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ISSUE NO. 1718
7 - 13 June 2018
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Teen qualifies as pilot A TEENAGER from Malaga has gained a licence to fly light aircraft shortly before turning 18. Expatriate Edouard de Hennin, who arrived in Spain aged two after his family moved from Belgium, successfully completed his pilot training at Axarquia’s Real Aeroclub de Malaga late last month. He told Spanish media he had decided he wanted to train to become a pilot after first taking off from the airf i e l d f o r a o n e - o ff f l i g h t shortly after turning 16. “What I felt during that flight was very particular, it marked me. Now I can see that flying is the perfect definition of freedom, it is impressive,” he said. Hennin had to pass exams on navigation, meteo-
CREDIT: Facebook/Edouard de Hennin
by Joe Gerrard
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A DOG must spend six months per year with each of her two owners following a court ruling. The joint custody case is the first of its kind in Malaga Province and the fourth ever in Spain. The court ruled Tara, a Pomeranian cross, will split her time between Madrid and Antequera - an hour inland from Malaga -
Cash seized GUARDIA CIVIL officers have seized two suitcases filled with a total of around €705,000 in cash due to leave Malaga airport for Turkey. Police found the bags as they were going through luggage x-ray systems, according to a statement from authorities.
FREE BIRD: Edouard de Hennin first flew aged 16. r o l o g y, c o m m u n i c a t i o n , general aircraft knowledge and other subjects before
he earned his wings. He also had to complete some 45 hours of flight time and
Oldest nun dies THE oldest nun in Spain, who witnessed the start of the Spanish Civil War and lived in Japan during the Second World War, has died shortly before her 111st birthday. Victoria de la Cruz Garcia, from Malaga, died of a cardiac arrest in the early hours of last Monday. She was born in 1907 on Calle de Don Juan Diaz in Malaga and grew up in the city, according to local church authorities. She became a nun as a young woman. Cruz Garcia travelled to Japan shortly after the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 and lived there for several years.
She arrived in the country by boat after travelling for around two months. Cruz Garcia travelled with a community of nuns from Tokyo to the mountainous Karuizawa area after the Second World War began in 1939. Jose Maria de la Cruz, one of the nun’s nephews, said he had seen photographs of her and other members of her convent with snow ‘up to their knees’ whilst there. Victoria de la Cruz Garcia and other nuns in the convent worked with women and helped to start schools. She died in Kitami in the Japanese capital at the religious residential home where she lived.
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spent a total of 53 hours airborne. Hennin has recently been accepted into the Europe Flight Training School in Jerez and he is also due to go to Ireland to study aeronautical engineering.
after the couple who had owned her for a decade went their separate ways. It comes after the plaintiff left his former partner four years ago, leaving her to care for Tara alone after he returned to his hometown of the Spanish capital. He later claimed that he was her sole owner, triggering the court case.
The Guardia Civil have since identified a German national as the suspected owner of the cases. Officers are currently probing whether the passenger will have to answer to charges of breaking money laundering laws due to the German national allegedly not declaring the cash.