According to the PP in Alhendín, municipal vehicles won’t pass their ITV’s owing to their lamentable state. They demand, for example, that the rubbish collection lorry should be taken off the road as its ITV certificate expired 3 months previously.
City & Metropolitan
News from Granada city and its surroundings
Policeman Injured
by Editor •
A member of the Granada Policía Local was injured during a rescue operation to save a young Belgian woman who was trapped on a ledge after falling down a ravine in the Jesús del Valle area.
Lynching an Arsonist
by Editor •
A group of inmates at the Granada provincial prison in Albolote tried to lynch a fellow inmate who was accused of starting a fire in the prison. Only the rapid intervention of the prison guards managed to save the victim, who is Moroccan.
The Evicted and Fallen
by Editor •
A 56-year-old man, who had been evicted from his 4th-storey flat for non-payment of rent, fell to his death after he tried to regain access via an patio window.
Costly Phantom Calls
by Editor •
Bernadino Román, a 70-year-old gent from Zubia (Granada) frequently suffers from insomnia, which is quite common in somebody his age, and like most with this tendency, he is a late-night/early morning TV spectator, when the growing number of TV channels offer little more than tarot card reading, porn, the odd film and mind- numbing televised competitions.
Dumped Mutt Adopted
by Duncan Inglis •
Up in Granada’s Zaidín area, an abandoned pooch began to draw increasing attention from passersby, who couldn’t help noticing that Fido the fleabag wouldn’t leave a very defined zone by a road.
The Cost of Walking
by Duncan Inglis •
Ten years ago a senior citizen while out for a walk in the barrio, stepped into an unexpected hole in the sidewalk, fell, hurt himself, then got up and began proceedings against the Town Hall for 50,000 euros.
It Ain’t Academic
by Duncan Inglis •
A long-term professor up at Granada University has been charged with sexual aggression and abuse against his pregnant Russian girlfriend.
British Embassy April Newsletter
by Editor •
The monthly newsletter sent out by the British Embassy in Madrid, covering the Royal British Legion, unemployment benefit in Spain and many other points of interest
Frac Nabbed
by Editor •
A frac is the Spanish word for a coat with tails, as in ‘top hat and tails.’ It is also used to describe a debt collector, thanks to the uniform they use; an undertaker’s attire of yesteryear.