IN A PICKLE: Lorry flips on AP-7 motorway spilling 13,000 litres of petrol on artichoke field in Alicante
FUMING: Around 500 cars were stopped for 10 hours as firefighters cleaned upA LORRY carrying 27,000 litres...
GREEDY SAMARITANS: criminal gang who slashed tourists’ tyres at toll booths along Costa Blanca and then robbed them finally...
TYRANNY: The gang of six would slash tyres of unwitting tourists at toll boothsTYRE slashers who targeted...
THE ITALIAN JOB: Italian arrested after selling ex-mother-in-law’s Fiat 500 and then lying it was stolen in Alicante
FIATSCO: Police located the 'stolen' vehicle in an Alicante parking lotAN Italian man has been arrested in...
BRITISH pensioner tells court he ‘couldn’t remember’ bludgeoning sleeping stepson’s head with a HAMMER before attempting to suffocate...
WHAT'S GOING ON?: The accused in police custody after fracturing stepson' head with a hammerA BRITISH pensioner...
DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING: clairvoyant jailed for conning disabled woman out of €13,000 on Spain’s Costa Blanca
BAD LUCK: The meetings began with a tarot readingA CLAIRVOYANT has been sentenced to a year and...
The Cabo de Santa Pola one step closer to becoming a municipal nature reserve on Spain’s Costa Blanca
STUNNING: The Cabo de Santa Pola boasts cliff-backed sandy beachesTHE Sierra and Cabo de Santa Pola has...
WATCH: SECOND dead dolphin in a week washes up on same 3km strip in Spain’s Costa Blanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuKpmoltiA&feature=youtu.be
WHY?: Second dolphin in a week spotted washing up on Denia's beachesA SECOND dead dolphin...
Town hall blasted for spending €90,000 on campaign to attract more British tourists to Spain’s Costa Blanca
A TOWN hall has been blasted for spending €90,000 on a campaign to attract more British tourists - to just four hotels!Calpe’s PP...
Benidorm introduces bans on mobility scooters in new crackdown on ‘uncivil tourism’
THEY have famously been dubbed ‘Madge-mobiles’ after one of hit TV show Benidorm’s most popular characters.So it is with great irony that the tourist...
Expat and local nudists fuming as five-storey tower block begins construction behind favourite beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca
The beach has been a safe haven for naturists for more than 40 years
The Original LOL
NOW most of you reading this will have been ‘lolling’ for years - firstly, back when it became cool to abbreviate every possible word...
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
IN PICS: Olive Press launches new Costa Blanca edition to add to award-winning expat newspaper brand in Spain
OLIVE PRESS ARE GO!: News editor Laurence Dollimore launching the first issue of Costa Blance Olive Press in Moraira
Police intervene after ‘disturbed rifle-touting’ neighbour declares ‘this is war’ before planting row of cypress trees to block expat’s...
'It feels like he's putting a middle finger up at us'
DID YOU FEEL IT? Earthquake rumbles along Spain’s Costa Blanca
COSTA VIBRATE: Tremors were recorded from Cartagena to BenidormAN earthquake has hit a popular holiday destination on...
Naked effigies of Trump, Hitler, Stalin and Franco torched in Valencia’s Las Fallas festival
EXPOSED: Trump gets the torch alongside past controversial dictatorsA WEEK-long festival in Valencia celebrating Saint Joseph has...
British couple arrested for ‘leading’ huge marijuana network on Costa Blanca, caught with €216,000 of drugs including cannabis ‘jelly...
MASSIVE: Guardia Civil found three marijuana plantations in TorreviejaGUARDIA Civil have arrested 21 people for cultivating and...
Drones used for ‘first time’ in battle against toxic caterpillars on Costa Blanca
BUZZING: Drones used by Murcia's Ministry of EnvironmentDRONES, great tits and pheromones have been used in the...
Lady Elizabeth School, in Benitachell Alicante, is to have its grand inauguration this month
IT is certainly one of the most stunning school developments of recent years.And now with the completion of its indoor pool, the brand new...
Disabled British man found unconscious after ‘intense’ gas cylinder inferno on the Costa Blanca
SERIOUS: Neighbours were asked to vacate the area until the fire could be controlledA BRITISH man has...
NOT A BIN: Plastic fills river on Costa Blanca just hours after a 20-tonne clean-up
CARELESS: Plastic fills Segura river hours after a massive clean-upPLASTIC waste has accumulated in the old channel...
Ceramics are the hot new design trend styling up interiors this year
IF you love interior design and are not afraid to use bold colours and patterns, you would have been in your element at this...
Benidorm’s legendary Tiki Beach bar re-opens… but now under name ‘Aloha Beach’
NEW LIFE: The Aloha Beach bar, as seen on FridayBENIDORM’S infamous Tiki Beach bar has re-opened this...
IN PICS: eagle-owls and kestrels ELECTROCUTED by cables in crucial Spanish wetland
MASS bird electrocutions have been recorded in a crucial wetland spanning the provinces of Alicante and Valencia....
STRIP TEASE: Nudists protest apartment block to be built behind their Costa Blanca hideaway
SAFE HAVEN The L'Almadrava beach is one of the last untouched strips of beach in Marina AltaNUDISTS...
High-speed ferry slashes Costa Blanca–Formentera journey to under two hours
SLEEK: Ferry services will be once daily until AugustA HIGH-SPEED ferry will now get you from the...
LATEST NEWS FROM THE COSTA BLANCA
Dutchman donates 3,000kg of organic ‘solidarity potatoes’ to help struggling families in Javea
NO ONE understands more than the Spanish that potatoes, particularly patatas bravas, were made for sharing.But Dutch resident...
