No 861 Monday 5th - Monday 12th April 2021
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Keeping people safe and informed for over 17 years - The Costa Blanca’s oldest ‘FREE’ English language newspaper
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BY RAYMOND KEARNEY or a cowboy, crossing a desert was daunting task. Buzzards or vultures circling overhead warn of someone dying of thirst and these great ugly birds are eagerly waiting to pick the meat off them.
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V U LT U R E S CIRCLING
In Spain vultures can be seen in zoos but also where a dead human body lies, silently still. This may sound a little like a fictional horror story but this is a very real scenario played out every day in Spain. Here are three real stories, two of them will chill you to the very core. On the 2nd February 2015, my wife and I
were travelling to Madrid to celebrate our wedding anniversary the next day. Our two friends Alan and Alan, a married gay couple were starting their month-long holiday to Thailand. They flew from Alicante to Madrid but they were under time pressure to catch their connecting flight out of Madrid.
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