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Facebook: @The<strong>Weekender</strong>Spain<br />
FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST 2019 9<br />
Tons of hail<br />
batter capital<br />
SMUGGLERS SMASHED<br />
FIVE BRITISH people have<br />
been arrested by the National<br />
Police in Malaga,<br />
after being accused of<br />
belonging to a gang that<br />
used courier firms to<br />
smuggle drugs from Spain<br />
across Europe.<br />
The detainees are three<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
men and two women aged<br />
38 to 62, and were refused<br />
bail after appearing before a<br />
judge in Fuengirola.<br />
Over a hundred kilos of<br />
drugs were seized along with<br />
over 20 thousand euros.<br />
SAT SUCCESS<br />
A VARIETY show staged<br />
at the Vista Lounge in<br />
Quesada last Sunday in<br />
aid of the Dolores-based<br />
SAT Animal Rescue charity<br />
raised just over a thousand<br />
euros.<br />
Entertainers including<br />
Rebecca Holt(pictured) gave<br />
their services free of charge,<br />
with a tombola boosting the<br />
final total, which also got a<br />
lift from Vista Lounge staff<br />
handing over all of their tips.<br />
Meanwhile the 2020 SAT<br />
calendar is now on sale<br />
priced at just five euros, and<br />
is available from the SAT<br />
kennels in Dolores, or from<br />
the charity shops at Benimar,<br />
Cabo Roig, Guardamar,<br />
Salón Grande, San Luis,<br />
Gran Alacant, and Urb La<br />
Marina.<br />
Seized drugs<br />
Packages of the drugs in<br />
vacuum-sealed containers<br />
destined for the UK and<br />
Sweden were intercepted.<br />
A police spokesman said<br />
that the suspects regularly<br />
switched rental properties<br />
and vehicles in order to<br />
avoid being caught.<br />
WHILE the predicted extreme weather<br />
for the Costa Blanca didn’t quite materialise<br />
this week, in Madrid, which had<br />
largely escaped weather warnings, they<br />
were battered with extreme hail storms<br />
and flash flooding on Monday.<br />
The airport, underground and many major<br />
roads were closed on what was blamed<br />
on an “isolated depression” highlighting the<br />
difficulty of predicting the weather in Spain<br />
at times.<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
ALTHOUGH little official<br />
information has been<br />
released at this stage,<br />
it is believed that an official<br />
from the <strong>Alicante</strong><br />
City Council has been<br />
arrested on charges of<br />
providing false registration<br />
documents to immigrants.<br />
Reports are that legal<br />
proceedings are under<br />
way but the process is<br />
being carried out behind<br />
closed doors.<br />
It is not known at this<br />
stage if the individual<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
The authorities dealt with over 1,100 incidents<br />
in a short period while the meteorological<br />
office said there were 9,300 lightning<br />
strikes in one evening over Madrid.<br />
The city centre experienced 46.4 litres of<br />
rainfall, much of it actually hail which piled<br />
up on the streets and had to be shovelled<br />
away in scenes more reminiscent of mid-winter<br />
than August.<br />
Immigration fraud arrest<br />
was supposed to have acted<br />
for financial gain or due<br />
to sympathy with the situation<br />
of the immigrants.
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