June 2023

THE Costa Blanca Tourist Board laid on a special programme for social media influencers o show what the area can offer for people bringing their pets on holiday. Board director, Jose Mancebo, says the schedule’s aim was to show the kind of holiday experiences that pet owners can enjoy with their animals. Two well-known influencers […]

RESIDENTS and business owners in the old centres of Altea and Altea la Vella can apply for cash grants to clean up building facades. Altea council will offer €500 for each building for painting facades; €350 for making improvements to combat humid temperatures; €150 for the removal of external air conditioning units, fixed on the

WRECK removers are getting ready to lift the two broken sections of the OS 35 from the Gibraltar seabed after easterly winds again delayed the salvage operation. Captain of the Port John Ghio confirmed that ‘all preparations for the final stages of the removal’ of the shipwreck lying 700 metres from Catalan Bay were complete.

TORREVIEJA Health Department has guaranteed ‘100%’ coverage in key patient services during the summer season with €2.8 million funding from its 2023 ‘Holiday Plan’. There was criticism last year that there was not enough staff to cover both residents and the big swell in tourists, with some doctors having to be ‘shipped in’ from other

THE scorcher of April is giving way to an unsettled summer as the latest storm heads south to dampen Spain. Storm Oscar is expected to make landfall today and move over towns including Cordoba, Granada, and Jaen, with more than 30 provinces in 13 regions at risk. According to Spain’s state weather agency, Aemet, Oscar

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GIBRALTAR’S government will be closing select lanes Kingsway tunnel under the runway for maintenance at night on June 12-15. The routine maintenance programme marks the first quarter of a year since the tunnel opened on April 1. Its long-awaited completion has finally put an end to one of the longest construction sagas in Gibraltar’s history.

TORREVIEJA council had made a new appeal for tough police action to clear pavements of illegal street sellers ahead of the summer season. The unlicensed hawkers, who frequently sell fake goods, often take up large spaces along the city’s main promenade between Hombre de Mar right up to the end of Avenida de los Marineros

Desokupa has announced they will be coming to Costa del Sol to kick the squatters who brutally assaulted a British man near Marbella. The controversial anti-squatter group intends to help the 52-year-old Brit, who was seriously attacked last week after trying to recover his occupied Manilva-based holiday home.  “We are coming on Thursday and we

SPAIN’S economic good times hit another bump in the road after preliminary data revealed an unexpected decline in the country’s industrial production for the month of April. The report, from national statistics agency INE, indicates that output across all sectors, except capital goods, contracted during this period. It marks a disappointing reversal from the 4.1%