The manager of a Costa del Sol restaurant at the centre of a storm over tipping has spoken out to insist his staff weren’t impressed by the latest ‘headlining’ tip. The Playa Padre restaurant made headlines last week after a show of one upmanship saw waiting staff left a tip of €4,098 on top of […]
BENIDORM council has voted to support a deal that breaks a long impasse over the city’s illegally-built bus station. A market value of €24.5 million will be paid to Alicante developer, Enrique Ortiz, as compensation for the scrapping of his 50-year operating concession. A search for a new operator will be advertised in a tender,
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STILL more bad weather news for Castellon. The province has been hit by fierce thunderstorms and downpours for over a week now, but predictions suggest the worst is yet to come. Tomorrow (Wednesday September 1) could see the arrival of a dreaded gota fria storm, so called due to the fact that they usually occur
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THE number of Brits buying property in Spain has dropped to an historic low thanks to Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. But Brits do still make up the largest proportion of foreign buyers in Spain accounting for 9.5% of all foreign buyers, a considerable decrease however from 2009 when almost one in three foreign buyers
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A man, 50, has been arrested after police found his partner with a curtain wrapped around her neck at an Alicante property. The Policia Nacional said the man had been previously arrested over a hundred times for crimes against people and property. He had only recently got together with a new girlfriend. Preliminary investigations revealed
PRINCESS Leonor of Spain bade an emotional goodbye to her parents and sister at Madrid’s Barajas airport on Monday as she headed off to start the new term at an elite boarding school in Wales. The 15-year-old heir to the Spanish throne is enrolled at UWC Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan where she
A green ‘buffer zone’ of 390 hectares has been suggested in a bid to reduce pollution in the Mar Menor lagoon in Murcia. The proposed area would be free of farming and building development. The idea came yesterday(August 30) from Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister, Teresa Ribera. Speaking to Congress, Teresa Ribera, said: “Urban and agricultural
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A British man has been arrested on the southern Costa Blanca after three kilos of marijuana was found in his car boot. The 42-year-old expat was stopped by a Guardia Civil patrol in the Guardamar area. The nervous driver tried to evade the officers when he saw them, and with good reason. The car did
THE performance of DJ duo Les Castizos at a chiringuito in Torremolinos last summer, which caused a public uproar, has been sanctioned with a €15000 fine. Just over twelve months ago, a video which showed the tattooed DJ, Fali Sotomayor standing atop of the chiringuito bar dancing before taking a mouth full of Jagermeister and
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy from Malaga has died after being found unresponsive in a hot car outside his family’s home, authorities said. The tragedy occurred over the weekend when the child was admitted to the Maternal and Child hospital in the capital on Saturday, August 28 and passed away on Sunday. According to official sources, it
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