December 2021

A RECORD number of people have died whilst trying to cross from West Africa to the Canary Islands during 2021. Data suggests that the route through the Atlantic to the Spanish Islands has become more favorable than the Mediterranean, but it remains more dangerous as most people attempt the crossing in simple wooden dugouts that are not […]

BOOSTER doses of COVID-19 vaccines are to be rolled to people in Spain aged between 40 and 59 years. The injections will follow six months after the second shots of the Moderna and Pfizer formulas were administered. People aged under 60 who received AstraZeneca shots will only have a three-month wait period to get the

SPAIN’S royal family have released their 2021 Christmas card photograph. The image was taken in their Zarzuela Palace garden in Madrid. King Felipe and Queen Letizia are featured standing behind daughters Leonor and Sofia. The 2021 royal Christmas card from the Casa del Rey. The royal household has not said when the photo was taken.

POLICE in a Costa Blanca city moved on a restaurant after getting reports that it was not requesting to see COVID-19 passports from indoor diners. Elche Policia Local officers acted on a complaint from a concerned citizen and visited a business on Avenida Crevillente in the city. The restaurant owner was interviewed and a check

ROJALES Local Police performed 473 roadside breathalyzer and drug tests during one week in December. Checkpoints were set up in various locations around the centre, districts and urbanisations of the town, including the popular expat area of Ciudad Quesada, between December 6 and December 12. CHECKPOINT CHARLIE: Drugs and drink tests carried out throughout Rojales

A PENSIONER was brutally assaulted in a late night attack by two middle aged men in a terrifying incident in Malaga. The 76-year-old man was left ‘shaken’ and ‘bloody’ after two men approached him at around 9pm on Calle Heroe de Sostoa on December 11.  The thugs kicked the victim to the ground and attempted

MALLORCA once again has a two-Michelin starred restaurant, putting the island firmly on the haute-cuisine map. Voro, the restaurant run by chef Alvaro Salazar at the Cap Vermell Gran Hotel, near Canyamel on the island’s eastern coast, was awarded the coveted two-stars in a ceremony to launch the 2020 Michelin Guide to Spain and Portugal

Apartment Dénia, Alicante   3 beds   2 baths € 300,000 This apartment is in an ideal location, within walking distance of the beach and center of Denia. This modern south oriented apartment has a spacious terrace of 30m2 and an open view. The living dining room has lots of natural light and large sliding

BRITISH Airways will start operating ‘low-cost’ flights to eight Spanish destinations this spring out of Gatwick airport. BA is relaunching its budget short-haul division which was mothballed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The services will be BA-branded initially before regulatory approval is granted to spin them off into a new stand-alone subsidiary company called BA

SEVEN bodies out of 14 exhumed from in Alicante are believed to be of freedom fighters that were executed during the height of Franco’s Spanish repression in the 1940s. Careful exhumations of two mass graves have been carried out in Alicante Municipal Cemetery since February 2021. Scores of corpses have been found, many of which