Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
...uplifting news for the people of Gibraltar, who are currently subject to a lockdown which began a week and a half ago. An 89-year-old woman recovered completely from the virus and was able to return to her home. The government and medical authorities are
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An 82-year-old woman is the fifth person with coronavirus to die in the province of Malaga (the seventh in Andalucía), the regional ministry of Health confirmed on Monday. She had underlying health conditions. The four people who had previously
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Eugenio Cabezas
A 39-year-old French woman who was arrested on Saturday evening in Torre del Mar after running over her partner has been released on bail after admitting to her actions, SUR has learned. The incident happened in the garage of a block of flats on ... Calle Ribera, near the town's bus station at around 9pm on Saturday. The couple had been out drinking and the woman tested positive and was five times over the legal alcohol limit when officers breathalysed her. Her partner, 40, also French, was left ... in a coma in the intensive care unit at Carlos Haya hospital in Malaga. He was initially taken to the Axarquía hospital in Torre del Mar, but later transferred to Malaga due to the gravity of his injuries. The woman, who claims she remembers
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A man has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse and a woman for assault after an incident in Malaga city last week. The woman, 52, had asked the builder to go to her home as she needed some work doing to the bathroom. Once there, she attacked him ... with a chair leg for allegedly sexually abusing her adolescent niece, she later told officers. A police patrol in the neighbourhood, answering a call from a woman in the apartment where the incident took place, stopped first to assist the injured man, ... 53, who was on a bench in the street. He told officers that he had been mugged and was taken to hospital. Meanwhile at the apartment, the woman told police she had attacked the man. She said she had invented the story of needing work doing when her
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A Local Police officer who saved the life of an 81-year-old British man when he suffered a heart attack in Torrox town centre in December 2018, came to the rescue of a 65-year-old Danish woman also having a heart attack last Sunday. The woman ... asked for help when she was unable to breathe, and a neighbour called the emergency services. Alejandro Ortiz and his colleague Román Eloy were the first to arrive at the woman's house in the Peñoncillo area of Torrox where they performed CPR until
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Four Guardia Civil officers who were the first to search the house that the missing Romanian woman Dana Leonte shared with her partner Sergio Ruiz, told the court last Friday that traces of her blood could have been removed with bleach by Ruiz after
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June 2017. Echeverría was hailed the "skate board hero" after trying to save a woman who was being stabbed by one of the terrorists. Tragically Ignacio was killed during the attack. Ignacio's parents, Joaquín and Ana, unveiled a plaque bearing their
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79-year-old woman's flat a year ago. On that occasion, the woman's curtains prevented any casualties. Initial investigations point towards the use of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
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Nerja Cultural Centre, Calle Granada More information. www.theartssocietynerja.com O'Connor will be introducing the film, Woman in Gold, which was released in 2015 and stars Helen Mirren. It is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly
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A British man who failed to stop after running a woman over in San Pedro on 9 May 2016 has been sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter through negligence and a road safety offence. Westley Capper, the son of millionaire John Capper, ... coercion in the high-profile Agnese Klavina case. After detailed analysis of CCTV footage, the court decided that the young Latvian woman had been forced into a vehicle byCapper against her will outside the Marbella nightclub Aqwa Mist in September 2014.
