A NURSE who allegedly posed as a doctor and wrote dozens of fraudulent prescriptions has been arrested and charged in Sevilla. The 45-year-old was charged with impersonating a doctor and document forgery, according to a press release from Benemerita. Courts of Coria del Rio in Sevilla heard how patients were fooled by the nurse, who […]
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FOREIGN tourist levels in Spain last November recovered to 70% of what they were in the same month 2019 ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Figures published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics showed 3.3 million people visited Spain in November 2021- 633% more than the same month a year earlier. The encouraging recovery
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IT is only the start of January but the first of this season’s crop of avocados from Malaga are already in high demand across the continent. Unlike many hard or greying avocados you see in supermarkets, the glossy green ones grown in Axarquia are perfectly ripe and intensely sweet in flavour. Avocados, a form of
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A container of rice shipped in to Valencia from South America had 626 kilos of cocaine hidden within it. The Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency had their suspicions aroused about the container which they said had been tampered with and opened ‘improperly’. Investigators opened up the rice consignment on December 30, which had arrived
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JANUARY is a key time for businesses, self-employed workers and consumers in Spain. This is for two reasons: the tax year in Spain starts on January 1; and any new laws affecting business can only come into effect on two dates each year, either early January or early July. New laws that came into effect
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MORE than 4,400 migrants died trying to reach Spain last year, double the 2020 figure, according to a monitoring group. Caminando Fronteras (CM) claims that a switch of migrant routes away from the Mediterranean to the perilous 100km crossing from Africa to the Canary Islands has proven disastrous. The NGO says that nearly 90% of
AN Estonian man accused of a €150,000 fraud has been arrested after landing at Alicante-Elche airport. He had flown in from Kaunas in Lithuania. The man, 41, had been sought by German police under a European Arrest Warrant since December 2020 for financial crimes He is accused of committing fraud by setting up a bogus
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SOME €16 million for dozens of flood defence projects in Vega Baja has finally arrived with local authorities in the area. Plans approved for all 27 municipalities have been announced, part of the Vega Renhace (Reborn Land) Plan. Emergency rainwater drainage and various retention systems are to protect this particularly flat part of Costa Blanca,
THE ‘Three Wise Men of the East’ will arrive in Orihuela this Wednesday to distribute gifts to boys and girls of the municipality But as well as parading for the public of Orihuela city, a separate event is also being held on Orihuela Costa. IMAGE CREDIT: Orihuela City Council Their Majesties of the East, Melchior,
