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Brave WPC confirms she hunted for a potential ‘blonde accomplice’ of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner on night he was last arrested in 2017

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TRIBUTE: To Rock's strength THE Rock once again is unable to mark its National Day with big celebrations.

But that doesn’t mean that spirits will be dampened.

With the pandemic in its second year, Gibraltarians are being asked to mark the day with muted celebrations with friends and at home.

A message from Chief Minister Fabian Picardo (above) to Olive Press readers, sums it up: “This year, we are once again forced to tone down the popular events and restrict them to television and online, together with family reunions on a small scale.

“Despite this, the spirit of National Day remains deep within Gibraltarians and our friends.”

ACCOMPLICE:Brueckner was out with mystery friend who vanished

Resilience

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The Rock will, as in other years, be a glory of red and white as residents proudly display their national flag and the Moorish Castle is lit up in the colours for the occasion.

In an improvement to last year, residents will be treated to a spectacular fireworks display.

National Day is a chance to reflect on the sacrifices of the last year and the resilience of the locals.

And with the very real hope that this time next year, National Day will be back, bigger and better than ever before.

VALIANT: Quick-thinking Vanessa Viera apprehended Brueckner after he flashed at kids in a play park (above) A PLUCKY policewoman who arrested Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner in 2017 says police tried to locate a ‘blonde man’ with him that night.

Off-duty officer Vanessa Viera revealed in a new book that she and her colleagues searched around the area trying to find the potential accomplice.

It came after she arrested dangerous sex offender Brueckner, 44, in a children’s park in Messines, on the Algarve, at 2.15am during a local fiesta.

“He looked so familiar and I knew I had seen him before,” she revealed in the book, My Search for Madeleine, by Olive Press editor Jon Clarke. * O f e rI realised v a l he i hadn’t d f come o r alone n e “It wasf then and I’d seen him and his friend at one of the bars in the square.

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EXCLUSIVE Her grilling of the German came after she was forced to hold off four angry dads of kids he had allegedly flashed at under a slide.

She eventually calmed them down and managed to call in colleagues.

“I asked him where his friend was and he just smiled and wouldn’t say anything. He wouldn’t tell us where he was staying either.”

She continued: “We searched all around for his friend, but it was clear he had completely vanished. He must have taken the car or van.”

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following the case closely for a decade.

She had actually been stationed outside the apartment at the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine, 3, had been snatched in May, 2007. And she never thought for a second that the McCanns were involved.

“I saw first hand the tragedy and trauma that the poor family went through,” she reveals in the book. “It was awful. I could really see their pain and suffering.”

The book tracks the sex offender’s movements since first arriving in Portugal in 1994. Apart from spending over a decade in Portugal, Brueckner spent many months living in Spain, in particular in the Granada province, near Orgiva.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Neanderthal conference THE 25th edition of the Calpe conference, will be held on September 23 and 25 at the National Museum of Gibraltar to discuss the latest research of Iberian Neanderthals.

This coincides with the 95th anniversary of the discovery of the skull of a neanderthal child, nicknamed Flint, found in the Devils Tower.

Health Chief Gibraltar’s new Director of Public Health took up her post at the start of September.

Dr Helena Carter has taken up the position on the Rock after six years as Regional Director of Public Health in the Midlands.

“It's quite a different contrast to Gibraltar”, Dr Carter admitted in a recent interview.

Jewish hurrah GIBRALTAR mayor Christian Santos hosted a reception for the Gibraltar’s Israel Chamber of Commerce (Gibrael), to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, which runs from September 6 to 8.

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ANNIVERSARY KILLER!

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Was seaman murdered on the same date two previous sailors were killed just a year apart?

A FRESH appeal for answers over missing sailor Simon Parkes has been made almost 35 years after his disappearance on the Rock.

The seaman, 18, from Bristol, vanished while on shore leave in Gibraltar on December 12, 1986.

Parkes disappeared when his ship, HMS Illustrious, docked on the Rock on its return to Portsmouth from a deployment to Asia.

He spent the evening in bars with crewmates but never

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rejoined the ship. He was last seen leaving the Horseshoe Pub in Main Street at around 10.30pm.

All his belongings were still onboard, including his passport.

Detectives believe he may have been murdered despite his body never being found.

An 11-day dig at the Trafalgar Cemetery in Gibraltar last year turned up no an-

Seen Michal?

IN a desperate search to find her missing brother Michal, Maria Jagier has sent out appeals to police forces, social media groups and even national television.

Michał Formela, an electromechanical engineer from Poland, who was reported missing in his home country in 2020, was last spotted at a restaurant in Torremolinos this summer.

According to his sister he was seen on the terrace of the Blue Dolphin beach restaurant in June 2021, having been seen in Estepona bus station some time earlier.

Michal left his native Poland for Spain in October 2019 and his family have heard nothing from him since June 2020.

A fluent English speaker, he had sailed around the world. “I think it is possible he has suffered a stroke or developed mental health issues,” Maria told the Olive Press.

If you have you seen him, email newsdesk@theolivepress.es

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The case was reopened in 2001 after a shipmate, petty officer Allan Grimson, was convicted of two murders.

Grimson has denied involvement in Parkes' death but confessed to the murders of 18-year-old Nicholas Wright and 20-year-old Sion Jenkins.

Both murders took place one year apart in 1997 and 1998 - on 12 December - the exact same date that Parkes disappeared in 1986.

Grimson is due for parole this December and detectives are desperate to find any evidence which can link him to the disappearance of the young British sailor.

Parkes’ parents David and Margaret last heard from their son when they had arranged over telephone to

meet him in Portsmouth when his ship arrived on December 18 But their son never made it home.

His parents said they would "never give up hope of finding him" and a Twitter account, @SMissing1986, has been set up on their behalf.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo highlighted the appeal last week and asked those with information to come forward.

Anyone with information can email simonparkesmissing@gmail. com

POLICE have arrested 11 migrants in Gibraltar after they were rescued from an inflatable kayak and a rubber dinghy in waters close to the Rock.

The migrants were arrested following two rescue operations which initially saw eight men picked up, and then another three more people were found.

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Maritime units of the RGP were involved in the rescues off Punta Europa.

The men were taken to the Maritime Section base where they were treated by paramedics before being detained and taken to the police station.

All were arrested on charges of being in Gibraltar without the correct paperwork.

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HEART-WRENCHING: Film is based on war dead

A TENDER love letter, written almost 50 years ago, has been found at a rubbish dump on the Costa del Sol. Dated April 21, 1974, from Santurce, in the Basque Country, the letter, written by a young 22-year-old man to his fiancée in Casares reveals a touching love story.

In the letter, the young soldier counts the days to see his beloved again, specifically ‘19 Sundays’, and to marry her to be ‘always together’.

“You will see how happy we are going to be,” he promises.

However, his words reveal that the course of the romance was not a bed of roses, as her parents didn’t approve.

According to the letter they branded him a ‘hippie’ and nicknamed him ‘el melenas’ (man with long hair) but he wrote that he had ‘cut his hair’ and begged the girl to convince her parents that he was a serious contender for her hand.

The letter was found on the waste-sorting conveyor belt on timeworn sepia pages.

How the love story ended is not known as no names were included in the letter to identify the pair.

Did it end in tragedy for the star-crossed lovers or happy ever after? We shall apparently never know.

Ghosts of the civil war Spain’s top film director finally tackles the country’s most controversial subject - four decades on

HE has been Spain’s most creative - and controversial - director for the last half century.

