March 2023

CANDIDATES in May’s municipal elections on the Costa del Sol will be eyeing up their British residents after the news that nearly 16,000 of them will be eligible to vote. British residents account for nearly 8% of the total registered population in Marbella, Estepona and Manilva, according to the 2022 Census of Inhabitants – and […]

ZENIA BOULEVARD- the largest shopping centre in Alicante province- has started an improvement project costing €18 million. The work will be carried out at night to minimise disruption with shops and restaurants maintaining their normal opening hours. Over the next few months, the facades, pavement, and all public areas including children’s leisure areas, will be

A 24-year-old British man was among four people arrested in Torrevieja for selling drugs at two cannabis clubs in the city. The consumption of marijuana and its derivatives is allowed by law in Spain at clubs based in private and secure premises, where drug consumption cannot be viewed from the street. Consumers have to be

Datacentric has updated its annual ranking of the top companies in each of the 50 Spanish provinces and two autonomous cities. It uses a methodology that analyses turnover, surveys of local professionals, web presence, growth rate and number of employees. Unsurprisingly the food and drink industry reigns at large in many provinces with the meat

Fuente Alamo de Murcia, Murcia   2 beds   1 baths € 178,000 SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE IN A UNIQUE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Residential located in one of the most beautiful areas of the Region of Murcia. At the foot of the hill is a nature reserve, beaches and forests. A total of 23 terraced houses of traditional

The Cheltenham Festival is now growing ever closer and one horse with strong Spanish ties is being put through his final paces in preparation for lining up at the biggest horse racing spectacle in the sport. Spain may not have strong ties with horse racing, particularly the jump racing sphere, but the Spanish-bred, Nube Negra,

A new luxury restaurant backed by sports stars Rafa Nadal and Cristiano Ronaldo will be opening its doors in Valencia this summer. The Tatel restaurant chain is owned by the investment company Mabel Capital in which Nadal and Ronaldo are two of the partners in its hospitality division. It currently has outlets in upmarket areas

THE SPANISH government and the country’s major unions today reached an agreement on pension reform, hailing the changes as ‘historic’ and claiming that they will guarantee the sustainability of the system.  Social Security Minister Jose Luis Escriva and the leaders of the CCOO and UGT unions, Unai Sordo and Pepe Alvarez, appeared together on Wednesday

POLICE officers from all over Andalucia came to Gibraltar for a friendly visit for the first time last Saturday. Eight directors of the International Police Association (IPA) were all smiles at the local IPA HQ during the visit. Far from the tense political standoff between Gibraltar and Spain or crime-fighting, the officers showed their camarederie

EIGHT members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment (RG) spent five weeks in The Gambia training over 60 of the West African country’s officers and soldiers. Accompanied by a Royal Marine Medic they based themselves at the British High Commission in Serrekunda, 10 km from Gambia’s capital Banjul. While there they focused their efforts on ‘Training