July 2022

Diversity festival in Spain’s Valencia goes under leaving many without refunds

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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FOCUS: How Spain is on track for the most devastating summer of fires on record

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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Police in Spain’s Valencia called to home of dead person are shocked to find him alive

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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Irish gang netted over €2 million in one year through asphalt scam across Spain

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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EXPLAINER: How €680 million of Junta de Andalucia cash was embezzled in ERE scandal, Spain’s biggest EVER public money corruption case

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

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Andalucia’s ex-president and corrupt Socialist cronies face jail over massive fraud scandal after appeal rejected by Spain’s Supreme Court.

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

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Terral winds places Malaga as hottest province in Spain

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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WILDFIRE UPDATES SPAIN’S COSTA DEL SOL: Estepona fire under control and Mijas fire stabilised

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

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