March 2024

LEGENDARY rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will visit Spain this year as part of their new ‘Wild God’ tour. The Australian group, known for their emotionally intense blend of alternative rock, post-punk sounds and gothic themes, will perform two dates in Spain and one in Portugal as part of a thrilling new […]

Villa Los Montesinos, Alicante   3 beds   3 baths € 359,000 New project of modern of villas in La Herrada, a residential area of Los Montesinos on the Costa Blanca. The town offers a full selection of daily necessities, like supermarkets, shops, banks and pharmacies, as well as bars and restaurants. The project offers

REGIONAL authorities have confirmed that the Costa del Sol will have enough water to last until September, even if there is no rain this spring. The positive announcement comes after Marbella’s desalination plant was extended in response to Andalucia suffering its worst drought in over 50 years. The Costa del Sol’s emergency drought committee said

A MAN wanted by German authorities to serve a jail term for kidnapping and robbery has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Quesada. The 36-year-old Kazakhstan national was detained on Wednesday after police were told that he was living somewhere in the Vega Baja region. Although he was based in Torrevieja, he regularly used

SPAIN’S Supreme Court has ruled that the time taken for a morning coffee break and period employees take to settle into the working day should count as part of their hours worked. The decision allows workers a courtesy margin of up to 15 minutes at the start of the day – if this has been

A mentally-ill British dual-national has been jailed for 10 years after stabbing a six-year-old boy outside the British International Hastings School in Madrid. The assault happened in December 2021 when the boy was returning to the school in the Chamartin area of the capital after a PE lesson. The victim was said to be lucky

A BEACH restaurant on the Costa del Sol caught fire and burned down in front of the eyes of it stunned owners on Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said that workmen were sealing the roof of Bikini Beach Bar and Lounge with blow torches when it caught alight. The flames broke out around 15.30 on Thursday afternoon.

VALENCIA will once again be a host city for the world’s premier men’s tennis team competition, the Davis Cup. The Fuente de San Luis arena will jointly stage the Group Stage of this year’s finals, along with Bologna, Manchester, and Zhuhain in China. The matches will be played between September 10 and 15. It will

OPPOSITION parties in the Madrid regional government ramped up the pressure on Partido Popular (PP) premier Isabel Diaz Ayuso to quit on Thursday, after it emerged that her partner, Alberto Gonzalez Amador, had admitted to prosecutors that he committed tax fraud offences related to the sale of face masks during the worst of the Covid-19

THE Bikini Beach chiringuito in Estepona has gone up in flames. As this exclusive video taken by the Olive Press shows, firemen are on the scene now trying to douse the fire. [embedded content] After initially bringing the fire in the thatched roof under control firemen had to get their hoses out again as strong