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Drug cartel members who used cocaine profits to buy hundreds of El Gordo lottery tickets are arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A FAMILY gang selling cocaine laundered their proceeds by buying Christmas Lottery tickets with the hopes of scooping a bigger return from their criminal activities.

6 Dec, 2023 @ 17:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Spain wants to hand out €2,400 to families in a bid to combat extreme child poverty - what you need to know

Spain has the worst child poverty record in the EU – but fares better than the UK

SPAIN continues to have one of the highest rates of child poverty in the European Union(EU) and amongst the members of the Organisation for Economic

6 Dec, 2023 @ 16:59

Lead·National News

Spain welcomed record number of foreign tourists in 2024

These regions in Spain have seen the biggest surges in tourists this year – as figures confirm a record-breaking 2023

THE Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Andalucia have beaten tourist numbers from 2019 over the first ten months of 2023 with all regions recording

6 Dec, 2023 @ 15:45

Lead·National News

Israel WILL take part in Eurovision 2024: Fans in Spain call for BOYCOTT of song contest following deaths of 15,000 Palestinians in the ongoing war against Hamas

ISRAEL is set to take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it has emerged. Doubts had been raised over whether the country would participate

6 Dec, 2023 @ 15:30

Lead

Barack Obama’s ambassador to Spain faces local bureaucracy headache after his ambitious renovation plans for a famous finca in Mallorca are blocked

BARACK Obama’s former ambassador to Spain has purchased a sprawling finca in Mallorca. But he will have to brush off his diplomacy skills if he

6 Dec, 2023 @ 15:03

Lead·Mallorca

These two towns in Malaga province have been added to Spain’s ‘Magical Pueblos’ list

MALAGA will add two new towns to Spain’s ‘Magical Pueblos’ list in 2024. A tourism initiative which gives towns across Spain the sought after title

6 Dec, 2023 @ 14:06

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga·Olive Press Travel

Mercadona remains the shoppers favourite in Spain with almost a third of all supermarket sales

‘ENDLICH!’: MERCADONA-FANS IN SPANIEN SIND BEGEISTERT VON DEN NEUESTEN GLUTEN FREIEN PRODUKTEN DES SUPERMARKTES

MERCADONA hat die sozialen Medien mit seinem neuesten Lebensmittelangebot in Brand gesetzt. Der Supermarktriese kündigte diese Woche an, dass er sein Gluten freies Sortiment um

6 Dec, 2023 @ 13:36

Auf Deutsch

DIE DRASTISCHEN MASSNAHMEN ZUR BEKÄMPFUNG DER DÜRRE WERDEN SPANIENS ANDALUSIEN IM JAHR 2024 71 MILLIONEN EURO KOSTEN – UNTER ANDEREM WIRD DAS WASSER PER SCHIFF GELIEFERT

By Walter Finch – 6 Dec, 2023 @ 11:340 Während Andalusien auf Regen wartet, der nicht kommt, wird die Junta de Andalucia eine Reihe von

6 Dec, 2023 @ 13:32

Auf Deutsch

Can I play in Spain’s famous Christmas Lottery and how much can I win? All you need to know about the ‘El Gordo’ this year

CHRISTMAS in Spain means one thing, ‘El Gordo’, but why is everyone obsessed with this lottery and how much can you really win? Over 70%

6 Dec, 2023 @ 12:48

Lead·Must Read

4 bedroom Villa for sale in Portol with pool – € 680,000

Villa Portol, Majorca 4 beds 3 baths € 680,000 New semi-detached villa in Portol, Marratxi These new semi-detached houses can offer you all

6 Dec, 2023 @ 12:04

Featured Property by ThinkSPAIN

Why is there a ‘high risk’ of terror attacks in the EU this Christmas? Warning from Brussels follows a series of Jihadist arrests in Spain

OFFICIALS in Brussels have warned there is a ‘high risk’ of terror attacks across Europe this Christmas. European Commissioner Ylva Johansson issued the warning this

6 Dec, 2023 @ 11:56

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain's leading supermarket Mercadona continues to win more customers leaving its rivals floundering|

‘Finally!’: Mercadona fans in Spain are very excited by the supermarket’s latest gluten-free products

MERCADONA has set social media alight with its latest food offering. It comes after the supermarket giant announced this week that it is expanding its

