THE bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante diocese has suspended San Isidro’s parish priest for branding Pope Francis a ‘heretic’. Bishop Jose Iganacio Munilla took the tough stance after statements made by Francisco Jose Vegara on February 6. The priest, 54, issued a 20-page manifesto which featured a strong broadside against the Pontiff. SUSPENDED VEGARA He said […]
POLICE have arrested two members of a gang that set up indoor marijuana farms in luxury rental villas across Alicante province. One villa was located next to Alicante’s Gran Via shopping centre and the criminals paid €26,000 upfront to cover two years of rent. Other homes attracted a €4,000 monthly rental as the gang operated
JEREZ’s Tio Pepe festival will play host to one of Britain’s best loved boy bands this summer, Take That. Take That have had eight chart topping albums throughout their career Photo: Cordon Press READ MORE: Tom Jones, Take That, UB40 and more are coming to Spain’s Costa del Sol this year: This is the full
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A MISSION is underway to return a camera containing photos of a mystery woman’s once-in-a-lifetime European trip to its rightful owner. The thousand-plus photo gallery, discovered on an old digital pocket camera on a Costa del Sol beach, documents the travels of an unknown blonde woman who appears to be in her sixties. They feature
PLANS costing around €30 million for a third exit road between the AP-7 and the Marina Alta are set to move forward. The Ministry of Transport says that it has approved a proposal which will provide a direct link to Javea from the motorway. PROPOSED N-332 AREA OF CHANGE One benefit will be a reduction
THE Guardia Civil has busted a Malaga-based company that smuggled military equipment out of Spain, with the items ending up in Saudi Arabia. The goods- worth €2.8 million- included engines and spare parts for tanks and armoured personnel carriers. One person- the company owner- has been arrested and another is being investigated. The illegal exports
A POPULAR Javea park could reopen in time for the summer, after it was closed for renovation work- way back in September 2021. A contractor was appointed to make improvements at Thievers park- the city’s main urban park- for €379,000 in a six-and-a-half month period. The project was abandoned by the UTE Parque Javea company,
THE archbishop of Toledo has been forced to intervene and reject statements made by a group of priests from his diocese, after they joked during a YouTube broadcast that they were praying for Pope Francis ‘to get to heaven as soon as possible’. “This in no way represents the line of communication of this particular
THE High Court judge investigating an alleged corruption ring involving the sale of masks during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic has pointed to former Socialist Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos as an ‘intermediary’ for the company at the centre of the scandal, despite his claims that he did nothing wrong. In a court
DOLPHINS are to blame for the hundreds of dead fish washed up in Spain’s Estepona, says the Junta. The fish were strewn all along the four km beach. Photo: Ecologistas Sierra Bermeja/Facebook READ MORE: Thousands of dead fish are discovered on the shores of Spain’s Costa del Sol: Ecologists launch investigation The city’s La Rada
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