Tag: Villajoyosa
Sacked Malaga worker assaults and kidnaps boss before driving him for hours to Spain’s Benidorm area
A SACKED Malaga farm worker assaulted his boss and forced him to go on a 500 kilometre car journey to the Benidorm area.
The victim,...
Costa Blanca gang stole high-end cars to export out of Spain
POLICE have busted an Alicante Province gang that exported stolen cars to France following two-and-a-half years of investigations.
15 people have been arrested in a...
Phone scam extorts bars and restaurants over ‘unpaid’ electricity bills on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE Guardia Civil has broken up a Madrid gang who said they'd cut off electricity to 26 Alicante Province hotels and restaurants after falsely...
Boy, 11, dies injured after falling 16 metres from roof of Costa Blanca hotel in Spain
AN 11-year-old boy died in hospital after being seriously injured whilst practising the sport of parkour on the roof of an L'Alfas del Pi...
Pensioner knife fight in Spain’s Benidorm leaves Irishman dead at the hands of his British flatmate
An Irish pensioner in Benidorm was stabbed to death by his British flatmate in a ferocious knife fight on Thursday morning.
Emergency responders found the...
Benidorm estate agent in Spain supplied rental home keys to robbers with British woman selling off stolen items
FIVE people have been arrested for stealing from at least six rental homes in the Benidorm area with keys provided by a real estate...
Street signs decrying gender violence erected across Costa Blanca town in Spain
VILLAJOYOSA has become the latest Valencian municipality to put up street signs decrying gender violence.
The town has installed eight signs as part of a...
Four children escape with minor bruises after spectacular car crash on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FOUR children suffered only minor bruising after a car crashed off the AP-7 motorway on Thursday morning in the Villajoyosa area of Alicante Province.
The...
Scammers tricked elderly people with ‘winning’ lottery ticket offer on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO Spaniards have been arrested on a Benidorm campsite over a lottery ticket con that scammed over €42,000 out of elderly people in Alicante,...
Extortionists demanded €14,000 from holiday home landlords to leave squatted properties on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A gang who charged a €14,000 'leaving fee' to Villajoyosa holiday home landlords has been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
Four members of the crew...
Thieves break into 20 petrol station station shops to steal cash and cigarette machines in Spain’s Valencia
A gang plundered over 20 service station shops across the Valencia Community in a spree of overnight robberies.
They smashed through shop windows and doors...
IN PICS: Benidorm cliff drama after man falls into sea on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A man cheated death on Monday evening after falling off a cliff into the sea at Benidorm's Cala de Finestrat.
The 34-year-old victim was saved...
Two Costa Blanca beaches in Spain shamed with ‘black flag’ awards due to sewage dumped into sea
TWO Alicante Province beaches have been awarded Black Flags for 2022 by environmental group, Ecologists in Action.
Cala Lanuza(pictured) and Cala Baeza between El Campello...
Benidorm family drugs gang converted squatted homes into drug dens and sales points on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Benidorm drugs gang operating out of three illegally occupied Villajoyosa homes has been brought down in a joint Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional...
Drunk British tourist in Benidorm pulled out unconscious from sea on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A drunk British tourist was saved from drowning in the sea in Benidorm on Thursday.
The 61-year-old man decided to go for a dip in...
British man drowns at Costa Blanca ravine in Spain in fourth loss of life since early April
A 25-year-old British man drowned in the Bolulla river at Callosa d'en Sarria on Monday, making it the fourth death in the same area...
Fresh bill of health for Benidorm as big tender gets advertised on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A €4.6 million construction tender has been advertised for Benidorm's new Rincon de Loix health centre.
The new facility will replace the current two-floor clinic...
IN PICS: Motorist survives horrific plunge off Benidorm area motorway on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A female motorist survived a plunge of several metres down an embankment on Thursday off the AP-7 motorway on the Costa Blanca.
Her vehicle careered...
Costa Blanca carer steals jewellery from nursing home residents for pawn shop sales in Spain’s Benidorm and Granada
A woman worked for just a week in a Costa Blanca nursing home and stole jewellery from three residents.
Five items made from gold ended...
Serial robbers hit Costa Blanca bars and restaurants in Spain to plunder cash tills and fruit machines
TWO men who robbed six bars and restaurants in the Villajoyosa area of the Costa Blanca have been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
The duo,...
Benidorm area hospital doubling its size to match rising population on Spain’s Costa Blanca
WORK on a massive expansion of Villajoyosa's Marina Baixa Hospital could get under way as soon as April.
That follows the announcement of a €47...
Home robbers used plastic cards to ‘slip’ front door latches in Costa Blanca area of Spain
THREE men have been charged over 14 home robberies in the Finestrat and Villajoyosa areas of Alicante Province.
The gang used the 'slip' method to...
Spectacular Benidorm area path offers new and unique gorge views for walkers visiting Spain’s Costa Blanca
A new elevated wooden walkway through a gorge is now part of an extended path that's not for the faint-hearted in Alicante Province
It's based...
Benidorm drugs gang is collared by police on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Benidorm area drugs gang has been brought down by the Policia Nacional.
Five men and five women of different but undisclosed nationalities have been...
Costa Blanca mayor faces COVID-19 vaccine queue-jumping trial after judge in Spain throws out appeal
A Villajoyosa judge has rejected an appeal from a Costa Blanca mayor that there's not enough evidence for him to be prosecuted for illegally...
Leading chocolate maker Valor based outside Benidorm on Spain’s Costa Blanca celebrates its 140th anniversary
SPAIN'S leading chocolate manufacturer, Valor, has celebrated its 140th anniversary by announcing profits of €10.6 million.
The company had a turnover of €128 million in...