Oil spillage

ACCORDING to the group

‘Verdemar Ecologists in Action’, the remains of oil from the ‘OS 35’ ship that has been stranded east of Gibraltar since August 30 last year, are reaching the coast of the Cadiz region of Campo de Gibraltar.

In a statement pub ‐lished on Thursday, April 6, they argued that oil has appeared on beaches in the municipalities of Alge‐ciras and Los Barrios.

“Today there were fre ‐quent oil stains from the Palmones river in Los Bar‐rios to the beach of La Concha, in El Rinconcillo, in Algeciras,” they claimed. “Specifically, these were balls of oil mixed with seawater and oil stains. We believe that the vessel still has the re ‐mains in its holds and oil circuits of hydrocarbons that may come out as a re‐sult of the storm,” they added.

Jose Ignacio Landaluce, the mayor of Algeciras, confirmed in a statement the arrival of the remains of the spill on the Rincon‐cillo beach and called on Gibraltar to take responsi‐bility for this situation.

Landaluce recalled that he has been warning of the danger of the ship re ‐maining aground. It is a warning that: “the govern‐ments of Spain and Gibral‐tar have ignored,” he in ‐sisted. “These problems are the result of these mis‐takes,” the mayor stressed.

The mayor reported that since early on Thursday morning, work had been carried out to remove the fuel oil deposits that had appeared on the coast.

SPANISH party resorts waging war against boozy Brits have been warned their efforts are “backfiring spectacularly” as demand for trips has since skyrocketed.

In what was dubbed the ‘Costa crackdown’, authorities in Malaga threatened rowdy British stags and hens with huge three figure fines if they stripped naked or brandished a blow‐ up p***s in public, while plans were even floated to install noise monitors in rooms.

Tougher rules were intro‐duced in Ibiza and Mallorca, with drinks limits imposed to try and curb drunken bad be‐haviour.

They have been part of a wider EU wide crackdown, which came to prominence when stags and hens from the UK were urged to ‘stay away’ from Amsterdam as part of a major campaign launched by officials in the Dutch capital.

However, the boss of Britain’s leading stag and hen do provider said the only thing the “crusades” had suc‐ceeded in is making groups more determined to party in