November 2021

POLICE have arrested a Costa Blanca graffiti vandal after a year-long probe to track down the culprit. The unidentified man scrawled over 50 signs in the Elche and Santa Pola areas. It’s estimated that the total damage caused by him added up to over €7,000. Police in the two affected municipalities joined forces to collar […]

A TEEN has lost hearing in one ear after being seriously sexually assaulted in Barcelona.  The 16-year-old schoolgirl was attacked after leaving a nightclub in Igualada on November 1.  She was rushed to the Sant Joan de Deu Hospital in Barcelona with serious ear damage and doctors have said she has lost almost 90% of

A senior security director at Villena prison has been arrested for lying about five hooded men attacking her outside her Benidorm home. The September 6 ‘assault’ was widely condemned across Spain but it never happened, according to the Guardia Civil. The director claimed she was assaulted by the hooded gang because she was due to

CADIZ metalworkers have to taken to city streets for a third day in their wages strike. On Wednesday they cut roads leading into the Andalucian city and clashed with police who repelled them with rubber bullets. Two officers were injured and several cars were set alight. Rail tracks were also blocked for a time and

AGARBINE MUGURUZA has made history as the first-ever Spanish woman to win the WTA Finals.  The Caracas- born starbecame the first Spaniard to win the season-ending finals after winning 6-3 7-5 against Estonian eighth seed Kontaveit for the second time this week. The 28-year-old will rise to third in the world rankings on Monday following

HEALTH authorities in the Balearics are concerned after it emerged half of those who have yet to vaccinated are among the foreign resident population across the islands. A recent study revealed the huge numbers of anti-vaxxers among foreigners on the islands as the Balearic Islands urged those who remain unvaccinated to get the jab in

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JEWISH groups in Spain have condemned vandalism at a Holocaust memorial in Oviedo in the northern region of Asturias. The monolith remembering Victims of the Shoah in the city’s central park of Campo de San Francisco was defaced using a sharp object to scratch out writing on the plaque. Markings were also etched into the

COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be offered to everybody aged over 60 and health workers in Spain. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, announced the decision on Wednesday which acts on a recommendation made by the country’s Vaccine Committee that advises the Ministry of Health. Spain’s infection rate has reached 96.12 cases per 100,000 people, which is

GIBRALTAR’S government has unveiled its roadmap to meet targets to battle the climate emergency as the COP26 meeting in Glasgow drew to a close. The government has pledged to make Gibraltar carbon neutral by 2030 and to halve emissions by 2035 and to improve sustainable travel facilities to encourage walking and cycling, public transport and