Scaremongering! Spanish Wealth Tax – your Pensions & Investments.
by Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons), Managing Partner, Chorus Financial. Without fail, every time there’s a new piece of legislation or an update that may affect...
Yacht was camouflaged as a fishing boat to smuggle tons of drugs into a Costa Blanca port in Spain
TWO-and-a-half tons of hashish was found on a yacht moored at Santa Pola, leading to the detention of a Murcia and Costa Blanca-based drugs...
Only a quarter of under-60s jabbed with AstraZeneca in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain have so far...
OVER three-quarters of under-60s jabbed with the AstraZeneca vaccine in the Valencia region have requested to take their second anti-COVID inoculation with the same...
Pedro Sanchez is told to use diplomacy to boost Benidorm and Costa Blanca tourism by getting Spain onto UK...
ALICANTE Provincial Council president, Carlos Mazon, wants Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, to exert more diplomatic pressure on the UK to get the country onto...
COVID-19 health situation latest from the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
LATEST coronavirus case figures from the Valencian health ministry stand at 205 new infections today(June 3). That's a fall of five on a week-to-week comparison...
SEA RIDDLE over male body in a wetsuit discovered 16 miles offshore by a Costa Blanca fishing boat in...
A Javea fishing boat discovered a body floating in the sea today(June 3), some 16 miles off Cabo de la Nao on the northern...
Ars Magna presents summer concert series across Valencia region with candlelit performances in historical settings
History and art come together to create something magical. The best artists on the music scene come together in these characteristic concerts organised for years...
‘Phishing’ and ‘Smishing’ gang on the Costa Blanca in Spain used credit card details conned out of victims
EIGHT people have been arrested in Almoradi and Torrevieja for running a nationwide scam that stole the credit card details of least 48 people. The...
EXPLAINER: Four new major rule changes in COVID-19 restrictions for the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
FOUR major changes have been announced today(June 3) to COVID-19 safety measures in the Valencian Community. As expected, Valencia President, Ximo Puig, confirmed that the...
The new edition of Olive Press for Costa Blanca South is out now – here’s where to get your...
THE 41st edition of The Olive Press for the Costa Blanca South and Murcia is out now. From the Mar Menor to Gran Alicant and...
Lifeguard service and improved facilities resume in time for high season on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ORIHUELA COSTA beaches will have their lifeguard and rescue services resume this Saturday, June 5, just in time for the pending summer season. With lockdown...
COVID-19 cases hold steady with zero deaths and falling hospital numbers in Costa Blanca area of Spain
NEW COVID-19 cases have fallen on a week-to week basis according to figures published today(June 2) by the Valencian health authority. 183 new infections were...
San Juan beach celebrations cancelled again by COVID-19 in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
TRADITIONAL San Juan festival beach parties will be strictly prohibited in the Valencian Community later this month. Regional Health Minister, Ana Barcelo, said: “If we...
Plague of ‘hugging’ robberies continues as couple strike across the Costa Blanca and Spain
A couple who committed at least ten 'hugging' robberies on the Costa Blanca, as well as in the Madrid and Murcia areas, have been...
Green list special status for low risk parts of mainland Spain unlikely says UK ambassador during Benidorm visit
THE UK ambassador to Madrid has said that it is unlikely that parts of mainland Spain will be allowed on the UK's travel...
EXCLUSIVE: British expats caught up in faked residency probe on Spain’s Costa Blanca face two-year legal limbo and travel...
EXPATS caught up in the alleged fraudulent residency scam on the Costa Blanca have been told by police that they can’t leave the country...
Belgian expat on the Costa Blanca in Spain claimed his dead mother’s state pension for over six years
A 48-year-old Belgian man has been arrested on the Costa Blanca for claiming over €90,000 from his mother's state pension after she died in...
A new ‘contemporary’ corporate logo costing €33,000 is unveiled by a Costa Blanca council in Spain
TORREVIEJA mayor, Eduardo Dolon, has unveiled a new corporate logo for the Costa Blanca city. €33.000 of public money has been spent on producing the...
Squatters evicted under new four-week ‘quickie’ process in Costa Blanca town in Spain
VILLAJOYOSA council has successfully triggered a new fast-track eviction process to clear an apartment block of squatters. The block in the northern Costa Blanca town...
COVID-19 case latest from the Costa Blanca and Valencia regions of Spain
NEW coronavirus cases are maintaining a very marginal rise on a week-to week basis in the Valencian Community. The Tuesday(June 1) report from the regional...
NIGHT CURFEW will definitely end in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain this coming Monday
A night curfew introduced in late October in the Valencian Community will end this Monday(June 7). Despite a slight rise in new COVID-19 cases, Valencian...
55-year-old Costa Blanca pervert in Spain ‘groomed’ boy aged under 14 to meet for sex
A 55-year-old Orihuela pervert was stopped from hooking up for sex with a boy aged under 14 after the Policia Nacional tracked down his...
Living in Spain but still have a UK based financial adviser?
by Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons), Managing Partner, Chorus Financial. Chorus Financial are receiving an increasing number of enquiries from those of you living in Spain...
‘WEEKEND WORRIES’ as new COVID-19 cases hit May highpoint in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
THE weekend COVID-19 case figures have produced May's largest total for the Valencian Community, according to the regional health ministry tonight(May 31). A total of...
International cruise ships are coming back to Alicante on Spain’s Costa Blanca this June
FOREIGN cruise ships will return to docking in Alicante next month to give an economic boost to the area. The news comes after the Spanish...
Landmark in a Costa Blanca city in Spain gets a full clean some 46 years after its unveiling
A Torrevieja landmark is getting a major makeover to repair damage caused by coastal erosion. The 'Hombre de Mar'(Man of the Sea) statue, was designed...

























































