Tag: Balearic Islands
Ex-British boxer with violent past gets arrested for beating up girlfriend at Mallorca hotel in Spain
A British ex-professional boxer, Stephen Kinnersley, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil for assaulting his partner at a Mallorca hotel.
Kinnersley, 43, was detained...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s €2 million sports car smashes into Mallorca house entrance in Spain
AN employee of Manchester United and Portugal soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo, crashed his €2.1 million sports car in Mallorca on Monday.
The two-seater Bugatti Veyron...
Spain’s Rafa Nadal plans Wimbledon bid despite problems with right foot
RAFA Nadal has told journalists in Mallorca on Friday that he plans to play at Wimbledon which starts on June 27.
36-year-old Nadal won the...
British tourist seriously injured after cliff dive goes badly wrong on Spain’s Ibiza
A British man, 33, was seriously injured on Sunday after a cliff dive into the sea went badly wrong after he plunged into rocks...
Drunk British tourist causes chaos on Spain’s Mallorca with hotel and police assaults, just hours into his holiday
A British man, 46, kicked off his Mallorca holiday with a night in the police cells and hospital, after a drunken rampage in his...
Cruise ship passenger feared dead after falling overboard west of Spain’s Balearic Islands
AUTHORITIES are searching for a female cruise ship passenger who fell overboard on Sunday morning.
The unnamed passenger fell into the water at 2.00 am...
Ryanair ordered to pay flight delay compensation by court in Spain’s Mallorca after four-year tussle
A Mallorca court has awarded six Ryanair passengers €1,533 in compensation after their flights were delayed in the summer of 2018.
The Irish budget airline...
Drunk British groom spends wedding night in prison after hitting new wife on Spain’s Mallorca
A British man had a wedding night to forget on Mallorca after hitting his wife and being carted off to jail.
The young couple flew...
Northern Ireland boy, 6, drowns in hotel swimming pool on Spain’s Mallorca
A Belfast boy drowned in a hotel swimming pool on Sunday.
The tragedy occurred around 5.30 pm when Corey Aughey, 6, was found in the...
British man guilty of manslaughter of fellow Brit in drunken Ibiza row in Spain
A BRITISH man has been convicted of manslaughter during a drunken row in Ibiza.
Mitchell Andrew Loveridge, 26, from Rhondda, Wales, killed his friend Harry...
German tourists accused of setting fire to Mallorca bar in Spain by throwing fag ends from balcony are jailed
A Palma judge has got tough with a group of German tourists accused of setting fire to a bar terrace that was destroyed in...
Mallorca tops list of best travel destinations for 2022 and here’s why
MALLORCA has been named as the world’s top destination of 2022 by travel review website TripAdvisor.
The biggest of the Balearic Islands tops the ranking...
CONGRATS! Four British expats named in Queen’s Birthday Honours list for community work in Spain
FOUR British expats in Spain have been awarded gongs in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for their work serving the British community in...
Foreign tourists flooding back to Spain with spending close to pre-pandemic levels
SPAIN welcomed 6.1 million international tourists in April who spent €6.9 billion on their holidays.
Figures published on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute show...
Spain’s most ‘smokiest’ regions revealed on ‘World No Tobacco Day’
EXTREMADURA and Murcia have the highest percentage of daily smokers in Spain's regions according to figures released on 'World No Tobacco Day'.
Statistics compiled for...
Boozed-up British tourist bites police officers at passport control in Mallorca airport in Spain
A British tourist with an underlying psychological condition had to be restrained at Palma de Mallorca airport last week, after attacking police officers at...
‘Very drunk’ British teenager cheats death after falling from fourth-floor hotel balcony on Spain’s Mallorca
A British teenager is fighting for his life in a Palma hospital after surviving a fall from the fourth-floor balcony of his Mallorca hotel.
The...
IN PICS: Amazing rescue of humpback whale trapped in illegal fishing net off coast of Spain’s Mallorca
DIVERS have saved a humpback whale that was entangled in an illegal fishing net off Mallorca.
Driftnets are banned by the United Nations because of...
British teenager may be paralysed after diving head-first into shallow end of Magaluf swimming pool on Spain’s Mallorca
A British teenager may be paralysed for life after he jumped into the shallow end of a Magaluf beach club swimming pool on Tuesday.
The...
Mallorca bar terrace in Spain destroyed after German tourists throw cigarette butts off hotel balcony
A Mallorca upper bar terrace was destroyed after German tourists threw cigarette butts down onto it from a hotel balcony party.
13 people have been...
Wife goes berserk in violent attack on drunk husband for refusing to drive car in Spain’s Mallorca
A Mallorca woman lashed out at her husband on Tuesday morning for refusing to drive home because he had too much to drink.
The man...
British boy, 16, quizzed over alleged rape of British girl staying in same Mallorca hotel in Spain
A British teenager, 16, has been arrested for allegedly raping a British girl of the same age at a Sa Coma hotel in Mallorca.
The...
Spain fails in latest bid to extradite Mallorca rapper from Belgium
MALLORCAN rapper Josep Miqeul Arenas, known as Valtonyc, has won another Belgian court ruling which has again refused Spain's bid to extradite him.
The Ghent...
Woman arrested in Ibiza over threatening diners with a knife at Burger King restaurant
A WOMAN has been arrested for threatening diners with a knife in a Burger King restaurant on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
The incident took...
Tourist dies after cliff dive on Spain’s Mallorca takes tragic twist with girlfriend recording it on phone
A Dutch tourist died on Thursday afternoon after a 25-metre cliff dive on the Malgrats Islands off the coast of Santa Ponsa in Mallorca.
The...
British tourist dies after plunging from seventh-floor Magaluf hotel balcony on Spain’s Mallorca
A British tourist died on Thursday morning after falling from a seventh-floor balcony at a Magaluf hotel on Mallorca.
The 34-year-old holidaymaker was staying at...
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