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With a new government come fresh faces appointed to run the country's top instititions. On Wednesday, history was made when the first woman director general took over the Guardia Civil. María Gámez is a well-known public official and former ... the Defence ministry, as the Guardia Civil is also classed as being part of the military. On hearing the news, Gámez said last week, "The important thing isn't being the first [woman], what's perhaps more important is not being the only one or the
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SOLANGE VÁZQUEZ
...strong and have a lot to offer; we will not be relegated to invisibility." She believes they are reinventing "the meaning of being an older woman" and fighting the idea that men's 'value' increases with age while theirs reduces. The same theory is ... Martínez de Lezea about the ‘progress’ in this field. On a personal level, she says she has never felt invisible because she is an older woman, “maybe because I have never cared about it”. She is a great fan of Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, “who look
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CRISTIAN REINO
Audrey has been born again. Or, rather, she was resuscitated thanks to a pioneering revival technique. "It's a miracle," was all she could say at a press conference held recently with her doctors, to explain her experience. On 3 November, the fire
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The National Police are investigating the circumstances of the death of a woman whose body was found floating near the beach in Benalmádena on Monday. A fisherman at the jetty in front of the Torrequebrada casino reported seeing the lifeless body ... of a fully dressed woman at 9.10am. It appears that the deceased was a 51-year-old tourist, of Chinese origin, who had been reported missing on Sunday. According to sources consulted, the woman was staying with her family in a hotel in
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A 46-year-old man from Vélez-Málaga was arrested last weekend for an alleged sex attack on a woman as she walked home from work on 16 December. The man had allegedly gone to the woman's place of work earlier that day and offered money in exchange
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A 75-year-old Dutch woman died after falling into the ocean from the Costa Pacífica cruise ship last Friday night. It is reported that the woman fell overboard from deck eight, plunging 15 metres into the water, while the ship was approaching the ... Mediterranean from the Atlantic. Maritime Rescue received an emergency call at 10.43pm last Friday night and immediately initiated a search and rescue operation for the missing woman. The María Zambrano rescue boat and the Helimer 207 helicopter were ... dispatched to the area which also received assistance from NATO units which were in the area at the time. Eventually, the woman's body was recovered by the María Zambrano rescue boat at 8.58am the next day, 45 miles south-east of Trafalgar in Cadiz
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia have both tested negative for Covid-19 after undergoing the test as a precautionary measure on Thursday. Nevertheless the Queen has cancelled her immediate agenda after attending a Woman's Day event last week with
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Forensic tests have shown that bones found during last Saturday's search for Dana Leonte's body do not belong to the missing Romanian woman. More than 300 people participated in the search in the mountains around Arenas, Sedella and Salaraes,
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A Belgian woman was found dead in her country house in Tolox on Tuesday. Her body was discovered by her brother, who lives in Coín. He became concerned when the woman, named as Ana, did not answer his calls on Tuesday, since they would usually ... reply. When he reached her bedroom, he found her lifeless body under the covers in bed with signs of violence. He immediately called 112, and the Guardia Civil and an ambulance were dispatched to the location, but were only able to confirm the woman ... said that he came and went from Belgium but did not have a permanent residence in the Malaga province. Preliminary investigations suggest that the woman died in the early hours of the morning. Neighbours said they heard a vehicle at around five in the
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SUSANA ZAMORA
...an 'espetera'. She is one of the select group of professionals responsible for the skewers of sardines ('espetos')cooked on the open wood fires at beach restaurants. And she is the only woman in Malaga province in this traditionally male role. But ... how exactly did a woman from the coastless province of Cáceres end up cooking what is the Costa del Sol's most traditional seaside dish? "When I arrived in Malaga, I'd never seen an espeto before and I was fascinated by this way of cooking sardines ... feel about being the only woman in a typically male profession? "I don't understand it because women are now in all professions. A woman can do the job as well as a man, if not better. In general we women are perfectionists, organised, disciplined,
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Walking Football Spain joined Smiles WFC in travelling to La Viñuela for a fundraising tournament to help a local young family who have had a difficult year. The matches were very competitive with Smiles set on remaining number one on the Costa. Ho
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Patricia Ortega has been appointed the first woman general at a ceremony in Madrid. The 56-year-old was among the first intake of women into the army in 1988 after graduating as an agronomist. She is now director of the national institute of
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The Guardia Civil along with the Andalusian mountaineering federation (FAM) are calling for experienced mountaineers and hunters to help in a search for any traces of the missing Romanian woman, Dana Leonte. The search will take place on Saturday ... Arenas, where she lived with her partner, Sergio Ruiz, found a femur which DNA tests have proved belonged to the woman. However, no other traces have been found since then. FAM stressed that anyone who wishes to take part in the search must be
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
...by deputy mayor, Félix Romero, along with councillors from all the political groups in the town hall, who kept a minute's silence. "She was a brave woman, who became a symbol for many silenced victims and marked a turning point in social and
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Three men have been arrested following an incident in August in Algarrobo when a woman was mugged and sexually assaulted by three men while putting her three-month-old baby in his car seat. The attack happened on an area of wasteland which is used ... as a car park. One of the men allegedly held a revolver to the woman while he touched her and another took two bags containing money, documents and other personal items. They are believed to have told the woman that they would kill her and her family
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The partner of missing Romanian woman, Dana Leonte, 31, was arrested on Wednesday after a bone, which preliminary DNA checks have revealed belong to a woman, were found near the village of Arenas, where the couple lived with their baby daughter. ... The bone has been sent off for urgent forensic test to ascertain if it belonged to the missing woman. Sergio Ruiz's arrest comes after police stepped up the investigation into Leonte's disappearance in June following the discovery of the bone as well ... brother, Florín Leonte, has maintained that the woman would never leave her baby daughter and that her partner was behind her disappearance. Ruiz's lawyer, Juanjo Moreno, said on Thursday that his client maintains he is innocent and "is very calm".
