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WHITE STRIPES: Albino tiger believed to be ‘one of twenty’ left in the world found locked in Alicante garden

AN ALBINO tiger locked in a cage next to the swimming pool of an Alicante residence has raised alarm bells among municipal law enforcement. Alicante

23 Sep, 2019 @ 20:03

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

World’s ’13th-most expensive’ superyacht owned by Saudi billionaire docks in Denia

ONE of the world’s most expensive superyachts has caused an internet sensation after docking in the Port of Denia last weekend. The Lady Moura, reportedly

23 Sep, 2019 @ 15:25

Costa Blanca·Lead

Olive Press journalist attacked by squatter at urbanisation home to British residents in Alicante

AN Olive Press journalist has been attacked after exposing a ‘violent’ squatter family allegedly squatting and stealing electricity from a Costa Blanca complex. Simon Wade

22 Sep, 2019 @ 18:05

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Costa Blanca cancer charity in urgent appeal to help reach milestone figure

CARING expats have sent out a request for prizes and donations to Costa Blanca community in bid to bring their total raised to €500,000. Since

22 Sep, 2019 @ 16:03

Costa Blanca·Lead

One man’s journey across Europe to gather hay as horses in the Vega Baja face ‘famine’ following devastating floods that decimated the region’s alfalfa harvest

A NORWEGIAN man has driven hundreds of kilometres across Europe to plead for free hay as horses and goats in the Vega Baja are set

20 Sep, 2019 @ 19:13

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

It’s World Paella Day, and we’re still arguing about chorizo!

TODAY is World Paella Day, where food fans around the globe celebrate the most universal dish of Spain’s Valencia. It’s a day when passionate Valencianos

20 Sep, 2019 @ 15:47

Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Food & Drink·Lead·National News

Manchester United keeper David de Gea donates €200,000 to Costa Blanca flood relief

MANCHESTER United’s Spanish goalkeeper, David de Gea, has donated €200,000 to the disaster relief fund in the flood-hit Vega Baja region because of his father’s

20 Sep, 2019 @ 12:39

Costa Blanca·Lead·Sport

WATCH: Gang of child-abducting Costa Almeria drug traffickers get arrested by Spanish police and Europol in joint swoop

A MULTINATIONAL group of drug-smugglers that used children to transport their contraband has been dismantled after the Spanish Policía Nacional, the French Police Nationale and

19 Sep, 2019 @ 19:42

Almeria·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Hunter heard ‘three engine explosions’ before two French pilots killed in Pedreguer plane crash

A HUNTER out stalking rabbits has claimed he heard ‘three explosions’ from the engine of an aeroplane that later crashed in Pedreguer, killing two French

19 Sep, 2019 @ 17:08

Costa Blanca·Lead

Policía Nacional agents drafted in to block looters from breaking into houses ruined by catastrophic Costa Blanca storms

POLICÍA NACIONAL have revealed that specially-designated agents will perform round-the-clock patrols of certain flood-hit areas to prevent looting. Villages and towns across the Vega Baja

19 Sep, 2019 @ 16:46

Costa Blanca·Lead

Valencian government to provide financial aid to flood victims as estimates put damage at ‘€1.5 billion’ to the Costa Blanca

THE catastrophic floods that swept through the Costa Blanca last week are expected to cost the region €1.5 billion. In a bid to provide financial

19 Sep, 2019 @ 16:25

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

WATCH: Spanish ‘angels’ travel from as far as Murcia help British woman clear ruined Costa Blanca house of mud and wreckage

A GROUP of Spanish ‘angels’ have aided a British woman clear the ‘destroyed’ ground floor of her Costa Blanca home from mud and wreckage. Subscribe

18 Sep, 2019 @ 17:14

Costa Blanca·Lead

Fugitive rapist arrested in Torrevieja after fleeing from Italian justice

POLICÍA Nacional in Torreveija yesterday arrested a 35-year-old man wanted for a rape in Italy. The alleged aggressor had previously escaped Turin Police by jumping

18 Sep, 2019 @ 16:50

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Migrants intercepted off Costa Calida as ‘steady flow’ resumes following respite from gota fría storms

GUARDIA Civil have apprehended four unauthorised migrants that reached the municipality Águilas on Tuesday night. Eleven more were caught as they landed close to Cartagena,

18 Sep, 2019 @ 16:34

Costa Blanca·Lead

Man kills ex-wife in front of kids before slaying her mum and sister in shocking machismo killing in Spain

It has since been revealed the couple were going through divorce proceedings, however police said there were no records of domestic violence complaints

18 Sep, 2019 @ 08:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·National News

Retired British couple with Alicante home to tell court ‘mystery businessman called Lee’ funded lavish lifestyle despite being arrested with €1 million worth of cocaine in suitcase on luxury cruise

A RETIRED British couple arrested with nearly €1 million worth of cocaine on a luxury cruise will claim a mystery ‘Jamaican businessman’ funded their lavish

17 Sep, 2019 @ 18:28

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Roman map shows flood-hit regions of the Costa Blanca were part of the Med just 2,000 years ago

THE Vega Baja region is prone to flooding because it was once part of the Mediterranean Sea, a Roman-era map of the area shows. The

17 Sep, 2019 @ 16:41

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Ufologists claim alien spacecraft ‘refuel in thunderstorms’ after UFO sighted over Alicante last week

UFOLOGISTS have claimed alien spacecraft ‘refuel’ during electric storms after a UFO was spotted over Alicante city last week. Subscribe to Olive Press TV A

