News
Courts move
The Ministry of Justice is reported to be seeking a new home for the courts in Torrox . They presently occupy the 19th century Palacio de la Hoya which , for years , have been the subject of complaints about the lack of space , humidity , power outages and the presence of architectural barriers . The region is presently looking for premises to lease which may also come with the provision of a third court room .
Liver landmark
Málaga ’ s Carlos Haya Hospital has carried out its 1,000th liver transplant . The first operation was carried out in March 1997 , and the new landmark was reached on June 12 with the donation of an organ to a 61-year-old man . Last year , 58 liver transplants were carried out at the hospital and so far this year there have been 35 .
Child abuse
A 50-year-old man has been detained on suspicion of abusing a ten-year-old girl at her home in Málaga while her parents were out . The suspect was well-known to the family and after the child told her mother what had happened , the police were contacted . The suspect fled abroad but was finally persuaded by investigators to return and was arrested on arrival at Málaga airport on June 13 .
Animal care
Torrox Town Council is to make € 15,000 available to groups which care for abandoned and maltreated animals in the municipality . Mayor Oscar Medina said the cash was available for the pioneering grant thanks to economic management in recent years . Reports suggest that over 100 cats and dogs have been assisted in the town already this year .
Skiing Secretary
A Granada skier has become the first woman to be appointed Spain ’ s Secretary of State for Sport . María José Rienda was born in the city in 1975 and represented her country at five Olympics before retiring in 2011 . She is one of 11 women appointed to the Cabinet of new socialist prime minister , Pedro Sánchez .
Everything wrong
Local Police in Málaga , whose patrol vehicle ran head-on into a car on the city ’ s Guadalhorce industrial estate , found the 17-year-old driver to be over the alcohol limit . The vehicle , being driven in the wrong direction and without lights after dark , was found to be uninsured and lacked an ITV certificate . The underage driver was arrested along with a 22-yearold passenger who had allowed him to drive the vehicle .
Spain ’ s new PM
Early June saw a major shift in Spanish politics as the Partido Popular ( PP ) led by Mariano Rajoy was ousted from power after almost seven years . The change was triggered by sentences handed to 29 people charged in the Gürtel corruption case which had strong links to the PP . Judges in the case also questioned the credibility of Rajoy ’ s testimony when he was called to give evidence as a witness .
Opposition members in parliament took the view that then-PM Rajoy was downplaying his party ’ s involvement which gave the leader of the opposition socialist PSOE party the chance to table a motion of no confidence . However , with only 85 of the 350 seats in the lower house , the PSOE leader , 46-yearold Pedro Sánchez , had to negotiate hard to win the votes of other parties to oust the PP .
Frenetic meetings and last-minute deals led to Sánchez winning the vote on June 1 with the support of Deputies representing Podemos , the Republic Left in Cataluña , the Catalan European Demoractic Party , the Basque National Party and three other minor groups . Sánchez took office as the new leftwing Prime Minister in front of King Felipe on June 2 .
Rajoy , meantime , immediately stood down as PP leader and later resigned
The 19-year-old son of a Spanish journalist working in London was one of three youths killed on a railway line in the capital last month . Alberto Fresneda and his two friends , both aged 23 , were struck by an oncoming train at Loughborough Junction in Brixton where they had been painting graffiti .
Alberto , nicknamed Trip , was the son of , Carlos Fresneda , British correspondent of El Mundo . He was born in New York and had lived in London from age 12 , and had been accepted to study graphic design at the London College of Communications starting in September . his seat in the House . The PP is expected to elect a new leader this month with its 800,000 members voting in a ballot on July 5 ; if no-one wins more than half the votes , the final choice will be made at the party ’ s annual congress on July 20 and 21 . Leading contenders at present include former deputy prime minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria and ex-defence minister Maria Dolores de Cospedal .
Pedro Sánchez moved quickly to appoint a cabinet of 11 women and six men , including the first Spaniard to walk on the moon , astronaut Pedro Duque , as Minister of Science , Innovation and Universities . However , within a week , the brand new Minister for Culture and Sport , Máxim Huerta , resigned after a newspaper claimed he was involved in tax irregularities , a claim Huerta denied .
Sánchez quickly restored Cataluña ’ s autonomy after seven months of control from Madrid and set to work on a national agenda which , he has said , includes cutting power bills , increasing pensions and the minimum wage , reducing waiting lists for care allowances and scrapping the so-called “ gagging law .” He has 18 months to achieve all this before Spain ’ s next General Election which , he says , will not be brought forward .
Spanish youth dies in London
His family said that Alberto had left home at 5.00pm on the day of incident , June 17 , and had texted at 10.00pm to say he would be home shortly . They said they heard about the tragedy on the news but did not connect it with their son until British Transport Police officers arrived at their home .
The emergency services were called out at 5.00am by the driver of another train who saw the bodies , although it is believed they died at around 1.00am by a train returning empty to its depot . By the following morning , three black hearts had been spray-painted on a wall at Loughborough Junction .
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