March 2024

Revealed: This is the most popular destination for British tourists visiting Spain over Easter

A SURVEY of online travel booking website users has crowned Alicante as the number one destination for British travellers to celebrate the Easter holidays. The study from online flight portal JetCost says that the Costa Blanca city is also popular with Dutch tourists coming third in their list. For Germans, it comes in fifth; sixth […]

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Paw patrol: Highly intelligent robot dog joins a local police force on Spain’s Costa del Sol – this is what it can do

A ROBOT dog has joined a local police force on the Costa del Sol and will soon patrol the streets.  Video: @itis_uma/Twitter READ MORE: Watch: Five arrests after gang steals perfumes from 10 different stores across Spain’s Malaga province Residents of Malaga could soon have a very different kind of cop enforcing the law.  The

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Sand dredged and moved to revitalise a Costa Blanca beach as part of new marina project in Spain

REGENERATION of a Calpe beach has started three years late, after a boundary dispute delayed a major marina development. Sand is being dredged from the mouth of the Puerto Blanco to recover its 80-metre-long beach. The dredged sand is then checked for its suitability before its taken to the beach. Large breakwater rocks have been

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British Royal Navy commandos are kicked out of Spain: Four officers were tracked to their hotel before being expelled to Gibraltar

FOUR British Royal Navy officers have been deported from Spain after they were tracked down by Spanish authorities and returned to the Rock. Gibraltar has long been of military importance for Britain and Spain. Photo: Cordon Press READ MORE: Hands off our Rock: British MPs blast Spain’s demands to share Gibraltar’s airport in post-Brexit talks

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Irish man, 32, is found dead ‘in a pool of blood’ inside an apartment in Spain after celebrating St Patrick’s Day

AN Irish tourist coming off the back of St Patrick’s Day has been found dead in a pool of blood in his holiday apartment in Gran Canaria. The man, 32, was said to have died from a massive head injury resulting from either a blow or a fall. His body was discovered by a cleaner

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Family of British man who vanished from Spain a YEAR ago issue a fresh appeal

THE family of a man who vanished while in Spain a full year ago now have issued a new plea for information about his possible whereabouts.  Gary Shearer, who is 53 and from Renfrew in Scotland, travelled to the Canary Islands on March 16 last year.  His destination was the resort town of Puerto del

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Dani Alves begs to be freed from prison in Spain after being convicted of rape: Footballer ‘promises that he won’t flee’

FOOTBALLER Dani Alves told a Barcelona court that was not flight risk as it heard arguments for him to be bailed while an appeal is heard against his rape conviction. Alves was convicted last month of the attack and given a four-and-a-half year jail term. “I’m not going to run away, I believe in justice,”

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These are the 10 best rural destinations in Spain for 2024 – as they battle it out to be crowned number one

THESE are the best rural destinations in Spain battling it out to be crowned the best of the bunch.  Escapada Rural, the biggest database of rural accommodation in Spain and Portugal has organised the vote for the eighth year running.  Last year, Campo Lameiro, near Pontevedra, was granted first place, followed by Bocairent, Valencia and

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Humiliation for town hall in southern Spain after losing €450,000 to ‘phishing’ scammers

GUARDIA Civil cybercrime experts are investigating whether a Murcia region council has lost over €455,000 of public money through an email scam. The mayor of Torre Pacheco, Pedro Angel Roca, said that he was ‘hopeful’ that the money can be recovered. “We still don’t know what has happened, because we have to let the Guardia

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