December 2022

AS Christmas approaches, Ocean Village Marina in Gibraltar is the perfect place to head for an international festive celebration. Two of its most popular spots give a distinct multicultural flavour to the Xmas season and are the perfect places for group celebrations as well as more intimate meals. At wagamama’s, it’s officially cling-to-a-bowl-of-ramen season – […]

A 51-year-old man died in a fire that started in the kitchen of his l’Alfas del Pi property in Alicante Province on Tuesday. His daughter, 12, escaped to raise the alarm. The fire broke out at around 2.00 pm at the house in the La Carbonera area of the municipality. The body of the Spaniard

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Semi-detached Villa Estepona, Málaga   3 beds   2 baths € 345,000 This new residential development in the heart of the Costa del Sol offers 48 large and bright villas on the front line of golf and perfectly integrated into a natural environment with spectacular landscapes. Built on 3 levels, all the houses have private

A British man, 38, has been arrested at Valencia Airport for trying to smuggle drugs onto a Balearic Islands-bound flight. The Brit was charged with drug trafficking and handed over to the custody of the Quart de Poblet court. His suitcase was going through a scanner in the departures area when a security guard studying

BY the time of the collapse of the Arabic empire in 1485, Ronda had been entertaining foreign visitors for not far off 1500 years. One of Spain’s oldest towns, in Roman times it had a thriving wine industry and even its own mint, fittingly its coins bearing a tendril of grapes. Established in 9BC as

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Two trains have collided near Barcelona this morning, leaving more than 150 people injured.  The collision happened on the train line in Montcada i Reixac, a town just north of Barcelona about 8am. Emergency servioces scramble to get people off the collided trains. Photo: Twitter/ David_focus86 Emergency services for Catalonia said they had treated 150

THE recent rainfall has benefited reservoirs in the western Costa and Guadalhorce area. Nearly 70mm of rain fell in a short window between Monday evening, December 5, and early yesterday morning, Tuesday December 6, with La Concepcion reservoir benefiting the most so far from the heavy rain. Thanks to this week’s current rainfall, the reservoirs

GIBRALTAR is offering a unique festive gift this year – a Christmas Coin Collection that has proved a hit with collectors and the public alike. Sir Joe Bossano, minister with responsibility for the Gibraltar National Mint launched the 34th collection at the Gibraltar Savings Bank on Tuesday. Bossano started the tradition in 1988 when he