EXCLUSIVE: Bomb squad called to Marbella health centre only to find ‘suitcase stuffed full of papers’

Additional reporting by Walter Finch A SUITCASE left near a health centre triggered a bomb scare in Marbella’s San Pedro de Alcantara lunchtime on Thursday. Policia Nacional declared the alert

Albanian shot dead at Costa Blanca padel club was target in ‘family feud’ and was jailed in Italy for drug trafficking

Luka Begiraj, 39, was sentenced in 2020 with sources suggesting his murder had nothing to do with his past criminal acts but was part of a family feud.

Housing shortage now so severe in Valencia that estate agents are paying people to tip them off about homes to sell

Agencies once paid building caretakers and property managers for leads, but the payments have now spread to private individuals.

A man in a white shirt gives a press conference to several tv stations

Andalucian left-wing party wants rents capped by law at a fifth of local family income

Jose Ignacio Garcia also wants 'permanent' tenancies to be enshrined in law.

Estepona mayor to stand trial over ‘plant pot job for lover’ as calls grow for PP to suspend him

Prosecutors say he hired Cristina Pulido, a woman he was romantically involved with, as a 'political appointee' in February 2023.

Latest

WATCH: Taxi driver survives horrifying crash after lorry overturns and flattens his cab inside Malaga tunnel

PP and Vox on course for majority in latest opinion polls as left-wing vote collapses in Andalucia

The anarchist’s bullet and ETA’s tunnel bomb – how Spain lost two prime ministers to assassins

IN PICS: Burning tyres, baton charges and blocked motorways as millions brave Storm Charles for Spain’s first general strike in 14 years

Estepona opens town hall on Saturdays for drop-in appointments so thousands of unregistered residents can get on the padron

burning tyres in Gijon and graffiti on Burger King in Barcelona

LIVE BLOG: Riot police deployed in major cities and businesses targeted as general strike pickets force businesses to close across Spain

Cadiz residents warned to stay away from coast as Storm Charles bears down with 120km/h winds, tornadoes and six-metre waves

Sea life nursery blooms at new artificial reefs in Marbella port that have attracted cuttlefish among new 27 marine species

Vox leader Santiago Abascal on La Revuelta

VOX leader Santiago Abascal pulls out of all further media appearances ahead of Spanish elections unless he has ‘editorial control’

Election 2026

EXPLAINER: Why far-right Vox leader Santiago Abascal’s appearance on Spain’s most popular chat show has caused uproar ahead of election

Spain’s right-wing bloc maintains poll lead as PSOE support edges up ahead of November 29 election

Spanish political leaders in a newspaper collage

Political round-up: Puente’s exit clears the tracks for Spain’s election battle as general strike looms

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez revels in Donald Trump’s mid-term election disaster

The Gibraltar border after the post-Brexit treaty with Spain

Gibraltar treaty faces make-or-break month as EU summit, Spanish election and European Parliament vote loom

Travel

This tiny mountain village north of Madrid has been named Europe’s top destination for trail running – here’s what you need to know

Manzanares del Real, north of the Spanish capital, has topped a ranking of 90 destinations across 21 European countries.

The medieval town with one of Spain’s best-preserved Jewish quarters named among National Geographic’s top places to visit in November

Five country homes in Spain that offer the perfect cosy escape this autumn

Ryanair reminds passengers of new 60-minute luggage drop-off rule to help stop them ‘missing their flights’

Hundreds of 19,000-year-old prehistoric engravings discovered in Catalunya cave hiding in plain sight

Property

Affordable housing takes centre stage at Malaga’s property fair with over 4,300 homes up for sale

Malaga house prices soar 66% in five years as foreign buyers pile into increasingly ‘unsustainable’ property market

An abandoned house in a village in Andalucia

Andalucia is suffocating from poverty: Three million people struggle to make their ends meet, new report shows

Woman douses herself in petrol and threatens to burn herself alive at eviction from public housing flat in Malaga

Spain’s rental market loses a fifth of homes in just one month as new Pedro Sanchez housing decrees spook landlords

HEALTH

Spanish judge ‘asks UAE to arrest couple’ suspected of ordering execution of Marbella’s infamous BBL surgeon Dr ‘Buttman’

EXCLUSIVE: Forged signatures, unwanted procedures and trainee surgeons: Unravelling the medical practices of ‘Dr Frankenstein’ – aka ‘the Buttman’ – Marbella’s world renowned plastic surgeon

Women who suffer gender-based violence face a higher risk of heart disease, Spanish doctors warn

Over a third of newborn babies in Malaga province have at least one parent born outside Spain

FOOD & DRINK

Spanish families budget around €300 for Christmas dinner – but turn to supermarket own brands to keep it affordable

An Olive farm in Spain with a road leading up a hill to a farmhouse

Spain makes shock intervention in olive oil market to stop price from crashing after bumper harvest

Spain comes top again as rural Basque restaurant is voted Best in the World by prestigious culinary list

Olive oil prices have collapsed after a bumper harvest

Hard-pressed Spanish farmers call for one-fifth of olive oil to be hauled off the market as bumper harvest sends prices tumbling

Business & Finance

British pensioners in Spain gain spending power as pound holds close to €1.20

Should british expats use uk based financial adviser c

Could your UK finances be costing you more tax in Spain? Here is why British expats should review

Spain shakes off NATO ‘problem child’ tag to boost defence spending by 50% in just one year

Costa del Sol tech firm leads EU online fraud charge to tackle tech giants such as Meta, X and Booking.com

ANDALUCIA

Huge cocaine stash of 2.6 tonnes hidden in crates of coconuts is seized by Spanish police in Valencia port

11 Nov, 2026 @ 14:00

WATCH: Huge cocaine stash of 2.6 tonnes hidden in crates of coconuts from Ghana is uncovered in Valencia port

11 Nov, 2026 @ 12:25

IN PICS: Incredible moment ‘tourist couple’ enjoy pint and chicken fingers on a Malaga terrace as strike protestors rage around them

11 Nov, 2026 @ 11:43

WATCH: Red alert as Storm Charles batters the Canary Islands and Costa del Sol while schools shut up and down Cadiz coast

10 Nov, 2026 @ 18:15

Out-of-control passenger on ‘psychoactive drugs’ forces Canary Islands flight to make emergency landing in Malaga

The fake Van Gogh painting at the centre of an elaborate art fraud in Spain.

