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WATCH: Cars abandoned and garbage bins float away as tourist hotspot Alicante floods – with RED ALERT Storm Alice swinging over the Costa Blanca

TORRENTIAL rain has left Alicante under water after dry riverbeds flooded and streets turned into raging torrents. Videos flooding social media show abandoned cars submerged

9 Oct, 2025 @ 18:11

Alicante·Lead·Weather

Small Costa Blanca town takes on mighty New York for top tourist innovation award

BENISSA on the Costa Blanca has made it to the final three battling it out to become the winner of the ‘Innovative Tourist Destination’ accolade

9 Oct, 2025 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Shocking levels of violence against children in Spain are revealed in ground-breaking survey

THE most comprehensive survey of violence during childhood to be conducted in Spain has revealed some disturbing findings. The study was organised by Sigma Dos

9 Oct, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Health·Lead

Teenager suffers brain damage after brutal assault by ‘up to 20 mad men’ near Costa Blanca nightclub

A MOTHER has appealed for witnesses to come forward after her son was beaten up close to an Alicante night club early last Sunday morning.

9 Oct, 2025 @ 16:06

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

RED ALERT ‘extreme risk’ warning for heavy rain and storms this Friday for Costa Blanca and Murcia in Spain

A RED alert warning for heavy rain and storms has been issued for parts of the Costa Blanca and the Murcia region on Friday. The

9 Oct, 2025 @ 15:15

Costa Blanca·Lead·Weather

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We can’t just walk into their home and sit at their table’: Calls for more education after friends film themselves swimming with whales in the Strait of Gibraltar

MORE education is needed to stop people disturbing whales, conservationists have warned, after a video of three friends diving from a boat to swim with

9 Oct, 2025 @ 14:30

Andalucia·Cadiz·Environment·Gibraltar·Lead

BBVA suffers spectacular failure in massive rejection of hostile takeover bid for Sabadell Bank in Spain

Friday deadline looms for BBVA takeover bid of Sabadell Bank in Spain

SABADELL Bank shareholders have until Friday to accept an offer for their investments in a hostile takeover bid by BBVA. Those who accept the invitation

9 Oct, 2025 @ 13:45

Business & Finance·Lead

Valencia Day celebrations are cancelled or postponed due to DANA Alice

OFFICIAL events to commemorate Valencia Day on Thursday have been either postponed or cancelled due to orange alerts for heavy rain caused by DANA Alice.

9 Oct, 2025 @ 12:45

Lead·Valencia·Weather

Which is the richest neighbourhood in Spain’s Palma de Mallorca, where residents earn 63% more than in the poorest?

IT’S the postcode lottery with real-life consequences – the stunning income gap between the richest and poorest residents of Palma has been laid bare. Residents

9 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Other News·Property

Horror in Malaga: 28-year-old loses kidney in vicious attack after ‘making eye contact with shirtless man’ as he dined with friends

A YOUNG man out for dinner with friends in Malaga was brutally ambushed and left fighting for his life after simply ‘making fleeting eye contact’

9 Oct, 2025 @ 12:00

Costa del Sol·Lead

What’s going on on the Costa del Sol – Oct 7-9: Estepona bus clamp down, Marbella gearing up for bullfight, Fuengirola for feria and Malaga needs more police

FROM Estepona to Torremolinos, town halls and mayors have been busy pushing through new projects, safety crackdowns and cultural highlights. Here’s your inaugural round-up of

9 Oct, 2025 @ 11:47

Costa del Sol·Lead

Police probe whether Italian mafia executed two men- including gang leader- in same area of Spain

THE Guardia Civil are investigating whether two killings in the same area of the Murcia region on Tuesday were linked to the Italian mafia. The

9 Oct, 2025 @ 11:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Spicy new costa-set sitcom ‘Ketchup’ spills onto Marbella red carpet – with stars and struggles in the sun!

KETCHUP, the new British sitcom that promises to serve up laughs with a side of sun, was launched in style at the Marbella International Film.

9 Oct, 2025 @ 11:26

La Cultura·Lead·Marbella·Other News

Estepona promises to crack down on buses to Marbella after passengers rage at no-shows and drivers who don’t even stop

ESTEPONA town hall has vowed to tighten controls on its local bus service following a barrage of complaints about operator Avanza from furious passengers across

9 Oct, 2025 @ 10:57

Costa del Sol·Estepona·Lead

Spain and Portugal's late April electricity blackout caused by excessive voltage

Spain has just ‘five days’ to rescue wobbling power grid – or face risk of fresh nationwide blackout, regulator warns

SPAIN’S energy regulator has sounded the alarm over the state of the country’s energy grid – almost six months after the country was plunged into

9 Oct, 2025 @ 09:30

Environment·Lead·National News

Spain’s property market is booming – but not quite as you think: Office space returns the biggest margins, but where is housing?

SPAIN’S property investment market is delivering bumper returns, but forget everything you thought you knew about buy-to-let homes – the real money is in offices.

