August 2023

Fraudster arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca for running fake property website and pocketing money from victims

A MAN who scammed €90,000 in just over six months from people using his fake real estate website has been arrested in Alicante Province. The Policia Nacional tracked him down by accessing the geo-locator in his mobile phone and apprehended him in a Teulada street as he was walking with two people. The man had […]

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Pedro Sanchez scores important victory with Catalan separatist backing as he tries to remain Spain’s Prime Minister

ACTING Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pulled off a big win on Thursday in his bid to keep his job and form a new government, as the PSOE candidate was elected as the new Congress speaker. Sanchez picked up regional party support from the Basque Country and crucially Catalunya that put the former Balearic Islands president

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Spain’s Malaga back on YELLOW ALERT for scorching temperatures this Friday

MALAGA is bracing for another sizzling day as Spain’s Met Office, AEMET, issues a fresh weather alert for high temperatures in the province. The alert, marked as yellow and indicates a ‘risk’, will be in effect from 1pm to 9pm, with temperatures expected to soar beyond 36ºC in the Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce regions.

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Wildfire in Spain’s Tenerife Takes Toll on Animals: Over a thousand hens, 230 goats, and more than 200 dogs affected

THE ongoing wildfire in Tenerife, which ignited in the island’s mountainous terrain last Tuesday, continues to wreak havoc. Not only has it compelled the confinement or evacuation of approximately 7,600 residents, but it has also prompted the movement of animals to safer grounds. The blaze has necessitated the evacuation of over 200 dogs from an

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Malaga is the province with the largest number of people bitten by the tiger mosquito in Andalucia this year

MALAGA province has been identified as the Andalusian region most affected by the dangerous tiger mosquito. A total of 82 people have been bitten by tiger mosquitoes in the province this year, nearly four times more than in 2022, when 22 people were bitten.  Aedes albopictus, commonly known as the tiger mosquito, is native to

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Drunken Dutch tourist arrested after brutally assaulting German holidaymaker in Mallorca 

A DUTCHMAN who brutally assaulted a German tourist by kicking him on the head has been arrested in the Mallorcan municipality of Llucmajor. The 26-year-old is said to have attacked a 52-year-old German man who was casually walking in the street.  Without saying a word, the assailant allegedly pushed him to the ground, after which

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British actress Danniella Westbrook, 49, interrogated by armed police in Spain over an unpaid €37 petrol bill from five years ago

FORMER EastEnders star Daniella Westbrook has been interrogated by armed police in Spain’s Ibiza over an unpaid €37 petrol bill from five years ago. The 49-year-old actress has revealed she was taken to a room where she was quizzed by six officers minutes after her arrival at Ibiza Airport.  Westbrook was arrested in Malaga in

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9 bedroom Finca/Country House for sale in Carmona with pool garage – € 435,000

Carmona, Seville   9 beds   10 baths € 435,000 OPPORTUNITY – 5 HOUSES ON A PLOT OF 5900 m2 – TOP TREND: Exodus to rural areas. Are you looking for quality of life? Do you like having family and friends around, enjoying a spacious garden in which children can play indefinitely, in which you

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Eco-Industrial parks: the future of energy investment in Spain, saving companies up to 80,000 euros a year

This emerging model, which promotes local energy generation and consumption, is transforming the way industrial parks operate and offers new potential for investment in the energy sector August 2023.- The transition towards a closed and fully electric energy system in industrial parks offers great economic and environmental benefits, such as the reduction of greenhouse gas

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Expat family is killed in horror collision with pop star’s van: Mother, father and 12-year-old son died instantly in crash while driving back to Spain’s Costa del Sol from a wedding in Portugal

AN entire expat family has been killed after their car collided with a van belonging to a pop star’s entourage. Jose Vicente, 54, his wife Maria, 56 and their 12-year-old son Eduardo died instantly at around 4am on Monday, while driving back to the Costa del Sol from a wedding in Portugal. The parents, of

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