July 2023

WITH rates of suicide creeping up alarmingly among teens in Spain, school teachers are being trained in techniques to support at-risk youth.  The move has been driven by the shocking statistic that 2022 saw 84 young adults take their own life, according to the INE – the highest rate since records began. The soaring rate […]

THE Museo Carmen Thyssen presents a new exhibition of urban photography and casts a spotlight on the 1930s Barcelona street life. This urban photography exhibition, which opened last Tuesday, July 11 and will run until September 24, brings together ‘Memory of the Streets’, a journey to the Barcelona of the 1930s and 1940s through the

ALICANTE is celebrating “Alicante with Pride” week, which kicked off on Monday with Mayor  Luis Barcala’s speech at the town hall. During the week, visitors can participate in specialized talks, cinema and theater showings, and exhibitions.  This year marks the 20th anniversary of Alicante’s pride celebration and this year’s motto is “family diversity, equal rights.” 

A SCOTTISH woman has died two months after her husband passed away after inhaling fumes from a carbon monoxide leak at a Mallorca finca. Mary Somerville, 39, died in an Edinburgh hospice on July 2 but news of her death was only announced on Friday. The leak happened at the property on the Son Barbasa

A BULL has died after it drowned in the sea during Denia’s controversial Bous a la Mar event. Despite runners traditionally taunting the bull to jump into the sea, the annual event is classified as a ‘Festival of National Tourist Interest’. Held in honour of Denia’s patron saint, a boat normally pulls the animals to

ROBOTIC SURGERY equipment is to be installed in five public Valencian Community hospitals at a cost of €13.5 million. Units will be supplied to the University Clinical Hospital, the Doctor Peset Hospital and the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital- all in Valencia- as well as Elche General Hospital and Alzira’s La Ribera Hospital. Four hospitals in

A SANTA POLA hotel that was abandoned in 2010 and became a frequent target for vandals has been bought by the Elche-based ASA group. The company has acquired the Hotel Rocas Blancas de Santa Pola next to the N-332 highway after building the four-star Hotel AJ a few kilometres north in Gran Alacant which opened

Guardia civil officers are currently searching for a 36-year-old British man who stabbed his girlfriend in Costa del Sol before fleeing the scene. In the incident that took place earlier in the week, the man allegedly stabbed his girlfriend in the car when the couple was leaving a venue in Mijas Costa near Fuengirola. The

HOME SALES registered in May showed a fall of 6.4% compared to the same month last year according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in figures released on Friday. 56,137 deals were completed and May’s percentage fall was lower than April’s 8.1%, but it was the fourth successive month of negative figures. The sale

THE GUARDIA CIVIL are looking for a British woman who slashed the throat of a Sant Antoni hotel employee with a broken bottle following a row over a restaurant bill. The assault happened last Sunday afternoon and attempts to locate the assailant have so far proved to be unsuccessful. The victim was a deputy hotel