Tag: Rojales
GETTING BATTY for home comforts to fight off mosquitoes in a park area on Spain’s Costa Blanca
BATS and birds are being coaxed to have a home in a Costa Blanca park in order to fend off nasty pests and mosquitoes. Boxes...
Historic museum to get €300,000 facelift on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ROJALES council is to spend over €300,000 on the town's Archaeological Museum to fix all of the problems uncovered in a survey by its...
Forest plantation further increases biodiversity on river bank in Spain’s Costa Blanca
A RIPARIAN forest is being planted on the banks of the Segura river, east of Rojales in the Vega Baja region of Costa Blanca. The...
Solitary bees encouraged to reproduce in fight against climate change on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ROJALES City Council, in the Vega Baja region of Alicante province, has just launched a second project to fight climate change along with the...
Horse Rescue Centre helps National Police with drugs raid on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN EMERGENCY call from Policia Nacional this week led to the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre in Rojales being involved in a drug raid...
Over 200 trees to be planted in new forest to improve biodiversity on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A NEW initiative in the Vega Baja area of Spain’s Costa Blanca South will see over 200 trees planted to form a new forest...
Covid crisis funding from Valencian government for city heavily populated with Brits is €684,000
ROJALES Council is getting a €684,000 grant from Valencia to help firms that suffered through the pandemic.This includes Ciudad Quesada, the Costa Blanca town...
Cycle lanes between popular expat town and local beaches mooted for Spain’s Costa Blanca
A PROJECT linking the Guardamar coast with Rojales and Quesada was presented by Valencia’s Public Works minister, Arcadi España, this week. Specially-constructed lanes on the...
COVID-19 cases double over a week in densely-populated British expat area on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ROJALES mayor, Antonio Perez, is appealing to all citizens to act responsibly in light of positive COVID-19 cases DOUBLING in a week. The Rojales municipality...
Town popular with expats goes bat crazy to help control mosquitoes on Spain’s Costa Blanca
BAT SHELTER boxes have been installed in Rojales, the town with the highest density of Brits on Costa Blanca. The purpose is to ensure that...
British fugitive paedophile arrested in his fortified home on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A CONVICTED PAEDOPHILE who abused children aged 9 to 11 has been caught after spending almost a month on the run from UK authorities. His...
City council told to pay back over 100,000 euros of social services funding to regional government on Spain’s Costa...
ROJALES City Council has been told to return 103,000 euros to the Generalitat Valenciana. For the third year in a row, the council that also...
Artichoke season brings ‘dignity’ as well as profit to farm workers in flood-ravaged Vega Baja on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AFTER a thousand years of production in the Vega Baja region of Spain, the humble artichoke won’t let one season lost to flooding affect...
Christmas shoppers urged to stay local with ‘Super Basket’ giveaway on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ROJALES City Council is incentivising Christmas shoppers to stay local with a chance to win one of 10 ‘super baskets’ just before Three Kings. The...
WATCH: Spanish ARMY arrives to Spain’s Costa Blanca to battle COVID-19 outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZwg4-6vdc THIS is the moment the Spanish army surrounded a nursing home on the Costa Blanca today. The clip shows at least two large army trucks...
City’s local police awarded for work done during floods and pandemic in Spain’s Costa Blanca
ORIHUELA Local Police have been awarded the “Lápiz Escuela Pública” (Public School Pencil) for the work done during both last year’s floods and the...
Horse rescue centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca goes international as it expands operations into Switzerland
ROJALES' Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre is going international after gaining official recognition as a charity in Switzerland. It means both fundraising and the re-homing...
Twin earthquakes in Spain as Costa Blanca becomes country’s most affected region
TWO earthquakes of magnitude 2.6 and 2.4 hit the Costa Blanca South last night and early this morning, making it the region in Spain...
Gastro tasting events return after absence of 10 months on Spain’s Costa Blanca
CIUDAD QUESADA and Rojales have announced two weekends of gastro delight in November, marking a return of such events after nearly eight months of...
Jazz festival cancelled in March returns this month on Spain’s Costa Blanca
CANCELLED with tragically short notice in March, due to Spain’s Covid-19 lockdown, the Rojales Music Without Borders Festival belatedly launches this weekend on October...
EXCLUSIVE: British expat murdered on Spain’s Costa Blanca had been attacked by the same assailant in 2017
THE alleged killer of a British expat had been involved in a knife attack on the same victim in the UK three years ago. The...
Tributes flood in as young Brit stabbed to death on Spain’s Costa Blanca is named as Ben Nesbitt
THE victim of a fatal stabbing in Southern Spain has been named as Ben Nesbitt. The 22-year-old was from Woodvale, between Southport and Formby on...
Manhunt for British expat who ‘fatally stabbed fellow Brit in neck’ during fight at house party on Spain’s Costa...
Sources believe the murder occurred following a fight between the two men, who were both at a house party with their partners
Two women shoplift 11 bottles of gin, six kilos of cheese and mountains of tuna on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO women have been arrested in Rojales after allegedly shoplifting an unusual mix of cheese, spirits and party balloons. The pair had been seen acting...
Town uses ‘€70,000’ of taxpayers money dealing with complaints from ONE group on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE WAR of words continues in the heart of the Vega Baja as Rojales Town Council claims €70,000 of taxpayers cash is being spent...
BUSTED: Champagne-swilling multinational drug gang of 12 dealing on Spain’s Costa Blanca
The two gang leaders, men aged 23 and 28, installed security systems and CCTV at each location, and even supplied their ‘tenants’ with gyms to keep fit
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Negligent dog owner loses jail sentence appeal after six-month-old puppy died on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Costa Blanca woman has lost her appeal against a three-month jail sentence for letting her dog die from serious neglect. She also got a...
