The Councillor for Citizen Safety; i.e., the municipal police, for the Almería town of Huércal received a 8-month driving ban and a fine calculated at 4 months at six euros a day, after being stopped and found to be over the alcohol limit.
Tag Archive for andalusia
Priest Dies Saving Children
by Martin Myall •
Cádiz-born Father Pedro Manuel Salado died in Ecuador shortly after saving the lives of seven children, who had been swept into the sea by a freak wave, near Quinindé.
Dangerous Spud
by Martin Myall •
It used to be an underhand trick of greengrocers to sell you potatoes with a lot of dried mud clinging to them – you came to expect that, but what you wouldn’t expect is a hand grenade, which is precisely what one customer from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz) found in his bag of potatoes.
Illegal Phone Taps
by Martin Myall •
A man, who had already spent 18 months in prison, had his prison sentence revoked because the phone-tap evidence on which lead to his being found guilty was ruled ‘illegal.’
Misplaced Trust
by Martin Myall •
A British citizen in Almería was arrested, charged and found guilty of swindling a pensioner of his savings. The 22-year-old man obtained over 18,000 euros from the pensioner’s account using his victim’s banking book and password.
False Paedophile Hunt
by Martin Myall •
Three minors of some 12 years of age disappeared one day from school and created huge social alarm over a supposed paedophile when in reality they had simply skived off classes.
Reader’s Letter: Signposting Confusion
by Editor •
Leaving La Herradura on the 31/01/2011 en route to Málaga airport we nearly missed our flight because the signage to the airport is non-existent at the turn off to the new ring road
Builders Exploited?
by Martin Myall •
The IU (left-wing political formation) have denounced that builders working on the new junior school in Vélez Benaudalla are being exploited by the building company. Workers on the building site are being made to work 15-hour days, the IU claims.
Bishop Denounces Incitement to Fornicate in Classrooms
by Martin Myall •
The bishop’s stance is startling in itself but perhaps the headline is misleading: he’s not complaining that pupils are encouraged to fornicate whilst in their classrooms, but that what is imparted during their classes encourages them to fornicate in general.
Lethal 4X4
by Martin Myall •
A 36-year-old man appears to have deliberately mowed down his own sister, brother-in-law and 5-year-old niece with his 4X4 after a family argument. The sister suffered a broken leg and her husband was taken to hospital badly injured. The little girl was killed outright.