Locals put up fake jellyfish signs to ward off tourists in Mallorca

Protest group complain about ‘foreigners’ and ‘overcrowding’ on island favoured by British holidaymakers

Mallorca
More than 2.3 million Brits head to Mallorca each year
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Fake signs warning of jellyfish and cliff falls have been put up by locals on the island of Mallorca to deter unwanted tourists.

Other bogus signs “tell holidaymakers bays are closed to the public or that it takes two hours and 53 minutes to walk to a beach which is actually 100 yards away”, reported The Sun.

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Jamie Timson is the UK news editor, curating The Week UK's daily morning newsletter and setting the agenda for the day's news output. He was first a member of the team from 2015 to 2019, progressing from intern to senior staff writer, and then rejoined in September 2022. As a founding panellist on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast, he has discussed politics, foreign affairs and conspiracy theories, sometimes separately, sometimes all at once. In between working at The Week, Jamie was a senior press officer at the Department for Transport, with a penchant for crisis communications, working on Brexit, the response to Covid-19 and HS2, among others.