European Hot Air

Spain is among Europe’s worst offenders when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Between 1990 and 2017, these increased by 51.7 million tons, the highest rise in absolute terms in the entire EU. The police operation ahead of the Champion’s League was the biggest ever put in place for a sporting event in Spain. More than 4,700 officers were due to participate, mostly from the National Police, along with their colleagues from the Civil Guard, the Madrid municipal police, fire and ambulance crews, and volunteers from the Red Cross. Spanish prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suicide of a woman after a sexually explicit video of her began circulating among her work colleagues. Chinese born Youtuber ReSet, real name Kenghua R, has been given his punishment for being at the centre of a video controversy this week after posting a video of feeding a homeless man a rancid filled with toothpaste on the streets of his home town of Barcelona. Two vans containing over 3,000kg of marijuana has been intercepted as it entered the port of La Bajadilla, Marbella. ..............The criminals were thought to be an organised group from Cueta. In the UK....Donald Trump landed on Monday …..Charles and Camilla escorted the US leader and the First Lady the short distance to the palace's west terrace where the Queen was waiting. Seven boats were stopped in the Channel by the Border Force and the RNLI and brought into Dover, Kent, while an eighth – carrying eight men – made it to Winchelsea beach in East Sussex. A transgender killer who asked to be moved to an all-female jail has been caught romping with another female. Two five-years old girls enjoying a trip to the beach on Britain's warmest weekend so far were blown half a mile out to sea on an inflatable swan, triggering a lifeboat rescue operation.