August 2022

British tourist in Benidorm has expensive watch stolen during football con on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A British tourist in Benidorm had his €13,000 watch stolen after two men pretended to have a street argument about football. The holidaymaker identified one of the thieves who was known to the police and he was arrested three days later. The Policia Nacional branded the robbery as the ‘Ronaldinho’ method in tribute to the […]

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Benidorm pensioners get electricity bill discount on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BENIDORM council is offering pensioners in the city a discount of at least €50 on electricity bills. A €300,000 fund has been created and applications can be made online or in person. People aged over 65 years who have been registered continually on the municipal padron for the last five years can apply. Benidorm mayor,

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Spain’s Valencia bids to become 2022 European Capital of Innovation

VALENCIA is bidding to win the 2022 European Capital of Innovation award. A formal application for the iCapital Awards has been co-ordinated and submitted by Valencia City Council. The winning city will get a €1 million prize. The European Union award recognises the contribution of cities to the development of local innovation ecosystems, for the

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Woman dies after pallet of tinned food topples onto her at Murcia canning factory in Spain

A 25-year-old worker died in Mula on Thursday after a pallet of tinned food fell onto her at a factory owned by the Hida Food company. The fatal accident happened at around 5.00 pm at the premises on the El Arreaque industrial estate. A colleague sounded the alarm after seeing the woman trapped underneath the

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Milking it: The varied and contradictory uses of ‘leche’ in Spanish phrases

FROM giving a milk to having bad milk to going at full milk, leche is one of the most useful words in Spanish.   Despite the fact that Spaniards have a much lower consumption-per-capita than the UK they are, idiomatically at least, obsessed with milk. The Spanish Royal Academy, the organisation charged with safeguarding the

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Man in Spain’s Granada arrested for carrying two puppies in sealed plastic bag in midst of suffocating heatwave

A MAN has been arrested for animal cruelty in Granada after carrying two puppies in a sealed plastic bag, inside a closed backback, magnifying the already suffocating midday heat. According to Policia Local of Granada, an alert was given by several bystanders in the Albaicín neighbourhood last Wednesday, August 3, when a man was allegedly

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Spain’s Benahavis tops ranking for most expensive in Spain to buy property—with 8 more Malaga municipalities in top 50

NINE municipalities in Malaga are among the 50 most expensive places to buy property in Spain. Based on listings published by real estate portal Idealista, properties in Benahavis turn out to be the most expensive in Spain for yet another quarter. Recent research by the property portal finds that homes in this part of the

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