September 2022

POLICE have confirmed that a 24-year-old Irishman has been injured in gun attack on the Costa del Sol. The incident took place just before 6pm (5:45pm) on Tuesday afternoon, September 20, near a luxury golf course in Marbella when the Emergency Coordination Center 112 received a call from a person alerting to shots being fired […]

SCIENTISTS from across the world plan to study bird migration between Europe and Africa via Gibraltar at an annual conference held on the Rock. The Calpe Conference 2022 from September 22-24 hones in on a book written fifty years ago by Oxford scientist Reginald Moreau called ‘The Palaearctic-African Bird Migration Systems’. Now in its 26th

Gangsters with suspected links to one of Italy’s most notorious mafia groups have been arrested in Spain. Gangsters with suspected links to the Italian mafia have been arrested in Ibiza as part of a mammoth police operation involving both Spanish and Italian authorities.  Thirty-two criminals were arrested on Spain’s infamous party island, with officers searching

NINE artists from Gibraltar showed off their work at a London exhibition on their individual relationship with their hometown. The art exhibition ‘Gibraltar, Our Sacred Earth, Our Sense of Place’, is on at the Bermondsey Project Space until September 26. during the month. As part of the exhibition, Gibraltar’s cultural ambassador of 2021, Gabriel Moreno,

WHEN police raided the home of feared Costa businessman Johnny ‘Cash’ Morrissey last week they hoped to find many incriminating items and the odd weapon. But what they hadn’t bargained on was a series of little black books listing all the payments from his wife’s company Nero Vodka. The ‘notepads’ carefully detailed all the businesses

SPAIN’S solicitor general’s office is taking legal action against the family of Francisco Franco in a bid to take ownership of 564 items that are currently inside the dictator’s former summer home, the Pazo de Meirás in Galicia.  The manor house itself, which is located in A Coruña province, was the subject of  a long

SPAIN’S National Police were on Wednesday seeking a man accused of running over his own mother-in-law with a car in Valencia, after a family row between several relatives.  The incident was caught on camera and soon went viral on social media, with some users jokingly describing the scene as “Grand Theft Auto: Valencia”, in reference

WATCH: A spectacular natural phenomenon has occurred off the coast of Mallorca, and it’s been captured on camera. An impressive multiple waterspout phenomenon off the coast of Mallorca has been captured on camera.  Four waterspouts, also known as marine tornadoes, formed off Santanyi on Friday and could be seen clearly from the island. A waterspout

A video released by the NGO AMDH Nador after the migrants rushed the border SPAIN’S interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, on Wednesday sought to defend the actions of border police in the North African exclave city of Melilla on June 24 when they were rushed by nearly 2,000 would-be migrants. According to NGOs, as many as

THE Medical Director of Torrevieja’s troubled public hospital has stepped down from his role in the middle of its worst crisis ever. Dr Juan Carlos Toral will however stay on the staff. According to sources consulted by the Olive Press, he was the right-hand man of Torrevieja’s Hospital director Pilar Santos and helped in the