A British father of two died after he was allegedly beat up by bouncers outside a Magaluf club and then ‘knelt on by police officers as he begged for his life’. Tobias White-Sansom, 35, died in hospital in Spain’s Mallorca five days after a violent incident outside the Boomerang club on July 26. His brother […]
ELCHE council has made a fresh appeal to the Ministry of Culture and the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid to return the ‘Lady of Elche’ bust to the city, on the 125th anniversary of its discovery. Elche mayor, Carlos Gonzalez, presided over a ceremony on Thursday which demanded the statue’s return. With the full backing
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JAVEA has kept its long-standing place for having the highest property prices in the Valencian Community. Prospective house buyers will have to pay €721,003 on average to secure a property in Javea, according to a survey compiled by online housing portal Idealista. The area is the fifth-most expensive in Spain. Second in the Valencia region,
A Costa Blanca-based drugs gang has been brought down in a joint operation between the Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional. Four men and two women of Cuban, Lithuanian, Moroccan, and Ukrainian nationalities have been arrested. STASH UNCOVERED The gang leader was jailed by an Elche judge. His colleagues have been prohibited from leaving Spain and
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PARTS of Pego’s old town have become a vehicle-free zone for visitors with new rules being phased in. Access is currently restricted on a Thursday morning with the measure extending to between Thursday and Sunday from September. Only residents will be allowed entry along with business hours permission for ‘loading and unloading’. Thursday mornings are
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THE British embassy in Spain has provided an update on the driving licence saga, with many angry that the announcement sounds like a broken record. Since May 1, Brits resident in Spain with UK driving licences are no longer legally allowed to drive without taking a Spanish driving test. While negotiations were planned to have
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SPANISH police are investigating a spate of recent attacks across Spain on women who believe they were spiked with needles at nightclubs. Police forces across different regions in Spain have noticed a surge in recent reports from women who believe they were drugged and suffered memory loss and who discovered localised bruising indicating that they
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A black goat caused chaos in Cartagena’s main shopping area after running around the city and smashing a glass item in a jewellery store. The animal was cornered by Policia Nacional officers in the shop’s toilet. ON THE RUN(Twitter image) The goat entered the city on Wednesday evening from the Murcia highway and ran down
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A MAN survived 16 hours in a capsized boat before being rescued next to the Sisargas Islands, near Galicia. The 62-year-old French man, who has not been named, set sail from Lisbon before sending out a distress signal on Monday evening from the Atlantic Ocean some 23 kilometres from the shore of the Sisgaras Islands
