Worried about squatters in Spain? Here’s some top tips from police to stop them entering your home
POLICE in Spain have given their top tips on preventing your home from being taken over by squatters. It comes after a surge in so-called
British Olympian Sir Ben Ainslie is robbed at knifepoint in Barcelona: Thugs targeted his €20,000 Rolex
SIR Ben Ainslie, the most decorated sailor in Olympic history, has been robbed of his €20,000 Rolex at knifepoint by thieves in Barcelona. The 47-year-old
Spanish YouTube chef is jailed for life in Thailand after murdering and dismembering his boyfriend: Daniel Sancho is sent to ‘prison from hell’ following 11-hour sentencing
A COURT in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of murder and sentenced him to life
British widow whose husband, 59, was ‘killed by a neighbour with a gardening hoe’ in Spain appeals for help to pay €18,000 in legal fees
A BRITISH woman living in Spain is appealing for aid after her husband was brutally murdered with a garden hoe. Sarah Allwright is raising funds
Father and son tourists who stole an electric scooter from Benidorm are tracked down by police thanks to its GPS tracker
A LA RIOJA father and son have been arrested for stealing an electric scooter while on holiday 600 kms away in Benidorm after its GPS
Mayor demands extra police to bring down ‘narco’ mafia gang accused of threats and burning cars over shutdown cockfighting arena in Costa Blanca area
THE mayor of an Alicante province town wants extra police brought in to bring down a mafia gang trafficking in drugs and running cockfights. Aspe
Man and his two sons are arrested over stabbing of his ex-partner at an ice cream parlour on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A WOMAN was stabbed at a packed Alicante ice cream parlour on Monday after a row involving her ex-partner and two grown-up sons. The 51-year-old
Body of ‘foreign’ man, 45, is found shot to death near tennis courts on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A MAN died on Monday night after being shot at least twice in an Elche area village on the Costa Blanca. The victim is said
Police discover black market octopus and other seafood being sold at restaurant on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN UNAMED Santa Pola restaurant is in serious trouble for having 35 kilos of unsourced seafood in its freezers to plate up for unsuspecting diners.
Scottish minister blasts ‘balconing league table’ which mocks deaths of tourists in Spain as ‘vile’ – just days after Scot’s fatal fall from an Ibiza hotel
A GOVERNMENT minister has blasted a balconing league table as ‘vile’ and called for its website to be taken down after it celebrated the UK
EXCLUSIVE: British accountant facing extradition to Spain claims he is being ‘silenced’ for ‘providing intelligence that could have foiled London and Madrid terror attacks’
A BRITISH accountant and ‘undercover agent’ claims he is once again facing extradition to Spain in order to ‘silence’ him. Paul Blanchard, 79, from York,
Mallorca-based captain of the tragic Mike Lynch yacht is expected to face an investigation over sinking
ITALIAN prosecutors have launched an official investigation into the Mallorca-based captain of the Bayesian yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily last week, killing
Warning over Booking.com scam after British tourists lose thousands to fraudsters – this is how to spot them
BRITISH tourists are warning holidaymakers after a Booking.com scam saw them lose thousands to fraudsters. Unfortunate sun seekers have seen their holiday plans ruined after
Exclusive: Norwegian expat who survived a horror axe attack on Spain’s Costa del Sol is suing doctors for ‘laughing off’ his pain and ‘shrugging him off with painkillers’
A NORWEGIAN expat has been left traumatised after a horrific axe attack in Fuengirola left him with ‘unbearable’ back injuries. Marius J, 30, was drinking
Spanish police officer is arrested ‘for groping a young woman’s buttocks’ at the Malaga feria
AN off-duty Guardia Civil officer will be tried for sexual assault after being accused of groping a woman’s backside in Malaga. The attack happened last
British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are ‘sedated with gas and robbed’ in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’
BROADCASTER Nick Grimshaw and his 81-year-old mother Eileen were sedated with gassed and robbed while on holiday at an Ibiza villa. The former BBC Radio
Wanted British ‘narco’, 50, is found hiding among expat community under a fake identity in Spain’s Valencia
A BRITISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Valencia province. The 50-year-old man lived under a false identity
‘I thought they were going to kill me’: Taxi driver, 71, is attacked by three German police officers in Spain’s Mallorca
A 71-YEAR-OLD Mallorca taxi driver was hospitalised after a brutal beating from a group of German tourists who claimed to be police officers. Three men
Watch: Police in Spain bust cocaine haul hidden among pineapple shipments
THIS is the moment police in Spain uncovered a cocaine shipment hidden among pineapples. In a statement online, Policia Nacional said the drugs had come
Slaves are freed from brothel of horrors in Madrid: Victims were ‘forced to insert sponges, take cocaine and work until they fainted’
POLICE have raided a house of horrors in Madrid where women were forced to prostitute themselves until they passed out. Policia Nacional arrested eight people
Fugitive in Spain livestreams his escape from police before being swiftly located
A VALENCIA man with five legal warrants against him- including two to send him to prison- taunted authorities via a live video stream before the
British man threatens to blow up a house in Spain after barricading himself inside
A 48-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested in Spain’s south-east Murcia region following a three-hour stand-off with police where he threatened to blow up a
Spain investigates far-right ‘falsehoods and hate speech’ on social media following fatal stabbing of 11-year-old boy
THE Prosecutor’s Office is investigating ‘false’ and ‘hateful’ social media postings following last weekend’s murder of an 11-year-old boy in Toledo province. A 20-year-old man
Watch: Drivers in Spain are warned by police to never leave this item in their vehicle’s glove box
THE Guardia Civil has launched an awareness campaign aimed at drivers in Spain. In a video shared on social media, an officer from the force
Benidorm scammers conned savers out of €339,000 with bogus claims of UK-based investment companies bringing massive monthly profits
A SCAM based in Benidorm promising instant high returns on investments has been busted by the Policia Nacional after pocketing over €339,000 since 2021. Four
British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain
A 59-year-old British expat died in an Almeria hospital on Saturday after being struck on the head days earlier by a gardening hoe. The confrontation