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BBVA bank bosses in Spain to reduce compulsory redundacies after one-day strike

Spain’s BBVA becomes fourth Spanish company to break the €100 billion mark – just weeks after the failure of its Sabadell hostile takeover

BBVA has reached a market value of more than €100 billion for the first time, just two weeks after its attempted takeover of Banco Sabadell

29 Oct, 2025 @ 13:00

Business & Finance·Lead

WATCH: Western Andalucia hit by RED ALERT for torrential rains as towns flood and TORNADOES rip up terraces

WESTERN Andalucia has been plunged into chaos as torrential rain, flooding and a series of violent windstorms batter the region. Spain’s weather agency AEMET declared

29 Oct, 2025 @ 12:39

Andalucia·Huelva·Lead·Weather

Antonio Banderas’ new beachfront Marbella mansion is coming along nicely: Three floors, an infinity pool and even a panic room – after his old one was forcibly demolished

CONSTRUCTION on Antonio Banderas’ new beachfront Marbella mansion is underway – here’s everything you need to know about his spectacular new home. The home sits

29 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15

Lead·Marbella·Property

Spain’s all-star economy cools slightly as China floods Europe with imports redirected from Trump’s tariffs

SPAIN’S economy has lost a little of its shine as growth eased to 0.6% in the third quarter, with the finger pointed at exports faltering

29 Oct, 2025 @ 11:35

Business & Finance·Lead

Neo-Nazi sympathiser ‘locked Tinder date in his Benalmadena home and told her ‘I know you want my superior genes” during hours-long ordeal

A neo-Nazi sympathiser has been arrested after he locked a Tinder date in his Benalmadena home and subjected her to violent assault. The Policia Nacional

29 Oct, 2025 @ 11:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Asian ‘murder hornets’ kill three in just two weeks in Galicia as Spain faces defeat in its battle against invasive species

THREE men have lost their lives to ‘murder hornets’ in Galicia in under two weeks – prompting fears that Spain is losing its long-running battle

29 Oct, 2025 @ 11:00

Environment·Galicia·Lead

State memorial service takes place today in Valencia- exactly a year after October 29 flood disaster

VALENCIA will hold a state memorial service this Wednesday commemorate the victims of last year’s October 29 flood disaster. Besides the 229 people that lost

29 Oct, 2025 @ 10:38

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

British tourist suspected of taking his own life on a Lanzarote beach

Fatal Lanzarote balcony collapse leaves a British man dead and another critically injured

A BRITISH man has died and another has been left critically injured after a Lanzarote hotel balcony railing is reported to have given way. The

29 Oct, 2025 @ 10:27

Canary Islands·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Fears of more victims in the Costa Blanca’s ‘very own Jimmy Savile case’ after Brit charity worker is jailed for raping teenage girl in UK

THE rape conviction of a Costa Blanca-based British charity worker for a crime dating back 30 years has prompted fears many more victims could come

28 Oct, 2025 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·EXCLUSIVE·Lead·Torrevieja

Spain's most famous porn star checks into rehab after drugs trafficking conviction with 'toad poison' trial still pending

Ex-porn star faces four years in prison over toad venom fatally administered to house guest in Valencia

THE Valencia Public Prosecutor wants ex-porn star Nacho Vidal jailed for four years if he’s convicted for killing a photographer in a toad venom drinking

28 Oct, 2025 @ 17:32

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Swede moves to the Costa del Sol and immediately thinks about selling up because ‘there’s too many tourists’

TOO many tourists almost forced a Swedish expat on the Costa del Sol to sell up and return home. Eva made her admission on COPE

28 Oct, 2025 @ 16:45

Costa del Sol·Lead·Malaga

UK tourists help Costa Blanca airport soar to new May record

EXPLAINER: Which queue should British residents with a TIE card join to enter Spain now that the EES is here?

