Power supply still on at Coín Town Hall

The electricity company said it would cut supply unless the Town Hall paid part of its debt. They have now said there will be no cuts but have demanded all the money they are owed Coín Town Hall.The power was still on in Coín’s municipal buildings on Wednesday, despite the ultimatum from the electricity provider, Endesa, on Monday giving the Town Hall two days to pay its debt or supply would be cut.Coín’s Partido Popular Mayor, Fernando Fernández, told Diario Sur on Wednesday that he had had no contact from Endesa and contacted the company himself to enquire about the situation. He was informed that the power would remain on, but the Town Hall...

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British pensioner stabbed in the street in Estepona

National Police are investigating an assault on a 70 year old British pensioner who was attacked with a knife in the street in Estepona.It happened last Friday night and it is thought that the attacker had the intention of robbing the man. However sources close to the case say the pensioner fought back and the attacker then drew a knife and injured his victim in the chest and arms. Diario Sur reports that the injuries are not serious.After the attack the Briton was taken to the Costa del Sol hospital where he was treated and allowed home some hours later.Just a few hours before there was a similar attack in Málaga City which left the victim in...

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Brtitish man dies in fall from hotel balcony on Ibiza

Another Briton was seriously injured in a traffic accident in the same town, Sant Antoni de PortmanyA 24 year old man from Britain died in the early hours of Thursday after a fall from a fourth floor balcony in Sant Antoni de Portmany, on Ibiza.Named as R.M., he was seriously injured when he was admitted to the hospital Nuestra Señora del Rosario and died there shortly afterwards. He is understood to have gone out on to the balcony of his hotel room for a breath of fresh air and slipped and fell at around 5.30 am on Thursday.Europa Press reports that another man from Britain, a 25 year old, was admitted to the same hospital after he was hit by...

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Three killed and 16 families evacuated in Torre del Mar fire

Three people, a man aged 58, his wife, and their 28 year old son have been killed and as many as 16 families evacuated following a fire in a residential block in Torre del Mar.The victims’ bodies were found by the fire service in two bedrooms and a passageway of the home. The Mayor of Vélez, Francisco Delgado Bonilla, explained that they used heat sensing cameras to find the people inside the flat.Two people, a 21 year old woman, the wife of another of the family’s children, and a two year old baby boy were also injured, but their lives are not in danger after they were rescued by firemen from the balcony of the fourth floor flat. They remain...

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Boris Becker has said that he is not worried, following the news that he has lost his home in Mallorca because he did not keep up payments to the gardener.

Boris Becker has said that he is not worried, following the news that he has lost his home in Mallorca because he did not keep up payments to the gardener.The three time Wimbledon champion has seen the local court on Mallorca place an embargo on his villa, following the unpaid bill from the gardener reported to be more than 275,000 €.Becker told the newspaper ‘Bild’ that everything is far less dramatic than it seems.‘When someone feels treated unjustly they always have the option to act via the judicial system. The process is underway and so I cannot go into details’, he said.Becker has owned the luxury 2,900 square metre ‘Son Coll’ villa in...

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Prison for man who stabbed Swedish student to death in Fuengirola

Sandra Eleonora Karlson was staying at a hostel in the town with a friendThe 30 year old Moroccan man who was arrested in connection with the death of a Swedish student in a hostel in Fuengirola has been ordered to prison on remand by Instruction Court 4 in Fuengirola.Named with the initials A.B., he is accused of killing 19 year old Sandra Eleonora Karlson, and injuring her friend in the neck.The mother of the victim was in court, as was the now recovering friend.The court heard the man broke into the girls’ room allegedly with the intention of sexually abusing them. Finally the man was brought down by the concierge of the hostel and a trainee...

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Dutch tourist who arrived for a holiday in Nerja earlier this month has not been since she checked into a local hotel on June 16.

Dutch tourist who arrived for a holiday in Nerja earlier this month has not been since she checked into a local hotel on June 16.The last news her family heard from 48 year old Mary Anne Goossens was a text message she sent from her mobile phone on the night she arrived, but ever since then her phone appears to have been switched off. None of her credit cards have been used since she paid for her stay in the Bajamar Hotel and her luggage is still in her room at the hotel.The missing woman’s two children said in a press release issued by Nerja Town Hall this Wednesday that they are extremely concerned as their mother was ‘fine’ when she set off...

