August 2021

ANDALUCIA president, Juanma Morena, has announced that Malaga will get a new ‘first-rate’ hospital costing €365 million. The regional leader says it is part of plan to boost the economy by modernising infrastructures and creating new jobs. The 15-storey hospital will have over 800 rooms, 42 operating rooms, 198 consultation rooms, 66 ICU boxes and […]

DRONES will fly over beaches in four Costa Blanca areas for the rest of the summer in a bid to cut down on deaths caused by drowning. A pilot scheme was announced by Valencian president, Ximo Puig, today(August 3). Benidorm, Denia, Guardamar, and Javea have been chosen to take part. Puig launched a ‘Stop Drowning’

A COMPLEX operation involving trafficking people from Algeria to France has been busted by Spain’s Guardia Civil. Vulnerable people were taken from Algeria and promised a better life, by a group who simply wanted to profit from their misery. RAIDED: Guardia Civil move in Victims were held in the Spanish provinces of Alicante, Murcia, Almería

A MAN who allegedly beat his expat wife to death got a suspicious neighbour to help load her body into his car, claiming he was taking the victim to hospital after she had a fall. The alleged killer had been trying to put the body in his car when he was surprised by the neighbour,

A HISTORIC fountain, dating from 1790 in the historic centre of Malaga capital, has been used as an impromptu bathtub. A man in Spain has been captured on camera bathing in the Fuente Los Cristos, a long-standing fountain located next to Ollerias in Malaga. The image shows a man, inside the fountain taking a shower,

A pioneering maritime nursery has been created on the Andalucia coast to rescue rare coral damaged by fishing. The SOS Corals Project has been set up in Almuñecar’s Punta de la Monta conservation area. The mixture of local rocky and sandy seabed features high numbers of endangered species, including the orange coral and the candelabrum

POLICE on the Spanish island of Ibiza are inviting foreigners to swap parties for patrolling in a new initiative to help crack down on illegal parties. With most of the big clubs now closed in Ibiza due to the number of COVID-19 cases, ravers are hosting illegal gatherings to make up for the loss of

A Mallorca beachgoer has been arrested for over-reacting with a punch after a man picked up his back pack in error. The angry assailant whacked the man in the mouth so hard that he was left spitting out teeth onto the sand. The victim told police that he picked up the bag by mistake. The

THERE were 23 COVID-19 deaths in andalucia reported on Monday (August 2) with nine of these in the province of Malaga. This is the highest number of deaths the region has seen since May 11, when 54 people died from the virus. According to data from the Junta’s Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA), the

AFTER financial and pandemic crises, one trend is becoming crystal clear: the luxury market is the most resistant and dynamic of all!You might have thought that a financial crisis in 2008 and a Covid one in 2020-2021 would have had specialists in luxury real estate running for cover the world over, but in reality the