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Cruz Ramiro- local news journalist and editor-in-chief. Worked in various media such as: EL Mundo, La Vanguardia, El País.

They try to attack the rapper RVFV with a kickstand in Almería

The rapper Rafael Ruiz Amador, artistically known as RVFV, has been the object of an attempted assault by a man who this Wednesday morning tried to hit the musician with a picket or kickstand when he was inside the your vehicle.

According to what police sources have transferred to EFE, the facts have already been denounced before the Dean of the Courts of Almería.

Apparently, RVFV managed to flee the place without suffering physical damage, although this attempted attack would have caused damage to the musician's car.

According to the data provided by the sources consulted, what happened had its origin in a neighborhood dispute, and the proceedings sent by the Local Police, which have identified but not arrested the alleged perpetrator, allude to a possible crime of damage..

Gibraltar notes that oil spill cleanup efforts are progressing "at a good pace"

The Government of Gibraltar has indicated in a statement that the tasks to clean up the oil from the spill that occurred this past Tuesday are progressing “at a good pace” and that these works are being carried out on the coast of the Rosia Bay area..

However, due to the presence of some oil veil stains on the coast and rocks in the area, the red flag continues to fly on Camp Bay beach, where ships continue to combat floating oil with absorbent booms..

The Government of El Peñón has recalled that its port remains closed to 'bunkering' operations -oil supply maneuver between two ships-, although this circumstance, they have qualified, is reviewed daily to determine if it is maintained or reversed.

In this way, the cleaning work will continue during this weekend, for which the public has been asked to respect the red flags that are in force and that they will return to yellow “as soon as it is safe”.

For the moment, Gibraltar has estimated between 1,000 and 2,000 liters of fuel spilled into the sea after the accident that occurred this past Tuesday, August 1 at around 08:22 a.m. in the southern part of the Poniente Anchorage, when the ship Gas Venus, with the flag from Panama, was receiving fuel from another ship and experienced an overflow from its tanks.

Most of the spilled oil has been concentrated in the Camp Bay, Rosia Bay and Little Bay areas, with a part of the area known as Seven Sisters also affected.. A spill that for the moment has not reached the coasts of the province of Cádiz.

Identified by smell and arrested after stealing 26 hams from a restaurant in Granada

The Civil Guard has arrested a young man accused of taking 26 hams from the restaurant of a roadside hotel located in Albolote (Granada) and who was identified when he returned to the area to pick up his companions due to the smell emanating from the vehicle he used to commit the crime.

As reported by this armed body, which acted with the Albolote Local Police, the detainee is a 25-year-old young man with a criminal record accused of robbery at a restaurant in the El Torreón service area, located on the A-highway. 92.

The robbery occurred at dawn and the detainee, who acted with three other people, took 26 hams that have been recovered by the agents.

After the restaurant reported the robbery, the agents reviewed the images captured by the establishment's security cameras, in which the four involved were seen entering through a window and leaving with the hams.

In their eagerness to find the criminals, the agents paid attention to some voices that were heard from the area located in the opposite direction of the highway, for which they established a device to verify if someone there could have been related to the robbery.

They moved to the place and intercepted a tourist occupied only by the now detainee, who said that he had gone there to look for some friends..

In a thorough search of the vehicle, the agents noticed that it gave off a strong smell of ham and that the driver's attire and his physiognomy corresponded to one of the perpetrators recorded by the cameras.

Given the situation described, the young man admitted his participation in the events and told the agents that he had hidden the hams in a house in Atarfe. The other three involved fled on foot and have not yet been arrested..

Spain does not marry like before: August, from a favorite month to a banned month

When Javier proposed to Victoria, they did not imagine the number of variables to take into account to decide the date of their link. The church or the town hall, the estate, the guests… and the date. “We wanted spring, to avoid the heat in summer, and with the communion season we ended up having to choose June”. This couple from Malaga got married on June 8, 2019.

Whether due to avoiding the high temperatures or due to other factors, August has gone from being the month with the most weddings to one in which the celebrations take a dip in the middle of the high season. In the 1970s and 1980s, around 12% of weddings were held in August, but since the 1990s, marriages have moved to other months. Since then, September and July have remained favourites, with twice as many links as August.

Thus, it can be seen how the first quarter of the year continues to fit as a low season, while August has dropped by up to five percentage points.. This means that the wedding season can last until October, which between 2020 and 2021 is positioned as the third month with the most unions (12.8%).

“When we got married, it was summer because it was when we had more vacations,” confesses Rosendo. He married Candelaria on August 14, 1982, in Tenerife. They confirm that, before, this type of decision was made in a more “distended and familiar” way.. They add that it was an easier date both for them when it came to scheduling their honeymoon, to the neighboring island of La Palma, and because of the availability of their guests, who either did not travel in summer or did so not far from the town. , and thus they could attend the ceremony and the invitation without interrupting their vacations much.

