October 2023

MYSTERY surrounds the death of an expat just months after her bouncer husband was killed in a restaurant brawl. A British man, 36, was arrested after the Chilean widow of Jose Pisani was found dead at the foot of her apartment block in Calahonda. Romina Acuna, 33, had been assaulted hours earlier and even went […]

FEARS were sparked in Madrid on Tuesday amid reports of an explosion on the city’s underground metro. But it quickly transpired that the blast at La Elipa station was in fact caused by faulty e-scooter. Images shared today show how the carriage in which the battery of the device exploded was completely destroyed. The inside

FIVE PEOPLE have been arrested by the Guardia Civil after they rescued a 17-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution at a shanty town camp in Nijar, Almeria. Two of those detained were the teenager’s parents who sold her for €2,000 to a man who said he wanted to marry her. The girl lived in

VALENCIA CITY COUNCIL has started a mass programme of spraying fungicide on 100,000 trees to stop a cochinal infection that’s causing a serious problem. Above average October temperatures have produced an increase in mealybugs which are common-sap feeding bugs that enjoy moist and warm habitats. They produce sticky molasses on melia trees that fall on

SPAIN’S caretaker Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra on Wednesday stepped up her criticism of Israel, just days after the country’s embassy in Madrid issued a statement accusing some members of the Spanish government of ‘aligning themselves with Isis-style terrorism’.  The politician, who is also the head of the leftist Podemos party, said during a television

FIVE WOMEN forced to work as prostitutes in Spain’s Alicante province have been freed by the Policia Nacional following collaboration with the Brazilian Federal police. Authorities busted the racket after getting a tip on an ‘anti-trafficking hotline’. Six people have been arrested in Almoradi for exploiting the Brazilian victims who were tricked into coming to

THE CURRENT president of Spanish football club FC Barcelona has been formally accused by a judge of bribery thanks to evidence that multi-million-euro payments were made to a high-ranking referee. The charges being faced by Joan Laporta relate to his first tenure at the head of the club, from 2003 to 2010.  The judge had

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SIX AIRPORTS in France have been evacuated on Wednesday morning after ‘threats of attack’ received by email, according to French media. The airports affected are Lille, Lyon (Bron), Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Paris-Beauvais. An investigation is underway to corroborate or eliminate the threats, with flights to and from Spain to those airports disrupted along with other