February 2023

3 bedroom Townhouse for sale in Playa Flamenca with pool – € 165,000

Playa Flamenca, Alicante   3 beds   2 baths € 165,000 Nice townhouse with communal pool for sale in Playa Flamenca. Costa Blanca, Spain. Located in one of the most popular urbanizations of the Costa Blanca, thanks to the fact that it offers a great quality and quantity of facilities, many of them are within […]

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Goya Awards in Spain’s Sevilla to honour French star Juliette Binoche

STAR of Chocolat and The English Patient, amongst many other films, Juliette Binoche is to be honoured at the Goyas. The French actor and twice Oscar winner, 58, will be presented with an International Goya at the prestigious ceremony, being held in Sevilla on Saturday, February 11. The academy described the Parisienne as ‘one of

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Around the clock work continues on the A-395 access road to Spain’s Sierra Nevada in bid to open for weekend

SKILLED road maintenance operatives work around the clock in an effort to open the blocked Sierra Nevada road this weekend. At least eight people were injured last Sunday, January 29, in a hair-raising moment when a landslide swallowed an entire stretch of road on the A-395 highway near Güejar-Sierra. Since then road maintenance operatives from

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New Gibraltar nature reserve website offers more options than ever before for international visitors

THE Gibraltar Nature Reserve has launched its own website to sell tickets and promote what it offers as part of the government’s pandemic recovery plan. The Department of the Environment said it will also ‘be doubling up on the strength of this with a strong social media presence’ as it tries to market the Upper

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Spain’s Malaga bids farewell to freezing weather and returns to normal temperatures for February

AFTER several icy days, Malaga will see warmer weather start off the month of February. From today, Thursday February 2, the thermometers will gradually start to rise, especially at night, which will make the evenings and early mornings more bearable. The last two weeks of January have been very cold in the province of Malaga,

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Protests break out after Spain’s latest gender-based violence saw a woman allegedly killed by her husband in La Linea murder-suicide

Protestors gathered today to express their disgust over the latest case of gender-based violence to rock Spain with the murder of a woman in La Linea. Officials and residents of nearby San Roque in Cadiz province, including Members of the Women’s Information Center (CIM), the mayor and other members of the government, joined the protest

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Spain’s La Liga rails against England’s Premier League for ‘cheating’ after €1 billion January transfer mega splurge

La Liga chiefs have slammed the Premier League for ‘cheating’ after an insane January transfer window that saw English clubs splurge almost €1 billion. La Liga’s corporate general director, Javier Gomez, made the comments after a study by Deloitte’s Sports Business Group found that Chelsea alone was responsible for 37% of the €918,000,000 spent. The

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New self-employed workers in Spain get nasty surprise as Social Security system overcharges them

NEW freelancers in Spain got a nasty surprise this week, when they were charged an extra €220 by the Social Security system.  Thousands of new autonomos, as the self-employed are known in Spanish, were subject to the full quota of nearly €300 instead of the reduced rate that they should have enjoyed of €80. Sources

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Air Nostrum pilots in Spain vote massively in favour of indefinite strike

PILOTS working for the Valencia-based carrier, Air Nostrum, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of indefinite strike action in their on-going pay row. 92% of pilots backed the move during a two-day meeting in Valencia City. It follows on from seven days of strikes over the Christmas and New Year period. Pilots union Sepla said it

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Inside the Hippodromo: Urgent pleas to investigate Mijas raceourse where Amy Fitzpatrick could be buried

The Olive Press takes a look at the abandoned site where missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick could be buried. The old Hippodromo racecourse in Mijas used to be crawling with people. If they didn’t come to pick a winning horse then they came for a feed or a pint at one of the site’s many restaurants

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