Granada Inland

News from inland Granada: Alpujarra, Lecrin Valley,Alti-plano & Poniente

Breathtakingly Stupid

What do you do, if you’ve already lost all the points on you driving licence and are about to be pulled over by the traffic police? Deliberately attempt to run over the Guardia Civil policeman is one option, thought one 24-year-old driver.

Dolar Warehouse Blaze

Firemen took 24 hours to put out a chemical blaze in a recycling warehouse in Dólar, Guadix on Wednesday the 7th. Fortunately, the staff was on holiday and not due back until the 26th of the month.

Mountain Fire in Cañar

A huge catastrophe was narrowly avoided by the prompt action of the Infoca, fire fighters in Cañar, in the Alpujarra on the 2nd. As is the case in far too many forest or mountain brush fires, it appears that the fire was deliberately started.

Olive Tree Revenge

How would you like to wake up one morning and find that somebody has cut down 160 of your olive trees? That’s not a threat, by the way…

Comment Box Reactivated

After having run a separate news forum that was designed to allow our readers the possibility of commenting on and discussing news item posted here with other site users, we have decided to crop it down to just a cultural and club-news forum and at the same time, reactivate the comments box on all news…