The Motril municipal police managed to prevent a woman from jumping from a 1st-floor balcony. From that height there was a high risk of injury, at least.
Storm Victims Update
by Vivienne Hughes •
The heavy rains on the morning of Monday the 7th in the province of Granada, especially on the eastern Costa Tropical, have a final death toll of four.
A Death in Almuñécar
by Vivienne Hughes •
A young man of just 35 died of a heart attack in the early hours of Sunday the 6th of September.
Breast-feeding Mother Ejected
by Vivienne Hughes •
A woman from Jaén, who had been breast feeding her baby, was asked to leave from the Corral de Carbón cultural centre in Granada.
N-340 Road Maintenance
by Vivienne Hughes •
Road-maintenance crews have been cutting back the vegetation along the N-340 where it passes through Almuñécar.
Lethal Hailstones Kill Birds
by Vivienne Hughes •
You often hear about hailstones destroying crops and smashing windscreens but the recent storm in Albacete killed 200 flamingos. Some sources put the figure as 300.
Starved Mother to Death?
by Vivienne Hughes •
A man in Tenerife is charged with having let his own mother starve to death on her sick bed.
Car Plunges off N-340
by Vivienne Hughes •
A car left the main road and crashed down the Barranco de Enmedio, which is the bridge just before Urb. Alfa Mar coming from Taramay.
Vega Cross-Country Race
by Vivienne Hughes •
The annual Almuñécar cross-country race was held in the vega on the 11th of August and was won by Francisco Javier Parejo López, from the Club Bikila.
Almuñécar Aquarium Figures
by Vivienne Hughes •
Gone are the days when Almuñécar aquarium languished behind locked doors, in disrepair, because summer visitor figures healthy, to say the least.