July 2021

BENIDORM will host a new brand-new festival to pick Spain’s entry for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Italy. Public broadcaster, RTVE, has signed an agreement with Valencian president, Ximo Puig, and Benidorm mayor, Toni Perez, for what it described as an ‘annual meeting point for the promotion of Spanish music’. That was taken as […]

The daily COVID-19 case count rose again today(July 22) in the Valencian Community with 3,159 new infections. It’s the second successive day where infections passed the 3,000 mark and is 144 up on yesterday and a week-to-week increase of 616 cases. 1,853 of today’s cases were in Valencia Province, followed by 918 in Alicante, and

A LADS stag-do became a horror story when one member of the party had a fatal accident in the villa swimming pool. The 26-year-old was spotted floating unconscious in the pool by his friends, who had been partying in true stag-do style at the luxury Rio Real villa, just moments before the incident occurred. Immediately,

A Villajoyosa nursing home worker has been arrested for stealing jewellery and money from a 94-year-old resident. The Guardia Civil also arrested the owner of a jewellery shop, who was a friend of the caregiver, for receiving the stolen items. The managers of the unnamed nursing home called in the Guardia last month. A female

PLANS have been unveiled to build 216 new properties to let in Valencia city centre. The ‘build to rent’ scheme will cost an estimated €50 million to be paid by a private investor, with the new homes split over two new residential areas in the Moreras area. Both developments will be located near the port

Team Spain’s athletes who win gold at this year’s Olympics will be immortalised in the national memory. But prestige isn’t the only thing driving them on. Virtually all the world’s national Olympic committees will be offering cash rewards to athletes who take gold in their disciplines. The amount of money an athlete receives for winning

“WE feel like prisoners,” says 22-year-old Gabriella Fernandez, adding: “We decided to come out here and we knew the risks but nobody told us how bad the conditions would be. A prisoner would have been fed better and have received better communication. It’s a joke.”  She is one of the Brits to have been locked

PEOPLE who have been fully vaccinated on the Rock will now be issued a COVID-19 certificate in the same format as the one presented to those vaccinated by the UK’s NHS. The certificate, which is an ‘interim solution pending the development of an App’, will carry security features such as ‘silver foil printed logos, micro

A RICH and varied summer of cultural events is about to kick off at Ibiza’s historic Atzaró Agroturismo Hotel and Spa. From tonight, they’re hosting a summer calendar full of art exhibitions, music and late-night cinema under the stars. The venue is set on an estate of orange groves, romantic gardens and farmland in the