ISSUE NO. 1696
4 - 10 January 2018
New Year price hike GAS, petrol and electricity prices are set to rise in the New Year, as inflation and new rates push the cost of essential services up. Stam p s, r o a d t o l l s an d mobile phone charges have all also increased. But th e r e i s so m e g o o d news for consumers. Malaga’s City Council has frozen taxes while the minimum wage is set to increase by 4 per cent. Meanwhile, short-distance rail prices have been frozen and longer journey costs will not rise significantly. Paternity leave is also to rise to five weeks in 2018.
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An impatient Ryanair passenger shocked other fliers when he decided to leave his delayed flight by opening an emergency exit and climbing out onto the wing of the plane. F lig h t F R 8 1 6 4 h a d l e ft London Stansted airport almost an hour late and was then kept waiting on the tarmac on landing at Malaga airport for another 30 minutes without explanation. The balding 57-year-old, believed to be of Polish nationality, tired of the wait shocked other passengers by announcing he was going to open an emergency exit and climb out onto the wing. Ground staff ordered him back onto the plane and he was held until Guardia Civil officers arrived. It later emerged that the passenger said he was suffering from an asthma attack. Fellow passenger Fernando Del Valle Villalobos who filmed a video that later went viral on social media said it was ‘surreal.’ “He was sat on the wing
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Winging it! Passenger climbs out of jet’s door
ASTHMA ATTACK: Traveller said breathing trouble saw him launch the risky escape. for quite a while until the crew managed to get him back inside.” Speaking exclusively to the Euro Weekly News a Ryanair spokesman said,
“This airport security breach occurred after landing in Malaga airport on New Year’s Day. “ M a la ga a irport polic e imme dia te ly a rre s te d the
passenger in question and since this was a breach of Spanish safety and security regulations, it is being dealt with by the Spanish authorities.”