SHE’S one of the biggest pop stars in the world, with a legion of loyal fans and a happy marriage to football sensation Gerard Pique. But despite being one of best selling singers and a doting mum of two, Shakira has had her plate full this summer with an ongoing tax evasion lawsuit. Yet the […]
SIXTY feet below Sitges, a town close to Barcelona, cockroaches have taken over the sewers. The bugs are wading through a river of raw sewage in the labyrinth of cramped tunnels, pipes and waste-water conduits that crisscross under the city, and following complaints from residents, the council has finally decided to take action. The public
A FATHER has been arrested at Glasgow Airport in connection with allegedly abducting his own daughter and jetting off to Spain. Lee Rogers was being hunted by police after he was accused of snatching two-year-old tot Gracie-May from her home in Lancaster and flying her to Alicante via the Scottish airport on August 25. Police
FOUR Alicante housemates got into an argument which saw one of them thrown out of a second-floor apartment window. Three Algerian men, two aged 21 and the other 31, have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and charged with attempted homicide. The incident happened at around 1.00 am yesterday morning(September 1) at a property on
THE Spanish National Police this week dealt a deadly blow to an Albanian drug-trafficking network with 107 suspected members arrested in Castellon and Catalunya. In addition to the arrests, officers seized one tonne of ripe marihuana buds already packaged and ready for sale, as well as 25,000 cannabis plants located in several warehouses. Spokespeople for
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WHEN it comes to tourism, Extremadura is off the beaten track. Few of the 80 million foreign visitors who visited Spain annually in pre-Covid times would venture to the region, for the lack of beaches or easy road and rail connections make it tough to compete with the more accessible and obvious tourist attractions of
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THREE men donned disguises and deployed military-style tactics to steal from foreign tourists arriving at Alicante-Elche airport. The Kosovo-Albanian trio used their past military training to track potential victims and keep an eye out for police patrols. Their array of disguises included a wig to made security camera identification harder as they pretended to be
THE rise in electricity costs is responsible for an increase on average of 1.5% in food prices throughout the Balearic Islands. According to Consumer Price Index (CPI) prepared by the National Institute of Statistics the soaring costs have increased since January with some items seeing a much higher price hike regardless of the supermarket chain
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WITH domestic travellers saving the day for Valencian tourism and prompting a 30% increase in hotel occupation throughout the region (as reported by The Olive Press), one town in particular stands out as a major success story – Gandia. The capital of La Safor district in Valencia Province has hit record levels of business this
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THIS is the moment 32 passengers were rescued from the ferry that smashed into an islet off the coast of Ibiza. In the dramatic footage, released by the Guardia Civil, it shows passengers arriving to Ibiza Port by the force’s boat after being taken off the crashed vessel. The FRS owned San Gwann fast ferry
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