Now Pedro Almodovar is to delve into his most sensitive subject yet.

The Madrid film director is to tackle the country’s most enduring wound; looking at the Spanish Civil War. In particular, his new film, which has just premiered at the Venice film festival, uses the tens of thousands of people who disappeared during the war - or are still buried in unmarked graves - as his subject matter.

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FAVOURITE: Pedro with Penelope Cruz priately stars his favourite Some five decades after the Spanish actresses Penelope death of dictator General FranCruz and Rossy de Palma. co, unmarked graves still litter The film, which launches in the countryside.

Spain this week, explores the Hidden within them are the refate of two women giving birth mains of an estimated 100,000 in the same Madrid hospital on people who were executed by the same day.

Fascist death squads during His 23rd feature film, over four the three-year-conflict or the decades, highlights a political ensuing dictatorship. issue that still haunts Spain in Over the last 15 years, volunmodern times. teer teams have been exhuming graves across Spain and returning remains to relatives for proper burial.

But campaigners have long fought for national state aid in locating and exhuming the SHAKIRA has been shaking off the stress of her ongoing tax battle thousands of other burial sites on a Costa Brava break. that the Franco regime sought The Hips Don’t Lie star was clearly enjoying her carefree vacation to erase. with her husband, footballer Gerard Pique and children.

Now Almodovar, whose first The 44-year-old Colombian bombshell was all-smiles despite the film Pepe, Luci Bom, came out £13million tax evasion claims, in which Spanish prosecutors accuse in 1980, has taken up the issue. her of six offences.

"I wanted to give this topic The singer showered her sons, Milan, 8, and Sasha, 6, with affection visibility,” explained the Osas the family relaxed onboard a 45ft vessel while soaking up the sun. car-winner, 71.

Shakira's legal team and the Spanish Tax Agency are apparently at “Until we've paid the debt we loggerheads over the tax case and have 'totally opposite views'. owe the 'desaparecidos', we A trial is imminent with Shakira allegedly hiding money in compawill not be able to close the nies based in tax havens. chapter of our recent history.

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BACK TO SCHOOL: But Hogwarts-style for Leonor

Princess of Wales PRINCESS Leonor of Spain has become the new Princess of Wales after starting boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The 15-year-old heir to the Spanish throne is enrolled at UWC Atlantic College where she will study the International Baccalaureate.

The two-year course involves fees of around €76,500 which will be paid from the royals’ annual budget and is a favourite choice among Europe’s elite.

The school in Wales has been likened to the Hogwarts school for wizards from the Harry Potter books because of its location in a 12th century castle.

To become a student at a UWC college, students must have a strong academic record and at least a basic knowledge of English.

As well as studying for the ‘bac’, students are expected to undertake a programme of experiential learning that focuses on key aspects of ‘peace, a sustainable future, and student initiative’.

It offers alternative activities such as yoga, Tai Chi and Tibetan literature, leading it to be dubbed ‘Hippie Hogwarts’.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia took their eldest daughter to Madrid’s Adolfo Suarez Barajas Airport and hugged her goodbye before she made her way to her deEN ROUTE: At airport parture gate.

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The race is on (again) THE search for Spain’s next drag superstar on Espana’s Drag Race continues.

The Latin spin-off of RuPaul’s Drag Race has been given a second series, after the show crowned Sevilla’s Carmen Farala as the inaugural winner.

“We can’t wait to see all the charisma, nerve and talent that the next group of Spanish queens have in store,” said a spokesman for the show.

An exact release date has not yet been announced.

Among other spin-offs of the Emmy-winning franchise are Drag Race Philippines and Drag Race Italia, plus other versions in Australia, Chile and Holland.

Season three of the UK version launches on the BBC soon.

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ibraltar NATIONAL Day THE SPIRIT REMAINS DEEP!

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EXCLUSIVE: National Day message from Chief Minister Fabian Picardo to Olive Press readers

ational Day has always been a great occasion for Gibraltarians,

residents and visitors to the Rock.

Over the years, it has grown into a day and, indeed, a week of celebration of our national identity as a people and an opportunity to recall how past generations have struggled to preserve our unique heritage within the great family of British nations.

During the past two years, however, the events of National Day have been severely hampered by the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result, it has been impossible to celebrate National Day in its traditional splendour.

This year, we are once again forced to tone down the popular events and restrict them to television and online, together with family reunions on a small scale.

Despite this, the spirit of National Day remains deep within Gibraltarians and our friends.

As we celebrate this year, we are satisfied that things will only get better and that next year, we will once again return National Day to its former glory.

I take this opportunity to wish readers of the Olive Press a happy and healthy National Day.

Party responsibly!

Celebrate National Day… but remember the pandemic isn’t over yet GIBRALTAR residents have been urged to ‘act responsibly’ during celebrations for Gibraltar’s National Day for the second year running.

COVID measures mean the traditional street parties are suspended.

“It is up to every Gibraltarian to act responsibly during this day, in the best interest of Gibraltar, and so protect our families, friends and community”, said Prof John Cortes in a government statement.

The government insists that 10am to 10.30pm on Sepgatherings of family and tember 10. friends at beaches, swim- This begins with various ming pools or parties and other areas performances "Gibraltar should be kept at 10am, foby the to small groups, needs to live llowed political rally with social distancing require- with and beyond made by local ments adhered visiting UK COVID, as it has and to.

MPs and other Institutional ce- not gone away" dignitaries at lebrations will 12.30pm. be online with The day-long a series of events broadcast festivities will culminate on GBC TV running from with a spectacular firework

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display launched from the pier in Gibraltar Harbour at 10pm.

The Sea Procession will again form part of the celebrations taking place at 7.30pm today ( September 8).

Gibraltar’s new Director of Public Health, Helena Carter insisted: “Gibraltar needs to live with and beyond COVID, as it has not gone away’.

“Family or friends gatherings should be kept in small groups and social d i s t a n -

cing requirements should be adhered to ”.

For those who plan to spend the day at the beach, the government has issued special guidelines.

“Beach goers wishing to set up in preparation for National Day will be allowed to do so on the preceding evening, that is, Thursday 9th September 2021 but not earlier”.

The Government also reminded the public that we are not entirely over the pandemic yet, ‘With this in mind we would like to appeal to the community’s sense of civic consciousness’.

Last year's festivities were also adapted in this way,

and the e v e n t went just as well.

There was no party in Casemates Square, no live performances and a pre-recorded political rally but Gibraltarians are still encouraged to enjoy their special day.

The Government has this message: “And so, safely and responsibly, enjoy National Day!”.

www.theolivepress.es BRITISH officials have gathered on the Rock for a series of meetings to prepare strategy ahead of negotiations for a post-Brexit UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar.

The key meetings were attended by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia, together with senior

BREXIT PREP

local officials Michael Llamas and Albert Mena.

Also present were the British Ambassador to the European Union (EU), Lind-

PAW PATROL SOME dogs like nothing more than an old bone to chew on, others just want a pat on the head, but Gibraltar’s crime fighting pup Lola, deserves both after her latest success.

Lola is Gibraltar’s resident HMC Drug Detection Dog and on September 2 she was key in a drugs bust that led to an arrest on the Rock.

The dog and her talented nose sniffed out multiple slabs of cannabis resin concealed within the lining of a sofa.

Weighing in at 236 grams the drugs seized were valued at around £1,180.

Jake MacMichael, 19, was consequently arrested for drug-related offences and charged with possession with intent to deal drugs.

