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€240,000 in stamps ‘stolen’ from university

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A civil servant at the University of Almería has been charged with fraud after auditors found he had spent €240,000 supposedly buying stamps over the last twelve years. The public prosecutor alleges the man was handing in false invoices every fifteen days to justify taking money from petty cash. The invoices were not issued by the state postal service, Correos, but were never questioned by the University accountants. Alarm bells were rung after auditors spotted Continue reading €240,000 in stamps ‘stolen’ from university→

€240,000 in stamps ‘stolen’ from university

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A civil servant at the University of Almería has been charged with fraud after auditors found he had spent €240,000 supposedly buying stamps over the last twelve years. The public prosecutor alleges the man was handing in false invoices every fifteen days to justify taking money from petty cash. The invoices were not issued by the state postal service, Correos, but were never questioned by the University accountants. Alarm bells were rung after auditors spotted Continue reading €240,000 in stamps ‘stolen’ from university→

PSOE leader gets lost in the USA; much mockery follows

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Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish equivalent to Ed Miliband (goofy, quite irritating and not quite in control of his party) went to the States last weekend in an effort to build up his statesman image. Sadly, despite a love in with Madeleine Albright (he showed her his proposals for a “Spanish political recuperation and regeneration” – she asked who the hell he was and why he was following her around), a meeting with Christine Lagarde of Continue reading PSOE leader gets lost in the USA; much mockery follows→

Almeria Uni snuggles on up to the Ruskies

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Ignoring the current geopolitical situation, Almeria Uni has gone ahead and signed a cooperation and friendship agreement with a major Moscow education network. Rector of A.U. Pedro Molina and Valentina Komleva, Vice-President of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, RANEPA, signed the agreement yesterday in Almeria. The idea seems to be to send students off on jollies to each other universities. The Ruskies come here with their sun towels and the Continue reading Almeria Uni snuggles on up to the Ruskies→

Almeria University finds livestock drugs in baby food and develops a way to measure contamination levels

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Researchers from the University of Almeria have developed a system to analyse the amount of livestock drugs in babyfood preparations, and have been surprised at the findings of the new system. The quantities are very small, but in milk powder and in meat-based baby food, residues of drugs given to livestock were found, confirm the University. Antibiotics, such as tilmicosine, or antiparasitic drugs, such as levamisole, are given to livestock in order to avoid illness, Continue reading Almeria University finds livestock drugs in baby food and develops a way to measure contamination levels→