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ISSUE NO. 1768
23 - 29 May 2019
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
A XARQUÍA - C OSTA T ROPICAL YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
“No appetite for Brexit”
MEP candidate for Gibraltar talks exclusively to EWN By Tara Rippin AHEAD of the UK’s controversial participation in this week’s European Parliament elections, the Euro Weekly News caught up with new party Change UK’s best-known candidate Rachel Johnson, in Gibraltar. Daughter of former MEP Stanley Johnson, and sister to high-profile MPs Boris and Jo, Rachel announced she would enter the political fray herself with the UK’s most recent proremain party. The well-known journalist and social figure, who is standing for Change UK in Gibraltar and South West, took time out of her campaign schedule to speak to the EWN during a whirlwind 12-hour stop on the rock. Candidate Johnson first met with Chief Minister for Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, at the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar at Covent Place, where he said he “could see Change UK having more of a future in Westminster rather than Europe.” Explaining her motives for getting involved with Change UK, Johnson said she has lost
faith in Parliament to find a solution before the October 31 Brexit deadline. She added: “Nobody knows what’s going on from one minute to the next… there’s no appetite for any sort of Brexit and no majority for Theresa May’s deal.” Asked what words she had for Britons living in Spain and Gibraltar, Johnson said: “Keep calm. These things need a lot of negotiation, but British people in Spain are not going to be thrown under the bus, by the UK or Spain, that’s not grown up politics.”
KEEP CALM: MEP candidate Rachel Johnson’s advice to EWN readers and all Britons living in Spain and Gibraltar.
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‘Fire starter’ arrested A 43-YEAR-OLD British resident has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of negligently starting a fire in Nerja. The blaze, which broke out earlier this week on the Cerro San Isidro de Nerja, allegedly began after a resident lit a bonfire to burn rubbish. Officers from the Guardia Civil and nature protection service (Seprona) are reportedly now investigating the man after the forest fire burned for two hours, requiring multiple emergency services to extinguish it. Officers have reportedly also identified and spoken to another man, although he was not arrested. In an attempt to battle the flames, firemen from Infoca, as well as three firefighting helicopters, and members of the Provincial Fire Department, Civil Protection and Nerja Local Police all worked to extinguish the fire. No injuries were reported, however, and firefighters were not forced to evacuate any homes, with residents able to leave themselves. The fire was eventually put out at around 2.30pm, having destroyed around two hectares of scrubland, fields and pine forest.