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Malaga to Madrid from €7: Renfe launches sale on train fares starting TODAY

New high-speed rail routes in Spain: British expat hotspots on the Costa Blanca will be directly connected to these three fantastic cities

HIGH speed train services from state operator Renfe departing from Elche, Orihuela and Murcia will be directly linked to three Castilla y Leon region cities from next month. From April 8, people

13 Mar, 2024 @ 11:57

Costa Blanca·Lead·Murcia·Valencian Community

Iconic hotel in Spain’s Torrevieja goes up for sale at €6million

A POPULAR Torrevieja hotel with stunning sea views has gone up for sale for €6 million in a quiet residential area of the city The three-star Hotel Masa International is three kilometres

13 Mar, 2024 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Tap water had toxin levels up to 1,000 times over safety limit on Valencia industrial estate in Spain

Drought latest in Spain: Water pressure to be reduced on the Costa Blanca – this is all you need to know

OVERNIGHT water pressure levels have been cut in Alicante City to conserve reduced supplies due to the ongoing drought. The Jucar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ), which is the body responsible for water supplies

12 Mar, 2024 @ 15:44

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Murcia·Valencian Community

Record February Passenger Levels For Spain's Costa Blanca And Valencia Airports (2)

Alicante airport breaks February record with one MILLION passengers – over a third of which were British

A NEW February passenger record has been set by Alicante-Elche airport which welcomed just over one million travellers last month. Over a third of the arrivals came from the United Kingdom, which

12 Mar, 2024 @ 13:10

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Expat Brits in Benidorm sold drugs to bar and hotel customers with express deliveries via an electric scooter

Expat fugitive is arrested in Benidorm after being caught with trunk filled with cannabis and cash

A MONTENEGRAN fugitive sentenced to four years in prison for drug trafficking led police on a high-speed chase around Benidorm’s streets. The 33-year-old man has been arrested by the Policia Nacional and

12 Mar, 2024 @ 12:22

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Costa Blanca Airport In Spain Welcomes New Look Tourist Information Desk

This airport in Spain has been crowned the ‘Best in Europe’ by travel experts

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport has once again been recognised as the best airport in Europe that serves 15 to 25 million passengers. The prestigious award for 2023 is given by the Airports Council International

11 Mar, 2024 @ 16:09

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Briton, 43, accused of raping his son's friend at a hotel in Spain's Mallorca faces up to nine years in jail if convicted

‘Wolf pack’ of French teens who gang raped a tourist in Benidorm are jailed

THREE French tourists have been given prison terms after pleading guilty to raping a woman in Benidorm five years ago- but they will not be jailed. A further two members of the

11 Mar, 2024 @ 15:25

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Cleaning lady supplies security alarm codes of homes and shops to robbers on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A CLEANING lady supplied two burglars with security alarm code numbers to ease their task of robbing Alicante homes and shops. The trio- in their thirties- have been arrested by the Policia

9 Mar, 2024 @ 08:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Record February passenger levels for Spain's Costa Blanca and Valencia airports

Government in no hurry to back a second runway at booming Costa Blanca airport in Spain, despite fears of overcrowding

REGIONAL politicians and business leader have reacted angrily to the government’s view that a second runway at Alicante-Elche airport is not a priority project. The facility welcomed a record number of passengers

7 Mar, 2024 @ 17:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Masked thief who robbed tourist bars and restaurants since 2022 is caught by brave residents on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A THIEF who robbed 37 Costa Blanca bars and restaurants met his match when three Javea residents spotted him jumping the fence of a house that he was going to plunder. He

7 Mar, 2024 @ 15:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Benidorm posts best February tourism figures for years: Resort in Spain continues to attract millions of Brits

FEBRUARY is often regarded as the final month of the off-peak tourist season but hotel occupancy figures of over 70% across the Valencian Community have countered that assumption. Averages were even higher

6 Mar, 2024 @ 12:19

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Spain narrowly avoids its worst terror attack in YEARS: How Jihadist, 17, successfully built a ‘mother of Satan’ bomb and planned to blow up a school in Andalucia

Jealous ex-husband who placed a GPS tracker on the car of his ex-wife’s new lover is arrested in Spain

A JEALOUS ex-husband has been arrested for putting a GPS tracker on a car belonging to his former partner’s new boyfriend. The 44-year-old man from Alicante had 12 complaints of domestic violence

