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The heatwave affecting central, southern and eastern #Spain produced a new record on Thursday afternoon.... With a storm brewing on the horizon of London–Brussels relations over the Brexit negotiations, Felipe VI and Letizia of Spain finally began their twice-postponed state visit to the United Kingdom. The warm welcome extended by Queen Elizabeth and her family, as well as by the British government and parliament, underscored the excellent state of bilateral relations and common interests....... It's nice to see the Wimbledon Ladies champion comes from Spain. Garbiñe Muguruza, 23, is managed by IMG, the US multinational. From July 24, nudism will no longer be an option on the beaches of San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia) ...Nor will beachgoers be able to plant umbrellas there to reserve a spot, ride a bicycle along the seafront, take pets with them, or listen to loud music. Before the crisis, €1,000 a month was considered a low salary. Furious residents have been left 'angry and distressed' after learning that the HS2 rail link will pass through their newly built £200,000 homes. Sadiq Khan has warned Donald Trump that there will be 'no red carpet' should he visit the United Kingdom. Thousands of students may have voted twice to try to put Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street. The UK education system has become increasingly gripped by a culture of Orwellian groupthink, where only fashionable, Left-wing opinions are deemed acceptable. Any wish to deviate from this outlook — such as by backing Brexit or the Conservatives — is treated as a kind of heresy, an offensive challenge to the ruling creed. A Bristol cyclist who had her bike stolen beat the thieves at their own game when she set up a sting to take it back from the man selling it on Facebook.

The Spanish royals were given an official farewell with honours at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport as they set off for London, where they were greeted with 'traditional English rain'. Small groups of hooded anti-capitalist Black Bloc militants scuffled with police after two days of violent clashes which marred the G20 summit. Arab refugees watching the riots from the relative safety of a falafel joint said the rioters were insane for destroying their tolerant adoptive city and were astonished by what they saw as the police's restraint. 'If people did this in Egypt they would be shot,' said Ibrahim Ali, a 29-year-old Egyptian who came here in 2011. 'The state provides everything: housing, unemployment benefits and education. Yet those people are not happy. I don't get it.' The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public. The court ruled that the restriction sought to guarantee social cohesion, the 'protection of the rights and freedoms of others' and that it was 'necessary in a democratic society'. A television show caught the attention of Karsten Kaddat, a young electrician from northern Germany last year. He explained that anyone could get free green energy to consume at home. Intrigued Kaddat rushed to Google and ended up joining the community in which thousands of Germans share the energy they produce in their homes with solar panels. The Ministry of Labour of the Balearic Islands has fined Iberia Airways 25,000 euros. The penalty comes due to the airline's requirement to demand a pregnancy test for aspirants to become flight attendants Spanish income statements from 2015 show that only 7,194 individuals declared more than €600,000. That number is 31% lower than the 10,425 in this bracket in 2007, but well above the 4,000 declaring this amount during the worst moments of the economic crisis. In the UK Connie Yates and Chris Gard, who are battling Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors in the High Court over their son Charlie's life, say they want to debunk eight 'myths' over his condition. An Islamic activist has caused outrage after claiming the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster were 'murdered' by Zionists who fund the Conservative Party. Nazim Ali, a director of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), was accused of whipping up hatred in a speech he made at an anti-Israel rally just days after the fire. Three Sikh men helped nearly 70 Afghan illegal immigrants sneak into the UK using the real passports of British Sikhs in a £600,000 scam, a court heard. Border officials were unable to distinguish between the illegal immigrants who masqueraded as the genuine passport holders because they were wearing turbans - which Sikh men are allowed to have on in their ID documents. Despite a thoroughly brilliant tournament Wimbledon’s groundskeepers have again been forced to defend the quality of the courts after players claimed the surface had been damaged by the weather. Fears have been raised the warm weather has made the grass more dangerous to play on, with several competitors pulling out injured in the first week amid some high-profile slips.

