A Costa Blanca drugs gang laundered €4 million of profits by purchasing businesses and properties between 2019 and 2022. The criminals portfolio of businesses included a beauty salon, a car repair shop, a fast food outlet, and a gaming saloon- all in Alicante. Investment buys included a finca in the small village of Quatretondeta and […]
THE new Cercanias train service to El Caminito del Rey hiking trail in Malaga will kick-start operations on Monday, March 20. The extension of the C2 line to El Chorro comes into service to boost inland tourism, connect the famous walkway ‘with the rest of the world’ and stop depopulation. According to the Mayor of
IN 2022, the tourist offices in Malaga attended almost 700,000 visitors, whose queries were monopolised by the cultural and museum offer of the capital. As reported by Malaga City Council in a press release, a total of 7,474,116 enquiries were made at the tourist offices in the city by the 693,523 visitors. The French and
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RENFE has announced this Monday, March 5, that their low-cost high-speed train, Avlo, will begin operating in the south corridor as of June. Avlo trains will link Madrid with Cordoba, Sevilla and Malaga and will have stops at all the intermediate stations of each of the high-speed lines (Ciudad Real, Puertollano, Puente Genil and Antequera).
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The commissioner for the National Police in Fuengirola, Jose Maria Tocornal, was arrested on Monday 6 for omission of his duty to pursue crimes, coercion and revealing secrets according to police sources. Alongside the 63-year-old commissioner, 58-year old Salomon Kadosh Chuqueron, a well-established hotel businessman, has also been arrested for his alleged involvement in disclosing
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TWO people who stole vintage wines worth €1.6 million from a Michelin-starred Caceres restaurant in October 2021, have been jailed and ordered to pay compensation to an insurance company. The Caceres Provincial Court in Extremadura has sentenced former Mexican beauty queen Priscilla Guevara to four years behind bars and her Dutch-Romanian boyfriend, Constantin Dumitru to
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The Costa del Sol can accommodate more than half a million tourists each day, according to new figures. The Malaga province alone has a staggering 514,838 beds available for tourists and can accommodate over half a million for the first time ever, figures from the Andalucian Register of Tourism show. The whopping figures come even
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Former Barca star Gerard Pique’s parents can’t wait for Colombian pop star – and the mother of their grandchildren – Shakira to up sticks and leave Spain. Joan Pique and Montserrat Bernabeu have reportedly asked Shakira to leave the country sooner than originally planned as the separation becomes increasingly toxic and carried out in the
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AIRPORTS serving the Costa Blanca and Murcia areas of Spain have been given ‘Best Airport in Europe’ awards by an industry body. The honours come from Airports Council International(ACI) with members operating nearly 2000 airports around the world. Alicante-Elche airport took away the best European airport category for facilities that welcome between 15 and 25
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WORK has finally begun to rebuild a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in the 2019 floods suffered in southern Alicante province. A new walkway will replace the old bridge to connect the Playa de Mil Palmeras promenades with Torre de la Horadada after the original structure gave way in September 2019. Bureaucratic delays had frustrated local
