A Spanish drone operator received permission on Tuesday to attempt to rescue three emaciated dogs trapped by lava flow near a volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. The three animals – a local breed of small greyhound known as a podenco – have been trapped for weeks within an empty water store completely […]
A COMBINATION of a visit from Britain’s Prime Minister and the filming of the Crown has handed the Costa del Sol a key tourist boost. A week’s holiday for Boris Johnson in Benahavis and two week’s filming of the popular Netflix series also in Benahavis and nearby Marbella is worth millions in publicity for the
ON TUESDAY the Mayor of Valencia promised to reinforce the city’s police, following growing political pressure over the problem of mass street drinking, known as botellones, in the city. Joan Ribó, the Mayor and a member of the left wing Compromís coalition, has agreed to provide local police with 30 more officers to combat crime
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BULLDOZERS have started knocking down a southern Costa Blanca eyesore hotel that was abandoned in 1997. Plans to convert the Arenales del Sol beachside hotel in the Elche municipality into a four-star complex were stopped in 2016 after developers Princesol fell foul of coastal laws. The project was eventually scrapped as courts deemed the €11
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A man went into an Alicante bar early this Tuesday morning and emptied two cans of petrol before threatening to set fire to the premises. Shocked customers were enjoying a late-night drink when the irate Spaniard, 41, appeared and poured the fuel over the bar’s fixtures and fittings before producing a cigarette lighter. He threateningly
A heated debate is raging in Spain’s Castellón after 32 book titles, affecting 11 libraries, have been temporarily withdrawn after a local court decision. Members of the Official College of Librarians and Documentalists of the Valencian Community (COBDCV) are outraged over the withdrawal of books on sexual and gender diversity in schools and libraries of
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A NEW report by the WWF has revealed the shocking extent of water theft from endangered habitats including Doñana National park in Andalucia, Las Tablas de Daimiel wetlands in Castilla La Mancha and the Mar Menor in Murcia. Groundwater from aquifers – an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock – is being looted at an
SURVIVORS of a cooking oil poisoning scandal locked themselves in for 90 minutes inside a room at Madrid’s El Prado museum this Tuesday morning. The six demonstrators used social media to say they’d kill themselves by taking pills unless they got a meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. They demanded more money to cover their
THE retrial of British drug trafficker, Brian Charrington, started in Alicante on Monday(October 18). His original 2018 trial and conviction was quashed by the Supreme Court in March due to issues over impartiality. Judges upheld the challenge made by a defence lawyer that the same court had previously made 26 rulings on the case ahead
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