up operation. “Heavy rain has made quite a mess
in our family hotel,” said owner Elaine Love. “We are accepting any volunteers to help clear the hotel up as soon as possible, wear old clothes, wellies and bring any spades and wheelbarrows you may have.”
LOSS: Trees fall by bridge and (right) Arabic baths
It was here that a firefighter, Jose Gil, 47, died after being called out to help rescue locals trapped by the rising tide. His body was found by his colleagues an incredible seven kilometres away from where his vehicle crashed. Today is the third day of mourning for the civil servant, who left behind a wife and two children. Alpandeire, in the Serrania de Ronda, meanwhile saw 399.4 litres of rainfall per square metre from midnight on Saturday until 12pm Sunday - a historical record. Bobadilla saw the second-highest amount with 247.6, followed by Ronda with 220.4. The measuring equipment used by AEMET is so precise it was able to decipher how much fell every hour.
Experts Some 70 experts will be inspecting the affected areas and the first claims could be paid out within ten days. Just a week prior, some €16 million worth of damage was caused by heavy rainfall in the west of Malaga. Claims can be made by phone or via the web page of the Insurance Compensation Consortium - its telephone service is currently overwhelmed with calls. Junta boss Susana Diaz visited several of the affected sites while the national government is set to finance the clean up operation. She insisted that aid for the most affected municipalities would be approved in ‘a matter of days’. Government delegate, María Gámez, defended the government and AEMAT insisting: “It was impossible to be prepared before a
Daft wader AT least one person on the coast made the most of the floods. The local in Estepona was pictured by an Olive Press reader navigating his way up a street in his kayak. His trip came after AEMET put the whole of Malaga province on red alert and over 100 litres of rain fell in an hour in Estepona, cutting off roads and completely flooding the port.
quantity of water like this.” Despite the awful scenes of devastation, the financial cost is less than the floods of December 4, 2016, that saw 10,500 claims get a total payout €58 million. The 1989 floods cost more than €149 million.
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Xmas on the Costa del Sol GRAHAM’S usual traverse around Spain took him to the north when it’s hot, and he always spends Christmas on the Costa del Sol – his favourite part of the country. His favourite foods on the road are paella and tortilla Espanola. People can donate to Graham here: www.gofundme.com/ helpforgraham
SPAIN’S richest politicians have had their assets revealed in a move to restore public faith. Three millionaire ministers are among the 38 officials included in the list published by the Spanish government. Foreign Minister Josep Borrell topped the list of fat cats with assets totalling €2.77 million, while Education Minister Isabel Celaa is worth €1.62 million. "This government is really moving forward on the path of transparency, which it believes is the only way to advance in democracy,” said Celaa. Science Minister Pedro Duque, a former astronaut, was the other millionaire on the list and worth €1.5 million in assets.
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Will the socialists yet again maintain their hold over Andalucia in snap elections?
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IT has been staunchly socialist since the death of Franco in the 1970s. And the Socialist party is likely to hold on to power in Andalucia when the region goes to the polls in December. The challenge to the opposition parties has been set, after Junta boss Susana Diaz called a snap election for the region on December 2. She insisted the decision to bring forward the election by many months was to battle the ‘instability’ around the rest of Spain. “My land does not deserve EAGER: Susana Diaz
the instability we are seeing in the rest of Spain,” insisted the PSOE leader. The move will be seen by many as an attempt to use the momentum created when Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez took over in June following a no confidence vote in the former PP government. Diaz insisted that early elections will give a clear indication of the public mood, after the PSOE minority government - which only has 84 out of 350 seats in congress - took power in Madrid. Andalucia has always been a thermometer for national attitudes. It is the country’s most populous region, and if the PSOE party can improve on 2015’s A SPANISH far-right party has attracted slim win of 47 of the total 109 thousands to a rally as seats, polls indicate it could win a seat in it will be a good sign for Congress. Vox, founded in 2014, drew its largest Sanchez in Madrid. supporters showing up to the Madrid ever crowd with some 9,000 Africa’s migrants are a poThe party has revealed plans to revoke rally at Vistalegre Palace. litical headache for Sanchez, and to deport ‘illegal immigrants who Spain’s gender violence law as he looks to maintain the it greater, but to receive handouts.” come to Spain not to make support from left-wing base, Secretary general, Ortega Smith, while also keeping check on President Donald Trump saying, took to the stand to quote US the rise of nationalism, per“Together we will make Spain great again.” petuated by the populist Vox An opinion poll suggested this week party, which can easily seize that Vox is painstakingly close to earning a seat in Congress with a predicted 1.5% of votes on the migrants issue. at the next general election, scheduled In 1998, the number of forVox’s key message has resonated greatlyfor 2020. eigners in Spain made up with supporters who have 1.6% expressed concern over defending of the total population lan separatists, illegal immigration Spain under the threat of Cata- and by 2016 this had risen to and attacks on family values. 12.2%.
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A HOMELESS British man rescued by big-hearted expats has walked an incredible FIVE times around Spain over the last five years. Graham Nobbs, from Kent, revealed that he has hiked the length and breadth of the country on many occasions during his time as a hobo. That is an incredible 25,000 miles… or the distance of the earth’s circumference, he told the Olive Press. It comes after we revealed how the 69-year-old had
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Around the world Expats help homeless pensioner get back on his feet
GROUP of expats are appealing for funds to help a homeless expat pensioner get back on his feet after he lost his entire family. Rebecca Pattinson, 26 and fiance Dave Langshaw, 32 (right), helped take in Graham Nobbs (right top) last week after noticing him sleeping rough in a Lidl car park, in Albox, Almeria. The Stockport couple want to help the 69-year-old, originally from Kent, to get a passport, bank account and NIE number. “Graham is an incredibly intelligent man,” Rebecca told the Olive Press this week. “He hasn't been able to claim any of the pension that he is owed as he has no bank account, passport or any means of communication with in the UK.” The kind-hearted couple, the pension people back joined by several others, have set up a ‘gofundme’ page where people can donate to help Graham, who worked as a salesman for House of Fraser and Barclays in Kensington, and 25,000 miles across Spain since who has walked around becoming homeless five years ago. Another couple have already page which has so far raised €400 and set up a fundraising money will go towards getting Graham Rebecca says any extra a flat of his own. She told the Olive Press: “It’s not right on the street, we’re not heroes, we’re to see a frail old man just doing the kind thing. “It’s really opened both of our eyes over the past few days and it makes you appreciate the little things.” The expats have already raised hundreds but are hoping to get to €1000 and are still looking for donations to their page, here: www.gofundme.com/helpforgraha which can be found m.
Gainin g mome without them none ntum of this would be happening,” he revealed, after they scooped him up at Lidl been offered help and a home and gave him a bed. by British expats in Almeria “Life on the road was always up during his sixth circuit of the and down. I was always floating, country. always in suspense. The group of half a dozen locals "And the weather was the most from Albox, stepped in after challenging thing, particularly the they found him sleeping in a rain," added the former shop asStru ggling with supermarket car park. sistant. “They have been marvellous, EUApart Property fromDeb sometimes walking for t? • Want to sell but can’t? 14 hours in a row to find a shelter, • Mortgage greater than value? • Losthe Deposit? revealed how he had been at• Can’t make your mortgage payment We offer assistance and advice s? in tacked a fellow tramp and was • Interest Only periodby ending? all areas of European property debt • Generally Struggling with your Property? once rushed Spanish to hospital after colCall us today on: lapsing by the side of the road. +44 330 124 1230 “This one guy tried to stab me and HAPPY DAYS: Graham enjoys a meal and (inset) our story I had to kick him in the stomach to last issue www.eu“There propertysolutio escape,” he said. have ns.com been plenty of hairy moments though his family died through sad proper access to medical and you have to try not to show circumstances in the UK care. and he became estranged One of them Sandie fear.” Wines, said this week: He continued: "I had a problem from his sister. where I had a semi stroke and col- He took to the road, after "We are getting him a lapsed at the side of the road from his car was smashed up by passport first and then over-exerting. I had to go to hos- vandals who destroyed his his UK pension will start belongings and clothes. to come through in four pital." This lack of access to medical fa- He later lost his passport weeks' time.” She added: "Graham cilities and other crucial services and other ID. is a major problem for those like “They destroyed all my will stay with us until evGraham without a permanent pictures and I had no oth- erything is sorted so he er option,” he insisted. doesn't have to travel the home. He had landed the life after driv- Luckily, Graham has now streets ever again." ing to Spain, after the majority of been taken in by three ex- The group have set up a pat couples in Albox, as 'gofundme' page which revealed by the Olive Press they are using to get Gralast issue. ham back on his feet. He is managing to get his "It's easier to home a life back to some normal- dog than an expat on the ity, as they help him get street," joked Sandie's various documents, in- partner John. "Very few cluding a passport and an people put you up, people NIE, so that he can have are wary of the unknown."
