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Have you found Snoopy yet?

JIMENA Yesterday, Monday, we posted a picture of the firefighters' building just outside the main village. Snoopy is on there, as we can prove herewith. The idea was to get you, Dear JimenaPulse Reader, to move over to CampoPulse, as this one will be disappearing at the end of the month - that's Thursday! So if you haven't yet put CampoPulse into your Bookmarks /Favourites list, this is the time to do so. Note to advertisers: as from Friday, June 1, your ads will now be appearing exclusively on CampoPulse, which gives you better value for money as the readership increases considerably and your message spreads further. If you have any questions, please e-mail us, or comment below.

Where's Snoopy?

JIMENA Can you find Snoopy on this building? It appears the firefighters were bored one day last week and put up a Snoopy doll somewhere on this building. We'll give you the answer tomorrow, Tuesday. This is a trick so you come back to JimenaPulse again - even though it will soon be transmogrified (merged is a synonym) into CampoPulse because it gets to be boring and tiresome to duplicate items in both places. Have you put CampoPulse into your Favourite/bookmark yet?

What's the point of 'Today's Headlines'?

You don't get Today's Headlines on JimenaPulse, but some, if not most readers will know that it is a daily feature on CampoPulse. But what's the point? Aside from the obvious need to know (if you're interested, anyway) about what's going on in the country we have chosen to live in, there is another point that those who have been brought up in countries with an ostensibly free and objective press may never have experienced. Not all press (the word is Media nowadays, we believe) is as objective as that in the UK, where in any case, it has become less and less so since Prospero worked on Fleet Street. In Spain, after forty years of dictatorship, the press is still heavily influenced by party politics, and in some cases by a radical extremism that is always about to fall off the edge. So, in the corner on the Left, in various weights and conditions>>>

Spanish conversation classes start today - but why bother?

You know more than you think!

Why study Spanish? If you speak Spanish, you can communicate with almost 500 million people worldwide. If you want to travel, a little knowledge of Spanish will go a long way. If you want to do more than just say "¡Buenos días!" to your neighbour or the girl in the supermarket, you can increase your vocabulary and knowledge, string words together more easily, getting it at least partly right - by joining our Spanish Conversation Classes for as little as €10 per week! (Call Alberto on 685 298 820 for more information. There are a few places left, and anyway, you can join at any time.) But here are some more reasons to learn Spanish:>>>

News UpDates on CampoPulse

Some news items we posted in August, need updating, so here goes, with links to the original item:

• The Italian skysurfer who slammed into a wall in Tarifa on Sunday is still in the ICU but is out of danger and stabilized.
• Gibraltar removes all Nurofen Plus products from pharmacies on the Rock, after it was revealed in the UK that several other substances have been found in these packets and sabotage is suspected.
• National Police have closed the case of the Algeciras businessman who was killed in a home invasion with seven people under arrest.
• The Al Qaeda man arrested in La Linea in mid August was planning to poison water supplies at campsites and tourist resorts. He remains in custody.

And then there are several recent news items that might be of interest but that we don't have time to write a full report on: SEE CAMPOPULSE.

Campo de Gibraltar local elections: RESULTS ON CAMPOPULSE

On CampoPulse you will find all the results for the seven municipalities in the Campo de Gibraltar. The chart on the left gives an overall picture of the municipal elections nationwide, showing the number of councillors for each party throughout Spain. As can be gleaned, the Partido Popular swept in with landslide victories even in such Socialist strongholds as Jimena. In many cases, pacts, agreements or coalitions are being negotiated. We will be offering a municipality by municipality analysis as soon as we can.

OUR APOLOGIES FOR AN ABSENCE OF ITEMS TODAY

We hereby grovel, Dear Reader, in apologies and other such grovellings, but we have had a technical hitch all day with our connectivity. In other words, we have had Internet connectivity issues since early this morning and as it is now thirteen hours later we have decided to shut shop for the rest of the 24 hours and see if we can get back some of the sleep we lost with worry at siesta time. The tech gods willing, we will be back tomorrow as usual.

COMING SOON on CampoPulse!

We are preparing items on the electoral list for each of the Campo's seven municipalities. Given the variety and number of parties taking part in the ELECTIONS ON MAY 22, this is an arduous job that must be published correctly. Other news will be updated as soon as we have put aside earning a living. Watch this space...

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LOTS MORE LOCAL NEWS ON

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Have you missed anything on CampoPulse?

