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Hundred patients on Ebola watch list AROUND 100 people are currently under observation for Ebola in Spain, it has been revealed. As well as the 15 people currently at Carlos III Hospital isolation unit, a further 83 people are being monitored at home after coming into contact with infected nurse Teresa Romano. Each is subject to home visits twice a day, essentially to take their temperature. Continues on Page 5
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Irish lothario - who conned woman out of €80,000 - arrives on Costa expat dating scene
AN Irish lothario who seduced an American woman and then conned her out of €80,000 has turned up on the Costa del Sol. Sean Whelan has joined a dating website, despite tricking Florida-based Annie Predun out of her life savings in 2007, after meeting on a similar site. The 60-year-old, from Dub-
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Flash the hash! A Expat’s novel banned from the Alhambra A BRITISH novel has been banned from the Alhambra Palace (above), in the first such incident for 30 years. The launch of the book which had been scheduled for the Granada monument next week - has had to be relocated, after the authorities ‘inexplicably’ took against it. Song of Granada, by expat mother-of-four Anne Sikking, has been banned from all three of the Alhambra’s bookshops as well as the staterun parador hotel, within its grounds. Continues on Page 19
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OLD TRICKS: Whelan (above left) and first victim, Predun his first victim Predun via dating site Match.com in June 2007. Within a week of meeting the 52-year-old, Whelan flew from Ireland to Florida and just days later they were discussing marriage. He promised her a dream lifestyle dividing their time between the US, Ireland and Mauritius. He also promised to invest her $100,000 life savings in an offshore bank in Mauritius – where he allegedly had business connections – as part of what he called ‘Project Annie’. After he had received the money, Whelan returned to Ireland saying he would return a week later, but an endless string of excuses kept him away. Eventually, Predun got a lawyer, and in October 2009 she was awarded a court judgement against her ex-lover. When contacted last night, Whelan denied all knowledge of the dating profile on Connectingsingles.es, and insisted that he had not met up with any women on the coast. When asked about his history with Annie Predun, he said ‘that was a long time ago’.
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