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Duque has been probed over tax irregularities over the purchase of a house in Valencia in 2005, while culture minister Maxim Huerta stepped down in June after just a week in the job when it emerged he evaded €256,000 between 2006 and 2008. Justice Minister Dolores Delgado is currently facing calls to resign after recordings were released of her talking to former Spanish police chief, Jose Villarejo, who is under investigation for corruption. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared assets of €343,000 and liabilities of €192,000, while his predecessor Mariano Rajoy had €1.54 million in assets.
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A GROUP of expats have been making waves with their inspirational beach clean ups across the Costa del Sol. Plastic Free Seas Worldwide founders, Craig Webb, Natasha Wegloop and Rebecca Bridges, along with ambassador and owner of Olivia’s La Cala, Elliot Wright, have been rallying expat troops to take part in monthly coast clean ups. Despite the horrific storms tearing through Estepona last Saturday, it didn’t stop some 60 volunteers including children from E.I Alora school and students from getting out the house and clearing the coast. They speared a whopping 400 kilos of rubbish and was later cleared away by Estepona town hall. It comes after Brit Craig, was inspired to make a difference along the coast after watching BBC’s Blue Planet and set up the non profit organisation in Mijas Costa last year. Since starting the foundation, volunteers have cleared a total of 3,400 kilos in 10 beach clean ups. Co-founder Natasha, from the Netherlands, said: “It’s been fantastic, we even cleared a fridge from the beach.” Next month, as well as a clean up on November 24 in La Cala de Mijas, Plastic Free Seas Worldwide will be hosting a fundraising event at Olivia’s La Cala. The glitzy evening will include a three course meal, live entertainment and an auction on November 22. For tickets call 685283009 or email Plasticfreeseasworldwide@gmail.com
NICE WORK: Expats at clear up and (right) Elliot Wright
BLANK passports, gold ingots and €300,000 in cash have been found in a home owned by disgraced ex-police chief on the Costa del Sol. It comes after Spain’s former police chief, Jose Villarejo, was arrested on November 3 last year, accused of crimes related to a criminal organisation, money laundering and bribery. The investigation has revealed a list of 92 properties belonging to the former police official, including plots of land, apartments, warehouses, commercial premises and offices. An incredible 48 are based in Estepona, 18 in Benalmadena and the rest in Marbella, Torrox, Cordoba, Sevilla and Madrid. One in particular, a stunning €1.5m front line penthouse above prestigious private clinic, Cenyt, in Estepona, yielded the incredible haul, also including a hard drive with year’s of Villarejo’s work. All of it was found in a shoebox in a bedroom of the apartment, registered in the name of Villarejo’s son. The amazing discovery came after the judge leading the case ordered officials to seize the assets, including the home at the Mirador de la Cala building in Estepona, which he used as his home when in the town. According to sources, the property is linked to a separate 10-year-old investigation, the Astapa case, a property corruption scandal worth €40 million. The hard drive found, storing 40 terabytes of secret videos and recordings, is set to reveal the true extent of the ex-police chief’s crimes.
HIV cure closer SPANISH scientists believe they may have managed to eliminate HIV from a patient using stem cell transplant treatment. Scientists in Madrid and Barcelona have managed to remove the virus from the blood and tissues of six patients using the treatment. And one patient now has no antibodies fighting the infection, suggesting it has been completely eliminated. The patients are keeping up their antiretroviral treatment, but researchers believe the virus may have been completely removed from their bodies. It came after the six guinea pigs had stem cell transplants using cells from the umbilical cords and bone marrows of donors at the institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa in Barcelona and the Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid. Researchers say the results could open the door to designing new treatments to cure HIV/AIDS.
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Positive vibes EXPOSING crooks and crime can - these days - get you labelled as ‘negative’ and accused of ‘only reporting the bad’. On social media at least. To remedy this we have introduced our new ‘Expat heroes’ section, which we began last month with the story of a generous Brit who donated 300 dog cans to dog an animal charity, as well as a group of expats who took in a homeless man. This issue we tell the full story of how British expat Graham Nobbs was taken in by the kindhearted group in Albox. We also praise the hard-working guys behind a recent spate of vital beach clean ups. Yes, our crime stories are gripping and need to be told, but so do the stories of unsung heroes giving back to their communities. So if you have a positive expat story, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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Pen is mightier than the sword As the authorities prepare to dig up ex-dictator Franco from his burial site, a British expat tells the Olive Press about his brand new book, 501, based on the brutal execution of his ancestors during the civil war
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N the dead of the night, three women and a teenage girl are thrown like animals into the back of a lorry at gunpoint. They must have sensed their brutal fate, but nothing could have prepared them for the excruciating suffering they were about to endure at the hands of Franco’s Falange allies. It was December 29, 1936, just a few months into the Spanish Civil War, when Pilar Espinosa, 42, and Virtudes de la Puente, 53, were raped and shot by firing squad. Pregnant Valeriana Granada, 26, received a worse fate, having her unborn baby ripped out of her stomach with a knife. The foetus was never found. By an amazing miracle, Pilar’s 14-year-old PERSECUTED: (Far left) spared daughter Obdulia, (centre) murdered mother Pilar and tortu-
Heavens open YET again we have been reminded of what is to come if nothing is done to tackle climate change. In a matter of hours towns and ports were almost submerged after a record amount of rainfall ravaged communities across the province. Malaga saw the heaviest downpour in 12 hours in Spanish history, destroying dozens of homes, animal sanctuaries and at least 400 vehicles. It tragically claimed the life of a courageous fireman, who leaves behind a wife and two children. Only this month scientists around the world warned that we have just 12 years to save the planet and divest from carbon emissions. If the earth’s temperature raises by just one more degree, we will reach the point of no return. Governments around the world need to wake up and act fast before it’s too late. Publisher/ Editor
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daughter Obdulia was spared and hugged her mother goodbye. It would be the last time she saw her. The trio’s mutilated bodies were left at the side of a road in the sleepy town of Poyales del Hoyo in Avila, before a local man buried their remains the following morning, with a stone on top. Their crimes? Pilar was one of the few women in the town who could read, and had a subscription to a socialist newspaper, Virtudes meanwhile was a Republican and Protestant, while Valeriana was envied by a high-ranking woman in the town. Much of this was documented in former Guardian correspondent Giles Tremlett’s best-selling book Ghosts of Spain. The Falangists went on to target Pilar’s other daughter, Maria, by shaving her head and inhumanely dragging her through the village naked while she soiled herself, having been force-fed castor oil. Villagers in the isolated, predominantly right-wing town of around 700 inhabitants, spat on her as she was paraded through the streets. Forced to flee the village,
Maria and her four children - aged four to eight - hid in the saddlebags of a mule to escape the villagers’ attempts to kill them. But what hasn’t been up to now chronicled is the incredible story of survival, in which they walked some 200 kilometres to Madrid, where they started a new life in the hopes of being freed from persecution. In 1957 one of those children, Dami, moved to London where she had a boy with an Indian man two years later. And now - in an remarkable full circle - that little boy is seeking justice for what the Falangists did to his family. Brit, Yash Gosain, 59, told the Olive Press how he has now penned his novel 501, or a ‘weapon of mass destruction’, in a bid to ‘bring down the Partido Popular in Spain’ and unveil the truth behind the atrocities of the darkest chapter in Spanish history. It comes as Spain is in the throes of metaphorically and literally digging up the past, as new prime minister Pedro Sanchez is leading a
We need change The PSOE has shamed Andalucia for over four decades. It’s finally time to vote them out in the forthcoming elections, writes native Olive Press writer Pablo Balbontin
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WAS born in Sevilla in 1991 and during that time I’ve seen four different Prime Ministers in office in Madrid, the end of the terrorist group ETA and the introduction of the Euro, but I haven’t seen any other political party run the Andalucian Junta apart from the PSOE. To put that in perspective the Socialists have controlled this huge region, Spain’s largest by population and second largest by size, since 1978. One can only begin to imagine how much corruption you can generate in 40 years? And the facts are simple: Corruption is so absurdly prevalent here, that various court cases are rumbling on around the region, probing the syphoning off and mismanagement of billions, yes BILLIONS of euros, over the last four decades. The situation is so bad, in fact, that when you hear stories of squandering millions in public funds on cocaine and prostitutes, you have to laugh. Not because you don’t believe it, but because it doesn’t matter what they do, people keep voting them in! In four decades they have had more than enough time to build up a network that affects almost every aspect of Andalucian society… from the tens of thousands of public officials (funcionarios) whose jobs depend on the PSOE holding on to power to the hun-
dreds of thousands of agricultural workers who receive a state wage via the Plan de Empleo Rural (PER). They are all effectively bought by the socialists... and the list goes on. To sum up, the PSOE has become a parasite which many people depend on to make their living. That’s why it isn’t easy to get rid of them. To understand the present you have to learn about the past. Unfortunately, Andalucia has always been a land of tough - but poor - workers. Back in the 19th century, Andalucia was ruled by the ‘Caciques’, a group of widely hated authoritarian figures, mostly big landowners, who ruled the towns and villages, stole money, manipulated local elections and even ordered the death of their own local residents, if they dared to oppose them. In other words: they were real tyrants. But they were was also the only people who could find you a job and other opportunities that would help to feed your family. The modern Cacique has been reincarnated in today’s PSOE, and while many people benefit from their patronage, it doesn’t justify keeping them in power forever. And, in particular, after the unbelievable crimes they have been committing for decades were finally exposed over the last few years. From Manuel Chavez to our current President, Susana Diaz, all of them are somehow linked to corruption cases.
