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tance of dedicating our time, re‐sources, and energy to solving the climate crisis.

The EWN suggest four ways you can make a difference:

1. Plant a tree.

2. Reduce your plastic con‐sumption. Try the plastic calcu‐lator at: www.earthday.org

3. Plan your own event. Organise a community cleanup, march,or workshop using the Earth Day 2023 Action Toolkit and register your event on the official Earth Day Map.

4. Donate. Support envi‐ronmental campaigns.

Happy Earth Day to all our readers!

Manacor celebrates Book Week

nia, a regional variant of Saint Valentine’s Day when lovers buy each other a book and a red rose.

In Manacor, activities on Sunday take place in and around the Claustre, with an all‐day book fair, children’s games in the Plaça del Convent from 10am to 2pm, the Ennigulart workshop, an open‐air itinerant

Needle spiking ‘false’

ALL the reports about ‘needle spiking’ in discos and parties in the Balearic Islands last year were false.

More than 20 instances of alleged use of needles to inject substances into women in order to take advantage of them have been investigated by the Guardia Civil and Local Police since last summer.

The news triggered a nationwide scare, as a flood of cases were also reported in other parts of Spain.

However, this week the Balearic police, judicial and Legal Medicine Institute departments in charge of the investigations have concluded that every single report was fake.

Furthermore, they believe their results can be extrapolated to the rest of the country, meaning the scare that swept nightlife hotspots throughout Spain last summer was unfounded.

“Personally, this is the worst method of chemical submission I’ve heard of, as the victim would notice the jab and, as the in‐jections would be intramuscular, the effects would not be im‐mediate,” declared a forensic expert for Palma’s Legal Medicine Institute.