A TOTAL of 14,035 irregular migrants have arrived on Spanish shores so far this year, which is a 354% increase on the same period in 2023. That’s according to the latest figures from the Interior Ministry, as reported by news agency Europa Press, and which show that the relatively low number of 3,094 migrants arrived […]
THE Treasure of Villena has hit world headlines after researchers claimed it is partly made with iron from outer space. This is the second biggest hoard of gold from the European Bronze Age after the Royal Tombs of Mycenae. It consists of 59 gold, silver and iron objects with a total weight of nearly 10kgs and was discovered in
A SPANISH citizen has been attacked and gang raped in the north of India while on a motorcycle tour through the Asian country with her husband. According to news agency Efe, which cited official sources, three men have so far been arrested on suspicion of participating in the sexual assault on the woman, who is
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A FORMER friend of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told a court how he found two violent porn movies made by him at his Portugal home. Manfred Seyferth, 68, told Braunschweig court how he and a mutual friend Helge Busching discovered the films at his rented home just outside Praia da Luz on the
A COSTA Blanca council will have to pay the equivalent of a third of its annual budget as compensation for an illegally-approved building that was nodded through in 2008. The current San Fulgencio administration in the south of Alicante province has lost an appeal to the Valencian Supreme Court over having to shell-out €2.6 million
VAT on electricity bills will leap up from 10% to 21% in March due to big falls in the wholesale price of energy. Anti-inflation measures saw the tax cut to 5% on domestic bills in 2022 and was doubled at the start of the year. The plan was for the original 21% figure to be restored
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A SYSTEMATIC bullying campaign against a Santander schoolboy has resulted in a court awarding him €4,000 in compensation. Four children and their parents have been found liable as well as the school for not doing enough to stop the boy being physically assaulted and suffering mental trauma. The financial penalty will also be shared between
PROSECUTORS are to appeal a four and a half year jail sentence handed down to ex-Barcelona footballer Dani Alves after he was convicted of raping a woman in a night club. A Barcelona court gave the Brazilian player, 40, a lesser jail term because of the mitigating factor that he was going to pay the
75 members of a sports betting syndicate that duped bookmakers have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and the Tax Agency in association with Europol and Interpol. The first phase of the police operation saw 22 people detained in the Madrid, Guadalajara, and Zaragoza areas, who made up to €2 million from laying down bets.