Just 30 deputies showed up for a session, prompting an angry reaction from Jean-Claude Juncker:The European Parliament is ridiculous. Very ridiculous. I welcome those of you who made the effort to come to the chamber. But the fact that only around 30 MEPs have shown up for this debate amply demonstrates that this parliament is not serious August 1 is an important date in Germany: most companies across the country open the deadline for young people to apply for a dual vocational training (FP). As a result of the Brexit negotiations, the British government has studied the Spanish immigrants closely for the first time, and found that over half of Spanish workers in the UK work in education, health and finance. Sex changes filed at Spain’s Civil Registry have tripled in the last seven years, according to data from the Justice Ministry. The number of people applying to amend their gender on their Spanish ID document – known as the DNI – went from 132 in 2009 to 436 in 2016. Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos is reportedly annoyed not to have been invited to a ceremony on Wednesday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the first sitting of the country’s Congress after the return to democracy. A heroic lorrydriver was forced to drive along the roads of Granada whilst its cargo was on fire. He'd noticed his trailer was ablaze and was forced to make the difficult decision on whether to stop the vehicle or not. NO less than 538 live mortar shells were found by surprised divers in a river in Aragon whilst searching for a missing person. The UK will be expected to hand asylum to potentially thousands of refugees to ease the 'unprecedented' migration crisis in Italy, Brussels chiefs said yesterday. The London Bridge terror attack mastermind Khuram Butt's sister has been sacked from Heathrow after being suspended over security fears. Her husband was also suspended from his job at the airport. Foreign boats will no longer be allowed to catch fish close to Britain’s coastline under a move announced by Ministers Pilots today warned of a 'disaster' unless drones are subjected to tougher regulation after a drone caused chaos at London Gatwick Airport. A Muslim student union leader at Salford University has claimed she would like to 'oppress white people' and has suggested there would be an Islamic takeover if more people read the Koran. Meanwhile, another headline reads 'I call on my fellow Muslims to stop blaming VICTIMS of child sex gangs': Lawyer who helped jail the Rochdale grooming gang calls to end violent misogyny he says 'excuses these monsters' Hospitals should ban handshakes and encourage ‘fist bumps’ as an alternative greeting, it has been claimed.

An 'urban clubbing holiday' in which a thousand Britons descended on an Algarve town spiralled into violence after a mass brawl broke out in a bar. Dozens of anti-riot police officers were called in as tourists at the 'Portugal Invasion' festival brawled on the Oura strip in Albufeira, Portugal on Sunday. .....which locals said came after a week of mayhem in the resort. The Iberian Peninsula has been roasting hot this past week and a wildfire that broke out on Saturday night near Doñana National Park, in southern Spain, was still burning on three fronts but authorities BUT improved weather conditions saw the blaze brought under control. Three people suspected of jihadist activity have been arrested in Madrid, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a release on Wednesday. A woman in Barcelona has been forced to illegally occupy her own apartment after the tenant she had rented it to listed the property without her knowledge on the vacation rental website. Many people associate Spain with siesta. And yet Spaniards have been slow to turn a profit from this habit. Japan, Argentina and Belgium are far ahead on this issue, explains María Estrella Jorro de Inza, owner of Siesta and Go, Spain’s very first business offering customers some down time in between activities. After the disaster at Grenfell Tower the cladding is being checked at buildings across the length and bradth of the UK. Whilst Theresa May is beseiged by this problem Jeremy Corbyn was free to adress the revellers at Glastonbury. Headmasters from 3,000 schools across 14 UK counties sent letters to parents before the general election warning them of the 'dreadful state' of education funding under Tory policies. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has resigned from the Church of England after an inquiry found he colluded with senior clergy to protect a paedophile bishop. Former Justice Secretary Liz Truss took the decision to keep a devastating report into the effectiveness of sex offender rehabilitation courses secret. A teenager has been accused of the attempted rape of an 8 year old girl. Officers were called to Nuthurst Park in Moston, Greater Manchester, after reports the girl had been raped and the offender had been chased off by members of the public. The invoice, for Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall to go on a tour to Romania, Italy and Austria this March, is expected to be the most expensive trip taken by a Royal in the past year

Brussel's elite are in denial over EU crisis-study claims. Residents have been describing the horrific fires in Portugal. Spain is losong 26bn Euros in tax revenue in fraud as Jose Mourinho is the latest name to appear as a soccer fraud. As the Spanish bullet train reaches speeds of 330 km per hour a Spaniard has won a European inventor award for satellite navigation. A British expat who tried to kill his partner has been arrested in Benidorm and a sick thief has stolen Mijas dog charity box. There's advice on how to sleep in the Spanish heat and a coach has been sacked for allowing his junior players to win 25-0! The UK has now suffered an attack at the Finsbury Park mosque. Whilst David Cameron has remained very quiet amidst the Brexit talks his flagship plans to stop offenders reoffending has been branded a flop. The aftermath from the Grenfell Tower blaze suggests a litany of errors and money-making....... the Government is blamed by many.........The heatwave in the UK is breaking many records and schools seem inflexible with their dress codes. The judiciary is still creating shameful decision-making as victims are failed by the system and many young people are being prescribed anti-depressants.