NEWS say Appleby, the Director of the FCDO, Robbie Bulloch, and the British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott. The specific content of these meetings has not been disclosed, except to confirm it was part of the broad preparations ahead of Brexit negotiations.

Picardo thanked Appleby for his work and expressed his hope "to continue our close working relationship, now that he is the British ambassador to the EU and as we prepare for this negotiation".

Picardo added that teams have been working since January.

"We remain positive that the New Year's Eve Pre-Agreement is a framework for an EU/UK treaty in relation to Gibraltar that will deliver economic outcomes and shared prosperity for Gibraltar and the region"

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DIG IT UP

Derelict stable block at Costa del Sol racecourse ‘should be excavated’ in hunt for missing Amy IT IS a case that has baffled police for over a decade.

But now the Irish authorities have added their weight to calls for a cold case review into the mystery of missing expat teenager Amy Fitzpatrick.

It comes after her family revealed they believe her body is buried at the derelict Hipodromo de Mijas race track.

Amy went missing on New Year's Day in 2008 and, de-

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spite frequent appeals for information on her whereabouts, no trace of the 15-year-old has ever been found.

Her father Christopher and aunt Christine Kenny have revealed that various sources have told them Amy is buried 'under Stable Number 5’ at the race track in La Cala de Mijas.

Revenge sex ad A POLITICIAN has been forced to resign after posting personal ads offering gay sex in the name of her ex-husband’s lawyer.

Algeciras councillor Laura Ruiz,39, quit after being given a 21 month prison sentence for three crimes against lawyer Jesus Trujillo.

Police found that Ruiz was behind the ad placed in Milanuncios, which included the name, telephone number and e-mail address of Trujillo, who was bombarded with messages and calls requesting his sexual services.

Police traced the origin of the advert to an IP address at the home of Ruiz and believe her motive was one of revenge against her ex-husband’s lawyer after an acrimonious divorce

Just 15 minutes from where the teen was last seen, the family have called on the Guardia Civil to treat her disappearance as a murder inquiry and carry out a throughout search of the site.

The chairman of the Dail’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee Charlie Flanagan has now backed the search for Amy and demanded a full cold case review.

Saga

“This whole saga has been a tragedy. But one way or the other we have to find the truth and we have to find Amy," he told the Irish media.

“Her dad and family deserve to know what happened.”

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OPINION SAD TRUTH IT’S the disappointing truth that crimes committed against foreigners here in Spain - and next door in Portugal - just don’t receive the police attention they deserve.

Time after time we report on long-standing mysteries of people who appear to have just vanished into thin air... Or who were badly attacked with no apparent interest from law enforcement.

This week we highlight - yet again - a case which has long been neglected by police in Spain; that of the disappearance of 15-year Amy Fitzpatrick.

More than 12 years after she vanished, her case is again on our front page as her relatives make a plea for detectives to follow up on a tip that may lead to the discovery of her body.

Also in this issue we highlight what appears to be massive flaws in policing that allowed a repeat offender - now the lead suspect in the Madeleine McCann case - to go undetected.

Whether this was an unforgivable oversight or part of a wider conspiracy to obfuscate the murky truth, is explored further in a new book on the case, released this week by Olive Press editor, Jon Clarke.

As well as travelling all around Portugal probing the movements of Christian Brueckner, he also spent considerable time closer to home in Spain.

He clearly swanned around these shores for years and got away with m*****. Well you know the phrase.

Either way, our repeated coverage of unsolved disappearances of foreigners on the Iberian peninsula paints a picture that they simply aren’t being given the priority they deserve.

Such unsolved cases may be forgotten or ignored by the police but until their fates are discovered, they will never be far from the minds of loved ones left behind.

Nor will the Olive Press cease to push for answers.

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I’M SURE

In a soul-searching new book, Olive Press editor Jon Clarke takes a deep dive into the seedy world of ‘van lifer’ Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the snatch of Madeleine McCann

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I’M SURE he snatched Maddie. He was a pervert and a very strange man,’ insisted Michael ‘Micha’ Tatschl in June 2020. ‘I know he did it.’

Talking about his ‘best friend’ Christian Brueckner, with whom he’d lived in Portugal and spent eight months in prison, he went on: ‘He was always on the dark web. I don’t know exactly what he did, but I think it involved drugs and pornography. He was also always bragging about money and making money, particularly from burglaries. He was an excellent thief. He even talked about selling kids, maybe to Morocco ... and I think he probably sold Maddie to someone. Maybe a sex ring.’

I nearly dropped my caña, as did the two other witnesses to the phone conversation, as we sat in a leafy finca garden, in the heart of southern Spain’s Alpujarras region.

We were talking about the German drifter, who had just been made the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

In what was easily the strangest interview of my long journalism career, I was talking to Tatschl in Austria, while sitting in the back garden of the home he had shared with his British ex-girlfriend Emma for a number of years near Orgiva.

The area has long been a haven for new age travellers, also known as ‘van lifers’ and a character like Tatschl, with his pierced nipples and skull and crossbones tattoo, would happily fit into this footloose, transient community.

So too would Brueckner, who I discovered had been a frequent visitor, staying nearby often for weeks at a time.

Much to the shock of the three of us sitting there, according to Tatschl, he had turned up in late May or early June 2007, with what he described as ‘one of the most expensive camper-vans money could buy.’

If true, the timing was incredible. For his visit was just three or four weeks after Maddie had vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, some 585km to the west.

During that month in 2007, the whole world had been following the heart-wrenching story … how Kate and Gerry McCann’s 3-yearold daughter had apparently been snatched from her holiday apartment by an intruder, while the parents ate dinner at a restaurant nearby.

By the time Brueckner had parked up his huge Tiffin Allegro Bay RV on an area of waste ground near Tablones, the story had easily garnered 100 front pages and was fast becoming one of the biggest missing person mysteries in history.

Yet here was this dangerous German paedophile – with, as we now know, a prison record as long as his arm – brazenly driving into the backwaters of Granada province in a 30-foot long motorhome.

‘We all wondered where he’d got this expensive new van,’ continued Tatschl.

‘We assumed a big drug deal or something like that. Now I definitely suspect it was Maddie.’

I have spent the last year investigating the new German suspect for a book (see right), which has taken me across the border into Portugal half a dozen times, as well as around Spain and to Germany.

I’ve analysed Tatschl’s claims at length, which are damning and include a series of rape videos that Brueckner made of a teenager and a pensioner.

I’ve studied the further rape of a 72-year-old and interviewed the Portuguese WPC who arrested Brueckner in 2017 after he exposed himself to four toddlers in a play park.

I’ve analysed the German police evidence that places Brueckner outside Maddie’s apartment on the night she went missing, grilled the chief prosecutor for three hours and met nearly a dozen of Brueckner’s former friends and flatmates.

I met his mother and his mentor and visited half a dozen of his former homes, including the derelict box factory, where police found up to 20,000 videos and photos, much of it child pornography, that had been buried under the body of a dead dog.

This is my journey into the heart of darkness of paedophilia and its policing, and my conclusions on the case and its wider implications are deeply disturbing.

Sadist

Now a married father-of-one, living near Graz in Austria, Tatschl has twice been interviewed at length by German police over his connections to Brueckner.

Another former friend of Brueckner, Helge Busching, had put his name forward in 2017, while a third did the same as long back as 2013, after a German TV appeal.

But few people knew Brueckner better than Tatschl, who shared a home with him in Praia da Luz, before spending eight months in prison with him after they were caught stealing fuel from lorries on the Algarve.

