December 2022

Police use forensic clues to track down young people who threatened victims with a gun in Spain’s Malaga

POLICE arrested five suspects in the city of Malaga who allegedly threatened some people they knew with a gun. Forensic police tracked down five young people, two of them minors, who they believe took part in the attack in the north of the provincial capital. Malaga’s provincial police station’s robbery group started investigating the attack […]

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Police nab 90,000 kilos of drugs, mainly hashish, in Spain’s Malaga in 2022

POLICE seized 90,000 kilos of drugs in Malaga and arrested more than 4,000 people for trafficking offences in 2022. This past year the Policia Nacional beat the Guardia Civil in terms of drugs seized with 50,000 kilos to 40,000 kilos respectively. But the Guardia Civil arrested more people, putting nearly 2,500 people behind bars compared

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Make your health your new year resolution with these easy steps, Gibraltar health chiefs advise

PUT physical health at the top of your New Year’s resolution list, Gibraltar’s health chiefs urged the general public. The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) said everyone who wants to make a change should set defined goals, draw up an action plan and find support in completing them over the next year. It follows a recent

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Replica of historic sailing ship, Nao Victoria, docks at Spain’s Malaga port—open to visitors until January 15

THE replica of the first ship to sail around the world has arrived at Malaga port. The Nao Victoria will remain docked, and open to curious visitors, in the Capital of the Costa del Sol until January 15. The historic sailing ship has arrived at Malaga port as part of a world tour to mark

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Christmas record-breaking temperatures for Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

CHRISTMAS Day saw most of the Valencian Community enjoy daytime temperatures exceeding 20 degrees, with Valencia City hitting 23 degrees. Alicante recorded 19 degrees on Sunday and Castellon reached 22 degrees. Average temperatures for the season are up to seven degrees above normal and though highs will fall this week, they will still be well

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Phone scam extorts bars and restaurants over ‘unpaid’ electricity bills on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE Guardia Civil has broken up a Madrid gang who said they’d cut off electricity to 26 Alicante Province hotels and restaurants after falsely claiming that bills had not been paid. Ten people have been arrested including gang members who masqueraded as power company call centre workers. It’s believed the fraudsters pocketed over €100,000 from

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Disgraced Junta de Andalucia President Jose Griñan ‘has cancer’

DISGRACED former President of the Junta de Andalucia Jose Antonio Griñan who was given 10 days to surrender himself to jail is still not behind bars. On Friday (December 23) a judge ordered him to undertake a medical after his defence lawyer pleaded that Griñan is suffering from prostate cancer and that his treatment “cannot

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Quieter check outs as food purchases drop by 9% over a year in Spain

FOOD shoppers in Spain are cutting down on purchases due to the rising cost of produce. Figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food showed that between November 2021 and October 2022, the annual weight of food purchases fell by 9% compared to the previous 12 months. The actual spend per average household for

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