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The Post
DRUNK DRIVER KILLS EXPAT COUPLE

By Alex Watkins
AN IRISH couple were run over and killed while they were crossing the N-332 road on Monday night.
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Luxury car theft gang clamped

Luxury car theft gang clamped

By Tom Cain
GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested 22 people in connection with the theft of luxury cars on the Costa Blanca and all over Spain.
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New ID office opens in Benidorm

New ID office opens in Benidorm

By Tom Cain
A NEW office dealing with Spanish identity cards (DNI) and passports has been opened on Benidorm’s Avenida Callosa d’En Sarrià in order to address the growing queues that are forming outside the National Police station.
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Zero tolerance on litter call

Zero tolerance on litter call

By Nuria Pérez
NEW proposals to clean up Orihuela Costa were agreed by Green party (Los Verdes) representatives and residents at a meeting held on Tuesday at Celtic Isle.
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Spain at Large

Spain mourns late PM

By J Garrigós
A STATE chapel of rest and funeral procession was held on Monday for Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spain’s second prime minister since the return of democracy, who died on Saturday at the age of 82.

Thousands visited the open-coffin chapel of rest at the Congreso de los Diputados main hall over the weekend. Among the visitors were the royal family, the PM, current cabinet ministers and former PMs. Adolfo Suárez was unable to attend due to his severe illness.

After a procession along the streets adjoining the parliament building, the coffin was taken to the former PM’s hometown of Ribadeo, Lugo, where the funeral took place.

It was the first funeral for a former PM since the end of Franco’s regime and the first time members of the Spanish military entered the Congreso de los Diputados since the failed coup d’état of February 1981.
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