GOTTA GO: Susana Diaz We’re now the laughing stock of our own country, the lazy Andalucians who keep voting PSOE because they pay us for doing nothing. No one can assure you that if another political party gets elected they will do better, but at least there could be an alternative, another way of doing things. Perhaps the solution is to vote in the right wing, the Partido Popular or Ciudadanos. Perhaps it’s on the left wing, with Izquierda Unida or Podemos. I firmly believe that all these political parties have good ideas, proposals that deserve to be heard and not just written off. And this is what we do every time we let the PSOE win. In the end it’s not about standing against the PSOE just for the sake of being the PSOE, it’s about standing against the same government which has been ruling for decades. A party completely absorbed by corruption that has lost all contact with reality is far from being a solution for our region. In the forthcoming elections on December 2 myself and almost all young Andalucians under the age of 40 need to get together and ensure we have a new and bright future for our region. A change is not only vital. It is essential.
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2 HARROWING: Firing squad shoot civilians while (right) Yash and grandmother Maria staunch campaign to exhume dictator Francisco Franco’s remains from the Valle de los Caidos, the Valley of the Fallen, outside of Madrid. It is the only remaining monument in Europe dedicated to a fascist dictator - largely built by Republican political prisoners under the fascist regime - where he is buried along with around 33,000 people from both sides of the war. Many buried there never had a dignified funeral and the fate of loved ones remain a mystery to countless families. Inspired by his family’s tragic legacy, the book, merges fact and fiction to tell the tale of a police inspector, named Martin, whose first case investigates the rape and mutilation of a young pregnant woman set during the Spanish Civil War. The work is named after the leader of the local extreme-right Falange party and the man who raped and killed Gosain’s great grandmother, Angel Vadillo, nicknamed Quinientos Uno - 501 - because he boasted to have killed 501 ‘rojos’, or reds. “I think it could be a weapon of mass destruction against the important remnants of fascism left in Spain,” London-raised Gosain, who now lives in Valencia, tells the Olive Press. “That is exactly what I am using the book as - a weapon against these people for what they did to my relatives and me.” So provocative is the book that his local Guardia Civil and Policia Local have requested his address fearing right-wing Francoists will appear at his doorstep. Gosain asserts he is ‘going for the Partido Popular’ with the novel and hopes it will bring attention to countless untold, tragic stories, offering
posthumous justice for the thousands of victims who were never given a proper burial. “I want people to really know what happened in this country, so we can have a real democracy. We can’t with the PP holding so much control with their lies. “It’s hardly mentioned even in school.” He also wants justice for the thousands of babies snatched from their mothers during the civil war - never to be returned again - in the wake of the first ‘ninos robados’ case to ever go to trial. Despite the Madrid High Court finding retired gynaecologist, Eduardo Vela, 85, guilty, he will not be convicted as it ruled the statute of limitations had expired - dealing a massive blow to the hopes of other separated families in their quest for the truth about their stolen babies. Gosain, who penned the novel over the summer, worked for over 22 years as a holiday rep for Thomson, before spending a year working for Spain’s secret service, he explains. But little did the Brit know that his life would change forever following a shocking telephone call in 2002, in which he would hear the tragic fate of his great grandmother 66 years after her clandestine burial. The call was made by a member of the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica - a 5,000-strong volunteer-led association locating missing persons who disappeared and were murdered under the Franco regime. They had called him to ask for permission to exhume her body from a roadside between Poyales del Hoyo and Candeleda, near the Natural Park of the Sierra de Gredos. “I was shocked and stunned that I hadn’t known anything earlier. I was upset,” adds Gosain, “But maybe my mum was too scared to tell me because her killers were still living in the town.” The Brit said hearing the story was like finding the missing pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. “When I used to drive my granny to the next town from Poyales, she would look out the window crying and keep saying, ‘where are you?’. It was then that I realised she was talking about her INJUSTICE: Yash stands over ‘ruined’ grave of great grandmother. mother Pilar while (inset above) Falange extremist
“I thought she had died of old age, it had never been mentioned,” he adds. In July that year, almost seven decades after their murders, Pilar, Virtudes and Valeriana were finally given the dignified cemetery funeral Gosain and their families never thought they’d see, as covered movingly in Tremlett’s excellent book. “81-year-old Obdulia was there watching as the remains of her mother were dug up. She kept saying, ‘look there’s my mother’s slipper’ or her crucifix. It was incredibly emotional,” adds Gosain. But days later the cemetery was padlocked and the women’s bodies were exhumed and reburied in a ‘common grave’. Antonio Cerro, the recently elected PP mayor at the time in Poyales, claimed the tomb was dug up as a family member wished to move one of the remains to a family niche. When the tomb was opened they discovered it was full of water and had to move the bodies to a new spot. “He smashed up the tomb and threw their bones in the corner. I have proof he lied,” insists Gosain. But nothing could prepare for the backlash the Brit received after he spoke out on national TV against the mayor, by being attacked and spat on by villagers. “Being buried by the side of the road is like tossing a piece of rubbish,” he says. “Spain still today has the second-most people buried by the roadside - more than 130,000 after Cambodia under Pol Pot’s genocide.” The writer, now semi-retired, said he has already received support from political parties such as Compromis and Podemos and has been in talks with a PSOE MP, while trade unions, such as Foro por la Memoria, Asociacion de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales and SOS Bebes Robados are also backing the book online. “I am not keeping quiet, I have written the book to convey this message mixed with a police story, a serial killer, throwbacks to the past and many other facets, but in the end it reveals the truth that horrifies and stuns folk.” Gosain hopes the book will finally bring some justice against the PP and give credence to the words that are etched onto the back of this harrowing novel. ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’. 501 is now available to buy in Spanish, soon with a translated English version, at www.editorialcirculorojo.com/501
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AN experimental archaeology centre is set to open near the Iberian Museum of Jaen. The new centre will include laboratories and pottery kilns, allowing researchers to investigate the lives of Iberians who lived there in 4BC. "This centre will be the perfect complement to the Iberian Museum as it will allow experimentation in an authentic environment with real materials used in the Iberian culture,” said Jesus Calderon of Construcciones Calderon, which is partnering with the University of Jaen in the project. “It will be possible to work with the same clay that the old settlers of Puente Tablas used and manufacture vessels with the same baking techniques," he explained.
A NEW Rock festival will premiere in Fuengirola next year. Rock The Coast will host headliner acts in the Marenostrum Music Castle Park during June 14 & 15. Leading the bill will be Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow with their only show in Spain in 2019. The band are set to play hits like Stargazer,
Long live Rock ’n’ Roll as well as Deep Purple Classics such as Smoke on the Water and Burn. The early lineup also includes Opeth, U.D.O, Magnum, Graveyard, Dark Tranquillity and Arkona. It is expected that more 40 bands will play on two festival stages with another stage in the castle.
Give them back
Officials and the Franco family involved in bitter row over ownership of sacred pilgrim statues SANTIAGO de Compostela officials have demanded the return of invaluable statues kept at Franco’s summer house after claims they were stolen. Created by Master Mateo in 1168, the artworks were intended for the Portico of Glory - a UNESCO heritage site and key destination for thousands who embark annually on the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. But now the 800-year-old sculptures depicting biblical figures Isaac and Abraham are in the hands of Pristina SL, a
real estate agency belonging to Francisco Franco, the grandson of the dictator. A Madrid court has given the Franco family until November 19 to prove their ownership of their statues despite defending lawyers admitting they have none. Santiago de Compostela officials have also demanded answers as to why the ‘tax address’ of the artworks is the same as where Franco’s wife lived in Madrid, when they are being stored in Franco’s summer home in Pazo de Meiras
PRICELESS: Painting
Ripped A PRICELESS 16th century painting of the Crucifixion of Christ has been torn having fallen from a wall in Madrid. Housed at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the iconic work was hanging in the sacristy, an area closed to the public, when it fell due to weak nails supporting it in the wall.
