January 2023

ONE of Spain’s biggest medieval markets returns next month to Alicante Province after a two-year enforced break due to the Covid pandemic. The three-day event in Orihuela City runs between February 3 and 5, and normally attracts visitors from across the area and further afield. In some years, the market and the extensive programme of […]

THE SPANISH government announced on Wednesday that it will send Leopard tanks to Ukraine to assist in its defence against Russia, now that Germany has agreed to do the same. The Socialist Party-led administration is reported to have been waiting for a pan-European agreement to supply the country with the military hardware, which will help

DANISH home furniture and accessory retailer JYSK will open a logistics hub to serve the Iberian Peninsula and has identified a possible Alicante Province site. The Levante Logistics Zone in Villena is being considered as an option for a 250,000 m2 centre, with a final decision set to be made in March. French investment bank

THE Gibraltar Government is ‘very optimistic’ that the UK, EU and Spain will sign a ‘safe and secure treaty’ after its leaders met in Madrid before setting off to the UK. It comes after Chief Minister Fabian Picardo led a delegation including Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia and Attorney-General Michael Llamas to the Spanish capital.

BENIDORM City Council has begun an initiative to plant new trees all around the area until the end of March. Some 200 trees will be planted to help improve the local environment. The CV-753 dubbed the ‘tourist highway’ has already seen 55 mulberry trees appear and 31 Tipuanas and Jacarandas trees have been transplanted there

THE FORMER rugby player Levi Davis, who disappeared in Barcelona in October of last year and hasn’t been heard from since, owed £100,000 to a Somalian mafia. That’s according to the British private detectives who are investigating the case, and who told Spanish daily La Vanguardia about their latest findings.  The 24-year-old is thought to

ANDALUCIA and the Valencia Community are not providing enough nursing home places for people aged 65 and over. The claim is made in a report by the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services. They say the two regions are the main offenders in Spain for failing to reach the ratio of five nursing

DRUG traffickers stole a pleasure boat from Altea marina in Alicante Province to convert it into a narco-craft. But a day after the theft, the four men were caught in the vessel off Murcia’s Cartagena coast. The 11-metre long boat had three powerful outboard engines and was valued at €400,000. After the men took it,

Rising Spanish-Cuban star and your dad’s favourite actress Ana de Armas has scored her first Oscar nomination in this year’s Academy Awards. The one-time Bond girl is in the running for Best Actress as the only Latina considered for an acting gong this year. Ana de Armas, 34, was born in Cuba but moved to

A massive truck tipped on the A-7 motorway just before Marbella on Tuesday night sparking long traffic queues. The concrete pump truck tipped in slippery conditions at Cabopino on the A7 highway Marbella bound about 7.30pm.  The truck tipped about 7.30pm. The accident happened just when a huge dumping of rain fell over the Marbella