THE Catalan regional government agreed the terms of a deal on Monday with the central administration in Madrid that will see water brought to Barcelona by boat in a bid to combat the ongoing drought in the area. The lack of water saw emergency measures put into place in Catalunya last week, including a ban […]
TRADERS have demanded with an urgent meeting with Alicante City Council after being told that they will have to stop selling on the city’s Esplanade from October 31. Merchants association president, Wilton Damus, says talks are needed to try to find an alternative location from November. He added that lawyers have been consulted over possibly
A MALAGA customs chief was the ‘inside man’ in an audacious scheme that saw cocaine traffickers manning the port’s container inspections. The head of the port’s Risk Analysis Unit was arrested in a smuggling operation that ‘controlled the port inspection scanner for a year and a half’ El Confidencial report. The arrest, one of 13
Know more about this story? Email me at laurence@theolivepress.es A BRITISH expat is under fire after allegedly paying himself €86,700 for being the president of his urbanisation in Spain. Stephen Hills outraged residents in Torre Bermeja in Estepona after his inflated pay packet was revealed last summer. It means he is actually paid more than
THE latest series of A New Life In The Sun is in full swing, featuring a surf camp run by a British expat and his wife, a Sevilla native. Sevilla-born Marina enjoying the waves at El Palmar beach. READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: Meet the British expats set to appear on A New Life in The Sun
MURCIA’S Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal by two men behind the Trampolin Hills housing development who were convicted of fraud in November 2021. Antonio Martinez Gonzalez- known as ‘El Melonero’- will spend five years behind bars after defrauding a dozen British buyers over off-plan home sales in the Murcia district of Gea and
FOR Eva Perez, receiving the all-important phone call kickstarted a complicated mix of emotions. “You are happy because your loved ones are celebrating that you received the call as it’s your chance to continue to live and to follow your dreams, but at the same time you know that there is another family, somewhere else,
A POPULAR restaurant in the heart of Estepona has burnt down after local residents reported hearing an explosion during the night. La Casa de Mi Abuela, an Argentine steakhouse on Calle Caridad, was in flames during the early hours of Monday morning. [embedded content] Firefighters were on the scene from 1am in the morning after
SPAIN’S weather is set to change from Wednesday with blue skies and light winds giving way to rain, strong winds, and high humidity levels in parts of the country. The forecaster Meteored is predicting a weakening of the current anticyclone that has brought May-style weather to parts of Spain, which will be replaced by a
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