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REVEALED: Popular hiking route where decapitated body of man was found by walker as Guardia Civil launch probe in Spain’s Alicante

THE exact location where a headless human body was found by a hiker in the province of Alicante has been revealed. A Spain’s Guardia Civil

24 Aug, 2023 @ 17:15

Alicante·Lead·Must Read·Valencian Community

Motorists feel the squeeze as petrol pump prices soar to highest level for a year in Spain

Motorists feel the pinch as petrol pump prices soar to highest level for a year in Spain

PETROL PUMP prices have soared to their highest level in a year in Spain exceeding €1.70 a litre for unleaded fuel in parts of the

24 Aug, 2023 @ 16:30

Lead·National News

Arsonists blamed for starting devastating Tenerife wildfires on Spain's Canary Islands as 12,000 evacuees could return home this Monday

Residents return home as forest fire on Spain’s Canary Islands stabilises

A FOREST FIRE that has been burning on the Canary Island of Tenerife for the last nine days was in a stable condition on Thursday,

24 Aug, 2023 @ 15:45

Canary Islands·Lead

German tourist stabbed and robbed by group of six young 'North African' men outside Mallorca nightclub

German tourist ‘is stabbed and robbed’ by ‘six North African youths’ outside nightclub in Spain’s Mallorca

A MIDDLE-AGED German tourist was stabbed and robbed in the early hours of Wednesday by a group of six young ‘North African’ men in Playa

24 Aug, 2023 @ 14:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Body of woman ‘aged between 50 and 60’ found floating in waters of upmarket port in Spain’s Mallorca

THE BODY of a woman in her 50’s was found floating in the waters at the mouth of Port Adriano on Wednesday morning. She was

24 Aug, 2023 @ 14:15

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Female tourist, 59, drowns off beach in Spain’s Mallorca

A TOURIST has drowned off a beach in Mallorca this morning. The 59-year-old woman was swimming in the waters of Playa de Palma in the

24 Aug, 2023 @ 13:23

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Tourists are branded ‘pigs’ by Mallorca locals for ‘defecating’ at the island’s drinking water reservoirs

RAGING Mallorca residents are complaining about tourists swimming and defecating in two of the island’s drinking water reservoirs. A local that works near the Cuber

24 Aug, 2023 @ 12:45

Lead·Mallorca

National Police arrest 24 in bust of international gang exporting high-end vehicles from Spain

IN A JOINT operation with the authorities in Romania, the National Police have arrested 21 people and recovered 24 high end cars that had been

24 Aug, 2023 @ 11:43

Crime & Law·Lead

Costa Blanca City Cries Foul Over Losing An Ambulance Every Summer In Spain

Four people die on the roads in Spain’s Malaga in a single morning

FOUR PEOPLE lost their lives on the roads in Malaga in the early hours of Thursday, in two separate accidents. According to Spanish online daily

24 Aug, 2023 @ 11:02

Lead·Malaga

Female football player forcibly kissed by Federation chairman at World Cup final breaks silence over controversy

THE SPANISH football player who was forcibly kissed by the chairman of Spain’s Football Federation after the team’s World Cup victory on Sunday has spoken

24 Aug, 2023 @ 10:45

Lead·Sport

PSpanish police officer is arrested 'for groping a young woman's buttocks' at the Malaga feria

British expat in his 60s ‘is tasered, tied up and gagged in brutal €12,000 robbery’ at his Costa del Sol home: Fears violent gang who received ‘tip off’ will strike again

A GANG of ‘Spanish youths’ are terrorising expats on the Costa del Sol by storming into their houses late at night and carrying out violent

24 Aug, 2023 @ 09:12

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Heatstroke may have caused death of young hiker during long steep walk in hills of Spain's Alicante area

Young hiker may have died from heatstroke during long steep mountain walk with family members in Spain’s Alicante area

A 28-YEAR-OLD man died while hiking with family members in the northern hills of Alicante province on Tuesday. One suggestion is that heatstroke may have

23 Aug, 2023 @ 19:15

Alicante·Lead·Valencian Community

Photo Man Stabbed In Marbella In The Neck

Man arrested after allegedly beating up girlfriend and leaving her unconscious on Marbella beach

LOCAL POLICE in Marbella have arrested a 32-year-old man after he allegedly beat up his girlfriend and left her semiconscious on a beach. He is

23 Aug, 2023 @ 18:45

Lead·Marbella

Umbrellas at the ready as sudden end to heatwave heralds rain this weekend in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

THE FOURTH official heatwave of the year in the Valencian Community is set to end with a sudden temperature drop this Sunday accompanied by showers.

