THE Valencian Superior Court(TSJ) has approved a new list of indoor areas where a COVID passport will have to be used. The TSJ backed the regional government submission and the expanded list will operate across the Valencian Community until at least January 31. The measure will start at midnight on the day after the approved […]
A MAN was treated in hospital after an early morning fire at a home in Ronda. Emergency services were called to the building in Plaza Peninsula Iberica shortly before 1.45am on Wednesday. The alarm was raised by a frantic neighbour who called to report a blaze tearing through the ground floor where a person was
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MANY Valencian Community cities have cancelled their New Year celebrations for a second successive year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tradition of thousands of people gathering in city centre squares to see in the New Year have once again been put aside due to health concerns. Valencia’s Plaza del Ayuntamiento will be cordoned off
MASKS will have to be worn outdoors at all times in Spain as COVID-19 infections rise to new record levels. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, told the country’s 17 regional presidents in a Wednesday afternoon video conference that the measure would be implemented via a decree to be passed at a specially-convened cabinet meeting on Thursday.
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THE rugby world has paid tribute to one of Spain’s star players, Kawa Leauma, 32 who died at the weekend after sustaining head injuries in a fall. Leauma, who played lock for Spain’s Rugby Union first division club Ordizia as well as the national team, was in Amsterdam for Spain’s Six Nations B match against
A woman has been arrested by the Guardia Civil after using a hammer to bludgeon a man to death at her Betera home in Valencia Province. Neighbours called the police this Wednesday at around 10.00 am after hearing shouting from a property on Calle San Francisco. Guardia and Betera Policia Local officers arrived to find
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SEAT has opened a new €7 million battery research and development centre for electric and plug-in hybrid cars. The centre (known as TCE) at the carmaker’s Technical Centre in Martorell (Barcelona), is part of the Volkswagen Group’s global R&D network and is the group’s first such centre in Europe outside Germany, alongside those already running
AN 18-year-old tourist who collapsed on holiday in Spain has been put into an induced coma and had two brain surgeries in 48 hours. Jamie Doyle was enjoying a break in Lanzarote with his parents when he started feeling unwell. The teen from Banbridge in Co Down, Ireland, woke up with a severe headache and had
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ANDALUCIA’S education authority has suspended an English teacher without any pay for refusing to wear a face mask at a school in Granada. The English teacher at IES Iliberis de Atarfe refused to wear face protection during classes after Andalucia continues to enforce mandatory mask-wearing until at least spring 2022. The teacher claimed an exception
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THE Valencian government wants to introduce a tourist tax levied on nightly stays in accommodation with a proposed 2023 start date. That’s despite the battering suffered by the tourist sector in areas like the Costa Blanca during the coronavirus pandemic. The left-of-centre ruling coalition parties, namely the Valencian socialists, Compromis, and Unides Podem have reached
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