Here are just some of the items we posted on CampoPulse over the weekend and today: Area to get €60 million in official line of credit - US nuclear submarine stops off at Gibraltar - National Court annuls digital media canon - Young Artists hold exhibition of entries to NADFAS competition - Jimena Council prepares to move up - Did you remember to take the pill? - ¡Hasta la vuelta, amigos! - Moody's downgrades Spanish banks' ratings to Aa2 - La Línea demands repairs to beach front road and pavement - Spanish company held a contract to renew Libya's obsolete air-defense system - Six clubs impugn football 'strike' - It must be Sunday but are we supposed to laugh? - Various reminders about putting clocks forward - 'Pay back time for the IRA' - Gibraltar's first swine flu death - Fisherman falls 5m down cliff and is rescued - Madrid files complaint against electricity companies for lack of information and estimated billing - and there's much more. OVER 750,000 READERS KNOW WHERE TO FIND US Have you put CampoPulse on your Favourites/Bookmarks list yet?

What have you missed?

Above are just some of the illustrations we've used on CampoPulse recently and here are just some of the headlines posted over the last three days on CampoPulse: Family denounces disappearance of three babies in the 1970s; 'Greg Norman fails to acquire Valderrama Golf Club' says PR company; What (not) to do with a drunken sailor; Gibraltar link to missing La Línea baby?; Red palm weevil wreaks havoc; Tesorillo independence is closer and unstoppable; Madrid socialists choose transexual candidate; Six-star hotel gets initial appoval; "This machine gun is not mine" says alleged drug dealer; First criminal sentence for land grabbing; World Cup comes to Algeciras; Over €3.72 millions land in Tesorillo; Spanish Foreign Minister reaffirms commitment to Tripartite Forum - and there's a lot more: WE POSTED OVER 30 ITEMS IN THREE DAYS, and there's more to come...

Have you missed anything on CampoPulse?

LOTS MORE STUFF ON

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MORE JIMENA NEWS ON

What have you missed on CampoPulse?

Despite the fact that we are under the weather (having very carefully clambered out from being under the doctor) and the fact that we are sitting in a cold office that is on loan but is restricted in its heating, (only because we are still offline at our nice warm home for lack of phone-bill-paying funds) and despite the fact that there are children dragging tins all over the place and making one terriffic racket, we have nevertheless been able to bring you a whole lot of items on CampoPulse. These range from the hilarity of a Keystone Cops-type incident in San Roque to the more serious matter of merging gaming companies in Gibraltar; and from the Junta's decision to postpone an important environmental tax to ... well, see for yourself: CampoPulse.

How do you like our new look?

 

We like/want/need to hear your opinion, Dear Reader. As you know, we're undergoing some changes here and this is merely the beginning of several such that will be taking place during the new year. The same applies to our major partner site, CampoPulse, with which we expect to be able to merge entirely a little later on. PLEASE COMMENT BELOW! (P.S. Is there some reason we don't know about that we're not getting as many comments as usual? Please let us know - and those who do comment regularly, please write in to say how easy it is to comment ... it might help your more reluctant fellow readers.)

Pronouncing Spanish - start at the beginning (IS BACK IN PLACE!)

We know that many readers were following our series on CampoPulse that went through the Spanish alphabet with pronunciation aids and not a little humour. We are pleased to announce that the series is back in its place, and appearing daily on a computer near you. We have taken it up where we left off when we were so rudely interrupted by impecunity (a word you will find to mean penniless, which we still are as we are still offline). Back on November 11, we published the letter O, where we suggest you go to refresh your memory. Bet you can guess the letter illustrated by the image here...

What have you missed on CampoPulse?

These are just some of the headlines published on CampoPulse over the last couple of days: Marbella's Costa del Sol Hospital to start issuing 'shadow bills'; 12-year-old finds serious Firefox flaw; High speed chase catches alleged drug dealers; Caruana admits to problems with Forum talks; Guadiaro player among top 15 for Andalucía Valderrama Masters; The environment as political armament; Conspiracy theories rage over Paul the Psychic Octopus's death; 75% of countries perceived as corrupt; Campaign against tobacco smuggling brings both sides together; Spain collects €260 million from 'opaque' HSBC accounts in Switzerland; 28.55% unemployment in Andalucía; Algeciras film maker to show in New York's Big Screen Project; Government agrees to protect Tarifa's ancient walls; Casares uses golf cart to help elderly visit the cemetery. Did you miss something? Like our Start at the Beginning pronunciation feature?