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TWO BRITISH POLICE officers have been sent to Magaluf in an attempt to deal with disorderly British tourists – and holidaymakers have already been spotted taking selfies with them.
Starting at 7am (5am GMT) every morning, the two officers – a man and a woman from the central West Midlands region – can be seen walking the deserted streets ofMagaluf, one of several notorious resorts in the Balearic Islands.
With them are four Spanish police officers.
These two British “bobbies” – both of whom speak Spanish, according to an AFP correspondent – began patrolling beaches in the area on Monday and will remain a week on Majorca before moving to San Antonio on the neighbouring island of Ibiza.
Sex and alcohol
Magaluf in Majorca attracts hundreds of thousands of British tourists each year, lured by the promise of easy sex and plentiful alcohol, while San Antonio also has a reputation for hedonism.
The two-week trial is aimed at helping the Spanish police in investigations where British citizens are involved whether as victims, witnesses or offenders, the West Midlands police force said.
Magaluf, where some 85 percent of holidaymakers are Britons or Irish nationals, made global headlines last year after a video showing a young woman performing oral sex on several men on the dance floor of a nightclub went viral.
Local authorities subsequently introduced new rules regulating pub crawls and have also banned “balconing” — jumping from one apartment balcony to another or into a swimming pool — after several deaths in recent years.
Spain already carries out international patrols in tourist areas in cooperation with police from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Morocco, according to the Guardia Civil.
Patrols
The joint patrols were initiated at a moment of tension between Britain and Spain over the question of jurisdiction in territorial waters around Gibraltar, which is claimed by both countries.
The latest spat erupted on Sunday when a Spanish customs vessel and helicopter chased suspected drug smugglers onto a beach in Gibraltar, in what London denounced as a “clear violation of of UK sovereignty”.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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Hard to beat a good bumblebee monitoring scheme workshop!
Well, I’m pleased to see the return of the Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee. Ireland just wasn’t the same without him. Long may he live!
That’s got to bee good news , I know I’m buzzing about it !
Great book tip for y’all – A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson. Fascinating creatures, and I didn’t pay bumblebees a blind bit of attention down the years. Goulson will amaze you with what we know about them and intrigue/frustrate you with what we don’t. A must read for anyone into nature.
Thanks Winston. Amazon says it’ll be delivered next week! Love bees! Recently got a hive of honey bees on our farm and they’re thriving.
bee-jesus
Well spotted by the lad in St Endas park. Most folks would have swatted it.
Swatted it? Don’t know which side their bread is buttered on those people. Wipe out humans – nature goes on, nay thrives. Wipe out bees – Goodnight Irene – planet earth would be basically Mars with oceans in a short space of time.
I swear that type has been flying around the gardens in my house the last 10 years, looks the same anyway.. Big b***tards
Actually Shirley the one I saw recently in Cavan with a pin pushed through it was quite tiny.
The buzz around town is that this is easily the oldest bee in Ireland!!!!!!
It’s amazing what you find if you actually go out and look, ‘extinct’ frogs, monkeys, birds, fish all just hiding in the undergrowth laughing. We’ve had this grey-a**ed bumble bee and lots of others for years and early Spring this year brought them out to gorge on Willow and Gorse.
The same cuckoo bee that was recently found by naturalists in an old Co. Cavan graveyard has now arrived in Dublin. I am sure that it has been there all along but we just didn’t notice it.
I’ve seen this bee in my garden
I spotted one the other day with a black body and pink arse !!
Ran over one of those with the lawn mower.
Isn’t it strange that every cuckoo bee, in the entire species, does the same thing? Invades the nest and kills the resident queen. You’d expect it from one or two rogues, but the whole lot of them?!
We have a nest of them in our garden.
Stunning creatures.
Awesomeness
BEADS???
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