WHEN Steven Heptonstall decided to start a property management company in Spain, he made sure to do his research. The former hotelier, now 60, took his wife Ruth and their three children on a road trip along the east and southern coasts, from Javea in Valencia down to Malaga and Sotogrande in Cadiz. But it […]
SPANISH scientists are working on a new way of treating cancer which involves high doses of ultra fast radiation in controlled proton flash radiotherapy. The Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging(i3M) is running experiments involving fast radiation being administered via a laser for less than a second on living cells. The study will investigate the
A SPRAWLING Colombian-led narcotics ring that flooded the Balearics with cocaine from its base in Barcelona for the past six years has been brought down. The crack police investigation, which saw over a tonne of drugs seized and 72 arrests across Spain, marks the dismantling of the largest drug trafficking operation in Spain to date.
A GERMAN national living in the Balearic Islands has been arrested by the National Police on suspicion of stabbing a man to death. The 27-year-old suspect, who lives in Palma on the island of Mallorca, is alleged to have got into a heated argument with the victim, a 37-year-old Dominican with a German passport, in
SPAIN’S animal rights political party Pacma has denounced an ‘illegal breeder’ in Benalmadena, on the Costa del Sol, where dozens of animals were being kept in appalling conditions. Volunteers from the organisation paid several visits in July and August to an area known as Villa Moscas, where they discovered a clowder of Egyptian cats that
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FEARS are growing for a missing British expat who has not been seen since leaving hospital three days ago. Kevin Mark Sumpton, 54, is said to suffer from bouts of confusion and had been in Torrevieja Hospital for some weeks. A friend told the Olive Press: “He was being treated for a head injury after
MORE DETAILS emerged this week of the circumstances leading up to the tragic death of Alvaro Prieto, an 18-year-old student and football player whose body was found between two train carriages at Seville’s Santa Justa train station on Monday. Speaking on Spain’s Cuatro television channel, journalist Nacho Abad shared details of a conversation between an
A SUSPECTED jihadist has been arrested in Andalucia as Spain intensifies its anti-terror operations following attacks in France and Belgium. The 22-year-old was cuffed following a raid on his home in Huetor Tajar, Granada, on Friday monring. According to news agency EFE, Policia Nacional were alerted to the suspect through his ‘jihadist activity’ on social
A MALAGA priest who allegedly filmed himself raping unconscious women has been imprisoned in a notorious Spanish prison alongside British killer Tony King. Father Francisco, priest for Malaga and Velez, is under investigation for four sexual assaults and five breach of privacy offences. The alleged rapist will be held alongside notorious British murderer Tony King
