September 2023

STEVEN Spielberg was ‘very sad’ after being forced to give up the Alhambra Palace as a filming location for Indiana Jones, it has emerged. The legendary Hollywood director had hoped to use gardens of the 14th century wonder for the 1989 hit Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, starring Harrison Ford. However in a letter […]

SPAIN has scrapped plans to implement a ‘congestion charge’ on its public motorways, in a relief to millions of road users. The Spanish government has requested to the EU that the proposal, which would have come into force next year, be removed from the Bloc’s so-called ‘Recovery Plan’. The European Commission has accepted Spain’s request

A FAULTY phone charger is feared to have sparked an inferno at a care home in Palma.  More than 150 staff and residents had to be evacuated when a blaze erupted at the Fontsana home on Avenida Joan Miro at around 8pm on Tuesday. Around 100 emergency service workers raced to the scene following reports

SPAIN’S lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, took an historic step this week by allowing for the use of three extra languages during debates, apart from Castilian Spanish.  The move marks the first time in 45 years of democracy that lawmakers can express themselves in Catalan, Galician or Basque without risking expulsion from

SPAIN is losing its decade-long war on the vespa velutina, also known as the Asian hornet – and even occasionally the ‘murder hornet’. It arrived in Spain from France in 2010, when 17 nests of the invasive insect were detected in Galicia alone.  Fast forward to 2022, and numbers had shot up to 22,200. This

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THE death of young Norwegian expat Anne Mathea Morken remains shrouded in mystery as investigators work around the clock to discover what really happeend to the 21-year-old. The body of the skier and budding personal trainer was found dumped by a zebra crossing in Torremolinos at around 1.30am on September 13, with signs of asphyxiation.

SIX adult tortoises, wild rabbits and Iberian water frogs have become new residents of Gibraltar after being released into the wild after being extinct locally for years. Caretaker Environment Minister John Cortes spearheaded the drive to re-introduce these species to the local area during the Calpe Conference. The ‘rewilding’ effort of these locally extinct species

TORROX, the municipality with the most registered German residents on the Iberian Peninsula, is gearing up for its own Oktoberfest this weekend. The small enclave of Germany continues to grow, and the traditional Germanic festival is following suit. This year, to accommodate the growth, the festival has relocated to a larger venue and will take