3 Oct, 2017 @ 23:18
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BREAKING: Catalan leader says region will declare independence within DAYS

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An independence rally in Catalonia

CATALAN leader Carles Puigedemont has said his region will declare independence from Spain in the next few days.

It comes after a bloody independence referendum saw more than 800 injured on Sunday.

Puigdemont said his government would ‘act at the end of this week or the beginning of next,’ in an interview with the BBC.

He said the referendum is valid and its result must be implemented.

Some 700,000 people took to Barcelona’s streets to protest against police violence during the banned independence referendum at the weekend.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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