A blue shark that swam to the shore of Benidorm’s Poniente beach last Thursday has died. The 2.5 metre female was spotted aground on Saturday afternoon (August 14) some 30 kilometres south at El Campello between Cala d’Enmig and Cala Coveta Fuma. It was a sad end for the shark that belongs to a species […]
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ALMOST 99% of the Valencian Community’s electricity could end up being generated by domestic solar panels according to a survey conducted by renewable energy firm, EDP. The company says the region has 2,800 hours of sunshine per year, which is a good reason for domestic panel installations to increase in the next few years. EDP
DESPITE the best efforts of regional and local authorities, the weekend’s scorching temperatures, vicious westerly winds and electrical storms conspired to trigger several forest fires in Castellon Province. By far the worst was registered in the outskirts of Azuebar (Alto Palancia), which forced the evacuation of the town’s entire population of 300 residents and was
A HEALTH expert in Spain said ‘were it not for the vaccination, the fifth wave would have been a massacre’. Ignacio López Goñi, a professor of microbiology at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, added that thanks to vaccinations both the infection fatality and hospitalisation rate in Spain had fallen. Goñi urged people to still
APPOINTMENTS are being scheduled for the over-12s in a bid to start vaccinations before the start of the school year. Over 12s, who make up 11% of the population, first began to receive the vaccine in Catalunya but now all regions have pledged to follow suit. The EU approved the Pfizer vaccine for over-12s in May
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A WOMAN has been detained by National Police agents after allegedly abandoning her 5-year-old autistic son at the hostel where they lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Police officers raced to the hostel in Bernardo de La Torre on August 7 after worried neighbors raised the alarm. At the scene, they discovered the 38-year-old woman arguing
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A man froze an emergency call centre computer by dialling in hundreds of bogus reports over a few days. He made over 600 calls from different mobile phones numbers in less than a week to the Policia Nacional centre’s emergency 091 number. The centre covers the whole of Alicante Province and ground to a halt
MURCIA logged record high temperatures yesterday(August 15) to beat figures recorded 27 years ago. The Alcantarilla Air Base hit 47 degrees Celsisus to overtake the previous 1994 record of 46.2 degrees. Murcia City got to 47 degrees, also surpassing the 1994 figure of 45.7 degrees. Coastal areas were substantially cooler with Cartagena reaching 35.3 degrees.
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STRONG winds in the Denia area yesterday(August 15) brought down trees and lifeguard watchchairs, resulting in two people being taken to hospital. The hurricane-style gusts of 80 kms an hour from the west started whipping up shortly after 6.30 pm. Cruz Roja staff on Denia beaches went into the sea to help people out of
AS PARTS of Andalucia reached unprecedented temperatures of over 47ºC, Costa Blanca South also suffered. Orihuela registered the highest temperature in the Vega Baja on Sunday, August 15, with 44.9ºC, closely followed by Redován (44.8ºC). Towns popular with expats also suffered, with Quesada reaching 36.9ºC and La Marina in San Fulgencio recording a high of
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