ART thieves have stolen a Vincent van Gogh original from a museum in the Netherlands, seemingly taking advantage of the countries lockdown to perpetrate the audacious theft. The painting, “Parsonage Garden”, was in the Singer Laren Museum in the town of Laren which was closed to the public in common with all large public buildings in the country. The theft took place at around three in the morning on...
LIVERPOOL’S dreams of an unbeaten Premier League season were dashed at the weekend by the unlikely source of lowly Watford who were comfortable 3-0 winners at Vicarage Road. Watford are probably not the prettiest side in the division, but their physicality and heart are never in doubt and this proved the case against a nervous looking Liverpool. Although things were level at half time the Hornets had...
MANAGEMENT of the Marina Baixa Hospital in Vila Joiosa (Alicante) have reported the theft last week of 2,000 face masks and 500 half litre disinfectant bottles from a storage room on their premises. The theft came to light earlier this week and was reported once an inventory had been taken to determine the exact quantity stolen. A spokesman said that while the masks and disinfectant are essential tools...
A 48-year-old man has been arrested in Torrevieja (Alicante) after security cameras showed him attacking and robbing a female pensioner. The footage shows the man, who was wearing a top with the hood up, was waiting in the communal entrance of an apartment block as the 65-year-old woman enters it. He appears to go and hug her and pretend he knew her, but when the timer light went off he threw her to the...
THE Guardia Civil, in an operation with the Tax Agency and National Police, have broken up what they describe as a major criminal organisation dedicated to drug trafficking. 39 people were arrested in Alicante last week as a culmination of the two year operation including Colombian cartel bosses. The authorities have also seized around 1,000 kilos of cocaine and located five drug laboratories which have...
RADIO DJ and entertainer Dean Alexanda died of a heart attack last Thursday(February 20th) as he was getting ready to do an evening gig at San Miguel de Salinas, inland to Torrevieja, half an hour´s drive south of Alicante-Elche airport. Dean, aged 57, was the presenter of the Breakfast Show on BR2 operated by Quesada-based Big FM. He had worked on the station since coming to Spain four years ago, and...
Benidorm firefighters battled for hours to prevent a forest fire endangering one of the resort’s top visitor attractions earlier this week. Benidorm firefighters battled for hours to prevent a forest fire endangering one of the resort’s top visitor attractions earlier this week. The fire broke out on an elevated slope of the Sierra Gelada Mountain close to the boundary fence of the Aqualandia Water...
BRITISH travellers have topped Spain’s list of shame for the most unruly airline passengers. Figures released by the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency show there are more incidents involving Brits hit with fines for bad behaviour on board planes than any other nationality. The Madrid-based agency, responsible for fining problem passengers who have been identified by police at Spanish...
VINCENT Lambert was badly injured in a traffic accident in his native France 11 years ago while on the way to his work as a male nurse. He is now in a vegetative state in a Paris hospital bed, something doctors say he will never recover from. In a case that could have implication across Europe, his wife has appealed to the EU Human Rights Court to allow him to die by removing the food and hydration that...
TWO BRITISH men have been reported as missing after arriving on the Costa del Sol at the end of March. Father and son Daniel and Liam Poole from Burgess Hill in West Sussex, went to Malaga on March 31st and hired a grey Peugeot 308, but that has not been returned to the firm it was loaned from. Police in both Spain and the UK are liaising over their disappearance, which is said to be totally out of...