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All blog posts from October 2007

Overseas investors in the Spanish buy-to-let property market are suffering a double blow, as not only are property prices plummeting in Spain, but now

Posted October 31, 2007
In spite of the ‘hard times’ currently faced by the Spanish property market, with much talk of over inflated property prices, combined with increasing interest rates; new and established Spanish property owners are being offered a helping hand, to support them through increasing problems with afford…

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new wireless Internet-access networks

Posted October 31, 2007
Mijas Mayor Agustín Moreno last week officially launched the town’s new wireless Internet-access networks. A series of WiFi networks provides high-speed wireless access to the rural Osunillas, Valtocado and Entrerríos zones, while a WiMAX network links some 20 municipal offices throughout the town. …

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377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000

Posted October 28, 2007
Two people have been arrested and warrants have been issued against two others after 377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000 were discovered at an illegal honey farm near Cúllar (Granada) on the 17th October.

The hives had been stolen from seven bee farms in Villacastín (Segovia), Navas d…

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377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000

Posted October 28, 2007
Two people have been arrested and warrants have been issued against two others after 377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000 were discovered at an illegal honey farm near Cúllar (Granada) on the 17th October.

The hives had been stolen from seven bee farms in Villacastín (Segovia), Navas d…

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377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000

Posted October 28, 2007
Two people have been arrested and warrants have been issued against two others after 377 stolen beehives valued at more than €60,000 were discovered at an illegal honey farm near Cúllar (Granada) on the 17th October.

The hives had been stolen from seven bee farms in Villacastín (Segovia), Navas d…

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Analysis of the plastic showed that it consisted mainly of polymethyl methacrylate (better known as plexiglas or perspex) laced with cocaine hydrochlo

Posted October 28, 2007
THEY'VE tried airbags, printer cartridges and every conceivable body cavity. Now cocaine smugglers have another trick up their sleeves. Evidence from a clandestine lab in eastern Europe suggests that gangs are trying to hide cocaine by incorporating it into a host of innocent-looking transparent pla…

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Analysis of the plastic showed that it consisted mainly of polymethyl methacrylate (better known as plexiglas or perspex) laced with cocaine hydrochlo

Posted October 28, 2007
THEY'VE tried airbags, printer cartridges and every conceivable body cavity. Now cocaine smugglers have another trick up their sleeves. Evidence from a clandestine lab in eastern Europe suggests that gangs are trying to hide cocaine by incorporating it into a host of innocent-looking transparent pla…

Read more

Analysis of the plastic showed that it consisted mainly of polymethyl methacrylate (better known as plexiglas or perspex) laced with cocaine hydrochlo

Posted October 28, 2007
THEY'VE tried airbags, printer cartridges and every conceivable body cavity. Now cocaine smugglers have another trick up their sleeves. Evidence from a clandestine lab in eastern Europe suggests that gangs are trying to hide cocaine by incorporating it into a host of innocent-looking transparent pla…

Read more

British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civil Guard said officers approached the vessel, the Odyssey Explorer, as it left the British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for inspection, police said.

The Civil Guard said it was actin…

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British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civil Guard said officers approached the vessel, the Odyssey Explorer, as it left the British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for inspection, police said.

The Civil Guard said it was actin…

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British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civil Guard said officers approached the vessel, the Odyssey Explorer, as it left the British colony of Gibraltar off Spain's southern tip. Upon entering Spanish waters, the boat was ordered to the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras for inspection, police said.

The Civil Guard said it was actin…

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arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civilian Police have arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet, an official source said Wednesday.

"It is the largest operation against child pornography in Spain's history," said Fernando Herrero-Tejedor, the prosecutor designated by the Criminality Inform…

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arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civilian Police have arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet, an official source said Wednesday.

"It is the largest operation against child pornography in Spain's history," said Fernando Herrero-Tejedor, the prosecutor designated by the Criminality Inform…

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arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet

Posted October 28, 2007
Spain's Civilian Police have arrested 30 people in an operation against child pornography on the internet, an official source said Wednesday.

"It is the largest operation against child pornography in Spain's history," said Fernando Herrero-Tejedor, the prosecutor designated by the Criminality Inform…

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stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million

Posted October 28, 2007
Spanish investigators arrested 20 Moroccans suspected of stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million and sending them to be sold in North Africa, police said Thursday.

