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MARBELLA GAZETTE

Monday, 6 October 2008

Google has started to take 360 degree photos of the city of Málaga as part of the internet portal’s Street View program.

Google has started to take 360 degree photos of the city of Málaga as part of the internet portal’s Street View program.A car covered in cameras has been seen taking the photos which will shortly appear on the internet.Street View was named as the most innovative product of 2007 by Time magazine, and reports are that Google are currently also filming in seven other Spanish cities, Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Galicia, Salamanca and Bilbao.Some may consider Street View more evidence of Google’s dominance of the net, while others may have privacy issues.

Friday, 3 October 2008

residents on the Ana Maria 2 find dead body hanging from a tree only a few metres from their front doors

horrified residents on the Ana Maria 2 urbanisation in Calypso awoke to find a dead body hanging from a tree only a few metres from their front doors. The man, in his 30s, appears to have committed suicide, by hanging himself by the neck from a lower branch. One local resident said: “At 8.30, my wife walked with me to the front gate when I was leaving for work. “We noticed that the Guardia Civil had blocked off the road a little further up the hill. We were then horrified to see a body hanging from a tree only a few metres from the front of our house. “My wife burst into tears and I must admit that I felt shaken, too. We went back inside our house and when we left together an hour later the body was still hanging there. “I asked a policeman if they knew who the man was and he said they had not yet established his identity.”
Having spoken to other residents in the area, it is rumoured that the man was of Eastern European origin and may have been involved in drug trafficking and prostitution, although these reports have not been confirmed.

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