August 2021

A NEW reality TV show is launching this October with an aim to tackle depopulation in some of Spain’s most rural villages. The 20-episode show, called RuralMind, will feature 40 contestants competing to launch and develop a business idea. However, the village they are launching in must not contain any more than 5,000 people. “The […]

A Dutch tourist died in a Barcelona hospital on Friday morning (August 6) after a car key got stuck in his throat. That was despite medics helping to prize the key out as he was treated in a supermarket The 37-year man was on holiday with his family. They were staying in accommodation close to

A SLEEPY town in the southern tip of Spain wants to elevate the long held tradition of having a neighbourly chat on one’s doorstep into a UNESCO recognised cultural activity that deserves preservation. In Algar, a pueblo blanco with 1,428 residents just inland from the coast in Cadiz province, Andalucia, pulling up a chair outside

FC BARCELONA have revealed that they could not keep star striker Lionel Messi due to La Liga’s salary limit rules. Barca president, Joan Laporta, said today(August 6) that both the club and the Argentine player wanted a new contract. But besides breaking salary limits, Laporta said it would have risked the club’s future. “The club

THE prestigious Sunset Beach Club on the Costa del Sol has been selected as the Official Hotel Partner for the eagerly awaited new European Cricket Championship (ECC), which launches in September at the Cartama Oval in Malaga, Spain. Sunset Beach Club Hotel boasts a magnificent location right on the water’s edge and Malaga international airport is a mere 20 minutes’

CARE HOME health workers are asking to be given a third shot of its coronavirus vaccine. The president of CEAPS, a group representing care home workers across Spain, has said a third shot of the vaccine can protect staff and residents in carehomes against mutations of the virus, including the Delta variant. President Cinta Pascual

AN EXPAT couple are front and centre of a new TV show uncovering the history of writers in Spain.  David and Emma Illsley, who run Las Chimeneas in a little-known village in the hills of Andalucia, stole the show when their gorgeous home made an appearance on the third episode of the series Write Around the

THE leader of a Costa Blanca-based marijuana gang has been arrested after a year-long probe to bring down his operation. The crew invested over €100,000 to rent six properties that were converted into marijuana farms. The money was also spent on sophisticated security systems including cameras and sensors. The marijuana was exported to the UK

THE popular fashion store is coming to Marbella’s La Cañada shopping centre at the end of August. After months of construction, the Irish company behind the global brand has finally announced the grand opening on August 24. Set over two floors, with more than 4,000 square meters of commercial space, the new Primark will create

An Italian man identified as the fugitive crime boss of the ‘Ndrangheta gang, thought to be one of the world’s wealthiest criminal organizations in the world, has been arrested in Madrid. In a joint operation by Spanish and Italian police the man identified as Domenico Paviglianiti, 60, was tracked down to his hiding place in