23 Aug, 2023 @ 18:00

Alicante·Benidorm·Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencia·Valencian Community·Weather

BREAKING: Irish tourist accused of drug dealing arrested in Spain’s partying hotspot Magaluf

ANOTHER Irish tourist accused of drug dealing has been arrested in Spain’s Balearic Islands, the second in less than a week. The Irishman, who is

23 Aug, 2023 @ 17:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

‘I’ll shoot you’ – Drug driver who allegedly assaulted and made death threats to police officers arrested in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN enraged driver who allegedly assaulted a number of police agents after testing positive for drugs has been arrested in Elche. The 57-year-old man is

23 Aug, 2023 @ 16:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Dates revealed for parliamentary votes to make Partido Popular's Alberto Nuñez Feijoo Spain's new prime minister

Dates revealed for parliamentary votes that could make Partido Popular’s Alberto Nuñez Feijoo new prime minister of Spain

THE NEW Congress speaker, Francina Armengol, has announced September 26 and 27 as the dates of investiture debates and votes for the Partido Popular’s Alberto

23 Aug, 2023 @ 15:45

Lead·National News·Politics

Hiker finds human skeleton with missing head in touristic Costa Blanca town

A HUMAN skeleton with missing parts, including the head, has been found by a hiker in a well-known Costa Blanca town. The shocking discovery took

23 Aug, 2023 @ 15:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

EXC: British expat, 80, ‘is run over FOUR times by neighbour’ when he tried to stop him from drink driving on Spain’s Costa del Sol, as fellow Brit faces attempted murder charge

A RETIRED Royal Navy commando has miraculously survived being allegedly run over FOUR times by a ‘neighbour from hell’ on the Costa del Sol. David

23 Aug, 2023 @ 14:07

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

NASA confirms last July was the hottest month ever registered on the planet

LAST July was the hottest month ever registered on Earth, according to NASA’s global temperature analysis. The U.S government agency has confirmed last month was

23 Aug, 2023 @ 13:30

Andalucia·Environment·Lead·Weather

Thousands return to homes in wake of Tenerife fire with police saying there is no evidence so far to prove blaze was started deliberately

MORE THAN 8,000 evacuees from a wildfire that has devastated forests on Tenerife for more than a week were able to return home as the

23 Aug, 2023 @ 12:36

Canary Islands·Lead

Travelling robbers used threads of glue stuck on front doors to work out if homes were empty across different areas of Spain

Travelling robbers used threads of glue stuck on front doors to work out if homes were empty across different parts of Spain

A TRAVELLING gang of home robbers has been arrested after a joint operation between Policia Nacional units in Alicante and Antequera(Malaga). Three men- all of

23 Aug, 2023 @ 11:36

Alicante·Andalucia·Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead·Malaga·Murcia·National News

Three Costa del Sol municipalities among the five most expensive places to rent a home in Spain

THREE Costa del Sol municipalities have been ranked among the five most expensive towns and cities to rent a property in Spain. Benahavis, Marbella and

23 Aug, 2023 @ 11:15

Andalucia·Estepona·Lead·Marbella·Property

Pressure mounts on Spain’s Football Federation chairman Luis Rubiales to quit after ‘intolerable sexist act’

THE PRESSURE was rising on Tuesday for Spain’s Football Federation chairman, Luis Rubiales, to quit from his position after he forcibly kissed a female player

23 Aug, 2023 @ 09:04

Lead·Sport

King Felipe VI and PP leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo

Spain’s king proposes Popular Party leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo as prime ministerial candidate

SPAIN’S King Felipe VI on Tuesday night proposed the leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, as the candidate for prime minister

23 Aug, 2023 @ 08:34

Lead·Politics

Rescatados 61 Migrantes Subsaharianos A Bordo De Una Patera En Las Costas De Tenerife

Nearly a thousand migrants have arrived on Spanish shores since Friday alone

AROUND a thousand would-be migrants have arrived on Spanish shores since Friday alone, most of them reaching the coasts of the Canary Islands. That’s according

22 Aug, 2023 @ 20:30

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