Cables stolen from new Palmones promenade

LOS BARRIOS/Palmones (Agencies) The newly opened promenade at Palmones was the victim of the crisis - or at any rate, of those who use the wretched crisis as an excuse for committing a crime. The lights will be off on the promenade because thieves have removed the cables that fed the lights. But that is not all. The promenade is something local residents had been asking for for a long time, but it seems that the vandals couldn't wait either. Just hours before the official opening, they defaced the garden close to the breakwater. The cables were recovered before the thieves made off with them, when the Local Police were alerted by a call from a resident, but they will take a while to be replaced. Copper, apparently, is a very saleable commodity at local (and presumably worldwide) junk yards.

Eight months in jail for attacking teacher

SAN ROQUE The mother of a student at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe School in Palmones, has been sentenced to six months in jail for attempted bodily harm and another two for bodily harm against a teacher, to whom she was also sentenced to paying him 1,800 euros. The child's grandmother was also sentenced to three days in jail for insulting the teacher during the same incident. This is the first time, in the province of  Cádiz, a jail sentence has been handed down in cases such as this. (Photo: illustration only)