07/04/16

[Maik]

Panama Papers: Sarah Ferguson, Simon Cowell and Heather Mills among celebrities named in leak

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/06/panama-papers-sarah-ferguson-simon-cowell-and-heather-mills-amon/


Also Sir Mark Thatcher, Sir Nick Faldo, Andy Cole, Jackie Chan, Paul Burrell. As it says, mostly nothing actually illegal. More in The Guardian

[Maik]

Not sure how accurate this is but heard two cars were torched in Davgata on Tuesday night. 

[Maik]

Patrick the bear is freed into the wild after a year in human care

When he was found a year ago, Patrick weighed just three kilos and was weak. A year later, he’s a healthy young bear weighing 45 kilos that has learned to survive in nature.

http://www.amna.gr/english/article/13465/Patrick-the-bear-is-freed-into-the-wild-after-a-year-in-human-care

 

[Maik]

Emergency security patch for Flash Player due to be released later today, should fix a vulnerability that is being exploited.

[Maik]

Francis to visit Greece April 16 in flash show of solidarity with migrants

Pope Francis will make a flash visit to the Greek island of Lesbos next week alongside Orthodox Christian Patriarch Bartholomew in a joint ecumenical sign of solidarity with refugees facing deportation to Turkey under a new European Union agreement, the Vatican has announced.

Francis’ visit will be only the second by a pope to Greece, following John Paul II’s trip to Athens in 2001. That earlier trip was the first visit by a pontiff to the country, which is 98 percent Greek Orthodox, in more than 1,000 years.

In his visit, John Paul met with then Greek Orthodox Primate Christodoulos and apologized for Catholics’ historic mistreatment and violence against the Orthodox. The two also broke a long-standing taboo by praying together at a spot said to be where the apostle St. Paul preached to Athenian Christians.

Bartholomew is the symbolic leader of the various Orthodox churches, based in Istanbul. Francis previously visited the patriarch in Turkey in November 2014.

http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-visit-greece-april-16-flash-visit-solidarity-migrants

[Maik]

I was talking with 'someone in the trade' earlier and he's of the opinion that, should Britain exit the EU, moving items between the UK and Greece, e.g. for people moving one way or the other, could be a lot more difficult and a lot more expensive.

[TonyD]

Did they suggest why? It's difficult to see what would really change.
How much more difficult is it to move items from/to Albania, than from/to the UK at the moment?

[Maik]

Reckoned it has something to do with the paperwork and restrictions. Maybe something to do with the Schengen area?