A WORKER at a Malaga grocery store suffered a knife wound to his arm after a confrontation with a group of thugs outside his shop. The shopkeeper was stabbed twice after he confronted a group of thieves who robbed his store on 28 de Febrero on Friday evening (January 7). The emergency services were called out […]
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THOUSANDS of falsely-labelled Iberian ham shoulders have been seized in a probe over a €1 million food fraud. Seven meat firms are been investigated by the Guardia Civil in the Badajoz, Madrid, Murcia, and Salamanca areas of Spain. Ten people have been interviewed, and one arrested, over the bogus labelling of premium meat products. 29,000
A MAN has been jailed for raping a police officer at knifepoint after breaking into her home in Almeria while she slept following a terrifying stalking campaign. The 27-year-old was jailed for 23 years and ten months in prison for threatening a woman with a knife before raping her inside her apartment, located on the
A HAPLESS robber was caught red-handed after he hesitated running away from a raid – in order to pick up a coat. The dozy thief ran off with the coat filled with his loot during the haphazard robbery at a home in Fuengirola at around 4pm on Sunday (January 9). The 18-year-old was spotted scaling
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THE Valencian government will appeal against a landmark court ruling that awarded up to €49,180 each to 154 Alicante health workers who were short of PPE gear in the COVID-19 pandemic. As previously reported by the Olive Press, an Alicante court on Tuesday found in favour of the claim in Spain’s first pandemic compensation award.
THE Guardia Civil have found the motorist who travelled for 35 kilometres on the wrong carriageway of the AP-7 motorway on Sunday. A 75-year-old German woman from Oliva in Valencia Province is being investigated for reckless driving. A female passenger is also being investigated. A conviction for reckless driving attracts a prison sentence of between
TRAGEDY struck in the Murcia district of Beniajan this Wednesday when a man ran over his wife while reversing his car. The 75-year-old victim died instantly. The fatal accident happened in the driveway of a property on Calle Nieves Viudes. The man was backing out his vehicle which had an automatic gear system. He then
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THE POPULAR annual Medieval Market of Orihuela, planned for a February return after two years, has been cancelled. Due to the recent increase in Covid-19 cases throughout the Alicante province, the local council’s Department of Festivities decided to postpone the February 4th event altogether. A press release today, January 12th, lamented the cancellation, “due to
A Spanish drug trafficking gang has been arrested for exporting benzenoid pills to Morocco to make a narcotic called Karkubi. The Police Nacional detained the ring-leader in Lleida in Catalunya along with his main supplier in Alicante Province. Police impounded over 500,000 pills in what they described as one of the ‘largest-ever drug seizures in
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