In a bombshell confession during their trial in December 2006 Brueckner told the judge that he had committed various burglaries and sex crimes, (yes plural) as a teenager.

For some reason the specifics were not probed. Certainly not properly logged. And that was not the first time his dangerous nature had come up in the two decades he spent in Portugal.

Shouldn’t police have taken a closer look at the sex offender when a young Irish woman was brutally raped in Lagos in 2004?

Or when a 72-yearold American was viciously assaulted in Praia da Luz in 2005, for which he was found guilty a staggering 12 years later?

He lived, after all, just 900m away and was known to be an aggressive local wife-beater.

These were particularly sadistic rapes because in both attacks the assailant had rigged up a video to film the crime.

Both women recalled their assailCONVINCED: Brueckner’s pal Michael ‘Micha’ Tatschl ant’s eyes and his believes he snatched Maddie English spoken with

a German accent.

And then there was the 10-year-old German girl molested on a nearby beach just weeks before Maddie went missing. On that occasion I established that the police didn’t even bother to go out to investigate despite having a perfect description of the scruffy blond man who ran away naked.

Keystone cops

Ultimately then, I took a look at the force employed to catch one of the most wanted and most dangerous criminals in European history.

Firstly shining a light on the leader of the initial investigation, Goncalo Amaral, who was removed after criticising British detectives and claiming they were only following leads the McCanns asked them to pursue.

Few know that Amaral – who later wrote a lucrative book claiming the McCanns killed their daughter – was charged (and later convicted) over the case of another missing girl Joana, 8, exactly ONE day before Maddie went missing.

Meanwhile, his former Policia Judiciaria (PJ) deputy, Paulo Pereira, who also wrote a book on the

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Just Another Early Morning Job

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FIRST investigated the Madeleine McCann case on Day One in May 2007, when I was up and out of my house near Ronda before 7am and on the road to the Algarve.

A missing child story in Portugal wasn’t too out of the ordinary.

What was different though, was the family involved. The professional, middle-class doctors Kate and Gerry McCann were not your typical Brits abroad-type victims – the least likely of tourists to want to get involved with the press, particularly on holiday.

But they were clearly in desperate need for help.

Conjuring up a legion of journalists to help in their hunt for their missing daughter seemed the best way forward.

The story had first appeared on Sky News at around 7.45am in the UK,and I figured it would be over by the time I got there: she would be found, like the vast majority of other kids that wander off during their holidays, either dead or alive, in a swimming pool or a ditch somewhere.

It wasn’t hard to locate the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz and I was the first British journalist on the scene.

After establishing the name of the missing toddler as ‘Maddie’, I walked up the short flight of stairs to the apartment, number 5A, – completely unimpeded by police – to speak to the parents, as any decent journalist is programmed to do on arrival at a job like this.

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Pleasantries

VICINITY: Brueckner (above) lived for 7 years overlooking the Ocean Club (circled) in Praia da Luz, driving two vehicles (left)

I walked inside the open front door and bumped straight into the McCanns, who were heading off to the police station in nearby Lagos to make an official missing persons statement.

They looked fraught and stressed, but were somehow still functioning, despite presumably not sleeping a wink. I smiled and said ‘hello’, introducing myself as a local hack, just arrived from Malaga.

I promised I’d help as best I could to find their daughter.

They seemed grateful and smiled ... well grimaced to be fair – saying ‘thank you’ and mumbling a few other pleasantries, before telling me their daughter’s name and the rough time she had disappeared.

I don’t remember much but I do remember them describing it as ‘a nightmare’ and saying they were ‘sure’ she had been snatched. I scribbled it down in my notepad.

From the very first moment I arrived in Praia da Luz that May morning, my overbearing drive was to solve the mystery and find young Maddie.

The rules of journalism revolve around the five ws: When, Where, Why, Who and hoW. Stick to these and you can’t go wrong.

I haven’t yet solved the mystery, but my 130,000 word, 46-chapter book comes close, I believe, to offering any amateur detective or interested reader the opportunity of understanding the case and all its many complex and compelling idiosyncrasies.

Searching the Border

W case, recently went to prison for seven years for his involvement in a robbery and kidnapping gang near Lisbon.

Finally, I will look, for the first time, at two other retired police officers – both English expats – lurking like a bad smell in the background.

One, a senior career detective who has spent years supporting the Portuguese police and trolling the McCanns for being guilty of the crime. And the second, a former London detective, who also defended the Portuguese investigation, while sensationally living NEXT DOOR to Brueckner for a number of years.

Vipers

My book explores in depth the nondescript village of Foral, where Brueckner lived twice and where the case completely blew up, after the German appeal in June 2020.

I believe it offers a number of keys to the entire case. For it was here, some

35 minutes north east of Praia da Luz that I found a veritable nest of vipers; a place that was totally uninvestigated and where so many strange people resided and so many odd things happened.

I suspect a child sex trafficking ring was centred here and I believe Brueckner was involved.

It was in Foral that the gun-toting crook was linked to an underage teenager who got pregnant and in the nearby town of Messines where he was caught (and yet again, inexplicably, not tried) for exposing himself to children.

Some readers might get the feeling that someone is protecting Herr Brueckner.

After all, he was wandering around Europe at will, hanging around children and teens, and managing to offend repeatedly with surprisingly little consequence.

And when we add in Portugal’s truly shocking Casa Pia case – involving government ministers, doctors and judges – you will start to understand why I think Brueckner was being given a helping

HILE the Portuguese police turned their focus on the McCanns, I started looking into numerous leads in Spain.

By the end of 2016, police had to sift through over 8,600 reported sightings of Maddie in over 100 countries.

Between 2007 and 2013, The Olive Press looked at more than a dozen links to the case around Spain.

The McCanns have always believed there is a ‘very real possibility’ Maddie was taken across the border.

This is, after all, one long straight coastline that simply continues into Spain. There are no great mountainous bound-

SPAIN PORTUGAL

Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann disappeared

The Portugal Spain border is 1,214km in length (the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union) and is mostly unmanned.

aries and it has been a mostly fluid border, hardly manned since the 1980s.

There are numerous crossing points between Portugal and Spain stretching from the southern tip at Vila Real de Santo Antonio to the northern Atlantic border at Seixas, near Galicia.

Known as The Stripe (A Raia in Portuguese, La Raia in Spanish), it is, at 1,214km in length, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union.

Border checks are rare, and, apart from the recent ones due to Covid, when the border was actually shut for a number of months, it was only manned during the 2004 UEFA Euros, the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon and Pope Francis’ visit to Fatima in 2017.

Over the years we have investigated leads that include a known Swiss peadophile living in Benimantell in Alicante, who killed himself after snatching and killing a toddler remarkably similar in appearance to Madeleine in July 2007.

Then there was a convicted British sex offender who wrote a letter from his death bed claiming he knew Maddie had been snatched to order for sale to a wealthy childless couple.

And most sinister of all was a nightclub bouncer turned whistleblower who had compiled a dossier on a massive paedophile network linked to the Casa Pia orphanage in Portugal and well connected to the Portuguese judiciary and police (see front page top).

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Rare lizard under threat from a huge growth of snakes A HUGE rise in Ibiza’s snake population is threatening the island’s iconic green lizards, and tourists are being blamed.

The snakes now populate around half of the island of Ibiza and are not dangerous to humans. However, that doesn’t apply to green lizards, which are easily spotted and prove a tasty snack for a snake.

A major concern is that holidaymakers in the last two decades have fuelled the problem by opting for imported food over locally grown produce.

That has meant added pressure on lizards seeking out reduced vegetation to feed on as well as dealing with a new enemy.