6 Mar, 2024 @ 11:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

British expat hotspot in Spain has seen the number of foreign residents soar by 800% since 1998

THE number of foreign residents in the Valencian Community has gone up eight-fold over 25 years. The National Institute of Statistics(INE) says there were 102,000 registered non-Spaniards in 1998 compared to nearly

4 Mar, 2024 @ 15:45

Alicante·Benidorm·Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencia·Valencian Community

Thousands join protest against ‘senseless’ solar power plant being built on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ESTIMATED 3,000 people hit the streets of San Miguel de Salinas on Sunday to oppose controversial plans for a massive solar farm. The San Miguel Arcangel Neighbourhood Association organised the protest

4 Mar, 2024 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Italian gangster, 38, is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Fugitive hid among the expat community for years to avoid jail at home

AN Italian fugitive who faces 20 years in prison for drug trafficking charges has been arrested in a holiday apartment in Arenales del Sol. The Policia Nacional were told that the 38-year-old

4 Mar, 2024 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Three family members are killed in a tower block fire on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THREE members of the same family died in an apartment block fire in the early hours of Monday morning in Villajoyosa. The blaze started in an eleventh-floor home on Avenida dels Mariners

4 Mar, 2024 @ 10:54

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Air traffic controllers claim 30 drunk Brits fought on board Ryanair flight to Spain's Costa Blanca

Ryanair to add seven new destinations from Alicante this summer

BUDGET airline Ryanair will add a total of nine new routes to the Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernandez airport, connecting the Costa Blanca tourist hotspot to cities throughout Europe. The expansion was announced on

3 Mar, 2024 @ 15:35

Alicante·Barcelona·Catalunya·Costa Blanca·European Union·Lead

Council has to pay ‘millions’ in compensation for illegally-granted building licence approved by law-breaking mayor in 2008 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A COSTA Blanca council will have to pay the equivalent of a third of its annual budget as compensation for an illegally-approved building that was nodded through in 2008. The current San

2 Mar, 2024 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Spanish priest is removed from his Costa Blanca parish for calling Pope Francis a ‘heretic’

THE bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante diocese has suspended San Isidro’s parish priest for branding Pope Francis a ‘heretic’. Bishop Jose Ignacio Munilla took the tough stance after statements made by Francisco Jose

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:57

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

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 next to Alicante’s Gran Via shopping centre

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:45

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Drugs·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Plan for major new route moves forward to link motorway with popular expat city on Spain’s Costa Blanca

PLANS costing around €30 million for a third exit road between the AP-7 and the Marina Alta are set to move forward. The Ministry of Transport says that it has approved a

29 Feb, 2024 @ 15:15

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Popular urban park set for summer reopening after three-year closure after contractor walked away from project on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A POPULAR Javea park could reopen in time for the summer, after it was closed for renovation work- way back in September 2021. A contractor was appointed to make improvements at Thievers

29 Feb, 2024 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Revealed: The most expensive areas to buy a property on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE costliest area for properties on the Costa Blanca has been revealed to be on the Calpe coast. Buyers looking to purchase a home by the town’s Arenal-Bol beach will have to

26 Feb, 2024 @ 09:52

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Other News·Property·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Police bike rammed and officer injured during dramatic high-speed pursuit of motorist who didn’t pay for petrol on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A MOTORIST rammed two Guardia Civil motorbike riders at the end of a high-speed chase on the outskirts of Valencia City. The driver drove off from a Denia filling station in Alicante

20 Feb, 2024 @ 13:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Angry Benidorm residents to stage protest this weekend over big local tax rises

Polish fugitive, 34, is dramatically arrested in Spain’s Benidorm resort for ‘kidnapping, sexual assault, fraud’ and a list of other serious charges

A POLISH fugitive has been arrested in Benidorm after fleeing his home country where he had been serving a seven year jail term. The man, 34, had been convicted of fraud, kidnapping,

19 Feb, 2024 @ 10:16

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Benidorm will FINALLY have a funeral home and crematorium after almost 20 years of waiting

BENIDORM is set to get its first funeral home/crematorium after plans have been mired in red tape since 2005. Families have been going to Villajoyosa and other centres to say goodbye to

17 Feb, 2024 @ 07:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

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