The Golden Fleece




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Summary: KING FELIPE VI OF SPAIN has turned 50 on Tuesday.As the monarch reached his half century, he presented 12-year-old daughter Crown Princess Leonor – who is first in line to the throne – with the Order of the Golden Fleece at The Royal Palace of Madrid.......The Order of the Golden Fleece dates back to 1430, when Duke of Burgundy Philip the Good founded it to commemorate his marriage to Princess Isabella of Portugal.While the future of Catalonia hangs in the political balaance there is other news. POLICE have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly starting a fire that gutted the frontage of a Carrefour store on the Costa del Sol. A 13-year-old boy was also questioned about the fire at the Malaga Alameda supermarket but cannot be charged because of his age...... POLICE in Spain have warned a British mother that she could face charges after her three-year-son went missing on the Costa Blanca. THREE people have died and one person has been left seriously injured in a crash involving four cars on the AP-7 Autopista de la Mediterrania in Spain. The accident happened just before midnight last Friday at km626.5 near Benissa heading in the direction of Alicante. It is understood after one vehicle stopped in the middle of the carriageway after suffering some sort of problem. The driver and occupant of a second car stopped to help the first. To most people, he is simply shameless. To others, he is just a worker who has been sick. There are even those who talk about him with mixed tones of admiration and envy.“He” is a government worker at the Alicante provincial authority, who has made media headlines after it emerged that was on sick leave for a total of 4,453 days between 2001 and 2016. In other words, he has been away from his post as a nursing assistant at the Doctor Esquerdo psychiatric hospital for 12 years out of 15, as revealed by a report drafted by the provincial authority. THE OLDEST man in the world, Francisco Nuñe, from Spain has died aged 113-years-old.Francisco, a supercentenarian, and who was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, passed away last Monday. Brexit. Brexit. Brexit! Baffled Brexiteers slammed the German ambassador today after he claimed Britain voted to quit the EU because it was obsessed with World War Two. Tory MP Henry Smith told MailOnline he had never heard anyone who campaigned for Brexit mention the war. Germany's outgoing ambassador Peter Ammon, who leaves his post in London this week, made the bizarre claim in a newspaper interview. Mr Ammon claimed Brexit was fuelled by the image of the British standing alone against the Nazis during the Second World War.Mr Ammon said the decision to leave the EU was 'a tragedy' – and warned that Britain had 'illusions' about what could be achieved in negotiations with Brussels..........as......... Nine demonstrators burst into the Blighty UK Cafe in North London on Saturday and told customers to boycott the place for ‘celebrating colonialism’ and called Britain's wartime leader 'a racist'..............and.........Furious locals have compared a headteacher at one of Britain's top primary schools to Adolf Hitler after she tried to ban young girls from wearing a hijab in class. Neena Lall, 50, banned the Islamic headscarf and fasting for pupils aged under eight who attend St Stephen's Primary in Newham, east London. New laws in Poland make it a criminal offence to suggest the country had anything to do with crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Polish lawmakers approved the bill on Friday, making it punishable by up to three years in jail to use suggestive statements like 'Polish death camps'. Poles have fought for years against the use of phrases which suggest Poland was at least partly responsible for the camps where millions of people, mostly Jews, were killed by Nazi Germany. Collapsed construction giant Carillion ran up huge debts and sold assets so it could keep paying out millions of pounds of dividends to shareholders.It paid out £376m between 2012 and 2016