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EXPLAINED: The latest rules on people from the UK travelling to and from Spain

EXPLAINED: The latest ‘must read’ rules for travelling between the UK and Spain

SPAIN’S tourist board has launched a new ‘one-click’ feature on its website to allow foreign tourists to check on COVID-19 travel restrictions. UPDATE: Spain removes

18 May, 2021 @ 12:15

Lead·Must Read·National News·Travel News

FROM PITCH TO PLATE: Spain’s Villareal football club opens own restaurant in Ceramica stadium

THESE are great times to be a fan of Villareal football club. Not only has Castellon’s ‘Yellow Submarine’ fought its way through to its first

18 May, 2021 @ 12:00

Castellon·Food & Drink·Lead·Valencian Community

EU-funded law agency helps smash complex Spanish VAT fraud scheme that netted €26 million

EUROPOL, the EU’s international law enforcement agency, worked with authorities across five countries to arrest 22 suspects belonging to an organised crime group which swindled

18 May, 2021 @ 11:30

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

The EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement

The result of the terms on which the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 is the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United

18 May, 2021 @ 11:17

Brexit

CATCH YOUR FLIGHT: EasyJet to hide orange envelopes in Spain’s Malaga giving away free flights

THE British low-cost airline easyJet is running a ‘Catch your flight’ competition this Thursday in the old town of Malaga City. To mark the opening

18 May, 2021 @ 10:30

Lead·Malaga·Other News

U-Turn: Gibraltar to continue rapid COVID-19 testing for all UK arrivals due to increasing ‘Indian Strain’ cases

THE Government of Gibraltar has announced that it will continue to provide COVID-19 testing for all UK arrivals from today due to increasing concern over

18 May, 2021 @ 10:00

Gibraltar·Lead

Spain’s Malaga breaks all-time record for sizzling temperatures in May

MALAGA has broken its all-time record for scorching temperatures in the month of May since official records began in 1942. The gauge, located at the

18 May, 2021 @ 09:15

Lead·Malaga·Weather

NO jail time for two Neo-Nazis found guilty of paralysing black man in racist attack in Spain’s Mallorca

At the time of the attack, the defendants were wearing t-shirts adorned with Nazi slogans with witnesses attesting to the men shouting racial profanities during

17 May, 2021 @ 21:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

police checkpoint border regions restrictions coronavirus

Green crackdown: owners of polluting cars face fines in Spain’s Catalunya

OWNERS of cars which pollute the atmosphere could face fines in Catalunya, the first Spanish region to consider such plans. Vehicle owners will be penalised

17 May, 2021 @ 20:30

Barcelona·Environment·Lead·Other News

COVID-19 case numbers continue dropping in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

Highest weekend COVID-19 case figures this month across Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

NEW COVID-19 cases have produced their highest May weekend total in the Valencian Community. Health ministry figures released tonight(May 17) show 387 new infections since

17 May, 2021 @ 20:00

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Valencia

Curfew pushed back to midnight in Spain’s Balearic Islands and interior areas of bars and restaurants can open under one condition

Announcing the measures at a press conference today, government spokesman and tourism minister, Iago Negueruela, said that the Balearics Islands were approaching the 'final stages

17 May, 2021 @ 19:15

Lead·Mallorca

Alicante calls time for 2021 on one of the top outdoor events of the year on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALICANTE Council has cancelled this year’s San Juan Hogueras(Bonfires) celebrations to extinguish the chance of an autumn rescheduling. It’s the second year that the Hogueras

17 May, 2021 @ 18:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

Brexit Answers To Come For Brits On The Costa Blanca Thanks To Special 'zoom' Sessions

BREXIT ANSWERS to come for Brits on the Costa Blanca in Spain thanks to special ‘Zoom’ sessions

BRITISH residents in Alicante Province can join a series of ‘Zoom’ webinars to ask questions about living in Spain in the post-Brexit era. The events

17 May, 2021 @ 17:45

Brexit·Costa Blanca·Lead

Gibraltar records ZERO COVID-19 cases among residents and visitors for first time since July 2020

RESIDENTS of Gibraltar are tentatively celebrating as the government have revealed that for the first time in just under a year there are zero active

17 May, 2021 @ 17:30

Coronavirus·Gibraltar·Lead

Man and his two sons are arrested over stabbing of his ex-partner at an ice cream parlour on Spain’s Costa Blanca

CONTROL FREAK in Spain’s Murcia area can’t see his wife after abusing her over a short skirt

A court has barred a man from seeing his wife after he mistreated her for wearing a skirt that was too short for his taste.