Between the marriage from Malaga and the Canary Islands there are not only decades of union, but also a difference in preferences and an evolution of what is conceived as a celebration.

The heat melts the altar

“We have noticed that the summer has emptied out because people flee from the heat,” confesses Ana Tellaeche, event organizer for the Area Sunset Restaurant in La Manga del Mar Menor.. For them, he adds, the season begins in February, and months like November or December have begun to be more interesting for couples..

Murcians are, in fact, the ones who avoid the most this month. Meanwhile, September is the most chosen by Zaragoza, Cádiz or Huesca. Regarding the winter season, Ceuta and Lugo are the ones that bet the most on January.

To this is added the mobilization of the guests. In Spain, the average number of attendees at ceremonies in 2022 was 117, according to the Essential Wedding Book, published by Bodas.net in collaboration with Esade professor Carles Torrecilla.. Although there is disparity between provinces: Murcia and La Rioja invited, on average, 164 and 162 people; twice as much as Castilla-La Mancha and Navarra.

Of course, between 2019 and 2022 the number of guests has decreased. Partly due to the impact of the pandemic. “The number of guests is reduced because the couple prefers to invite the friends and family they care about the most and with whom they have the most relationships,” confirms Cristina González, head of communication at Bodas.net.

Decide: details or date

María and Óscar discarded summer and preferred to avoid spring. In the end, they stayed with April 1, which, even though it was low season, was more suited to their needs.. What these people from Madrid were looking for was to get married as soon as possible. They got it in six months. It also happened to Victoria and Javier, from Malaga, who came to create an Excel with the requirements of their wedding to be able to align the venue and catering with the availability of the farms.. Weddings have become an event in which up to 70,000 euros can be invested per celebration. From costumes, through DJ, to analog cameras. Each service counts and adds a provider to the couple's billing list. The average cost in Spain is around 21,056 euros, according to Bodas.net.

“In days, Fridays and Sundays are the cheapest days. As for months, February and November are considering the lowest prices, although it depends on the providers,” says Maitane Bugedo, wedding planner at The Cosmopolitan Bride, a wedding planning agency that has been operating since 2019.. He adds that, to avoid having to change the desired date, couples must start organizing the event at least one year in advance..

In the end, the wedding day has ended up losing importance as how it is celebrated, how much it costs, the number of guests or if it will be possible to find a place that includes a candy bar or a 360º camera.. “You end up getting lost in the details, and the important thing is getting married,” sums up María, the Madrid bride.

Seven arrested after dismantling one of the largest drug gangs

The National Police has dismantled one of the most important drug trafficking networks operating in Asturias and Galicia with the arrest of seven people, five of whom have been imprisoned, the seizure of 7 kilograms of cocaine and the dismantling of a laboratory for the extraction and conversion of liquid drugs into solids.

Police sources have reported this Friday that this police operation has been carried out in Asturias, Galicia and Madrid and that seven people have been arrested as a result of it in Oviedo, Gijón, Mieres, Villaviciosa, A Coruña and Alcorcón.

The detainees had a high degree of specialization, carried out their internal communications under encryption and used different security techniques in their movements..

The investigations began in October of last year after one of the main drug traffickers from the Cantabrian coast who, based in A Coruña, was located in Asturias, had contacts with a man who was related to one of the most important anti-drug operations important of those carried out in Oviedo and which culminated in 2012 with the intervention of 37 kilos of “speed”.

The dismantled organization, according to the police, had four recipients of the drug in Asturias who were arrested on July 26 in Oviedo, Gijón, Mieres and Argüero (Villaviciosa), all of them with police records for similar acts..

The main suspect in the plot traveled from A Coruña every week to these towns, which he did in a car equipped with a hidden hole for transporting the drug, or with the collaboration of second vehicles in shuttle work..

The network supplied the drug in Madrid, from an organization of Colombian origin, which in turn was related to a seizure of 130 kilos of cocaine that took place on March 20 inside the ship Iraklis, in the Gijón port of El Musel.

Investigators consider that the dismantled organization therefore had a second route of entry for narcotic material through the ports of Gijón and Avilés and that it was also in charge of its concealment and subsequent treatment for sale.

On July 25, the National Police intercepted the car of the main person under investigation in the plot in Gijón, and hidden in the hole in the front bumper found six packages weighing approximately seven kilos of cocaine..

At the time of the arrest, those investigated were immersed in the negotiation for the acquisition of a consignment of heroin which, according to the police, was frustrated as a result of this intervention.

