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Baby Francisco, his parents
and his 'saviours'
(Photo: http://media.grupojoly.com)

JEREZ We were looking  for some good news among the gloom, and we found this piece about ... here it is: The Local Police was on a stake out in the early hours of Sunday morning, in the Casines neighbourhood of Puerto Real when they were approached by a young man, "Please help! My wife is about to give birth! She can't stand up!" He was desperate. In the background, a woman sitting on some steps was shouting "I can feel him!" The police didn't hesitate. They picked her up and put her and her husband -and the child, one imagines- into the undercover patrol car and screeched off to the Puerto Real hospital, sirens blaring. Other police units joined in, escorting them all the way. That was the beginning of a good story with a happy ending. COMING SOON: SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION>>>

Carrefour to discount VAT for large families

SPAIN/CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR The Carrefour stores in La Línea and Algeciras, in common with the rest of the chain's Spanish network, is discounting IVA (VAT) from shopping made by familias numerosas ('large families', see definition below). The discount applies to the following sections in the store: butcher, fishmonger, fruit & veg, bakery, pre-prepared foods and cheeses. These products, which 53% of the bulk of the shopping list, have VAT of between 4% to 8% applied to them, and they are daily items. The plan, called Superfamilias and paid for by the company, applies to some 4,000 products, of which 82% come from Spanish agriculture. The objective, according to a Carrefour press release, is to help the more than half a million such families throughout the country.PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ITEMS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUBSCRIPTION IN THE FUTURE but you can make a donation NOW, too! Please click here for more information on how to help us continue. (This item took 78 minutes to receive, research, translate and publish)>>>

21 robberies in Guadiaro and Sotogrande cleared up thanks to municipal employee

Iván Rodríguez, centre

LA LINEA (Press release)  Iván Rodríguez, a long time municipal employee, likes to walk. Recently, he was taking a constitutional along a pathway some distance away from the A-7 road, a place he frequents when he suddenly found a small mountain of handbags, cases and documentation thrown onto the ground. He informed the Local Police immediately. They in turn put the matter into the hands of the Guardia Civil. The result of it all is that21 separate robberies, all from the interior of vehicles, in the Guadiaro-Sotogrande area as well as near Manilva, have been cleared up, and the alleged perpetrators caught and arrested. Rodriguez was received by Mayor Gemma Araujo and the head of the Local Police, Restituto Casal, who congratulated him (photo).