10 Nov, 2026 @ 15:45

Conman who sold a fake Van Gogh for €750,000 via a ‘cash-strapped marquise in Antequera’ has four-year prison sentence upheld

10 Nov, 2026 @ 12:36

Kinahan cartel ‘lured’ ex-Premier League footballer’s brother to his doom over ‘smuggling operation out of Puerto Banus’

COSTA BLANCA

11 Nov, 2026 @ 10:11

Albanian man shot dead at a Costa Blanca padel club ‘had deep ties to Italian ‘Ndrangheta and Chinese Triads’

10 Nov, 2026 @ 16:15

Albanian man, 39, is shot dead at a Costa Blanca padel club before hitman flees on an electric scooter

10 Nov, 2026 @ 13:39

Supermarkets and Bauhaus move in as Costa Blanca’s biggest new urbanisation takes shape in Torrevieja

10 Nov, 2026 @ 10:10

Luxury catamaran goes up in flames and sinks in Costa Blanca marina after witnesses hear ‘explosion’

9 Nov, 2026 @ 14:00

Swedish expat launches bizarre ‘modern art’ anti-dog poop crusade in Torrevieja by placing frames around discarded excrement

6 Nov, 2026 @ 15:33

Mob boss executed in hospital bed is latest episode of Turkish mafia violence exploding on Spain’s coast, from Barcelona to the Costa del Sol

OLIVE PRESS TV

Red alert issued during peak Barcelona rush hour as another powerful storm traps commuters in their cars and floods coastal and inland areas

IN VIDS: Barcelona hit by sudden flash flood chaos as homes are breached and firefighters rescue woman and baby

WATCH: The secret gem just one hour from Madrid in the Spanish heartlands that you should visit because it’s ‘untouched by tourism’

WATCH: War zone in Sevilla as knife fight breaks out in broad daylight

BARCELONA

11 Nov, 2026 @ 15:35

WATCH: Keffiyeh-clad protestor gets in kiosk worker’s face on Barcelona’s famous Rambla to force him to close in ‘solidarity with national strike’

10 Nov, 2026 @ 10:39

Warning for travellers heading to airports across Spain as train drivers’ strike causes chaos in Malaga, Madrid and Barcelona

3 Nov, 2026 @ 15:38

Heading to Barcelona or Madrid? Get 10GB of mobile data for under €5 with this Spain eSIM

1 Nov, 2026 @ 08:01

No-show for Blocus: Barcelona avoids repeat of riots as 700 police identify more than 1,400 young people

30 Oct, 2026 @ 15:15

Barcelona’s Joan Miro museum is loaned 37 works from master Catalan artist from private Japanese collector

30 Oct, 2026 @ 13:00

Catalan police officers face eight years behind bars after ‘pair tortured young man and hurled racist and homophobic abuse’

MADRID

10 Nov, 2026 @ 16:52

Simply the Best (outing this Christmas) as Tina Turner stage show rocks up in Spain

7 Nov, 2026 @ 07:54

EU investigates Spanish rail safety bodies for ‘safety fund fraud’ after Toledo train crash

a RENFE AVE on a viaduct on the Madrid Sevilla line

4 Nov, 2026 @ 12:15

Andalucia to Madrid high-speed line set to reopen with fewer trains after Toledo disaster

The Toledo train disaster and Ryanair and Wizz Air planes

2 Nov, 2026 @ 07:30

Airlines join forces to lay on extra flights between Madrid and Andalucia after Toledo train disaster shuts high-speed line

1 Nov, 2026 @ 12:00

Must-visit: These 5 ‘low-cost’ escapes all within an hour from Madrid – according to a leading Spanish newspaper

1 Nov, 2026 @ 08:38

Tiger of hashish’ caught in Tangier: alleged drug kingpin who lived in luxury in Madrid arrested after fleeing to Morocco

OTHER NEWS

Manuel Ferrero Alvarez is accused of planting a bomb that killed police officer Juan Jose Rodriguez and his German shepherd sniffer dog.

Who is ‘The Russian’? Hundreds of police hunt elite ex-legionnaire who shot girl, 17, and killed officer and his dog with backpack bomb in northern Spain

Crime & Law·Lead·Northern Spain

11 Nov, 2026 @ 12:43

The suspect is believed to be armed with a pistol and a rifle, and police fear he may have more explosives.

Mayor of tiny Costa del Sol village to enter Spain’s Big Brother house in bid to ‘raise awareness’ of depopulation in her town

Costa del Sol·Lead·Politics

11 Nov, 2026 @ 10:42

Katrin Ortega Marquez, who has led Parauta since 2019, has confirmed she will become a contestant on the ninth series of Gran Hermano VIP.

Manhunt launched for suspect known as ‘The Russian’ after backpack ‘bomb’ kills police officer and sniffer dog in northern Spain

Animals·Crime & Law·Lead

10 Nov, 2026 @ 19:12

Manuel Ferrero Alvarez, known as ‘The Russian’, remains at large after an explosive device left inside a backpack detonated in Oviedo, Asturias on Tuesday