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This region in Spain has the highest number of prestigious Blue Flag beaches – after adding three new winners

THE Valencian Community once again has the highest number of blue flag beaches in Spain- six more than in last year- totalling 159, three ahead

7 May, 2024 @ 16:30

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia

Mobile phones will banned at schools across Valencia from TOMORROW – all you need to know about new rules

CHILDREN will be banned from using mobile phones in all Valencian Community schools from Monday. Devices will have to be turned off inside school areas

5 May, 2024 @ 08:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Where is Mark Palmer? Family of missing British expat restart search after he vanished from Spain five years ago

THE family of a British man who went missing in Spain five years ago have made a fresh appeal for information about his whereabouts. Mark

26 Apr, 2024 @ 16:15

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Ferrari driving ‘narco boss’ is among 35 arrested in huge crackdown on drug trafficking on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A COSTA Blanca drugs gang led by a man who bought a €250,000 luxury car out of the proceeds, has been busted by the Guardia

20 Apr, 2024 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Murcia

Grandmother, 72, is arrested for ‘running a drug trafficking ring with her grandson’ in eastern Spain

A GRANDMOTHER has been arrested by the Guardia Civil for running a drug trafficking operation in Valencia province. The woman, 72, operated the illegal business

29 Mar, 2024 @ 14:45

Crime & Law·Drugs·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Ex-porn star Nacho Vidal, 50, must be tried for death of photographer in bizarre toad venom ritual in Spain, court rules

A VALENCIA court has ruled that former porn star Nacho Vidal must stand trial over the death of a photographer in a bizarre ritual involving

27 Mar, 2024 @ 10:29

Celebrity·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Have you bought a car on the Costa Blanca? How it might have been stolen from Europe and passed off as a Spanish vehicle

AUTHORITIES have arrested a Costa Blanca gang that stole and cloned details of European cars and changed them to look like Spanish vehicles for sale

26 Mar, 2024 @ 14:44

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

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

4 Mar, 2024 @ 15:45

Alicante·Benidorm·Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencia·Valencian Community

Police bike rammed and officer injured during dramatic high-speed pursuit of motorist who didn’t pay for petrol on Spain’s Costa Blanca

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

20 Feb, 2024 @ 13:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain-wide appeal to find kidnap gang boss who snatched Costa Blanca couple during summer

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

20 Feb, 2024 @ 11:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

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

24 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Drugs·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

American woman dies after 30 metre plunge in popular climbing spot in Spain's Valencia|

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

18 Jan, 2024 @ 10:21

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Child hooligan gang attacks people of all ages but they are too young to be prosecuted in Spain's Valencia

How a ‘child gang’ led by a 10-year-old attacked and terrorised random people in the street in Spain’s Valencia – but are too young to be prosecuted

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 their

13 Jan, 2024 @ 09:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Three Brits are arrested for ‘trafficking 300kg of Balkan mafia cocaine’: Hair-raising police chase ends in a supermarket car park of popular expat town on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THREE British men and two Albanians have been arrested after a motorway chase ended in a Costa Blanca supermarket car park with 300 kilos of

11 Jan, 2024 @ 12:45

Castellon·Costa Blanca·Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Drugs·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

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 bathrooms.

3 Jan, 2024 @ 16:30

Crime & Law·Valencia·Valencian Community

'Killer' level crossing in Spain's Valencia claims fourth victim this year alone as man, 50, is crushed by a train just days before Christmas

‘Killer’ level crossing in Spain’s Valencia claims fourth victim this year alone as man is crushed by a train just days before Christmas

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

22 Dec, 2023 @ 15:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

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

11 Dec, 2023 @ 11:39

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Record highs of up to 25C are forecast for Spain's Costa Blanca from THIS weekend

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 Community.

8 Dec, 2023 @ 14:00

Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community·Weather

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

27 Nov, 2023 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

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 was

26 Nov, 2023 @ 12:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

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 province.

24 Nov, 2023 @ 17:30

Valencia·Valencian Community

Dozens arrested for duplicating SIM cards of unsuspecting victims and using their data to go on €110,000 shopping spree on Spain’s Costa Blanca

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

20 Nov, 2023 @ 19:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

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

14 Nov, 2023 @ 11:28

Crime & Law·Valencia·Valencian Community

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 d’Albaida

11 Nov, 2023 @ 11:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Hundreds evacuated as forest fire rages in Spain’s Valencia: Strong winds from Storm Ciaran help flames tear through more than 2,000 hectares

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

3 Nov, 2023 @ 11:40

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

EU flag taken down from Valencia area town hall in Spain over Israel's revenge Gaza attacks 'sanctioned' by European Commission

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 revenge

17 Oct, 2023 @ 15:45

European Union·Lead·Politics·Valencia·Valencian Community