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by **Jill Havern** 02.03.22 11:15

UK's most wanted woman Sarah Panitzke arrested in Spain

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Sarah Panitzke was arrested while walking her dogs in Santa Barbara, Tarragona, on Sunday

A fraudster dubbed the UK's most wanted woman has been arrested in Spain after nearly a decade on the run.
Sarah Panitzke, 47, disappeared in May 2013 while on trial over her part in laundering cash from a £1bn mobile phone tax scam.
She was arrested while walking her dogs in Santa Barbara, Tarragona, on Sunday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
Panitzke, originally from Fulford, York, was convicted and sentenced in her absence to eight years in jail.

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Simon York, from HM Revenue and Customs, said Panitzke had played a "pivotal role" in the scam, moving millions through offshore bank accounts.
She had been the subject of a number of "most wanted" appeals to find fugitives since she vanished.
The Spanish Guardia Civil said she was tracked down to a town near Barcelona in 2015, but she became aware of the police operation to arrest her, so disguised herself and managed to flee.
Last month, she was traced to the small town of Santa Barbara and put under surveillance until her arrest.
Extradition proceedings have started to bring her back to the UK, the NCA said.

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Extradition proceedings have begun to bring Panitzke back to the UK to serve her prison sentence

The agency's international deputy director Tom Dowdall said: "Sarah Panitzke has been on the run for almost nine years. Given the length of time, she might have thought we had stopped searching, but she remained on our radar.
"Joint working between UK law enforcement and our partners in Spain led to her being apprehended, and we will now seek her extradition back to the UK to serve her prison sentence.
"This should serve as a warning to others on our most wanted list - we will not rest until you are captured, no matter how long it takes."

by Guest 03.03.22 15:32

Titter ye not - many a true word spoken in jest.

I'm still on the Olive Press mailing list for news 'exclusives', haven't a clue why, I don't subscribe to the superhero comic so I can't read the reports.

Anyway, a couple of days ago I received this very report from the press-litigious Olive Press. I deleted it straight off the bat so this will have to do..

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by **PeterMac** 03.03.22 17:44

Jon Clarke and the Olive Press have an odd definition of what constitutes an "EXCLUSIVE"

On 7th February '22 Sur in English and the OP simultaneously published the same story about the visit of the King and Queen of the Netherlands to Ronda, and their visit to a local restaurant.
for Sur in English it was a normal news story.
For the OP it was was an EXCLUSIVE

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and in the OP

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Three days later, on Thursday 10th Jon Clarke re-published the same story, all over again, but this time under his OWN name, ALSO as an Exclusive.
A really really really Exclusive Exclusive.
[What is the superlative of exclusive ? Isn't it like the world "unique" and can have no comparative or superlative]

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for anyone who still has the will to live the wording of Clarke's article has taken a fairly normal account of a visit to a town , a stay in a hotel and a meal at a decent restaurant from one of his reporters, and turned it into Tabloid-ese.
Here is a taste, copied and pasted from the originals.

"IT was a usually busy Saturday night in one of Ronda’s most popular restaurants.
As the noise levels were shifting up a gear in came the middle-aged couple, who had booked via their hotel
Squeezed in among their fellow diners, they chose a typical range of local dishes before chatting and joking with the table next to them.
They put on no airs and graces and spoke a mixture of English and Spanish.
So, it came as a massive surprise for staff at Almocabar when they discovered the couple were the King and Queen of the Netherlands, no less."
From the original
"RONDA has had a royal visit.
The King and Queen of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander and Maxima, visited the iconic Andalucian town to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary over the weekend.
Like any normal couple, they booked themselves in for dinner at the restaurant Almocabar – and chatted and made jokes with their fellow diners, the Olive Press can reveal."
Fills the pages I suppose.
If Copying from someone else's paper is called churning, what is the word for copying from your OWN paper and claiming it as exclusive ?
And do you pay yourself a bonus for an exclusive ?

by **Jill Havern** 06.03.22 7:20

Another one to watch for an Exclusive...

Ascari race track in Ronda has new owners and management

The motorsport complex has been bought from its Dutch owner, Klaas Zwart, by two companies, one Argentinian and the other Swiss

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The Ascari race track, on the road between Ronda and Teba, has new owners. The new CEO, Jesús Gijón, has confirmed that two companies, one from Switzerland and the other from Argentina, have bought the motorsport facility from its Dutch creator, Klass Zwart.