More than 700 mayors probed for helping plan Catalonia referendum
SPAIN’S state prosecutor has ordered a criminal probe of 712 Catalan mayors who backed the upcoming independence referendum. All 712 have been summoned to court
Mallorca’s British expat community backs Debbie Cameron and Laura Joyce over alleged sickness scam arrests
Locals express 'shock' following mother and daughter's arrests
Don’t be scared to see your dentist
How to calm your nerves in the dentist’s chair
Max Polyakov’s Firefly Aerospace and Other Space News of 2017
Last year in August, when the spaceship SpaceX Dragon carrying cargo landed on the International Space Station, it was easy to assume that space travel
Things get ‘late and loud’ in Mallorca, but it’s best if you just roll with it, says Lesley Keith
The rhythms of Mallorca find favour with OP columnist
EXCLUSIVE: British expats arrested in massive drug swoop in Spanish resort worked for local clubs and a hairdressing salon
THE majority of British expats arrested in a massive drugs swoop in Magaluf worked as ‘on street PRs’ for local clubs and at a hairdressing
Almost 20% of Spain’s economy is illegal ‘black money’, new survey shows
Spain's submerged black economy is third highest in industrialised world
Patiently beckoning the end of the summer season
As I get older and wiser (and that's an oxymoron in itself) that I no longer look forward to the annual influx of party hungry
The original Brits abroad: Some of the most famous expats in Andalucia
As anti-tourism protests sweep across Spain, it’s time to remember the truly great things British visitors have done for the country
Spanish picture of boyfriend checking another woman goes viral
A POPULAR ‘distracted boyfriend’ photo gone viral was shot in Spain, it has been revealed. In the widely shared pic, a young woman walks
Spain sees more UK expats than the UK sees Spanish
DATA from the Office for National Statistics show that Spain sees over three times more British expats than the U.K. sees Spanish expats. The research
Minor helps two men tie up and rape 52-year-old British expat in southern Spain
THREE men have been arrested after a British expat was beaten, tied up and raped during a shocking attempted robbery in southern Spain. The 52-year-old
The latest on Spain’s planned airport strikes
SPAIN’S airport unions have decided to postpone the 25 one-day strikes they programmed for September 15 and onwards. The unions had asked for an 8%
Almost 20% of Spain’s economy operates ‘in the shadows’, new research shows
JUST under 20% of Spain’s economy operates ‘in the shadows’. In a new chart based on research by Germany’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW),
Young girl ‘sexually assaulted and thrown off balcony’ in Marbella, 32-year-old man arrested
A 32-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for allegedly throwing a young girl off a balcony in Marbella. She is thought to have been pushed over
British expat who returned to UK from Spain found HOMELESS and starving after council refused to house him
A BRITISH expat who returned to the UK has been found starving and sleeping rough after his local council refused to house him. David Sutcliffe,
Row brewing over night flights from Palma de Mallorca airport
Airline leaders hit back after politicians lodge complaint to Madrid
DRIVING STEREOTYPES: Do you fit the British or Spanish driving stereotype?
BRITS spend most of their time in the car thanking other drivers and are more likely to play a game of ‘I spy’ than any
RAIN IN SPAIN: ‘Cold drop’ to bring showers across the country, AEMET warns
SPAIN’S weather agency AEMET is warning of the possibility heavy rainfall in Malaga and across Spain from next week. Aemet issued a national warning of
Spanish cops bust HUGE international sex trafficking ring in Malaga
POLICIA Nacional have busted an international sex trafficking ring operating out of Malaga and Benidorm. Some 25 people were arrested yesterday, including a woman in
DRONE COPS: Costa del Sol town gets green light for Spain’s first flying police unit
MARBELLA will boast Spain’s first ‘flying police unit’ from next month. It comes after the AENA, the State Agency for Aviation Safety (AESA) and the
IT’S NOT OVER: Chilling new threat from ISIS to Spain as sick terror group promises to launch more attacks
A PRO-ISIS website has warned of further attacks in Spain from terror cells still embedded in the country. The Wafa Media Foundation published a statement
NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN?: Teenage boy arrested for doing the Macarena on busy road
A TEENAGER has been arrested in Saudi Arabia after footage of him doing the Macarena on a busy street in Jeddah went viral. The 14-year-old
MALAGA CHAOS: Which days to expect airport strikes from September to December
TRAVELLERS are bracing themselves for severe flight delays at Malaga airport and across Spain over the coming months. It comes after labour unions called for
A different sort of noise: Lenox Napier’s Portuguese adventure
I last visited the other side of the Iberian peninsula two decades ago with an old black and white guidebook from 1957… so it wasn’t really
The truth about electric toothbrushes
New health columnist Dr Nina King from Marbella’s Oasis Dental Clinic gives us the low down on electric toothbrushes ELECTRIC toothbrushes have been available