The aim is to run the Barcelona Marathon on 16th March and the brave La Herradura ladies are; Laura Smith, Rose Lock, Sally Parkinson, Rachel Langley and Michelle Leach.
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Bomb Alert Hoaxer Arrested
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Policía Nacional arrested a 34-year-old woman for allegedly making a series of bomb-hoax calls from around the country.
Another Eviction Suicide
by Martin Myall •
The police accompanied by a court official gained entrance to a flat in order to carrying out an eviction only to find that the man had hanged himself.
The 800 Scam
by Martin Myall •
The Policía Nacional have swooped on a gang that had set up a scam which had netted 12,000 euros involving pay-as-you-go, mobile-phone, top ups.
Knuckles Rapped by Strasbourg
by Martin Myall •
Spain has been ordered to pay compensation to a bookshop owner in Barcelona, Pedro Varela, who was fined for selling pro-Nazi literature, as it “justified genocide.”
Hymns and Fumes
by Martin Myall •
In a church in Barcelona, 35 people suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Mayors Face Salary Cuts
by Martin Myall •
Thanks to a pending agreement between the two major political parties in Spain, 14 mayors of provincial capital cities could see their salaries reduced. At present the said mayors receive over 67,055 euros a year in salary, which is the salary of a Spanish Secretary of State.
Eulogio, The Antipode of the Banks
by Martin Myall •
In these times when we hear of banks in Spain, some even after being bailed out with taxpayers’ money, evicting families from their homes, it is reassuring to read about the case of Eulogio Carmona.
Heart Wrenching Solution
by Martin Myall •
The bodies of two men, an elderly father and his middle aged son with a severe handicap, were found in a cemetery in Sant Andreu, Barcelona with gunshot wounds.
Dismember The Cat
by Martin Myall •
The title sounds bad enough when you’re talking about a cat, but what if it’s an 11-year-old boy? And that, in fact, was the case, as ‘cat’ was the code word for the child victim of a kidnapping in Barcelona.