ISSUE NO. 1683
5 - 11 October 2017
COSTA DEL SOL
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
MARISOL YAGUE, the exmayor of Marbella, must serve two years in prison. The sentence comes after she was found guilty of stealing 110 pallets of granite and marble from municipal stores to renovate her chalet in 2005, when she headed the city council.
Photo by Peter Fake
She’s on the rocks
MANILVA: Home is being ruined.
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Campbell
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NO DANGER: The fish in question.
See ya later alligator! THE discovery of a predatory fish in a Marbella park has sparked panic. It comes after a photo of the alligator garfish went viral after being circulated on social media. The species is native to North America and can grow to over 2.5 metres in length, but a biologist from Bioparc Fuengirola told the Euro Weekly News that it is not invasive in Spain and presents no danger to humans. Instead, it was probably released into the artificial lake in La Represa Park after outgrowing a home aquarium.
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A Manilva expatriate is furious at the lack of aid he has received after flooding to h is p ro p erty co s t h im €60,000. Peter Fake, 62, lives in a bungalow in the picturesque Hacienda Guadalupe urbanisation, but his Spanish dream home is being ruined by water damage which rots his furniture and has caused a wall to collapse. Previous inhabitants did not report any issues but the property was vacant for nine months before the tyre store owner purchased it in 2010. And during that period a neighbour built a wall which has resulted in torrents of
Expat’s fears Drain ‘constantly floods home’ water streaming into his bungalow. Peter told the Euro Weekly News: “It gushes in through the bedroom, the whole house floods unless I shut the door. It can get about 20 centimetres high and the furniture ends up floating, it’s terrible!” As the seventh owner of the property built in 1984, Peter insists there was no previous water damage. He secured a Mayoral Decree to correct the problem
but when he started work, his neighbour filed a police complaint which resulted in a judge ruling against Peter and forcing him to stop. “The courts are deliberately condemning my property.” Peter has tried everything to solve the issue but is sick of being passed from pillarto-post with law firms taking his money and officials neglecting to aid him whilst his costs increase. He also lives in constant dread of rain.
He claims that all that needs to be done is for sufficient drainage to be put in place, diverting the water away from his home, but nobody will answer his plight.