Friday, March 29, 2024

Costa Blanca

TRIPLE BLOW: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could threaten €400 million worth of trade on Spain’s Costa Blanca

LOWER HOME sales, tourism revenues and rising energy prices due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cost Costa Blanca 400 million euros, reports claim. The...

Unvaccinated patients make up two-thirds of intensive care COVID-19 cases in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

TWO out of three recent ICU hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the Valencian Community have involved unvaccinated patients. Official health figures for the period between...

Businessman gets 36 years in prison for raping his children’s nanny three times at his Costa Blanca villa in...

A man has been jailed for 36 years for raping his children's nanny three times at his Calpe villa on the northern Costa Blanca. An...

Archaeologists uncover 120,000 year-old Neanderthal camp site in Spain’s Alicante area

AN archaeological team has discovered an open air Neanderthal camp site in Alicante Province dating back around 120,000 years. Researchers from Alicante and Valencia universities...

Mayor of expat and Costa Blanca tourist area of Spain slams Valencian silence over medical centre land offer

ORIHUELA council says it's had no reply over an offer of land that could site a second health centre for the Orihuela Costa. Orihuela mayor,...

Manhunt launched after dog KILLED by ‘poisoned’ food at popular dog beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca, with four other...

Whilst police investigate who may be responsible, council workers are combing the area and the neighbouring beaches of Cobaticas and Playa Gachero for further traces

Eagle will land to scare off pesky seagulls from Costa Blanca castle in Spain

DENIA is deploying shock tactics by getting an eagle to cut the seagull population around the city's castle. Lokimica- who run Denia council's pest-control services-...

‘Hugging’ robberies continue to hit the elderly on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A woman involved in a spate of hugging robberies has struck in Alicante Province yet again, this time in Crevillente. The 21-year-old and her male...

New summer heatwave with temperatures of 47? to hit Spain next week 

A NEW heatwave with temperatures of up to 47? will hit Spain next week, according to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).  Meteorologists have announced...

EXPLAINER: Why high COVID-19 infections don’t reflect the full pandemic situation in the Costa Blanca area of Spain

OVER 22,000 coronavirus cases were reported this Friday in the Valencian Community but hospital admissions are over 50% lower than 12 months ago. The regional...

Health Centre set up to help maintain family relationships on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA now has a ‘Family Meeting Point’, set up just in time for Christmas and the Three Kings, when familial relationships are under most...

How lockdown life in Spain will change the look of new-build properties around the world

LIFE AT HOME has changed for everyone, thanks to varying lockdown restrictions across the world. Here in Spain, we’ve been lucky to have had very...

COVID-19 hospital admissions fall again as new infections stay constant in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

COVID-19 case numbers have show little change in either daily or weekly comparisons in the Valencian Community, as hospitalisations continue to fall. The number of...

Bogus computer expert cleared out over €250,000 from client’s bank account on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A 28-YEAR-OLD Spaniard posed as a computer expert to steal over €250,000 from a client's bank account in Alicante. The victim told the Policia Nacional...

Husband stabbed in revenge attack by wife’s family in Costa Blanca area of Spain

SEVERAL relatives of an Orihuela woman are being investigated after her husband was stabbed in the neck. The assault was said to be retaliation for...

Partitioning system for safe beach use during de-escalation period devised by company on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BEACHES throughout Spain will allow sunbathing at some stage in the coming weeks as the country progresses through the four phases of the COVID-19...

BRIT’S LUCKY ESCAPE as his plane crashes into lemon trees on the Costa Blanca in Spain

A British man walked away unscathed after his plane crashed into an orchard outside Bigastro on the southern Costa Blanca. The unnamed pilot, said to...

IN PICS: Shoppers at Costa Blanca street markets show ‘respect, co-operation and good humour’ in return to ‘some form...

COSTA Blanca shoppers did themselves proud as Spain’s de-escalation plans brought in the reopening of many of the region’s street markets this week. Town hall...

BREAKING: Fallas de Valencia and Magdalena de Castellon festivals CANCELLED over coronavirus in €500 MILLION blow for Spain’s tourism...

THE Fallas festival in Valencia has been suspended over coronavirus.  Ximo Puig, president of the region, announced at 10pm tonight that the Magdalena de Castellon...

The biggest risk to your investments and pensions… could it be your financial adviser?

by Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons) Managing Partner Chorus Financial Over the last decade Spanish expats have been exposed to some incredibly poor financial advice. In...

Luxury rental villas costing €4k a month are converted into marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca

POLICE have arrested two members of a gang that set up indoor marijuana farms in luxury rental villas across Alicante province. One villa was located...

Why are Benidorm bars putting ‘for lease’ signs up in protest of Spain’s de-escalation regulations?

HUNDREDS of bars across Benidorm have stuck 'to lease' signs on their window-fronts in protest of de-escalation from Europe's strictest coronavirus lockdown. The Cobreca-Abreca associations...

Costa Blanca residents furious as beaches are ‘closed off’ by piles of putrefying posidonia seagrass

RESIDENTS have taken to social media to express disgust over piles of posidonia seagrass so thick they 'can't get to the sea'. One resident in...

Underlying COVID-19 new case trend is upwards but still at ‘lowish’ levels in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas compared...

COVID-19 daily infection totals have recorded a week-to-week rise but are lower than yesterday's total according to statistics released tonight(April 1) by the Valencian...

Spain’s Costa Blanca witnesses the first beach drowning tragedy of the year

THE first case this year of a swimmer dying from drowning in Costa Blanca waters has been reported in Teulada-Moraira. A 60-year-old German tourist died...

Benidorm pays tribute to over 200 residents who died from Covid-19 during pandemic in Spain

A white candle and memorial plaque have been erected at a new Benidorm roundabout to remember the 200-plus local victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. A...

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Expat family chain themselves to a digger to halt new development being built next to their finca on Spain’s...

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