David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, with his low-key, down-to-earth visit to Granada, has shaken up both Spanish politics and provincial tourism.
Daily Archives: May 15, 2011
Rubbish Lorry is Rubbish
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According to the PP in Alhendín, municipal vehicles won’t pass their ITV’s owing to their lamentable state. They demand, for example, that the rubbish collection lorry should be taken off the road as its ITV certificate expired 3 months previously.
Functionaries and other Functions
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Meanwhile, over in Sevilla, two town-hall clerks were arrested for allegedly stealing from the building for the last twelve years. The Guardia Civil carried out a surprise search at the Town Hall and carted off the two clerks, whom, it is considered, might have accrued over a million euros… illicitly! *Gasp!* When the 20,000-strong population…
Policeman Injured
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A member of the Granada Policía Local was injured during a rescue operation to save a young Belgian woman who was trapped on a ledge after falling down a ravine in the Jesús del Valle area.
Lynching an Arsonist
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A group of inmates at the Granada provincial prison in Albolote tried to lynch a fellow inmate who was accused of starting a fire in the prison. Only the rapid intervention of the prison guards managed to save the victim, who is Moroccan.
Loud Mouth
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Thanks to the tendency of a criminal to boast of his exploits, an off-duty policeman was able to tip his colleagues off that a young male passenger on the same bus that he was travelling on was crowing about how he had stabbed and killed somebody.
The Evicted and Fallen
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A 56-year-old man, who had been evicted from his 4th-storey flat for non-payment of rent, fell to his death after he tried to regain access via an patio window.
Costly Phantom Calls
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Bernadino Román, a 70-year-old gent from Zubia (Granada) frequently suffers from insomnia, which is quite common in somebody his age, and like most with this tendency, he is a late-night/early morning TV spectator, when the growing number of TV channels offer little more than tarot card reading, porn, the odd film and mind- numbing televised competitions.
Crisis Attrition
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Since 2007 a stunning 5,000 businesses have gone down the drain in Granada – imagine how many have gone bust all over the country.