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HISTORIC: Statues ‘stolen’ by Franco family in A Coruna. On July 25 1954 both statues stood at the entrance of the Ayuntamiento in Santiago but mysteriously disappeared af-
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It is now undergoing careful restoration with conservation experts from the Museo del Prado, to mend the ‘considerable horizontal tear’ brandished across the lower part of the life sized painting. The painting was completed in 1558 by Venetian artist, Tiziano Vecellio - also known as Titian - who is widely recognised as the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian School.
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IN DEMAND T HE Costa del Sol and Barcelona are driving up demand in Spanish property. Data from Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Estadistica shows that, on an annualised basis, house prices grew 6.8% in the second quarter of 2018 with new-build price tags rising 5.7% (see report page IV). However some areas are clearly picking up more of the slack than others, with Catalunya rising 3.7% while Galicia by just 0.7%. The data is the latest confirmation of a trend of strong demand for Spanish property.
Spanish property is a hot commodity and that’s not changing anytime soon
It comes as the country is continuing impressive economic growth after being among the worst hit countries by the 2008 crisis. In 2017, the total number of home sales in Spain increased 14.6% to 464,423 units from the previous year, according to
the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE). Analysts suggest a good portion of the recovery in housing is being driven by foreigners buying homes on the Costa del Sol and in cities like Barcelona. And despite Brexit, the largest number of foreign homebuyers are British, followed by the French, Germans, Belgians, Italians and Swedes. The outlook for Spain’s housing market remains upbeat, with house sales expected to rise by between 10% and 15% to reach about 550,000 transactions this year, according to TINSA, the country’s official valuation and surveying body.
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Going up THE second phase of the €250 million Higueron West 217 project is one step closer to reality. Fuengirola town hall has approved the construction of up to 151 new homes on a 28,087 sqm plot of land - of which only 14,684 can be built on. Developers Urbania International must now draw up their final plans for approval before a full licence can be granted. They hope to construct five three-storey buildings plus new access roads. The first phase of the urbanisation got underway in December last year, and will comprise 77 two, three and four-bedroom luxury apartments ranging from €289,000 to €775,000.
Tall order YOU can now buy a home in the world’s skinniest skyscraper. Rising more than 1,400 feet above the ground, 111 W. 57th St. New York features a facade made from bronze and terra cotta. Its height-to-width ratio, 24:1, makes it the thinnest tower in the world. You’ll have to get saving though, with the off-plan apartments costing between $18 million and $30 million. Also known as the Steinway Tower, building is due to complete next year.
SKINNY: Tower in New York
Historic building made famous by war photographer Robert Capa set to rise from the ashes of conflict IT was the silent witness to the horrors of war. No.10 Peironcely Street in Vallecas, on the outskirts of Madrid, made it into history books thanks to a photograph Robert Capa took in the winter of 1936, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Home of the forgotten
Rubble The candid picture shows three kids sitting on the pavement amid the rubble after the building was blasted by German bombs. Now Madrid City Council is masterminding the neglected property’s renaissance with plans to buy it from its current owner and convert it into a cultural space dedicated to that historic era. The new Capa Centre, to be
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Bridging the gap CARTAMA’S iconic bridge is set for a makeover. The town hall is bidding to take over ownership of the garish green structure from the Junta in order to smarten it up. The bridge, built in the early 1900s to connect two urban centres on either side of the Guadalhorce river, will be made ‘more aesthetically pleasing’. It will also receive structural and lighting improvements.
ry that had been erased’, according to José Maria Uría of the trade unionist Fundación Anastasio de Gracia. But the project faces one major hurdle: the need to relocate the 14 families who still live in the rundown property. “We obviously know that this is a historical place but, for us, it’s just where we live”, said Cristina Uquillas, one of the
A MEDIEVAL mosque that has remained a secret for centuries has been discovered by chance in the city centre of Toledo. Archaeologist Arturo Ruiz de Taboada was restoring a public building in calle Tornerias, thought to be a Roman cistern, when he realised it was something far different. He has now revealed a monumental Moorish building dating from between the end of the Roman and beginning of the Visigoth eras. Each outer wall is more than 12 metres in length, organised in arches, and is the first of its kind to be found inside a city. The discovery ups Toledo’s count of Moorish mosques to three. Turn to page IV for a roundup of the most impressive mosques around Spain.
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LEGENDARY: Famous photo by Capa (inset below) and (right) the building today
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residents who lives with her mother and her two children. Others see the change more positively, since the building is infested with rats and mosquitoes and vulnerable to extreme weather. Madrid Council has defended the new protected status of the building, ‘not just for its status as an example of early 20th-century construction, but also because of its value as a testimony of historical memory’.
MIJAS continues to be a hot location after one of its newest developments announced it has already sold 90% of its plots. CLC World Resorts & Hotels said its Santa Barbara Heights project is almost sold out of its 50 two and three bedroom apartments. Most of the buyers are foreign, with a keen interest from Scandinavian markets. The news comes as the Jardines de Las Lagunas development by Bekinsa announced it will create 600 new homes, while Taylor Wimpey is splashing €125 million on extending its La Cala Golf project.
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HE world has been watching the leafy environs of Sotogrande this month. While a series of dramatic thunderstorms were the protagonists of day one of the Valderrama Masters, causing play to start two hours late, an influx of some of the world’s best golfers more than made up for it. All in all, it has been an incredible year for the exclusive
enclave, which sits at one end of the Costa del Sol, near Gibraltar and just 45 minutes to Tarifa and an hour from Jerez. As well as a buoyant summer in terms of visitors, there have been a number of exciting new additions to its infrastructure and commercial offering. By far the most prestigious opening was La Reserva Beach, in the heart of the
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As Halloween looms, Dining Secrets of Andalucia editor Jon Clarke reviews the food of Cristina Gutierrez, one of the region’s top female chefs at L’Olive
HE dishes come out as seductive as the sunset over the nearby Alcornocales mountains. Beautifully presented, they combine both symmetry and sensitivity in equal measures, and cheer up an otherwise rainy Monday lunchtime. So it is no surprise to discover that these are the creations of Cristina Gutierrez, one of Andalucia’s incredibly rare female head chefs. A local lass from La Linea, she leads the kitchen of five chefs (with one other woman, Maria) at the amazing L’Olive restaurant, deep in the heart of one of the region’s most privileged enclaves. This is La Reserva, in Sotogrande, a bastion of understated elegance, alongside an overriding sense of authenticity and wealth. Yet, at the seven-year-old restaurant you can happily have a more than filling lunch, with a glass of wine, for 25 euros per head. Much of this is thanks to the clever use of ingredients by Cristina, who trained in nearby San Roque, and whose charges in the kitchen are almost entirely from the local area.
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Avocado “We get plenty of our avocados from Miguel’s farm in Jimena and more veg from Guillermo and Manuel’s families in Secadero and San Martin de Tesorillo,” she tells me. Meanwhile, she has planted a few herbs outside the backdoor, including a fantastic finger lime tree from Australia, producing amazing citric fruit, which would normally set her back from 140 euros a kilo at markets in Spain. It is this attention to detail that marks out the difference in quality at La Reserva that you don’t generally find in the south of Spain. “That’s because I spent quite a few years in the north of Spain, around Pamplona,” explains the mother-of-one, whose husband is a doctor in La Linea. “The food culture is different up there, with one main exception - the quality and importance of good local ingredients. And I am really big on knowing exactly who my producers are.” She is also incredibly fussy about being seasonal and changes the menu every two or three months to reflect that. This month, for example, there are special dishes involving bluefin tuna, plus an amazing autumnal grilled octopus(both pictured left), served on a bed of new potatoes and in an exciting, creamy Peruvian ‘anticuchera sauce’(far right). And, of course, with Halloween beckoning, there are a range of appropriately witchy dishes, such as the stuffed mini pumpkin, with sweet potato, mushrooms and shavings of parmesan. There is certainly nothing vaguely ordinary about the culinary
offering at La Reserva.
