June 2023

ELCHE POLICIA LOCAL have arrested a 47-year-old man after he spent ten days harassing a waitress at an Arenales del Sol restaurant, which included sexual assaults on the woman. Officers were called to the premises on Avenida Bartolome de Tirajana after an eye-witness saw the customer sexually assaulting and harassing the worker. Witnesses told the […]

COSTA del Sol leading businessman Ricardo Arranz has been put into an induced coma after a car accident in Burgos.  Arranz is the founder of Villa Padierna Hotel, the Marbella-based luxury resort where Michelle Obama stayed in 2010.  He was travelling to a private event with Juan Federico Van Dulken, another important businessman, when their

THE CAPITAL of the Costa del Sol will recover its beach shower water supply next week—but with possible restrictions. The drought crisis in Malaga worsens by the day as reservoirs continue to dry up. Unfortunately, the rainfall in recent weeks has not been enough to alleviate the drought situation in the province – and the

THE JUNTA has released two rescued owls in the natural park Los Montes de Malaga to coincide with World Environment Day, yesterday, June 5. Both birds, one long-eared owl and one tawny owl, recently saved and rehabilitated at the El Boticario recovery centre for threatened species were returned to the wild near the Mirador de

A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck Casares early yesterday morning, shaking parts of the Costa del Sol. According to Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN) the quake—with its epicentre located in the town of Casares (Malaga)—was registered yesterday morning, June 5. As reported on the IGN website, this latest earthquake was recorded at 6:46am at a depth of

THE SNAP general election that has been called for July 23 continues to have unexpected consequences. On Monday, a group of German lawmakers opted to call off a visit they were going to make to Doñana in Huelva, where they were going to inspect the situation in the area regarding the lack of water and

THE LATEST survey carried out for Spanish newspaper El Pais by pollster 40dB predicts that the outcome of the upcoming general election will depend on whether leftist parties run together or separately.  All eyes are currently on Unidas Podemos, the leftist bloc that is currently the junior coalition partner in the Socialist Party government, but

HIGH PRODUCTION costs have slashed Alicante province’s lemon harvest by 40% compared to last year. Alicante’s Asaja young farmers association said that 800,000 tons of lemons have been produced this season- 20% less than during a normal harvest. High costs incurred by growers and a reduction in foreign demand are said to have contributed to

AHEAD OF THE July 23 snap general election, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday challenged his main opponent to six face-to-face debates. But the Popular Party (PP) hopeful Alberto Nuñez Feijoo has turned the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader down, with the party calling the idea an ‘eccentricity’ on the part of Sanchez.  Sanchez’s proposal involved

AN Alicante University study says that global warming has caused an ‘alarming’ loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests. The report from the university’s Ibero-American Biodiversity Centre examined the long-term variation in the patterns of diversity and interaction between wood beetles(saproxylic beetles) that live inside the trees of the Cabañeros National Park in Ciudad Real