VALENCIA’S annual Fallas celebrations came to a loud and fire-filled end on Sunday- the traditional last day of the event on the feast of San Jose. The Crema de la Falla saw the burning of all of the well-crafted displays and papier-mache caricatures around the city, along with another spectacular fireworks display at the Plaza […]
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A successful Costa Blanca bowls club faces closure after hearing its home for the last 30 years will be shutting its doors on April 30. Javea Green Bowls Club members were left reeling with the news that the owner of the ‘Inn on the Green’ close to Benitachell has decided to shut the business. The
British expats on Spain’s Costa Blanca get surprising news of venue closure Read More »
A HEROIC Senegalese man who rescued a drowning swimmer on a Malaga beach in February has been tracked down. Mamadou, a 19-year-old asylum applicant who arrived in Spain after a terrifying boat journey to the Canary Islands two years ago, was the first to get into the water on Malagueta beach when a man started
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FOR animal lovers, there’s no worse nightmare than realising that your dog has run off – perhaps through an open front door or following a scent – and hasn’t come back to you. Many distraught owners post ‘lost dog’ announcements on Facebook, hoping that a good Samaritan will find and return their four-legged friend. Sometimes,
Heartless scammers are targeting lost dog owners in Spain’s Andalucia Read More »
ALORA Properties owner Margaret Mitchell moved from Scotland to Spain in 1997 and has worked in the real estate sector since then selling to both Northern Europeans and Spanish clients and fully embracing and enjoying her life integrated into the Spanish community. She now helps others to fulfill their ambition to buy either a permanent
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TOWN HALLS across Alicante province are gearing up for Easter with beach entrances getting a spring clean and lifeguards getting ready to resume duties. With Easter hotel occupancy numbers expected to exceed numbers recorded before the Covid pandemic in 2019, councils are anticipating a big rush to the beach- weather permitting. Holiday accommodation rental bookings
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A Guardia Civil officer has copped a three-year prison sentence after self-harming and then blaming a drunk driver he had stopped at a breathalyser checkpoint. The officer and two local policemen – who were also convicted – were at the Coin fairground with an intoxicated driver who refused to identify himself. The court heard that
Malaga policeman who smashed own head against window cops three years’ jail Read More »
RESIDENTS in the province of Malaga are still addicted to their fume-spewing cars to get around as public transport languishes as a viable means of transport. Two thirds of people rely on their vehicle to get to school or work and just 13% use public transport, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). A
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Torrevieja, Alicante 2 beds 1 baths € 145,000 . Want a property walking distance to the beach? Vistacasas are pleased to present this wonderfully located 2 bedroom townhouse for sale in the highly popular area of La Rosaleda in Torrevieja. The house is just 900 metres from the well known blue flag beach
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THE Guardia Civil have recovered over 60 religious statues and artefacts stolen from a house in Cullera. Some of the items had already been posted for sale on a prominent online ‘buy and sell’ platform. Three men have been arrested over the break-in at a property owned by a priest. The stolen artefacts were valued
