Plumbing 101

Why build it there?
Re Leonard Pitts Jr.’s July 21 column, A mosque built on our principles: Pitts says that I oppose building a mosque near Ground Zero in New York and “condemned” its supporters. Pitts wrote, “The rabbi still demands New York tells them No. In doing so, he blithely legitimizes the idea that tribe is destiny, that you and I are each individually answerable for the crimes of those who merely look …

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Spanish property: ‘There’s a lot of over-priced rubbish out there’
Despite a huge glut of property on the Spanish market, there are few real bargains to be had. And even fewer good investments Torrevieja is the Spanish resort that exploded in size as Brits snapped up apartments and villas as frenetically as the developers knocked them out. But the town dubbed the Costa del Yorkshire is now better known to the Spanish banks as the home of the “British plumber …

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Should I anticipate problems with the plumbing etc because no one has been living there?