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IN PICS: Volunteers from public and private sectors ‘show solidarity’ by making 6,000 meals in THREE days for Costa Blanca needy

SCORES of volunteer chefs, restaurants, hotels and council staff have been recognised for their efforts helping the needy during the Coronavirus pandemic. Over 150 volunteers

23 Apr, 2020 @ 15:10

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca cops keep confined kids content with lock-down learning literature

ORIHUELA Policia Local have produced two activity books to help stimulate the minds of children during lock-down. The books are aimed at children aged between

22 Apr, 2020 @ 17:33

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

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Costa Blanca council give out PPE to front-line staff struggling to get stock

ORIHUELA City Council are distributing essential Personal Protective Equipment to businesses that remain open throughout lock-down. Given that access to PPE involves ‘great difficulty’, the

22 Apr, 2020 @ 16:54

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

Cancer patients and pregnant women in Alicante’s Marina Alta comarca can receive rapid COVID-19 tests – details here

CANCER patients and pregnant women can receive free coronavirus tests thanks to a campaign launched by health activists in Alicante’s Marina Alta comarca. The rapid

22 Apr, 2020 @ 15:20

Costa Blanca·Health

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Police save life of 3-year-old who nearly suffocated after putting cable tie round his neck in Spain’s Valencia

POLICIA Nacional have saved the life of a three-year-old boy who nearly suffocated to death in Valencia. Police were called to the district of Transits

20 Apr, 2020 @ 19:03

Costa Blanca

Suspended sentence for Costa Blanca woman caught on 45km shopping trip four times in 12 days

A TORREVIEJA woman has escaped going to jail after she was caught flouting lock-down mobility restrictions FOUR times. Guardia Civil traffic police caught her travelling

20 Apr, 2020 @ 15:25

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca police arrest ‘arrogant and defiant’ man for breaching lock-down for twelfth time

ALMORADI Policia Local arrested a local man for breaching lock-down regulations for the TWELFTH time! His excuse during Saturday’s arrest, was that he had to

20 Apr, 2020 @ 14:45

Costa Blanca·Lead

Elderly and ‘at risk’ prioritised for free protective masks in Spain’s Costa Blanca

SOME of the near 20 million pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will soon be available free of charge to citizens in Costa Blanca –

19 Apr, 2020 @ 14:18

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

Costa Blanca health workers given meals, cars and rooms by local businesses, and isolated patients even given PC tablets

TORREVIEJA University Hospital has been overwhelmed by donations of meals, hotel rooms and even apartments during the Covid-19 crisis. PPE and material for the leisure

16 Apr, 2020 @ 12:07

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Spain’s Valencian Community has now received close to 20 million pieces of PPE from China

Millions of masks arrived in Valencia this week as the ninth flight lands with supplies from China Valencia’s city airport welcomed the ninth flight from

16 Apr, 2020 @ 07:37

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

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British nurse travels across Spain to help former hospital in the UK battle the COVID-19 crisis

AN NHS nurse has travelled across Spain to join her old team in the UK in the fight against COVID-19. Trudy Laverick set off from

15 Apr, 2020 @ 19:51

Costa Blanca

SURVIVING THE CRISIS: Classically-trained opera singer dedicates Spanish-English ‘You Raise Me Up’ from her balcony to medical staff across Spain

“It felt a bit silly at first, but I just wanted to lift people’s spirits,” says classically-trained opera singer Claire-Maire, a French and English as

15 Apr, 2020 @ 16:44

Costa Blanca

WATCH: Madrid man threatens to f*** Costa Blanca town with Covid-19 before expulsion for ‘hate crime’

TORREVIEJA magistrates have expelled the man that boasted of travelling from Madrid to spread Coronavirus throughout the city. The order prohibits Antonio BD from, “residing

15 Apr, 2020 @ 15:11

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid

Foiled by fruit – tardy pair of Costa Calida criminals impeded by booty of ‘berries

POLICIA Nacional arrested a pair of serial thieves fleeing from a Cartagena bar, last week. Observant locals had contacted police after witnessing a fruit shop,

15 Apr, 2020 @ 12:02

Costa Blanca·Lead

Unlucky pair arrested for flouting lock-down rules, then see sizeable stash of hash and cash seized, too

TWO MEN from Molina de Segura, near Costa Calida’s Murcia, lost out in a number of ways when they were pulled over by Guardia Civil,

15 Apr, 2020 @ 07:29

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

WATCH: Police helicopter swoops in on lone beachgoer amid coronavirus lockdown on Spain’s Costa Blanca

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdq8XD-uSaY[/embedyt] THIS is the extraordinary moment a police helicopter swooped in on a lone beachgoer during the coronavirus lockdown in Spain. Policia Nacional officers

14 Apr, 2020 @ 18:55

Costa Blanca·Lead·National News

Barmy bathers found flouting lock-down law at Costa Blanca beauty spot

TWO MEN were identified and fined this week for flouting lock-down rules at secluded beaches in Guardamar del Segura. Calls from concerned locals alerted Guardia

14 Apr, 2020 @ 12:55

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Charities and police combine to help feed Costa Blanca migrant communities during lock-down crisis

THE ALICANTE Food Bank and several charities have combined forces with Guardia Civil to collect and distribute food parcels among migrant communities in the region.

14 Apr, 2020 @ 08:09

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

Differences put aside with cross-party agreement to honour Spanish dead in Costa Blanca city

ORIHUELA Town Hall will be lowering their flags in honour of the 17,000+ Spanish people that have died so far of Coronavirus. The city’s mayor,

13 Apr, 2020 @ 11:38

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

RISKING LIVES: Birthday party caught, fined and sent home after lighting barbecue in communal area of Costa Blanca resort

RISKING their own lives, and those of loved ones, a birthday party of seven people was denounced by the Guardia Civil in Guardamar del Segura,

13 Apr, 2020 @ 10:53

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca cocaine dealer caught telling lock-down lies

GUARDIA CIVIL stopped a drug deal in its tracks this week when three occupants of a car failed to explain themselves. The vehicle had been

11 Apr, 2020 @ 16:45

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

Number of cars intercepted in Costa Blanca city DOUBLES in one day, as Easter weekend traffic from inland increases

SECURITY in Alicante has been increased after over 2,000 cars had been intercepted on Tuesday, alone. Main roads in and out of the city have

10 Apr, 2020 @ 13:04

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

MURCIA’S Mar Menor in danger as water chemical levels reach record high

THE Mar Menor area of the Murcian coastline is under threat as new studies reveal dangerous chemicals in the water have reached critical levels. The

10 Apr, 2020 @ 12:28

Costa Blanca·Lead

Police in Costa Blanca resort check shoppers’ addresses in latest clamp-down

SANTA POLA Local Police are informing citizens that they are happy to check the addresses of shoppers as they buy their groceries. The Costa Blanca

10 Apr, 2020 @ 12:18

Costa Blanca

SURVIVING THE CRISIS: British CEO of leading telecommunications provider hopes that amazing ‘community spirit’ won’t end with defeat of COVID-19

“AS a leading Telecommunications provider in Spain, we has a duty to keep operating in order to facilitate communications,” says Jan McDowell, CEO of Telitec

9 Apr, 2020 @ 20:14

Costa Blanca

SURVIVING THE CRISIS: Students of British martial arts gym owner set up surprise GoFundMe to help him through Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

MATRIX Martial Arts was opened in April 2018 and was the first dedicated martial arts school in Javea,” says Professor Steve Newman owner and head

9 Apr, 2020 @ 20:04

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