GIBRALTAR’s leader said he is ‘confident’ of a ‘positive outcome’ to a post-Brexit deal for Gibraltar after Spain said it was ready to remove the frontier and create a shared prosperity solution to Brexit. The British territory’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said in a government statement he now expects ‘a successful conclusion’ to the talks […]
Perched atop steeping mountains and 2,460 feet above sea level, Ronda is tricky to get to but worth the effort for a trip you will never forget, writes Anthony Piovesan. Ronda is indeed one of those places that stands alone. It’s one of the oldest cities in Spain and a destination that simply cannot be
THE Guardia Civil have arrested, at a petrol station in Mijas, the driver of a high-end vehicle, apparently stolen in France last year. The incident took place around 4pm last Saturday, November 19, when, the odd and elusive attitude of the driver, a 23-year-old French citizen of Maghrebi origin, on coming across officers patrolling the
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OVER 1,500 pairs of unwanted glasses collected at the Specsavers shop in Javea have been donated to people in need. Shop assistant Maria Georgieva presented 10 boxes of glasses to Malcolm Saunders from the Calpe and Benissa Lions club. They will be taken to the Lions recycling centre in San Vicente de Raspeig before being
SINGER Shakira has accused tax chiefs in Spain of running a smear campaign and infringing her privacy in a long-running battle over unpaid taxes. The performer’s lawyers have filed documents rebutting allegations she failed to pay €14.5 million in taxes for income earned from 2012 through 2014. Shakira says was not a resident of Spain
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SPAIN’S Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares gave an update on Friday about the ongoing negotiations on the future of Gibraltar post-Brexit. Talks ‘are in a very advanced phase’ and can be ‘defined as very positive’, he said in comments reported by Spanish daily ABC. ‘We trust that the negotiations will finish as soon as possible
Cruise ships docking into Alicante this month and in December is expected to pump €2 million into the local economy. November has already seen eight cruise ships dock into Alicante, and that number will rise next month. There are two massive cruise ships set to arrive into the port city in December, a total of
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A 33-year-old man is facing speeding and dangerous driving charges – and the possibility of jail time – after Policia Local from Malaga allegedly clocked a driver speeding at 220km/h through the city centre. Police detected the excessive speed at 2:13am during a speed control on Avenida Velazquez, in Malaga city centre, an area limited
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AS OWNERS of the Apple Watch will know, the manufacturer goes to great lengths to inform users that the device cannot be used to detect heart attacks, despite counting on a heart rate monitor and an electrocardiogram app. But that’s exactly what one doctor managed to use it for, when her electrocardiograph machine failed in
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THREE more sex offenders in Spain have had their prison sentences reduced under the country’s controversial new ‘only yes means yes’ sexual assault law. A court in Valladolid, in Spain’s Castilla y León region, announced on Thursday that a young man who had raped a girl aged under 18 at knifepoint has seen two years
