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EXCL: Notorious Costa Blanca advisor leaves expats with fines and debt after failing to pass on tens of thousands in tax payments (opens the original)
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A COSTA Blanca gestor recently arrested for fraud has now been accused of failing to pass on thousands of euros in tax payments from expat clients. Multiple Brits living in the Alicante region have told The Olive Press they hired Matthew Smith, 42, to handle their property taxes after buying homes in the province – but were instead left with fines and debt to Spain’s tax office. Documents seen by this newspaper show that Smith failed on at least two occasions to pass part or all of the money on
EXCLUSIVE: ‘We stupidly waited too long’: The haunting final texts of American expat photographer among dozen foreigners dead in Almeria wildfire (opens the original)
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“IT’S right across the road. Road blocked in both directions. No fun at all,” the first message read. Then, more hopefully: “We’re out but there’s hardly anywhere to go. We stupidly waited too long.” And finally: “It’ll be OK if the wind doesn’t change direction, but the house…!” The trio of WhatsApps had arrived from American Ana Sims, 73, over a 20-minute period on the night of the deadliest wildfire in Andalucia’s history, killing 13, a dozen of them foreigners. Sent to her friend Lenox Napie
Spain heatwave warning: Heat dome to bring scorching 44C highs as wildfire fears flare once again (opens the original)
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SPAIN is bracing for another spell of extreme heat as firefighters across the country continue to battle devastating wildfires, with temperatures forecast to hit 44C this week. Meteorologists have warned a powerful ‘heat dome”‘is set to develop over the peninsula on Tuesday, trapping hot air beneath a strengthening high-pressure system and sending temperatures soaring once again. The weather pattern could pave the way for Spain’s fourth heatwave of the summer, although forecasters say it is stil
Madrid wildfire latest: Blaze raging near the capital now largest in Spain's history as almost 100,000 impacted by evacuation orders (opens the original)
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ONE of two devastating wildfires burning near Madrid since last week has become the largest in Spain’s recorded history, officials said. Nearly 100,000 people have been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors as one blaze tore through an unprecedented 50,000 hectares of farmland and forest in Avila province, southwest of the Spanish capital. A separate wildfire nearby has scorched around 27,000 hectares around San Martin de Valdeiglesias, in the southwest of the Madrid region, after three fire fron
More than 45,000 evacuated or told to stay indoors as officials warn Madrid fire is 'beyond firefighting capacity' (opens the original)
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MORE than 45,000 people have been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors as officials warn a massive wildfire near Madrid is ‘beyond firefighting capacity.‘ Madrid regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso said on Friday that several fire fronts west of the capital were proving too large for firefighters to bring under control, adding that the priority was now to ‘save lives.’ The Spanish government declared a national emergency – the first in the country’s history for a natural disaster, and only the
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