November 2021

QUEENS OF BLING: Move over Kanye West, Spain and UK’s royal families’ jewellery put you in the shade

WHEN it comes to bling, rapper Kanye West might feel a bit deflated when he realises that European royalty put him in the shade. Famous for his ego – and purchases of expensive jewellery – he simply can’t compete with ‘old money’. BLINGED UP: Kanye West PICTURE:Cordon Press A report by jewellerybox has revealed that […]

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Benidorm will give ‘on the spot’ COVID-19 vaccines to tourists on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BENIDORM will offer COVID-19 vaccines to foreign visitors in a traditionally busy tourist spot of the city. The regional mobile vaccination team will be outside the Benidorm Foreign Service tourist office in the Rincon de Loix from next Tuesday(November 16). Valencian government statistics show the Costa Blanca resort is an ‘extreme’ risk area for COVID-19

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GET A ROOM!: Sex tourists blamed for damaging one of Spain’s best and most ecologically valuable dune systems

BONKING tourists are being blamed for damaging one of Spain’s most important dune systems. While the earth has been moving on the Canary island of La Palma due to a volcanic eruption, it has been moving for an entirely different reason on neighbouring Gran Canaria. Maspalomas has become infamous for its ‘cruising’ scene where people

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Man convicted of slashing ex-girlfriend to death with a butcher’s knife on Spain’s Costa Blanca as her daughter watched

A jury has convicted a Denia man of murdering his ex-girlfriend by slashing her neck with a butcher’s knife in October 2019. Roman Chernov, 56, had a restraining order issued against for two instances of domestic violence. He defied it to execute fellow Russian, Helena Veslos, 44, in front of her 11-year-old daughter. He had

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SLEAZY SCAM: Police in Spain’s Almeria warn about online sex chatroom blackmail attempts

POLICE are warning that people – usually men – who indulge in online sex shows are being targeted by blackmailers. Officers say that three ‘consumers’ in Almeria have been threatened and blackmailed in attempts at extortion. The scam starts when the men enter a webcam chatroom to view sleazy ‘shows’. In the recent Almeria cases,

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Repsol installing over 600 electric charging points at service areas in Spain and Portugal

REPSOL is to spend €42.5 million installing 610 electric recharging points at its service stations in Spain and Portugal. The project is part of the multi-energy company’s goal of reaching 1,000 public re-charging points by the end of 2022. The current recharging network consists of over 350 points. The aim is get a point set

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Spain’s Malaga enters COVID-19 ‘medium risk’ level as infections increase

AFTER a month at low risk level for COVID-19, the province has reached the ‘medium risk’ of virus transmission alert level. The COVID-19 traffic light system in Spain, according to the Health Criteria, is based on the epidemiological situation in an area and takes into consideration data points such as the seven-day and 14-day incidence

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