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Spain looks to protect its social and industrial past, with new laws guarantee ing the safety of key buildings...
Madrid, while this famous photo by Capa
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...While a series of exciting new architectural trends are making waves in Spanish interior design
STYLISH: Hip new wine shop wows visitors, while this spacious interior of a new development in La Reserva is tempting world’s wealthiest investors
...Celebrating the new
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HE Costa del Sol and Barcelona are driving up demand in Spanish property. Data from Spain’s Instituto Nacional ca shows that, on an annualised basis, de Estadistihouse prices grew 6.8% in the second quarter of 2018 with new-build price tags rising 5.7% (see report page IV). However some areas are clearly picking slack than others, with Catalunya rising up more of the It comes as the country is continuing impressive economic 3.7% while Galicia growth by just 0.7%. after being among the worst hit countries by the 2008 crisis. The data is the latest confirmation of a trend of strong In 2017, demand for Spanish property. the total number of home sales in Spain increased 14.6% to 464,423 units from the previous year, according to
Spanish property is a hot commodity and that’s not changing anytime soon
the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Analysts suggest a good portion of (INE). is being driven by foreigners buyingthe recovery in housing homes on the Costa del Sol and in cities like Barcelona. And despite Brexit, the largest number of foreign homebuyers are British, followed by the French, Germans, Belgians, Italians and Swedes. The outlook for Spain’s housing with house sales expected to rise bymarket remains upbeat, to reach about 550,000 transactions between 10% and 15% this year, according to TINSA, the country’s official valuation and surveying body.
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POLICE in Gibraltar have seized £1.35 million worth of cannabis, following a dangerous high-speed chase at night. Four drug traffickers led the Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP), HM Customs and Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) on a wild goose chase off Europa Point. The men sped around the Rock’s southernmost tip in their inflatable boat, powered by three Yamaha 350 HP outboard engines. Eventually they dumped a total of nine bales of cannabis resin, with a street value of £1.35 million, into the sea.
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Gibxit: Almost set as Spain and UK ‘reach deal’ SPAIN will not block any final Brexit deal over Gibraltar’s future, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has confirmed. It means that Gibraltar will be able to leave the EU in March next year alongside the UK, with no drastic changes. “Gibraltar will no longer be a problem in arriving at a Brexit deal,” said Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez at an EU leaders summit last week. “If we reach an agreement (soon), great. If not, it doesn’t matter because we’ve got time to reach one,” he added, after discussions with UK leader Theresa
May. While Chief Minister Fabian Picardo was a bit more cautious he said he was ‘optimistic’ a deal would be reached, he confirmed there was still some fine tuning. After flying to London to discuss key issues like the tobacco trade and citizens’ rights, he said: “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” He spent a few days in London for Gibraltar Day - a celebration of business and political links with the UK. He also appeared in front of The House of Lords EU Committee to give evidence over the final details of Brexit.
He answered questions on his cooperation with Andalucia’s government and the Campo de Gibraltar region in order to serve the interests of cross-border workers and the communities on either side. In the UK’s overall Brexit negotiations with the EU, a hard border in Ireland is thought to be the principal remaining sticking point. Theresa May confirmed this week that the Brexit withdrawal deal was ‘95% done’. It comes despite a protest of more than 500,000 people in London demanding a second referendum, attended by many expats from Spain.
Disgrace
Taxi company leaves disabled pensioner in a rainstorm outside restaurant for two hours A GIBRALTAR taxi company left a 93-year-old disabled woman screaming in agony for two hours while thunderstorms raged on Sunday. Mariola Summerfield MBE, who has no legs and needs to take tranquilizers, was left freezing in her wheelchair by the driver who refused three times to pick up her up. It came as some of the heavi-
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est rain in Gibraltar’s history saw 250 litres per square metres fall in just a few hours. Mariola, who was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II, shivered under a blanket in the street, having just celebrated a birthday lunch for her grandson in the De Juan fish restaurant. “It was horrible to see her like that,” Mariola’s granddaugh-
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ter Gail, 45, told the Olive Press. “We had used the service before,” said Gail, who called the Gibraltar Taxi Association, specifically requesting wheelchair access 15 minutes prior to leaving the restaurant. Gail explained that the first time the ‘rude’ driver pulled up, he told her grandmother: ‘I’m not here for you’. After a second and third time being refused by the driver, the Summerfields were angry and Gail’s father, John, 65, began shouting abuse at the driver, running after the car, which sped off into the rain
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ON FILM: Taxi and (right) Mariola Summerfield without passengers. screaming in pain towards “It was disgraceful,” said the end of the experience”. Gail. “You can’t justify the As a co-founder of the Houseunjustifiable, she was literally wives Association, Mariola is a hero for Gibraltarians due to her work defending the sovereignty of the British overseas territory, which saw her present a petition to the Queen in 1966 at Buckingham Palace. Mariola, who was also Gibraltar’s first female juror, chronicled her heroic life in her book, A woman’s place, published in 2007. The Gibraltar Taxi Association - who describe their drivers as ‘extremely professional and courteous in their approach’ - have asked Mariola and family to their office ‘to work something out’, but Gail maintains they ‘did it on purpose’. www.eliteglasscurtains.com The firm officially declined to comment.