NEW ARRIVAL

BENIDORM'S Mundomar wildlife park has a new resident- a baby flamingo born on June 8.

Its the second flamingo birth at the park since it opened in 1996 with the first making its appearance in 2021. The egg was spotted on May 11 which the parents then looked after carefully.

Mundomar said that the mother and father at no point neglected the incubation of the egg or caring for their new child when it arrived- with staff on hand to make sure everything went well.

Pink colours are associated with flamingos but that's far from the case in their early stage of life, as the colour is obtained over time from the food they eat which contain crustacean residues.

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SPAIN’S deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz has proposed lowering the working week from 40 to 32 hours.

The leader of left-wing alliance Sumar wants to start by dropping it to 37.5 hours next year.

She described the plan as ‘revolutionary’, insisting ‘time is the most valuable thing’ for workers who do not have ‘grand properties, nor important surnames’.

She insisted wages would not need to be cut ‘if productivity is improved’ from the scheme. The proposal is not the first time that the government has suggested a cut to employees’ hours.

A pilot project was put in place last year to trial a four-day working week, with the results not yet released.

MID-AIR SCARE

A FLIGHT had to make an emergency landing after a bird struck the plane shortly after takeoff at Malaga. The mid-air scare happened on a Vueling flight to Gran Canaria.

The plane was asked to return to land for essential checks to be carried out. After landing safely, it was found the aircraft suffered no major damage and got a green light to take off again.

Ex-Junta boss escapes jail over billion euro ERE scandal

FORMER Junta leader Jose Antonio Grinan will escape jail for corruption after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The disgraced politician (right) will avoid the sixyear prison sentence handed down for his key role in the so-called ERE scandal.

Under the fraudulent scheme up to €1 billion of public funds destined for the unemployed and struggling companies were syphoned off to individuals and businesses linked to the Junta.

Despite it being the largest corruption scandal in Spain’s