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Health commissioner resigns over vaccine queue-jumping scandal on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TORREVIEJA’S Commissioner for the Department of Health has sensationally resigned following a row over his alleged queue-jumping for the Coronavirus vaccine. José Antonio García Gómez

25 Jan, 2021 @ 14:16

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Spain’s highest ranking military leader resigns after COVID-19 vaccine queue jump

CONTROVERSY over the COVID-19 vaccine has once again led to two high ranking officials resigning after news emerged of alleged ‘queue jumping’. On Saturday, Spain’s

25 Jan, 2021 @ 14:15

Lead·National News

SPECIAL REPORT: Business as usual for drug traffickers on Spain’s Costa del Sol as smuggler killed off Estepona beach during high-speed boat chase

During 2020, smugglers had to get savvy to deliver hashish, cocaine and pills across Spain, including posing as food delivery drivers

25 Jan, 2021 @ 14:09

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Shock for COVID death family in Spain when 85-year-old ‘victim’ turns up alive and well 10 days later

A GRIEVING husband who had been told his 85-year-old wife had died of COVID had the shock of his life when she turned up at

25 Jan, 2021 @ 13:30

Lead·National News

Gang in Spain’s Malaga busted for selling out of date meat to takeaways and restaurants

A CRIMINAL organisation dedicated to the selling of out of date and damage meat to restaurants and takeaways across Spain has been busted by Malaga

25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

SPAIN has scrapped post-Brexit visa requirements for UK artists on short-term tours in what some industry leaders are calling a "big victory".

SHUT DOWN: Marbella, Estepona, Manilva and two other Malaga municipalities must close ALL non-essential businesses from Wednesday following COVID-19 spike

IT’S official; Marbella, Estepona, Alhuarin de la Torre, Manilva and Mollina must close all non-essential businesses from Wednesday. The five Malaga municipalities must enforce the

25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:43

Coronavirus·Lead·Malaga

CONNECTED: Internet is increasingly being used in schools all over the world

YOU’VE GOT MAIL: Wireless internet connection overhaul planned for more than 1,500 primary schools in Spain’s Valencia region

PRIMARY schools throughout the Valencian Community will be fitted with fast and reliable Wi-Fi from March. The central government in Madrid has announced the inking

25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:00

Costa Blanca·Education·Technology·Valencian Community

Another big weekly fall in new COVID-19 cases is reported in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

Tough COVID-19 home clampdown and weekend city border closures introduced in Spain’s Valencian Community

NEW moves to limit social contact are being introduced today(January 25) across the Valencian Community to try to stem the large rise in new COVID-19

25 Jan, 2021 @ 11:46

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia

Spain’s Andalucia hopes the government ‘will be brave’ and extend curfew hours this week

THE Junta hopes the central government will give in this week and permit home confinement, where necessary, and extend curfew hours. The Andalucian Minister of

25 Jan, 2021 @ 11:15

Lead·Other News

A motor for digitization: The EU’s Green Deal fosters a new era of sustainability in Europe

From air pollution to waste management and global warming, the world is experiencing environmental degradation in many ways. Technology is key to responding to the

25 Jan, 2021 @ 10:50

Technology

Spain’s Andalucia to announce closure of more municipalities today

A NEW list of municipalities in Spain’s Andalucian facing perimeter confinement and closure of all non-essential activities will be notified by the Junta today. The

25 Jan, 2021 @ 10:00

Lead

IN VIDEOS: Biggest earthquake in a DECADE rocks Spain’s Granada as screaming shoppers flee shaking store and Youtuber’s bedroom shakes during live stream

TWO schools will be closed in Granada today after an earthquake damaged its ceilings at the weekend. A 4.4 magnitude tremor hit the Andalucian city

25 Jan, 2021 @ 08:00

Granada·Lead

New food delivery rider rules start for Glovo and Uber Eats in Spain

Big online sales rise for Spanish delivery ‘app’ leads to new Valencia area base

ON-DEMAND Spanish delivery app, Glovo, is looking to expand its ‘dark stores’ in Spain and across Europe. The pandemic has given a boost to on-line

24 Jan, 2021 @ 16:15

Business & Finance·Valencia

It is not possible to be fat and healthy, say Spanish scientists

IT’S impossible to be ‘fat and fit’ and even if you are slightly overweight you are unhealthy, a new study has found. Researchers in Spain found

24 Jan, 2021 @ 14:00

Health·Lead·Other News

Spain hopes international tourists can ‘return by end of spring’

SPAIN has denied claims it will not allow tourists to return until after the summer, saying it hopes to welcome the first arrivals by the

24 Jan, 2021 @ 13:58

Lead·National News·Travel News

‘Beastly’ windmill project that ‘will endanger animal lives and the environment’ is universally slammed on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A POWER generation project across nearly 150,000 acres of Spanish countryside has been widely criticised by the four councils it would affect. Nine windmills, each

24 Jan, 2021 @ 13:21

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

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Mysterious tent sparks ‘field hospital’ rumours on Spain’s Costa del Sol

WORKERS have been spotted by numerous witnesses constructing a marquee in the car park of the Hospital Comarcal de la Axarquía, sparking rumours of a

24 Jan, 2021 @ 12:00

Lead·Malaga

Benidorm bullring will get a radical makeover on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BENIDORM’S bullring will be converted into a new cultural hub at a cost of €8.7 million. Structural issues have meant that the venue has not

24 Jan, 2021 @ 10:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca

Brexit And Old General Franco Law Could Delay British House Buys On Spain S Costa Blanca

Brexit means old General Franco law could delay British house buys on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BREXIT will make some property purchases more complicated for British people in some parts of the Costa Blanca due to an old law dating back

23 Jan, 2021 @ 16:15

Costa Blanca·Property

Drug traffickers with marijuana stash equal to weight of a small child caught at border controls on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TORREVIEJA Guardia Civil stopped and arrested the drivers of cars on the A7 with two huge bags of Marijuana, weighing in total the same as

23 Jan, 2021 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

REVEALED: Research finds only 33% of Brits believe Brexit was beneficial – and less than half trust Boris Johnson

IN the latest blow for Boris’s Johnson, a study has revealed that just 42% of Brits trust the Prime Minister to lead the country successfully

23 Jan, 2021 @ 13:15

Lead

WATCH: 300g of cocaine found hidden in huge SANDWICH in Spain

POLICE in Spain have discovered a brick of cocaine hidden inside a sandwich in northern Spain. At least one arrest was made in Lugo, Galicia,

23 Jan, 2021 @ 13:04

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Can British expats get the COVID-19 vaccine in Spain?

AS the coronavirus vaccine continues to be rolled out across Spain, many British expats have been left wondering whether or not they will receive the

23 Jan, 2021 @ 12:42

Coronavirus·Lead·National News

Fugitive rapist of 84-year-old woman snared by EU-funded task force in Spain’s Barcelona

ONE OF Europe’s most-wanted men has been arrested this week for the rape of an 84-year-old woman in 2009. National Police Forces of Spain and

23 Jan, 2021 @ 11:00

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Benidorm looks to new high-tech guide system to help tourists on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BENIDORM wants its Old Town equipped with a high-tech navigation system, NaviLens, to guide visitors around the area via a mobile smartphone app. Code points

23 Jan, 2021 @ 10:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca

Gibraltar lockdown ends on February 1 with shops allowed to re-open

ALL shops could be allowed to re-open on February 1 with the end of the social lockdown, the Gibraltar Chief Minister has revealed.

22 Jan, 2021 @ 20:24

Gibraltar·Lead

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