Gas fire explosion leaves elderly man with 50% burns in one of two fires in neighbouring villages on Spain’s...
FIRES in neighbouring urbanisations in the Vega Baja area resulted in two septuagenarians being hospitalised last night, December 14.
Firefighters were called to attend the...
QUEUE-JUMPING mayors will have to wait to get their second COVID jab in Spain’s Valencian Community
POLITICIANS who broke the rules by getting a first shot of the anti-coronavirus vaccine will have to take their proper turn to get the...
Corruption trial involving ex-mayor of Calpe gets delayed yet again on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE trial of ex-Calpe mayor Javier Morato for his alleged role in a fraudulent €4 million waste contract has been delayed yet again.
That's because...
British man on the run for 16 years on Manchester drugs and gun charges is arrested on Spain’s Costa...
A 48-year-old British man faces extradition 16 years after fleeing to the Costa Blanca.
He was due to be tried on drugs and gun offences,...
DOWNWARD CURVE is maintained in new COVID-19 cases in Spain’s Valencian Community
NEW COVID-19 cases are continuing to spiral downwards in the Valencian Community, with figures almost two-thirds lower than a week earlier.
The latest briefing from...
NOISES OFF as Benidorm area residents get council support over rising decibels of AP-7 traffic on Spain’s Costa Blanca
RESIDENTS on a Costa Blanca urbanisation have the proof they need over their complaints concerning a noisy road that is just metres away from...
Dumb thieves travel 400 kilometres to break Benidorm curfew and are identified after supermarket robberies on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THREE young robbers travelled over 400 kilometres from Zaragoza to Benidorm to break into a couple of supermarkets by smashing the windows with manhole...
Benidorm and Costa Blanca’s leading hotel body slams ‘contagious tourismophobia’ of Spain’s Valencian Government
THE Costa Blanca's largest hotel lobby group has attacked the Valencian government position that Easter domestic tourism will be 'written off' for the second-year...
COVID-19 case count maintains its downward slide in Spain’s Valencian Community
300 new COVID-19 cases were announced tonight(March 11) in the Valencian Community which on the indicative week-to-week comparison is 89 down on the total...
Belligerent Bulgarian murder fugitive doesn’t think straight as he abused police on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Bulgarian man wanted for murder in his country made a fateful mistake in abusing the Policia Nacional in an incident which was videoed...
DO YOU KNOW HIM? Police appeal to expats in Spain to solve 1994 murder of Surrey scientist
British police are appealing to expats in Spain in the belief someone on the Costas may hold the key to solving a 27-year-old cold...
COVID-19 infections reach lowest daily total since mid-July in Costa Blanca and Valencia regions of Spain
NEW coronavirus infections in the Valencian Community have risen by just 29 in the last 24 hours to produce the lowest daily total since...
Special open days extended until Sunday at historic castle on Spain’s Costa Blanca
GUARDAMAR’S historic castle is having more open days added due to popular demand.
The Castell de Guardamar and the old Real Villa will now be...
COVID-19 cases in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas are not rising greatly in aftermath of Easter holiday
NEW COVID-19 infections are marginally up on a week-to-week basis according to the latest figures for the Valencia region published today(April 14).
160 new cases...
VACCINE BOOST as single-dose Johnson vaccines arrive in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas
DOSES of the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine have arrived this morning(April 22) in the Valencian Community.
Spain got its first shipment of the vaccine...
New age group will start getting COVID vaccines next week in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
A new age group will start getting COVID vaccinations in the Valencian Community from next week.
The regional health ministry says that the vaccination programme...
EXPLAINED: Why bars and restaurants in places like Benidorm on Spain’s Costa Blanca desperately need to stay open until...
THE Conhostor hospitality association has called for a two-hour extension on bar and restaurant hours in the Valencian Community to start from Monday(May 10).
That's...
‘EXTREMELY VIOLENT’ drug dealer is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after he tried to kill a customer
DNA analysis has helped police arrest a man branded as 'extremely violent' in Crevillente.
The 37-year-old drug dealer is accused of trying to kill a...
LET THEM IN! Top tourist area of the Costa Blanca to make personal plea to UK Ambassador to Spain...
VALENCIAN president, Ximo Puig, will visit Madrid this Monday(May 24) to appeal for British tourists to be allowed to visit the Costa Blanca without...
Police investigate over 500 crimes of fly-tipping in “impossible” problem on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ORIHUELA is suffering from an ongoing problem of rubbish-dumping throughout the municipality’s streets.
In the year and eight months since the storms and flooding of...
VACCINATIONS for 40 year olds in the Valencian Community start today, TEN days ahead of schedule
Vaccination against Covid-19 for people between 40 and 49 years old in the Valencian Community starts today, June 7, a whole ten days ahead...
Divers fish out dozens of tyres from just one small area of the Costa Blanca sea in Spain
400 kilos of rubbish, including 53 tyres, were removed in a weekend clear-up around Javea's Punta de l'Arenal beach and Primer Muntanyar.
It was a...
Death of Jose Paredes who pioneered big-scale shoe manufacturing in Elche on Spain’s Costa Blanca
JOSE Paredes who made Elche a leading Spanish force in footwear has died aged 88, following a car accident close to his home in...
Big rise in COVID-19 weekend infections with ‘February-like’ totals in Valencia area of Spain
NEW coronavirus cases have almost tripled compared to the previous weekend in the Valencian Community with a total harking back to late February.
The regional...
COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise across the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
THE tide of new coronavirus infections continues to surge in the Valencian Community with 998 cases reported today(July 6).
A week ago on June 29,...
British expat reverend thanks God and wife four years after doctors sent him home to die on Spain’s Costa...
Vergel-based expat Clive Read, 79, was suffering from pneumonia and an undiagnosed heart condition when he stopped responding to treatment at Denia Hospital in April 2015
LATEST NEWS FROM THE COSTA BLANCA
Mini-heatwave suddenly ends this weekend in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas
TEMPERATURES will plummet by at least ten degrees on Saturday to bring an abrupt end to a mini-heatwave in the Valencian Community.
Thermometers have soared...
