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28 Apr 2011

American WWII spy's jewels to go under the hammer at Sotheby's auction

Sotheby's says it will auction jewels belonging to a former American World War II spy who married into Spanish aristocracy and rubbed shoulders with world leaders and Hollywood celebrities. The auction house says the collection of necklaces, brooches and earrings featuring emeralds, diamonds and rubies belong to New York-born Marie Aline Griffith. Griffith worked for the CIA's predecessor OSS in Madrid during World War II before marrying a Spanish nobleman to become Countess Alina de Romanones. Sotheby's says the jewels go under the hammer in Geneva on May 17 along with others once belonging to the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson, a $10 million-emerald tiara and an 11-carat pink diamond valued at up to $16 milli...

Lady Gaga’s Twitter account hacked

The Born This Way singer took action after a number of mysterious Spanish tweets made their way onto her feed. She posted: 'Whoever is hacking my Twitter must answer to 10 million monsters and Twitter police. #Don'tMakeMeCallTheApostles' The messages appeared early this morning including links to Spanish YouTube-related sites, a mention of fellow pop diva Shakira, and a hashtag leading to a Spanish horoscope account. Gaga's last post before her account was hacked was about her next video message: 'Gagavision no.44 coming 2morrow night, commemorating the last American MonsterBall. Hurts to write this. The stage is my home. #BornThisWay.' The singer quickly deleted the tweets ten minutes later and reassured fans that it was back to business....

lavish "James Bond" lifestyle of a drug smuggling gang,Eastgate had a very large house in Estepona (on Spain's Costa del Sol).

The lavish "James Bond" lifestyle of a drug smuggling gang first began to unravel in 2009 when police stopped and searched an uninsured BMW at Cullompton Services on the M5 in Devon. Inside the vehicle, driven by Christopher Leader, officers found 5kg (11lb) of cocaine, worth about £250,000. The drugs were wrapped up in a parcel made to look "like a present". The discovery was the start of Operation Stagshaw - in which detectives from Devon and Cornwall Police began work to track down the gang. Detectives found pictures of the gang's ringleader Timothy Eastgate, 31 and his deputy Paul Flisher, 38, "living a lavish lifestyle". "They drove around in Ferraris, Lamborghinis, they had a private box at the O2 Arena in London," said senior investigating...

17 Apr 2011

Actor Antonio Banderas, came to Marbella

Actor Antonio Banderas,  came to Marbella to present the new opening of the Coral Beach hotel which had  just purchased the hotel chain.  Malaga had time to praise the company's international character and family background: "For me it is a pleasure to open this hotel on my land. In a city like Marbella, which has gone through a difficult period Antonio did not stay to mingle with guests after the official presentation. Gone are the nineties, when a Nobel Prize for Literature was responsible for first opening the doors of this hotel. Camilo José Cela was elected the Coral Beach sponsor at the time , and memory still retains the sound of major festivals and events first television programs live from Marbella, from this...

Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Francisco Jiménez Villarejo has made its final report of the trial of the case 'Minutes', on alleged irregularities in the commissions of the City of Marbella

Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Francisco Jiménez Villarejo has made its final report of the trial of the case 'Minutes', on alleged irregularities in the commissions of the City of Marbella (Málaga) the lawyer José María del Nido for the inspection process of the Court of Auditors and noted that counsel was "embedded in the core of government decision" in the town and settled in the Financial Club, where the former mayor Jesús Gil managed.Enlarge photoThus, he explained that he had legal advice and that Del Nido was "front", but added that it is undisputed that it was "not a mere counsel more, not a lawyer with an office open to the public in Seville attending Marbella City Council issues, no connection. " "It was the chief, the chief legal...

Irish celebrity DJ Maurice Boland is returning to the airwaves for the first time following his inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old teenager in Marbella.

