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In a Bit of a Flap

Being a student, he thought how cool it would be to have a photo of himself inside the giant opening and clambered in whilst coaxing his friend to take a few snaps. Unfortunately, while he was fannying around, he slipped and became completely jammed in the lower lippage area.

N (323) for Nostalgia

Here we are only just over a week away for the long-awaited A-7 inauguration and I’m going point out how nice the old roads are. No, I’ve not flipped my lid.

‘Saunamania’

The second best thing I have enjoyed since my return was revisiting the real Finnish sauna with a wood-fired stove and the scent from the leafy birch twigs called vihta, with which we Finns flagellate ourselves after having thrown water on the hot stones in the stove.

The New Spanish Law on Private Security 2014

The new law 5/2014 of the 4th of April on private security (in Spanish Ley 5/2014, de 4 de abril, de Seguridad Privada) will take effect on the 4th of June 2014 and is already generating a lot of criticism. It is an update of the law 23/1992 of the 30 of July regulating the usage of private security firms and the behaviour of their employees. This law has a very wide range of applications; covering private guards services (the guards that for example work in Banks and shopping malls), private detectives, alarm and video security systems companies, IT security firms and bodyguards.