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All suspects acquitted for manslaughter of Dutch tourist, 27, who died in a 2021 nightclub brawl in Spain’s Mallorca

A DUTCH court has acquitted Sanil B for his role in the death of Carlo Heuvelman, 27, who died in a nightclub brawl in Mallorca

21 Mar, 2024 @ 10:45

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

Warning over holiday rental scams in southern Spain: Three are arrested for 'defrauding unsuspecting tourists out of tens of thousands of euros'

Spain’s police make 65 arrests in bust of cybercrime gang using the ’Hi Mum!” scam

IT is a scam that is being used around the world, and that can catch out even the most vigilant citizen. Known as “Hi Mum!”,

7 Feb, 2024 @ 10:20

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

WATCH: Mallorca locals struggle to get their heads around disgusting video of Dutch tourist defecating on sleeping man’s face

A NEW nadir was reached in Mallorca’s battle against drunk tourism when a Dutchman dropped his shorts and defecated on the cheek of a passed

21 Jul, 2023 @ 18:40

Lead·Mallorca

A taste of tradition: Dutch butcher offers top cuts in Benahavis on Spain’s Costa del Sol

GUILLERMO’S Dutch Butcher builds on generations of know-how to offer the best, hand-selected cuts of meat and delicious home-made dishes HAILING from a traditional Dutch

11 Mar, 2022 @ 11:15

Food & Drink

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima

CHINWAG OVER THE CHORIZO! EXCLUSIVE: ‘Like any normal couple’ the King and Queen of Holland booked a restaurant and chatted to tourists and staff in Spanish and English

IT was a usually busy Saturday night in one of Ronda’s most popular restaurants. As the noise levels were shifting up a gear in came

10 Feb, 2022 @ 10:34

Celebrity·Food & Drink·Lead·Malaga·Must Read

Domestic travellers overtake British users of Costa Blanca’s Alicante-Elche airport in Spain

DOMESTIC passengers overtook UK traveller numbers for Alicante-Elche airport in July. Figures from airport operator Aena put internal users at 133,000 compared to 111,784 Brits.

12 Aug, 2021 @ 12:34

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

World’s youngest spaceman who joined Bezos on rocket mission trained at Malaga pilot school

STUDENT Pilot Oliver Daemen became the world’s youngest person to travel to space at the age of just 18, after he trained at the One

27 Jul, 2021 @ 19:15

Lead

Baby boy drowns in Mallorca swimming pool

COSTA BLANCA TRAGEDY as baby girl dies after falling into a villa swimming pool in Spain’s Javea

A 19-month-old Dutch girl died this lunchtime(June 16) after she fell into the swimming pool at a Javea villa on Spain’s northern Costa Blanca. Her

16 Jun, 2021 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

SNIFFED OUT: Drug gang of eight people who hid weed and hash in cases of garlic arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol and in Cordoba

POLICE have sniffed out a drugs smuggling gang who hid cannabis in shipments of garlic. Officers arrested eight people, based in Cordoba and Benalmadena and

18 May, 2020 @ 15:42

Cordoba·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Heavy holidaymaker plunges 20 metres to death in Spain’s Mallorca after railings he leant on gave way

An air ambulance rushed to attend him, but despite revival efforts of 45 minutes, he was pronounced dead before he reached hospital

18 Sep, 2019 @ 10:57

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Outlaw biker connected to a string of shootings captured on Spain’s Costa del Sol

The fugitive had reportedly been living in a luxury house in Marbella with his pregnant wife and three children for several months

30 Aug, 2019 @ 13:53

Crime & Law·Lead

NEW luxury €130 million Marbella apartments want Dutch and Belgian buyers over British ‘due to Brexit’

After Belgium and the Netherlands, Scandinavians are next in terms of demand, while the British are further down the pecking order

22 Aug, 2019 @ 10:49

Lead·Malaga·Property

Dutch lorry driver arrested by police after 1,000 kilo drugs haul discovered on Costa del Sol

Sniffer dogs alerted officers to the truck's trailer where police discovered the 1,000 kilos of hashish and 225 kilos of marijuana in hollowed out pallets

25 Jun, 2019 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead

ENTIRE village in Spain on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Christmas wish list snapped up by EXPATS for just €150k

Buying up an entire Spanish village is a craze sweeping Hollywood and beyond but you’ll have to be quick to bag a bargain

13 Jan, 2019 @ 10:00

Celebrity·Lead·Property

The Juke Joints playing on the Costa del Sol TONIGHT

ONE of the best blues bands in Europe are playing on the Costa del Sol tonight. The Juke Joints – who were actually crowned the

22 Jun, 2018 @ 17:25

La Cultura

Expat’s designer bag and €5,000 cash handed in by local supermarket worker on Costa del Sol

Police said the manager who handed in the bag was an 'exemplary neighbour'

13 Jun, 2018 @ 10:56

Lead

Vista Alhaurín de la Torre desde El Lagar

Expat found hiding on Costa del Sol to be extradited for drug trafficking

AN expat who has been found hiding on the Costa del Sol will be extradited to face drug trafficking charges, the Guardia Civil has announced.

4 Dec, 2017 @ 12:52

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

DUTCH COURAGE: We speak better Spanish after an alcoholic drink, study confirms

IT’S something we have all known for a long time… our language skills improve dramatically after a drink or two. Now’s it’s been scientifically proven.

25 Oct, 2017 @ 16:30

Food & Drink·La Cultura·Lead

LEAKED: EU will take UK to International Court if it does not pay €57 billion ‘divorce bill’

Only six people have seen the 'secret EU strategy', including Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker

21 Mar, 2017 @ 15:57

Almeria·Business & Finance·Cadiz·Cordoba·Granada·Huelva·Jaen·Lead·Malaga·National News·Politics·Sevilla

UPDATE: Missing Dutch teens Femke Lucas and Sam Bruijs found alive and well

Sixteen-year-olds Femke Lucas and Sam Bruijs were found in Albufeira in Portugal, over 400km from where they were last spotted on CCTV in Malaga

20 Nov, 2016 @ 08:12

Lead·Malaga

Fears for two missing Dutch teens in Malaga

Sixteen-year-olds Femke Lucas and Sam Bruijs could be in Marbella after catching a flight from Eindhoven to Malaga on Tuesday evening after school without any

18 Nov, 2016 @ 15:54

Lead·Malaga

Jan Herman Brinkman jolande de riet en zoon floris foto

On the brink: Costa del Sol victims point the finger at alleged Dutch fraudster Jan Herman Brinkman

EXCLUSIVE The astonishing trail of allegations against suspected Porsche-driving fraudster Jan Herman Brinkman finally leads to an arrest, as Joe Duggan discovers

18 Sep, 2016 @ 09:26

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga