9 Dec, 2021 @ 11:23
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WATCH: Mountain rescue police battle snow to rescue sheep in Spain’s Pyrenees

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IT’S a good job they were wearing their woolies.

A flock of 15 sheep have been found by a police mountain rescue unit after they had been trapped for nine days following a snowstorm in the Spanish Pyrenees.

A Guardia Civil GREIM unit, which was on a training mission near the Pico del Turmo mountain in Huesca province, was called in when a farmer asked for help in finding his missing flock.

The rescuers set off through heavy snow drifts and braving strong winds and four hours later found the missing animals trapped by snow at a height of 2,400 metres..

The officers then managed to free the sheep and herd them down to a field where the farmer was waiting, with the whole operation taking nine hours.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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