November 2021

PLANS to restrict hospitality and nightlife businesses under certain circumstances are to be discussed this Tuesday afternoon by Spain’s Public Health Commission. The body includes representatives of the country’s 17 regions and the Ministry of Health, but its recommendations are not mandatory. Proposals would go to the Interterritorial Council for further discussion but decisions are […]

THE first storm of the season has hit its peak in Spain as a DANA (islolated high level depression) swept across the north of the peninsula yesterday sending temperatures plummeting. Residents across Spain woke up to frost this morning and will need to dig out their warm winter gear as snow arrived a bit earlier than usual

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HAILSTORMS and a mini-tornado hit parts of the southern Costa Blanca overnight as temperatures dipped. Alicante streets were coated white through hail but the effect soon disappeared as heavy rains lashed the city. Nearby Elche also got a big hail dusting that left the appearance of a snow covering in the early hours of Tuesday

POLICE in Gibraltar have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the murder of Michael Montegriffo in 2018. The 58-year-old was found lying on the ground outside his home at Gavino’s Dwellings on Prince Edward’s Road at 11am on Saturday July 7, 2018 and despite the best efforts by paramedics he died a few hours

AN embattled British gestor has hit back on social media, after the Olive Press revealed his involvement in an alleged fake padron fraud. Expat Matthew Smith – who has just been made a ‘pedania mayor’ of Entre Naranjos in Orihuela – insists he has been totally exonerated after a police investigation. The Olive Press exclusively

THE Comisiones Obreras union (CCOO) and the Pepos Andalucia Association are calling for emotional support dogs to be legally recognised in the same way as guide dogs. The aim is to have a legislation that will allow women to take their support dogs with them wherever they go, like service dogs, a classification that guarantees

SOUTH-EAST Spain faces a 40% fall in water resources by 2050 if remedial action is not taken, according to Ecological Transition Minister, Teresa Ribera. Ribera, speaking this Monday at a water supply conference, outlined a grim picture that lies in store for Spain. Areas like the Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, and Murcia will see

SHOPPERS should beware of online ‘bargains’ that are actually scams, police in Spain have warned ahead of Black Friday.  Black Friday fans have been told to remain vigilant this holiday season —and luckily the cops have highlighted a fake Lidl scheme that shoppers need to look out for.  Ahead of the massive sale on November 26,

A PENSIONER was rushed to hospital with injuries after her car drove off the top floor of a Spanish car park, dramatic pictures have shown. According to authorities, the car was being driven by the 66-year-old woman in Valladolid on the upper floor of the parking lot when she collided with a wall.  The car tumbled