A Different Catalonia

Many Catalans are fighting hard for the right to decide on whether to split from the rest of Spain. But what would an independent Catalonia actually look like? Volkswagen scandal: Seat admits manufacturing 700,000 cars with VW’s rigged engines......A cement mixer ploughed into a car in Madrid and police believe that the mixer’s handbrake was either released or was faulty. The 37-year-old victim was killed instantly”.......Gibraltar's priest Mark Miles is excelling as Pope's translator..... Richard Littlejohn asks, "How the hell did a country which stood alone against Hitler end up being frightened of causing 'offence' to anyone? Our pride in our national identity and our institutions has been corroded, almost certainly irrevocably, by our new, zealously enforced state religion of 'diversity'. RAF Sergeant Mark Prendeville, an aircraft engineer who has completed tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was taken to hospital in Margate after chemicals from a fire extinguisher got into his eyes during a training exercise. Sgt Prendeville was twice forced to move to another area after being informed: 'We've lots of cultures coming in.' All this happened at a hospital named after the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother — a fervent champion of the RAF — not far from the site of Kent's Battle of Britain airfields. Hungarian crime family who moved to Bolton and kept two women in their home as sex slaves are condemned as 'barbarians' and jailed for 17 years............Woman, 34, in Norwich at the centre of child abuse gang is jailed for life after orchestrating 'utterly depraved' sex parties where children were 'raffled off' to be assaulted “ Campaigners say controls should be extended to cover marketing to children up to the age of 16, which could, in theory, ban football pundit Gary Lineker from promoting Walkers crisps.” Size 8 model who was told to slim ‘down to the bone’ by major London agency launches petition calling for a new law to protect girls against pressure to be 'dangerously skinny'