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Police in Spain arrest couple who used fake modelling and film agencies to force more than 120 women into...
SPAIN’S National Police force has arrested a couple on suspicion of sexually exploiting more than 120 women in the Alicante municipalities of Elche and...
Extra bank machines coming to city districts to fight social exclusion in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas
A programme to install extra ATMs in large city districts in the Valencian Community has been announced by the regional government.
The move is aimed...
150 police officers bust Costa Blanca drugs gang exporting marijuana from Spain to the UK
SIMULTANEOUS Guardia Civil raids early on Tuesday morning involving 150 officers have brought down a Teulada-Moraira gang that exported marijuana to the United Kingdom
17...
New €7.2 million health centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca could be completed by end of 2024
A €7.2 million contract to build a much-needed new health centre in Elche will be advertised in April.
The Travalon health centre will serve 20,000...
Cheapest property prices in Spain can be found in central city known for ceramics
TALAVERA DE LA REINA in Toledo province- known for its ceramics industry and popular with tourists- has the cheapest properties for sale coming in...
AI-based mobile phone car number plate reader created by Costa Blanca company in Spain
AN Elche company has created an artificial intelligence device that can convert smartphones into car licence plate readers, which could be used by police...
Costa Blanca woman in Spain conned out of €57,000 by bogus policeman in online love scam
A Teulada woman was conned out of €57,000 in an online love scam run by a Guardamar man posing as a Policia Nacional officer.
They...
Man assaults two elderly women in broad daylight in Spain’s Alicante Province
THE Guardia Civil have arrested a 46-year-old man who attacked two women walking down a Crevillente road in broad daylight.
The victims- both aged 64-...
‘Wobbling’ lorry stopped with driver six times over alcohol limit in Spain’s Murcia
AN erratically-driven lorry was pulled over in the Murcia City area with the driver found to be six times above the alcohol limit.
The Elche-bound...
Honest woman finds €500 in the street and gives it to police on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A woman who lost €500 in an Elche street got her money back and had a surprise meeting with the person who found it.
The...
Man tries to kill co-worker on Spain’s Costa Blanca by pouring toxic chemicals into water bottle
A 51-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after poisoning a co-worker at an Elche metal factory.
He poured ammonia and solvent into a...
Hospitals on Spain’s Costa Blanca sending patients to private clinics to cut surgery waiting lists
PATIENTS waiting for elective surgeries at Alicante Province hospitals are being referred to private operators to cut the backlog of operations.
Health Ministry budgets for...
Man shot after cars collide on Costa Blanca roundabout in Spain
THE Guardia Civil is looking for two men after shots were fired in an extreme road rage incident in the Catral area of Alicante...
Spain’s Costa Blanca reaches highest population in a decade
ALICANTE Province's population has risen by 19,832 over a year according to figures from the National Statistics Institute(INE).
The total- based on municipal padron registrations-...
Off-duty policeman chases supermarket robber around car park on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN Elche supermarket thief was caught by two off-duty policemen doing their shopping at the same time.
They restrained him after he ran off with...
Prisoners spend day release time robbing houses across Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO prisoners used their day release privileges to rob houses across the southern Costa Blanca.
They were part of a three-man gang who have been...
Man threatens to shoot police officer in nightclub toilet on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A 47-year-old Spaniard assaulted a Policia Nacional officer in an Elche nightclub and threatened to shoot him dead.
He's been charged with attempted murder, assault,...
Young thief jailed for spree of smashing vending machines with manhole covers on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN Elche man has been jailed after he was arrested six times in a few days for breaking into vending machines in the city.
The...
Costa Blanca city in Spain gets month-long deadline to remove big Francoist memorial
ELCHE council has been given until mid-December to remove a major Francoist symbol in the city.
The order to take down the Cross of the...
Policeman in excess force quiz after man gets head kicked in on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE Policia Nacional in Alicante are investigating accusations of excess force by an Elche officer recorded kicking a man's head three times during his...
DNA reveals vicious Costa Blanca double-murder suspect to be Russian who fled Spain
DNA evidence has revealed a Russian man- formerly based in Torrevieja- as the main suspect in two Costa Blanca killings in 2020.
He also tried...
Lone female on Spain’s ‘Most Wanted’ list detained in Ecuador for running Costa Blanca prostitution ring
POLICE have caught one of Spain's top ten 'Most Wanted' fugitives hiding out in a town on the Columbia-Ecuador border.
Viviana Andrea Vallejo Gutierrez, 36,...
Fake policemen steal marijuana haul from Costa Blanca drugs gang in Spain
A gang posing as Policia Nacional officers to rob drug dealers on the Costa Blanca has been arrested by the genuine police.
Three men- aged...
British marijuana grower on Spain’s Costa Blanca used young son to make drug deliveries on electric scooter
A drugs gang that cultivated and exported marijuana across Europe from plantations in Alicante Province has been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
One of the...
Evicted empty homes get locks changed for rental scam on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A scammer has been arrested in Elche for finding empty homes and changing the locks to rent the properties out to unsuspecting tenants.
The 39-year-old...
Costa Blanca boy in Spain who killed parents and brother gets six-year internment
AN Alicante court has imposed six years of internment for a teenage boy who shot dead his parents and younger brother at their Elche...
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