6 Dec, 2023 @ 11:45

Food & Drink·Lead

These are the drastic anti-drought measures set to cost Spain’s Andalucia €71million in 2024 – including having water delivered by ships

AS Andalucia waits for rain that never comes, the Junta is set to launch a raft of increasingly extreme measures to counter the most prolonged

6 Dec, 2023 @ 11:34

Andalucia·Environment·Lead

Enormous cocaine bust in Galicia: Police warehouse raid finds 7.2 TONNES stashed among frozen fish

A FRESH mega cocaine bust has seen authorities confiscate a staggering 7.2 tonnes of the white stuff from a warehouse in Galicia. The seizure was

6 Dec, 2023 @ 10:52

Crime & Law·Lead

Benidorm’s new bullring and other projects to lose EU cash as deadline approaches

PLANS to convert Benidorm’s bullring into a cultural hub which were first announced in January 2021 have been postponed, as the council didn’t act fast

6 Dec, 2023 @ 10:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Valencian Community

Gibraltar Chief Minister says he hopes Christmas ‘good will’ can push EU treaty talks ‘forward’

CHIEF Minister Fabian Picardo said he is hoping the ‘good will’ of Christmas can help push EU treaty talks ‘forward in some way, if we

6 Dec, 2023 @ 09:09

Gibraltar

Why December 6 Is A Very Important Holiday In Spain

EXPLAINER: Why December 6 is a very important holiday for Spain

CONSTITUTION Day is a bank holiday across Spain every December 6 and marks the anniversary of the referendum which approved a new constitution for the

6 Dec, 2023 @ 08:00

Lead·National News·Politics

Four teenagers who ‘threw rocks on cars travelling on the A-7 motorway in Spain’s Marbella’ are quizzed by police

A GROUP of teenagers caused chaos in Marbella on Monday morning by throwing rocks from an overpass at cars driving along the motorway. The gang,

5 Dec, 2023 @ 19:00

Lead·Malaga·Marbella

Airport on Spain’s Costa Blanca to break all-time arrivals record this year as Valencia president calls for second runway

VALENCIAN president Carlos Mazon has predicted that Alicante-Elche airport will close 2023 with a record number of 10 million foreign tourists. The Valencian leader said

5 Dec, 2023 @ 18:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Spain’s new government at risk, as five Podemos deputies break away from coalition partner Sumar

THE FIVE deputies in Spain’s Congress who belong to the Podemos party have decided to break away from the leftist alliance Sumar, which is the

5 Dec, 2023 @ 17:50

Politics

This city on the Costa del Sol is the best place in SPAIN for expats to set up a business, new figures suggest

A NEW study has revealed the best place in Spain for foreigners to set up a business and it’s on the Costa del Sol. The

5 Dec, 2023 @ 17:25

Andalucia·Business & Finance·Lead·Malaga

Opera fans shocked by classic work transferred to brothel and featuring nude dancers in Spain's Madrid

Opera fans shocked by classic work using brothel setting with nude dancers in Spain’s Madrid

OPERA and theatre goers around the world are used to modern-day interpretations of classic works but a Madrid audience was stunned by a new ‘brothel-set’

5 Dec, 2023 @ 17:15

La Cultura·Madrid

How the seed of this green fruit grown in Spain helps with anti-ageing

SPAIN is home to many delicious and nutritious foods, but did you know the strange way eating one fruit could help with anti-ageing? Often eaten

5 Dec, 2023 @ 16:38

Health·Lead

WATCH: Vintage video from 1962 shows how Spain’s Costa del Sol looked before the arrival of mass tourism

5 Dec, 2023 @ 16:19

Lead·Malaga·Olive Press Travel

WATCH: Adorable chocolate labrador joins the local police on Spain’s Costa del Sol after being rescued

AN ADORABLE chocolate labrador has not only joined the local police force in Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol, but has also been chosen to

5 Dec, 2023 @ 15:44

Lead·Malaga

Top Gibraltar scientists still puzzled over source of Legionnaire’s disease that infected four people

THE cause of the four cases of Legionnaire’s Disease remains a mystery in Gibraltar as investigations continue, its government said after a new strategic meeting.

5 Dec, 2023 @ 15:17

Gibraltar·Health

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