August 2021

HEALTH centres are chasing after 80,000 Valencian Community residents who have no mobile phone access and have therefore not got a COVID-19 vaccine shot. Appointment dates have been sent via phone text messages but there are people who do not have mobile phones. There are others who have not have entered their mobile details online […]

THE cheapest coastal holiday homes in Spain can be found in the Valencia region. All three provinces have witnessed the sharpest drop in prices in the country, due mainly to a slowing down of the foreign market – which usually accounts for nearly half of all purchase and sale operations in hotspots such as the

SPAIN has received its first payout from the EU COVID Recovery Fund. The country has been transferred €9 billion of its €69.5 billion allocation. The money will be used for structural changes to its economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said: “We continue to move towards a greener, digital,

A 54-year-old Civil Registry worker at San Vicente del Raspeig demanded a €20 payment from a Venezuelan woman who wanted to become a Spanish citizen. The Policia Nacional arrested the man after the 19-year-old complained about his behaviour. The teenager went several times to the San Vicente Registry office to check out the progress of

THE Bornean orangutan is an endangered species and is the first to be born in a European Orangutan Conservation Programme in 12 months. Orangutans usually give birth at night, but Suli, the baby orangutan’s mother, surprised the zoology team at Bioparc and gave birth in broad daylight on August 4.  Mother Suli holds newborn baby

BEACHGOERS at a playa south of Granada in southern Spain had a peaceful afternoon at the beach rudely interrupted on Saturday when they found themselves in the middle of a dramatic police chase. It started with the buzz of a police launch in pursuit of a vessel suspected of being used to traffic drugs into

THERE are currently 87 accessible beaches for people with reduced mobility and functional diversity throughout the Valencia region. Up to 46 towns and cities have adapted stretches of sand with all the necessary equipment to allow everyone to enjoy the summer with equal opportunities.   The regional Equality and Inclusive Policies department of the Generalitat this

A MAN from Madrid who pretended to be a police officer to groom eight youngsters on social media, has been jailed. He was arrested in the capital last March after cops identified him as the man who had been posing as a member of the police to contact minors.  After seizing his mobile phone, detectives uncovered

BY now most of us are counting the days until the heatwave ends as the country continues to sizzle in record-breaking heat.  With the rise in temperatures, it’s likely you might feel a little run down – and find yourself taking an extra-long siesta to escape the sun.  In fact, more than a third of

INFECTED people still have antibodies in their blood to fight COVID-19 over a year after recovery, regardless of how severe their case was. Researchers in Spain found that even those with mild cases of the infection still tested positive for antibodies 15months after catching COVID.  A study by IrsiCaixa, in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center