Bocuse Aside from the amazing new Beach restaurant added this summer, which the Olive Press reviewed in August, there are a series of special events involving global culinary stars TIE IN: With Jerome Bocuse (right) with throughout the his famous dad year. These include Jerome Bocuse, from France’s most famous three Michelin-star restaurant Paul Bocuse, in Collonges au Mont d'Or, who is making a series of trips over for show-cooking events throughout the year. “There is actually a tie in with the Bocuse group now,” explains Sotogrande S.A. CEO Marc Topiol. “We have them involved in an advisory capacity and there is a connection with their chefs. “We will be doing a series of regular events with them and other international chefs in February, March, April and May next year.” The first link up came to fruition this month, when a team from the Bocuse stable, including Jerome, were on hand for a weekend, involving a sixdish Friday night dinner and a culinary golf event on the Saturday. The splendid six course meal was a classic Gallic tour de force, including a casserole of Breton lobster, a smoked salmon confit ‘a la Scandinave’ and Bresse chicken cooked in a bladder, with morel mushrooms. “The culinary experience at La Reserva is going to be a big growth area next year and we are trying to integrate the two restaurants,” explains Topiol, himself a keen gourmet, which is little surprise given his French roots. “We are also introducing a new farm area this autumn, where we are going to start growing our own produce. This will also involve the creation of allotments for residents to grown their own produce. “It’s a great way for children to learn about food and the environment,” he adds. In terms of Sotogrande’s general culinary offering, the port in particular goes from strength to strength. The area has never been fuller and this is very much to do with the half dozen restaurants that have opened in the Blue Marina zone, including the excellent Don Diego.
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same name enclave, which is rapidly becoming one of the most upmarket and sought after places to live and buy in Andalucia. Dubbing itself as the ‘only private beach in Spain’, it counts on 2,800 square metres of shoreline and nearly a dozen activities for all the family, including many water sports, tennis, horse-riding and padel. Surrounded by a sea of palm trees, visitors lounge on well-appointed sunbeds
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star luxury resorts of nearby Marbella… and it turns out it does just that. “We were amazed with the amount of visitors we had this summer,” explains Sotogrande S.A CEO Marc Topiol. “It was way beyond expectations and around 35% above our initial predictions in terms of turnover and numbers.” He continues: “The most satisfactory thing has been the number of guests from Marbella. A lot came to spend the day here with their families. “This completely backs up our concept of providing a true escape for families and La Reserva is a genuine, natural one-of-a-kind place.” It is perhaps, not a surprise, with the toll motorway taking just 30 minutes from Marbella and leading to an experience a million miles away from the congestion of Marbella in summer. While the likes of Nikki Beach and Ocean Club, as well as Puro Beach, in Estepona, discourage children, they are also slap bang next to a public beach. “Those party beaches are great for the 20 to 30-year-olds,” explains Topiol. “But we are perfect for the 30 to 45-year-olds. We are a family beach, not a party beach.”
and hammocks or hang out by the shore, dipping their feet in the cool, azure water. In the backdrop is a children’s play area alongside a pair of food trucks, while next door you’ll find the achingly stylish new restaurant, which cleverly uses wood and light and a collection of natural earthy products. With its legion of 88 staff, including nine lifeguards and a dozen chefs, it easily competes with any of the classic, five-
Marathon not a sprint The opening of the Beach at La Reserva has also galvanised the area in terms of sales. “We are seeing a lot of traction in terms of interest in plots to build in La Reserva,” confirms Topiol, who works for Orion, the huge European-based fund that acquired Sotogrande S.A from the NH Hotel Group for €225m four years ago. “Prices are incredible healthy with land going at 500 euros per metre square and upwards. “It is very different from the days of 80 to 90 euros per metre square in 2014. “But it’s a marathon, not a sprint and the prices are growing nicely.” Some of the prestigious plots alone are as high as €7m, putting them on a level with La Zagaleta in the Marbella hills and among the most expensive in Spain.
TRANQUILITY: At the beach and (above left) a La Reserva villa
BACK TO SCHOOL There have also been some exciting changes at Sotogrande school this year. It has recently been taken over by a group that runs 38 schools around the world and it has seen its pupil numbers soar over 1000 for the first time in years.
And, while there is some local scepticism that the price is justified, a trio of local agents confirmed that there are already various buyers in this bracket and that numbers of the super wealthy looking to buy in Sotogrande are up this year. One, Ben Bateman, at Holmes, confirmed that three of the most important properties in La Reserva have already been acquired and there is no doubt Sotogrande is ‘now exceeding its expectations and targeting the five-star grand luxury market’. “The prices we are achieving are exceeding that in Zagaleta or Guadalmina, which is no suprise given the infrastructure is far superior here,” he insists. “What is being done at La Reserva is bold and brave and shows a clear vision of what Orion is trying to achieve.”
CREATION: Cristina with Halloween dish
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Don’t miss La Reserva’s special Halloween dinner on the 31st at 20:00. It will be a night full of mystery with a live show and a tasty menu (drinks included) for just € 70 pp
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The six villas being built in El Mirador, one of a handfu l of private communities in Reserva, sit in a privileged La spo architect ARK, the up to nin t with amazing views. Designed by well-known local e-bed villas balance moder n living with local authentic style. They feature indoor and out modation. Prices start at €5. door swimming pools, wine cellars and staff accom5m, with two already sold.
He continues: “While prices for homes in the Seven development are high at €13m to €20m, and Mirador from €5.5m to €11.5m, they are selling and showing there is a distinct market for such a high end familyorientated destination.”
Golden Days Fellow agent Paul Bristow, at Bristow Property Group, confirmed that the new and improved La Reserva facilities ‘have proved a huge success and, are a wonderful addition to the exclusive luxury destination that is Sotogrande’. “This, along with the increased profile that worldwide marketing is now providing, can only add to the growing reputation that Sotogrande is finally reclaiming from its golden days,” he says. He is also happy to shrug off the sceptre of Brexit, with the healthy number of European buyers holding up well. “The sales market during the summer has been active, and while the uncertainty surrounding Brexit is gradually affecting confidence in the UK market, there are many euro-based clients as attracted as ever to the area.” Fellow agent James Stewart,of Savills who helped to organise the famous Ryder Cup at Valderrama in 1997, agrees. “There is still a bit of uncertainty in the UK but if you are looking for a second home it makes little difference.” he says. “On top of that there are so many French, Belgians and Spanish buyers to pick up the slack. The Spanish, mostly from Madrid and the North, are very much back.” He continues: “Last year was our best since 2008 and this year is looking good too.”
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Towering success Sotogrande-based British architect makes his mark in Madrid...
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RITISH expat architect Mark Fenwick’s career, like his buildings, is soaring to new heights. With his business partner Javier Iribarren, the Spain-based designer’s Fenwick Iribarren firm is one of the world’s most recognised architectural firms, with a portfolio that includes Barcelona’s award-winning CornellàEl Prat football stadium and new stadia for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Now, with Madrid’s Espacio Caleido or ‘big sculpture’, as Fenwick brands
it, set to be the fifth tower in Madrid’s Business Area - the duo are embarking on one of their most ambitious projects yet. The 180-metre tower will change the capital’s skyline forever due to its unique upside-down T shape which will be the first of its kind in the world. It will hold three levels of parking, the Business Institute, a university campus and jaw-dropping views over the city and its mountain backdrop. “Everything begins with a pencil and a blank piece of paper;” explains Fen-
wick (above), who grew up in Torremolinos, but now resides in Sotogrande. The rest is ‘a lot of hard work and a bit more, a lot more than others.’ This was especially true when the financial crash of 2008 threatened to destroy everything the Brit had worked for. But the tough designer revealed he sought inspiration from the Chinese definition of ‘crisis’, represented by two symbols - one meaning danger and the other opportunity.
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ICONIC: Mark Fenwick’s 180-metre T-shaped tower, set for Madrid
WORK OF ART: Stadium design in Qatar
As much of the western world was crippled by the crash, Fenwick sought emerging markets in the Middle East. It was in Qatar where the Brit was able to forge good relations with the crown prince, negotiating the rights to construct the now iconic Cameldrome stadium. Building on that success, Fenwick Iribarren is now constructing three of the eight stadiums to be used for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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RITISH ‘starchitect’ Norman Foster is making his mark in the heart of Madrid with a see-through glass box called Axis. The cube-shaped steel and glass structure will harness solar power to turn the capital’s 2.769 hours of sunshine into energy and allow trees and plants to grow indoors. The complex of shops and offices topped with an open-air sky terrace will transform a 1970s building in Plaza Colon once home to Barclays Bank into a green icon, promises the Prtzker Prize-winning owner of Foster + Partners. “Situated at one of the most important intersections in Madrid, Axis is a new landmark for the city that reflects the prestige and importance of the site,” Foster explained. “It establishes a new vision for the existing 1970s structure, stripping it back to its essence and creating a flexible, future-proof building that will endure. Its striking façade will also nurture a new identity and sense of place for the city of Madrid.” The four-storey building’s diamond-shaped glass and stainless steel façade is adapted for Madrid’s climate, pulling light, life and gre-
enery inside. A soaring atrium connects shops on the ground floor with the offices above, crowned by an open-air rooftop terrace and garden – a rarity in Madrid. The optimised geometry of the slightly slanted cube design responds to structural efficiency, minimising energy and material consumption. The iconic edifice – Foster’s second in the city along with the Torre Cepsa – will join other statement buildings around Plaza Colon, named after Christopher Columbus. It will sit on Paseo de la Castellana, where the neighbourhoods of modish Salamanca, Chamberi and the Centre meet, in view of a statue of the great explorer and close to the extraordinary Torres de Colon, twin towers nicknamed El Enchufe because of the plug-like structure binding them together. Axis is expected to be open by next summer.
