November 2021

Benidorm insurance brokers on Spain’s Costa Blanca scammed clients with fake charges for policies

A Benidorm insurance brokerage scammed at least 36 people since 2017 by pocketing money paid out for bogus policy price rises. Other victims have not been ruled out with the defrauded insurance company also filing a complaint. The brokerage owner and a worker have been arrested in Benidorm and Villajoyosa by the Guardia Civil. They […]

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Solar farm plan launched in Spain’s Alicante area to supply electricity for 70,000 homes

PLANS have been unveiled for a €62 million solar farm in Alicante Province which would produce power for up to 70,000 households. Valencian energy business firm, Atitlan Helios, is behind the project and they say 600 direct and indirect jobs would be created. The farm would be situated on land in the Monovar and Salinas

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Xavi introduced as new Barcelona coach to over 9,000 fans at the Nou Camp in Spain

EX-BARCELONA player Xavi Hernadez was offically unveiled as the club’s new coach at the Nou Camp stadium this Monday. He replaces Ronald Koeman, who was sacked at the end of October. Xavi, 41, was released from his coaching contract with Qatari team, Al Sadd on Friday. There have been suggestions that the debt-ridden La Liga

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Residents in Malaga warned to be on the alert for bogus gas fitters

RESIDENTS in Villanueva de la Concepción Malaga have been warned to be on the alert for bogus gas fitters. The City Council has asked the elderly in the area not to allow strangers into their homes after a series of complaints about individuals posing as professional gas fitters in order to gain access to properties

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Sixth annual Festival de Les Arts attracts 40,000 in Spain’s Valencia

THE SIXTH annual Festival de les Arts took place last weekend in Spain’s Valencia, attracting more than 40,000 visitors.   The event took place last Friday and Saturday at the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències de València.  Festival organisers said that the festival, usually held in June and postponed twice since the start of

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Franco concentration camp with ‘mass graves’ nearby to be rebuilt as information centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALBATERA’S concentration camp, discovered only in 2020, is to become an information and interpretation centre. One of the derelict barrack buildings at the site will be rebuilt and used as the centre, for visitors to learn of the horrors that happened. The main part of the camp, an enclave measuring only 500 square yards, reportedly

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Pedro Sanchez says Spain will donate 2 million COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate refugees

SPAIN will donate two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to humanitarian causes. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, made the announcement this Monday in Madrid’s Casa de America at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Convention that enshrined the rights of refugees. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, was in attendance.

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‘Fake news’ ignites new social media push from Costa Blanca and Valencia area health bosses in Spain

VALENCIA’S health region has opened up new social media accounts to fight ‘fake news’. It wants to increase the number of people that access important health information as well as combatting false postings that some readers believe are truthful. Health Minister, Ana Barcelo, said: “Social networks are the only source of information that some audiences

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