October 2023

Spain confirms death of Spanish 19-year-old in Hamas attacks on Israel

SPAIN’S Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the death of Maya Villalobo Sinvany, a 19-year-old woman with joint Spanish-Israeli nationality who had been missing since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel this past Saturday.  Villalobo was doing her military service within the Israeli armed forces at a base located close to the Gaza strip, according […]

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WATCH: Expat squatter, 47, brawls with passenger after being asked to stop masturbating on busy metro in Spain’s Valencia

THIS is the moment an expat started a brawl after being filmed pleasuring himself on a busy metro in Spain. In video footage shared online, the 47-year-old can be seen masturbating in full view of stunned passengers. The bald man, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, appeared to have no shame as people walked away

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2 bedroom Apartment for sale in Sant Feliu de Guixols with garage – € 545,000

Apartment Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona   2 beds   2 baths € 545,000 Located in an exclusive residential complex on the bay of Sant Pol, S’Agaró, with a small private garden that gives direct access to the coastal path ‘Camino de Ronda’ and the sea, this comfortable and cosy apartment offers beautiful views over

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Humble Malaga bakery is shocked after its simple apple tart wins ‘best cake in Spain’ award

A MALAGA bakery has been awarded ‘the best cake’ in Spain for its delicious apple tart.  La Pasteleria Daza has been making the same simple recipe for 12 years using only puff pastry, apples and patisserie cream.  The award-winning tart uses only three ingredients. Photo: Dazamalaga/Instagram According to the owner Antonio Martín, it never occurred

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Man ‘kills wife with shotgun before turning weapon on himself’ just hours after family lunch with their teenage son on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A MAN is suspected of killing his wife with a shotgun before turning the gun on himself in a horrific murder-suicide in Benalmadena.  According to police, the woman had been shot several times, while the man had one gunshot wound to the chest.  Officers found a shotgun next to the man’s body in what appears

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Court sentences teenager who visited four Gibraltar restaurants outside opening hours

A COURT has sentenced a teenager to over a year in prison after he broke into four popular eateries and a tobacco shop in Gibraltar during a five-day burglary spree. Ben Brown, 19, of Willis’s Road managed to steal nearly £2,500 from the The Seawave, Charlie’s Tavern, Flavours of India and The Lounge. Police officers

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Two non-local men arrested for alleged racism against Jewish community in Gibraltar

POLICE arrested two foreign men who allegedly hurled abuse at members of the Jewish community on Gibraltar’s Main Street Tuesday morning. Officers arrested the Portuguese and Spanish nationals, aged 21 and 26-years-old, after members of the public reported them to the police. Once at New Mole House officers charged them with Racially Aggravated Intentional Harrassment,

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Two young people from Gibraltar will take part in Overseas Territories Youth Summit

TWO young people will represent Gibraltar at the UK overseas territories youth summit after writing essays that impressed the judge. Caretaker Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia congratulated Anna Grech and Karim Acolina for booking their places at the summit in London on November 16. The pair wrote short essays of a maximum of 500 words

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Squatters take over almost 40 rooms at a single hotel on Spain’s Costa Blanca in nightmare for owner

AN ALICANTE firm specialising in removing squatters has cleared out dozens of people who had taken over an empty Calpe hotel. The old Rocinante Hotel- located next to the N-332 and four kilometres from the iconic Peñon de Ifach- has been empty since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020. In the last two months, all

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Who will win Gibraltar election? Two polls predict different governments on October 13

WITH just three days left for Gibraltar’s historic election, opinion polls indicate that it is still too close to call who will be in government on October 13. A poll by the Panorama newspaper of Gibraltar gives a narrow victory to the GSLP/Liberal party that it says would win by literally a few hundred votes.

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