January 2022

TRAVELLERS arriving in England and Scotland from Spain will no longer need to buy day-two COVID tests, if they are fully vaccinated. The rules will change at 4am on February 11, UK Secretary of State Grant Shapps confirmed to the House of Commons. It follows the axing of a pre-departure test for fully vaccinated travellers […]

ONE overweight lion and two suffering tigers have arrived in Alicante after escaping a life in a Portuguese travelling circus. They are some of Portugal’s ‘last remaining’ exotic wild animals forced to perform for the public. It follows a strict prohibition on circus animals, which will become effective in Portugal from 2025. “I do not

A SPECTACULAR fireball has been sighted from numerous astronomical observatories in Spain—the phenomenon in question, however, was not a meteorite, rather a SpaceX Starlink satellite that disintegrated. [embedded content] SpaceX put the satellite into orbit exactly one year ago, on 24 January 2021. It was not the only one. Another 145 were launched and their

THE Catholic Church in Spain has admitted to owning 965 properties despite no documented evidence to verify the claim. There were even instances where evidence clearly showed that some buildings belonged to other people. Accusations have been levelled for years against the Church that it profited from using unregistered buildings without paying tax on them

WHEN Lloyd Millen was informed, just before Christmas, that he had been awarded an MBE for services to British nationals in Spain he couldn’t quite believe it. “I had no idea that my name had been put forward so I was completely shocked,” the 48-year-old tells the Olive Press over the telephone from his office

POLICE are investigating the theft of two Salvador paintings from a Barcelona apartment. The Mossos d’Esquadra were contacted on Sunday afternoon by the home owners. They said they were the victims of a robbery in the Sarria-Sant Gervasi area of the Catalan capital. The stolen paintings, ‘La Sardana’ and ‘Vi Negre’, were said to be

POLICE on the Rock are appealing for anyone who witnessed a blaze that damaged cars parked on Witham’s Road to come forward. One car was completely torched and two others badly damaged in the fire around 10.30pm on Wednesday January, 19. “Detectives are keen to speak to anyone who may have seen or heard anything

TWO Benidorm residents have been arrested for keeping 95 butano cylinders on a rental apartment patio. Worried neighbours called the police over serious concerns that the cylinders could explode because most of them were exposed to the sun. They reported that the number of butano cylinders increased on a daily basis. Only 15 of the

KING Felipe’s sister, Cristina, has split from husband Iñaki Urdangarin by ‘mutual agreement’ just days after photos were published of him with another woman. A joint statement said that their commitment to their children ‘remains intact’. “It is a private decision and we ask for the utmost respect from those around us,“ the brief statement

A Belgian man wanted in his country for child sex abuse and pornography charges faces extradition after being arrested on the Costa Blanca. The 78-year-old fugitive was detained by the Policia Nacional on the Gran Alacant urbanisation in the Santa Pola municipality. He is accused of sexually assaulting a child aged under 13 on various