October 2023

Man is killed when car overturns amid 100km/hr winds in Spain’s Andalucia: Six others are injured after emergency services received 2,000 incident reports

SEVERE storms killed two people in Cordoba and Huelva provinces amidst around two thousand reported incidents in Andalusia- 500 of which were logged since 10.00pm on Sunday, according to the 112 Emergency service. A middle-aged man died in Trugueros at around 9.20pm when his car overturned, while a man was found dead on Sunday night […]

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Man, 37, ‘douses girlfriend in petrol and tries to set her on fire’ in Estepona

A TERRIFIED mother and her daughter narrowly escaped a horrific death after her partner doused them with petrol and attempted to set them alight on the Costa del Sol. The partner, 37, viciously assaulted the woman in front of her daughter in Estepona after she told him she was leaving him.  He then took a

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Gibraltar police officer, 42, arrested for contacting under-age child about sex after UK and Spain probe

A POLICE officer from the Royal Gibraltar Police has been arrested for having sexual communication with a minor under 16-years-old. Spanish National Police and UK law enforcement took part in the investigation that led to the arrest of the 42-year-old. According to the Crimes Act, the offense of “sexual communication with a minor under 16

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Stolen jewels worth €60 million are discovered in Spain after vanishing from Ukraine museum

THE POLICIA NACIONAL have arrested five people in Madrid and recovered 11 gold items of jewellery valued at over €60 million taken from a Ukraine museum over seven years ago. The stolen jewellery belonged to an exhibition in Kyiv between 2009 and 2013 and the items were smuggled out of Ukraine before May 2016. Police in

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Pavements across Spain are too narrow and offer poor accessibility, study finds

MANY pavements in Spain’s cities are too narrow and don’t meet accessibility rules according to a study published by the Network of Walking Cities. The group has analysed urban roads in Spain- 950 streets in 85 cities- and concludes that over two-thirds of public routes are dedicated to cars. Of the 32% of areas allocated

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Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry is latest celeb to join Gibraltar Literature Fest lineup

COOKBOOK writer for over half a century Mary Berry, much-loved judge of the Beeb’s Great British Bake Off is the latest Gibraltar International Literary Festival speaker to be announced. Berry published her first cookbook in 1966 after starting as an editor in cooking magazines, before going on to publish another 80 books. They included the

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Revealed: This region in Spain has the best air quality in the country – and one of its cities has among the purest in EUROPE

THE best air in Spain is found in the southernmost region of Andalucia.  That’s according to the latest Annual Environment Report (IMA) 2022, carried out by the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment.  In fact, according to the latest study, the autonomous community has recorded the best air quality for the last decade.  The achievement is

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UPDATE: Man who was repeatedly stabbed in Estepona port ‘was trying to break up a fight’

A MAN who was stabbed multiple times in Estepona in the early hours of Sunday morning was a Good Samaritan trying to break up a fight. A call was made to emergency services at around 6:30 in the morning stating that a man had been attacked. The call reportedly went on to explain that he

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3 bedroom Penthouse for sale in Estepona with pool garage – € 749,000

Penthouse Estepona, Málaga   3 beds   2 baths € 749,000 Fully renovated 3 bedroom duplex penthouse front line beach and located on the 9th floor with spectacular unbeaten and panoramic views to the Mediterranean and the coast. South facing. Direct access to the beach and walking distance to the port and town center of

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Some 1,200 sheep march through the streets of Spain’s capital: Annual parade in Madrid is led by a woman for the first time

SHEEP took over Madrid’s city centre on Sunday with shepherds steering their flocks through the heart of the capital along ancient migration routes. The annual event, which started in 1994, sees shepherds exercise their right to use traditional routes to move their livestock from northern Spain to more southerly winter grazing pastures. 1,200 merino sheep

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