A THIEF with a penchant for stealing manhole covers to sell to scrapyards has been arrested in Elche. The 43-year-old man removed around 100 covers this year with a total value of around €40,000. The Elche Policia Local got several calls from people who spotted the man trying to prise away a cover with a […]
Giuseppe Savoldi may not be a name that many football fans can quickly recall. The Italian earned the nickname “Mister Two Billion” during the mid-seventies. This was a direct reference to the fee that Serie A club Napoli paid for him – two billion Italian Lira. That roughly equates to 1,033,000 Euros in today’s money.
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EXTREME high and low temperatures are causing fewer deaths in Spain compared to 40 years ago due to more air conditioning and heating units being installed in homes. A study shows that the country’s socio-economic development has done much more to reduce mortality, especially that caused by high temperatures, than other measures like heatwave warning
THREE British men have been arrested in Benidorm by the Policia Nacional for running a drugs delivery service to the city’s bars, hotels, and restaurants. Narcotics were transported ‘on demand’ to customer locations by an electric scooter. The British nationals- aged between 30 and 57- touted for clients at hospitality areas and offered them cut-price
FIGURES released on Tuesday by Spain’s National Institute of Statistics(INE) showed that 4,227 people took their own lives in 2022, compared to 4,003 in 2021. Last year’s total went up by 5.6% but the worrying trend is that suicides rose by 19.4% in the five-year period between 2018 and 2022- working out last year at
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SPAIN’S autumn 2023(September 1 to November 30) was the second-hottest in the modern era- beaten only by last year’s fall season. The State Meteorological Agency(Aemet) said that the autumn just gone was extremely warm, with an average temperature in mainland Spain of 16.3°- 1.9° above normal and just a tenth lower than autumn 2022. In
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RADIOACTIVITY has made water in one Malaga village ‘unfit for human consumption’ leading to a ‘state of emergency’ in the local council. Emergency works are underway to deliver water to Maro Photo: Ayuntamiento de Nerja The Junta’s Ministry of Health declared the water ‘unfit for human consumption’ last Friday, December 15. It comes after Aguas
THE GUARDIA CIVIL has seized 10,696 toys from six shops in Manises for failing to follow European Union safety marking rules. The Christmas campaign raids in the Valencia province town also resulted in two people being investigated for selling fake branded goods. Seven stores were visited and all bar one were found to be breaking
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EXPERTS are looking into a power cut that left Gibraltar’s World Trade Centre, upmarket Marina Bay and the two housing estates of Laguna and Glacis in the dark for over two hours. Engineers said the outage was a result of damage to a high voltage cable between Landport and Laguna Estate in the British overseas
A TOTAL of 3,760 people in Spain died from Covid-19 in the first six months of 2023, which is 82% fewer than in the same period of the previous year. According to the national statistics office’s (INE) report on deaths, there were a total of 221,462 deaths from all causes, 14,245 fewer than in the
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