November 2022

Thieving bank manager loses unfair dismissal legal challenge in Spain’s Murcia

A sacked Murcia region bank manager has lost a bid to get his job back after stealing €8,335. He came up with a novel argument before a Cartagena court- namely that he suffered from an illness which forced him into ‘impulse buying’. He told judges that he even went to a mental health facility to […]

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Online sports betting: How the internet has made it easier to bet on sports

Online sports betting has seen a huge surge in popularity in recent years, and it’s not hard to see why. The internet has made it easier than ever to place bets on sporting events, and there are now a whole host of different online bookmakers to choose from. This means that you can shop around for the

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Schoolteacher in Spain’s Mallorca gets death threats after demanding students remove Spain flag from classroom

A SCHOOLTEACHER in the Balearic island of Mallorca has been receiving death threats after she ordered a class of students to remove a Spain flag from the classroom. The youngsters, aged 16 to 17, had put the flag up to support the national football team during the World Cup, but the Catalan teacher objected to

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New specialist diabetes care units to open across Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

EIGHT specialist diabetic day care units will be set up across the Valencian Community in 2023. The first will open in February and will be based within hospitals and medical centres. The list of locations is yet to be announced. There are around 600,000 diabetics in the Valencia region and numbers are rising. Each of

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Graffiti artists smeared train carriages on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TWO graffiti artists- described by police as ‘well-known’- have been arrested in Alicante for using train carriages as canvasses. The two men, aged 25 and 29, illegally entered a RENFE train depot in the city several times and did €7,000 of damage to the carriages One of their works covered 24 square metres and cost

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Marbella mayor’s stepson facing new accusation of attempting to profit from insider information over land deal

THE stepson of the Marbella mayor, already in jail in Belgium over drug trafficking and money laundering charges, faces further accusations of attempting to profit from insider information over a land sale, according to a report from the Spanish anti-corruption task force. Joakim Broberg was caught on a wiretap in 2019 boasting that he knew

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Man arrested for attempted murder after setting fire to sleeping wife at their Catalunya flat in Spain

A man poured flammable liquid over his sleeping wife at their Catalunya region flat on Monday and fled the scene. He was arrested three hours later and charged with attempted murder. The attack happened at around 4.00 am at a first-floor flat in the main square of Artesa de Segre, Lleida province. Neighbours alerted authorities

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Mass fakery at Benidorm ‘English Zone’ market on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THOUSANDS of fake-branded items have been seized in a police raid on a popular Benidorm street market. Policia Nacional officers inspected six stalls targeting tourists at the twice-weekly market in the Rincon de Loix area of the city. 2,405 counterfeit goods- mainly watches and clothing- were removed and 11 people arrested. The seized ‘high-end’ watches,

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3 bedroom Villa for sale in Camposol with pool – € 239,000

Villa Camposol, Murcia   3 beds   3 baths € 239,000 *** REDUCED*** A Fantastic Neptuno style villa located on the Final phase of CamposolThis immaculate central heated, detached villa comprises of 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. The bedroom on the first floor is accessible via an internal staircase.All the bedrooms have built in wardrobes

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Murder inquiry opened into British father and son who vanished from Spain’s Costa del Sol in 2019 after ‘botched’ drug deal

SUSSEX police have launched a double murder investigation surrounding a British father and son who disappeared from Estepona in April 2019. Their family have always believed that they were shot and killed during a drug deal that went wrong. Daniel Poole, 46, and his son Liam, 22, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, were last seen

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