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Young boy dies after concrete pillar on house driveway collapses on him in Spain’s Alicante area
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY died on Tuesday while playing outside his family's finca in the Sax area of Alicante province.
The Spanish youngster was on an...
Machine gun and marijuana farm found inside rural squat in Spain’s Alicante area
A POLISH man, 38, who squatted in a finca in Campo Alto de Elda turned it into a marijuana farm and was found in...
Gay couple arrested for domestic violence after one month of living together in Spain’s Alicante area
A gay couple came to blows in their Petrer home with both men arrested for domestic violence.
One of them was taken to hospital with...
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-...
Man conceals gun from police in boxer shorts and fires bullet into his penis resulting in emergency operation in...
AN Alicante Province man hid an illegal gun from the eyes police officers by stuffing it down his boxer shorts, but ended up in...
Police act on frivolous false complaint that pensioner is breeding geckos at home in Spain’s Alicante area
POLICE resources in Elda, Alicante Province, were diverted to an apartment visit to see if a pensioner was breeding geckos.
Tiny geckos are a familiar...
Blind customer makes massive payment mistake in Alicante area bar in Spain as owner tells him to go to...
A Petrer man found himself seriously out of pocket when he paid the bill in a local bar.
The visually-impaired customer used the Bizum instant...
Costa Blanca builders in Spain cheated customers by robbing their homes
A three-man Alicante Province robbery gang that posed as builders has been arrested by the Policia Nacional.
The men offered masonry services on a variety...
British man arrested after police chase marijuana ‘convoy’ in Spain’s Alicante area
A British man, 24, has been arrested in Elda after police chased three cars running a marijuana convoy.
Convoys are a regular practice in the...
Bogus police officers tie up elderly woman during home robbery on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO bogus police officers entered the home of a 75-year-old Alicante woman before tying her up and rifling through the property.
The intruders were part...
Two men go on sex assault spree during Moors and Christian festival in Alicante area city in Spain
TWO men have been arrested by the Policia Nacional for sexually assaulting at least eight women and girls during Elda's Moors and Christian festival...
Thief steals €20,000 of brass ornaments from cemeteries but sells them for virtually nothing in Spain’s Alicante area
A man has been arrested for stealing 70 ornaments from cemeteries in Elda and Petrer.
The metal items, which cost a total of €20,000 for...
Children suffer burn and smoke injuries as fire rips through Alicante area apartment block in Spain
A fire tore through the bottom floor of a Monforte del Cid apartment block on Wednesday leaving 11 people hospitalised.
A girl, 7, suffered hand...
Man attacks wife with horse whip and stabs son before threatening to burn them alive in Alicante area home...
A man blew up into a violent rage against wife and younger son before threatening to set them on fire at his Elda home...
Spain’s Benidorm features as one of seven Alicante locations in the Top 100 Greenest Places of Europe
BENIDORM and six other Alicante towns feature in a study that reveals the greenest places in Europe.
Elda, Alicante, Elche, Torrevieja, Benidorm, Alcoy and San...
Roman chandelier restored nearly 2,000 years later in Alicante area of Spain
A rare example of a Roman chandelier, discovered at an Alicante Province archaeological site, has gone on public display.
It was unearthed in the lower...
COVID-19 vaccine ‘refusenik’ dies after rejecting jabs in Alicante Province area of Spain
A 58-year-old Alicante Province woman died from COVID-19 yesterday(August 17) after refusing to get vaccinated.
The woman passed away in Elda's Virgen de Salud Hospital.
She...
Drunk and drugged-up Costa Blanca driver breaks every rule as police in Spain chase him down
A 61-year-old driver racked up a heap of trouble after an Alicante Province car chase.
The Spaniard was above the legal limit for alcohol and...
Girl,12, stops father from killing her mother by stabbing him several times after row in Alicante Province area of...
A 12-year-old girl stabbed her father in the back after he tried to kill her mother at their Elda home in Alicante Province.
Neighbours heard...
Four people killed after a train hits their car on a level crossing on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FOUR people died when a train smashed into their car on an Alicante Province level crossing.
The victims came from Elda and Petrer, and were...
Police rescue children trapped inside hot car by automatic locking system in Spain’s Alicante province
An Elda mother was left distraught after she locked herself out of her car with her two young children trapped inside.
Two Policia Local officers...
Male paraglider escapes with broken bones after crash-landing on Costa Blanca-Murcia border in Spain
A male paraglider escaped with just an ankle fracture and wounded pride after crashing yesterday evening(June 14) on the Murcia-Alicante Province border.
The unnamed man...
‘MASS ABUSE’ as hidden cameras record hundreds of naked clients at a Costa Blanca beauty salon in Spain
A couple made over 500 hidden camera recordings of naked female clients being treated at their Alicante Province beauty salon.
Some of the customers at...
Jealous woman strangled her partner’s eight-year-old autistic foster son on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A WOMAN got so jealous of the bond between her partner and his eight-year-old autistic foster son, that she killed the boy.
An Alicante jury...
Costa Blanca neighbours give time and use traditional skills to make 3500 masks for Alicante hospitals
CARING citizens in the Alicante neighbourhoods of Elda and Petrer are using their spare time during lock-down to make hospitals’ surgical masks for free.
With...
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