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High terror alert in Spain: 700 police officers deployed ahead of basketball game featuring Israeli team in Valencia

A VALENCIA basketball game has been deemed a high terror risk as hundreds of officers are deployed in the city.  Around 700 police officers will...

British expat, 62, dies in head-on motorcycle crash on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A BRITISH motorcyclist died in a head-on collision with another car- also driven by a British national- in the San Miguel de Salinas area...

British-run animal charity launches private prosecution against ‘cat killer’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A MARINA ALTA animal charity has launched a private prosecution against a man who stole three cats from their El Verger shelter in the...

Thieves rob homes as part of their summer holiday on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FOUR GEORGIAN men rented Torrevieja area holiday homes over the summer to use them as bases to rob properties across the Vega Baja and...

Fly-tippers dump fridges and electrical gear which threatens endangered duck on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ECOLOGISTS have complained to Elche City Council about an illegal waste dump off the CV-861 in the Hondo Natural Park. Accio Ecologista-Agro has sent a...

How to get yourself protected this winter against flu and Covid-19 in Spain’s Costa Blanca

DOUBLE vaccinations against flu and Covid-19 started being dosed out in the Valencian Community on Monday, with age categories extended at both ends of...

IN PICS: British expats take to Benidorm’s streets to launch annual Poppy Appeal on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION officially launched its 2023 Poppy Appeal for the Valencian Community and Murcia region last Saturday with its annual Benidorm procession. The...

Digital nomads could work in idyllic spot next to beautiful Costa Blanca beach in Spain

PLANS FOR a new up-market camping and mobile home site in l'Alfas del Pi aimed at digital nomads is seeking official approval to move...

Rats and cockroaches spotted crawling on old people’s faces in nursing homes on Spain’s Costa Blanca

CONDITIONS at three Alicante province nursing homes have been slammed amidst calls for the Valencian government to carry out urgent inspections. One home has been...

Extra low-cost fast train services to run between Spain’s Costa Blanca and Madrid

LOW-COST high speed train operator Ouigo is to add an additional service between Alicante and Madrid from December 10. It means there will be three-round...

Irish fugitive accused of helping cover up the murder of Carl Carr on Spain’s Costa Blanca dies before standing...

AN IRISH fugitive wanted over the cover up of the murder of fellow Irish national Carl Carr in Torrevieja five years ago has died...

Hotel worker, 24, ‘stole cash and valuables from guests’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca by ‘using universal code to raid...

AN ALICANTE hotel worker has been caught stealing money from room safes by using a universal access code to open them. The 24-year-old Spanish woman-...

Squatters take over almost 40 rooms at a single hotel on Spain’s Costa Blanca in nightmare for owner

AN ALICANTE firm specialising in removing squatters has cleared out dozens of people who had taken over an empty Calpe hotel. The old Rocinante Hotel-...

Spanish startup’s private rocket launch is a success after taking off from Andalucia at the weekend – and it’s...

ELCHE startup PLD Space launched the first-ever private European rocket into orbit on Saturday morning. After two postponements in the spring, the first launch of...

Spain will launch a rocket from Andalucia at 2am TOMORROW – here’s how you can see it

ELCHE'S PLD Space will launch the first private rocket in Europe -Miura 1- in the early hours of Saturday morning from El Arenosillo in...

Railings corrode for over two years at popular Costa Blanca promenade in Spain as council says it has no...

A RESIDENTS group has slammed the state of the railing at one of the main promenades on the Orihuela Costa in the south of...

British tourists boost Costa Blanca hotel occupancy in September

COSTA BLANCA hotels reported a busier September than last year with a tourist occupancy rate of 80%- according to the Alicante Province Hotel Association(APHA). It...

Two men are jailed for rape of young British tourist in Spain’s Benidorm

TWO ALGERIAN men have been arrested for allegedly raping a British tourist in the Benidorm area on August 25. The age of the victim has...

Carer ‘steals €20,000 watch from woman, 94, on Spain’s Costa Blanca before melting down her jewellery for cash’

A CARER has been arrested for stealing over €50,000 of jewellery from an elderly Elche woman that employed her. The 94-year-old victim's daughter complained to...

Zig-zagging ‘nine times over alcohol limit’ lorry driver chased by police on Costa Blanca motorway in Spain

A DRUNK Ukrainian lorry driver was pulled over on the A-70 motorway in Alicante after zig-zagging between lanes for over three kilometres. The Guardia Civil...

Feral cats claim to be disrupting protected areas and species including nesting birds in Spain’s Costa Blanca

GUARDAMAR council has been warned about a rising feral cat population at the mouth of the Segura river and in the dune pine forest...

Woman wins €450,000 pay out after shoulder surgery causes arm amputation at Costa Blanca hospital in Spain

AN ELDERLY woman has got a €450,000 pay-out after a shoulder operation went wrong at Torrevieja Hospital resulting in the amputation of her left...

After years of campaigning, British expat areas of Spain’s Costa Blanca will finally get home postal deliveries

COMMUNITY postal boxes are to be scrapped over large parts of the Orihuela Costa with the state postal service Correos ordered to introduce 'door...

British and other foreign tourists spent a record-breaking €1.6 billion across Spain’s Valencia region this August

THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY welcomed 1.26 million international tourists during August- up by 19.68% on the same month last year with record levels of expenditure. It's...

Health centre expansion reversed for busy British expat area of Spain’s Costa Blanca

PLANS to expand a health centre serving 30,000 patients on the Orihuela Costa have been shelved in favour of seeking a site to build...

Teenage youths in mass fight brandishing machetes and knives as horrified parents look on at junior soccer match in...

A FIGHT in a football stand between teenage groups forced police to suspend a match in Javea on Saturday, with two boys arrested and...

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