HUNDREDS of Valencia farmers took to their tractors on Tuesday morning to travel along main roads around the city to call for a better deal for their sector. Long delays were reported on some key routes like the northern ring road with the city’s Traffic Management Centre reporting serious problems during the morning rush hour. […]
‘CHOCOLATE and whisky’ are the ‘secret’ to a long life, says 103 year-old British expat. Ivy said ‘103 feels no different to 102’ at her birthday bash. Photo: Age Concern Benalmadena READ MORE: Want to live to 116? Top tips from the oldest woman in Spain – and the world – whose DNA is being
THE border between Spain and Gibraltar is infamous for its stringent checks and lengthy queues. But one nimble creature has managed to avoid the tribulations of bureaucracy and covertly sneak across the frontier – an iconic barbary macaque. One of the monkeys, famously residents of Gibraltar, was spotted in the border town of La Linea
A BRITISH man who raped a woman his son had chatted up at the hotel pool in his in Mallorca has been sent to jail for four years. David Wigging, 43, was arrested trying to leave the country at Palma Airport on May 9, 2023, just hours after the offence took place. He narrowly avoided
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FIRST-TIME visitors to the Campo de Futbol de Vallecas stadium will no doubt be surprised by what they see when they go to watch La Liga club Rayo Vallecano play. From the tiny wall that separates the pitch from the streets of the Madrid district and the lack of a big screen to show the
ALICANTE province has clocked the highest number of new houses built in a year since the property boom of 2007. The number of new properties built or started in 2023 was 8,783- a 52% rise on 2022 according to figures from the Official College of Technical Architecture of Alicante. “The figures for 2023 are based
IT may sound like the plot of a Nicolas Cage movie, but Spain’s National Police have managed to bust a real-life gang of Bulgarian origin that could steal luxury vehicles in less than a minute. The network was carrying out the thefts in their home country before importing the cars into Spain and selling them
THIS is the British expat who has gone viral in Spain after allegedly giving himself a salary of more than €86,000 – for a job that’s supposed to be done free of charge. Stephen Hills is said to have outraged residents in Torre Bermeja in Estepona after his inflated pay packet was revealed last summer.
FORMER Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves has appeared in court this Monday, January 5, charged with the rape of a woman, 23, in a nightclub toilet. Alves, who won the UEFA Champions League three times with the Catalan giants, could face a 12-year prison sentence after being accused of raping the woman in Barcelona’s
SPAIN’S largest bank, Banco Santander, saw 5% of its value wiped off in the Spanish stock market on Monday, after the Financial Times reported that Iran had used its accounts to avoid international sanctions. At 11am on Monday the bank’s shares were trading at €3.671, according to Spanish news agency Europa Press, which was a
