October 2021

A gigantic sunfish was caught up in tuna fishing nets off the coast of Ceuta, one of Spain’s enclaves in north Africa. The fish, known as a pez luna in Spanish measured 3.2 metres long and 2.9metres wide and weighed in a whopping two tonnes. [embedded content]  Enrique Ostale, a marine biologist at the University […]

A man has been jailed for eight years for the attempted murder of his estranged wife on a Costa Blanca housing estate in April 2019. The Russian national, 56, breached a restraining order and bundled the woman, also Russian, into her car on an Orihuela Costa urbanisation. She had filed a police complaint about mistreatment

BOOSTER coronavirus vaccine shots can officially be administered to people aged 70 and over from this Monday(October 25). The date was agreed by the Public Health Commission and applies to residents in that age range who got their last COVID-19 vaccination at least six months ago. Some regions will be combining the Pfizer booster shots

A Murcia drugs gang has been arrested for exporting marijuana to Ireland hidden in crates of lettuce. A Fortuna-based transport company was linked to a criminal in Ceuti that the Guardia Civil suspected of running a major drugs tracking network. The gang leader bought fruit and vegetables from a Lorca supplier for export which officers

A SCIENTIFIC breakthrough in Spain has led to a blind woman to gain back enough sight to perceive shapes and colours. Bernardeta Gomez became the first person to receive a brain implant developed by a scientific team at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche in Alicante province. The pioneering operation was carried out on the

POLICE have broken up a gang trying to sell forgeries of paintings by Spanish masters like Goya via the internet. The Valencian Historical Heritage police seized the works of art in the Castellon area of the Valencian Community. 27 paintings were removed which were being sold for a total of €1.2 million. Experts deduced that

SAN FULGENCIO, which includes the popular expat La Marina Urbanisation, is continuing Costa Blanca’s bounce back to a ‘new normal’ with a three-day Tapas festival. The event will take place in the town centre and surrounding urbanisations from Friday, October 29, until Monday, November 1. The festival marks the sixth time that San Fulgencio has

A complaint of language discrimination has been filed against a Costa Blanca bar. The premises in Gandia are accused of refusing to serve a customer because he ordered in the regional Valencian language. It’s alleged that a man, accompanied by a friend, asked for an iced tea at a bar in the Grao area of

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AN elderly love-struck Valancian man was conned out of €67,000 by a female fraudster. The woman, 33, has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Torrent on fraud charges after running a ‘love scam’ on her 87-year-old victim. The detainee has a criminal record and was convicted of swindling €7,500 out of a man in