Erasmus returns to the UK allowing students to study in Europe once again – but how does it work?

AFTER a six-year hiatus the Erasmus scheme is finally returning to Britain, allowing university students to study in Europe without extra fees and giving UK

24 Feb, 2026 @ 16:15

Education·Lead

Hiker, 72, bitten by snake goes into anaphylactic shock and is airlifted to hospital in Spain

Hiker, 72, is bitten by snake and goes into anaphylactic shock – helicopter airlifts him to hospital in Spain

A 72-YEAR-OLD hiker in Cantabria was taken to Santander’s Valdecilla Hospital after being bitten on both hands by a snake and going into anaphylactic shock.

24 Feb, 2026 @ 15:30

Lead·Northern Spain

Feared Campo de Gibraltar hitman ‘El Pastilla’ is spectacularly cleared of murder on appeal after police botch identification

NOTORIOUS mafia hitman who sparked a pan-European manhunt after slipping out of a Madrid prison has had a 22-year murder conviction spectacularly overturned. Yousef Mohamed

24 Feb, 2026 @ 15:04

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

Traffic on Barcelona’s Rodalies commuter rail network collapses in the wake of deadly train crash last month

ONE month on from a fatal accident near Barcelona, the Rodalies commuter rail system is still running with closed lines, speed limits and 25 per

24 Feb, 2026 @ 14:33

Barcelona·Business & Finance·Catalunya·Lead·Travel News

Revealed: The four Spanish coffee shops ranked among the best in the world

CONFIDENT you know your café con leche from your cortado? If so, you are in for a treat. Spain has been named as one of

24 Feb, 2026 @ 14:17

Food & Drink·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Costa Blanca real estate agents arrested for scamming foreign customers who ended up virtually penniless

A COUPLE who own an Alicante real estate agency were amongst four people arrested by the Policia Nacional for scamming mainly foreign customers. Three men

24 Feb, 2026 @ 13:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Property

Marbella begins €400,000 clean-up operation to repair the region’s storm-battered beaches as tourism begins to ramp up

MARBELLA has begun a costly beach clean-up operation to repair the region’s storm-battered beaches before peak tourist season. At a price of over €400,000, Marbella

24 Feb, 2026 @ 12:45

Lead·Marbella

Flights are diverted from Malaga airport due to foggy conditions

Tourist, 30, visiting the Costa del Sol on holiday is run over outside Malaga airport just minutes after landing

IF Carling did holidays, they probably wouldn’t begin like this. A 30-year-old tourist landed on the Costa del Sol on Monday ahead of a well-earned

24 Feb, 2026 @ 12:34

Lead·Malaga·Travel News

The end of the winter flu? Hopes grow as researchers develop all-in-one vaccine to combat coughs and colds

A REVOLUTIONARY single vaccine could protect against all seasonal flus and colds, researchers have announced – just weeks after a severe flu outbreak brought Spanish

24 Feb, 2026 @ 11:57

Health·Lead

Horror in Malaga: Young man savagely beaten outside nightclub by two thugs who screamed ‘antifascist’ as they threw punches

A BRUTAL attack outside a Malaga nightclub has left a young man hospitalised after two assaulters allegedly choked and beat him while shouting political slurs.

24 Feb, 2026 @ 11:48

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Begoña Gomez- wife of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez- gets back her passport ahead of trial for abusing her position

Court blocks jury trial for Spanish PM’s wife Begoña Gomez who is accused of embezzling public money

A MADRID court has blocked a judge’s decision to order Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife, Begoña Gomez, to go through a jury trial over the

24 Feb, 2026 @ 11:17

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News·Politics

Malaga ‘set to lose one-fifth of its GDP by 2050 thanks to extreme weather driven by climate change’, alarming study finds

CLIMATE change is set to hamstring Malaga’s economy within the next three decades unless global temperatures are brought under control, a new study has warned.

24 Feb, 2026 @ 10:31

Environment·Lead·Malaga·Weather

Saharan dust cloud connecting Madrid to Marrakech to blanket parts of Spain with fabled ‘blood rain’ as temperatures hit 25C

SPAIN is bracing for a massive plume of Saharan dust that is sweeping across the country this week, bringing hazy skies and health warnings. The

24 Feb, 2026 @ 10:23

Lead·Weather

Transition to luxury: A five-star stay steeped in history at the former home of Adolfo Suarez in Avila

WHAT was once the home of former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, Spain’s first elected leader after the Franco dictatorship, is now a five-star boutique hotel.

