A Coin business wants to install more defibrillators and sponsor CPR training in the case of emergencies. Less than one in ten people survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to not enough people being trained in CPR, and not enough defibrillators. Mediterranean Homes owner Kelly Summerell said she wanted to improve the statistics and was in […]
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KING FELIPE has called for ‘greater visibility’ for young Spanish scientists with better support to develop their potential at home rather than having to abroad. The monarch, accompanied by his wife Queen Letizia, was speaking at Wednesday’s National Research Awards held at Alicante’s Casa Mediterraneo. The awards were first staged in 1982 and are Spain’s
THE world-famous Valencia Fallas started on Wednesday with the first daily afternoon burst of explosions called the Mascleta hitting the Plaza de Ayuntamiento. Valencia City Council announced the same day that a record €1.94 million will be spent on cleaning up the streets and collecting rubbish during the celebrations. That’s an 11.5% increase on the
THE Supreme Court locked up a man for two years who hit a woman so hard with a takeaway container he knocked out her front teeth. Anthony Gilbert, 47, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment after he locked her up in a home and took away her mobile phone to stop her calling for help. The
AN Alicante court has agreed to a temporary injunction to stop the resurrection of old plans to build an urbanisation in Lliber. The left-wing Compromis party in the municipality asked for the order to suspend a building permit and to pause any work, which currently involves finishing off connecting a water collector in the Muntanya
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AN Alicante province care home worker has been charged with fraud after racking up charges of over €6,000 on a bank card belonging to a deceased British resident. The nursing home in a Vega Baja region town has not been named but the 42-year-old female employee was arrested when ordered to visit the Guardia Civil
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The latest gadgets and gizmos in the tech sector have been on display at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Some of the highlights have included foldable phones and rollable screens, as well as other accessories such as smartwatches, tablets, and headsets. The event, which runs from Feb 27 to March 2, is
A violent Dutch fugitive who escaped from a court-ordered mental institution in June 2021 has been arrested in a Murcia City shopping centre. Sherwin W was on Europol’s list of most wanted refugees and was serving 66 months in prison in Nijmegen. He also received psychiatric treatment following his 2019 conviction on two counts of
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A serial shop robber operating in Valencia City has finally been jailed after notching up over 100 arrests. The 45-year-old Spaniard at one stage racked up 12 arrests in the same month but kept getting bailed. The Policia Nacional launched an investigation after a fresh wave of shop robberies in the downtown area of Valencia.
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Spain’s so-called ‘Golden Visas’ scheme comes under further fire as Russian nationals continued to be granted residency perfmits despite European Union sanctions being imposed on the country over the war in Ukraine. A Russian family was granted a citizen’s residency permit based on a real estate investment as recently as January 25, ten months after
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