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GREEDY SAMARITANS: criminal gang who slashed tourists’ tyres at toll booths along Costa Blanca and then robbed them finally arrested

TYRE slashers who targeted tourists’ vehicles along the Costa Blanca and then robbed them while pretending to help have been arrested by Police in Catalonia.

2 Apr, 2019 @ 12:59

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING: clairvoyant jailed for conning disabled woman out of €13,000 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A CLAIRVOYANT has been sentenced to a year and three months for conning a disabled woman out of €13,000 on Spain’s Costa Blanca. The victim,

1 Apr, 2019 @ 15:05

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

€2 million boost for tourist projects in Calpe on Spain's Costa Blanca

Town hall blasted for spending €90,000 on campaign to attract more British tourists to Spain’s Costa Blanca

A TOWN hall has been blasted for spending €90,000 on a campaign to attract more British tourists – to just four hotels! Calpe’s PP mayor

31 Mar, 2019 @ 13:29

Costa Blanca·Lead

Benidorm introduces bans on mobility scooters in new crackdown on ‘uncivil tourism’

THEY have famously been dubbed ‘Madge-mobiles’ after one of hit TV show Benidorm’s most popular characters. So it is with great irony that the tourist

31 Mar, 2019 @ 12:12

Costa Blanca·Lead

Expat and local nudists fuming as five-storey tower block begins construction behind favourite beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca

The beach has been a safe haven for naturists for more than 40 years

31 Mar, 2019 @ 10:56

Costa Blanca·Lead

The Original LOL

NOW most of you reading this will have been ‘lolling’ for years – firstly, back when it became cool to abbreviate every possible word to

30 Mar, 2019 @ 20:47

Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

British expat reverend thanks God and wife four years after doctors sent him home to die on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Vergel-based expat Clive Read, 79, was suffering from pneumonia and an undiagnosed heart condition when he stopped responding to treatment at Denia Hospital in April

30 Mar, 2019 @ 09:52

Costa Blanca·Lead

IN PICS: Olive Press launches new Costa Blanca edition to add to award-winning expat newspaper brand in Spain

IT has taken five years, but the Olive Press Costa Blanca has finally arrived. Half a decade of research and planning – and with something

29 Mar, 2019 @ 20:01

Costa Blanca·Lead

Police intervene after ‘disturbed rifle-touting’ neighbour declares ‘this is war’ before planting row of cypress trees to block expat’s views on Spain’s Costa Blanca

'It feels like he's putting a middle finger up at us'

29 Mar, 2019 @ 17:36

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Ryanair announces several NEW routes from Spain’s Alicante to UK, Ireland and other European cities

It comes after Ryanair revealed that this summer it would run two weekly flights to Bordeaux and a further three to Munich

27 Mar, 2019 @ 15:43

Lead·Travel News

DID YOU FEEL IT? Earthquake rumbles along Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN earthquake has hit a popular holiday destination on the Costa Blanca, rattling residents’ windows and houses from Cartagena to Benidorm. The magnitude 4.0 earthquake

25 Mar, 2019 @ 14:47

Costa Blanca·Lead

British couple arrested for ‘leading’ huge marijuana network on Costa Blanca, caught with €216,000 of drugs including cannabis ‘jelly beans’, ‘jam’ and ‘cream chocolate spread’

GUARDIA Civil have arrested 21 people for cultivating and distributing illegal narcotics under a network of cannabis associations on the Costa Blanca, including two British

20 Mar, 2019 @ 12:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Disabled British man found unconscious after ‘intense’ gas cylinder inferno on the Costa Blanca

A BRITISH man has been hospitalised in a ‘serious condition’ after he was found unconscious at his Costa Blanca home. Firefighters were reportedly called at

18 Mar, 2019 @ 18:17

Costa Blanca·Lead

IN PICS: eagle-owls and kestrels ELECTROCUTED by cables in crucial Spanish wetland

MASS bird electrocutions have been recorded in a crucial wetland spanning the provinces of Alicante and Valencia. Environmental group Pego Viu were alerted to reports

15 Mar, 2019 @ 18:09

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

STRIP TEASE: Nudists protest apartment block to be built behind their Costa Blanca hideaway

NUDISTS are angry about an apartment block that has sprung up behind their strip of Costa Blanca beach, claiming it will subject them to voyeurs

15 Mar, 2019 @ 16:42

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

High-speed ferry slashes Costa Blanca–Formentera journey to under two hours

A HIGH-SPEED ferry will now get you from the Costa Blanca to Formentera in less than two hours, a Spanish shipping company has announced. The

15 Mar, 2019 @ 12:22

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

Alicante among Spanish cities with cheapest rents

ALICANTE is among the cheapest cities in Spain in which to rent a property, a report has found. Appraisal company TecniTasa found that Alicante, Elche,

14 Mar, 2019 @ 18:58

Costa Blanca·Lead·Property

Man’s attempt to win back ex-girlfriend by planting ‘love spell’ pineapple on train tracks ends in TERROR ALERT and one-year restraining order

A MAN will go to many lengths to win back an ex-girlfriend, but few end in a pineapple, toxic peas and a terror alert. This

14 Mar, 2019 @ 17:58

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

BREAKING: British tourist killed in ‘fight between holidaymakers’ in Benidorm

Police have launched an ongoing investigation and an autopsy is set to be held later today

