A ROLLERCOASTER has been struck by a tree at the PortAventura theme park in Catalunya, causing more than a dozen injuries. At least 14 people have been hurt in the incident, with two visitors remaining in a critical condition, reports Spanish press. Video footage shared online showed people being carried to hospital by helicopter. The […]
A COMPANY making and distributing erotic toys on the Costa Blanca has become a major success story and is currently enjoying a boom period up to Valentine’s Day. Diversual in Sant Joan d’Alacant started off a decade ago as an online erotic toy seller, but it now manufactures 60% of the products it sells under
A TOTAL of eight arrests have been made in Spain’s Cadiz province after two civil guards were killed on Friday night when their speedboat was deliberately rammed by a larger craft being piloted by a drug gang. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska announced the detentions on Saturday, in the wake of a tragedy that has left
‘SOCIETY of the Snow’ from director J. A. Bayona cleaned up on Saturday night at the 38th Goya Awards, which are Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars. The Netflix Original movie tells the true story of the Uruguayan flight that crashed in the Andes in 1972, forcing the survivors of the accident to resort to cannibalism
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Villa El Vergel / Verger, Alicante 3 beds 3 baths € 350,000 Imagine waking up and hearing the birds singing, knowing that you are surrounded by nature in your next home on a large flat plot and a single storey house, that is to say, without complications, and with beautiful mountain views. If
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A PAIR of Sri Lankan leopards called Uda and Okanda(pictured above) have a new home at Bioparc Fuengirola after transferring there from French zoos. The Sri Lankan leopard originates from the island of the same name and is in danger of becoming extinct, with less than 800 left in the jungle. Numbers have fallen due
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A 30-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested after assaulting 10 women in a Barcelona metro station on Friday, in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. One woman was seriously injured after the man walked along the platform at the Camp de l’Arpa station on the Barcelona metro’s line 5 and randomly struck women
A 14-year-old boy who learned to drive in social media tutorials led police on a high speed chase in the Alicante area. With no licence, insurance or an ITV certificate, the teenager went behind the wheel of a red Volkswagen at around 3.00am last Monday. An El Campello police patrol waved him down as they
AS Andalucia’s unique ‘Semana Blanca’ half term holiday looms, schoolchildren across the Costa del Sol will be dusting off their skis and stocking up on warm layers ready for a trip to the slopes. Be it nearby Sierra Nevada or – if they’re really lucky – Baqueira or the Alps, why let the kids have
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FOR Juan Carlos Vera Garcia, business is part of his ‘DNA’. His father owned the first ever industrial bakery in Teba, a small town near Ronda, followed by a successful clothes shop. It was this venture that inspired Juan to become a representative for fashion brands, working in Barcelona. Eventually, some eight years ago, he
