Archive for: May 19, 2012

In 2007 the Mayor of a Spanish town was murdered in Polop on the Costa Blanca.The first person arrested in connection with this killing has now been jailed for crimes he committed in 2006.He has been found guilty in an …

Out of a million Spanish people who have been vaccinated against swine flu recently,there have been 150 adverse reactions.In one case a pregnant woman miscarried .She was just three weeks pregnant.The statistics show that 15% of pregnant women do miscarry …

Eleven Spanish people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil from all over Spain in connection with a sport doping ring.Those arrested are nine men and two women from Valencia,Granada,Barcelona and Murcia.They are charged with crimes against public health related …

The Benidorm ( Costa Blanca) Councillor for Equality is urging people to purchase a calendar from the Marina Baixa Fire Department .They have 2000 calendars for sale in aid of the Self Help Group for Women with Breast Cancer ( …

An Alfaz del Pi school has donated over 300 pairs of shoes to an African charity”Shoes  for Africa”.The Parents Association of the school decided that this was a charity that they wanted to support after the promotion made by the …

An Alicante university lecturer has been subjected to two attacks and email threats from one of his students.The threats indicated that unless her marks enabled her to pass her exams then this teacher would be attacked.

These were ni idle threats …

Constant vigilance is the order of the day when it comes to drug trafficking and in Valencia the Guardia Civil and the Spanish Tax Office have managed to dismantle a drug network which was using a fishing boat to traffick …

An Alicante judge has made a very sane judgement about a charge brought against a tacher in an Alicante school.This is a problem in many European countries where teachers are criticised for losing control of the classromm environment on the …