8 Mar, 2019 @ 11:03

Lead

REPORTS: Four people STABBED in knife attack in British holiday favourite Benidorm

There are also reports that two men, believed to be Scottish, have fled the scene, although this has not been confirmed

25 Feb, 2019 @ 10:55

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Police in Spain ‘fire rubber bullets’ at Scottish football fans after Benidorm bar ‘torched’ and man arrested for crystal meth

It also emerged on Wednesday that there would not be a fan zone for the roughly 10,000 football fans journeying from Scotland to Spain

21 Feb, 2019 @ 17:08

Crime & Law·Lead·Sport

WANTED BRIT: Liverpudlian gangster who ‘dealt AK-47s and cocaine’ spotted roaming southern Spain in luxury Audi

The UK based Cullen gang was heavily armed, with access to a fully working AK47 assault rifle, a pump action shotgun and handguns

19 Feb, 2019 @ 12:22

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: British expat Brexiters in Spain branded ‘stupid’ and ‘arrogant’ after admitting they would now vote Remain in Channel 4 news piece

The broadcaster visited the Costa Blanca to interview Brits living there about their opinions on the UK's divorce from the EU

11 Feb, 2019 @ 18:09

Lead·Politics

British model among arrests in Spain over brutal ‘love triangle’ murder of drug dealer Carl Carr buried by Costa Blanca motorway

POLICE have now detained a British model and issued a European Arrest Warrant for an Irishman over the brutal killing of a drug dealer in

11 Feb, 2019 @ 15:35

Crime & Law·Lead

Murdered Irish drug dealer who had €200k debts found buried next to Costa Blanca motorway

Marie, Carl’s mother, claimed her son’s death was the result of a love triangle and has ‘nothing to do with drugs’

4 Feb, 2019 @ 12:50

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

RED FLAG: British expat bar owner in southern Spain faces huge fine for refusing to take down Union Jack

Tracey Walker and her customers think Brexit could be a factor

21 Jan, 2019 @ 13:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Politics

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GREEDY SAMARITANS: criminal gang who slashed tourists’ tyres at toll booths along Costa Blanca and then robbed them finally arrested

DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING: clairvoyant jailed for conning disabled woman out of €13,000 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Town hall blasted for spending €90,000 on campaign to attract more British tourists to Spain’s Costa Blanca

Benidorm introduces bans on mobility scooters in new crackdown on ‘uncivil tourism’

Expat and local nudists fuming as five-storey tower block begins construction behind favourite beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca

The Original LOL

British expat reverend thanks God and wife four years after doctors sent him home to die on Spain’s Costa Blanca

IN PICS: Olive Press launches new Costa Blanca edition to add to award-winning expat newspaper brand in Spain

Police intervene after ‘disturbed rifle-touting’ neighbour declares ‘this is war’ before planting row of cypress trees to block expat’s views on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Ryanair announces several NEW routes from Spain’s Alicante to UK, Ireland and other European cities

DID YOU FEEL IT? Earthquake rumbles along Spain’s Costa Blanca

British couple arrested for ‘leading’ huge marijuana network on Costa Blanca, caught with €216,000 of drugs including cannabis ‘jelly beans’, ‘jam’ and ‘cream chocolate spread’

Disabled British man found unconscious after ‘intense’ gas cylinder inferno on the Costa Blanca

IN PICS: eagle-owls and kestrels ELECTROCUTED by cables in crucial Spanish wetland

STRIP TEASE: Nudists protest apartment block to be built behind their Costa Blanca hideaway

High-speed ferry slashes Costa Blanca–Formentera journey to under two hours

Alicante among Spanish cities with cheapest rents

Man’s attempt to win back ex-girlfriend by planting ‘love spell’ pineapple on train tracks ends in TERROR ALERT and one-year restraining order

BREAKING: British tourist killed in ‘fight between holidaymakers’ in Benidorm

REPORTS: Four people STABBED in knife attack in British holiday favourite Benidorm

WATCH: Police in Spain ‘fire rubber bullets’ at Scottish football fans after Benidorm bar ‘torched’ and man arrested for crystal meth

WANTED BRIT: Liverpudlian gangster who ‘dealt AK-47s and cocaine’ spotted roaming southern Spain in luxury Audi

WATCH: British expat Brexiters in Spain branded ‘stupid’ and ‘arrogant’ after admitting they would now vote Remain in Channel 4 news piece

British model among arrests in Spain over brutal ‘love triangle’ murder of drug dealer Carl Carr buried by Costa Blanca motorway

Murdered Irish drug dealer who had €200k debts found buried next to Costa Blanca motorway

RED FLAG: British expat bar owner in southern Spain faces huge fine for refusing to take down Union Jack

Dutchman who beat his own mother to death in Estepona is sentenced

‘No to war and free Palestine’: Spanish actor Javier Bardem revives Iraq war protest pin at Oscars ceremony to slam US strikes on Iran

Spain to introduce ‘comprehensive’ package this week to counter energy price spikes caused by Iran war

WATCH: Four people injured after Storm Samuel hits Spain – including gale-force 160km/h winds and record 13-metre-tall waves

Finalissima is cancelled: Money-spinning clash between Spain and Argentina is axed over Iran war safety fears

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