A Seville court has ordered a divorced couple of four children to take turns in occupying the family residence – the guard changing every six months.
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Cyclist Hit Twice
by Duncan Inglis •
In Málaga, a 50-year-old Romanian cyclist was peacefully riding his bike in the new bike lane when a red Seat Leon, driven by a youth, collided with him knocking him to the ground.
Drowned US Student
by Editor •
A 22-year-old American student from California was found at the bottom of Madrid’s Rio Manzanares. The lad had been missing a couple of days, with family and friends searching the area after he failed to appear after a night out – one discotheque doorman had turned him away because he claimed he was drunk. The…
Dopey Cops?
by Duncan Inglis •
An old refrain has it that the cops have the best dope, which the following news only serves to confirm: the chief anti-drug officer for the Guardia Civil in Malaga has been arrested for drug trafficking.
My Organ’s for Sale
by Duncan Inglis •
A man in the Huelva town of Isla Cristina is, besides camping outside of the town hall in petition for help to his unemployment problem, offering one of his kidneys for sale in the hopes of solving his economic woes.
Not One, But Three…
by Duncan Inglis •
A man who ran over three Guardia Civil agents near La Rabita is facing over ten years in prison and being sectioned (interned in a psychiatric ward). The chap, who suffers from Bi-polar Syndrome, claims of the incident, “I didn’t realise I had hit them with my car.”
Manufactured Education
by Duncan Inglis •
It’s bad enough that in Andalucia the educational system has been shown to be defective and deficient, producing sub-par scholars with sub-par results once the former enter the work force, but to discover, or rather, uncover a ring which offered diplomas for titles that the students never even studied for, well, the cake’s been taken and left out in the rain.
Radar Arson
by Editor •
A radar installation that is used to monitor seaborne drug trafficking has suffered its second arson attack, this time causing damage valued at a million euro.
The Junta and an Eye
by Editor •
The Junta de Andalucía has been sentenced to pay 131,000 euro in compensation to the family of a 6-year-old schoolboy who lost an eye at school.
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.