Outcry in Valencia over the sending of the ES-Alert with the streets already flooded with water

Outcry in Valencia over the sending of the ES-Alert with the streets already flooded with water

The ES-Alert that was sent on Wednesday night to the mobiles of the Valencians arrived at 22:08. At that moment, many streets of València and towns like Torrent were already flooded by the downpour. And even in the Ciudad de València stadium, where the Levante vs Athletic match was suspended, the situation was total chaos. Was the ES-Alert sent late?

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Markets that are dying in Barcelona

Markets that are dying in Barcelona

Two stalls and a bar. This is the only activity in the Ciutat Meridiana market for the past year. When this market was inaugurated in 1968 with the aim of supplying an area of the city that began to be populated by migratory flow, the customers organized themselves to queue, and be able to shop without being late for their jobs. One of them is Pura, who arrived in Torre Baró from Jaén at the age of 9. She is now 74, and together with her husband, every morning they have a cortado at the only bar left. “There used to be three bars, fishmongers, butchers, greengrocers, everything, now you see, we have to make do,” Pura says resigned.

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The Government proposes to the communities to send 500 girls from Ceuta to the Peninsula under the care of NGOs

The Government proposes to the communities to send 500 girls from Ceuta to the Peninsula under the care of NGOs

The Government, through the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, and the autonomous communities have unanimously approved the extraordinary credit of 25 million euros announced by the central Executive last Tuesday for the care of migrant children in Ceuta. It was the only formal agenda item of the Sectoral Commission on Childhood and Adolescence held this Thursday in Madrid, chaired by the minister in charge, Sira Rego. But the ministry has also proposed the transfer of around 500 migrant minor girls hosted in Ceuta to NGOs on the Peninsula, with the aim of addressing the situation of “urgency and special vulnerability” of these minors, while mitigating the political controversy surrounding the distribution of immigrants and the complaints from the territories, which denounce the “saturation” situation experienced by their reception systems.

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Rodri lands in Barcelona with a strong message: “I come to win everything that comes my way”

Rodri lands in Barcelona with a strong message: “I come to win everything that comes my way”

With a slight delay from the scheduled time, past eight in the evening, Rodri landed at El Prat airport amid great media anticipation. The player, unlike on other occasions and as had already happened in the morning with Cancelo, had no problem posing for photographers and making brief statements before heading to a city hotel to dine with FC Barcelona officials before being presented as a new blaugrana player in the coming hours. His initial message was emphatic: “These have been very intense days but I am very happy, playing for Barça is a dream and I am already eager to meet my teammates, some of whom I already know, and to get to work. The Champions League? I come to win everything that lies ahead.”

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Goodbye to summer heat: significant danger from heavy rains in Catalonia, Levante, and the Balearic Islands

Goodbye to summer heat: significant danger from heavy rains in Catalonia, Levante, and the Balearic Islands

The full summer heat of the last few days fades this Wednesday – just one week before the arrival of astronomical autumn – with a sharp change in weather due to a trough of cold air aloft, which will drop temperatures by up to 13 degrees in the northern half of the peninsula and bring rain to the Cantabrian region and the Pyrenees, and intense storms to the east of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

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El Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, the unexpected micro-border

El Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, the unexpected micro-border

Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

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