August 2021

A PENSIONER arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal shooting of an intruder during a suspected robbery has been jailed after a court denied him bail.  Police transferred the 77-year-old to Herrera de la Mancha prison after he appeared in court on Tuesday in connection with what happened during the suspected burglary at his […]

WITH incidence rates dropping in the two provinces, regional health officials will lift the night curfew from August 7. For the last week, there has been a night curfew in place, preventing people from leaving their home between 2am to 7am. Curfew to be lifted from dawn on Saturday (Cedit: Photograph by Jeanne Accorsini) Following

2,297 new coronavirus infections were reported today(August 4) in the Valencian Community. That’s another week-to-week fall compared to 2,685 new cases on July 28, and 3,015 on July 21. The Wednesday total is 593 higher than yesterday, which is a marginal reduction of 16 cases on the Tuesday to Wednesday increase last week. Eight deaths

SPAIN is joint top in the European Union for countries cutting road deaths over the last two decades. The European Transport Safety Council says that alongside Latvia and Lithuania, Spain’s road fatalities have fallen by 75% between 2001 and 2020. That figure drops to a 45% reduction if just the period between 2010 and 2020

EL Campello is to shut its beaches at night because youngsters are coming in from Alicante to stage illegal parties. The council will impose a 1.00 am to 6.00 am closure from August 6 for ten days. El Campello council says dozens of young people are gathering on beaches at Carrer la Mer(pictured above) and

A man has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of three children bathing at a Sagunto beach. He even tried to swim away from a police buggy patrol after the youngsters reported what happened The 32-year-old local resident is accused of inappropriately touching three girls aged 12, 13, and 15 The abuse happened yesterday

LUXURY villas, cars and boats worth €5 million were seized on the Costa Blanca in police raids against a Polish gang that grew and exported marijuana. The criminal enterprise shipped out at least 1.2 tons of the drug to Poland between 2016 and 2021. It was revealed that some of the gang members had strong

PRIVATE equity firm CVC has agreed a big €2.7 billion deal ‘in principle’ with La Liga which will see the investors get 10% of league revenues. CVC Capital Partners is based in Luxembourg and unsuccessfully tried to buy into Italian football last year. In March, CVC bought a 14.3% stake in the Six Nations rugby

REPORTS strongly suggest today(August 4) that Spain will be not be transferred to the ‘red’ list on tomorrow’s anticipated UK government ‘traffic-light’ travel system review. The Times newspaper quotes a Whitehall source as saying that the 10-day mandatory hotel quarantine system could not cope with a flood of British holidaymakers returning from a ‘red-listed’ Spain.

THE incidence rate of COVID-19 in Marbella and Estepona has now dropped below 1,000, which could result in the present curfew being lifted. In Estepona, the rate now stands at 955 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with Marbella even lower at 900. The two popular towns of the Costa del Sol have had a curfew lockdown