The craft beached rapidly and the occupants raced for cover in the rocks – but this wasn’t D-Day 1944 but a jet-ski landing on Calahonda beach with four occupants.
Hit The Beach
by Hugh MacArthur •
East Coast
Costa Tropical east of Motril
Playa de La Rijana Rescue
by Vivienne Hughes •
A 27-year-old man had to be rescued after he got into trouble and was unable to return from a swim out to a large rock off this Castell de Ferro beach.
Fatal Heart Attack in Carchuna
by Martin Myall •
Yesterday’s incident on Playa de La Rijana was not the only beach incident lately as there was a heart-attack victim on Playa de la Perla in Carchuna on Sunday.
Failed Launching
by Hugh MacArthur •
Two men were arrested trying to unload and lauch a brand-new, high-speed, RIB, destined for running drugs from coast to coast.
Gualchos Hill Fire
by Vivienne Hughes •
The Junta deactivated the Level One alert for the hill fire above Gualchos on Saturday evening as the work to extinguish it was going well.
Police Praise Citizen Help
by Vivienne Hughes •
The Guardia Civil have praised the beach users who helped trap two drug runners on Playa Melicena as they tried to elude capture by the police.
Arrested for Sexual Aggression
by Vivienne Hughes •
A 22-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Saturday, accused of committing an act of sexual agression against a woman of his same age in Carchuna.
Narcos Nabbed by Bathers
by Martin Myall •
A Guardia Civil launch cornered and chased a narco launch onto a beach in Melicena and one of the drug runners was brought down by bathers on the beach.
Thieves Target Lifeguard Post
by Martin Myall •
Never has there been a more justified use of the rhetorical question, “is nothing sacred?” in the long history of the Seaside Gazette than over this break in.
Castell Chiringuito Break-In
by Vivienne Hughes •
An 18-year-old man was arrested, accused of breaking and entering a chiringuito on the playa de Castell de Ferro late last month.