June 2023

TWO MEN have been arrested in Benidorm for illegally obtaining bank account and credit card details via phone text messages, which netted them around €50,000. The Spaniard and Italian, aged 31 and 37 years, deceived at least 50 people in the scam known as ‘phishing’. The men sent out text messages to targets pretending to […]

A BRITISH man claims he has been brutally assaulted by squatters at his holiday home near Marbella. The family man, from Liverpool, was attacked after flying over to sort out the problem at his property, in Manilva. The 52-year-old had jumped into action having received a call by a neighbour in the urbanisation informing him

GIBRALTAR’S rising teen music star, iamCloeMartinez, as she wishes to be known, is making all the right moves in British capital London after getting a big following on social media. Having released her first single ‘7654’ in January, she talks to The Olive Press about how singing helped her get through hard times, her firm

PLANS to build a new public aquarium in Gibraltar at the site of the historic Victualling Yard Storehouse at Rosia Bay have been submitted for planning permission. The proposed tourist site would tie in with the Natural History Museum next door at Parson’s Lodge and the Gibraltar University at Europa Point. Two experts in reptile

A KEY member of the Kinahan Organised Crime Gang wanted by UK police on gun-running charges has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Mallorca. His name has not been released but he’s believed to be Liam Byrne, 42, who fled arrest in Britain in early 2022 when several of his colleagues were detained. The

A 19-YEAR-OLD who allegedly stabbed a food shop manager in the neck in Marbella has been arrested.  The young man is accused of assaulting the worker to rob him of the cash register.  The assailant made a cut of about 12 cm (4.7 inch) in the victim’s neck after a struggle, according to the police. 

A 30-YEAR-OLD Romanian woman who has arrest warrants dating back to 2015 for committing ‘love hug’ robberies has been arrested in the Alicante area. A ‘love hugger’ approaches mainly elderly non-Spanish victims to ask for information and then embraces them in a bear-like hug in appreciation for their help as jewellery and other small items

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An Animal Awareness Education Day organised by Guardia Civil will take place in Palma on Saturday June 10.  The aim of the event, which will run from 11am to 2pm, is to highlight the importance of nature and fauna conservation in the Balearic Islands.  Exotic animals, birds of prey such as hawks, snakes and farm

RETAILER Carrefour says it its planning to install 330,000 square metres of solar panels at 130 of its stores in Spain. Some 30 hypermarkets and supermarkets have seen solar panels introduced, with the French-owned company aiming to install an average of 1,700 solar panels at each store. It has teamed up with SolarProfit, a Barcelona