Arona police close "classic English pub" for illegal gambling

[Guanche]

Sounds like a typical DM reader who reads the first three words and becomes OUTRAGED!!!

[Delderek]

commercial centre in Avenida Londres, Los Cristianos, the dual carriageway that runs from El Mirador down past Victoria Court to the CC Bahia.

I personally can't place a CC on that road.

[Perikles]

both closures are part of a municipal offensive to avoid tourists being "unduly affected" by the "irregularities" caused by such crime. 

In other words, they were not paying backhanders. Does anybody believe this crap?

[Janet]

commercial centre in Avenida Londres, Los Cristianos, the dual carriageway that runs from El Mirador down past Victoria Court to the CC Bahia.

I personally can't place a CC on that road.

nor me, Del! Someone on my website says it's Dreamers ... 

[Delderek]

If it is, then the Police have got the geography wrong. Dreamers is just opposite the kids playground, behind the restaurant "Fados" probably a quarter mile away!

[Janet]

yes, and they claim they were open last night, and the police are adamant the bar they raided was closed ...

it's a misidentification, and perhaps Dreamers was raided, but not closed ... so two bars were done.

[Janet]

 The address is now being given as a "restaurant in the CC Joseba, paseo de Aquilino" in Los Cristianos. The bar seems not to have been closed, but police say they have stopped betting taking place and have identified six people, all British, involved in gambling at the time: five were tourists and one is said to be the person in charge of the betting activity. The bar's owner, also British, is reported as saying that he was not directly involved but turned a blind eye because it increased customers. Details, together with evidence seized (betting slips, an "odds board", and the like) have now been passed to the Canarian Government's Betting and Gambling Inspection department. JA