The suspects are accused of taking about 2,000 solar panels and shipping them to Morocco aboard ferr…

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stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million

Posted October 28, 2007
Spanish investigators arrested 20 Moroccans suspected of stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million and sending them to be sold in North Africa, police said Thursday.

The suspects are accused of taking about 2,000 solar panels and shipping them to Morocco aboard ferr…

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stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million

Posted October 28, 2007
Spanish investigators arrested 20 Moroccans suspected of stealing hundreds of electricity-generating solar panels worth $2.14 million and sending them to be sold in North Africa, police said Thursday.

The suspects are accused of taking about 2,000 solar panels and shipping them to Morocco aboard ferr…

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seven dead migrants and one survivor on board

Posted October 28, 2007
Fishermen said they discovered a boat off West Africa with seven dead migrants and one survivor on board. Spanish authorities said Thursday about 50 others were missing.
The Spanish fishing vessel found the boat off West Africa on Wednesday night, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said at a …

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seven dead migrants and one survivor on board

Posted October 28, 2007
Fishermen said they discovered a boat off West Africa with seven dead migrants and one survivor on board. Spanish authorities said Thursday about 50 others were missing.
The Spanish fishing vessel found the boat off West Africa on Wednesday night, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said at a …

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seven dead migrants and one survivor on board

Posted October 28, 2007
Fishermen said they discovered a boat off West Africa with seven dead migrants and one survivor on board. Spanish authorities said Thursday about 50 others were missing.
The Spanish fishing vessel found the boat off West Africa on Wednesday night, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said at a …

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sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified

Posted January 15, 2010
judge in Social Court 11 in Málaga has ruled that the sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified, and that the man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption allegations has no right to his job back or any compensation…

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flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit an

Posted January 15, 2010
flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003. Montoya had been out on parole since January last year, after completing two thirds of his sentence and spending the previous s…

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Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species

Posted January 15, 2010
Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species, in a Civil Guard operation which began with an investigation into an Iberian Wolf which had been put up for sale on the Web.Dubbed ‘Operation Lobezno’ – ‘Wolf Cub’, a number of exotic animals have been …

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Free Sex on the Net

Posted January 15, 2010
un-named woman resident in the Cartagena district has been taken into Civil Guard custody for advertising an offer of free sex on the Internet, but giving the contact details of a rival.La Opinión de Murcia said she published the telephone number and even the full address of her enemy, a woman who h…

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Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher

Posted January 15, 2010
Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher during an incident at the child’s school in the Palma-Palmilla district of the city. It happened in the first week of the new school year in 2007, when the mother hit the teacher and threw her onto the floor in front of o…

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counterfeit Osborne black bull

Posted January 15, 2010
National Police have broken up a network which was importing counterfeit items using the famous Osborne black bull logo from SE Asia, mostly China and Thailand.26,478 articles were recovered in total during the operation which was carried in warehouses in the provinces of Madrid, Crevillente…

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Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news that he could have money stored abroad

Posted January 15, 2010
The Provincial Court in Málaga has once again denied an application for bail from the man at the centre of the Malaya and Saqueo corruption cases in Marbella, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news…

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mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda

Posted January 14, 2010
After following countless unsuccessful lines of enquiry officers from Guardia Civil think that they have finally uncovered the mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda after they apprehended a man in Alfaz on a totally unrelated issue. The secrecy surrounding the case w…

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Piers Morgan’s long awaited documentary finally aired on ITV.

Posted January 14, 2010

So Morgan on Marbella wasn’t the horror show that we were all dreading, and at the end we had the sneaking suspicion that Piers had perhaps fallen a little in love with the town. “Marbella, whatever tickles your fancy” he summed up “has it all!”


Marbella was glued to its TV screens when Pi…

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80,000 cars were stolen throughout Spain last year, and almost 14,000 of those were from Alicante.

Posted January 13, 2010
Almost forty cars are stolen every day in the Alicante region, according to official papers, making the coastal city top of the league table when it comes to car thefts in Spain. That surpasses such cities as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia for the rate at which the cars are being nabbed.The figures,…

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