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ADIOS: Game of Thrones finishes filming in Spain
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October 28th - November 11th 2015
Sweet send off - but not for Dothraki
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THE cast of Game of Thrones had a sweet send off when they said adios to Spain with a celebratory cake. The stars of the hit fantasy show have been filming the sixth series in Girona, Bardenas, Zafra, Peñiscola, and Almeria for the past few months. And makers HBO called it a wrap with a cake showing the five different Spanish locations. New scenes filmed include the arson of a Dothraki camp by Daenerys’s Dragon and the Tower of Joy.
AMERICAN screen goddess Daryl Hannah has been strutting her stuff in Madrid. The stunning blonde, famous for her roles in Blade Runner and Kill Bill, looked decades younger than her 54 years in a little black dress and heeled ankle boots. The event, Spain’s Netflix launch party at El Matadero, saw a host of celebrities including Hannah’s Sense8 costar Spanish actor Miguel Angel Silvestre and Orange is the New Black’s Taylor Schilling.
Third time lucky! By Joe Duggan IN a nondescript industrial estate, in a small village in Granada, a group of historians and archaeologists could soon be making global literary history. The British, Spanish and Argentine team hope to unearth the bones of one of the world’s most famous writers, Federico Garcia Lorca. The search for the poet and three other Civil War victims shot by fascists in 1936, is set to begin in Alfacar, near Granada, this week. Led by historian Miguel Caballero and archaeologist Javier Navarro Chueca, it is the third time an official excavation has been approved to
A third bid to find poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s body is due to start 79 years after his execution find the celebrated poet. Executed in the early stages of the civil war, mystery has long surrounded the burial place of Lorca, celebrated for works including Blood Wedding and Poet in New York. The Granada poet, who was a homosexual, was deliberately targeted and shot and buried in a mass grave alongside at least three other victims, one an Anarchist bullfighter. Previous attempts to find Lorca helped by Irish historian Ian Gibson in 2009 and another in 2014 both
Branching out Leaking roof and Christmas trees, winter’s-a-comin’ for Elliott Wright
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WELL the rains have finally come haven’t they? Despite not being bad for business, we have had a few leaks in the roof, which needed patching up by my builders John and Dave. Thankfully they did a great job (as well as my dad who works the crowd) while I was back in the UK for a few days of meetings and partying. Highlights included a fabulous sirloin at STK London, while I also met girlfriend Sadie’s extended family; we went for lunch at 1pm and were still there at 12:30 in the morning! Safe to say we all got on well and they fell for my Essex charms (at least, I hope they did). I’m now getting set up for Christmas which is already looking rammed – my main challenge is getting hold of a massive Christmas tree. Can anyone help? (Ed: tried Lapland Elliott?)
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proved fruitless. With private donors and a crowdfunding campaign backing the bid, the team could be on the brink of a historical find. “If they are there, we will find BY rights he should become one of the most-cherished expats them,” said Navarro. “We on the Costa del Sol. now have a more advanced After 10 months of preparation, Down Syndrome hero Reuben knowledge of the land and Coe, 31, has launched his very own blog and website. scientific knowledge that has Reuben, who has lived in San Pedro for three years, raised ruled out certain spots.” money through crowd-funding website IndieGoGo to launch Gibson, however, told the Olive Reubensworld.com. Press that although he didn’t “I love Spain, the food and the beaches especially,” Reuben told believe Lorca was buried the Olive Press earlier this year. where the digwas, it should His brother Manni Coe, of Toma Tours, told the Olive Press: “I still go ahead. NEWS have “Lorca is the most famous 5 never seen a blog directly from a person with Down SynNews drome IN BRIEF before, we’re so excited to see where it will go.” disappeared person in the Poker risks world. He symbolizes the horrors of the civil war,” Final resting pla said Gibson. writer and fou ce of Blood Wedding r others will be exhumed “The Spanish state is not Wind protests looking for its dead and that’s a monstrous affront to Franco’s victims. Lorca symbolizes that.” The team is now awaitDouble trouble ing the rubber stamp at Fight from the Andalucian Mauthoriarbella nightc HUNT Brother maFor terialiLorca lu sm mur b ON: der ties for the dig to get underway. wit (above) h unifo and
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THE final resting Andalucia’s most place of writer Federic famous Lorca could be o Garcia excavated next week. The Junta has family of the given the poet two weeks Grenadine the opening of to oppose grave he is saidthe mass to have been buried in. The long-running taken a decisive saga has the Junta sidedtwist after families of four with the other men buried beside Lorca.
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A POKER player was shot during a private game at a house Nueva Andaluciain on Monday night. The Spaniard, 42, was in the legs, while shot fellow player was a hit over the head when thieves dressed in black broke into the house.
2000 people have protested over a planned wind turbine projec off the Costa det Luz near Chipio la na. The offshore scheme has pitted Spain’s Green Party against the local Ecologistas en Accion group , which insists the Las Cruces del Mar schem could endangere the movements fish and migra of tory birds.
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A BROTHER who killed his two elder siblings over inheritance money in the village of Villanueva del Trabuco is facing 50 years in prison He had contracted. professional hitmana to help him in the March 2008 murde rs which saw Juan Francisco Cabelloand Podadera shot by 12-bore shotgun. a
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Ronaldo’s big secret
CRISTIANO Ronaldo revealed he’s working on a ‘topsecret project’ after tweeting a video of himself with Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio. The Real Madrid star was all smiles as the pair cosied up for the camera following Ronaldo’s split with Russian supermodel Irina Shayk. “We are not going to say what we did because it’s a secret, we hope you are going to like it,” teased Ronaldo.
A SPANISH profess bringing back schoolor has proposed attempt to curb the uniforms in an brand name competition among pupils. Jaume Sarramona society is one of claims to Spanish the most hedoni and consumer-orien stic The professor of ted in Europe. teacher training Barcelona’s Autono at says that children mous University tomed to parents have become accusgiving in to demand for games, clothes s or mobile phones, but give back nothing in return. He believes it is time for children to learn to appreci ate the true value things, and spoke of can bring them by of the incentive it earning someth for themselves through ing sacrifice, effort and respect.
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Not kidding
AN Axarquia man, Carlos Diaz, has patented an inventi that could save liveson by warning people who have left their children in cars. The pressure pads inserte d under rear seats would set off an alarm once they had locked the car. Every year dozens of children die after being left in hot cars.