DJ Maurice Boland: 'If people want to take a pot shot at me, I've an open line -- they can ask whatever they want...' Niamh Horan, talks to celebrity DJ Maurice Boland, back on the air after a scandal over his relationship with a teen Known as 'Mr Marbella', the former Irish nightclub boss, who has been married for 40 years, has been absent from public life for the past nine months since his close relationship with the teenager came to light. But speaking this weekend, Mr Boland said he is looking forward to re-launching himself on the airwaves and will not shy away from his outspoken views on "issues that need to be addressed". "Somebody asked me the other day, will I be more humble after everything that's happened, quieter, less controversial....

29 Mar 2011

Morocco has no Libyan assets, the central bank governor said on Tuesday at a news conference.

Morocco has no Libyan assets, the central bank governor said on Tuesday at a news conference."We don't have any (Libyan) assets," Abdellatif Jouahri told reporters in response to question on ties to Morocco's fewllow North African state. "We haven't been approached by anyone to freeze any assets."He made a distinctions between Libyan foreign investments in Morocco and state asse...

thousands of British criminals had made Spain their home and given the coastal area the reputation of being "the bit of Europe that fell off the back of a lorry."

more than 20 years since a young Englishman hopped off his mountain bike outside a villa in Llanos de Naguelos, near Marbella, went round to the swimming pool and shot dead the great train robber, Charlie Wilson. The murder represented the Costa del Crime writ large and was a reminder that thousands of British criminals had made Spain their home and given the coastal area the reputation of being "the bit of Europe that fell off the back of a lorry." It was the collapse of the extradition agreement between Spain and the United Kingdom in 1978 that first encouraged villains on the run to settle there and although that has long since changed, Spain remains an unwilling haven to thousands of Britons on the run.The scope of British criminality in Spain has been well illustrated over the past month....

26 Mar 2011

Shipwreck experts are evaluating a centuries-old-101-centimetre gold chain plucked from the sea floor while searching for a 17th-century sunken Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.

Shipwreck experts are evaluating a centuries-old-101-centimetre gold chain plucked from the sea floor while searching for a 17th-century sunken Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.The piece is tentatively valued at about $250,000. It is believed to be from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank during a 1622 hurricane. It was found Wednesday by divers from Mel Fisher’s Treasures about 55 kilometres west of Key West.The chain has 55 links, an enameled gold cross and a two-sided engraved religious medallion featuring the Virgin Mary and a chalice.In 1985, the Fisher crew recovered more than $450 million in artifacts and treasure from the Atocha shipwreck, but part of the ship has not been fou...

Nueva Andalucía has become the preserve of Britons with criminal connections.

British criminal gangs have always been involved in turf wars or acts of revenge but these used to take place in their own backyards. In recent years Nueva Andalucía has become the preserve of Britons with criminal connections. There have been a number of shootings, some deadly, in what the National Police call the “settling of accounts” largely amongst drug traffickers.The latest of these cases was the Thursday of last week just before 15.15 when the 091 emergency room of the local police in Marbella received a call to say there had been a shooting in the calle del Califa. A number of shots were discharged and a person injured.When officers arrived there was no injured man to be found but eyewitnesses informed them the shooting had indeed taken place with the victim shot in the leg. It is...

19 Mar 2011

Britisher shot and has been injured in yet another shooting incident in Nueva Andalucía, Marbella.

It happened on Thursday afternoon at 3,15pm in Calle Califa in the centre of the urbanisation. Several witnesses reported that a person riding a motorbike with his face covered, approached the victim, who was an English speaker and who is thought to be British, and fired two gunshots. The first shot missed because the victim ducked, and ended up in the wall of a local shop. The second bullet however hit the victim in the leg. The National Police were called to the scene but on their arrival the victim had vanished. Witnesses told the police that another man had picked him up in a four wheel drive vehicle. Police say that it appears that the injured man has not asked for treatment at any local hospital. The shooting took place in Nueva...

18 Mar 2011

The Terra Sana group, which has been going for over a decade, is suing the owner of the branches at Nueva Andalucia, Puerto Banus and on the Golden Mile.