17 Sep, 2019 @ 16:03

Costa Blanca·Lead

Death toll reaches seven as body of Dutchman found near Dolores following deadly Costa Blanca floods

GUARDIA Civil have recovered the body of the seventh flood victim following catastrophic weather that hit the Costa Blanca last week. The deceased has been

17 Sep, 2019 @ 14:39

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·National News

WATCH: British couple return to Almoradí to find their house completely destroyed

A BRITISH couple have ‘lost everything’ after the Segura river burst its banks and obliterated their house in Almoradí last Sunday. Subscribe to Olive Press

17 Sep, 2019 @ 14:07

Costa Blanca·Lead

‘Warming Mediterranean Sea’ was behind record-breaking rain, claims Alicante professor

A LEADING climatologist from the University of Alicante has blamed a ‘warmer Mediterranean Sea’ for the killer floods that devastated the Costa Blanca last week.

17 Sep, 2019 @ 13:17

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·National News

WATCH: Bizarre video shows ‘drunk’ woman carted around on mobility scooter in Spain’s Benidorm

Onlookers clap, while others cheer and laugh as the woman rocks from side to side with her head back

17 Sep, 2019 @ 10:21

Costa Blanca·Lead

British author in Alicante pens wartime novel to international success

A BRITISH author residing on the Costa Blanca has enjoyed such ‘amazing success’ with her debut novel she’s already begun work on numbers two and

16 Sep, 2019 @ 18:56

Costa Blanca·Entertainment·Lead

WATCH: Guardia Civil helicopter comes to rescue three people trapped by floodwater in Dolores on the Costa Blanca

THIS is the moment a Guardia Civil helicopter rescued three people trapped in the house after devastating floods rocked the Costa Blanca. Subscribe to Olive

16 Sep, 2019 @ 18:06

Costa Blanca·Lead

At least 25,000 people affected by devastating floods in southern and eastern Spain as insurance claims expected to surpass €140 million

LAST week’s devastating floods have affected at least 25,000 people and will see more than €140 million paid out in insurance claims. According to experts

16 Sep, 2019 @ 13:55

Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga

Thousands help rebuild Spain’s Costa Blanca after six die in floods following worst storm for 140 years

South East Spain starts to recover in short break from lethal floods and storms

16 Sep, 2019 @ 11:59

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

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WHITE STRIPES: Albino tiger believed to be ‘one of twenty’ left in the world found locked in Alicante garden

World’s ’13th-most expensive’ superyacht owned by Saudi billionaire docks in Denia

Olive Press journalist attacked by squatter at urbanisation home to British residents in Alicante

Costa Blanca cancer charity in urgent appeal to help reach milestone figure

One man’s journey across Europe to gather hay as horses in the Vega Baja face ‘famine’ following devastating floods that decimated the region’s alfalfa harvest

It’s World Paella Day, and we’re still arguing about chorizo!

Manchester United keeper David de Gea donates €200,000 to Costa Blanca flood relief

WATCH: Gang of child-abducting Costa Almeria drug traffickers get arrested by Spanish police and Europol in joint swoop

Hunter heard ‘three engine explosions’ before two French pilots killed in Pedreguer plane crash

Policía Nacional agents drafted in to block looters from breaking into houses ruined by catastrophic Costa Blanca storms

Valencian government to provide financial aid to flood victims as estimates put damage at ‘€1.5 billion’ to the Costa Blanca

WATCH: Spanish ‘angels’ travel from as far as Murcia help British woman clear ruined Costa Blanca house of mud and wreckage

Fugitive rapist arrested in Torrevieja after fleeing from Italian justice

Migrants intercepted off Costa Calida as ‘steady flow’ resumes following respite from gota fría storms

Man kills ex-wife in front of kids before slaying her mum and sister in shocking machismo killing in Spain

Retired British couple with Alicante home to tell court ‘mystery businessman called Lee’ funded lavish lifestyle despite being arrested with €1 million worth of cocaine in suitcase on luxury cruise

Roman map shows flood-hit regions of the Costa Blanca were part of the Med just 2,000 years ago

Ufologists claim alien spacecraft ‘refuel in thunderstorms’ after UFO sighted over Alicante last week

Death toll reaches seven as body of Dutchman found near Dolores following deadly Costa Blanca floods

WATCH: British couple return to Almoradí to find their house completely destroyed

‘Warming Mediterranean Sea’ was behind record-breaking rain, claims Alicante professor

WATCH: Bizarre video shows ‘drunk’ woman carted around on mobility scooter in Spain’s Benidorm

British author in Alicante pens wartime novel to international success

WATCH: Guardia Civil helicopter comes to rescue three people trapped by floodwater in Dolores on the Costa Blanca

At least 25,000 people affected by devastating floods in southern and eastern Spain as insurance claims expected to surpass €140 million

Thousands help rebuild Spain’s Costa Blanca after six die in floods following worst storm for 140 years

UPDATED: At least TEN dead and dozens injured after two high-speed trains derail in horror crash in southern Spain

Spain watches on closely as neighbouring Portugal heads to the polls for crunch presidential election

ON THIS DAY: Pep’s birthday, Julio Iglesias’ randy dad, a Spanish playwright was born and a Nobel laureate died

It’s already the home of sherry – but Jerez de la Frontera now begins its reign as Spain’s culinary capital for 2026

Good news for Brits heading to Spain: Brussel’s new ETIAS permit pushed back once again