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Iconic Spanish architects complete innovative cliffside pad on the Andalucia coast
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Something of it was created a challenge, Pablo Gil and by architects Jaime Bartolome on a 42-degree slope on the Granada Commissioned coastline. couple from by a young Madrid, every single window of the home, near boasts stunningSalobrena, views of the sea. The state-of-the-ar t design split over two floors features a ‘dragon-scale’ inspired curved roof, floorto-ceiling windows and an infinity pool. Its position hillside helpsdug into the stay cool in the inside months and the summer warmer in winter. joyful living, “The project innovative construction combined the return of techniques, craftsman-
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EVEREST veteran Stephen Venables has West Country swapped his in hilly Gaucin.home for a pad The intrepid who found famemountaineer, peditions throughleading exthe Himalayas, has chosen soaring Andalucian mountains over Somerset countryside. “It’s a strange though I’ve spent irony that life calling myselfmost of my a mountaineer, yet this is the first time I’ve actually lived in the mountains,” revealed Venables, 61. Venables and wife Rosie, from Bath, bought a pair of small, adjacent town houses and have knocked them through to create one larger village home. “We are reliant expat communityon the local because are only just learning how we speak Spanish,” to Venables foundhe said. ing a new route fame forgKangshung Face up Everest’s first Briton to and was the summit without extra oxygen. He has also explored Antarctica.
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RUSSIAN naval activity in the straits has become ‘a matter of concern’, admitted the Gibraltar government. It comes after it emerged that leader Vladimir Putin’s vessels are stopping off at least 10 times a year at the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta, just 68 km from the Rock. It has led to a stinging rebuke from a group of MEPs over Russia’s use of Ceuta as a regular refuelling base for its submarines, destroyers and frigates since 2011. Some 11 MEPs complained to the European Commission that it amounted to a breach of the EU’s sanctions against Putin for his annexation of the Crimea. A spokesman for the government told the Olive Press: “The use of a Spanish
EXCLUSIVE By Joe Duggan port by the Russians when Spain is a NATO ally must be a matter of concern.” However, he added: “The defence of Gibraltar is the constitutional responsibility of the United Kingdom and so is any matter related to the presence of Russian submarines in this area.” Spanish diplomatic sources have claimed the stops are ‘routine maritime activities and never military activity.’ The Russian stop-offs are granted by the Spanish Foreign Ministry on a case by case basis and bring around €1 million a year to Ceuta’s economy. This behaviour has not been supported
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