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gang of "Costa del Crime" fraudsters have been convicted of preying on hundreds of British pensioners in a £20 million share con.

Mastermind George Abrue and his boiler room team of eight funded lavish lifestyles by persuading vulnerable victims to part with their lifelong savings in exchange for non-existent assets.One of their victims was left considering suicide after losing £1.4 million, a source said.Ray Turner, an 87-year-old Second World War RAF veteran, told how he was cheated out of more than £75,000 by the gang.The pensioner, from Ware, in Hertfordshire, said: "I was sucked in first by their emails and then by their phone calls. They got almost everything. They were ruthless."The case can be reported today after Abrue's wife and mother-in-law were found guilty...

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BRAVE sales manager told this week how he risked his life to save a man who tragically drowned in the sea while on holiday at a popular Spanish resort.

Dad James McAteer, of Hardwood Flooring in Blantyre, plunged into the water to rescue a Japanese father-of-three on the beach of Calahonda, Nerja, Costa Del Sol.But the 38-year-old’s efforts where in vain as the man was already dead as he dragged him back to shore.During the rescue bid, James suffered injuries to his back and neck and spent three days in a local hospital.The 64-year-old Japanese tourist’s son and two daughters looked on in horror as the strong waves dragged their father 50 metres into deep water from the shore. Several onlookers standing near a stall on the beach raised the alarm and James and another man dived into the sea to...

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Human chain of protesters stops a mortgage arrears eviction in Madrid

Hundreds of protesters stopped a Lebanese family from being evicted from their home in the Tetuán district of Madrid on Wednesday by forming a human chain to prevent access to the block of flats on Calle Naranjo.The family who were due to be evicted on Wednesday stopped making their mortgage payments two years ago after the father joined the ranks of the unemployed. The court eviction was scheduled for 10.30 am, and cheers went up from the crowd after a local police officer gave the news later that morning that it had been called off.The protest was called by the platform ‘Afectados por la Hipoteca’ – ‘Mortgage Victims’, who sent out a call...

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Thailand has found traces of E coli bacteria on avocados imported from Spain

Thailand has found traces of E coli bacteria on avocados imported from Spain and are examining further if they are similar to the strain that is causing the E coli outbreak in Germany.Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said final lab test results could be released between Sunday and Tuesday. But he said people should not worry as E coli contamination of fruit and vegetables is normal and most of the strains are harmless. In Singapore, only 0.01 per cent of imported avocados come from Europe. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, in an email reply to MediaCorp, said avocado imports here are mainly from Australia, Mexico and New Zealand.Thailand...

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Richard Pope from Hertfordshire was one of the leaders of an international crime gang that used a network of Spanish boiler rooms to target investors between 2004 and 2008.

highly-organised and apparently lucrative operation headed by blacklisted British businessman Terence Wright.Since the Olive Press reported last month that the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) had personally blacklisted Wright from giving financial advice in the UK, new documents have come to light linking the Brit with a whole string of other dubious firms.Anne’s Diary, Attlee Wurth, Capitol Hill Group, Hunter Rowe Financial, and Kauffmann & Associates… it reads like a rollcall of blue-chip companies on the FTSE 100.But this couldn’t be further from the truth. All of them have links to Wright and are similarly on the FSA list of ‘unauthorised’...

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Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called "Anonymous" group on Friday on charges of cyber-attacks against targets including Sony's (6758.T) PlayStation network,

Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called "Anonymous" group on Friday on charges of cyber-attacks against targets including Sony's (6758.T) PlayStation network, governments, businesses and banks.The police said the accused, arrested in Almeria, Barcelona and Alicante, were guilty of coordinated computer hacking attacks from a server set up in a house in Gijon in the north of Spain.Spanish police alleged the three arrested "hacktivists" had been involved in the recent attack on Sony's PlayStation online gaming store which crippled the service for over a month, as well as cyber-attacks on Spanish banks BBVA (BBVA.MC) and...

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