August 2021

Family in Spain increasingly concerned for missing 19-year-old last seen in Malaga

POLICE in Spain are appealing for information to help trace a teenager reported missing from Malaga.  Carmen Roja, 19, was last seen in Alozaina on Wednesday, August 24 .  There is a concern for her welfare and worried relatives are pleading with the public to get in touch to help bring their daughter home. She […]

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Disrespectful vandals scrawl graffiti on Costa Blanca COVID-19 victims memorial in Spain

A Denia sculpture paying tribute to victims of the COVID-19 pandemic has been vandalised. The heart-shaped ‘Corozones’ by local sculptor, Modesto Mari, was unveiled in the city’s Plaza de la Constitucion last October. The work has now been damaged with graffiti scrawled on it. Mari said that ‘Corozones’ symbolised two embracing silhouettes that form a

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New accident leads to speed bumps appearing by dangerous pedestrian crossing on Spain’s Costa Blanca

SPEED bumps have been installed close to a Torrevieja pedestrian crossing after a man was struck by a car just 24 hours after a Madrid couple died there. Few details have been supplied except for some reports that the pedestrian was seriously injured on Tuesday evening(August 24) on Avenida Desiderio Rodriguez. Torrevieja’s Policia Local are

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Teenager killed in house collapse in Spain’s Peñiscola

THE Castellon town of Peñiscola is badly shaken after a residential block partly crumbled and collapsed at 7.30 pm yesterday (Wednesday) evening, killing a 14-year-old teenager and leaving his stepfather and grandmother trapped under the rubble. At the time of reporting, a team of 140 fire-fighters, canine experts, sanitary personnel and other emergency rescue forces

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Elsie Mogford, 37, wife of multi-millionaire United Utilities boss, dies suddenly while on holiday in Menorca

THE wife of multi-millionaire water company chief has died suddenly ‘of natural causes’ while on holiday at a luxury villa on the Spanish island of Menorca. Elsie Mogford, 37, a mother of two boys, died on Tuesday after being rushed to hospital by ambulance after she was taken ill while holidaying in a luxury villa

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Cash-strapped nightclubs and late bars on the Costa Blanca brand summer season as a disaster in Spain

LATE bars and nightclubs in the Valencian Community say they are only generating just over a quarter of their 2019 income levels. A survey from the Spain by Night, Fotor, and Alroa associations says that of the 73.5% of businesses still operating in the wake of the pandemic, income is down to 26.6% of what

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Green light for new golf course and 2800 luxury homes in Spain’s Malaga

MALAGA moves forward with its plan to build a new golf course and 2,800 homes in Rojas-Santa Tecla. The municipal planning department has given the green light for the necessary earthworks to carry out the corresponding archaeological movements in the two sites located in the area: San Miguel and Camino de Velarde. The favourable resolution

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This beach in Andalucia has been chosen as the best playa in the whole of Spain

LIFESTYLE travel magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, has named Valdevaqueros (Cadiz), the best beach in Spain 2021 More than 8,000 km of coastline, the longest coastline in the European Union, make Spain a unique destination, with some of the best beaches imaginable. With the summer holidays just started, Spain’s spectacular beaches in the midst of wild

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British holidaymaker and Spanish waiter stab each other in row over bill at restaurant in Mallorca

A BRITISH holidaymaker and the Spanish waiter who served him are both being treated in hospital for stab wounds after a row broke out over the bill in a restaurant in Mallorca. The fight occurred around 7.30pm on Wednesday evening on the terrace of the Don Denis restaurant in Can Picafort, a popular holiday destination

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No calls for curfew in Spain’s Andalucia as incidence rates drop across the region

THE Junta has not proposed a night curfew for any municipality in the region. For the first time since July 22, there are no municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants that exceed the incidence rate of 1,000 cases, the threshold set at the beginning of the summer to activate the protocol for a night-time lockdown.

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