October 2021

BORIS Johnson chose it as the location for his controversial autumn getaway, following in the footsteps of a long list of well-known people have holidayed here, so what’s so special about Benahavis? Hugh Grant has holidayed here; Rod Stewart and Cristiano Ronaldo have also contributed to the town hall coffers; Princess Diana took William and […]

ALMOST half of people in Spain are in favour of mandatory vaccinations to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The findings come in the latest October survey from the Centre for Sociological Research(CIS), with 78.1% of the population aged 12 and over fully-vaccinated. 48.9% believe that everybody should be forced to be vaccinated against COVID-19,

BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his pregnant wife Carrie and their son Wilf were seen leaving a villa in the hills above Marbella to head home on Thursday after a controversial autumn break in Spain. Johnson left the luxury holiday estate in Benahavis inland from the Costa del Sol in a minivan with blacked out

SPAIN’S government has proposed a controversial change to the autonomo system which would see self-employed workers in Spain pay an average of €8 more per month in social security contributions.  The draft General State Budgets for 2022 has outlined a plan to increase both the monthly quotas and the contribution base for self-employed workers starting

A Costa Blanca council has become the first in the region to introduce ‘Kiss & Go’ zones next to schools. The move has come in Sant Joan d’Alacant in a bid to cut car congestion and improve safety at the start and end of the school day. A similar scheme is already used in Madrid

A MYSTERY man died naked on the motorway after a horrific road accident in the south of Spain.  We previously reported that a person was killed just after 5am on Thursday (October 14) after being struck while walking on the A7 motorway near Puerto Banus.  He was hit by a vehicle driven by a 38-year-old

SCIENTISTS have invented a “promising” new treatment that destroys cancerous tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients.  Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London combined nivolumab and ipilimumab medications to trick patients’ immune systems into killing their own cancer cells.  The experimental study was carried out on 1,000 dying head and neck

TORREVIEJA’S Guardia Civil is taking part in a pilot scheme where residents will be able to book an appointment online to file a complaint. Three other Guardia divisions in Madrid and Almeria are involved in the initiative which will be rollled out across Spain if it is a success. The pre-booking idea is about avoiding

A CRIMINAL investigation into the swimming pool deaths of a British father, his nine-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son has been shelved. A Fuengirola court has decided that the tragic triple-drowning at the Club la Costa World (CLC) resort in Mijas was an accident. Police and prosecutors had launched an investigation after the Christmas Eve, 2019,

THREE Belgians have been arrested in San Fulgencio for running an indoor marijuana farm and selling drugs in an area with a large number of foreign residents. A joint operation between the Guardia Civil and the Policia Local brought down the illegal southern Costa Blanca business. Authorities were tipped off that a property in the