Tag: Valencia Province
British expat hotspot in Spain has seen the number of foreign residents soar by 800% since 1998
THE number of foreign residents in the Valencian Community has gone up eight-fold over 25 years.
The National Institute of Statistics(INE) says there were 102,000...
Police bike rammed and officer injured during dramatic high-speed pursuit of motorist who didn’t pay for petrol on...
A MOTORIST rammed two Guardia Civil motorbike riders at the end of a high-speed chase on the outskirts of Valencia City.
The driver drove off...
New born baby is found dead in a closet in eastern Spain – after mother ‘hid her birth’
THE body of a newborn baby has been found inside a closet with the Guardia Civil arresting its 22-year-old mother for murder.
Reports suggested 'signs...
Spain’s largest ever ecstacy factory is raided after making more than €100m worth of the drug
THE Policia Nacional has dismantled Spain's biggest-ever ecstasy laboratory and seized 1,900 litres of MDMA with a street value of €105 million.
12 men of...
American climber, 25, dies after plummeting 30 metres during excursion in eastern Spain
AN AMERICAN rock climber was killed on Wednesday after falling 30 metres in the Penya Roja de Marxuquera area of Gandia.
The 25-year-old woman died...
How a ‘child gang’ led by a 10-year-old attacked and terrorised random people in the street in Spain’s Valencia...
A GANG of children led by a 10-year-old boy has been accused of attacking youngsters indiscriminately in Gandia without fear of prosecution because of...
Three Brits are arrested for ‘trafficking 300kg of Balkan mafia cocaine’: Hair-raising police chase ends in a supermarket car...
THREE British men and two Albanians have been arrested after a motorway chase ended in a Costa Blanca supermarket car park with 300 kilos...
Paedophile athletics coach who ‘abused girls as young as 12 and put spy cameras in changing rooms’ is jailed
A 49-YEAR-OLD Valencia area athletics coach has been arrested and jailed for sexually assaulting children and recording indecent images on spy cameras placed in...
‘Killer’ level crossing in Spain’s Valencia claims fourth victim this year alone as man is crushed by a train...
A MAN in his fifties died on Thursday after being run over by a train at the Alfafar level crossing in Valencia province.
According to...
Horror as man is crushed to death in a CAR WASH in Spain’s Valencia
A MAN has died after exiting his vehicle and getting trapped in a car wash tunnel in Gandia(Valencia province).
Firefighters were alerted shortly after 5.30pm...
Record highs of over 25C are forecast for Spain’s Costa Blanca from THIS weekend
TEMPERATURES could reach 'abnormally high' levels for early December over the next few days on the Costa Blanca and the rest of the Valencian...
Ay, caramba! Moment a huge €130m haul of ‘Bart Simpson cocaine’ sent from South America is seized in Spain
THE Guardia Civil has seized 600 kilos of cocaine hidden in a container on a Quart de Poblet industrial estate in Valencia province.
Some of...
Devastating November fire was caused by power lines touching tree branches in Spain’s Valencia
THE GUARDIA CIVIL has said that a fire that devastated over 2,300 hectares on the outskirts of Montitxelvo in Valencia province earlier this month...
Girl, 3, taken to hospital after early-morning fire destroys flat in Spain’s Valencia area
ELEVEN people including a three-year-old girl were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a 12-storey apartment block in Canet d'en Berenguer, Valencia...
Dozens arrested for duplicating SIM cards of unsuspecting victims and using their data to go on €110,000 shopping spree...
A FOUR-STRONG Valencia gang ran a phone card fraud that syphoned off over €110,000 from 15 victims.
The criminals hired 31 'mules' across Alicante and...
Apartment block hit five times by robbers taking art objects in Spain’s Valencia
TWO men targeted a Gandia apartment block in Valencia province five times to steal a variety of art-related objects valued at €150,000.
The thieves, 35...
Farm labourers may have started forest fire that devastated 2,500 hectares of trees and land in Spain’s Valencia
A SMALL bonfire close to the Montitxelvo sports centre could have sparked a forest fire that destroyed 2,500 hectares of land in the Vall...
Hundreds evacuated as forest fire rages in Spain’s Valencia: Strong winds from Storm Ciaran help flames tear through more...
A FOREST fire fanned by strong winds in the south of Valencia province has forced the evacuation of 850 residents.
The blaze started on Thursday...
EU flag taken down in Spain’s Valencia over Israel’s revenge Gaza attacks ‘sanctioned’ by European Commission
A GANDIA area town has removed the European Union flag from the town hall in protest against the European Commission's stance in supporting Israeli...
How to get yourself protected this winter against flu and Covid-19 in Spain’s Costa Blanca
DOUBLE vaccinations against flu and Covid-19 started being dosed out in the Valencian Community on Monday, with age categories extended at both ends of...
Tomatoes aplenty in exciting La Tomatina fight with extra participants in Spain’s Valencia area
AN estimated 18,000 people turned the streets of Buñol red on Wednesday in the annual 'La Tomatina' tomato fight.
Numbers were up by 2,000 more...
Elderly people withdrawing large cash amounts from banks robbed by men who spied on them on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO street thieves have been arrested in Calpe close to a bank where they stole €4,000 from an elderly man last May.
The men of...
Emergency 112 number gets 11,177 calls about animals in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas
THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY'S emergency 112 number has received 11,177 calls this year up to August 15 about animals.
Over half of the calls- 58%- were...
Bogus shipment company sold off customer items in Spain’s Valencia
A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in Valencia province for pretending to have a logistics firm that despatched items internationally but kept the goods...
Three dead after drowning in a beach closed to bathing in Valencia
THREE locals have drowned in a beach closed for swimmers in Valencia.
The bathers, two men and a woman aged between 57 and 63, went...
Car maker Seat to build battery cell assembly plant in Spain’s Catalunya
SEAT has announced that it will build a vehicle battery cell assembly plant in Martorell, Catalunya.
The car maker- owned by Volkswagen- says the project...