March 2023

THE government’s Sports Council is to join the legal action against FC Barcelona over €8.4 million of payments made to a refereeing consulant. The cash went to a company owned by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, with some of the payments coinciding with his role as vice-president of the Spanish FA’s referees committee. Sports Council president, […]

A 47-YEAR-OLD Spaniard has been jailed for running a cocaine laboratory out of an otherwise empty property in Benijofar on the Costa Blanca. The cocaine producer made 320 kilometre round-trips to the lab from his home in Gandia, Valencia province. Policia Nacional narcotics unit officers based out of Elche suspected a Benijofar address of housing

A dangerous escaped convict on the run from French authorities has been arrested in Torremolinos after a woman reported him for domestic violence. The 28-year-old fugitive had, like many before him, settled in the Costa del Sol using a false identity after escaping jail in France. Only identified as ‘A.M’, the man, who was in

Todos los aficionados a los juegos de azar online tratan de buscar diferentes maneras para maximizar la rentabilidad de su saldo. Y desde que las criptomonedas comenzaron a ser tendencia en todo el mundo tanto para enviar como para recibir pagos, son muchos los jugadores interesados en apostar online con criptomonedas. Hasta hace relativamente poco

Estepona, Málaga   2 beds   2 baths € 345,000 Lovely 2 bedroom apartment in El Campanario. Its interior consists of kitchen with a window, utility room, ample living room with direct access to the south-west facing terrace, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Gated complex with 24h security. Garage and storage room. Lovely gardens and

Angry residents against energy macro-projects in Setenil de las Bodegas will protest through the town’s winding streets on Saturday.  The ‘Let’s Save Setenil’ march will take place on March 18 at 10am until 1pm, with hundreds of residents planning to carry olive branches as a ‘symbol of the natural environment’ they are trying to defend. 

THE 50th anniversary staging of the Elche Half-Marathon was marred on Sunday by the death of a young local runner. The 21-year-old man collapsed after crossing the finishing line. He was taken to Elche General Hospital where he died shortly afterwards from a suspected heart attack. Unseasonal hot weather made the course tougher than ever

A British woman who lived on her own had to be rescued after falling onto the floor of her Javea apartment and breaking her hip. The accident happened on Sunday evening at a property on Calle Doctor Fleming in the city centre. Despite suffering severe pain, the victim- aged over 80- was able to call

ANDALUCIA plans more than 40 actions in 2023 to make headway in distant markets. Southern Spain is committed to offering a host of cultural and sporting events to attract long-haul tourism this year. During the world’s leading travel trade show ITB, which has just taken place in Berlin, Andalucia has presented its wealth of sights

EACH year, an estimated 12 million girls aged under 18 marry against their will across the globe. Forced marriages were criminalised in Spain in 2015, both as a specific form of coercion (offence against liberty) and as a type of human trafficking, yet, regrettably, it is a crime that still takes place. In fact a