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When the King of the Pride Lands needed to transport personal effects from Birmingham to Johannesburg he called on Anglo Pacific. Playing Simba in The Lion King, Nicholas Nkuna had nothing but praise.

There’s no denying that, thanks to its strategic geography, Gibraltar is treated to an array of interesting nautical passers-by. Latest guest, Richard Mayon-White, is in Marina Bay on final countdown to a rather unusual solo transatlantic crossing.

“We’re bringing the gastronomic delights of Central London’s street markets to suburbia,” says Neil Berry, proprietor of Cheam’s first gourmet artisan delicatessen and specialist off licence – ‘The Pantry’.

The average price per square metre of property sold by Mallorca and Ibiza Sotheby’s International Realty this year is 9,000 euros – a cool 7,600 pounds. This puts the Spanish islands into the same price bracket as parts of England’s capital.

When it comes to celebrities, who hasn’t holidayed in Ibiza this year? From Beyoncé to David Cameron, the Spanish island has been a revolving door for the stars. Daniel Chavarria Waschke, MD of Balearic Sotheby’s International Realty, knows why.

Unveiled to the MICE market at July’s ‘The Meetings Show UK’, Sunborn Gibraltar, the world’s first five star yacht hotel, attracted five million pounds worth of corporate enquiries in just five weeks.

Chris Mercer, Founder of eponymous Mercers, notches up three decades in Spanish property this autumn. Starting out in the Costa Blanca back in 1983, Chris now runs Murcia’s most respected multi award-winning estate agency.

The culmination of London’s Australian Football League (AFL) season was played out on 17 August at Motspur Park. Fielding teams in each of the division finals, Anglo Pacific-sponsored club, West London Wildcats, took victory in two out of three.

Murcia welcomed 342,054 foreign tourists in the first seven months of 2013, up 8.1% on the same period last year. 25,589 more visitors have so far selected the region for their holidays in 2013, with the French and British leading the charge.

Just six weeks after launch, Sloane Helicopters’ Ibiza-based heli sightseeing trips have been very much in demand. With enquiries from as far away as Brazil, it seems that the Spanish Island had a helicopter-shaped hole that needed filling.