Snakes arrived in olive tree imports in the early 2000s and a study suggests they will cover the whole island by 2028.

Experts say that the ‘horseshoe’ snake breed poses the greatest threat to the lizard. One Ibiza council is offering free snake traps and even paying residents to destroy the slithery creatures A British expat formed-group, Ibiza Preservation, is trying to reverse the snake boom by promoting more eco-tourism to re-

Mar Menor buffer A GREEN 'buffer zone' of 390 hectares has been suggested in a bid to reduce pollution in the Mar Menor lagoon in the Murcia region.

The proposed area, put forward by Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister, Teresa Ribera, would be free of farming and building development.

She said: “Urban and agricultural growth is not possible in the Mar Menor. On the contrary, we must reduce it.”

Ribera's 'green-belt' would occupy an area that's equivalent to 557 football pitches.

The aim is to create a 'buffer' against any polluting chemicals running into the lagoon.

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store lizard habitats.

It’s also encouraging tourists to enjoy locally-sourced foods as opposed to imports.

Kate Benyon-Tinker from Ibiza Preservation said: “The lizards evolved to eat vegetation in the area because of a lack of other foodstuffs.”

“That means they pollinate plants which is important to the

eco-system.”

Welcoming the move to encourage snake traps, Benyon-Tinker commented: “We are supporting the campaign to

save the lizard and spreading the word about encouraging people to get their own traps.”

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Shining star

HE’S one of the most sparkling celebrities on the red carpet.

Now Leonardo DiCaprio (left) has become a true shining star as he invests in a an eco diamond project in Spain.

The Hollywood legend, 46, has joined the Diamond Foundry company, which uses plasma reactors and renewable energy to artificially create diamonds.

Based in Trujillo, Extremadura, it will produce the stones in just two months.

DiCaprio took a keen interest in the industry while filming Blood Diamond in 2006.

This prompted his involvement in the organisation which aims to produce diamonds with little environmental impact The industry is to blame for numerous atrocities and wars in Africa.

Martin Tye explains why the devastating effects of nitrous oxide is a serious issue

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F course, there is a funny side to laughing gas. I’ve swallowed the contents of a helium balloon before to make my voice sound comical.

However, N2O when it comes to the environment is a very different story.

In the world’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions , the source of our food is coming under the spotlight.

Not without reason.

Agriculture accounts for up to 27%

of human caused climate warming emissions.

These emissions are not from carbon dioxide, the usual culprit.

They come from another gas altogether – nitrous oxide (N20) commonly referred to as laughing gas.

This should not be a forgotten greenhouse gas.

Molecule for molecule, N20 is around 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide at heating the atmosphere.

And, just like CO2, it is long lived, spending over 100 years in the sky before disintegrating.

It also depletes the ozone layer.

Despite its important contribution to climate change, N20 emissions have largely been ignored in climate policies.

Heavy use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is the principal offender.

Before modern intensive farming came, farmers used comDESTRUCTION: Dead fish wash up at the Mar Menor post and manure to

encourage crop growth.

Nowadays, industry has created methods to produce massive amounts of ammonia based fertiliser.

Crop yields have been boosted, but at a huge cost to the environment. Because farmers apply such huge quantities, the plant roots can’t absorb all the fertiliser nutrients.

N20 greenhouse gas is then released.

In addition some of it runs off the fields and pollutes waterways.

A current example being the Mar Menor in Murcia. Very much in the news again lately because of 1000’s of fish being killed. Politicians bicker while the environment suffers.

Scientists are looking at ways to mitigate this problem.

The solution cannot come quickly enough.

The clock is ticking.

If policymakers turn their attention to tackling nitrous oxide, there are benefits for all. The same measures that lower N20 levels also reduce air and water pollution as well as biodiversity losses.

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LA CULTURA Let there be light

A RARE example of a Roman candelabra has gone on display.

Unearthed at El Monostil, in Elda, art teacher Eva Mendiola spent four months restoring it.

Three times bigger than most other examples, it can be seen at the archaeological museum in Elda.

Made between 30 and 34 AD in the final years of Emperor Tiberius, it was likely used in a prominent public building or in the home of a wealthy Roman citizen.

The large chandelier has 32 spots for candles and room for oil to be poured in to keep them alight.

It was made by Lucius Eros who engraved his name on the molds used for his work.

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VALENCIA’S world famous Fallas festival wrapped up with fireworks and the burning of giant colourful sculptures in an event that was delayed by 18 months because of the pandemic.

The five-day festival is traditionally held in March but was cancelled in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

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MALAGA will be turned into a lighting spectacular this Christmas.

After last year’s muted celebrations, the council is determined to make things bigger and better this year.

The main attraction will be a stunning lightshow at the La Concepción botanical garden from 23 November.

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The words 'terrorists' and 'communists' could also be read on rines. the graffiti.

There will also be a ‘tunnel of light The artist Friand colour’ with laser beams. da Kahlo, singer It is hoped the display will trump Nina Simone, acthe famous celebrations being cretivist Rosa Parks ated in Vigo, in Galicia, said to be and Lyudmila Spain’s most festive city.

Pavlichenko, a The centre of Malaga will still have sniper who fought its traditional decorations includagainst the Naing the Christmas tree, lights and zis, were among nativity scenes. them.

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IS THE CHEMISTRY Summer 2021

SCHOOL YEAR 2021-2022

the THIS school year will see students in hostate system break up for Christmas n lidays on December 23 and not retur s King e Thre after day the 7, ary until Janu Day. n Meanwhile, the Easter holidays will begi for days ten for 8 and 7 April r eithe on lumost regions including Madrid, Anda ncia, cia while in the Balearic Islands, Vale ten Navarra and the Basque Country the 14.

April on ns begi ay holid r Easte day

aAs for the national bank holidays indic dar, ted in the 2021-2022 school calen they are as follows: of October 12, National Holiday Spain November 1, Feast of All Saints December 6, Constitution Day ion December 8, Immaculate Concept Day June 24, San Juan and But remember regional feast days off days n mea also will ays local holid schools and puentes.

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OR new students, those first tentative steps across a schoolyard filled with strangers is one of life’s key rites of passage.

So making sure it’s the right school is a test all parents want to pass with flying colours.

Whether it’s playschool, primary school or secondary school, expat parents in Spain have important choices to make.

Of course, your selection will depend on certain key factors: distance from home, budget, academic standards, teaching style and word-of-mouth recommendations, to name just a few.

So where do you start?

The first item on your checklist should be Public or Private – do you opt for an international college or a Spanish state school?

It’s generally an easier decision to make for younger children, as primary schools throughout Europe are more or less comparable. Around two thirds of expats send their children to local state

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schools – called ‘colegios’ (primary trouble adjusting. And learning maths schools) and ‘institutos’ (secondary and physics in a foreign idiom is an exschools). tra challenge!

There are two serious advantages to Also throwing them into Spanish Spanish schools. schools if they are over nine can be One – children will learn Spanish fast daunting in the extreme. and should integrate well into their It is definitely worth considering extra new home country. language tuition outside school hours Younger children, in to help ease the transigeneral, thrive in state tion. schools with the under “It is fine if you get the Joining the nines normally picking kids into school early, at parents/ up impressive spoken a young age, but if they Spanish (usually, far are nine or 10 then they teachers better than their parwill find it harder,” adents) within a year, just vised one English parassociation by socialising with their ent whose two children certainly helps have been through the friends.

