British woman stabbed

 The 53-year-old woman, who has not been named, was rushed to hospital after the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Spanish news agency EFE. It is understood that she was stabbed in the stomach with a kitchen knife in her home near the small town of Pinoso, Alicante, during what is thought to have been an attempted robbery. The woman, who was alone at the time, managed to call the emergency services and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she underwent surgery. She is said to be out of danger. The mountainous Pinoso area, on the Alicante/Murcia border, has become increasingly popular with foreign buyers in recent years, with a growing British community. A local newspaper, La Verdad, said that many foreign residents chose to live in isolated countryside houses, which made them an “easy target” for crime. In 2007, a British pensioner called Janette Grocutt living in the hamlet of Paredón, just a few miles from Pinoso, was raped and murdered in her home.