CAN you believe that we are nearly at the end of 2021?! Whether it’s been a good, or not so good year for you, there’s no denying that it has absolutely flown by! So we thought that we would take the time to look back on the last year, and the changes that came along […]
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MORE arrests have been made over a bloody feud between two gypsy families that led to an infamous shooting in Mallorca. Police have detained two members of the Los Manzano clan that has been blamed for chasing down and pumping three bullets into a member of the rival Los Peluos family. Tough neighbourhood. Clan war
TWO Swedes who robbed and set fire to a brothel in Palma are facing five years in jail. The events took place in 2019, when the duo went to the nightclub in s’Aigo Dolça for several hours before being ordered to leave at closing time. Armed with a large stone, they gained access to the
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SPAIN’S fifth-largest bank, Unicaja, has reached a deal to cut up to 1,513 jobs and close a quarter of its branches. The bank announced cost-cutting plans in October and the main union at the bank, the CCOO, says it has thrashed out an agreement which needs to be ratified before December 7. A strike scheduled
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SOME six million international tourists visited the Balearic Islands in the first 10 months of the year. This was an increase of 261% compared to the same period in 2020. Nationally the islands were the most popular destination, followed by Cataluña with 4.6 million (up 23,5%) and Andalucia with 3.4 million (32,3%). MALLORCA: The Balearic
A Spanish tourist stranded in Morocco has accused Ryanair of treating customers ‘like dogs’ and ‘deceiving people’ after taking bookings for cancelled flights out of the North African country. Moroccan authorities scrapped all scheduled air connections to and from the country on November 29 through to December 13 as a preventative measure following the discovery
THE Valencian Community is at the start of a sixth wave of the COVID pandemic according to a regional health ministry report. Rising COVID cases were used to support the regional government’s argument for introducing a COVID passport to access certain indoor areas, which starts this Friday evening at midnight. The report stated that ‘the
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SPAIN’S central government has not introduced a nationwide policy concerning COVID health passes and whether they should be required to enter certain establishments or to carry out certain activities. Instead regional authorities in each of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions have to take the decision and then seek court approval. Currently eight regions in Spain have
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THE family of a woman who became seriously ill after suffering a severe bout of food poisoning while on holiday in Gran Canaria has launched a public appeal for donations to fly her home. Jennifer Wardle, 70, from Middlesbrough has been stranded in the Canary Islands with her family unable to pay the eye-watering €30,000
