January 2023

THE World Ocean Race will set sail from Alicante on January 15 for the fifth consecutive time. 11 teams will take part in the tough and dangerous endurance event first held in 1973. The eight-stage race is a nautical challenge that has been previously staged on 13 occasions. Two classes of boat will take part, […]

A man in Granada who has been rushed into hospital with a heart condition is desperately trying to rehome his two beloved dogs.  The man’s friend Trudy McCaffery said the Velez de Benaudalla resident was likely to be in hospital for ‘a while’.  He was desperately hoping someone could rehome his two elderly female springer

RECENTLY, a British teenager showed me a YouTube video of a “kickboxer and influencer” called Andrew Tate. Apparently, the man – a butch type – had some interesting views about gender relations. I saw that Tate was “passive aggressive”, or just plain aggressive, and asked to stop the video. A few days later, Tate was

DEMANDS for a proper street lighting system on a Javea urbanisation are coming to fruition this year. Residents on the El Tosalet urbanisation had to pay for the maintenance and running of their street lights until they took Javea council to court. A judge ruled the council had to assume responsibility for a network that

San Roque, Cádiz   3 beds   2 baths € 418,000 3 bedroom groundfloor aparment in the exclusive residential project “Emerald Greens” with contemporary Mediterranean styling located at the heart of the famous San Roque Club resort. The plot occupies a privileged position above the famous “Old Course” golf course which literally surrounds it. It

FOLLOWING a two-year absence due to the pandemic, the much anticipated tradition of throwing sweets to the crowds returned. Tonnes of sweets were hurled into the crowds across the whole of Southern Spain on the Eve of Epiphany, of which half were made in Ukraine. A company based in the town of Salteras in Sevilla,

AN UNESCO advisory body has slammed a proposed skyscraper at Malaga’s port for the third time after Spain’s minister of culture gave the hotel project his approval. The International Council of Monuments and Historic-Artistic Sites (Icomos), which advises Unesco on heritage matters, said the 116 metre tower project could have ‘serious repercussions’ for Malaga. The

SPAIN’S national rail operator Renfe will spend €122.7 million on improvements to its freight network system over the next three years. The money will be used to buy new ‘greener’ rolling stock and to introduce new technology across its fleet. High-capacity train engines will be purchased and they’ll be powered by electricity of 100% renewable

Ryanair has merely apologised to passengers and claimed a 2.5 hour delay on one of its New Year’s Day flights to Spain was just ‘minor’. A Ryanair flight bound for Malaga was scheduled to depart Roma Fiumincino at 9.25pm on January 1, but it didn’t take off until about 11.50pm.  It descended into chaos about