Build a Bridge!
Aug 07, 2019
Episode description
The Spanish rescue ship Open Arms has called for a safe port to dock after rescuing more than 120 migrants at sea, including two
children and nine-month-old twins. …........seven months ago, the Spanish government banned the NGO Proactiva Open Arms from
completing rescue missions in the central Mediterranean Sea, on the basis that the Open Armsship was not equipped to carry out
long journeys.
With the bitter taste of the Pamplona “wolfpack” case still in the air, fresh arrests have been made in a similar case in the town of
Ertzaintza, Bilbao in Northern Spain. The Local Police of Ertzaintza arrested six men in connection with the multiple sexual assault of
an 18-year-old girl in a municipal park of Etxebarria.
THE viral video of a shop employee dumping a fridge over a ravine in the Los Filabres hills has landed the man with a court
appearance and a possible prison sentence and hefty fine. The online video went viral last week of the man hurling
A GERMAN tourist aged 19 was charged with attempting to drown a police officer in Palma de Mallorca. Police detained him after he
was spotted at 5am in the morning, stealing items that other people had left at the water’s edge on the beach.
A NEW series aired in the UK on Channel 5 has highlighted a change in the demographic that are frequenting Benidorm on holiday.
The series followed older people that are shown drinking to excess and “growing old disgracefully”.
In the UK.......The Conservatives are trying to get the Brexit Party to stand aside and let Them win ….........Farage et al say they
have not delivered Brexit and don't trust them to do so after the antics of the Conservatives in Parliament............
A woman who claims she was conceived by child rape wants to use her own DNA to bring her father to justice in a 'victimless
prosecution'. The complainant says mother was just 13 when a family friend raped in the 1970s. She said her birth is proof of a child
rape and wants a DNA test carried out to use as evidence against her father. However, the police have said 'the law does not
recognise her as a victim in these circumstances'.
An 'aggressive' killer who murdered his pregnant daughter's husband is being hunted by police after escaping from a hospital's
psychiatric ward.
A building society boss has been jailed for stealing £180,000 and shamelessly raiding a dead customer's savings. Claire Free, 47,
ordered her junior staff at Cardiff-based Principality Building Society to move funds into her personal account, claiming it was her
bonus.
A leading £13,650-a-year private school has been forced to pay a teacher £60,000 after he was forced to quit for reprimanding a
pupil after she handed her work in late. Daniel Goodey had been pushed out of his job at the prestigious Dundee High when he
refused to apologise to a girl who had been late handing in an assignment.
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