October 2023

SPAIN’S King Felipe VI today proposed the Socialist Party’s Pedro Sanchez as candidate for prime minister, after the failed attempt of the Popular Party’s Alberto Nuñez Feijoo to take power at an investiture vote in Congress last week.  The nomination came after the monarch held a fresh round of meetings with Spain’s political leaders on […]

GUARDAMAR council has been warned about a rising feral cat population at the mouth of the Segura river and in the dune pine forest which poses a risk to protected species in the area. Native fauna is under threat according to the Friends of the Southern Alicante Wetlands(AHSA) who expressed their concerns in a letter

THE PUBLIC prosecutor in the province of Badajoz is now investigating as many as 26 schoolboys for their alleged involvement in the creation and distribution of deep-fake nude photos of female classmates. What’s more, the number of victims of these AI-generated images has now risen to 21. Of the 26 minors being investigated in four

AN ELDERLY woman has got a €450,000 pay-out after a shoulder operation went wrong at Torrevieja Hospital resulting in the amputation of her left arm. An ‘out of court’ settlement was reached following the blundered procedure in January 2021. TORREVIEJA HOSPITAL The patient- aged 65 at the time- went to hospital on January 21, 2021

A MAN in Madrid has been arrested by Spain’s National Police on suspicion of sexually assaulting his months-old daughter and offering her to others so that they could rape her.  Aside from those shocking allegations, he was also recording the assaults and using social media and instant messaging services to share the videos, as well

COMMUNITY postal boxes are to be scrapped over large parts of the Orihuela Costa with the state postal service Correos ordered to introduce ‘door to door’ deliveries. The National Commissions of Markets and Competition(CNMC) has told Orihuela council about its decision, with residents groups long campaigning for such a service. Once formalities are completed in

A VALENCIA motorbike rider smashed into the back of a car after he was caught driving at more than double the speed limit. A DGT Trafico helicopter clocked the man whizzing along the V-21 bus lane at 220 km/h where the maximum speed permitted is 100 km/h. The chopper crew radioed the Valencia Guardia Civil

THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY welcomed 1.26 million international tourists during August- up by 19.68% on the same month last year with record levels of expenditure. It’s the region’s second highest August foreign tourist figure- beaten only by numbers from 2019 before the Covid pandemic. UK tourists have accounted for over 20% of foreign visitors, closely followed

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