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  1. In The Middle

    17.1.2009In The Middle

    Catalan versus Castilian. It has reared its head again, and this time it is someone involved with not only the promotion of tourism but also one of the more important airlines operating into and out of Palma.

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  2. Play With Fire

    15.1.2009Play With Fire

    It's Sant Antoni Eve, the night of the demons and the fires. They wouldn't get away with it in the UK. Fires in the streets of towns? You must be kidding.

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  3. Oranges And Lemons

    14.1.2009Oranges And Lemons

    It's the season for the sweet Balearic clementines and also for the fruit's litter louts. The lemon is the acid taste of the economy biting.

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  4. Even The Bad Times Are Good

    9.1.2009Even The Bad Times Are Good

    Demand for all-inclusive holidays is apparently up. Not surprising perhaps, given the tough economic circumstances.

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  5. Licence To Kill

    19.12.2008Licence To Kill

    The hotel Son Moll in Cala Ratjada collapsed killing four men on renovations. It is a shocking story because of the deaths, but it also exposes just what seems to happen when it comes to some building works

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  6. Suspicion Everywhere

    12.12.2008Suspicion Everywhere

    Corruption cases continue, with news breaking almost daily of something else, and now it is the local television station. Meanwhile, the situation at Real Mallorca football club just gets worse.

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  7. A Battle Ahead For Hotels' Redevelopments?

    7.12.2008A Battle Ahead For Hotels' Redevelopments?

    The hotels are to be allowed to get on with developments with the aid of financing and thanks to the removal of certain bureaucratic procedures. They are happy, but not everyone is.

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  8. Responsibility And Reality

    6.12.2008Responsibility And Reality

    Miquel Nadal, the tourism minister, wants the media to act responsibly in not talking down the 2009 tourism season. He has a point, but so does the media.

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  9. To The Rescue - Or Maybe Not

    4.12.2008To The Rescue - Or Maybe Not

    Social tourism is on its way, though it will not make much difference to Majorca's winter tourism. And meanwhile, the island's big football club is in ever deeper trouble

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  10. Mayors In The Dock

    1.12.2008Mayors In The Dock

    Twelve high-ranking officials and two civil servants from eleven municipalities across Majorca are implicated in a scandal related to false documentation centred on land in Ses Salines.

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  11. The Face

    28.11.2008The Face

    Rafael Nadal is set to be "the face" of Majorca's tourism. Good idea, but will it make any difference?

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  12. Looking For The Right Words

    24.11.2008Looking For The Right Words

    The newspaper "dBalears" is to give away a dictionary with its edition this coming Sunday. It will be a pocket Catalan-English dictionary. Useful, you might think, and you would probably be right.

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