AN Alicante tobacco shop owner was subjected to martial arts-style kicks on her body after confronting a teenage thief. The 19-year-old youth was caught by Policia Nacional officers after he threatened self-harm with a broken bottle. The 51-year-old tobacconist from the San Juan beach area of the city told police that the teenager stole several […]
A COUPLE have been arrested in Callosa de Segura, inland from the Costa Blanca in Spain’s Alicante province after posting videos of their weekend retreats on social media. The husband and wife team offered ceremonies that used banned psychotropic substances to induce a ‘spiritual experience’ for which they charged guests between €75 and €150 a
POLICIA NACIONAL, in coordination with the Provincial Inspection of Health Services of the Junta have dismantled a criminal organisation dedicated to the distribution of unregulated antigen tests. Those arrested, four men, three of Pakistani nationality and the fourth of Moroccan nationality, ran three companies in an industrial estate in the capital of Malaga, where, under
416 MUNICIPALITIES in Spain’s Andalucia, out of a total of 778, are at extreme risk of COVID-19 for exceeding a 14-day cumulative incidence rate of 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Scores of municipalities in Andalucia exceed the threshold for extreme risk 15 weeks after the end of the state of alarm, including the eight provincial
MALLORCA forces you to re-evaluate who you are and what you want in life. After moving here at the start of the COVID crisis I was forced to put my professional life on hold. After running a successful PR company in the UK and having over 20 years’ experience working in the media, I along
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THE playwright and poet Federico García Lorca was arrested and killed on the orders of rightwing military authorities led by General Francisco Franco in the early weeks of the Spanish Civil War. His death by firing squad on August 18, 1936 – 85 years ago this week – transformed him into one most high profiles victims of
SPAIN’S Ministry of Transport has announced one of the biggest, boldest and most far-reaching roads programme for decades along the Costa del Sol. The government is to spend €20million on a range of projects including tunnel building in the Axarquia stretch and resolving problems on some parts of the A-7 motorway. The project, which was
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A CALF of an incredibly rare gazelle species is being hand reared by keepers at Valencia’s BioParc in eastern Spain after its mother died while giving birth. The Mhorr gazelle mother died during a ‘difficult delivery’ during which staff had to intervene to save the newborn. Keepers immediately stepped in to hand-rear the newborn accepting
PROPERTY sales across Spain have surged to levels not reached since before the crisis – and we are not talking about the pandemic but since the nation’s construction bubble burst back in 2008 with the onset of the global financial crisis. With 64,877 homes sold across the whole of Spain in June, according to latest
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A THIRD flight carrying evacuees fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan arrived in Spain on Saturday night at a military airbase close to Madrid where a temporary camp has been set up to house up to 1,000 refugees. The camp alongside the runway at the Torrejon de Ardoz will have the capacity to shelter 1,000 arrivals
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