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Popular BBC detective show The Mallorca Files starts shooting for third series
HIT BBC1 detective series The Mallorca Files is back on the island.
Filming of the third series started in Palma’s Plaza Cort yesterday, with more...
Civil Guard admits using scores of gas canisters during Melilla migrant tragedy that left 23 dead
THE SPANISH Civil Guard has admitted that it used a huge amount of riot material, such as tear gas, during the migrant tragedy in...
‘Black suits and dresses at the ready’: How we dealt with royal deaths at the BBC
TODAY’S worrying news about the Queen's health and the big gear shift among UK TV channels as they clicked into 'rolling coverage' reminded me...
EXCLUSIVE: One of UK’s most wanted fugitives ‘collecting cash for criminals’ in Marbella, claims ex-cop
ONE of the National Crime Agency’s most wanted criminals, is thought to be working in Marbella’s Puerto Banus as a hardman enforcer.
Kevin Parle has...
New hotel deal confirmed on site of failed BBC soap Eldorado on Spain’s Costa del Sol
IT was the TV deal that producers had golden hopes for, but after just a year and two series Eldorado turned to lead.
The BBC...
INTERVIEW: Ex-Met detective Peter Bleksley shares insights into manhunt for Kevin Parle, the UK’s most wanted fugitive believed to...
FORMER Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley is hot on the heels of Kevin Parle, the NCA’s most wanted criminal, who is thought to be...
Meet the team: Alex Trelinski, our man on the Costa Blanca
HAVING interviewed a legion of political leaders, from Tony Blair to David Cameron and Paddy Ashdown to Tony Benn, getting a comment from a...
Meet the chef from Gibraltar who made it all the way to the quarter finals of MasterChef:The Professionals
LOCAL chef Nico Fitzgerald has been eliminated from BBC show Masterchef after flying the flag for Gibraltar all the way to the quarter finals.
Fitzgerald...
Mapping out hit BBC series ‘The Mallorca Files’
Pinpointing diverse locations across the island, the map also offers a synopsis of each episode
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Clarke goes on the hunt of Spain’s La Tigresa, the evil ETA terrorist who inspired hit BBC...
“She just got led astray,” insists her mother, while her father is the picture of sadness
THE village of Puerto Seguro is one of Spain’s...
How Killing Eve’s psychopathic hitwoman Villanelle is inspired by infamous Spanish ETA assassin
A RUTHLESS Spanish terrorist has been revealed as the subject matter behind one of the UK’s biggest TV hits of the last few years.
Former...
Former Atletico Madrid striker Sergio Aguero teaching Spanish to children in the UK, as part of the BBC’s plan...
SERGIO Aguero has been announced as the BBC’s Spanish teacher for children in England during the lockdown.
EXCLUSIVE: Former Scotland Yard detective, Peter Bleksley, talks to the Olive Press about his hunt for Kevin Parle in...
KEVIN Parle is very well known in Liverpool, as he is a suspect for two separate murders.
ROCK ROW: BBC faces backlash over CBeebies show that depicts Gibraltar as Spanish
“The BBC has let its guard down and failed in educating the next generation about our far flung, diverse and fascinating Overseas Territories”
BEAST FROM THE EAST: Andalucia’s Christmas chestnut crops DESTROYED by wasp from China
SWEET chestnut harvests in Andalucia have been decimated by insects from the Far East this Christmas.
The chestnut gall wasp from China is thought to...
Metro poll shows 91% of people think Brexit should be stopped
More than 6000 people have voted in the poll, available to see in the link below, and was started after pro-Europe Tory MP Anna Soubry appeared on The Andrew Marr Show.
REVEALED: The most watched BBC show in Spain last year
THE UK's BBC has revealed its most popular shows in foreign countries.
In Spain, it isn't Blue Planet or the Great British Bake Off that...
Sex, Trump and the BBC: The big divides between Brexit’s Leave and Remain voters
THE British public are more divided than ever.
And nowhere is this more apparent than in the Brexit debate, which has divided families and opinion...
British expat war hero left devastated after thieves steal priceless military medals from Costa del Sol home
David Russell, 70, is appealing to locals to keep an eye out for his trio of gongs, which include a Queen’s Jubilee medal, a Gulf War medal and a Northern Ireland General Service medal
Theresa May wants expat question answered at ‘early stages’ of Brexit negotiations
It comes after she formally triggered Article 50 on Tuesday night
WATCH: Mariano Rajoy slammed for ‘ugly’ rejection of BBC journalist’s question on Brexit because it was in English
His behaviour was labelled 'incredibly rude and ugly' by critics
Britain’s ‘most-hated mum’ Karen Matthews ‘fleeing to southern Spain’ after backlash from BBC drama The Moorside
Sources close to Matthews say she has applied for a passport
‘Wilful damage’
HAPPY new year to you ALL!
It's around a month now since the 8 December edition of the BBC's Question Time from Maidenhead.
You can catch...
Spanish Guadalajara residents blast media for false Corona beer story
The BBC and Independent, among others, reported that Antonio Fernandez, the billionaire founder of Mexico’s Corona beer, had left €2 million to everyone in his hometown of Guadalajara, in Castilla y Leon, where the popular beer is still brewed
Fawlty Towers’ Manuel actor Andrew Sachs dies aged 86
Andrew Sachs, who was best known for his role as the bemused Spanish waiter, passed away after a secret four year battle with dementia
Property inquiries up 38% in Mallorca following BBC drama The Night Manager
And it is not just the buyers heading to Mallorca, celebrities have also flocked to the island this summer
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Man hides in bathroom to make videos of women and children in Spain’s Valencia
A 27-YEAR-OLD Romanian man has been arrested after spending 44 minutes making hidden videos in the women's bathroom at a Valencia shopping centre.
Security cameras...