CONFUSION continues to reign at Spain’s airports over which queue British residents should use as the EU’s new digital border system, the Entry/Exit System (EES),

28 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

EXPLAINER·Lead·Travel News

Dates for your diary as Spain confirms national bank holiday dates for 2026

Dates for your diary as Spain confirms national bank holidays for 2026

SPAIN’S government has officially declared the list of bank holidays in the country for next year. The calendar was published on Tuesday in the Official

28 Oct, 2025 @ 15:30

Lead·National News

62 people set to be prosecuted after hundreds of animals are poisoned or illegally hunted in rural Spain

THE Guardia Civil’s annual ‘Atrax’ campaign to combat the illegal killing of animals in mainly rural Spain has led to 62 people being either arrested

28 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Animals·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farm to be found in years is raided in Alicante with entry via ‘secret’ door

THE Guardia Civil have dismantled one ‘of the most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farms to be discovered in Alicante province in recent years. Two warehouses in

28 Oct, 2025 @ 14:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Costa del Sol under yellow weather alert: Torrential downpours to spell end of Malaga’s Indian summer?

THE long spell of late-season warmth along the Costa del Sol is about to end as Malaga braces for torrential rain and a sharp drop

28 Oct, 2025 @ 13:41

Lead·Malaga·Weather

Disaster for PM Sanchez as Catalan separatist allies abandon support for his centre-left government

EMBATTLED prime minister Pedro Sanchez has been dealt another hefty blow after the Catalan separatists he relied on to pass legislation in Congress unanimously decided

28 Oct, 2025 @ 13:18

Catalunya·Lead·Politics

Murdered woman's decomposing body hidden inside her Costa Blanca home while boyfriend stole her inheritance windfall

Horror in Alicante: Boyfriend ‘kills partner and stashes her corpse on couch in her Costa Blanca home while he makes off with her inheritance windfall’

A WOMAN was stabbed to death and her decomposing corpse kept on her Alicante home couch as her boyfriend stole part of a recent €250,000

28 Oct, 2025 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain has its own Greek Parthenon featuring 40 Corinthian columns located in a secluded village that nobody visits

IT looks like something lifted straight from the hills of Athens, but this Greek-style temple stands hidden in the green valleys of northern Spain. The

28 Oct, 2025 @ 12:00

Lead·Northern Spain·Olive Press Travel

Costa Blanca airport notches up 10 successive months of passenger records- with a third of visitors coming from the UK

Flights to and from UK thrown into chaos after drone sighting shuts down busy Costa Blanca airport

FLIGHTS to and from Alicante-Elche airport were disrupted for two hours on Monday night after a drone flew over protected airspace. The Policia Nacional and

28 Oct, 2025 @ 11:35

Costa Blanca·Lead

The uneasy colonisation of Spain’s costas: Spanish home buyers are now a minority in Alicante — and Malaga is close behind

A DEEP disquiet is beginning to set in along Spain’s coastal regions after the release of the latest numbers from the Spanish General Council of

27 Oct, 2025 @ 18:30

Alicante·Lead·Malaga·Property

Large vulture flies into Costa Blanca home for a rest- perching on living room sofa

Large vulture flies into Costa Blanca home to chill out on living room sofa

A LARGE griffon vulture flew into a Torrevieja home last Thursday at around 9.30pm and made itself comfortable on top of a sofa. The homeowner

27 Oct, 2025 @ 17:30

Animals·Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja

Almost a quarter of children have trouble sleeping and a third are scared of rain – a year after Valencia flood disaster

A REPORT into the effects on children of the October 29 Valencia floods says that over 30% of them admit- a year later- to still

27 Oct, 2025 @ 17:00

Health·Lead·Valencia

British man suffers punctured lung after passer-by stabs him for not giving him a cigarette in Valencia

British man suffers punctured lung after being stabbed by passer-by for not giving him a cigarette in Valencia

A BRITISH man was rushed with a punctured lung to hospital in Valencia after refusing to give a cigarette to a passer-by. The victim- identified

27 Oct, 2025 @ 16:34

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Andalucia reclaims nearly 300 public housing flats in Malaga taken over by squatters, drug gangs and jihadists — which will be reassigned to families in need

NEARLY 300 public housing flats across Malaga province have been recovered by the Junta after they were taken over and converted into squats or drug

27 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Lead·Malaga·Property

WATCH: Spanish special forces board Vigo-bound cargo ship and seize 6.5 tonnes of cocaine after tip-off from American DEA

SPANISH special forces have made a major drugs seizure near the Canary Islands from a cargo ship bound for Galicia. Authorities discovered 6.5 tonnes of

27 Oct, 2025 @ 15:30

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Galicia·Lead

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