Villa Costa de la Calma, Majorca 3 beds 2 baths € 750,000 Lovely villa with private pool and mediterranean garden in a quiet residential area in the south-west of the sunny island. This charming Mallorca property has a plot of approx. 573 m2, a constructed area of approx. 120 m2, a covered terrace […]
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TWO measles outbreaks have been reported in Spain this year- in Alicante and Toledo provinces- with the virus originating from abroad. Aragon and Catalunya have one measles case each where the origin of the contagion is as yet unknown. A survey conducted by the El Pais newspaper says that Spain has confirmed 15 cases of
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TRAGEDY on the Costa del Sol as a man is killed by a falling palm tree. The incident occurred on Wednesday, February 28 in Frigiliana, just outside Malaga. According to Emergency Services, the victim’s wife called 112 at around 11:45 am as her husband had become stuck under a tree and was unconscious. Firefighters arrived
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LOWER energy prices played a big part in Spain’s provisional inflation rate for February dropping to 2.8%. That’s a fall of 0.6% from January’s figure and is the lowest inflation number in six months, according to the National Institute of Statistics.(INE). Besides falling electricity costs, the stability of food and non-alcoholic drinks contributed to February’s
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TWO social media ‘influencers’ from Madrid have been arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting underage girls. The men brand themselves as Los Petazetax and produce material for the TikTok and Instagram platforms, attracting a total of 80,000 followers. Footage of the victims was recorded by Jose H, 34, and Ivan G, 21, who went under
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DESPITE fears of a post-Brexit slowdown and the negative effects of interest rate rises, UK buyers dominated mortgage application requests for home purchases in Spain last year. The conclusion comes from the online mortgage platform Hippo, which says applications for home financing by non-Spaniards in 2023 was 7% higher than the previous year. 40% of
THE family of a British tourist are growing concerned about his whereabouts after not hearing from him for two days. John Webster, 61, has not been heard from since Monday evening, when he called his partner Kristiane Johnston, who lives in Canada. John is enjoying a holiday in Palma de Mallorca and is expected to
BLOCKBUSTER movies Barbie and Oppenheimer helped to lift Spain’s cinema attendance to 77.8 million last year- 26% more than in 2022. The figures are still well below numbers achieved in 2019 when 105.5 million people went to the movies, generating box-office ticket sales of €624.1 million. Nevertheless it is good news for cinemas as they
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Can you help us find Ana? Email: tips@theolivepress.es THE husband of missing US expat Ana Knezevich is reported to be ‘very concerned’ about her whereabouts after she disappeared in Madrid on February 2, and denied claims that their divorce was proving to be a complicated one. David Knezevich has been cited in some media reports
THE leader of Spain’s main opposition Partido Popular (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, used his platform in Congress on Wednesday to accuse Socialist Party (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of having full knowledge of an alleged corruption scandal involving the purchase of masks during the Covid-19 pandemic. “You knew about it and you covered it up,”
