November 2022

Lucky escape for mother and child after tram smashes into car on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A mother and daughter escaped with a few bruises after their car was hit by an Alicante tram on Monday. The vehicle was struck at around 8.00 pm while crossing the tram line on Calle Baronia de Polop in the north of the city. The car was dragged along for several metres before the tram

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Stowaways found on oil tanker rudder before docking in Spain’s Canary Islands

THREE stowaways risked their lives by travelling on the rudder of an oil tanker that docked in the Canary Islands after an 11-day trip from Nigeria. The Salvamento Maritimo rescued the men after spotting them on the rudder of the Alithini II oil tanker that was sailing into Las Palmas on Monday. Unsurprisingly the trio

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Sierra Nevada kicks-off the winter ski season this Saturday for what could be the best season in the history of the resort

THE ski and mountain resort of Sierra Nevada starts its winter 2022/23 ski season this coming Saturday, December 3. Sierra Nevada is looking forward to an exciting 2022/23 season with record sales of ski passes and a notable improvement in the ski resort’s facilities. A historic investment by the Junta has seen €51.7 million invested

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Nearly 40 animals—used for illegal dog and cockfighting—removed from deplorable conditions in Spain’s Coin

OFFICERS from Seprona, the Guardia Civil’s nature and wildlife protection branch, together with Policia Local from Coin have rescued 37 animals used for cruel animal fighting and kept in ‘deplorable conditions’ in the Fuensanta neighbourhood of Coin. The alert was given after a tip-off to clandestine fights between animals taking place in the area and

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Costa del Sol financial ‘nerve centre’ raided as part of operation to smash Europe-wide ‘super cartel’

Spanish police have played a key part in an enormous operation to smash a continent-spanning ‘super cartel’ thought to be responsible for the import of a third of the cocaine into Europe. The financial ‘nerve centre’ of the operation was centred around the Costa del Sol, where a police raid bagged the head of the

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New ‘rural’ political party formed in Spain to stand in next year’s elections

A new rural-based political party called España Vaciada(Empty Spain) with a main policy of reversing depopulation has been formed by merging existing parties in 14 provinces. A meeting in Teruel on Sunday agreed on the new combined party and appointed Teruel’s Tomas Guitarte as its first leader. They plan to run candidates in local and

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Member of notorious ‘wolfpack’ gang of rapists will not get reduced sentence under Spain’s new ‘only yes means yes’ law 

ONE OF the members of the notorious ‘wolfpack’ gang, responsible for the rape of a young woman at the Running of the Bulls fiestas in 2016, will not be seeing his prison sentence reduced under Spain’s new ‘only yes means yes’ consent law. The new legislation came into force in early October, and was aimed

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