‘BITTER TASTE’ for lemon growers feeling the squeeze on the Costa Blanca in Spain
A fruit growers association is warning of a ‘disastrous’ time for lemon farms in Alicante Province due to cheap imports. La Unio de Llauradors says
Royal Navy frigate makes its first trip to Spain and spends a week in Alicante on the Costa Blanca
HMS Kent is over halfway through a week-long stay in Alicante in what is the first visit to Spain from a ship belonging to the
COVID-19 hospital cases hit new low with levels similar to almost a year ago in Costa Blanca area of Spain
HOSPITAL admissions caused by COVID-19 reached their lowest figure of 2021 today(June 4) according to the Valencian health authority. There are now just 110 people
WET-SUITED BODY discovered yesterday off the Costa Blanca in Spain is female and not male
NEW details have emerged today(June 4) about a body in a wetsuit discovered by a Javea fishing boat yesterday off the Costa Blanca. First reports
Yacht was camouflaged as a fishing boat to smuggle tons of drugs into a Costa Blanca port in Spain
TWO-and-a-half tons of hashish was found on a yacht moored at Santa Pola, leading to the detention of a Murcia and Costa Blanca-based drugs gang.
Only a quarter of under-60s jabbed with AstraZeneca in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain have so far chosen Pfizer for their second shot
OVER three-quarters of under-60s jabbed with the AstraZeneca vaccine in the Valencia region have requested to take their second anti-COVID inoculation with the same vaccine.
Pedro Sanchez is told to use diplomacy to boost Benidorm and Costa Blanca tourism by getting Spain onto UK ‘Green’ travel list
ALICANTE Provincial Council president, Carlos Mazon, wants Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, to exert more diplomatic pressure on the UK to get the country onto ‘Green’
COVID-19 health situation latest from the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
LATEST coronavirus case figures from the Valencian health ministry stand at 205 new infections today(June 3). That’s a fall of five on a week-to-week comparison
SEA RIDDLE over male body in a wetsuit discovered 16 miles offshore by a Costa Blanca fishing boat in Spain
A Javea fishing boat discovered a body floating in the sea today(June 3), some 16 miles off Cabo de la Nao on the northern Costa
‘Phishing’ and ‘Smishing’ gang on the Costa Blanca in Spain used credit card details conned out of victims
EIGHT people have been arrested in Almoradi and Torrevieja for running a nationwide scam that stole the credit card details of least 48 people. The
EXPLAINER: Four new major rule changes in COVID-19 restrictions for the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
FOUR major changes have been announced today(June 3) to COVID-19 safety measures in the Valencian Community. As expected, Valencia President, Ximo Puig, confirmed that the
COVID-19 cases hold steady with zero deaths and falling hospital numbers in Costa Blanca area of Spain
NEW COVID-19 cases have fallen on a week-to week basis according to figures published today(June 2) by the Valencian health authority. 183 new infections were
San Juan beach celebrations cancelled again by COVID-19 in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
TRADITIONAL San Juan festival beach parties will be strictly prohibited in the Valencian Community later this month. Regional Health Minister, Ana Barcelo, said: “If we
Plague of ‘hugging’ robberies continues as couple strike across the Costa Blanca and Spain
A couple who committed at least ten ‘hugging’ robberies on the Costa Blanca, as well as in the Madrid and Murcia areas, have been arrested
Green list special status for low risk parts of mainland Spain unlikely says UK ambassador during Benidorm visit
THE UK ambassador to Madrid has said that it is unlikely that parts of mainland Spain will be allowed on the UK’s travel green list
Belgian expat on the Costa Blanca in Spain claimed his dead mother’s state pension for over six years
A 48-year-old Belgian man has been arrested on the Costa Blanca for claiming over €90,000 from his mother’s state pension after she died in 2014.
A new ‘contemporary’ corporate logo costing €33,000 is unveiled by a Costa Blanca council in Spain
TORREVIEJA mayor, Eduardo Dolon, has unveiled a new corporate logo for the Costa Blanca city. €33.000 of public money has been spent on producing the
Squatters evicted under new four-week ‘quickie’ process in Costa Blanca town in Spain
VILLAJOYOSA council has successfully triggered a new fast-track eviction process to clear an apartment block of squatters. The block in the northern Costa Blanca town
COVID-19 case latest from the Costa Blanca and Valencia regions of Spain
NEW coronavirus cases are maintaining a very marginal rise on a week-to week basis in the Valencian Community. The Tuesday(June 1) report from the regional
NIGHT CURFEW will definitely end in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain this coming Monday
A night curfew introduced in late October in the Valencian Community will end this Monday(June 7). Despite a slight rise in new COVID-19 cases, Valencian
55-year-old Costa Blanca pervert in Spain ‘groomed’ boy aged under 14 to meet for sex
A 55-year-old Orihuela pervert was stopped from hooking up for sex with a boy aged under 14 after the Policia Nacional tracked down his IP
‘WEEKEND WORRIES’ as new COVID-19 cases hit May highpoint in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
THE weekend COVID-19 case figures have produced May’s largest total for the Valencian Community, according to the regional health ministry tonight(May 31). A total of
International cruise ships are coming back to Alicante on Spain’s Costa Blanca this June
FOREIGN cruise ships will return to docking in Alicante next month to give an economic boost to the area. The news comes after the Spanish
Landmark in a Costa Blanca city in Spain gets a full clean some 46 years after its unveiling
A Torrevieja landmark is getting a major makeover to repair damage caused by coastal erosion. The ‘Hombre de Mar'(Man of the Sea) statue, was designed
BENIDORM BATTLE as illegal party spills out into a street fight on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A mass brawl involving 30 people spilled out onto a Benidorm street outside a bar hosting an illegal party. Four guests aged between 18 and
Rising COVID-19 warning for the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain as a weekly record-number of vaccinations are expected
VALENCIAN president, Ximo Puig, has warned that COVID-19 cases are rising and appealed for residents not to let their guard down. In a week where