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Spain's Confused Picture

Mar 29, 2014
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Spanish news first.....The homeless in Spain is growing as the number of court-ordered expulsions reached 67,189 in 2013, according to judicial figures and street demonstrations against government’s education cuts have been infiltrated by far-left groups. There was a major alert when a message sent via Twitter by the 112 emergency service in the Canaries raised the alarm, with a report that a passenger plane had landed in the sea two miles off the coast of Gran Canaria. Just like the Spanish economy the top division in Spanish football, La Liga, is on its knees with debt yet Real Madrid and FC Barcelona remain two of the world's richest clubs. What's going on? In the UK 'What a farce': School under fire for high levels of absent teachers holds public meeting to discuss the issue…but the head fails to attend. Peter Maddocks, the head, failed to show up to the meeting - arranged following a petition by parents at Ysgol y Gader school in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales. The Metropolitan Police should take on one ethnic minority officer for every white recruit, says Hogan-Howe in new 50/50 recruitment drive iIn the wake of accusations that the Metropolitan Police is still ‘institutionally racist’, The Commissioner wants to change the predominantly white male make-up of the force. The BBC could be sued for £1 MILLION over the Jeremy Clarkson racism allegations. The presenter made a 'slope' remark on Top Gear Burma special Indian-born Somi Guha, 36, left, has instructed lawyers after Clarkson used the word 'slope' - a derogatory term for people of Asian descent. Ex-Ukip councillor and wife avoid jail for £25,000 benefit fraud. The Cllr Peter Lagoda and wife Maria, both 59, admitted giving Fenland District Council a false address in a bid to claim thousands in extra benefits. How do they get away with it?
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