Vivienne Hughes

Helicopter Rescues in Valencia

Eight helicopters belonging to several entities rescued over 150 people, including a baby and several minors from rooftops and terraces, over a 6-hour period in Oliva, Pego, and surrounding areas.

Lift Accident Deaths

An incident involving a lift-mechanism failure took the lives of two eldely residents of a building in Vélez-Málaga and left four other people injured to varying degrees.

Costa Hotels Close for Winter

It’s strange that a coast that boasts over 300 days of sunshine a year with temperatures than never go below zero, more than half of its hotels close their doors at the end of the high season.

Eels Perish in Dry Guadalfeo

Between Friday evening and Saturday morning, a section of about two kilometres or Río Guadalfeo between Lobres and Salobreña dried up completely, causing the death of thousands of fish, including specimens of two protected species.

Beat a 3-Year Old

The Prosecutor’s Office  has recomended 27-years’ imprisonment for a man accused of threatening and raping his then-romantic partner (with whom he lived in a home in San Miguel de Salinas) and of beating her 3-year-old son.

AI Generated Naked-Images Verdict

A lawcourt in Sevilla has handed down the first guilty verdict for three men for using an AI application to manipulate images of several young women with whom they went to school, to obtain fake images of them naked.

Organic Waste Collection

Barrio San Miguel in Almuñécar will have a new, brown bin for organic waste collection, starting this coming Monday, which will join the selective waste collection bins already available in the area.