February 2023

RYANAIR has unveiled five new routes for the summer season out of the Sevilla-San Pablo Airport as it gears up to celebrate 20 years of having a base in the capital of Andalucia. Ryanair will celebrate its first twenty years in Sevilla next May. Two decades in which the Irish low-cost airline has gone from […]

Properties in Palma have been linked to money laundering allegations that have dragged in the husband and stepson of Marbella Mayor Angeles Muñoz.  Joakim Peter Broberg, 41, faces accusations of drug trafficking, money laundering and being involved in organised crime. The scandal has rocked Spain as a plot was exposed whereby Lars Gunnar Sune Broberg,

THIRTEEN years later, Spain’s Constitutional Court has finally rejected an appeal filed against the current abortion law by the conservative Popular Party.  The legislation covering terminations was overhauled by the Socialist Party government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero during his second term in office from 2008 to 2011. Under the law, women can

THE DAYS of sharing your Netflix account with friends and family outside your own household are over in Spain. The streaming giant has just launched new restrictions that will mean that members will be much more strictly controlled when it comes to using the service.  ‘Today, over 100 million households are sharing accounts – impacting

PALMA’S Plaza de España is getting a €2.5 million upgrade including the renewal of the underground sewage system which dates back to 1945. Work started on Thursday with trenches being dug to access service cables and pipes. Pedestrians will notice a difference underfoot with the square tiles, which easily break and cause people to slip,

GIBRALTAR’S cultural bosses have now included a prize for a short story in their own ‘Llanito’ Spanglish fusion for a competition launched earlier this year. Gibraltar Cultural Services included the new prize for best Llanito story alongside prizes for English and Spanish language categories. The Ministry of Culture said the new category would ‘help promote

A man who tried to smuggle 15 Moroccan migrants back out of the UK to Spain because they ‘didn’t like Britain’ has been jailed. The Moroccan man, who was a taxi driver in London, was stopped by French police on January 31 in the coastal city of Dunkirk when he was caught trying to smuggle

Real Mallorca fans shamefully subjected Real Madrid football player Vinicius Jr to racist abuse for the second time in a year during their 1-0 victory on Sunday. TV cameras captured a fan making monkey noises and racially abusing the Brazilian, prompting La Liga officials to file a formal complaint with a court in Mallorca. Footage

CUSTOMS officers discovered six large packages containing 172 kilos of cocaine hidden in the water intake of a ship that was passing through Gibraltar. A local company that was doing a routine check of the Hong Kong-registered ‘BBG Journey’ bulk carrier raised the alarm. They spotted some ropes that were coming out of the grill

IMPROVEMENT work has started at Palma airport costing €200 million which will take over three years to complete. The project includes extending aircraft parking facilities as part of the west and east wing extensions of Module A. That’s in addition to the refurbishment and expansion of the airport terminal building, and its connections with the