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Flood warnings as Spain’s Mar Menor region looks ahead to full day of rain, wind and rough seas
COASTAL areas around the Mar Menor are preparing for more potentially devastating floods, after a night of torrential rain looks set to...
Flood warning in Spain’s Mar Menor region – roads closed, residents told to stay indoors and upstairs
OVERNIGHT rains have blocked off many roads in the Mar Menor area, still recovering from a series of storms going back to...
WATCH: Police catch drug smugglers at gun-point in dramatic Costa Calida raid
GUARDIA Civil have dismantled at gun-point a drug smuggling gang in the Mar Menor region of Murcia.
British expats forced to patrol own streets on Spain’s Costa Blanca after spate of violent muggings
EXPATS are being forced to patrol their own streets after a series of violent muggings The group of...
Family ties forging the way for Costa Blanca business built on traditional values
KEEPING it in the family has been the key to the success of local estate agency, Casas Manuel. “You’d...
Los Alcazares mayor says ‘mud-filled drains’ from September’s gota fria to blame for fresh flash flooding
THE mayor of a Costa Blanca town hit AGAIN by flash floods has blamed mud-filled drains gone neglected since September’s deadly gota...
Councillor says Costa Blanca floods were a ‘humanitarian crisis’ largely ignored by world media
A BRITISH councillor has called the gota fría catastrophe ‘a humanitarian crisis’ largely ignored from international media. Darren Parmenter,...
British author in Alicante pens wartime novel to international success
A BRITISH author residing on the Costa Blanca has enjoyed such ‘amazing success’ with her debut novel she’s already begun work on...
Cyclists are breaking rules and endangering public on Spain’s Costa Blanca, say British expats
‘An unpopular measure as people use the promenade for mobility and not as a race path’
Dancing bear spotted at Murcia medieval market
This is the first known sighting of a performing bear in Spain since 2007
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BREAKING: UK pledges €85 million to repatriate stranded Brits, with over 150,000 returning from Spain since the coronavirus lockdown
THE British government has pledged to spend €85 million to repatriate stranded Brits abroad.
