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Five-year-old girl saves the day after raising alarm when fire breaks out at home in Spain’s Mallorca

A five-year-old girl is being hailed a hero after raising the alarm when a fire broke out in the middle of the night at...

IN PICS: How Gibraltar paid tribute to war dead and veterans on Armistice Day 2021

GIBRALTAR pulled out all the stops to commemorate Armistice Day on November 11 to pay tribute to the war dead and veterans. https://twitter.com/RGPolice/status/1458776365872955403 As part of the...

Man behind spate of burglaries in Spain’s La Linea re-arrested by police

A 46-year-old man who was released with charges in October has been re-arrested for more robberies in the Spanish town of La Linea. The detainee,...

Costa Blanca judge orders deportation of Moroccan brothers after arrests in terrorist probe led by Spain’s National Court

TWO Moroccan brothers arrested on the Costa Blanca in a terror funding investigation are set to be deported. They were taken to a Madrid foreigners...

Benidorm head chef bullied female kitchen assistant for 11 years at Costa Blanca restaurant in Spain

THE head chef of an unnamed Benidorm restaurant will have to pay out €13,200 to a bullied kitchen assistant. The female victim suffered for 11...

Murder-suicide? Police investigate deliberate house fire in Spain after a mother and her two young children were found dead...

??TWO young children and a woman found dead inside a burnt-out house may have been killed in a murder-suicide. The family home in the El...

British gestor involved in mass fraud becomes ‘mayor’ of expat urbanisation on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A GESTOR who admitted responsibility for the arrest of British pensioners in a padron scandal is now a ‘Pedáneos Mayor’ covering a major expat...

“Respect” called for as able-bodied children damage swing intended for disabled on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A BRAND NEW swing installed for the sole use of wheelchair-bound people has been damaged by large numbers of able-bodied children using it. The facility...

Universal Children’s Day to be celebrated in style on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA City Council is to commemorate Universal Children’s Day on Sunday, November 21. Local Councillor for Social Welfare, Almudena Baldó, announced the event to be...

Costa Blanca serial graffiti vandal in Spain is caught after year-long investigation

POLICE have arrested a Costa Blanca graffiti vandal after a year-long probe to track down the culprit. The unidentified man scrawled over 50 signs in...

Girl, 16, loses hearing in one ear after being raped in Spain’s Igualada

A TEEN has lost hearing in one ear after being seriously sexually assaulted in Barcelona.  The 16-year-old schoolgirl was attacked after leaving a nightclub in...

Prison security director lied about hooded men attack outside her Benidorm home in Spain

A senior security director at Villena prison has been arrested for lying about five hooded men attacking her outside her Benidorm home. The unnamed woman...

Metalworkers strike in Spain’s Andalucia turns violent as police are attacked in Cadiz

CADIZ metalworkers have to taken to city streets for a third day in their wages strike. On Wednesday they cut roads leading into the Andalucian...

WTA Finals: Garbine Muguruza becomes the first Spaniard to win season-ending finals

AGARBINE MUGURUZA has made history as the first-ever Spanish woman to win the WTA Finals.  The Caracas- born star became the first Spaniard to win...

Half of anti-vaxxers in Spain’s Balearic Islands are expat residents

HEALTH authorities in the Balearics are concerned after it emerged half of those who have yet to vaccinated are among the foreign resident population...

Antisemitic vandals deface Holocaust memorial in Oviedo, northern Spain

JEWISH groups in Spain have condemned vandalism at a Holocaust memorial in Oviedo in the northern region of Asturias. The monolith remembering Victims of the...

Pedro Sanchez announces COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for everybody aged over 60 in Spain

COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be offered to everybody aged over 60 and health workers in Spain. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, announced the decision on...

Gibraltar unveils plans to meet ‘carbon neutral’ goal by 2030

GIBRALTAR'S government has unveiled its roadmap to meet targets to battle the climate emergency as the COP26 meeting in Glasgow drew to a close. The...

Fury in Gibraltar at lack of criminal proceedings over female teacher who ‘groomed’ student

Teachers on Gibraltar have expressed outrage at a lack of action by education authorities to properly investigate reports that a teacher was grooming a...

Environmentalists slam Andalucia’s ‘smoke and mirror’ efforts to fight climate change in wake of COP26

At a meeting with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during COP26, regional president Juanma Moreno boldly insisted that 'Andalucia is a pioneer in the...

Orange alert for strong gusts of wind and five-metre-high waves this Thursday in Spain’s Malaga

SPAIN'S weather agency AEMET has forecast wind gusts up to gale force 8 on the Axarquia, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce coastline. Strong Levante winds...

Il Divo star sent death threats from obsessed Barcelona woman who is fined €60 by Madrid judge in...

A 72-year Barcelona woman has been convicted of coercion and fined €60 for sending explicit and threatening letters to Il Divo singer, Carlos Marin. The...

Diversity and collaboration in sport to be highlighted in LGBTIQ+ promotion on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ELCHE’S main retail complex, the L’Aljub Shopping Centre, will act as a focal point for discussion about sport integrating the LGBTIQ+ community into life. On...

Woman saved from abusive partner in Spain’s Barcelona after using ‘secret’ help signal

A man has been arrested in Barcelona after his partner alerted authorities using a secret hand signal to indicate she was being abused. The woman...

WATCH: Madrid resident causes stir by curing meat from washing line and it’s the most Spanish thing you’ll see...

A RESIDENT in the Madrid neighbourhood of La Concepcion has become a local ‘cause celebre’ after attracting attention for choosing to hang hunks of...

Health and care workers who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 are called ‘irresponsible’ by top politician in Spain’s Murcia region

MURCIA president Fernando Lopez Miras has branded health and care workers as 'irresponsible' if they've not had a COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking to Telecinco, Lopez Miras...

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