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The Rock’s leading estate agents spread the word in the Big Smoke
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IBRALTAR international property agents EFPGRaine International have been in London this month for the ‘Property Investor and Homebuyer Exhibition’ at Excel, promoting Gibraltar as a sound place to invest, visit and live. Last month they took the same message to the NEC in Birmingham for A Place in the Sun Live and were thrilled to be joined at both expos by Ian Leyde, UK Tourism Sales Manager for HM Government of Gibraltar.
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Leyde, based at Gibraltar House in London, ‘does an exceptional job in the UK and worldwide of promoting Gibraltar as a tourist destination’, said EFPG chairman Tom Fraser. “Ian is an invaluable help to us at these events and his knowledge combined with his very personable character convince many of the attendees to come across and visit us here in Gibraltar and we hope to continue working closely with Ian in the future,” he added. The ‘Property Investor Show’ differs from other exhibition that EFPG attend as the most com-
WELCOMING: Two of the team man the EFPG-Raine stand at Excel in London prehensive exhibition of UK and International residential property and services in Europe. The firm sees it as the ideal place for networking and obtaining reliable and up to date
property market information as well as property to buy, catering to all levels of client from the novice to the seasoned investor. This year Gibraltar was competing with many overseas
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THE government has signed a landmark deal to protect the rights of Spain’s self-employed. The changes to Spanish taxation, revealed as part of the General State Budgets 2019, will link the contributions of self-employed workers to their actual incomes. The changes are part of a government roll-out of fiscal measures to achieve a fairer society and in essence the changes mean that from 2019 workers with lower incomes pay a lower state contribution.
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In the budget statement the government said: “After seven years of cuts and suffocation our country has regressed on equal opportunities, in social cohesion, in freedoms and rights, in democratic quality and in coexistence.” The announcement comes as the government also agree to ending so-called ‘false self employment’ before the end of 2018 by including a law that says workers offering their services for hire are - in monetary terms - employed by the company hiring them. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias signed the agreement into law at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid this month.
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Summer dip in tourism SPAIN has received less tourists this summer for the first time since 2013. The latest figures reveal that 700,000 less travellers came to the country this year. The drop comes as rival destinations like Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and Greece have enjoyed a comeback thanks to lower prices. Tourism minister Reyes Maroto
Expat survey ranks Spain near bottom for wages but features almost top for quality of life Switzerland unsurprisingly takes the top spot in the category, ahead of Germany and Singapore, while Turkey came in last. The study is based on expat interviews with some 22,000 professionals from 163 different countries, analysing three key areas - economy, quality of life and family. The country performed very poorly in areas of entrepreneurship, income, promotion opportunities, job security and a lack of saving possibilities. But despite the apparent financial woes of expats, the country jumps up to second place for high quality of life, just losing out to New Zealand and ahead of Taiwan, with Brazil finishing bottom of the pile.
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maintained a positive outlook, saying Spain was aiming for ‘quality over quantity’, pointing to the 2.8% boost in tourists’ spending. Catalunya lost the most amount of tourists with a 5% drop, which was blamed on ‘political instability’ - although it still accounted for 23.4% of all tourists, the highest out of all the regions in Spain.
Can’t buy happiness SPAIN has made it into the top 15 as one of the best countries in the world but with mixed rating, a recent expat study has revealed. Although it dropped three places since 2017, the country that offers sun, sea and sangria is still keeping expats happy, as respondents awarded Spain 14th place, in HSBC’s 11th Expat Explorer survey. Singapore has been chosen for the fourth year running as expats’ overall number one destination, with higher salaries, more work opportunities and excellent education. In the category of economic well-being, Spain has finished almost last at number 27 out of 30 countries reviewed, with expats earning less than the collective average of all nations considered.
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SPAIN’S Santander bank is to be probed by the German authorities investigating an international fraud network that cost taxpayers €55 billion. Prosecutors in Cologne accused the bank of ‘severe tax evasion’ between 2007 and 2011 and said Santander’s role in the operations was to carry out trades in an illegal share-trading scheme. A Santander spokesman said the bank was ‘fully cooperating’ with the authorities and said it was also conducting an internal investigation. It is only this year that prosecutors became aware of Santander’s role in the fraudulent activities, known as a ‘cum-ex’ scheme, which misled the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s government. The scheme misled the Germans into thinking stock had multiple owners, therefore causing the government to shell out huge amounts in tax refunds. Germany’s Deutsche Bank and Australia’s Macquarie Bank are among other global institutions to be involved in the criminal activities.
WAGE CONCERNS: Spain almost bottom
NOT A FAN: Casado
Budget bashed THE leader of the opposition in Spain, has labelled the budget proposals of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist government ‘economically suicidal.’ Casado, leader of the PP party, is opposed to a proposed higher state spending, significantly increased minimum wage and higher taxes. Speaking to the Financial Times, Casado called the plans ‘a new deep crisis when we still have not exited the last one.’ Sanchez and his PSOE party are looking to bridge the gaps of inequality in Spain, as staunch Socialist stronghold Andalucia heads to the polls early in December for local elections. Polling day in Spain’s southernmost region will be a test for the PSOE’s policies, which Casado and his PP party will be looking to combat. He said: “I don’t want to insult our former voters. I want to win them back. I want them to come home.”
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Colour of the sun ONE of Britain’s biggest gin companies has paid homage to Sevilla with a new flavour inspired by the Andalucian city. Tanqueray has unveiled its soft Flor de Sevilla distilled gin, made with Spanish orange essences and blossoms. It comes as Pantone, the worldwide standardised colour production guide, has also revealed a special colour for the Andalucian capital, which has been used on Tanqueray’s new crystal bottle. The tone, named Orange FFAB60, was created through a chromatic study using Google Street View, analysing more than 1,000 streets and 30 cultural sites in Sevilla, such as the famous Plaza de Espana. Tanqueray’s latest creation is not a limited edition, so gin lovers will be able to get their hands on a bottle for the foreseeable future.
SPANIARDS will have the longest life expectancy in the world by 2040 while the UK will sit in 23rd place, a study has revealed. Beating Japan into second place, the Spanish are predicted to enjoy an average lifespan of 85.8 years thanks to their healthy Mediterranean diet, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle. Experts say the biggest threats to global wellbeing and human lifespan will be high blood pressure and blood sugar levels, as well as obesity and tobacco and alcohol consumption. “Spain does really well in those areas,” said Dr
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Christopher Murray, director of the IHME, “although tobacco is an area where they could be better.” In 2016, Japan held the title for the world’s highest life expectancy, due to a wellbalanced diet with more fish than red meat and very little processed food and sugar. Currently in 26th place, the UK is predicted to rise up to 23rd place with life expectancy increasing from 80.8 years to 83.3 years in 2040.
Wining for reason Archaeologists demand historic Phoenician bodega be turned into cultural centre
A VINEYARD producing wines before the birth of Jesus could be transformed into a tourist centre. Archaeologists are demanding that the 2,300-year-old winery - set up during the
HISTORIC FIND: Bodega in Cadiz Phoenician period, near Ca- open to the public and help to diz - be turned into a museum show the ancient wine makinto ancient wine-making tra- ing processes. ditions Nestled in the Sierra de San Cristobal, between Jerez de la Frontera and El Puerto de Santa Maria, the 2,000 square metre site was found hidden in undergrowth in 1991. The winery, known to be the oldest in Western civilisation, counts on two wine presses, ovens to produce sweet wine and storage space for vats. However, fears are growing that the site could be desecrated and allowed to go to ruin, as nothing has been done to preserve it in decades. “This is not just the history of my town, this is world history,” said Diego Ruiz Mata, the Jerez archaeologists, who led the original excavations into the site. He fears that the area is in danger as it has become an area popular with motocross fanatics and already has a circuit nearby. He hopes the site will become a new destination in a network of archaeological sites
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EXPORTS from Andalucia have increased by almost 10% year-on-year making the region the top contributor to national growth. Since the start of 2018 Andalucia has exported €19.7 million worth of goods. Fuels and food are the region's main exports, with Huelva province leading the way accounting for 25.1% of the region's exports followed by Sevilla and Cadiz. Andalucia's main export markets are Germany, France and the UK.
