Euro Weekly News - Costa de Almeria 18 - 24 July 2019 Issue 1776

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EWN 27 June - 3 July 2019 www.euroweeklynews.com NATIONAL
Brit travel plans
strike chaos
TRAVEL FEARS: Summer tourists could be left stranded after latest strike
threats.
BRITISH tourists flying
this summer to Spain
could have their travel
plans ruined after threats
of a new wave of strikes
by BA pilots over pay.
British Airways have
announced plans to vote
on possible strike action if
their pay demands are not
met.
Three unions which include
over 40,000 employees
have rejected the latest
pay deal offered to them by
the company and therefore a
vote will take place on
whether to enforce strikes
throughout the summer.
BA staff have joined
forces with fellow unions,
Unite and GMB, to tackle
their grievances. BA pilots
receive an annual
salary of £150,000 per
year along with an hourly
rate whilst in the air. However
the union has been in
talks with the airline since
November last year but
talks have since broken
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down. The latest offer
from the airline has been
deemed as ‘too little, too
late’ by the union.
Two held after alleged dispute
POLICE were called to a late
night disturbance last Thursday
between a couple on the Antonio
Machado promenade in the
Huelin district of Malaga.
As officers arrived they
stopped a man who was trying
to leave the scene.
Upon questioning, the man
stated he had been in an altercation
with his partner and she
had attacked him by biting him
and scratching him.
The woman was later questioned,
and along with witness
statements both were arrested
and taken into custody.
It later emerged the man had
a restraining order placed on
him for a previous incident with
the woman and had therefore
breached its terms .
They were both taken to a
health centre for treatment.
Burglars hit
hard times
IN the first quarter of 2019 police
in Gijón - reportedly the
safest region in Spain - have
noticed a sharp decrease in burglaries
according to their crime
statistics base.
The 18 per cent drop is relative
to the first quarter of last
year when 100 homes were
broken into. Before April of
this year, 82 were recorded.
Officials in Gijón claim the
reason for the crack-down on
crime is due to increased interrogation
and investigation on a
regional level.