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Polish family emigrate to Plymouth after seeing images on Google Street View
A Polish family has relocated to Plymouth after being impressed with the pictures they saw on Google Street View. Piotr Ladan and his family were preparing to move to the UK but were unsure of the exact location until they used Google’s images to choose a city. The family viewed pictures of Plymouth’s Armada Way and The Hoe - as well...
80% of overseas pension transfer requests fraudulent
Around 80 per cent of overseas pension transfer requests are fraudulent, according to new research from Aegon. The company has prevented roughly 80 per cent of transfers to Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QOPS) this year to date, after customers had unknowingly authorised them without realising they were fraudulent. QOPS...
Freddie Starr to emigrate to Spain
British comedian Freddie Starr is reportedly set to move to Spain after losing his libel case against a woman who alleges he groped her when she was a child. The 72-year-old, who suffers from a debilitating lung disease and requires a carer and a wheelchair, feels he needs a fresh start and that quitting the UK is the best option for him....
Mediterranean crisis: 500 migrants rescued off Libya
Twelve migrants died and around 500 were rescued off the coast of Libya on Thursday when their rubber dinghy sank, reported the Italian Coast Guard. Officials on the Coast Guard vessel Dattilo recovered bodies from the sea around 40 miles from Libya. They were able to rescue a further 106 people that had been on the same overcrowded...
Wealthy South Africans looking towards Malta
About 700 South Africans have applied for a ‘cash-for-passport’ initiative in Malta that has been described as one of citizenship planning group Henley & Partners’ most popular schemes. The agency’s vice-chairman Andrew Taylor admitted that although the Malta package was more expensive than ones offered in Antigua and Barbuda,...
EU: IS fighters on migrant boats
Smugglers’ boats transporting migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe are also carrying Islamic State members, according to the top prosecutor at the European Union. The EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust chief Michele Coninsx revealed that she was told of IS fighters travelling to Europe in such a way when working on...
One in four young Egyptian males want to quit country
More than a quarter of Egyptian males between the ages of 15 and 29 want to emigrate, according to a survey carried out last year and published on Tuesday. Some 25.8 per cent of respondents said that they would like to leave their homeland and seek opportunities elsewhere, compared to just 7.8 per cent of females, revealed the survey,...
Portuguese PM refutes claims he urged youth to emigrate
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho denies telling the nation’s youth to “look abroad” for work opportunities as the country struggles to deal with its worst economic recession in decades. With a deep economic recession and spiralling unemployment, the PM’s comments on emigration in recent times have attracted widespread...
Emigrate to Costa del Sol for Spain?s best golf courses
Would be emigrants looking to head to sunnier climes of Spain should head the Costa del Sol if they are golf enthusiasts after two of the region’s courses were voted the best in the country. The Golfers’ Choice list of the Iberian country’s top 50 courses ranked Sotogrande’s Real Club Valderrama in first place and Casares’s Finca...
Spanish association joins expat groups to fight property laws
A Spanish group has teamed up with two British lobbying associations to combat Spain’s property laws. AMA, an association consisting of Spanish homeowners in the town of Cantabria, has joined up with expat groups AUAN in Almeria and SOHA in the Axarquia in their fight to protect illegal properties being demolished after they were...
