City & Metropolitan

News from Granada city and its surroundings

Good Samaritan Priest

(Granada capital) The actions of a priest in Barcelona kicked off a donor chain involving six people, ending in Granada’s Virgen de las Nieves hospital. This is how it worked: the priest, for completely altruistic reasons donated a kidney to a man in a Barcelona hospital…

Not Nice Family

What about the family of bank robbers that tortured a petty drug dealer with a carpenter’s hammer? The accused, who the Public Prosecutor claims carried out robberies using extreme violence, allegedly shot the man after smashing his hands and feet.

Body Found

The body of the man from Zafarraya that was killed in an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada on the 20th of February (our March Front-Page Article) was finally located on the 18th of May, thanks to the Spring thaw.

The Mayor & The Dustbin Man

A judge has just decided that the Mayor of Otura (just south of the provincial capital) is not guilty of making death threats against a refuge collector, during a rubbish-collection strike in October of last year.

Kindergarten Hiccup

It was half nine in the morning and the kindergarten had just closed its doors and there was a girl of about one, sitting in a pushchair in a corridor, unattended. The teacher wondered whose child it could be and supposed that the mother had left her there a moment to speak with another teacher.

Ikea Granada 2012

Great news! Ikea should be opening its doors in Granada (Puliana) at the beginning of next year, just in time for the end of the world, according to the Mayan calendar!

Revealing Fire

The fire service was called to put out a fire in a flat, but whilst they were busy doing that, they couldn’t help noticing 171 marihuana plants…

Goodbye to Tobacco

No, this article is not about giving up smoking, but rather a highway robbery. Yes, we know that the price of cigarettes is outright highway robbery, but we mean a robbery carried out on lorry carrying tobacco.