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Please get me home! Father makes heartbreaking death-bed plea to help get him back to see his family in the UK EXCLUSIVE By Frances Leate kidney – he is unable to fly. Now a close friend has made an urgent appeal to Olive Press readers to help find someone who can drive him back to Nottingham where his children Kamal, 20 and Malik, 11, live. Friend Eric Skilton, 69,
said: “I asked him what I could do for him and this was his last wish. “It’s all there is left to do. Of course I would like there to be a miracle and see him get better but that’s not going to happen and so failing that his very last wish is to spend his last days as happy as he can be with his children in Britain.” Skilton is helping him sell
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THE husband of a Marbella wedding planner who vanished with thousands of euros in deposits has been arrested in Ireland. Howard Danker, married to Sue Danker of Spanish Dream Weddings, has been brought in for questioning
after a fraud probe by garda officers. It is believed detectives began investigating Danker’s property assets after he fled Marbella with his wife in September last year. The couple left overnight owing tens of thousands of euros for dozens of weddings that they
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A DAD-of-two with just weeks to live is appealing for help to get back to the UK to spend his last days with his children. Omar Rahmoun, 54, has been given ‘between six days and six months to live’ after being diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer. The expat - who has been running a computer shop in Zujar, near Granada, for nine years - needs someone to drive him home. Due to his critical condition – he has a tumour in both lungs and cancer in both his pancreas, intentines and
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failed to organize. One hotel manager revealed this week that he had ‘at least three’ weddings due to take place last year at his hotel. The Olive Press reported (above) that to Page
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cy travel document, as his passport has expired. Omar, who uses oxygen for 20 hours a day because his lungs have failed, finds it difficult to talk and gets easily out of breath. “We are hoping that an Olive Press reader might know someone travelling back towards the Nottingham area. “There must be someone out there kind enough to take him.” If anyone can help please contact Mr Skilton on 958 063 074 or email: email@ ericskilton.com
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WATERGATE: Barcenas claims PP broke in WAR has broken out between the PP party and its former treasurer after he accused bosses of orchestrating a Watergate-style break-in at his office. Police are now investigating the alleged burglary at Luis Barcenas’s office within the government’s PP party HQ. The man embroiled in the national scandal, involving a €38 million offshore slush fund, claims that two computers and personal documents were stolen in the raid.
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He has since accused a lawyer to PP secretary general Dolores de Cospedal, of ordering the theft. Along with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, she is accused of taking illegal backhanders in cash from the fund based in Switzerland. The PP, however insists Barcenas (top), who made the payments, has not had an office in the building since stepping down as treasurer in 2010. Barcenas is also suing the Turn to page 5