The current coach at UK soccer club Manchester City, Josep Guardiola, leveled serious accusations on Sunday against the supposed “authoritarian” character of the Spanish state and of its policies, which supposedly repress the rights and freedoms of the Catalan people. A HUGE police operation has targeted suspected drug traffickers in Mallorca.Some 193 agents, 75 from the mainland,swooped on addresses in Cala Ratjada, Manacor, Inca and Palma in the early hours of Wednesday morning......Seven people in Mallorca have reported to the Civil Guard that a group of foreign men filmed them using a drone while they were sunbathing naked on the deck of a yacht that was moored..... A woman from the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia who found a winning Christmas lottery ticket and cashed it in has been ordered to return her €320,580 winnings. Before Sunday’s French Open final in Paris, there was talk that Swiss tennis player Stanislas “Stan” Wawrinka – a man who lived for years in the very long shadow of his compatriot Roger Federer but who, at age 32 is now ranked at number three in the world, and has quietly become one of the game’s heavyweights – might just have the shots, the stamina and the resolve to beat Rafa Nadal. Twelve people have been confirmed dead and at least 50 injured after an inferno believed to have started when a fridge exploded ripped through a 27-storey west London tower block Tough new language tests have been blamed for the sharp drop in EU nurses arriving to work in the UK. Luccia Amerecco, 29, was allowed to leave HMP Peterborough for a consultation about getting her breasts enhanced and for a round of botox. An 80-year-old millionaire was trampled to death by a herd of cows while out walking in a picturesque countryside village field. Former Oxford don Brian Bellhouse, was killed in the idyllic Sussex village of Guestling while out walking.

Europe and London in particular is still reeling from the latest terrorist atrocity. A Spaniard who runs a bar in London’s Borough Market has become one of the heroes of Saturday’s terrorist attack after a video emerged ......More than two days after the London terror attack in which seven people died and at least 48 people were injured, the fate of 39-year-old Spaniard Ignacio Echevarría, a Madrid native living in London, remains unknown. .. Spain’s Banco Santander has bought the struggling Banco Popular for one euro ...... A new undersea data cable being laid out by Microsoft, Facebook and Telefónica to improve connections between users in the US and Europe will reach the Spanish coast on June 12. A 13-year-old boy lost both his legs from the tibia down on Sunday, after being run over by a Madrid Metro train on Line 1. LIONEL Messi’s charitable foundation has helped more than 1,600 Syrian children go back to school. In the UK the General Election had been halted briefly after the London outrage. With Polling Day now upon us it looks to be a very tight result with difficult times ahead. The Prime Minister said the three attacks in the past three months were not directly connected but were linked by the 'the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism'. Internet giants have been shamed by figures showing that 15 child sex offences are now committed online every day.The rise of almost a half in such crimes over just one year highlights how paedophiles are exploiting the web to target vulnerable youngsters,....... West Yorkshire Police have said more than 100 victims are being supported in Keighley and Bradford, where a gang led by Arif Chowdhury repeatedly raped a 13-year-old. A nurse who murdered two patients and poisoned 19 more at an NHS hospital received £779,000 in legal aid to defend himself......In contrast. four in ten health trusts are planning to slash the number of routine operations they fund in an attempt to save money, a think-tank warns today. Finally, a teacher who was suspended over her sultry selfies has quit her job despite pupils defending her social media posts.

