May 2023

THE Guardia Civil is asking the public to help find a dangerous drug trafficker who shot two people on the Rules dam, in the municipality of Órgiva (Granada), on July 13 last year. Rules dam. Photo: J. Chipchase. The shootout was between two international drug trafficking gangs. It killed one person and left another paraplegic. […]

MADRID’S Prado Museum will be welcoming Nobel laureate JM Coetzee for a special three-week stay as he becomes the first author to get involved in a new initiative called ‘Writing the Prado’. 83-year-old Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is a two-time Booker prize winner. The new Prado programme is a

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PP candidate for mayor of Mojacar Francisco ‘Fran’ Garcia allegedly misused municipality funds to benefit his father’s business Garcia is said to have bought over 100 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates to promote the town’s nomination to Ferrero’s Christmas Lighting at a Cepsa petrol station owned by his dad.  “Although Mojacar won the bid and

THE POLICIA NACIONAL have arrested four men suspected of hanging a dummy of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior from a Madrid area bridge in January. Three of the men are members of an ultra fan group of Atletico Madrid who had been identified during matches as representing a high risk of violence. The dummy appeared

SAN JAVIER council has replaced the grounded Mar Menor ferry service with a fleet of water taxis. For reasons unknown, the popular ferry between Santiago de la Ribera and the Tomas Maestre port at the north of La Manga ceased operation in December. That’s despite the operator, Mar Menor Ferry, qualifying for a €75,000 per

AN Alicante University team has used a drone to get down inaccessible caves and record video footage of 7,000 year-old rock paintings. The works found in Penaguila were found in several caves in the area and have been described as some of the most sites of Neolithic art documented in the Valencian Community for decades.

IN A MEDICAL first in Spain, a baby has been born to a woman who received a uterus transplant. The child, Jesus, was delivered by mother Tamara Franco in Barcelona, after the organ was donated to her by her sister in 2020 via a complicated operation that lasted more than 20 hours.  “It was a

NEW climate change data has revealed that Malaga summers are now five weeks longer than they were in the 80s. According to Predictia, a spin-off company from the data mining group at the University of Cantabria, Summers in Malaga now last on average almost 40 days longer than they did last century. Using an interactive

SPANISH KING Felipe VI and Queen Letizia were in Wales on Saturday for their daughter Leonor’s graduation ceremony from Atlantic College in Vale of Glamorgan. Also in attendance were King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, whose daughter Princess Alexia was also graduating.  Seventeen-year-old Leonor, who is the Princess of Asturias and the heir