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A woman, charged with causing the death of a chihuahua, will appear in court on 28 October. The public prosecutor's office is calling for a 12-month prison sentence for the accused. The alleged crime took place over the Christmas of 2015, when the ... woman left the chihuahua and another mixed-breed dog in her locked house in Alhaurín el Grande, "without food, water, ventilation or even sunlight". It was the woman's neighbour who alerted officers in January 2016, after hearing constant barking and ... dehydration caused by the accused, who, knowing that the animals were in the house, left them in those conditions". In addition to the possible 12-month prison sentence, the prosecutor is calling for a three-year ban on the woman working with or owning
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Costa del Sol hotel earlier this month. This is the second fatality in Ronda related to the outbreak. On Thursday an 84-year-old woman died; she was taken to hospital after suffering a stroke and tested positive for coronavirus. Four more people
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A Belgian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in Tolox on Tuesday. He was detained in Belgium under a European Arrest Warrant put out by the Guardia Civil. The victim's body was discovered by her brother, who ... lives in Coín. He became concerned when the woman, named as Ana, did not answer his calls on Tuesday, as they would usually speak on the phone every day. He drove to her house, which is located in a remote rural area in Tolox municipality, home to many ... 112, and the Guardia Civil and an ambulance were dispatched to the location, but were only able to confirm the woman's death. The prime suspect from the start was the now-detainee, a Belgian man with whom Ana had been friends for several months. It
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A Local Police officer in Marbella saved a women who almost choked to death at the town's market on Tuesday. Having received a radio call, he rode his motorcycle to where the woman was being treated for what was thought to be a collapse. "But
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A 45-year-old woman has been arrested in Malaga, accused of beating her father to death and stabbing her mother, who required hospital treatment. The alarm was raised at 6am on Tuesday morning by the victims' grandchildren (the children of the ... alleged attacker) who were woken by the strong smell of gas coming from the gas tap in the kitchen that had been left open by the alleged assailant. They then discovered the scene and alerted the emergency services. Upon arrival, they treated the woman ... psychiatric ward of the Hospital Clínico for an examination. The police believe that by leaving the gas tap open, the woman was also trying to end the life of her children.
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A 60-year-old Spanish woman from Marbella was arrested on Monday on suspicion of causing three recent fires in the Bello Horizonte and Los Monteros areas, the third on Monday this week. Police suspicions were raised following reports of a woman ... in a red car in the area of each of the fires, which were started around the same time on each date. Flammable material and several lighters were found in the vehicle upon the woman's arrest.
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...others, 70 and 89, who were admitted to the Clínico in Malaga and the Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella, respectively. Another was an 82-year-old woman.
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
We now know what a Neolithic woman who lived in Gibraltar 7,500 years ago looked like, thanks to the facial reconstruction of a skull found in a burial site inside a cave near Europa Point in 1996. Using DNA technology, archaeologists and experts ... at The Gibraltar Museum have painstakingly reproduced the facial characteristics of the dark-haired, dark-eyed woman. It has been named 'Calpeia', and was unveiled this week by Heritage Minister, Dr John Cortes.
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Ángel Escalera
So far this year Cristina Cosano has been in hospital several times, including in the intensive care unit (UCI). In total, she has spent six months and nine days in the Regional Hospital (formerly the Carlos Haya hospital) during 2019. The reason she
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...to be bones of animals that live in the area, sources close to the investigation have said that some appear to be human remains. The bones have been sent off for testing to see if they correspond to the woman's DNA. Police have said that they could
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The woman found guilty last week of the premeditated murder of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz in February 2018 has been sentenced to Spain's longest possible term in prison. Ana Julia Quezada is the first woman to be given the permanent reversible
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A 21-year-old Brazilian woman was detained on arrival at Malaga Airport after police inspected her luggage and found four anoraks with around a kilo of a white powdery substance in the lining of each. Later tests showed positive for cocaine. The ... woman, who arrived from her home country, had taken a flight via Zurich supposedly in order to avoid detection.
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Eugenio Cabezas
A 20-year-old woman was rescued from a fire in her home in the village of Canillas de Albaida last Sunday. Neighbours noticed flames coming from the first floor of the building where the woman was asleep. The other three homes in the building ... were empty at the time. Rescuers, who included the village's mayor, Jorge Martín, managed to wake the woman and bring her to safety.
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JUAN CANO
A young woman who claimed she was raped in Fuengirola earlier this month has admitted that she made the story up to spite her boyfriend, who hadn't paid her enough attention on an evening out. The police are taking the matter seriously, because