September 2023

HOTEL OCCUPANCY topped 90% in the Valencian Community in August, according to the Benidorm-based Hosbec hoteliers association. The figures though were not a record which some tourism and political figures had been confidently predicting. Benidorm itself recorded 92.2% occupancy last month- just 2.2% lower than record-breaking figures recorded in 2019 before the Covid pandemic. Hosbec […]

SPAIN’S women’s World Cup winning coach Jorge Vilda has been sacked by the Spanish FA- the RFEF. The news came on Tuesday, just over a fortnight after Spain lifted the World Cup in Sydney. Since then the story has all been about the suspended RFEF president Luis Rubiales and the ‘kissing row’ involving Jenni Hermoso.

AFTER  an incredible podium for Carlos Sainz at the Italian Grand Prix, the Spaniard fell victim to a robbery outside his hotel in Milan.  His Richard Mille watch, worth at least €300,000, was snatched from his wrist just hours after his outstanding performance in Monza. As the assailants ran off, Sainz and his team rushed

A WOMAN, 85, is recovering in a retirement home after she lived in squalor in a Denia property with her granddaughter who took nearly €40,000 from her bank account in three months. The Policia Nacional have arrested a man and a woman on charges of abandoning a disabled person who required special attention and for

Gibraltar has welcomed World Alzheimer’s Month as the Government issued a statement last Friday to highlight the importance of raising awareness of the condition. Under this year’s theme of ‘never too early, never too late,’ Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s message marked the start of the period.  “Dementia is something we, unfortunately, cannot avoid. It is

A THIEF stole a football shirt from a Benitachell home in Alicante province only for the owner to spot him wearing it in a Teulada street over a week later. The victim phoned the Guardia Civil and said he saw the man clad in his personalised and vintage Real Zaragoza shirt dating back to around

CATALAN separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Tuesday laid out his demands in exchange for his party’s support for caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s bid to get back into power. Among them are an amnesty for those facing criminal charges for their role in the region’s 2017 independence drive. He also demanded an end to what

PASSENGERS travelling from Madrid to Andalucia suffered another day of travel hell after being forced to sit on trains for up to five hours before leaving the station.  Train operator Renfe saw many of its services delayed due to a number of stretches remaining flooded following heavy rainfall at the weekend.  Chaos reigned at Madrid’s

SPANISH actor, Gabriel Guevara, has been arrested in Venice after France issued an international warrant over an alleged sexual assault. The charges related to the sexual assault of a family member in 2015, when he was 13.  The seriousness of the accused crime led French authorities to issue a European arrest and surrender order. The

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