17 May, 2021 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Catalans Demonstrate For Separatist Government

Spain’s Catalunya spared repeat election after two independence parties reach deal

TWO Catalan separatist parties said they have reached an initial agreement to form a regional government, sparing the voters the prospect of returning to the

17 May, 2021 @ 16:30

Lead·Politics

Record May foreign tourist figures in Spain

Heatwave brings out law-abiding visitors to Benidorm and across Spain’s Costa Blanca

A big rush of visitors to Benidorm and the Costa Blanca over the weekend did not fuel a parallel rise in COVID health safety rule-breaking.

17 May, 2021 @ 16:15

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

Fallas Festival In Valencia, Spain 18 Mar 2019

FALLAS IN SEPTEMBER: Iconic Fallas festivities in Spain’s Valencia region will take place in September this year

As well as the actual monuments, the Fallas involve a huge number of activities and people, including flower offerings, extremely loud mascleta firecracker displays, parades,

17 May, 2021 @ 15:45

Alicante·Castellon·La Cultura·Lead·Must Read·Travel News·Valencia·Valencian Community

CAMPO CALLING: Small towns and rural villages throughout Spain launch drive to attract new residents and entrepreneurs

Budding entrepreneurs looking to relocate somewhere calmer, less crowded and healthier can apply through the website www.holapueblo.com until June 11.

17 May, 2021 @ 15:15

Business & Finance·Castellon·Environment·Lead·Travel News·Valencian Community

PURRRRING CAR: Kitten rescued by police in Spain’s police after being stuck inside car engine for hours

HAPPY ENDING for kittens left to die in a suitcase on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FIVE kittens cheated death after being crammed into a suitcase and dumped on land in Alicante. Their ordeal had a happy ending after the small

17 May, 2021 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

17-year-old charged with spate of robberies across Gibraltar

A 17-year-old male has been charged with a spate of burglaries in various industrial offices in Gibraltar, according to an RGP press release. The youth

17 May, 2021 @ 14:15

Gibraltar·Lead

Adrenaline junkies can now enjoy the longest zipline in Spain’s Andalucia

ANDALUCIA’S longest zipline has finally opened its doors to thrillseekers. The inauguration of the zipline, located at Sunview Park, north of Alhaurin de la Torre,

17 May, 2021 @ 14:15

Lead·Malaga·Sport

Over 50,000 businesses across Andalucia apply for emergency COVID-19 fund

OVER 50,000 businesses in Andalucia have applied for funding from emergency coronavirus funding. The regional government confirmed that 53,796 requests were made for the COVID-19

17 May, 2021 @ 13:30

Business & Finance·Other News

British Airways boss calls on UK Government to put Spain on green travel list so expats can be reunited with families after ‘tough 14 months’

THE boss of British Airways has called on the Government to reunite Britons with their families overseas by urgently opening up air travel to Spain.

17 May, 2021 @ 12:45

Lead

EXPLAINED: Spain mulls Pfizer and Moderna second injection delays but still keeps faith with 70% August inoculation target

Spain confident of youth vaccinations by July thanks to new Pfizer delivery

COMMUNITIES in Spain are confident that younger age groups are on track to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as early as July, says government figures. According

17 May, 2021 @ 11:15

Coronavirus·Health·Lead

GANDIA VICE: Prostitution and drugs ring smashed in Spain’s Valencia

THE Guardia Civil has dismantled a prostitution and drug trafficking gang operating in Gandia and Alzira (Valencia Province). Four suspects – two men and two

17 May, 2021 @ 10:30

Crime & Law·Valencian Community

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