The Terra Sana group, which has been going for over a decade, is suing the owner of the branches at Nueva Andalucia, Puerto Banus and on the Golden Mile.Terra Sana claims he has not paid any of the two million euro asking price, since they were sold in September last year.And since then, the founders of the green, health food-style chain, claim they have had at least 100 complaints from diners at the trio of restaurants.Owner, Steve Sweeney, told the Olive Press: “It is really damaging our brand and it breaks my heart to have to go through all this. This is the worst time in the history of the chain.”The American – whose parents have run restaurants in Marbella since the 1960s – has now gone to court to get the new owner out of the restaurants.“He is not respecting the of the franchise, nor...

15 Mar 2011

Spanish house prices fell for the twelfth straight quarter in the final three months of 2010,

Spanish house prices fell for the twelfth straight quarter in the final three months of 2010, but came close to break-even as the property market struggles to emerge from an extended slump.In the October to December period prices fell 0.1 percent quarter on quarter, national statistics institute INE said on Tuesday.That was the smallest drop since quarterly prices began to descend in the fourth quarter of 2007 and much less than the 2.2 percent decline registered in July-September 2010.However, official data underestimates the weakness of the market and final sale prices, rather than valuation prices used by INE, may have fallen much more sharply, economist at Global Insight Raj Badiani said."Despite recent indicators suggesting that the rate of decline in housing activity has been stabilising,...

11 Mar 2011

The dream of living in Spain is one held by many Britons of all ages and from all walks of life

The dream of living in Spain is one held by many Britons of all ages and from all walks of life.  For some, the thought that you can live in perpetual sunshine and not have to learn the local lingo is a draw, for others it’s the other side of Spain away from the tourist beaches that appeals to them most.Spain is also quite close to the UK geographically speaking, it does enjoy excellent weather on the Mediterranean coastline for example, and because may Brits already live there, integration can be relatively smooth.  However, parts of Spain such as Mallorca practically die in the winter because tourists drift away and everything gets boarded up – and it does get cold!  Other parts of Spain such as Marbella are currently a crime hotspot.The nation has been extremely badly impacted...

10 Mar 2011

David Valadez, the Socialist Mayor of Estepona, is to appear in court next month,

David Valadez, the Socialist Mayor of Estepona, is to appear in court next month, where he’s to be questioned as a suspect for allegedly using funds from land sales to pay the wages of the municipal workforce.El Mundo newspaper gives his date in court as April 1. It’s understood that the municipal secretary, Francisco de Paula, the Town Hall treasurer, Javier María Marín, will be in court with him on the first of next month.The complaint presented by the Partido Popular in September claims that most of the funds used to pay Town Hall wages are income resulting from planning agreements and should only be spent on planning matters.El Mundo notes that Andalucía’s LOUA land law prohibits using funds from planning agreements to cover general expenditu...

8 Mar 2011

'Bargain Properties' Available In Spain

'Bargain Properties' Available In Spain: "Substantial price falls in the Spanish property market have meant that there are plenty of opportunities for buyers to pick up a bargain at present. Official government figures released by the Department for Housing show that the average price for a house in Spain have fallen by 3.5 per cent over the course of the past 12 months. However, real estate professionals have suggested that the declines have been underestimated. 'The problem with the government's data is it tends to understate price falls, which have been more like 30 per cent or more [peak-to-present] in coastal regions like the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol,' said Mark Stucklin of Spanish Property Insigh...

Selva Pascuala cave murals 'show man may have used magic mushrooms 6,000 years ago' | Mail Online

Selva Pascuala cave murals 'show man may have used magic mushrooms 6,000 years ago' | Mail Online: "For all those who thought hallucinogenic drugs took off in the 1960s, think again: scientists believe they have found evidence of magic mushroom use 6,000 years ago. Cave murals found in Spain appear to depict them in religious rituals - which would be the oldest evidence of their use in Europe. The Selva Pascuala cave mural near the town of Villar del Humo has a bull in the centre, but researchers from America and Mexico are focussing on a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects." :Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright hold...

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