club shut

A BENIDORM cannabis club has been closed down for selling drugs - mainly to foreign tourists.

Licensed cannabis associations are permitted under Spanish law so long as they are members clubs with people smoking their own marijuana.

Five people aged between 20 and 28 have been arrested including club officials and various amounts of narcotics and cash seized.

HE had been walking down a Barcelona street in the early days of the Spanish Civil War when a striking figure captured his eye.

It was July 25, 1936, and the woman standing on a barricade really stood out. Antoni Campañà jumped into action training his camera on the attractive Spaniard wearing militia fatigues.

Smiling broadly with all the early optimism of the Republican cause, she held up the classic black flag of Spain’s CNT anarchist trade union.

The picture - like Robert Capa’s legendary Falling Soldier photo taken in Cordoba - would go on to become one of the most emblematic symbols of the war. But the famous photo would also spark a decades-long mystery – just who was this iconic woman?

Her identity remained unknown for an incredible 87 years, until a breakthrough five years ago, when the identity of the photographer was first discovered.

A Barcelona local, Toni Monne, was rummaging around in his old family house in Sant Cugat when he discovered a box containing thousands of wartime photographs belonging to his grandfather, Antoni. And among them was the iconic image.

Step forward a few years and Monne began working with the National Art Museum of Catalunya (MNAC) to prepare an exhibition of Campaña's work.

Then, as if by fate, when the

Richie’s return

THE seemingly ageless Lionel Richie returned to play Marbella last week after an eightyear hiatus.

Just 72 years young, the crooner, who rose to fame as part of the Commodores in the seventies, performed some of his greatest hits at the auditorium of the Starlite festival.

“It's been an amazing night and I hope to see you again soon," Richie said on stage at the end of the concert.