A CAT used up one of its nine lives after falling 20 metres to the rocky ground at Benissa’s Pinets cove. The lucky feline is recovering well after getting treated at a local veterinary clinic. VET CHECK UP Emergency services received a call from bathers on Wednesday afternoon reporting that a cat had fallen into […]
AN ANIMAL protection organisation has written to Murcia’s acting president, Fernando Lopez Miras, asking him to stop a comedic bullfighting show featuring dwarf matadors. The event is scheduled to be held in Murcia City’s bullring on September 16. The Franz Weber foundation says there are precedents for regional governments to intervene and cited the Junta
A COMPANY in the Catalan province of Lleida is offering courses for people who want to go and fight in Ukraine against Russian forces. The training costs €700 and lasts five days, and is designed to prepare potential combatants for what they will encounter once on Ukrainian soil. According to a story in Spanish daily
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A SPANISH man is due to appear in court tomorrow over allegations he raped a little British girl ten times. Gibraltar Royal Police stated that Pedro Luis Garcia Vallejo, 25, from La Linea, had his initial hearing this morning and was remanded in custody. He has been charged with one count of Sexual Activity with
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THE AUTHORITIES in Tenerife are estimating that the forest fire that broke out on the Canary Island on August 15, and that razed 15,000 hectares of land, has caused €80 million worth of damage. Fortunately no lives were lost in the natural disaster. The fire is still burning on the island nearly two weeks later,
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THE GUARDIA CIVIL has busted a network of illegal water extractors in the Mazarron area after discovering 51 clandestine wells used to irrigate farmland. Operation Underwater was launched by the Guardia in March 2022 after a tip-off that farmers were breaking the law in the Rambla da Ramonete. 18 people have been identified for illegally
NARCO speedboats are being repurposed to bring hundreds of illegal immigrants to Spanish shores, with Almeria becoming ground zero. On Tuesday alone, 186 migrants were registered and checked over by a Red Cross centre in the Port of Almeria. They had arrived in eight separate groups, ranging from 12 to 40 individuals, on state-of-the-art speedboats
GOTA FRIA storms more typical of October and November will hit mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands this weekend. The early arrival of bad weather has been described as ‘historic and extraordinary’ by the Meteored weather site. It said that a ‘DANA known as a gota fria(cold drop) will be potentially serious and bring storms
A RETIRED Policia Nacional officer held his wife hostage in Alzira on Wednesday before shooting her dead and turning the gun on himself. The deceased woman named as Raquel Lorente, 58, had gone to her former home with one of her children from a previous relationship, a 27-year-old man, to pick up some clothes after
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