December 2022

A 13-year-old boy died suddenly while playing in a youth league football match in Málaga on Sunday.  The game was quickly stopped as soon as Marvellous Onanefe Johnson collapsed on the field and began to suffer convulsions.  Emergency services were dispatched to the scene at 9.05pm but were unable to revive the boy despite their […]

A woman says a ‘scary movie guy’ had his eyes on kidnapping her daughter- aged under two- when he tried to open their car door in Burriana, Castellon Province. The incident happened on the city’s Avendia Cortes Valencianas on Sunday afternoon. She told the Guardia Civil what happened and she was contacted by the Burriana

THE family of a Mazarron man has got a €74,000 compensation payout after he died following a two-hour wait for an ambulance. The cash award from the Murcian Health Service(SMS) came after the Patient Advocate Association took up the family’s case. Emergency services were called at 12.31 pm on September 21, 2020 when the 52-year-old,

A NEW €2 million bus lane was opened today for commuters travelling from Malaga and the metropolitan area to the Malaga TechPark in a bid to alleviate rush hour congestion. The BUS-VAO lane (VAO which means passenger vehicles) will be reserved for buses and cars carrying multiple people  – single occupant cars will be forbidden

We’ve all used the ‘my dog ate my homework’ excuse before. But I don’t think this British expat ever thought he’d need to pull that old chestnut out in front of Spanish border authorities as he pleaded with them to be allowed to board his flight back to the UK. And what was even more

TORREVIEJA council will host the city’s first official outdoor party to see in the New Year. The Plaza de la Constitucion is traditionally a focal point on New Year’s Eve night for people to gather to hear the midnight chimes echo out from the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Entertainment over the years has always

Foreign demand has been propping up the Spanish housing market even as demand from the biggest buyer – the British – has dried up, Spanish Property Insight report. Back in the glory days of 2007, domestic demand from within Spain outweighed foreign demand for property – until the bubble burst.  Since then, while foreign demand

A 25-year-old motorist was clocked exceeding a motorway speed limit by 95 km/h in Alicante Province. Guardia Civil radar guns hit the top of their scale when his high-end car whizzed by their patrol on the AP-7 in Agost. The vehicle roared to 215 km/h where the speed limit is 120 km/h per hour. The

Apartment Orihuela Costa, Alicante   2 beds   2 baths € 230,000 Aguamarina Bungalow on the ground floor facing south very close to the beach, the house has about 65 m2 with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, American kitchen, large living room and a large terrace with access to the common areas, the house is sold

SPAIN’S airports face serious problems over the festive season after the CC OO union representing 10,000 airport staff announced six days of strikes. The CC OO say they’ve spent months talking to airport operator Aena over improved pay, especially as airport traffic has recovered to pre-pandemic levels. They add that dividend payments have been passed