Tag: Torrevieja
Brit arrested with 10,000 date rape pills in carry-on luggage at Alicante airport
DATE rape drugs take away your freedom, until you take away the freedom of their traffickers.A British man...
Rapist Jeffrey Waite JAILED over 40-year-old attacks following extradition from the Costa Blanca
CONVICTED: Jeffrey Waite was jailed for 16 years over rapes that happened 40 years agoA BRITISH man...
DID YOU FEEL IT? Earthquake rumbles along Spain’s Costa Blanca
COSTA VIBRATE: Tremors were recorded from Cartagena to BenidormAN earthquake has hit a popular holiday destination on...
British couple arrested for ‘leading’ huge marijuana network on Costa Blanca, caught with €216,000 of drugs including cannabis ‘jelly...
MASSIVE: Guardia Civil found three marijuana plantations in TorreviejaGUARDIA Civil have arrested 21 people for cultivating and...
NOT A BIN: Plastic fills river on Costa Blanca just hours after a 20-tonne clean-up
CARELESS: Plastic fills Segura river hours after a massive clean-upPLASTIC waste has accumulated in the old channel...
WATCH: Spaniards fuming at viral video of two drunk British women being treated at hospital in expat hotspot in...
According to the doctors in the clip, dealing with drunk Brits is 'not out of the ordinary'
British tourist, 17, on life support machine after possible pesticide poisoning in Spain
Callum Forster from Leeds was rushed to hospital suffering ten seizures after a family night out in Alicante
Police in southern Spain warn of ‘over friendly’ criminals using an age-old trick to steal your jewellery
SPANISH police have warned of an increase in jewellery thefts using an age old hugging trick. Guardia Civil in Torrevieja posted a warning on Facebook...
Firemen scramble to free hotel guest in southern Spain whose testicles became trapped in plastic folding chair
Two carers tried to assist him but had to call in emergency services for back up
British mother ‘took 13 hours to report 3-year-old son missing’ after night out in Spain
A BRITISH mother is facing prosecution for allegedly taking 13 hours to report her son as missing while holidaying in Spain. It comes after a...
EXCLUSIVE: Expats defend right to fly back to UK for two-week stints as live-in carers
A report said Brits have been driven to the work by a crippling downturn in the Spanish economy
Four-year-old British boy drowned in Costa Blanca swimming pool
Tragedy struck the family last night at the beginning of their holiday
Brits in Spain’s ‘top ten towns’ encouraged to learn Spanish
The project encompasses eleven towns with the highest concentration of British residents in the Valencia and Murcia regions
German tourist drowns while swimming at beach on Orihuela coast
No lifeguards on duty at Cala del Bosque beach in La Zenia as they had finished for the summer
Marbella housing fraud scammers arrested across southern Spain
The Marbella-based group of seven ran a complex scam pretending to be intermediaries for property sales
For richer, for poorer: Exploring Spain’s wealthiest area Pozuelo de Alarcon and its poorest Torrevieja
Pozuelo’s populace is sitting pretty on an average salary of €54,000, while the townsfolk of Torrevieja struggle to get by on a paltry €7,985 a year, the Olive Press takes a look to see the divide
Torrevieja: The poorest city in Spain?
Expats, tourists, and a seasonal economy may distort statistics on Torrevieja
British expats arrested for fake kidnapping in Costa Blanca
Kidnapper sent photos of his bruised girlfriend to her parents in Manchester
Richest and poorest towns named in Spain
With just 12% unemployment and an average income of €54,000 it comes as no surprise that those with most cash in their wallets live in Madrid’s Pozuelo de Alarcon
British bride run down by mystery driver on her Spanish honeymoon in Torrevieja
The mother-of-one was left with a fractured spine, internal bleeding and five broken ribs
Expat wins specs appeal competition
The Specsavers spectacle wearer of the year has been announced
Expat blasted from Torrevieja flat in bug spray explosion
Daran Cooper was catapulted onto the street below when a can of insecticide exploded in his hand
Grilling for Spain’s Gastro Gang
The thieves who targeted Michelin-starred restaurants will finally get their comeuppance
British drug gang – including a pensioner and four women – busted in Spain
The gang, who were aged from 22 to 78 and came from Liverpool, are accused of ecstacy and cannabis smuggling
Spain authorities seize British baby
Social services swoop on child after couple flee UK
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RURAL RETURN: Music, dance and theatre festival run by Brit in rural inland town celebrates fifth anniversary
Me Vuelves Lorca is held in a beautiful, handcrafted stone amphitheatre which was built by the local community in 2013 around an ancient corn-threshing circle