Two – state schooling is local system in Manilva. free of charge from the “They will almost cerage of three, when children can begin tainly need some extra tuition and attending ‘infantile’ or ‘pre-escolar’, watching carefully. It also helps if the equivalent to a nursery in the UK. parents get involved in the school and The only costs you’ll have to cover are try to get to know the other Spanish books, school trips and, if the school parents. Joining the parents/teachers has them, uniforms. association certainly helps.”

There are also plenty of downsides to If you decide against the Spanish Spanish schools. Older, less extrovert state system – either because you kids with limited Spanish can have fear educational standards are lower

Back to school – time to think about your children’s residency

S we move into September, families have been making sure that their children are prepared for the school year ahead.

But one important issue is sometimes overlooked; British children in Spain need to registered as resident in the same way as adults.

Earlier in the year Age in Spain asked people to be “good neighbours” and ask other members of the British community in Spain if they had sorted their residency yet.

Now they’re asking people to make residency part of the back-to-school conversation (at the school gates or on school-related forums) and ask other parents and families if they have been through the residency process for their children.

For most people it’s a straightforward process that is very similar as that for adults and involves completing the EX-20 and EX23 forms.

Age in Spain Director, Helen Weir, said: “ It’s important to remember that all children need to be registered as resident in Spain - whatever their age. If you have sorted out your own residency but haven’t yet registered your child, then now is the time to do it. It will make things much easier for your family in the coming years. And if you’re not sure how to proceed then please contact us.

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(according to reports, Andalucia does indeed come well below average), or because you prefer to have your children educated in English – then you will have no choice but to go private.

Budget is a major consideration but many expat parents say an international school gives a gentler introduction to education in a foreign country, with smaller classes taught in English.

Most international schools even follow a UK curriculum of GCSE and A-levels, with a number of local schools regularly seeing their pupils getting into the top British universities, including Oxbridge.

Most British schools are members of the National Association of British Schools in Spain (NABSS) and are inspected regularly by the group, a setup similar to the UK’s Ofsted inspections.

A great advantage for many parents is that international schools often have a more multicultural environment than state schools. Most have some 20 different nationalities attending and offer a bilingual study programme.

Paul Kelly, an education consultant in Marbella said: “Pupils meet other students from so many different countries.

“This is such a valuable opportunity as it awakens a curiosity for other cultures, languages, traditions, customs and even food from a very early age.”

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FTER months and months of stopstart education during the pandemic, this September youngsters in Spain are head ing back to schools with almost all lockd own restrictions lifted.

But normality is not back just yet, with a host of rules and measures still in place to keep staff and pupils safe.

Most children over the age of 12 will have been jabbed before returning to school as auth out the vaccination programme to offer orities roll protection to secondary school pupils.

But while face-to-face classes will be the norm at the start of the year, exceptions will be made for outbreaks or in zones considered to have a high level of transmission. In that instance, online classes or a staggered class system will be orga nised.

And general anti- covid measures are still in force.

Face-masks

All teachers and pupils over the age of wear a mask while indoors. This inclu six must rooms and communal areas. The use des classwill continue to be mandatory ‘rega of a mask rdless of the maintenance of interpersonal dista nce or belonging to a stable coexistence group’ and hygiene measures must be maintained at all times.

Bubbles

schools are increasingly offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, as well as the local secondary school qualification, the Bachillerato.

The most obvious downside, of course, is the cost. Schools range from basic to luxurious but, take note, they come at a price.

Fees range from €3,000 a year for primary school to between €6,000 and €17,000 per year for secondary schools.

But there are no rulebooks or easy answers to choosing the right

schools in Spain.

It really all depends on which boxes you need ticked, whether that’s affordability, integration or a smoother transition.

Just one final tip for parents who decide to go with the Spanish system: learn the language yourself. How else will you chat to your kids’ teachers at open days?

And, more important for your kids than that, how will you help them with their homework?

Class "bubbles" will not be scrapped on return to the classroom.

The latest Spanish Government guid elines advise that so-called bubble groups could increase to a maximum of 25 or 30 students, depe nding on the region.

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BUSINESS

​​ANTONIO Banderas has been named among the 100 most influential Spaniards in the business world.

The actor has been selected in the list of US magazine Forbes, alongside celebrated three-star chef Angel León, from Aponiente, in Cadiz.

The list of the most creative Spaniards in business includes A BILLION euros has been lost in trade between the UK and Spain since Brexit.

The value of Spanish exports to the UK has dropped by €230 million (£200m), according to the UK Food & Drink Exporters Association (FDEA).

And with imports from the UK dropping by over €35 million, this equates to almost €265 million euros of business lost between the first half of 2019 and the same period in 2021.

Trade coming from the UK to Spain suffered the biggest percentage drop in the entire EU, with almost 54% less goods arriving from UK shores.

Trade with Italy has dropped

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a dozen from Andalucia.

The highly coveted list, which mirrors the long-established US version, lauded the men and women they believe showed ‘unstoppable entrepreneurship’.

Forbes praised the Legend of Zorro star, who

is thought to be worth around $45 million, for ‘never giving up’.

Banderas premiered a Spanish-language version of A Chorus Line in 2019 in his hometown of Malaga, to launch the 900-seat Teatro del Soho theatre.

Trade crash Quarter of a BILLION euros lost in business between UK and Spain during Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit slump

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over 50% (around €160 million) with German trade dropping by 49% (€400 million).

All but three countries on the continent (Latvia, Hungary

and Lithuania) have seen a drop in UK imports, as the consequences of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

Since January 1, when Brexit rules began, thousands of British companies have struggled with the additional pa-

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As Ryanair forecasts a big increase in traffic this Autumn, Jet2 is investing nearly £5M in new aircraft.

Ryanair expects 10.5 million passengers to fly in September, October and November in European short-haul flights, many of those

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perwork and administrative costs of exporting.

Importers and exporters are now required to itemise their products for trading standards, customs and health reasons before entry to the EU market.

to Spain.

“As long as there are no adverse COVID developments, things are set fair for a very strong recovery,” said Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary.

Jet2 has meanwhile purchased 36 Airbus A321 aircraft with the option to extend this order up to 60 aircraft.

John Whitehead, FDEA director, said: “There is growing evidence that the complexity of trading with the EU has led to businesses moving operations into Europe and of importers looking for alternative suppliers/ “It is contributing to the ongoing decline in both UK exports and UK jobs.”

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THE emblematic cities of Caceres and Trujillo are to be the sets for the much anticipated prequel to Game of Thrones.

The main square of medieval Trujillo (above) will become a street market for the series which begins filming on October 19.

It is good news for the economy with the hotels already full in Caceres and Trujillo. The production team, which last filmed in Spain in 2016, has been in the city for several weeks.

Throughout September the team will be preparing a number of different locations.

Sites across Extremadura were chosen as locations in previous seasons of the hit drama.

Game of Thrones concluded the broadcasting of its eighth and final season in May 2019.

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ETHICAL HOTELS

Zahara de la Sierra is officially the most tranquil destination in Europe

A NEW booking app created

by Spain’s chambermaids will allow tourists to choose their hotel based on how well they treat their workers.

Ethical travellers who want more from their hotel than a great view, decent pool and fine dining, will now be able to sleep well knowing the staff aren’t being exploited.

The app is being set up by a campaigning group known as Las Kellys - from the Spanish words ‘las que limpian (the women who clean).

By Amber Edirisinghe

A TINY hilltop village in inland Andalucia has been named the ‘most tranquil’ destination in Europe.

