A couple drowned yesterday(August 3) at a Guardamar de Segura beach on the southern Costa Blanca. Playa de la Camp has no lifeguard or surveillance service. The tragedy unfolded at around 2.50 pm when a 72-year-old Scandinavian man got into difficulty in a strong sea current. His wife, reportedly in her 60s, went in to […]
FOUR robbers who targeted farms in Alicante Province were caught after their getaway van ended up in a ditch in Rojales. They were spotted by a resident and their hasty retreat finished prematurely in a crash. The gang ran off before the police arrived, but they left plenty of evidence to give away their identities.
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SUPERYACHT ‘Octopus’ will return to the port of Malaga today, Wednesday August 4. Coming from Gibraltar and sharing a berth with the Mayan Queen IV, another megayacht owned by Mexican billionaire Alberto Bailleres which arrived last weekend, the Octopus is scheduled to moor at the port for a month. The 126-metre long megayacht, owned by
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MEMBERS of the Marbella Fire Brigade and Policia Local have rescued an injured griffon vulture which had taken refuge on the landing of a staircase at a residential development of El Angel, in Nueva Andalucia, Marbella. The incident took place on Monday evening, at around 7 pm, when units from both public bodies were alerted
A car literally packed to the rafters with French tourists was pulled over by Alicante police with two of the group travelling in the boot. Officers on the city streets last Sunday(August 1) noticed a car veering around on the Rambla Mendez Nuñez. The patrol noted that the rear boot was not properly shut and
COVID-19 cases have registered another weekly reduction in the Valencian Community. Today’s(August 3) total of 1,704 new cases is down on the July 27 figure of 1,875 infections and 2,112 cases on July 20. New case rises have been falling for the last eight days in the region. Nine deaths have been reported today, taking
He’s one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and is regularly spotted hanging out with the likes of Tom Cruise, David Beckham, Eva Mendes and Tommy Lee Jones. And it looks like he can add one more famous pal to the list. During an interview with Ricardo Moya, Pablo Motos revealed that she and the Fresh Prince
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THE first of the new National Identity Documents, known as DNI 4.0, have been handed out today. The ID card,, which will be mandatory throughout the European Union, will include the fingerprint and the face of the citizen. The arrival of this new document does not mean that the old ones are no longer valid,
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CATALAN singer, Sergio Dalma urged his audience to ignore social distancing guidelines amid a new coronavirus spike in Spain. The musician was forced to suspend his gig by organisers after he stopped his set three times in order to instruct fans to break the rules and get out of their seats during his concert in
A 79-year-old female Spanish drugs lord has been arrested in Portugal over a cocaine smuggling operation. The Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional assisted Portuguese colleagues in tracking the Catalunya-based woman down to the city of Vila Real. A 26-year-old Alicante man and a 60-year-old from the Girona area were also arrested. 15 kilos of cocaine
