Archive for July, 2008
The Design of the New Albox Bridge
This is a photograph of the architects drawing for the new Albox bridge that is currently undergoing construction across the Rambla. The bridge is what is known as a single pylon cable-stayed harp design and not a suspension bridge as it may appear at first glance. It will surely make a dramatic and imposing sight once completed and be a superb and practical addition to the town of Albox.
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New Emegency Number for Albox
The Albox ayuntamiento has announced the new emegency number for the town. It is 092. This simple and easy to remember number will provide a direct link to the police.
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BOB PRESTON’S AUAN ADMIT TO GETTING IT WRONG
In what must be one of the most convoluted admissions in history, the AUAN have had to publicly retract and amend one of their latest website articles. Using their usual scandalous terminology Bob Preston and the AUAN have tried to put a negative spin on the latest good news for Albox. It is clear Bob Preston and his pals in the AUAN do not understand what is going on and that they are misleading people. The AUAN refer to the PGOU for Albox as “Ground Zero”. To all those who have paid their membership fees to the AUAN, I would ask that you go to the Google search and type in “Ground Zero”, check the results and images, and then ask yourself is their attempt at headline grabbing something that you want to be associated with. In this writer’s opinion, if you do, you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. Whoever wrote this piece for the AUAN is not only wretched but also a blight on the ex-Pat community.
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Bob Preston and the AUAN Take Their Poison to Zurgena
“My name is Bob Preston and I am the president of a non Political organisation called Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No (the AUAN). Our organisation is made up of over 300 ordinary men and women from the Almanzora Valley who have come to realise
our homes are ‘ illegal ’ because they were built in breach of the urban planning regulations. We found that our life savings have been spent, in good faith, on a nightmare rather than a dream……………..”
Sound familiar? It should do it is exactly the same vitriol that Bob Preston gave in his speech at Mojacar only a month or so ago http://www.portalmanzora.es/a/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5746 and in his earlier Albox speeches. Just change the name of Zurgena for that of Albox and you get the idea.
While it would seem that Bob Preston has, thankfully, been made to moderate his anti Spanish rhetoric. I suspect that this was enforced on him by the negative press he and the AUAN have received coupled with the reaction of the majority of decent ex Pats including most of his membership. Remember the anti-masonic scandal at the start of the year, his xenophobic anti Spanish letters, ineloquent postings and threatening emails, that almost brought the AUAN to its knees and had its members leaving in their droves.
But it would appear that he has a new stomping ground, Zurgena. To those in the Zurgena council, especially Councillor Simpson, I would ask what do you hope to gain by involving this man and his association of disgruntled and angry English members. Look at what they have done to Albox, remember this is a man who has openly stated that you cannot trust the Spanish that they are thieves and liars and bragged that he had stopped, almost single handedly, the inward investment to the area.
This speech is exactly what he has used on a number of different occasions to bring discontent and economic decline to Albox. Do not allow him and his cabal to do the same to Zurgena. In eighteen months plus he and his association have acheived nothing positive for Albox. He creates fear and discontent amongst the expats and is dispised by the local Spanish community. His scaremongering tactics only serve to fill the coffers of the AUAN with membership fees. Do not allow him and his gang to destroy your future and that of your town.
He clearly thinks so little of Zurgena that he hasnt even bothered to write a new speech. The same old crap will suffice. Let’s face it, it has worked for him before. But remember the old adage, “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”. To the council of Zurgena, its expat community and Jim Simpson in paticular please take note, you cannot say that you have not been warned. You are courting disaster by allowing this man and his cronies into your town
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