A GERMAN football team of 50 members ordered 1,000 beers at Bamboleo Bar in Palma de Mallorca. The players of FV Bonn-Endenich 1908, a club in the German sixth division, faced a different type of opponent during their holidays in the island. But they could not meet the challenge as they could not down over […]
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SIMMERING tensions between taxi drivers and Uber drivers have flared once again on Mallorca after a video emerged showing a confrontation between the two. A group of taxi drivers were filmed stopping an Uber driver in Peguera and accosting him through his window, demanding to know where he was going, Ultima Hora report. Someone in
MALLORCA has been told to brace itself for temperatures hitting 39 degrees Celsius next week. After a week of storms, meteorologists at Aemet have issued a heatwave alert, urging residents to take necessary precautions to stay cool and hydrated. According to the latest forecasts, the interior of the island is expected to be the hottest,
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ANDALUCIA is going through one of its most complicated moments in terms of water scarcity in its history. Southern Spain has not seen its reservoirs at such a limit for more than five decades and the future looks bleak. Yesterday morning, Thursday June 15, the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation (CHG) publicly expressed its concern. According to
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BATHERS were ordered to get out of the water at a popular Orihuela Costa beach on Thursday morning after the sighting of a two-metre long shark. It was the first day of lifeguard cover in the area with whistles being blown at Aquamarina beach around 10.00am to get swimmers out of the sea. Eyewitnesses said
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THE FORMER head of the Policia Local in Palma has been arrested by the Policia Nacional after child pornography was found in an office previously occupied by him. A routine computer audit by Palma City Council discovered the obscene material a few days ago and CDs and hard drives were removed from the office. The
BALEARES is the Spanish region where less money is spent on clothes, according to textile business association ACOTEX. The study displays that on average, residents in the islands spend €215 a year on clothing items. This is around 28% less than in the rest of Spain, where the yearly average expenditure per person is almost
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PEOPLE who call out the police in Gibraltar might be surprised to find they are attended to by a German who speaks perfect English. That is because Anouk Brohl, 21, a police sergeant in training, is spending two weeks on the Rock with the Royal Gibraltar Police. The Munich-born woman is taking time out from
CHIEF MINISTER of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo will be reaching out to the community in late June and July just months before this year’s election. Picardo has been away from the Rock for long periods as he tries to thrash out an EU treaty that does not cross the British territory’s red lines. But he is
FROM TODAY, Thursday, more than 19,000 Spanish police officers will begin to monitor what is known as Operación Paso del Estrecho, or Operation Crossing the Straits, when millions of Moroccan nationals travel to their home country from other European states through Spain for their summer vacations. According to the Interior Ministry, a total of 19,441
