A holidaymaker from Cordoba literally bumped into a package of hashish whilst out swimming off Punta de la Mona, La Herradura. The drugs; 40 kg of hashish pellets, were wrapped in raffia sacking.

The swimmer alerted the Guardia Civil via 062 and a patrol vehicle was dispatched from Almunecar.

And that’s about it. We could say that he had to fight off a giant octopus, two sea-water crocodiles and a voracious shoal of Mercandona shopping bags but you would know that we were making it up about the shopping bags – everybody knows that La Herradura Bay is the haunt of marauding El Dia shopping bags.

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)