A crash in its computer system forced British airline British Airways (BA) to cancel all flights on Saturday afternoon from the London airports of Heathrow and Gatwick, the largest airports in the country. The problem had started in the morning. First with delays have arrived then the total cancellation. The Spanish taxi sector went on strike on Tuesday to protest the advance of platforms such as Uber and Cabify. The strike was well supported in Madrid and Barcelona. Self-employed in Spain will pay eight euros more a month from June Police closed off part of nearby Marbella's Golden Mile where a hit-and-run driver crashed near a five-star hotel a couple of miles from the Ocean Club after fleeing the scene. He had driven into several pedestrians. Holidaymakers in Magaluf are said to be terrified by a gang of giant muggers who 'nearly asphyxiate' their victims while bear hugging them. Spanish police have arrested two suspects Fancy a holiday in an all-inclusive hotel at the foot of the beach and without paying a euro? It is the fantasy of some who rush to reserve their seaside destination this summer then making false claims for food poisoning. A practice that has cost almost 60 million euros to the hotel sector and has united businessmen from tourist areas as disparate as the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol. British Forces took to their official MOD twitter account to announce the arrival of HMS Torbay at Her Majesty's Naval Base in Gibraltar - where eyewitnesses reported increased security. With just a week to go before the UK decides the next government Theresa May seems to focus on Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn on populist measures. Apart from Nicola Sturgeon the others seem almost conspicuous by their absense! British Airways has been accused of profiting from passengers trapped by the global IT crash who went on to pay huge sums for expensive upgrades just to reach their destinations In a controversial move, EU officials have outlined a huge increase in spending, which they expect the UK to help fund despite voting to leave. While the official number of those claiming sickness benefits for obesity is 160,000, the true figure is likely to be more than five times higher at around 880,000, Professor Dame Carol Black has claimed. A disturbing film on the internet shows a blonde girl grabbing a brunette pupil's hair, pictured, before repeatedly punching her in the head and face at Fraserburgh Academy, Aberdeenshire. A young lad aged just 12 returned to his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester, after realising on the school run that he did not have his text books with him. He then hanged himself in his room.

Nineteen people were first confirmed dead and around 50 injured after a terrorist attack inside Manchester Arena at the end of a teen concert on Monday night Thanks to an EL PAÍS exclusive, citizens learned about the contents of a secret draft “rupture” or “disconnect” law being prepared by Catalan secessionist parties – Junts pel Sí and the anti-establishment CUP – to launch unilateral independence for the region. The President of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont , today sent the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, the letter in which he states that "the essential moment has arrived for the two governments to sit down at the table to discuss." In his letter, Puigdemont says that the government of the Generalitat has "the maximum will to seek a political solution agreed and agreed to meet the demand of the citizens of Catalonia to be able to decide their future." The Supreme Court has ruled that Argentinean soccer star Lionel Messi was responsible for three tax offences. The United Kingdom is not only Spain’s biggest investment destination and the country that provides it with the largest number of tourists; it is also the main customer of the Spanish defense industry. The cost of olive oil in supermarkets is set to soar in the coming months as droughts in the Mediterranean take their toll. A London-bound flight was plunged into chaos when a man was struck down by heat stroke just moments after the plane's air conditioning unit failed - but passengers were still charged £1.80 for a bottle of water. Parents in Rochdale, Manchester, were horrified to discover that all but two of the evil paedophiles were freed early after completing only a portion of their sentences A Daily Mail investigation has found the offensive content shows up in the Facebook news feeds of children as young as 13 after they reveal their insecurities online. Jill Wood, headteacher at Little London Primary School in Leeds, said she is scrapping SATs tests for 11-year-olds over concerns about their mental wellbeing and to ease pressure on them

Major Spanish firms among victims of massive global cyber attack. Authorities say steps taken to mitigate ransomware crisis in Spain but experts warn problem not over. Spain wants new rules for a complete overhaul of the euro zone..Madrid backs the reforms suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron., The traditional method of teaching English is being challenged in Catalonia..... 'Pope Francis has prayed over the graves of the two Portuguese children who he will canonise today in an open air mass in Fatima, nearly 100 years after their death in 1919. NHS computer systems and phones down after cyber attack NHS staff have claimed pop-up messages are appearing on screens saying the PC is 'under control' and they must pay a ransom to stop all the files being deleted Ministers call for 'EU border' in Africa to stem the flow of migrants but Labour makes NO promise to cut immigration in its manifesto.......and said the party would 'develop and implement fair immigration rulesJeremy Corbyn hijacks Theresa May's first EVER Facebook Live. .....;Theresa May revealed that she injects herself with insulin four or five times a day but urged fellow sufferers not to allow the illness to hold them back from doing what they want in life.....Patriotism could account for rising number of Christians. The proportion of people who identify themselves as Church of England worshippers has seen a small rise from 16.3 per cent in 2009 to 17.1 per cent in 2015