15 Jul, 2009 @ 00:00
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Pensioner fined for damp home

A VULNERABLE Ronda pensioner has been fined for keeping a damp house.

Leonor Francés is recovering from two cancer operations but the council still hit her with a 300 euro penalty – the same as her monthly pension.

The home suffers from severe dampness leading to the growth of mushrooms and the spread of a strong odour.

“I live with two relatives in my house, I am also ill and I don’t have an income to pay this. I have to eat,” said a tearful Sñr Francés.

She pleaded for the council to withdraw the fine and explained that, with help, she was more than willing to clean up.

The penalty will increase by an extra 300 euros every 15 days the problem persists.

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

1 Comment

  1. they should hold their heads in shame how about fining every mayor and their councills for all the pain and suffering they have caused to people who have had their lives ruined by corruption

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