January 2023

PLANS to give new life to Gibraltar’s shopping experience have been shelved after communication with businesses along Main Street broke down. The Gibraltar Parliament passed the Business Improvement District (BID) into law last year. But disagreement about payments forced the company that was running the project to close down. ‘Downtown’ will give full refunds to […]

A man claiming to be the ‘author’ of a shock tweet that predicted a fatal machete attack in Algeciras in southern Spain hours before it actually happened has come forward.  Earlier on Thursday the Olive Press reported that police were investigating an Algeciras hate page on Twitter after it shockingly published a tweet which pre-empted

Green campaigners will protest in central Malaga as oil giant CEPSA rolls ahead with its massive solar panel project for the Ronda area.  CEPSA is planning a giant solar panel farm in the picturesque Serrania de Ronda and has invited members of the press to an ‘informative meeting’ about the plans in Malaga on Friday.

A COURT has found a man who attacked a woman with a knife and scissors, leaving her begging for her life, guilty of assault. Kaylan Scaniglia. 23, left his barely 18-year-old victim with multiple bruises and a damaged phone during the assault last summer, GBC reported. Magistrate Charles Pitto called the attack ‘harrowing and humiliating’

THE rape accusation against Dani Alves, the former Barca footballer, has raised awkward conversations in Spain about the lack of protection for women on a night out, Ultima Hora writes.  The case raises concerns about the lack of official protocol for when a woman finds herself in an uncomfortable situation or receiving unwanted attention.  In

Security forces are investigating an Algeciras hate page on twitter after it published a tweet which pre-empted the horrific machete that occurred in the city hours later.  The tweet was published on the Algeciras hate acc Twitter account (@Algecirasmierda) on Tuesday at 1.07pm, where the author anticipated the horrible events that were to follow 24

A 78-year old Mutxamel farmer is being investigated for setting up an intricate homemade trap to illegally capture finches. The Guardia Civil said in many similar cases, finches are bred in captivity as they are encouraged to sing and are entered in competitions. The man placed a large net just beneath the soil and put

A man who threatened to blow up the conservative Partido Popular political party headquarters in Palma has been sentenced.The 23-year-old pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the false bomb scare and must pay a fine of €1,080, plus €2,000 fine to the PP, and compensation for the deployment of security forces.On May 23 last year about

A MAN, 22, has been given a 37-year prison sentence for robbing and raping the same Mallorca shopkeeper on three different occasions. The assailant pled guilty to the triple rape of the woman in Felanitx in exchange for a reduced sentence. Prosecutors had originally wanted a 51-year penalty. A Palma court has also ordered him

EIGHT British people are being prosecuted for fraud by a Palma court after setting up a scam to make money out of bogus cases of food poisoning at Mallorca hotels. Judge Maria Perez Ruiz says the Brits created an ‘organised gang’ to persuade British holidaymakers to report poisonings in order to get compensation from hotels