Day: February 6, 2009

Well… how come nobody is defending Brown?

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(Jeremy Clarkson, is a famous car nut and journalist who presents one of the BBCs most popular shows, Top Gear, among other things, for those of you who don’t know.  ) J.C. is in the news for insulting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown “a one eyed Scottish idiot” while in Australia and compared him to the Australian PM. The controversial presenter compared Mr Brown to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, shortly after Mr Rudd had Continue reading Well… how come nobody is defending Brown?→

4 arrested for execution of animals and theft

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A police patrol was lurking around some cortijos last night in the Rambla de Belen after some denuncias that animals and tools had been disappearing from sheds and farms in the area, as well as the appearance of dead and mutilated animals in the area. Around dawn, the patrol spotted several youths on scooters with bulky packages who entered the area off the motorway, and upon seeing the police ran into an abandoned cortijo. The Continue reading 4 arrested for execution of animals and theft→

Planning Process to be online within 4 years

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Su Excelentisimo D. Francisco Ros Perán, La Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información (Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the Information Society; old Fran Ros is a chap with extra large business cards and who incidentally hails from Lorca, Murcia)  has announced, together with the public company “red.es” and the Ministry of Housing an ambitious project to put all planning processes online within 4 years. The Programa de Continue reading Planning Process to be online within 4 years→

Turismo promises to protect the Chiringuito (before admitting he can’t)

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The Minister for Tourism, Industry & Commerce of the Junta de Andalucia, Mr Luciano Alonso, stood up in the Regional Parliment yesterday to reply to concerns that the Junta is “anti” chiringuito (beach bars). He admitted that while many of them were disappearing from our coasts, they “were an integral part of singular form of tourism practised in Andalucia” and that Tuismo was determined to preserve them “within confines of the law, respect of the Continue reading Turismo promises to protect the Chiringuito (before admitting he can’t)→