24 Feb, 2026 @ 10:10

Lead·Olive Press Travel

36 Hours in Avila: Discover Spain’s medieval walled masterpiece on the plains of Castilla y Leon

PERFECTLY preserved and completely encircled by stone ramparts, Avila feels like a city carved from honey-coloured rock and suspended in time.

24 Feb, 2026 @ 09:10

Lead·Olive Press Travel

Spain’s Pedro Sanchez vows to release all top-secret files related to failed coup d’état attempt made 45 years ago today

THE Spanish government has vowed to spill all the secrets on one of the most dramatic moments in the country’s modern history. Prime minister Pedro

23 Feb, 2026 @ 19:32

Lead·National News·Politics

WATCH: Father and daughter rescued in dramatic operation after being swept to sea from same Tenerife rock pool where four tourists died late last year

TRAGEDY was narrowly averted in the Canary Islands over the weekend after a daring rescue operation was launched to save a father and his 8-year-old

23 Feb, 2026 @ 18:40

Canary Islands·Lead·Tenerife·Video

A mysterious joker calling himself the ‘Son of Cervantes’ is leaving bizarre anti-foreigner poems on statues around Malaga’s Ronda

EXPATS and locals alike have been left stunned after a mysterious poet launched a bizarre campaign demanding that foreigners leave the Malaga town of Ronda.

23 Feb, 2026 @ 18:15

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Massive €15m shopping and leisure complex set to open this summer on the Gibraltar border bringing Aldi, Fitness Park and 400 new jobs

WORK on a new €15 million shopping and leisure complex on the Gibraltar border is entering its final stages ahead of a grand opening this

23 Feb, 2026 @ 17:30

Business & Finance·Gibraltar·Lead

Man convicted of animal cruelty after cameras caught him spraying acid at neighbour’s barking dog in Spain

A MAN has been ordered to pay €2,500 in compensation to a Costa Blanca dog owner after spraying acid at his pet because he was

23 Feb, 2026 @ 17:00

Animals·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Drought-busting new park and sports complex with water-saving soil planned on Estepona’s eastern outskirts

PLANS have been unveiled for a sprawling 20,000 square metre green space on the eastern edge of Estepona municipality. The project, in the La Boladilla

23 Feb, 2026 @ 16:45

Estepona·Lead

One dead and another suffers 60% burns after explosion at family-owned fireworks factory in Spain

One dead and another suffers 60 per cent burns after explosion at family-owned fireworks factory in Spain

ONE person died and another was seriously injured after a Monday morning explosion at a Basque Country fireworks factory. The deceased man was an employee

23 Feb, 2026 @ 16:00

Basque Country·Lead

Locals at war with upmarket polo club and its aristocratic owner for ‘plundering water’ and ‘driving his Mini Cooper at horse riders’ on Spain’s Costa de la Luz

A NEW battle of Trafalgar is brewing between the aristocratic owner of an exclusive polo club and locals who insist his property is illegally syphoning

23 Feb, 2026 @ 15:00

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Environment·Lead

Fears for the Costa del Sol’s tattered beaches ahead of high season after winter storms wash away sand and wreck infrastructure

FEARS are growing for the state of the Costa del Sol coastline ahead of the lucrative summer season following a series of devastating winter storms.

23 Feb, 2026 @ 14:25

Costa del Sol·Environment·Lead

The man who tried to make himself dictator of Spain now lives in quiet retirement on the Costa del Sol

EXACTLY 45 years ago today, a moustachioed Guardia Civil officer burst into Spain’s parliament, fired a submachine gun into the ceiling and ordered everyone to

23 Feb, 2026 @ 13:25

La Cultura·Lead·National News·Other News

Anger boils over as Spain’s 2030 World Cup co-hosts accused of ‘preparing massacre of three million stray dogs’ before tournament starts

OUTRAGE has engulfed Morocco amid allegations that the country is planning to cull millions of stray animals ahead of the 2030 Football World Cup. Animal

23 Feb, 2026 @ 12:31

International Affairs·Lead·Sport

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