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CHINESE cars will soon lona production line of be rolling off the BarceEbro EV-Motors after struck a deal with manufacturer they Chery Automobile. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, presided over official signing ceremony an with Chery's Omoda brandat the Zona Franca plant being produced there in the next few months. Chery is China's biggest car exporter with its Omoda 5 model being available in both petrol and electric versions. The deal makes it the first ufacturer in Europe and Chinese volume car manit will set up dealerships across the continent. The Zona Franca plant their operation closed was used by Nissan until ees will be hired as partin 2021 and former employof the new workforce.
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PAIN has pledged to make the entire country carbon neutral by 2050, and for this to happen cars are going to have to get greener. Its automotive plan focuses on the environmentally friendly electric and hybrid car industry and aims to make the technology cheaper, and easier to use and access across the Special incentives have country. out over the coming yearsbeen rolled to encourage the ownership of environmentally friendly vehicles, both private and commercial. By Dilip Kuner The Spanish government's €800 million fund for electric dies ended in December car subsi- This offers subsidies of up to €7,000 a new program, Moves 2023, but for electric cars, with an additional III, has been €2,000 launched. available if scrapping a gasoline or diesel car older than seven
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announced its intention to battery plants across build six EV three earmarked for the Europe, with Spain/Portugal/southern France area. In total, the government is granting €3.75 billion towards making electric and hybrid cars cheaper and diesel to buy by 2027. than petrol
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BORDER PLEDGE THE ongoing negotiations to secure a post-Brexit border deal for Gibraltar are likely to resume in July once the UK’s general election is settled. A change of government in the UK is expected to throw a spanner in the works as a new team of foreign office ministers will have to get their feet under the table in Whitehall. However, the mayor of La Linea, Juan Franco, said he had been ‘reassured’ that negotiations will be unaffected by a new British government in a meeting with Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. “The technical negotiating team of the British delegation is the same as it was when they began and will not change because of the elections,” Franco said. He went on to praise the ‘goodwill and understanding on all sides’ while adding ‘a treaty agreement is closer than might be apparent.’ The mayor acknowledged that the sticking points of the airport and the differing tax regimes between Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar remain, however. “Although we are still discussing the same issues, I saw progress and that there is understanding between the parties and what remains is to outline the solutions.” Picardo also conceded that as the negotiations nearer a deal they get trickier and he does not foresee a deal before the end of the summer.
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June 26th - July 9th 2024
GIBRALTAR’S Pride event took place in Casamates Square on Saturday with an all day long party that went on well into the night. The event, which featured song and dance performances, started at 10am and saw the participation of hundreds of people from both the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. This year’s Pride theme was ‘Unity in Diversity’ and an interactive Diversity Pride Wall helped to promote the theme. Attendees were invited to write a message in support of Pride or the LGBTQ+ community and place it on the heart featured on the wall. The wall will be set up at John Mackintosh Hall for the remainder of PRIDE month.
ROCK ’N’ ROLL MYSTERY Expat puts up giant €100,000 reward to find missing guitar once played by T-Rex legend Marc Bolan
AN eccentric expat millionaire is offering a €100,000 reward to anyone who can help him recover a legendary guitar that vanished during an acrimonious divorce. The 1966 Fender Precision Bass became part of the annals of rock’n’roll fame when the frontman of 70s glam-rock band, T-Rex, acquired it for their band. Singer Marc Bolan bought it for bassist Steve Currie from the famous Denmark Street guitar shop in London, in 1969. It went on to blast out some of the most iconic riffs of the era, from Ride a White Swan and Children of the Revolution all the way up to I Love to Boogie - one year before Bolan’s untimely death in a car crash in 1977. He was just two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Now the iconic slab of rock-star memorabilia, valued at up to €250,000, finds itself at the heart of
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a whistlestop marriage that ended almost as soon as it began. Its last known location is thought to be a storage warehouse on the Costa del Sol. The guitar disappeared from the secret storeroom of music industry impresario Jeremy Hartnell, 61, who made his fortune running scrap yards in the 1980s. He claims his estranged - and much younger - wife removed the tracking device he had planted on it and took it from his Estepona villa in 2021. The only clue to its whereabouts is a bank statement that shows a payment to a storage warehouse in nearby Marbella on April 27, 2021. The rare guitar - of which only 25 were made - came into his possession in 2008 when he managed to buy it from the late T-Rex percussionist Mickey Finn. It was his most treasured possession, he told the Olive Press, aside from his red 1965 Ford Thunderbird that once belonged to rockiconPrince. “It’s the most
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HEARTBROKEN: Hartnell is desperate to get his guitar back
incredible instrument with so much history,” explained Jeremy, who also owns a Bentley and an Aston Martin. “I’m desperate to get it back.” He also claimed it’s not the only item taken by his ex-wife, with a €15,000 Rolex and a diamond ring valued at €3,500 still missing. His efforts to recover the guitar have been hampered by the fact that police and even his own insurance company consider it a ‘domestic issue’. Meanwhile, his former Canadian bride wrote to him insisting ‘a wife cannot steal from her husband’. However, she told a divorce court in the Cayman Islands this month that she ‘did not have the guitar’, leaving its current whereabouts a mystery. Jeremy was 52-years-old when he first laid eyes on the then 31-year-old in England in 2016. “The first day I met her I went straight to the jeweller and got an engagement ring,” he told the Olive Press. “I mean, she was a cool girl. I thought she was very beautiful - especially in comparison to me. “I met her on a website called Millionaire
Match although she’s gonna tell you she met me on a site called ‘Vegan Dating’.” The couple got married in the Caymans the same year and afterwards jetted across the Atlantic to move into Jeremy’s sprawling villa near Estepona.
But the red flags were fluttering brightly from the get-go, he insisted. “I paid for this great big wedding, but out of 86 guests she didn’t have a single friend,” he commented. Then I realised - this girl can’t actually maintain a friendship.” The marriage started to get ‘really weird’ inside just a few months, according to Jeremy, after his bride filled their matrimonial bedroom with ‘wild cottontail bunny rabbits.’ Unable to stand the mess and smell, Jeremy moved into the spare bedroom. They soon spiralled into an acrimonious separation. And then things started to go really south. Torturous divorce proceedings were initiated in 2019 - still ongoing - while Brexit concerns prompted Jeremy to return to live in the Cayman Islands. Crucially, for the millionaire founder of Cockney Records, Jeremy was canny enough to insist upon ‘a prenup’ before he tied the knot. It means she has no legal entitlement to any of his possessions prior to their wedding - up to and including Bolan’s guitar. But it has not helped him recover the guitar thus far, prompting the announcement of the €100,000 reward. If you can help please email newsdesk@theolivepress.es