TWENTY-EIGHT people fled an aeroplane travelling from Casablanca (Morocco) to Turkey on Wednesday morning, after an apparently faked medical emergency forced the aircraft to make an unscheduled landing at Barcelona’s El Prat airport. The alarm was raised at around 4.30am, according to the Cadena SER radio network, and the flight operated by the Turkish airline […]
A MENTORING programme that teaches women ‘personal and professional skills’ is now entering its fourth cycle, Gibraltar’s Minister for Equality said. Marlene Dalli of the Ministry of Equality delivered the induction sessions with the latest group of 20 women before the start of the programme. “I am absolutely delighted that the Women’s Mentorship Programme continues
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A FAMILY of four from the Canary Island of Gran Canaria has died in a car accident while on holiday in Romania. According to the Canarias 7 news website, the tragic incident took place while the parents and sister of Alicia Rodríguez Rodríguez were visiting her on her Erasmus study year abroad in the European
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AN anonymous survey of children in Gibraltar secondary schools will try to find out how many of them vape and how often. Public Health Gibraltar will send the survey on electronic cigarettes to parents via email or as letters while schoolchildren can access it with a QR code. The government reassured in a statement that
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VALENCIAN Health Minister, Miguel Minguez, wants people to wear masks in certain situations to reduce hospital admissions at a traditionally busy time of the year. Minguez said it was not just down to protection against Covid-19 but also to stop a rise in respiratory viruses in the Valencian Community. The minister used an increase in
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THE emergency 112 phone line in the Valencian Community received 15,000 calls about animal welfare including pets and protected species in the first 10 months of 2022. Many of the reports over animal abuse and abandonment are passed on to the Guardia Civil’s environment unit, Seprona, or to local police forces and charities. 54% of
AROUND this time last year, the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus dashed the hopes of Spain’s bars and restaurants of any kind of return to post-pandemic Christmas business. Barring any unexpected surprises, this year should see those hopes finally become a reality. The ‘foodservice’ sector, which includes bars, restaurants, supermarkets selling prepared
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A disturbed young man has been arrested for the apparent murder of his own mother in Estepona after her body was found beaten and strangled on Tuesday. The son, 26, who is now under observation in a mental health hospital, was tracked down and detained while walking along the motorway to Malaga in a deranged
A MINI tornado has caused the death of 14 sheep in La Atalaya de Mijas. As confirmed yesterday, Tuesday December 6, by the City Council of Mijas, the rare weather phenomenon whipped up havoc on Monday evening in La Atalaya, inside the municipality of Mijas, causing a farm roof located in the area to collapse during
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Raucous Morocco fans took to the streets of the Costa del Sol last night in wildly rapturous celebrations after their dogged national team dumped Spain out of the World Cup in the second round. Towns up and down the coast were suddenly bursting with throngs, singing and cheering and blocking streets and letting off flares
