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A BUDGET airline chief has claimed that plans to extend Barcelona’s El Prat Airport have been scuppered because planes are unable to fly over football superstar Lionel Messi’s house. o credit Antonella Ro Phot ccu zzo The bizarre accusation was / In st made by Vueling supremo Javier Sanchez-Prieto, who told Spanish media that construction of new runways is impossible “because you cannot pass over where Messi lives.” He added: “This doesn’t happen anywhere else la in the world.” nd n. fam rde a The Barcelona and Argentina g ily in their forward, 30, owns a multi-million Euro villa on the exclusive Bellamar housing estate in the suburban town of Castelldefells, where teammates including Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic and Philippe Coutinho also own properties. He lives there with wife Antonella plus their two sons, and famously bought his neighbour’s home before demolishing it to build a private football pitch. The area is around 12 kilomeBRANSON PICKLE: Was Sir tres from the airport. Richard around 150 years ago? ram
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SHE’S the Spanish tennis champ who last year broke her Wimbledon duck. But two-time Grand Slam winner Garbiñe Muguruza, 24, showed a different side after taking to the red carpet at this year’s Oscars in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The current world number three stunned in an elegant black satin dress by Spanish designer Hannibal Laguna before posing for snaps with basketball star Kobe Bryant.
Statue claim Virgin on the ridiculous A STATUE on an iconic Spanish church has been compared to billionaire Virgin tycoon Richard Branson. The stunning likeness was highlighted by British tourist Zach Culpin, who visited the famous La Sagrada Familia the largest unfinished Roman Catholic church in the world - while on holiday in Barcelona. And the 34-year-old from Weymouth
in Dorset was left stunned after snapping a shot of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi’s Nativity Façade. He explained: “I was on holiday and wanted to visit the Sagrada Familia to see the incredible architecture and Antoni Gaudi’s work in person. “But when I looked at the pictures closely on my camera, I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
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READY: SHE recently Imo gen Thomas. announced her retirement from swimsuit modelling. But former Big Brother contestant and beauty queen Imogen Thomas, 35, showed she’s still able to set pulses racing as she flaunted her killer curves in the Canary Islands after fleeing the freezing UK. The Welsh mum-of-two sizzled in a sultry grey swimsuit before slipping into a skimpy peach number for an eye-popping yoga session.
Lara respect SHE is set to star as Lara Croft in the rebooted Tomb Raider movie franchise. But Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, 29, said that she “could never compete” with Angelina Jolie’s original screen version of the video game heroine. The Swedish actress was speaking at a Madrid photocall for the new film, due to be released later this month.
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