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9 - 15 March 2017
A XARQUÍA - C OSTA T ROPICAL
Hunger strike
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ISSUE NO. 1653
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Feeling good A MINISTER from the Junta de Andalucia has visited Motril to listen to the council’s demands for better health services. Regional health councillor, Aquilino Alonso, met with a team from the local government and viewed the results of a recent investment of €650,000 to improve Motril Hospital’s traumatology department, as well as listening to See page 3 ongoing concerns.
Minting it RINCON DE LA VICTORIA has ended the financial year with a municipal debt reduction of €5 million. The government team is said to be happy with this result, which came "despite
Last resort for Janet
facing €8.2 million of debt in 2017, inherited from the Partido Popular’s policies,” according to the councillor for Finance and Economy, Antonio See page 5 Moreno.
Janitor jailed A 60-YEAR-OLD maintenance man from a school in Rincon de la Victoria has been handed a 10-year prison sentence after abusing two young girls. His victims were aged only five and six years old, and the judge de-
FACING EVICTION: Janet has appealed with the bank for a meeting.
By Sally Underwood & Matt Ford Janet Hayden, a 70-year-old British woman who is due to be evicted from her home in La Viñuela on April 4, has announced that she is now on hunger strike, claiming that her bank has failed to even discuss the subject. Ms Hayden, who featured in last week’s Euro Weekly News, owes thousands following a series of problems with the property. She is asking her bank, Sabadell, to al-
low her to pay rent to remain in her home, and says she cannot afford to find anywhere else to live, but they are refusing to negotiate. She bought the land on which the house was built in 2003 and was immediately told that the land could not be built on, but her legal advisers informed her of a loophole that could be exploited if she paid a small charge. Having been quoted construction costs of €270,000, she was astonished when the
final price turned out to be €536,000, forcing her to take out loans with the bank in order to pay for her home. It subsequently emerged that the house had been built on unstable land, and it was soon plagued with structural issues such as cracked walls and even a sinkhole under one corner. Ms Hayden was then shocked to find that the standard 10-year new build insurance had not been arranged by her legal advisers. Already suffering from a
potentially fatal heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Janet, has not eaten since March 1 and says she “will continue indefinitely until Sabadell agree to a meeting.”
cided to add a further two years’ imprisonment onto the eight requested by the prosecution, while he is also barred from contacting them in the future. See page 12
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