While its successor
will have decided to ignore the occasion, The Entertainer, Spain's
first independent free English-language weekly newspaper, turns
thirty this Saturday. The first edition of the paper was published in
Mojácar back on April 4th 1985, following some sterling work on a
kitchen table. The small newspaper, started by Mike Connolly, soon
grew in size and popularity and, with investment and participation
from Lenox Napier, who still edits The Entertainer Online as a blog,
the paper grew to three weekly editions, covering the coast from
Gibraltar to Valencia. An ongoing court-case prohibits this historian
from saying what happened next, except that The Entertainer abruptly
changed its name and ownership around the Turn of the Century, to
become the Euro Weekly News.
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