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t wasn’t a special UK edition of Big Brother nor was Brigitte Bardot in town, but her namesake was. Recent visitors to Mt Teide may have spotted a white truck marked Bridget Rover parked at a roadside lay-by and a group of adults apparently ‘playing’ with a remote control vehicle measuring just over a metre long that looked as if it had come straight out of a schoolchildren’s design competition. The bizarre six-wheeled contraption, weighing 225 kg, which slowly trundled its way over the lunar landscape, coming to a halt every few metres while its controllers took copious notes on their ultra-modern computer pads, was in fact part of a major and very costly
- €6 million in total - scientific trial which is expected to produce key results for European space exploration. The 20-strong team of scientists and logistics personnel was trying out technology for the type of exploratory vehicles that will feature prominently in missions to Mars before too long, possibly by the end of the current decade. The team, from the state-of-the-art Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing programme (PROVisG), spent ten days at altitude on Teide putting their ‘rover’ through its paces in conditions as near as possible on Earth to those which the definitive models of the prototype should encounter when they reach their Martian destination. (Full story, page 3)
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Arona - september 18th - Clementina Morales
Domestic violence claims 43rd victim
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he murder of Clementina Morales in Arona on September 18th brought the number of deaths attributed to domestic violence in Spain to 43 this year.
As we go to press Clementina’s husband remains in hospital where he was admitted with a stab would to the stomach, which some media reported as a suicide bid following the death of his wife. Police sources say it was an attempt to make it look as if he had been attacked first by his wife. Unconfirmed reports say he placed a second knife in her hand after killing her. News of the stabbing has shocked the area, Las Rosas, where the couple was well known, and the island generally. Ralf Winkler has lived next door to the couple for 11 years. He told Island Connections that in recent times Clementina’s husband
was often drunk and there were frequent ‘discussions’, “but I never saw any bruises and they were always very polite with me”. There had been no official complaints nor had the woman ever repor ted any instances of abuse. However his son who know the couples’ elder child reported that was some jealousy in the relationship. Her husband was also apparently known as a habitual drinker in the local pub. The death of Clementina brought to 43 the number of women killed by partners or ex-partners this year. The same weekend a woman in Seville was also murdered, apparently by her ex-husband. In that case he had been repor ted in the past for abusive behaviour, but wasn’t the subject of a barring order at the time of the woman’s death. The couple had lived in Las Rosas for over 10 years
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