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Velez Benaudalla Fete

The Arab Market will be situated in la Haza la Laguna Friday 29th 21:00 hrs: Inauguration of the IV Expo Nazarí 21:30 hrs. Parade with zancudos (performers on stilts) & Acrobats Show 22:00 hrs. Banda de Música concert Saturday 30th 10:30 hrs. Opening of day market and beginning of activity workshops in the children’s Rincon…

Postbox Peril

(Alpujarra) A couple in Cádiar were arrested for allegedly fraudulently obtaining 21,000 euros from five victims, thanks to personal information stolen from their letterbox.

Banks and Beds

(Granada capital) A 25-year-old man forced the main door of a bank and once inside, decided to bed down for the night next to the managers desk – fair!

East European Mugged & Stabbed

(Regional News) It might not be politically correct to say the obvious, but when you hear of a stabbing, involving an Eastern European, the said person isn’t normally on the receiving end.
Around eleven in the evening a 37-year-old Eastern-European man was forced into a stairwell in an apartment block along Calle Alfambra in Málaga by small swarthy chap with a knife. Once inside, two other men joined the aggressor; all three were described as being dark-skinned and short. They thought that it might be a good idea for him to hand over all his cash – he wasn’t too keen.

19 in Only 4!

(Regional News) A police helicopter captured a biker on camera who managed to knock up 19 driving infractions in only four minutes! Hey, gotta say, Guys, that my Mary would knock up 19 driving infractions before she even got the car out of the garage, which would take about four hours, admittedly, but that’s a different story.

Cuddly Phone Companies

(Granada, Vega) How many hard working, honourable people have witnessed their names being included on the non-payers blacklist, destroying their personal credit ratings? How many have found themselves on the black list for a pittance bill that they didn’t even know about or one that really didn’t correspond to reality? Too many, is the sad answer.

Religion, Schooling and Divorce

(Regional News) A provincial law court in Almeria has just ordered a state school to reinstate a Religion teacher, whom they had fired because she had married a divorced man from Germany.

Heart-Attack Lorry Driver

(Regional News) The worse place to have a heart attack is probably at the wheel of a juggernaut along the deadly bends of Despeñaperros. Thankfully, the driver managed, in his dying moments, to get the lorry off the road and parked, so as not to cause an accident.

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…