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Scam warning: Benidorm man loses €35k to new girlfriend who tricked him into paying legal fees for fake €3m...

A BENIDORM man was conned out of €35,000 by a woman who started a relationship with him via social media. She claimed she needed the...

WATCH: Black TikTok creator says she is in ‘no hurry’ to return to Spain as it ‘still hasn’t learned...

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN content creator has taken to TikTok to give Spain a rating as a country to visit for a person of colour,...

WATCH: American expat in Spain is shocked by how much he can buy with $20 in Mercadona

REGULAR users of video-sharing social network TikTok in Spain will no doubt have been served videos this year of American residents of Spain running...

‘Radicalised’ extremist Pakistanis are thrown out of Spain

SPAIN'S Interior Ministry has deported 14 'radicalised' Pakistani citizens accused of promoting the most extreme interpretation of the Islamic religion. The government expulsions have taken...

Facebook and Instagram to launch an ad-free subscription tier across the EU in 2024

SOCIAL media giants Facebook and Instagram will be launching an ad-free subscription tier across the European Union in 2024, including Spain. That’s according to...

Police in Spain’s Barcelona province arrest minor for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child pornography

A MINOR has been arrested in Barcelona province on suspicion of using artificial intelligence to create child pornography. The youngster is thought to have...

Elon Musk weighs banning X (Twitter) in the EU as bloc demands answers for ‘fake viral content’ relating to...

THE OWNER of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, is considering removing the social media platform from European countries such as Spain thanks to new...

Bomb threat forces evacuation of 1,000 students at university in Spain’s Valencia

A BUILDING at Valencia's Universitat Politecnica was evacuated on Wednesday following a bomb threat. The Telecommunications Faculty was cleared at noon shortly after the warning...

Illegal advertisers of stuffed Eagle Owls investigated in Spain’s Valencia area

TWO SPANIARDS are being investigated in Valencia for illegally advertising stuffed Eagle Owls on animal sales forums on social media. Two birds were offered for...

Woman in Spain’s Andalucia conned out of €170,000 by man pretending to be Brad Pitt

A GRANADA woman has been scammed out of at least €170,000 by an online con involving somebody posing as the movie star Brad Pitt. Her...

Watch: Man in Malaga falls off jet bridge onto tarmac in bid to reach missed plane

REGULAR AIR travellers will no doubt at some time have arrived too late for their flight, only to be faced with a closed gate....

Three tourists walking half-naked around the streets spark outrage in Mallorca 

ANGRY Mallorcans have complained about three tourists walking around half-naked in Calvia (Mallorca).  A residents’ association fed up with mass tourism in the municipality has...

Twitter user in US receives thousands of responses after posting pictures of ‘Spanish-style homes’

ONCE AGAIN, an unsuspecting Twitter user has waded into a storm of controversy in Spain, merely by tweeting out pictures of what she described...

Rosalía slams fellow singer from Spain after he shared a fake topless photo of her

SPANISH singing superstar Rosalia has slammed a fellow artist’s attempts to attract attention after he shared a faked topless photo of her on Instagram....

Four teens in Malaga videoed attack on youth and uploaded it to social media

FOUR teens have been arrested for allegedly uploading a video of an attack on another youngster in Malaga.  They are believed to have shared a...

A quarter of children in Spain say bullying went on at schools in previous academic year

A REPORT into bullying at schools in Spain reported 24.4% of students believing it went on at their institution in the 2021-22 academic year. The...

Onion furore as farmer faces lawsuit for saying police officers stole vegetables in Spain’s Valencia

A Mislata farmer could end up in court after accusing Policia Local officers of stealing onions in the middle of last Saturday night. Police say...

Almost two-thirds of people in Spain don’t trust social media for accurate political news

63.9% of people in Spain believe that political news and information obtained via social media networks is unreliable. 71.6% 'agree or strongly agree' that the...

Did this Olive Press reporter just pull off the best April Fool’s prank on Spanish Twitter ever?

AS JAMIE Oliver found out when he put chorizo in paella, or The Times journalist Chris Haslam when he wrote a tongue-in-cheek column about...

Woman gets €211 service charge for fire crew preventing her suicide on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALICANTE city council has waived a €211 charge levied on a young woman who was saved by a fire crew after threatening to take...

Court in Spain gives man one-year jail term for slapping wife during live TikTok stream

A MAN who assaulted his wife during a live broadcast via the social network TikTok has been sentenced to a year in prison by...

LOST IN THE MATRIX: With social networks and influencers affecting education, will the Spanish curriculum eventually go online?

IN the late 1980s, when I was a secondary school pupil in England, there were no smart devices. Phone calls were made from a...

Why Netflix users in Spain will no longer be able to share their passwords with friends and family

THE DAYS of sharing your Netflix account with friends and family outside your own household are over in Spain. The streaming giant has just...

Social network Twitter is to sack more than 80% of workforce in Spain

TWITTER is planning on sacking more than 80% of its workforce in Spain, as the company continues with the shake-up that began after it...

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Mother says ‘scary movie guy’ wanted to kidnap her child in Spain’s Castellon area

A woman says a 'scary movie guy' had his eyes on kidnapping her daughter- aged under two- when he tried to open their car...

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