February 2024

TORREVIEJA has unveiled plans to become Spain’s first cryptocurrency-friendly city. The Costa Blanca resort hopes to achieve that goal through an initiative launched by the local merchants association, Apymeco. The plan’s first phase will promote commerce through cryptocurrency as a transactional tool, aiming to allow retailers to collect payments for goods and services using crypto. […]

A BRITISH expat has been left with thousands of euros worth of medical bills after being run off the road by a dangerous driver in Spain. Robert Paterson, a father-of-three and keen scuba diver, has been in hospital since the near-fatal crash in Alicante in November last year. Due to the extensive injuries, including multiple

As the US election approaches, global citizens including those in Spain are getting ready for another wild adventure as Donald Trump vows to retake the presidency. This would see him implement the raft of controversial policies that he was narrowly prevented from pursuing over the past four years following his defeat to Joe Biden in

SCIENTISTS have created portable saliva test that is capable of detecting breast cancer in as little as five seconds. The incredible device is the work of experts from the University of Florida in the USA and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. The hand-sized gadget is able to find biomarkers of the

TWO fires in the Devesa del Saler area of Valencia’s Albufera natural park were started deliberately, according to officials. A small fire was ignited and put out on Sunday, while 30 firefighters worked through the night to control the second blaze which broke out in scrubland at around 3.00pm on Monday. In October, the Guardia

EIGHT tonnes of cocaine hidden in a specially-built hidden cargo container have been seized in in the port of Algeciras latest in the latest of Spain’s avalanche of drug busts.  The bonanza of cocaine, Spain’s second largest ever and just the most recent in a string of multi-tonne busts, was hidden in a container ship

A TODDLER was found walking barefoot on an Alicante province road last Friday. The boy, aged 18 months, was spotted semi-dressed with a nappy on a street on the outskirts of Petrer at around 7.40am. With rain falling and low temperatures, a man came to the rescue and gave the youngster shelter in his car.

THE recent storms that have battered Spain nearly claimed a terrible death toll after a group of nearly 30 children got stuck on treacherous mountain slopes in Mallorca. A group of 26 children and three adults had found their Saturday hike suddenly imperilled by fierce gusts of wind on Puig Tomir in the north of

PROSECUTORS want a man jailed for 12 years for a series of violent attacks on his girlfriend with his abuse including the slaying of her pet rabbit which he cooked and forced her to eat. The assailant started living with the woman in September 2021 in Montserrat, Valencia province and there was a whole series

AHEAD of this weekend’s regional elections in Galicia, Spain’s conservative Partido Popular (PP) has been plunged into chaos after off-the-record comments reportedly made by its leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, sparked controversy both inside and outside his party.  On Saturday, reporters from a range of Spanish newspapers held an off-the-record meeting with a ‘high-ranking source from