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IN TOWN: Fawlty crew
Don’t mention the war GIBRALTAR is to receive Basil Fawlty in November as the Faulty Towers Dining Experience comes to town. In a fabulous two night visit, the audience, or diners, will be treated to a three-course meal while they experience a riotous homage to the 70s sitcom. This successful tribute to Fawlty Towers, presented by Interactive Theatre International, is 70% improvised and features Basil and his suffering wife Sybil, as well as loveable Spanish waiter Manuel. The show has received countless fivestar reviews and stars Donna Gray (Sybil), Hayden ‘Dan’ Wood (Basil) and Oliver Harrison (Manuel).
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Very Moorish Readers can get their teeth into something tasty next month, as the Olive Press starts an exclusive serialisation of Fiona Dunlop’s book Andaluz - a Food Journey through Southern Spain
FIONA Dunlop has food and travel in her bones. The globetrotting writer has written dozens of books on countries as diverse as India and France and Vietnam and Mexico, as well as countless travel articles for the likes of the Guardian, the Telegraph and National Geographic. But her spiritual home is Spain and in particular Andalucia, having first visited the region as a child in the 1970s, later via numerous stays at her parents house in Mojacar, and now staying at her own home in a typical hamlet, near Iznajar, in the stunning Subbetica region of Cordoba. “It’s the geographical heart of Anda-
lucia and my house hugs the edge of a hamlet of olive farmers, all deeply rural in spirit and life slows to a crawl here,” she explains. She has now told the story of how she ended up living here for large parts of the year through her latest book, Andaluz - a Food Journey through Southern Spain. The tome, out in November, will primarily focus on Andalucian cuisine and, in particular, its influence by Arabic culture.
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“It looks at the influence of the Moorish period on Andalucian food, the ingredients that were brought and the produce that was planted,” Dunlop explains from London, just before jetting off on her next culinary adventure to Jerusalem and the Middle East. It is fitting, as she writes about how much influence comes from the Moors, Africa and the Middle East in Andalucian cuisine. Dunlop calls this a ‘cultural conduit’ and says, ‘right from the very start there were Moroccans bringing in their food.’ The book starts in Almeria, and then works through Granada, Cordoba, Malaga, Sevilla, Cadiz and Huelva. “There are big distinctions between the areas,” she says. “Almeria, for example, has what they call ‘desert food’ because it is so dry, although they do manage to make incredible olive oil. “Over near Sevilla there is very good Iberian pork that comes from the hills and in Cadiz you have a special kind of beef.” For the book, that has taken years to compile, Dunlop consulted with 21 chefs – including a couple of home cooks – who all contributed a handful of recipes to the book. “It was talking to them and looking at their menus that showed me what
HOME: Near Iznayar was left of that whole era,” she adds. “It turns out to be mainly ingredients, not so much dishes.” In this wonderful book, which we will begin serialising next month, Andalucia’s cultural journey is interwoven with Dunlop’s own, as she recalls seeing ‘little old ladies in black veils, twitching curtains at tiny little windows in whitewashed cottages’. She harks back to the more ‘simple’ times, which she knew from her many months spend in Mojacar, in Almeria, where her parents had a home, as well as to Spain’s transition from fascist dictator Francisco Franco to modern democracy. She explains that immigration has been the driving force for change in Andalucia’s gastronomic landscape, a process Dunlop labels a ‘very current subject.’ “We are going on as if this is something new but it isn’t, it’s been going on for centuries,” she contests. “Every new wave of immigration brings their own culture and influence and that’s what this book is about.”Fiona lives in Highbury, north London, with her journalist and travel partner Richard. Don’t miss her next few installments in our November editions
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My land of Andalucia… karst, canaries and fattened pigs meeting their maker MATANZA: Fiona regularly recorded the pig slaughter ritual
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t was late autumn, which meant that the annual matanza (slaughter) was kicking off in the village. Every morning, agonizing squeals rang out as the fattened pigs met their makers - hardly romantic, but at that stage I had no idea about the resultant joys of jamón, salchichón or chorizo. While monsieur wielded his paintbrushes or cogitated in a hammock on the roof terrace, I would set off with my camera to try and record this timeless place. Inquisitive faces framed by black headscarves peered out from tiny square windows but it was the monumental karst landscape sliced by canyons and speckled with sculptural cacti that electrified me the most. By the turn of the millennium my life had changed. I moved back from Paris
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to London, my parents died, and the Mojacar house was sold. I felt bereft. I continued to travel regularly all over Spain to write travel features and books, as I did to North Africa, mainly Morocco but also Tunisia and Libya, and to the Middle East, but I missed that deep connection with the land. “Es tu tierra!” (it’s your land) as a local builder once said to me, holding up a fistful of soil. Once, after driving from Extremadura into Andalucia, I realized how sensorial my attachment was when I entered a village bar to be dazzled by a chaotic patchwork of patterned tiles, whiffed garlic sizzling in olive oil, heard a cheeping canary, and was instantly served a saucer of crisp fried fish with my caña. It was all about lightness, simple bounty, and good cheer—and it felt like home.
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Sunrise on the Rock Belinda Beckett looks forward to meeting her favourite breakfast TV presenter in the flesh
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E gets me out of bed at 7am every weekend for a fix of his dry northern wit. But next month I can have a lie-in as Sky TV presenter Stephen Dixon will be taking time off from his breakfast show hot seat to enjoy ‘Sunrise’ Gibraltar-style, as a guest speaker at the Literary Festival. If you’ve seen him on the box you’ll already know he’s a teetotal, vegetarian, techno geek Trekkie and Dr Who fan, so he’s in for a treat in Tardis-sized Gibraltar. If he doesn’t sneak off to visit the Rock’s Luke Sykwalker-christened Skywalk, I’ll eat my lightsaber. But if you thought all TV news hacks were hard-bitten cynics, you’re in for a surprise. Our Stephen’s softer side will be on show at the festival where he’ll be regaling us with stanzas from his first poetry book! So what else is surprising about this clean-cut bachelor who’s every mum’s idea of the perfect son, including his own. Here’s my (non-Dirty) Dozen Dixon Did-You-Knows: 1. He has a tattoo on his ankle
inscribed with the words of St Augustin: ‘Love is the beauty of the soul’. 2. That’s also the title of his first poetry book which left the Sky newsroom ‘gobsmacked’, he says. ‘I’m quite hard nosed at work in terms of my attitude to news so I think people were surprised I’d got this soft side.’ 3. When presenting Sunrise he
goes to bed at 7.30pm and sets his alarm for 3am. ‘The hours are not good but that adds to the excitement, not living a normal life, living on the edge.’ 4. The first news presenter in the world to break the 2005 London bombings story, he reflects: ‘It was very scary but you just get on with it. The whole thing is not to panic
viewers so you have to be very clear what you’re saying. It’s only driving home later that it sinks in.’ 5. He lives in a bachelor pad in Milton Keynes but always has company under his duvet – his cat Timmy. 6. Originally from Newton, Barrow-In-Furness, this Lake District lad stays loyal to his northern roots. If you don’t
catch him scoffing scones at Gillam’s Tea Rooms in Ulverston with his mum and dad, he could be sailing on Lake Coniston with his brother. 7. His life on air was inspired by his granddad who built the first telly in the village in 1953 so that everyone could watch the Queen’s Coronation. 8. Sky TV provides his snazzy Pierre Cardin suits, ties and shirts. 9. He was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 17. ‘It’s a challenge but one I enjoy, because it encourages me to focus on my diet and health.’ 10. Favourite books: ‘Crime drama, Lee Childs’ Jack Reacher books, Richard Castle books, fantasy, escapism ... partly due to the job which is often very grim and real.’ 11. What his co-presenter Gillian Joseph hates about him most: “He’s always e m b a r r a s s i n g me, we have these private conversations in the break, then he tells everyone when we’re back on air.” 12. And what she loves: ‘He’s an absolute delight to work with, it’s not like work when we’re together, it’s just fun fun fun.’ Catch his talk at The Convent on November 16 at 2pm. www. gibraltarliteraryfestival.com
When it rains...
