MATERNITY wards in the region have been alerted after a man disguised as a doctor attempted to snatch a new-born baby in a Valencia hospital last week. The middle-aged man was wearing a doctor’s white coat and approached the woman in the paediatric nursing room on the seventh floor of the Hospital Clinica. He said he needed to take the infant away for tests, but the mother was suspicious and pressed the...
ONE of Mexico’s biggest and fastest growing bar chains has chosen Valencia as the site for its first Spanish outlet. Cerveceria Chapultepec started in Guadalajara just four years ago and already has over 100 bars in its home country. Their selling point is a simple one – everything on sale costs the same, making it ideal for younger drinkers keeping an eye on their budget. The cost of the Valencia...
MEMBERS of the Sierra Golf Society based at the New Sierra course at Balsicas in Murcia handed over a 400 euro donation to the MABS San Javier cancer charity. The golfers popped over to the MABS charity shop in San Javier last Friday for the presentation, with the money going to help the organisation that provides support to cancer patients and their families. The San Javier group covers a large area from...
THE Torrevieja-based Cantabile ladies choir will be performing at La Siesta Church this Friday(February 21st), starting at 7.30 pm. The free event will include a collection in aid of the Baby House in Mozambique run by an ex-Torrevieja resident, Tracey Williams. Cantabile is a well established international choir which has been in existence for over two decades, and new members are always welcome at their...
A 55-year-old Spaniard has been arrested for running an indoor marijuana farm close to the local police station in Rafal, after reports of a strange smell in the area. Guardia Civil officers from Callosa de Segura raided the premises in the town in Operation “Nafal” and seized 400 plants and six kilos of marijuana that were ready to be sold. The man was bailed after a court...
SAT Animal Rescue last week opened its new charity shop in Los Montesinos on Calle Alejo Martínez, after spending a decade in the town at its previous location on Avenida del Mar. Los Montesinos mayor José Manuel Butrón(pictured-left) helped to cut the tape as the revamped shop takes its place in a network of six outlets across the south of the Costa Blanca from the first store opened in Guardamar in...
THE private company that runs Torrevieja Hospital and Elche´s Vinalopó Hospital says that waiting lists for operations at their facilities are far lower than the average for publicly-run hospitals across the Valencia region. Ribera Salud faces losing the contract to run health services in parts of the region in the autumn of 2021, with the Valencian government pledging to bring all health management...
GUARDAMAR stages its carnival parade this Saturday in a traditional curtain-raiser to the Lent season. It´s a colourful event that features a heady mixture of music, masks and fancy dress. Prizes will be offered for some of the best costumes, with the procession starting at 7.30 pm from Plaza Jaume II which will finish up at the square in front of the town hall. A children´s parade takes place on Sunday...
AN Icelandic man, who recently decided to take up running to lose weight, will take part in next month´s Elche Half-Marathon to raise money for the Elche Children´s Care Home. 22-year-old Ben del Grosso lives on the La Marina urbanisation, and only started running last September and got hooked, getting his first Half-Marathon under his belt just a few weeks ago. In a message to the Elche home, Ben...
AN Almoradi resident had a Saturday afternoon to forget when he slipped and fell into an irrigation ditch in the town. Almoradi firefighters and local police officers were called into the help the young man get out of the drain after he broke his left leg in the fall. The unidentified man was taken to the Vega Baja Hospital after initially being treated at the...