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Vol. 11 Issue 275 www.theolivepress.es September 27th - October 10th 2017
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TWO out of three of Spain’s top destinations for Brits buying a second home Meanwhile, Mijas was unique in attractare in Andalucia. ing holidaymakers far from the sea or and avid golfers. Marbella and Mijas “It has the perfecta golf course.” are in the top three, “Many holidaymakers fall in hand.” only beaten by Torrevieja, setting for love with this holiday hotspot in Alicante, as they are never ing the international growing captur- Calvia in Mallorca came according to leading demand for second homes in homebuilder Taylor Wimpey. with amenities on fourth in the poll of British a close buyers purchasing in Spain While, Torrevieja over the summer topped the charts months this year. thanks to its beaches and affordable HOLIDAY home Meanwhile, Spanish homes, Marbella demand is back and Mijas were very New research to break records tourism continues close behind. reveals that 13% in business… among Spaniards as well. this year with over 10.5 million tourists of homes sold to homes, according local buyers are intended to Fotocasa. arriving in July– Some 59% of buyers as holiday 10% more than last year’s have no intention figures. to offer holiday rentals. British visitors were of “The holiday rentalrenting out their second home, whilst are rising so fast,” accounting for over the largest group, market is one of the 34% explains Beatriz Toribio, 2.3 million arrivals reasons why rental plan during Another report reveals prices the month. The homebuilder that more than six head of research at Fotocasa. in Spain, of which million Spanish households a number of projects has 3.6 million are located currently underown a second home way in in coastal areas. Mijas and Marbella, as well as in Mallorca and Torrevieja.
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A BLIND tourist has been thrown out of a supermarket as staff feared his guide dog would ‘eat the food’. Ex-policeman Stephen Joiner, 63, was outraged when employees at the Prossima market in Fuengirola insisted he take his working pet Jodie outside. The Brit, who has been visiting the Costa del Sol for 15 years, was holding a white stick, while his dog had official dog flashes and collar. But this didn’t stop staff or even the manager at Prossima supermarket from insisting he left. “It really spoilt my holiday,” he told the Olive Press. “I was so shocked by the whole experience
LITTLE HELPER: Stephen with Jodie
DONALD Trump has said he wants to see a united Spain. His comments came as prime minister Rajoy jetted to the US to meet the president this week. Rajoy had hoped to get Trump on his side ahead of the upcoming independence referendum in Catalunya. And Trump delivered when he said: “I’m for a united Spain, I really think the people of Catalonia would stay with Spain.” The pair also discussed
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that I needed to sit down outside before I felt confident enough to move on.” Joiner, who has had glaucoma for eight years, was shopping with his wife Julia, who works in security
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Spain’s role in the EU and NATO. Catalunya represents a fifth of Spain’s €1.1 trillion economy and has wide-reaching autonomy. But what would happen if Catalunya actually left Spain? CATA-STROPHIC SEE PAGE 6
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at Liverpool airport. They had only been in the shop (pictured left) for a few minutes when a checkout girl came over and told him he had to take his five-year old Labrador outside. When he insisted she was an official guide dog, the employee replied: ‘You have your wife with you, you don’t need a guide dog.’ The manager was then called and asked them both to leave the shop. When questioned, he said he was ‘worried’ that the dog would try and eat the food. “He was very agitated, raising his voice and coming across as quite threatening,” said the ex-Merseyside Police detective. “He was all the time on his phone, following us trying to edge us out.” The pair, who have been spending their holiday for the last 15 years at Las Palmeras hotel, debated about calling in police to make an official complaint. When the Olive Press contacted the shop for a response, we were told they had, in fact, been allowed to shop. “A shop assistant simply told him to wait in a designated area before going to ask her superiors for permission,” claimed the employee.
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THE owner of Marbella Football Club has been arrested in a huge anti-mafia raid. Alexander Grinberg was cuffed alongside six others in the huge crackdown at the football club. The multi-millionaire businessman is being probed for alleged money laundering and being a member of a criminal organisation, with police believing he has ties to the Russian mafia. The head of Mijas Water (Agua de Mijas), was also arrested in the raid, as well as businessman Arnold Taam, who was lifted at Grinberg’s multi million euro villa in Bahia de Marbella. “This was a raid coordinated between the Mijas and Marbella Guardia Civil,” said one local source. “There were helicopters and dozens of police vehicles involved and the streets were shut off, it was quite something.” The raids are said to be a crackdown on links to the Solntsevo gang, whose boss Vyacheslav Gulevich was arrested in Mijas last year. Police say a ‘large amount of material’ has been seized for what is now an ongoing investigation.
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