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RADITIONAL bad weather, divine retribution and an unorthodox way of tackling football hooliganism. It’s been another quiet week for Our Man in Marbella. It's good to know that even in these greatly troubled and uncertain times there are some ties of Class A drugs, police discovered a donkey in one of the things we can always count on. The Sun rising in the East, Eng- apartments - several floors up. land football fans misbehaving To deter the hooligan from when abroad and rain during misbehaving, what the police should have done is drive, very San Pedro Alcantara’s Feria. As an aside, I thought that the slowly, through las Tres Mil ViviSpanish police missed a golden endas with a warning that any opportunity to ensure that there funny business would have rewas no trouble when England sulted in the England fans beplayed Spain in Seville earlier ing dropped off there to make this month. Rather than bus their own way back to the airthem to the city centre with a port. I think it would have had full police escort in riot gear, the desired effect. Meanwhile, all flashing lights true to tradition and motorcycle the rain duly aroutriders, what In true Banus rived in force in they should have done is style, I packed a San Pedro on the second day, take them to the stadium via a little tequila and with a tremenstorm in detour through lemon, just in dous Marbella in the las Tres Mil Viviafternoon. case endas. For those In an uncanny of you that don’t coincidence I know, this is a barrio of Seville that makes Tox- was delivering a lecture to the teth look like a Disney Theme U3A about Marbella's recent history. I was halfway through Park. ‘Full of local colour’ in this case telling the audience about dismeans illegal cock fighting and graced former Marbella mayor hanging around on corners Jesus Gil y Gil when a tremencomparing prison tattoos. There dous clap of thunder wrung is a famous story of a heavy out. Thor was obviously not a armed drug squad raid on one big fan. of the tower blocks where, hav- If further proof of divine retribuing fought their way in, along tion was needed, Stag and Hen with the expected huge quanti- Party Central - otherwise known
as the Hotel PYR in Puerto Banus was struck by a bolt of lightning. The PYR was the hotel of choice when my rugby club came on tour to the coast. We were praised by the management for our restrained behaviour, which included drinking games at 9am and the hotel’s statues magically appearing in the lifts. But compared to the hen party dressed as nuns and the stag in sequined hot pants and roller skates that greeted us when we arrived in the lobby, we were indeed paragons of virtue. The staff at the PYR Hotel all had the look that Vietnam vets referred to as the ‘Thousand Yard Stare’- men who had seen too much horror, too soon… Biblical retribution aside, after the storm I went to Puerto Banus' infamous second line where the goings on are of such Sodom and Gomorrah standard that I needed to check to see if anyone had been turned into pillars of salt. And in true Banus style, I packed a little tequila and lemon, just in case.
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GIBRALTAR complete a historic double as they come from behind to beat Liechtenstein, catapulting themselves into the record books. The team waited 22 matches to register their first competitive victory and then the Rock’s footballers covered themselves in glory not once, but twice in the space of a week. A Joseph Chipolina penalty sealed the first piece of history for Gibraltar in their 1-0 away win over fellow footballing obscurity Armenia.
History
And then, Victoria Stadium, adjacent to the Rock’s runway, was the venue for Gibraltar’s second only win, as another Chipolina strike carried the home side to memorable backto-back triumphs. George Cabrera found the equaliser for the Gibraltarians in this match, after they had gone behind to Liechtenstein’s Dennis Salanovic. The two goals made history in themselves, as it was the first time Gibraltar, who are ranked 198th in the world, scored twice in a match. Gibraltar became Uefa-affiliated back in 2013 and their two victories on the spin could see them climb the world rankings. If Gibraltar can do the double over Armenia when the sides meet again on November 16 then the British overseas territory are in with a chance of reaching the playoffs for Euro 2020.
Stalling
tice De Gea to stay. Red Devils chairman Ed Woodward is in talks with De Gea’s agent Jorge Mendes and United manager Jose Mourinho. The Spanish shot-stopper, was pummeled by Raheem Sterling and England.
Swing while your winning
Indiana slammer VETERAN golf champ Laura Davies trounced the opposition in Indiana to clinch her second senior major of 2018 and bag $90,000 in prize money. The four-time regular majorwinning Brit cruised to victory on the Senior LPGA Championship tour, ending with a four-shot advantage over her nearest rivals Silvia Cavalleri and Helen Alfredsson. At the blustery French Lick Resort, Davies, 55, capped off a great day sinking a six-foot
Garcia clinches third straight win at Valderrama, with a four-shot victory
Masters
This is only Garcia’s third win this year, the others being the Singapore Masters on the Asian Tour and last month’s Ryder Cup, where his European side rolled over the American team. The golder, whose charitable foundation hosts the event, finished on 69, 12 under par, as the crowd cheered him on with shouts of ‘Vamos’. Garcia was leading by three shots, with 11 holes to play,
REAL-ly poor REAL Madrid endure their worst start to a season in 17 years, as the goal drought of their attacking line reaches an incredible 500 minutes. The La Liga side’s front three, Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Marco Asensio have failed to score in the league since their 1-0 over Espanyol on September 22.
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SPAIN’s number one goalkeeper David De Gea keeps Manchester United in the dark over his future at the club as he delays signing a new contract with the struggling Premier League side. United have already extended the current contract of their first-choice keeper until at least 2020, and have thrown a new £275,000-aweek salary on the table to en-
SPAIN’S Sergio Garcia claimed his third straight win at the Andalucia Valderrama Masters on Monday, easing himself to victory over his nearest rival Ireland’s Shane Lowry. The event is by far 38-yearold Garcia’s favourite tournament, where he has now recorded a hat-trick of victories with this win, bagging a cool €387,500 in prize money.
The former champions are currently 7th in the league, only one point ahead of Levante, who they lost 2-1 to on Saturday. Real coach Julen Lopetegui, faces mounting pressure, but was boosted by a midweek Champions League 2-1 win over Plzen last night with Benzema breaking the deadlock.
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as the tournament entered a fifth day of action on Monday, due to bad weather caused by the storms raging across Andalucia. However, the favourite Garcia saw his lead cut to just a single shot as Lowry managed three birdies in a row by the time Garcia was teeing up for the 14th hole. It was a four-stroke victory for Garcia in the end, as he was able to putt in from close range at the 14th for a birdie, following an excellent chip, while Lowry was saddled with a double bogey at the 15th hole. Garcia’s victory marks the first time since 2004 that a player has won the same European Tour title three times in a row, with the last to achieve the feat being South African Ernie Els. Englishmen Ashley Chesters and Lee Westwood placed fourth and fifth respectively, while Scot Richie Ramsay finished 11th.
putt to claim her fourth birdie of the day.
Sinking
Finishing on a two-under 70 she bagged her 86th worldwide professional victory on the challenging Pete Dye Course. “‘This was a real treat because I’ve never put three good rounds together on this course. With the wind today and the challenging layout, I think two under par was a really good score,” Davies said.
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CLOCKS will go back this weekend at 3am on Sunday October 28, which could be one of the last times following an EU movement to abolish daylight saving time all together.
EXCLUSIVE By Elisa Menendez
Not fair
Tragic end A MIGRANT from SubSaharan Africa has died after around 300 people tried to jump the border fence dividing Morocco from the Spanish exclave city of Melilla.
SPANISH footie fans got revenge on England following their team’s historic loss in the Nations League in Sevilla. After Spain’s 3-2 drubbing by a youthful England side at Betis’ stadium, fans who call themselves the ‘United Family’ pinched a series of England flags. The ‘trophies’ were held aloft, upside down, after the match, and Leicester City, Sunderland, Derby County and Aston Villa were among the rescue dog had torn a hole team’s England flags robbed.
She’s home
Clocking off
PODEMOS has complained about the ‘preferential treatment’ King Felipe’s sister Cristina de Borabout has been granted by prison authorities during her five year and 10 month sentence.
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SAVED: Polly with owner Julie
A MISSING dog which fled ‘terrified’ during the thunderstorms has miraculously been reunited with its owner. Polly the Podenco, who went missing during an electric storm in La Cala, last
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Thursday, has been found alive following an incredible community response to an Olive Press appeal. The ‘timid’ five-year-old
Flight of freedom quashed AN emu has been controversially killed after going on the run in Barcelona. The flightless bird was chased by cops through Sant Cugat, before collapsing following a cardiac arrest, when he was pinned to the ground by one policeman. A total of four police cars, including two motorbikes, were needed to catch the speedy bird. It is not yet known where the bird came from.
through the garden fence and bolted off during the storms ‘petrified’ and had not been seen since. Fears were growing for the Podenco, who has a severe kidney disease which can only survive on a special diet and could die otherwise.
Reunited
Luckily though she was spotted by readers Mariel and Fran Mata in Fuengirola cemetery and reunited with her owner Julie Frank. “She ran up to me and squealed when I called her. I didn’t think we’d get her back,” said Julie from Lancashire. “Thanks so much to the Olive Press for the appeal.”
No balls!
SPANISH men were completely wiped out by invaders from the east 4,500 years ago, a scientific study has found. According to David Reich of Harvard Medical school, Spanish males were suddenly replaced by men from the Yamnaya population, who had migrated from eastern Europe. The Yamnaya were livestock farmers and had domesticated the horse by the time they arrived in Western Europe around 5,000 years ago. "They spread over a vast territory from Mongolia to Hungary and into Europe, and are the single most important contributors to Europeans today," Reich, who studies DNA, said.
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