THE Diversity Valencia Festival which organises the Valencia festival of the same name has gone under. The company announced it was being liquidated on July 15 just weeks before this year’s festival was supposed to take place on July 23 and 24. The event was set to see a host of big international names come […]
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Villa Calonge i Sant Antoni, Girona 5 beds 4 baths € 530,000 Here is the fantastic house you were looking for in the popular town of Calonge, in an excellent residential area with all the comforts. Cozy and spacious house in Vescomtat de Cabanyes, ideal for 2 families, Nice garden of approx. 1,367
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BLACKENED earth, smouldering trees, the charred corpses of wild animals barbecued to a crisp. The pungent tang of smoked pine and eucalyptus lingers in the air. Such apocalyptic scenes have been repeated over and over across Spain, from Mijas on the Costa del Sol to the wild forests of Zamora in the northwest of the
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POLICIA Nacional officers discovered a corpse was still very much alive on Tuesday after getting an emergency call. They were summonsed to a property in the Abastos district of Valencia City. Officers discovered the ‘deceased’ man still had vital signs after his brother phoned emergency services to report a death. He was in a weak
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AN Irish gang ripped off businesses and public bodies across Spain by laying down poor quality asphalt surfaces but charging for a vastly superior product. Over two years of Guardia Civil probes led to five Irish nationals either being arrested or still being investigated with the help of foreign countries. No details have been given
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OVER €25,000 per month on cocaine, €400,000 for a fake chicken farm and thousands on bottomless gin and tonics. That’s just a few of the ways €680 million of embezzled Junta de Andalucia cash was spent during the infamous ERE scandal between 2001 and 2009. Expats and tourists to Spain may have come across the
Spain’s top court has upheld convictions for 16 former top officials from Andalucia’s Socialist party in one of the biggest fraud scandals to hit Spain’s political elite. The Supreme Court has ordered the former president of the Junta José Antonio Griñán to prison and ratified the disqualification of his predecessor Manuel Chaves. The appeal ruling
SCALDING wind has placed Malaga as the hottest province in the whole of Spain with record-breaking temperatures recorded in Estepona. Residents in Estepona experienced the highest temperature in Spain yesterday, Tuesday July 26, with debilitating highs of 42.1C registered, according to Spain’s Met Office, AEMET. Malaga capital registered a scolding 41.4ºC; Malaga Airport, 40.5ºC; and
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After the Covid-19 pandemic, interest in buying properties in big cities has recovered. The demand for housing is returning on the outskirts of cities like Madrid and Barcelona as the exodus from cities to villages that happened during the pandemic has all but ended. Buying properties in villages however has also become trendy, and often
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INFOCA, the agency that deals with fire emergencies in Andalucia has declared the recent wildfires on the Costa del Sol, in Estepona and Mijas as ‘controlled’ and ‘stabilised’ respectively. Specifically, the Estepona wildfire, which forced the evacuation of 300 people, was declared ‘controlled’ at 11:10 pm last night, Tuesday July 26, and the evacuated residents