9 Oct, 2025 @ 08:00

Lead·Property

Severe turbulence forces Ryanair flight from Alicante to make emergency landing as UK-bound passengers feared for their lives

Ryanair bumps up the number of seats to Spain it is slashing next summer to 1.2m – and kills off Asturias completely

RYANAIR’S boss, Michael O’Leary has announced the budget airline will cut 1.2 million seats at Spain’s regional airports for the 2026 summer season- including the

8 Oct, 2025 @ 18:45

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Outcry over plans to rip up ancient olive groves near Granada’s Alhambra to build a giant solar panel plant

ANCIENT olive groves are to be ripped up to make way for a solar panel plant near one of Spain’s leading World Heritage sites. Granada

8 Oct, 2025 @ 18:15

Environment·Granada·La Cultura·Lead

‘Tourism is no longer the main driver of the Spanish economy’ as growth figures are halved

SPAIN’S tourist industry growth has slowed down significantly according to sector group Exceltur which claims it is no longer the ‘main driver of the country’s

8 Oct, 2025 @ 17:45

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

British lorry driver caught doing too many hours after fiddling with cab tachograph in Spain

A BRITISH lorry driver was caught out using another identity on his tachograph so that he could drive above the legal limit of hours in

8 Oct, 2025 @ 17:15

Castellon·Lead

Concern over new ‘trend’ as parents holidaying in Spain appear to be ‘abandoning’ their children so they can stay and claim asylum

PARENTS on holiday in Spain appear to be abandoning their children in the country so they can stay and claim asylum. A new ‘trend’ seems

8 Oct, 2025 @ 16:42

Balearic Islands·La Cultura·Lead·Other News

Spanish region which banned phones from schools says grades are UP and bullying is DOWN

Spain’s kids fall three times behind their rich country counterparts – and 1990s reforms may be to blame

SPANISH youngsters are falling dramatically behind their peers in other developed countries, despite spending longer in school than earlier generations. A new OECD study shows

8 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Education·Lead·Other News

WATCH: Last tour company still selling tickets to orca shows named and shamed during Mallorca travel conference

ANIMAL rights activists stormed the stage at a major travel industry convention in Mallorca to denounce Europe’s last big tour operator still selling tickets to

8 Oct, 2025 @ 15:30

Environment·Lead·Mallorca

Revealed: The most popular cultural leisure activities enjoyed by people in Spain

Revealed: The most popular cultural activities enjoyed by people in Spain

WATCHING audio-visual material(81%) and listening to music(79%) are the most popular cultural activities in Spain, according to a Ministry of Culture study. The survey carried

8 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Entertainment·La Cultura·Lead

Former employer confirms ex-Valencia floods tsar used fake university degree to get job promotion

VALENCIA Provincial Council says the former-Spanish government special commissioner for the October 29 flood reconstruction did supply a copy of a bogus university degree diploma

8 Oct, 2025 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Brussels bureaucrats set to shoot down Spain’s €179m fine against airlines over charging extra for hand luggage

THE European Commission has launched legal action against Spain over a €179 million penalty imposed on budget airlines for charging passengers extra for hand luggage

8 Oct, 2025 @ 13:30

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

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WATCH: Cars abandoned and garbage bins float away as tourist hotspot Alicante floods – with RED ALERT Storm Alice swinging over the Costa Blanca

Small Costa Blanca town takes on mighty New York for top tourist innovation award

Shocking levels of violence against children in Spain are revealed in ground-breaking survey

Teenager suffers brain damage after brutal assault by ‘up to 20 mad men’ near Costa Blanca nightclub

RED ALERT ‘extreme risk’ warning for heavy rain and storms this Friday for Costa Blanca and Murcia in Spain

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We can’t just walk into their home and sit at their table’: Calls for more education after friends film themselves swimming with whales in the Strait of Gibraltar

Friday deadline looms for BBVA takeover bid of Sabadell Bank in Spain

Valencia Day celebrations are cancelled or postponed due to DANA Alice

Which is the richest neighbourhood in Spain’s Palma de Mallorca, where residents earn 63% more than in the poorest?

Horror in Malaga: 28-year-old loses kidney in vicious attack after ‘making eye contact with shirtless man’ as he dined with friends

What’s going on on the Costa del Sol – Oct 7-9: Estepona bus clamp down, Marbella gearing up for bullfight, Fuengirola for feria and Malaga needs more police

Police probe whether Italian mafia executed two men- including gang leader- in same area of Spain

Spicy new costa-set sitcom ‘Ketchup’ spills onto Marbella red carpet – with stars and struggles in the sun!

Estepona promises to crack down on buses to Marbella after passengers rage at no-shows and drivers who don’t even stop

Spain has just ‘five days’ to rescue wobbling power grid – or face risk of fresh nationwide blackout, regulator warns

Spain’s property market is booming – but not quite as you think: Office space returns the biggest margins, but where is housing?

Ryanair bumps up the number of seats to Spain it is slashing next summer to 1.2m – and kills off Asturias completely

Outcry over plans to rip up ancient olive groves near Granada’s Alhambra to build a giant solar panel plant

‘Tourism is no longer the main driver of the Spanish economy’ as growth figures are halved

British lorry driver caught doing too many hours after fiddling with cab tachograph in Spain

Concern over new ‘trend’ as parents holidaying in Spain appear to be ‘abandoning’ their children so they can stay and claim asylum

Spain’s kids fall three times behind their rich country counterparts – and 1990s reforms may be to blame

WATCH: Last tour company still selling tickets to orca shows named and shamed during Mallorca travel conference

Revealed: The most popular cultural activities enjoyed by people in Spain

Former employer confirms ex-Valencia floods tsar used fake university degree to get job promotion

Brussels bureaucrats set to shoot down Spain’s €179m fine against airlines over charging extra for hand luggage

Spain blames trafficking gangs for driving thousands to storm the Ceuta border – but admits border fences were left unguarded

Hollywood celebrity bonanza in Mallorca as Cortney Cox holidays with Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal in ‘Billionaire’s Bay’

Fourth body pulled from the sea off the Costa del Sol – as Ceuta border crisis sees dozens drown

The Spanish village that looks like Havana – but sits in the mountains of Asturias

UPDATE: Morocco ‘cooperating’ with Spain to return tens of thousands of migrants who have stormed into Ceuta

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