Forced to eat!

Worrying warning signs lead Brit to stop hunger strike over Spanish residency refusal after 11 days

A DIZZY spell on a staircase has forced a British man to end his hunger strike over a Spanish residency row.

Mark Saxby was advised to stop his protest on medical grounds after just a week and a half.

The 55-year-old, from Safor, near Valencia, took the extreme action after being refused residency despite submitting all the correct paperwork.

In just 11 days he shed an alarming eight kilos from a starting point of 80 kilos.

“I was really running out of energy and on day 12 I nearly fainted and fell down

Easter death rise

A TOTAL of 34 people died in traffic accidents this Easter in Spain.

This is seven more than the 2022 period and the largest number over the last eight years.

The two most deadly accidents were in the Galician province of Lugo, where four young people died, and in Cantabria another crash saw three people lose their lives.

So far this year, there have been a total of 231 fatal accidents in which 258 people have died.

Unhappy campers

RESIDENTS on a Torrevieja urbanisation appear to have won a long-running battle to close a private car park where motorhomes stayed overnight - in breach of its operating licence.

The council has ordered the shutting of the park at Mar Azul urbanisation.

The Eliseos Playa community association covering 420 homes has continually denounced the overnight stays since 2018, with the council previously closing the park for the same reason.

Site operator - Camper Park Torreviejathen took the council to court in 2020 and won the case over the area being used solely as a car park.

A recent Torrevieja council report said that overnight facilities were being provided with the company openly advertising facilities like running water, waste water