LIFEGUARDS saved a baby’s life after it almost choked to death on an ice cube. The drama unfolded on Santa Pola’s Calas del Este beach on Saturday afternoon(August 14). The one-year-old girl was with her mother on the sand and was licking the ice cube to keep cool. She somehow ingested the cube and it […]
OVER 500,000 Covid-19 jabs will be administered this week in the Valencian Community, mostly to people in the 12-19 age group. So far, focus has been on young adults from 16 to 19, but where vaccination centres are ahead of schedule, younger age groups will now be included, Previously, the region’s Education department set a
THE municipality of Santa Fe, in the metropolitan area of Granada, was once again the epicentre of a low-magnitude earthquake in the early hours of Saturday morning—an aftershock of the 4.5 magnitude earthquake registered in Cijuela late last Thursday night. Aftershocks are earthquakes that follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence, in this case
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EL Caminito del Rey will remain closed today, Monday, for a second day running due to the sizzling temperatures in the province. Due to the week-long heatwave sweeping across the Mediterranean and leaving unprecedented highs of 47.2C—recorded in the city of Montoro in Cordoba—the management team, of what was once considered the world’s most dangerous
The manager of one of the Costa del Sol’s most emblematic hotels is feeling ‘more optimistic than ever’ as tourists finally return to Spain. After a very tough 18 months, the tourism industry is starting to get back to ‘some kind of normality’ Sunset Beach Club boss Mark Wardell (pictured above) told the Olive Press.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS aren’t the only ones counting the days until the big scheduled O’Burgo Estuary clean-up in La Coruña. Funding has been approved to dredge nearly 600,000 cubic metres of sediment from the mouth of the Galician port to improve drainage, current flow, water quality and shipping lanes. However historians also have their beady eyes on
TIMES have been hard for everyone during the coronavirus pandemic but among the hardest hit are those businesses involved in a hospitality sector that is heavily reliant on the tourism industry. Belts have been tightened, businesses refocused and survival plans put into action. And the more forward thinking entrepreneur’s now find themselves in position to
A POPULAR cake maker has vanished after being accused of taking deposits from ‘dozens’ of wedding clients in Spain. The self-professed ‘Queen of amazing cakes’ Omaya Koreitem disappeared after deleting her social media accounts and failing to fulfil orders. One client of her company Cake Couture Marbella claims to have paid €350 for a cake
THE highest temperature ever recorded in Spain was set at 5.10pm on Saturday in the Andalucian town of Montoro, just outside Cordoba, as the heatwave brought dangerous levels of heat across the peninsula. The mercury tipped 47.2C in Montoro surpassing the previous record set at nearby Cordoba airport on July 13, 2017 when 46.9ºC was
IT’S WELL-KNOWN that the sun’s UV rays can be harmful to our skin, but what about our eyes? Many people don’t realise that our eyeballs can burn when exposed to sunlight too. One Costa Blanca optician advises what we can do to prevent this from happening. Jorge Martínez de Lizarduy Araico, store director of Specsavers
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