Visitors to sleepy Zahara de la Sierra, between Ronda and Sevilla, know the joys of the stunning views across the Grazalema mountain range and the turquoise waters of the lake below.

The hidden gem of a pueblo blanco, topped by a 13th Moorish castle, appears on the list of Spain’s Most Beautiful Small Towns.

But now the Cadiz village has won the accolade of being the most tranquil destination in Europe, in

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Expat American Stefan Crites - a Zahara local for the past 16 years - said he would certainly ‘rate it as the most beautiful of the pueblos blancos’.

“While Zahara is very tranquil there is a lot going on,” the boss of Al Lago restaurant and hotel told the Olive Press.

“There always seems to be something going on but somehow it retains its qui-

TAXING STUFF

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OR those who live in Spain but rent out property back in the UK, the most important part of the Tax Return is the SA105 - otherwise known as the property income pages.

The structure of the UK Self Assessment Tax Return is based on the main introductory pages - known as the SA100, then any necessary supplementary pages, guided by the boxes ticked in the SA100 - for example the SA103 (for self employment) and the SA105, for UK property income.

However unlike self employment, where you will need to treat each employment separately, all property income is treated as one business - so you don’t need to fill in separate SA105 pages for each property.

Do I need to fill in the UK property pages (SA105)? ● You should fill in the SA105 if you receive total rental income of over £1000 from any of the following sources: ● UK land or property ● Letting furnished rooms in your own home ● Furnished holiday lets in the uk or european economic area. ● Premiums from leasing land ● Inducements to take an interest in letting a property (a reverse premium)

Can I claim the property income allowance instead?

The property allowance is a tax exemption of up to £1,000 a year for individuals with income from land or property - even if you own the property jointly.

If your annual gross property income is £1,000 or less, you will not need to notify HMRC, however if it is more than this, then you will need to submit a self assessment tax return including the SA105 pages.

You cannot use this allowance on income from letting a room in your own home under the Rent a Room Scheme.

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et village charm”.

Across the mountains in the very next valley, the emblematic town of Ronda has been recognised as the second ‘most tranquil destination’ in Spain.

While the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria comes in third for Spain.

For those seeking a seaview to find tranquility, the pretty seaside fishing village of Llanes in Asturias, ranks top of all coastal towns in Spain.

The organisation failed to persuade platforms such as Booking.com and TripAdvisor to include working conditions as a part of their hotel ratings so decided to create their own.

A crowdfunding campaign to fund the project has so far raised more than €60,000 to develop the website and mobile app.

"Our idea is to send a clear message to hoteliers and businessmen. Either they stop exploiting us, or their business is over," said a spokesperson.

Hotels will be rated on whether they meet national standards on pay and conditions, comply with health and safety regulations, have an equal pay policy, employ vulnerable people and employ the chambermaids inhouse.

Many Olive Press readers who submit a UK tax return, do so because they are landlords of UK properties, writes Emilia Carvell

However even if you qualify for the property income allowance you may choose not to claim, for a number of reasons: ● If your allowable expenses are higher than your turnover, you may want to claim tax relief on the loss against any future property income. ● If you are a non-resident landlord and want to claim back tax from the non-resident landlord scheme.

If you choose not to claim for the above reasons then you will need to complete an SA100 & SA105.

What information do I need to fill in my SA105?

The first thing you will need is your name and Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR). You should have also filled in this information at the beginning of your tax return.

You will then need to fill in some basic information about your UK properties - such as number of properties rented out, whether they are jointly owned, and if you are claiming Rent a Room Relief for any properties.

Then you will need to fill in details of any furnished holiday lets, including income, expenses and details of any reliefs or losses.

You will need to fill in a separate SA105 for any FHL’s in the EEA. (NB - if you receive income from overseas property, or FHL outside of the EEA, then you will need to fill in the “foreign income” pages of the tax return) Following on from this you will need to complete details of any UK property income (not including FHL’s,Real Estate Investment Trust or Property Authorised Investment Funds dividends/distributions), along with any tax you have already paid on that income (for example if you are an overseas landlord and have had tax automatically deducted by a lettings agent).

After including income information, you can include details of any allowable tax deductible expenses - remember to keep all information about any expenses, as the more expenses you have will reduce your taxable income!

Finally you will be able to calculate your taxable profit or loss.

Here you will include any adjustments or reliefs claimed.

Now this can all seem very daunting - and to be honest there are a lot of boxes on the SA105. But that’s where APARI comes in!

If you use APARI, you can upload and allocate transactions easily, and then the software will pull all of this information through to your self assessment tax return. We even have a handy scan and store feature, so that users can attach relevant invoices to their transactions.

Sign up to APARI today, and start Making Tax Doable!

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Extre-mendous When it comes to tourism, Extremadura is off the beaten track.

Fiona Govan explores a region ignored by many and discovers the rewards are great

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ONG overshadowed by the more obvious landmark-laden cities elsewhere in Spain and unable to compete with the draw of Mediterranean beaches, Extremadura with its bucolic charm, medieval heritage and Roman ruins, is ripe for discovery. Here the Olive Press runs a rule over a few of its best bits.

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Caceres where art and food combine

F there was one reason alone to go to Caceres, it is to dine at the fabled restaurant Atrio, but a new modern art museum raises the stakes of a long-overlooked gem of a destination.

Tucked within a jumble of narrow cobbled streets in

Foie from the norm Ethical foie gras farmed in Extremadura by geese seasonally feasting on an acorn rich diet

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OR many this buttery, rich delicacy is one of the most desired luxury food items in the culinary world, for others its method of manufacture represents the ultimate in cruelty.

Traditionally, foie gras is produced by a technique perfected in France known as ‘gavage’ in which geese are force fed by sticking a tube down their throat and stuffing it with more grain than the bird would naturally eat in a lifetime.

However at a remote farm in Extremadura foie gras is produced ethically by allowing geese to gorge naturally on olives and acorns which swell their livers with large fatty deposits, doubling their body weight in preparation for flying south for the winter.

This ethical foie gras is produced on a farm outside Badajoz by Eduardo Sousa who describes the method as ‘seasonal feasting’ instead of the

traditional force-feeding.

Sousa insists that geese by nature have the capacity to create and store fat in their livers, but this natural connection has been broken over the years after Greeks and Romans began to force feed geese with figs to fatten them up.

Instead of force-feeding their geese, Sousa allows them to feast on the wild foods they find around them in nature.

Sousa said: “Windfall fruit, wild seeds and grasses and, most importantly, acorns – the same acorns, rich in cholesterol-reducing oleic acid, that form the diet of Extremadura’s famous Ibérico pig, “Our product’s superbly delicate flavour and characteristic golden colour, which derives mainly from wild yellow lupin seeds, is a direct consequence of the birds’ varied natural diet and their high quality of life, allowing them to fly and graze at will.”

The 200-year-old farm now produces around 2,000 jars of foie gras from 1,000 geese annually.

“A whole year is required to produce a small, uniformly coloured, regular and fine-textured foie gras,” said Sousa.

He explained that wild geese still fly over the family farm, which is situated beneath the birds’ migration path.

“Our free-range geese are partly domesticated, but are visited annually by their wild cousins, thus renewing the gene pool and maintaining the feeFREE RANGE: A wild goose chase for acorns ding instincts of the established flock.”

the honey-coloured medieval heart of the city is a doorway to another world.

For it is here in the kitchen at Atrio under the masterful alchemy of chef Toño Perez, that Spain’s ubiquitous jamon iberico is elevated to heavenly dimensions.