As a result of the different entry and search procedures, authorized by the Oviedo Investigating Court number three, the National Police also proceeded to dismantle a laboratory for the extraction and conversion of liquid or diluted cocaine to cocaine hydrochloride that was hidden in a urbanization on the outskirts of the Coruña town of Sada.

In addition to the drugs and chemical precursors, the police seized a pistol, a bulletproof vest, 7 kilograms of cocaine, seven precision scales, 17,400 euros in cash, a machete, a geolocation device, as well as 18 telephones, 5 vehicles and accounting entries.

A 33-year-old British tourist drowned in the waters of Cala Jondal in Ibiza

A 33-year-old British tourist has drowned this Friday in the waters of Cala Jondal, in the Ibizan municipality of Sant Josep, reported SAMU 061. The emergency services received a notice at 3:15 p.m. warning of the sighting of a drowned man “in the middle of the sea.”.

The lifeguards have reached him and have transferred him to a nearby boat where they have begun resuscitation maneuvers in coordination with the 061 central.

The 061 health team has subsequently arrived and has continued unsuccessfully for 40 minutes with resuscitation maneuvers.

A municipal police officer throws a councilor from EH Bildu off the balcony of the Estella Town Hall for taking out the ikurriña

An agent of the Municipal Police of Estella has removed this Friday from the balcony of the town hall of the Navarrese town the councilor of EH Bildu Elisabet Ciordia after she exhibited an ikurriña during the chupinazo to start the municipal festivities.

The action has been criticized by the abertzale coalition on its social networks in which it has censured that the mayor has been “removed by force”. Some facts that “show once again the way forward: it is time to respect the right to freedom of expression”.

The spokesperson for EH Bildu in the Parliament of Navarra, Laura Aznal, has expressed her support for Elisabet Ciordia on her Twitter profile and has considered “this type of behavior on the part of the Municipal Police unacceptable”. “It is time to definitively overcome the struggle between symbols and respect freedom of expression”, has defended.

On this same social network, the general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, has written “Lizarra, where the fascists shot the mayor of the PNV Fortunato Agirre and where his heirs treat the flag he defended and a representative of the popular will in this way.
Not pass!”.

Renfe offers one million seats on nearly 3,000 trains this weekend

Renfe will offer this first weekend of August one million seats in nearly 3,000 AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Euromed, Intercity, Avant and Regional trains, with the aim of facilitating the mobility of travelers in full operation after the summer.

The relationships with the greatest mobility will be those that link Andalusia with Madrid and Catalonia, as well as the Madrid-Galicia, Barcelona-Zaragoza-Madrid routes or the services that connect the entire Mediterranean arc, as reported by Renfe.

In Regional services, some of the routes with the greatest demand are Madrid-Valladolid, A Coruña-Vigo, Valencia-Alicante, Cádiz-Seville or the connections that link Barcelona with the Costa Brava and Costa Dorada.

Renfe defends that the places offered are equivalent to tens of thousands of private vehicles. Since these trains run with electrical energy from renewable sources with a green certificate, “thousands of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere” are avoided in the total number of journeys..

This device to increase seats in rail transport contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 13 (climate action), which calls for urgent measures to combat climate change and its effects.

Prison for two detainees for indoctrinating minors and young people into jihadism

The judge of the National Court who is on duty this week, María Tardón, has sent to prison two men arrested two days ago in Benavente (Zamora) and Valencia, respectively, for jihadist indoctrination of young people and minors ” massive”.

The arrests have taken place within the framework of previous proceedings that remain secret and that began in November 2002 in the Central Court of Instruction 6 of the National Court through a report from the Civil Guard on communications intervention, they have reported to EFE legal sources. and Hugo CM, have been placed this Friday at the disposal of the duty judge, who has ordered their entry into provisional prison at the request of the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court for crimes of active indoctrination and recruitment of young people and minors.

The magistrate has adopted this decision taking into account the risk of escape, concealment of sources of evidence and the risk of committing other criminal acts. The operation was carried out on August 2 with entries and searches in the homes of the detainees.

A young man was arrested for the twenty-fourth time in 2023 after breaking the door of a business with a sewer

The National Police of León has arrested a 22-year-old young man this morning who was intercepted “red-handed” while trying to break the entrance door to a commercial establishment located on Sueño de Quiñones street with a manhole cover..

This person had already been arrested on August 2 as the alleged perpetrator of the theft of money from the cash register of a restaurant in the Plaza Mayor of the capital, the National Police reported in a statement sent.

In fact, this person has been arrested during the year 2023 on 24 occasions and charged as the alleged perpetrator of 52 criminal acts against property.