English pensioners Roger and Susan Clarke have each been sentenced to eight years in jail at the Campus of Justice, Lisbon’s main criminal court, on drug smuggling charges.

A story that was first broken by The Leader, they were arrested on 4 December 2018 at Santa’s cruise terminal having arrived the Caribbean carrying more than 9 kilos of cocaine, worth in excess of £1 million.

Torrevieja steps up its war on mosquitoes and an offer of help from the Consul, Sarah-Jane Morris for flood hit Brits.

All this and much more in this week’s copy of the Leader Newspaper