A tasting menu served within the hallowed dining room of this two-michelin starred establishment involved plate after plate of deliciously crafted and ingeniously presented morsels from fresh local ingredients.

But the undeniable star is the Iberian pig, the black hoofed porkers which spend their days rooting around the vast pastures of Extremadura feasting on acorns and fattening up for the pot.

Many of the 23 dishes served within the menu degustacion include a porcine flavour, from the elegant tapioca butterfly crisp paired with salmon mousse starter to a delicacy made of layers of scallops and trotters topped with caviar and the lomo doblao – an confit of lard made from Ibérico pork loin and ending with the mysterious chocolate jamon dessert.

The famed wine list has won accolades as the best (and PIGGING OUT: Pork with every course and cheese and ham butterfly lattice (inset)

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longest) in Spain so complete the dining experience with a descent to the wine cellar, where rare vintages are displayed like the Crown Jewels.

When you come blinking out into the harsh daylight of a hot summer day in Cacares, it’s just a short walk through the quiet streets beneath the ramparts of ancient walls and the palacetes adorned by the family shields of long dead conquistadores, to the newest attraction within the Unesco World Heritage city.

Designed by Tuñon Architects, the same team behind Atrio, the new Contemporary Art Museum housing the Helga de Alvear collection, was inaugurated in Febru-

ary with a visit by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia.

The buildings, both the interior of the restaurant and the vast new exhibition space, share a similar aesthetic wooden slats through which shafts of horizontal light peep in – and an interesting juxtaposition to the Medieval monuments outside their walls.

Currently on display is an exhibition of 200 pieces that form part of the vast 3,000 works donated by German art collector Helga De Alvear (one of the founders of ArcoMadrid) to the region of Extremadura.

The artwork couldn’t be further removed from the dusty tapestries and ornate gilt on display in the neighbouring Palacios and churches.

Here you will find a chamber barely containing the oversized boulders daubed with bold psychedelic smudges that is Katharina Grosse’s ‘Faux Rocks’ 2006.

An entrance way is filled with

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SO MUCH MORE...

Beyond Extremadura’s headline cities of Cacares and Merida, there is much to discover and a place to visit in all seasons. Here’s a look at just four more reasons to inspire you to explore.

Birding in Monfragüe The national park of Monfragüe is a jewel in Spain, a mecca for nature lovers and birdwatchers who come from all across Spain and beyond to seek out rare species.

The cliffs of Monfragüe are home to Europe’s largest population of Black vultures and resident Griffon vultures and visiting Egyptian vultures.

Rare Black storks come here to build their nests in the craggy cliffs above the turquoise waters and there is a resident population of Imperial Eagles and Eagle Owls.

In the pastures surrounding the park, birders come from all over Europe to tick off a sighting of the Great Bustard.

Trujillo - Home of the conquistadores

SHEEPS EYE VIEW: Bucolic views of Extremadura town Jerez de los Caballeros the gaudiness of a crashed chandelier in Ai Weiwei's Descending Light, while under a stairwell a collection of old television screens flicker.

The new museum and unrivalled collection that includes work by 500 artists including the likes of Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Joseph Albers, Paul Klee, Nan Goldin, and Jenny Holzer, is tipped to transform Caceres into a European art destination in its own right.

For those with deep pockets, Atrio offers rooms above the

restaurant hung with original artwork by Warhol and Tapies or there is the Parador just around the corner, a larger establishment that retains the charms of the converted palacete.

But for those who want to combine a weekend visit of art and food with a relaxing rural escape, then head a few miles out of the city to the Hotel Hospes Palacio de Arenales & Spa. Boasting an indoor spa and vast outdoor infinity pool, the highlight of this tasteful-

ly converted former summer residence of a noble Cacereño family is best enjoyed at sunset.

The chiringuito style bar beside the pool is the perfect place to enjoy a sundowner while watching the dozens of storks come home to roost in nests built on lofty stands erected in a pasture alongside the hotel gardens.

The clattering of their beaks as they settle down for the night is an Extremeño lullaby that will linger in the memory and have you longing to return.

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A perfect medieval city perched on a hill, Trujillo prospered with the conquistadores who returned to their birthplace and lavished riches from the new world on elaborate palaces dotted around a grand square.

At its centre you’ll find an impressive statue of one the most famous conquistadors of all – Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru. In fact rumour has it, the statue was designed by a New York sculptor to depict Hernan Cortes to be presented to the people of Mexico, where the gift was not surprisingly declined. So it was refashioned as Pizarro and now stands proudly in his hometown.

Almond blossom or autumnal colours?

Spring is the time to pay a visit to the Jerte valley, an area of 70 square kilometres that is planted with over 1.5million cherry trees. In fact, Valle del Jerte is the largest uninterrupted area in Europe covered with cherry trees and the best time to catch the blossom in its full glory is for a few short weeks, usually beginning from the middle towards the end of March. Locals will tell you that autumn is in fact the best time to visit.

Few tourists The final reason to visit Extremadura is to discover it before everyone else does!

With so few tourists and only truly discerning ones making the effort, you’ll be welcomed by locals who do their utmost to ensure you’ll love their land as much as they do.

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Bishop chucks in his cassock to marry erotic writer A SPANISH bishop has resigned so he can marry an erotic novelist.

Xavier Novell announced his decision to leave the church just 11 years after he became the youngest bishop in Spain at the age of 41.

The 52-year-old sent shockwaves through the community when he suddenly resigned as the diocese of Solsona for ‘personal reasons’.

Boogie nights REVELLERS in Andalucia have been given an extra hour of fun.

Late-night opening hours for restaurants and bars have been extended to 2am, while nightclubs can stay open until 3.30am.

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It has now been revealed that he took the personal decision due to his relationship with erotic writer Silvia Caballol.

“I have fallen in love with a woman and I want to do things properly," Novell revealed.

“It is a magnificent vocation

Short fuse

A MAN attacked an electricity office in Galicia after receiving a high bill.

The irate 54-year-old smashed windows at the Naturgy office in Vigo over a huge rise in his normal bill.

He told the police that his anger had been building up for a day and he could 'no longer contain himself'.

The government has introduced temporary reductions on IVA to reduce the impact of hikes.

SEEN THE LIGHT: Bishop and his lover Silvia but I see that the Lord has ger family." wanted me to renounce that Novell will now also ask for beautiful thing to have a big- the Pope's permission for a dispensation from the vow of celibacy and obedience that all Catholic bishops take when they enter the priesthood.

MARBELLA firefighters If the Pope gives Novell his have rescued an Eurasian blessing, he is set to marry eagle-owl after one of its talthe 38-year-old writer from ons got tangled in netting at Barcelona. a local golf course.

She has penned at least two Firefighters used a specialnovels, Amnesia Trilogy and ised vehicle to get close to The Hell of Gabriel's Lust, the owl, which got trapped at which is described as ‘an erotic San Pedro Alcantara. novel with Satanic overtones’.

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THEY normally take years to produce just one baby.

Now a remarkable panda mother has given birth to twins in Madrid.

In the first panda births in Madrid Zoo for five years, Huz Zui Ba had her fifth and sixth babies.

As soon as she gave birth to her first cub, she put it on her lap and started to give it a good lick.

The father is Bing Zing, who last year topped the charts in the ‘Giant Panda Global Awards’ for being the ‘most favourite panda’.

The health of the cubs, born with pink skin, is being monitored by vets, joined by two experts from China’s Chengdu Panda Breeding Base.

The international captive breeding programme has seen it now declassified from an endangered species to the ‘vulnerable’ category.

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