17 - 23 November 2016
COSTA DE ALMERÍA
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ISSUE NO. 1637
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Locals up in arms THE Association for the Defence of the Water of Los Velez has expressed its disagreement with a new report released by the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation which claims that mass lettuce production farms pumping for water from the Sierra Maria Velez aquifer has nothSee page 4 ing to do with local springs drying up.
Heroes of the hour GUARDIA CIVIL traffic officers from Huercal-Overa saved the day on Thursday November 10, when they found a driver unconscious inside his car.
The man was unable to speak or tell the officers his name and his movements seemed slow and clumsy, leading them to fear he was suffering a heart attack. See page 8
Oily character
Beach death mystery By Matthew Elliott The death of a British woman on Mojacar’s Indalo beach is being investigated by the Spanish authorities. Lyn Davies’ body was found by a walker at around 10am on Saturday November 12. They immediately called the emergency services and Local Police, the Guardia Civil and medics were soon at the scene. There were no signs of violence or foul play and, at the time of writing, the Vera court charged with working out what caused her death has not revealed its findings. It is understood that Ms Davies was
in her late 50s and had an elderly mother at home in England. She had been travelling around Spain by herself but Euro Weekly News (EWN) has been told her physical and mental health were giving cause for concern. EWN spoke to the owner of Mojacar’s Pension La Esperanza where she stayed for the 10 days prior to her death. He said Ms Davies had been in a bad way, that she had been ejected from another premises outside Mojacar and initially arrived with enough money to stay only for five days. Staff had subsequently taken pity on
her, he said, and allowed Ms Davies, whom he described as ”skin and bones,” to stay longer. On Friday evening she left the pension at around 9.30pm, ignoring warnings from staff who warned her that it was cold outside. She said she would be fine but no alarm was raised when she didn’t return as she reportedly suffered from frequent insomnia. Less than 12 hours later she was dead. It has not yet been revealed where Ms Davies came from or whether she intended to return to the UK after finishing her journey round Spain.
A FORTY-EIGHT-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years by an Almeria criminal court for stealing 840 litres of olive oil from a warehouse after punching the manageress in the stomach. After loading six large and 12 small boxes of oil into his car, the man returned to the office with his victim, supposedly to pay, but assaulted See page 23 her before fleeing.
Expats do their bit ZURGENA has its British community to thank for improvement works to be undertaken at the two local primary schools, Juan Andres Toledo and La Alfoquia.
Gary Bowen and Peter Dell, owners of Bar La Union, visited the town hall last week to deliver a €1,000 donation to be spent on See page 55 the schools.