A LOGGERHEAD turtle has been rescued from a Malaga beach last week by the city’s Local Police nature protection group (Grupona). It is believed that the turtle became stranded on the beach due to the recent strong winds and coastal phenomena which battered the Costa del Sol. The police officers transferred the loggerhead turtle to […]
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SIMULTANEOUS Guardia Civil raids early on Tuesday morning involving 150 officers have brought down a Teulada-Moraira gang that exported marijuana to the United Kingdom 17 men and two women of various nationalities have been arrested with 21 addresses visited across Alicante Province. One man was immediately jailed as he was a Serbian fugitive who had
FAR-RIGHT Vox will on Monday file its second motion of no confidence against the current prime minister, Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE). This time around the candidate to lead the country will be professor Ramon Tamames, an 89-year-old economist and politician who was once an active member of the Spanish Communist Party, among
BRITISH triathlon stars Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee have been gearing up for another busy year with some winter training at La Nucia’s Camilo Cano sports centre. The brothers from Leeds own a property at Polop and have been using La Nucia’s swimming pool for over a decade to train for one of the triathlon disciplines-
SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made his second visit to Ukraine today since the Russian invasion, meeting with the country’s president, Volodymr Zelensky, and announcing that his government would be sending a total of 10 Leopard tanks to assist in the war effort. In a message posted on his Twitter account, the Socialist Party (PSOE)
A YOUNG Algerian man has been given a two-year suspended sentence for skippering a dinghy that brought five other people to Mallorca illegally. The boat had no food, no life jackets, no flares and only three petrol cans on board stored dangerously close to the engine for the 38-hour journey in October. The prosecution said
Staying on top of the latest currency news can help you time your transfers more effectively, so find out what you should be looking out for over the next couple of weeks… Latest currency news The past couple of weeks have seen movement in the currency market grow increasingly volatile amid frequent repricing of central
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ONE of Spain’s biggest fairs- the Ram fair- returns to Mallorca this Friday and runs until April 16. Son Fusteret in Palma will once again play host to the attractions which are expected to bring in around 200,000 visitors over the coming weeks. It’s ranked as the country’s third-largest fair behind Sevilla and Valencia, and
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ECONOMIC growth in the Balearic Islands last year was higher than predicted by the regional government. Labour Minister, Iago Negueruela, said on Thursday that growth for 2022 is now estimated at 14.2%, compared to last summer’s prediction of 13.3%. That increase was helped by the final quarter of year recording a rise of 5.5%. Mallorca
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THE Policia Nacional have arrested 47 people in the Marbella area over scams involving British citizens applying for Spanish residency in 2021 before a Brexit deadline. The police said there were two separate criminal groups applying for residencies at the Malaga Immigration office. Three of those detained ran a law firm in Malaga and two
