COSTAS

generations,” continued Lopez, who compiled the Black Flag report.

Cancer

“Spain has a chronic cancer as its natural areas are so devastated and polluted that, even with technological advances and investment, it will take many years until they are fully restored,” Lopez concluded.

“We only choose 48 black spots to not overwhelm the press and population but there are literally hundreds of natural spaces that are being destroyed. We need urgent measures to tackle this.”

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Knife domestic

A 32-YEAR-OLD Valencia woman has been arrested after stabbing her partner at their home in the Transits area of the city. The man, 46, was treated at La Fe Hospital.

Swim safe

SEA and swimming pool bathers have been given an annual warning to take care in the water during the summer season in the Valencia region after 67 drownings last year- the highest in Spain.

Fixed odds

POLICE carried out inspections of 35,000 gambling machines in the Valencian Community last year, with around 2,000 faulty and ‘rigged’ machines destroyed in Valencia province alone.

Cup bid

VALENCIA wants to host the international yachting race, the America’s Cup, after previous dates in 2007 and 2010.

A NAZI fitness guru extradited from Spain to face terror charges in the UK has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Online radical Kris Kearney - who claimed Adolf Hitler ‘showed people the way’ and ‘did nothing wrong’ - was found guilty of promoting terrorism after he shared inflammatory material on his online forum.

The charges relate to numerous posts in which he shared among others the violent manifestos of New Zealand mosque killer Brenton Tarrant and Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik.

A SPANISH man and woman aged 51 and 57 have been arrested after they kept three children locked up at home in filthy conditions for over two years.

The father was also subject to five judicial fraud indictments - with two demanding his arrest and imprisonment.

Police eventually found the man in Cullera and when they entered his home they found an 18-year-old woman and boys aged 15,11, and 1. The boys were all sons of their fraudster father and the children of school-age had not attended lessons for at least three years. They were taken into care because of their poor health caused by the dirt they were forced to live in.