October 2021

SPAIN has named Romanian arrivals as bringing in the highest number of detected COVID-19 cases in the last month. Not far behind is the United Kingdom. The figures have been compiled by experts working for the Ministry of Health’s Centre for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies(CCAES). Spain’s high number of fully-vaccinated people(80%) and […]

A 36-YEAR-OLD man has been seriously injured after being gored in the first bullfighting weekend since the start of the pandemic in the town of Nules. The victim, a man from the town of Onda, is gravely injured in hospital after sustaining serious injuries to his mouth and his eye in the mauling.  He was quickly

A POPULAR novel with a mysterious author has won the 70th Planeta Prize.  The €1m Planeta award — the world’s highest paying literary trophy — was given to Carmen Mola, a writer everyone believed to be a female university professor working under a pen name to maintain anonymity. But in a plot twist worthy of

FIVE people were mowed down by a drunk driver in Torrevieja on Sunday morning(October 17) Two of those hit at around 4.00 am were taken to Torrevieja Hospital with serious injuries. The Policia Local arrested the unnamed Spanish male driver after he tested positive for excess alcohol. Eyewitnesses said he was driving out of the

THREE people have been arrested on the Costa del Sol after a massive haul of cocaine was found on a yacht in the Atlantic. A 60-year-old Dutch man, thought to be the ringleader of the smuggling gang, was detained in Mijas along with a Swede and another Dutchman. In an operation described as ‘highly dangerous’

FIREFIGHTERS battled to contain an enormous blaze that broke out at a Barcelona candle factory late Sunday evening and continued to burn throughout the night.   The alarm was raised at half past midnight on Sunday night and 25 fire crews were sent to fight the burning inferno located in the Setmenat area of metropolitan Barcelona.  

IT MAY be the oldest profession in the world, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Sunday to criminalise prostitution in Spain insisting the time has come to put an end to a practice that “enslaves” women. The sex industry in Spain  Spain holds the title of the brothel of Europe after a 2011 study

Villa Finestrat, Alicante   4 beds   4 baths € 545,000 The residential complex is located in one of the most charming spots of the Levantine coast balcony of Finestrat surrounded by mountains and with privileged views towards the coast of Benidorm. . Complex of 15 spacious villas with plots of between 428 m2 and

BENIDORM hosted the official launch of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal last Saturday(October 16) in what is the RBL’s centenary year. The annual parade from Calle Castellon and down the Paseo de Levante returned, after being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. The parade was led by the Torrevieja Pipes and Drums followed

TWO members of a European ‘hugging’ robbery gang have been detained on the northern Costa Blanca. Police said the group have notched up arrests in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. A joint probe between the Altea Guarda Civil and the Mossos d’Esquadra in Barcelona led to a man and woman being