August 2021

A Filipino-based international fast food chain is opening its first store in Spain this autumn. Jollibee is considered one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in Asia, and operates in 33 countries with over 5,800 stores. It sells mainly chicken-based dishes and will open in Madrid as part of a 50-store European expansion which has seen […]

LARGE parts of the coast of Andalucia and northern Morocco could be hit by waves of up to six metres from a large tsunami, experts warn. This is not the first time alarm bell have sounded warning that a seismic movement in the Alboran Sea could generate six metre waves that would only take between

THE Costa del Sol boasts to being, once again, on the elite list of the most expensive streets in Spain. In fact, the municipalities of Benahavis and Marbella have five of the ten most expensive streets in Spain to buy a property according to real estate portal Idealista, where the average property prices on Costa

A YOUNG British mother forced to live life in a wheelchair has suffered a terrible knock-back because of a supplier’s error. Friends and neighbours had raised just enough to help Jodie Lee Baxter install a special lift in her Daya Nueva home so that she could live a family life and integrate with her husband

PROSECUTORS will investigate a new incident of dead fish washing onto Mar Menor beaches yesterday(August 16). In October 2019, swathes of oxygen-starved fish washed onto lagoon beaches. Beaches at Los Nietos, Los Urrutias, Cala del Pino, and Mar de Cristal were affected by the latest incident. Thousands of small dead fish as well as octopus

AS part of the airline’s Covid recovery program, Ryanair has added more flights to its weekly roster. Throughout September and October, Ryanair will have six different routes available from Spain to Morocco, as it’s adding two more weekly flights to Tangier and Tetouan. They will also add two weekly flights from Alicante to Tetouan. For

FIGURES are trending positively as new COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations continue to fall in the Valencian Community. New coronavirus cases today(August 17) totalled 765 infections, compared to 966 cases a week ago. The total almost two-thirds higher at 2,112 on July 20. Today’s breakdown showed 375 cases in Alicante Province; 278 in Valencia; and 112

POLICE have arrested a young French man over the death of a cyclist who was hit by a car on Fuengirola’s seafront on Monday evening (August 16). The 20-year-old Frenchman was driving a Mercedes with Polish registration plates along the Paseo Maritimo Rey de España in the busy resort town on the Costa del Sol

HOTEL occupancy figures in the Benidorm and Costa Blanca areas are the highest for two years, according to the Hosbec hoteliers association. Hosbec described occupancy rates between August 9 and 15 in Benidorm as a ‘comeback’ to levels not seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. In a statement, the group

SPANISH firefighters have spent four days battling a blaze in Navalacruz, a rural area west of Madrid in the Avila province of Castilla y Leon. It has so far devastated at least 15,000 hectares of land after it was sparked when a car burst into flames on a highway on Saturday afternoon in the grip